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Even if they use ingredients from a single store it'll look 1000 times better in the picture.

The photog gets to choose the best bun out of hundreds, the best tomatoes, greenest lettuce. In the end photograph, the bun will look perfect and fluffy, the tomato sparkles, and the meat seems fresher than a live cow. Plus they may or may not, but there are "tricks" to simulate things like fake steam coming out of food, spraying glicerin or corn syrup to make it look moist(looks like water droplets), or simply cold food photographs better. On top of all that, good lighting does wonders as well.
So would it have helped if Microsoft had been ingenious like Apple and called it Windows phone 8 but delivered fewer features instead to older devices?
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"many programmers work in businesses where software is a cost center. If you want to make money as a programmer, you need to work at a company where software is a generator of profit and negotiate compensation aggressively after demonstrating your value."

This is right on. Looking back to when I was finishing my degree an older friend of mine advised that if possibly you shouldn't work for a company who's primary income stream isn't what you do. I still think this is a fantastic suggestion. Not everyone can be an important member of the R&D group for their employer, but if you've got the chops why shouldn't you be?

I find that doing that you get the best of both worlds. You're valued enough that you get shielded from most of the office prattle and politics, you usually report very high up the hierarchy ( I've never reported less than one level down from executive team, and usually its been directly to a C-level position), and these teams tend to be full of others who know their shit and will make you better. Of course the compensation is usually quite good too, and bonus you're unlikely to be held to a standard soul sucking 9-5 schedule, or God forbid have to be on call.
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I want to clarify that I'm not looking to get into a holy war about tea kettles o_O.

I didn't realize electric kettles could control water temperature. Which one do you have? I've always just boiled water, and then let the temperature fall to where I want it, even when using an electric kettle.

Also, for me, the fact that the regular kettle is on the stovetop is actually better, because that space is almost never in use (only during cooking), and when I do need, I can temporarily shift the kettle elsewhere. My counter space, on the other hand, is always at a premium (I only have 2 squares.)
You cannot incorporate an S-Corporation if you are not a U.S. individual taxpayer (i.e., a flesh-and-blood person who is a citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.).
I can't see how Microsoft thinks that this can survive an antitrust case in Europe.
Well that's a relief!

My recollection was based on the last burst of news coverage on the issue late last year; it sounds like Linux vendors like Red Hat worked with Microsoft on the issue between now and then (Red Hat this month: "the Linux Foundation, hardware partners, and Microsoft to collaboratively develop a UEFI secure boot mechanism that allows user/customer choice and ease of use" -- http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2012/6/uefi-secure-...), so it may be that the ambiguity was present in older MS certification specs but got cleared up later on...
>So? Folks don't use the "potential", they use the real.

Haskell is real.

>They're asking questions like "should I use Java or Python".

That's wonderful, but it has nothing to do with the subject at hand, which was the question "can static typing reduce the number of bugs?". If you want an answer to a different question, don't complain about the answer given for this question, go find someone answering the question you want answered.

>That's not how things actually work. You decide between what's available. The performance of the best possible airbags is irrelevant. The real question is the cost and benefits of airbags that are likely to be deployed.

Why can't anyone follow a simple line of reasoning without resorting to fallacies? He tested the best airbags available. Not theoretical airbags that don't exist. He tested a car with the best airbags available to one without. The airbags were a benefit. You and the other guy making up fallacies insist that this isn't a fair comparison, because you want to drive a car where the airbags deploy 5 seconds after impact. Your crappy car isn't relevant to the question of "can airbags save lives".
Let me be more clear: I'm talking about something like an MTS or Senior Engineer, rather than a Fellow or Distinguished Engineer (and FWIW, at many firms, a Fellow/Distinguished Engineer may very well have compensation comparable to a Director/VP).
I believe its similar to what happens in other sectors: PMs have to deal with people, do lots and lots of schleps without the constant rewards of creating something, designing something beautiful or the serendipitous discovery of something remarkable. As a developer I m not jealous of their position, I know they get paid better for doing what i Don't want to do
I'm pretty sure the only thing Windows can compete on, on the desktop, is price. That has to really suck.

There are very few niches/users left that actually want Windows > Apple, and most of them begin with "gam" and end with "ing".
Windows Phone 8 is based of windows core, the same core that is bread and butter for the company and is something synonymous with Microsoft. There is no switch from directions possible here
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Remember those WP7 commercials that called Android phones betas? Well I guess Microsoft was having a beta program of their own. Such nice guys these Redmond folk are.
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Because they're not selling milk. The cereal has to be genuine.
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Then you should be proposing he use whatever language you feel is better than python at being the best dynamic type system. The best unit tests is entirely irrelevant.
What a horribly sad way to live your life. People are no addiction, they're a necessary (and awesome) part of life. Regardless of your spiritual bent:

Athiesm - We evolved from social primates into other social primates. You're adding a lot of psychological stress at a fundamental level when you don't live the way you're bred.

