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The Java way has always been: To run this, click on the .bat file or type java -jar myapp.jar. And some people wonder why Java has been such a failure on the desktop.

This should have been in Java from the beginning, instead of outsourcing this functionality to third parties (Mainly Windows only installer applications that sucks, and also isnt used that much).

That said, I think it is misguided to include a JRE in the bundle. The correct way would be something like OS X Lion has, promt the user if Java is not installed. and then do a more or less automatic install of Java, in the system.
Anyone using JavaFX? I remember it came out as a Flash/Flex contender, but didn't make the cut (which is too bad, I kinda like the language). Considering Adobe pushing HTML5, I find it weird Oracle still pushing Java for Rich Internet Applications.
They've removed all visual cues that let you know what things do. You'd have no way of knowing that clicking the bottom left takes you to metro if someone or something doesn't tell you. If you click on the bottom right corner, you minimize all windows -- There's a visual cue for this in windows 7. The button still exists, but they've removed this visual cue in Windows 8, and I have no idea why. I'm really baffled by it.
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Works fine for me on Firefox Nightly too.
Are you actually arguing against giving anecdotes weight by using... anecdotes?
A contrarian anecdote may help expose an article being false or misleading in itself. For example: a review written by the manufacturer itself, or astroturfing.

First we must determine the validity of the article existing in itself and any motivations or biases in it. For this, contrarian anecdotes are useful. This article seems to miss this point.

Once we can accept the article at face value, then we may hit the biases described.
IMO the correct way is to include subset of JRE that's actually required for given application. This can lead to relatively small total application size and deployments that do not require any knowledge of java and java world from end user. Having one JRE for all apps on the system is nice but it's usually not needed.
> Philosophy-savvy scientists may even deny doing so, but their day-to-day conversation and casual remarks tell another story. Most scientists definitely believe there is a single absolute unshifting reality below it all and they are outlining it.

I find that actually quite sad. From a man who actually died for his "scientific" convictions (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno#On_the_Infinite_...):

> It is then unnecessary to investigate whether there be beyond the heaven Space, Void or Time. For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow. This space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, possibility, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit. In it are an infinity of worlds of the same kind as our own.

I think we can easily extrapolate an "infinity of worlds" to an "infinity of Universes/realities", or at least we can think about extrapolating, that's what philosophy was the first to do. Actually, I think Giordano Bruno would be seen as a lunatic by most of today's scientists, which I find it even more sad.
From what I have heard everything is up-scaled to match the native resolution so things that are not optimized for the new displays just looks kinda bad.
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Spoken like someone who knows nothing about Java. There are a bunch of apps written in Java web start(ie yEd), which involves just clicking on a link. Off the top of my head, some very popular Java apps are Eclipse/Intellij or Azureus.
I agree with the sentiment, however, I feel the Kudos button just can't communicate that. If you had given me a Kudos I wouldn't have known it was from you, I wouldn't have known what the intent was and it would just be another number. What's the difference between 23 Kudos and 24 Kudos? But the difference between 23 comments and 24, well, that could be life changing.

You comment here is a perfect example of this.
If I understand this correctly, the technology replaces transistor-like technologies, where the state of one input determines if a pathway conducts or blocks, with something called memristors/spin-valves, where the input directs current rather than ever blocking it.

I recall a talk at MIT back in the 90s where the speaker emphasised that heat generated in semiconductors is generated by the frequency with which heat is generated and then sunk, and that it would be possible to design much lower energy, lower heat electronics if ideas from linear logic were applied to gate construction, minimising the need for generate-sink. The paper's technology seems to support this thesis.

For more about linear logic, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_logic - I'm afraid I don't have any references to applications of linear logic to low-power device design.
That kind of reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rb3Pc8a2CM

What makes a guy who draws blobs or squares on a canvas his ENTIRE career, sell paintings for a million dollars while another guy who draws blobs or squares is never heard from? Is it really all about the end product, or is it more about the relationships? And if it's the latter, then what is "artistic" about the paintings when it's about knowing the right people at the right time?
A lot of people (including in this thread) seem to have this idea that art is about realism. The more a piece of art, or its components, bear a resemblance to reality, or the more technically difficult the methods involved in its execution, the more worthy it supposedly becomes as "true" art.

