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A lot of us are indeed skeptical. MS has a history of doing focused marketing. The ongoing BUILD conference is currently marketing Win8/WinRT.

A past push that sticks out to me most is the "3 pillars of Longhorn (Vista)". The vast majority of "the 3 pillars (WPF/WCF/WinFS/InfoCard)" are now useless.

We should all remember Vista/Longhorn as something that had an equal amount of marketing, but failed horribly. Anyone remember the Windows Vista UI Guidelines? A search box and back button in every application? The sidebar? Have a graphic designer design your application's UI in XAML (oops, they're still trying to push that one)? Maybe Windows 8's new stuff won't fail, but we can't tell at this point. This is also the same thing I say about Windows Phone, Azure and even something as heavily supported as the Entity Framework. You just never know when funding will be cut or if the product will die.

For me, with all this in mind, I do the bare minimum just-in-time learning to keep up with the day job, especially as it comes to frameworks and new product pushes. Fundamentals such as OO concepts or any kind of universal, timeless concepts, I'll study. But I won't bother with buying the newest WinRT book when it comes out because hey, why bother. Even if I do study up on one of these topics, I'll do it knowing that the platform may die at any moment. I'm sure WebOS folk or niche phone developers (Symbian OS?) know the feeling.

The vast majority of .NET developers effectively do the same regarding learning Microsoft frameworks, only they're more quiet or less honest about how little proactive studying they do, and usually won't own up to the truth. All .NET developers are 'behind the curve', at least as the curve is re-defined every new marketing push.
Not having a 'no asking for passwords' policy is just as bad. Most companies with online an online presence will tell you in their form emails that an employee will never ask you for the password. This one not only doesn't, but obviously regularly asks for a password.
That seems to be the point; you can only edit documents fullscreen. It prompts you to press F11 in Chrome.
There were plenty of "it is a good decision" claims in Apple's case as well.
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I think you are proving exactly the moral of that little story.
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I bought that one, it's quite well done and will be fun to re-watch every 10 years or so.
Inappropriately applied dichotomy, my brotha. "Figure it out yourself and lead" vs. "Manipulate someone else into doing it for me" ---- a lot of people would rather do it themselves if it were easy enough.
Also, I don't have a "team" behind me -- I do everything. Opening, qualifying, meetings, closing, negotiating contracts. Your MNC interviewer has likely never had to do all of these things.

Believe me, if you're good, this is to your advantage: the team "behind" a salesperson in an MNC soaks up their time and energy with enforcing consistent data entry and deduplication across at least four legacy CRM systems, utterly spurious pipeline analysis for the benefit of the management accountants and once management decides to step in with some meaningless metrics that might have worked in another industry, you'll probably end up meeting people without either of you having any idea why you're there. And that's in addition to all the non-sales-specific inane big company bureaucracy. There's a process to follow but its generally less efficient than winging it and whilst there might be people that, in theory, do things like marketing for you, you probably spend more time fielding their questions than they do assisting you.

I like to think of it as MNCs trying to level the playing field with those who actually need to work to find the customers first.
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Fair point, I was too hyperbolic.

I just wanted to emphasize that the 'public posts' metric is not necessarily ideal for a system where "easier private publication" was a showcased feature.
I just assumed it's was MS only atm from looking at the source they were showing in the Win 8 demo.

I guess it all depends on if it's accepted before win 8 officially launches.
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You got to elaborate on this. I'm going to guess that you're objecting to the way that the article seems to treat the number of jobs as a zero sum game, where boomers have to leave to "open up" one of a finite number of jobs for younger people (or anyone else, for that matter)? This was the first reaction I had to the article as well.

Thing is, it is actually debatable, or at least more nuanced than this. I lean toward the belief that relatively free markets and a robust entrepreneurialism can provide a huge amount of flexibility, to the point where discussing who "gets" a job may miss the point. Certainly young people who prefer to create startups are demonstrating that there's no need to try to climb a ladder, or at least that there are all kinds of options for creating your own job.

That said, I think there's enough friction and inertia in society and markets that a younger generation can be meaningfully stymied by an older one hanging on to the reigns.

Anyway, I'm not sure I've responded to your objection to this article - I'm really just responding to my own.
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I actually prefer the more logical conclusion to this thread: Sun's SunRay concept... everything is in the network (cloud), you use key(s) to access/control them.

However, I'd extend that and say that along with the "key" is a smartphone that can also (in a limited fashion) view/manipulate your cloud data and send/receive messages.

