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My feeling is that this will be a hit because imagine finding there are some great applications you use daily on your Laptop in the WinRT mode and now you can take them with you on your Surface device. As a developer and consumer I am very excited about this and from an enterprise view consider being able to re-use a lot of your code base to make these applications for your workers - excellent!

I haven't used windows 8 so I don't know if it feels like a disaster to use on a desktop but I am hoping and assuming once I get used to not having a start button I will be quite happy using it and will love jumping into RT for the more funky fun stuff.
I'd say this has the markings of overhype, what with not actually demonstrating the device. We got, what ... a single demo of a video playing or something?
a.clone().equals(a) is false too; you can't use Array as a thing to route on any more than you can use Object. The point is that in standard java objects with value semantics have stable hashCode implementations, and this is not true in general

(And FWIW arrays are a weird corner of Java as far as I'm concerned; every codebase I've worked on avoids them as much as possible)
Surface is the MS-Office tablet. It's the tablet for people who need something with Word and Excel.
I don't think Apple would have a problem making iOS run on x86 if they wanted to. That's pretty much what the iOS simulator does already.
What is the most sophisticated crime ever committed?
Politics. Don't know, don't care.

Fair enough - but not caring about this will leave you unable to fix serious problems, and incurably unhappy with the state of the world. Every problem, every issue, every project of non-trivial size is critically dependent upon politics of some stripe or other. History is riddled with excellent ideas that failed because they didn't consider politics (and for that matter, terrible ideas that succeeded because they did).

I agree with you that the public revulsion over nuclear power is unwarranted - but that battle is lost. No reasoned argument can hope to win over emotive shots of Chernobyl and Fukushima. We have to look forward.

Engineering is about achieving goals within constraints. Good engineering takes political constraints into account as well as technical and budgetary ones.

Addendum

Whoever is downvoting this guy, STOP. You might disagree with him, but he is promoting a debate in a civilised manner, and that's how we move forward.
How much (in $) refined product do we then export? Crude is not gasoline or plastic.
Windows Phone had to compete with entrenched rivals, and was very late to the party.

Windows Phone wasn't Microsoft's first dance on the smartphone floor. In fact they were one of the very first on smartphones with Windows CE, heralded as a sure thing because it was "bundled with an OS" with some sort of desktop synergy that assured world dominance.

We know how that turned out. Apple and RIM ate their lunch, and the synergy with the desktop thing was an anchor instead of a lift.
So is the intention to generate addresses for the organisations without info going through you? Using js in the browser? (That would be awesome!)
Or, you know, just use regular links. That part of the site isn't a web app, it's just a regular web page. Why make things more complicated than they have to be?

edit: Particularly when I just tried it at home in Chrome, and it ended up at http://www.nutrivise.com/terms/ anyway. Or did you come to the same conclusion re: links?
I do understand the choice Mozilla had to make between control/sandboxing and power/flexibility. I just think that, with the infinite wisdom of hindsight and a view from the cheap seats, it was the wrong choice, and now they're paying the price.

It is unfair to blame Mozilla for the resulting problems, just as it's unfair to blame Microsoft because someone wrote a virus that infects Windows machines. Unfortunately, as in that other case, the value of the platform would be extremely limited without the extra functionality built on top. Put another way, I don't have to install the few extensions I use, but Firefox would not be worth using anyway if I didn't have them. The bottom line is that the platform is part of what you experience as a user and the platform's weaknesses can undermine everything running on it.

That all said, it is also fair to say that Firefox has had its share of performance and reliability problems without any help from extensions, and the architectural limitations in terms of tabbed browsing are well known. It may be that the poor behaviour I've observed recently has been caused by extensions, but it may not. To be blunt, it's not realistic for the Firefox developers to expect your average end user to go through an extensive process of systematically testing their combination of extensions and all the other fun and games every time the performance drops. Most people simply aren't going to do that, and they're going to point at Firefox and say "Well, Chrome gets it right" or something instead. It's not fair, but you've got to play by the rules of the game.
The economics are easy. Money on war 'invests' your resources into other countries (no return, negative return likely), vs. money on innovation and infrastructure in your own country (positive return, long-term; potential for making other things more efficient, more cost-efficient become higher).
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Didn't realise such a thing ever existed. Would be potentially interesting though.
The real “Apple-killer” is The Element of Surprise
I find the criticism torwards the Energiewende quite hard to understand, sure it is a very difficult problem but unless we find a fundamentally new energy source or nuclear fusion becomes viable the path Germany is on is without alternative. It's better to work on the problem now, developing knowledge that helps our economy and makes us a worldwide leader than holding it off unless we are near collapse due to oil prices or worse have to engage in a war about resources, especially since the latter is something Germany must not engage in.
Moving to UK, with a job to start in there already. What do i need?
Hello,

Couple days ago i posted here on YC about how to get a job in UK and moving in there, and got plenty of bad answers, not actually bad but bad for what i wanted to hear.

