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Erm, Microsoft are massive. They have lots of customers who have vastly differing needs which generally don't compete with each other.

There are a LOT of Windows applications built on C++. Most games and most intensive applications are C++ based.

Their corporate business customers generally use either C# or VB.Net with a large number still supporting legacy applications in Visual Basic.

Their web customers naturally use javascript/css/html for client-side and one of the managed languages server-side.

So it's not surprising to see them pushing three big languages for their big (and very different) markets.

Microsoft have a pretty good record of supporting their own languages. Visual Basic is still in use today dispite it being terrible. C# is very well supported, and they have a pretty good C++ compiler and toolchain.

IronPython, IronRuby, J# etc were all Microsoft's attempts to "play with the cool kids", clones/forks of existing standards. All died the inevitable death when the next fad came along (see F#).
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He was right. Who are you exactly?
with symbian?!?!

With windows phone i might have been interested, but with a dead OS where I cant get my favorite apps, forget it.
Or, indeed, Silverlight. But big companies' big technology plays sometimes work, and sometimes don't. Sometimes you get lucky (like the people who never bothered to learn .NET). But I don't think that posting this video represents a major signifier of MS' current technology stance.
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yes, but binning pixels is inferior to averaging because the noise in adjacent pixels is correlated. (I had a nice paper about that, still looking for it)
"...And in good light, visual noise is virtually non-existent...." - well of course, but it's not about good light, it's about bad light.
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Heya, I'd love to give some feedback.

First of all, the page load is really slow (1m 13s just now) - 61 requests, 485.7 KB total.

The idea seems very interesting (private social network for a business) and I really like the invitation letter at the bottom.

The helix ribbon at the top is totally random and doesn't provide anything meaningful. It also pushes the attention-grabbing content below the fold.

I think you guys got a cool idea and the overall design (minus the helix) is pretty good. The vision could do with some rephrasing to better enunciate the purpose (what's this, what's this for).

I'd suggest you go download Firefox and the following plugins: Firebug, Web Developer, YSlow, PageSpeed.

The first thing I'd do if I was you is run a YSlow benchmark (to see what needs improving - they also provide links to the theory behind the improvements and things you can do).

At the moment the current benchmark is:
Grade C Overall performance score 70 Ruleset applied: YSlow(V2) URL: http://open-collar.com/

F Make fewer HTTP requests

F Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

A Avoid empty src or href

F Add Expires headers

F Compress components with gzip

A Put CSS at top

B Put JavaScript at bottom

A Avoid CSS expressions

n/a Make JavaScript and CSS external

A Reduce DNS lookups

A Minify JavaScript and CSS

A Avoid URL redirects

A Remove duplicate JavaScript and CSS

F Configure entity tags (ETags)

A Make AJAX cacheable

A Use GET for AJAX requests

A Reduce the number of DOM elements

A Avoid HTTP 404 (Not Found) error

A Reduce cookie size

F Use cookie-free domains

A Avoid AlphaImageLoader filter

A Do not scale images in HTML

A Make favicon small and cacheable

Good luck :)
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Google has nothing to do with this topic, but for what it is worth Android syncs all (if not almost all) Google related data from Android devices.

If you have a Picasa account Android comes with a sync adapter which seamlessly syncs photos to all your Android devices and PC's with Picasa.

What advantage does iCloud have over this for photos?

Android also syncs Google docs, browser/Chrome data, contacts, calendar... The only thing I can think of that Google doesn't sync (yet) is files.
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Have you looked at http://visualcv.com/ ?
Maths education in the UK is mostly about how numbers "feel" when you subtract from them, and how this is related to rainforests and/or the third world. It's why 25% of the population is now innumerate.
Yes, that exists in a few places, there are ISPs like http://opennet.se/ that do those deals. But then the owner of the building, typically the housing co-op, foots the hardware bill, and each household chooses an actual ISP and is billed according to the chosen service.

It's a nice model, but costs more in total than other arrangements. My house is going to get hooked upto fibre this year, and I was checking up on this for my housing co-op, and the cheapest and best by far is to tie ourselves to a provider for five years and get a group deal. That way everyone in the house gets 100/100mbit for less than $20/month, and everyone can upgrade from that basic package to gigabit if they want, but that's currently costing ~$150 a month.

However, all of this is possible due to the Stockholm municipal fibre company, Stokab. They've been around for at least a decade now, digging up streets, laying fibre, hooking up buildings, and since they're making good profit, they're re-investing that into providing fibre for everyone in Stockholm.
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very nice, what I particularly liked was :

d/fred/ :delete until fred

y/fred/ :yank until fred

c/fred/e : change untill fred

I actually prefer this over ctf, dtf as it scales better
Another useful toolkit for stuff like this (and anything to do with natural language), but only available for python at the moment is the Natural Language Toolkit: http://code.google.com/p/nltk/

It's a very powerfull toolkit, with a lot more functionality than is needed to write an NB classifier, but may be of interest to anyone looking at NLP!
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I came here to write just that. The only predictions I am sceptical about (more hoping against hope) are nanoscale atomically precise manufacturing and an interplanetary backbone. I've heard Vint Cerf talk about that interplanetary network before and although I hope I am wrong, I don't think the economic incentives will be aligned to make ventures into space worth taking by 2020. As for nanoscale that one is a free variable like nuclear fusion power, and superhuman AI. They all seem like they are missing a key that when unlocked will just lead to a cascade of progress. I predict synthetic biology to be a precursor to a lot of what nanomachines will be good for.
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Seriously HN?

