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To a more limited extent, complications PC programs do have compatibility issues with obscure combinations of users' hardware, software and firmware.
There might have been a team but it seems like all that team was created to do was to maintain the IE6 codebase. That is pretty much stagnated development. At the time Microsoft was essentially giving web developers the middle finger because really, what were our alternatives?

Why did IE7 ever get released? Simple, because of Phoenix, aka Firebird, aka Firefox, aka competition. Without that I doubt Microsoft would have ever updated IE or bothered to rewrite IEs rendering engine (which didn't work well until maybe IE9). If not for the new competition into the browser field we would probably still be asking them to fix alpha transparency in PNG files.

So what I'm getting at is, they could have started IE7 anytime they wanted to after IE6 shipped with XP. Stagnation because of team shakeup is just an excuse. I doubt IE7 would have taken that long if Firefox was released right when XP came out.
It's extremely frustrating. I used to look forward to finding a Stack Overflow link in my google search results. Now, I can pretty much predict that the topic will be closed based on how interesting the title looks.

I've actually been collecting all the annoyingly closed discussions I've run across in everyday internet browsing:

https://pinboard.in/u:zpinter/t:closed/t:stackoverflow

On the bright side, StackOverflow content is available via data dumps and an API. Combined with the fact that they use OpenID logins, I've been tempted to setup a domain that matches stack exchange urls and automatically pulls in content for closed topics to continue the discussion.

Something like:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/316265/tricks-to-speed-up...

to

http://stackoverflow.whyyouclosethis.com/questions/316265/tr...

However, it really seems crazy that StackOverflow itself can't find a way to incorporate these types of questions into their ecosystem. There's clearly a demand. Whether or not they want it to be the core focus, they've got a community that's interested in these discussions. They really should find a way (even if it means moving them to an off-topic section) to allow it.
Hey, I'm the author of the article and I don't really have an agenda in the Android/iOS platform debate. Both are necessary platforms to build on at this point.

Yat also wasn't really complaining about the state of affairs on Android at all. He's happy to QA test with 400 devices and he thinks it's why his company performs well relative to other game developers who don't do as comprehensive a job.

I just thought it was a hilarious photo about the lengths that one Android developer will go to make their apps work. :)
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Querying and manipulating millions of rows. Basic usage of Excel doesn't work well there, in my experience.

The technique I've used in the past is to use SQL to query and output the data I need, then manipulate it in Excel. I'll leave it open that I'm not good enough with Excel, but I find MySQL query language more powerful for filtering, grouping, etc. However, there are a few too many steps in there, and it's not something I'll be teaching my mother. Someone actually has to set up the database, and that's no cake walk for the lay person.

Now, I'm going to take a guess that you're implying that Excel already has these features, to which I'll answer: possibly, but nobody I know is using them. That's why I think it's a large market.

But hey, if you know a solution off the top of your head, let me know. I'm always looking!
I think it is subjective - unfortunately.

With a bigger microphone comes greater responsibility.

I am not taking Github's side on this particular issue - but this issue struck a bigger tone (for me)...where I have seen those with a larger microphone (by virtue of who they are) seem to be complaining louder (publicly) in recent history. It could just be that their microphone has gotten louder - but if it has, to a large extent they have a responsibility to be more conscious.

Imagine if Obama complained about the food at a bakery down the street that he went to - that would effectively kill that establishment. As a patron, does he have a right to complain about disgusting food? Absolutely...as someone with the largest pulpit in the world? Definitely not. There are other means he could use to get his message across.

Then again, I am not comparing Obama's pulpit to that of Torvalds, but I think it makes the point sufficiently.
Both elements are necessary. The time is an unknown variable, but the great thing about startups is as long as you have the will and keep pushing (and learning), something will work.
I do consider not being able to privately secretly play games to ungodly hours a privacy issue.
I stand corrected, thank you. I thought it was far higher.
He's not arguing that the fold isn't real, but that people often lose sight of the purpose of the concept.

It's not "put everything above the fold", but put the stuff that will make people want to read more or take action (including giving them teasers sufficient to visit other parts of the site, including the part of the page below the fold).
Full quote: "github is a total ghetto of crap commit messages and unreadable and unusable pull requests"

Conveniently left out the part most salient to Linus' argument? Linus repeatedly stresses that he thinks Github is great as a hosting service. It is the pull/commit functionality which he finds lacking.
Other people have pointed out the use of Gotham as being in possible violation of copyright. I'd like to point it out as a violation of good taste. Especially the way it's been h1/h2'd into a parody of itself. The line weights are utterly wrong and visually disturbing. It frankly looks more like Optima than anything else, and if you're not a designer, that's a pretty nasty thing to say about a font.

