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I would argue that the UX was designed by engineers with a solid sense of what they wanted and what the customer would want. Whether Larry and Sergey were aware of it or not, they were acting as a designer. I've seen many engineers with exceedingly poor design sense.

For instance, a valid choice for Google would have been to clutter the landing page with advanced search options or ancillary material as so many of its contemporaries did. In this case, I would argue that the engineer was skilled at a small set of design tasks.

For what it's worth, I'm an engineer, but I'm close friends with designers.
Well, Jordan Hubbard outlines some quite good things about what's going on and why in the video:
http://www.nextbsd.org/jordan-hubbard-visits-bafug/

Certainly, this is not without controversy. However, it seems like Hubbard has pissed off far fewer people than Lennart did, so his ideas are likely to get a much more receptive response and actual technical discussion beyond "Lennart wrote it so I hate it.". In addition, Hubbard and co are likely to have learned from the systemd fiasco, and other *BSD systems have written some other solutions in this space. These ideas are falling on relatively fertile ground.

However, the FreeBSD leadership will occasionally make a decision and tell people to get stuffed if they don't agree. I would cite the GEOM changeover, in particular. People forget the vitriol that accompanied it now that it has been well integrated.
Humans have arbitrary morals in much the same way that wolves have arbitrary instincts to pack-hunt; many preceding generations have survived thanks to that particular characteristic, so the modern individuals abide by the behavior, not even fully aware that it happens to increase their chances of survival. The mechanism works the same both for adopted social behavior and for evolved instinct.

But I'd like to make the argument that the central moral imperatives put forth by the bible (as well as by many other religions) would exist as moral imperatives even without religion itself; natural selection would popularize them no matter what.
> there may very well be a configuration setting to bypass it and go directly to the desktop

You're right, there is. The ability to configure this was one of the updates in 8.1 from 8.0 and was included presumably because of so many complaints in user feedback about it forcing you to click through the metro screen to get to desktop on every reboot.
What's 'parallel'? Is it a *nix command? Looks like its not available on Fedora box
Great... if they stop making consumer devices maybe this stupid fork of Android can go away and they can offer their Amazon Video on ChromeCast and Nexus Player
We changed the URL from http://www.obiworldphone.com/ because the current article contains background info.

Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10127139.
My two cents:

- My notebook battery (X220) lasts ~60% less than before

- USB 3.0 port working as a 2.0 one

- The upgrade process failed with my Office 2013. It is constantly trying to install some package when I go to the Outlook search box and never finishes successfully. Microsoft Answers solutions don't work (as usual).

- The metro widgets are not minimalist, they are incomplete. Now it takes three clicks to connect to my VPN instead of just one (starting from the same place)

- I can't easily disconnect the Windows updates.

- I was lucky not following the recommended express settings, I feel owned by Microsoft.

The good things? UI responsiveness and multiple virtual desktops. I am seriously thinking about downgrading to Windows 7 or buying a Windows 10 "certified" notebook.
Wouldn't custom fonts lead to a problem when using ssh ?
Yeah that's kind of where I'm coming from as well we have these huge collection of Fortran which is basically 'good enough'.

It's only when you hit some niche corner case and you have to dive in to the guts that you start wishing you had something more modern.
Partner with Amazon? I know when I got a Galaxy S4 the OEM Android included the Amazon App and Google Play stores. While they may do something different in Korea, it seems like a reasonable move in markets where Amazon has traction.
To be fair, the music app isn't the operating system, just something that comes with it. You are not forced to use it - and you didn't pay for it so it being ad supported is practically normal.

Did you pay for Windows 10?
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My experience of Windows 8 is good, it is a little better than Windows 7.

But my experience of Windows 10 is so bad. The Edge browser is full of bugs, crash often, slow. Windows 10 itself is also full of bugs, these bugs are reported in the two days after the releasing of Windows 10, but most of them are still not fixed yet now.
So, to start, note that Sandstorm is not primarily targeted at hosting web sites. It's more of a replacement for Google Apps (especially Google Docs). Some of the apps (such as Ghost and Wordpress) can host web sites as a function of the app, but this is not really the main focus of the platform. Most Sandstorm apps are intended to be accessed through the Sandstorm shell interface.

> First, I'm still unclear on how urls work. For example, can I host a multiple wordpress blogs at multiple domains? Like jerrac.tld, foobar.tld, and example.org?

Yes, you can create multiple Wordpress instances and connect them to different domains. Note that publishing content to domains is something that only the Wordpress, Ghost, and Hacker CMS apps do currently.

Most apps are designed to be accessed embedded in the Sandstorm UI, where they get free authentication, authorization, document management, sharing, etc.

> What if I also want to have other apps on those domains?

