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That is such a cool scheme. I'm glad somebody is actively seeking to invalidate bogus patents. I'm not sure how they're getting money - is they idea that people that join up donate to the cash pool they use to reward people who find prior art on existing patents?

Also it doesn't go quite as far as I'd like - it reduces the incentive to lodge bogus patents (as hopefully they'll stand for less time), but I'd still like their to some level of penalty to the originator when bogus patents are overturned (but that's a law change - somebody pointed out on a previous thread apparently Texas now has a law penalizing people that bring frivolous suits - not quite the same as filing for frivolous patents, but I still like it).

Edit: ah, followed links to
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2008/11/startup-crow...
Apparently they take research requests from clients, presumably for money. Not quite as cool as I hoped - cost might still be out of realm of startup defence. Also - Article One Partners applied for a patent for their system of crowdsourcing patent invalidation :o)
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I think this is looking really cool. I'm also quite happy that web standards is the new trends at microsoft, even if it will certainly be less ideal than one would picture it.

I also find it funny how much this looks like a tile based WM with visual sugar. I hope they dont gloss over features on the split screen view because ultimately that's gonna be a very important thing.

And also, they'd probably need a better way to integrate native regular apps than what is shown in the video, provided, for some users, this might represent 90% of the time they spend with the OS.
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Try: http://www.hnsearch.com/

There is also http://searchyc.com/ but they are currently down.
It's actually quite sad you first have to instigate a media racket before the police will even look into your case.
Interesting.

Do you have any pointers on how to find "inside sales" people? Have you tried outsourcing it? How much can I expect to pay?
Would be interesting to check the email headers and see where they are originating.
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HI,

You can't patent something that has prior art (and if the patent office doesn't see it, it will invalidate the patent it has wrongly granted). Not sure I understood your point.
This is what Microsoft has always done, and afair it's the only company to ever have really succeeded at it: make a piece of software accessible and understandable for novices, yet powerful enough for power users. Office has this. Windows has always had this.

If any company can actually make something that works great on very different devices, it's Microsoft.
Ha - so it did! I didn't check, assumed was good :)
Yes, it's essentially "free" - an electrical heater does the same thing as a computer in this regard. My MacPro3,1 (lovingly called The Behemoth) produces enough heat to make my home office comfortable through most of the winter. The electrical bill is astronomical, however. And it really sucks in summer.

I always wondered why data centers aren't exporting heat to the local community the same way many power plants do - it's a lost opportunity. It would also be a great secondary heat source for many skyscrapers if they designed them with a well-placed datacenter inside.
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I was just thinking about the Linux similarity too. I didn't even notice it at first, but after reading through this thread, I couldn't help but wonder about tiling window managers like Xmonad and Ion.

Man, I want this UI.

Honestly, with my workflow, which is about 85% Ruby coding, 10% web browser and 5% Lisp exploration; using a touch-based screen with a keyboard and a fancy-pants tiling window manager like Windows 8 Metro - damn. I'd be one happy camper.
I was referring to Android
The way the game is set up now it encourages people to go after one another, even if they don't want to. Maybe Microsoft has decided that the best courses of action rank as follows:

Go after no one under a new system.
Go after everyone under the current system.
Go after no one under the current system.

Currently only options 2 and 3 are available, but they would like to move to option number one and this is their first step in making that a reality.

I don't know that is what they are doing, just saying...
Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
Personally, I'd rather see Microsoft putting energy into endeavors like these than pish-posh the effort and encourage them to launch patent suits against competitors.
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I'm pretty sure he means "can make great things happen" trumps "7 years Java experience on the resume"
MS office compatibility is a good point, but that's everyone's goal, even Apple's Pages isn't much good at it.

From what I understand, someone just needs to make a dedicated browser for Office online.
Why is searchYC down?
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Wish I had the same OS and apps for laptop, tablet, phone, especially with the data somewhat synced.. this might be a step towards it
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So the blame is not really on the publishers, but rather on the average programmer who will choose books based on how verbose they are.
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just dropping my two cents, I did not enjoy the pick axe, and when I turned to learn erlang I was essentially weighing two options: Pragmatic Bookshelf's erlang book and O'Reilly Media's erlang book. I chose O'Reilly's because I didn't want a long winded tutorial, I want the feature list gradually shown to me in order of complexity so I can jump into my own project without having to build the outlined in a book. The C++ langauge tutorial on cplusplus.com is also written this way, it presents the language's funtionalities in order of complexity.
it would seem a core differentiator is that apps have means to interact with each other? (the photo thingy in the video)
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I guess the OP would actually want to know why such a functionality is not built-in. At least I'd like to know.

