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"and thus never learn how to manage remote tracking branches"

You assume that the user will use that site as only reference to git ever. Many people (including me) are very thankful to sites like this for providing a overview of the most-used commands, so they can start using it as soon as possible for actual projects.

Diving further into it and learning all the powerful capabilities can always be done later by reading the man pages (either on the web or as "troff output").
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1. Windows was never originally designed to work as a Server side operating system at the first place. They started to drive it on the server side when they first discovered the Internet had a huge commercial potential to sell machines on the backend. There fore all means of getting things done on a windows machine for a developer have to go somehow through a set GUI's to get work done programatically. This sucks from a programmers perspective, programming is all about level of customizability.

2. Command line on windows sucks, apart from just removing, adding files/directories and running commands anything else is just a pain. The UNIX command line is a complete interpreter in itself(bash).

3. The UNIX operating system is more than an OS, its a complete programming ecosystem in itself. The whole concept of everything being a file or a process is just so elegant. You can endlessly leverage native tools like sed/bash/awk/cut/tr/perl and other text processing utilities to solve any problem with a combination of text files and processes. Which is not easily possible with windows, heck using those tools on windows is big pain. They are often ported with limitations.

4. Debugging, is a breeze. Checking logs is a breeze. Text processing utilities and endlessly configurable tools make it very easy for system administration with the help of pipes. This is very crucial for system administrators. They often want to do stuff without the help of programmers to get quick solutions when they get paged at 2 in the night.

5. Many other development features like Inter process communication with tools like DBus. Sockets et al are vastly superior in UNIX than windows.

6. Many programming languages were developed(Perl/Ruby/C) with entire context of UNIX in mind. Therefore they natively work very well with UNIX.

7. Vast resources of knowledge of troubleshooting and maintenance available for UNIX. Which makes things newbies easier to deal with it.

8. Unix is open source, its freely available. And will be there for a long time. People who supply it do it on passion and pure volunteer effort and will do it for fun and because they like. Windows can be killed by anytime for profit.

9. Vendor lock in problems. I don't understand why I should use all MS specific software all over. I can't scale horizontally due to cost issues. Also apart from .NET developing for any other technology sucks on windows.

10. Lack of multiuser login, Servers need many people to login and work at the same time. For testing and for development reasons.Servers are just so much more than deployment only boxes.

11. GUI overhead, Why should I spend my computing resources on OS and GUI when I should I actually be spending them on my applications?

12. Registry is a pain on Windows, I don't have to worry about those hassles on UNIX.

The list goes on and on...
It certainly won't get easier to install a Linux dual-boot. It is already difficult enough as it is:

* Windows PCs without installation medium

* Windows installation with a full partitition table (four primary partitions)

* (intentionally?) corrupted partition tables

I.e. installing GNU/Linux requires you to resize partitions with a potentially corrupted NTFS file system and/or delete backup partitions. Alternatively the user uses a Windows image file as Linux file system (Wubi) which is slower and a more fragile solution.
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>I don't believe in WikiLeak's mantra that all information, regardless of context, should be transparent

Is that even their mantra? They didn't release all the diplomatic cables right away, and at least tried to protect the names of some people in these documents.
There is a difference between ensuring 100% support in major browsers, and applying a white list to usable browsers. Most of those small-time browsers are built on webkit, gecko or prestro anyway; so they shouldn't have any serious deviation of behaviour from the major browsers. Then you also have to consider javascript being a standard means most features should work on any browser that impelments the standard.
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"Explain virtual methods to me" - thereby ignoring anyone who can code in Python or Ruby, or anyone from VB.NET and several other languages where Overridable/Overrides is the terminology used.
> I think the 1080p craze is driven by consumer demand.

That's bullshit.

> For the average consumer (not a gamer, not a power user), the ultimate visual experience is an HD movie.

You get the same ultimate experience with the previous 16/10 resolution for this size: 1920*1200. Oh look, even more pixels.

