damien

"Earlier this week, David Recordon announced the creation of the Open Web Foundation at OSCON 2008. His presentation is embedded below" using Flash... =/

I thinking you're reading too much into it. They even suggest alternative ways at getting the information you may be looking for using their APIs since they don't want bots scraping their site... it even says "seriously, we aren't mad at you."

But since you aren't a bot I would just send them some feedback to let them know you found a bug in their site logic, but maybe that's just me.

I think they each have their own place, the culture here is still very startup-centric (for obvious reasons) even though pg tried to change it. The programming reddit is still a better place for hacker/coding links (and comments) IMO, just avoid the other reddits. =)

Another option, which is more noob-friendly is: http://wubi-installer.org/

It let's you install Linux from within Windows, as if you were just installing another Windows program. The main downside to this is that your disk IO will suffer since it installs Ubuntu inside of a Windows file (as a virtual disk).

Also, installing an OS is not for everyone. You can simply purchase a Dell, HP or Lenovo with Linux pre-installed, and that gets rid of the "frictional cost" of switching.

Sounds like you copied the iso file onto a CD rather than actually burning an image. I believe Windows, can't do this on it's own. Download a burning program such as this open source one: http://infrarecorder.sourceforge.net/

Then you can follow this guide on how to burn an ISO image to a CD: http://dai-videotutes.blogspot.com/2007/07/ifrarecorder-burn...

From the wikipedia article that he linked:

Acid2 is supported by: - WebCore-based (Safari, OmniWeb, Shiira) - Konqueror - Prince - iCab - Presto-based (Opera, Internet Channel on Wii) - Gecko-based 1.9+ (Firefox 3 beta)

It is not supported by: - Internet Explorer - Firefox 2 (Current stable version) - NetFront (PS3 browser)

So yes, technically IE is not the only browser that doesn't support it, but they are the only browser which has said that CSS compliance is not a priority for them.

On the contrary, people like Richard Feynman and Edward Teller were all late talkers. Einstein did not speak until he was 3 years old: http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1999_06_24_newy...

Has anyone written a Facebook App that gives Usenet access?

I've never understood how Facebook got to be so big in the first place with their policy of requiring to sign up to do anything. I've never needed to see a Facebook page that badly that I'd want to spend the time signing up for yet another website that I never use. (And why is Facebook banned from BugMeNot?)

Facebook is the new AOL... hadn't thought of it that way, but it does seem like an appropriate analogy.

I'm curious as to what made Delphi "legacy code" and why it needs replacing? Also, doesn't Delphi 2007 allow targeting to .NET? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Delphi

Be sure you aren't doing this rewrite for the wrong reasons.

It is still very true today. The worst cases I've seen are family computers where the kids will click "Yes" or "Allow" to any message they get on IE (thanks to their Vista training), basically installing every piece of malware imaginable. Then their parents wonder why it's so slow and get 20 popups "when they use the internet." sigh That's why I recommend Macs.

So true. Even though I use Linux myself (since I prefer it's flexibility and openness), I usually recommend a Mac to non-hackers who ask me for a recommendation on a new computer.

Yea I was going to say the same thing, his company is more than just a "YouTube for gamers". His secret weapon seems to be his "software camera". I'm actually curious as to how he is implementing that without requiring the standard video capturing hardware. As far as I know, there is no good software-only solution that won't bring your gaming to a crawl.

Or that you wouldn't want to.

Standard Emacs/terminal/Firefox on my laptop:

http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktopak6.png

When I'm docked at work, I usually have Emacs on the monitor and terminal on my laptop screen.

This may seem like an obvious point, but have you tried Linux (or another Free OS) with a tiling window manager? OS X does give you a nice prepackaged experienced, but if you love to tinker and have complete control to customize anything, Linux is ideal. And you can always dual boot, if you just want to try it out part time. =)

The way I usually describe it to friends and family:

Mac OS X if you want a nice prepackaged experience. Linux if you like to tinker and completely personalize your machine. Windows if you have to (but don't call me when it breaks ;).

And MSFT becomes BSOD

Lack of garbage collection built into the language, you mean? I'm not disagreeing with you, just clarifying.

Yep, I'd say that's a pretty good choice. Pylons+Mako+SQLAlchemy makes an excellent framework.

You might want to consider using a distributed system like mercurial or git, since it is much more flexible than something like Subversion. It will allow you to start coding today without worrying about servers by just pulling directly from each others local repositories. Once you have a server ready, then you can move to a central repository if you wish.

If you are a non-programmer, give this free book a try: "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/ ). As it explains in the Preface ( http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/preface.html#auto2 ), Python makes things easy to learn.

"Facebook lets you send messages direct to email addresses"

I'm sorry but... I can't be the only one that laughed while reading this, right?

I still visit proggit regularly. Actually, that's how I found out about the change since I had stopped visiting "Startup News" for the same reasons pg changed it.

"And open and good is what Macs are again"

I can understand "good", but "open" is stretching it...

Looks interesting, my girlfriend is actually trying to learn French since we plan to move there, but being Windows only means we can't use it. I don't believe in making everything a web app, but in this case it would seem ideal... is there a reason you chose to make it a Windows app?

Good ideas and companies are not always created by the best hackers in the world.

Having used laptops with both ATI and nVidia chips inside, nvidia support is definitely the way to go between the two, especially for multi-monitor setups. I actually returned my old laptop with ATI graphics because their Linux drivers and support was terrible.

I hear that the new Intel graphic chips are also quite nice, and the fact that they open sourced the drivers should make them the ideal Linux graphics adapters, but I don't have any experience with them.

I'm just saying... the whole "Linux is too hard" argument doesn't hold much water with me anymore, since both my wife and 8 year old have been using it with no problems for a while. =)

But yea, OS X does seem pretty nice, I'd probably give it a try if I didn't care about things like openness [1] and vendor lock-in [2].

[1] http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/02/when-the-bough-breaks

[2] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/09/18/Apple-XML

If you haven't tried Linux recently, it's actually gotten pretty good on both of those fronts, especially if you compare it to Windows. Also, many PC manufacturers are starting to pre-install Linux, which should make it even easier for people who don't want to worry about installation.