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TechCrunch did it again. Brutal PR. I mean, 33% (OMG, 33%!!) of a market, which is tiny. In a linked article it says, that nokia sold 1 million (that's rounded up from mentioned .9 mil) devices in Q4. WP7 share is around .5 to 1.5% (range seen on few quickly googled reports).

So, 33% you say?
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I use the JVC HA-FX1X earbuds, which has a ridiculously thick and resilient "2.0mm-thick and robust 1.2m pure copper cable (Y-type)".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/JVC-HAFX1X-Xtreme-Xplosives-Headphon...
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Can you expand more on "the mixing of the View Logic with the Model in ASP.NET MVC" – I must have missed a trick in how to further separate concerns.I favour strongly typed views, ViewModels and thin controllers. But are you talking about how the generated HTML is just output, and contains both page structure and page data?

Also with this release of MVC, the Restful data controllers are added on the side. Designing this from scratch, it would probably be different – if your client wants JSON, XML or some other format, then the Data endpoint is for you. If you want text/html, then it's special and you go somewhere else.

We can already serve JSON or XML data off controller endpoints in MVC3, and using a bit of extra code, even switch between them by checking the Accept header. But never mind, it's not done until it's in the framework.

If you really are past using MVC views entirely, and have just pages without server-side markup (except perhaps feeding in data URL) + a rest API then you are an outlier and can consider other fameworks beside MVC, such as OpenRasta. Or Ruby.

MVC is not an opinionated framework – you can do things any number of ways. If it supports Data API + static HTML websites, which it looks like, that will not be the only thing that it supports.
And, this half-baked reason was the example that James can give off the top of his head for not using PhoneGap.
I'm really not sure any of those is something only Microsoft could do, much less in the restricted scope of development tools.

When you say "that it doesn't seem realistic to expect an external dev team to throw something like that together", you are giving Microsoft's internal teams a power they simply don't have outside their very narrow zone of influence, as there is a lot of stuff being done outside it.
I wasn't aware you even could downvote here. But even if you can who cares? I think elitism here is even more frowned upon than a downvote.

But this is horribly off topic, so if you can downvote, we both should be downvoted.
Never (well, once a year manually or so). But if there was a Firefox plugin that let me clear my cookies on shutdown except for cookies of sites I want to keep, I'd use that!
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I can't help but think this is completely missing the point.

TED has had people cover this a number of times, but the problem with math isn't that the the _syntax is too hard to parse_ its that the _problems in math class are stupid_.

"The bucket is depth X, diameter D and full of water. When you open the tap, how long will it take to drain if the water drains out at rate Z?"

I've never had to apply solving a problem like this, in my entire life (and if I were in a job that I _did_ have to, the complexity of a real life situation would mean I would still have to learn domain specific tools to solve the problem (eg. how big is the air intake? Does that limit the rate of flow? etc)).

Tangible problems in the real world require mathematical models (often probabilistic models) to solve them.

How do you take a real world problem, break it down into bits, and then use the mathematical tools available to solve them?

By creating a model, and then guessing what the rules that govern that model are, then comparing the model to reality, and refining the rules; and when you can't figure out the rules, thats when its time to whip out the text book and say, well, guess what, someone has had that problem before and this is how they solved it~

Teaching kids how to create models and reach out into the mathematical library available to them when they need it would be vastly more helpful than trying to creating more abstract alternative ways of understanding obscure math concepts that will never to relevant to them.

I've never been more frustrated than I was the other night when I was at a party and a boiler maker (who incidentally earns 3x what I do. damn mining boom) was telling me about all the cool math he's learnt since he started his job. It's all geometry and rate of flow differentials and he said "why did I have to learn matrices at school? total waste of time. they should have been teaching us useful things"
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Sure, WP7 isn't much of the market now. The implication is that this is market share of a growing platform. WP7 handsets sell for the same pricepoint as low end Android devices. And, according to most of the reviews, it's a better product. The idea TC has is that Nokia is going to take a lot of those customers.
you still need to generate serverside HTML with this approach
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Rarely, and usually unintentionally. I have tried tools to prevent tracking such as Ghostery in the past, and my experience is that it breaks the web so much it's not worth the trouble.
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I'm already in the habit of calling Mail.app Mail.app, so it seems reasonable to call Mail.exe Mail.exe.
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Will going to try puppy linux.
Never manually. But I use multiple browsers (Opera, Chrome, sometimes Firefox) simultaneously (well, in parallel) and I have separate work and personal computers. Sometimes I even use private browsing; and not only for "buying presents".

