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I actually like Unity (especially Unity of Ubuntu 12 and 14 LTS). And Ubuntu Mate with its Gnome 2 inspired shell sounds great.

But plain Gnome 3 took the wrong direction, it's too tablet OS alike, a unfortunate regression compared Gnome 2 in usability. Unfortunately KDE also took the wrong direction, after the great KDE3, with KDE4 the started from scratch again, what a big mistake. Basically Gnome and KDE wasted years with rewriting, that turned out worse, and can be blamed that Linux desktop is still at less than 5%.

So let's hope Ubuntu 18 LTS transform Gnome 3 to look subjectly less ugly (more traditional) and at least add back the removed toolbars and menubars to the Gnome Texteditor, filemanager, etc.

Who came up with the single toolbar button in Gnome 3 Texteditor with only a paste functionality and thought it is a good idea? Bring back the Gnome2 Texteditor as featured in Ubuntu Mate.

I want the tab-support in Terminal app back. Why was it removed in Gnome3?

How can one see the HN comment score? (except own comments)

I think it was there some years ago, but vanished incl karma-ratio info when PG stept back.

Yes, thanks! It's hard to describe, but this page nails it including the screenshots!

  Love your own

  There are two kinds of objects and functions - those that 
  are part of the standard DOM, and those that are from your 
  own JavaScript code. Firebug can tell the difference, and 
  shows you your own script-created objects and functions in 
  bold at the top of the list.

  To be even more discriminating, use the options menu to 
  completely hide different kinds of objects. For instance: 
  Show Own Properties Only hides derived properties from the 
  prototype chain, Show Enumerable Properties Only hides non-
  enumerable properties and Show Inline Event Handler shows 
  inline event handlers that are not associated with functions.

With "your own JS code" it means the JS libraries, the JS code of your website. Also any changes to DOM made by JS code is also highlighted in bold and different colors like green and red. Try it out yourself, you will see it's very useful undo you will ask yourself, why haven't I used it in the past.

I fear as it's now hard to impossible to try out Firebug with current Firefox, and the WebDevTools have long forgotten the past functionality of Firebug, we may never again get this valuable features back. :(

But to try it out yourself, either download FF48 portable and install an older Firebug revision (the last two Firebug revisions are "fake" meaning the basically remove Firebug, so use an older Firebug from 2015, you have to install it manually, or downgrade it)

Despite the downvotes by people who don't got it, it's a very valuable feature that made a Firebug so special and useful.

Please Mozilla devs, try it out, and you will get it in 1min how useful it is, and please add it to DevTools. (@Chrome devs: please also add it)

Munich should have switched to ChromeOS/ChromiumOS or Android or RedHat/CentOS or Ubuntu on thin clients, as the software is anyway usually web based in the cloud/intranet. But neither Google nor RedHat or Ubuntu are known to lobby.

@sz4kerto:

> ChromeOS proprietary

Why you pick this one of a list of many? ChromiumOS is open source, as is Android, as is RedHat or Ubuntu. But Windows is proprietary.

> Google spends a lot on lobbying, by the way, afaik more than what Microsoft is spending.

Really? Source please. The question is how much do they all spend lobbying for an OS? How much do they spend lobbying in Munich? (hint German HQ got relocated to Munich) You read like a employee.

Good to know, but at least for me actually occurs with MP4 files. I tried it on my own video MP4/H.264 files - loading the video with the video tag with plain HTML5. I am sure the FF devs know about the FF57 video bug and have fixed it already in nightly build or are working on it.

I had to take such a formal proofs course too, just with a different tool that had even steeper learning curve and rough edges (prof used us as alpha tester of his new tool), and came to the same conclusion as you. It seems very valuable to formal proof specific small sub-sets or rather critical components like device drivers, like e.g. Microsoft is doing it for some time. I am sure it will become more popular, when the tools and languages get more mature and easier to grasp for average joe developers in the next years.

There seem to be a bug with MP4 video processing it eats CPU and battery like crazy (for me both on macOS and Win7), but otherwise, the new FF is great.

