dr42 · HackerTrans

I don't think it's lion to blame, I too have the 2010 air with lion and it runs just fine. Maybe spend some time with ps and find what process is eating your CPU. I'm not using file vault, maybe that's adding some overhead. I would recommend upgrading the hardware though, the resale on the 2010 air is pretty good, so moving to a 2012 isn't going to cost you much. I tried Linux on mine and it was a real pain.

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We're past the point where the operating system is just about productivity. Computers are used by everyone to do a vast number of things, people live their lives with their computers and how they look (the apps) is a part of that.

You don't need a window in your office to improve your productivity, but it certainly makes life more livable when surrounded by well designed and beautiful things.

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...which lets the user ask their friends ...

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By behavioral observation

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Fair one mate.

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You don't have to be so defensive, it's fine. No point in getting into a tizzy over this, I'm sure you meant the comment in the good spirit of the community. I am not new to this kind of technology, maybe you should have looked at my profile before making inaccurate statements. But the truth is, siodine, that you didn't think any such thing, you were just being passive aggressive (again).

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I have read the comments here from those that like Sparrow, but the IOS app is pretty lame, none of the usual mobile mail features (push, embedded images, exchange etc) are all missing.

I am glad Google bought it because maybe they will fix it and also produce an iPad app

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Other than being 2-3x more expensive than costco photo and having considerably less printing options, how is this different to simply uploading to costco/adorama etc? Costco doesn't have a mobile app (as far as I know) but you can mail in photos and then use the website to make the print order.

Costco 13c 4x6 on fuji crystal archive paper, picplum 50c Costco $1.49 8x10, picplum $4

I don't get the advantage.

On the website it shows Polaroids, which is a little disingenuous since picplum doesn't even (it appears) support printing square photos. I couldn't actually find much information at all, like if they have profile downloads like Costco does, or how they do color matching, or even if they offer more than lustre paper.

I make prints of everything I like, either wet prints for b&w or color usually on matte from Adorama (who are also less expensive than PicPlum.)

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I don't see this as an either/ or thing, aiming for success is fine, so is building connections and relationships on the way. I suspect that your misery had little to do with what you attributed it to, but far more to do with the side effects of the misery.

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* There is probably technology in the armed forces so advanced that most people do not know about it.

Clearly you've never been in the military! While, of course, there are technologies that most people outside or the military don't know about (most people haven't the slightest clue how a digital watch works either) the idea that the government has some super secret flying saucer technology that betters the average MIT students phd thesis is as absurd as UFOs being anything more than the human need for attention and finding agency where there is none.

The government would like you to think it has super secret technology.

Can we please keep this nonsense off hacker news.

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Nope, didn't hurt my feelings at all, I was trying to help you learn the ropes.

My comment was really pretty clear, and easy to follow, ST doesn't have a code formatter, you know, like textmate and eclipse do. It's a feature that lets you take poorly aligned code that is difficult to read, and fix up the alignment a la K&R et al. Hope that's clear enough for you :)

If you want to find out if someone is a newcomer, you can click on their profile and see pretty easily.

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Obviously you didn't actually try what you suggested, if you had you'd have found there are plugins for JSON and XML and probably a few other formats, but was hoping ST2 would have what textmate and eclipse has had for a long time, code formatting, java, XML, xsl, JavaScript, c etc.

I know you're new here, but a little reminder about etiquette, even if you haven't gotten laid in a while, the community here is based on people being helpful rather than trying to be superior. The problem with that attitude is that it backfires and just makes you look insecure.

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6502 was for wimps :) LDIR, CPIR, HL and two register set exchange FTW :)

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This is the same as usenet. Back in the 80's and 90's the expectation of posting to say alt.tasteless.jokes was that it would happily scroll off into infinity. Then a million years later google has the whole damn lot indexed.

The all-caps thing was just the times, terminals were in transition and people were learning how to use the types of services that today have a highly developed etiquette expectation.

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Still doesn't seem to have 'correct indentation' which I would use often, especially for 'data' files like XML or JSON.

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Yes, I'm grateful to Walmart for keeping the great unwashed from cluttering the isles of whole foods :)

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Well first off, you're talking to a European, and while I'm sympathetic to the fear of the encroaching 'nanny state', I just don't share your solution (guns)

If you want to get yourself fucked up then you're most likely quite happy to have the rest of society bear the burden of your subsequent health care, ditto for your diabetes care etc. I'm sure you get what I'm trying to say.

None of us live on an island, our actions impact others and when it does so (as Spock said) the needs of the many outweigh the needs if the few.

This country (America) is already being financially crippled by health care costs so reducing sugar and fat and car accidents seems to make perfect sense, even at the cost of a few's peoples' adrenaline fixes.

I don't disagree with you on Spanish flu (50m people died), or on the corrupt financial system, but that's a fragile house of cards. Economics is a complex system and it's all based on a mutual agreement in the value of little pieces of paper. It's a social contract that is holding together the fabric of capitalism. While that night not be the perfect system, it's so far the least bad that we've found.

"why do you need to be productive" - maybe I came across as being a little self righteous (which is far from the truth), I was just trying to say that one persons fun is very often a ton is work for the rest of society, those that scrape up the parts after a motorcycle accident, those that provide health care and those of us (all of us) that pay for it in our insurance premiums. Why should I, someone who is fit and healthy pay for everyone else's indulgence in fat and sugars that bought about heart disease and diabetes. The answer of course is that same one that is the reason why fixing cars safety is important, because the individual sometimes has to sacrifice something for the success of the rest of society.

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Yes, there are probably some people that cannot figure out how to download chrome, but those people would also not likely notice any difference between chrome and the browser they already have.

I was referring to the person that commented, reading hacker news probably means this person is both aware and capable of downloading it.

It's just a waste of resources.

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I think DDG is best considered a search broker, it federates the queries out to other engines, like bing, or others under query syntax control, and I believe they are also crawling some or their own content, although that's mostly beyond any individuals capability at this point because the internet has become quite large. The broker also merges federation sources, however it isn't a search engine in the traditional sense because the indexes (posting lists) are in google, bing, lucene etc.

* edited for autocorrect errors

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This is ridiculous. You're seriously suggesting that you're going to shoot your way to mobility :) I'm assuming that's just some macho bullshit because it's insane.

What you're not realizing is that it's often not the person causing the accident that gets hurt, the idea of making something as tedious as driving automated is that it's safer for everyone.

Drugs already are banned. The ones you're most likely talking about are anyway. And the reason is because they fuck people up.

How about people do something productive with their lives instead of taking drugs, developing diabetes from sugar, overweight from fat, and kill people with large heavy steel motorized machines?

You can try to belittle 30,000 people but if you stop cleaning your guns to think about it long enough you might actually appreciate that all those people probably didn't want to die from theirs and other people's driving mistakes.