I hide and completely ignore my dock. I'd love to get rid of it altogether, but all the hacks that enable that have some sort of downside to them. What I hate w

I hide and completely ignore my dock. I'd love to get rid of it altogether, but all the hacks that enable that have some sort of downside to them. What I hate with a vengeance is when I accidentally minimize a window and have to fish it back out of the dock. In OSX I never want to minimize a window (which IMO, is a good testament to how well designed OSX is).