'DOM' panel in FF DevTools unfortunately still doesn't distinguished between inbuilt native DOM nodes and custom DOM nodes from JS code - making the DOM panel still completely useless. Firebug grouped non-native DOM nodes (the interesting ones for devs) and sorted them on top, and marked them in bold font - non of these is in the new FF. Until DOM panel still a work-in-progress, I cannot switch.

I still keep a Firebug 48 with old Firebug addon around, because of the awesome DOM panel (that also Chrome doesn't have).

On Windows too, MP4 videos spins up fan - only with new Firefox (neither with Chrome nor IE)

Hasn't Outcast (1999) used the same/similar techniques for terrain rendering.

The re-released it on GOG last year, and remade it this year with a Unity engine (all polygons now).

They are not individuals, but bots by companies. You just have to look at the bots that write pro-comments on HN, Reddit, etc. Think about, who has advantage from it?

If you don't mind, what do you use to generate crossword puzzles? Maybe it's an open source software?

The single source of truths, all the core Facebook users data (except messages) is stored in MySQL cluster. The issue you describe is that the same data is also cached in Memcached and by other means. But deleting is entirely possible, though it's against their business model, so they make real deleting as hard to find and do as possible, and scare people away with info like "you cannot register again".

Training of neural networks is probably a gray area, and a potential issue for many companies. Example: Think of the recorded audio messages from Siri/GoogleNow/Cortana that gets processes and potentially stored and not deleted thereafter on their (and third parties like Nuance) servers. If one deletes an account, one would assume it also and especially also deletes all private data like messages, voice and video recording.

I am not sure if your short summary is correct either.

Isn't Windows is the reason why they want to tranformation from Linux to Windows?

The original documents say something else. The original document mentions 89 million EUR. If the translation is half correct:

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&...

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...

During dotCom era there was a Internet2 project. I remember PR statements dubbing it as the "new internet", replacing an decades old network with new infrastructure and modern protocols. It seems Internet2 project is still around, but pivoted a bit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2

Let's speak about Windows 10 and Office 2016, I have bought them, a very simple transaction. Everything I mentioned still holds. I regreted doing so. I am in the club who reverted back to good ol Win7 and Office 2010.

I thought so too, and in case of Apple I still too.

But I got bitterly disappointed by Microsoft, I pay them for Windows and Office, a very simple transaction, right? Guess what, Windows 10 not only displays ads in the startmenu and taskbar. Also it automatically installs Pay2Win gambling games littered with loot crates to the startmenu. Also it tries to upgrade itself whenever it wants (in the middle of gaming, during boot, during shutting down) and not just updates but re-installs a new copy of the whole OS in-place, loosing all customization settings. Also it collects all my keyboard inputs, all my microphone audio and webcam video, my usage patterns, my directory structure, my crashed application incl all related files, the running application list, and sends them encrypted to various cloud servers own by them or third parties (who can tell?).

I thought it is a very simple transaction, but I figured out when a company gets greedy and evil, you cannot trust such a company any more. It's better part ways and to revert back to an older version (Win 7) and prepare to move to a competitor.

Nice photos. Most with authentic accessories. Including the the last photo out of a flat window of an eastern bloc soviet style concrete fab building (probably common in 1980s era Poland)

Little nit-picking: The Duke Nukem 3D running on an 300 MHz is a bit out of era, given it was almost 2 years old game when the hardware got release. Quake 2, Hexen 2, Unreal 1, Half Life 1 or Age of Empires 1 would be games of that era (end of 1997/early 1998). (mind that MHz race was in full speed back in late 1990s, a two year old PC was considered "stone age", a two year old game looked "like from stone age")

Hewlett-Packard (known for (school/desk) calculators, PC printers, chips and computer) bought Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) (known for server, mini computer) and Compaq (known for desktop and notebook computer).

All three companies were in good shape, especially Hewlett-Packard and Compaq (one of two biggest PC&notebook manufacturers).