The important thing to recognize is that there will always be need for "more and faster" than a smartphone will be capable of providing.
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I had something similar happen. A month or two into a job (which I relocated for) they notified me that they had 'forgotten' some standard paper work, one of which was a non-compete that said, essentially, that I couldn't work in tech for a year after leaving the company.

It's a very nasty situation. I had incurred what was significant expense for me at the time moving and my previous position had been filled. It was very early in my career, so getting a job would have taken longer than the meager savings I had time to accumulate by that time.

So I signed it. I consider having savings enough to be without work for a year, at minimum, over crap like this is a high priority for me. So also is not being at the arbitrary whims of the employer in a fairly one-sided power dynamic.
Very slick. I tend to jump into fullscreen MacVim when I want to write distraction free, but this is clean enough I could see using it for some tasks.
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I just saw that you can use viemu for Word as well. Does anyone have experience with that?
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I wonder if a bunch of screenshots explaining the different functionality may be just as advantageous as an actual demo?
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> Just before July 4th, Angela, a 26 year-old Boston University alumna, was laid off from her job as a software trainer.

She was fired after her previous employer threatened legal action. You can't say she "chose to quit" that job.
You make it sound so big-brother-esque, but users are the ones who chose native apps over the browser. iOS has had excellent HTML/Javascript support since the first iPhone - vastly, vastly better than any of its contemporary competitors. In addition, web developers had a full year after it's release to create compelling web apps, but instead they clamoured for native 3rd-party apps.

What's held back web apps is not Steve Jobs, but the fact that creating them is incredibly painful and produces results that are barely acceptable except in a very small number of cases where the application is effectively a web page to begin with. The standards and libraries have evolved extremely slowly due to the difficulty of pushing out browser support across such a wide range of slowly-updating platforms. What counts as amazing in the average web app today wouldn't have been an impressive native client application in 1992.
That's false. The 'legacy' mode was shown running on arm devices as well: http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/14/nvidia-kal-el-windows-8-t...

So the legacy mode will be available on both intel, and arm devices, which I believe will make up all windows 8 devices.
'Legacy' desktop applications would probably need to be recompiled to run on arm devices.
I believe ffmpeg has been able to decode ProRes 422 for a while now. It is ProRes 4444 that there hasn't been any decoding available for. It looks like this adds support for it.
Gen X'ers bitching about being employed.

I couldn't write better comedy if I wanted to.
It seems that they chose to "enhance" it with a proprietary authentication mechanism ("X_MESSENGER_OAUTH2"): http://www.process-one.net/en/blogs/article/details_on_msns_...

Because, you know, it would be silly if you could just use any off-the-shelf XMPP client/library...
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I get the impression he's talking from a power user perspective.
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> Spend less and Save more.

What?! Be frugal and spend beneath our means?!

This man is a subversive. He and his kind should be hunted down and silenced.
Apple doesn't show their hardware products much before release. With their operating systems it's different. Remember, iOS 5 was announced a few months ago and still isn't released yet.
Nice, but there's still quite a stigma attached to 'nerd'. Many kids will avoid the site just because of that.
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Being an atheist is not about "good news", it's about reality - or more precisely, the perception thereof. I'd personally rather be right than tell others fictional good news. There is a stereotypical misunderstanding hiding in your assumptions about atheism and religion:

> If I believed, as he does, that there is no God, that all wonder and amazement and desire and love are merely chemical reactions, and that all consciousness will die with the universe, I wouldn't bother trying to convince others of it.

For many people who don't believe in deities, the contention that our existence is based on "mere" chemistry is not necessarily denigrating. On the contrary, the chemistry of life is awesome and beautiful. A mundane and scientifically valid model of how the world works is not automatically a nihilistic act of sacrilege against the universe. You see, for those people who don't believe, the attribution of everything meaningful to an external (fictional) entity with an oppressive agenda is just as bleak and meaningless as your perception of a life without god.

> You should believe this because it eliminates all meaning and purpose in life.

Now we have crossed into pure flamebaiting. Atheism makes no statement about the meaning and purpose of life. If you don't believe in god, you're an atheist. Atheism is not a philosophy, it's the absence of religion. As such, it can't and won't make statements to the effect you're describing. Also, the phrasing here is extraordinarily inflammatory in its nonsensical twistedness. I can't imagine anybody, whether theist nor atheist, saying this phrase. It's a total non-sequitur.

Looking past the straw man into the underlying assumption here, I feel prompted to point out that atheism does not eliminate meaning. Atheists don't necessarily have any traits in common. Some may indeed struggle with depression and existential worries, but my perception is that most of them do not. You fail to understand that for (most?) Atheists the absence of a belief in gods is extremely liberating and it enhances the sense of wonder they feel towards the universe and their own existence.

