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FWIW this is kind of the idea behind magick; changing the world through positive emotion. You basically will positive things into existence. It sounds super new-agey, but I really think there's something to it. Whether it actually relies on quantum interaction on the future is dubious at best, but it's a nice thought. Google "Genesis P-Orridge" if you'd like to begin your weird journey.
Try brogue, it's a breath of fresh air.
This story can make a movie
That screenshot attachment you posted has much less readable text in the _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY example?
Big Bang Theory is not a very funny show. It does appeal to fans of Dharma and Greg though (like my mom).

The only consistently funny show I would recommend is Archer.
Social Roulette has a 1 in 6 chance of deleting your account
"Contacting a person" vs "Contacting a business" is an important distinction. In some places (e.g. EU), if you (as a business) were to cold call a person who hasn't given you their phone number for a sales call, you would be breaking the law. Contacting a company is different. Be careful you don't break the law here.
Back in the day, many startups died with a gigantic Oracle database that cost them months of runway, because they had to "think long-term".

Build for what you need now, and just make sure your "central repository of truth" isn't lossy. You can always replicate for specific use cases later.
True, but I've also noticed that large companies, where budgets are involved and the mentality of "it's not my money" prevails, rate never really matters.

Even if they fight back at first, they typically give in, because quality is more important than expense (since everyone wants to cover their arse).
If it was the only terminal emulator, there would be a good reason.

The person in the link commenting "PUT IT BACK EVERY OTHER TERMINAL EMULATOR HAS IT" is more baffling.

Both wanting choice and options, but at the same time not wanting to have to change when there are other options.
Is there anything similar for Emacs?

Disclaimer: Now, stop, please. I know of Emacs manual, tutorial and all the other built-in docs. Stop telling me to use them, because I won't, thank you.

I'm recently learning Emacs - I reached high proficiency in Vim and I thought about learning it's competitor, just to feel comfortable with them both. I like Lisps, so that's another motivation.

I had a hard time in the beginning. I was missing tabs (elscreen) and many other features and familiar keybindings, so I installed Evil and made my own mappings. Now I can live with Emacs, but I realized that while I learned a bit about how Emacs works and how to script it, I completely neglected the idea of feeling comfortable in raw Emacs! I probably could M-x and M-: my way on Emacsen other than mine, but that's hardly the point :)

So, is there something interactive one could use to learn Emacs editing basics?
WordPress is excellent, and there are some mighty big WP sites out there. You're barking up the right tree when you say "you need a developer on staff" though. Web sites are not just "set and forget" deals. They need continuing care and maintenance. And the whole idea of having a site that the receptionist can take care of on a Friday afternoon, which I have found pervasive in small businesses, has just never really worked at all.
Agree 100%. Even OS X's built-in Terminal.app offers this; there's even a blur effect on the transparent background which is pretty awesome.
> Allowing themes to change window decorations can cause confusion and reduce usability. Let's drop that.

Like apple did with the iphone?
While zsh may be more 'useful', I find it a bit too smart. Many of the features are very interactive, and introduce a non-determinism that messes up my ability to fix errors. An example is command correction. I (usually) know when a command is wrong, and go to fix it without thinking. Being asked if you really meant some other command interferes with this, and while seemingly helpful, makes you wonder if a shell should really be doing that.

The directory listing shares the same problem. Once you have a list, it's just as easy to type the path then it's to cycle through the list (not that zsh stops this), it's just another interactive feature.

Then there is path-completion, which removes the / on the end of tab-completed paths. Since rsync treats a directory with / different to that without one, this feature annoys me to no end when using zsh.

I understand that all these are options, and could easily be configured. I just wonder how other people feel about them. Does anyone actively use these features? Do you find they can occasionally get in the way?
+1; greed is the biggest factor in my existential depression. The thing I see fighting greed is art for no reason, entertaining absurdity (stuff like Dan Mintz), and passionate things done without a financial motivation.
Conversely, it's the developers' time and energy. If the people requesting the feature care enough, they should go through the hoops necessary to (edit: learn how to code and) become part of the core team.

For this _particular_ feature, it's a "rampant layering violation" -- translucent windows have been available in compositing window managers (Compiz, and whatever that thing that KDE uses) for at least three or four years.

Assuming these users have a fast enough CPU/GPU, they can configure the desired behaviour using the ccsm graphical tool.
I agree with you, but I love Matt Berry doing silly things. Losing the "straight" Chris Morris did wacky-sitcom everything up, though.
I run a large open source project. I don't think it's an ego thing. I wake up every morning with around 50 e-mails of people complaining and criticizing something I devoted a lot of time to writing, while asking nothing in return. Of course, there are many more happy users of the software. However, I can totally relate to his "No." response. I would cut him a little slack... he was probably just having an off day.
I understand why Gnome don't want huge configuration dialogues.

