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Their strategy relies on fragmenting the browser space. So, they have various subsets of various versions of HTML, each supported by a different browser on different platforms. All that so you can't deliver web applications easily.

Companies who swallowed their poison pill in the early 2000's and built their intranets dependent on IE 6 are feeling the pain now, having to deploy intrusive security measures that don't really secure anything while shouldering the cost of "upgrading" the apps to browsers that run on the OS they want to deploy.
And some councils (Brighton, perhaps?) will go and cover Banksy works on public buildings with plexiglass to try to protect them.
Yes, going back and forth between the Nexus One and the iPad, I much prefer long-pressing a list item to remove/edit it over trying to find a button that makes the list in edit mode, or figuring out that some item can be swiped to have a remove button show up.

Also, I find myself constantly wanting to use Android's back button on the iPad. It's really become quite natural for me on my phone.

That said, I completely agree with the grandparent's comment about the menu button.
Or: I am getting old. I am scared. In my times... Damn kids, get off my lawn!
Lamps seem very prevalent in the US. Why do most apartments I've been in not have ceiling lights? WTF? When I lived in the US I'd go in a room and spend a while finding 4 lamps and turning them on. Same in hotels.

Also, when you decide to put a lamp somewhere, you typically make sure the cable is not somewhere that can be tripped up.

But as I say, all rooms in the UK come with a fitted ceiling light, and a light switch by the door. So lamps are less common.
Engineers and salespeople generally have different personalities, don’t enjoy hanging out with one another, and look down on one another’s interests, but that doesn’t make it a versus thing. As adults we are no longer competing directly with one another for status.
Technically it isn't the lack of use that will kill a trademark, it is the lack of defense or people using it as a generic term. The need to defend actually causes most of the trouble with trademarks since you really need to be a little more agressive than you would like.
Yea I can guess, that Java the language sucks.

I'm just saying all these articles about the death or lameness of the JVM are not covering the big picture.
Using M$ is pretty much a defacto ad hominem - it means you're leading your position by saying 'Microsoft only care about money'

What we have here is a de-facto "putting words into other people's mouths." What that means to me is, "Microsoft, who has money." It was meant in an informal and not a slur. In any case, how in the world can you be "ad hominem" against a corporation?

Where in my comment, or in my entire history of comments is there any kind of sentiment of the kind you describe. If anything, my position towards Microsoft has always been, "they're clueless about UX."
This may be myself directly. I listen to a lot of bands that aren't popular in north america but have a solid following internationally with very little lyrics support (some of them have good lyrics support, but aren't proliferated across lyrics websites with accuracy).

What do you think of trying to create micro-communities? I'm concerned doing something like that may end up making the website too large to deal with.
Given humanity's track record for collaboratively solving problems that didn't involve bombing the fuck out of someone you'll forgive me if stash a few cases of MRE's as a hedge.
Yep. Seems like the whole issue was blown way out of proportion.
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Keep in mind ad-hominem is a logical fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
MS isn't marketing the phone to businesses. WP7 isn't shipping with support for 'enterprise' features like domain enrollment (though it does support Exchange, to some degree).

Also, let's say that companies start buying WP7 phones for employees, and that they pay to build a mobile-friendly version of some internal webapp. If you were designing/coding a site today, and knew you didn't have to support IE6, you most likely code it in a fairly standards-compliant way so that it didn't break when browsers were upgraded; a lot of companies are stuck on IE6 because they didn't code their sites like that.
Congrats Chandoo. This is a gr8t achievement. Interested in breakdown of type of customers (Students, Small Business Owners, Financial Consultants etc)?
This has been in the back of my mind since I first thought it up. Everyone hates how labels are being run, but what if I avoid the ones that are total jerks? For example, KMFDM (a really DIY attitude band) runs their own label, and their personal lyrics website is fairly behind-the-curve in terms of technology.
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And that's $100,000 for someone in India, right?

I wonder what the relative purchasing power of that $100k is for his part of India, compared to, say, someone with $100k in San Francisco.
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I suspect that writing text to convey information to the computer (command line) has very different trade-offs than programs presenting information textually to users, and lumping them together probably misses important details.

