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Yeah, I was recently handed a new laptop - brand escapes me. Whatever it was had high specs and a big price. Asked what I thought I opened a web page then automatically tried two finger scrolling. The confused owned asked what I was doing then directed me to the little arrows in the corner of the widow. I couldn't happily own a laptop that didn't have this functionality or similar.
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I personally disagree with the idea of dropping the "Sent from my...".

I send lots of emails and sometimes I think it's good to send a quick answer from my phone if it will take sometime to get to a real email client to send a detailed solution.

Noting that you're not with a proper structure may help people understand some simpler and less kinder emails that I may send them if I'm in a rush.

Of course, my signature is "sent from my cellphone". More than that I agree it's a little lame.
> (I'll mention here that this OS is the first Windows I've had since 98 which wouldn't give you access to kill a process even with the system under heavy load, unless it was completely frozen).

It's because you're using the wrong shortcut, it's Ctrl-Shift-ESC. Ctrl-Alt-Delete takes you to a more general screen that's not always available.
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Your skepticism is understandable, yet I feel as if you are missing the core message here. The message here is not about my own journey - my narrative is a trope for the culture of Silicon Valley. Whether or not I succeed in my venture is irrelevant to the main point - entrepreneurship is not about raising money or acquiring fame; it is about building a business.

As much as I appreciate constructive criticism, your implication that I am suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect is unwelcome. You know nothing of my talents nor my mind-state and to infer that the small glimpse of my life I have provided is representative of my being is naive.
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If you learn nothing else from Wikipedia, learn this: Begging annoys users and isn't particularly successful.

As far as I know, Wikipedia fundraising efforts have been very successful. They got $25 million dollars just last year.

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia...
> Looks cool but why the λ and ƒ? That's not practical for anyone.

> it seems strange to include characters that aren't on the keyboard as part of the default syntax

You say "not practical for anyone" and "seems strange", but maybe restricting a computer language to ASCII only is stange. With Pinyin IME's (e.g. Google's or Baidu's) people can easily and quickly enter thousands of characters not on the keyboard. It would be easy to someone to develop an IME to enable symbols to similarly be entered - (I mean a non-specific-IDE-based one, i.e. without having to go thru Eclipse or Emacs).
I think it only means that each of the 20 faces can be composed from combinations of 6 "basis" faces. I don't know how that compares to the eigenface decomposition of 20 less similar people, I would imagine it is more a byproduct of the process itself than something meaningful?
Windows laptop trackpads are indeed universally horrible. I've never come across a non-mac laptop i could use all day without an external mouse. Apple kust have some jealously guarded patents on trackpad tech.
The easiest way for everyone to save money is to cut fastfood out of the picture. Another way is to invite friends over for Friday night instead of drinking at the bar. Personally, I went through a period where I got lazy and worked sporadically for a year, and only worked to pay bills and survive. Life was honestly pretty crappy that year looking back on it.
… a subtype of malnutrition related to not breastfeeding enough.

See my other post for some examples of the research that's been done in the area of infant mortality and insufficient breastfeeding:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5619120
I think the main confusion of hot keys going from windows to Mac (as a developer that tried it) is, "On Mac, command is control and on Windows, control is control" - but then Mac also has a control key... but then if you open up a terminal/iterm to a remote server, Mac control is terminal control so you have to remember which "control" you want depending on application context.

For me, kind of annoying after using windows and Putty for remote servers where control is always control.
Agree with most of this article, had a Macbook Pro forced on me by a company a few years ago, I tried really hard to switch but ultimately put Windows on it and dual-booted.

I dont agree about Win8, its a disaster of epic proportions, staying with Win7 until Win9. I hear 8.1 is much of the same since Ballmer has his head up his ass.
This experiment doesn't seem to be positing at all Koreans look the same but rather that all Korean beauty contestants look he same. The implication being, not that Koreans look similar to each other, but that they have similar standards of beauty. Apparently, most of these women have had plastic surgery so they all seem to have the same ideal when it comes to their face. I'd like to see a Brazilian (another country with a large plastic surgery industry) equivalent to see if it's the same.
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I would like to know, which marketing methods are the best for startups?

For example, my small startup http://besthi.re will be ready soon. Which marketing methods I should use?

Should I invest in press release distribution?

Maybe to try to get review at Mashable, TechCrunch, etc. How to get an article about your startup on this kind of popular websites?

Is there any book/blog you recommend on this topic?
It may be simpler, but it isn't very Apple like. When you consider the enthusiasm Apple has for removing every button it can, it does seem odd.
> You know, I'm a mac convert through and through, but for a company that favors simplicity so much that they create mice with just one button, I've never quite understood why there are SO many modifier keys on a mac.

The two are very closely related.

