scottjad

http://conkeror.org/Debugging?highlight=%28debugging%29#Debu...

Does something like that exist?

I use buffers (in Conkeror). Buffers are just tabs without the actual tab UI. So unless I'm switching buffers, the only visible UI difference between having one buffer and 2000 buffers is the string "[2011/2011]" in my status-line showing my current buffer number and total number of buffers.

I can press C-x b (switch-to-buffer, I bind to M-a) to show a filterable list of my current buffers (favicon, url, title). I can type part of the url or page title (even when tab is unloaded) to filter my buffer list before switching to one. I can also navigate tabs "spatially" (from tab #2 to either tab #1 or #3) or by recently used (bury/unbury-buffer or switch-to-recent-buffer which shows buffer list in most recently used order) or by domain (next-buffer-same-host) or by whether the buffer is playing audio (switch-to-audio-buffer).

Also, in the vast majority of cases I only access recent tabs near the end of the list. I can press 9 or 0 to go to my second-to-last or last buffer.

When I get a chance to plow through a few dozen/hundred of these tabs I can read/view them and close them very quickly. Notice all the UI stuff I don't have to do: I never had to perform the the actions of saving a bookmark, opening a list of bookmarks, opening a specific bookmark, or deleting a bookmark.

I clicked a link once upon a time, and I will close the tab some time in the future.

When I switch to and close ten tabs, all I have to do from a UI perspective is type q ten times.

Only someone obsessed with gender would ignore the dozens of significant differences between these companies, their products, and the people involved with them, and state that the main difference was the gender of the founders.

Screen just binds C-a c and C-a C-c to the same command, for some values of c.

While pro-choice is the view held by the majority of libertarians, there is a large minority of libertarians that are pro-life and they are accepted as libertarians by almost all libertarians.

If every libertarian who disagreed with the libertarian majority on one or two issues were disqualified from being a libertarian there wouldn't be any libertarians left.

> From http://www.irs.gov/Charities-&-Non-Profits/Charitable-Organi... Generally, you may deduct up to 50 percent of your adjusted gross income, but 20 percent and 30 percent limitations apply in some cases.

Or, screen/tmux.

https://www.youtube.com/user/spokenverse/videos?sort=dd&shel...

Yes I know that doesn't answer your question. I've been reading and enjoying John Clare the past few days. One of his poems, read by the guy above, is in this video: https://vimeo.com/121024561 I love the poem and the music but I don't think the footage connects that well.

So if I use a xulrunner based app, and I want to run a Firefox extension (like ABP, mozrepl, etc), right now all I have to do is edit it's install.rdf and whitelist my application, and if there's a signature (META-INF folder), delete that. In this scheme, as I understand it, that would not work, unless I was running the Firefox Developer edition or had an app popular enough to get developers to include it in their whitelist before signing, and even then there would be plenty of exceptions.

So now no one can run my xulrunner based app (with extensions) with the normal firefox installed on their system (or likely available in their distro package repository).

Please tell me this won't apply to apps launched via xulrunner or firefox -app (with the normal firefox).

It makes me wonder though, what if news.ycombinator.com took that position. What if it were a page describing what Hacker News is, how posting and commenting and voting works, and how long the community had been around, etc. And then there were a link in a menu that said "Submissions" that took you to the actual content.

For someone currently learning the language (past the first 5 minutes) or that uses the language regularly, the only useful things on this front page are the four links along the top.

As for improvements, I think some sections (e.g. community banner) should be removed. I think the videos should, given the focus on brand new users, probably be removed too. The community banner is, I believe, only there to facilitate displaying the titles when people click on the videos. I haven't watched any of the videos, but from their titles I am skeptical that they should be watched before the next section (Features) is read, so they should, at a minimum, be moved further down the page. I don't like the alternating dark/light sections, so moving them further down would give you a more traditional dark header, light content, dark footer look.

I assume the videos are not going to change regularly, because they appear to all be from a single Vimeo account that has more recent videos than those that are displayed. If the videos are kept, I think the titles should be visible without clicking on the video, because I thought (which means some others will think) that clicking on the video would start playing it. Hovering one by one to see the title is not a good solution.

Congrats to the people who built and deployed this, I'm sure it took a long time to get it live (since I remember seeing this page hosted elsewhere many months ago).

But that comes at several costs. One is that text is less frequently at your optimal reading height. Often the text will be too high or too low for comfortable reading. So you end up having to either scroll frequently with a mouse wheel or touchpad or say scroll say half page at a time with the keyboard.

