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Most flash apps today heavily rely on hover-over events. Try using any current flash app without sending hover-over events -- it's difficult. On youtube, you the volume control and time scrubber are hidden from view until you hover over them.

This problem also exists for web apps heavily javascript driven, but seems to be less of a problem compared to flash apps. It's probably because flash apps are constrained in a small space so the interface needs to be more compact & hover driven.
Looks like a good competitor for AWS. I think as a customer it is always good to have some high quality competition amongst the vendors. This will push AWS to try to replicate or better the features being offered by them and also keep them from raising their prices too much.

The list of customers for the joyent cloud looks quite impressive. So this might already have been tested quite thoroughly by these customers and doesn't look like as if it is launching just now.

I think they should introduce a free tier like AWS's micro instance to allow ppl to test drive this new cloud.
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Well that's what its all about, Those programming tools aren't what MS's core business its all about. Their core business is all about Windows OS and Office software.

The reason they are feeling the heat now is the computing paradigm has changed very quickly for them to adopt. More and more computing is going to happen on the mobile devices and users will be looking at those devices to access network by some means and do rest of the stuff on the servers. Like search, games other apps.

Microsoft's core revenue comes from selling an operating system. They are not very comfortable with the idea that Software can be given away for free or a lesser prices just to sell hardware or pull traffic to your servers to sell ads.

Whereas the momentum is very rapidly shifting to later paradigm. That is why bing is so crucial, even if they have to run it under loss currently. They want some search backend, to be available when their mobile OS comes to full force in the market. Because then, they will fight a tough price war selling their OS, they will have to depend on the Google model.

Microsoft is no more a technology tools company (because of SQL server,C# etc) than google is because of BigTable, Go! etc.

Although they can sell them as their primary buisiness, but that's not what they are meant for.
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Awesome choice :)

BTW, that's the 2nd best choice one can make. Think.

And, I forgot to mention that breakfast with Linus is a charity event with a cover charge of 100 USD. Would you still wakeup early and run for it?
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As a Google Apps user, I'm still pissed that I don't have access.
Only if the answer that first jumps at you is in poor taste. Think about it.
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It wasn't necesarily a bad idea to compete with Flash, but SilverLight was about 10 years too late and offered no reason for the entire world to switch from Flash.

Thus, the end of SilverLight was just a question of 'when', not 'if'.
Im in the mist of starting up a digital agency with friends. We are all creative and or technical people. Our weak point is a lack of strong sales skills to secure sizable business contracts.

I was thinking of creating a site like sales guy/gal meet development/designer team. Maybe this exists already?
So, the baked-in async / await wouldn't be useful? For the kinds of apps I'm writing, I can't wait for this - I've made a lot of use of Tasks/PFx, and this really simplifies the mental model for me. In addition, I appreciate that it's consistent throughout the framework (as opposed to Node.js, Twisted, EventMachine, etc.)
i debated this one a lot. on the one hand, people are more likely to recognize the word weight, but on the other hand, weight isn't an inherent property of objects, and (to be overly pedantic) two rocks of equal mass, one at the top of the tower, and one at the bottom, will have difference weights.
Thanks for the one of the few sane comments on this thread. I'll buy you some coffee, if you walk the streets of Bangalore.
At least you can still follow interesting public "celebrities" and other techies.
Have a look at this approach for Open Source Hardware for the agricultural sector.

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Constructio...
An interesting analysis of how to find which file is affected by a bad sector. I found it useful to see an example of using debugfs. (I don't know how to do the equivalent for NTFS.)
Have you ever tried to run a piece of software that hasn't been maintained for 2-3 years on an up-to-date Linux distribution? I've tried dozens of times over the years, and in only a handful (the most simple ones, i.e. with only dependencies on the most basic libraries) that has ever worked.

On the other hand, I've taken applications written for Windows 95 and compiled them unmodified on OS's 15 years older.

That said, those who invested heavily in Winforms in 2001 and/or XAML in 2005 are now of course getting shafted - again. And I'm not defending this treadmill that MS keeps people on - it could be a lot more stable. But compared to the alternatives, it actually is quite stable for those who don't always live on the bleeding edge.
Interesting idea. Happy to brainstorm about that - kyle at forrst.com
Sure, I'm not saying they purely do it for that reason alone. There is always going to be a gap which they can't and will never acquire. Its not like IBM from the 80's where a computer and every thing related to it was synonymous with IBM.