Even though Jobs claimed for years that a secondary click was unnecessary, the market disagreed and very soon, applications started offering a context-sensitive menu, but since you only had one mouse button, you had to use a modifier to simulate that right click.

Jobs never changed his mind, one of the things where he remained wrong until the very end (Macs never shipped with two button mice nor trackpads).
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Hmm, thanks will check it out, I'd not seen that one before!
it is most likely because bacteria and fungus can get no nutritional value from it.

Here are two other reasons bacteria might not be able to eat something you can eat:

1. They can't stand the chemical environment -- pH, poisons, salinity. You're just eating it, and can compensate for a lot; they have to live in it! Examples: Honey, garlic, onions, hard liquor, vinegar, salted butter.

2. It's too dry; you can drink extra water, but they need it to come from the environment they live in. Examples: Any dry food, really, but stale bread and dried meat are good examples.

. . . and cheating a bit, here's one more:

3. The food could spoil, but is in an otherwise inhospitable environment -- too cold, too hot, no oxygen, already sterile/sealed. Examples: Frozen food, food in the slow cooker, canned food.

None of those have much to do with nutrition! You're just a more robust organism than bacteria, is all.

Even "poisons" in the first one is misleading -- a lot of what the microbial world sees as poison, you and I see as tasty. :)
That's not true at all, the police are entirely capable, legally speaking, of performing the proverbial search. They just don't have the manpower or the expertise.

Furthermore, you don't have to invite anyone into your home if you don't want to, and yet even further you can tell the people you ask to come into your home to not share the information they find with the police. No idea why you would do that, but you absolutely can.
What makes word processors so diffucult to develop? I once heard heard that Microsoft has 3,000 developers working on office.
I parsed many strings from a website today. These strings were created by a user. So they didn't have a structure. It seemed easier to search for some keyword (like €/$) and extract substrings than writing a grammar.
Working with positions can be compilcated, so I created this little tool to visualize it and make it a bit more easy and to save some time.
I haven't used Mac Touchpads much yet, but every time I do use one the acceleration feels extremely weird.

On my laptop the touchpad does pretty much behave how I expect it to behave.

Also, a Netbook I bought 2008 or so had two-finger scroll. True, many backwards notebook manufacturers were behind the times but most just have been using the standard synaptics hardware I think. The windows drivers have the scroll area preconfigured by default but then the scrolling behaviour with the synaptics tool is pretty bad no matter how you configure it.

On linux synaptics touchpads are just fine (for me).
Perhaps. I really think that the alt/option and control keys can be merged though. In many cases, control is actually used as a modifier.

For example, ⌘ + ⇧ + 3 takes a screenshot and saves it on the desktop. What if you wanted to save it to the clipboard instead? You hold down the Control key, not the Option key, which to me would've been the logical choice here.

BTW I fully realize that it is probably too late to remove any modifiers, but one can always hope :)
> So in fact, it is simpler because you don't have Home/End/PageUp/PageDown/Insert/Delete keys.

It's not simple: it has fewer keys, but that makes it more complex not less, and more prone to causing carpal tunnel syndrome (Command-shift-right arrow to select till the end of the line? Are you kidding me?).

Actually, I purposely lied. It's Ctrl-shift-right arrow for end of line, and Command to go to the end of the file.

Like I said, not simpler
(Caveat: I know this about SQL server, not Postgres)

If you use random UUID's (as opposed to sequential UUID's) for your primary key your database will spend an extra hunk of time on reordering your PK index on disk on insert. This bit us at Stackoverflow. So remember: just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
I didn't know California law applied to every company in the US. I said Facebook was just an example, and that it's not important if Facebook specifically does or does not have to disclose breaches, or can you not read?
> Inception – Above average but overrated, logically inconsistent, nothing really special about this movie.

What did you find logically inconsistent, out of curiosity?

I liked Inception, but it's nowhere near my top 10. It's more interesting to me if you ignore the actual content and look at it purely in terms of story formation: the deliberateness with which Nolan loops well... everything, from themes to sounds to places and so on is interesting to me.

It's certainly not the mindfuck that people keep claiming it is. I'm actually a little bothered by how many people have trouble wrapping their heads around it... almost as much as I'm bothered by how much people prefer the first Matrix to the latter two.
Programming is a lot closer to drafting a design for a building than actually constructing it, which is more akin to compiling.
...and MarsBoard (similar to Cubieboard, but also has a dual core version) http://www.marsboard.com/
That kind of code often ends up being worse to deal with than the SQL it is replacing.

I've always found it kind of odd how there are some people who despise SQL merely for its syntax, yet they'll turn around and advocate the use of libraries which mimic a SQL-like syntax in some other programming language (but do an absolutely terrible job at it).

