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> But if there's something in those headers that's not compatible with the C standard, then that's a much more valid complaint.

There definitely was stuff incompatible. I think at some point gcc/icc started supporting these extensions, but for a long time, all of the midl / type library tools with MS only, and the header files used proprietary MS extensions.

You could, of course, rewrite the definitions for another compiler (COM was documented), but it was a tedious error prone thing to do.

> Microsoft's failure to sell a specific product you want from them seems like a different category of complaint entirely.

The list of complaints was far from complete, I tried to give complaints of different kind. This one is in the same category of the IE6 stagnation (market owned -> innovation stops, standards ignored). It's not as antisocial as the rest of the complaints, but it is definitely in the "Microsoft isn't a friend of the community" department.
"I'm curious about your view of the hybrid deployment model many of our users prefer with an on-prem instance that can be deployed to multiple service providers."

I see these as 2 separate things:

- By "on-prem instance" I'm guessing you're referring to a local VM which mimics the remote deployment target? I think that is a cool and useful feature in the "nice-to-have" category.

- By "can be deployed to multiple service providers", I guess you mean that the portability between cf-enabled providers frees developers from lock-in? In my opinion this solves a non-existing problem. Developers can already deploy to multiple service providers with almost zero effort, because all service providers rely on open standards for deploying web applications. As a result portability is incredibly good between dotCloud, Heroku, Cloudfoundry and almost everybody else. Of course it's up to the developer to not lock themselves into proprietary APIs which are only available on certain service providers (eg. App Engine).
There is a response from a marketing guy from GoToMeeting in the comments of this article. I couldn't readily find a way to link to the comment, so I'll post it here for anyone that doesn't want to go hunting:

"Hi, this is Andrew from the GoToMeeting search marketing team. I just posted over on the MeetingBurner blog as well. We do not use competitive names in search ads, but we do follow the common industry practice of bidding on competitive terms. In the instance of this ad, we were using a Google method called dynamic keyword insertion which delivers the searcher's query in the ad title. For example, if you were searching on the term "web conferencing," that query would appear in the ad title. In this case, the user entered "meeting burner" in the search field and it appeared in the ad title. This is why the Meeting Burner name showed up in the ad. Our search marketing efforts are never intended to deceive the searcher."

Edit: I couldn't find anything in the FAQ about this, but if a post like this is not really accurately representing a situation, is that something I should flag? I feel that is beyond simply "disagreeing with the post", but I don't want to start abusing the feature.
Is this question serious? There are markets where you simply must invest a lot and get big fast (acquire users), otherwise you'll get run over by competitors.

The only way to win is with VC. Read up on first mover advantage and network effects. In fact, just buy Varian's Information Rules.
But that only solves the COBOL aspect. There's are many cases in which assembly, FORTRAN and who-knows-what-else is involved.

Terminal scraping is "universal" (it is language agnostic; it's much easier to get a system emulator working perfectly than multiple compilers/language environments).
Someone could use the article as a guide for what not to do in an attempt to increase job security. I was trying to illustrate that may not be always applicable. Some discretion gauging your work environment trumps the article.

(And it was a cathartic counterpoint. This guy sounds like a great employer.)
I guessed it was dynamic keywords, and the comment by Andrew Taylor of GoToMeeting confirmed it:

"We do not use competitive names in search ads, but we do follow the common industry practice of bidding on competitive terms. In the instance of this ad, we were using a Google method called dynamic keyword insertion which delivers the searcher's query in the ad title."
Funny, I was going to throw some concurring examples from sports your way. "Michael Jorden was cut from his high school basketball team." "Yogi Berra was repeatedly denied a spot on a major league team." But in looking for citations, I seem to have disproven myself. Turns out, Jorden was never cut, he just didn't make varsity as a sophomore, like almost all sophomores, at least partly because, at 15, he was still under 6 feet tall. [1]

As for Berra, the only reference I found was a claim on wikipedia that he was kept off the Cardinals by a team president who was moving to the Dodgers and was hoping to sign Berra there. [2]

These examples certainly don't mean that there are no false negatives when it comes to failure, but I think it's interesting that these two famous stories about great players overcoming early adversity are bunk. It is probably the case that most people start out not being so good at something, then gradually get better, with any early success compounding over time.

