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stevenggon Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

Linus uses a macbook air [1]

Linus Torvalds: "That said, I’m have to admit being a bit baffled by how nobody else seems to have done what Apple did with the Macbook Air – even several years after the first release, the other notebook vendors continue to push those ugly and clunky things. Yes, there are vendors that have tried to emulate it, but usually pretty badly. I don’t think I’m unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light."

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/19/an-interview-with-millenium...

stevenggon Customizing the Mac to behave like Xmonad

why not just run arch on your mac laptop?

stevenggon Valve hired their first wave of Linux developers, hiring more

steam for linux is coming http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve...

stevenggon Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be

you should add collections like can be found on whatcd and passthepopcorn[1] that users can link to and search

[1] http://i.imgur.com/PXFRE.jpg

stevenggon Neil Armstrong breaks his silence to give accountants moon exclusive

link to the videos http://thebottomline.cpaaustralia.com.au/

stevenggon Show HN: I love Essential Mixes. So I made this.

edit: this site is awesome here are some my favorite essential mixes you may have missed

mr scruff http://mxtr.fm/KBmUTW

Essential Mix with Audio Bullys http://mxtr.fm/IDmIIU

the goa mix ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Mix ) http://mxtr.fm/K4Yian

some other good sites to download dj mixes are http://www.livesets.us/ and http://themixingbowl.org/ both great.

stevenggon Entrepreneurs in Prison

maybe we can get Hans Reiser back working on file systems from prison someday, even when it became clear he had killed his wife there is a part of me that wanted too see him get off to keep working on ReiserFS

stevenggon A free real-time Intro to Clojure webcast today at 10a PT/1p ET

Do you have to watch it live or well there be a download / stream we can watch at our leisure?

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you may be better off reposting it as "Show HN: FitIt - multiplayer puzzle game" I think then it may show up in http://news.ycombinator.com/ask

stevenggon The Digg Team Is Going To WaPo, But The Assets Aren’t

would it really be worth taking over the digg name at this point after the alienation of its users with the v4 disaster and subsequent migration to reddit. any benefits you would gain from brand recognition with the digg name would be more then offset by the negative feelings many users hold.

stevenggon Turntable.fm: Where Did Our Love Go?

I joined the site pretty early when it was filled with mostly music snobs like me. every room filled to the brim with people playing mostly less heard tracks as it got bigger and more and more new users joined a lot of the snobs left making it less fun for me.

stevenggon Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 2nd edition

How are the 2nd edition screencasts going to differ from the first edition ones?

stevenggon Kickstarter Is Totally Disrupting Consumer Electronics, Probably By Mistake

you can already get pretty nice 3Dish plugins for dwarf fortress the lazynewb pack even comes with stonesense http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5143/screenshotlv.png also http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=63484 and http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=70700.0

stevenggon A great list of command-line tips

another great list http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/mi80x/give_me_that_on...

stevenggon Notch live coding 0x10c

http://themixingbowl.org/ and http://www.livesets.us/ are great sources for EDM mixes also

stevenggon The rise of the destructive programmer

That person is probably still alive and living the good life on a tropical island

Reminded me of the Mcnugget scene from the wire

Wallace: Man, who ever invented these, yo these are off the hook...motherfucker got the bone all the way OUT the damn chicken. 'Till he came along, niggas been chewin on drumsticks and shit gettin they fingers all greasy, till he sad 'leave the bone' - figured out some way to make real money.

Poot: You think the man got paid?

Wallace: who?

Poot: The man who invented these. (Holds up McNuggets)

Wallace: Shiit, he richer than a motherfucker.

D: Why...? Did he get a percentage?

Wallace: uh...why not?

D: Nigga, please. The man who invented them things - just some sad ass down at the basement of Mcdonald's, thinking up some shit to make some money for the real players.

Poot: Naw, man that ain't right.

D: Fuck "right," it ain't about "right," it's about money.

Now you think Ronald Mcdonald gonna go down to that basement and say "hey Mister Nugget, you the bomb! We sellin chicken faster than you can tear the bone out, so i'ma write my clowney-ass name on this fat ass cheque for you!" ...Shit.

And the nigga who invented them things, he still workin in the basement for regular wage thinkin up some shit to make the fries taste better or some shit like that. Believe...

Wallace: Still had the idea though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvq3Pf3j61c

stevenggon 99Dresses (YC W12) wants to give women an infinite closet

I saw something like this on r/malefashionadvice but they would mail you a box of stuff every month and you would just keep what you liked and mail back what didn't fit or you didn't want. looks like a few sites are doing it now

http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/gyg6z/i_g...

https://www.trunkclub.com/

http://www.frankandoak.com/

http://www.manpacks.com/

stevenggon Ask HN: more sites like HN

Nothing like HN but if im looking for something to read i will check

http://aldaily.com/

http://reddit.com/r/truereddit

http://longform.org/

http://grantland.com/ for sports

stevenggon Help Reddit build a recommender

You can only see 50 on the front page as a regular user and 100 if you pay for reddit gold they update every 30 minutes. This is the main reason I removed reddits like r/thewire, r/archlinux and /r/bookclub because they so infrequently get posts its not worth having them clogging up one of my 50 spots.

stevenggon Schemer: New Social Network by Google

http://schemer.com/invite/3lr1qq3a1723q

stevenggon Apple’s cash pile - The tech giant should give cash back to shareholders

I see a lot of posts like this one talking about how apple NEEDS to do something to lower its stockpile of money but none of them seem to explain why. could someone tell me why holding $100 billion in cash is worse then doing stock buy backs and or issuing dividends if the market takes into consideration its large cash reserves when pricing its stock.

stevenggon Why Don't Americans Riot Anymore?

aaron sorkin's take on studio 60 sunset strip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1INS1Rp3o9M

stevenggon Why Don't Americans Riot Anymore?

we do every time the Lakers win the finals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqTK3KsPl8

stevenggon PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel donates to Ron Paul super PAC

Not sure this belongs on HN Peter Thiel is a well documented libertarian so it's no surprise he is giving money to Ron Paul. If your trying to foster a discussion about super pacs and citizens united you could have found something bigger / better written

stevenggon Linkrdr - Next Gen Feed Reader

I would really need to see a screencast and or screenshots before i would ever think about joining a site like this.

stevenggon A "Moneyball" statician predicted Jeremy Lin's success 2 years ago

here is a good article about how players leverage stats to force the other team into low percentage shots and plays http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?...

stevenggon New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

Does this mean you can't make throwaway email addresses anymore not linked to your real name since google doesn't allow alias on G+ you always be at risk of deletion?

stevenggon Xxxterm, a minimalist web browser

the link seems to be dead

stevenggon Six Days without Food: Hacking Your Mind to Make Do with Far Less

mark rippetoe of starting strength fame did an AMA on r/fitness yesterday. http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/n13d8/i_am_mark_rip...

stevenggon The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands

sounds similar to something that happened in seattle. http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-long-con/Content?oid=...