I understand that there is an infinity of ingredients that make up a good search, but surely a trivial implementation would not take too much effort from PG, or at least he could bless an external one and put a form referring to it?
A Google ajax search perhaps?
I believe even in Germany you cannot use the results of reverse engineering to copy the product and sell it commercially without violating some copyright law. But I'm not denying that patents can sometimes be helpful to protect against copycats.

I just think that prohibiting original independent invention in order to prevent copying is absurd because it punishes exactly the people who are supposed to be the beneficiaries of patents.
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A different Ruby take on 2. that compares well to the _ + _:

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When faced with the option of clean ethical obscurity vs. slightly dodgy chance of success are we surprised that most humans choose the latter?
Chrome is easily the most security-focused and has the best track record of any of the major browsers. It is a totally reasonable suggestion.
Neat app. I had no idea transit agencies were publishing that kind of data. Lots more applications are just waiting.

Cool as it is, Mapnificient really needs to incorporate expected waiting time into its isoline calculation. Public transit is all about convenience.
Nice collection but this one with David Heinemeier Hansson on bootstrapping a profitable startup is definitely missing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY
Considering how they are ripping off Android phone makers, I'd say this is wishful thinking.

The way the game is set up now it encourages
people to go after one another

In what way are companies encouraged to do this? In what way was HTC a threat to their "intellectual property"? Was it a threat in the sense that they can't compete with Android in a free market?

Really, this is outstandingly hypocritical of them.
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Yes, but they don't want Windows license sales to nose dive between now and the release of Windows 8 do they?
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Can you elaborate?

Are you saying that they can alter DNS responses, or that trustworthy DNS servers won't exist, or something else?
Not really... As far as I can tell, the licences are compatible in a way that LibreOffice can use the Apache licensed code in their LGPL licenced project, so it will continue to be the stronger fork.

With distros having put their support behind LibreOffice, I don't think that there will be much competition. I think they will either continue to be very similar, or LibreOffice will steam ahead...
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You realise that the new tablet UI REPLACES the Start menu and is mapped to the start button right so whenever you click start, that's what pops up? They spelled it out in the AllthingsD/Computex events, and also state as much in the press release.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2011/jun11/06-01...

With pinning/shortcuts, people barely use the "All Programs" part of the Start menu in the current Windows 7, so the only casualty is the start menu Search/Run, which will probably be re-implemented in the new start screen when you start typing on it.
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I'm asserting that if Microsoft's software lock-in strategy were effective Apple could not possibly make such gains into the enterprise/pc market.
Did you also stop using Facebook when you discovered they used spam (via their email address import feature) to reach their critical mass?
I think the "logic" goes something like this:

- Breaking TOS means you are taking something without the owners approval

- Taking something without the owners approval is theft

- Theft is a criminal offence

Note: I am not agreeing with the bill, far from it. Just that I can see how it is pretty simple to create an argument in this area that would probably sounds fairly reasonable to a lot of people.
The biggest and most persistent issue seems to be that multiple copies of fairly heavy Javascript and CSS resources get loaded and parsed, one per per widget, on top of a relatively heavy document per button in the iframe itself, resulting in a rather quick inflation of the overall delivered page. PageSpeed says that for a simple test page with 10 "Like" buttons, a whopping 1.2MB of JS is parsed and run [1]. This doesn't include the additional overhead for the CSS; the total delivered size for 10 widgets is in the hundred of kilobytes. Anecdotally, I was able to reduce the heap size (as reported by Chrome) of some of our slower (to render) pages by a full 50% just by removing Facebook widgets, resulting in notably snappier page loads. Putting a bunch of Facebook widgets on a page just obliterated its load speed. We had issues with some pages actually crashing or hanging user browsers, and we consistently came back to the Facebook widgets as the biggest offender. Each iframe has to be parsed out into a document, its inline script run, its external scripts loaded, parsed, and run, and attached styles loaded and applied. Multiply by 20 buttons on a page and it got really slow really quickly.

What really impressed me about the Google implementation is that it collects the information about all the buttons on the page, and then fires off a single call to retrieve all information necessary to build them out (the /rpc call that seems to happen after just about everything else). That happens later in the page lifecycle, so the +1 button seems to take a bit longer to come up, but because it's all firing off at once it seems to result in a smoother overall page load experience. While I don't have a good unit test in front of me, I've often felt like pages stall out on Facebook widgets, and as far as I can tell, that's not really a concern with +1. The actual iframe loads are quite quick, the iframes are small, and are obviously built to render ASAP. The heavy lifting occurs much later. The Facebook widgets have seemed to be to be built with the assumption that there will ever only be one per page (heavy iframe document, multiple external scripts that will have to load in serial), resulting in pretty terrible bloat when you had multiples.

