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I don't understand how does it make you more productive vs using default shell-based tools. Those in the IDEs and text editors make somewhat sense but I don't see any advantages of separate, GUI applications.

Switched recently to the Intel X25-M. Experience is very, very positive. My computer now boots in less than 15 seconds and Apple Mail opens in less than a second.

The price was pretty high when I bought it (it went down since then) but it is worth every penny.

Same thing here, tried it at home for a couple of months then switched back to a chair.

Finally, every time [your name] uses Pandora.com, [your name] necessarily makes a separate copy of a song in Random Access Memory, or RAM and on the Hard Disk Drive, or HDD. This is an unlawful copy.

This is so ridiculous it is even not funny.

Everytime I read a very good fiction book (or series) like Asimov's Foundation, Simmons' Hyperion Cantos or (currently reading) Stephenson's Cryptonomicon I think 'hey, this one is going to be my favorite'.

AFAIK they are pretty much useless outside the United States. Check out other readers (from Sony, etc.). They are pretty much the same but not tied up to the Amazon.com.

I was talking more about general audience. I understand that people who read SciAm won't magically switch to the Twitter and YouTube videos as their main media for public discourse.

P.S. Not related to the main topic, but you might find it interesting. For the past few months I was reading books exclusively on Kindle but recently I had to buy a paper book (Coders At Work) and the experience is awful so far. I can't highlight and save quotes I like, I can't make notes, I can't quickly look up a word definition. But the worst part is that with Kindle I forgot how difficult and almost impossible it is to read while standing in the train or laying in bed. So, although Coders At Work is a very interesting book I can't wait to finish it and return to my ebook reader.

I would really like to see some statistics about online press because it is not clear for me at the moment if people are moving online or just simply stopping to read. If it is the latter, we have a huge problem.

I've got this question after reading Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.

Both Tumblr and Blogger support JavaScript and they're doing just fine.

I wish they had JavaScript support in themes.

I would not be so optimistic about other countries. Both United Kingdom and Canada closed their immigration programs (former closed the program completely while the latter removed all CS and IT-related professions from it). AFAIK, today only Australia has a meaningful immigration program, however, there is no guarantee that it won't be closed next year. European Union has really, really strict policies not only on immigration but on temporary workers.

Edited: European Unions -> European Union

You could replace 'MacBooks/Windows' with 'computers' in that sentence and it would still be true.

Growth pains. Last couple of days were especially difficult because we're in the process of upgrading our hardware and optimizing architecture. But everything is going to be much, much faster in a matter of days.

How (7) is a productivity hack?

I agree that it depends, however I don't think that it is that easy. Even if you have a good, open relationship with your parents what about your wife/girlfriend or friends? Will they be comfortable to get drunk at your place with your mom around or to have sex with you when your mom is sleeping in the next room?

My bad. I was talking about basically about Germany and Hungary.

Because it is really helpful for a young person to know that you are protected in case of serious illness, that if you want to have kids, they will be socially protected which means that they will be able to get good education, health care, educational trips and so on without you paying ridiculous premiums, fees and getting into huge debt.

It is also really nice to know that the government will take good care of your parents after their retirement. That they will be able to pay bills, travel, get medicare, etc.

When this basic stuff figured out, young people feel safe.

That said, there is another interesting problem here: when young people feel safe they may become too lazy. And when people get too lazy, society starts to stagnate which is, as far as I understand, a huge problem in some european countries. But that's a completely different thing to discuss.

"I think it's kind of a wasteful philosophy to assume that everyone should have their own independent piece of land. If both parties are content to stay under the same roof, what's the problem?"

I think that for the majority, living with parents when you are adult is a huge psychological burden. Not only the society that does not approve such lifestyle, but also the fact that an adult person must have their own personal area to which their parents do not belong (sexual life is one example).

Do you have any statistics of how many European young people live with their parents? I am interested in 20-25 years age range.

I am asking because I have a bunch of friends in Europe and none of them lives with parents. As far as I can tell, their social programs make it much easier to live on their own than, for example, in my home country (Uzbekistan).

Finished Amusing Ourselves to Death a week ago, now reading Cryptonomicon.

That's why it is sometimes safer to hire developers with some open source background. You are able to actually read their code and (if you really want to know the person) their mailing lists messages.

On a second thought, such an open market will make price-unification impossible. And that is Kindle's another strong point.

I'd go with the second lesson. Kindle makes it really easy to buy a new book: you don't need computer or even wifi network, just hit the button.

I wonder if it is a good idea for rivals to create a market with one point-of-entry but different sellers. Think of, well, Amazon for anything but e-books.

Single-page version: http://www.slate.com/id/2226503/pagenum/all/

From the article: "Craigslist gets more traffic than either eBay or Amazon.com". According to Compete, this statement is not true: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/amazon.com+craigslist.com+e...

Or did I misunderstand something?

There are many examples of boring corporate non-webapp programs. Visual Basic was the most popular language once and it has nothing to do with web programming.

I work in the States. Daniel (our CEO) made all arrangements, I applied for a visa in Tashkent and got it.

I am from Uzbekistan and I found my job at DISQUS via Hacker News.

I don't think that UK police will get a section 49 notice just to get some random password because I am pretty sure that the NTAC requires a lot of information proving that they are looking for data that may help preventing future illegal actions or something like that.

So I think the police really know what are they looking for when obtaining this warrant.

As far as I understand, this law was created to get very important information from really serious criminals. But if a person has materials that may get him into more serious troubles than 5 years jail-time it is in their interest not to provide encryption keys.

Or do I miss something?