But they selling SQL Server and C# et al and other programming tools has nothing to do with competing with Oracle or MySQL. Those are to ensure enough developers are trained to use them so that they can sell more OS licenses later.
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I used the hell out of it. Every day. And then the Real Name debacle happened. And I thought, "There's no way Google would screw this up. They'll retract any day now."

And here we are today. Early this week, I decided that was it. They obviously aren't going to see sense, and I can't risk losing my account. So I've stopped posting. I don't even check it, except when someone replies to something I've already posted.

If it weren't for Real Name, I think it'd be a lot more popular.

Say what you like about Facebook, but if they ban your account, you don't lose your email, documents, calendar, etc etc etc. You can't say that about Google.
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For a lot of my 'non-geek' friends, the years of photos, connections, groups, etc makes the cost of switching too high.

For many, the idea of getting their photos out of Facebook is simply too daunting to consider.

They're happy to maintain a LinkedIn though, as that's seen as a 'different thing': for business.
Qemu-KVM + SPL + puppet + some monitoring? Yeah, Amazon should start looking for a PANIC-button. ^_^

Update: Oh, come on. I've clicked to the TECHNOLOGY link and what I saw instead of technology review is load of BS. SmartMachines? OK, even I know that one should market any crap with Smart or Easy or Eco or LowFat prefix in it, because, you now, I have a SmartMachine... OK, fine. But what about technology?

Instead of writing that you're building a solution based on fast, light-weight, low-overhead, in-kernel, native virtualization system and RedHat supported libvirt stack, that you're co-sponsoring and actively participating in development process, and here is our contribution and so on, I see loads of BS. KVM is faster than Xen? I know that, thank you. I have a KVM instances running on my Laptop. ^_^

You're using ZFS? Linux native port? FUSE? So, you're active developer and tester? Co-sponsor? You have hired or supporting active developers? Providing a feedback to community? No? You just trying to sell me something you called a SmartMachine, OK, fine. I don't buy it. ^_^
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Amazed this wasn't the first one listed, in fact!
do you know how to switch from desktop to metro? when ever i open ie, it just opens desktop, and i haven't had a chance to even LOOK at metro ie. all my links go to the desktop version, on start, and the taskbar both.
Neither is a super busy geek's answer. I'll take it :)

I was a long time cvs user. Could hack it to do what I wanted. Switched to git ~2yrs ago; not so easy to bend but its complexity is one of its main attraction for me.
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This is a better link (not the comparison to EC2 pricing):
http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/pricing-2/smartos-linux/
The crappy treatment given to Google Apps users makes me wonder if Google has some data suggesting that we are less likely to click on ads.
We use the pmd plugin more on our jenkins build side.

Personally I've been looking for a good vim emulation plugin, I'm trying out Viable right now. There's also a plugin I used to use that would not let you use the menu for anything that has a shortcut key, that was nice for getting used to eclipse.
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Funny, I've been working on a Sharepoint project the last two months. This could have been a 3 man-day PHP/MySQL job yet it required 1 Project Manager and 2 devs (one full-time, 1 part-time) 2 months of work! The reason it took so long is that we couldn't touch code (think paranoid Fortune 50 company).

And then they talk of TCO and miss profits: they throw money down the drain, what do they expect?
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Why do you need to get photos out of Facebook? Can't you just put a link on your Google+ profile?
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The post was penned down as a joke and not really meant for a serious discussion. In any case, you seem to have confused reason and excuse. Two things to note here

1. We are ruled by a government that has failed to act on information they DID have in the past. "We could not protect you because the terrorists encrypted their communication" doesn't really work.

2. Let us assume that the reason for the terrorist/law&order situation is ENTIRELY the fault of encryption. So what is the extent of a "ban" on encryption? At most they can disable some services like BBM and encrypted mail. Which means everyone who needs encryption, including criminals, will start running their own servers and encrypting their stuff themselves. Net effect: Cost of encryption for citizens goes up. Criminals aren't affected.

Let us not forget that government after government in India are guilty of abusing state organisations for their their own gains (Central Bureau of Investigation anyone?)
That's a worse link to me, mostly because they don't include the "Joyent Cloud Advantages" section like in the EC2 comparison. Those are very relevant points, especially 20TB bandwidth per month.
As a long time third-party Windows developer, I don't call the rectangular regions "Windows" I call them frames or containers.

