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IIRC [alt]+[space] did the same when the start button was highlighted (I'm sure I managed that back when I ran Win95).

You could have all sorts of fun with the start button / task bar though. I remember writing a breakout game where the start button was the paddle. The code itself was very simple as it was basic Win32 APIs. As messy as those APIs were, they're lack of basic security made it great fun to write all sorts of weird hacks hehehe.

In fact, going back to the topic of MDIs (as the article referenced in relation to the WS_SYSMENU style), I wrote a basic program that would work as a winword 95 / 97 plug in (winword being an MDI back then) that would dump iexplore into winword so it would behave exactly like any other word document. This was done purely to get away with surfing the net in college as it was easier to hide your browser session behind a word document that it was to close/reopen it every time a lecturer walked past. IIRC that was just one API call (something like SetHwndParent?), but that was /years/ ago now and I've since left Windows development for Linux and Unix.

</nostalgia>
It's also the huge number of juvenile editors using automatic revert tools (eg Twinkle) who think making many reverts and slapping warning banners on user pages is a useful way to clean Wikipedia.

You get the feeling they're on some adolescent power trip.

The whole "VANDAL PATROL" badge thing reeks.

See also the antipathy towards IP editors, who provide many useful edits and who could be encouraged to return but who are often treated like dirt.

See also the bizarre over-concern about usernames. WP has software limits on user-names, and extensive filters. Usernames need only gentle filtering, yet there have been more than one notice board for user name action.

Most of Wikipedia is great, and it's possible to ignore a lot of the meta-stench, but sometimes quiet productive editors get caught up in drama-mongering idiocy.
Would it be possible to create a bayesian spam filter-like system where new users edits are analyzed and matched to old accounts? That way, admins could get a heads up for a new user that is likely to be a pseudonym of an old user. Would it be technically feasable?

Maybe there are social consequences to this as well? What about false postives?
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And by definition of the individual words it can mean 'demands the (following) question'.
It's buggy (on collisions specially), but is fascinating nevertheless. Thanks for sharing.
Is that really a good thing though, at least in the particular case of a todo list app? I love that they are pushing boundaries and trying to pave the way for other gesture-only apps (where practical), but for something as simple as navigating/editing a basic data tree, I would much rather use a single finger to tap buttons/text in less than 20 ms with instant load as opposed to taking half a second or more to perform some gesture(s) with sometimes 2+ fingers and wait for an animation.
This is why wikipedia is a failure:

"....Another editor cheerfully tutored me in what this means: "Wikipedia is not 'truth,' Wikipedia is 'verifiability' of reliable sources. Hence, if most secondary sources which are taken as reliable happen to repeat a flawed account or description of something, Wikipedia will echo that." http://chronicle.com/article/The-Undue-Weight-of-Truth-on/13...
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Being able to cut and paste in the terminal without thinking about it too much was one of my favourite features of Mac OS X, but it's nonsense to claim it's because of Apple's Interface Guidlines. It was just an unlucky coincidence that Apple avoided by chance.

Meanwhile the shortcut command for quit is right next to the key to close a window (at least in Qwerty). That's kind of stupid, but lets not go building any grand theories to confirm our biases just based on that factoid.
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This article feels dated for sure. The body shop mentality was just a result of market forces, and yeah culture probably played a role, but this situation is not providing great ROI for international clients. The nature of programming is to automate drudgery, and Indian living standards are going up all the time, so the economics of this just weren't sustainable. What is happening and will continue to happen is that Indian firms will grow into higher and higher market segments while this body shop stuff plateaus and then starts to decrease. Increasingly Indian firms will find that the real money is serving their local markets which are HUGE, and which they have cultural knowledge to produce a superior product. Initially this is done by copying successful products from innovation leaders worldwide, but eventually the competitive advantage will come from targeting the differences of the local population. I believe this will happen regardless of culture, but I do feel bad for people who were sold on the idea that being an unthinking code monkey would provide a secure and lucrative long-term career.
But again, that's in not in the official repositories (just AUR), let alone part of the base system.

It's great that it's available in AUR, but it wouldn't be enough to pass LSB - which is the /entire/ point of this tangent.
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I don't know anything at all about biotech, but it seems to me that the current process is something akin to manually entering machine code by flipping switches on a mainframe (or, another analogy: randomly gluing together libraries until something kinda works).

Maybe what is needed is some kind of programming language? Think VHDL but for biological stuff.
There is a very important element of fun in hacking on a cool platform that does awesome stuff behind the scenes.Ultimately thats why we make such frameworks so that its fun to build on top of them.In my opinion deriving fun from what you do is essential to become an expert.
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I am in a prison.