[1] http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/11/the-man-wh...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra
Indeed. Despite the fact that women's fashion is far more lucrative and with a larger market, the majority of top end fashion houses are headed by men or whose label is a man's name.
Not the poster you're replying to, but what I read it as was: many employers posts lists like this, but they are not necessarily "clear boundaries", because often they don't mean what you think the plain-English bullet point would mean. The most common one is that "safety is our #1 priority" type rules often have a very nuanced interpretation, with an unwritten subtext of, "but don't cause trouble by pointing out safety problems".

On the other hand, if the goal is to cover your ass, then broad rules that are somewhat ignored at management's discretion may be a feature rather than a bug.
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So what is wrong with other countries that you can't start a business there? Can anyone explain this? is this just a green grass thing?
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There's lots of space here. If letting lots of entrepreneurs in is likely to grow the economy/grow federal revenues/create jobs, what are the arguments for having more restrictive regulations?
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I haet haet haet haet haet the f^cking cygwin "Setup.exe".

The cygwin devs are being absolutely butt-retarded for failing to integrate this.
my point was I know tons of I+C engineers waiting for 5+ years for their GC via EB2 or EB3, so that they can eventually do a startup.
It's juvenile.
To quote a previous HN article:

"You are the average of your 3 closest friends"

Pick your friends wisely.
If Microsoft had wanted to do the Right Thing, they would have adopted the bash shell, and created a set of utilities providing access to services it doesn't provide.

Currently, Bash (or something very bash-like) is The One True Shell for all Unices, Linux, MacOSX, and even (rootkit ant terminal app) Android. As well as zSeries and numerous other platforms with appropriate compatibility kits.

Microsoft are ghettoizing themselves. It's a large, well-populated ghetto no, but I see a downward trend.
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You are confusing units and numeral systems. Pi is always Pi no matter how you count whereas c is dependent on how you measure time and space.
Same issue in Chrome. Love the design!
If they were bidding on the phrase "MeetingBurner" and set that up as a dynamic keyword, then yes, it would be automatically inserted into the title.

But that's still GoToMeeting's fault. The description is pretty straightforward in adword's support documentation:

http://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

Key part:

"Since your ad text is dynamically updated with keywords from your account, make sure that all your keywords would make sense inserted in your ad text."

It should be obvious that if you use your competitor's brand name as a keyword, it'll get inserted like that.

Maybe they're just bad at using AdWords, I don't know.

Or maybe they're using a newfangled feature that's different from keyword insertion.

====

For more background info:

You have an AdGroup, which contains a set of Keywords and Ads.

The Ad is the part that has the text you see ("buy cheap stuff!!11one") and the target url, etc.

The keyword is the part you bid on "cars", "insurance", and includes the bid amount, and some other stuff.

Dynamic keyword insertion works by taking the keyword and inserting it into the ad text, so that you can set up ad groups like:

Ad: "Buy cheap {keyword:cars}"
Keywords: "cars", "fast cars", "sports cars"

and you could automatically render ads, depending on the keyword used: "Buy cheap cars," "buy cheap fast cars", "buy cheap sports cars"

The point is that you still have to manually select what keywords to add in, which means they were keywording off of MeetingBurner, and should have been well aware that this would have happened.

Edit: added more info about AW structuring.
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Again, I'm not saying that being rude or inconsiderate is ever justified. However, when trying to look at a response from a psychological point of view, you kind of have to throw out notions about what is right and wrong as these tend to taint the data. The fact that people felt like they had to keep commenting and commenting saying the same thing over and over should tell us something.

When the original beta was introduced it was not a "hey guys, what do you think of the new UI" type of announcement. It was more of a "this is the new UI, it adheres to the latest and greatest design trends, is better, prettier, more 'energetic'; you will love it!" People felt patronized so they gave their feedback in droves.

This later set the tone that the only way they're going to listen is if we bury them in feedback. Of course this is unfortunate as good feedback was probably lost in the noise.

Also, there's tons of feedback that is being ignored: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi... A simple "maybe" or "won't do because X" would go a long way.
Not sure where else to report issues. I was able to search for songs, add them to a mixtape and share it via email. I wasn't able to play any songs though. After pressing play, it would send a request to the youtube API and receive a successful response (200 OK), but just sit there and not play anything. Each time I press next, the same thing would happen - a successful request then nothing.
You don't spoof the messages, you spoof the destinations.

In a closed system if you can get ahold of the destination as they have, you can redirect everything else to that center temporarily and just let it keep spamming suicide modules. If it's still confusing I can try to explain it better.
Silverstein often quotes a senior Israeli official to say it's Israel's fault whenever something goes wrong in the Middle East, but he never produces evidence and his assertions are rarely backed up by independent reporting. I suspect he's making it all up, or his senior official source is a senior official in a political action group and not the government. In any case, he is not a reliable source.
I've thought about this too. For me it's a matter of what somebody really "gets" with those keys. If I'm compromised by someone whose taken my keys and programmed a script against my service are they stealing anything? Well if I've applied some form of ACL and provided some secondary authentication against data they shouldn't be able to query I should be Ok.