The node-sql examples are atrocious, for example. It's even more obvious with the SQL so close by. The SQL statements are clear and concise, while the JavaScript version is nowhere near as easy to read.

At least LINQ gives the option of not having to directly deal with the method calls, which makes it marginally nicer to work with. Anything less than that, like we see with basically all other systems, is far less usable.
And it still doesn't work right. The only application that gets it right is Chrome (shift click on the green button), but they are simulating it. Mac OS still gets it wrong.
The new mouse detects double touch to show a context menu, though right? At least that's what I heard. I've always immediately discarded the included mice, windows or pc, for a logitech.
I use a Lodge double dutch oven that is cast iron. It is a combination where the lid is a skillet and the bottom is a 5-quart pot. You can cook everything imaginable in this combination. It is far superior than the nonstick pans that are toxic at high temperature.
Before you decide to be condescending, you should probably freshen up yourself.

The vast majority of merchants fall into PCI-DSS Level 2-4. Those merchants complete a self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ), in other words, self-reporting. They also have to pass a rather rudimentary quarterly automated scan from an approved vendor.

You don't get to external auditors until you get to Level 1, which is a vanishingly small percentage of the merchants in the world.
You do have Home/End/PageUp/PageDown/Delete on a Mac. Apple just hides the labels these days on their laptop keyboards. The full-size ones have them. And they don't always do the same thing they do on Windows/Linux (I'm looking at you, Home/End!).

And they're overloaded to hell and back on the laptops: delete as backspace/fn-delete as delete, Cmd-up/down arrow + Fn-up/down arrow...

Pretty sure there isn't an Insert, though.
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In no particular order: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Raiders, The Professional, Out Of Sight, Raising Arizona, Glengarry Glen Ross, Rushmore. Oh, and, obviously, Ghostbusters.

I wish I could say something like Aguirre, or Tokyo Story, but that's the honest list.
Small correction: I saw this somewhere on the web yesterday, and it turns out that these are Miss Taegu contestants, not Miss Korea.
I think it's more of a case of the developer not having read the ORM documentation; this is a very newbie mistake (although very understandable, true).

Now obviously, some people would complain that it doesn't make sense to do the extra join, but then people would be complaining about magical or exceptional behavior. ORM behavior is very predictable about which fields are being queried
If someone else in the area outside the bathroom has google glasses on, you could ask around and maybe get a face shot of the person running out of there.

I'm sort of fascinated (and slightly scared) by a world where google glasses are everywhere and the ability to get away with a crime in a public place is nearly impossible.
Exactly, it just seems out of place for Apple.

During my Windows days, I had never wondered why there were so many keyboard buttons - my MS Intellimouse had 5 buttons all on its own :)
> Scientists also once thought the Earth was flat.

"Science" has only existed in its current form (empirical science) for the last 600 years or so, while the knowledge that the earth is round goes back to ancient times.

> All matters of health and nutrition should factor in biological anthropology (hippie bullshit, apparently).

I can't think of anything more deserving of the title "hippie bullshit" than anything anthropology related, and especially "biological anthropology" which is as far as I can tell an oxymoron or at least the worst sort of snake-oil, cargo-cult pseudo-science (http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm).

> That kid that you don't breastfeed is going to end being more expensive in the future, when his/her grades aren't as good as the kids who were breastfed, ends up getting a lower paying job, and ends up with a higher chance of getting a disease

That would be relevant to the cost benefit analysis if it were true, but the evidence shows that the health benefits, while statistically significant, are not meaningful in magnitude. How much money you spend on an SAT tutor is going to have a bigger impact on your kid's life than whether you breast feed or bottle feed.
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Why would having Unix be more comforting than having the Windows kernel under the hood? I've found the NT kernel well designed.
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They've always been a pretty small community, though. They're much less vocal today than in the 1980s, for example, so their impact is negligible. This differs from the Ruby community, which is much larger, and whose messages loudly reach a much more significant crowd.
Ubuntu for desktop is most likely going to disappear. Seems they are moving to tablets and android clones.

As for gaming they are now starting to release linux versions, well at least Steam and Blizzard are.
These look great. What are folks doing with them? Is there a separate sensor plugin market where I can shop for ideas?
That's actually a good insight! It is like that sometimes, just with worse editing :p Here's an example of some guys hanging out and hacking a fun project over a couple days. The first video is the introduction, then in the second video they head to a club to talk things out (and drink :) and the third video is wrapping up the hacking session and a discussion of why their little project is crap haha. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxoig5yAKU&list=SP436FFA... With better editing and soundtrack, a montage of this could be right out of that movie...
I suspect it helps that these women are absolutely caked in makeup. Plus, averaging out pictures? It gave them an afro. How many Koreans wear afros?
Your understand is completely wrong.

