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This is why I come to Hacker News. A cool technical idea at the top, then in the comments I discover a bunch of other cool stuff. If nothing else, I'll probably use this syntax in my hand-written notes.
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Yes, throwing someone with crippling mental issues out in the street is far more "kind".

It's a stopgap, but one that exists because there are no good solutions. If you'd like to change the situation you're free, but sniping and scoffing is not mercy.
More precisely, in mainstream support.
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You are 33% more likely to finish something if you share your goal with others. This is great! Founder Dating is also a great network for finding people to work with on these goals. My goal is to organize more Hakcathons in Las Vegas. Let me know if you want to come!
Why wouldn't it? About a 2 dozen RDP clients exists for both Android and iOS.
content wise, HN and r/programming seem to have the same headlines from day to day.(at least the ones that aren't about valley/startup/funding/managerish bs)

HN is unique in that it tends to be more civil than r/programming(and there's more valley/startup/funding/managerish bs). IMO
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That reminds me of one of my first experiences with a Mac (Mac 512, I think). Borrowed one from the office, forgot the mouse, figured "Hey, I am an advanced user, used to being able to toggle around with Tab and what not, I should be fine."

No way. Complete boat anchor without a mouse.
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Yes. Truth of course is that it is only backported to the previous version though. Vista sadly won't see IE10.
I'd rather see this as a newsletter too. In fact, please reach out to me when it is available. Thanks.
Again because Vista entered extended support in April 2012.
"Regular" is strongly influenced, if not completely defined, by what you see around you. Porn might partly reflect what people want but it also definitely changes what they want. e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1124922 People who watch porn are only learning how to make porn.
I've got this running at yahoo! showing openstack code, great stuff!
That's like saying an alcoholic isn't an alcoholic whenever they're sober, until their next relapse.
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>> Microsoft is, by centuries of established law and court decisions, precluded from suing someone from using C# through Mono or any other API or framework.

Then why did they feel compelled to "promise" not to sue:

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/67537.html

If you're correct then all they needed to do is point to your statement that no court will allow them to sue.
At the time that the Svbtle "copycats" emerged my thoughts [1] were that it identified the differences between designers/brand people and programmers. Nate (who coded Obtvse) seems very much a programmer, whereas Dustin is a hands down designer.

In this case, WP-svbtle is, to most people, just a decent design. Dustin was hacked off by Nate's project because he was building a brand; and what seems a simple design probably took him some time to think about (like when I produce a 10-lines-of-code solution to a complex problem and a paper pushers says "so why did that take so long to make??").

Some of the comments directed at Terence seem unfair - assuming the worst, that he was aware of Svbtle and is cocking a finger at Dustin... Or passive aggressiveness about how common the design is now.

1. http://www.errant.me.uk/blog/2012/03/copy-my-idea-not-my-des...
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"based on the fear, distrust, and paranoia brought on by their condition."

This is unfair. From my limited understanding, it's not just FUD, the medications do "dull" their wits and have very unpleasant physical side-effects that any person would legitimately not like. It may make them "more normal" to some extent, but at a cost.
It's amazing to me how your mind changes when you stop thinking about life as a job and instead as goals you want to accomplish. Thanks for setting this up!
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Conversations about ebook piracy being the death of the industry should be prefaced by the fact that many big players in the industry saw their best years ever this year. Random House gave every single employee, from editors to janitors, a $5,000 bonus this year because the company made so much money. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/12/50-shades-succe...

Just like the music and film industries, the publishing industry is gripped by an irrational fear so great that thinking goes out the window. Indie authors are railing that piracy is taking their sales, when the truth is that often their books or marketing efforts are so bad that they wouldn't have had any sales anyway. Believe me, I know--I run a web site for writers! "Piracy" is the giant slobbering boogeyman that everyone can blame their problems on, but that doesn't really exist.

Personally I never buy ebooks for three reasons:

1. DRM. I've bought a handful of DRM'd ebooks in my life and I never will again, not even for a penny. DRM is crime against freedom of information and consumer rights.

2. The quality of many ebooks is just atrocious. Any ebook version of a book written before, say, 2000 is guaranteed to be riddled with typos and errors so bad as to be unreadable. And publishers still ask north of $10 for such an ebook. They OCR a dog-eared paperback from the CEO's personal library, don't bother to proofread it, and slap it on Amazon for $10 and pray for the money to roll in. Such practices are disgusting to a bibliophile like me and I refuse to support that.

3. Price. Paying $10 for a perfect ebook is really stretching it, considering it's often cheaper to have a paper copy shipped to your door by Amazon. Throw in the shameful quality of many ebooks I mentioned above and it becomes an outright scam.