Likewise with user accounts. If they take my keys, and somehow get someones password they'd have the same access they would otherwise have through the GUI. If I put user passwords into the code, well yeah that's totally bad on me.

I don't know. I'm not a security expert, however I've not been able to catch a problem with this. I'd love to know better.
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I'll read it but know this, and I'm willing to sign a document to the effect publicly, regardless of it's damage to my reputation.

If a virus was spreading and I could counter it (especially without writing my own virus just for that) then my first action would be to do so and document it well.

A doctor would be clapped for, if he/she diagnosed an illness and treated someone. There would be some mumblings of doubt but who would take action against good will and humanitarianism?

If a mechanic saw someone's break lines cut, isn't it their duty just the same to use their information to help people?

We can't learn everything in life, we specialize. Society is no good if we don't use our differed knowledge in tandem with one another. As a specialist if you're not willing to help people with your knowledge then likely you're just a specialist for the purpose of profit, not passion. With that said, perhaps you should reconsider a few things.
Here we go again. Instead of apologizing for thier mistake and removing the advertising they are hiding behind a google loophole to justify the use of our trademark. If they really did not intend to deceive the searcher than they should have never used our trademarked term to begin with.
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You're special in that you're unique; you're not special in that you innately have talents that nobody else does.
(Sorry rb2k_, I didn't mean to downvote you.)
Here we go again. Instead of apologizing for your mistake and removing the advertising you are hiding behind a google loophole to justify the use of our trademark. If you really did not intend to deceive the searcher than you should have never used our trademark term to begin with.
Well, A) there isn't any originality there, and B) it is more impressive because of the skill involved. There is little to no skill in recreating a logo as simple as Twitter's out of vector circles - the originality was in the design, not the implementation.
I do wish the silent majority would shut up occasionally. You hear them on the telly all the time, and read about them in print. Going on and on and on about how no-one ever hears them or allows them any airtime.
For me, HackerNews is Edu-tainment.

I learn some stuff, but I wouldn't classify it as productive time. However, I have read some things here that have had a great impact on my life and/or business.
Off topic, but are you the founder of SmartWater?
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So the people this guy fired were given expectations up front, and then clearly told why, by their boss, that things weren't working out? I wish I was given that luxury when I was let go from my last job...
Sometimes I wonder what it's like to pretend that you aren't affected by the mannerisms and maturity of all living human beings. To believe that there's a good rationalization to finding a short cutoff of helping people.

This article's true evil is this: He puts helping the guy with a technical problem as a favor, not as a simple kind duty.

We don't want to spend everyday as tech support, that's reasonable. But if people were better educated instead of taken care of, perhaps they wouldn't need as much.
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2 days ago, Startup Act 2.0 was introduced to the house floor (a).

The highlights of the act, which include many of the suggestions in this thread-

1 - Create a new STEM visa so that U.S.-educated foreign students who graduate with a master’s or Ph.D. in science, technology, engineering or mathematics can receive a green card and stay in this country where their talent and ideas can fuel growth and create American jobs.

2 - Establish an Entrepreneur’s Visa for legal immigrants so they can remain in the United States, launch businesses and create jobs, and eliminates the per-country caps for employment-based immigrant visas, which hinders U.S. employers from recruiting the top-tier talent they need to grow.

3 - Make permanent the exemption of capital gains taxes on the sale of startup stock held for at least five years, so investors can provide financial stability at a critical juncture of firm growth.

4 - Create a targeted research and development tax credit for young startups less than five years old and with less than $5 million in annual receipts. This R&D credit is designed to allow startups to offset employee taxes, freeing up resources to help these young companies expand and create jobs.

5 - Use existing federal R&D funding to better support university initiatives designed to bring cutting-edge R&D to the marketplace more quickly, where it can propel economic growth.
Require government agencies to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of proposed “major rules” with an economic impact of $100 million or more.

6 - Direct the U.S. Department of Commerce to assess state and local policies that aid in the development of new businesses.

(a) http://polis.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=2...
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I realize this isn't the same thing, but a lot of Mac apps are scriptable through Apple's Open Scripting Architecture [1], so it's more than possible to use Python [2] or Ruby [3] or any other language with an OSA bridge to access and reuse application functionality or to automate tasks. According to Wikipedia, Microsoft Office 2008 supports OSA, so it's worth investigating with Microsoft Office 2011. You can use the ASDictionary app from the appscript page [4] to see what scriptable functionality, if any, various Microsoft Office for Mac applications support.

References:

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/apple...

[2] http://appscript.sourceforge.net/py-appscript/index.html

[3] http://rubyosa.rubyforge.org/

[4] http://appscript.sourceforge.net/tools.html#asdictionary
Whether or not they are using dynamic keyword insertion is irrelevant.

Here is a comparison for consideration. I bid on "free credit report." The FTC isn't going to give a shit if I put "Free Credit Report" in my ad, or I bid on "free credit report" and used dynamic insertion. Its all the same thing, I now qualify for their draconian rule set for companies advertising to provide free credit reports. (By the way, do a search for "free credit report" on Google, notice anything special?)

Citrix placed the name of a federally trademarked business in their ad copy. Additionally, that trademark is for a direct competitors of theirs (not a fruit seller with an ad for an "Apple.") Thirdly, the promised product, Meetingburner, is not actually there. Thus, they are guilty of both trademark infringement and deceptive advertising.

At bare minimum, Meetingburner would send a C&D. At best they could demand a six figure settlement and a guarantee they will never bid on "Meetingburner" or run ads with "Meetingburner" in them again (killed two birds with one stone, since Citrix legally could bid on the term.) In the extreme they could refuse a settlement and take it to trial, and probably win. After legal expenses, likely a loss for both sides.

I've been on the receiving end of this before. I learned not to use dynamic insertion.

As for Adwords -- "Unfortunately, reaching out to the AdWords team at Google isn’t an easy task. This does appear to be against the Terms of Service for AdWords, but since its so close to the weekend, the ads might stay up for the next few days." -- Yeah, good luck with that. They let big advertisers do basically whatever the hell they want. I've watched very explicit rule violations slide for well in excess of a year.
Adobe ships sandboxed Flash plug-in for Firefox
Uh, where is zoom function?
WebForms wishes it was VB6, but sadly, the ViewState abstraction leaks complexity like a sieve for any but the most trivial case.
I don't get it, what's oo got to do with storing entities in column major storage. Store the objects in a 2d array.

Normally you don't even store entities like that, I've seen all sorts of crazy data structures, such as storing them spatially, so you can ignore visual updates.

Or am I completely not getting what your saying here...
Bidding on a trademark term, and including a trademark term in an ad to represent something that is not there are two distinctly different things.
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How does Adobe's Flash sandbox differ from Firefox's own out-of-process plugin sandbox?

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-proces...
> BTW, I don't think the camera is rotating. Something, maybe an antenna shows in the photo against the star background. The ISS must be rotating in the same period of the orbit, so it always shows the same face to Earth's surface.

The camera would not be rotating with respect to the ISS. But the ISS, as you said, rotates with the same period as its orbit. The camera, being fixed to the ISS, therefore rotates with this same period in the same plane.

So, yes, the camera is rotating; hence, the star circles.
Google avoids waiting for dom ready in webapps like gmail, and their closure library [1] doesn't have the equivalent of jquery's $(document).ready() [2].

[1] https://developers.google.com/closure/library/
[2] https://groups.google.com/group/closure-library-discuss/brow...
I really want to see the sci-fi film 'Apogee of Fear' that they shot up there recently.

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Not saying you did, just that the journalist has failed to meet minimum standards.

On the other hand, the problem could have been resolved with a phone call - from your lawyer, if necessary. Immediately making a blog post out of it on your end wasn't the most scrupulous thing to do either.

It also sounds like the problem arose from an innocent mistake on their end. Google doesn't warn against this when pushing their keyword insertion feature. It's on the user to be responsible, but Google could do a far better job on documentation.
any chance of a reference for "splices a DLL into every process on the machine"?
None of the songs are available (Here is a screenshot after I made the player visible: http://i.imgur.com/eP3sK.jpg )

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You can do a lot without accessing the DOM. Assuming you have a real app, and not just a circus of jquery event handlers, then you probably have prototypes to instantiate, perhaps some models to load, etc.

The post is referring back to the old jquery advice of "put everything in $(document).ready".
Blake did indeed a great job typing up his notes in these very enlightening essays. Always enjoyed reading them. Glad to see that his sharing efforts get fully credited by Forbes/Ryan and not just the typical aggregation recycling write-ups.
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