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This seems to be the relevant original quote:

One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it's very graphical and easy to use. What we've tried to do with Windows 7 whether it's traditional format or in a touch format is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics. We've significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it's built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.

Interviewer: So you've taken the style of the Mac platform and built it on the more solid foundations of Vista?

We've taken everything that's good about Vista, along with the core infrastructure of the operating system, and we've made it faster and slimmed down the code to make it more effective.

We've also tried to listen to what customers want in terms of a much slicker user interface and the ability to engage with it far more intuitively. That's the product that we're delivering.

You would think that Redmond "talking to the press 101" would cover stuff like this.
Fresh.app is the core of my activities online. I can't recommend it enough.

http://www.ironicsoftware.com/fresh/index.html

Most of my activities concern the most recent things I've moved with or played with. Fresh lets me handle all of that without worrying about any other workflow. Downloads/screenshots/etc all go through it.
Yeah, no offense UE, but gvim's already got all your front-page features.

Find/replace? Of course.

Hex editing? Yes, via external helper xxd.

Column mode? If you mean block visual mode, yes. Justifying text is available through a macro.

Highly configurable and powerful? I'd say so.

Macros and scripts? Naturally.

Highly configurable GUI with file tabs, split windows, and more? Yes, yes, yes, and please define 'more' more succinctly.
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Why can you create a PIF file that points to something that isn't a DOS program?
There's obviously a balance. Kids need ideally both.
If you do not take control of your life, it will be over and you will have only been a participant.The basic question life asks you is this: are you a truly independent personality driving towards what you want? Or are you just another sack of meat along for the brief 80-year ride?

Nobody can answer that question but you. Asking HN is not going to amount to anything.

EDIT: Your question seems to boil down to "I'm lost!" to which the appropriate reply is "Where are you going?"
Visual Studio, Launchy, Web Developer Toolbar, Firebug
Rule: Anytime money changes hands, someone will get in the middle to take a cut.
That is certainly the reason he was downvoted. Is there really any reason to discuss downvoting? The fact that his wife might not want him to take such drastic steps is actually a good thing. My wife is my dream killer which is a good thing. Dreams are fantasies. You should be willing to 'go for it', but you should have someone there to keep you in reality. Just because his wife might not see things from his perspective does not mean she is wrong. Instead of seeing it in such a negative light, it should instead encourage him to find more information to persuade her. She, after all, is more like the customer than he will ever be, and the customer is the target for your business venture. If you can convince her of the project, that is probably a useful project. I am sure she would not mind a small cut in hours to work on a side business. Even going from 40 hours to 35 hours per week at such a job would be a big change. That extra 5 hours per week could result in him eagerly awaiting to come home to continue working on his projects. He is not asking for permission to be lazy, and his wife would not be asking for him to suffer. Instead, she would be the voice of reason to prevent him from slipping into fantasies. She might say no at first but agree to a large cut of hours (40 to 20 perhaps) if he saves six months of income. That would give him something towards which he can work. He can bargain this way until they reach a concensus. The reason he wants fewer hours at work is to spend more time with his family not to leave his family. Even something as small as "I am going to stay up 2 hours later than usual each night to work on my projects and work for 8 hours on Saturday on it." can be the beginning of a new business. That would equate to 18 hours per week of working on the side project, and when you can show something for the time spent, she will probably be more accepting. If she is initially accepting of everything you say, it does not mean she does not love him, and it does not mean she is a cruel woman. It simply means that she wants what is best for the family, and she can be the rational one that keeps him grounded. He can continue to dream, but he needs a solution for filtering his ideas, and she can be perfect for that.
Arduinos are very good to hack projects. They programming language is very similar to C.
He didn't? I'm highly skeptical of that. Buffett's business strategy and general beliefs are largely based on Austrian economics.
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My favorite part:

This function checks if a particular variable has a value defined. Or it does, unless a 3rd party script sets the global undefined variable to something else. This single line of code anywhere in the page will bring Closure Library crashing down:

var undefined = 5;

Relying on the global undefined variable is another rookie mistake for JavaScript library authors.

Granted, yes I think libraries in particular should code defensively and I originally saw the var undefined; trick in jQuery some time ago, but realistically, I think they are making a mountain of a mole hill. In my mind it's more of a rookie mistake to trample the undefined type in your code than it is to assume the undefined type has been trampled. I'm no elite js interpreter wizard but in fact I believe the other reason why libraries use the var undefined; trick is to gain a slight speed boost.
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That sums up how I felt, too. I was excited at first, but then remembered that I stopped using UltraEdit when I switched to Linux on the desktop.