If you want a good example of both #2 and #3, check out Amazon's Kindle edition of Frank Herbert's Dune. Use the preview feature and try reading through the first few pages. The ebook is unreadably bad--embarrasingly so for the publisher--and the Kindle edition costs $14.99 (!!!), 3x the price of a new paperback! How outrageous is that?
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I'm going to need more context here.
AFAIK the standard is 5 years of mainstream support plus 5 years of extended support. The 5 years of mainstream support will get extended if the next version is not released in time (generally to two years after the next version's release).
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I think the author meant "swing and a miss"
I agree, having set up my first couple of systems for stand alone users and a Server 2012 with Remote Desktop Services for a group of users.

As long as a keyboard is handy with the Windows Start key, no worries. Start Menu? Windows Start. Charms sidebar? Windows C. All Programs menu? Windows Z. Logout? Windows, click the login name, Log Out.

The zones for the mouse/touch for the Start Menu and Charms sidebar a too sensitive, so I just show folks the Start key on the keyboard.

The hardest part now is removing all of the cruft systems integrators are shoving into the Start Menu, especially if they are live-feed updated content - Just like remoting into a system that has yahoo.com or msn.com as the home page: I have to wait awhile before the UI is responsive again to a remote user. Can't have those flash-based ads slack in performance, can we?
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"an Indian is a free citizen"

Surely, you're joking! India has some degree of free speech, but if you criticize Bal Thackeray, worry for your life. Not just because of Shiv Sena goons, but because of the police. How many rave parties have the police busted? Yes, that's part of being free. Heck! I was taken to the police station for questioning because I was out late at night. (I was coming back from a movie.) How many hoops should one jump through to start a business in India? Compare that to China.

But I agree with your conclusion.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read.
Nice to see a fellow language educator. Very interesting to see your translation and audio outsourcing to Elance.

We've done something for the Irish language, which has its own pronunciation complexities. The site itself is very simple as it is, just wanted to share in any case: http://www.pronounceirish.com/
"One of," not "only."
I'd be very happy to see something like QnX, unix on the outside, robust message passing kernel with clustering built into the heart.

QnX is much more than just a neat little kernel to do embedded stuff with.
The biggest takeaway I took from that comment on slashdot was that Linux changes and adapts: it's already more portable than just about anything out there, supporting more hardware than almost everything else, and we're already seeing the effects the comment talked about (ZFS being ported to Linux). It may not be Linux as we think of it today, but it will take something with significant advantages and wildly different design to both take over and not be amenable to being "ported" to Linux. I agree that it would be nice to see more variety, different designs, but if the only reason to change is because Linux isn't "more modern" (if that's true), that's not good enough. Change for the better? Certainly! Change for change's sake? No thanks.
What's wrong with Android, in your opinion?
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I can't reach the monitor for my desktop computer without leaning forward. I think a desktop with touch would be an ergonomic disaster.
I don't think she was saying never take videos, just be measured. I read an article a while back where the mom said her kids merely lived life as a source of content for their Facebook feed -- and I see the same thing around me. This parent is just trying to help her kid come out well-rounded and balanced (which is not necessarily what we see with kids who are buried in screens all day). Kudos to this mom.
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The latest trick is to use Task Scheduler to run Explorer.exe upon Login. This bypasses the Metro screen as the starting point, going straight to the Desktop.
It is. I'd think that's fairly clear and obvious from the languages they were comparing.
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"e-signatures" are still a touchy subject in business. What can we do to help make them more acceptable and widespread? Is there any precedent that they are equal to a paper signature?
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Instead, the greatest value will be in second-generation applications that provide total recall and augmented cognition. Imagine being able to call up (and share) everything you have ever seen, or read the transcripts for every conversation you ever had, alongside the names and faces of everyone you ever met. Imagine having supplemental contextual information relayed to you automatically so you could win any argument or impress your date.

This is the common wearable computing utility argument, but in practice, it doesn't seem to pan out.

Gordon Bell digitized much of his life, and everything for the past ten or twenty years. Phone calls, emails, a photo every sixty seconds, more when his heart rate increased. He hardly ever went back to it. Revisiting it was so rare as to be a notable event in and of itself. Rather, he found people with whom he had conversations would go to him and use him as a reference library.

Bradley Rhodes' Remembrance Agent was an Emacs thing which actively indexed and cross-referenced anything you were typing with things you had written before. He's working on Glass now, afaik: http://www.remem.org/ It isn't a generally useful solution because it requires that you live inside of Emacs. Today you'd need something that could index across multiple devices, multiple independent cloud storage systems, multiple independent accounts, etc.; or something that was locked into a single ecosystem and you lived entirely there, but then you'd develop "blind spots" for things that occurred elsewhere, like how you stop hanging out with certain friends because the only way they communicate with you is via Facebook but you turned off all of Facebook's notifications.