Also a few questions could be answered by downloading the Developer Preview. The Windows 7 desktop still exists, (thankfully for these of us that need to get our jobs done), but how a user will use Metro on a desktop or laptop will probably be dependent on their tasks and desires. As database application developer and admin, I'll be sticking to the desktop and the CLI a majority of the time.
According to Indian Department of Telecommunications (as of 2010), you can only use RSA keys up to... 40 bits http://toroid.org/ams/etc/dot-india-crypto-nonsense
Yes, that is the video :)
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Yeah, as far as I can see one of the biggest competitive advantages that smaller companies have is that they can actually wheel out the core technical talent in pre-sales scenarios.
I am a little turned off by the fact that I have to log in to view this information. What is the point? Is this now Facebook?

I'm interested in the API but don't feel as though I should have to alert Dropbox, by being forced to login, that I am interested in it in order to learn more.
Liked the idea and used it initially, but it gets tired quickly, due to the implementation detail. When you see a recommendation, you have to open the article in order to Read Later. So it takes at least a few seconds for every recommendation. I often want to use the feature before a flight, where I want to add 10 or so articles. If you're on a 2.5G or 3G network, that means clicking on the recommendation, waiting 20 or 30 seconds, then clicking on the next one.

If Marco's reading, please add a "Read Later" button against the recommendation (possible on desktop with an extension).
For me it is the same, except swap facebook for twitter.
There is no correlation between wearing a suit and one's lack of self-esteem, trust to his company or whatever. Dressing up does not make you less confident (or more confident for that matter). By that logic, homeless people with shabby clothes must have the highest self esteem among all of us.
There is a proper attire for every social event. For example, if you go to the beach you are expected to wear a swimsuit while you are swimming. Wearing a suit while swimming would be ridiculous. Doctors are expected to wear a white apron in the presence of patients. It would be weird if they still wear the apron in bed. Similarly, if you are having a first time business meeting with anyone, the safest way to play it is to wear a suit. It is the universally accepted dress code for meetings. Then, depending on the personality of the people you are meeting with, you can dress down in the next meetings.
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This is such an utterly meaningless number. Of course there was a big amount of public posts when it was fresh. Of course it was a hype. This says nothing about the long term.

Also why would public posts say much about a social network. I would imagine that Facebook's percental amount of public posts would go down in comparison to private posts. Does not mean anything.
What technologies are you talking about in particular? I have been working with Microsoft technologies for 6 years or so, so by your estimation I should have had to relearn everything twice now, but I'm still able to write things with C#, Winforms, ASP.NET etc just as I was 6 years ago.

Keep in mind the headline is sensationalist, the article itself says that Silverlight code is easily run as an actual Metro application. It's just to get it in the browser, you'll need to switch to 'full' desktop mode.
The fatal mistake was having it invite/beta-only at the beginning. Google has enough experience scaling now that they shouldn't have needed to do that. I suspect that they lost a vast number of people with that and thereby a lot of "test" nesting posts (which would have got everyone feeling that everyone else is there rather than it being a ghost town).

They probably found the social network analysis from the Gmail sign-ups (knowing who recommends to who) to be useful. However the difference between Gmail and Google+ is that Gmail is inter-operable with other networks via a standard protocol, with social networking that is not the case and they should have gone for as many sign-ups as possible.

All that said, they have a higher number of people per unit of time signing up than Facebook did when they started so it will take years for it all to shake out. Facebook also used exclusive/slow signups, but that was linked to university prestige/tribalism/rolling fad rather than just an apparently random process.
Am I the only one who is a bit disappointed with the slow speed of development of G+? When it launched a lot of users were quick to point out some of the larger issues they were having, and as of yet not much has been done to fix them.

Have a look at their what's new page: http://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/static.py?hl=en&#... - mostly rather small tweaks, nothing yet that improves their circles concept (e.g. allow us to define which circles show up in our default feed).

Also, with regard to their new product 'huddles'; why haven't they integrated this with google talk? A lot of my friends use google talk, practically none of them use huddles. So instead of improving the groupchat on google talk (and maybe just release an iphone app already!) they roll out this new product that locks out desktop users. Anyone care to explain to me why they might have gone this route?
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I found the article helpful, though I was hoping for an explanation of the enigmatic (for me) 'polynomial time' - I know now it would probably have been irrelevant here.

One thing: as a UK English speaker, the term "rocks" sounds American to me. We would say "stones" in the same context. Don't know if that's important for Simple English.
Really like the idea. Google Analytics tracks loads of information, but it always takes me forever to actually find the information that I want.

