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I often think, on seeing new releases of Microsoft products with "features" like this, that they simply have too many people who don't know how to leave well enough alone. Each of the last few versions of VS seems to include a lot of unnecessary UI churn - 2008 had a bunch of subtle but pointless changes, 2010 looks gratuitously different to every other Windows app and now in 2012 they're fiddling with the menu capitalisation. I'd much rather that they left all that alone and spent half that effort just fixing bugs - better C++0x support, make Intellisense actually work (I hear that one may have happened anyway in 2010?), fix the funky weird bugs in the text editor, fix some crashes.

I can only assume that they're adding a lot of visible bling changes because they think that will drive more upgrades, but honestly, the menus were fine as lower case. Leave them alone.
For anyone who's interested, here's a list of C++11 features built into VC10 and VC11: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh567368(v=vs.110).a...
Even if it's "bigger" than just placing the [turn right] it's faster if you do a:

if not wall right
then turn right

instead.
Yeah, but a movie called "Jurassic Park" with no dinosaurs would be pretty woeful. The same movie without 10-year-old experts in esoteric Unix UIs would have worked just fine.
You realize he is measuring averages right? Setup 1 million L1 cache hits, divide by total time...
I think that this comment bears a certain indulgent mixture of patriotism and naïvety. Dismissing Iran as an "evil theocracy" and a "a totalitarian terrorist state" is not entirely without grounds, but I would invite commenters to tone down their statements if geopolitics is not among their interests.
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I didn't mean to imply that you couldn't - it was meant as a general statement of people in a similar position, though my writing didn't really make that clear.
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As programmers, we spend most of our working time in glorified text editors (I'm using mostly Emacs at the moment, which that is certainly an apt description of). I guess it's natural to be excited about new alternatives for our primary tool.
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Sabotage sure, but I have a hard time seeing this qualified as terrorism - terrorism is an a violent act against civilians designed to instill fear in the general population.

e.g., bombing trains, airports, buildings, poisoning food supplies, etc.

Actions against the military establishment of a country can hardly be qualified as terrorism.

That said, if the US had been on the pointy end of this stick I'm sure many politicians would not have hesitated to the use the T-word themselves...
Yes, HyperCard spawned a number of clones, notably Supercard: http://www.supercard.us/supercard/index.html and MetaCard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacard

(The latter evolved considerably, was acquired by Runtime Revolution http://www.runrev.com/ and is now called LiveCode; it's sold as a rapid application deployment platform on desktop OSs, iOS and Android.)

Supercard is noteworthy because it supports direct import of Hypercard stacks (the Supertalk language is a superset of Hypertalk).

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>The code itself is 50 times as big as the typical computer worm

All else aside, this is a clear pointer to government contractors.
CS to a programmer is no more "theoretical" than anatomy is to a surgeon.
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Install the new Visual Studio 2012! It is two times more visual than the previous one!
While looking around i found a book from PragmaticProgrammers for the vim. Compact and save my time.

Vim is more than just another editor and its fast.

What the heck does ss on the beginning? The rest of this command is clear.
There's a difference between expecting to receive an email (e.g. an order confirmation) from someone, and expecting to receive an endless stream of emails from them.
Makes me walk down memory lane! Here is my list of all the computers that I've owned:

ZX Spectrum 48k
-> Camputers Lynx 48k
-> BBC Micro model B
-> Acorn Archimedes A420
-> Some bog standard PC (initially put SCO Unix on later Slackware Linux 95)
-> iBook (clam - came with Mac OS 9 but I upgraded to OS X)
-> Custom built PC (with Redhat Linux 9 + Windows dual boot)
-> Powerbook G4
-> iMac (first 24 inch and now 27 inch).
-> Macbook Air

Definitely fond memories of the Archie. I think I bought it via Beebug (http://8bs.com/beebugmags.htm) and I had them put in a Midi card (though never got to use it!).

Sorry for the overindulgence :)
> How astonishing that the judge of a lawsuit would show this level of technical understanding.

It's been reported that he's done programming before. I had very high hopes based on that and the extensive research he did in preparing for this ruling. He asked for several rounds of briefings and spent a considerable amount of time reaching this decision.