You can always set up nginx in front.

> Also, how do I view a wordpress instance as an anonymous user? I couldn't figure it out.

The dashboard contains instructions for publishing content to your domain. (Though you can't actually do this under the demo -- you can only get a randomly-generated domain.)

> Second, how do multiple users work? For example, a user that has editor perms in wordpress and can create Lychee and Etherpad apps, but can't do anything else.

You can invite users to your Sandstorm server. Once invited, a user can install apps and create grains. Each user installs apps for themselves -- the admin does not choose the apps for them. Different users on the same server can actually have different versions of an app installed. (Of course, when they have the same version installed, Sandstorm will de-dupe behind the scenes.)

You can share grains you create with other users by clicking the "share" button in the top bar. Some apps -- including Wordpress -- offer you the ability to share different access levels here.

> Third, is it possible for me to install a customized version of an app? Like if I commit the crime of hacking wordpress core, could I get that to install on my Sandstorm instance?

Absolutely. All the tools for building packages are open source and you can directly upload packages to your server without going through the app market.

> Fourth, has anyone looked at adding Drupal 7 and 8 to the available apps?

Not yet, but it'd be cool if someone did. :)
The part about firing people sounds really true to me ... Due to the culture of filial piety, its incredibly hard to get anyone fired in Singapore except for a few hedge fund managers.

Most of the wealthy people here get rich through family monopolies in industries like real estate and shipping where basically the entire family monopolises a certain industry and it's incredibly difficult (if possible) to even get somebody fired.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

It's a school you should know of.
I wonder how many people are donating their bandwidths to this. Will it become unsustainable in the near future when more and more Chinese (a huge number of people) adopt this?
Don't you think that if the business is destroyed, then it becomes more likely that the data will be leaked or sold?
I'm a male in my late 30's. I do not use facebook. I stopped a while back because I learned that there are certain things I don't want to know about my friends and family. Among those things are whether you thought that funny quiz result was worth sharing, or that you blindly follow the latest idealogue on whichever side of the political aisle you fall.

I'm much happier not seeing the mundane drivel they mindlessly shared. I know it's not really representative of who they are and I'm no longer annoyed at them all the time.
100% agree. I'd refine it slightly by saying it isn't just a recommendation we want, it is presenting us with the logic under the hood in terms of HOW it made the decision--not what the decision was.

If it told me it recommended the restaurants along with commentary like "you really liked X at another place, and this place has been voted to have comparable X, plus it is close by and you've had a long day and need to get up early tomorrow" that would be super useful and help me reach my own conclusion faster.
no inside info but i bet memsql is a lurker in that club.
If they are your designers, it might be time to engineer a better hiring system.
You have a huge chip on your shoulder, geez. Your argument is missing some logic. The engineers at Google are building from UX design specs.

"if they don't know it they quickly learn it through seeing their users interact with their software."

Engineers don't do ethnographic research to avoid these problems in the first place. Why subject users to painful workflows when UX teams can solve these issues early on in the SDLC and save the dev teams from doing MORE work later on fixing these usability issues?
Google has been performing A/B testing on its design since 18 months after it launched. If you go look through archive.org, you'll see that the UX has been tweaked over the years, adding fields to the home page early on for language options, removing it later, tweaking how many links show on the front page, moving options around, etc.

If you think 15 years of UX tweaks, driven by A/B testing, is not research, then please clarify what kind of research you are arguing against?
You don't. It works without internet. As Minesweeper is simply a program you can use the old one in Windows 10.
"Profit" is a very vague term in corporate finance. Just because they don't put the cash in the bank doesn't mean they're not a profitable company.
PIC is not the name of the company. It's Microchip Technology, Inc. You seem to be upset about something, since I don't think you have the facts straight about the XC series of compilers; the source code for XC16 and XC32 is posted here under "Source Archive" http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/devtools/dev-tool...

Microchip has a number of open-source initiatives. You can use the internal guts of MPLAB X from Java via MDBcore, for example, as a scriptable debugger/simulator.
I am not sure I see the differentiation in design that is highlighted so much in this website. The phone looks pretty similar to Nokia (now Microsoft) Lumia's, and the UI doesn't look much more fancier either. Am I missing something? And why is "Designed in San Francisco" such a huge thing?
I'm not sure I would believe the comment by the person who you are responding to.
The Voice 5 sans la chanteuse Jenifer?
Search the online Traub Collection:

http://dli.library.cmu.edu/traub/
I just got a 30% pay raise by going to my current boss, telling them what the market rates are now.
One might argue that the look and feel of craigslist matches its use. It also had a great first-mover advantage and vacuumed up all the mindshare for classifieds very early on. It's hard to compete with that, even with a shiny well tested design.