But I believe this doesn't prevent me from Google knowing all about it. Whether I use one browser or other, private browsing or not. Some do-not-track extension which would completely block downloading and executing of tracking scripts might have help. But I'm not that paranoid. Yet.
It's actually a good accompliment to "Mastering Regular Expressions" as in that book Python isn't covered.
The result of the last conflict was not as clear cut as you suggest. The UK military were severely stretched last time around and given the changes in defence spending a repeat operation might not be possible.

The main point is that I think the wind of change is blowing against the UK on this one. It will take a concerted effort to counter the diplomatic push by Argentina and it is not clear that the politicians, despite the obvious emotive issues surrounding the territory both in the UK and in the Falklands, have a clear long term plan.

Update: Look to the recent conflict in Libya as a guide. The UK had considerable difficulty mounting an operation at Europe's back door. At a distance of 8,000+ miles the problems are multiplied many times over.
Why does this have a redundant "free" in the title?
Or do we? dun dun duuuun
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Presumably because the author of the app feels like it would be nice to be compensated for the work involved in creating it.
Thank you very much for your detailed post. I see now what you meant, and yes, I have seen and love the movie. I will pick the book up and give it a read, which I wouldn't have done if you hadn't replied with this (actually, I didn't even know there was a book)!

It sounds very intriguing, the way it is presented. It must be great to read it thinking there actually was another book, but I think I'll enjoy it nonetheless!
I personally would not refer to Mint as 'lightweight' especially. The Debian based Mint variant will be lighter than the Ubuntu based ones, and LDXE is available as the desktop, which will be light.

The others are well known light distros.
Perhaps a footnote could mention that this style really is possible in modern regexp implementations? I see chapter 20 is inked in to cover verbose regexps with comments (which is great!), but the current text could give the impression that it's a purely imaginary feature.
Can you provide a link to something better? As a novice VIM user I can't get enough of these resources.
Ok, this is a good reason, though I'm don't think it covers all the use cases, in particular on the borderline between math and physics. But yes, I can see how in programming, knowing what the variable really represents is usually helpful, while in math might usually be not.

Thanks for the link, there are some good thoughts there.
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How does it break the web exactly? I use ghostery and don't experience it.
> "why did I have to learn matrices at school? total waste of time.(...)"
Unless you're doing game programming as a hobby, or encounter problems that can be modeled as a set of equations, which then can be easily solved using few matrix tricks, giving you lots of fun and $$$.

But I do agree with your sentiment; even though math can be fun on its own, it's easier (and probably better) to get people interested in it by showing how to use it to solve complex problem. After all, math is just formalized, applied rational thinking.
that's because at that time the goverment tied the peso value to the dollar by law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_Currency_Board
I am not past anything, I am just saying this paradigm is now kinda defunct to me. I would prefer to work a little differently.

No doubt MVC facilitates all of the above, if you favour strongly typed, then that's good, continue that way, but its not necessary ( controller is now basically going to be a restful web service )

"We can already serve JSON or XML data off controller endpoints in MVC3" - true, and you'll probably be using Web API to do that soon.

I am just saying its not necessary to mix, I feel it over complicates the client by making you mix serverside logic a la razor, webform whatever.

I don't particlarly see the point in it now though. If you look for example at the knockout mapping plugin for knockout js, it will take a json source and automatically resolve into your js viewmodel. so on the client all I am doing is thinking about the client. give me a rest api and some json objects and I am off and running.

All I am simply saying, Pure Html/CSS/JS can be done without the need for any knowledge of the server on client side, just the interface contract and like I say a restful wcf service / Web API is good.

I am not an "out lier" when I say I think its a good way to develop, its my opinion. The truth is, I did refactor a load of "webforms" lately and the result was,

1. Html/Js/css - knockout.js and amplify.js

2. JSON Service ( c# in behind serving the data and validating business rules )
The Nexus One is an HTC phone, because the Nexus line of phones are a _Google_ brand, which switches manufacturer (and follow on from the G1).

The Galaxy line is Samsung's brand. Obviously, the two brands have crossed over a couple of times.
CPAN is a mess of poor maintenance and poor documentation. It's also painfully coupled to everything.

Perl is monolithic. There is too much in the core.

I've read large chunks of HOP whilst tryingand I just can see how some things are pooly shoehorned into the language. Some of the tricks with the reference semantics are horrible.

Java and C# do Regex and Unicode better than Perl. Go does unicode better than Perl. The API in C# is not much more verbose and the RE implementation is significantly faster. It's also much easier to unit test.

Perl has too much syntax - so much so it doesn't fit in your head.

I think Perl has a nostalgic attraction but that is it.
If you hit an URL with an HTTP client library and get a decent JSON object back, isn't it better than parsing the information from an HTML page?
I am very interested to hear about difficulties one might face doing this, as I'm in a similar situation. Currently I am a scientist in R&D for a blue chip company, but have been programming for fun and as a small part of the job for a couple of years. I'm interested in moving to a full-time programming job, but am worried about the typical minimum requirements; after all, I have no CS degree and haven't been coding since a young age.
I rarely use Perl CGI. I haven't since about 2002.

Regarding C# and Java startup. It's not an issue. You can warm start appdomains/JVMs. We do this.

Once it's running, both Java and C# run rings around most things.
Ask HN: Why do websites ignore my use desktop version preference
When using my mobile, a WP7 HTC Trophy, I set my browser to as default load websites in their desktop version.
This usually works 9 times out of 10 but I sometimes find the site will display a mobile version anyway.
Why does this happen? Is it done on purpose or by sloppy coding?

Is there some kind of special header for requesting a mobile version of a website or do they just use the user-agent?
Yes sure I read it. But could not get what it means.
a really interesting solution was brazil's real.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plano_Real
Python for iOS is something that makes Python programs run as apps and maintains its library -- thus something explicitly impossible. This is just a gadget.
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Great feedback!

A hacker mode including all the functions you mentioned might be a great idea, don't you think?
I disagree. No site has a right to force me to look at ads. And I don't have a right to force them to provide a service. Their offer is "come here for free, and we're hoping you'll look at these ads." They could change their offer. They could require payment. Maybe their service is something people will pay for and maybe not. If I don't pay and I don't look at ads, I have no right to expect the site to keep existing. But that's OK with me.

It's like a casino that sells cheap dinners. Clearly, they want you to eat the cheap dinner and lose much more money gambling. But you're allowed to eat it and leave. If they wanted to prohibit that, they could make the dinner available only to those who gamble. But if they haven't set that condition, you don't have to obey it.

All that said, I don't mind tasteful ads. I don't block ads on StackOverflow because they're interesting. I do block ads on Yahoo Mail (on the rare occasions that I log into my throwaway account there) because they're annoying and often offensive. If Yahoo says to me, "we're closing your account because you block our ads", I will say "that's fine."

There are services I'm willing to pay for and services I'll only use if they're free. Looking at ads is a form of payment. Some sites are worth it, and others aren't.
It's always surprising (and disappointing) how one person can assert so much power simply by sending an email of complaint.

At least now you're no longer offending Stephen Downes.
You realise the ignorance and nativity in this statement? I use Ubuntu also, but that doesn't absolve/protect me from all potential issues I may run in when browsing/using the web.

Heck, the original poster may have actually been refering to clearing the cookies to avoid tracking.

However, when things like http://samy.pl/evercookie/ exist, it makes it even more harder to avoid tracking cookies.

Andd moreover, "only I have got access to my computer".
You are every non-ecrypted hop you make from your system to the target network has access to your requests, making you vulnerable to man in the middle attacks.

I think you were/are just a little misguided.
I wish I'd seen this before I paid 500 bucks for a PAID linux distro. :-/
Abelson-Sussman's SICP is a steep learning curve for an absolute beginner: I'd recommend reading How To Design Programs first (and SICP right after), which is similar but a bit more gentle. It also uses Scheme, but focuses most at how to think about programming problems, and general "design recipes" for solving them.
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>>>But then Comcast will come along and say, "Hey, here's a (mediocre) search and email service that we will bundle for 'free'!"<<<

I don't know about you, but I would pay for Gmail in a heartbeat. It's a great service. I can guarantee that Comcast would make something 1,000 times crappier and that I'd waste hundreds of hours of my life fighting with it.

In fact, I'd rather be paying for Gmail so that I'd be their customer and not their product. I'm happy that I pay for Pinboard because I know that it motivates them to please me and not someone else to whom they can sell my data. And I'm happy because my payment is an investment in the continued existence of a service I value.

You're asserting that Gmail and Google search aren't valuable enough for people to pay for them. If that's true, they shouldn't exist in a free market. But I don't think it's true.
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I've got a MBP and a Lumia. The WP7 connector that's available on the Mac App Store allows you to sync your WP7 with iTunes/iPhoto, but doesn't include the Zune player itself, which is so much nicer than iTunes.
Check "Accept cookies from from sites" and choose "Keep until I close FF". Then add exceptions w/ status "Allow" for sites you want to store cookies.
Maybe using this tool would make more sense when your browser window is already open, so you wouldn't have to open notepad whenever you want to:

- type a note,

- quickly save a code snippet,

- convert rich MS Word text to plain text before pasting it into any cms' wysiwyg-editor.
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Vimcasts: http://vimcasts.org/ (And keep your eye out for Drew's forthcoming book: Practical Vim.)

Vim University: http://vimuniversity.com/

Coming Home To Vim: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/

Efficient Editing With Vim: http://robertames.com/files/vim-editing.html

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?: http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/26702

Vim anti-patterns: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/tag/anti-patterns/
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Have you read it? They're saying that some websites use them for purposes that are not privacy concerns. As long as Google doesn't do this - by which I mean, as long as they only use third-party cookies for tracking - they're irrelevant, because Mozilla would shut them down anyway.

It's only sleazy if you see it as an attack and not a simple explanation.
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Gruber on Google's cookies:

"I’d have used “tracking” in place of “engaging with”, but that’s semantics."

"Sounds wrong, or is wrong?"

Gruber on Apple's storage of GPS data:

"[It's] either due to a bug or, more likely, an oversight."

I don't mean to rip on the guy directly. Gruber's a competent writer, and in the technology world, that's rare. But I don't understand why his opinion on Google's cookie debacle are "news" when his agenda is so obvious; what Apple does is good, what Google does is bad.
This reminds me of one of my all time favorites games "A Mind Forever Voyaging".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging

It's an interactive fiction game where you play the role of a computer that has only just realised that it's a computer. From your point of view, you've been living a human life with real experiences and a family etc.

The game manual included a great little short story: http://gallery.guetech.org/amfv/amfv.html
It doesn't seem that unreasonable to make a starting point of the median number of packets that Google's customers can cope with at once, and then fail down the way for those that have problems.
It says "3 Year Free Replacement". First, what does this have to do with the assertion about prorated warranties? Second, I don't know many people who have to replace their battery within three years.
I'm not much of an expert but would putting everything on the client have a security risk?

Also it's amazing how fast the we are moving most developers are still using PHP but on HN, the MVC frameworks are already hailed as obsolete
Let's suppose you didn't deliberately bias the question. I think Gruber is right. Arguing that if you slanted the question you could slant the result is beside the point.

Second, if Google can't do a good job of showing me relevant ads in gmail -- and it can't -- I don't think its cookies will help it. You're assuming facts not in evidence.

Three, there's also no evidence that making ads better targeted has been good for the ad industry (whose overall revenues have if anything fallen) or ad quality (when's the last time you saw a great online ad? I've seen plenty of great print and tv ads).
I am a web developer, so I delete them quite often while working. Although when I am not working, never.
Does anyone know if this is done in preparation for something big coming up ?
This is really a strange feature. I try to search around, but can't find why they're doing this. Anyone have a clue why would they (the PHP dev or the community) want this feature?
On related note, it surprises me that client-side frameworks like cappuccino.org are not used more often for building full-featured web apps. It seems to me that the abstraction from HTML and CSS is quite a desirable thing, I find the experience of modern desktop frameworks like Cocoa thousand times better than fiddling with HTML. Does anybody here have substantial Cappuccino experience? Why isn't it more successful?
Deleting this since its a dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3629622 which has discussion already
They did something outrageously stupid. No conventional car should be left sitting for months at a time without appropriate preparatory steps, and neither should an EV unless it's connected to power.

The EV actually has a distinct advantage here -- all you really have to do is plug in a power cord. A conventional car has several much more involved steps to be taken.
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Damn Small Linux is a dead project. Really people should migrate to Tiny Core, which number five on that list.

There are other distributions which claim to be minimal; mostly for netbook users. These include things like CrunchBang or eeebuntu (if that's still its name). Some of them were decidedly not minimal.

The article fails to mention some of the oddities of these distributions; eg having to run as root.

The article fails to mention other ways to get a small installation. Distributions such as Arch are excellent here - Arch really does have a brilliant user community and documentation. Another alternative would be Linux From Scratch or Gentoo, although they would both be more effort than most people would want.
This is so wrong... The point of math is that ideas can be generalized and re-used in previously unexpected places -- your ideas remind me Middle Ages where people were learning a mnemonic poems to remember "law of proportion", treating it like a precious magic gizmo and were perfectly sure they wouldn't be able to recreate it once forgotten.