There was an essay a long time ago, a writer had been filing every link and every note into a pre-Evernote piece of notetaking/hyperlinking/PIM software, something with an X or a Z in the name, but I can't recall it or the piece. The essay was about an article he was writing during which the software brought up a saved article and a note he had written, and forgotten about, in a creepily timely and seemingly prescient moment. He wondered at what point the software needs to get credit for providing the research and the associations.

"Forgetting" is a key part of human existence that most wearable applications tend to ignore. "You were last here with [your ex]" says Foursquare. "You haven't talked with [your ex] in a while, make her day by leaving a message on her wall" says Facebook. Using someone's precise words against them can be emotionally cruel. Legally, you're expected to forget all of the specific details of things like trade secrets and company processes when you leave a job; how is that to be reconciled with your perfect, digital memory? None of these things are being actively explored.

We already hit the "second generation" of applications as described by the author; it's the third generation that interests me.
Ximian has a plugin (http://mono-tools.com/) that lets you remote deploy/debug mono applications from Visual studio - it was free after a survey not sure if it still is or if it will be updated to vs 2012.

There are other tools sharpdevelop (for window) and monodevelop (all platforms) - but they are somewhat lacking. Sharp develop seems to slow down dramatically on large projects or WPF projects. Monodevelop seems to lag sharp develop in features and maturity.

GUI toolkits for dotnet are hit-and-miss. GTK# has the most traction and is cross platform - the documentation was lacking last time I looked. But, if you have a GTK background it may be a non-issue. Wx and QT bindings exist but I believe development has slowed down/stalled. Of course, there are OS X, android and iOS bindings that ximian sells. Unless you have a large existing c# code base it probably doesn't make sense to use them for greenfield development.

Server-side is where I think mono actually does shine a bit. Although you need to move out of the standard NetFX stack (i.e. WCF) to other open source libraries (i.e., ServiceStack). ASP.NET and MVC do run on mono - there are tutorials to deploy against apache or nginx.

As you can imagine there is some lag between mono and microsoft dotnet framework (see http://www.mono-project.com/Compatibility). The gist of it mono tries and succeeds keeping up with the framework but there are large holes with respect to .NET 3.0 (WWF, WCF, WPF). There was a silverlight plugin (moonlight) but much like silverlight new development has stopped.
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Wouldn't you need a third one to identify which map has the trap street?
The Octopus system (http://lsub.org/ls/octopus.html) attempts to do something like that. It builds on lessons learned from Plan 9 and Inferno.
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There's quite a bit of precedent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signature#In_contrac...
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1) Ah, hm. The one you're switching to is the whiter one with the name ("Terminal", here), although I don't think the active window is shown there.

2) The super key alone is dead, so it doesn't do anything. I think the alt key used to work in Gnome too (how will you access the menu otherwise?) but I'm not positive on that.

3) It's on the top-right cog button, together with the shutdown/logoff/etc stuff, it says "System Settings" and everything is gathered there.

5) Haha, no problem. I went into compizconfig and switched to the static switcher, which has the old behaviour, but you might like the new one more, coming from OS X.
> I've been working on SVG animations with d3.js and have to say that the Firefox performance is very poor.

Can you perhaps make a testcase and provide a link? We can file a bug on that.
Mostly they just need to accurately reproduce the signature.

Machine signatures are good enough to make a law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopen
More people would use HTTPS if self-signed certificates weren't something that scared users into leaving and SSL certificates were cheaper. You can get one for around $10 a year, but that's still not free.
When IE8 goes down like IE7 and 6, I'll light a fire on my living room and jump over it to celebrate.

Other than that, I don't really care. All modern browsers have great JavaScript engines, has decent standards compliance and if you can ignore IE8, it's almost a unified platform to develop for.
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No its not actually. The scope of the legal agreement is undefined and may or may not encompass bits of the framework which mono implements or may implement in the future. So don't count on it, which is what our rather expensive lawyer told us.

OpenJDK is GPL.
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign. e-Signatures are legally binding. It's more of a cultural attachment that keeps us using "wet signatures". Check out our legal page for more details:
http://www.hellosign.com/info/legal

In terms of making it more widespread, it takes some work.

The way we're doing it is by combining e-signatures with other services and doing user education and cross pollination between the services. Our other product is HelloFax, which lets you send and receive faxes online.

But, I think we're getting closer to an inflection point as society is starting to use e-signatures more and more.