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Overall, the author's argument is somewhat dependent on a premise that Windows 7 should be optimized for edge cases such as compiling code written for multiplatform implementation (e.g. Chrome) rather than using the managed code model around which Microsoft's development of Windows has been centered for many years.

If one were optimizing Windows performance, none of the specific areas used as examples would receive much attention given user demographics. What percentage of Windows users use the command line, much less compile C programs, never mind using "cmd" shells to do so?

Windows command line gurus will be using Powershell these days, not the legacy encumbered "cmd" - elsewise they are not gurus.
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Thanks for the feedback. Yea we are still deciding on the logo. Like the Bee but I think the placement has to be played around with :)

Let's discuss the language construction in a call soon. Thanks for the other pointers as well
Are you implying that somehow the vacuity of this acquired reflex in a reasonably safe place and its associated tiredness makes you wish to go to a dangerous place, if only to make that reflex have a purpose, a meaning?
I bought the game to see how you implemented that. The game is 99 cents. Before the second(!) level, I am asked to buy a blade. Turns out

a) I have to buy money to buy a blade (WTF?! Either you charge for the game or the in-app purchases)
b) I cannot close the buying menu without buying anything
c) It is completely unclear to me how the practice blade is different from a "real" blade

You talk about how you detect players' intentions. My intention was to buy a game for 99 cents. Not for 10 bucks.

Seriously...
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Smart investment. Twitter has really changed news and personal broadcasting in ways many of us don't appreciate. And Twitter has some of the smartest people dispersing pearls of wisdom and knowledge like nowhere else.

Again, Twitter is a smart investment - in more ways than just money.
Bittorrent takes effort.

All this will take is a Facebook post of "Hey, install this plug-in and you can access all the things!" and suddenly the 99% are on board.
"Isn't this usually when someone pipes in and says "seems like a good opportunity for a startup"?"

I guess SOPA will spawn some good ideas for startups too. Companies that will scan your website for "violations" and others that are started by lawyers to protect you.
Presumably users would switch to alternatives in case of intervention, which would be a big hit to this prince's investment.
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I agree the demand will be high, and especially at release it will be impossible to find a board.

However this group is tied tightly with Broadcom and are going to be able to deal in high volume. Even if they end up wholesaling to digikey for $25, and we pay a markup, it will still be a great deal and I have no doubt, a success.
I sat and stared at that screenshot of Internet Quorum for about five minutes with a mixture of shock and despair.

I'm a user experience designer. I started my career in the mid '90s, trying to turn green-screen DOS applications into GUIs without letting things like Internet Quorum be the result. I've been fighting the good fight for fifteen years.

With that one screenshot, I felt like the whole thing had been for naught. I literally got a chill up my spine as I sat there, thinking about the stifling, bureaucratic, inflexible DMV mindset that led to an abomination like that, and realizing that even at the highest levels of government, that's what it's like.

Our entire government, from municipal planning offices up to the top levels of the Pentagon, Congress, or even the White House, lives in this world of We've Always Done It This Way and You'll Need The Proper Authorization For That.

I mean, I knew this all along, but somehow seeing that screenshot - http://www.intranetquorum.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/featu... - it hit me in a visceral way I hadn't thought about in a long time.

All these years in corporate and startup America put me in a world where the need to move faster and compete has led me to believe that things had changed since the beginning of my career. In the world I live in, they have. But I had forgotten that in many places, things haven't changed much at all.

Of course I'm upset and fuming at the massive bloated waste that is our government, and I wish we could just put on our Guy Fawkes masks and wipe it clean in one easy swoop.

Clay Johnson is right, though. We need to learn how Congress works, make better tools, get our own lobbyists to educate the dinosaurs that are there now, and get new people into office who know more about the world we live in.

It's a daunting proposition.
I saw Hugo in 3D and Martin Scorcese made it look _amazing_. I have never seen it look as good as he managed. I don't know how he comes across in interviews, but he is clearly a virtuoso with it in practice.
On the other hand, seeing violence up close gives you a better understanding of experiences many people outside the affluent west have to deal with. I ran back toward my bus after it blew up in Jerusalem and I mostly don't regret it. I hav been haunted by the experience since (the smell most of all) but I also feel like I gained a lot of sympathy for people whose situations were previously totally abstract to me.
Why, oh why, this stupid meme that programmers are asocial or antisocial still exists in this day and age? Is it because of some antisocial programmer individual that wants to be like everyone else, and label everyone else as antisocial? Or is it because they have less "friends" than merketing guys whose job is to call acquaintances friend? I agree that there are asocial people in this profession, but no more than in any other profession, and this generalization is only making harm to other programmers.