That doesn't mean most people drop the belief in gods just because it feels better, instead they become atheists because it wouldn't make sense for them any other way. Where they go from there is entirely up to them individually.

Personally, I say this to you: whatever floats your boat is totally okay. Nobody should be telling you what to believe or what to not believe - and neither should you. I believe you inadvertently come across as hostile towards non-believers and that is also not good. How would you feel if I made the same untrue statements you made about atheism about your life choices? It doesn't solve anything.
I never understood why Netflix effectively divorced their two major offerings. At one point, it made sense to carry the DVD subscription even if you're primarily a streaming customer.

However, as they currently structure it, these two services (DVD vs. streaming) could be separate companies and now almost compete for the same dollars.

Also I wonder if the loss of Starz is a bigger impact to their stock price than the lack of subscriber growth.
> According to my own calculations very few of the baby boomers will retire.

It is sometimes difficult to understand that infirmities of aging are not controllable. Or put another way: Many folks are forced into retirement by someone other than their company.
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Which is much more "how it used to be".

Initial copyright, until 1976, was for 28 years, registration required, with one renewal allowed for a total of 56 years (if I recall correctly).

While registration is still possible in the US (and is required for certain damages), it's not required. I agree that this would help greatly in addressing the matter of "orphan works".
I have a feeling that this could just be a blip on the radar and Netflix's business is actually OK long-term, but I am one of the people who quit when they announced the price hike. Not because I didn't want to pay more, but because it was the last straw of me realizing I wasn't getting much value for my money in the first place. Their instant streaming service never had what I wanted to watch, and I'm no longer willing to deal with the two-day turnaround time for the DVDs. (I'm not proud of that last fact, BTW.)
Right now they can be used inside the page. Of course we should do a export to pdf functionality and something to pick the stuff that you want to include.

Thanks for your advice!
I think there's a lot of overreacting. Personally, I don't really see any alternative to Netflix, even though their selection sucks here. I don't have cable so no option there. Hulu isn't available in Canada, most websites like NBC or ComedyCentral don't allow us to view either. Amazon rentals or buying is so much more expensive, I'd get a handful of movies for the same price as unlimited Netflix. So again, who gives a better deal than Netflix?
She signed the non-compete agreement in 2007 when she was 22 or so. Life is not exactly black and white as you try to portray these things to be.
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Great site, but the image of the kid on the left should have a negative z-index so it doesn't get in the way of the sidebar navigation.
It's not an "enhancement." It uses OAuth in a completely standard way. It was done to avoid people entering their Windows Live usernames and passwords all over the place, especially now considering how much can be tied to a WL account with Win 8.

I was part of the team that did this and we went to great lengths to make sure that we were in full compliance with the relevant RFCs.
_Get Lamp_ was a steller documentary! I pre-ordered the DVD, and had a chance to meet Jason Scott when he came to Denver for a showing. He's an awesome guy, and really seems passionate about creating these niche documentaries that help preserve a bit of computer history.

I've become something of a documentary fan lately, and while I don't have the time, resources, or skill to create them myself, I'm happy that I can at least help financially back projects like these.
Most rules of grammar are wonderful, unless you enjoy trying to extract meaning from sentences like, "their works by makes enjoyable everyone has style, which own what authors reading different writing".

The "rule" about dangling prepositions isn't much of a rule at all. Most grammarians shun it and it's never been followed widely in prose and certainly not in speech.

One related rule that is worth following is: "don't end a sentence with a preposition if removing it wouldn't change the meaning of the sentence." For example, "where are you at" should be "where are you" since the "at" adds no meaning (unless you want to convey a colloquial voice).
That is a great point. I have a CRM and my entry patterns sometimes fluctuate. That wouldn't fly at a MNC at all.
Apple is also following. See iOS5 notifications copying Android notifications as an example.
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I'd love to see a post on the branding lessons learned through variations in copy. What phrases worked and what ones sucked. The biggest branding mishap I see on a regular basis is a company that doesn't know how to talk to its audience.
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For any other Vim newbs like me who tried it and thought it wasn't built in to my Vim.
Yup, on Chrome it seems that Alt-N goes to the next page and Alt-P goes to the previous one. I really wish more web sites supported it, though.
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But those aren't really from a design perspective either. There's little about what makes 'his' font work better, just potshots at the 'other' fonts that suck because they don't copy his closely enough (except where they do, then they're ripoff assholes).