Having text at a non-optimal height is also annoying when using text editors in this portrait mode. Sure you can see more, but more often what you want to edit or read closely will be too high or too low unless you use C-l (emacs binding) frequently to center it.

Also, for those people who haven't given up their mouse yet, it can be very annoying to move the mouse this much distance. If you have part of a UI at the top (say tabs, menus, toolbar etc) and then part of a UI at the bottom (say find box or start menu or media player controls or) then moving the mouse that distance can be an annoyance.

And even if you don't use a mouse, then you will now have crucial parts of the UI (like minibuffer or mode-line or gnuscreen status line) at the very bottom of the screen in an uncomfortable-to-read position.

Overall from my experience I loved it for getting an overview of webpages, for Google Reader, or seeing entire pdf pages at once, but not much else.

"grants broad immunity to corporations that are undercutting our right to privacy"

FWIW you will see plenty of religious displays in European soccer. Look at the biggest sporting event in Europe this past week: El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona. Watch when Neymar scores a goal and kneels down on the ground and points up at the sky and says thank you (or something like that). Unfortunately Messi didn't score, but he would have done something similar though less dramatic. Granted these guys aren't Europeans, but they're not North Americans either. And other European footballers do similar things.

> "In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

You claim:

> You think a law is unjust, fight the law, don't break it and try to get away with it.

So you and MLK are claiming that a non-Jew in Nazi Germany who violates legislation by helping a Jew is morally culpable unless they do it publicly?

Seems pretty questionable, and I even agree with the strict Kantian maxim of not lying to the murderer at the door!

Perhaps you and MLK are confusing a strategy with morality. Perhaps it is strategically valuable to violate unjust legislation openly and suffer the consequences. That shouldn't mean that it is morally wrong to violate them in secret.

To me, it seems like there are two claims that are being tied together unnecessarily. 1) one has no obligation to obey unjust legislation 2) one has an obligation to disobey it openly to bring public awareness of the unjustness and increase likelihood of reform.

To me, you're just as culpable for not doing #2 whether or not you do #1. In other words, if you're morally culpable for not violating unjust legislation in public, then you bear that culpability whether or not you violate the legislation in private or not, and violating unjust legislation in private entails no culpability on its own.

[edit: I completely rewrote when I realized MLK really did say that]

Also, he wants 0.25% of US GDP indefinitely, so ignoring all the complexities of taxes maybe an approximation would be 0.25% of your gross income, every year for the rest of your working life, or like, maybe 10,000 times the the cost of a trip to Starbucks.

Let's have the US Congress fund this because as we all know they, like me, have no conflicts of interest, make decisions based purely on the science, have a very low time preference, are good stewards and very wise spenders, and plan for the future. And if Congress funds it then Americans must be willing to pay for it because, ta da, democracy!

I'm pleased to announce that I have made a personal and very generous contribution of $10 million to increase public awareness about the need for this project.

You're welcome humanity.

Notch says:

> If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately.

So sad. Imagine if Jobs/the PayPal guys/etc had taken this approach after their initial succcess.

Now I'm all for people being free to do what they want and only this guy owns his life and no one is entitled to have him work for them (hat tip Ayn Rand), and obviously this guy has had a bigger impact on the world than I have, but I tend to agree with Immanuel Kant (and Jesus) that we all have a duty to develop and use our talents in a way that benefits humanity and not just indulge ourselves in idle amusement once we're comfortable. And to be honest, this probably applies more to me than to Notch.

From "Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals":

> A third finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many respects. But he finds himself in comfortable circumstances and prefers to indulge in pleasure rather than to take pains in enlarging and improving his happy natural capacities. He asks, however, whether his maxim of neglect of his natural gifts, besides agreeing with his inclination to indulgence, agrees also with what is called duty. He sees then that a system of nature could indeed subsist with such a universal law although men ... should let their talents rest and resolve to devote their lives merely to idleness, amusement, and propagation of their species- in a word, to enjoyment; but he cannot possibly will that this should be a universal law of nature, or be implanted in us as such by a natural instinct. For, as a rational being, he necessarily wills that his faculties be developed, since they serve him and have been given him, for all sorts of possible purposes.

Markdown is written in Perl. Standard Markdown has released implementations in C and Javascript. It seems unlikely that they are using Markdown code, therefore I don't think they are bound by anything in the Markdown license.