It looks really really nice, and the transparent overlay is a nice idea. Having said that, I'm not sure I'm ready to shell out $500-$1000 for one. Maybe 4 or 5 years from now we might see the price drop into impulse-buy territory...

I wonder what the base software requirements would be for "Joe Average Company" to consider using a Linux distribution in preference to Windows? Windows probably has a huge advantage due to inertia, and we've been promised the "year of Linux on the desktop" probably for the last 15 years now, but I'm finding that LibreOffice can do everything I'd want to do in Word or Excel (and probably PowerPoint as well) and if Kolab has mail/calendar functionality equivalent to Exchange, then I'm wondering if there's anything essential for general office use that's missing now? And Linux is cheaper than Windows too... :D

Who knows, maybe Exchange runs on Wine? :D

More realistically, they might've stuck with a Windows Echange server, but used a compatible Linux client on the desktop(s). Assuming they didn't just make do with sendmail and Thunderbird, and some Unixy calender application (cron?).

If the aim of this is to do for phones what IBM did for the PC back in the eighties (i.e. provide a framework which anyone can build components against), then it's probably a good thing. Is there some catch which I'm missing though? It seems that everyone in the phone industry wants to keep everything as proprietary and locked-down as possible, and this seems to be moving in the other direction...

It's also neither Vim nor Emacs, so I too am struggling to see what this editor's differentiating feature is. Other than "runs in a browser, but sorta not". Also get off my lawn as well...

If I had bone cancer , or liver cancer , for example, I would be wanting access to any chronic pain medication I could get my hands on (although I'd probably be asking for fentanyl as first choice).

If the primary purpose of medicine is to reduce suffering, then I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with witholding drugs from people who need them because there's a chance they might be abused.

And if we want to extend suffering reduction to drug addicts and their families as well, then giving them access to measured doses would go a long way to helping reduce the chance of accidental overdose.

(And if you absolutely must take opiates/opioids, for heaven's sake don't get drunk at the same time, otherwise you will pass out and die from respiratory arrest...)

...only a waffer-thin mint...

I'm glad I don't live in the US, although I suppose I can look forward to helping Netflix subsidize this when they inevitably raise their rates... :/

In the immediate term, I've been making do with this 'super ghetto submit preview':

1. Wrap your submission text with [html]...[/html] tags (I'm using square brackets instead of angle brackets here for reasons).
2. Save it as an .html file and open it in the browser.
3. That will give you a rough idea of how your submission will look, and you can double check all your links work and point to the right places.
4. [Optional]: You can put [p][/p] in the blank lines to preserve the paragraph structure, but you'll probably want to remove them again when you submit.
5. Then strip the [html] tags again, paste and submit...

Happy posting :D

I would try feedback@pipedot.org ; that's what bryan suggested here in response to this question thread .

Submitted to SoylentNews and to comp.misc via s'qute .
We'll see what happens... :D

This is a fantastic feature, and I'm going to start using jonh.pipedot.org as my homepage :D

FWIW, s'qute has an RSS feed at http://squte.com/rss.xml , although it has some overlap with the comp.misc one.

Anyone want to evangelize this on other sites? I can look into that tomorrow unless anyone wants the honours while I'm asleep for the next 8 hours? :)

That sounds like a good idea, and I'll try to structure my submissions so the first paragraph stands on its own in future.

Please feel free to tidy up the mess I made of the specs list as well :)

Grrr... one of my [/li]'s is a [li]...

:(

In this case, it seems like they are giving you the choice. There's a new option in the Appearance Settings , which defaults to the current behaviour -- I expect that they'll want to change the default in some future release.

I think it's almost axiomatic that any significant UI changes will cause outrage in the short term (e.g. Windows 8, Slashdot Beta, any time Facebook changes anything, Xbox 360 dashboard, Netflix...). People hate change; even actual interface improvements will probably be met with hostily in the short term. As a developer, you can expect at least a couple of weeks of overwhelmingly negative feedback for any significant UI alterations you make -- but if you're not starting to see mixed to positive to responses once the initial shock dies down, then you may have to admit that you have actually made things worse...