So now a casual 88-word status post is number 16 on the list?

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this list for _hacks_?

What is this? Andrew moping about disliking c++? I couldn't care less.

The quality of HN articles just seems to drop week by week.
Why focus on client vs. webserver communication layer? Think about using websockets between your app and database api. REST wouldn't do there, but websockets opens up new opportunities for dynamic languages.
If the noise model can take into account the neighbouring pixels correlations this is even better, because information about the noise in one pixel gives away information about noise in close by pixels.

The worst case is when the noise is uncorrelated. Think about the other extreme, when noise in all pixels has correlation 1, i.e. it's equal. Then it is extremely easy to remove.

(BTW, I would be very interested to the paper you are talking about, if you can find it :) )
From the Q&A in Nokia's press conference, it looks like they will be bringing this imaging technology to their future WP phones too.
IBM apparently still does a lot of interesting fundamental research, in their PR it looks like they've got a focus on materials science for storage and medicine and they do interesting data-driven work around health, population genetics work (out of Africa hypothesis as one example) etc.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressreleases/finder.wss?t...

It might not be Xerox Parc stuff, and a lot of the PR looks like fluff, but it looks like there's real stuff going on there...
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>Most games and most intensive applications are C++ based.

That's what I'm trying to say. .NET is finally in the place where it's good enough for games (except AAA titles), unlike JVM it supports value types and has true generics that can generate proper collections for them (big deal for games where a lot of the data is in small tuples of floats) and lot's of "unsafe" stuff where you get direct memory access. Mono guys even developed AOT compiler with LLVM optimizer and allowed you to drop things such as runtime bounds checking - you'd probably get to 10% of C++ code, the only remaining problem being non-deterministic GC pauses (can be worked around). Also I don't know why "intensive" applications can't be written on .NET with maybe a few drops to native C when needed. If it's scientific/cluster computing/number crunching then - I'm speculating - but I doesn't sound like you want to be running Windows anyway and Microsoft doesn't ship their C++ tools for other platforms so that doesn't sound reasonable.

But we're arguing different points here. I'm not asking - why is Microsoft supporting C++. What I'm saying is - they seem to be pushing a new fad with this "going native" stuff - and I don't see any rationale behind it. Why actively push for C++ over .NET, .NET doesn't seem to be getting nearly as much attention recently (I could be wrong tough) and let's face it C++ isn't exactly something that needs marketing to get noticed and picked up and it doesn't even seem to be MS strong point in the market.
Symbian has quite good coverage of popular apps. Of course it is still way behind Apple store/Android market but you might get lucky.
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Depends on what country you're in, I guess. Here in Ireland cattle are predominately grassfed (though usually are fed at least some grain in the winter too).
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For better or worse, you're likely to get better results to your work requests by putting these same devices in chosen offshore locations; you're arbitraging median-skill median-lifestyle foreigners in lower cost of living areas versus lower-quartile lifestyle and limited-skill Americans.

Globalization is not friendly to the homeless and mentally ill. This proposal may buoy up some folks who have fallen through the cracks, but there are a number of other social safety nets (a la worker retraining) that offer that same sort of chance to those down on their luck but still able to turn around from a bad situation or bad break.

If you are not able to read coherently or quickly - this doesn't necessarily mean uneducated, it could simply be crippling dyslexia - this doesn't help you. And if you are suffering from drug addiction or mental illness or even poor lifestyle choices, this may be significantly less advantageous and doable than panhandling.
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If the technology really is any good, they'll be offering it on several phones soon.
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I look at web development, and a lot of it seems to be tailchasing on the order of "We had to write a framework to get around a bunch of issues with the frameworks we had to work with." And it's turtles all the way down, at least until you get to the OS layers (which, after all, have linear decades of experience behind their design).

I can understand this kind of stuff in a young technology, and indeed things are getting better as people seem to be realizing that architecture astronaut crap like WSDL / JavaBeans / et al did active _damage_ to the industry. (We end-ran OSI with stuff that _worked_, with the exception of X.509 -- ughhh -- and a few other things).

I love hard problems that are inherently hard. I hate "hard" problems that are only there because of a bunch of poor technical decisions (I remember looking at SOAP and getting physically ill).

So much of working with computers is working out ways not to hurt yourself. If there is any "fu" to be learned, it's the ability to look beyond a technology's implementation and into how people will actually interact with it on a daily basis. Make things work well, end to end, over the whole stack. That's what I try to do these days, and I'm a lot happier.
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Well, it sounds to me that part of yourself, while dealing with these clients, wanted to be something else, someone else, or to please others. That's what I would call filling a void but regardless of the term you got my point anyway: as far as I understood, you tried to be someone you weren't, and that never works for too long.

I'm glad to hear you were able to wind back and are now engaging in a lifestyle that better suits who you are.

