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"Every computer at a store today is fast enough for 99% of people."

Nope. Shitty laptops with 5400 rpm old hdds, 2 GB of ram and old turion/core CPUs will NEVER be "fast enough".
Crashes my chrome page. Lame.
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They won't. They're losing users, losing developers and losing default-install status in multiple distributions.
I've been fascinated with geology ever since I realised that it is really history on an epic scale (living in Edinburgh also helps) - one book that really opened my eyes to the subject is Richard Fortey's The Earth: An Intimate History:

http://www.amazon.com/Earth-Intimate-History-Richard-Fortey/...
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I don't doubt they will come out with great new products. But one day the kind of growth we have seen will be over. Their sales growth has been about 44% for the last 10 years. Another 10 years like that and Apple sales alone will be a third of the US GDP. That's not going to happen.
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sizeall not working for me. I tried with my phone. It was almost right size when loaded but when I clicked "Actual size" it was 1.4 times bigger than actual.
the amount of work to get this working is incredble
This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
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Then we go and use Firefox and Libreoffice, which don't exactly fit into any of the desktops.

This is true for any OS (with the possible exception of OSX, which I don't use, so I'm not going to make a blanket-statement about that). Use Windows and consider how consistent apps look there. Hint: They don't.

Look at Android and see how consistent things are there. Again: They aren't. Same with iOS.

No widely developed-for OS on the planet has a 100% consistency rates with conformance to HIGs (nor near 100% for that matter).

Why on earth do Linux DE-developers, the most fragmented of them all, on the most fragmented of all platforms, think they have a realistic chance of getting consistency nailed?

Why are they wasting time, theirs and other's, on this widely unrealistic and meaningless goal? Theirs, I could be willing to accept. Other's shows a lack of respect and understanding.

And what fuels this lack of respect? The importance of "the brand". To be honest, every time I read "brand" elevated to something ulterior in that article it made me cringe. Has marketing departments taken over FOSS? Doesn't the developers see the destructive force they are unleashing on the community?

Seeing all this wasted effort, bridges getting burnt, etc. It's just such a shame.
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"Albert Einstein achieved simplicity. He dared to unravel the mysteries of the universe. He arrived at E=MC²."

What does this even mean? Einstein's theories are perhaps elegant, but simple?
But that's what Dustin is saying. If you're using the right tool or the right equipment, you won't focus on it. You won't worry about something breaking. You'll get to enjoy the experience.
These quality 'things' don't improve the experience, they prevent other factors (such as a poor quality backpack breaking) ruining the experience.
Wow. Reading that one single ticket has just guaranteed I don't even bother looking at Gnome 3.

That "X always implies Y and I don't care if your use-case disagrees" attitude is poisonous and a project that doesn't consider it so is a train wreck waiting to happen.
there's http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/23... which was mentioned at http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/oct-23-t...

chart in first link shows large romney buyer. not sure if that's what you're looking for with "statistical smoking gun" though. a little more analysis at second link.
The original article being: http://deepseanews.com/2012/06/how-presidential-elections-ar...
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The speed of light is always going to be a limitation for these kinds of applications . I dont see how the latency can be reduced enough to make this close enough to a live jamming session . Considering your 30 ms threshold it takes light that much time to travel 10,000 kilometers . Could we perhaps use some of the predictive techniques that games like Counter strike use ?
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I think its quite cool. I had no idea this blue band in the south existed. The history behind the fertile land and slavery migration I found particularly interesting.

It does make an unwritten assumption that more black people = more democrat votes. But I guess that is probably a fair assumption to make.
"I’ve noticed a trend. The ones who are most successful seem to be the ones who value their physical and mental health."

This could be skewed. I'd imagine entrepreneurs who are already successful have the mental peace to order their life and make time for these things. Those without success will be overly concerned with making something work and figure they can deal with physical and mental health when they have achieved success. So the statistics or things you are reading may look like there is a causal relationship between exercise, sleep --> success, but it is really success --> exercise, sleep.
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This was really interesting! It's great to see someone taking a quantitative approach to design. Art schools would never teach an algorithmic approach to kerning, but for the programmers/artists who are smart enough to learn it, a breakthrough permitting effective use of this approach would be invaluable.
Most people I know who moved to Macs didn't do it because they felt Gnome was bad. Most of them did so because Macbooks are excellent computers and OSX is a good enough Unix they can work with.