Hewlett-Packard went all downhill in the 2000s onwards with changing CEOs doing greedy decisions and lackluster products and quality. It got worse in 2010s, and the company split to HP and HPE - now it's confusing for customers which company is responsible for what, e.g. HP "ePrint" iOS app (companion app for HP printer) is now owned by HPE and requires an enterprise login, whereas the consumer version got forked by HP and has to be discovered under a different name in AppStore. The network switches, notebook, printer, companion-software, keyboards, server storage, (most got renamed) and worse in every aspect. Yes Meg Whitman and the other CEOs (of both HPE and HP in 2010s) were bad.

Actually not a bad idea. Ethernet speed is one gigabit per second.

And there are high throughput devices like LIDARs (eg Velodyne LiDAR known from Google/Waymo self-driving cars) that are connected via Ethernet rather than USB.

Having 1 GBit Ethernet LAN network since 2004, I would prefer the possibility to upgrade to 10Gbit home Ethernet in near future.

If you are looking for such monitors, look for gaming monitors with TN-panel, with 2ms or 4ms response time. Compared to office monitors or even TVs there is a big difference. (mind that TN-panel have pro and cons)

"Russia reports radioactivity 986 times the norm after nuclear accident claim"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/21/russia-radioac...

"Russia’s meteorological service has confirmed “extremely high” concentrations of the radioactive isotope ruthenium-106 were found in several parts of the country in late September, confirming European reports about the contamination this month."

Events repeat, denial at first for a month and than downplaying the accident and the contamination of larger part two continents.

It might be unpopular on HN, but use the older iRobot generation that is not "smart" aka no WiFi, no spyware, just a "dump" little robot vacuum cleaner. Do you think Mark Zuckerberg, or Elon Musk let such devices roam their home? Nope. Mark wrote his own home assistant, security system ,etc with PHP and unix tools. These devices are for the noobs, the general public, that doesn't care.

I meant a clone/copy of the (hopefully open) server software of LetsEncrypt stack running as a service on several well known cloud datacenters - of course under a different name.

Why? Not a single point of issue. Given now that it has now 25% market share, it's a high profile target, and given he short cert lifetime aggressive updating is necessary meaning you could receive a underhanded cert in case someone gets access to the high profile target. If Let's Encrypt is not a startup and doesn't plan to make money, then there should be no problem to release the whole service as DEB/package so that every big hosted can run a clone under a different name. Or is LetsEncrypt in the business of gathering analytics and selling the usage data? I think no.

How about distributing Let's Encrypt?

Do cloud hoster offer a copy of the service from their datacenter? Otherwise it could be a single point of failure / single attack vector, right?

This nails it. Most first world countries managed to build most of their concrete infrastructure in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, little since then and maintainance isn't so easy.

It's impressive what China builds - they were decades behind but times changed. A huge parts of Shanghai city were rice field until 1990. Most skyscrappers were build since 2005. And now Shanghai has probably more skyscrappers than any other city in the world. Impressive also the amount of 2 or 3 story highways and the high speed trains.

brushed = old tech = coal (which wears down and require replacement)

brushless = new tech, no maintainance

Brushes wear down and require replacement, brushless DC motors using power electronic devices have displaced brushed motors from many applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brushed_DC_electric_motor

The sad thing is that Pay2Win is coming to triple A games like Need for Speed Payday, Forza 7, Star Wars B2. These completely wrong trend deserves all the outcry that happens right now. If EA and MS try to destroy video games, it's just stupid, their greed will scare the real players away.

> reminds us that nuclear kills much less than regular earthquakes

Stupid comment. Would you relocated near Fukushima or Chernobyl? Maybe you should. You would educate yourself and change your mind. And you would have to life with the related health issues. (The same for evil greedy owners of such energy companies)

The Russians handled the catastrophe better and faster. International help sender them low tech robots, Russians poured tunnels below within days/weeks with lot of human contractors. But Japan is doing little. Contaminated fluids leak into the sea that swaps to Hawaii and west coast ever since 2011. It's the local culture of loosing face that seems to be at odds with handling it and a major corruption problem. After 6 years Japan has done so little, compared to the Chernobyl Sarcophagus and all the handling inside and ever since. Why is there not more international pressure to Japan to do more and do it faster? They have to do it no matter what the costs are or if the have the resources, it doesn't matter - the rest of the world population will thank you for less pollution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant_...