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Windows ME was a joke, Windows XP was an updated but essentially similar experience to Windows 95

Um. Windows 2000 was the Win 95 UI married to the excellent NT backend. If you think that XP -- which was a somewhat optimized Win2k -- delivered an experience similar to 95, then you don't know your Windows OS history very well.

Windows 7 was what Vista should have been

Not really. Nothing is yet what Windows Vista should have been, because Vista was supposed to be Longhorn, which was going to be a radical departure from all previous Windows versions, at least under the hood. Win 7 was a somewhat hackish, superficial update to Vista, with better UAC, and (from what I recall) greatly improved deployment and scripting features for IT people. In other words, it did just enough to shut the consumers up about how bad Vista was, and it did a whole bunch to appeal to big business.

And that's the point, isn't it? Continue to appeal to the big businesses that are the source of vast income for Microsoft. Win8 is just another iteration of Windows. Nothing truly revolutionary, nothing to write inflammatory blog headlines about. Business as usual: developers aren't certain what path to follow, Microsoft providing too many APIs and insufficient documentation, and companies acting slowly to pick up the new OS.
Is V8 really faster than NumPy and R? Interesting..
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Yeah just like server 2008 did that for windows phone and windows 7 tablets. Wait...
And visa process. Good luck with that.

Sure, most Westerners can enter the Schengen zone for 90 days visa-free but after that you've either got to leave for another 90 (or is it 180?) or get sponsorship of some sort.

(Obviously this is a rather Amero-centric reply and doesn't apply to other EU citizens)
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You can build it in the arctic, finland, alaska, under the freaking sea.

There are MANY ways to cool things. Why must it be built in a region which hits 100 degrees every summer?
And it's the President's decision to allow or encourage his Justice Department to pursue the idea that email left on a server after six months is considered abandoned and therefore free game for the government to warrantlessly peruse. Like, you know, that 7G of email you have on gmail. Not his law, but he's using it, and certainly not trying to turn it back.

I wonder how many of his campaign supporters feel betrayed, and how many just give him a pass like Apple gets for Foxconn.
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You could do much better than gzip with a custom compression scheme like the Mailinator guy talked about recently.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617074
I agree, the companies that highly value degrees may not be the kind you want to work for, you can make it without a degree but long term it's best to pick one up along the way even if it's just from doing part time classes while working
> the area is described as home to “thieves, ravers and squatters,” one local told the Le Figaro newspaper.

somehow I think making it a hacker haven won't do anything to endear you with the locals ...
My $0.01 (only because I'm after you :-) is for the OP to go after them in small claims court ASAP. Its not a very difficult process. I hope OP saved his bills etc.

I believe the statute of limitations is 4 years, in any case time is of the essence.
The APNG-2 cable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG-2_(cable_system) ) reused part of the PacRimWest cable. They literally pulled some of it up, respliced it and moved the end-point to Papua New Guinea.
Oh, absolutely. They wouldn't be very sovereign if we built some and didn't pay for them.
"Fix campaign finance rules, elect better congresscritters, and repeal the DMCA."

Yeah, except it's Congress that makes those rules.

Given that vicious circle, how can that specific problem (campaign finance) realistically be fixed? "Vote them out" doesn't seem to work.
True. (I am French, it is hard to see these things as being motivating enough to relocate in a country-side village...).

Visa is probably a favourable thing in comparison to Thailand / Philippines ...
I think this article is specious.

The premise appears to be that the world is moving towards touchscreen/mobile, and thus, the desktop computing experience is going to be relegated to the dustbin of history (because, you know, its not cool anymore). This is silly. Tablets have their uses, but they're a niche compared to a general purpose computer. There are a lot of things that are just very awkward to do on a tablet; ie, almost anything involving a lot of typing or creation of content. I could get along just fine without my tablet, but without my PC I'd be in rough shape. I like them both, but it's pretty clear to me which one is a powerful tool and which one is a luxury. So to be honest, I really don't care if windows 8 ends up being a failure as a tablet OS as long as it stays a decent desktop OS.

It seems like the thing to do is to place this topic in competitive terms, where somehow the success of the tablet implies that the desktop has to "die". Why is that? We can't accept that they all have their uses? I have both a hammer and a screwdriver, but I've never really felt the need to view them as competitors.
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Two people can fight authority on different topics, both of them see each other as anti-social; but both of them are anti-authority.

