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> I can walk through the GitHub or SourceForge cemetery to find many dead bodies that will likely never be resurrected.

That's not the point - they won't be resurrected because nobody uses them anymore.

> BTW, for many companies, you can often get the code in escrow.

On one side you have a mechanism (open-source) that allows anyone interested to pool resources to maintain software after its previous maintainers abandon it. On the other, you see a mechanism under which you can, sometimes, get code that may or may not have been carefully maintained and may or may not have horrendous bugs you'll only become aware when you actually execute the contractual clause that allows you to get the source.

So, can we get the source for Windows 95? It's discontinued, right?
I have the same trouble when I use unconfigured vim. It gets rather better when I give vim stronger visual clues as to which mode it is in, which I seem to remember for no more that 2 seconds otherwise.

The following scripts give the general idea of how to do this:

1. http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_statusline_color_to_show_in...

2. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3165

Also, I gather than the Gnome Vim's colorscheme support allows you to affect the appearance of the whole window, not just the status line or whatever. I don't use it, though.
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These are actually pretty nice, coming from Microsoft.
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I'm not sure this author actually reads the 0.99 books from Amazon. I read quite a few of them (kicked a bad video game habit), and it appears many authors of the SciFi multi-volume publish book 1 at either free or 0.99, with the rest of the books in the series around the 2.99 price point.

Like apps, I will buy almost anything at the 0.99 price point. But at 2.99, I'd probably skip the first book unless I had a recommendation, and for all of these "long tail" authors, there is little chance of me discovering them. But with this pricing model, the top-100 books are always churning up a few new authors every week for me to check out.

It's very interesting because it is so different from the app or standalone-book models.
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Didn't notice the online help initially. Thanks for pointing it out.

Shouldn't Assign be "Hover + [Space]" rather than just "[Space]"?
So probably, there's just no more money to make with IM or people are moving away from MSN to Facebook. Funny how becoming more and more irrelevant can make people suddenly be "interested" in open standards.
I dislike the common implication that NP complete means "the stupidest brute force thing is the best way we know how to solve the problem." For example, meet in the middle will turn subset sum from 2^n to 2^(n/2).
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For me it is the other way round: belief in god would eliminate all meaning, wonder and purpose in life. After all with a god, everything would be arbitrary (whatever god wants). So what would be the point in doing anything, trying to understand anything? God could just change the thing I just understood in the next millisecond, and all my effort would have been wasted. Also, what would there be to wonder about, if the answer is always "god made it so"? And, presumably god would already understand the thing he created, so what would be the point in me trying to understand it - the puzzle would already be solved. It would merely be cruel of god to withhold the information from me.

It's a bit like modern Hollywood movies: computer graphics have enabled arbitrary visual effects, so they have become boring to me (the effects, I mean). I almost never wonder "how did they do that".

Also Dawkins wrote a lot about the issue you present, and he makes good points about the universe without a god being fascinating.
Are there any women on G+? Like, any at all?

Ever since Google's decision to roll it out by providing invites exclusively to old white male technology bloggers, this has been an utterly male-dominated network. Is there even one soccer mom signed up to G+ in the United States?

Hint to developers: to make a social network, you need men and women to talk to each other.

(I also agree with the comments about the Real Name policy being very destructive to usage. Facebook, regardless of what their policies say, has a HUGE number of people using pseudonyms and very little enforcement against them. Nor do people have much to lose - okay, their friends list gets chopped down if their Facebook account gets dropped, but you can rebuild most of that in an hour. Google seriously threatens a huge chunk of people's lives if they cancel your account, and having Google executives proudly talking about how all this data will be really valuable to sell as an identity platform is Not Helping.)
> Think of it this way, Metro is their tablet/iPad mode.

That's not what the article says:

"The Metro-style browser is the full screen, chromeless implementation of Internet Explorer that most people are expected to use with Windows 8."

I have also read this elsewhere. Do you have a cite to back up your claim that Metro is tablet-only?
You can make a battery with much higher density, but it's not stable. Your battery could last 12 hours, but it might burst into flames before then.
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You have a good point. I should have been more precise; I was talking more about the tippy top of their stack, that is, whatever app framework or tool is this week's answer to some relatively simple question, like how to retrieve results from a DB and display them on a web page, or how to display some relatively advanced interface on that page.