Well the thing is i got a job in UK, an agency is just waiting for me to start in there, but i would need to move.
What should i do? get a travel visa and then try to 'exchange' to a work visa showing i got a work in there?

And to someone who already live in UK/London... how much would i spend to 'live' in there, get a small apartment, low food, bus and stuff like that, just the basic. Any ideas?

Thank you
Most importantly of all, no prices at all have been unveiled. There are no reviews. There is no ecosystem (speaking specifically of the ARM device. The Intel device is going to be a hot, power-gobbling, very expensive beast and is effectively an ultrabook more than a tablet)

Yup, sure thing. Apple better start saving for that rainy day.
The '100ns ticks' example is actually the Windows FILETIME, not my own invention. ISO 8601 is fine and dandy for stringified datetimes, although it's my position that strings open the door to more errors when consumed or produced by lazy/poor programmers.
In light* of the Surface's magnesium-based construction, this seemed relevant. Only other Mg-based computer (case) that comes to mind.

[*] sincere apologies for the pun
Only if the calculation includes the vast benefits of domestic energy production, properly sourced, and not just the basic price of energy.

Such as keeping First Solar and SunPower in business (FSLR has lost 95% of its value).

The jobs created through installation, maintainence, R&D, manufacturing, and so on.

For example: let's say your import cost is $250 billion, but your domestic cost is $300 billion. I'd argue that you're radically better off spending the $300 billion domestically, than losing the jobs likely involved and exporting $250 billion off shore to benefit some other nation/s. There's no doubt some inflection point on that benefit, but I think it's a wide margin.
> This is the one thing we have come to accept with hosts.

I think it's more that this is something we've come to expect about reality. It used to be that you'd get sales pitches from extremely expensive hardware vendors claiming improbably high uptime but the results never matched those claims for many reasons. Now we're not fooling ourselves into thinking this strategy is effective.
Absolutely. Apple's vision for tablet-computer integration is to dumb down the computer. Microsoft can't afford to do that.
ok whats the idea then, how am I supposed to program the tiny machines/cores?
No need to get defensive.

Design is not always "graphic", strangers are not always nice and "fancy looks" are a cheap and easy way to attract attention.
Without the Private Sector, There is No Public Sector
Much cleaner then Google Closure IMHO.
If workers in a bee colony are body parts, then why not the queen and drones also? The queen is like a brain in the body. Following on, then why not males/females in an animal tribe? People communicate with each other using subliminal smells indicating sex, anger, fear, etc. Just because animals use 50-50 gene splicing instead of 67-33 doesn't mean the group is any less an organism in itself.

My personal observation suggests some humans (and presumably other animals) are the natural born leaders, most others are like the cytoplasm in a cell, and some others like the outer membrane, showing the most altruistic behavior. Pinker has a valid point that all this shows is some individuals are better at exploiting others tendency to altruism, but my observation is some humans in a group are less motivated to survive and mate than others are. Then there's those who do survive but are hard-wired to mate with their own gender, not producing offspring. How do these two groups ("Gays" and "Losers") consistently show up in animal societies?
Aside from the flaws in this, summed up very well by the top comment, I was quite taken aback by his swipe at Drupal. He links it to a tweet from 2009 that's taken out of context and references one particular Drupal module. It's a very flexible CMS/framework - if you're building Views it's up to you to customise the output to your liking. He's demonstrating a rather poor and naive understanding of it.
A clean break would appeal to a lot of people who think that a lack of focus has been part of Microsoft's problems the last few years. But coming out with a tablet only OS was a non-starter for MS. If the Surface was Metro only, then it wouldn't differentiate itself from iOS and Android in any significant manner. This is why Windows Phone 7 isn't getting significant traction.