I was thinking maybe this site would be somewhere I'd send trainees to get some basic knowledge to reinforce their skills, but obviously basic knowledge is harder to come by than you'd think. I'm almost tempted to say you can't teach people to design through a web experience alone, but I do think it could be done a lot better than this; starting with the terrible design of the site itself.

I mean actually, looking at it again, is this some kind of typographer's in-joke? If so, and it got front-paged on HN, it's really funny.

Lol. I just registered that they're showing pictures of PG, Steve Jobs and the president of RISD with "relevant quotes" down the page. Now I know it's a joke. Not really funny, but at least I get it.
While I haven't used a Git client on Windows (I'm on a Mac), my cofounder still uses Windows and seems to be happy with TortoiseGit (http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/)
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This isn't searching without pagerank. (As far as I know, blekko uses pagerank)

It's just telling the search engine to ignore the first X results, which still relies on the pagerank algorithm.

Searching without pagerank would be similar to using a search engine pre-google.
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I don't get it. Why would someone have a website that was just some penguins on an iceberg?
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So my designer and I had to cut ties with our outsourced engineering team because they promised completion of my site in 1.5 months and we ended at 10% completion after 3 months! We're now busting our asses looking for an engineer familiar with eCommerce processes. I'm writing to ask where to spend my time looking and how to approach a would be co-founder for the best outcome?
Here's what I'm working with:

Totally unique eCommerce gifting concept (Yes, unique : ))

Business Plan is complete.(a very detailed 30 pages)

Design of the site is 90% complete.

Complete 13 page SRS document. (everything is mapped out!)

Well connected, serial entrepreneur business adviser is on board.

Interest from owner of major seed investment fund (>$100 million), contingent upon completion of demo, or better yet functional prototype.

Serial entrepreneur (sold last co. for $200 million) and angel interested the project.

Team: Myself (Colin Little, UC Irvine 2009 Business Econ./Accounting grad) Designer: Derek Hammond (Western Illinois University design program grad)

200+ vendors are waiting for the finished product to begin working with us.

Well defined business model allowing for high profit margins starting day one of launch.

As you can tell everything is ready to rock and roll once I find a good fit, and I'd like to find one asap. I've been shooting emails to Stanford's CS faculty, signed up and submitted to cofounder dating, attending hacker meetups, everything possible.

Any other suggestions???

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I feel it's really unjust the way we treat our fellow citizens living abroad. I would hate to be taxed both by the US and the country I was living in. He's already paid very a very large amount of tax for the value he generated while living in the US. Why should he pay US tax for the value he generates while living in Singapore or elsewhere?
We don't use Azkaban or Oozie at Twitter, so we are unlikely to do that. But we'll happily take a good pull request. I think the LinkedIn guys are interested.
I completely agree. The more competitors, the more fragmentation, the better for Dropbox.

Something primitive in me starts to kick in when this occurs. I start to question the trustworthiness, validity, and longevity of "other services", which in turn only bolsters who I know best, or even just first. Everything else becomes the proverbial Brand X.
This is why Google does not copy many of the iPhone's features https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&sclient=... (link to patent search)
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I was indeed choosing a conservative number so there wouldn't be much of a counterargument about the 10k value aspect. My point was mainly that 10k for a 6 month vested tech hire is something other tech companies pay to non employees.
I don't know I you're being intellectually dishonest or are bad at reading comprehension, but the author said "many developers," not "all developers."
I had a conversation with your CEO once that made my stomach sink pretty badly. Your emphasis on academic credentials rather than projects, portfolio, or experience at the time for potential hires really put me off.
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Hate that sort of UI that combines safe operations with operations that cause changes. To wit: if you accidentally drop the folder on your way to the dock, you just moved it to the desktop.
TortoiseGit is probably the best choice. It's low-friction, integrates well with Explorer and with PuTTY, and makes it painless to drop into the command line and invoke git manually when you need to.

In particular, TortoiseGit offers excellent UI for commit, revert, log/reflog, merging, and patch management. It also has some built in UI for Git-SVN if you use that.