Christianity/Judaism - God made us for community. "It is not good for Man to be alone".

Budhhism - Everything is interconnected, including other people.

Sikhism - All mankind is a universal brotherhood.

Shall I continue?
True, but free usually means freedom from both cost and restraint, so the point doesn't change much. I should have said "constraint" rather than "cost".

Though the original commenter did follow-up, clarifying that the common interpretation of "free" doesn't closely match the point he'd intended to make
>> Have you seen the iPad sales numbers recently?

Another one living in Apple's reality distortion field.
From here (http://insite.artinstitutes.edu/food-stylists-blend-technica...):

"The food stylist’s magic tricks face regulation from the Federal Trade Commission and its truth in advertising laws. That Crisco-powdered sugar mix can substitute for ice cream if it’s representing a generic dessert on a menu, Allaben says, but not if it’s hawking a brand name like Ben & Jerry’s."

And here (http://www.cskern.com/blog/entryid/11):

"The truth is most of what you see in food photographs is real. FTC laws state that whatever you’re selling with a photo must be real in the image. To use a familiar example, if you’re selling corn flakes the flakes must be real. But then it gets interesting. You can use white glue instead of milk in your bowl of flakes because you’re not selling the milk, only the corn flakes."

So, the product being sold must be real as-it-is-sold (albeit much more carefully styled, generally). The incidentals can be embellished. A McD's quarter-pounder is a single product, and so presumably must be made with its actual ingredients in ads.
>Fine, then don't claim something like "All cokes in all contexts at all temperatures are better than all pepsis in all contexts at all temperatures."

He didn't. He said "coke tasted better than pepsi". I've explained this to you several times already. You are the only one saying anything about "all the time in every context". You. Not the author, not his paper. You.
Scamming is not remotely a hare-brained scheme. It's an incredibly reliable method for getting rich by exploiting the gullible if you know how to do it. That "if" is a huge if. And there's the whole ethics thing.
I’m making the point that that issue alone (which I consider very serious and hindering the ecosystem) didn’t kill Android.
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Read to the end and you'll find a more precisely stated version of this in her conclusion.
This was incredibly useful when I was designing an email template for my service. Great tool!
Sounds like it could give you a seizure if your tweet went viral.
The title of the article (which is from the original) is inaccurate.

1. This is not precedent. It is just a district court.

2. The article reads like the NAD has won the case. They have not. This was a ruling on Netflix's motion to dismiss NAD's case based on the pleadings. Basically, Netflix was saying that the ADA does not even apply, so the case should be throw out. The judge decided that it could apply, and so the case will go forward.
While the IFTTT comparison is timely, our (Zapier) middle to long term strategies diverge significantly. We're big fans of what Linden has going on. We love the idea of making APIs usable for regular people!
"The corollary of this is that building muscle, which requires eating a lot, is inferior to being a skinny rake for longevity alone."

Not true. Stronger people are less likely to die. Strength reduces your risk of death from all causes - and cancer in particular.

"[The inverse relationship between] muscular strength and death from all causes and cancer persisted after further adjustment for cardiorespiratory fitness; however, the association between muscular strength and death from cardiovascular disease was attenuated after further adjustment for cardiorespiratory fitness."

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2453303/
Joel Spolsky famously wrote about those competing imperatives in a 2004 essay on the API war:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

"There are two opposing forces inside Microsoft, which I will refer to, somewhat tongue-in-cheek, as The Raymond Chen Camp and The MSDN Magazine Camp."

The former is obsessed with backwards compatibility, and the latter is obsessed with the Next New Thing. Spolsky's thesis was that the latter won out, to Microsoft's long-term detriment.
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Again, provide a clear point if you want me to argue against it. Don't just say "I am going to keep making weird nonsensical posts and then pretend I didn't say what I clearly said and then blame you for replying" and expect me to grace you with some magical "insight".
Very true, but Thompson at first wasn't all out crazy like a bag of snakes at first. It was as the situation spiralled we got the full crazy.
It's impossible to conclude from the evidence presented that the antitrust action had no effect on the breaking down of Microsoft's monopoly. It's entirely plausible that the enforcement left them unable to respond as quickly to new markets as their competitors, leading to them beginning to get undermined a few years later. Abusing their monopoly in the PC OS market to get advantages in unrelated markets was in many complaints against Microsoft at the time.