As an outsider (the last time I developed on a Windows platform was 2001) I feel like I see different acronyms all the time in the Windows app-building world, each with a lifetime of about three years.

If I'm in a bookstore, the cover of the latest Windows related magazines always seems to be about some dramatically new way to do some relatively boring thing, and how you should abandon everything you're doing and use this stuff instead.

But perhaps it is not fair to judge the entire MS platform by these more frothy aspects.
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I propose an atheist breeding program ;)

Anyway, what with HN and humor it is probably good that this has been flagged off the homepage, but you may very well be right.

The religions we observe today are the result of - heavy irony here - an evolutionary struggle to survive, and simply because of that the religions that remain are pretty good at what they do, to spread and to remain. An atheist movement capable of competing with religion on sheer numbers alone would probably have to borrow bits and pieces from those very same religions in order to be successful in that competition.
I'm all for campaining for logic and rational thought. If Dawkins confined himself to the instances where religion (or at least religion-flavored politics) interferes with science and education, I would have no problem with it.
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I'll let you have the last word, but regarding the expectation of interesting points, I would ask that you peruse Craig's publications. Not all of the journals would impress you, but some will:

http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/PageServer?pagename=publ...

Craig is a serious philosopher with credible philosophical publications to his name. That is why he is worth reading (perhaps more his journal articles than his "popular" books, indicated by "P" in the above list). That is also the reason why Dawkins should take him on in debate.
Not by much. Seems like we've hit a limit of human engineering at least for the technology at that time. The idea that you can do loads better than NASA or the Russian program, safety wise, is a pretty big claim, especially considering that the Falcon series has blown up more than it hasn't.
Well:

> No it isn't. Instead I would say that the JVM, which took ages to release version 7 (and we'll probably wait another 2 years for version 8), is light-years ahead of .NET

...

> while the DLR is somewhere in limbo

...

> Btw, speaking of Java's garbage collector, it's so kick ass that no other VM comes close.

...

etc

I didn't downvote, but saying stuff like that without a single bit of concrete information to back up the those arguments is pretty useless.

Then you have:

> Personally, I consider it a lot more awesome when some dude I never heard of appears from nowhere with a usable LISP implementation (Clojure).

Which disregards that non Microsoft employed people create languages for .NET too. Nemerle is a great example, and that's how the Iron projects initially started before MS got involved.

and also:

> The fact that .NET is only usable on Windows has been its major flaw since for me ever since I heard about it. It might as well be the most awesome technology in the world (although that would be a stretch of imagination), but it's completely useless if I can't run it wherever I want.

Which is just almost ignorant. I used to be employed writing ASP.NET web apps that ran on linux servers before I switched jobs. Then you have xamarin which lets you develop .NET apps for iOS and Android. Needless to say you get that ability automatically for Windows phones, etc. So all in all to me it seems like .NET's reach is pretty impressive.
> As far as I know, if I do something illegal with a Porsche or an iPad, their respective makers are not responsible of that misbehavior, and therefore should not be entitled to forbid me from doing it.

You are correct, but I am unclear as to what you could be referencing. You can add pirated MP3s, eBooks and movies to iOS devices, if you so choose. You can even jailbreak them to customise them even further, provided you don't also expect warranty service.
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It would be a lot easier to tolerate the religious people if they kept their thoughts to themselves and would not try to exert their morals over other people...
There's a great discussion in the comments.
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Can't edit my post anylonger so I'll reply to myself.

The issue is probably common to all browser plugins.
I would agree that the math required is not 'complicated' from the point of view of anyone with basic understanding of discrete logic, but it's certainly too complicated to express in simple english terms that are understandable at the level i was shooting for.

if you want to do the proof that all problems in P are also in NP, you have to explain the notion of a decision problem and show that any np-complete numerical optimization problem can be converted to a decision problem without increasing its computational complexity by more than a function bounded by a polynomial.

someone named 'balabiot' changed the article by adding an incorrect 'proof' that P is a subset of NP, at the same time you made this post. the incorrect proof reads:

All P problems are NP problems: if a problem is easy to
solve, to check an answer you just solve it and check that
the results match.

this invalid proof makes the assumption that an np-complete problem has a single solution. many np-complete problems have multiple solutions; there many be many ways to pack the knapsack, color the graph, or satisfy the boolean circuit. if you are presented with a valid solution, but the algorithm you use to solve the problem instance produces a different, but also valid solution, your comparison would fail.

note that simply solving the problem (because it is in p) is NOT the same thing as verifying a solution correct.
I clarified what I meant a bit above.

And who said anything about open source? I'm not sure I agree that things are as dire, but even if they were that wouldn't affect the argument about MS.
Thanks Mark,

Good work Indeed.

Can you please explain why you think P=NP. I am deeply interested in knowing about them.
I think G+ is a stunning example of Conway's Law.

They built a copy of their own organization.
I don't like Cult of Mac, as it is a very classless site, but where did you get the idea that only Apple will get this technology? The only difference I saw between the Gizmodo and the Cult of Mac article was how Apple may use the technology. They even mentioned that Intel demos were running on a PC. It is an Apple blog and I would expect the same of any site this narrow in news.
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i agree that there are a lot of problems, but the goal of this article was to make the topic as simple as possible. any simplification of a complex, mathematical construct will invariably result in hand-waving and undefined terms; i tried my best to keep those to a minimum. i plan to expand the article in the future, to clarify some mathematical details. thanks for the feedback, though.
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Did you have more than a 1000 search terms ? - if so I think I figured out the bug, and it should be fixed now (as is the title bug).

Unfortunately none of my sites have more than 1000 search terms (that's Google API's default for the max number of results returned) so I wasn't able to test that scenario.

All the others suggestions are good too, I'll add them to my todo list.

The difference in numbers might be because my report is showing unique visitors as opposed to GA which shows visits, if you switch to visitors in GA it should hopefully give you a closer number.

As per privacy: I'm not saving any data (although I might in future for caching purposes to speed up performance), although I am storing the oauth key so you don't have to give permission every-time you visit the site. I won't share the data with anyone and I won't use the data for any purpose other than for producing the reports. I'll write up a proper privacy policy and link it from the site.

I'm also bound by Google's API policy which legally prevents me from doing anything evil with the data without permission and is probably much more enforceable than a website privacy policy!

The website actually only went live last night, so it's still got kinks I'm working on ironing out :)
The solution to this is that when using Vim properly you're always in normal mode except for short bursts of typing. Don't hang around in insert mode. Need to think for a second about what to type next? Get out of insert mode, think, and then enter insert mode again.

The result of this is that "insert mode" stops being so much like a separate mode and starts feeling more like a command itself! It's the difference between:

move over a word
enter insert mode
type "foo"
exit insert mode
move back a word

and

move over a word
insert the word "foo"
move back a word
Fine, how about they just become unprofitable after some accident or other event. Now the US has lost all its launch capabilities. Here comes the big bailouts. Why not just have NASA make its own rockets with private companies for certain tasks. I don't understand the rabid pro-privatization crowd's insistence that its one or the other.

The military works the EXACT SAME WAY. They bring design specs and ideas to contractors, do x amount of engineering themselves, and let the contractors do the dirty work. I don't understand why the military gets to design their own stuff but suddenly our civillian space program should just be a check writing machine to Elon Musk and friends.
"That the Holocaust occurred is completely and utterly beyond question."

It's painful that there is even the need to remind people of this.
Aren't Emacs and Vim basically the same editor at this point?

There are some stylistic differences, which can be surprisingly subtle, like the differences between acoustic and electric guitar.

But pretty much every other editor these days wants to be an MP3 player.

Today's editor war is between (a.) technical people who expect to spend many hours a day manipulating text for the next few decades, and (b.) people who don't ever want to think about text editing because it seems low-level and boring.
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What's interesting here is not just how they play with the copy, but how they iterate over small details such as margins, padding, and shades of colors (even on the text and links).
This is why I said 'real-world' technology. I'm aware that there is a lot of testing in labs regarding this but it hasn't made it into the consumer's hands.
Nope, I'm afraid not. If I knew what reports would be useful, I'd probably make them myself.

I'd love to know how I rank for the keywords that bring me traffic, but I'm not sure if there is an easy way to get that from Google.
These things always lose me when they start saying gaming has no rewards.

Hopscotch, okay... I don't see a reward to that. But when, as an adult, have you felt the need to play a game on the level of hopscotch? It's a kid's game. And they probably get something from it, but we don't remember what.

Risk? That's a competitive game. Every single competitive game has a reward: An ego boost. Besting someone else at something.

And that's what points are about. That 'press a button for 1 trillion points' game? I guarantee that someone has played a game like that and bragged about their score... Because they clicked more than they think anyone else would have. Bragging rights.

Gamification of most websites loses sight of this. If you can't brag about your accomplishment (or don't want to) then simple achievement-based gamification doesn't work.

And let's face it, people who are 'gamifying' their sites are doing so because they think they can pay a 1-time fee and increase customer loyalty forever. It's not like an actual rewards-based program where they'll have to pay out constantly to maintain it.
That's a very narrow definition of a tablet. Regardless, they also showed at a different conference the actual Windows desktop with Office running on ARM. If it can run the full desktop it can Metro as well.
what happens in the example i gave above? if the minimum complexity of solving any np-complete problem is O(n^2e80) then we'd need such massively parallel computing that you'd have to turn pretty much every atom in the universe into a computing device.

i agree that p != np is the instinctive model most theoreticians have about the universe, but if science has taught us anything in the last 100 years, it's that our instincts are often wrong, and the story of science will probably never be finished.
I noticed "Drop a bomb" too and thought wow...what a terrible idea. First and foremost because their competitors can obviously avail themselves of the same tools.
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That is about the worst advice for hiring that I could imagine.
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No, time of day is based upon the timezone of your profile (shown when you pick your profile).

I looked at doing it by time-zone but Google just doesn't have enough information, it doesn't store user timezone and the location data isn't good enough. The US alone has nine timezones with some states having multiple time zones. Trying to adjust for timezones accurately would require a huge amount of work.
Prices float toward the marginal cost of production.

Saying that's heading in the wrong direction is like saying that we could make a better plane if we just had less gravity.
I still use it, because I like it better than FB. However, most of the people that signed up when I invited them don't appear to use it much. I feel like I'm yelling into the wind.
That's a good point. We're working on allowing users to quickly jump into playing (with a temporary account), by just asking for a username, then allowing them to complete registration later if they choose.

It's not entirely about spam, either... user accounts are closely tied in with the structure of the site, so it's hard to have accounts and anonymous users playing the same game. If you sign up, you'll see that there are a lot more features on the site than just playing! For example, the home page turns into a news feed sort of page, where you can see new activity on threads you've played in. The user profile page (here's mine: http://www.teledraw.com/user/camupod), which allows people to check out the turns you've played on previous threads.

Give it a chance, please? :)
I do. And love it. I scripted my blog to import all my public posts on G+. My friends read my G+ posts, my family reads my blog. There was some service posted here on HN that I signed up for which auto-posts all my G+ public posts to my Twitter. So I only have to post in one place. Works out quite well. Also, I created a sorta popular G+ extension (Plus Minus) and people from all over the world have started to add me. At least to me, G+ doesn't seem to be dying and new features keep coming out on a daily basis.
i'm not sure i see the conflict... care to elaborate?
Algorithmic thinking may be a useful skill but in my experience, there are down sides. Many (not all) programmers are rigid in their thinking; yes they can solve problems logically but sometimes this obstructs other ways of thinking.

Ever since I learned programming, I've found that the more I write code, the harder it is to get in the flow of other tasks that require a loose, less rigid mind set (sports, dancing, writing, music, business). So now I deliberately do things to balance these mind sets.
I think you are missing the even more important detail. These are all idle power consumption numbers. Intel is just telling us they've found a way to use less power when doing next to nothing. There's no claim you will see a similar magnitude improvement when rendering video or compiling a kernel.

This feature is probably related to some kind of new feature in Windows 8 where tweets and emails would continue downloading even when the laptop is asleep with a low power status LED/display or sounds to notify the user.

It is certainly not an indication we are going to start seeing i5 processors in cell phones in the next three years.
I have to agree with you. I wasn't clear, I was ranting more about how their app-building frameworks or other middleware tend to be touted with great enthusiasm, and then abandoned, a few years later, with equal enthusiasm. Silverlight is a great example.

As you say, C# developers are a lot happier than Java developers.
VoIP and skype not allowed in India.. Phew, that's news to me and i am in India.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." - Henry Ford

Mr Ford's reasons for not talking to customers though is a lot better than "you don't have time"
I do. And I haven't published even one post that wasn't targeted to a specific circle (non public).

I think maybe the author should wait for G+ to be visible to all users and integrated over all Google's products, have a search feature and not to mentioned easier to sign up to before he starts echoing unreliable and meaningless stats.