As a punishment to this name calling, I will remove his site from my "Ad block" exceptions list and will call all my "friends" to do that too ;)
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I don't think this is true, at least for the C++ compiler. There's a 32-bit version producing 32-bit code, a 32-bit version producing 64-bit code and a 64-bit version producing 64-bit code.

Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but this is my hazy recollection rather than some kind of informed statement.
That was the key missing component. MIT may well end up changing the world.
And then I get the vanilla sword for free after lv.2? Dude, you are confusing me. What would have happened if I had bought that sword after lv. 1?
There's several problems with that screen. I'm not a professional, and there should definitely be user testing, but these are my observations.

- There's way too much text. Users don't like reading. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/10/treating-user-myopi...

- Nobody who isn't a nerd will know what MTP and PTP stand for.

- This screen could be broken down, roughly, into three large buttons for Windows, Mac, and Linux with no extra text. Windows needs no explanatory text or further configuration. The screen displayed after the Mac button is touched could instruct the user to download File Transfer for Mac. The screen after the Linux button could contain instructions for whatever it is Linux users do to connect via PTP. Heck, you could even show Linux users the current screen; they probably won't care.
Very well written.

I had a similar experience with the tricks the mind can play after a bad car accident a few years ago. Although I didn't know it at the time, I had broken almost everything except my left arm and neck. But I could quite plainly see that my right femur bent in an unnatural curve like a floppy puppet's leg. Yet still I insisted that the rescuers couldn't phone my wife because she was 7mths pregnant and had gone back to bed that morning after feeling sick.

Subconciously, my brain was thinking I shouldn't bother her with this and I'd be patched up and home for dinner. I just couldn't process the obvious inputs like a normal rational person.

Also, although I remained concious throughout, I don't remember much of the incident and had no idea how they got me out of the car until I saw the police photos. The mind is a strange thing.
Funnily enough, individual Americans also have little control over Congress. I think we're all in the same boat here (and I don't even think the article implied otherwise).
I would be interested in seeing your resume and the actual emails you are sending. Perhaps you should be doing some more formal A/B testing with variations on your resume/cover letter.

This could be an interesting startup opportunity :)
Having non-assessment quizzes interleaved with the lectures was also fantastic.
> This screen could be broken down, roughly, into three large buttons for Windows, Mac, and Linux with no extra text.

Exactly. This turns it from an option that the user has to choose to an option where they already know the answer.
my 2 cents.

- keep text above the fold. easier to read titles than decide to click on a video.

- make titles easy to read. grid is not easy to read. find your top 4 titles write them above the fold than video than you can write the rest of the titles.

- I think that a road map of prices would help but this is probably not possible now. "beta subscribers secure 20% discount of our listed price" would probably increase your signups.
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This is why it's my policy to wait a few months after a release before upgrading. Gives them the chance to iron out the worse bugs, and for people to write about problems like battery life.
So when you didn't use the two most important perf features in MSC, its performance was underwhelming. This is no surprise.

Also, if you were doing anything heavily floating-point, MSC 2010 would be a bad choice because it doesn't vectorize. Even internally at Microsoft, we were using ICC for building some math stuff. The next release of MSC fixes this.
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If that's the case, then how does that explain SOPA? Take the two primary backers, the MPAA and RIAA: 2010 revenue for the movie industry in the United States was about $10B, while the 2010 revenue for the music industry was approximately less than or equal to that figure (RIAA's FAQ suggests $7.7B in 2009). Compare that to tech companies: Apple alone had $28.57B in the Q3 of this year (to say nothing of yearly revenue). Certainly revenue does not equal profits or market share, but the point should still be made: one technology company is arguably larger than both the movie and music industries in the United States. If the matter were as simple as money equaling laws, then SOPA should never have seen the light of day.
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Well written by a regular HN contributor, but not hacker news. If somebody is interested in Daniel's writings, they can just subscribe to his RSS.
That problem, of educating elected officials about legislation that they could get informed about from well-funded lobbies instead, exists in pretty much every government. Educating the general population so that they care is also a good idea, everywhere. And since we know this sort of proposal has been, and will be, exported, we need the same sort of understanding of our institutions that is being promoted here.
Technical interviews in the US compared to the UK
I've recently moved to the US from the UK and a few weeks ago put my resume out there looking for programming work. So far I've had 3 interviews with some of the 'bigger' names around and all 3 came as quite a shock.