I learned from my attempts with Simstructure as shareware and learned that I only get mail from the FBI with LoseThos. That's okay, God is just.

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The design causes far worse bugs than that, for example: you can stop a falling block's progress just by holding down left.
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If you don't make it to my meeting, or send a deputy/replacement who can act on your behalf, then you don't get a say in the decisions we make that meeting.

Worked really well at the last place I was at, people made damn sure they got there on time and if not that someone knowledgeable took their place.
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Honestly, I don't agree that most of these are warts. In particular function scoping vs block scoping, get THE F over it. Gees.

Sure when I first started JavaScript it bit me exactly once. Since then, I got use to it. It's a different language, every language has its quirks. I'm sure if you started with JavaScript the fact that many other languages DON'T have block scope might upset you. You know what else doesn't have block scope? PYTHON!

def foo():
if True:
x = 123
print x

prints 123. In C, Java, C++ you'd get an error that x doesn't exist.

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if (true)
int x = 123
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error: ‘x’ was not declared in this scope

4 meanings of this?

The fact is it gives you huge flexibility. By default, lots of libraries add names to the global object (for browsers that's 'window') but because you can control 'this' for all functions you can force any library to install itself to some other object.

Can you do that in C, C++ or Java? As far as I know the only way to fix that in those languages is to edit a bazillion source files and change namespaces of you're lucky enough to have them.

Truthiness?

Again it's just different not broken. Lots of dynamic languages have strange kinds of conversions. Learn them and get over it. The only people this messes up are people expecting it to behave like Java or C/C++. It's not Java or C++. It's not JavaScript's fault you're too stubborn or set in your ways to try it a different way.
I'm thinking if I should check ground hit better or disallow rotating blocks wildly ;)
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I didn't say that it was the underlying reason, but it's nice to note that even though the page looks nice it's also small and efficient, especially when you compare it to more established forums.
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It isn't a failure at this moment, but as he rightly points out, it will gradually start failing in the years to come, unless something changes.

I like producing overviews of subjects of explanations, but I get the most satisfaction out of knowing it's worthwhile to others. If my contribution can be distorted and vandalized at will, without me possibly being able to revert all the changes, I'm just not interested in investing the time.

I gladly engage in debate about facts and more subjective things like writing and educational styles, but only with reasonable people. If I'm editing the article on some specific part of Quantum Mechanics and have to deal with pseudoscience believers that keep putting in nonsense, I'm not interested either. They can of course have their own page.

I doubt I'm the only one with these thoughts. Just like Athens can't currently stand against the vandals, neither can Wikipedia.
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It would be nice if there was an option to turn off the game sounds (If there is, I'm not seeing it). It's pretty painful.
But why couldn't we have had _both_? The technological history of Apple post Steves return is very poorly documented due to its secretive nature.

Even so, Isaacson did a really poor job of analyzing Steves personality, and never really confronts him about it. The closest we really get is Steve saying "well, that's just who I am", and a theory by Ive (or Hertzfeld?) about Steves motivations for being so cruel at times.

Couldn't Isaacson have confronted Steve about this theory? How about asking him how this fits in with his relation to Buddhism? Or maybe that would be too technical..?

Isacsson said that the book "wrote itself". As someone else pointed out, books rarely make good authors.
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I'm not enough into american culture to decide if a daily tabloid is a "newspaper[s]" or not. Taking the biggest German tabloid "BILD", although I do not endorse their way or content, I'd classify them as a (bad) newspaper nevertheless.
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As a developer, the ability to respond to reviews is also the #1 feature I would like to see. The lone 1-star review for my app contains factually incorrect information based on what I believe is a simple misunderstanding on the part of the user.

This kills me, not only because his review has likely scared away a number of potential customers, but also because I can't help him resolve the simple misunderstanding because I have no way of contacting him. It is unfortunate that many users utilize the review system instead of proper support channels to complain about bugs or perceived bugs, leaving us no way to help them.

As for the concern that sellers would use responses as a means of abusing customers - I would think that most intelligent users would see it for what it was and avoid sellers who routinely abused or blamed their users. On the other hand, a seller who politely responded to negative reviews with a resolution, a means of getting help, or at the very least a promise to look into the issue(s) would be rightly viewed more favorably.
> So, unfortunately most of them are not there for the love of open source but because they need the credits and something to put on their CV.