This design-development schism seems bad indeed. Maybe Gnome lacks a decent leadership, one that lets it be Gnone rather than Windows (Mono, seriously?) or OSX. But then we'd have to know what it is to be Gnome. I kind of like Gnome Shell and Unity and lack of themes means I spend less time customizing my machine and more time working, but I'm not a typical Linux user anyway. What worries me the most is not product quality, but all this toxicity floating around.
Works fine for me and is pretty awesome. Upgrade Chrome or your computer
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Another great book is _Annals of the Former World_ by John McPhee (at least regarding US geology):

http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee/dp/037...
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I just released Device Debug to Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.korri.andr... It reads Android device specs and device log and shows them to the user. It also allows the user to share this info through email or by writing it to a file.

The main reason for making it was to have a way to get information from devices you don't have access to. For example if your client complains that your app doesn't work with her device, you just instruct her to install Device Debug and email the info to you.
Not all random bla blas are created equal.

There are a few authors I wish they advertise themselves more on HN.
The Art Genome Project blog explains how the artists/pieces are chosen http://theartgenomeproject.tumblr.com .

There's also a nice article on the NYTimes about how art.sy works: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/arts/design/artsy-is-mappi...
I've been working on http://experimatch.com - a site for matching academic researchers with potential test subjects.
Most researchers resort to posting flyers around campus, thus missing on a lot of people who are willing to participate for compensation (that is offered anyway). Already being used around London, and slowly growing.
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"blog spam" aka packaging and reporting a story from elsewhere, a basic part of journalism. People around here really try too hard to be indignant.
I agree, for me it's most fascinating that we are not only able to learn about things that happened so long ago, but also that they can still affect us today.
It's also at least the third submission of the article.
Just finished my jam session... was awesome. Crashed my chrome but I think that must be something about the memory in my mac. But amazing app... have a lot of fun :)
it's funny that this is even an issue anymore. at the time where twitter was started, the ruby vm has huge issues, and you couldn't even do evented io.

what I find even funnier is that people just throw in play and grails without a little of experience in rails. The eco system is entirely different:

- you can use java and therefore java libraries(yes you could do the same in jruby, but nvm)
- bundles/gems are an order of magnitude better than classical java dependency hell.
- need something in rails? add a gem. need something in grails? search throw the outdated plugins, search for missing documentation(just take a look at stackoverflow). in general -> write it yourself or pay a consultant to do it.
- have a question? fight with incomplete documentation.

on top of that grails is just a stack on top of the spring mvc.

what about play? i like play more than I like grails tbh, because it doesn't want to be the rails of java. yes people compare it to one another, but that's just the familiarity effect.

now, where's the computationally intensive stuff? nowhere to be found. it's a web api. where's the computationally intensive stuff in twitter? I don't know, but chances are theres a native extension for that nowadays.

There actually was a time when you simply could not build a scalable system in ruby without too many hoops, but that's no longer the case. Yes the GIL is bad, but keep in mind that things like ruby fibers didn't even exist at the time.
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thanks for the insights. it's always amazing to see in what convulted ways our brains works. if we'd all be completely rational minds we wouldn't need to limit our daily work/study time. yet here you go - and now that the article mentioned it, I actually remember quite a few (academically successful) friends who limit their daily study time as well.
Considering that Obama was trounced in those states and thus won no votes in the Electorial College, it is hardly a "secret weapon." Were it one, the consistency of its Democratic lean in previous elections, would call into question that it was his.

The article just promotes an ignorant sort of racial understanding while missing the really curious relationship between agriculture and his campaigns.

Obama's secret weapon has been Iowa.
Started working on a SAAS concept recently, nothing solid to show right now.

My list of side projects from 2010,
Android:
Personal Finance Calculator (http://bit.ly/STAJ8n) helps you to calculate Loan Interest rate.

Baby Names (http://bit.ly/STAJ8n)Provides List of Baby names and their meaning

Mobile Number Tracker(http://bit.ly/STAIkI) provides caller info based on the mobile number (Only India).

Mobile Number Tracker US (http://bit.ly/PGakKz)

iOS Game:
Juicy Fun (http://bit.ly/Ub7IRv) physics game
Atom Ace (http://bit.ly/UxZ6F9) a different kind of puzzle.

iOS App:
London Tube Map (http://bit.ly/QqAXo7) shows london tube statues.

Movie Theaters (http://bit.ly/SwedyD ) shows info about latest movies and movie theaters which plays them.
Right now we should focus on what can be created using existing technology (such as amazing battery-powered IP-capable wireless hardware and open source software).

Let the afterworld come up with a suitable acronym for a society-level overview.
Good catch, I'm sorry I missed the link to the original in the footer. I guess it isn't possible to change a link after it has been posted?
That's an excuse.