> so the most sensible thing for a hardware provider is to deliver 1080p at the cheapest point possible.

Right, it has nothing whatsoever to do with consumers, it's just hardware providers lowering their costs by using TV resolutions on computer screens.

> Or to improve on other areas than purely pixel count (colour accuracy, brightness, viewing angle...)

Which definitely is not happening.
> within a few minutes I can usually only tell if they think like me or not. The rest of the interview determines if they can code regardless of my biases

If they don't ask for relevant details, etc, they won't be coming up with a solution no matter how they do it.
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Well, I'm sure they will gladly pay you the few cents that your contributions is worth, after substracting expenses, profit, and dividing between all customers.

It's a free resource only for _them_, because they've already invested what they've invested. For you to get the same "free" resource, you'd have to pretty much make the same investment.

I'm not sure what the data retention laws are in US, but what I'd personally find reasonable would be a mandatory "opt-out" option for all such services. Not opt-in, mind you - there is a host of innovation waiting to happen once such data becomes available, and by far most of it will be positive.
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I guess it is everybody else's fault but yours?

I think they are deliberately meant to be similar.
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> 3840x2400

If you can find an "old" IBM T220 or T221, that's their resolution in 22": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors
Nice. Now, make one for HN. :)

I use RES (for Reddit), pretty much just for keyboard navigation.

http://reddit.honestbleeps.com/
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D: At first, I thought you were telling us you were getting a bit too excited about John Carmack and his monitor.
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This is just screaming for an anti-trust lawsuit like the Microsoft one, if you ask me.
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They show a small notice when you access it via a direct link to a public post.

And they definitely use some useragent white-listing. Feels like 2004 again.
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Generally desktop operating systems are not ready for high dpi displays. Mobile was able to move faster in this area, but I expect the next OS generation will facilitate decoupling content size from dpi, particularly for windows.
It is ridiculous that Amazon is allowed to have paramedics parked outside and ship people to hospitals for completely foreseeable events.
If they had to pay for these externalities you bet they would paint their roofs white.
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" Windows was never originally designed to work as a Server side operating system at the first place."

Linux wasn't designed to work as a Server side operating system "at the first place". It was a toy project by a Finnish student.

Heck, UNIX itself wasn't designed to work as a server side operating system "at the first place". It was initially to be used for text processing / typesetting, IIRC.

Of course, things changed a lot on the way.

Now, Windows "at the first place" was a silly DOS add-on. Things changed here too. I assure you that Windows Server was designed to work as a server side operating system.
That's a dumb reason to fire someone, unless Microsoft somehow pays their recruiters negative money.
Don't mind him, Americans routinely forget that there's places that aren't America where people live. I used to do it too, at least until I expatriated.

PS: Diggin' my copy of Rule 34 that arrived yesterday.
Contrary to what some people might say here, $5k is a lot of money. It is entirely possible to build a company and bring it to (ramen) profitability with less than $5k. I personally barely spent $1k this year.
Am I the only person that would pay extra for a computer without all those fucking stickers on it?
Cloud computing bullshit bingo
FYI, they were perfectly legal during the ban, too, provided you owned them before it went into effect.
I'm not sure how telling everyone that Microsoft is working on a Nokia phone is leaking confidential information. Didn't MS partner with Nokia recently for the purpose of making Windows 7 phones?
A little bit OT: How did you escape?
I think you are too afraid to fail. You are too worried that if you build something shitty (at first), your peers will judge you.

I say fk it, just do it and launch. Life is too short to worry.
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> However, it is very difficult to imagine the legislation surviving a Supreme Court challenge on First Amendment grounds.

Next month is the TEN YEAR anniversary of the USA PATRIOT act, the legislation that abolished the fourth amendment. Checks and balances only work when they, well, balance.

Unfortunately that isn't the case any longer.
It shouldn't be necessary, especially if the reason for putting it in is that their mobile site doesn't work well with your device.
"""Here in India, Microsoft is famous only because the pirated version is freely available from anywhere, thorough anyone at anytime. That's the only reason why everybody uses it all the time."""