Also, textual interfaces usually make it easy to say, "now group that set of operations and give it a convenient name" (scripting), while graphically interfaces usually don't, and users are stuck with whatever individual actions the UI designers added to menus.

Neither tendency is inherent in using text or graphics, but it usually works out that way. I've wondered about this for a while, but text vs. graphic interface discussions ("keyboard vs. mouse", which often overlap) usually miss that distinction, much like they do "approachable to new users" vs. "efficient for committed long-term users".
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That's very far from the truth. But anyway, we were talking about the language in which apps are written, not some component of the OS itself.
Using M$ is pretty much a defacto ad hominem - it means you're leading your position by saying 'Microsoft only care about money', and then using that to argue that there must be a problem with their products, without backing up or clarifying that assertion.

Your description of the alleged meaning of this nickname is similar to my understanding of an ad hominem, however it differs in substantial ways. When Microsoft is the subject of a discussion, an assertion about their motivations is not an ad hominem: An assertion about one of the persons participating in the debate would be an ad hominem.

So what we have is an assertion about Microsoft's motivations and an unfounded argument that this is the cause for some perceived product woes. This is clearly weak rhetoric (and trivially fallacious: Apple seems to do just fine lusting after money).

But I am left rubbing my chin in confusion by your assertion that using the nickname automatically means that you're arguing that there is a problem with their products. My understanding is that the problem with their products is that have no taste. Someone using "M$" could be thinking that their avarice means that they behave in monopolistic ways, or that they have a certain type of internal company culture, or any number of things.

But there is no need to assume what they are saying or to jump to some conclusion about what they are claiming: I can simply read what they write. If they write "M$ are unable to ship good products," I can argue with that statement directly instead of arguing with their use of the nickname.

As for your second paragraph... Wow. Imagine if I were to make up a whole list of things that people are not saying and use it to stir up all kinds of emotional feelings as a way of trying to convince you that using a nickname I don't like was pathetic. Would that add to the discussion?

I think I am going to stop right here. I see a nickname that claims Microsoft cares primarily or only about money. You see a nickname dragging all sorts of baggage and claims and unfounded arguments around. You feel the need to exert social pressure to eliminate it, including characterizing it in an insulting fashion ("juvenile").

I understand what you are saying, and that is quite enough for me.
What about The Thieving Magpie?
People can bang on about typography all they like, but any browser that won't let me override the designer's choice of fonts with ones that actually render nicely on my display won't get used.

(I'm looking at you Chrome)

Over here, font fanaticism is (sensibly) restricted to images.

How can a web designer have any idea what will look nice on a display with completely different visual characteristics to his own? Especially if the OS has a completely different font rendering library to boot.
I agree, it's all a bit flat. Everything gets the same weight. It the design equivalent of over-engineering; you don't know where to start.
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Two hours ago, I asked HN for feedback on a site I spent months working on. It got 2 responses. I hope you see better results than me.

As per the idea, I can see the appeal, but I'd like to see a demo or some more screenshots before signing up. I hate signing up.

Edit: I found the sample profile. It's OK, but relatively unimpressive.
This news is really old. The use of scotch tape to create a particle accelerator out of a pencil is not: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/104044/promise-graphene....
The JVM will be alive and well, but these developments and the fact that the JCP process is a joke are hurting the community a lot.
United.com, especially the mileage plus section. Had to write a script to screen scrape the data I wanted out into CSV, where they could just offer an API/export feature.
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"Will companies know when an outcry isn't pointing to a terrible design, but rather just people refusing to embrace change?"

I was thinking this this morning. Gap aren't amateurs, the new logo will have been tested, focus group-ed and all - and likely those groups would have been more representative of the target market for Gap than the general blogosphere which criticised the new design.

So, what seems to have happened is that they've overruled the views of a more representative but less vocal group, in favour of a more vocal group who may have no relationship with or interest in Gap at all bar criticism.

And remember, the default position for most people is conservatism (with a small c). We dislike change so the default position for a majority of people to this sort of thing will be to keep what's already in place.

People keep drawing the parallel with New Coke but that seems wrong. New Coke was launched, bought and disliked by actual Coke consumers. In this instance we have no real idea what the actual Gap customers thought or what impact the new logo might have had because it never got that far.