(As for the Sennheiser example, I'm simply a bit rusty with brands. I know Sennheiser is a strong brand so I picked it. I don't know their prices: I assumed they sell expensive headsets, too.)
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There's a jQuery plugin for this: https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax

Backbone.js has support for pushState as well.
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Sure, I do agree that having a law like "don't rape people" is a positive thing. My argument is that I am not yet cynical enough to believe that the only way to prevent rape is to threaten people with an eternity of agony beyond all comprehension. You could just as easily justify it with "This is wrong because you are infringing on that person's personal right. We, the people in the world who aren't lunatics, will remove you if you can't stop yourself."

As for the positive points in the book, it's a huge book. You can find nuance and insight in most books with that much content if you really try. The difference of course is that most books aren't as violent, misogynistic, or bigoted as the bible or the qu'ran. I can't speak much about the texts underlying the central and east Asian religions, but the bible is a pretty clear on a lot of situations (adultery, child rearing, "heathens") for which the advice is so destructive that would probably be banned in many places if it weren't grandfathered in.

The good points are self-evident if you aren't a sociopath and you believe in things like personal liberty. Rape and murder haven't been tolerated in communities since long before the bible was pieced together, and in the communities where it was common, the bible did not stop it.

For every person calling their terminal illness "part of god's plan" as a way to deal with the stress of mortality, there's just as many people abusing each other and denying rights as part of "god's plan" too.
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And the stock went down 5% in the first hour in OMXH. After extraordinarily bad business decisions you need even more extraordinarily good solutions to even get even.
To help you, we've packaged up the Opera Mobile codebase into a desktop app for Windows, Linux and Mac, so you can test locally. It's called Opera Mobile Emulator.

I wish every mobile browser manufacturer did this.
I'll give it another shot, I've also set old backups to happen daily rather than continuously, which helps. We shouldn't have to make these workarounds, though.

It irks me that dropbox is the only one that gets this right :-\
I have watched all of them. The are in a very nice format, you see the slides and the lecturer writes on them. The information is good but rather condensed. Watching these is a good first step, going deeper with a book is a good idea. (Engineering a Compiler, Dragon Book ...)
That backup API is an oddity; it's been there for a while, but no-one seems to use it. In any case, it's a very small subset of what iCloud does ('iCloud' is an amorphous collection of stuff, and includes an internet version of the old iTunes backup system, which the Android API is similar to).
I gave cloudflare a look early on (even signed up), then I found out you had to set your DNS authority to their servers (could not just use a CNAME). No thanks.

After checking their knowledge base this still seems to be the case.
That's very wishful thinking :) The GHz race ended due to physical constraints and cost, not due to people finally realizing anything. It will likely re-start once a new technology is developed (graphene?) that allows for even faster clock speeds.
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Is there a workaround for this? Until then, one should stick to native email clients/Thunderbird for confidential comms.
Oh, for first-party stuff, iCloud has no advantage. It's for _third_ party stuff that it's valuable; it allows developers to sync _their_ data seamlessly between devices easily.
That could be true in a hardcore numerical computation, assuming you know enough about your architecture and compiler to make use of it.

In the context of this article and implementation, the speed difference between + and * is utterly irrelevant and unmeasurable.
It's frustrating debating with one who employs such rhetoric:

1. "I don't consider actively exploiting the poor as "not improving their lives enough"." and "Neither do I consider marginal benefit a positive if it comes at the cost of exploitation."

You've framed the debate as "exploiting the poor" and "exploitation" yet do not give any reason for this other than an implicit claim that sub-minimum wage is exploitation. Let's say the minimum wage is $X/hr and this project allows these people to earn $(X - 0.01)/hr. Is that still exploitation? Why do you assume just because something MIGHT not be minimum wage that it's exploitation? Minimum wage and exploitation are only slightly correlated subjects.

All the original author is suggesting is to OFFER people jobs at a rate that the economy identifies as a sustainable employment opportunity. Kids selling gum at school might earn below minimum wage but it's their choice and their life to do. Nobody is FORCING anybody to take those jobs, therefore this is not exploitation and your dramatic and emotionally overloaded choice of words really does not help you make your point. You need to take a moment to define exploitation and I think in doing so you will see your argument is flawed.

2. "I don't see anyone moving from selling drugs to doing menial mechanical turk work" OK but that's your opinion and minimum wage laws block verifying what the reality of the situation is.

3. "By all means - go and try to turn America's poor into Silicon Valley's drones rather than invest in their future"

Why do you constantly resort to such emotive, overloaded language? There's no conspiracy here; nobody is trying to "turn" anybody into anything. What people ARE saying is "Hey here's a way some people can make some money, maybe some will find it acceptable" and people like you are saying "No I refuse to let anybody explore this possibility because I'm uncomfortable with a society where people are earning less than I think they should because of my beliefs about what people should earn, and I believe that my beliefs override freewill".

Notice that your argument, as far as I can tell after filtering out the emotion, is pretty much all about your beliefs about work and society, and has nothing to do with (a) the actual state of the economy at a given point in time or (b) the actual people out there who might benefit from the proposed arrangement.