But this is totally missing the forest for the trees. Art is ultimately about indulging in a perceptual experience. The true value of art is that it can do this not only by stimulating our senses in satisfying ways that are already familiar to us, but more so than this, art can fundamentally change the very way in which we perceive reality. Now it should be clear that in many cases even the definition of what constitute aesthetic beauty is fluid and often learned, as a result aesthetics become inseparably linked with the perception altering aspect of art.

This is what made the Renaissance artists truly great, not just more realistic looking pictures, but the shift in perception that allowed the realism to be seen. The invention of perspective is probably the best example and is such a fundamental shift we take it for granted today that perceiving it is not an innate ability but learned. As an example, people from cultures lacking contact with the modern world do not see realism in photography the way we do, they see what is actually in front of them: a flat surface with colourful smudges.

Realism has been done, it is fairly well established in the realm of the familiar. Many artists have moved on seeking new ways to open up and challenge our perceptions. It shouldn't come as a surprise that without foundation or context, the viewer sees nothing more than some "colourful smudges" in modern art.

This ability to make new things visible to us, is what makes art arguably as important to advancing our society as engineering or some other more "respectable" vocation.

All of this is not to say the world of art doesn't have its share of pretenders or rich people more interested in using art as display tokens of their status, rather than an actual interest in its meaning. However, it's very easy to succumb to the allure of denouncing anything we don't understand as therefore having no value.
Me too. Same kind of rule for email - once per day. And even for work email during office hours - limited to 3x per day. All a big help.
If a post is about a topic that can and has been thoroughly researched and a reasonable conclusion has been drawn, then sure, a contrarian anecdote should probably be disregarded. But honestly, how often does that apply?

Most of the conversations on HackerNews aren't about things that have right and wrong answers. As a matter of fact, many of the most popular posts are nothing more than anecdotes themselves. So why exactly should an anecdote in the comments be downvoted?
As a european I find it funny that you associate touring europe with exercising your left brain. I don't mean that maliciously I just find it funny.
I use IntelliJ daily, and the install experience is "devloper friendly", not exactly end user friendly. Dont get me started on Eclipse install process.

JWS is awful. It is totally not the way users expect to install applications.
At least on Mac OS X, you can double-click .jar files and they will get launched as the user expects, complete with Dock presence.
I'd say that contrarian anecdotes are good if -- for instance -- the discussion spawned by the anecdote leads to a better understanding of the subject at hand. However, because anecdotes are stories we tend to remember them vividly and they affect our judgment disproportionally. Human brains are very flawed, and it may very well be the case that the negative effect of contrarian anecdotes vastly outweighs the benefit we get from the discussion it spawns. I don't know the answer. But I do know that we can't state with certainty that "having a real discussion is a good thing".

As for how we should weigh new evidence, this is essentially a solved problem: use Bayes' rule. Suppose that 100 out of 100 studies indicate that smoking is a leading cause of cancer and a contrarian viewpoint ("My grandfather smoked his whole life and lived to 123!") indicates otherwise. Then that anecdotal viewpoint should get approximately 0 weight. Zero. Nip. Zilch. Nada.

We're all experts in a few subjects at best. In those subjects we can easily explore different viewpoints, balance different arguments and keep track of the different schools of thought. We can even confidently diverge from expert consensus if needed. But in most subjects we're enthusiastic laymen at best. I don't think debates and exploration of different viewpoints then lead to much greater understanding. Just look at any forum on the internet (including this one). Debates aplenty and the few knowledgeable people get drowned out in a sea of contrarian musings.

Expert consensus is just the aggregate opinion of those who have the best understanding. So when a layman disagrees with the experts he's almost certainly wrong. What I see is the opposite of consensus culture. I see a willingness to disagree with the experts before understanding the subject material in depth.
>I'm not going to deny that there's a lot of crappy art out there. However, this article is such bullshit that I suspect the writer is just trolling.

Can we not accept people having different views than us (and quite reasonable ones at that) without bringing up the BS notion of "trolling"?

Trolling is what 15 year olds do at 4chan, not what a normal, adult, blogger does in an extended post with various examples and arguments.

>That's art. But it's art that most people in the world can't begin to appreciate. You need years of coding experience to really get it. You need context. When hackers sit down and study those works of art, they're not just posing. A lot of modern art is like that.

No. The obfuscated C contest is more akin to traditionalist art. It's not conceptual and it needs serious chops. It's just that the presentation of it is twisted (so, more like Dali, or Archiboldo, etc...).
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In a world were 47 of 53 landmark cancer research papers were found to not be replicable... where one scientist admitted (after the meta-researchers tried 50 times to replicate the result and failed) that they had run the experiment 6 times and got the result once and reported that because it made a better "story"... where the act of suppressing refutations of other's bogus research is "culturally commonplace"...

Something is rotten in the core of science. These days I give the research the same weight I give the anecdote... and that is no weight at all.

Science has been supplanted by money and politics... At least anecdotes admit they're anecdotes!

http://news.yahoo.com/cancer-science-many-discoveries-dont-h...
No, they do not.

Citing Wikipedia BeOS page: "It has partial POSIX compatibility and access to a command-line interface through Bash, although internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system."
Yes, that is a bit better than Windows, were this functionality would have mattered the most to have from the beginning.

Still, its not 100% the way OS X users expect apps to work.
Well, you may still want it if you want to build some custom scripts that need notification, so the fork is probably your best option.
Is using pypy a reasonable default? Who's there to make that choice? I suppose the answer is "no", while it makes sense to use it while benchmarking.
So you're suggesting that because some people are bad at weighing information, anything based on personal experience should be downvoted? Successful entrepreneurs should no longer give advice? Programmers shouldn't weigh in on programming issues unless they're citing third-party research? Marketers can't suggest tips for how to promote a startup because it's possible their methods aren't universally successful?
I agree 100% that the idea of Metro style apps with their severe limitations (on multitasking and otherwise) replacing desktop apps is a bad joke. However, I don't really interpret them as replacements, but just as another model with its own advantages ( isolation, suspension/controlled backgrounding, guaranteed declarative install) and disadvantages (multitasking limitations, walled garden, etc.) I think it's very stupid that metro style apps are set as the default for file types and on the start screen etc. However, as a supplement to the desktop I like having them available.
Those are examples, not anecdotes.
No, they usually compete with Verizon, AT&T and other local telco's.
Yes, but still parts of the JVM would be duplicated between apps and updated on app developer X's own schedule.
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Ember had <script> tags littering my DOM for binding purposes, which made progressively enhancing forms (and leaving the standard submit event) require manual cleanup prior to letting the page change.

I'm familiar with the <script> tags it dumps for binding, but I don't understand why you needed to manually clean them up.

Could you elaborate a little, please?
What about the hundeds of people who may have liked your article, but didn't leave a comment? Aren't they, in aggregate, worth way more than a single comment?
I tried moving away to other office productivity tools. I found out I can't. Excel is still way too full featured compared to Open/LibreOffice. The UX in Excel is waay superior to LibreOffice.

And kids, that's why I have virtualbox on my machine. Just for Excel.
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Yes, I'm evil.

Here is the "good" version: Bayesianism is correct. Those who don't believe me may want to read E. T. Jaynes[1] or Eliezer Yudkowsky[2] (long, and may feel abstract and dull). But countless studies about biases showed that we humans are poor at correctly assessing evidence at our disposal. Some of those studies showed that some failure modes come from anecdotes. Downvoting seems harsh, but it's the best we currently have to combat those failure modes.

Now we don't want to overdo it. I suggest we put a comment citing which reliable statistics contradict the downvoted anecdote. Maybe that'll help avoid groupthink. We may also want to allow people to just say they have anecdotal evidence to the contrary of whatever.

[1]: http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf

[2]: http://yudkowsky.net/rational/technical
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For the same reasons that Sun had no nice theme and no nice icons for 15 years for Swing applications (do they now?)

They are horrible thinking about desktop deployments, end users, marketing etc.
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It's getting too slow, since it's one of the earliest MBAs and I'm doing a lot of developing work which requires running virtual machines.
I had a look at the latest MBAs, but I don't know if they are as Ubuntu compatible as my current MBA.
Stellar post.

You're not completely correct when you say realism has been done. First of realism is alive and well today, but it's presence is diminished for good reason, most notably the camera. Nothing has changed the face of art quite like the invention of the camera, a great example of technology's transformative influence on culture.
This is really cool and it's the first time I see this project. Is there still progress going on? The last commit was 3 months ago.

Unfortunately, the error reporting of the live demo isn't very helpful at this stage. I quickly ran into some compilation errors:

syntax not supported (IfExp: <_ast.IfExp object at 0x7f161d834a10>)
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I was just trying to express that I didn't play alone in my basement. The trip was actually through a US State Department program.
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> also wish there was an easier way to go to my computer, because that's what I use the start menu for 50% of the time..

In other windows versions you can use the keyboard shortcut Win-E ..

Did they remove it in Win 8?
It doesn't appear to be further along than Pyjamas.
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I think that's a little sad. If the state of the art hasn't improved in 2500 years, why bother?
Surely that's just because the money is in backend business processes, rather than desktop stuff?
which part of intellij installation that is more developer friendly? i just download the DMG and drag the icon to Applications, just like other apps.
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The game is still running in the background. It's just hidden.
how does that help with security, i.e #3?
In the classic Snake game, the tail of the snake moves and the snake grows longer when you eat snakefood. In Tron, the light trail stays there and you try close in your opponents. So this game is definitely Tron, not Snake.

Tron is usually a multiplayer game and the speedup next to light trail you mentioned is missing.

Btw. back in the BBS days there was a Finnish freeware Tron-with-weapons game called "DeLuxe Moposota" (rough translation: moped wars). I have very nice memories of it. It works nicely DosBOX. Here's a youtube clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gozt-1BgVrU
It is art because it is in a gallery. Also I think it is not the single pictures that are the art in this example. The art is the whole thing: people looking at nonsensical pictures wondering if they are art.

Reactions like that article are exactly what that kind of art wants to provoke.

Not that I personally have a nerve for it...

Also it reminds me about an analysis of the popularity of football that I read yesterday: football is popular because it is irrelevant. You can get high on emotions without any side effects on your real life. Maybe some "art" servers the same kind of purpose. The article also states that football is approaching the popularity of "weather" as a conversation topic.
Do we have any good sources on the claim that newer laws are less balanced? This subject should be taken very seriously. If a well founded study were to indicate this true, it would be a call to arms for heavy reforms on our democratic systems.
Not to knock your comment, but BeOS R5 was released in 2001. That would make it a 10+ year old UI.
That's exactly what it's like! I've been using Windows 8 on my sole laptop since April and only interact with Metro when I want to (which isn't very often). I use Visual Studio, Photoshop, Powershell, etc. the rest of the time just as before.
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Agreed on the salivation and the opportunity in terms of a dream job. But to think that just because the data science team thinks more about social science than Facebook prOducts the corporation will change its tune and stop being creepy is naive or myopic at best.
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It's just not some people. It's everyone. Including you, me, and those who know about the various failure modes.

And please don't straw man me. Personal experience is mostly great. Successful entrepreneurs may have better decision making processes, not just more luck. Programming issues should be weighted on, since there are so little reliable studies here, and the field is so young. Etc. I was just talking about the cases when the evidence that contradicts the anecdote is solid and definite.