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Microsoft couldn't choose between ARM and x86 and this will be a huge problem for them. It's emblematic of the terrible position that they're in, trying not to be left behind while trying to refresh and extend their aging desktop OS monopoly. These products do nothing well. A stylus? That's a bullet on a PowerPoint, not a compelling feature. I felt sad watching them retell their passionless internal talking points while giving a more pathetic version of an Apple launch.
Meh, you need to have all shops having a perfect inventory. Granted that you make the best software in the world for that (it doesn't take 10 years, it takes luck if anything), and that connects magically to all providers for restocks etc...

...you'd still need to make them use it and actually inventory stuff, click the buttons, etc. It's not that the idea is bad or anything. it's to actually make people use it. its not because its free that they will use it. they would if it was free AND you'd handle their inventory for them, and guarantee a benefit every month from that (yeah, that's impossible).
Something Australian gamers have been waiting a long time for.

Interestingly, for years the government spin was "We can't allow people to sell R-rated games... think of the children!"

Now all of a sudden the political winds have changed, and we have "R-rated games will protect children from inappropriate content!"
This pretty much exists in at least Sweden. Check out http://www.prisjakt.nu/ ( translated to english http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js... ). You said something like this would take 10 years to build and Prisjakt actually started 10 years ago. :-) They don't index everything of course but probably covers 99% of everything tech related and have been expanding in to new product segments all the time. Except the web site they of course do have phone apps which let you search for a product and then choose to display all the stores around you that carry that product and to what price and if they have it in stock. If you have a Swedish store selling anything online (or offline more and more) you "have" to exists on Prisjakt and have your full inventory with prices and stock status supplied to them. If you are among the cheapest stores on a popular product this of course will get you a lot of traffic. But there are more layers than just price indexing. They do have ratings and comments for all products and all stores. Myself personally would never buy anything from a store with bad reviews on Prisjakt, be it online or offline.

I would guess they started back in the days just scraping web sites on their own and then gradually got stores to supply them with "price files" that contained everything they needed. I know they have deals with create-your-own-web-shop businesses like Shopify and others so that these businesses create the price files automagically for every store THEY have.

As for revenue I believe that a store has to pay Prisjakt to actually have Prisjakt put up a clickable link to their web site. So if I search for Samsung Galaxy S III and go to the product page, I am presented with an array of stores carrying that phone, and I can click to go immediately to the stores own product page for Samsung Galaxy S III and go through with my purchase. If you don't pay it seems your website url is more hidden (on the store profile page) it's not clickable even their. You can also pay extra for having your logotype visible etc. They probably have a lot more going on as well.

2010 Prisjakt had $7.6M in revenue and made a $3.36M profit.
Yes with some complicated work patterns, Doctrine becomes memory and cpu/time hungry. I've been struggling with doctrine issues with our customers event portal. Most of the time we have to turn back into array based hydration. Even then time/cpu intensiveness is still there.
Amazon has in fact reviewed this idea in recent years, but not acted on it.
To be honest, while i trust customers telling me face to face, i don't trust the reviews. They're all polluted with fake data by now. Most stores don't even accept bad or medium reviews (except big ones like amazon, but those are plagued with PR companies making fake reviews)

not saying the core of what you say is wrong, but it's difficult to apply in many cases these days.
I should have mentioned that I enjoyed the post. Sorry - I rushed the comment as I was running out the door.

You guys get it and it's great to see you working on this. Definitely, ping me if you'd like to discuss some more.
Also, by announcing this now, they can get people excited, and especially the developer community thinking about Metro apps.
I didn't see anywhere a way to adjust the angle of the stand. I constantly change the angle of my laptop monitor, and sometimes even the one at work.

