phlyingpenguin

The part that gets me there is that paid users got doubled to 1GB instead of the 500MB and EDU users got no benefit from the bump. (It's free, so I'm not complaining very loudly)

I hate this (!g) though.

If I want Google results, it's a heck of a lot faster, easier, and natural to just Google it instead of adding some kind of search operator BS to my query. I used DDG for a while (a long time ago, admittedly) and basically had to !g every query I ran in order to get acceptable results. In the end, I gave up because it was just adding typing and thinking time to search.

I suppose one could argue that the interface lacks some of the annoyances of Google, but I feel like quality and speed are the most desirable traits of a search engine (in that order). If we're just using somebody else's results anyway then why should we accept a slowdown?

This. Because if my task list isn't in lots of places then it will not be used. A pretty interface to a text file would be fine, but I also want that text file catted out when I open my terminal and accessible to edit on all of my computers. Simplification is one thing, but some features are too important to leave out. In a way, comparing to Dropbox is a very unfortunate choice.

I'm not sure if this still works, but I'll be trying it a bit later today. (and I am guessing you're not after GTK only VIM editing)

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Vi_key_bindings_in_gtk

I'm extremely passionate about vim, and I cannot type with a plain QWERTY keyboard. It's really not a big deal. I remap h,j,k,l to d,h,t,n (and n to l so I can search) and I'm off to go.

The one problem I have is that my vimrc/.vim stuff is all customized far enough that I can never use any of the vim-like emulated modes in other text editors. I think evil-mode may be possible if I wanted to learn how to configure emacs at all, but it's generally not worth the hassle. I'm not sure about the particular Visual Studio plugin that the link is to, but one of the two doesn't allow remaps, for instance. It's generally not a problem to use j/k for short periods of time at least. My big problem Dvorak wise is Nethack which is sort of a pain. I bought a Qido USB layout switcher to make games like that possible.

I bought a book, Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Death by Black Hole, from Google Books when it launched a year ago.

Facebook is required? I have the demo of pro and as far as I can tell, I don't have Facebook linked up to it, not that they haven't suggested I could hook it up.

Yeah, it doesn't get a hair more than $500/yr cheaper and would exclude bus access. (note the shitty living situation) Part of the reason is that NH has a high property tax instead of having income tax. That's passed on to the renters.

My rent (which is the cheapest possible in town) is $6,000 (not including heating oil, which is ~$75/mo in the winter) a year for a very small room of a duplex in which each half is shared by 4 people. In a very different real estate market I've been in within the last two years (KY houses are on the order of 1/2 the cost of houses in NH), it's still about the same price for rent. You won't make it on the $1-2k that's left over from that. How long ago were you living on <$7k?

Xerox PARC, IBM Research, MS Research, Google Research (don't confuse Google Labs with research). There are plenty more.

Have you measured your usage over a month's span? With the amount of video content, streaming music, and "cloud" out there these days, it's a heck of a lot easier to use a big percentage of that as a single user than you might first think. But if you just look at text all day, maybe you can rest easy. "Ever" is a long time though.

Some people can't find the full screen option on their terminal application. This really shouldn't be open source, they could make at least $20 an installation off of it.

My favorite comparison in proclaiming ignorance is the English (or pick your non-science teacher category) teacher that proclaims they can't "do" math. Asking the opposite question, is it okay for any teacher to be illiterate? Just because something is difficult does not make it okay to shrug off as unnecessary.

IMO If you claim to be a programmer, you ought to have a whine-free good grasp (at least) of the tools necessary to be successful.

If you like Mercurial better and Bitbucket does the job, I'd stick with it. I was right there and decided the Git hype is just that. I'm not sure if I like one DVCS better than the other, but Bitbucket offered me (basically) unlimited service for my personal school repositories, and hg happens to be what my research group uses anyway. I'll stick to what I know and like already.

Is there a changelog somewhere obvious that I'm missing? It appears I've gone from 0.20 to 1.0, what am I getting here? The one in the source tree appears to be quite out of date.

I think in terms of a standard desktop user's install, a Debian machine configured for usual use is not going to differ all that greatly from an Ubuntu machine. A server config forsaking much of the user-friendly stuff, maybe.