Still, it's stupid and they're wrong. They should have a big "[return to default configuration] button that people must use before filing bugs or asking for support. But they should then also have a nice config file with configurations for everything.

That allows tinkerers to tinker and to set up alternate support. It allows God_Designers_Coders to lock down everything in the One_True_Environment_Config.

It certainly avoids threads shown in the OP, which are just a turn off for some developers.
and more importantly the understanding that the gentleman across the street who's a computer programmer is not your go-to guy for computer repairs
It's not Wordpress that's the issue, it's with the current state of the problem domain. People want websites that they don't have to pay a programmer to maintain. Wordpress solved this for blogging, but using it for anything else and not having technical talent on call makes for a giant mess.
"full stack" is the new "ninja"
Some of the funniest comedians are ridiculously sad/pessimistic people.

I've thought about doing stand-up on many occasions.
first of all, the users are not giving any argument of why they need the transparency back, just "because I like it".

Second, this is open source, hack it.
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> I fail to see a single use case for terminal transparency. It makes text less readable.

I've always liked it for the ability to see/read documentation on a window behind the terminal. Specific use cases include referring to man pages, API docs and the like where I can't just copy+paste something and/or need to check config.conf against the settings/defaults in online docs.

It's especially useful on smaller screens where I don't have the luxury of having a 80-char wide terminal side-by-side with a browser window (and avoiding horizontal scrolling).
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That is not a valid workaround as it applies transparency to the text as well, not just the background.

I see no "rampant layering violation" here as the goal is not a transparent window, but rather a transparent background, big difference.
Especially the earlier episodes with Chris Morris in it :) Not that the other characters weren't good, I just enjoyed the spark of absurdism he brought to the show--but WHAT an exit! hahaha
Maybe most people's last contact with compilers was that lex/yacc undergraduate course. That was much harder than it had to be.
It sounds like one of the Bitcoin alternatives is scrypt based, and they are putatively getting a roughly 10x speedup from GPUs: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Litecoin#Scrypt_Proof_of_Work . Is that a new development, or is it in the neighborhood of how GPU-resistant it was supposed to be?
And as it turns out, that customizability is something people like and want and is a reason people enjoy android.
Side by side so I have less editing space? I have emacs and terminator split 5 or 6 ways and optionally fullscreened if needed. Being able to read documentation, cheat sheets, watch videos, live reload, and handle issues while not switching windows through my terminal is a giant productivity boost. Side-by-side just makes both parts less enjoyable, especially on a small laptop screen.
I've been using zsh for a while now, mostly without using any special feature that isn't available (maybe with some tweaks) in bash.
The additional value for me is that I get all of this out of the box, or with not much effort. That's to oh-my-zsh I've got a nice looking theme (agnoster). Thanks to "zsh-syntax-highlighting" I get syntax highlighting, thanks to "history-substring-search" i got a nice way to search in my command history. All of those just took less than one minute to set up on my machine.

Luckily enough, I don't have to work over servers which may or may not have zsh, so i don't need to worry about that. Whenever I have to use a PC with bash (or any other *sh), I can easily get the same result, with a slightly-worse user experience.

Also, as a nice tip, zsh will complete "kill" and "killall". So that I don't have to fire up htop every time I want to kill a process.
> On a related note, it's stupidly easy to get code accepted by another team at Google.

Unless that other team is Android. Though then you could submit to AOSP directly (assuming the issue you are addressing wasn't fixed internally 4 months ago, but how would you know?).
I think the point is that iOS devices inadvertently leak the privacy of the user. This hack exploits that leak.
The term for full stack system administrators is devops.
Does zsh have bash's ESC+.?
You could install this in a retail store to get competitive intel on where your customers have previously browsed or been
News media already use this format for developing stories, called "live blogging". That's what the article refers to with the term "slow live blogging". Like you said, it's slowly evolving rather than breaking news.
I tried fish for a while, and it's really great. The out of the box experience is way better than zsh and bash.
But I switched to zsh, mostly because I couldn't get used to the different syntax.
Can you delete it and re-post a redacted one?
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"If it was the only terminal emulator, there would be a good reason."

