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The same with the FaceBook + Skype deal, Microsoft is putting their weight against Google. The big boys fighting it out, fun to watch.
But you need to show me the reason I want to give you my email. I don't see why the website needs my email to show me recipes.
I'm not convinced. Saving a few dollars a year on electricity is not worth any compromise in the quality of lighting for me.

If we are concerned about electricity, maybe we should generate more. It's not like we don't know how.
I get the feeling that the whole group (Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, and Microsoft) seriously wanted the LTE patents off the table. I think Google isn't in the group, not so much as a common enemy thing, but as a cannot trust them to act like the rest of the corps in a patent group. I really get the feeling that the whole h.264 thing through up warning signs to Apple and Microsoft. These actions (weird bidding, opposing h.264) appeal to Google's technically inclined supporters, but they do give business people pause.
There's a similar story that the Porsche 911 was originally going to be called 901, but that Peugeot had claimed all 3-digit numbers with a zero in the middle and forced Porsche to rename their model.
Sorry to reply twice, but my previous reply was made quickly and I incorrectly recalled the wrong context. (I also recently mentioned using an extension to view PDF's in Google's Document Viewer.)

The extension I was referring to in my grandparent comment is:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/repagination/

(Note that there is another, older "Re-Pagination" extension that was abandoned. IIRC, this one picked it up and updated it.)

PLEASE BE CAREFUL if you use this extension. If you do not choose a limited page count, it is easy to unduly load or overload a server. This include the HN server, and such request behavior will get you cut off or banned (rightly so; please work to preserve HN resources).

I use it, infrequently, a time or two a day to load the first few top pages of results, which I then work through at my leisure.

I also use a bookmark to transform all the link href values to open in new pages/tabs. That way, I don't lose the browser-generated multiple-page page (as it were) by forgetting to right click or shift-click to open a link that appears on it in a new tab.
Ask HN: Is it a mistake to base my company on the MSFT stack?
I have been building two prototype versions of my software, one in C# (which I know like the back of my hand) and one in Scala (which I'm learning).

After spending time talking to a lot of developers, I'm concerned about continuing to use the Microsoft stack, even though I know it the best.

My concerns are:

1. Hiring. Will it be a problem to find excellent C# developers that are interested in working at a startup? So far I've found that the really great developers make huge salaries at Fortune 500 type companies and don't seem very risk tolerant. I think they're great engineers, but they seem way more interested in fishing than doing a startup.

2. Acquisitions: Pretending for a moment that I have a modicum of success, does choice of platform have an impact on the interest of an acquiring company? Will I be shooting myself in the foot by going the closed-source route?

I know that HN is mostly anti-Microsoft, but I think that people here are also pragmatic. Is it worth spending the time working with a technology that might not be known as well (although it seems to work well-enough so far) in order to mitigate the risks in hiring and acquisition later (if they are actually risks)?
Sort of, but if you are looking for a job and you are an expert at building web apps using C and MS SQL, then you don't care that it's an odd combination. You only care whether the number of openings is zero or non-zero.
Maybe a simple vote would be more beneficial?

Trying to digest all of the comments is hard work when you are looking for a definitive answer :)

My vote goes to 123-reg though, great interface offers a nice user experience but if things go wrong, their support is awful!
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My point was more that the author seems to have just discovered that LED bulbs existed, and that it is a new alternative to CFLs.
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If you build it, they will not come; how to avoid launch failure
Also, I wish the site used thumbnails. I have a slow connection and that many images took a long time to load.
Do you actually visit the office of your domain registrar? I'm curious about the convenience afforded by their office being close...can't think of what they might do for you in-person.
The OED has quotations for "app, n." dating back to 1985:

"1985 Info World (Nexis) 9 Dec. 41 At first look, the user sees only one new menu (‘apps’ for applications) at the top of the screen."
To be fair to the environmentalists who back this legislation: they almost certainly want to pass higher progressive taxes on electricity use. As the current budget debate is showing, it is all but impossible to raise taxes in this political environment. But also, a generic tax on electricity would probably never result in more efficient lightbulbs as they just don't take that up much electricity on a per house basis. People don't change their behavior over $5-20 a month in electricity bills. It's only at a larger scale that you notice the waste.

