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I think the article misses a bigger fight which is between Microsoft's Azure vs. AWS. All what Microsoft is doing is catering to devs who want better tools to deal with servers in the cloud.

Imagine this potential tactic:

1. Create great tools such as Visual Studio Code to serve as first point contact with devs of all types and stacks
2. Start creating plugin or easy to integrate dev workflow in those types of tools with Azure
3. Make it so easy and reasonably cost effective that people may start switching away from AWS to Azure

I don't think Microsoft is trying to kill or encroach Linux but instead cooping those devs into moving to Azure platform where the market growth is; while still protecting the existing cash cows.
They're sort of heading in this direction with VSCode. I can imagine that VS itself is a non-portable COM-infested disaster area.
you're not wrong. i can't help but wonder whether you (and anyone else who agrees) extends this kind of consideration to all of the abnormal people that move through the world.

i posted the comment that you responded to because it's an opportunity for people to sympathize.
YEP.

It's amazing to see a game design fundamentally fall apart when users get a hold of the product and then see the game designers tearing their hair out. They do usually double down and call the gamers dumb or something lol.
> Amazon can take action anytime it wants.

These new verified purchase review scams are because Amazon took action against incentivized reviews (which had disclosure rules that most reviewers obeyed).

Yeah, incentivized reviews might not have been great, but they were easy to spot and ignore. Their ban has led to something much, much worse.
Hold tight because soon there will be Brain Computer connections with enough bandwidth to allow us type, read, write at the same time.
The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites
> You don't know if it might be loaded. But do you really want to find out?

This is a really great analogy.

Pumping more and more GHG into the atmosphere is the stupidest experiment ever. Like poking a sleeping lion harder and harder.
Difficult to see many hungry migrants making it to Tristan da Cunha, for example.
As a long time systems/backend C++/Python programmer it took me 6 months to get very comfortable with this TypeScript/NPM/Vue/Vuex/Bootstrap/Webpack/Linters/Formatters stack and create a pretty complex SPA.

A lot of stuff, true, but nothing particularly challenging.

I would say the hardest part is CSS, but using a framework like Bootstrap and then googling the little problems "how best to X in CSS" usually works.
The king analogy feels like a straw man, and tribalism is a generic social construct used well beyond the concepts of nations. I didn't state the CEO is irreplaceable. What I'm saying isn't groundless, you just either disagree or don't share my perspective.

I like your point about the board though, and I wonder how the MSFT board specifically feels about Nadella.
What happens is you still come out way ahead. I'd dearly love to get out of the bay area, but even as a relatively low paid government contractor it's very hard to find an interesting job elsewhere that leaves more money in my pocket.
but Music has weird behavior that didn't happen in the last few incarnations of iTunes:

• Randomly failing to download or not allowing me to download purchases or Apple Music songs that I previously added to my library.

• Outright deleting downloads!! without any explanation!

• Duplicating downloads, and creating copies of playlists with differences. [0]

• Being more aggressive with DRM checks: Once, I had logged into my Apple Music account, then a few hours later I had to turn off my WiFi. It demanded me to connect so my computer could be authorized and wouldn't let me play the downloads. Same with Books.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/qNQ9oJI.png
See, this kind of thing seems like it would actually start to enter the territory that the OP is terrified of. Confidence is essential, yes, but you can be confident and also be considerate. Setting aside the plethora of things wrong with a "PUA convention", your group leader probably made lots of women very uncomfortable. There's a difference between taking initiative in a context where women are actively looking for those kinds of interactions, and taking initiative randomly on the street.
That demo looked incredible!
The age-old scam I'm referring to is paying people to shill your product to deceive other shoppers. Even transparently incentivized reviews have their issues since no seller wants to pay people for negative reviews.
Short term thinking can make for excellent quarterly financials, but detrimental to long-term growth in ways that aren't obvious. With the benefit of hindsight, we can see that Ballmer's Microsoft missed the boat on several important major technologies.

Imagine a world where the "iPhone" was a Microsoft product and Apple was a company left buying out other phone companies in a futile effort to catch up. That would would look very different.

IMHO, there is an alternate universe where Ballmer was never Microsoft's CEO, and instead, they had someone who could envision a future of mobile and cloud offering years before the competition did. Which means a world where the Windows Phone outsells iPhones and Androids combined, where Azure has 70%+ of the cloud computing market, where the Microsoft store is streaming original video content to customers through Xbox Live, etc. In this world, Microsoft crested the trillion dollar market cap several years ago and is well on their way to hitting the $2T mark.
Same here.

Maybe it's more a marketplace issue ?

