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If you want a list of heterogenous "things" you either a list of "I don't care about what's on list" and then it should work without much in languages like Haskell, ML and the rest or you actually have list of things with a common property, such as "I want to be able to turn these things into strings and sum them" or "These are either numbers or strings" -- all functional languages work well with the latter through ADTs and the first one can be solved easily in Haskell with existential types (I don't know about other languages)
Microsoft unveils IE 10 for Windows Phone, very similar to the desktop
Exciting stuff! That seems like an interesting way to bring back in the hardware possibilities from the comment above - using an ifttt API in tandem with smart devices could eliminate a ton of work in developing automation.

Also, what's ifttt like to work for so far?
That system doesn't appear to be able to even reach the actor.

What detection? What fail-safes?

This new system is built to be handled totally remotely. The time it takes a human to respond results in dead people.
Maybe that will give Cloud9 a run for its money.
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> I think cutting all the legacy is a good move

Microsoft clearly agree with you, because they seem to be doing that with every generation of Windows Phone.
They are bringing some features from WP8 to current devices (at least it seems so), like the new start screen, etc.

So besides support for NFC, dual core, new resolutions - it appears that most of the software based updates are coming to current devices in the form of WP 7.8

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/20/3096945/windows-phone-7-8-...
If its opened up your eyes to a new venture then it's been profitable in certain respects, and as long as its not costing you a fortune to run then that's potentially just as valuable.
I really like what you have done. Having transitioned from a Windows/Visual Studio .NET application development environment to an OS X and Rails development environment within the last year, this would have been very useful.
I think we're experiencing an issue with the semantics of "niche". By niche, I don't necessary mean small. I mean specific. If you're rich (pretty much all of us here, I'd reckon), you get to have the iPad as a media consumption device, or as a stop-gap between your computer and e-reader (like me!). It's for people who already have 2 or 3 computing devices. That's pretty niche, even in North America.

As far as the success, I believe (my opinion, obviously) that many people bought iPads with the intention of replacing their laptops. These people have discovered (or will) that that isn't very practical. In my line of work, I sit in an inordinate amount of meetings. When the iPad came out there were so many people tap-tap-tapping away on their screens, taking notes. Today, there are far less; most of those people are back to their laptops. It's just an anecdote, but my personal experience is the same.

Who knows, maybe this is our aversion to change? I don't doubt that tablets are the future.
Agreed, one trip around NAB will show you a lifetime's worth of imagining on cinematic robots. I think the interesting thing they've done here is tie everything in together with a single point control that's perhaps nicer than Flair. Of course, it's also competing with an endless array of multi-million dollar systems - so I'm not sure how exactly this one stands above the fray, except maybe getting written up in HN =)
No.

The one proven thing you can do to live longer is to not die.

Risk prevention / avoidance is a large part of this, but that includes a lot other than bodyweight. Seat belts, condoms, not smoking, little or no alcohol/drugs, pollution.

Several long term athlete studies show longevity, and quality of life benefits, to exercise (Stanford runners study, Scandinavian olympian study). And the specific mechanism of calorie restriction, telomere repair, is shown in both cardio and strength training.
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I imagine a lot of RIM and Google executives are getting a twitch in their eye right about now. If these new devices live up to their hype I can easily see them supplant Android as the "anything but Apple" option.
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I'd love to see it! Can you send me some details via email (in my profile)?

Thanks!
Yes, probably that is my confirmation-bias at talk. But more than anything it is the frustration that the whole make into a par file and deploy it on a production system, only to find just moments later that the binary isn't up because of a typo is frustrating in any language.
It's strange to me that the company once renowned for maintaining backwards compatibility and established workflows well past what most customers might expect or demand has recently been so blasé about throwing their installed base under the bus. It's becoming hard to remember that Microsoft was once synonymous with a stable development platform.

Just from a UX point of view, starting with the ribbon interface in Office 2007, it seems like the company has become much more willing to change things around drastically without any apparent effort to help their customers make the transition gracefully. The Win Mobile to Win Phone 7 to Win Phone 8 transition has been equally disjointed, and the Windows 8 release seems to bring that level of adventurism to their bread-and-butter desktop platform.

Are these people regular crazy, or crazy like a fox?
For that matter, who is going to buy a Windows Phone 8 device now, since there's no reason to believe it will run Windows Phone 9?
I have a Windows Phone (Lumia 710) besides my iPhone, that I bought two weeks ago. The phone itself was released in Europe in November 2011. And now it's outdated/legacy already?

It breaks trust. How would I know that if I buy a WP 8 phone that it will be supported with upgrades a year down the line?
Application support is a bigger concern than 8.0 features.
As long as you choose an availability zone that is closest to you when setting up the box, the latency will be minimal. In our experience with using Vim on our boxes, it was not a big problem. Emacs will run just as fine! (We aren't taking sides, I used Emacs a lot when I was doing Scheme.)
They've only said "minimal code changes", "two days of work"; also only mentioned native code in the context of games and nothing to suggest support for HTML/JS-based apps (which would imply WinRT support). "Recompile + UI tweaks" would be a headline feature for the SDK, not stating such outright leads me to believe this isn't the case.

EDIT: just said that the CLR is now identical between phone and W8, but again "share more code", still not naming WinRT.
You're right. But good developers won't want to work for employers that engage in that kind of skills matching anyway (unless they're desperate and have no other options). A broken recruiting process is usually a sign of deeper organizational dysfunctions.
But Windows users can go from laptop display to nicely configured external displays without having to log out then log in.

Linux support is another level of shitty in comparison.
>1) You can turn it off if the OEM gives you the option to, and OEMs are under no obligation to do so; and

Wrong.

>Mandatory. Enable/Disable Secure Boot. On non-ARM systems, it is required to implement the ability to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup. A physically present user must be allowed to disable Secure Boot via firmware setup without possession of PKpriv. A Windows Server may also disable Secure Boot remotely using a strongly authenticated (preferably public-key based) out-of-band management connection, such as to a baseboard management controller or service processor. Programmatic disabling of Secure Boot either during Boot Services or after exiting EFI Boot Services MUST NOT be possible. Disabling Secure Boot must not be possible on ARM systems.

Source:

Windows Hardware Certification requirements

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj1...
No, I think you're being willfully ignorant. He explicitly says "broaden allowed topics for discussion." He understands what's on topic and what isn't. He wants a place to have discussions that are off topic for Stack Overflow, but doesn't want to go to one of the many sites that already exist for that purpose. I don't think asking users to take off topic discussions to one of those other places is asking too much.
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It'll be interesting to see how they compete with Parse in the long run.

At this point, it doesn't seem to offer anything different from Parse, so what would motivate me to switch if I'm already using Parse?
yes, finally supports C++.
> is it actually relevant today

Today is over tomorrow.

And if that's too subtle for you. The short-sided find themselves quickly unemployed.
I really like what you've done. Personally, not for me, I prefer programming locally using emacs, but I think it'll be great for lots of people, it also looks good, nice design :)
The initial version of the platform will be really helpful to beginners, designers, and anyone who's a bit allergic to the command line.

We're working on some great collaboration features and sandboxing that will definitely make it useful for power users. We've also got a solution that we're working on that will allow offline development so you can use native editors and can work offline. Stay tuned.
>blasé about throwing their installed base under the bus.

What user base? I for one am thrilled to see Microsoft responding with what seems to be an appropriate level of urgency.
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I don't know Engadget's source, but:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/microsoft-unveils-windows...
Wow very cool - I had no idea. Thanks for the reply :)
I'll be sold when they give me access :) Seriously though, I have an old Laptop that I still keep around mainly because rails is "set up right" for some of my older projects
There's only been one generation of Windows Phone with two releases.

Windows Mobile was substantially different and went through many generations with upgrades dependent upon carrier implementation.
Dialyzer is not very good. We've been using it, but it rarely catches anything non-trivial. On the other hand Haskell has a better support for unit tests than many of dynamic languages.
I'd be willing to put money against that.

Both Thompson and Carreon (FJ's lawyer) appear to be delusional about the merits of the causes they're putting in front of the court.

But Thompson also appears to be delusional about reality and his role in it: he submitted repeated filings to the court that were laden with cartoons, images, pictures of people he believed were persecuting him, and tirades against the court itself. He did that after being repeatedly warned by the court not to deliver more filings. He did that while one of his previous filings was currently being considered; instead of waiting for a response for the court, he continued to send them additional filings. Here, I'll just let the Florida Supreme Court describe it:

Thompson has submitted over fifty filings directly with this Court, all of
which have either been forwarded to the referee, dismissed, or denied.
Additionally, Thompson’s most recent filings are repetitive, frivolous, and, like his
earlier ones, insulting to the Court. One of Thompson’s recent filings contains
what Thompson refers to as a “children’s picture book for adults” that rehashes his
previous arguments in illustrated form which he states was necessary due to “the
Court’s inability to comprehend” his arguments. Between the text of the motion,
Thompson pasted images depicting swastikas, kangaroos in court, a reproduced
dollar bill, cartoon squirrels, Paul Simon, Paul Newman, Ray Charles, a handprint
with the word "SLAP!" written under it, Bar Governor Benedict P. Kuehne, a
baby, Ed Bradley, Jack Nicholson, Justice Clarence Thomas, Julius Caesar, keys,
and a house of cards, and the motion concludes with a photograph of the
cover of Thompson’s book, Out of Harm's Way.

Thompson therefore appears to have engaged in the legal equivalent of setting himself on fire in front of the building. Carreon is apparently abusing the California legal system, but he's doing it (to date) like a sniper, not like an suicidal schizophrenic street prophet.
Did they mention if Windows Phone 8 apps can run on Windows Phone 7 ?

I know they mentioned that the opposite is possible ....
Useful tool.

Another one to check out is Premailer (http://premailer.dialect.ca/) which now has an API in beta and a few more options for conversion.
I get a chuckle out of reading people's views w.r.t. Microsoft. There are a good number who complain about lack of innovation & how Microsoft invests too much time in supporting legacy systems and that they should totally get rid of the CE core. Then there's the other end of the spectrum where Microsoft is stupid to stop supporting certain platforms because they're clearly not thinking about the users who use those systems.
Good idea! We are adding that to our to-do list right now!
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In static-typing's defense, C isn't as strictly typed as Haskell, a pointer (and therefore null) is just basically an integer.

But I totally agree, static typing is no cure for a wrong program. With power/expressiveness also comes a great ability to goof up.
More importantly Microsoft just Osborned Nokia's current product line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
This is long term and this is the only way to combine two people with equal ambitions and unfortunately opportunities on two different continents.

Before that (up until a month ago) I was with them every day.

My point is that unless your spouse is in on it then it's never going to work.
It's sad to see Forbes turning into Gawker.
Unless you have a lawyer on retainer and don't mind fighting an ongoing legal battle, I'd do everything they demand, including transferring the domain immediately. You could try to negotiate, but I'd imagine they have absolutely no problem taking this to court, where they'd probably demand at least part of your lifetime revenue due to the trademark infringement (as well as everything for which they've already asked). Would you be ready to fight an almost certainly losing battle in front of a judge?
Great results be it in your family, work, or side projects require great sacrifices. You cannot have all be extremely successful while you are building all of them simultaneously from scratch.
So we need a RasPi with either a $2 solid state relay (on/off) or $8 triac (on/off/dim) and a powerline ethernet interface.

Then its about $45 and open source. Of course it isn't in the fancy package.

Of course if we want to go that route, then an open source board using say an ARM Cortex M4 (like the ST Micro 32F4) would get the parts cost down around $10 - $15. I'm guessing that is how Belkin implements this as $50 is about 3x that cost.
Wouldn't such criticisms be valid for Android as well?
New charitable organizations would also be able to enter the market.
Sure. But OpenGL ES was not designed for the iPad. The decision to reject immediate mode was made in 2003, for the mobile devices of that time. And it is used in the industry for devices much less powerful than the iPad, even today.

It continues to be a popular choice for anything like the iPad, where there is no legacy software based on regular OpenGL, because it is a much cleaner and much easier to implement stack, and because if you are writing new software you should never be using all of that old deprecated cruft anyways.
This looks extremely promising. Setting up and maintaining consistent dev environments are a time suck for any company. Companies like Quora are already doing this internally on EC2 (http://www.quora.com/kstay/What-its-like-to-start-work-at-Qu...).
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Yep. The real tragedy of fragmentation is that Android still lacks any kind of brand power - they're the phone equivalent of yesterday's faceless beige windows towers. If Microsoft actually ship this in 2012, and have someone mildly competent in marketing, I wouldn't be surprised to see most American users once again choosing between MS and Apple.
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Thanks for the compliments on the design. We kept all of the dev work in house. Three full time developers. Now with MoonClerk, Ryan, my cofounder, is a developer and we're contracting out some of the development but mostly with folks who are in our Coworking office or nearby. We develop in Rails.
True from Microsoft's perspective but from a customer's perspective it looks like "Windows for phones" changes radically and entirely incompatibly pretty often.

Edit: On the other hand, most of the current market probably didn't know about Windows Mobile so perhaps that's mostly moot.
For that matter, who is going to buy an Android 2.3 device now, since there's no reason to believe it will run Android 4.0?
I brought up the slides automatically advancing in te context of some kinds of lightning talks as an extra problem, not the key one (but was concerned that someone would pounce on it as if it were my openly point :().

Editing a talk down to five minutes is hard because it requires editing at all. In contrast, going off on fun-but-useless tangents to fill up a bunch of time is easy, as is using a bunch of examples or other exposition.

To compare, in the world of essays, it is well known among undergraduates that there are simple tricks to make an essay as long as required. However, it requires actually knowing what you are doing to make an essay that is short but still dense.

So, to now be more explicit: if the slides are not auto-advancing, it does not help the timing problem. If anything, it just lulls people into a false sense of complacency. I have thereby heard Ignite talks described as "convention over configuration" for talks.

The problem is that if you screw up even once, and have to restart a thought or argument, realize your audience needs an extra example to make something clear, or simply forget a point an have to fill it in later, you are screwed.

In an hour long format, there is probably something later on in your talk that you can cut or shorten to make up the time. You often don't even need to do that, as Q&A is often expected to be included in the time, so you have a massive buffer to heal mistakes (in either direction).
" am a soon to-be new graduate "
I am assuming you do not have any real world experience yet other than internships possibly. In that case, anything over 1 page is overkill in your case.
In general, 2-3 pages is max. that a Resume should have. Anything over that, it is pointless.
I suggest you keep your 1 pager resume and another doc. where you list your projects/experience in detail. If anyone is interested, you can share your detailed doc. in addition to your 1 pager Resume/CV

EDIT: since the OP has clarified his experience, I did not mean to insult his experience earlier. But like i said, for recent graduates, usually 1 pager is good enough in the US at least. It could be different for other countries. For example, I know that in India, people even add their date of birth etc. on their Resume/CV which is actually not required/recommended in the US.
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He's lucky. If I remember correctly, Microsoft did something similar a while back, asking how much it would take to transfer a domain they considered infringing to them. Upon receiving the reply, they turned around and claimed the guy was squatting on the domain for profit and obtained the domain through ICANN's dispute resolution process for free.
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Right, so it's just a new OS... but it effectively dead-ends the Lumia, making it considerably less valuable.
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I don't know if I'll find it here on HN, but I'm interested to hear from fans of Microsoft, or at least people who follow Microsoft.

I check out some news on windows 8 periodically, but I don't follow them like I do Apple. So while I knew nothing of Surface before MS did their reveal, most of Microsoft's stuff is that way for me anyway, because I don't follow them.

So did it work? Did it pack a punch? Was anticipation built up?

Just curious.
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2. they started selling it to others. Soon enough, someone hacked it to rebroadcast pay tv (especially sports)
3. they decided it ain't worth it and started closing up shop, but then figured out they could use it to broadcast Starcraft games.

Why did I have to read fifty pages for this amount of actual content?
Let me guess, you love dynamic languages, right?

I really wish we would all stop ourselves when we're about to make a statement of the form "Great programmers do X (which I happen to do)". Without any rationale to back it up, its just ego-stroking.
read more carefully, he uses disney as an example, but then he says _we_ (americans) have dehumanized the enemy.

While i find this completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand, he may have a bit of a point on that.
Wow thanks, I didn't know pyflakes. I knew pylint, but will make it more of a point to run it. I only occasionally need to code in Python, but when I have to, it is legacy code that I modify.
>Windows is the de facto computing platform, and there’s nowhere else to go.

On the desktop but not on tablets.
HP, Dell, Lenovo can just decide that they are going to continue shipping Windows7 on laptops and to corporates and ignore this.

MSFT can hardly tell them all it won't supply them with OEM licenses.

I suspect there will have to be a lot of pre-sales payments made to a lot of OEMs to persuade them to invest in Windows8 products.
can you migrate boxes between zones?

in case you are travelling...
"Compiling in the cloud" - So i'll have to give my sources to Microsoft? Great for security checking, but hey - they can read my code and gain knowledge from it? That's just doesn't feel right.
> What possible purpose does your example serve then if it doesn't impart any sort of meaning at all?

The example shows that static typing doesn't do anything more than what it says. It doesn't solve problems/fix bugs or provide some magical insight to the system as you seem to believe.

I'm genuinely curious as to your position and why you are so... clearly opinionated. I'll take the "idiot banner" for today. Please provide me with your insight as to what the fundamental argument (and why you feel so strongly about it) really is.
Reminds me of Stallman advocating that all computer users should have root access.
It's one thing to know your phone will eventually be obsolete, it's another thing when that eventuality is imminent.
Static typing can alleviate that, and that's how Haskell does.

The problem with C is that nullability is not statically typed.
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I think it's actually a bit more random than that. Sometime in the last few years on HN I seem to recall reading that it was a function of whether the URL posted is in some cache or not. If that's true, then recently accessed article can't be reposted.
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