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NMI to let the active process save its state. Then the busses were taken over during instruction fetch. Feeding NOPs when nothing to do and appropriate instructions when needed. No jumps nor branches. Just the essential processing. A normal interrupt routine couldn't have a tight loop fast enough, so control flow was handled in parallel externally in programmable logic.
A freemium model might work. Free will be as it is like now. Premium might offer some neat and personalized features---like mixing your own HN from the votes of people you select.

Comments and submissions by free and premium users will be treated the same. So premium buys you a more interesting presentation, but not a bigger say in any debate.
That rings a bell - I may even have a copy of it at home!
Fair points. However…

(1) Diaspora does not ask you to surrender your data to anyone. You host it yourself. At home.

Now there's still the switching busyness. As far as I know, Diaspora is shall communicate with existing social networks, and of automatic import for your remote data. So, the transition really amounts to by the FreedomBox, plug it in, and push a few buttons. From there you feel no change, except for the eye candy.

No change, no cost. Sure, Zuck will still spy on you while your friends are still at Facebook, but as they move, he progressively won't be able to. The same mechanism can apply to gmail: when you move out, you can still send and receive emails, and you are spied by Google when you communicate with a gmail user (but only then). I glossed over encryption, but that's the idea.

(2) Well, you nailed it: convenience trumps everything. It's like the Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but for the "average consumer". Concrete and immediate needs, like convenience, are at the bottom. More abstract and remote needs, like freedom, are at the top. That's not how it should be, but I'm a bit guilty of this myself.

So, I agree that if the FreedomBox isn't as convenient as services on the cloud, it won't be used. I just believe that it can be. Heck it will even do automatic distributed backup. It could even do High Availability with your mail server (and your web servers if we manage to actually change HTTP to look up srv records).

Now, I reckon the FreedomBox is like Diaspora 2 months ago: vaporware. For now, we can only wait, see, and contribute. But I'm confident. An Iphone-like success in 2 years from now as predicted by Eben Moglen seems actually quite realistic.
Well, look how good Linux did on the netbook. And on Linux you could at least do what ever you wanted if you knew how. I expect this is just another to-be-abandoned-at-some-future-time Google project.
Actually a better but probably a lot harder to get metric would be active blogs as I know I have created an account on all the sites to see how they work.

And don't throw blogger out if you are adding big blogs.
I have never used digg. I found about reddit back in the day through a link from Paul Graham. I was active there for a while and even sent in some bug report that was answered quite fast.
Part of the problem might be that the overwhelming response often consists largely of people looking for a job, any job. My company advertised on Monster once, and got hundreds of resumes from mechanics, secretaries, and Best Buy types.
Why you need to remove old applications from your Twitter account now (see #5)
>People do not care it is Microsoft Windows or not they care that it does what they want, quickly, reliably and cheaply.

Except that this doesn't actually seem to be the case at all. Netbooks had this and the market utterly rejected it. Now they pay much more for Windows netbooks. Before anyone tries to jump into the market with Chrome OS (a less capable OS), they will need to explain why this was the case and what has changed.
If you're going to force OOXML on us, at least make your products support it correctly.

Last I checked, running a somewhat normal business document saved out of Word 2007/2010 wouldn't even pass the validation schemas written for it.
If you're employed your national insurance also includes a large contribution to your state pension. Since I'm self-employed I only pay for healthcare at £32 per month. That's pretty cheap compared to the US.
Agreed. We used a lot of Windows Azure services for our startup and found ourselves having to architect around pricing rather than creating what we knew should be the correct implementation.

There's a lot of things I love about Azure, but the dev community is getting restless. The forums are always talking about how Microsoft seems to have gone completely quiet on the topic of new Azure Features. Where is the Road Map?! Many people are considering switching to Amazon because of many missing basic features.
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Believe it or not,it has only been 17 days since the post that started it all.
Silverlight is a windows-alike version of iphone sdk... only probably easier to use.

In general I think SL and WPF are good... but certain XAML things need to be fixed. When you need 5000 lines of XML to change 1 color, there's a problem.
You do need an LLC for liability protection but you don't need to pay yourself a salary. Instead, you take whatever you want as pass-through income distribution.
Perhaps you could substantiate your statement a little more. The OP has written 750 words arguing the opposite. You write 6 words making no argument and somehow think that's a valuable contribution to the discussion?
// I got this code from [Bob] of [Some other group].
// I don't know how it works; ask him.