So in a sense it's not that astonishing: he worked really hard to arrive at the correct answer. I'm just glad they got such a capable judge.
http://www.improvelectronics.com/boogie-board-LCD-writing-ta...

like the noteslate, except in production lol and also, based on demonstrated technology ( kent displays' reflex lcd screens )

not having used one myself i cant personally vouch for the tactile feedback from the stylus/paper combination, which is paramount for me. But im thinking of getting the related 10.5" no-image-save version of this, i dont see myself uploading my notes to my computer and all that, 90% of the notes i make are meant to help the thinking process and i never look at them again, and i make a lot of notes. Id love to not waste paper doing that. But id stick to paper ( and fountain pen as suggested below ) if the experience isnt as good, tactile feedback and that certain umm "seamless-ness" that pen and paper has is very important for me.
A shorter explanation with no binomial coefficients in it: Write down those 2^n numbers once in order, and once in reverse order, and pair them off. Note that each x gets paired with 2^(n-1) XOR x. So each number and its partner have exactly n 1-bits between them. In other words, twice the number we're looking for is 2^n.n; so the number we're looking for is 2^(n-1).n.

(More informally: Each bit is 0 half the time and 1 half the time, because you can pair off x and 2^(n-1) XOR x. Therefore the total number of 1-bits is half the total number of bits, QED.)
Not disagreeing with all that, just that you can counter the sneers without dropping down like them. And to be honest, I was really only here to respond to the initial question about downvotes! I don't really care about the labels - if you're making money and happy, who cares!
I signed up. If I don't like it, I trust Patrick enough to just take me off the list again.

In the past I have subscribed to quite a few newsletters and mailing lists like this. Some are great, most I dropped because they sent too much irrelevant stuff. To manage this all list-mails get sorted into a different folder so they don't clogg up my inbox, which works very well for me - it doesn't activate the "oh, new mail, let's see what they want" feeling, it's more like looking at blogs that I read regularly.
There is absolutely nothing in the dota2 store which affects gameplay. All items are 100% cosmetic. This allows anyone to go in and play any hero on even ground, but if you like a character you can spend a little irl coin to customize and stand out.
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I've recently taken over responsibility for reorganising a support team and one thing that's clearly not fit is the phone system. It's decent for a normal office but doesn't have the things I expect from a customer support phone system. Basic requirements as follows:

1, More complex IVR capabilities to filter calls to appropriate people (based on language, skillset, next-best routing etc)
2, SLA, queue etc monitoring in some sort of way we can put on a screen
3, Historical reporting
4, Preferably some sort of API so we can scrape data and load into a datawarehouse for stat consolidation

Our current phone lines are all VOIP anyway so a off-premises/"cloud based system would be ideal.
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Can you even read? It is entitled "...things I should have known", not "things you must do" or "things I am commanding you to do".

And for the record I am much older than him and his suggestions are pretty good ones.
You should have added this to the top comment. ;)
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You don't have to know Java to get hired, any programming language is fine. You do get asked design questions. I think making the leap from these 5 questions to "This is the #1 problem Google has and why they fail at social networks" is a bit far fetched, but it looks like I'm the only one...
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That number doesn't include items which they don't pay the item creator. Most notable as far as I know keys don't pay anything towards content creators, and they're a very important piece of the economy.
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It would more usually be qualified as an act of war.
I do this with my 'Out of Office' messages. I personalise them to the reason for my absence, and normally throw in something quirky - very much in line with my personal and business positioning. The responses I receive are amazing!

Here's my most recent example, to explain it better:

I am currently in Belgium on leave, and will return on Wednesday 9 May. I will respond to your email, if appropriate, next week - if your message is urgent, please contact ...

If the rest of your day was planned based on my response, then you now have some time on your hands. Here are three time-filling ideas, based on my trip:

1) Watch the film In Bruges, while I am actually in Bruges. We'll both have a great time - me, alas, without Ralph Fiennes

2) I will be in Antwerp, host of the 1920 Summer Olympics. It will be the 7th Olympic Host City I have visited - spend some time counting how many you have seen.

3) I will be visiting the European Parliament in Brussels. If you really need to fill some time, please solve the Eurozone crisis (and remember to write down your answer).