Gnome Terminal may (effectively) be the only terminal emulator available to you if you do not have rights to install software or to change default software.
Try POWDER. It's made practically by one person, and it's very well designed (inspired by Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup). It also has hands down the best writing in any roguelike. God system in particular is unique, all 5 or so gods evaluate your behavior at the same time. Gods like different actions, and whatever you do you will piss off some gods and delight others. It requires some spoilers to understand, but is very fun once you do. POWDER's implementation of Xom is intriguing - he's mentally unstable and changes his preferences every 1000 turns, first he wants you to act like a warrior, second he gets annoyed when you strike a monster in melee. Or even kill anything personally when he impersonates Pax...

But I digress. POWDER feels very much a designed roguelike, not something that evolved.
From the Wikipedia link you provided:

1913 Bernays was hired by the actor Richard Bennett to protect a play that supported sex education against police interference. Bernays set up a front group called the "Medical Review of Reviews Sociological Fund" (officially concerned with fighting venereal disease) for the purpose of endorsing the play.[21]

Which reminds me of Tom Lantos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lantos )working with the PR firm to stage the testimonies on capital hill to get US into the first Iraq War, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Nayirah

In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح‎) and that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has largely come to be regarded as wartime propaganda.
Just to throw in my 10 cents, if I've learned one thing in my own web dev consulting, it is...

WORK FOR PEOPLE WITH MONEY. LOTS OF IT.

It makes all the difference in the world.
This post makes me feel like I've never had depression, because I always enjoyed hugs...just not as much sometimes. I think that it's a gradient more than a "yes/no" type thing, and I haven't experienced that badly (thank FSM).
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Stuff like this is why I usually set my smallest clients up with a static html generator. (At least if they don't want comments, and then we consider Disqus before wordpress.)

It is really hard to have vulerabilities with static html. Similarly, hosting these costs nothing. Usually in the ballpark of $3/year, the DNS alone is the dominate cost. And if they do get a sudden inrush of traffic, static hosts need to see a thousand times more load than stock wordpress before they fall down.

Come to think of it, I've never had a client that was the correct size for Wordpress. They were either way too small or way too large.
I think this bug report is an excellent example of how not to interact with your users.

1. Remove a long-existing feature without telling anyone, hidden in a minor update

2. A user reports it in a friendly and informative manner. Persch [dev] closes with a single word "No". That alone should make any user furious.

3. A discussion ensues with someone finally (and understandably) concluding that this was done intentionally. To which Mueller [dev] responds: "Please don't. Please give https://live.gnome.org/CodeOfConduct a read. And
please consider that this bugzilla is not meant to be a discussion forum but
rather a place where actual bugs are kept."

Holy crap, so we are to conclude that it was not done intentionally but it should not be fixed either and that nobody is supposed to complain because the developers' code of conduct states that they always mean well by definition.

4. Another user sheds light on the backstory by pretty much proving this was done on purpose (contradicting Mueller). To which a third developer responds indignantly that the "official" workaround for this issue is sufficient and that the user should head over to the corresponding wiki page and improve the workaround description. He then closes again with a statement about how all devs are well-meaning (just for the added cognitive dissonance I suppose).

What takes the cake: from reading their description, the suggested "workaround" seems to make the whole window transparent, including the terminal text.
Huge mistake on their part, typical of math people.
High level programming languages have to be as close as possible to human languages (English) not to some obscure mathematical concepts and notation that most people don't care about. Actually math notation itself (cryptic, inconsistent, ambiguous) is a horrible result of math people's communication handicap and ineptitude.
Yes, that's indeed how it is.
git-annex[1] might be able to solve the sync problem, no matter which file-based wiki software you are using, especially with its assistant[2]

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com
[2]: http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
The thing is transparency didn't solve any problem. It was just a nerdiness thing.
Something like this seems... illegal. Isn't this type of data farming only allowed after explicit permission of the user?
People like iOS more than Android.
I would argue your solution is exactly backwards.

The job of the compositor is to draw a window how it asks to be drawn. The window in question is extending that choice to the user: "how do you want me to look." It then tells the compositor to draw it in that fashion. I would argue that this is the correct place for this choice.

If you use the compositor to control transparency, what you have is the window asking to be drawn in a certain way and the compositor saying "Eh, you'd look way better at 50% opacity". If it's the user controlling this it's even worse. Now they have to be able to write a regular expression on certain window classes for each application they want to modify, and have far less granularity in how the window is modified.

The compositor exists to faithfully draw windows and place them on the screen according to what is requested. Only in exceptional cases should it be asked to do weird things with certain windows.
That's what I thought when I read his comment. Hofstadter emphasizes how unmanageable such a system becomes quite quickly.

For example, here's what a proof that addition is commutative looks like in TNT: http://imgur.com/a/O63Ij
> piracy

*File sharing.
As another price point, I believe Google apps for business is $50 / yr / person.
I have yet to find a useful feature that I don't already get in bash (assuming you are capable of sudo apt-get install bash-completion).