[Bob] happened to be my manager at the time, and hadn't worked for [Some other group] for around five years.
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You know, I debated in my head for a while wether to get HNer in on the fun. Obviously I decided not to because I know how strict people are here about this kinda stuff. But in retrospect, this story is about taking something that is 'online' and making it a reality by reaching out to people in the real world. Not unlike what we try to do with our startups. Also, I learned a ton about how to use social media properly.

Edit: I think you guys should still donate: http://colbertrally.com/donate =)
But in this case aren't we talking about people trying to get a perfect bit for bit copy of a high definition video.

So couldn't someone just capture (i.e. write to hard disk) the encrypted bits coming out of an HDCP protected port. Then later using the master key they could go back and decrypt the captured data so they would be left with an unencrypted video file. The process wouldn't have to be real time. So then the only piece of hardware that would need to have any kind of decent performance would be the hard drive. But lots of modern hard drives should be able to write fast enough to capture the encrypted video stream.

Maybe I am not understanding some detail of how this all works. But it seems like this allows for skilled pirates to get a perfect copy of high def videos.
Wonder how fast it runs. I could dig out the old Apple //e load up kermit and transfer the hard hat mack runtime over. If I can find a kermit client for windows. And probably a serial port card. And a null modem cable. And if the old floppies are still readable.
To Ballmer: Steve, you've done a great job. You have enough money. You have nothing left to prove. Now is your time to enjoy your life. Step down.

To replace you, choose someone no one would suspect. Choose someone young, with a fairly strong technical background and mainly with a lot of vision. (And make sure that person can communicate that vision.) Choose someone who can inspire. Line up (in-house and acquire) some really great technologies and launch them with this person's takeover.

Shed whole divisions; trying to do too much has distracted you.

People have stopped being in awe of Microsoft. Restore that. And then go enjoy yourself.
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I know probably no one will care here, but I'd really like to see WP7 availability more than this shameful list here: http://developer.windowsphone.com/Help.aspx?id=fd9b5508-6436...

I'm in Croatia, I have friends in Slovenia (EU Country) as well as Hungary (EU Country)... this is just sad.

Also, I'd like to see XNA spread to web. You can make a prototype game or a full indie game already for Windows, XBOX and WP7 from the same codebase, so why not extend that further to either Silverlight or a plugin like Unity? That would rock.

App store for PC would be a nice idea for windows, if done right.

And, finally, Windows Live for games tied into that app store would be neat, but I think it would even be better for microsoft to buy Steam platform and integrate it into windows. Yeah, I know - a far fetched dream.
I know a lot of people are into this, but anyone who is probably already and saw it on reddit and this really does have nothing to do with Hacker News.
"you're better off deploying a web app with a local server and a stripped down Firefox."

Please don't do this... we use a product that went this route at work and it's a pile of crap.
> "Word or Excel teams use any other word processor or spreadsheet."

Reinforces your point and his. Word and Excel are best in class, nothing else comes close - OpenOffice, Google Docs, Documents to go on mobiles are ok substitutes but not as good as the real thing. This as real impact on your productivity which is why I use office.live.com, can't believe that is free at the moment.
Please do away with the registry! It was a failed attempt and is now just a mess.
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On Window XP the download for .NET 3.5 Client is just ~28Mb for machines with no framework, ~ 40 MB for .NET 4 (again, with no other version) and the web installer is only ~800 KB.

Over 80% (or even 90%) of Windows clients have some version of .NET installed, and since it's being pushed through Windows Update, some stats are reporting .NET 3.5 at more than 60%.

The Windows 7 marketshare is bigger than 10%, which means there are more Windows 7 clients out there then OS X, and I haven't seen OS X developers complaining about a lack of users willing to try out their apps.

> Web Startups and/or social applications, because of the (sql) server costs

Yes, but it really depends on your needs. PlentyOfFish / StackOverflow are doing just fine.
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No, let flash die. And the sooner the better.
>>There's no way to have a logical public discussion with the teabaggers. The best we can do is to mimic them. Show them a mirror and hopefully some will realize how ridiculous they actually are... Or maybe they won't even realize that they're being mocked, which could be even more awesome.