A lot of the comments here are pointing out outliers that succeeded due to reasons such as first mover advantage combined with network effects. In more competitive spaces, design still matters.
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That's certainly possible. Is that so hard to believe?

The Kindle worked out, the Fire phone didnt. Maybe its just the phone models since they're still working on other devices. They also just became more valuable than Walmart. It seems like they know what they're doing, including cutting losses.
> On Feb. 18, she provided the documentation. Her license had, indeed, been valid. But the mayor didn’t drop the two license-related charges. Instead, he “asked her how much money she had with her,” an appeals court wrote. “She responded she only had about $300. The Mayor informed her she could at least pay the unlawful use of a driver’s license charge that day.”

> So she did, paying $215.

> But despite what she paid, despite the documentation she showed, despite the registration count having earlier been dismissed, she was presented this same day with a bill of information, saying Woodworth was charging her with all four counts originally written up by the officer. She was given until March 18 to pay whatever money was still owed.

Uh... what? I didn't expect the shakedown to be quite that blatant.
Is Kindle one of the "consumer devices" that's being curtailed? I thought it was doing well, but if I was thinking of buying one, I'd think twice after reading this article.
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Wrong question to be asking.

What can a great IDE add to the experience of learning / using Haskell?
I've never seen an interstitial on HN. Have you?
> Ahhh. I miss solaris.

The illumos, SmartOS, and Joyent folks are doing a fantastic job moving Solaris forward. That's where all the action is these days.

FreeBSD is doing great stuff too, with their more conservative approach, and drastically fewer resources.
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> My guess is that the SIM card contains a small application that can activate a specific profile in response to a command from the Fi software.

Standard smartcards (including SIMs) have a select command[0], which is used to select applications. If there are two USIM apps[1] (what normal LTE SIMs have one of), they can both be listed in the directory file, and the phone can select either based on whatever it likes. I'm not sure what a plain phone would do with a dual-USIM card (search the app directory for a USIM app and use the first or last? Ask the user? Choose based on the network ID as encoded in the IMSI? Other??)

[0] The relevant 3GPP UMTS/LTE spec, http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/31101.htm , defers to an older ETSI spec, http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/102200_102299/102221/08.... for the actual command definitions.

[1] The USIM app, defined in http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/31102.htm , contains information like the IMSI (readable), perhaps the phone number (r/w), and the secret shared with the network (inaccessible, but the "authenticate" command can use it to generate a set of session keys that are accessible to the phone).

> More likely is that the SIM card just holds a few different profiles and custom software that runs on the baseband processor watches the strength of both networks and sends out of band messages back home to tell recycled Google Voice infrastructure how to find the subscriber.

Or Google provides a P-GW (as shown in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Architecture_Evolution#... ) that both networks use; then the mobile could keep one IP address and the voice services wouldn't have to track anything. The SWn interface shown on that diagram is basically a VPN.
Exactly. The uncluttered search experience was very much a user-centered design decision and it was indicative of the fact that Google valued my needs as a user.
Does Amazon actually provide compelling apps on their store? The comments here and this new advertising platform would suggest otherwise.
That is a really nicely designed article!

I don't think I've ever seen that scroll down action before.
I can't argue with your logic because I suspect that there is a fundamental lack of understanding of the field of Human Computer Interaction and User Centered Design.

Please read up on this for a more productive discussion as I'm genuinely not trying to argue with you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design
> The improved multi-monitor window management (snapping to any corner of any monitor, variable width snapping, 1-click to snap another window to the other side, etc) is the best I've seen on any OS.

I'm mostly neutral on this because I don't really use window snapping, and I very rarely use Windows as it is (KDE's multi-monitor handling is OK, probably not the best, but it works well enough for me). That said, I do feel Windows 10 is a moderate improvement over 7, but I still wind up using DisplayFusion since I like its taskbar features better.

The 6-pixel "snag" point between monitors (top and bottom) is infuriating to me, and I've yet to find a registry fix that actually works to get rid of that nonsense, neither can I find any obvious settings for it. Any suggestions?
So, it's free unless there's an interstitial ad? That seems like an awfully random place to draw the line.
Yes, it's a GNU tool. Try "yum install parallel".

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
Yeah, not sure if/how to do this in bash :P

Yeah, I thought about using a different temp file per shell, and I did use that for some time, but that got annoying when shells didn't exit gracefully and clean up the temp file.