This will go down as a formative moment in marketing and branding but I'm not sure whether history will show Gap acted wisely or foolishly. My gut feel is that later.
Speaking as a fanboy: Reznor goes in reclusive phases. He'll be all over the net doing interviews and bitching on twitter one month then completely absent for 6. Just sorta what he does.
There's a lot of truth in that.

This reminds me of an old interview with Linus saying that while he thought the Windows logo was ok (he might have said good, I don't remember), you can't really do anything with it, while you can do put Tux is all sort of situations. It was quite common to see him playing ice hockey or reading a book or whatever -- if you knew the logo (Tux) you knew it was Linux-related.
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You forgot to mention his friend getting into a final's club and he didn't.

The whole movie really did make it out as a revenge move. Which I think is bullcrap. The Winklevoss might have had the idea first but zuckerberg probably saw it more as, I'm going to make it happen and they can't why should they get any of this.(Pure speculation) Not saying it's right but it's not like he was doing it to screw them.
Micro-communities are dangerous. Basically what happens is a separation of small differences. So what should be one community with say 20 - 30 bands all in the same genre becomes 20 or 30 communities all on individual brands.

What are you goals for the project anyway? Is it to learn, make money, find a wife?
Hmmm, that sounds a lot like the lead-in for another "Vista Capable" debacle.

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/01/1-5-billion-mic...
The almost casual mention in Umberto Eco's 'Foucault's Pendulum' that ancient civilisations had electric lights and batteries. Not sure how well this theory holds up nowadays, but I was pretty amazed...
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Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day?

Horseshit, I make a very comfortable, middle class living at an online/mobile travel commerce start-up that does booking transactions in much the same way that a travel agent used to. The travel agent job disappeared, but Expedia, Tarvelocity and Orbitz -to name just the big, public facing brands of this transition- employ tens of thousands of middle class people.
"It is not like Google's Go is super well known either"

No.. but it's coming up fast:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Not only that, but Basic Maths makes assumptions about the size of the rendered text which aren't universally true.

On my display, that means you get horrible artifacts like the words in the "Information Graphics" tag at the top overlapping each other.

That's not good design. That's ugly and non-functional. The same is true (in fact much more so) of Vinh's own homepage.

HN, for all its plainness, is much better designed.
Great job! You found a niche and ran with it.
Surprisingly, this doesn't include the original Tim Burton logo (which is one of my favorite): http://blogs.theage.com.au/schembri/batman.jpg

No "shoulders", and "feet" on the tail.
Web design to meet the users' needs might be as much as 50 percent information architecture. When I go to most websites, I'm looking for information, not eye candy.
how about rediff .. the entire screenspace for 5-6 links per tab.
If you consider the rebuilding of germany after ww2 or the case of japan rising from feudalism to highest level of technology in short time, I don't see why one should be that pessimistic.
Even though I currently live in a U.S. apartment where the main rooms have no light fixtures (though they do have switched outlets), past experience hasn't shown a trend of not having light fixtures. Additionally, newer construction seems to have more fixtures, not less. This thread seems to be a circus of alternately overstating and understating problems though, so I'd take it with a huge grain of salt.
J# is capped: the last version was shipped in 2007, it is supported by VS 2005 (now superseded by two newer versions) and support will end in 5 years.
It won't. In just about all cases, C# doesn't do backtracking to infer types. See Eric Lippert's posts: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/10/04/no-ba...
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I'm with you. I have wanted to develop apps for a while, but I didn't want to jump into Java or Objective C. With C#, I already know how things work, so there is no learning curve for me. So I dropped the $99 to sell apps in the marketplace.
My market verification is complete, but I was not picked for the initial wave of apps. Hopefully, I'll get cleared to sell WP7 apps soon after launch.
Maybe Paul Verhoeven will option this blog post for a movie.
I am sorry if I misinterpreted you, but prior to this instance I have only ever seen 'M$' used in a derogatory fashion. Regardless, I feel that it doesn't add anything to the discussion that just saying 'MS' or 'Microsoft' would have.

As an aside, I don't see anything strange about an ad hominem against a corporation, it's still an attack against the source of the argument and not the argument itself. Plus, a corporation is after all a legal person.
So did ours. The problem is that most faculty hates it. You need to realize that most professors are quite set in their ways and have been using Blackboard for years, so they're opposing the full roll-out. Even some of the I.T. Faculty want to stick with Blackboard.
It's an interesting point but I can't think of too many more examples. Anyone else come up with other similarly flexible logos?
??? "ArXiv is mostly for crackpot physics" ???