Plus bcrypt is used as a hashing function and includes a salt. So even if what you said was true, it would make bcrypt obsolete.

Yes, I know, bcrypt uses a block cipher but block cipher can be easily used for cryptographic hashes (see DES for one example).
Except... it's not '*nix' as everyone knows it (or more importantly as deployed in production). Even while working on a mac I do all of my linux development on a VM, because the differences are always such a stumbling block for me. Half the utilities do not support long args, no real repos (resulting in broken or missing tools), old versions of utilities... ugh.

I still use one, but I'm seriously considering dual booting centos on the hardware.
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The analysis uses math, but that doesn't make it scientific. In particular, there's no comparison to the similarity of a sample of faces of normal Koreans, westerners, or beauty contestants.
> Regarding the author's specific complaint--unused variables--I find that it's quite simple to comment out the declaration

But then you have commented out code potentially forgotten about and checked in and no warning. That's the problem with universally enforcing a rule. Circumventing the rule is usually messier than just breaking it.
> The interface is so heavily designed for a tablet, it ends up feeling very forced and clunky as a desktop

I don't use the tablet interface as a desktop. I use the desktop interface as a desktop.

> there were at least three times where I would reboot the machine and get the dreaded "Preparing Automatic Repair" endless loop of death, resulting in a re-install.

Sounds like a hardware problem. I've never seen this and this is the first I'm reading of it.
No, I really doubt that it would put you on any kind of watch list.
As long as you have the ability to install other DEs, like Xfce, "Ubuntu for desktop" will never disappear. That's the difference between Linux and locked down operating systems like Mac OS X.

I've never liked Unity, but that's totally irrelevant to me. I can just keep using Xfce (or any of a dozen other WMs/DEs) with Ubuntu.
In the state I live in, there are a plethora of $1 stores that sell all types of fruits, vegetables, cheap meats, and pre-packaged food for $1. They even sell Breyers half gallon vanilla icecream for $1. The local big grocery store sells mass quantities of bananas(20) for 99cents. I have seen 3lb potatoes going for $1 as well. You could easily live off a dollar a day. It might not be the healthiest thing to do, but it's completely doable.
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Except for the one too many bad wrinkles. Like not getting an up-to-date GCC and stdlibc++. Getting a somewhat recent clang is nice but worthless if you have to use a C++98 standard library.
Only if I'm entering credit card or other important information.
Here's an original Mac keyboard:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Apple_Mac...

It's remarkably simple compared to a modern one, Mac or PC. I believe the smaller key next to the Command key is Option. I think Option would have served as a way to access more obscure keyboard shortcuts and to enter "special" characters, as it is today, although I could easily be wrong going that far back. Note the total lack of a Control key, though, as well as fairly basic amenities like arrow keys.

By the time of the Mac Plus, there was a numeric keypad and arrow keys, but still no Control:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Macintosh_Plus_Exten...

The Control key showed up with Apple Desktop Bus keyboards:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_ADB_Keyboard.jpg

Note the "proper" placement of Control and Caps Lock, unlike the universal wrongness we see today. I honestly do not know what purpose it served at the time. The main use of Control on the Mac, activating contextual menus in the absence of a right mouse button, didn't show up until about a decade later. My recollection from this period was that Control was very rarely used other than for things like talking to other systems that cared about those sorts of things through terminal emulators.
Switched from Windows 8 (early builds) to OSX a few months ago and at the moment I don't see myself even going back to Windows for development. I'm realizing how much I missed the command-line from my Ubuntu days and how much you can develop in pretty much any language quite easily on a mac. It's the perfect development machine.
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Trackpads are universally horrible even on Apple computers. Apple's are far superior to Windows trackpads, but nothing can make using a trackpad a pleasant experience for me.
Yes, bcrypt is used as a hashing function, and includes a salt; but it isn't what is usually meant when "Hashed and salted" are suggested - the salting part becomes part of the algorithm used, rather than something you specifically have to implement yourself.

From the perspective of the person using it, it's just a single hash. Saying "Hashing and salting" works is not really any better than what people do already, because, e.g. the passwords in the case discussed in this article WERE hashed and salted, but with a relatively weak hash.
it's called an ahjumma perm.
The 2006 era Apple Mighty Mouse had two buttons. It was just designed with a seamless exterior so you couldn't tell from looking at it.
The first Apple mouse to support right click was the Mighty Mouse, released all the way back in 2005. I believe it wasn't a double touch, but rather would detect what side of the mouse you were touching at the time. (This required you to lift up your left finger to do a right click, which was pretty dumb.) Not too long after, every Mac portable started shipping with trackpads that interpreted a two-finger click as a right click. The idea that Jobs never changed his mind on this is pretty obviously wrong.