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It's not even a battle. If a web app wants to be successful it must be fast - load fast and work fast. Google Docs is blazingly fast, but Office Web takes too long to load to be of any use.
As someone who writes an Open Source OpenXML decoder I find it way easier than COM. The OpenXML specification docs are comprehensive, when there's a problem - usually detected by OpenOffice's parser as Word is very forgiving - the specs have a specific answer.

There's good development tools including a Firebox style Xpath app for Word too.

The main issue is MS Office 2007 and 2010 generating the legacy OpenXML formats by default, which include a world of possible features including quite a few from Lotus 123. There's too many edge cases to handle, and this isn't the right format for docs made this year.
This is HUGE in the IT world.

Corporate support is based on knowledge bases built up by customers "trying stuff out" and reporting in when it doesn't work.
Nah, I don't mind. Hope it helps.
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Booting off iSCSI is all the rage now. Any server with an Intel 1Gbe network port can be made to boot off iSCSI after flashing with special firmware from Intel.
'decode' was probably the wrong word to use there — how about 'consume'?
What language are you using? I don't know of a datasource for it but I'm familiar with the Django project's localflavor contrib app:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/localflavor...

You can also try searching through programmable web:

http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory
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agreed, even if you aren't really serious about ever being a 'great photographer' - the prime lenses are just dramatically superior to anything else in the 'within reason' price range. though if you are on one of the SLRs that makes everything a telephoto, you might want to start with a 35mm or a 28mm rather than the 50mm, even though the 50 is a better lens for the money. If you take indoor photos with the 50 on my D30, you end up trying to get as far away as possible from the subject, which can be hard in small apartment rooms.

Even from another rank amateur, the quality difference between the primes and the affordable zoom lenses is dramatic. Honestly, most of my photography consists of taking pictures of equipment for ebay or blogging, but slap a 50mm canon prime on a ancient 3 megapixel D30 and your photos are sharp enough to read the serial numbers, even when your photographer is a shaky handed amateur, something that is decidedly not the case for the zoom lenses I've seen in that price range.

Sure, once you get up into the multi-thousand dollar zooms, I'm sure the difference fades, but really, I'm just not that into it.
Perhaps I'm misreading you, but this comes across to me like "if you don't have kids yourself you could not possibly understand". That is, I believe, a thoroughly wrong position to take about most anything in life.

Exposure to phenomena like "kids" is rather abundant in most societies. For parents as well as non-parents. Observation and analysis about how those phenomena processes seem to be behave can even sometimes be made more accurate by those not emotionally bound up in the here and now.

I believe there is no argumentative authority arising from the fact that one is or is not a parent.

To settle what might be an authority issue for you: I don't know about jdietrich, but I have kids and I mostly agree with him.
Excellence most certainly is not inegalitarian by definition. Excellence is about living up to YOUR full potential, not about doing it better than any other person.
I used to work for an arbitration group. One case involved a couple that was divorcing, and he had, in fact, said to her that he thought he had never loved her.

And it was self-evident to any third party that he was lying to himself and to her. It was simply a move in the fight.

When I read the article, I also was surprised by the 'age-appropriate' comment, and wasn't too sure that she responded perfectly, but given my personal experience seeing this actually happen with a couple, I assumed that there was a good chance that her basic diagnosis was correct. And if so, the rest of your comment would simply be a misjudgment - even he would be happy with her response in the end.
Maybe they saw a virus infection spread so fast before that they must deploy the update ASAP?

I doubt it though.
From this point of view, Clojure, a functional language which explicitly rejects OOP as most people have come to know it could be considered OO. State changes in Clojure are done by sending a function and optionally some values to a reference type. The main goal is to support concurrency, but the more principled approach to state inherently discourages the use of complex mutable data structures.
He raises valid points, but the obvious difference is that people expect building a bridge to cost millions and take months, whereas most customers think building quality software is easy.

This is made worse by the fact that it is in fact easy to build a near-functional prototype. It's turning that into a quality project that takes the most time.
Hmmm interestingly, the "unix exemption" seems to have been dropped from 1.1 to 1.2 of DSS document.

Part 5.1 used to include this note:

Note: Systems commonly affected by viruses typically do not include UNIX based operating systems or mainframes.

Consumer grade MacAfee that auto updates is still probably a very poor choice for this application as they should have a test bed in the lab that they beta all changes on before they roll out to thousands of machines that likely need a truck roll if something goes wrong.
Exactly what I am thinking. There is so much inefficiency involved when dealing with money and in fact much of bureaucracy.

My bank offers the same "services" now for almost ten years. It always feels like the 90s all over again when I have to manually handle csv files. I don't even want to talk about advanced stuff like processing of invoices. I don't care enough about it to really have some script scraping it for me automatically and the lack of an API does contribute to that.
There is so much overhead to all of this it's unbelievable.
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Ain't you afraid of running into legal trouble because of your startup's name ?
And now they are back.
Woah, that is cool! I should hang out with more SysAdmins.
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Probably the best example of why Facebook's privacy policy is broken. If you do a search for "drunken" I'm sure that most of these people only intended the photos to be viewed by their friends. Such material could easily be used to embarrass, bribe, bully or discriminate against people in job applications.
Do you work for them or have insider knowledge of what they intend to invest in? You've mentioned this a few times but I've yet to see a response. If you do than what is it they plan to invest in/what kind of loans are they going to be offering to make up for the interest they will be paying out?
I'm french, so I may miss in what way the language is difficult.

I agree, there is a lot to learn to speak a language correctly. I was very average at english at school, but I improved by reading and recently listening everyday. I'm not going to write novels, I'm interested at communicating with others and as long as I can do that, I'm fine.
Maybe it's to do with the lack of working drivers for most ticket printers in Linux.
Great news! Also, they introduced a new plan: Spotify Unlimited. For half the price of the Premium plan you will be able to listen to unlimited amounts of ad-free music. You won't get offline playlist support or access to the mobile version.

On a related note: if Spotify were to become massively popular in the Netherlands, its social features that rely on Facebook might spell big trouble for the dominant dutch social network Hyves. I wouldn't be surprised if the good folks at Hyves HQ are frantically trying to come up with a great way to share Spotify's music through their network as well. Question ofcourse is: will that even come close to the social integration the Spotify client will be able to provide...
Really it should be the opposite way around. Anything on facebook should be private by default (only viewable by friends), with an opt-in to make it public (anyone on the internet can see it). Only a minority of the population are exhibitionists who want drunken pictures of themselves to be made universally visible.
My current instance of Chrome, with 16 tabs open is using 702,924k. Chrome is fast though.
I am a Nikon guy and I like my 18-200 VRII

Agreed. You will take this lens from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Awesome lens.
Yeah that reminds me of recent ismycreditcardstolen.com story. They wanted to warn, they ended up accused of phishing themselves.

Looks like spreading distrust is a double-edged sword (not that I don't share authors pov on Facebook; I do)
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The interpretation I took was "If you have kids there are things you cannot avoid experiencing, and thus knowing first hand. These things are not obvious to someone without kids and are hard to explain to such a person."
What's up with all the video chat companies "from" Sweden? Skype, Marratech and now GIPS. Might have something to do with broadband proliferation I guess.
No doubt it was a project. But in the video, there is not a single prefab poster in the room. The paint is also peeling, and it is probably the best classroom they have in the building.
Yes the impact of the battery would be unsolvable. Even if it isn't very bad, just a bit bad, the issue is that you have all that extra layer, consuming battery life. And battery life is probably the biggest issue in portable devices these days. There is no way to put a bigger one to solve the problem. There is no bigger one, and there won't be one in the next years probably.

Yes, the flash to native ban suck but it's probably not the way the flash works on the iphone with cs5 given the performance I've seen. As a programmer, it has no sense to vorbid a language, as every language are sort of equivalent in the end.

I would like to see flash works on iphone, and androids but the current port is slow for even the simplest thing. Even a single movie clip was slow on what I've seen. It's not possible to write a responsive flash app if even that is slow. There is no code, it can't be poorly written...
No - my question was simply whether he has kids or not. He has every right to his own opinions (which I don't particularly disagree with) - I was simply interested to see if he is a parent or not.
This is initially very scary, but after thinking about it for a while I'm not so sure it's that big a deal.