Now this device would want me to adjust myself to stand at the right angle looking it. Hopefully it would be still readable from other angles, but then how would you touch it?
You mean something like "Apple changes everything. Again." ? I actually read it with a sigh at the end...
Try right clicking GitHub's logo.
In case anyone missed it, here are a few more reports of the same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125450 (bbc.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125840 (bbc.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126713 (washingtonpost.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127060 (eweek.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127424 (guardian.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127543 (patexia.com)

There are probably more ...
It makes sense for Unity to do this in anticipation of Steam for Linux.
And so they will form separate companies that sign contracts with Amazon.
In case anyone missed it, here are a few more reports of the same story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125450 (bbc.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125840 (bbc.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126713 (washingtonpost.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127060 (eweek.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127543 (patexia.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130027 (llnl.gov)

There are probably more ...
Socketstream is a framework in active development based on exactly that idea.
"Look, here's a pretty way to configure git! This can also be done in these 17 other ways, wheeeee! It's 2012 and the top article is how to configure colours in 'git log'"

Seriously, boffins. Stop posting this stuff already. Better techniques are nice, but good only if they're revolutionary (like that Light Table editor). We need more new, ground-breaking stuff and less arrangements of Linus's Lego bricks.
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Nice.

Why is the last -- needed? This restricts giving other wise optional flags to git log.. Can list last n commits for example.
No.

Legal Aid is available for a very limited few (the most needy - which I actually would've met the criteria for being on a Ramen wage) and only in certain circumstances. The action against me includes a claim of defamation and this precludes Legal Aid.

Pro bono is available, but generally comes with many restrictions. Example: Must live within this catchment area, or be a woman victim of abuse, etc.

Where pro bono isn't restricted I've found that the lawyers are over-loaded and unable to take on any more. I've contacted a number of lawyers, and with the kindest apologies they've had to decline but then recommend someone else. The recommendations have formed a large circular loop, I've tried them all.

There are legal clinics. Attending a CAB (Citizens Advice Bureau) will generally see you referred to one. By and large these are operated by local small solicitor firms. Some legal clinics are much better funded and organised.

I attended SWLAC (South Westminster Legal Advice Clinic). Which is sole-funded by a barrister who wishes to remain anonymous. Largely these clinics deal with housing issues and fairly simplistic cases for the most vulnerable. So when I presented my case to them for advice (how to respond, interpreting the law and whether I'd got it right), they were quite challenged by it. For an hour on a Tuesday evening it's perhaps beyond their scope though they did their best.

Home insurance policies sometimes include Legal Defence cover. So I tried mine, which does have that cover. However I found that this cover is only available for a limited range of actions against you, and again does not cover anything that includes defamation.

The action against me purposefully conflates 2 things together... my role as the operator of a web site, and my role as a user of my own service. The claimant has attempted to argue that my use of my own service somehow removes the defences afforded to the operator of a site and would make me liable for the statements made by others on the site. The third party comments being the ones which are claimed to be defamatory.

There is more to it than this (but not much more), but as it may go to action I limit what I will say publicly.
He was talking about undertaking large activities (war for example) that would kill hundreds of thousands of people could be tolerated politically by a populace in a way that a single murder might cause an outrage. The large numbers make the horror abstract. It's easier for people to relate to a story about a specific individual.

The quote (and variations) are quite famous, it might be apocryphal, but I think it is true. Hearing about hundreds of thousands of people massacred in a foreign land doesn't hit home when you are reading about far away.

That's why reporters (New York Times style)try to weave in illustrations and stories about individuals even when discussing a larger trend.
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Costco sells a lot of heavy stuff that is expensive to ship to your door..?
"good only if revolutionary" sure would make for a sparse & boring HN front page...

I appreciate this tip (and upvoted it) as I hadn't thought of the idea before. Revolutionary? No. Helpful? Absolutely.
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Watched the video - what struck me most is that it felt just like TopGear - when they introduce a new supercar and they have a minute or so intro.
I've been using my iPad with a BT keyboard, and one of the thing that excites me about the Surface is that the OS is actually optimised for both touch and keyboard use. With the iPad, you can type text and use a couple of system commands (homescreen, brightness, music controls). But you still have to reach up and swipe through apps and touch the app you want to load, swipe to shift between apps, etc etc.

But with Windows 8, every touch gesture or feature is baked in intelligently to keyboard/trackpad use. Swiping between apps, bringing up charms, splitting the screen, selecting tiles on the start screen, etc etc. I think this will make a huge difference. Microsoft has an advantage here because W8 has been built simultaneously for all of these usage models, whereas Apple started with touch and is still tethered to a fingers-only UI basis.
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I'm using TabletPC as swiss knife for 3 years now and couldn't be happier with it.

