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Have you tried Fastmail? I switched to them a while ago and haven't looked back. Their web UI isn't as nice, but they have an honest business model with a much better privacy policy and migrating is pretty straightforward.
Why haven't you already?
When do these officially start?
* Command-V to paste.
* Command-F3/the Exposé function button to reveal the desktop (on Apple keyboards, or you can change it; just search for Exposé in System Preferences).
* Enable right click in System Preferences > Mouse or Trackpad.
It just takes a little getting used to. But in the end all that really matters is what makes you most productive. All this elitism is stupid.
Powers of ten are easy to manage in base 10?
Especially considering how many basic features it is missing...
I wouldn't say Objective-C is "elegant" in the same way a scripting language can be, but it and its common libraries (i.e., Cocoa/NextSTEP) illustrate some very sound API design, and object-orientation in the Alan Kay-intended/SmallTalk sense.
edit: sorry, missed your edit. I'd probably agree with you and chc now. Obj-C was a clever hack for its time, but compared to modern dynamic/scripting languages, it's not really that special -- outside from being relatively high-performance due to its C compatibility, as you mentioned.
Why doesn't she simply offer App Store coupon codes to existing users? Seems like that would solve her "PR" problems, and they expire after their first use so there shouldn't be any worry of piracy or anything like that, as with serial numbers.
The Defacer Safari & Chrome extensions (http://babelstudios.se/defacer/, https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/ikfbfahhinbemoji...) seem to break this (just shows up a blank page)... any way to fix this?
This is not exactly "black magic", it's fairly well-known and explained directly in the official documentation: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#private-variabl....
I wish there were a setting to toggle this back.
"There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil Karlton
I think that advice is just outdated. It's a different situation now that it's a standard practice and there are optimizations supporting it (http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/cpp%5F1.html#SEC8).
Sure, but video chatting is getting to be pretty popular as well (which, at least on the previous Air, tended to bring the processor to its knees).
I'd bet the likelihood of Apple finally finishing resolution independence is much higher now, considering how fine the resolutions of the new Macbook Airs are (which, as Jobs said, are probably going to become their most popular computer in the near future).
What's even better is that these can be customized: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448218
"Life is like highschool with money." — Frank Zappa
> > They already allow you change your preferences to see 100 results per search instead of the default. How does this fit with your logic?
> That nobody except for a few geeks do it. Just like the 'I feel lucky' button.
Why don't they offer this as an option then, by the same logic?
e.g.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7qUKv7XVx4, http://www.bobstaake.com/staakenyer.html
("It's the artist, not the tools.")
A bit different from this, but OS X has allowed the editing of nib interface files in any application for years (though that ability seems to have unfortunately gone away for the most part in Snow Leopard, where most nibs are compressed to save space).
$ vi
You should really use emacs.
$ emacs
You should really use vim.I wonder if they'll be converting Clippy next.
That seems to be the only thing left on the site that is still Flash.
Thanks, these are all really good suggestions, I've already fixed a couple of them. They are pretty general too, so I'll also be considering them when making future sites.
As far as the design goes: I'm not much of a designer, so I used vegetables. It seemed like a good idea at the time, anyway.
No, you're right, it was a totally valid criticism. Sorry, I just haven't been having a very good week :)
Thanks, I changed it. (languages/c++ is now also languages/c-plus-plus instead of languages/c%2b%2b). Seems like a no-brainer now that you've pointed it out.
Ah, didn't realize that. Sorry, it's fixed.
That's just URL encodings. Try http://www.delishbits.com/languages/c%23
(foo.com/c# is parsed as an anchor)
A nice perk for using the App Engine :)