It's entirely within reason to believe that had the Justice Department not been breathing down their necks that Microsoft would have used its monopolies to illegally squash the original iPod. There are plenty of examples of products that were well-made, innovative, and desired but didn't make a major market impact for poorly-understood reasons (WebOS comes to mind). It's not at all obvious that the iPod was bound to succeed; if all those amorphous outside factors hadn't gone its way, we could be sitting around discussing how the iPod was a repeat of the Newton, and how inevitable it was that Microsoft finally cracked the the MP3 market with Plays4Sure.
The problem is that she just sort of smacks into that conclusion. Like it was just getting too depressing, so she tacked on a happy ending sitcom-style.
Not to be argumentative, let's stipulate that those two blog posts are true in spirit, but can anyone find the actual law or FTC policy statement that says "generic ice cream can be styled out of Crisco but Ben & Jerry's has to be real"?

Also: McDonalds Canada specifically said, in this video, that they were not embellishing the incidentals; it was exactly the same buns, exactly the same pickles, just arranged differently.
In my engineering group, we don't have project managers or analysts. We have product managers (who are responsible for much more than a project manager, and make more than the average PM, methinks). The lead engineer on each project does some PM-y tasks, but it's generally up to the product manager to produce the documentation/charts/spreadsheets.

In our operations group, there are PMs, but they are responsible for more than managing programmers on projects--they oversee the whole project, and must manage the resources from several sub-groups. Additionally, they are the first point of contact for the client. They are well-compensated, but they are also responsible for the whole of a client project.
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Errr, if they let anyone else generate keys, it would defeat the whole purpose in the real world of many legit and illegit organizations and anti-trust laws that would make it impossible to draw reliable boundaries between the two (e.g. you have to tune the system for false negatives (false determinations that an org is illegit); see the recent SSL certificate mess).
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For me it was (and still is) ORM, specifically Doctrine2. In principle it seems pathetically easy, but once the queries start getting immensely complicated ( Many-to-Many over multiple tables, with conditional form data, etc) I still find myself having to fallback to SQL.

Other contenders have been:

1. Bison ( tokens, parsing, syntax, was all difficult the first time around).

2. OpenGL because remebering function names for the api is RIDICULOUS! ahh glDrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance now what are the args again?
For receiving emails?
>> doesn't have Dropbox, Pandora, and dozens of other high-profile apps
Some of these apps were limited because older windows phone did not have native code support and had a limited reach. Now with shared core with windows desktop and tablet, a developer has opportunity to write for windows phone and then run it on all devices. That sounds damn attractive a proposition.

Besides the argument is losing its steam pretty fast. With already 100?K apps out there the list of apps missing is growing smaller every day and in most cases a replacement is already available.
Everything is a cost center even sales until you start looking at larger chunks of an organization. As long as you can demonstrate an increase in profit you can easily justify a huge salary regardless of what part of an organisation you work for. 'I did X which generated Y cost savings' works just as well as 'I brought in X business at Y profit margin generating Z profit.'

edit: Typical examples include research and development, marketing and customer service.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_centre_(business)

PS: I updated the data entry screen, increasing our call center's throughput by 3% creating 5 million in savings over the next 3 years.
It's a great marketing video for McDonalds, but sidesteps the actual question almost entirely.

They respond to "why do your burgers look different in commercials?" by answering "here's the process of making a commercial burger."

That doesn't address the fact that a stylist cooked it on a panini grill for an hour looking the perfect brown, leading to a thicker-width burger which indeed makes their advertisements a lie.

It doesn't matter if they use the same ingredients or need to show their pickles and ketchup. They've created an entirely different product for the advertisement and will continue to sell a lesser product in place of it. The only honest answer to the original question is the obvious one: because their normal burgers look like crap.
No. WP8 introduces an entirely new API for app developers. WP8 apps will not work on WP7 devices. That is going to have huge and painful effect for existing WP users.

EDIT: Apparently I am wrong on this.
I crossed over from Project Management into Engineering, and my experience was that as a PM my job was to be bothered from Sunup til Sundown and periodically in between. I was expected to know everything about anything that I was asked about, and I was responsible for a large number of people's output without having any authority over them.

It was horrible.

I think the issue with the SO question is simply the view that what PMs and BAs do isn't 'real' work. They might not write code, but sometimes they're the only ones making it so the engineers can.
Except Microsoft's leverage in operating systems never really carried over to other hardware platforms, like phones and PDAs.
Yup. The key in public speaking is indeed "confidence", but that single word just doesn't sufficiently explain anything.