This brushed generalization (notwithstanding how "funny" it may be) from both sides of the political aisle is what's wrong with this country.
Not quite on topic, but as for PC speaker tricks: I once found if you control the tape-interface relay switch on a BBC B (or BBC Electron), from a BASIC loop, you can make it click really fast and make silly noises! Doesn't work in an emulator though.
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If you’re trying to get a PhD and your advisor expects you to work 60-hour weeks, then you either work 60-hour weeks or you consider a different path in life. That speaks volumes about what it takes to impress your superiors in a semi-feudal institution, but not much about productivity.
Shouldn't the y-axis be quantity and the x-axis be quality?
I know they get a bad rap around here, but... this really is the use-case for traditional publishers. You package the posts into a book, they do the rest (if they like it).
For those in the US hulu should have the entire Cosmos series.
Very cool, I highly doubt anybody will ever fully appreciate what a neat hack that is. So you basically divorced the busses from the CPU for a while making it run in a little parallel universe of it's own.

A total perspective vortex of a sort ;)
Is Samsung Bada dead? Or are they just using Android until they get their own OS up to task?
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This is very true, but I'd like to add that old cliche: money isn't everything.

I'm making about 65% of what I was making 2 years ago, but the experience is far better. I have awesomely talented coworkers, get to work on fun stuff, have freedom to explore interesting alternative side projects/ideas, work from home and coffee shops every day, and have no strictly defined schedule. As far as some people are concerned, I don't have a job at all - but that's what you get when you love what you do and the company treats you like a responsible adult (an all-too-rare thing).

While I do sometimes feel that the money is not enough month-to-month, I have enough to invest some in retirement each month, pay a little extra on my mortgage each month, and occasionally buy a new Apple gadget. Not having any other debt (besides mortgage) makes this easier, too. If there's a bigger lesson here, it's to eliminate your debt while you're making the big bucks at the boring job - because that'll free you up to take the more interesting but lower-paying job when it comes along. Don't be a slave to your lifestyle.
meh, if you don't like it ignore it like a bunch of other posts.
FYI, the reason digg didn't check for 404 errors, was because it stopped people from submitting interesting 404 pages.
This is a fact: My sister is chronically early. She often winds up arriving to meetings and places about 10-20 minutes ahead of the agreed time. The consequence is hers the bear: she always has to wait for other people, even those arriving on time. The problem is compounded by some of her friends having the opposite problem, always arriving late.

I'm fully aware that being chronically to early or to late is not a recognized medical condition. Research at this point merely concludes that the downsides of chronically lateness is too great for laziness or procrastination being the major driving force.

Dyslexia is categorized neither as a medical or psychological condition, but as a "learning disorder". It is my belief that research will come to a point where

You are correct that it is rude to be late. Rudeness is defines by culture and in my culture (and I suppose yours) it is rude to be late. It is not a universal thruth however, as other posters have stated, since cultural differences exist.

All of the above tells me that chronical lateness is not "just rude". There is more to it, which makes it a far more interesting phenomenon than most other kinds of rudeness.
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It's true it's hard to find good programmers. Two reasons, I think:

1. Norvig's learn to program in ten years. Even if there's lots of demand now, people can't just say oh, there's lots of demand, let's go program now. They have to spend ten years becoming a good programmer first.

2. You can only tell if someone's a good programmer if you've worked with them (and sometimes not even then), and so you pretty much have to get a referral from someone you trust who has worked with them, which limits your pool of definitely good candidates to a very small number.
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Why continue to develop proprietary software for problems that have been solved over and over in open source (code editing, code compilers, browsers, email clients, word processing, the list is endless)? People--and businesses--are not going to continue being okay with shelling out hundreds/thousands of dollars for something they can get for free. It may be profitable now, but it won't be in the future.
Not after his code change.
I'm moving to the area in November to start work as an attorney, and found this article very helpful, thanks for the post.
So is it open or isn't it?
Yes, and when you log in it "forgets" where you wanted to go in the first place.

(They may have fixed this recently, but it was like that for the longest time.)
Dual-monitor remote desktop! Please??!!

You need the RDP 6 client (>Vista), but it's there. Open Remote Desktop Connection, Click Display Tab, check "Use all my monitors for the remote session"
Ah, ok. That makes sense. Can you only pass through a portion? In other words, keeping some back for expenses like computers, cell phones, hosting, whatever?
Yes fixed, thank you.

