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You could display a large picture of the fret layout and the strings for each chord played.

Frankly, I'm glad my home screen on Froyo hasn't changed in 5 years.

I don't think there's any requirement that says "because HN caters to starts ups, one shouldn't go off about gear".

I think the OG Motorola Droid is THE phone to have: Wonderful keypad with the buttons in the right places, has a nice heft to it that gives confidence, Froyo is a fine operating system that doesn't have any frills and cruft. It can run hot from time to time depending on what the phone is doing, but it's manageable. I just love the original vision that Google had for Android with that phone. It feels like the smart people involved in that original design have long since departed and a lot of other people spoiled the pot overthinking the next revs afterwards.

I always think of Louis CK when I'm picking up my OG Droid - how amazing this "outdated" technology is in our amazing world. Nothing has convinced me yet that I need more. I've felt 4G and OLED but it doesn't really matter that much. I can't wait 3 more seconds here and there.

Here's my mini review of the Droid 4 and why I didn't upgrade: http://mikebaas.org/writings/Technology/CellPhones/droid_4_r...

I really dislike your point of view.

  - Kind of Blue *is* a definitive jazz album.

  - Miles was *not* flaunting during that particular time period of writing and 
  recording.  He changed his mode of expression and self numerous times throughout 
  his life.

  - The musicians *were* at their peak *while they were together for this 
  recording*.

  - Cannonball Adderley's playing is often times the best of the bunch.

I don't think you can have "empty praise" when you are expressing your subjective opinion about music and you like something.

Is it true that being in bands is now less popular because kids are now hacking rather than practicing their instruments? Or is it just that certain kids who didn't feel like bands were for them now have a "band" to join?

No touchscreen on the Air.

I use it without problems too, and so does the author, but our eyes are not happy and our brains are less relaxed. We never used importance and we don't want it cluttering up our stars. We need visual queues, like lines.

This will even bring an X41 back to life.

I'll get off XP as soon as the properly alphabetize the programs under Control Panel.

I think for reading books and especially for watching videos on Youtube, it's stellar. I also enjoy watching my 1 year old daughter carry it around. I think when Steve Jobs declared the 7 inch form factor DOA, he wasn't thinking about a < 2 year old target market.

This design breaks the back button pretty badly.

Here's a great cheap online resource for goji berries:

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"As much as I love Apple, Inc, I would happily give up my iPhone to put food on the plates of starving children."

No you wouldn't. If that were true, you would have already done it.

"Kernighan's and Ritchie's seminal work came in the 1970s, when Kernighan said the computer field still presented "low-hanging fruit." Partly because they and their cohorts did so well, we don't have much more to do in the basic computer development that underlies the ever-changing cornucopia of protocols and applications that are the current focus of programmers. New algorithms will continue to develop, particularly thanks to the growth of multiprocessing and especially heterogeneous processors. New operating system constructs will be needed in those environments too. But most of the field has moved away from basic computer science toward various applications that deal directly with real-world activities."

That last line prevents me from tarrying with C as much as I think I should, in the real world. I've ready my K&R, done a number of its exercises, read some other books by the same publisher, but I keep coming to Perl for all my real world work. I guess I work at too high of a level for C to really come into my sphere.

Me too. Logging in a seeing just a partial listing of all the tags I've created since 2005 was disheartening.

Also didn't like running Net::Delicious and watching it fail.

Or watching my Firefox Delicious plugin completely fail after years of solid everyday use.

Unfortunately, my import into Pinboard left me with incomplete link history, but I assume the dev will help me figure out why it didn't like my entire feed.

Amen, brother. I'd really like to hear your take on the psychology of a mind that thinks changes like that that completely break APIs (Net::Delicious) is a good idea.

Can you use a browser plugin with it (like I have been doing for many years now)? Because I can't.

It costs money.

They appear to have broken Delicious Bookmarks for Firefox.

The maintenance of Strawberry Perl is not in parallel with the development of Perl in general. I'm sure the developers are working on it. It has its own architectural issues that go beyond merely compiling Perl and releasing it.

If you really want to know the release date, check in with the guys at #win32 on irc.perl.org.

Perl 6 is an entirely different language than Perl 5.14 with an entirely different development path. I don't see Perl 6 as "the next version of Perl". Perl 5 continues to thrive and will for some time.

Work to change your company's culture!

The gave their future competitor a pretty crappy name!

Hiromi Shinya, the inventor of colonoscopy, has had success with Crohn's patients throughout his career:

http://www.amazon.com/Enzyme-Factor-Hiromi-Shinya-MD/dp/0982...

His advice consists mainly of radical dietary changes and drinking Kangen water. FWIW.

Me personally, I wouldn't let the cost of one hour drive my buying decision.

But Aunt Tillie sure would.

I did MBTT version 1.0 either on Dos or Win 3.1 (can't remember) when I was like 9 years old and I am currently the fastest typist I know.

To the point of the author, the only difference between all the different types of T420s series systems is CPU and GPU. Why list all the other components in a list when they are all exactly the same?

I'm in the minority camp that doesn't think arrow keys are a big deal, but I suppose I need to qualify that and say "not a big deal if you are on a Thinkpad" and you have an solid reach of curled fingers in your right hand. There's are efficiency gaps in between

  1) keeping fingers on jkl;
  2) manipulating the arrow keys with fingertips, 
     primarily using the pinky for quick movements
  3) lifting the hand to use the arrow keys

and they do add up over time, but I'm not sure how detrimental they are.

Sometimes, the arrow keys provide a nice mental break, where you can step back from the doc and examine what's happened so far with the arrow keys or page up/down.

I don't understand what you are saying. What were you hoping for?