Creating these types of reports is really useful. However, if I was to pay for it I'd like to have more reports and some flexibility in creating them.
I am glad that they are ditching all of the pluggins, but sad that they are settling on javascript as their primary language.

I know that the Hacker News community is very pro-javascript for the most part, so I expect to be down-voted.

But at the very least, I think javascript could benefit from more competition.

I remember when Microsoft was the company that made standards, now they seem be playing catch-up with the rest of the industry.

What I really would have loved to see them do is completely reinvent the browser from the ground up. Support javascript and html 5 as "legacy" but create a new, effective, and fast language for applications and rendering.

Web browsers are still stuck in document mode. We don't see anything wrong with this, but links and back buttons are not the best way to control application state. We have moved beyond documents and primarily create applications these days (even if they are document-hosting applications like blogs). Imagine if Photoshop was controlled using links and back buttons. I know that javascript is capable of more advanced, realtime techniques, but most websites are stilled laid out in the page by page format these days. On top of it all, even V8 javascript still runs 10-20x slower than C.
Joyent may be unknown to you, but they do a lot of interesting things with Solaris/Illumos, tons with Node.js, and have been around for quite some time. They were an early host of Twitter and have been around for 7 years at this point.

Keep in mind that EC2 has only been out of beta for 3 years next month.
The headline is sensationalist and wrong. Think of it this way, Metro is their tablet/iPad mode. The iPad has no flash/silverlight in the browser, and neither does Metro IE. This in order to get the best tablet experience, battery life etc. The difference is, you can hit a button and open up full Windows desktop mode and get the full browsing experience, while accepting a tradeoff in battery life.

They aren't abandoning it, they're just optimizing for the use case. In fact, Silverlight developers should be happy - with some simple namespace changes, they demonstrated converting a silverlight program to a Metro UI on stage in the keynote. Sure your program may not run in the browser unless they swap to full desktop mode, but it will be easy for you to make it a proper installed application if you desire.

It's a good decision in my book, and will result in a better tablet experience. Frankly all the misinformation and hyperbole around this is getting exhausting. They've really not pulled the rug from under anyone at all.
I went one step further and killed my account last week.
I wholeheartedly agree that applications which use the idea of hovering will not work well on a tablet. That is not a flaw that's inherent of Flash, though. It's as true of Flash as it is of HTML5/js and native applications. Hovering can therefore not be the reason why Flash does not work well with tablets, because if it were, the other approaches would work just as badly.

Any reason for Flash not to work on touch based devices must be not also be applicable to other environments, like HTML5 or native, nor can such reasons be valid if they also apply to different kinds of hardware, for example desktop computers.

I don't have a tablet, nor access to one, so I hadn't thought of the swiping feature that was mentioned in another comment in this thread, which is one such reason. Flash's jail-like environment precludes cross-boundary swiping. Swiping is a feature that's almost unique to touch-based devices. Mouse gestures come close, but I don't believe they're widely used. The problems with it are also unique to browser plugins like Flash, because it does not exist in HTML5-based applications, nor native ones.

I'm having a hard time accepting that is the only reason, though. Is swiping really that important that it and it alone is enough to doom Flash and browser plugins in general?
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Word. Compare this to ftp://catwell.info/code/examples/webservice/ and cry.
I've worked with .NET/ASP.NET for the last 10 years. It's been remarkably stable.
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Yes, but knowing the habits of "somename2000@gmail.com" is a lot less useful than knowing the habits of "John Doe, Vice President at Acme Computing"
I went a step further still and divested myself entirely of Google services. The real name debacle made me realize just how dependent on a single company I'd become and how little recourse I might have if that company cut me off. This was particularly troubling given how Kakfaesque Google's "support" is.

So now my eggs are strewn around in several independent baskets and I intend to keep it that way.
Many people find it difficult to see which of two large numbers is greater, unless they are reading on paper and take up a pencil and count the groups of three. This issue must come up a lot in simple-English. The solution is to introduce scientific notation, and to have a link to that. (As has been pointed out, mass is a tricky word, being used here.) Perhaps another method would be to invent something quirky, saying perhaps "4+(20 digits)" or something.

In this particular case, there is another solution: do not quote the individual numbers, but only their ratio. Anyone can tell that "1000" is big and "1/1000" is small, because all that's needed is to see if there are more than two or so digits.
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How exactly do you do that? I don't see a way to just remove G+.
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Yes. It's the Italian Restaurant argument all over again.

There's room in town for more than one, and everybody you ask will have their own favourite.