I think my point there is that I don't think actual distribution "names" matter so much as what their intended purposes are for varying the "what" that is measured for this metric.

Skype very nearly doesn't have Linux software either. The mac software is similarly less than focused on as well.

Heh, I did exactly the opposite. I'm pretty happy with it, though I may still return to Gnome 2.

My main reason to ditch Unity was the screen space that unity takes and does give good options for customization. I've been running with just a single top bar in Gnome for ages and can't stand the unity bar looming over me. I figured now is a good time to experiment. Awesome seems to pack a lot of functionality that I like so we'll see how things go.

It'd be nice if they would have responded with more than 'use this outdated version of Skype.' 2.8 is fine for my needs, but I worry about the day Skype decides I _have_ to upgrade like the last time I booted Windows.

It seems from the previous blog post that a Skype employee agreed with most of his points and apparently fought for the sane UI choices during development, but why then were these issues ignored? It seems like the future will be no different.

I for one really wish Skype had some decent competition.

I'd be interested in hearing how the C & D developers were managed more than the fact that some developers had less skill/experience than others. On a project to build a platform like digg, it seems like some extremely significant foresight in software engineering would be needed to give all developers tasks which are both suited to their talent and will be appreciated as important work.

I wouldn't dare make excuses for a developer sabotaging work, but there are some bad situations many developers can be put into which are more likely to produce lazy and shoddy output.

You mean to say that you don't want to SQUIRT songs to your friends with Zune players!?

Offtopic: The title of the article sounds interesting, but WOW I can't read text where every fifth word is bold.

Sorry but I don't trust any no-name news site that references National Enquirer as a source at all. As plausible as Jobs not making it much longer is, this is garbage.

One of the things that irritates me to no end is browsing the app store on my device and wondering if I've bought an app I'm looking at (and deleted it or not installed it on that device). Knowing if I really am buying an app or not would be nice.

A list like this might be helpful, but I suppose I could also just store `ls ~/Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications` in Simplenote to get about the same functionality.

To be fair, much of the needed work was accomplished in the Dan0 development release that was leaked near BeOS's demise. This included the BONE network stack and some 3D support. Everything about Dan0 was, of course, very much development code, but it was definitely a marked improvement over R5. Haiku was able to use some of the Dan0 high level kits in place until rewrites could be made.

Clearly the Apple/Be Inc. issues were sorted out to Apple's benefit, but it's still neat to see what could have been. OS X had its own issues in its widely released beta, after all. ;)

I understand on the API issue, I've looked through that sort of thing too. The problem with that is if you invent any sort of beer site, you automagically have to try and compete with the big boys.

The usage problem I'm seeing is that if I search 'beer louisville ky', I get pubcrawler (which does put location first, but for argument is a horrible website) followed by all of my local pubs. If I were to search for 'hoptimus' which is a very likely query after visiting one of our local pubs, I get BA & RB followed by the pub's website. What use cases do you have that somebody would find your site useful over Google? Remember: these people have to be actively looking for pubs in the area already or they wouldn't have been interested in your page to begin with.

To me, you have many fronts of competition all better stocked with information here. You need more compelling reasons for use than just location information. One thought I've had (not to give away my own million dollar ideas) is crowd sourced beer stock information. Knowing where I can find that last bottle of Lucky Bastard would be pretty awesome. Not that I'd ever voluntarily fill in information to help other people find rare beers I want to buy on my next paycheck! ;)

I'm not sure I follow the point of this site. You've the idea of well respected reviews & resources of a site like Rate Beer or Beer Advocate and put it into a location aware environment, yes. But I fail to see the usefulness of this over looking through the beer available by my local breweries on those sites. They do have indexes of breweries by locale which provide the same functionality with a few more clicks. The only thing I see here is a really obnoxiously styled page competing with two juggernauts of really good content.

I'm interested in his hacking bits such as the IP over PPP over DNS over IP script. It seems interesting to imagine what other inventions wikileaks uses to transfer information over channels unsuspected. Since it's not linked, that particular item seems to have gone un-cached so it's hard to evaluate how complete some of these bits of Ruby are.