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> each file named with the username and containing his password (without any file format, just the password, possibly hashed or encrypted)?

Because your advertisers want to know how many users signed up last month, last six months, and last year. When you only consider one use-case for your data, it's easy to consider using NoSQL or the file system to store your data but in doing so you fail to imagine all the other ways you might want that very same data.
I haven't experienced a lot of the issues he mentioned, but the amount of times that Mail has crashed on me during an auto-save is probably approaching triple digits now.
There's a nice writeup of someone going through the original quake code: http://fabiensanglard.net/quakeSource/index.php

Seems to turn up in most threads about iD engine source/dev - I'll do it this time :)
Event sourcing has a lot of power, but it also offers up some unique challenges. If you are interested in applying it I'd check out CQRS: http://cqrsinfo.com, I've also got a few blog posts on the subject http://lucisferre.net/tag/cqrs/
If by no longer supporting IE6 we can force these companies to finally go with the times, then by all means, no, we should not consider this. We cannot endlessly cater to every outdated technology ever.

Besides, these companies have absolutely zero valid reasons to keep using this crutch - it's severely outdated, a giant gaping security hole and a hindrance to the entire world wide web.

And no, legacy applications built upon IE6 on which some corporations have based their entire internal communication (or other things) are not an argument for supporting IE6, but instead gives us all the more reason to force them to get rid of it.
They looks interesting - if they can be snappy and responsive and work well, I would give it a shot.

My only reservation is that it would be proprietary Sony everything that it would work with, which means that it probably sucks when trying to use in conjunction with anything other than that.

Yay for more competition!
Vista SP1 and Server 2008 shipped with the same kernel:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463415

MS has also very explicitly said that the W7 kernel is built on top of what they did with Vista:

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2008/05/ms-no-new-kern...

W7 is nothing more than an evolution of what they did with Vista. Vista and W7 have far more in common with each other than either does with XP.
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I'm not sure I understand that.

Around 2002-2003, I built a gigantic, sub-optimal, regex-heavy Perl script for automatic updating of webcomic sites (it's still in use on several sites I know of, ugh).

Each day of the archive had its own separate HTML page generated from a template.

I never got around to the complexity of supporting selective updates, because brute-force regenerating the entire archive every time the script ran, even to several thousand comics, took just seconds on anything but Windows (whose file I/O was just too bloody slow, but even then the run only took a minute or so).
What is you current view on Scala vs Clojure? (I know you use both - I mean which one do you pick for what kinds of projecs)
I have to say I haven't tried that myself nor have I looked at the prices so my question is: All the fun of having your own server aside, why wouldn't I rather just run a site like that on something like amazon ec2 and stop worrying about hits and load even if it is just a personal blog?
As near as I can tell from all this, there is no longer a way to sign up to be notified by email of availability. (I.e. the only people who will be emailed are those who already signed up some time ago, presumably during the first round of the fire sale.)

If this is incorrect, can someone point me to the instructions to sign up for email notification?
From TFA: "You know when you used to have no choice but to use Windows XP ... Well, you must remember, then, how annoying it was to have the same bugs and weird glitches happen over and over again;"

Nope .. I must have used a different Xp.
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> ...if you want to stay permanently immersed in that Metro world, you will never see the desktop we won’t even load it (literally the code will not be loaded) unless you explicitly choose to go there!

This bodes well. I hope the Metro UI is as comprehensive as this implies, where casual users will never see the old UI. If you can do it on the iPad, it should be doable on a Win8 tablet (in the new UI).
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Would be cool if folks that bought ST2 could suggest and vote for features.
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Why not go for NoDisk solution too - just RAID your memory and back it up with ultracapacitors?
I think huge jean patches are valid 90s style. Maybe not as late as 1997, but they undeniably pair pretty well with the huge teal "Developers" jotted script marquee behind him. It was a different time.
Yeah, you should look up the definition of "troll" yourself because that isn't it.