Until next week...
Yeah I was referring to the comment about buying gear in Tribes. I don't have a problem with cosmetic in-game purchases except maybe a worry that they give game designers the wrong incentives.
Didn't Pentagon said last year that they would consider cyber attacks as acts of war?
The submitted link goes to "index0.html". The link "http://dlang.org/index.html still works.
HB Gary was passed the source in 2010: http://crowdleaks.org/hbgary-wanted-to-suppress-stuxnet-rese... Anonymous scooped the NYTimes.
I found it hard to figure how my resume could summarize the breadth of my knowledge. I ended up putting a table up with "Good knowledge of", "Some knowledge" and "Worked with" in my resume, listing each skill under one of the three headings. Gives a pretty general idea. Then again, during interviews for the job I'll be starting soon no one asked me a single technical question.
I sometimes wonder what the world would be like today had the UK govt decided that our computing future was too important to be left to anyone else, and had just bought a few million Archies for the civil service, MoD, NHS etc. Of course given that critical mass/economy of scale, and the obvious superior power compared to PCs of the time, the private sector would have adopted them too. We'd be 10 or 20 years ahead of the state of the art now.

The untapped capabilities of some of those old systems were quite astonishing. It would have been cheaper to replace every dumb VT100 type terminal with an Atari ST (which had a built-in terminal emulator) and given every user a powerful machine on their desktop. The Amiga just destroyed the contemporary Mac in terms of not only price/performance but raw performance - to say nothing of the PCs of the day! It makes you realize for all the numbers of gigabytes and gigahertz, just how little actual progress has been made, since the world settled on x86 as the lowest common denominator. Windows, OSX and Linux have far more in common than Archie, ST and Amiga, where is the radical thinking in systems design now?

Of course what would actually have happened is that obsequious little weasel Alan Sugar would have foisted his word processor abomination on us, but it's nice to dream.
Ars has certainly changed it's tune after claiming that Oracle won a couple of months ago... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/jury-rules-google...
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Was there ever actually a problem? The given link is to http://dlang.org/index0.html (note the '0'). Both http://dlang.org/index.html and http://dlang.org/ seem fine.
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In practice, those things are hardly changed. When they are, users understand that the IDE might not be able to help them,
That website is awful.
Weirdly I don't think I'd have become a programmer without BBC Micro's in primary school, we even had some vague 'formal' lessons on BASIC and after that we were encourage to try and write stuff ourselves.

We also had a TURTLE, programming and robotics for primary school lessons was awesome.
> "I'm certainly not saying I'm right"

When you said it, if you did not believe in what you said, you better have not said it. The world is filled with enough empty smalltalks. Moreover, if even you do not believe in what you say, who the hell would believe in you ("read you") next time you say something?

If you thought it was right but have changed your opinion in between, please state it clearly. It is a strong mark of cleverness (to me).

If you still think it is right, please stand for your opinion, it may have some value for others.

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It is soo nice to hear about competence and common sense when it comes to copyright and legal matters for a change.
Well she is clearly tech savvy lady: http://nukaco.la/projects.html
So probably it was not very hard for her =)
The letter to his dead wife is deeply touching, and the last sentence made me laugh and cry.

It seems important to note that those of great acheivement still feel normal human emotions, and those who aspire to great acheivement should not try to avoid feeling normal human emotions - lest they become, well the president of Syria.

Thank you danso.
Too much noise for such a insignificant thing.
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US and Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it
Both sides commit terrorism, where terrorism is defined as "politically motivated violence against civilians".
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Are there any clues , how many people worked on stuxnet and flame.coding style methodology, how this project was managed etc. ? (Im still not convinced that this is from goverment)
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"Shooting for the moon" and "jumping the shark" involves working without a safety net. Phrased differently:

Making a backup plan takes away effort from your goals and makes you more likely to fail and need your backup plan.

I don't remember if this is from a famous quote, a blog post, HN discussion, or a video. I've found it to be true in some situations.
I want something to code on my smartphone, without having to type more than is necessary. I expected this kind of thing to arrive. I hope they become more than a little toy.
If this is true, why don't they say it on their website? why is there no link to the material created?

The only digitised versions of the NYT articles I can find on the web are on the NYT website, and you have to pay for them (at least, if you want the first paragraph)...

