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The beauty is in the simplicity.

The range of opinions which you access by posting a question like this on HN can have more value than the rationale page on the Clojure website.

That is to say, the reason for asking a question like this is not always laziness.

Type about:config in the address bar and accept the consequences. Then find the general:autoscroll property and enable it. Doing this should disable that feature and enable autoscroll as a bonus.

It can't be much worse than exposure to the chemicals in most of our cleaning products.

I know this is from physorg, but after the second paragraph I was reading it in a Billy Mays voice.

Still, it sounds interesting, and if it works as they say it does, I imagine it will become quite ubiquitous.

I am glad to see that the replies here have been humerous - Hackernews can be a little too serious sometimes.

Its kind of like astrology - they are almost all right if you want them to be right.

Heh, one step at a time... Those sound like they can produce headaches.

Quite a good explantion - the idea of having immutable data is a really strange one to wrap your head around when you have been doing OO for most of your career.

I'm just getting into clisp (I read somewhere that it is inevitable that everyone on HN will eventually try lisp when they have been around long enough) at the moment, and would like to try my hand at some Haskell later as well, and one of the hardest things to do is to think of data in FP terms.

Thanks, but as I understand it, the reason they ejected one of the apps was because they were possibly afraid of getting sued - which seems strange to me.

Perhaps I should rather have said "The word hacker will never be fully reclaimed".

Its time to accept that the meaning of the word hacker has changed.

I am not American, so I need to ask - why would Apple be worried about litigation? I don't see how a widget shop can be sued for selling a product when there is a dispute between two widget manufacturers.

AppBox doesn't even mention which of their "copyrights" has been infringed, and when looking at the side by side comparison screenshot, and reading their complaint - I get the feeling they are acting like kids.

The videos were a lot easier to digest than reading the first few chapters of some lisp book, but I understand that if you aren't excited by learning about new languages, then this would seem dull.

It takes a while to fully grok git, but I recently found a really good presentation which has helped my co-workers get up to speed really quickly.

The most important tip for understanding git is probably to actually start using it.

edit: Forgot the link http://gitcasts.com/posts/railsconf-git-talk

Thats a lot of writing to explain a diagram which explains itself perfectly well.

That said, it still looks like a great way to handle branches!

They are both awesome videos which can get anyone excited about lisp.

I know this, because an hour ago I had only a passing interest in Lisp.

I would have to disagree with you when you say there are no bad tools. Try frame a house using a brick, or perhaps a sledgehammer. Software is the same, for example, C is a bad language to use when creating a website, its possible, but not a good idea.

Great for a minimalist app, but I have found a bug already. I created one todo for today, then created another and immediately clicked the Move to Someday button. The Today todos all vanished except for one I had created earlier. Clicking on New Todo restored the lost items.

I don't have have much to add here (downvotes accepted), but I love that this post was made by someone called phren0logy.

The minute I read about Avatars plot, I thought of Call me Joe by Poul Anderson. Glad I wasn't the only one.

I would highly recommend reading it.

Then why is their resistance from the scientists. Right now, only data can speak louder than the talking heads.

While it is good news, I still wonder when we will see an actual "moon-base" Once established, it will definitely signal a new era of space exploration. And perhaps a new era for humanity at the same time.

Maybe I read too much sci-fi...

I would just like to point my fellow hackers to ZapReader. http://www.zapreader.com/

Basically it will take text supplied (either pasted in or a link) and flash up either words or sentence fragments at a chosen rate. Using this, I am able to read long articles at around 800wpm, with pretty good comprehension since its not really skimming.

I find trance music extremely unobtrusive and yet motivating. Almost everything else is distracting.

I am a sworn procrastinator, yet as soon as I turn on one of Armin van Buurens radio sessions, I can do an entire days work in two hours.

Cool concept and a really nice implementation.

I would love to see some more information on the listed packages though

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=761235 which links to http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10309051-38.html

Except they aren't very funny, and in quite a few cases completely wrong.

I have given up on waiting for VMWare Tools to catch up and switched to VirtualBox from Sun. http://www.virtualbox.com

Unless there is some strange functionality you need from VMWare that isn't supported in VirtualBox, I suggest giving it a try.