Still one the best editors I've used, though, and was my favorite on Windows.
Upvoted for Firebug. This tool makes working on Ajax, Javascript, and CSS a breeze (at least for me).
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Ok, I'm up shit creek here and I don't know where to turn. I live in Vancouver Canada and I recently started to plan for my wedding. Now my wedding is on Saturday and I don't have enough money to afford it! What the hell am I going to do? I need like $10,000, essentially another month of wages to pay for the whole thing and I'm feeling lost. Anybody know of anyone willing to lend that kind of money?

Please help. I'm soo lost!
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Subdomains are best for separate "apps" on your server.

www.company.com/product1, product2, etc.
store.company.com/product
support.company.com/product
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Has anyone here used this before? If so, do you know how this tolerates latency? Could I use Remus to replicate a VM to LAX from NY or similar distances?
Most frequently used zsh/bash Shortcut : Ctrl + r

Most frequently used Gnome Shortcut : Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Keys to switch workspaces

Quicksilver like launcher for Linux with numerous plugins : Gnome-Do

Version Control : git

Text Editor : vim

Managing multiple remote ssh sessions : screen
Where did the early commits come from? What revision control systems existed back in 1972?
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That's true, but it seems these are practical limitations, not theoretical ones.

The nice thing about the terminating case being a computer, though, is that it's a moving target (Moore's law, etc.). At the extreme case, a compiler could model every molecule in a human brain and use the simulated intelligence to convert the description into a language that it can compile.

I would be crazy to expect that any time soon, but I think it shows that in theory we can do better than existing programming languages do.

By the way, I re-worded the last sentence to "as long as programming languages are less expressive than written English, I'll keep welcoming them.", because I don't think it's inevitable that programming languages can become as expressive as natural languages. I do think that as long as they aren't, we can do better.
I didn't take the original guy's quote like that. He said, is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics. That doesn't mean they copied the mac, it means they tried to make the graphics really good -- like the mac.
Vim, paper and good quality colors pens. Valgrind, grep, gdb, inkscape for drawings...
I actually have no experience with this at all. The C like source listing was what caught my eye and is the reason why I posted it. I am currently Googling/Ebaying around right now to buy some kits. If you have any recommendations, I'd appreciate it.
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Just thinking out loud. It's not like Apple is above imposing some inconvenient DRM to further their goals

(And sure people can still copy the OS, but then it's pretty indefensible copyright infringement)
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Wow, sometime reading around HN is a little scary! The sheer amount of expertise that the community can bring to bear on nearly any topic is pretty crazy. Even more-so with something like this that impinges on a core subject for many of the people here...
We just can't find it right now. I know it's here somewhere though!
Graph paper and a pencil. Just pull it out and start drawing, jotting down ideas, and organizing a strategy of executing on the project at hand.

Also, Excel (or other spreadsheet program). Not usually thought of as a tool, but putting small functions in cells and passing inputs/results cell to cell is a good way to start the actual implementation of a solution.
You know me because of code I've written, books I've published, and my contributions here .... I'm in my early 40s, I've worked for start-ups and big companies. I made a little bit of money in the early 2000s which helped pay off a bit of mortgage. I have a family that depends on me financially.

I'm in my early 20s, and I'm just starting graduate school. I think you're exactly who I'm aiming to be in 20 years. So it makes me nervous that it's not working out for you.

Where should I turn? And what would you do?

Normally, that's what I'd ask somebody like you - someone successful, who gives to his peer group.

But since you're asking me (us), what I would do (have done), in order:

- Read the research: http://www.trendfollowing.com/whitepaper/happiness.pdf . The research says that exercise, sex, sleep, lots of time devoted to meaningful relationships, engagement in work, enjoying the moment, and regularly achieving goals are the main correlates of happiness. People overestimate the potential effects of big changes in their lives (lottery winners / paraplegics).

- Start with: Sleep, exercise & meditate. They're easy and you can do all three today. I replaced the SSRIs my health professional gave me with these habits, and feel much better than I did (indeed, research shows they're more effective than most of the medication).

- Take a week. Breathe. Tell your wife and kids that you're going away a few days to think about being happy and making them happy. Find a forest or a quiet room somewhere and just sit and think for a week, about how to be happy and make them happy. Don't watch TV or read books or write code. Just sit and breathe and think.

- Ask your family what to do. They know you better than I do. Especially your kids - kids have a way of totally ignoring the bullshit they're supposed to see, and just seeing instead. Your parents will know you too.

- Make a plan. Doesn't have to be detailed, just has to have steps, in order, that you think will mostly solve this problem if they are executed properly.

- Do the plan.

- Consider spirituality. By that I just mean how you really feel about the Big Questions, about who you are, your place in the world.

A final note: I discovered fairly early on in life that I'm fundamentally unhappy. With absolutely no good external reasons, when logically everything in my life is going great, I still tend to emotionally feel unhappy.

My default dopamine-ostat is too low, basically. This has made it very clear that, for me, happiness is a fundamentally internal thing. Your outside circumstances (within reason) have only marginal effects on happiness.

My solution is to continuously practice mentally relaxing. Releasing tension in my diaphragm, my face, neck & shoulders, breathing, and then eventually my mind - running through all the reasons why I'm basically OK. This eventually makes me smile, and feel happy. Repeating this practice regularly has made it almost a subconscious habit. For me, this did more than getting a girlfriend, being admitted to prestigious schools, or anything else.
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I don't understand what's wrong with the <strong> tag and I want to discuss it here...
English's 'information density' is mainly due to the inference ability of the target. A human being infers an incredible amount of nuance from words and the tone/context in which they are delivered.

Programming languages are formal specifications of instructions to a machine. They have to be incredibly deterministic/unambiguous because the machine does no inference of it's own. Even with a so called 'high level language' that handles a lot of under-the-hood stuff like memory allocation and garbage collection for you, there are no intuitive leaps. If you wrote the algorithm in English, but made sure to be rigidly unambiguous, you'd probably find the English version to be not so short.
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99.9% of it coming after 2008.

Actually, this is a good idea. I'm going to go name-squat repositories on every other hard-to-search programming language name I can think of.
That's unlikely to be very useful since, to do transparent network failover, both VM hosts need to be on the same layer 2 network. And half the point of having geographically diverse sites is so they aren't on the same network.
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What you are ignoring is that some of these gifts actually help people by creating wealth, while others do not. Albert Einstein happened to be really smart, and this is a gift that he used to help society, by inventing the theories of special and general relativity. If we had taken away Einstein's intelligence, we would all be worse off for it.

However, simply being handed a pile of money as an inheritance rarely helps anyone other than you. If the government had taken 90% of Alice Walton's fortune, who would be worse off? Alice? Not likely; even a billion dollars is more than you can practically spend during a lifetime. Most Americans? No, most Americans would be better off, because they would have to pay less income tax. Wal-Mart customers? Nope; Wal-Mart would almost certainly still be there, since there's no way in hell Sam Walton would have just given up just because his kids would only inherit one billion each instead of ten billion each. So who, exactly, would be worse off?
It sounds as if you know his wife? It might be as you say, or maybe they are just completely different people. They probably have lived together for many, many years now. What if they just make each other unhappy?

Granted the formulation "leave immediately" was probably too harsh. I would think it is worth trying to talk about things. But one can't assume that staying together is always the best solution.
rebuttal:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/psystar-founders-claim-th...
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Why? The guy essentially said 'we made it like Mac . . . just better'
I have vacillated back and forth on this over the years.

My current conclusion is this: if you worry about tags in HTML then you're worrying about the wrong thing.

Make a website that does something useful. If you do, then we can talk about ascetics. But until that point? Stop sweating silly crap like this.
Is Google Closure based on naive server-side thinking?
The article looks like it might have some interesting content, but I don't fancy going through what appears to be a rather long and basic introduction to Computer Science. Can anyone enlighten me as to whether there's anything worth reading here?
I would venture to say none. UNIX was completed in 1969, and C itself didn't exist until 1972.
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Ask HN:Pop-ups, previews, help bubbles, etc.
Quite simply all this popup stuff drives me insane. I am just trying to read or highlight for searching and boom, magically a popup appears. Often it will not even have a close button on it and wants to hang around until some arbitrary time out occurs, blocking what I am trying to read.
I typically use the mouse to keep my place and often will rollover what I expect to be a link so I can see where it goes according to the status bar, where nothing appears since it's triggering a popup of some sort which is there to annoy me when I look back to where I left the mouse.
At first it was just ads, which is irritating but not unexpected, and I just avoid those sites. However now we have these supposedly helpful ones that give us a preview window of the link.
This just destroys the user experience for me and makes me never want to return to your page. Am I alone in my thinking here or is this the future of web design? I don't even want to use Ebay anymore because of this.
Well, you can either postpone your wedding, or get married without a 10,000 $ spree.

Partying on other peoples money is not a very responsible way to spend it.