Flawed logic.

Sure, if people had to pay for Windows, maybe they would not use them.

But Linux is equally "available from anywhere, through anyone at anytime". You don't even have to pirate it.

So, if "everybody [in India] uses Windows all the time" it surely is not because it is easily available to them for free.

It's because they choose to use it over the equally available and free(er) Linux.

That could be for many reasons (they don't know any better, they are used to it, it is more polished, less hassle to use it for a variety of scenarios, etc).
There's qc [1] for Javascript.

[1] http://willowbend.cx/2009/12/05/qc-js-quickcheck-javascript/
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That produces inferior results. But whether they need or not is irrelevant. They do.
> "We routinely do not discuss personnel matters, but I can confirm that Joe Marini no longer works at Microsoft,"

I love it. We'll tell you what we otherwise wouldn't about a person who got fired for telling what we otherwise wouldn't tell you. That makes them so trustworthy and consistent.
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I often explain things to my computer illiterate wife. Once I break it down enough where she understands it I usually am able to see where I went off the rails.

Similarly, if you truly want to understand a subject, teach it to someone else.
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Why don't you write code? And make something viral!
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My guess is that the point is that there will be a functional programming and Haskell class taught by well known Haskell folks.
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True.

It seems that this was from a presentation at StrangeLoop 2011 (never heard of it before) that occured from 18 to 20 of September (https://thestrangeloop.com/news/11/01/27/strange-loop-2011) -- it ended yesterday!

Recordings will be available (http://groups.google.com/group/cascalog-user/msg/d357e51cbbb...), I just hope I remember to come back and check for them.

There are some other slide decks available from the conference (http://lanyrd.com/2011/strange-loop/coverage/); some other presentations seem interesting.

There is also another awesome slide deck (this time with annotations) from another presentation from Bill Odom, regarding key mappings: http://billodom.com/talks/vim-key-mapping.pdf
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I know I'm speaking through my reality distortion field, but who cares about this?
i think he actually tweeted thrice about the phone, and one of them was his rating of the camera quality/phone as 8/10
Perhaps we should consider this part of Apple's price premium.
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If Google's serious about competing they shouldn't set up roadblocks that their biggest competitor, Facebook, doesn't have. And even if Facebook didn't exist, Google's trying to make a site that thrives on user information so it makes no sense to create barriers when users come along.

Maybe a small web site doesn't have to support every browser, but Google has the resources to test anything they want. Besides, Opera and WebKit-based browsers are really good and aren't likely to show many new bugs.
PS is just a piece of the puzzle. In fact, if I were to automate things on Windows, I would pick perl/python/ruby(on linux, I use shell scripts only for jobs which are less than 50 lines).

The major question is does the objects which are to be automated lend themselves to automation?

Here is one of the results I found while looking for 'sql server automate'

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187061.aspx

If I were talking about MySQL/PostgreSQL, they lend themselves very well to automating. The shell script just calls the relevant programs.

Likewise, if I am automating nginx, shell is just the glue. nginx provides the nut and bolts, and scripting is the wrench.

Unless IIS, SQl server et al. provide similar facilities, powershell isn't going to help.

I haven't used SQL server in a long, long time. My doubts were from some articles I have read:

http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-t...

nix DBA’s used shell scripts as their primary management tool, but the SQL Server of that day was not scriptable. Would those DBA’s accept the use of GUI tools?

So it looks like it used to be the case that it wasn't scriptable, but it is now.
Compare the events to the News of the World hacking scandal. Good to see that the Head of the company stood down immediately
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Do something you really want to do instead.
Kinda Relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Difference_Engine

And a great book. Gibson rocks.
I don't see this. Apple sells hardware; incidentally, it comes with its own OS. I haven't met many people who bought a Mac for MacOS since Windows XP.
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But what product will they be putting the lock-in on? It may not matter, as we've seen with mobile OSes which, from the perspective of the median buyer, are locked in.
Kudos to him. Only 1 year and 5 months to reach 2000 hours! I'm impressed.