If this were purely a windfall for cfl manufacturers, the law would mandate cfl's. It mandates a minimum efficiency and lets the markets figure it out. If someone builds a better bulb, it will win out. If the casual observation of this article proves correct, this particular bulb will win out. If not, it is only a matter of time before someone builds a bulb that will. The mandate all but guarantees it.
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This is so cheesy! I don't know if I could keep a straight face.

It's interesting how different the personalities of different companies are, and how deeply those personalities penetrate the way they operate. And, just like human personalities, you just like some companies and you don't like others. I would be completely turned off by the Zuckerberg-worshipping atmosphere being confirmed explicitly by the man himself, but clearly it must work on a lot of people if they're doing it regularly.
I believe this is a US-only problem. I haven't seen that sort of ATM in the last ten years where I'm from (India), and I was pretty shocked to see them in the US.
I think that Google Earth has a feature for looking into the past? As their database grows (with time) this will become really cool.
My Chronology may still be backwards, but they still should swap over to the language of the mature field of software development's language to better allow themselves to integrate in good practices.

The bifurcation is still harmful to them even if the software usage originated later than the science term.
Setting up an iPad requires a PC?
Their work is used in the academic community. E.g. they have a suite for examining/debugging concurrency called CHESS which was used in a class I took in grad school and is related to and referenced by some of the research my (former) academic advisor professor does, which work is used by NASA to improve space program software.
Or Microsoft having "Windows" ?
well i think is a bad example, I dont test google+ and is more an example of what I believe , because of things that I read out there or imagine, i dont know, sorry for the confusion and for my poor language
Here is the actual paper: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749597810...
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Check out BizSpark http://bizspark.com for a Microsoft marketing program that gets startups access to the stack for zero upfront costs (yes that's carefully worded).

Microsoft has a history of acquisitions, but they tend to be based on talent, shared customers, market access or defensible technologies. Don Dodge covered this a while ago http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2005/10/micro...

You bring up a good question about the risk tolerance of potential hires. No opinion on it.
It's not just the UK's largest Sunday newspaper: it's the biggest circulation English language newspaper on the planet.
Personally, I'm more excited about the fact that it requires an app ID. I'm very interested in users being able to record video from within Facebook and upload it.

Anything to escape the awful Flash implementation of it...
Newspaper to close its doors over hacking scandal.
it's not exactly a yellow paint, it's a phosphor doping they embedded in the plastic and it's the reason the bulb costs so much. Theirs is very high tech but I don't think it can compete in the long run due to complexity and the costs associated with it.
C# actually is quite good in many ways as well, but
unfortunately its open source counterpart (Mono) leaves
it trailing a little bit behind on operating systems
other than Windows.

This is just an uninformed opinion. Mono is just better for desktop applications and games, in all ways that count.

Performance wise, Mono is much more predictable. The VM starts faster and doesn't need special warmup. If you don't like the VM, you can always compile ahead-of-time. It has stack-allocated values, unsigned integers and if you're inclined you can always come up with your own special 256-bit integers that are still stack allocated.

I wrote lots of data processing scripts this last year and Mono had better performance characteristics than Java. And that's before I tried plugging in Mono.SIMD which totally blew me away.

Writing bindings to C/C++ libraries using P/Invoke is a piece of cake. That's because Mono has richer primitives; in "unsafe" blocks of code you can even have pointers and pointer arithmetic.

For desktop apps you can create native interfaces with GTK+ on Gnome, Windows Forms / WPF on Windows and Cocoa on OS X. I mean, the bindings for GTK and Cocoa are state of the art as far as bindings go and on Windows .NET is just native.

And some people scoff at the idea of building a specific interface for each platform, but I never seen a Java desktop application that I haven't found nauseating. Qt Jambi is the only hope you have for something decent, but kind of sucks on OS X.
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100 days and $100,000 to get a company into beta, a working product that can be released to users for feedback.

In this day and age, do you really need $100,000 to get a company into beta? What are they spending all that money on, apart from a swanky office?
I applaud the author for doing this sort of user testing. Instead of getting a focus group to come to you, bring your test to them. Besides the mall, you might have fun trying this out at your local museum as well.
Git's also a bit hard for them to handle by themselves with how rarely they need to use it (I'm a huge git proponent, but also a realist).
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The LEDs themselves work excellent at low temperature - but you may have problems with your electronic driver's properties changing at lower temperatures.
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When Richard Branson was asked how to be more successful in business his response was - "Work out"
Florida and D.C. I believe there is some tiny print indicating a dup, and nobody ever looks at it in the real world.