The key for Surface is the integration with AD, with providing a "desktop" of sorts, and all the other bells and whistles people associate with Windows. Whether the Windows DNA can be successfully combined with a touch based interface is a problem, but at least MS is trying. Muddling along with their old-style tablet software would cede the market to iOS and Android.
Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
The pompous attitude of Microsoft and everything that surronds them is getting more silly and childish every time they do it. Does anyone buy it at all anymore?
Some misc data on that:

"America is still the world's largest importer of crude oil. From January to October, the country imported 2.7 billion barrels of oil worth roughly $280 billion."

"Fuel exports, worth an estimated $88 billion in 2011 ..."

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2011-1...

From what I could find, we export around $30x billion worth of plastic per year, and import around $12 to $15 billion worth of plastics.
Wasn't aware that he was a real person either.
And here I was, all prepared to think bad thoughts in your direction and you have to go and be all reasonable.

What has the internet come to?
I don't know about Belgium. Maybe air conditioners there are more common?
In Germany, it is said that cold winters are more dangerous for the energy balance, as the cold also increases energy demand and the photovoltaik-cells aren't as useful as in a hot (and sunny) summer.
It's no longer available via the Mozilla bug report, but a copy is included in the Caja sources:

http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/source/browse/trunk/thi...
OP here. I agree (and state in my article) that MS could completely screw this up by pricing themselves out of the market. I don't expect they will though, but mostly because they can afford to make it cheap - even sell at cost, if they have to.

I'd argue that reviews and software are less relevant here than they were for say Android in a similar position:

1. People will buy it regardless of reviews (even if only on the desktop at first). Metro is guaranteed to get share off the back of Windows.

2. Developers will follow that share.

Essentially with enough time Microsoft are guaranteed to leverage their Windows share to Metro, and combined with some competitive hardware makes them a force to be reckoned with.

I'm pretty much the definition of an Apple fanboy (I own an iPad, 2 MacBook Pros, an iMac, an iPhone AND APPL stock). And I still stopped to say - that hardware looks impressive. If they can do that to me, well...
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Don't underestimate the value of Microsoft Office. A lot of people are completely dependent and vendor locked on MS Office. No matter how good Android and iOS tablets are, they're not able to be the only computer of someone who's been Office-locked. So even if the Surface comes out with a few rough edges, there might be a surprisingly big audience.

I personally use TeX for docs, mutt for e-mail and don't really use spreadsheets, so I'm quite indifferent about this.
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The grey, grainy background makes for really bad contrast on the website. The layout seems nice, but the contrast brings down the readability and aesthetics orders of magnitude.

I can imagine colour-blind or bespectacled users find it particularly straining to read.
Won't the program listening on the socket just drop the connection if it's getting stuff that doesn't make sense or correspond to a session that it is aware of?

Or is the idea just to spam multiple connections?
Analysis of Paper Clips
I think the first point is the most important, expect downtime.

The trouble is, a lot of these cloud services have one big sales pitch, and it is based on the improved ease of mangement and reliability you get from outsourcing to them instead of letting your own in-house IT team run things on your own systems. If it turns out that hosting in the cloud isn't really any more reliable than doing stuff in-house -- and yes, I did tell a lot of people so, and so did many others who looked at the facts rather than the hype -- then you've just undermined the main argument for using these services.

The rest is a cost issue, whether it's cheaper to use scalable, cloud-based resources or to buy in whatever big iron you need, and to some extent whether it's cheaper to hire smart people to maintain your systems or to outsource the management work. I think most of us who've looked into it know the answer to that one, which is that unless you really do have a very dynamic system where your resource needs vary by orders of magnitude within a short space of time, cloud hosting is disproportionately expensive at almost any scale even taking overheads into account.
Intel has and is shipping x86 SoC processors which can compete (perhaps not beat) with ARM power efficiency. [1]

On the flip side, ARM doesn't scale as well as x86 to higher power outputs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_%28system_on_chip%29
This wouldn't fly; a dual-OS situation is more complexity than Apple would like to expose. If anything, it's more likely that ARMs start popping up on the Mac. Remember that Apple has a reasonable amount of control over ARM, where they have to take whatever Intel gives them for x86.
What are you talking about? They demo'ed in the launch!
Strange but true, the widespread `git lola` has not been mentioned yet.