You should always provide a great default solution and let the user customize it if he wants to. Once there is ANY user customization, the entire user experience changes. If you want the UX to be ALWAYS the same, you can't let people change stuff.

The problem is, this is contrary to everything done before. I for instance, use Growl on OSX and customized it to my needs. The UX is the best one for me! It's not because Growl devs predicted that. They just let me CHOOSE after providing a great UX already by default.
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But a call to action makes sense if the post is about what you want to promote. If I write a non-specific post about something that interested me (and should interest readers), I think that a call to action would be perceived as a shameless plug anyway :)
I was a huge fan / dedicated user of E16 back in the day. Someone needs to prod Garrett LeSage, tigert, et al and get them to update their old themes (SpiffE17 please Garrett!).
Well, given that nothing else became a standard and their are a tad bit of people unhappy with Gnome 3, it still has a pretty good chance. It does seem to be ok on the BSDs and the libraries are quite nice to use elsewhere so that is a bonus
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The same is true for me, I will continue to buy Intel CPUs and motherboards, for both desktop and mobile, until someone else takes open source graphics drivers as seriously as they do.
My gripe is not with Gnome removing features that are useless, but with Gnome removing features that are useful just to influence user behaviour.

The case I have in mind is the lack of an option to leave the screen on even when inactive for a long time, because the developers want to discourage that power usage pattern (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647828). Typically users do not need to leave a screen always on, so the default behaviour should not be to leave the screen always on, but if a user needs to leave a screen always on for whatever reason, why should they have to install an extension?

It is the Gnome designers' job to design the system to their taste, but it is not their job to try to influence the users.
Fine tune? It doesn't even coarse tune. I'm using gnome 3 at the moment and it allows me to set my preferred media player as VLC over the default Totem... but it won't bother using that setting and cranks up Totem every time.

Also, rather humorously, the 'preferred applications' part is hidden behind System Settings > System Details > Default Applications. News to the Gnome folks: user app preferences are "Personal" not "System" (using their own terminology). Unless, of course, my selection here changes all users' settings... which would be equally insane.
If you're a programmer (since I don't think non-programmers would like this, ever) you can try xmonad.

Started using it and I can't stop using it now. Pure and simple efficiency.
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I don't think this is any technical change. Instead MS just got bored with F# and gives it a non-profit ("F# foundation") for maintenance. So it will be independent, ie. not affiliated with MS.
Make that 5. Desktop Chrome is v23 now. This would be great as an app for Android tablets, though - something like an alternative to Apple's Garage Band.

It seems yo can add this as an extension to Chrome, too:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jam-with-chrome/bg...

It seems to say that I can use the QWERTY keys to play the guitar, and while the buttons are moving on the screen, the chords aren't. Is that a bug or am I doing something wrong? The sounds seem to work only when I used the auto mode.
Black folks have been and are on the receiving end of many institutional oppressions that keep them excluded from accessing higher education. People with those SSNs or gene patterns you mention are not discriminated against on the basis of those numbers or gene patterns and have no need for a program like affirmative action. The fact is that is that racism, sexism, ableism, etc. are alive and well and are perpetuated by US society in many respects, and we as a society need policies that will work to change this and provide a opportunities that are available and accessible to the oppressed.
What is the point of this article? I really don't get it.
Nice Side-projects, but you're in definite need of a designer ;)
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Up until the final clause of that sentence I didn't have a problem with it (well as a blanket statement it is pretty snarky but a touch of monomania combined with massive self belief isn't necessarily a bad thing when running a startup). All of that can work for you in the right environment.
It is a good machine for typing school papers and checking Facebook and Youtube

You're overestimating what most people do with their computers
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I found "Supercontinent: Ten Billion Years in the Life of Our Planet" by Ted Nield absolutely fascinating. He presented historical theory's as well as modern ones to give the reader a better idea about how drift theory came to be.

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What's going on? Do the GNOME devs think they have a mandate to reduce the world's electricity consumption?
Crashes under Chrome 23.0.1271.64 (xubuntu 12.10). :/
I don't disagree with you, still, 50% losses are not 100% losses (or even more than 100% losses)

So I guess they have a role in limiting losses (which had they not been there would be much bigger)
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I don't think unhappy is the right word (and even the post doesn't claim the always part) but the first line of Derman's book springs to mind as a partial explanation.

"Ambition is a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the present - Emanuel Derman"
Does anyone know if they stream audio or just events to peers over Web Sockets?

