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Okay, I can see the "it's not that he did it; it's that he did it in such a self-aggrandizing manner" argument. That's a fair argument. Thanks for the response.

I don't really have any expertise to comment on whether setting up an LLC versus a non-profit is a good idea. I'm not even a big Zuck fan. I just think it's so very… western culture in 2015 that a bunch of internet warriors are getting irate because they think a self-made bajillionaire isn't donating $45,000,000,000 of his personal wealth the proper way.

Ah, hmm. So I guess you don't see it if you're using it headlessly… that's mostly how I've tinkered with my Pi.

SYAC: Vivaldi, the new Blink/Node.js hybrid from former Opera people PLEASE STOP TRYING TO MAKE NODE.JS DESKTOP APPLICATIONS A THING GUYS.

Yeah, sure. Go for it.

What is the "under-voltage rainbow icon?" Is that on the Pi itself, or in some program?

Piketty thinks ISIS arose because of income inequality. Greenie professors think ISIS arose because of global warming [1]. Isolationists think foreign interventionism gave rise to ISIS (see elsewhere in this subthread). ISIS themselves think they're following the teachings of their religion and would probably find all these other excuses that the West is trying to make for their existence rather silly.

1: https://archive.is/3cwgG

Wow. Talk about "when all you have is a hammer."

Perhaps he was laughing about the fact that the fan has a name like a rapper from 1985.

'80s, dammit, Daily News. Never pluralize with an apostrophe. Never.

Huh, Freenode is still working YEAH I WENT THERE.

So SoftBank is a "Japanese android firm" now?

Okay, fine. As long as they keep doing the Otousan commercials…

I'm excited about the idea of server-side Swift and this seems to be the most ambitious implementation of it so far, but who is this awful web site targeted to? Developers? With its fading and sliding? Really?

Just give us the information without all the wank, please.

A fear of the unknown, I guess. Even in all the time I spent in Japan, I never tried one. I just… don't want that sensation.

Actually, D8 adds a few (optional) modules which add some nice UI flourishes to simplify things for administrators and content editors. The stock administration menu module has been greatly improved and made more user-friendly out of the box, and there's many places where you can now do in-place editing of content. Also, everything is responsive out-of-the-box, including the content editing forms.

Also, Overlay is gone. (Sorry about that showing up in D7. Some of us tried to stop it, but…)

Aside from the inexperience issue (D7 and later really do give you the power to override theming on just about anything), you should never promise a client that a web design will replicate a mock-up with pixel perfection. It's impossible; there's just too much that's out of your control. A web design mock-up is more of a guideline that can be followed pretty closely, but never perfectly replicated.

Not if you don't have the stupid PHP filter installed (it was ripped out of core for the Drupal 8 release, praise be to the heavens; for those unfamiliar, it was basically <textarea> plus eval()) and you're using decent version control.

Bidets? No thanks. Heated seats? Don't need 'em. I think the smartest element on Japanese toilets is that some of them have a little faucet and sink on the lid of the tank; the water that fills the tank actually goes through that faucet first, then drains through the tank lid into the tank, so you can just wash your hands in that water rather than turning on the separate sink. An easy way to save water!

Granted, that water is damn cold in the winter…

Unfortunately, the book I usually point people to [1] when they ask a question like that is not yet updated for Drupal 8. Frankly, we're probably going to be in that awkward state where supply for learning resources for D8 is greatly overwhelmed by demand for a little while at least. But it's OSS; if all else fails, you can trace the source code, assuming you've got the PHP chops.

1: http://www.drupalbook.com

Developer of Pathologic [1] here. Code-wise, D8 is really a whole new paradigm for the system, so if you've given Drupal a look in the past and rolled your eyes at the PHP 4-ness of it all, I really encourage you to give it another look with fresh eyes in the future.

In terms of user-facing features, I think the greatly improved support for multilingual sites is the most exciting new feature (especially as just this week I've been encountering headaches related to i18n implementation on a D7 site… argh).

1: https://www.drupal.org/project/pathologic

As someone who doesn't really understand day trading or much about the stock market in general, could someone explain in plain English what is going on here? Why would E-trade even allow one of their customers to "go into debt" to them like this?

Back when I first tried PC-BSD, I don't think GhostBSD existed yet. I've tried it once or twice since then, though. GhostBSD is definitely more lightweight and simple in what it provides (no graphical package manager, for example), whereas PC-BSD is more kitchen sink; I guess whichever one works for you depends on what you're looking for.

By all means, feel free to give both a try.

I think the UI is cleaner and more Mac-like; Pixelmator felt a little too comfortable throwing consistency and OS X UI standards out the window. It's been a while since I tried Pixelmator, though, so maybe this comparison is no longer fair.

Also, though it probably won't matter for most people, Acorn's file format is pretty ingenious: http://shapeof.com/archives/2013/4/we_need_a_standard_layere...

MY OPERATING SYSTEM SCROLLS WINDOWS SMOOTHLY JUST FINE AS IT IS I DON'T NEED SOME HALF-BAKED JAVASCRIPT ON YOUR STUPID SITE CONTROLLING THIS FOR ME THANK YOU

Pixelmator [1], a more affordable Photoshop clone. (I personally prefer Acorn [2].)

1: http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/

2: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/

> To clarify, I think there was mention that PC-BSD had a tendency to be behind the FreeBSD ports releases because it required the extra wrapping.

Okay, that's true - if the maintainer doesn't put in the work or there's no maintainer in the first place, the work won't get done. I find that's true with no matter what ports/package manager you choose to use, though, and at any rate, at least back when I experimented with PC-BSD, nothing's stopping you from ignoring PC-BSD's package manager altogether and just using the vanilla FreeBSD ones.

Well, I still think you should give PC-BSD a try some day, though I totally understand if you want to take a break from tinkering and use whatever's currently working for you for a while. We've all been there. :)

That's odd. Dead simple package management is one of PC-BSD's biggest wins. That thread seems to be about running PC-BSD's package managers on vanilla FreeBSD, which… yeah, I don't know if that's going to work very well. It doesn't quite apply to running PC-BSD itself.

Did you find Cooltrainer's page about FreeBSD desktops? [1] It may have come in handy during your exploration.

1: https://cooltrainer.org/a-freebsd-desktop-howto/

Incidentally, Panic's Coda [1] can do something like this as well in a slightly-more-roundabout way: paste code into it (or just write it), let Coda highlight it, then do Edit > Copy with Styles.

I use this to style code I then paste code into presentation slides in order to include pretty code samples on a slide without resorting to screenshots; it has infinite resolution, and someone can copy it from the presentation file or PDF later. I presume this tool would be great for similar uses.

1: https://panic.com/coda

Well, I suppose a "Do X from Emacs" link, while still a stale joke, is at least a respite from all the "Do X from Slack" links flooding HN at this point.

Yeah, I can definitely see that. Though as someone who runs a non-managed VPS and relies on having root access to it, I'd be a bit miffed if my hosting company just up and announced that I'd have to move to another service soon. I'd hope they'd at least give me a migration script or something.