I began dancing Lindy Hop on 31st August 2009 and have been counting my hours (swing classes and dancing, not just lindy but also related styles) and I am not yet at the 1000 hour (almost there). I'm one of the most active dancers in the local scene and at 2nd or 3rd tier of the local dancers, the first being really good, so I have still lots of room to improve (not counting that I also go abroad).

He does about 4 hours a day of practice, that's 28 a week. Only in the most intensive workshops I have made those hours, and that wasn't deliberate practice.

I'll have to follow him just to motivate myself a bit more :D
Sounds like you've never dealt with storage at scale.

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Everyone except the users of Google Apps. Nobody talks about this bullshit.

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http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google%20Apps/thread?t...

They blocked lots of active users of many Google services, this way.
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You have much more faith in people relying on facts than I do.

Given that some people actively discount expert opinion, I can't see how concepts like logical reasoning would work...
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+1 to the previous comment: time is an illusion, billable hours doubly so.

You know what would be great? A trusted-third-party for judging whether a project meets its requirement milestones, and payments escrow to make sure that the money is actually there when it does ...
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Right now, there is no reason to abandon profitable platforms and invest in Microsoft's tiny store. At the very least Microsoft needs to drop this to 25%, if not 5% or 10%, so that they offer some obvious advantage to a developer. Heck, Microsoft should even have a short-term deal where their cut is much lower, e.g. 1% for the first year, just to make sure they acquire some volume.
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> Stefan Weitz, Microsoft's director of Bing, believes that if Bing can change the way people think about search, sooner or later users will switch over from Google.

For that to work people would have to change the way they think about microsoft as well, not how they think about search.

Right now there are several ecosystems on the web that you can be part of. There is the 'social' ecosystem which governs you interactions with other people rather than with other services. Facebook, twitter, google+ etc. Then there is 'mobile', which is a gateway to a bunch of data and to information. Then there is your work and the applications you use to do that work. Finally there is search.

Search is different from all the others in that you could switch overnight to a new provider, but just like any other good infrastructure component, you probably will not do that if you are satisfied with your current provider. Search is not visible enough to warrant a conscious decision until you are dissatisfied.

Changing your thinking on search is one hurdle that is going to be hard to cross without say google going down for a couple of weeks or some major mishap that would make their search results unusable for any period of time. That would give an upstart a better chance at a first shot at retaining the users.

Changing the way you think about microsoft is going to be a very hard obstacle to clear as well. Microsoft is synonymous with software that you use on your desktop and with several botched attempts at doing search. Before you try them again you'd have to see google performing worse than the best that microsoft has ever presented in this field.

Frankly I'm surprised that they keep sinking money into this, they've clearly failed to establish a profitable beach head, meanwhile google is making money hand over fist in the exact same domain. I'm happy they do, more competition is better but for now google seems to be acing them. Microsoft will have to be very careful that 'search' does not turn in to their Afghanistan.
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Transcript alongside the video is a great way of both experiencing the talk and also digesting and refering to snippets of real interest when sharing with others.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux...
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/behind-the-idc-data-wind...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
http://microsoft-news.com/idc-windows-server-dominates-serve...

Estimates of between 40-75% of all servers are Windows based. While Linux is ahead in Web servers (71% market share), they aren't the only type of server going around...

These stats are hard to measure as they can't really account for people who just install free linux distros, but in terms of sold Linux based licenses, Microsoft is ahead. At the very least it shows the that the assertion "no one uses Windows as a server OS" is far from the truth. 5-6 billion dollars revenue a quarter is hardly 'no one'.
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Thanks. They are far from perfect but do give a good feel.
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The Science Museum doesn't have the resources to immediately make them available to the general public

I always wonder when I hear that. Why not just upload a torrent to The Pirate Bay (or use amazon s3 & torrents). The geeks will make it available to the general public.