skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog

http://al3x.net

http://www.airs.com/blog

http://tirania.org/blog

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com

http://www.250bpm.com/blog

Definitely http://adam.heroku.com/ too (already mentioned).
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Most people bashing Windows 8 have not really used it, or were not using Windows 7. I recently upgraded, and most of the time, I hardly realise I am in Windows 8. All my desktop apps work the same, I have all my apps pinned to the Dock (like in OS-X or Windows 7), and the few times I need to go to the start menu, I move my window to the left and then type in the name of the app I am looking for.

I have had zero interaction with metro or any new windows 8 features, because they stay completely out of your way. When you see someone demonstrating windows 8 on youtube, it looks like you will suddenly be plunged into using metro only or things will change, but that's just wrong: Windows 8 is practically the same as Windows 7 for anyone who actually works with Windows.
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I don't make the rules, it's just the way nature is.

I think that a distinction must be drawn between being assertive and being abusive. Assertiveness is, in my opinion, nudging your way forward and reacting to people's objections by talking to them then taking their opinions into account and, if they lack assertiveness, representing their opinions. If someone else is also fighting for that spot, team up with them and work together.

In contrast, abusiveness is nudging your way forward at the expense of peoples' well-being and not respecting others' right to assert themselves.

In other words, it's the difference between fighting for yourself and fighting for everyone including yourself.
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These "embedded systems with highly constrained resources" are machines with 512MB+ of memory and monster CPU/GPUs.
It's perfectly OK to write code for them that you
haven't bled over to optimize the hell out of.

And JWZ just showed you don't need "tons of driver calls"
unless you mean simple function calls that don't cross the kernel boundary.
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Hardly any arguments in that article at all, besides 'if you use Windows 8 long enough you will eventually learn how it works' and 'stop complaining, Windows 8 is the future'.

Windows 95 and XP/2000 didn't actually have a user-friendly interface either, in fact, I think it was downright terrible. Yet, everyone knows how to use it, which makes it appear 'easy' and 'user-friendly'. This article completely steers around the fact that user-friendly interfaces have to be intuitive, consistent, and predictable.

Metro could become all of these, but as long as Microsoft keeps insisting on trying to fuse it with the traditional Windows desktop interface, it will never reach it's full potential.
I'm still unclear what the business model for universities (as opposed to private companies) in this space is. The problem is, they will inevitably be compared to (and in some sense compete against) their non-virtual counterparts. Especially when they've essentially given away all their course materials and lecture videos for free, and considering these classes are not for credit, I just don't see the benefit for the average person over studying what's already freely available. And one can't even make the argument that the free resources aren't meant to be used to learn a subject (as is the case with most free reference material), since these were obviously created with precisely that goal in mind.

When they inevitably move to a tuition based model, the ever present question of "the real MIT or the online one?" may be too much to overcome.
Fortunately most of the world don't care about software patents :)
This is false. I know of at least one person who has left/was fired from github.
Yeah, pretty weak arguments there. Somehow what some people claim or have said is supposed to apply to me?

I don't know about others complaining about ribbon on office, but I loved it when it launched, and I loved every Facebook iteration except the last one. I'm an early adopter, and not only does stuff I adopt early have an incredibly high success rate, but there aren't many things that are successful that I don't like (twitter is the big counter example for me...still don't really use it).

However, from what I've seen of Win8 it's a terrible step backward in a blind attempt to compete with Apple. What Microsoft doesn't understand is that Apple has a separate OS for their desktops for a reason. iOS is a useless piece of gimpware for doing anything productive - it is primarily a consumption device, and the iPad will never replace the desktop as productivity (don't cite some anecdotal story as a counter example - we're talking broad strokes here, not one weird dude.). Hopefully one day the keyboard and mouse will be replaced, but currently they're the most efficient mechanism for interacting with a computer that is available. It appears Microsoft is pushing a product that is abandoning it's entire revenue (businesses) for some small market of people who buy iPads. (Which is a market they will likely have trouble in, given how successful WP7 has been.)