After all, when someone else is permitted to upload photos of you to the internet, all bets are off.

If you couldn't share the URLs on your IRC channel then you could just copy the photos and post them to an image sharing website.
She never once in this story actually sat with her partner and tried to understand what was going on with him

Of course she has tried that and of course he couldn't explain what was wrong. It is crystal clear that the man wasn't clear on what he thought should be changed. As jjames points out in another comment, his life involves much more than just her. This woman recognized that, accepted that and gave the man room to work out his problems, because those problems did not (primarily) have to do with their relationship.
“WITH iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations—none of which I know how to work—information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment.”

Anyone got a pointer to the context of this quote? This piece relies heavily on it and it reads to me like it may well be innocuous.
Emmm, Socrates was right

I know I remember things waaaay better when someone TELLS me something, versus when I read it in a book or online.
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How fast and efficient is it compared to Dillo?

Overall, responsiveness doesn't play well with feature creep. Now the problem is to sort useful features from useless fat. In the case of web browsers, what would you leave out? Flash? Javascript? CSS? Broken tag soup parsing? Personally, I think we would be better off without all those things, except CSS. I also bet that most of the world disagree with me.
Also, keep in mind, don't make the Zip Code required. Some countries (Ireland being the most prominent) don't have them.
Are people really deleting their Facebook accounts?

It looks that way. Currently delete facebook account is one of the top searches on Google. [ http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=delete%20facebook%2... ]

No no no no no, that's not what those graphs show. They all hit 100%. It's growing extremely quickly, but the graph shows nothing more. By the same graphs + the flawed interpretation, in July 2008, "Batman robin" accounted for every Google search. Look! 100%! http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=Batman%20robin&...

Why do I see this continually misinterpreted? The "learn what these numbers mean" link is pretty darned clear, and it can easily be grokked by doing more than one search.
Mechanical conversion from one format to another doesn't defeat copyright protection. If you write a book in English and I translate it into French (a change much more fundamental and much more creative than you're proposing), that doesn't entitle me to publish it without your permission.

The shapes of the glyphs are not protectable. The font file is considered to be a computer program, and is protectable as such. Converting it to a different format doesn't get around copyright any more than compiling a C program does.
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What's the best way for start-ups to get in touch with you? Do you respond to email pitches? What's the worst way to get in touch with you? Have you ever invested in a start-up that pitched you by email?
"designed for those who want to access personal files and securely share photos and videos wirelessly" - do we seriously needs links here on HN to BS articles like that?
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The question is: Why don't you get back to them? You probably have better ideas or more interesting/priority things to do.

IMO, writing them down is good. It worked well with me if you keep them all in one place. The nearest opportunity/free time take a look and do one.
This is life changing. I stopped using utility belt a long time ago since it hasn't been updated, but never heard of the interactive_editor gem.

This is the simplest way to get something in vim that resembles Slime. The only other way of doing this I have seen is the Rube Goldberg contraption that (ab)uses Screen, Vim buffers and pipes.
If I have an interesting conversation with a friend, and we're discussing something, I will remember it pretty well.

If I am listening to a professor read through a lecture, with little to no interaction from the students, I am not as likely to remember it as if I had read it from a book.
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You're not being grossly unfair: you're just being completely wrong. Your conclusion is that she is a pathological narcissist, but it is you that makes the story completely about her. On the other hand, she clearly recognized that this man's life wasn't solely about her and she correctly concluded that any problems probably weren't solely about her either.

She lets the guy get a broader perspective, by reducing her own importance in his life, by letting him discover a taste of a life without her, and yet you, and others, manage to interpret that as a sign of narcissism. I don't understand that one bit. It could as well have played out in a completely different way, where the guy liked his newfound freedom enough to go through with the separation. The fact that he stayed is a pretty strong signal that she was right and that it wasn't about her, as she guessed. A narcissist couldn't possibly guess that something wasn't about her.

Your story boils down to 'guy finally has the guts to tell her how it stands, because he is sick of her emotional blackmail, but he's actually a pussy, because a new bit of emotional manipulation is enough to make him reconsider'. That really doesn't sound very convincing.
Lot of spin here
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Yes. I never sit idle. But not being able to materialize most of the ideas make me feel like I am losing something everyday.