Some tech notes from a pro-audio software developer:

- All the samples are OGG ( http://chrome-jam-static.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/xm... )

- They're using some "DMAF" engine for the audio, though I can't figure out who made it: http://www.jamwithchrome.com/js/compiled/dmaf_all.js

It's pretty serious stuff from the looks of it - It's got a node graph with different DSP modules (envelope follower, delay, ADSR, distortion, LFO, chorus, compressor, phaser, equalizer, biquad filters), it plays MIDI files, and more.

It's all written in JavaScript too, and there's no way you'd write this just for one Chrome experiment. I don't see any outside party acknowledged on the website, but I'd guess that this DMAF JS audio engine is licensed from someone.

It's interesting to see what they've been able to do with the Web Audio API and JavaScript, but I think the Web Audio API is going to be forever limited to toys like this unfortunately. You just can't do real-time audio with a garbage collector waiting to pounce.

I developed a similar application for Chrome (which coincidentally had the codename "Jam"), but instead, it uses Native Client for audio instead of the Web Audio API. It's called SongStarter, and you can jam with it here:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jbkilbgofafobojkif...

(NaCl apps must be installed from the Chrome Web Store for the time being, otherwise they won't work. Google's choice...)
It is very interesting, but it comes up every election cycle now:

http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/Research/Elec2000/GeolElec2000.HT...
They can but they shouldn't.

If they develop an OPEN library that's meant to be used on more than one environment, by making the library closed to GNOME, you're betraying everyone that chose the library because of it's openness.

It's basically a shot in the foot since the DE itself is useless without apps that work on it. If devs (which is not even improbable) start leaving GTK they will feel the pain even more.
could this be hedging against a romney win? for example, if you're an investor in green tech, then intrader shares in romney would be a way to protect yourself.

but i imagine the numbers are too small?
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Sometimes the simpler solution is the more complex tool -- if that's what everybody already uses and if it already works. Just like RVM.
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Unfortunately comment #14 doesn't say anything. He just posted the links to search on three bugtrackers for brightness. There is still no specific bug that he mentioned.
Wow, polarizing. Seems like the opposition is mostly reacting to the idea of intensively researching to find 'the best'...but why not let Dustin and those that think like him do what they want with their time? Once you find someone like that, you can take their advice instead of doing the research. And all this grief is pretty ironic considering the love for tech fetish sites like anandtech and tomshardware.

Moreover, given the option, why _wouldn't you_ want to surround yourself with art that you appreciate at every glance?
But if you say "Today", and it says "8th or 9th" — You immediately know it doesn't mean "Last week, and in a month." You know it's morning and it means today, or tomorrow.
And as a side note, if you're interested in seriously jamming over the internet, I think NINJAM is the best tool by far:
http://www.cockos.com/ninjam/

It deals with latency by ensuring that it's rounded to measures, so in a free form jam, everyone always stays in sync. It's an ingenious solution and it really works. Being in a jam where real musicians with different instruments just join in and play together is incredibly cool. (That's the achilles heel of these web experiments unfortunately - Cool tech demo aside, they're not really aimed at musicians...)
Great execution. I love how the site pops up from the bottom on the landing page and you can use it right away, that's an awesome idea for any kind of demo. I might just steal it for my own projects!
Ran it, wasn't able to get my second monitor to rotate to the proper orientation within 5 minutes, switched back to Gnome2. (I hear the MATE fork is doing well on distros that took away Gnome2.) It didn't seem much prettier than stock Xfce4, but it's good to have competition and congrats on the project for lasting this long.
yes yes, the ripple effect. In those days people could hardly believe what they were seeing and all went like 'is THAT linux?'
Wow, fascinating. I was about to stop reading when you said it's because of plankton... I'm glad I didn't!
I haven't looked into it but I am almost sure it will not be streaming audio. It's most probably events.
If the python community felt this way we'd all still be using easy_install and installing our libraries at system root.
Ahh, yes there is. I owned a school bus for a year and a half, and spent waaaay too much time improving it. Installing speakers, 120 V power, etc. It was fun, but definitely a waste. I was pretty unhappy at the time, and it was sort of a therapeutic project.

I'm not trying to say that we don't all have our vices, or that it's terrible if we concentrate inwardly on ourselves from time to time. I just don't like to see that behavior justified or elevated.
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a really nice idea! I love it! I have in january next year time is there a repository where i can fork and work on it?
After an election there are so many stories like this explaining why certain voting patterns were pre-determined, or at least extremely likely.

Strangely, people don't write so certainly _before_ the election.

I'd be far more impressed with this type of story if it was published before the election.
er, I'm not the curator of this site. I just posted it because I find it interesting.
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