The Windows GitHub client is shaping up nicely if you use GitHub but it's still in beta and super unstable.
Depends what you need. I am happy with TortoiseGit. For me it doesn't get "slicker" as the GUI being the file explorer.
I have used Eclipse's EGit, and it really works great !!
Since when do developers for PC applications reach 100% compatibility with any hardware/OS combination out there without testing on dozens of platforms? (The guy in the article with the 400 devices is trying to achieve 100% compatibility)
We use about 6-7 different devices in our Android team and cover 95% of our target audience with that. (its a VoIP/messaging app with millions of customers)
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Clever, and funny. I agree there is a lot of "business" people around the tech scene. The problem is sorting the ones that can help from the ones that can't which I say is more difficult than telling a good programmer from a bad. All business founder are typically good talkers, ware suits and ties, and are typically excited. Finding one with a foot already in the scene, has run a major startup, and want more than you money is probably the reason why startup stay away from them plus you can just learn business practices after the product is built. Either way nice post, but I can already see business people building there case.
I can recommend TortoiseGit, it's pretty good as far as I can tell. However, I still prefer the CLI for most tasks because it's just more flexible :)
Tortoise git is the windows git gui of choice at our work and is the one I recommend to install for our clients who use windows. Haven't tried any others though.

Since I know the command line client best, I always install msysgit first, set up ssh keys in "git bash" using ssh-keygen and then install tortoise git. Warning, if you use msysgit, make sure to not use the "plink" ssh that is installed with tortoise but use the msysgit one. That setup has had the least issues for us.
It's still slow because it literally emulates the phone running on an ARM CPU rather than simulate ala the iPhone simulator which runs an x86 version of IOS.
No offense. But if you are making a site to teach people how to be better designers, you shouldn't make the site so ugly. This seems like a simple bootstrap site, but much uglier. I think it would have been better to just use the defaults. You might want to work on the design of the site to get more people to sign up. I probably would have signed up otherwise.
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I don't believe it's the same argument. A lot has changed in 15 years for Linux. It still has a tiny market share, yeah, but it's more accessible and approachable than ever. I think it comes down to making sure Linux delivers the same amount of polish as Windows and OS X instead of any fundamental change that's required.

Not to say I buy into the year of the Linux desktop stuff - I'm expecting it to be a gradual change as Linux gets better and more people start to use it. OEMs preinstalling Linux on PCs definitely helps, too, which they've already been starting to do.
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I'm under the impression that flicker-free/tear-free are features that KVM brings to Wayland and that X already has if you use KVM drivers. Is that not the case?
I think it's simply that code written to be 25x cleaner, shorter, and faster, will not bring 25x the revenue to the company. Coding skill is only one factor in the ultimate fate of a product.

A company I worked at has this business model where they recruit extremely cheap interns (mostly from France) and have them develop products. In their eyes it's not profitable to pay more for a better coder, since the quality of the final product doesn't have much impact on their bottom line; they sell to big business so there's no review site rating their products and clients don't talk to each other.
Hi, what technology stack/frameworks did you guys use to build pinstagram?
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400 devices is probably overkill, you can get by with far less if you want to cover 90%+ of the market.

This sounds about right from my experience:
http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/03/testing-netflix-on-andro...
I totally agree that 400+ devices is pretty crazy.

By looking at device usage stats I would say that 20 devices will get you above 90% in one region but you have to use closer to 40 if you aim for 90% on the global market. (Of course it depends on your user base)

However, having 400 devices on the shelf for debugging when you get some strange error report might be very valuable. I would love to have a bucket of CDMA phones available since I can't just go buy one in the store. (I live in Denmark)
Yes, they do. Just as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guaranteed "qualifying" loans the government guarantees some portion of student loans, e.g. Stafford loans, through Sallie Mae.
Serverfault has the same problems. I barely go back there anymore, I just lost interest (despite being in the top 100). The questions are usually not that interesting, but I do enjoy helping the new sysadmins that don't know where to begin. Although I need to be quick about it (those questions are usually closed first).

Example: http://serverfault.com/questions/9766/what-a-beginner-should...
#drunken troll comment

"Windows 8 FTW! Dude you are the DON. I really wish there was more people like you writing opinions like this online and make sure Apple gets what they deserved! What a bunch of asshole! Seems to me you should also give Samsung a call, see what they think! After all this they do not have browser either yet on iOS and I bet they really wanted it maximum! Apple should be take a leaf from the real Mr Steve book, and stop making mess of themselves. Shameful really, this is why I always buy Samsung product and Microsoft software, it is best for everyone to avoid this Apple who are never good for anybody. Thank you for great article."
No, I don't think Excel already has those features. It's an open question how to do it in a way that the average spreadsheet user will find intuitive. Sounds like you have some opinions about that, as do I. But it looks like these guys have a useful product and I don't want to hijack their thread. If you want to discuss it offline my email is in my profile.
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The expression "low-hanging fruit" usually means small things that are easy to pick off, for just as much benefit as harder things. It's a useful term for potential development work that might have outsized gains for the efforts.