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...really? I use hyperbole like that all the time on the Internet, and I really don't consider myself "mentally disturbed".

That's a pretty bold accusation to be making of people who simply typed some shit on the Internet.
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We are on Hacker News, and he said he was an employer. He most likely founded a company, did a good job building it up, and then sold it for tens or hundreds of millions. He took his millions, invested it well, and is now retired. It is a fairly straight forward if difficult to execute path.
I have made the same rants about numeric computing language issues as the Julia creators. I would avidly adopt Julia based on the documentation on the website. It seems to me that this is a beautifully conceived language given the concerns it attempts to address. Amazing even if the performance never improves.

The R thread on the dev list gives an accurate representation of the obstacles to Julia being widely adopted, however. One might become very unhappy while using R, but sometimes you have to use it, because something you want is only in R, due to the ubiquity of that tool for stats.

If Python, which does not have that many disadvantages besides not having been explicitly designed to appeal to users like me, cannot unseat Matlab and R, Julia will have a difficult time.

But I will give it a try, and will implement some simple but core algorithms that I use a lot.

Another idea to test Julia's usefulness would be to port a tool like Waffles to Julia. In my opinion implementing such a sensible tool like Waffles in C++ is a heartbreak.
Apparently people in the public eye are not allowed to have personal opinions.
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If the use of hyperbole you find discomforting, on his own personal blog, is his biggest weakness, then I'd say he's doing pretty well, as a human being.
Were you suggesting another solution?

My first suggestion is 100% legal - but I think we were all already aware of the problem with that route, considering what just happened to TechDirt.
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This molecule is an amazing machine, powered by electricity. One thing I didn't realize until recently is how fast real molecules are compared to the animations. The molecular motor in the animation spins in real life at about 40,000 RPM - jet engine fast. The small molecules drifting around are actually moving at about 250 miles per hour. And instead of a few molecules drifting around, there are billions of molecules slamming into it every second.

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After reading a monthly job post a while back, I had a couple of phone interviews with factual.com. While I didn't get that job, I can tell you that Ron, their recruiter, is still the nicest and most down to Earth guy I've met in my job hunt.

A month or two later, I actually got a cold email from someone who apparently really liked the way I replied in a thread. (I never found out which.) Sadly it didn't happen either; the person assumed that I could program simply because I was here. I went to school for it years ago, but can not with any proficiency whatsoever.

For all the talk that occassionally pops up about community quality, as I see it, this place is doing all right. Better than the profession my experience resides in anyway; journalism. Then again, I'm the genius that didn't see visiting 4chan as a big deal, in search of a direction to find an irc for Anonymous talk. Be warned, your boss may think differently!

(Yes, that last sentence was slightly tongue in cheek. I realize most would take theobscene material seriously rather than as childish outlashes. But I didn't think a journalist would.)
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Private health insurance is really not that hard to buy. Just save up, buy it, and quit if you have better options. If you don't, if this is the best out there for someone with your talents, why exactly are you complaining? You chose to work "80 hours", and you can choose to work less.

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Hi Hacker News,

I have two really cool projects that I want to open source.

First one is called Baraka and its a Python framework for generating Objective C code.You can generate Objective C classes by writing their templates in Python.
Its very useful as some vanilla code needs to be written in every app and using Baraka you can auto-generate most of your vanilla code.

Second one is a re-implementation of Facebook for iPhone and I would like to open source it and call it OpenBook.It basically uses the facebook graph api and has most of the functionality the facebook for iPhone has.

Now I want to do this for the following reasons.

1) They have been rotting in my private repos for quite some time now and I would rather have them benefitting some other hacker than rot there.I also want to give back to OS.

2) I would like to promote my free hacker news app for iphones and ipads.
(Check it out at itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernode/id473882597)

3) If possible I would like to make some money :)

Now can you please share your thoughts on how I can accomplish goal 3 and also what license I should use and why?

OpenBook will most likely be free but how do I protect myself against sleazy copycats who will publish a dozen paid clones of OpenBook on the app store the next day?
> At the time I wrote my comment, the original post hadn't actually mentioned Android; that appeared in a later edit.

Ahh, makes sense.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

I'm looking at the truest scotsman in the world right now.