Also, I don't think the guy really "knew" the answer to the question and had legitimate gripes as you would if a project you've been working on for the last x years was suddenly canned.
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Same sentiments here. So glad they are fighting this. I really don't want to send my monthly payments to AT&T. After being screwed over by them so many times, T-Mobile really is a breath of fresh air.
Seems like something you could do with decorators in python, but would probably end up looking more confusing than the original.
"I feel like I have to use it". Sure, as long as its in a prototype and I assume that that is what you mean. The problem is that its this "see a new thing and feel like I have to use it" that seems to be the single biggest source of accidental complexity in production software. So by all means use something new but not because you feel like it, rather because you have thought long and hard about it, tested it and can really justify why you want to use it in your situation.
If you are using Ruby you might be able to use some variation of the "around alias" mentioned here:

http://media.pragprog.com/titles/ppmetr/spells.pdf

Maybe even create your own little dsl for your approach.
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The implications are obvious. Currently where I work (a large investment bank) I've seen a few iPads carried around mostly by executives. They are typically used to view web reports and email. Thats it.

What Micsosoft is trying to do is change that such that you can use your tablet for work once you get back to your desk.

If they can solve the battery life issue (and I'm glad they mentioned it at least) then they might have a compelling device going forward.
IDEA's Python support seems very poor compared to VS. I installed the IDEA Python plugin and when I typed "import " it said "no suggestions". Same thing when I typed "sys." and when I created a new Python project, it couldn't find any interpreters installed on my system.

Meanwhile in VS, after installing the Python plugin all of that stuff just worked the first time.
Sadly not. It sprung to mind because my girlfriend is currently going through the training term at a PE (private equity) firm and I have been lightly flipping through her textbooks and training manuals.

PE is about buying under-performing companies, making them more valuable, and then re-selling them. So she's being trained in how to spot a particular type of under-performing which they're in a good position to improve. They have a couple different strategies they are comfortable with, including basic stuff like switching the management to fancier plays like buying one company in a new industry with the intent to use it as a platform to acquire lots of other companies in the same industry and turn on the economies of scale.
AT&T is trying to paint themselves as a struggling underdog in the cut-throat and 'highly competitive' American telecom market. If you read some of the documents they've put forward you'd think they're about to go bankrupt. I wish I lived in this fictional market, maybe then there would be contractless plans and one phone line wouldn't be a ridiculous $70 a month.
AFAIK, Chrome plugins still have much less access and power than Firefox plugins, which makes it easier for Chrome.
I thought that the CFML was the tag language and CFscript was considered separate, and this particular project didn't take advantage of CFscript, but looking around, people aren't too keen on the interfaces given to CFscript, even today.

http://www.clearcrystalmedia.com/pm/full-cfscript-cfcs-not-w...

http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2011/2/4/I-Am-Not-A-Fan-...

I can speak to a similar adobe product, Flex (and MXML/ActionScript) and at least there, Adobe tried to figure out what would make most sense in MXML, and then the ActionScript interface fell out of that, rather than what made sense for an ActionScript interface. Then, Adobe pointed everyone to the MXML as documentation, rather than having a separate documentation for ActionScript. However, things didn't work exactly the same.

Perhaps life is better in CFland, but Adobe has seemed to have "good enough? Then ship! Our devs will figure out workarounds." in their DNA. Looking at this thread -- http://forums.adobe.com/thread/507720 -- it seems ColdFusion is no exception.
Yes! I'm glad to see the government is taking a stance against it. Cell phone bills are expensive enough, I could only imagine what this merger would have done to them. I just pray they hold strong. This could be a really good thing for Tmob. Could seriously help level the playing field.
I'm sure Carmack says alot more about the patent issues and open sourcing the engine in the keynote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28
Personally I don't have a very strong opinion on where the funding should go at all, just that it should exist and that it should be increased by an order of magnitude at least. Even experts in a field can have a hard time deciding where to allocate resources, what hope do I have? And more importantly what the hell business does Congress have providing for these allocations? They don't know shit.

I would rather shovel billions at universities with little more than an unenforced request that they spend it on pure research, than allow Congress any control over scientific funding at all.

Mainly I just think that drawing attention to scientific funding as some kind of waste of taxpayer money when it is such a drop in the bucket is more about serving the interests of the American conservative establishment in villainizing intellectuals than actually solving a problem.
> Vista (IMHO) had a rotten core ... I think W7 is arguably the best OS Microsoft has released

You are overly negative on Vista and overly positive in Win7. I think you fell for the hype. The differences between them are minor.
Valid for Theo Huxtable, maybe. Not sure it was working for Steve.
"I've experienced my own set of issues (oh god the kernel panics), but really, you haven't experienced anything he mentions?"

I'm in basically the same boat. I have experienced some issues, but none of the ones he mentions. Further, in my experience anyway, this has been the smoothest major OS version upgrade I've experienced. Obviously that won't be true for everyone, but it is for myself.