I can't see how and why Amazon would sold counterfeits goods.

I've read some reviews complaining about that but it was always from a marketplace seller.
As a user, my email is not worth $750. Where did they come up with this number? Now if we are talking SSN...I could justify $750.
Easier, maybe, but it will not succeed. hyperv will be the next big shiny thing to fail.

Meanwhile, wine keep my old binaries useful - and will keep them long after uwp or whatever shades into obscurity.
> not everyone can live in NYC or SF

Reads more like "naturally the poor should be displaced from wherever the rich choose to live" considering that both cities have been heavily gentrified. There's a lot more than just higher income couples putting pressure on the market, there is a lot of distortion coming from developers seeking to squeeze every penny of margin from the jump in prices
When I couldn't figure out how to change windows 10 to look like windows 98 I installed linux with a windows98 UI and haven't been happier.

I still think Windows 3.1 was peak UI though ;)
I mean, this isn't just brunch around here. A dinner spot that would be one step above counter service in a larger city can have a line out the door in a smaller one because there's just that much less competition
You have to be very careful when purchasing offsets. Many of them are not legitimate and are not overseen properly.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/as-more-people-...
How about other pastures, like Android or Linux?
Money... Then the conclusion is that you have to be careful when using the word "love" there.
I don’t know what signs of time are I guess.
Rather than sports etc I find general non dating social events of the type women might go to quite good. Arts/movie meetups. Even tech events sometimes though they tend to 90% male.

Trouble with dating apps and single events is everyone is kind of shopping around for the best match available which can be problematic if you are average. Normal social events you don't get that so much.
I'm not sure if that's better or worse than all of the questions that get answers of "I don't know" or "Sorry, I can't answer your question"

How about just ignoring the question then and let someone else provide a useful answer.
Yes. Yes (and govs, not just corps). Yes. Hence it contributing to the worldwide rise in populism.
/"the most important thing I think Google must do is to disable targeted political ads if they continue to allow them in any shape or form."/

...uh, isn't that exactly the policy announced here?
Yes! That's why it's funny!
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I kind of agree with you, but that does not change anything about it being the strategy of choice for Microsoft
"We already have it, and we don't want you to compete with us" -NSA, probably
> Yes, I believe this would be unpopular.

As indeed is the idea of your grand children living in a post-civilisation world
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We develop simulations for events and often watch how delegates interact with the UX to determine if things need amending... never called it data driven even though we do track scrolls and clicks within the software to determin user flow and pinch points.
I'm guessing people in tiny apartments may not be able or willing to deal with a bunch of friends crowding it in the morning. Or maybe they don't live near each other, so they'd rather brunch near the office. Or would rather brunch during a work pause, rather than before getting to the office.
Yes, I might begin preparing a Linux machine for the end times.
Great! Thanks for the reply. This sounds like it just might fit my needs exactly :) I'll give it a trial run here soon
No laws against non compete, parental leave, sick leave, fewer protections for laborers overall are a dealbreaker for me in the quality of life aspect.
This is what "opinionated" looks like.
If you enjoyed the shape of stories you might want to check out "Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making". A good chunk of it is on graphing narratives.
I don’t recall seeing many of those on Hacker News, but it may be that they have been renamed by the time I get to them.

What you’re asking about is known as “clickbait”. Search for that term and you’ll find plenty of information. They work by putting us in a state of anticipation, hijacking our dopamine reward system.
Unwarranted surveillance, separating children from parents, the dismantling of workers rights, mobility, job security, and perks, politicians who hardly represent voters, state surveillance of political opponents, gerrymandering, efforts to silence journalists and whistle blowers, citizens united, left and right populism and extremism, alt-facts/fake news, cambridge analytica, the rise of China and it's management of Hong Kong, forced arbitration, facial recognition and various other tracking methods being refined by companies like palantir, those Boston dynamic dogs and atlas, drone usage and advances, fear mongering, rigged elections, demonizing opposition, increase in use of executive orders instead of following the democratic process, defunding of regulatory agencies like EPA, Tax breaks for the elite, loosening of banking regulations...

I could probably go on, but this should be enough data points to build a clear picture of the things producing a perfect storm capable of outdoing even Hitler.
>One problem is that you aren't allowed to make mistakes in social situations anymore without facing extreme consequences

This is what happens when children aren't allowed time to play with fellow kids. They'll won't learn much needed social skills when the social/emotional cost is low.
There's a traditional low-tech solution to this problem, used by generations of nerds. Step 1, hang out in real life with a bunch of guys. Have fun with them. (If you're really sucked into your work, this step could take a while.) Step 2 is that women will appear and you will date them.
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Easy. Chess uses the Elo rating system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system
I see at least two answers.

- Boot out the political class who are on the payroll of corporations whose short term profit margins insist on ignoring global warming. Replace them with people who are willing to actively cut profits and luxuries if it means avoiding ecological disaster, while focusing on programs that benefit the working class to maintain democratic power. Ie socialists.

- Boot out the politicians who are overly egalitarian. Enforce imperialistic extractive policies to maintain economic quality of life and create hard boundaries that can keep billions of dying refugees out. Use a philosophy of natural hierarchy of race, religion, nationality, culture, etc to maintain democratic power.

Both of these seem to be way more active and successful recently, and this will likely continue.
If Microsoft employees are 'working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity' on HN - what do you think the chances are that they are not upvoting as part of that? (I don't know - perhaps they are secretly following some monkish creed to abstain from clicking on triangles...)
I mean... if they sound bad enough that I'd never choose to listen to them, then what else should I review it as?

"Would literally never listen to these headphones due to awful audio (their whole purpose), but it seemed like it had good build quality and I liked the color. 3/5 stars."

I think there's plenty of reasons things shouldn't get 5-stars just for being "good enough", but giving a 1-star to something that literally doesn't work/is defective seems ok?
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Absolutely.

I think the most sensible thing for any ad agency to do is to ban _all_ political ads.

It may become difficult for them to differentiate what is and isn't a political ad (an ad for a gay dating app could be construed as a political ad in some nations), but they need to remove themselves from any seat of responsibility.
It's also just volume of spots, and walkability/ease of transport between them. I made a mistake and tried to get brunch at 11am in Bushwick recently, the place didn't open till noon. I walked a few minutes and just got it somewhere else.

By 1pm there was a wait, but for the first three hours that spot is open, no big deal at all.
Yes, every healthy discourse can benefit from a healthy opposition.
> Not to mention the ridiculous system where it opens new Safari windows, not tabs, and then doesn’t give me any option to close them. And when Safari bugs out, and I have to force close it, it loses every single one of the tabs I have open

That’s very strange; none of these things should be happening. Actually, there are explicit checks to make sure that it doesn’t happen. Is there anything in particular you’re doing that might be triggering this?
They'll turn linux in a microsoft app.
Interesting that similar comments don't appear on the top when blaming Ballmar or some top exec for failures. Don't you find it hard to believe that things going badly are not the fault of the other 149999 employees that Microsoft has, as much or even more than Ballmer?
I feel our craft is just too demanding. There is just too much to learn. If you stop learning for just one year, your knowledge quickly becomes redundant and you become unhireable.
A web interface is already a reality.[1] Work great with Chrome or Chromium. Not a full featured office, but in general very nice.
[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office/ndjpnladcal...
I doubt there are more than a few hundred engineers with that salary in the entire Bay Area and they aren’t the ones who complain about cost of living.

This is the software engineer making $80,000 a year who tries to live alone and has to spend half their paycheck on a studio.
> "The "just meet people" or "just talk to her" narrative doesn't work in modern life. Everyone is walking around with headphones on and their noses pointing at a screen. Nobody wants to talk to you."

But that's exactly why hobbies are so great. You get to meet people you already share a common interest with. They may want to talk to you about that common interest. While talking, you could discover you have more in common and just like talking to each other in general. And then you make a date to talk with just the two of you.

> " On dating apps, there is an implicit romantic intention, so at least a guy is free to flirt and hit on girls in that context. In other contexts, he has to worry about attention being interpreted as harassment, on top of the risk of rejection."

That's true, but when that's not working, it's time to try something else. There's no single solution for everybody.
So the drug dealer has no moral responsibility for social decay when they're selling heroin to an addict?
You sound like the one hypersensitive here...
A significant portion of homeowners do a significant portion of the work themselves. I wouldn't say it's expected that you'll DIY everything but someone buying a house that needs substantial work without the intention of doing at least some of it themselves would certainly raise eyebrows.
Much of rural Alabama, especially through the central and southwestern parts of the state are majority black with most local governments and social institutions dominated by the local majority population. The real big problems in those areas are poverty and medical care. Even if you're well off, living in an impoverished community does negatively impact your quality of life. And you really don't want to have a medical emergency out there. The medical facilities can be few and far between with middling quality.
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> companies which choose to place themselves as sole gatekeepers of their devices

Are being "sole gatekeepers" of devices they manufacture and sell. Why shouldn't they be?

> Rail companies (in the US and Europe), telecoms, electric, gas, and other utilities all immediately come to mind.

All of whom have government granted monopolies, so they do not "own" the things they manage the way Apple owns its infrastructure. And of course the same applies to ISPs, as I have pointed out multiple times now. You are completely ignoring this crucial fact.
A 1.5 hour commute is pretty unusual, how did you end up in that situation?
This blog appears to argue that by bringing some but not all of it's products to Linux, Microsoft is engaging in Embrace, Extend, Extinguish (EEE). That's a tough sell. If you apply the same standard, virtually ever large company that has ever contributed to Linux is EEE-ing Linux because they released some product that doesn't run on vanilla Linux. The bad action in EEE is extending APIs in incompatible ways and then dead ending them - it's hard for me to see how not shipping Office to Linux qualifies.
The main reason why we remain in a high cost area (North-central NJ) is opportunities. Yeah I work remotely now and have for awhile, and I doubt I will leave my current company any time soon... but things change, and I would hate to relocate to an idyllic rural paradise (I grew up in very small towns), lose this job and be unable to find another remote gig. At least in the NYC area I know there is going to be _something_ available within commute distance if I have to do that again.
In my experience, "front-end" these days generally means "web client development", e.g. the opposite of "back-end" (server application).

You're talking about client development in general.

I suppose web clients stole their own term because of the idiosyncrasies with web browsers, like how the server can ship declarative HTML to the browser for a fully-working UI which is a unique phenomenon.

There are issues with this weird distinction though. For example, people will complain how hard "front-end development" is, thinking it's something unique to the web, without knowing that all client development is hard.
If one thinks and supports politicians that believe climate change is a threat to human existence you would, logically, wholeheartedly support the following:

1. Ban all air travel
2. Ban all consumer goods made in developing nations. (a large contributor to China and India's carbon footprint)
3. War with countries producing a large carbon foot print if they refuse diplomatic efforts to meaningfully curb emissions.
4. Eat only plants and insects.
5. No cars (battery or otherwise).
6. Culling or otherwise slowing the population.

If one is not willing to adopt all of these (and more unmentioned) as part of their own lifestyle and political views one does not truly believe climate change poses as great a danger as it is made out to be.

In fact, it is proof there is a particular political end in mind and climate change is a convenient excuse for those in power to meet their own political ends.
Impactful but not sustainable nor scalable. Climate change as we face it is a tragedy of the commons. We are using a negative resource without pricing in that externality. Individual action does not solve a tragedy of the commons; this is a very well established economic theory. I would almost call it a fact.

Without a tax on the resource, all you’re doing is leaving more of it for the others to abuse. The same happens with fishing, rhinos, etc etc.

Individual action is a moot point: we must solve this collectively. Everything else is a polarising distraction.
> The entire worlds growth has to be regulated at this point to ensure stability.

Why does this sound familiar?

Well, look, I for one at least appreciate the honesty from many climate concerned types that the goal is really authoritarian socialism. It’s much better to be honest about that than the years previous where it was all “we can just solve it with a tax” which implied but didn’t come right out and say what it really is to some people.
Extra cynicism: by getting others to leave, they can stay and it gets better for them.
One star is the lowest possible rating. It implies that some essential feature of the product does not work at all. Parent did not say the headphones didn't work, just that they "sucked", which I can only take to mean that they did work, just not to parent's satisfaction.
> in 'metric-land' they don't have a history of naming their wood for the thickness of some guys thumb in integer multiples.

Yes we do. The metric system didn't fall out of a clear sky one day, it had precursors.

That's hardly the point though, even when using metric you could make the decision to measure wood wet. Even when using the imperial system you can make the decision to measure wood dry.
This article reads as satire to me because of that, among a few other things.
No. They are restricting just one type of targeting.

>Google is extending a ban on political campaigns targeting advertising at people based on their supposed political leanings.

>It said political groups would soon only be able to target ads based on "general categories" such as age, gender and rough location.
The trees will be planted by the Arbor day foundation, and "in a variety of forests on public and private lands in areas of great need"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Trees
If you love this planet, you should be planting trees anywhere you can.
Not exactly worthless. I usually assume that 1 and 5 star reviews are by competitors and shills, respectively, and mainly ignore the star value anyway. I read 2-star reviews first, and look for text descriptions of identifiable strengths and weaknesses, and these must be corroborated by other substantial reviews.

If anyone, with any star value, says "I wasn't shipped what was advertised/listed", I just close the Amazon tab, and look at other retailers. I don't have time for counterfeiter roulette any more.
> We need to SERIOUSLY start considering geo-engineering and artificial methods of cooling the planet.

We can't even collectively decide to stop taking the stuff out of the ground that ought to stay there. How are these fanciful ideas more politically viable?