I do go through them once in a while, that hasn't helped much though.
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I've been using Spotify for months with a UK VPN, I'm really hoping they can get it launched in North America soon.
Not everyone who criticizes technology is a luddite. There are some valid criticisms of technology as a waste of time and a diversion. This article doesn't give enough context to the quote before diving in and passing judgment on Obama.
I'm not sure whether the new plan is a good idea or not. (Spotify Unlimited - cheaper than premium, you get unlimited adfree use but you can't use offline features or run it on phones). Multiple plans confuse the user; think about the billions of different Windows editions. Best to keep it simple; the existing "you either pay or not" plan model was simple and elegant.

We had a great discussion about the fallacy of having too many plans on HN maybe about a year ago, unfortunately I can't find it though. The point was: it seems like when users face a non-trivial choice, they are more likely to simply back off and not chose anything at all.
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Here is how NOT to do it: keep the tabs open in your browser.

My 2009 new year's resolution was to never have more than 10 tabs open in Firefox. It took a few months (April IIRC), but when I hit the goal, it was the best thing I ever did for my productivity. Sadly I lost the habit and now I'm on 50+ tabs again and trying to lose them.

Scrapbook (a FF addon) is the top candidate for my tool of choice, especially as I have its storage folder in Dropbox and thus syncs with all my machines.
The WTF here is that anti-virus software is mandated by PCI-DSS and not procedures that stop virii in the first place.
Slicehost has been slow across all our servers (serving python web apps, static sites served by apache, wordpress blogs) lately.

We've tested from different geographic locations and the issue remains. It's been like that for about a month now.
It's absolutely ripped out of context.

Obama argues that when you're drinking from the information firehose you may lose track of more important things. A completely obvious and very dangerous trend.

Full transcript here: http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-obama-hampton-address-transcri...
Why didn't he mention TV when saying "information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment"?

Oh wait, he mentioned all media in the actual, in context quote:

And meanwhile, you're coming of age in a 24/7 media
environment that bombards us with all kinds of content and
exposes us to all kinds of arguments, some of which don't
always rank that high on the truth meter. And with iPods and
iPads; and Xboxes and PlayStations -- none of which I know
how to work -- (laughter) -- information becomes a
distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather
than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of
emancipation. So all of this is not only putting pressure on
you; it's putting new pressure on our country and on our
democracy.

Way to go Economist for taking his quote out of context.
You are right, but it was McAfee's fault, they messed up the testing in the very first hand. You can't test everything yourself, this update was a paid service of a major IT company.
Note also that there's a small cost to filing a small-claims case in VA - I believe it's the cost of getting the warrant served. Last I checked, it was in the neighborhood of $80. Sadly, @bonsaitree is probably right: even if you win, this probably isn't worth your time. One thing you might try, which worked for me once, is to type something up that resembles a lawsuit and mail it to them with a note that you're about to file this, so this is their last chance to settle first.
It's almost as if high frequency traders are actually providing a valuable service for the rest of the world!

There seem to be two obvious problems here. First, what actually happened was that at the point where that service would have been most valuable they stopped providing it. There seems to be a difference in value between idealized theoretical HFTs that provide liquidity at all times, and real HFTs that provide liquidity when there's plenty of it around anyway.

Second, "they abruptly took X away and the results were bad, therefore X was providing something valuable" is an unsound argument -- e.g., coming off a drug cold turkey can be very bad even if the drug was doing you no good at all. It doesn't seem implausible that a sudden drop in liquidity during a market crash might be a very bad thing quite regardless of the optimal level of liquidity in general.
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If you write about your app and release the numbers, you will get linked to from all sorts of places. So not just your regular users, but you will get new ones from people who don't normally follow you.
How big your client base? How many contracts do you have now? How long is each? How much is each?

Most you can hope to sell are: 1) Your current and future contracts, and 2) Your brand and name recognition.
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I find local branch really nice, but do you really work on all thoses change at the same time ? I tend to code quite linearly, one functionnality at a time. May be I'm working on too small projects ?