Native unobfuscated desktop experience? Check.
Pro drawing with stylus? Check.
Multi-touch for slacking around? Check.
Power for development? Check.

Personally, I'll just check the specs and price on this one and compare them to my needs, as I always do with any device I own.
Indeed. I never said you have to register your copyright. I only said you need to register your copyright to sue for infringement within the U.S..
Except he cited specific examples of distributed systems (Hadoop, Storm) that use hashCode() but also make it quite clear you need to ensure you provide a hashCode() implementation that is entirely derived from the state of the object which is preserved in serialized form.

Seriously, it's just a bad article.
Last night's Microsoft Surface(Tablet) Keynote (Full MP4 Video)
Jesse, your enthusiasm for looking at solving an obvious problem is admirable. I don't want to be one to burst your bubble, but there are a bunch of reasons why this hasn't happened so far. Unfortunately, your strategy of give-it-away is basically 'build-it-they-will-come', and access to solutions in this space hasn't been a problem.

If, after reading all the recommendations on here about how you'll fail, you still think this is worthwhile to approach -- spend your time understanding the retailer (not the consumer user.) If you can meet the retailer's needs, you're onto something.

Spoiler alert: be prepared to learn about how everyone else has tried and failed to do exactly what you're proposing.
I wonder if this is a at least partially due to the difference between gamers / geeks and the type of people that do PR. Perhaps the PR "normals" may not know the geek culture that deeply.

Not that there isn't sexism in geek culture either. I'm just genuinely curious if the PR types in the game industry are this colorblind.
It seams to me that they are missing the inventory management part of the idea, which is crucial. And being late doesn't necessaryly mean you fail. let other do some leg work before, prepare the field and open some doors. As it was already mentioned before, that's the hard part of the idea. and then offer the stores something more and even better the first players. if you do well, the worst thing that could happen to you is being bought by someone else.

And being local, there should be enough space for more than one provider if you want to stay in the game yourself.
...except that there is nothing that prevents you from having a stricter contract on hashCode() with your hashed objects... like EVERY SYSTEM does.
Is this done by the http://www.humblebundle.com/ people? Or is the design just heavily influenced by them?
Not a bad article but I dont believe this is the big issue that he makes out. Mobile apps far less sophisticated than desktop, I have a Galaxy Nexus and sure there are differences between apps and between things like where the Menu icon is. The reality is though that you figure them out, it takes an extra second or so first time you use the app, its not the end of the world.
Cool! So you could find a spot somewhere up north where you can take a stroll and experience an eternal sunrise/sunset. Very romantic :)
Let's talk a little about 'kickstand'.

Am I wrong in believing this hasn't got adjustable angle and is useless if the device isn't on an actual desk?

Seems like the Achilles' heel of the entire device to me.
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Legends of yore looks really good. Similar graphics to Realm of the Mad God as well and I really enjoyed that.

I thought they might be the same developer at first as Realm of the Mad God because the art style is so similar.
Nailed It.
I'm not sure I'd call it "ahead of the curve". They are on the right track for the most part, but there are key aspects here that are not obvious that I think MS is a little blind to (which is too complex a topic to go into here). Overall though I'd say they are at least partially clueful, which is enormously helpful.

I don't think people realize how big this announcement was.

Yes, MS is still a multi-billion dollar company and a good portion of their revenue is likely secure for years if not decades. But we are at a key juncture in computing here, as important as the mainframe/mini-computer to PC transition if not even more so. And if MS had just blundered on and made half-assed token efforts they would have forever set themselves into the wrong gear and they would have relegated their company to a different market and marketshare than dominating the mainstream PC market as they've done.

MS has made a big play, and it may be enough to keep them in the game and revitalize their brand image. Time will tell.
Steve Ballmer: "We designed Windows 8 for the world we know, in which most computers are mobile."

That explains EVERYTHING!
Before the iPad, Microsoft was using the "PC interface", to the disadvantage of the tablets they were putting it on.

Now they are doing the reverse: making a tablet interface to the disadvantage of the PC. The "all-in-one" interface for all types of devices and form factors will never work, because at best it's optimized only for one of them, and mediocre or poor for most of the others.
Don't turn it off. Go into Color settings (or whatever they call it) and use the ClearType tuning wizard to sharpen it.
It's ambiguous for human users who are not familiar with the format. Some people may not even recognise it as a date, in some contexts. (2012-06-19, that's 1,987 right?)
I would not call the Galaxy SIII an awful product. According to many reviews it is the best smartphone available on the market.
My argument is that sales volume is a function of customer acceptance. And thus Android has the biggest customer acceptance of all the platforms out there.

The hacker news meme that Android is barely usable is getting rather stale.
Touchscreen MacBook Air anyone?
In fact the only total, absolute, complete deal breaker is Cmd+Tab instead of reaching for the home button+screen.
Same artist! Both are made by Oryx.
Their launch video is almost as tacky as the Asus Padphone's... where's the taste these days?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqjoRMHyYQc
IIRC, they aren't letting devs use Win32 on WOA, only WinRT and .NET.
Using the term "drops" generally means to discontinue.
Using ARM emulation on other Android x86 distributions
I don't think it's the same people, but it does look very influenced by it. More indie game promotion is good though. Plus, they're probably using the same donation system because it's been proven to work.
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Okay, so coming from a user of CI 2.0 mind you and using integrated smarty templates with it, I would have to say after using even a micro-framework say silex, I could build a much better enterprise application with modern php5.3/5 features than i can with CI. The major problem is it feels really dirty to include/require statements with CI. Also to build re-usable code within the confines of their existing library system you have to build all your constructors with a single $param argument. The models are junk since they are really just a place to store organized function calls. Their database abstraction is an abomination. Generally the only thing good about CI is that you can break up your source into a marginally logical fashion which can it improves maintainability.

Now as for this application being written in Code Igniter? I don't really see it as a problem since it means it will be easier for lesser experienced dev to pick up and run with the ball. In time they will learn it's major deficiencies and they will move on. But i think there is room for improvement, in fact I think this would be a great project to port to another maybe more robust framework and is a good project for learning new framework translations.

I will say however that the author wanting to rewrite a product like this in nodejs is really only going to make something like this more inherently difficult to maintain since javascript code tends to get more complicated than your typical java / php / python app as it grows. Granted you do have js at your finger tips it is still largely un-tested on massive scale for large application development. It however has shown great promise for handling extreme traffic in terms of concurrency, but it handles it mostly by using async libraries which pile everything into queues of some sort some where. So your code is littered with async callbacks everywhere. Anyways.. Not only that, but the biggest problem of all is the inability to intelligently step through your code with some kind of IDE beyond using a browser-base debuger such as webkit inspector or the online IDE cloud 9.

I don't hate nodejs. I just think people are jumping on the band wagon way too quickly for server-side hosting. For websockets it's a great solution, I just don't like seeing it as "the only solution" for some peoples projects. I'd rather see a more hybrid approach.
It's a shame the website had a white background, and the video had a black background. The borderless, chromeless video could have looked awesome if it had the same background color as the webpage itself - it would have merged in nicely.

Instead the video stood out as a black box - it looked a little incongrous just 'stuck there' in the middle of the page.
"Nice strawman"? And then following with up with asking me to name apps to illustrate why a being able to fix things which annoys you is a good thing?

Do you need an example of why having medicine when terminally ill is a good thing? How fundamentally disconnected from the reality of things can you possibly be?

But here you go. Example. I don't want to be disturbed while I am in a meeting. I can tell my Android phone (via apps) that whenever I have a appointment in my corporate calendar (you see I can have plenty of calendars) which has the term "meeting" in its title (so it doesn't collide with "meeting up with friends" in my personal calendar), the phone should always be in silent mode.

I can have all my SMS auto-synched in the background to my gmail, live. And all my phone history. Via third party apps. Google didn't think about that one, but on Android that is not a problem.

I can do all that. Because that fits me. You can't do that on iOS. Unless Apple decides to add it. If Apple doesn't come up with an idea, your platform can't do it. That sucks.

I don't want my platform to be limited to its creators imagination. That is a recipe of how to kill innovation, not breed it.