jmhain

Also (very slightly) laggy on my 2014 MBP, even when forcing it to use the discrete gpu.

Did you even read the article?

> the scientists found that feeding Neu5Gc to mice engineered to be deficient in the sugar (like humans) significantly promoted spontaneous cancers

It's a shame nothing ever came of TermKit.

http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

No, it's Cafestol, which unlike dietary cholesterol does substantially increase serum cholesterol. Whether it's the harmful kind (LDL pattern B), I've been unable to figure out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafestol

As a Linux user, I find this quite humorous.

Thank you for the detailed response. I've always discounted the BSDs because of the popularity of Linux, but perhaps now I'll give them a second look.

> The entire OS seems to be of substantially higher quality than Linux.

That's a pretty bold statement. Care to elaborate?

Meanwhile several Linux desktops have actually incorporated design teams and are starting to look quite beautiful. Never thought I'd see the day where it's prettier than OS X, but today may be that day.

> It's totally unscientific to use LDL given it includes HDL

I agree that total LDL is not a good indicator unless you do subfractioning, but I think you meant total cholesterol here, as LDL does not include HDL (that wouldn't even make sense!).

I closed the page immediately upon seeing total cholesterol. Being on a ketogenic diet, it'd probably tell me I'm at risk because the diet increases both HDL and big LDL particles (the harmless kind). Total cholesterol is meaningless.

This should be the norm for a couple of reasons:

* There are still people that believe free-of-cost software cannot be high quality, which is likely a result of the well known relationship between price and perceived quality.

* If open-source developers are paid for their work, there will be more open-source software.

Interesting recent discussion on reddit about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2hvtuc/dear_gnome_i_...

Looks like it's hosted here now: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-builder

I can't get it to build though, I get

    fatal error: gb-resources.h: No such file or directory #include "gb-resources.h"

Probably, but I heard Debian unstable is already packaging it, so that's an option too.

> This is not enabled by default, and there's no way to enable it in the default settings manager. I think gnome-tweak-tool has added support, but I had to dig around in dconf to enable it not too long ago.

Try super+drag. If I remember correctly, they're trying to change window manager interactions to use super to free up alt for applications.

> It's something of an 80/20 scenario: yes, most of "their way" is perfectly fine, but a good chunk of it just sucks. Worse, which chunk of it sucks is different for different people and for different reasons. For example, I can't stand workspaces, but I know people who swear by them. Conversely, a lot of people prefer the old program menus, but I like the incremental search Gnome uses.

While it admittedly could be better, you can customize GNOME Shell significantly with extensions. The GNOME Classic session is implemented entirely with extensions in fact IIRC.

I'd consider myself a serious developer and I love GNOME 3.

> Focused and unfocused windows look almost identical

I have never had a problem distinguishing.

> Expected features like tray icons, virtual desktops, alt+drag to move/resize windows, even alt+tab don't work out-of-the-box

All of the above work perfectly fine. I genuinely have no idea what you are talking about.

> Window focus seems completely broken

You'll have to be more specific here; works fine for me.

> IntelliJ's menus don't track the moue properly - again, probably a Java issue, but still works great under KDE

I had issues with IntelliJ until I switched from OpenJDK to the Oracle JDK. Now it works fine (though a bit ugly).

> Having to "drag" the screensaver thing away is annoying

You're doing it wrong. Just start typing your password and it goes away.

Some of the developers definitely do have a bad attitude, but many are actually quite awesome. Besides, more often than not, their way has turned out pretty good.

Can LibreOffice edit MS Office files non-destructively now? I'm impressed with the improvements lately, but I'm still too scared edit shared .docx files at work based on bad experiences with OpenOffice in the past.

Awesome! Just emailed you.

I admit I let my new-desktop-linux* evangelism get the better of me there, since I definitely knew that target was outdated. I should really put my money where my mouth is and try and help with the port.

* There should really be a term for the new emerging desktop linux platform based around systemd and wayland.

I suspect many of the issues are actually problems with Fedora (it seems I have a mix of 3.13.9 and the previous release) but I'll list them anyway, just in case.

* Apps are actually launching under xwayland by default. Everything segfaults if launched with GDK_BACKEND=wayland.

* I use dvorak. Xwayland honors the setting but the shell is still qwerty.

* Two-finger scrolling works in xwayland (though twice as fast as usual) but not at all in shell.