Firstly, all the interviews have consisted of at least one highly technical phone screen - this is following a more relaxed (but still technical focused) interview with HR & management. If you get past those stages, you then have an entire days worth of technical interviews involving a lot of whiteboard coding. Most of the questions are completely irrelevant to real-world programming (reverse a linked list etc.) yet a lot of weight is put on the answers.

In the UK, this level of testing is rare in my experience. Instead more focus is put on your resume and achievements plus if your personality fits during the 1-2 hour in-person interview. You will get a technical test in most places but it is usually an hour or so and very job focussed.

My second problem is to do with attitude. We brits tend to remain rather modest of our achievements because boasting is considered in poor taste. I'm finding that attitude is really affecting the way American interviewers are judging me. It seems they expect interviewees to scream out loud that they are the greatest programmer the world has ever seen! Of course I'm not, but I am bloody good at what I do.

The strangest thing is, I get calls almost every day wanting to talk about interviews based upon my resume yet so far, no luck in breaking that cultural barrier that seems to exist.

I'm starting to adapt though and understanding the American way of doing things. I want to fit in here and have a successful career. If anyone wants to share some insights I'd be most grateful.
Just thought about it. I haven't finished the main quest/plot, so I cannot be sure and I won't spoil any detail here. I cannot judge how far I'm into the main plot but I did a ton of side quests and explored a lot, actually avoiding progress on the main line.

You are correct, a couple of times (4?) I encountered a situation where I needed a shout. Three categories:

1) Do the shout that everyone knows (no spoiler here: You get one 'for free' at the start of the game), to prove that you can. I consider this pointless. It's more like "Link, can you swing your sword". A press of a button, not 'changing the game' or 'necessary to advance' in a real sense. It's not that I bomb my way into a previously hidden cave, I have to shout someone in the face because the story requires it..

2) "I taught you this shout that you might never use again (for me, at least. I tend to use just the first/basic one and even that's rare), show me that you understand its use" (twice?). Again, this is not used to overcome anything, it's just part of the narrative, to show your character's understanding, part of the 'being taught' play. Doesn't qualify.

3) "This impassable area can only be accessed with a specific shout that you get right at the entrance and that is useless everywhere else" (again, from my experience so far). This is - a key. Not a tool. A key that you only get after a couple of quests and that requires you to press Z (or whatever button on the console of your choice) a couple times to pass the 'door' area. Once, so far for me. Maybe I need to return in the future and use it again. Still a key in my book.
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Maybe it is time for Hacker News to somehow cluster related stories together.
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Not the companies. Their corporate officers. A few pickets outside a (morally) corrupt CEOs home, or his country club might make him more careful about future business decisions. As it stands corporations are a useful shield for the sometimes reprehensible actions of the human beings who run them.
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These might be questions to ask after you get the offer, but IMHO you'll likely decrease your chances of getting the job if you ask them early in the interview process.
I've always really liked 3D movies when it's well done. I thought it really made Avatar more amazing and it gave Alice in Wonderland an even more other worldly effect. Most animated movies turn out really well too.

Of course, most movies aren't filmed with 3D in mind and it is crappily added in post. Those suck.
I had to play around a little with the level. If the level is too high, too many false positives are picked out.

I was impressed until I read that--the guy is basically fitting the model/procedure to the training set (of size 1). I'd wait for a more general approach before accepting the answer.
This is why it's a bad idea to provide passwords via arguments to commands. For example:

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Not that I've ever experienced - for Brits, Yanks and Europeans. YMMV!
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Actually, for websites managed by non-tech people, I see a big shift towards Facebook Pages (and Twitter).
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Considering that they don't really line up with the goals of a "normal" SO question, I can't really blame them for closing it. It may be better for them to create a separate section for these types of open-ended questions.
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Thanks. I actually run a company - I have to constantly watch people and make the effort/results separation. Folks never understand when they get a negative review "for putting in 12-hour days." See, it's because you spend 4 hours/day running in circles.
I run Windows 7 in Boot Camp every day and it easily outperforms OS X on the same exact hardware for most common tasks (browsing files, the web, starting up apps, etc).