It is not as though your marriage means less if you don't throw a huge party, it is first and foremost between you and your future wife.
I think he means the situation where if you are browsing HN, then take a trip to Mars and after you continue clicking, the links no longer work.
I use 50% of my time working on Redis because my real work is stupid. I used to work as freelance developer. Then I started to work for myself, now I've two companies, but still my work is stupid.

Why? Because there aren't just we and our users. There are customers, investors, and a lot of other people that are between our work and our users. This "third parties" manage to make us working for 80% on pointless stuff, write emails with time lines, and so on.

Because of this I'm changing my two companies in the next years, we are moving into web and mobile development without investors nor customers nor partnerships, just users. Even if this will mean to get into financial troubles it's worth it.

If you are not happy with your work and you think in some way you'll continue to survive if you leave it, LEAVE IT NOW.
Loan from employer?
Peer to peer lending platform?
Pawn broker?
Friends and family?
Exactly. Also, it cannot help that most people that have used both systems immediately think of the concepts that appear in the Mac operating system. I have noticed improvements in the Windows 7 interface where they have enhanced the Mac OS style interfaces, and that employee should not have been discussing a product on which he did not even work unless he was in marketing; however, the similarities are enough to make most people think it is more than coincidence.

As for my issues with Windows 7, removing the email client, requiring users to sign up with Windows Live just to use their Windows Live Mail address book (when the Windows Address Book is perfectly fine), and making interface changes that require more clicks to accomplish the same tasks are my reasons for not caring for the changes... not some incremental innovations that appear similar to other operating systems if those other operating systems have good interfaces.
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Some code is so bad that it's hard to have sympathy for the people who wrote it when stuff breaks. Overriding undefined is one of those things.

If we're getting that nitpicky, having an isDef method at all is adding an unnecessary function call that will slow down your program. And while you certainly could create an undefined variable for checking against each time, I'd hardly say not doing so is a "rookie mistake".
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Just because gvim (or emacs) can already do everything anyone has ever conceived of doing with a text editor doesn't mean it can't be improved upon.
Ack, color me ignorant! I should have double-checked that statement rather than write what I thought was the case. I have updated the comment.

The rest stands, though.
Arduinos are awesome. I've never done anything terribly code intensive, but a few months ago I built a water-sensor network for the wells around my parents' house. The sensors keep track of the water level in each of the wells, and sound an alarm when the water level rises above a certain point.

I did this with about a year of programming experience, and zero experience with hardware, and all for about $80. It helps that the Arduino language has a great IDE that takes care of compiling and uploading the code to the board.

http://www.arduino.cc is the main Arduino site. It has the IDE, documentation, examples, and links to websites that sell boards and accessories. Boards run about $35. Cheap and effective.
Presumably a lighthearted response to the Go! creator.
I remember the Pristina standoff between the Russians and Nato forces and thinking oh oh... that was a very close call.

We'll never know how much we owe Mike Jackson.
I prefer to sit in class, listen very carefully, do the assignment, but nothing else. I schedule my exams to immediately follow the classes. Works for me.

I guess there are different ways to learn.
That's both visits and unique vists.
IMHO it's a good thing to see commercial software being ported to Linux.

Now granted, on Linux, we probably don't need yet another editor - especially no closed source one, but it's the spirit that matters.

The more companies out there producing Linux software, the more companies will do the same, accumulating momentum and in the end forcing stuff like Photoshop to happen on Linux sometime in the future.

UltraEdit is a well known product on the Windows world and it's being produced by a well known company, so if they see value in producing a Linux desktop version, others might too.
It's free for a limited time.

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Or a blackboard. I love chalk!
This is exactly what most guys out there are conditioned to think. "I must be a provider". It's stupid. Yes, make sure your kids aren't starving. No, they don't need a new videogame every week.

Kids aren't as dumb as adults think they are. Treat them with respect, explain things to them, and they will understand. Treat them as dumb consumers, and what do you get?
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I would suggest getting a starter kit from makers shed, it comes with a bunch of sensors resistors and cables to start hacking right away. You can also get a arduino prototyping shield that mount on top of arduino with a breadboard on it.
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There weren't revision control systems as such, but there were a few operating systems which featured versioned filesystems, e.g. ITS and TENEX/TOPS-20.
Exactly. It's the interface that matters, not the feature list.
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We still like PG and gang, we wouldn't want to crap all over them like that. ;)

Edit: Since the poster deleted the comment, it said: "You should advertise Hacker News on reddit"
No version control systems as such, but there were a few operating systems with versioned file systems back in the late 60's, e.g. ITS and TENEX/TOPS-20.