Newky

Hey, added a license, thanks for your comments.

I have to agree.

The fact that you still cannot do side by side diffs on pull requests makes it a less than useful code review tool.

To me, this would feel more natural in something other than the search bar of Google. When we make a new search, the thought process is that it is a separate and new search.

Although we all know that searches are by no means stateless, they were separate, unrelated questions in my mind previous to this. This makes searching more like a conversation (hence the name) and means that the UI to me does not fit this style. There is no record of what you searched before this.

Imagine if your chat client was displayed in the same context. Google is only including it in this way so that it gets the huge usage of its search engine, but to me a more chatty UI would make this more obvious.

There is bash completion for ssh.

Its included as part of the bash-completion package on most distributions of linux.

Its got extremely good completion support for hostnames

It has the added advantage of also auto-completing for scp.

Have used it for over a year at this stage, and did not realize the full potential until this article.

I have been using it as a direct replacement for git log, and its something that gets installed on any system I work on for any length of time.

The thing which irritates me most about this pagination model where you swipe, is that if there is a code reference or something off page, it means u wrestle with this page flipping on/off until you finally are able to drag the page so u can see remainder of code listing.

Wow, thats a great new feature.

This is one thing that really infuriates me about new android devices. Their lack of syncing support with linux boxes.

Does anyone know if this support is something that can be backported to 12.04?

Do your friends have to be clowns?

I have gone from facebook for coming up on two years, but I see some of the pictures posted on my girlfriends feed. A good portion (she is a college student) are pictures of fairly messy nights out.

Even if its not toilet pictures, a picture of a drunk, scantily clad teenager may not look any better, and these pictures dominate facebook. At least the feeds of young people that I know.

Having attachments available across computers/mobile devices can in some cases be a huge win.

I can see it being a disaster in some cases, but I see it as a huge plus in another section.

Dropbox is just about ubiquitous enough for this to be useful.

Although in theory I agree with your idea, the relevant price points of the two products would probably be an important factor in their popularity.

Even if the glass was to be reduced to a $1000 product, I still feel that a lot of people would find that sort of luxury product a little over their price point.

We know so little about the watch (down to its very existence) however you would expect the price point to be similar to other smart watches which are in and around $100. If this was the case, the smaller amount of uses of a $100 device out trumps the virtues of a $1000 device for the vast majority of budget users.

Ok perhaps an API would suffice for me.

I will happily write said script. Google aim's at the thousands but I feel they are in danger of neglecting the fact that people who want features like this make services like this popular i.e the tech community are early adopters and they generally recommend tools (especially tools like this) to their less tech savvy friends. Cater in a small way (you still need your swanky android apps and colors) for the hardcore tech, and you add users.

My initial reaction was that they were doing a read it later service and competing with the likes of Pocket. That would be a disaster as that area doesn't need competition at this time.

But it appears that they are targeting a light weight evernote replacement. A killer feature for me on this would be a command line binary which calls up my $EDITOR and allows me to write a note immediately and have them synced immediately. This, with the power of lighter production of notes on mobile devices could find a place into my workflow.

I have developed a solution using the pocket api, whereby I can auto tag certain items based on a number of factors.

This has proved quite useful and has got rid of a lot of the pain points I had with these sort of services before.

https://github.com/Newky/PocketPy

Thanks for the clarification, I should read more carefully.

Apologies.

Strangely this was one of the main reasons I switched off Chrome.

I found that this was not useful at all. My three main consumptions are: -> Work Computer -> Tablet and phone -> Home computer

The tabs on my work computer are almost always not relevant for when I am at home and on tablet phone. There is also certain cases where I would not particularly want my tabs from my work machine (sensitive information perhaps) shared to my home computer or a mobile device I could get stolen and vice versa.

For any sharing of tabs I want, I just use pocket, as the tabs I really want to share are usually just articles that I want to read, either way pocket will take those links.

From what I understand, this calls out to their servers and they display a page?

Would it not be more secure and safer to render this on some sort of local page?

Don't really see the need for this information to go to a third party server.

I have returned to firefox for the following reasons: 1) It feels more stable. Almost never crashes. 2) Can run separate profiles at the same time in a nicer way than chrome. I use this to have a work and personal browser in work. 3) I use vimperator now which I find works best on firefox. 4) I get that happy feeling that I am using software which actually values some of the open source philosophy that I value.

If this happened surely the benefits would be two-edged. Ubuntu/Linux would unlock all the potential of sharing applications of Android, while Google would suddenly gain the ability to run a desktop OS on the android stack.

This is obviously purely theoretical, but would bring the ubiquity of Android to a whole host of new machines if used in a desktop context. That would make the whole experience quite interesting and exciting.

I second this, I also find myself impulsively smashing enter multiple times sometimes between commands, if I am typing in a series of commands, its just so my brain can catch up with what I want to do.

Read in some other HN comment that its just android underneath, so this would suggest that the normal apt-get route might not be an option?

The donations system is great, but I would have preferred to see a push for a community built up around free and open source software.

The idea of a young person beginning to code and polishing their application and uploading and getting some money in donations. I'm more likely to donate to a great attempt at a project by a young person than I am to buy software on Linux. Raspberry Pi Store could have been the communities push to loads of great community driven open source projects.

I loved this article as it clearly demonstrates Jeff's love of all hardware. There is no real hatred for any brand here, and he complements all the major devices while remaining objective.

One comment I would make is regarding this, "I knew that the Nexus 7 was really working for me when I gave mine to my father as a spontaneous gift while he was visiting, then missed it sorely when waiting for the replacement to arrive.". I know that Jeff is above my pay bracket, but even still, this makes me wonder what sort of money stream this is, if he can simply hand away Nexus 7's. I earn a respectful living but that sort of money is still substantial enough that I can't afford to simply give one away.

The argument for not teaching children scratch. "You don't need to start kids off on some fake programming language like Scratch."

I have no real affection for scratch, but I feel that he was making the argument that children should learn to program in an environment that models (at least to a point) the one in which a developer develops in, at least with regard to language preference.

I feel at this point, the language choice (barring ease of use etc) is pointless. Whether you use scratch, python or Haskell, if it piques the interest of a child, then nothing will stand in the way if that student wants to go on and learn every programming language available.

If you think of the first language you ever learned, and what you are now programming in. For me, my first language (a type of kiddy basic) gave me what I needed. A concept of execution flow. How to make things come up on the screen, basic 2d programming and it made it very easy to make some GUI based stuff.

My point is that don't hate any language (even if it is a fake language like Scratch) if it builds the initial building blocks in a child (or adults) head.

I can't believe they upgraded the iPad to version 4? This seems like only yesterday that the iPad 3 was announced.

Also Marco says at one point about the six different versions of the macbook pro for only 3 different size points. Is this a sign of the Jobs touch being lost?

The iPad mini is different in that the Nexus 7 was the first sub ipad size tablet to make a mark before Apple. This won't make a huge difference to mini sales, but it does reek off Apple chasing tails.

Good article, especially the LocalForward config was new to me.

One real usage that is invaluable for me, is the fact that the config is used for SVP also. This saves a lot of typing.

With a key based login set up, copying files to a server is a matter of

scp file dev:~/

10 seconds. That is too quick for me. If you are messing around perhaps thats ok, but a project which is a click to include feels wrong for anything more than a tiny app which does something very basic.

Immediately when I create an app like this using this, I have clicked to include libraries. How does this import only the things that I want.

What I mean is I may use the same picture for a number of services i.e Twitter, Facebook, and that same picture might also be my Gravatar. If I had added the Gravatar a while back, and had forgotten about it, it would look like the service had grabbed it from the other services.

This is not a huge problem by any means, it just jarred me a little.

Someones Gravatar could easily be a profile picture that they use in a lot of places no?

The thing I found a little jarring about this, is that if you are not registered for gosquared, it still can get a gravatar you have registered on gravatar. Despite me not being registered, entering my email, it is as if they already have information on me.

This could be a little daunting to someone who doesn't understand how this is happening.

The onion have a solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMQNvGilOVQ