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Would you like him to apologize because you made a bad deal for yourself? His comment is over-broad and snarky, but it simultaneously makes a good point.
I listened to Microsoft's PR (which seemed to have some technical basis) and spent time asking MS about HTML5 history API out of genuine need, then wondering why there was no info, even when I asked MS directly. Ditto transforms.
MS's post there is embarrassing. They responded with only marketing buzzwords, mentioning only the vaguest technical points that don't really mean much by themselves. They proceed to quote two people that like IE.

We know Oracle won't do better than that if they respond (which I don't think they will), but it's just a little sad.
I'd like to try the service out, but before setting up another account, is there anyone who can compare it with Dropbox? Personally I'd like the 15GB plans (if I don't back up my photos), more than enough for my code, .ai, .pdf and .tex files, but the lack of snapshots (from the front page I understand that I can't go back in time without snapshots) in the cheap plan stops me.

I know that with a local version control repository I can get my files back from the past anyway, but in that case I don't see why I should switch from my free Dropbox account (currently I have 8GB of free storage, and I'm using 1.5 of them).

Any hint would be much appreciated.

Edit: help
Its sad, many developers tend to use features that is supported by all browsers, So, it may take a while for all the cool CSS3 gradients and animations to go main-stream, just because of IE9.
Step 2 is hard but not 100% impossible. There's long range wifi and in densely populated areas it does not even need to be long range.
The article is pretty much a joke. It argues for the analytics and processes LinkedIn can help enterprise customers with. In reality, LinkedIn really is more like a replacement for Monster, Dice, etc. Most people use it as a way to either get their resume out or for people hiring to find people.

As a user, unless I pay, the site really offers me little. Groups are kinda eh, I can hook in my twitter stream, etc. The amount of content generated beyond one's profile is significantly lower than that of Facebook. Is a lot of what is posted on FB fluff? Maybe, but people generate content and engage with the service.

Furthermore, what LinkedIn provides the user is pretty stagnant. There isn't a way to determine if someone claims proficiency in a certain skill or a certain role, how good are they actually? We've started to finally see some interesting competition / augmentations with BranchedOut (on FB, of all things) and MixTent (built a top of LinkedIn).
I would start thinking about decentralization from the software end, because it's much simpler to change. My #1 item would be decentralized alternative to DNS. Once you decentralize names, the state of a particular physical server stops to matter that much, because you can always point your name to another server Without that you will always have a single choke-point - the server's name.
If you really want to analyze things like that (which I don't think is very wise) I'm pretty sure The Shire had to map to a Merry Olde England that probably never was.

Having said that, I always wondered if Tolkien traveled by train through North East Scotland and the Tap o' Noth influenced Weathertop... but that is just me being silly.
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I second that. I know quite a number of very high calibre C# developers and in my experience getting good C# developers to work on interesting projects has not been overly difficult.

I'm currently building a site in C# and deploying using mono on Linux. Very impressed with mono so far. My site has not been tested under high load, but nothing is suggesting to me so far that mono is not a viable option, and a solution which solves many of the problems pointed out in the article's comments.
It seems that Facebook aren't being very smart about which images they select. It shouldn't be too hard for them to choose only pictures which contain something recognisable as a face...
FB started out when you had to give your "official" email address to sign up, which would usually be firstname.lastname@university.ac.uk (or .edu for Americans).

People who insist on using their "handles" are hankering back to the world where online and offline lives were mainly seperate. That just isn't true any more, it's as if you used a fake name in the phone book and wondered why no-one called...
I went to one of these talks 10 years ago as a student and it was well worth the cost. If you read the link, you'll see you get all 4 of his books (hardcover) as part of the $140. So basically for less than the price you'd pay on Amazon, you get the entire collection and get to hear a lecture from one of the smartest guys on the planet. Also, if the program hasn't changed you'll get to see some copies of books that belonged to Newton and Gallileo. Best $140 a nerd can spend.
Actually, it does make hiring easier. It doesn't making hiring -good people- easier.
Whether Joel Spolsky is or is not a tool, lucky, good etc is completely irrelevant. He and the rest of the SE/SO team has built a highly scalable solution based on .NET. So in a discussion about scaling on .NET, it absolutely makes sense to listen to his experiences.
Part of the problem in understanding what everyone means is that the word "design" is quite ambiguous these days.

I'm a programmer working in web "development", and some of the things you lay claim to (UX, UI) are things that I'm responsible for rather than our "designer".

So I guess there's really a spectrum of different types of activity (rather than a binary partition) and the choice of who gets what responsibility is a local one.

Some organisations have people who have exotic job titles with words such as "User Experience" and "Information Architecture" in them. I suspect that "designers" and "developers" in those organisations have much more clearly separated roles.
It's absolutely brilliant. I especially like that it doesn't try to simply re-tell the LOTR from a different point of view, but changes aesthetics of the story as well. While LOTR is 'an epic saga', 'The Last Ringbearer' reads more like an historical account.

BTW, the russian text is freely available as well: http://lib.ru/PROZA/ESKOV_K/last.txt
Is there any standard or most common orientation for vertical text - somehow it seems off to me reading bottom-to-top rather than top-to-bottom.
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The strange thing for me is that my name is a very common one, but my handle is more or less unique. I hand out my personal email address which incorporates my handle, so I'm very easy to Google when using it.

By comparison, if I used my real name, I would be practically anonymous, drowned in the sea of other people using my name, including a well-known footballer and a journalist, both of whom generate huge numbers of search hits.
While Microsoft seems to be stagnating at the same time Mono and Linux is gaining huge popularity. Checkout these links

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-14.html

IOS
- IPod, IPad, IPhone: MonoTouch http://monotouch.net
- Windows: Mono http://mono-project.com/Main_Page
- Mac: MonoMac http://www.mono-project.com/MonoMac
- Android: MonoDroid http://monodroid.net/
- Blackberry: MonoWebOs to be announced
As others have mentioned, using the term "unmatched" might be a stretch. I really wouldn't know the state of documentation for something like, lets say Lisp or Clojure, and probably the author doesn't either. But it's not up for discussion that .NET has a very comprehensive, high quality level of documentation, just take a look at MSDN.
Hit the 'End' key! :)
I think the media distribution is more important to Apple than anything else.

One of the few complaints I hear about the Apple experience is the requirement to install iTunes on a computer in order to 'activate' their hardware products.
That's very telling. Why does a company famous for perfecting the user experience create this roadblock for its users?

It is to convert iX(Phone/Pod/Pad) users into iTunes users. You have a revenue stream from iX user for maybe 2 or 3 years . . but you've captured an iTunes user potentially for decades.

It's been a long term plan. I remember nearly a decade ago when Apple broke their iPod so that MP3 files couldn't be transferred onto it using the standard USB mechanism. It was no longer an MP3 player - it was a portable iTunes player.

The goal is no less than to acquire 30% of the price of every movie, TV show, book, game or any other digital product sold and to make them profitable long after they've stopped innovating.
Could someone please provide some context?
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While true, it has to be balanced with the fact that you are tasked with creating a product to earn (or save, etc) the company money. Perfection can never be reached, and you have to say 'Good Enough!' at some point and just ship.

And really, if it's crappy code and lasts forever... Isn't that good enough? If you never have to touch it again, then it was as perfect as it needed to be. If you DO have to touch it, it was broken and will get fixed.

I'm not advocating writing crappy code. I'm just saying that you have to draw a line somewhere. I've met amazing coders that will fiddle with the code forever and never finish because they just keep making it better, more readable, prettier, more extensible, or some other thing forever.
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Maybe simpler version of your proposed rule change: Buzzing in before the buzzers are activated is just treated as buzzing in at the exact moment the buzzers are activated. (And, as you say, break ties randomly.)
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Try http://99designs.com/

You probably would have gotten more responses if you had asked a general question like "Ask HN: Who do you outsource design work to?"
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> They don't get weaker over time.

Passwords do get weaker all the time, to the extent that they are used in multiple places. Changing the password on different systems on different schedules discourages password reuse. It also means the 'active' password is much less likely to be the password the employee used on a random news site they logged into once to comment.

There is obviously a balance to be had, because frequent rotations may encourage people to choose weaker passwords, but there is certainly value in expiring passwords.
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Fair or not is an entirely different argument. The purpose of this whole thing was to demonstrate whether or not Watson was capable of thinking more inline with human thought processes rather than base on static data. I think this is the beginning of an amazing advancement.
Right, and why would you want to make it easier to hire bad people?
Nginx can have workers, but the default number is one. nginx doesn't need a separate worker per time to handle each request. Anything that happens on a given connection is an event (connected, received some data, finished receiving data, got a response from the backend, closed the connection), and nginx just responds to events in the order received across all connections. It doesn't have to hang out and wait for the client to finish sending it's request, doesn't have to wait for PHP to process the request, just goes about handling the next event until those time-consuming things finish.

If you've looked at using PHP with nginx, you might be thinking of the fastcgi workers. Rather than including PHP in the web server process, fastcgi keeps a pool of PHP processes around, and whenever you get a PHP request, nginx passes it off to the fastcgi backend (then goes about other business until the backend responds). I don't know of any reason that PHP run this way should be faster than as an apache module, but the whole system ends up faster because the web server part is using a lot less memory and CPU. And depending on your site, there are some really low hanging optimizations you can do with nginx. E.g., just need a couple of configuration lines to cache all PHP GET requests for 5 min (unless you have cookie X, if you want). Since nginx seriously will not bat an eye over serving a redditing worth of static files, that means even your unoptimized word press site can stand up to the front page no problem. (Not verified from actually attempting it. But I did setup a simple PHP site on a 512 Linode that served 250k page views per day without excessive disk activity or the CPU usage crossing 10%.)
yeah, what a misleading title.

"nobody cares what language you use."
"potential buyers like asp."
If the BugLabs product started selling then competitors would come out of the woodwork.

If Apple open soured the iTouch do you think Chinese companies would
At the other end of the spectrum of possibilities Joel's team at Fogcreek developed their own platform:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html

So I would say that he's actually got a pretty interesting perspective on choosing technology platforms for web applications.
You just have to ignore some rules.
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As a developer i wouldn't want to get spammed by users for a software i don't support anymore. It's only the devs unsubscribing. Nothing wrong here. Also, i think to request the removal in a public mailinglist is fine, too. As a user of one of those plugins i'd like to know what happened when i find the plugin not working anymore.
root passwords shouldn't get you far though.

I once published all my root passwords on IRC as a challenge and didn't change them for a few weeks.

Nothing happen.
The reply from Brutus Lyon[1] does not even warrant a response because everything about it feels wrong. Anyway here goes:

>> EE has always had a free registration at https://secure.experts-exchange.com/registerExpert.jsp . That people choose to not use it isn't EE's fault.

Your fault is hiding the link from users and sending them to https://secure.experts-exchange.com/register.jsp?rsid=60&... when clicking on the sign-up page. This kind of behavior is extremely offensive and hostile especially considering the fact that your users are from a demographic who can easily see through your BS.

>> EE's record, the last I saw, was seven SECONDS. I've seen at least a dozen under 20 seconds. Sometimes you get lucky.

With StackOverflow, I always get lucky. With EE, I have to get lucky to get a good answer (or even to see the answer behind all your paywall and ads).

>> You think voting helps you get the right answer; I think it's arrogant and rude that someone else tells you what works best for you.

WHAT? You ask a question because you want help and don't know what works for you. How is answering that question arrogant and rude? (Voting is also an special type of answering mechanism).

Sometimes the most voted answer may not solve your problem, but tell you that what you are trying to do is wrong. I think votes let you know which of the solutions to consider before trying out any of the solutions.

>> You think "everything should be free"; I think you charge for your services, and EE has every right to charge for its.

Except that you charge for the content your users created not knowing in advance that you guys will make it a closed system.

>> EE is successful because it only promises what it can provide, and keeps that promise.

EE was successful. You are not growing and will go down soon if you continue with your attitude: http://i.imgur.com/Vm1on.png

And what promise do you keep? I didn't know that providing different content to Google and to your visitors is your way of keeping promises.

>> When the $5 million in VC money runs out, then SO will have to get money from someone -- which means ads or a paywall.

All of SO content is in CC license. If they go rogue, the community will just create a new website with the same content.

Basically all this boils down to what kind of people run the site. I am sorry that the people behind EE cannot see the future.

[1] http://blog.williamhilsum.com/2011/02/response-to-experts-ex...
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Changing the password on different systems on different schedules discourages password reuse.

But it doesn't, it really doesn't. It just results in people buttonholing sysadmins in the corridor asking "when are you going to stop dicking around and implement SSO?". Not long after that, people just start ignoring security advice altogether.
The first replacement, Vista, is only 4 years old, that's what matters.
I think you misunderstand what they're doing with the formula. Delta is the size of the difference you want to detect. In this case, they're saying they want to detect a 5% (relative) change in a 5% (absolute) conversion rate. So σ^2 = 0.05 . (1-0.05), but Δ is 5% of 5% or 0.0025 and the denominator needs to be 0.0025^2.

If you go to your reference [2] and enter the numbers 0.05, 80, 0.05, 0.0525, 1.0, you'll see that they come up with a sample size of about 122k in each group (so 244k in both together).

(The figure of 304 or 440 is what you would get if you wanted to detect an absolute change of 5% in the conversion rate: going from 5% to 0% or to 10%.)
I think you are missing the point here, as an example, Amazon cannot sell ebooks in its own site if it's cheaper than the version in app store, if so they remove it from app store. Apple is trying to control pricing outside of its distribution network. That's what I understand from the whole story.
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Don't underestimate Mumsnet, the British government is terrified of them. Get them all pointed the same way and they are like a pack of angry she-wolves going for the wounded wildebeest of public policy. Think what they could do to any organization that doesn't have any real-world assets to protect it...
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Stack Overflow doesn't "require" it; it's encouraged, and people tend to look down on you if you don't.

(Enforcement via culture instead of by rules.)

Having said that, given the amount of abandoned questions on EE, I don't think their patent is quite working for them.
I guess that's "fail fast" in action.
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I used to just ignore any Experts Exchange items in search results, although since discovering the ability to scroll down for the answer I do now find EE worthwhile. However I feel far, far more fond of StackOverflow and wish them continued success.
Experts Exchange's need to talk about Stack Overflow is a sign of the shifting dynamic between the two sites and that they feel the need to make it negative indicates, to me at least, the relative strength of the two sites.

The issue is that EE is having to justify $12.95 a month worth of value over SO and, as a user of both sites, it seems to me that for a vast majority of people that value simply doesn't exist. Yes there is a free option but it's so badly hidden that it's clearly not something they have any real interest in and feels like it's there purely so they can say it's there. If that's not the case then then put it next to the various paid options.

Like many companies before them, they've found that their market has changed. What was previously a salable product is now something that is available for free (or at least something broadly comparable is available for free).

To be clear I have no issue with EE's right to charge for their service, I just think it's doomed to failure when the guy down the road doesn't.

There seem to be two options from here:

1) Tough it out and hope that SO doesn't last and that they can keep going with their existing business model. Suggesting that SO is going to run out of money sooner or later is fine. Maybe it will, maybe it won't but don't expect me to pay for your service while they are there and don't charge. That's the reality EE needs to deal with and if that's their strategy they need to hunker down and dig deep because it's going to cost them in the short term.

2) Look for a new business model. Either something totally new or at the very least a tweak to what they're doing now. No idea what it is, if I did I'd probably be doing it myself, but it seems to me that a new reality demands a new model and that simply denying that is railing against the dying of the light.

Maybe there is another choice they can look at but whatever it is, I don't think bad mouthing the competition is going to cut it.
Oracle, the owner of the Hudson trademark, said that Hudson could not move itself to github even though the community wanted to. Oracle said the community would face legal action if they did the move anyway. The Hudson community responded by abandoning Hudson and renamed the Free code to Jenkins to avoid Oracle's trademark. Now all the plugin developers that previously wrote "Hudson" plugins are saying that they are now writing "Jenkins" plugins, and that Oracle has effectively killed one of their more popular open source projects.

Oooooops.....
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It was, sadly, never going to work. If MeeGo had been a more viable competitor then it may have stood a chance.

But anyone reading:

"The worst product I've seen so far at Mobile World Congress is Intel's MeeGo OS running on a netboot"

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380359,00.asp

Must have realised it was game-over.
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The author of the linked article manages to be wrong twice by referring to HN as "YCombinator" - confusing the company with the forum, and misspelling the name of the company (which I believe should have a space in it).

Only MS can make so many errors within such a limited window of opportunity ;-)
This is a very weak essay. Here's the conclusion, or "Kontra's law":

> A commercial company’s ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products.

This is nonsense since conceptual products are innovative by definition.

What the author maybe is trying to say is that working on concept products isn't a good idea in the business sense. But the examples he gives are all companies that have been wildly successful: GM, Microsoft and Nokia. While those companies' performance declined, there might be dozens of different reasons for that.