* Restarting shell kills running apps and afterwards only Web will open. And it has the app menu and min/max button in the headerbar.

* External monitor not recognized, works fine under X

Really? Chromium already has a fairly functional Wayland port [0] and Firefox just needs to upgrade to GTK 3, which is (admittedly optimistically) targeted for 32 [1].

[0] https://01.org/ozone-wayland/blogs/tiagovignatti/2013/chromi...

[1] http://worldofgnome.org/optimistic-target-for-firefox-gtk3-i...

EDIT: Now running the GTK 3 Firefox port in a GNOME Wayland session, and it's working great!

I'm typing this from a wayland session of the GNOME 3.14 beta (via Fedora 21 Branched). While there are still some serious bugs, I have to say I am very impressed. The synchronization problems and graphical glitches of X always made the Linux desktop feel second rate compared to Mac or Windows. With wayland, interactions with elements on the screen such as moving and resizing windows or dragging apps to the dash are perfectly in sync with the cursor. Not even Android has achieved this.

In addition, GNOME 3.14 is looking outstanding. With the latest design refinements, I find the interface significantly more attractive than OS X (before or after redesign). It's not quite there yet, but if the community can deliver a system with fully functional wayland, portable sandboxed app containers, and a stable development target, the Linux desktop truly will stand a chance against the proprietary competitors.

I just moved to the bay area, but unfortunately there is no life in my NextDoor community. I actually found it by coming up with the concept and googling to see if anything like it actually existed. I was hoping to make some new friends, but oh well.

Fortunately, I like languages and Duolingo enough to use it regardless of the streak. I've experienced a lot of weirdness with it that ultimately caused me to lose it despite daily practice.

I think it's just a consequence of Metcalfe's law; the first implementation of a good idea will never be perfect, but has the greatest chance of succeeding. Sure IPv4, JavaScript, Bitcoin, and countless others have defects, but the world is still better with than without them.

I set out to learn Spanish almost exactly one year ago, deciding it was ridiculous to be monolingual in a world of thousands of languages. My approach was as intensive as the author's; I completed the Duolingo skill tree, read books on grammar and slang, watched, listened to, and read Spanish media and Spanish translations of English media, attended meetups, etc.

While I'm only 23, I experienced the same "mental fountain of youth" effect the author describes. At first, it all sounded like gibberish even if reading along with what I was listening to. My mind refused to accept words and concepts that didn't map one-to-one with English. I repeatedly mixed up similar looking words.

Despite constant failure, I kept at it, and eventually it just "clicked". Spanish errors started to sound like "he hitted me". I went from barely memorizing a few words a day, to successfully internalizing hundreds. And the best part is, all these cognitive benefits have transferred to other realms. I memorize stuff on Anki now just for the hell of it because it's so easy. I am about halfway to being fluent in German after only a month of study. I really can't recommend learning a foreign language enough.

> The flora in the probiotic is really nothing that shouldn't already be in a healthy gut

Perhaps the important factor isn't which species are present, but their distribution or some other factor of which we are still ignorant. In any case, I'm glad you've seen positive results and I may try them again in the future with single-strain supplements once this ordeal is long behind me.

I'm willing to try anything safe and shown to be effective scientifically. However, at the moment I have poor health insurance and little disposable income, and my GI doc wants me to do a CT scan that would cost me $1600 out of pocket to rule out IBD and a few other things before continuing. So basically I've hit a brick wall for the time being.

Multiple times and not just for IBS but many reasons ranging from breaking a weight loss plateau to preventing anxiety attacks after the probiotics. It definitely reduces IBS symptoms while I'm not eating, but the hunger makes me unable to think about anything but food.

Most of my panic attacks occurred immediately after a meal as well. I discovered a couple of interesting things:

* Magnesium Citrate tablets were able to stop or lessen the attacks, but only when they occurred after a meal. I suspect the laxative effect of magnesium is responsible. * The only food that wouldn't trigger anxiety was coconut-based items, which I suspect has to do with coconut oil comprising mostly MCTs, which take less work to digest.

I don't for sure. In fact, it is definitely confounded by the fact that I quit my SSRI a month and a half prior. However, the reaction I described began a day after I started the probiotic. Also, it gradually decreased in intensity over the two weeks after I stopped the probiotic and I resumed my SSRI. Just to be sure, I took another and the whole thing happened again.