The entire string theory community publishes all their papers on hep-th before sending sending them to journals (which nobody reads as everything is on ArXiv). Of course, maybe you will argue that string theory is crackpot physics...
To temper this pessimism with some sobering reality, on another HN thread today I was pointed to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Well worth watching.

Somehow, some time the population is going down. Way down.
I don't like the naive tone of this article. First, they describe the prospect of Apple fighting the service as 'sinister.'Second, they say Apple are trying to scare labels by saying Spotify generates little revenue, which must be 'scaremongering' because Apple obviously 'don't care about record label profits.'

There's nothing mysterious going on here... Spotify just doesn't make any significant money for anyone. It's a big free party that could disrupt proper businesses.

I also don't see how Apple are 'almost inevitably' going to launch a Spotify style service. Where's their evidence for that, outside a large data-centre being built - which could be for any number of purposes.
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You've got a point, however Java and its supporting standard libraries are very tightly bound. The question here would be why are you writing your code in Jython? If it's to get access to those libraries or other code written in Java, then you're just as screwed.
Thanks for the feedback!

And good call on the screenshots. Here are screenshots of the logged-in view and profile (zoomed out so they fit) - http://i55.tinypic.com/qrc0ep.png

I realize there's not much to the site, but I'm more curious to see if the pitch on the site is good enough to get people to sign up.
A bit of learning, mostly from the experience in a task like this. Plus something else to put "out there" attached to myself.

The money would be nice, but my goals for that are secondary.
Is Blackboard still horrible? I mean I know my University uses some old obscure version of Blackboard which is right out of the 90s, but judging by the blackboard website right now, it looks like their current UI might not be so bad. Too bad you can't find any sort of information about their products from the website - all they want is for you to call them.
Really? What about if a company was recruiting for a C# role but would also accept candidates proficient in C or C++?
It does, however, mean that any type of appliance that you might wish to plug in uses the same plug, regardless of what power level it wants - quite a good example of It Just Works, even if the price you pay is huge plugs.

Of course, that does break down a bit when you get to fuses, since you now have to worry about using different capacity fuses for appliances with different expected maximum power draw (3A for most things, 5A for the odd high-power small appliance, 13A for anything involving a heater...)
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Well, not being VM based it should be free of some or all of the patents used by Oracle in that part of its lawsuit against Dalvik, but that doesn't mean that it wouldn't be otherwise vulnerable.
I agree that traffic in Beijing is a mess. My impression was that Shanghai has slightly better transportation infrastructure, both road & rail.
Or perhaps they are less devoted than you to the church of HN. I'm flagging it, but not because I've seen it before (I have) but because of the hyperbolic title and writeup.
Ah, NetBank is not so bad. You can get the basic stuff done without any hassle at all (transfers, BPAY, etc.)
If you've ever managed an open-source project and have to deal with tens or hundreds of requests for features or changes to the API specific to a single use-case (usually that the requestor needs for a client but doesn't want to implement themselves) you'd understand why sometimes "WONTFIX" is the only suitable reply.
Yeah same here. How come I can't accelerate as fast as the ghostrider with the up key? Does the autorepeat rate matter or something?
I was going to say GMail but I can't say it's BAD overall (in fact it's way better than Hotmail). However recently they made a few changes which were all just terrible. The Compose Mail link was a bit too anonymous before, but that big ugly button they've got now?? They also did something to the menus on the left which just made them weird.
Rob Pike and Ken Thompson were not only on the development team for Plan 9, many of the ideas in Go come directly from their work on the Limbo language.
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eGold was a company, with legal exposure to U.S. jurisdiction. Bitcoin is an pseudonymous, decentralized cryptographic protocol. The Feds could criminalize its use by U.S. citizens, and pressure other governments to do the same, but it's going to be rather difficult to shut it down.

The biggest threat is that it just won't catch on. I was pretty surprised to see that bitcoins already have significant real-world value. Maybe with the fading confidence in national currencies, the time is right.
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This strikes me as an interesting point:

"10) In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness"