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I don't know why everyone (well, ok, I know why Gruber does that) focuses on Apple and iPad after seeing Windows 8. IOS is an established system, with a healthy ecosystem of developers and apps. IPhone and iPad dominate the mobile market with ease. That won't change anytime soon. Besides, Apple had showed in the past that they can survive living as a Microsoft competitor.
They will do just fine.
Who should be worried about Windows 8 is Google.
Android tablets didn't set the world on fire, Chrome OS from the very beginning looks like a low-profile project.
And here comes Windows 8 which offers the same thing as Chrome OS (cloud, HTML5/JS apps, etc.) and does that in a better fashion than Honeycomb. Plus, it will run Windows software. Apple users learned to live without Windows software, Google users - didn't. Considering the fact that Microsoft will offer an integration with Bing, Skype, Hotmail and your latest Nokia phone by default even the great Google services could be in trouble.
I somewhat agree. For example why use a term like 'mass', when 'size' or 'weight' would be much simpler.
I think its good for prospective employees to know that instead of dating Angelina Jolie and Megan Fox at the same time, they will be eating 5 varieties of pizza's while coding in the evenings. At least they are honest :)
This is referring to runtime environments like Flash and Silverlight, not browser extensions like Adblock.
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The problem with Flash is that it is a plugin, and not part of the browser. Being a plugin, flash has no real way of communicating with the browser (yes, an extension can, but a plugin is not an extension). So the browser leaves a space for the plugin, letting it do what it wants, and shares exclusive focus locks with the plugin. This means you are either in Flash's context, or the browser's context. So by design, flash can't do anything but grab all the keyboard commands.

Then we get to html5. This is a part of the browser. The browser can suspend execution, ensure gestures work before the program responds or any other kind of integration.

As for mouse vs touch screen, I would find a flash site designed for a mouse quite annoying to use with a touch screen. Mouse environments are designed with elements close together, so you don't need to drag your mouse far. You can also use 'hover' effects, where your mouse hovers over an element. This is opposed to a touch screen, where I can easily move my hand/finger across the screen and can't 'hover' over elements. A touch screen also requires bigger hit targets, as you have less accuracy than a mouse.
No, even the file and devices access are different. Direct3D, DxVA, Waveout are different too.

Even without MFC or Webform, there is quite some work to do.
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Agree. Whenever there is a new post on B8 blog I go straight to Techmeme to get "translated" version of it.
I see the current move more of a defensive move (vs. Apple/Google) than an offensive one (vs. Adobe). Microsoft did not and will not need to kill Adobe's Flash. Steve Jobs already did.
Yes, the line where he takes a pot shot at people from a certain college is what you had to like. No comment about the issue, maybe?
I am looking for a platform to host python web apps and GAE was one of the obvious candidates. The main thing that puts me off GAE is not pricing or poor python support or the fact that you cannot use a relational database in a reasonably sane way. No, the main thing is that I simply don't trust Google enough to use GAE. What if they decide to ditch GAE because it's not profitable enough? How dedicated to GAE are they right now? Sure, they introduce new features but compare to the competition they seems incredibly slow.

I've also looked at Heroku and although they are still working on fully supporting Python, they seem much more trustworthy. Heroku's main and only business is their hosting platform, they can only neglect it at their peril. And because of this, the focus and speed at which they deliver their product is amazing compared to GAE.

I didn't even bother to try out GAE when it was "free" but I would probably pay to use Heroku once Python becomes a first-class citizen. That's how exited I'm about their product.
I voted to wear for suits for investors, although I've never worn one to a meeting with either a client or an investor. It's just something I've always wanted to do, wear a suit in everyday life. Just never had the need.

I've engaged and closed over $200k worth of investments for various projects I've worked on over the years, and it's never been an issue what attire I've worn to a meeting. I've even had several investors told me they liked that I wore a T-shirt and didn't wear a "monkey suit" to the meeting. "Leave it to the people that have to," they told me. I suppose I can agree with that. :)
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This could actually be an attempt to increase their diversity. They could be hoping that all the heterosexual males choose the first option, and that way they will get more women and gay men applying.

I don't think it's going to work though.

(Also I imagine Linus is extra grumpy at 7am).
I agree with you. I simply quoted Dean H.
Really? Getting a bunch of developers locked into a platform and then raising prices sometimes 100 times more than it was? What would they have to do for it to be a scandal for you?

If Apple suddenly came out and said "right, from today on we want 75% of your sales instead of 30%" would you have the same reaction?
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I say it to myself precisely to avoid "copping out" or being discouraged. A reminder that there are things to learn from each failure.

Kind of like fear.. the mind-killer.. little death, yadda yadda.
of which bit?
I'm sure the answer is 'neither'. After hearing the "cvs/ugly and stupid" comments from torvalds (sorry dude, but those comments paint a picture), and that hollywood is a world of its own, the only way to win is not to play.
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Stems from the general apathy and lack of education of the Indian populace.

This may be funny for some, but go and spend 6 months in India and you will realize just really how big this problem is, and how the country is suffering because of idiots like this.

These people are voted into power because of a lack of education.
reminds me of http://careers.directi.com/display/CAR/Front+End+Engineer (who should apply section)

Sort of complementing stunts from the other side[1] of hiring scene

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_%28video_...
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I'm from India. I can't get the book shipped here without incurring large delay and shipping costs.

I would be happy to pay full price for a PDF and instant delivery. I'm sure there are more like me
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A question for those of you who work with Microsoft frameworks. Why do you believe in any technology that MS gives you? How is it these people have any credibility left?

Their technologies are invariably doomed to obsolesence within about 2-3 years of their introduction. Those that the web doesn't make obsolete are eventually thrown under the bus by Microsoft themselves in about the same time frame.
"I want to live in a mass-algorate society."

Seeing as most people are barely numerate (despite years of maths education school), I don't have high hopes for this.
It does not take a mammoth anymore. A small group with a big idea can change the world these days. We don't need Google.
Boy that takes some skill to play. What a crazy idea!
The point wasn't that Jobs/Ellison/Gates are great role models. I was showing that everyone that many would consider evil has also shown benevolence. There is nothing that makes the google founders stand out. In fact, I can't really think of anything they've done to make the world a better place besides say they want to. At least these other guys have done something.
There have been several videos showing the classic interface on ARM tablets.
Last time I wore a suit was at a funeral in 1992. I've not used one at all since, which includes for job interviews, a couple of pitches, business meetings, formal events and a presentation or two.

I find it's more important to be an honest representation of yourself rather than be wrapped in a layer of turd polish. Also if you are judged on your appearance over your skills and/or product, then you really don't want to work with the other party.
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Hey, 1999 called, they'd like their arguments back.
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They just replaced the pretty but useless wallpaper on the desktop by a full-screen version of the start menu. Start typing 'wo' and you get the link to Microsoft Word (and WoW, and your 'wonderful.jpg' file, etc), just like in the old start menu.

The main 'revolution' in this Metro UI is that it's a tiling window manager, one that was made user-friendly with gestures to manage tiles. It leaves the WIMP desktop metaphor to an easily accessible legacy mode (and MacOS). Tiling WM are not especially keyboard-unfriendly, nor reserved to small screens.

Personally, I think Microsoft is moving in the right direction.
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The page says people "would like to know if there are any problems that are easy for computers to see if a one person's answer is correct, but hard for computers to find a correct answer." However the example given seems to answer this question in the affirmative: it's a problem that's easy to check using a set of scales, but very hard to find a correct answer.
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Hm those are really interesting features, but I really hoped that they would remove some warts and improve interop (WCF, constructors for Record types, declaration of mutually dependant modules etc.) in this release.
The original MS blog article that somebody linked seems to say "no plugins", though. No Flash and no Silverlight is just a corollary of that. If they allow extensions, how would they prevent Flash?
I am writing an app using the new compiler with ARC enabled, I am glad no more release and autorelease in my code, but some big third party libraries not working under ARC, it costs me more time on re-creating features :-(
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I'm sad you feel that way; in most cases, you can teach an algorithmic approach without it necessarily appearing mathematical, and that could easily in turn help solve the problem you point out with "most people".

At the end of the day it's not about the tech, it's about the world around us - you can take an algorithmic approach to almost anything and end up with increased chances of success. This just isn't a bad thing to teach.
The article is infoq is more balanced http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins

The fact that MS may abandon Silverlight and other Windows technologies is far more significant that the "look, look Apple are right again" angle.
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It's surprising Sony is using C# for the vita. C# is used for xbox live games, so making it easier for devs to port games will be an advantage for them.
Unfortunately, there's a thing called Lawful Interception [1]. It's a requirement for telecom companies, not only in India but even in western countries. What DoT is doing is asking BBM to adhere to this. This also the reason why VoIP and Skype are still not allowed in India.

The real issue here is the misinterpretation of this requirement. Lawful interception methods can be easily be circumvented and it does not make sense to apply it everywhere.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
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The reason for the US definition of poverty, founded as it is in the "War on Poverty", is precisely because it is absolute. Quoting again from that Wikipedia article: "Since [the Orshansky Poverty Thresholds] measure was absolute (i.e., did not depend on other events), it made it possible to objectively answer whether the U.S. government was "winning" this war."

Your argument about "one true objective definition of poverty" is pointless. What you're arguing is that since we're materially better off than the Middle Ages, no one is poor anymore. You want to throw the word "poor" out the window, while I want to say that the word has real meaning, and that meaning is "lacking the resources to meet the basic needs for healthy living; having insufficient income to provide the food, shelter and clothing needed to preserve health."

Your disdain for the government is clear, but without justification since any statement you make can be rejected with an equally disdainful comment on its originator. Better would be to point out how most families of four, making under $22,350 a year really have no problems meeting those basic needs. Books like "Nickel And Dimed" suggest otherwise. I look forward to your large scale research which clearly refutes such anecdotal evidence.
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I have to sit through a lot of presentations from companies selling technology products - if the technical presenter is too slick and comfortable looking in a suit I probably assume that they don't really know what they are talking about as they probably spend their time on the road giving presentations rather than actually delivering value.

Being strong technically and having a good story as to how you have delivered value to previous customers and how you plan to deliver value to us is infinitely more important than how you are dressed.

[Edit: the best part of presentations is always to watch the face of the technical person when the sales person is giving their presentation - in my experience "real" technical folks don't have a poker face.]
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Pity it's not actually that RESTful. I think it could have worked great as a discoverable interlinked RESTful API.

But still very cool!
In some senses this will be harder on the raspberry pi. Certainly more complex. You'd have to worry about the whole stack from the kernel upwards. On arduino, you handcraft your protocol right on top of the TCP/IP lib and just squirt it straight into the bootloader. Done.
I'm not sure it's the software. It seems perfectly ok on my Sony VPCJ1 which is a proper piece of kit with a decent touchscreen.
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I liked the article!

I would mention that it is part of the millenium problems and the one million dollar prize that comes with it.
Silverlight was released in 2007 and as rumored lets say Windows 8 probably comes around next year or so - it still managed to provide an alternative to flash for all these years (at least for certain kinds of RIA). If HTML5 becomes a standard, isn't that a good thing that Microsoft is supporting it completely?

Besides that, folks can continue to leverage their XAML (for UI) and C#/VB skills for building even new Metro style apps.
> they probably spend their time on the road giving presentations rather than actually delivering value.

The two are not mutually exclusive.
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But they do keep your software running on newer versions of Windows years after Windows has moved on, so long as you kept to the API as documented. Also, it's hard to say that Apple or desktop Linux is fundamentally different, except that the schedule of changing everything might be slightly longer.
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Exactly. I was suprised why someone would use "mass" in a simple english wikipedia
I genuinely give as much of a shit as I did before they extended it and I'm sure that is the case for the rest of the population.

This is more about PR and marketing than it is about law.
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The IE10 available with the developer preview of Windows 8 doesn't support webgl. If there are no plugins, and Microsoft don't want to enable webgl support (like they have claimed), the Metro environment would be crippled. Although webgl is mostly used for demos at the moment, and doesn't have usable support on iOS and Android, there will come a time when webgl support is expected. I'm sure Metro alternatives with webgl support will show up, but it will probably be a long while before we know the possible state of webgl in IE10.
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Genuine question: that look sounds good to me, and I understand the requirements for the jeans, t-shirt and shoes, but how do I pick out a jacket that suits it (pun not intended, I mean I want a jacket that fits. Damm.)
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Which is context dependent. If I rocked up to any UK client I've known in the alternative outfit you've highlighted, I'd expect some decidedly odd looks. Replace the t-shirt with a shirt and possibly tweak the shoes a bit and we might be getting somewhere, but still....

Which is why, to be honest, I still favour suits - their universality. Other dress codes require a far greater cultural insight to properly judge, both regionally and of the client culture, yet in almost any practical context we're likely to find ourselves within IT, a suit works as a starting point. If your suit isn't comfortable and don't fit then you've found a bad suit; find a better one, which can still be from an ordinary high street retailer and be cheaper than you'd expect.
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This is what is called 'Over playing the game'. The user has a problem X, you observe your competitor is providing a solution Y to solve the problem.

Now instead of moving towards Y or inventing a better Y. What you basically do is over do Y and project it as a solution to every problem the user ever has.

The Tablet and phone need a UI that can be easily used with a 'finger touch'. The Desktop needs a UI that can be easily used with a mouse for bulk work. These are two different use cases for different devices.

Just because iOS is cool, Apple didn't start using the same for Desktops and laptops. On the same line Google has a separate OS for OS for net books(ChomeOS) and separate for mobile devices(Android).

Also the market is heading in a different direction when it comes to mobile devices. Its not about selling an OS! Its about giving away OS for free or a nominal charge to sell awesome hardware or ads on your search servers.

UI solves only one part of that problem. And apps? What about apps?
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...but equally useful for the example, which is just about dividing rocks into two groups. We're interested in the process of dividing the rocks, not the criteria for division.
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