The Windows desktop GUI system is more stable than anything else out there (meaning that it's not going to change drastically AND that it's a solid piece of software that just works) and it's as flexible as I need it to be, so that's why I stick with Windows. With virtual machines, WinSCP, Cygwin and other similar utilities, I have all the access to *nix that I need.
I created an account just to upvote you.

This is a very brave step in the right direction. In the long run they can NOT justify to give those remote learners not a "real" MIT degree (and I am sure they know this).
Combined with open-data tracking it could also be possible to track the economic effects of individual policies faster and more efficiently.

I suspect that you'd see far fewer people getting into politics with a system like this.
This would indeed be great, but as Clay pointed out software like this would need to be housed on hardware belonging to Congress. That being the case, it could be very difficult to get them to agree to something having the sole purpose of holding them to a greater accountability. I'm not saying it isn't an idea worth pursuing; just that it may not be a walk in the park to get them to use it.
Would you fire this person?
The american south has y'all (=you all) for that purpose.
Yeah something like that
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Seems more like:

Added some new features to my web app

Than:

Pivoted my startup
I'm surprised, would have expected that in Germany.
I often reflect on how much the executive branch resembles a machine executing code. Government based on written laws has been around for such a long time that I am surprised (when I think about it) that more safeguards and tools such as version control that have evolved in the world of computer science have not naturally evolved in the world of government.

There is no reason bills could not be developed in the open over Github.
> I imagine he has no choice

I think so as well. Back when Guillermo del Toro was going to direct it, he posted in The One Ring forums saying they didn't any interest in 3D at the moment, but "If after AVATAR the market may change and demands are put upon us, etc that is in the future". http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi...
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I couldn't disagree more (obviously).

There is nothing in those questions that could lead an employer to think that you wouldn't be suitable. They are intelligent, natural questions and the answers are very relevant to someone applying for a job.

Once an offer has been made, the opportunity to ask detailed questions is gone. If someone posed these questions to me after the offer I'd simply think why didn't they ask during the interview if it was important.
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Nice thoughts, but

resolve individual clauses down to individual lawmakers, then back to lobbyists.

In some cases you might be able to attribute a clause to a lobbyist, but this isn't the general case. And how could this be enforced?

outward facing interface allowing the public to track the progress of bills in real time, increasing democratic awareness and participation.

This exists, and doesn't seem to be helping. See thomas.loc.gov. For example, concerneing SOPA: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./temp/~bdNuy... (Suggestion for enhancement: easy permalinks)

Legally mandated commit messages accompanying each change justifying and explaining it ... force them to write these in simple english

There are already requirements that bills specify the authority on which they're grounded. Most of these just wind up saying "Interstate Commerce". In other words, you'll never be able to enforce this in any meaningful way.
RMS' views might have been different. In a little thing we call actual reality the sysadmin is an employee hired by the same people who bought the system (no small investment in those days) to maintain it, and I don't think any reasonable person has ever denied that.
This is an invitation to play the lobby game. To me it reads like "we should bribe Congress too".

But can we do that? Large corporations will have disproportionally much more economic power to bribe Congress. They can throw money at the problem repeatedly until they have exactly the law they want.

If Congress cannot work, then Congress should write the laws but not vote them. Citizens should vote the laws, like in California or Switzerland.
Very valid point. Whilst it's not necessarily indicative of a 'bad' company as such, anyone who refuses feedback as a matter of course is generally a company driven by compliance. not always a good thing.
It is only tangentially profit related. It is directly related to money spent on law making. RIAA understands this and spends quite a bit. Tech companies either don't or don't care enough to play the game, so they don't spend.
I don't get why people don't like Unity. I'm happy with it.
Regarding MSBuild, the biggest problem I had with it is that if you built projects with Visual Studio, using most of the standard tooling for adding references and dependencies, you'd often be left with a project that built fine with Visual Studio, but had errors with MSBuild.

The reverse, incidentally, was usually okay. If you could build it with MSBuild, it usually worked in Visual Studio unless you used a lot of custom tasks to move files around.

I personally believe the fact that Visual Studio is all but required to build on Windows is one of the single most common reasons you don't see much OSS that is Windows friendly aside from those that are Java based.