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This is leading to vigilantism, by the government and by corporations.

Can you think of a way to encourage your users to send your site links to their friends? I see the share buttons over on the left, but I think the button owners' networks benefit more than you do.

I watched a few videos and clicked the three buttons at the bottom. At this point I haven't signed up, and it looks like I can do everything possible without signing up, which is really cool but why should I sign up?

Now I've signed up ... and I don't see anything different. In fact, my video history that you were keeping track of before I signed up (via a cookie I assume) did not carry over into my account, and everything is set to zero. A minor complaint, but a nice touch if you pull it off.

In your orange "+" chiclet you list a lot of ways to share. Not everyone has a facebook or gmail account, but everyone has email, so maybe a mailto: link should be at the top of that popup?

I see that email is buried down in the list of share methods, arranged alphabetically. Maybe bring that link up to the top of the initial popup, or even out into your list of four main chiclets. Or do some AB testing on that and similar design choices.

I tested you reset password link, and got the reset email quickly, so points for that IMO.

But, the fundamental question is why should I use your site? It's an attractive, minimal site, but I don't see anything that it does (and it only does one thing) that isn't done at least as good by more well known sites like reddit, stumbleupon or even youtube itself. I really don't mean to be mean here, but I doubt if I'll come back after this. Have you thought of what you can do to make your site unique enough that people will come to your video sharing site instead of someone else's?

Maybe you can let people share a public list of select videos, so their friends can follow them. Let people write reviews and comments. Let people engage in some way.

Categories or tags on videos, and a way to search those, I really don't want to sit there and click skip skip skip until i see a video I like. Maybe I missed that?

EDIT: I forgot to add, I don't know how to pronounce Cyro. I don't think it's a common English word or name. Speaking for myself, I don't like to say words to my friends if I don't know how to pronounce them, fearing embarrassment. If this is true for other people, you might want to say how to pronounce Cyro, maybe on your About page. Try to reduce every bit of friction in front of your users sharing your site.

His best recommendation is at the top: don't configure a lot of settings and plugins at first. Start with a minimal setup, and slowly work up from there when needed. In particular, don't copy someone's huge .vimrc.

In fact, that's good advice for any tool or technology: start minimal, and only add what you need, when you know you need it.

To his minimal initial configuration, I would suggest one addition: set a colorscheme that looks good to you in the terminal/gui environment you normally use, and choose from the default schemes rather than downloading a pack of them. I like elflord (it doesn't use a lot of red, which is hard to read on a black background), YMwillcertainlyV.

To see which scheme you're currently using, open an existing file in your favorite language and then:

    :colorscheme

    :colorscheme<space><tab>

That's half of what monopolies are supposed to do, in my layman's observation of the field (i.e. everything I know I learned on HN). The other half is to encourage the dissemination of innovation to the benefit of society.

What we have now is the first half, the monopoly. The second half is disappearing, replaced by patent holders preventing innovation from moving through society, and removing the use of what was once obvious from society.

I've seen more than a handful of really smart developers use notepad, even without the ++. It's always surprising, but there's probably a lesson to learn.

Regardless, smoking increases your overall risk pressure along with all of the other risky choices you can make. It's cumulative with the rest of life's choices.

Not only is it more readable, it's more correct in the example given.

"if" is a statement. The ternary operator (?:) is an expression, that returns a value. The semantics are different, and using the ternary operator "merely" to replace an if statement, especially where no assignment of the ternary operator's return value is made, is a code smell.

The ternary operator is great if you're replacing a simple "if something assignment to X else other assignment to X." Any other use is questionable.

Perhaps the auto industry's period of innovation and establishment happened during a more rational patent regime.

Emphasizing "as a good starting point," I'd recommend anything in the Ubuntu branch. This includes Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and Xubuntu, as well as Mint, based on Ubuntu. The Ubuntu repository system is excellent.

My favorite is Lubuntu, because it's "just your stuff" with very minimal "vestigial crap" (as the old Anybody's Bike Book https://duckduckgo.com/?q=anybody%27s+bike+book would call it). Lubuntu does have a few small rough edges, but I like its usable minimalism.

At the moment I don't think the main Ubuntu/Unity variant is good as a starting point, because its UI is significantly different from all other distros and therefore does not lead you down a path of expectations to look for when you eventually try other distros. In other words, Ubuntu/Unity mainly teaches you about Ubuntu/Unity, whereas most other distros give you more general Linux UI experience and expectations. Welcome to the Ubuntu/Unity world, as opposed to welcome to the Linux Universe.

When you're at a "starting point," then you want a distro that doesn't demand attention. Distros like Arch and Gentoo are for people who are ready and willing to spend time getting things going exactly the way they want. When you're at a starting point you don't necessarily know exactly how you want things, and being forced to choose is stressful.

Treat your first starting point distro as a stable base, from which you can learn. Branch out from there as far as you want, at your chosen speed. Dual booting and virtual machines will allow you to try experiments at little cost. But if you're also GSD, you want to be able to completely ignore your distro whenever you want.

"apt-cyg is a command-line installer for Cygwin which cooperates with Cygwin Setup and uses the same repository. The syntax is similar to apt-get. Usage examples:"

    "apt-cyg install <package names>" to install packages
    "apt-cyg remove <package names>" to remove packages
    "apt-cyg update" to update setup.ini
    "apt-cyg show" to show installed packages
    "apt-cyg find <pattern(s)>" to find packages matching patterns
    "apt-cyg describe <pattern(s)>" to describe packages matching patterns
    "apt-cyg packageof <commands or files>" to locate parent packages