"You don't feel like Mission control is a pretty big step backwards from even the old spaces UI (on a single monitor, it is)?"

I don't personally, but to each his own. I think it is refreshing that they cleaned things up and consolidated what was once multiple disparate UIs (dashboard, expose, and spaces) into a single UI. Formerly, I didn't even try to explain to my wife how to use Spaces because it was just too confusing for her. Now that it's all basically one UI, it is easier to explain and requires no manual configuration. I am a bit annoyed at some minor quirks, like the inability to manually rearrange desktops, but I don't consider it a step back.

"You think Launchpad is not pointless?"

I just simply don't get this complaint. They added a new feature. If you think it's pointless, ignore it, but what is the point of complaining about a new thing which you are not forced to use which does not deprecate any old feature?

Anyway, everyone is certainly welcome to have their complaints, especially someone who has experienced some poor issues, but I agree with the grandparent comment that often someone's configs can get mangled and they can lash out at, in this case, Apple, as though it is entirely their fault. I would be extremely surprised if all of these complaints were entirely valid and the writer of the article were not tinkering with their system intensely to have all these issues pop up.
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I have read it and linked to it because it is actually happening. You suggested its a 'no-no', which is definitely not the case.

I think you may believe I want the patient to carry the phone, but I am suggesting the nurse.

My father worked in Public health for 40 years, two decades ago we explored the idea of cards such as this for patients, but came to the conclusion they fell short for a variety of reasons, including patients losing the devices, patients transferring to different clinics and not having their original card etc etc. As is the case with current medical records, there is a stronger guarantee the doctors will be able to review existing case history is the data and files are stored with the hospital or care provider, not receiver.

Finally, I am pretty sure the nurse can charge a phone daily.
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I don't think most people take issue with the fact that patents are purchasable or otherwise transferable.

If I create a valid, useful (non-software) patent, I should be able to sell or license it in any way I see fit.

The issue is software patents, at least in these circles.
I do also, although more for the ability to reconnect to my session.
Time to tune out iTunes. Turntable.fm is here.
Vista shipped with 6.0.6000. Build 6000 = BAD
Vista SP1 RTM shipped with 6.0.6001. Build 6001 = GOOD

http://apcmag.com/microsoft_replaces_vista_kernel_in_sp1.htm
It seems to me they disrupted the market with a limited $99 firesale, got some mindshare of customers, and may not have been wanting to kill it after all.

There's an article out there that said HP wanted to be the #2 tablet company after iPad and they did it with the firesale.. lol.
I just hope there will be a way to entirely disable the Metro UI. I'm sure it'll be fine for small form factor devices, but it has absolutely no place on my home desktop.

The new filesystem UI stuff is a welcome change, however.
(http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/23/improving-our-...)
"True unique identifiers"? Is it anything like a true Scotsman? :-)

Something can be a unique identifier of someone in a given time point, and later become non-unique, or stop identifying that person.
More glittering, glib generalities, by the way. You reach for FTL by the fourth sentence of your post; this is not a sign of strength, it's a sign of desparation. This is not a compelling, practical argument. This whole line of argument is just Pascal's Wager, with "scientific discoveries" instead of "heaven", and roughly as compelling from a logical point of view.
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It's still the next major OS release, regardless of the price.
Fanatics? No. Normal users too. Some people just don't like having magic.
Regarding color blindness, you can also print the name of the color on the ticket. Or increase contrast:

"What can be done to avoid confusion? Most sources on usability and interface design suggest avoid relying on color coding exclusively. Always provide an additional cue; don't rely on color alone. For example, the standard default web browser of a link is underlined blue lettering. Interestingly, this particular color coding would stand up quite well, even without the additional cue of the underline, since blue is the universally recognizable color.

A second way to counteract color deficiency confusions is to make sure that colors have a high degree of contrast with each other."

http://www.stcsig.org/usability/newsletter/9910-color-blindn...

There are a lot of guidelines and protocols for managing user color blindness in interfaces... it's generally not a sufficient reason to completely avoid the use of color in all cases.
Chmod? Seriously, if you need different permissions to stres in an event log, just write multiple event logs - each with only the data they need - and store them with different permissions. This assumes that they can be properly decoupled, but since you're the one writing the event log, you can set it up however you want.
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I love that it's under a section called "spells". And actually it looks like it could be done with a variation of this.