Can you provide me with some proof of what you say (links to free versions of the NYT for example)? Because I'm afraid I'm having a hard time believing it.
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Well, it would be GREAT also on mobile! All my friends have Facebook, if I could pay them with my phone and only their name I would do it all the time. (Like what PayPal tries to do, but there is not enough adoption)
Terrorism. What about this inflicts terror? I guess you might be a bit scared, but not really all that scared. It's not like someone developed a virus to slowly irradiate people having x-rays.
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Mine was given a random name by my ISP, which consisted of the name of the ISP followed by a random string of three characters (it's a small ISP).

I was amused to get the piece of paper with my router telling me the SSID was "OriginBroadband_hax". I never did change it!
Then, as I said, "you may as well just hardcode the answer to this one". It takes 15 blocks to hardcode an answer with the optimal solution and almost no time thinking. This solution not only takes 15 blocks to build but executes in exactly that much time.

Alternatively, you can spend a bunch of time proving to yourself that you have a solution that takes advantage of properties of this specific maze that gets you down to 10 blocks. However, as the result now has multiple levels of nesting and is littered with comparisons and jumps, it is going to take more time to execute and get to the end of the maze. I'd even go so far as to claim it is no longer an "optimal solution".

As you said yourself: "yes, elegant code is fantastic, but don't lose track of why we write code in the first place". I can understand spending the time to build something complex if you at least solve the general problem, but to spend more time in development to end up with a slower-to-execute answer that looks like a general solution but isn't seems to fall into your own trap ;P.
The lander demo is also know as the game Zarch (or Virus for other computers). David Braben (of the Elite[1] fame) wrote that in three months[2] for the release of the Archimedes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_%28video_game%29

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarch
I'll admit it. I'm as skeptical of this as I am of religious claims.

'"Our findings are statistically consistent with a head-on collision between the Andromeda galaxy and our Milky Way galaxy," adds Roeland van der Marel of the STScI.'

How the hell does one establish statistical consistency when predicting an event four billion years in the future across 2.5 million light years? The sample size which has been analyzed is zero.

"The Hubble Space Telescope team, led by van der Marel, conducted extraordinarily precise observations of the sideways motion of M31 that remove any doubt that it is destined to collide and merge with the Milky Way."

Here is the fundamental fallacy at heart of the matter - the very one which makes this certainty bad science: the degree of precision with which one makes their measurements has absolutely no bearing on the accuracy of those measurements. Instead it indicates that all the errors were repeatable.

Science does some wonderful things...when it uses its own original methods rather than relying on faith that its high purpose makes its conclusions true.
The east coast of the US (containing almost 1/2 of the US population) will be waking up in the next 1-2 hours. Hopefully you'll get noticed then. :)
Alright, what do you want me to fix then?
Wait 15 minutes and then check wikipedia.
If they are mapping index 1 to index 0, then it makes sense that 0 would map to -1 since it is one less than the first index. The bug is in the blockly sieve.

As an aside, Lua also uses 1-based indexing.
Sure,

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It sounds like you're reading an awful lot into one person's experience. Lots of people at google love their jobs, feel challenged and fulfilled, see all the oppertunities google provides from touching the lives of millions to open source projects to 20% time to access to every project at the company etc etc etc as an amazing blessing.

Others have either bad experience, a bad attitude or maybe a little of both.

I don't think one guy's opinion is really a reflection of most employee's experiences at google.

I've been here 4 years. Haven't written one line of Java. Get paid to contribute to open source, have started 5 to 20 side projects, all open sourced. I could go into a lot more things but suffice it to say Google is by far the best place I've worked out of the 10 places I've worked so far.
Is this leading you to have some practical issues, or is it just a technical complaint?

I have used the Limbo Linux port, and didn't have any problems.
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'In my opinion' isn't the only alternative to blank statements. One can explain one's ideas or provide some evidence.
Not insignificant at all. Good product and interface design is the accumulation of 1000's of details all done right.

Just a couple of interface missteps can have a hugely negative effect. In this case, many people are justly bothered by the sight of a menu appearing to yell at them, a menu that may sit on their screen for eight hours a day.

More than this, such a bad design decision is a symbol of a broken product design process at Microsoft, which means it's probably not just the menu bar alone.
You've not bothered to read the article, have you? The issue of getting the virus past the "air gap" is mentioned.
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