I don't actually care about race conditions (okay, the wrong prompt may be displayed once, big deal), and it doesn't actually happen in real use because of the way timing works out.
There were good devs at Nike? When I lived in Portland Nike had a reputation for hiring...ah...those with a bit yet to go on the learning curve, shall we say.
This is why I specified "meaningful way." I guess I should be more clear, but the standard for conspiracy in most jurisdictions is an overt act. So, for instance, contributing money to "Bomb X" campaign, traveling to Syria to join the fighting, or sending guns and equipment to ISIS would be all overt acts. Posting the ISIS logo on your FB wall would not qualify. I just feel that there are plenty of existing criminal laws to deal with most terrorists.
I used to have a 6-hour run of episodes on VHS, recorded off of TV broadcasts.

Unfortunately, I lent it to my 4th grade teacher to take some clips out of for science class... and she lost it.

I am still sad about that.
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The Kindle worked out only after iteration. It was the same for Apple with the iPod and iPhone as well. Amazon has quit in the first inning because their phone wasn't an overnight success. If they were truly focused on the long-term they wouldn't be afraid to continue to invest in it.
What do you mean when you say develop on a server?
Do you actually remote in and do development via commandline?
Do you edit the files locally and upload it back?
Do you run a remote desktop with gui?

If one person accidentally saves a file that has a syntax error or something, does it crash the server for everyone?

What tools do you use for development?
Yes, Windows 10 does do more with your data than any previous version of Windows, but that is not always a bad thing.

Really? What a blabla article, with no investigative journalims. Have they analysed the encrypted (SSL) data traffic to dozens of domains? Of course not. Such a soviet kind of operating system isn't well regarded in the land of the free(dom). And there are no reports that more than 10 recent Win7&8 updates ship with many spy&tracking features. An unheard offensive tactics that shows Microsoft evil attempt.
Their tooling is definitely pretty great, but the hard part is winning people back over if they somehow feel jaded. I think gaining loyalty once isn't as hard as trying to re-earn it. But people often love the underdog.
Amazon's announcement probably violates FTC advertising rules.

"The FTC’s longstanding guidance to companies is that disclosures in their ads should be close to the claims to which they relate – not hidden or buried in unrelated details – and they should appear in a font that is easy to read and in a shade that stands out against the background. Disclosures for television ads should be on the screen long enough to be noticed, read, and understood, and other elements in the ads should not obscure or distract from the disclosures."

Every once in a while, the FTC does clamp down on this.[1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/09/opera...
Dan Griffin, the scientist whose back of head is featured in this video, is the author of the study from this HN thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8708161
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I can highly recommend Sculley's book about his time at Pepsi and Apple.

I've read a German translation with a totally different title, but I think it is "Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple".
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I am the family IT guy. Years ago (Windows 2000 era, very young kids) I got tired of maintaining Windows and declared that I would no longer support it. We've been all Linux and Mac since then. For a while, we were Linux only.
$411K annual revenue with a team of 6? $68.5K per employee? And that's revenue, not income?

Don't quit your day job.
Yeah, perhaps a better solution might be to have the federal or state government impose fines on local city governments for incidents where citizens' constitutional rights are infringed. I'm not as interested in personal compensation for the injury as I am making sure that cities and police can't violate citizen's rights without consequences that ensure that the activity isn't repeated.

The fact that this city was collecting 61% of their annual revenue through regular police stops (many of which seem to be unconstitutional) is alarming. There has to be a better solution than to just appeal or sue for compensatory damages, which in most cases, will have little to no affect on the city. Even the $30K damages in this case seems small compared to the more than $1 million they collected in 2006 alone.

It seems like they should be subject to substantial fines, if not jail time for the officers or judges that are involved in these stops and cases. It just seems wrong that a city can arrest and jail someone for almost a month for not paying a $1,580 fine, but no one in the city government gets jail time for violating the constitutional rights of thousands of citizens, while making millions from their disregard of the law.
I don't know what you mean.

There are pre-installed apps on OS X, Linux, and Windows. If you don't care for the pre-installed ones, you can install ones that you prefer. Same with the kind-of default 'controls' like the Start Menu, or the Dock, or what various Linux distros call their equivalents.

Windows 8/8.1 is Windows 7 with a few improvements and some "Metro" stuff that you can almost entirely avoid.
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Why not? Microsoft is about to.

The game is over. Apple won the money and Android/Google/Samsung/Xiaomi won the market-share.
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That particular example aside, useful information for many HNers: Earn outs in tech are routinely earned out. They're negotiated with the assistance of very smart, very highly paid specialists, too.

A fairly common outcome (anecdata from friends) is that the earnout is virtually in the bag at the 50% point and after that they are mildly frustrated with thumb-twiddling while waiting for the clock.
Neat. Or just use a (real) phone's dialtone, which is E.
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I am very sympathetic to your position, but CSS support in email clients is still surprisingly primitive (e.g. MS using Word's html rendering engine in Outlook). If you look at the source of most html emails that you get, they will be using tables for layout...