Why "unfortunately"? Many people (me included)
working on Linux, MySQL, Android, or any other corporation backed open source project do not contribute because they want to, it's just what they're paid for. Nevertheless, their contribution is real and useful.
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Indeed - if I recall, Raymond Chen explained in one post that the Win32 API implementation had so many restrictions on its code size and speed that the Windows programmers had to omit a lot of sanity checks and special cases, and just trust that developers wouldn't shoot themselves in the foot (or at least notice the missing foot in QA and remove the foot-shooting code.)
You reply as if you think I don't know what a descriptivist is. I do. The problem is that I'm not arguing that "language is fixed, and should never change." That is a rather severe misreading of the above link. The point is that people commonly misunderstand the original usage, not that the usage has changed.
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The (American) judicial system is broken when this type of class justice arises. This is a dangerous development.
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You're quite never sure of that. Just yesterday evening I was walking down on a street in my city (East-European capital) whose 19th-century buildings were raised to the ground around 25 years ago. There are still un-developed patches of land on that street, which, needless to say, make it look deserted and desolate even though it's only a 5-minute walk from the Prime-Minister's office building.
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P.S. A software solution to turn any arbitrary firm into Starbucks would be worth tens of millions of dollars if you sold it correctly.

Whoa, that is seriously interesting. Would you mind emailing me more details about your idea? :)
I presume by "One download at a time" the author is referring to the downloading of his own films? Downloading Hollywood films won't kill Hollywood, as it only spreads Hollywood's influence and makes the problem worse.

The way to kill Hollywood is to ignore it. That's got to be more terrifying to a studio than being pirated. Paul Graham had it right in his "Kill Hollywood" piece: it's not pirating that will kill Hollywood, but irrelevance. Startups, new ways to entertain people and new ways to make movies.
That's essentially an argument from experience. Michael Quinion disagrees with you. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-beg1.htm
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“In the last 20 years, 13 students from China have won the International Mathematical Olympiad,”..."and India hasn't won the prize even once.”
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2889936.ece
There have been occasions of scientific and intellectual glory, an Amartya Sen here or a Venkataraman there, but almost all are, as Indian media fondly tags them - 'India born'.
Unless we realize and accept that we have a serious problem, of which the lack of truly great Indian programmers and product companies is just a manifestation, we are not even going to attempt a solution.
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That's... that's just so sad. And so infuriating.
where can we get statistics for the last two years of editing?

Every time I see graphs showing the decline of editor contributions they always seem to stop in 2010 (I expect the trend to continue, I'm just curious).
This would be "protecting the artist", yes?
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A few interesting quotes about performance optimization from the article:

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8 won't really work if you have enough meetings. If you get conflicting or back-to-back meetings/conferences/... you're going to miss either the end or the start of one of them. It's better if you show up at all in that case than get locked out because the rooms are 5min. away from each other.

Maybe it would work for a small number of people, but otherwise it's just harmful. (I skip the issue of having that many meetings though - this is not something you can always control)
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As a side note. I find it puzzling why Apple haven't included some sort of vector support natively.

Seems like such a powerful thing to be able to use more freely.

Anyone knows why that is? CPU, battery something else? (I am not a programmer)
It may sound silly but there are no hack weekends happening around us (We're located in India.)

We had already been thinking about doing something like this. And we realized that if we made ideas inexpensive and quick to implement, it would make our life easier and our startup more viable (analogy: git branching.)

How would we do that? Select, prototype, distribute and collect feedback. Selection being the key here (no chicken/egg problems, no enterprise software.)

We hope to primarily use 'Show HN's to distribute them and gather alpha users.

Does this sound like a good idea? Should we go ahead?
Absolutely shocking story. It must have been gut-wrenching.

This sort of shit is like a red rag to a bull for me. I would have went ahead and called their bluff and let them get it into court; I would have hoped against the odds that with all the evidence you had the judge would have thrown it out and it would have cost those bringing the action dear.

Of course, reason might not have triumphed and you would have lived to regret it.

But that's just me, and I'm an idiot. Though, I like to think, an idiot with principles.
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A very long article about the feelings that thousands members of 23andme already have. Lots of hyperbole in - i'm pretty sure every single person's genome has similar findings.

Please let's get over with these 'scary' articles and concentrate on the fact that in rare cases lives can be spared.
It makes sense to me. Going with the majority opinion is the only way to have stable content. Trying to resolve controversy on Wikipedia is what would actually destroy it. Democracy can cause horrible injustice, but we've learned from history that it's the only irrefutable way to decide things, unless the evidence is even simpler than counting ballots.

It doesn't mean Wikipedia is a failure, it just means Wikipedia is not the oracle of truth that some people expect it to be. It's a repository of majority views, which is usually pretty valuable, even if it's sometimes wrong. We have other venues for challenging popular fallacies.
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