Maybe I'm not as far to the right as I thought I was :-)
Make Windows fully POSIX compatible out-of-box.
Next desktop shell needs to have an open interface to programmers such that modification of widgets and replacement is now open to the community. Programmers will find this especially useful. No more stupid dialog boxes with scroll items showing 4 at a time but containing 5000 items. And get that stupid advertisement out of MSN messenger.
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Some anecdotal evidence: Doing my graduate degree in computer science, it was hard not to notice the lack of Americans in my classes. Sure, there were plenty of Americans on the business side of school, but not engineering. I receive emails and calls from employers and recruiters weekly, and a large number of the positions require you to be a US citizen. Maybe that, combined with the fact that a lot of the good developers are already working creates a shortage of good developers available to be hired?
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There is no such thing as freelancing. I mean it. There are insecure, short-term jobs and there are businesses. Freelancers are neither fish nor fowl. They don't have the security and legal protection of an employee, nor the efficiency and delegation of a business.
If you consider yourself a freelancer, stop. If you have the inclination and the ability to delegate and manage, take on an assistant and start acting like a business. It is insane for a $100/hr worker to spend their time doing menial administration.If you just want to do a job of work without worrying about that stuff, you'll almost certainly be better off on a permanent contract with all the benefits that come with it.
I'm not sure it's comparable: the work of making Visual Studio is much the same as the work that people would do with Visual Studio. But if you are a Word developer, while you'd use it to write a letter, you might not have much experience of using it for a truly large document, like an entire book.
In most states, non-compete agreements are upheld by courts. In California, non-competes are almost always thrown out by courts [1]. In other states, such as NY or OH, non-competes are always interpreted in favor of the company.

What was being done by the companies is an informal arrangement to make non-compete agreements exist even in the cases where the employee didn't sign one.

Notes:
1 - Pretty much the only non-competes upheld in CA courts are ones where the signing party sells a business or is a major partner.
In my experience it's a lot easier to find a good developer than a good plumber or lawyer - and bad plumbers or lawyers can do an awful lot more harm.
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I've always noticed that companies advertise for Sr. Programmers. Everyone wants trained programmers but few are willing to train them. Since those are the only jobs advertised, job seeking junior programmers are forced to apply for jobs they know they aren't qualified for, virtually guaranteeing that hiring managers will receive a bevy of applicants that, on paper at least, don't match the hiring criteria.
Get WPS7 to feature parity with iOS as soon as possible. I think there are actually a number of reasonably disaffected iPhone users who want to switch, but don't want to give up e.g. copy/paste or multitasking. Also, make it clear to people that using WPS7 means using the Zune client, and that the Zune client is better than iTunes - I think you already have the better software here, but zero brand awareness.

Get your secret hacker teams to make stuff that feels futuristic. Surface is cool, a mouse with a touch surface would have been okay if Apple didn't beat you to it, but why don't you make some freaking HUD goggles with eye tracking or something? You have the financial and intellectual resources to do it. I guess you get points for Kinect here, but right now Kinect is the exception rather than the rule, at least in the public's perception. Releasing something as cool for non-gamers as Kinect is for gamers, and I think the mindshare gains will be huge. You won't out-Apple Apple (and I don't think you should want to) as the shapers of tech fashion, and I doubt it's possible to out-Google Google as the shapers of the web, so be the shapers of the future instead.
Good thing you realized this in the beginning.
At the time of this hack, digg had only about 20 employees, had raised not $40 million, but around $6 million, and the culture was quite open and relaxed. But there were some very smart people there, and most of them including me agreed with Tim Ellis's opinion on this "hack." It was stupid.

Now perhaps some on the management side overreacted, but we were inundated with stupid shit on a regular basis.
My thinking on this was that if they bought RIM they would greatly increase their marketshare in those "boring" but profitable "enterprise products". Lets face it the Blackberry OS sux, even v6 is a poor iOs clone and Windows mobile has reasonable enterprise penetration but not great. So put the next version of the Blackberry on a decently powered hardware and WP7. Offer activesync as an option a silver option and BES as gold option. It could be a synergistic mix for both companies that would let the focus on what they are good at (enterprise over consumer in the mobile space), leverage RIM's excellent marketshare and with MS enterprise OS and Exchange products and actually allow them to effectively fight Apple and Google in a very profitable area.

Agree with you on enterprise tablet, imagine the "Blackpad" running WP7
Agreed. However whatever that laptop is going to be, you can bet it will be something more powerful than Chrome OS.
I don't really see the OP as having argued anything as he states that he might well be incorrect. In such a case a 6 word response can be as equally valid as 750 words of unqualified blog filler.
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I'm fairly certain they were going to do this just to mock Glen Beck but then they were like... hey this is a good idea.
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You were the perfect straight man. Thanks.
Nah - expediting bug fixes moves you further to the right.