That said, in all fairness, in some quick tests tonight, the Facebook widgets seem to be far better-behaved than they were a few months ago, so it may be that my complaint is no longer relevant.

[1] http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/#url=http_3A_2F_2Fdl.dropbox...

Edit: Not really a complaint, but an observation - the like.php widget has an XHTML 1.0 doctype, which requires closing tags for non-empty elements. An HTML4 or HTML5 doctype would make that valid, though.
Thanks for the links. Now next time if I need to search HN, I will have to find your comment first (to get links) :)
It would be great to have this link on HN homepage. Also, it will help in reducing the duplicate posts. People can do a quick search and check if their topic is already posted by someone else.
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With all the active OOo developers having created The Document Foundation and producing a new, active project that almost every Linux distro is now supporting, donating it to another organisation is unproductive and poses a threat of dividing the community.

I think that it's too late to really damage LibreOffice though. They have got a lot of support so far.
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Part of me wonders if this is more of a marketing data acquisition exercise, since the FB App would probably enable them to do that?

That in turn would aid market research.
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The earliness and specificity of the preview seems to me like a pre-emptive strike against whatever Apple announce at WWDC in a few days time.
Hmm, I wouldn't actually think of Scala to write this demo in (except for its advantageous standard library). Strongly typed languages tend to have some additional boilerplate code that can make them less effective for "code golf"-like contests.

Someone else posted Haskell code (which is what I would have gone for), but I think that all this really shows is that the tasks tended to be optimized for code which lends itself to easy typed high-order functions.
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From the AllthingsD interview (http://allthingsd.com/20110601/up-next-at-d9-microsoft-windo...):

4:57 pm: Could an OEM make a tablet in which the user would never see “traditional” Windows?

Larsen-Green: You can’t turn the desktop off. You can choose never to go there…but it’s always there.

4:59 pm: Likewise, by the way, you can’t really turn off the new Windows. It is the start screen.

Another quote from the Thisismynextliveblog(http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Microsofts_Steven_Sinofsk...):

Walt: So, if I'm a developer. Am I confronted by a philosophical difference between an app that uses a mouse, or one that is for touch or for a tablet. You call this touch first, but in terms of the apps, if you're saying hey this is Windows. Then I have to figure out — it really affects the way I design my app

Julie: You design for touch, and then we translate the touch commands to mouse and keyboard.

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Julie: You go through with the arrow keys, the mouse, using the Windows key...

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So the Win8 start menu is the reverse of the current Windows 7 touch UI situation. It's a Touch UI added on to it, as opposed to the reverse.

Most people barely even touch the "All programs button" in the current Start menu as they can just Start-search or use a Pin/Desktop shortcut, so as long as this new Start menu has the Search/Run functionality baked you're missing NOTHING, and can just stay in desktop mode whilst barely touching start.
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I'm sorry, but I disagree. I think that the description we've been given is likely incomplete and parts of this story simply don't add up. Maybe it is a bluff. Maybe it's some sort of scheme attempting to make any potential future infringement of the patent willful. We don't know, and those conclusions should be made by someone who is aware of all the relevant facts. Lawsuits can turn on the silliest little details, after all.

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I guess (but I could easily be in the wrong here) that it just hasn't been high on pg's priority list. As akent said there are alternatives out there, but I guess it would be nice to have duplicate submission detection built-in.
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It might be similar to mine: http://pastie.org/2007710

Run on 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo:

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7555794

real	1m24.252s
user	1m23.841s
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You can still get this to be much faster if you stuff this information into bitmasks, especially if you do it in one of the other languages. You can also get a lot of speedup out of more clever pruning if you're willing to precompute a bunch of stuff.

Edit: It seems like a lot of the function calls this program makes are unnecessary. This version runs about 37 seconds faster without any of the trickery I mentioned: http://pastie.org/2007699
I think this is a really nice thing they're trying. Yet I'm a bit astonished by the many comments here that say the UI looks beautiful. Because I thought the opposite - when the tiles screen first came on I thought it was a print ad for an insurance company or something like that. It's the kind of image my brain was trained to ignore. I also thought the colors were too much.

Don't get me wrong - I really think it's great that they're courageous enough to try something new. They're obviously trying to create a new style and not a Mac OS rip-off, which I think is the right way to go, too.

But I'm curious whether the design will undergo major rework before Windows 8 comes to the stores.
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As a lay-person, I am at the intersection of "wow, that's insanely cool" and "are you guys just making this up for more research grants?"