Neither send notice after changing the address on the license. There's no USPS address change required here, so no notification.

Honestly, it's not hard to find somebody with a beard with kinda-close skin color, and go to a party store and buy some makeup. Again we're talking about somebody who just wants a quick fake and not, say, a terrorist or drug dealer who can pay for a really good counterfit.

Why would they not already have an ID? You just get a reissue, or yes, go to the state next door and get a replacement (which may void out the other state's ID, but maybe you don't care if they find out after? I dunno).

As long as you don't use the stolen identity for anything but travel I don't see how anybody would find out.

Also, i'm preeeeeety sure they do make new IDs at the DMV so you don't have to wait for it to be mailed. I think I got one handed to me, but that was a while back. Anyway, just specify a different mailing address for them to mail it to ("i'm moving and i don't live there yet"). edit And seeing as Arizona will hand you one as below commenter says, i'm 85% sure Florida does too.

Every 3.8 seconds someone has his or her identity stolen. This indicates to me that there is not enough deterrent. Perhaps there are even easier ways than what I outlined but I am not a criminal so I have no idea.
Like so:
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Holy shit! This just happened:

http://appropriations.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?Doc...

$4.5 billion for NASA Science programs, which is $431 million
below last year’s level. The bill also terminates funding for
the James Webb Space Telescope, which is billions of dollars
over budget and plagued by poor management.
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A year ago, android app developers have been paid out $21M. Maybe you can extrapolate from that?

http://larvalabs.com/blog/android/android-market-payouts-tot...
AFAIK all games sound and music have been in ogg format for ages.
Building your company on a MSFT stack might be affordable when you are still in the startup stage, and it might be doable when you're at the multi-national stage, but in between it is going to be expensive.

On the other hand, developers for a MSFT stack tend to be pretty cheap. Quality varies of course, but there are lots of them..
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I'm not worried about licensing costs at the moment, thanks to BizSpark.

My product isn't in an industry that Microsoft seems very interested in, nor do I feel like it'd be wise to have the only potential acquirer be Microsoft (which is why I made the point about being concerned about acquisitions).
While some of the "hacking" was no more than calling into voicemail accounts with no pin/password set (though most instances would have involved at least caller-id spoofing), it will hopefully (yeah, right, says the cynic in me) make the tabloid rags more careful about overstepping their bounds in future.

The scandal, which blew up massively again after evidence was presented of them interfering with a missing-persons/murder enquiry and has only got worse after evidence that the families of bombing victims and those injured/killed in overseas conflicts were also subject to similar invasion of privacy, has caused significant activity in government and a large amount of embarrassment for News International - possibly to the point of threatening their attempt to buy the rest of Sky.

I wonder how many more phone and email hacking/monitoring scandals, involving the media or other organisations, will drop out of the woodwork following (or during the investigation of) this one...

edit: removed the quotes from "news"paper in the title. A tad hypocritical of me to editorialise like that while taking shots at a tabloid!
A great use for G+ Hangouts
When Google+ finally goes public, one thing I hope stays is the Hangouts. It would be awesome too if even people who don't have (and probably don't want) a Google+ account can be involved in them.

I'm sure the smart folk over at Googleville are working on ways to make this happen and I for one am eagerly looking forward to it for one reason alone:

It will be the first mass-market way to have a face-to-face conversation with anyone in the world.

If you make video calling as easy as email, everyone will be at it!

What does this mean? Well the expected increase in social activity through this online social network is a given. But I have higher hopes.

I think this would be a great way to communicate with our customers! I envisage a time when we can see when a person is visiting our website and we can invite them to chat face-to-face.

No platform currently has the power to enable this because they are locked in to having registered users and installed applications - two big buy-in steps that put most users off!

But if Google can implement this right, we could see the next generation of ecommerce exploding in front of our faces.
Although Microsoft has a small stake in Facebook and has been a partner for a while now, the Skype integration was probably started before the buyout offer.
See how they treat their engineers. Some of these negative reviews have pretty high ratings:
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Facebook-Company-Reviews-E4...