This is why I love Ruby. It goes out of its way to let programmers be creative :)
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In 2000, the DOJ sued to block what would've been the largest merger in American history if it had gone through, a ~$120b combination of Sprint and WorldCom.
Nice, except Chrome doesn't update at all for a lot of Mac users (myself included)...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=update+server+not+available...

So, hilariously, I have to totally remove the app and re-install to update.
This is great news. I'm a happy T-Mobile customer and I've had bad experiences with AT&T and its predecessor, BellSouth, in the past. I don't want to be forced into AT&T.

Question: What can we do to support the government's efforts? Write our congressmen? Write the DoJ?
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It's a little more complicated, but "all" the energies ranges are searched in parallel.

It is easier to discard the ranges that are very far from the mass of the Higgs' boson. So initially the expected range is very broad, something like:

* More than 114GeV, because if it's smaller we would have seen the Higgs boson in another smaller accelerator (LEP)

* Less than 185GeV, because we saw small corrections that are probably due Higgs boson in the (LEP)

So you get a lot of money to build another accelerator, and you are confident that the maximal energy of the collider is enough to see something.

In some ranges, the experiments doesn’t show anything interesting, so it is possible to discard that the mass of the Higgs boson is in that range. It is easier to do this when the range is more far away from the "real" value. So you can discard with a 95% of confidence that range, get some papers published, perhaps a few Ph.D. thesis, compare the data to another more indirect calculations, show some progress, and ask for more money because the accelerator is really big.

The problem is that some energy ranges are more difficult to test, because other well known particles appear but the final results is very similar to what is expected from a Higgs boson. So it is important to choose some strange phenomenon where there is easier to see the difference between a Higgs boson and another particles. So with more experiments you can discard with a 95% of confidence a new range, ..., because the accelerator is really big.

But some ranges are more difficult to discard. There are a lot of interesting phenomenons. Some of them are due to other particles. The other particles are well known, so it is possible to calculate how many of these are expected to appear sadistically. But the experiments show that there are more than expected. It can be a statistical fluke, or it can be corrections that appear because the mass of the Higgs boson is near that range. The real problem is that if the Higgs boson really exists, a lot of corrections appear in the nearby mass ranges, so these ranges are more difficult to discard with a 95% confidence ...

The most difficult range is the one that includes the actual mass of the Higgs boson. It should be impossible to discard :). But it is not enough to not be able to discard it with a 95% confidence, because it can be a statistical fluke. To "prove" that the Higgs boson exists wits a 99.99997% confidence, more and more experiments are necessary to see the difference between a statistical fluke produced by the background process of the other particles and a real signal produced by the Higgs bosons. So you need more time to find it where it really is, than to discard it where it isn’t. (So you need more money to run the accelerator, so you need to dhow some preliminary results.)

So, next year we will probably see something like "RIP^2 Higgs Boson, 99% of the initial search range discarder forever with 95% confidence, only a minuscule 1% remaining." and it will be really a good new. And in a few (5?) years something like "Zombie Higgs Boson found, returned from 99.9% dead." and it will be a really good new.
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The most annoying thing to me is that there is no longer a 'sort by kind' option for arranging files within a folder. WTF.
I used MovableType when rebuilding steves-digicams.com (not by choice), and it really slowed to a crawl when we did a full publish (30,000+ articles). Luckily we only had to do that a few times when setting up the site. I don't see the advantage of static files being worth the hassle of publishing when you can achieve the same or better results using a caching proxy like Varnish. We used Varnish in front of Apache on ultimatecoupons.com (all dynamic, built in the Symfony PHP framework), and once cached, pages load in 15ms (first byte in browser).
Everyone thinks Jobs was a perfectionist, when in reality, he just made sure stuff worked. Vista was that "Gates Moment" - the first major release of Windows since he left...
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Still some kinks to work out, but the idea is you can get karma for listening to a track all the way through, liking it etc. The karma system is intended to encourage finding and promoting new stuff, not just listening to the same old thing.
But why must designers be able to code markup and css; surely a PSD mockup will suffice, correct?

It's because to design for any medium you must understand its capabilities and its tendencies. Those too exist on the web, even if they are easily forgotten -- the web pages's tendency to scroll; its capability to be resized; its capabilities of being receiving new content and return visitors.

There is so much untapped potential lying dorment in the web medium, passing by all of those who resist to use HTML, CSS, and a browser during experimentation. It's depressing.