It's confidence in your ability to convey your point. It's confidence that your knowledge of the topic is solid. It's confidence that your audience is capable of understanding you. It's confidence that you've put the time and effort into making sure that all the previous stuff is true.
That "cover" seems to me to be verging very close back to the keyboard on a normal laptop. This seems to me to be a laptop with a touch screen and floppy, rather than rigid, keyboard.
The one in our office and the one at my house both have temperature settings, but I'm not sure of the brand on either.
Just found this clone called oocities.org. I had no idea my old mugen website was saved here. Unfortunately most of it isn't working. But it's certainly a nice nostalgic feeling to revisit my old website :)

Anyone interested Mugen characters and stages? Java applets simulating starcraft units using a physics engine? Winamp AVS plugin samples that will show a smiley face singing along your music or a guy running in the rain using math to generate the lines? Then you're welcome to my 2001 website ^^

http://www.oocities.org/vibhp/us.html
I think the real solution is the ability for users to edit keys or disable it entirely. An independent non-profit organization still doesn't solve the problem of installing my operating system on my hardware. What if I disagree with policies of the non-profit. Until then, my solution will be to not buy such hardware at all.
100% agree. It's always about how close you are to the money. The more direct value you provide, the more you get paid. This is why lawyers get paid so much, because firms know that for every hour they bill the firm makes $X dollars.

Programmers provide indirect value. If you architect a system that saves months and months of time later down the line, how do you value that?
Yea, the entire MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco is one of my favorite topics. Why did it take ten years after Intel introduced the 386 before 32-bit programming became popular? And remember what MS did to kill DR-DOS? Guess what, OS/2 never depended on DOS!
Typing makes refactoring quicker only if you're relying on it. If you're not, then it will actually make refactoring slower.

Interfaces will not make refactoring faster, just easier.
But isn't a general solicitation on a public site considered to be a public offering? My understanding of what a "public offering" is, is that any general solicitation to the public, without qualification, for investment in a security in a company, where a security is any investment without a guaranteed return (as opposed to debt).

I understand that JOBS act allows to solicit up to $1M from unqualified investors, but does it allow public offerings of up to $1M without registration?
Spolsky worked at Microsoft years ago. Not sure how relevant and current his knowledge is...
they’ve stated that all non-native code WP8 apps will work on WP7.

Where did they say that?
Is the ZeroRPC protocol documented anywhere?

I settled on using ZeroMQ + MessagePack to glue together my Python, Ruby, and C++ components, but haven't yet decided whether to use an existing RPC protocol or roll my own. ZeroRPC looks like a good candidate.
Agree.

The Zune Pass worked great for me ($10/mo) to listen to all the music in their library on multiple devices and computers.

I've said for a while that if Apple released a subscription-based iTunes that a lot of people would use it...perhaps even rave about it.

And then Spotify came along which replaced my Zune Pass membership.
tl;dw

They lie.
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I'm not claiming it did. I'm saying that a very different PC desktop / laptop OS and software ecosystem back in the mid-nineties would have ripple effects on PCs, phones, and tablets today.
Except there it isn't so much Windows competing on price, as it is the hardware, which is a commodity.

The way Microsoft prices Windows, at least at retail, and the way they segment their OS features for different markets, are really annoying and somewhat painful.
> No sense of humor? Oh right, HN.

I'll start laughing when you start being funny.

> Nope. Catenating files has been the privilege of Unix users since the 70s, that we would believe this to be difficult or complicated is embarrassing. The trickier part was sedding the query string that invalidates the old versions.

Ooooh! Colour me embarrassed, you got me there champ!
The (now-discontinued) DropBox Public folders weren't too far off.
So it is delivering an update for those phones too. Additionally there is a promise to support OTA upgrade of all released devices for 18 months. What android phone has that commitment?
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I'm not a lawyer, or even an armchair lawyer, so I don't know where to look to find the applicable laws. However, there are plenty of cites from industry people saying the same thing. I assume they have to be familiar with the law that regulates what they do.

And the bun, pickles etc would have to be real by law, is what I'm saying. They're part of a single McD's product being sold by the photo.
Why do you think BAs and PMs get paid more? Is there any evidence? Anywhere I've worked they are very comparable for experience levels or the programmers get paid more. I think this is an inferiority complex based on not feeling 'cool' like the business guys. Other business roles likes sales and management (both tech and biz) get more because they have more responsibilities.
sure. try to be the first point of contact for a massive project for anyone under the sun including fellow developers, business users, IT heads, business heads, internal consultants, external consultants, SMEs etc etc. If you can handle all their queries (email/in-person/phone call/video conference), you certainly sir do not need your BA/PM.
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"The meaning of "conservatism" in America has little in common with the way the word is used elsewhere. As Ribuffo (2011) notes, "what Americans now call conservatism much of the world calls liberalism or neoliberalism."[21]"
Ha! It could be a lot of fun to think of potential dashboard (1 for each sale/sign-up seems like a good metric for some startups) related hardware/software interfaces.
Congratulations guys!!
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