Fish (that I don't use regularly), however, has useful features.
How about forking it?
First the trailer for Gravity comes out and then this happens. It's almost as if real life decided space needed a marketing stunt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufsrgE0BYf0
I am pretty sure the comment you are replying to is satire.
This is, after all, why many U.S.-based distros refused to package and ship patent-encumbered code by default, is because end-users would also be theoretically liable.
Is it me or linux desktop was better 5 years ago?

The ui was always inconsistent and ugly (e.g. Gnome icons are a joke), but it was fast and had some cool features the competition implemented years later.

Now its behind the competition, terribly slow and still inconsistent and ugly.

Sorry devs, I don't mean to understate your work, but sometimes criticism is needed to help evolution and improvement.
Isn't this the simplest thing if you want a no-fuss brochureware site?

* Go to Wordpress.com

* Choose a custom address ($18.00 / year for youraddress.com)

* Pick a pleasant theme

* Type in your content

Job done, right?
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Yes, exactly - it`s not a problem with tool, but with use of it. I also wouldn`t recommend using any software without knowledge how it behaves and what can be done with it.
...and this is why you should be doing some basic usability testing and proving out your product to small market samples. You can do this IRL too by doing things such as:

- Going to the bar
- Grubwithus
- Going dancing
- Hiking a popular trail

etc :)
Did you use the SIOX algorithm to implement it? That's what the Gimp feature is based on: http://www.siox.org/
To quote the maintainer in another bug.

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The reason is that these settings make no sense. Why should a terminal be
transparent, or have an image behind everything, but the same not apply to,
say, gedit, or firefox, or evolution?
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I like it XD
I recently realized, e.g., that the HotSpot JVM is the R.M.S. Titanic, and invokedynamic (or any change in bytecode) is the iceberg. That's probably a reason why we're still waiting for lambdas, in-memory transactions, etc. It's too large to evolve quickly.
Wordpress sucks for small business. It's just that simple. It shouldn't, but it does.
While we're at it, doesn't being a doctor look easy too? Just ask a few questions, read the nurse's notes, prescribe some medicine.
Gnome has always been this way. It's kind of sad, but if it was that way in 2006 and 2008 and 2010 it's hardly surprising that it's still that way in 2013. :/

In general, Gnome tends to make decisions internally and then refuse to communicate what's behind said decisions to the broader community.

That said, I don't think I agree with the people who seem to think of transparent terminals as massively important feature, though I do find them nice.
"if the context is what makes it such an outrage. I suspect it is the latter, which leads me to wonder if there may be some sort of double standard in the kinds of vulgarity one can casually employ"

You wonder whether words spoken in varying contexts can carry various meanings? That's not a particularly wild guess.

Yes, words mean different things coming from and to different people.
I like comparing it to clothing.

There's a huge cost difference between grabbing a pair of pants at Walmart and having a good tailor craft a pair of nice slacks.

And the difference between the two is glaringly obvious.
Path expansion, can easily be fixed with something like this
in bash:
CDPATH=".:..:~:~/Desktop:~/Documents:~/Documents/Prj:~/bin:/usr/local:/usr/local/share:/opt/local"

for realm in ~/Library/Caches/temporaryitems ~/* ~/Desktop/* ~/Documents/* ~/Documents/Prj/* ~/Library/* ~/Library/Scripts/* ~/Library/
do
for folder in $realm
do
if [ -d ${folder} ]
then
* CDPATH="$CDPATH":"$folder"
fi
done
done

As for completions of git and such, that relies totally upon where you got your completion from.
There gotta be better arguments than this, and I am really sure there is.

I am on Mac OsX, and I downloaded and installed bash 4.2, and I have never experienced any problems with that.
Mueller wasn't saying that it wasn't done intentionally. He was saying not to assume that its removal had been maliciously hidden.
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How do you know?

1) Have you searched the literature on perceptual defects and enablement? If so I'd love to see references.

2) Have you consulted widely on mailing lists that Gnome Terminal users use and checked use cases? If so, can you link to those? I'd like to see them.
Great news and really looking forward to see it.

Will not be that easy for them to be as successful again, but there is certainly still enough to laugh about in corporate IT today.

Just remember how much time has changed since their first series was aired and how much influence they had - "Have you tried turning it off and on again" is basically a common term in UK English today and almost everybody will know today that you wont break the Internet when you type Google into Google ...

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Theoretically, one wouldn't want to limit their crowd to a group of juvenile assholes.
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