Gruber seems to be using it instead to mean things that are easy to think of, regardless of their size or worth, which strikes me as a journalism-centric worldview.

Why hasn't humankind cured cancer? It's such an obvious next step. And when we do, I can write an article about how there are fewer things to have walkathons for.
Used to use SmartGit at my last job and that generally worked pretty well. New places uses svn :( so have got familiar with TortoiseSVN, which works pretty well, so would imagine TortoiseGit would also be a good choice.
Honestly this a huge problem in startups I think can be solve fairly quickly. Stop trying to built you own start and just join a programmers startup company. There are to many ideas and not enough techical people because technical people who want to join startups have their own ideas. Find someone with a similar business to yours. Add your idea to theres and actually be some use. There is a such a fracture in startup because all those things like meetings and business plan could easily help a technical founder who already has a great product, but is socially inept easily become a viable problem.
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I'm going to go out on a limb with this claim: Developing Android apps that run across different phones really isn't any harder than developing Windows apps that run across different PCs.

The real issue, I'm convinced, is that a bunch of people with no previous development experience jumped in with the iPhone gold rush. Then these people decided to branch out to Android and are shocked and horrified when something works slightly differently on their customer's phone than when it does on their phone.

God forbid that these people should every try developing Javascript applications that have to support support IE. :-D
the statement about GMER is not true. I've seen GMER miss MANY rootkits/etc. As far as catching and removing rootkits that other most av's tend to misss i've had by far the most success with combofix(which includes a GMER scan). Nothing will catch 0day rootkits 100% of the time, once a system is compromised it's best to format and start from scratch (or restore from backup if you're positive it's clean, but make sure you replace the mbr too). Theres just no other way to be completely certain. I lost track of the times that I thought I got everything on a windows machine, then google for something like malwarebytes as a test only to be redirected.
TortoiseGit gets a little funky with the shell icon overlays on Windows 7--don't expect them to always tell you the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1057734/tortoisesvn-icons...). It's also heavily biased toward SVN users, which will make some of the terminology confusing if you don't come from that background.

For my own workflow I prefer the command line, but GitExtensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) is my go-to when I need a GUI (or more often, when I need to show a manager that there are, in fact, GUIs available).
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I'm pretty sure you can find a 25x spread in developer compensation at Google, and that's within a pool of great developers. But they are an exception. In general, the skill difference is too hard to quantify, and the pay disparity would cause political problems. If you think you're a 25xer the best way to capture the extra value you create might be to join or start a startup.
Having social skills is one thing, but this story makes it seem like there isn't much of a meritocracy at work.
I don't understand why people are upset with Linus's writing style. I considered what he wrote to be quite polite. He was merely stating his standards in terms of what he would and wouldn't accept (and github pull requests are on the "won't accept" list). He even explained why he wouldn't accept it.

Furthermore, the patch was deficient in other ways. (a) it was missing the Signed-off-by: header, and (b) it should have been sent to the linux-bluetooth mailing list or one of the Bluetooth maintainers, with the linux-bluetooth mailing list cc'ed.
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I had this pop up today, the wording was pretty misleading.

In my case not activating Secure By Visa let me proceed with the transaction normally, but they certainly tried to imply it was necessary.
I'm not implying that nothing has changed with Linux, just with its situation in the desktop.
Which criterias would you use for selecting representative 5-10 devices?
Well, yeah that's exactly it. It's almost entirely a reputation thing.
Being as commenters here are criticizing this site, what are some alternatives?
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I don't see the article as a troll, but raises a legitimate question about why Mozilla is only targeting Microsoft and not Apple.

First of all I think we can agree that Apple's actions with iOS and Microsoft's actions with Windows RT are exactly equivalent.

>The question is "are Microsoft's actions in this case monopolistic? Now because the answer to that question is most likely yes..."

How can they be monopolistic when they have zero marketshare in the tablet market and exactly zero apps from their Win32 monopoly will even run on the new platform?

If you think the answer is yes, then is Apple guilty of the same?

> Let's say Apple is wrong which is the implication here. If that's true then so is Microsoft.

Not necessarily, because Apple has a way larger marketshare in the tablet market. Your argument is like claiming in 2000 that it would be an anti-trust issue for Apple to bundle their browser with their computers.