> I don't think services offering the not-quite-purchase of data represent "the vast majority of popular digital services".

I would, assuming you aren't counting rental services. Netflix isn't really the same thing. I'm referring to purchasing digital goods tied to an account.

> And I don't use an N900 to make a point; I use it because it does the things I want it to do better than anything else I've tried

Right...

> and that includes Android devices. I only mentioned it because you seemed to assume that since I didn't use iTunes or Android I must not use mobile apps at all.

Nope, I assumed you use an N900 or something similar the moment you said you didn't use an Android device. You seem like the type. I stand by my original comment, there are very few mobile apps published for MeeGo. I didn't say you utilized no mobile apps, I said a small handful. Still true. Hell, for MeeGo a handful might even be overly generous.
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Good catch! I didn't realize reddit encodes '&', '<' and '>' when it returns json data:
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which ends up in:
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It should be fixed now :). Thank you for pointing out!
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Nowhere near comparable. IBM succumbed to competition for PCs. There is still no competition for a PC operating system.

The PC manufacturers can have a race to the bottom all they like, and Microsoft will still continue to rake in the profits. While consumers are extremely price sensitive when buying PCs, wreaking havoc on the old guard of the industry, they're still buying an awful lot of PCs in the aggregate. Microsoft profits from each one.
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> The idea was to implement a "peer-to-peer money" system.

Wow. I wonder if it literally means they were thinking of duplicating the (world's first) digital peer-to-peer currency: http://www.bitcoin.org Or is Schmidt using the term "peer-to-peer" liberally?

Edit: looks like I am right, a CNN article specifically mentions Bitcoin: http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/28/technology/google_future_of_...
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I've found good longevity for my code, I work in image processing and file organization. I think I would categorize it as tools. I still use a lot of tool like software too, like Notepad, Paint, I use a video processing software called TMPG that I bought about 8 years ago, I occasionally use audio processing software that I bought around the same time, and I use some file processing software that I got a few years ago along with a basic video editor. I think when you find a tool type software you like, you tend to stick with it.

I think the key is to make it as abstract from the system and algorithmic as possible. For example, with image processing, you have a small GUI component and you have a small image type to RGB converter, and the majority of the code is algorithmic RGB array to processed RGB array code. Algorithms don't decay much, but GUIs and file types do, so software that is very tool like and algorithmic has much more longevity as long as the small non algorithmic components are updated occasionally.
Hi kens,
This is actually not powered by electricity but by the gradient of hydrogen ions between the inside and outside of the mitochondrial matrix...
As jballanc says, and you say, this is awesomely cool though.
I use this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOSyGTYCRFw
to teach my future medical students the function of the ATPase - jballanc, I agree the mechanical aspect of ATP synthesis is awesome.
Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3530760
Raspberry Pi launched. RS & Farnell to manufacture under license.
Full details at http://raspberrypi.org/

Price remains at $35 (Model B) and $25 (Model A).

~10,000 Model B's available immediately to buy.

The Model A can also be pre-ordered and now has the same RAM as the Model B: 256MB.

Farnell/element 14 and RS Electronics will produce and sell the boards under license and accept pre-orders after the initial batch is sold-out.

This is so production can scale immediately to much higher numbers.

http://farnell.com
http://rswww.com
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Just enumerate the nodes:

graph.forEachNode(function(node) { console.dir(node.position); });

By default nodes will not have any position assigned. Only after you run one step of layout algorithm ( https://github.com/anvaka/VivaGraphJS/blob/master/src/Layout... ) they get their positions.
You're right, he should have let his wife be herself and just commit suicide.
This type of 'edgy' language was very popular back on Usenet in the 1990s, and the Linux kernel mailing list never really got away from it. Very much a Generation X thing - Kill yourself, they're smoking crack, those retards, kick em in the nuts, etc etc, yawn.
Great catch! Thank you very much. Fixed it.
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Government is driving the US economy into a ditch and has also bankrupted the EU. Apple, by contrast, posts record numbers year over year. I think it's clear who should be dictating best practices to whom.
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RaspberryPi site is OK (switched to static) but the providers are down as of now. Must be thousands of people!
Sure. Graph Dracula's site ( http://www.graphdracula.net/ ) has even more references to the similar projects. Could also be interesting :)
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