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For me it's lastpass.com. They do it right: they remove the passwords they (easily) find on my HD. The problem is still the master password, I agree.

I use vim and do R, ruby, and python mostly. Still, recently I've spent more time with IDEs and now I can appreciate them. Netbeans is a very good RoR IDE. I'd prefer it over Vim. for Python, the IDE that I like (and current favorite) is IDEA. Basically it's a matter of how big your project is; with 10s of thousands lines of code, I prefer an IDE, and also when you are learning the language or reading someone else's code.

Often, I don't have but a terminal, and there vim shines.

one thing that all colorschemes have in common: they don't highlight {[(,. etc. I like those highlighted. Is it possible in vim? I have authored a colorscheme but it was so basic that I cannot claim to know whether there's something in the way vim does highlighting that prevents coloring those characters. I would say nothing, but who knowns...

Hmm, very interesting. It sounds like a miniature remake of the SCO vs. Linux case.

The last bit, that the defendant needs to spend millions to refute an attack, is actually scary. Hadn't he had free layers, he'd be in deep trouble by now even after winning the case. All that, by giving away your work under a free license!

What makes me sad is that balsamiq spent 5 month of hard work to make $100000, and most internet marketers in the top tier need only launch an email to their list to get the same amount. No tech knowledge, no brilliance, no incredibly original idea are needed. Just skil on the noble art of 'bullshit'.

We starup people cannot compete.

balsamiq is an astounding success in the startup world, and a silly example of how not to do things for internet marketers (who, by the way are the plage!).

Maybe there are millions of people gullible enough to buy most crap internet marketers throw at them, but only a few thousands of us who are interested in the product balsamiq offers. Sad.

THere's another solution. Don't use relational dbs, and use some other storage method based on RDF. There are lots of smart people working on making these as fast as possible, and while they will never be as fast as a relational database (for obvious reasons) they may be fast enough for most applications.

Onenote is the best I've found, by far. And I'm still looking for a replacement for linux. In my case, it's zim, a personal wiki.

Damn, when I thought that I spend more time tweaking knobs than playing music, something like Chuck appears... no! go away! I don't want to play with you and get hooked!

I'm terribly unproductive with music, and this is just one more way of procrastination :). Very cool, though. I can see why writing programs for a standard language makes sense.

Imagine that you want to write some music that can be reproduced anywhere with any hardware. Kind of like sheet music for orchestral works. This may be the only way. Right now, we have problems to reproduce analog synthesizers from the 50's-70's. For example, Bernard Hermann 'It's alive II" soundtrack has a great synth lead (together with an orchestral arrangement). If some orchestra wanted to play that work live in say 100 years, good luck finding a working synth to reproduce that sound exactly. Of course, software replicates anything, but it may never be the same thing. On the other hand, a violin is the same as a violin 100 years ago (I hope).

Things like Chuck fix this problem. You can write electronic music that is 100% reproductible 100 years from now.

I think the postcard makes sense to check identities because in Japan each family has a seal (Not trivial to replicate) and they 'sign' correspondence that way.

Never been to Japan, I must have read it somewhere, so reader beware.

Sorry to be negative, but this is really old (2001 writeup). A lot of things have changed. For a good 'visual' example of semWeb in action, look at Reuter's openCalais project. Install the gnosis firefox plugin, and be amazed at the possibilities :0

Another good site to monitor is of course readwriteweb. They published recently an OPML file with good rss feeds to follow this movement. And for state-of-the art, see larkc.eu (disclaimer: I work on that project). larkc.eu aims to do semantic web reasoning at a scale never before seen (i.e., the entire web).

I also think the last month or so quality went down.

I wonder what Opera would be getting if they actually listened to their users. Plus, right now any site with fancy AJAX would have some rendering/performing problem under opera (most of google stuff does, not gmail though). So that's another terrible sin.

I love Opera and think they deserve more success, but somewhere up in their hierarchy someone is making all the wrong decisions.

I say Berlin. Not the rest of Germany, though.

I think your idea is great and I'd like to get your advice on my copy too.

But! Is it just me, or are the above two paragraphs too salesy? Group decision making is hard, and I don't think a web service would make it easy overnight. Misunderstandings will never be a thing of the past. Pitching should not involve large blanket statements. I'm missing exactly how this web app will do it. In a paragraph. And if possible, why the idea is so compelling that I need to move my team to this service.

So I'm missing how and why. The two above paragraphs sound like blowing hot air to me.

This doesn't mean that I don't trust your copywriting ability. Maybe my intuitions are wrong and lay people go gaga with the above write-up.

Steve pavlina is clearly a geek (you may think what you want of his ideas; being married to a psychic is not a good sign of good judgment if you ask me); he wrote an extensice critic of organized religion here: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2008/05/10-reasons-you-shou...

I agree, and I think most geeks I know fall into the category of people who question bullshit often.

sublimetext is the only application that can make my windows box crash to the point that I have to reboot. I tried it at serveral version points. Reported to the author, he couldn't find the problem.

And it has exactly one (1) feature that the others don't: the bird-view of your code.

Stay away.

redmine. It's trac done right (multiple project, no need for plugins for most stuff). And being a RoR app, there must be a lot of built-in testing in the codebase. That could explain why it evolves so fast.

RE: UI, you can remove mostly anything. Opera GUI is probably THE most customizable that I have seen. And it's a kb shortcut demon...

Using the power of hate in an internet protocol is a damn good idea that is already out there: http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/design.html

I wish more people knew about that. I don't know Zed A. Shaw (I've seen people hating him publicly in this forum, how ironic :) ), but this protocol made me think 'I wish I had thought of that'. The authority problem (aka 'how to get less bullshit online') could easily be the most important problem to solve nowadays to improve our quality of life online. Utu could work.

Well, there's one factor that is not listed and that is a really important time-sucker: learning a new (human) language. I'm relocating to Berlin and I don't speak German. I wonder how much that'll hinder my productivity!

I'd like to know more about how they are integating GPUs. I've been looking at CODA (nVidia library to use the GPU) and it looks mighty interesting.

Bah! who needs a microsoft-backed product when you have _why?: http://hackety.org/2008/06/09/dismantlingBrowserPlus.html

:)

My condolences.

I think one there arae very few unhackable things in life. Unfortunately, feelings are one of them. So I'd join the recommendation posted above: try to get professional help.

But do they do that for ANY feed? Or just for the ones you are subscribed to? Because I need archives to any feed, not just the ones I follow...

It's true though that google seems to be catching feeds :). Nice.

I wonder if there's a way to search for a particular feed. Otherwise, I'd have to create an account and subscribe to all feeds in the world O_0.

Where is the non-official API, anyway?

Thanks!

Have you read the specs of his "utu" protocol? (check the "saving the internet through hate" link: http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/design.html). Coming from the man who coded mongrel, I know he understands protocols (at least http).

I think he is doing remarkable stuff.

I'm new here, but it seems this site is less about karma-whoring that digg and reddit.

In any case... is it that difficult to reverse-engineering the points system? For those who care...

Netbeans for RoR, gvim for everything else (perl, R, autohotkey, actionscript, C). Mercurial. 1920 x 1200 laptop in portrait position with an external IBM keyboard.

One quick note: I'm using admuncher, and Jaanix somehow displays a lot of javascript from admuncher that it shouldn't. I don't know how many people are using this ad blocker, but it could be an issue for mass addoption of Jaanix if admuncher is popular!