Now to the ribbon. It's a great design for applications that involve rich editing - like office, or even photoshop or 3dsmax. Something that requires a complex set of verbs that are hard to remember. Explorer is not an editor - it's a browser. The ribbon is wasting space, and is obviously the result of some bandwagon PM that thinks copying everything successful is a good way to design because they have no creativity or understanding themselves. Instead of figuring out why things work (ribbon, ipad), they simply try to copy them, but miss the whole point and make it bad.

Win8 is the new Windows ME. This is coming from a Win7 users, who thought Vista was awesome, had every iteration of the Zune, and thought Zune HD was the best music player ever.
There is waaay too much focus on metro. Which is kind of natural since it is new and different, but because of the focus on metro people get confused and honestly think that there is nothing but metro in windows 8.

Metro is targeted towards Media Centers, tablets and casual consumption. Not workstations. If you are not doing your work on an iPad today you probably won't do work in metro tomorrow. Simple as that. The media and the PR department of MS of course would like you to think otherwise (just to hype it) but that is pure lunacy, of course you will have a real workstation OS as well (and that is also where you will do your work).

The thing I look forward to in windows 8 is that it will probably be the first OS that is suitable for a tablet as well as being able to actually do something useful with it. For the first time the tablet will not be a toy but actually real, albeit niche, alternative to a laptop. That is huge, and that is what windows 8 brings to the market.
Can better hiring method avoid the need to fire staff? Could you create a culture that retains the right people and forces wrong people to leave?

Looking at previous work experiences, you sometimes wonder how some people ever got through the interview process.
I think they are wrong. Those email scams are "old school" in the sense that they worked back when people were not really familiar with the internet or scams and lots of scammers got rich from that. The ones still being sent are probably earning just a trickle of money from these (since it's so obvious, and the pool of people who will fall for this is rapidly shrinking).

The scam has evolved into other forms, for example, the variant where a decent looking guy on a dating website communicates with an older foreign woman for months, before he then goes somewhere where he is "kidnapped" by terrorists and they need a few thousands to release him, or where he cannot pay his bills because he lost his wallet.

The scammers are like people creating viruses - they are evolving, becoming more subtle and adapting to the internet. The mass email thing is a known exploit, and I doubt it is profitable for them anymore.
They were very user friendly. They might not have been beginner-friendly but that is a short-sighted goal to aim for.
In the new Metro UI you cannot run traditional desktop apps - these that use Windows API - and there are loads of them around already. So keeping the old UI system in parallel is the only viable option to get Metro slowly adapted.
I remember the initial design post about the Windows 8 Explorer was all, "We saw that very few people use the toolbar to get around Explorer. So we decided to make the toolbar bigger, and put more things in it."
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So I don't really understand Metro. If it's been designed for tablets, and not workstations, what UI do you use for day to day work, on a workstation?
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Regardless of the other arguments, the ribbon does suck immensely.

Ever watched a "normal" person try to use it, even after enough time to have supposedly become proficient? The damned thing is useless.
No, you get room for one more negative int. x = x < 0 ? -x : x; is a common buggy abs(), e.g. when printing an integer. One should test if it's negative, perhaps print the '-', and then ensure it's negative for the rest of the per-digit code.
The (about) same UI that you have in windows 7.
Why should I be using TeX for graphics? Comparing graphics tools.
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I share your opinion that post-WW2 architecture is nightmarish, but do you seriously think that it has to do with political pressure exerted on the architects and engineers by communist authorities? Compare Warsaw with, e. g., Rotterdam, another city which suffered wide-scale destruction in the war. Netherlands never had a communist government, Rotterdam consistently elected its mayors from the ranks of liberal parties (PvdA and VVP), and the engineers there were presumably Dutch rather than Soviet. The results, however, if we talk about the architecture of re-built city sections, were as dismal as in Warsaw. The same goes for other Western European cities extensively developed after WW2: Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Milan, Nantes, you name it.
I would do this : (I use "=" as "congruous to")

if p = 1 [5]:

p + 6x4 = 1 + 6x4 = 25 = 0 [5]

if p = 2 [5]:

p + 6x3 = 2 + 6x3 = 20 = 0 [5]

and so on...
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Windows 8 has two environments. One looks pretty much exactly like Windows 7, but with no start button, and the other is Metro.

If you don't run any Metro programs, the only thing that really changes is that the start button is replaced by a start screen with all those live tiles and icons on it.
As I stated elsewhere in this thread, correcting employee behavior is a normal part of management but is not the same as saying "you may be fired if" or "improve or else". Putting an employee in a defensive state (where they're either looking for another job or trying desperately to keep their current one) is not sound management technique.

Do you really run a business where you threaten employees with termination as a form of motivation? I've built three companies and have managed, hired or fired dozens of people. Under no circumstances can I see what the OP proposed working for me.
> I hate the ribbon in Windows 8 - that’s what most people said about the ribbon when it was first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007. And yet, it has become a great interface paradigm which makes features more visible and easier to use.

Not 100% related to Windows 8, but am I in the minority of disliking the ribbon in Office? When it first arrived I was excited by it and thought it was awesome, but after years of using it I still don't find it as useful as plain old menus, for the most part.
Not sure why you have been voted down, I agree that there was very little to persuade me in this article. In fact, he directly contradicts himself in regards to the ribbon - first he says it is awesome, then he says it sucks on a tablet interface. He really can't have it both ways.
These scams are "old school" in the sense that they've been around for several hundred years (Google for Spanish prisoner con).
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Just to note, this was back in February in a pre-release version of 5.4, and things have improved in a couple of areas since then.
I really don't think IM and SMS-like messaging is the same.
IM is real-time and synchronous.

The great thing about SMS is the asynchronous nature of the conversations.

What's even cooler about iMessage and Whatsapp is that the conversations are stored and you can access them from different devices.

I believe there should be a standard to connect services like iMessage, Whatsapp and the likes. XMPP does not permit that.
You miss that ++x is not an "x" it's an expression for which the op also writes "The usual arithmetic conversions ensure that two operands to a '+' operator of type signed char are both promoted to signed int before the addition is performed" and I believe that that can be found in the text of the standard too. The underlying idea is to allow most of the run-time calculations to be performed with the "native" most efficient type, which is int. I still claim it's implementation dependent and allowable to evaluate to "128 > 127". I won't discuss this more, I accept that you have a different opinion.
I have to disagree. The traditional Windows interface is full of undiscoverable hidden stuff, inconsistent and illogical ways that make doing simple things hard, the start menu was never a good UI paradigm to begin with, the taskbar has always been a big mess that basically became unusable if you had more than 5 windows open, the way you interact with the file system is completely arbitrary, task management is basically limited to a list of running processes, nothing like Spaces or Mission Control like OS X has, and so on.

Really, after installation and configuration, any Linux system with Gnome 2.x or XFCE is more user-friendly than Windows before W7, even though both basically try to copy almost every aspect of the Windows desktop user interface.

Don't you think there is a reason why almost anyone who has ever used a Mac says OS X is more user-friendly, or why both Gnome and now Microsoft are moving away from the classic Windows desktop paradigm? It never was so great in the first place.
But it somehow manages to completely suck at it. Even if you trigger the 'refresh' events, you'll still run into trouble.

jQM appears built to generate lots of DOM with JavaScript from static HTML pages.
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Alternatively, here is a great drinking game called Fives (based on Spoof, but no coins required http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoof_(game)). Prob best for small groups.

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Old code doesn't just convert itself to using shaders and vertex and index buffers.

Also: old code isn't necessary un-useful code.
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Oh, let me see: A person that has vested interest on Windows(with a page about Microsoft Windows tutorials) defends Microsoft products against people that don't like it.

"Haters" is too strong a word. I had used windows 8 too see where Microsoft is going and I don't like it but hater is too much because honestly I don't care, if other people is happy using a product, good for them. I'm happy using mac and Linux.

I hear fear on his words. I remember feeling the same with the people that wanted to continue selling CDs, calling those wanting to sell digital wanting to "destroy the music".

No, some people don't like ribbon, or text going outside of screens like in windows 7, buttons without 3d shadows, or vibrant colors for anything unimportant and the most important of all, the "we are going to force you to use this and you will like it because we can with our monopoly" attitude.
Am I the only one seeing this app as a white-hate trojan horse on mobile?

By installing the app, you enable MightyText to take your SMS and send SMS in your name. You have to trust them.

This smells like danger to me.
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Who is voting these comments down? This is actually a pretty reasonably thought out argument. Even if you don't agree with it, for goodness sake make a comment - don't downvote it.

Wrt the UI - I disagree that the ribbon is a great UI paradigm. I can't imagine using the ribbon on a touch screen, looks far too fiddly!
Yeah you're right, they were graphic cards, my bad, I made a shortcut.
But at the time (1992), opengl implementations were mostly on the cpu (except for SGI graphic cards that were reserved to professionals). And the graphic card processing power was not enough to make the cpu a bottleneck.
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i think you're in a silent majority.
And there you have it. MS needs everyone to like Windows 8. Period. They need grand mothers who might otherwise use an ipad to like windows 8. They need high school kids to like windows 8. They need pc power users to like windows 8. They've come fairly close to betting the company that they can create a singular experience that can be all things to all people.
As long as you can get away without multi currency transactions. We had a founder in the US so made it easier to incorporate there and get a multi currency merchant account. Only issue is the fees, which are driving us to incorporate in the UK to get a decent GBP rate.

Stripe/ Pin are great but still don't solve multi currency, Pin is offering USD and AUD, haven't seen any rates from them yet though.
I came here to make that exact point. We are 5 years on and I still think the ribbon bar is the worst design decision made in a UI. It's useless, it makes things harder to find.

I introduced my grant parents to Office 2007 from the offset, not an earlier version and they found the ribbon bar a pain in the ass. Even late adopters have a hard time with it.
OpenGL ES 1.1 != OpenGL 1.1

OpenGL ES 1.1 does not have support for immediate mode, thus no glBegin/glEnd and no glVertex etc. It's just VBO:s.

Do note that fixed function does not mean same as immediate mode (which is what the glVertex etc calls are all about).
That's just absurd.

Its not absurd at all. He's got a massive collection of amazing GL-based screensavers that a LOT of people have learned graphics programming from, over the years. There are still contributions being made to this collection in 2012, and there have been consistent additions to the collection since the very early 90's. This is no toy collection.

Fact is a lot of great OpenGL code could run on the iPad today, if only the false ideology of cutting 'archaic things' out of the ES profiles wasn't getting in the way. There are plenty of opportunities for OpenGL apps from decades ago to be re-targetted to the new platforms, if only for this problem - and jwz is right to point it out.
And what I've understood he's done is not to retransmit static geometry every single frame, but to use an array to send batches behind the scenes.

This is, the exposed API doesn't force any particular implementation.

And that makes a lot of sense.
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"There is waaay too much focus on metro."

Arguably Microsoft haven't exactly been helping here. I recently attended a Microsoft conference on a topic unrelated to Windows 8 and it was very noticeable that the official PowerPoint template for the show used a "Metro" theme. Which I have, to admit, makes a pleasant change from the usual PowerPoint bullet points...

However, one of the most amusing things I saw at the show was when I sat behind someone who was using a laptop with a touch screen and Windows 8/Metro. Guess what happens when you have a laptop with a touch screen balanced on your knees and you go to touch the screen.... As you might expect, your latop falls over and lands on the floor.
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Thanks for that, I had missed the change for the 2 years:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/apr/06/unfair-dismissal...

[NB It only applies to new employees who were hired since this was brought in, everyone else is still on one year].
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All your points can as easily be stated for Gnome 2.x, XFCE or OS X as well. Only that windows UI is in my opinion vastly superior just because it is consistent and well thought out compared to the rest.

Don't you think there is a reason why almost anyone who has every used a Mac says OS X is more user-friendly...

Yes there is a reason. OS X might be more beginner-friendly but as soon as you actually start to use it you realize it isn't user-friendly. As on most/all simple systems (including OS X) doing stuff that wasn't intended is extremely cumbersome.

Doing things on Windows is comparatively both easy and logical, which enables you to do what you want (and not what the designer thought you wanted) way faster than OS X allows you to.

Just see how well OS X handles multiple windows, it's a joke compared to Windows.
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