He's a sportswriter, and his home teams are Apple, the Yankees, and Helvetica.

Rooting for dominant winners like that isn't so bad in itself, but he does it as if they were still downtrodden losers in need of defenders — that's the core of what makes him so insufferable
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That seems to be the plan: " Linux is a possibility - PC. Mac and iOS would come first though."
I had no idea Fairchild was the grandfather of so many companies.
can I add Synapse (for Ubuntu) to the list ? Written in Vala, faster than Gnome-do and primarily developed for the ElementaryOS project.
"You can't continue to evolve Windows 95 by yourself. That's not true with each and every open-source product or project out there."

This benefit is a lot more hypothetical than real. Practically speaking you can't continue to evolve Linux 1.2.0 (the version in the Win95 timeframe) yourself either. That's the fulltime job of hundreds of people. In both situations you're relying on those behind the project to evolve them if you want to use them as a foundation of other software.

And as the parent poster mentioned, in the real world you're far less likely to have had to evolve your own software to deal with changes in the underlying OS if you developed for Windows. Win32 apps that use the APIs correctly still work 16 years later. Good luck getting your coff/old-glibc/old-UI-lib Linux app from '95 running on modern Linux...
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I was expecting more, but instead like the minor evolution. You can see the text be tweaked bit by bit. Font, sizing, arrangement within sections, word replacements, etc.

Think it speaks to continually tweaking your site bit by bit. Don't need to completely redo it or do massive revamps.
I recently left a job working for a large corporation that has its hands in everything (think Sony, Microsoft, etc). The non-compete in that case makes no sense - I was involved in, naturally, a very small corner of the company, but I was barred from touching anything that my former employer engaged in.

So, even if I was working on word processing apps, the fact that the company has a hand in cloud computing makes me unable to take a job that field also.

As corporations get larger, these issues will become more prevalent.
looks like the "X-Phx:true" header is required. Phx must be "Phoenix" which is the code name for the new twitter.com interface
On reflection, there is a difference between the Lump of Labor fallacy and a particular job opening up. If your only way to advance (say within a company) is to wait for someone above you to advance/leave/retire, then you personally will be affected by later retirement ages. It's not always easy to see alternatives to waiting, and they might come with risks you'd rather not accept.
We're scaling back a little to handle the usage spike from the initial launch, so some users will get polling even if their browsers support websockets. As the load stabilizes, we'll be switching them back on and you should see performance improve quite a bit.
The ARRI Alexa records in Apple ProRes 4444 or Apple ProRes 422. I am not sure if they got a license, but they have been doing it a while.
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but the patent licences fees still apply.
I have one major problem with Firefox for Mobile - it hijacks swipe left/right events and libraries like jQuery Mobile can not detect swiping.

Other than that I think it is great that there is a good alternative to the stock Android browser.
> I'm no longer willing to deal with the two-day turnaround time for the DVDs. (I'm not proud of that last fact, BTW.)

I don't see why that's unreasonable -- they've had instant viewing for quite some time now, but the online collection has been woefully lacking for an equally long amount of time. It's very reasonable not to be satisfied with the 2 day turnaround time on good stuff, when thousands of B-movies are available instantly.

If they hadn't introduced all 7 seasons of TNG, I would have quit too.
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Thanks.

That's a really good idea. I just put it together in a few hours and hadn't thought that far ahead :)
Logo use on internet at scale is infrequent and colors trump visual metaphor. These colors are distinctive as is the seemingly abstract arrangement of them which is really what counts. The Apple logo has been assailed from day one and contrary to michaelpinto's assertion, a logo never held back anybody....unless you feel the Yahoo logo "Y!" was a self inflicted decisive blow....and how do you construct "slightly vague" and "great job" into whole cloth. Help me here with how any of this matters, if the logo (which will more often then not be a chip on a nav bar) isn't evocative but is none-the-less a distinctive abstract color assemblage?
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Their Starz content doesn't run out until February of next year, so it won't have a real impact on subscribers until then.
I'd like to see any case where a non-compete makes sense. And if you can find one, also show how a confidentiality agreement wouldn't make more sense.

As far as the hairdresser shouldn't sign, what if all his/her potential employers have such agreements? There should be laws against this sort of thing.
Interesting. I always thought the Vita was running Android since it supports Android apps.
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In the US, Amazon Prime offers free streaming very similar to Netflix. It comes with your regular Amazon Prime membership that gives you free two day shipping on everything. The selection is obviously not nearly as thorough as Netflix (which from what I hear is poor to begin with), but I have few doubts about Amazon's ability to catch up.