Everything is fine and dandy until you see the actual realities and numbers. I'm curious to know what they engineer turnover rate is.
There are going to be plenty of things that come out of MS Research that people don't realize came from there (examples: PhotoSynth, Kinect). Expecting an exhaustive list is unrealistic. Furthermore, MS Research was founded over a decade ago when patent trolling was not as big a deal. It's pretty clear if you read about it that Bill Gates wanted to create the successor to the great post-war corporate research groups (ex: Bell Labs). I find the idea that Gates would really aspire to create a patent troll when there are much more exciting things to do with 1000 phds.

(Disclaimer: I work for MSFT, but now MS Research)
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I say this all the time, but be very very careful split testing in JavaScript. It is best left for very small elements on your site. Otherwise your results will be misleading. Once you get to a nontrivial size implement it server side.
It seems to me that the question of the day is..what IS "intuition?" Most UI designers will create an interface that relies on typical design standards that any competent user would understand, such as home icons, menu bars, banners, footers, thumbnails etc. There are good reasons for this; namely because many interfaces target a market of experienced users.

Designing an "intuitive" interface true to the word is almost impossible. Experienced users can look at a new UI developed with standard design principles and navigate through it without frustration. But this is not called "intuition;" This is called past experience.

Now, rollover pop-up text that describes functionality may add a level of intuitiveness to a system. But why create a help menu for how to use the mouse or how to single click in a text field before you can type in it? Many of those users who aren't experienced are left behind only because it is usually not economical to market to them.
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They do, if the metal detector beeps.
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Actually, I find that quite a lot of people who are even moderately unfamiliar with computers (by HN standards) tend not to explore or experiment with new tools or UI paradigms. It might be because they're afraid to break things, but I think it's just because their unfamiliarity gives them anxiety and for them it's easier and more comforting to simply turn the damn thing off and forget about it rather than plow forward and get even more lots and confused. Kids tend to be more curious, and more used to being unfamiliar with things. I wouldn't take that as representative of techno-illiterate adults.
"Why don't you go to Iraq and demand thanks for the benefits you've given them"

We don't get any oil from Iraq. Here are America's 4 largest suppliers:
Canada is #1
Saudi Arabia is #2
Mexico is #3
Venezuela is #4

Absolutely nothing you've said makes any sense because you're cherry picking your examples and being completely unreasonable. We also fought the Civil War, WWI/II, Philippines (who last time I was there were quite fond of Americans), created Israel, stopped genocide in Kosovo, Korea (look at N.Korea and tell me the USA's actions were pointless), Vietnam. We pressured Mubarak also...

And like I pointed out the United States has always been the world's largest donor: The biggest portion of U.S. aid goes to Iraq ($4.27 billion), Afghanistan ($1.46 billion), Sudan ($725 million), Colombia ($562 million), Egypt ($541 million), Nigeria ($514 million), Democratic Republic of Congo ($486 million) and Pakistan ($465 million).

(Figures are for Gross Bilateral Official Development Assistance, 2006-2007 average).

Yes we have messed up a few times, but we've gotten it right more often than not and you still count point out an example of anyone else doing it better. You don't live in reality.

The Syrians do not want US intervention, that is bullshit and like I already pointed out--we're already "liberating" three other Muslim countries and that isn't going out so well.

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Where are you from that is so great? And you might want to go get some help for your True Believer Syndrome. It must be painful to have to live in a country you hate so much. If so, why not move? Why are you here? You clearly hate America, so why stay?

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So...while it's clear that America is far from perfect, it's unclear who, if anyone, is anywhere near as close. Suggestions? (Note - the answer has to have significant capacity. Otherwise I'll nominate some random church group in Texas. Come to think of it, random US church groups do more good than most countries.)

Until you've got something better, the appropriate response is "thank you".

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Oh and you're welcome for the freedom our country extends to you because if you were living wherever you came from I'm doubtful your own government would extend the same freedoms.
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Sounds like you may want to check out robotics.

Georgia Tech has a fun Mobile Robotics Lab, and there are several other places that you could study further. (You'll gain training in the actuators, sensors, etc you'd need for your artistic work).
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AFAIK, it only takes a zener diode and a resistor to drive LEDs in an automotive application (or any automotive electronic device that runs on < 12V DC). The power is already rectified by the time it leaves the alternator. Worst case is that they're a bit dimmer than normal on startup.

Many car LED tail lights are actually refreshed at (I'm guessing) 30Hz or so to keep from overloading the wire - They have a distinct look to them from the low refresh rate.
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