It seems like they are giving you the choice in this case. There's a new option in the Appearance Settings , which defaults to the current behaviour -- I expect that they'll want to change the default in some future release.
I think it's almost axiomatic that any significant UI changes will cause outrage in the short term (e.g. Windows 8, Slashdot Beta, any time Facebook changes anything, Xbox 360 dashboard, Netflix...). People hate change. As a developer, you can probably expect at least two weeks of negative feedback for any significant UI alteration -- but if you're not starting to see mixed to positive to responses once the initial shock dies down, then you may have to admit that you actually made things worse...

I just wrote up a submission for you! If I have time, I'll see if I can do a couple over the weekend as well. I may be being dense again, but it's not clear if we can vote on articles in the pipe, or how to get them onto the front page?
I did notice a couple of minor points around submitting:

• A Preview button might be nice :)
• I got bitten by the Unicode rejection when trying to submit, which I think was due to extended characters in the source article I quoted:
  • I needed to replace any visibly non-ASCII characters I could see (em-dashes mainly), but still couldn't submit.
  • I then copied the submission text out of |. and pasted into Notepad, then copy-pasted it back, which seemed to render the text admissible.

Other than that it was pretty straightforward :)
While I'm here, one last thing which would be superawesome would be a couple of navigation links in the comment view:

• Parent
• Prev/next in thread
• Prev/next on site

[The last two I would like because I've taken to browsing comments by entering http://pipedot.org/comment/ n manually and then adjusting the value of n by editing the URL...]

I don't know if having a few different sites is necessarily a bad thing right now. I'm currently looking at soylentnews, here, squte and I will try to check out technocrat tomorrow (as it seems a little broken righ now). There may be a couple of others which I'm not aware of.

I like the fact that these sitesall have their own look and feel, and I think it's possible over time that they will all organically find their own niches, and I might end up spending more time on one than the others, but for now, I'm happy enough to bounce around them all, and think it's too early to be worry about duplication of effort.

It seems quite clear that the 'beta episode' has spurred a lot of people into action, and with all these new sites coming to my attention, it sort of feels a bit like when I first went online (probably getting on for 20 years ago).

This is all only my opinion though... :)

Re: disk failure -- my next NAS is most likely going to use a RAID 6 array. With 4 data disks and 2 parity disks, it should be able to withstand having one disk fail, and another disk fail during the time it takes to reimage the replacement for the first disk. Which means that your data is safe unless 3 disks fail within a 24 hour window.

My monitor is slightly too low - could you render the whole website slightly up and to the left please... ;D

But with prices as low as $165 for a 4TB drive on Newegg, it seems like $250 wouldn't be an unreasonable estimate. And now my 2TB RAID 5 array is starting to seem a little small...

[Btw, I was intending to repost the pricing link to Newegg from TFA in my comment, but the |. post box hates it -- which I think is because it contains ampersands...]

We are not allowed to post ampersands, or Unicode... :'(

test...

I'm replying to this because I am an egotist, and also I want to test if there's any formatting:

BBcode: [b]bold[/b], [i]italic[/i], [url=http://pipedot.org]URL[/url].
HTML: bold , italic , URL .

And a raw URL for kicks: http://pipedot.org

This actually sounds very cool, like something out of a William Gibson novel.
I'm guessing it could take 10-15 years before this kind of technology becomes mainstream, couldn't it?

Forgive me if I'm having a reading fail, but what language/framework is |. written in/on? (e.g. Rails? node.js?) I'm not sure I saw that in the summary (it's still morning here), and I'm just kind of curious...

They seem to be approaching 4-digit UID's as of 'now', mine is in the low 700's.
I agree that pipedot is easier on the eyes though - maybe it's the calming ocean blue vs. Solylent's angry brown...

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