[alias]
lol = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
lola = log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all

http://blog.kfish.org/2010/04/git-lola.html
Actually I'd say its more likely for Android OEMs. Currently Samsung is the only Android vendor making money, everybody else is barely breaking even or is losing money. At some point basic economics will kick in forcing the vendors to get out of the market while they still can.
StackOverflow unwinding?
If I read you correctly, you're basically saying that the desktop and slate/phone should have different user interfaces. Well, that's exactly what win8 delivers.

When you're building a piece of software you can choose to give it a metro-style UI, a classical desktop UI, or both. That way, your application works across desktops, slates, and WP8 phones. IE10 for example can be run as a full-screen metro app, or as a 'classic' desktop application.

The start menu has been replaced by a full-screen view with live tiles. And really, that's all there is to it; it's just a fancy full-screen start menu. You toggle it with the windows key, and you can quickly search for something just by typing. Live tiles are pretty handy to give you a quick overview of mail, world clocks, events, appointments, etc - much like OSX widgets.

These 'surface' slates, as well as desktops and laptops will run Windows 8 (both x86 and ARM varieties). Windows Phone 8 is just another flavor of that. I'm assuming in the near future, phones will even be able to run the desktop environment by docking to an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
From my limited understanding: each card will appear as a 50 core linux box.

Each core has a set of 16 way vector insns, and there is a little api for synchronization.
You'll get more specific answers if you give more background. What country are you coming from (or at least is it a EU country)? Where in London do you want to live and do you want to flatshare?

The first person pronoun 'I' in the English language is always capitalised.
Nor is it likely to be priced at or under $499.
Indeed, and without taking away anything form Turing, it was Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski code-breakers
working at the request of the Polish army that broke the Enigma codes. I believe they summoned numerous cryptologists, three of which were these guys.
I've been working on an in-house Django project and all I've used so far is the Django Tutorial on their site and their documentation. Believe it or not it's actually rather comprehensive.

For everything else, I have searched google for "<idea name I need to program> Django". Gets me the right answer or sample code I need most of the time.
We've started to see a lot of component-izing Backbone, and more will come for sure.

I'm dabbling with some of the same in our codebase, and we were meant to release a grid component that I now fear has grown too big and hairy.

Not so sure on the idea of breaking it up this far; Buttons and checkboxes are single html-elements, so if you follow this approach fully you get a lot of views for a complex app — that'll be a performance issue.
Steve Gibson (grc.com) famously used chatroom credentials in a trojan he reverse-engineered to get in and chat with the bot maker.

And, infamously, got DDOSed for it.

Can't find the transcript now, which is a shame; I think he took it offline to let the intertubes cool down.
It'd also be nice if they mentioned that the government orchestrated his death by castrating him for the sinful, heinous crime of... being gay.
Have you tried it? From my own personal experience, it works pretty well in the release preview.
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From what I know (living in the UK and not needing to know about UK visa's) don't try and "game" Immigration - if you get a travel visa with the knowledge you have a job here already, it won't be looked well if it's discovered during your arrival in the UK - if you have a job, apply or ask the agency to sponsor a work visa for you - when it comes to Customs & Immigration, honesty is best
If I were a heavy office user I think I'd be much happier with a real laptop.
Have a look at OpenCL, I think you will use OpenCL or a similar framework to code for this device.
You are right. But we still need to keep in mind that what's happening makes no sense. We need to know what the real, un-politic, solution is, otherwise we don't even know how and where to compromise. More public spending is not ground for compromises. We are gambling with our future packing debt on debt with silly ideas (like this one that throwing money at pig farmers to raise wind towers is going to save our energy-hungry asses). That's not going to happen and we will pay for this bad decision making in the future.
Journal articles are not and should not be poetic; their aim is not to be interesting but to convey information unambiguously, including to readers for whom English is not a first language. In the one example given, his adviser was quite right; using "only" six times may be less interesting than using "lone" some of the time, but it's clearer. The list in the article is just unfunny garbage.
I recently learned about Tommy Flowers and Colossus from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-breaki...
The British kept Colossus secret for a too long and Flowers did not get enough credit (and von Neumann seems to get too much).
BTW, I do recommend the above book. But we warned that it's a collection of essays by different authors so it can be uneven reading.
You made me laugh this morning, thank you. Should have added a "<yawn>" in front to make the snark complete. Adding the smiley face on the end was a nice way to soften the blow.
It's a fair point, but I don't believe the comparison holds this time round.

Firstly, Windows CE was demonstrably years behind tech-wise - even a causal grandmother consumer could see the difference between an iPhone and a CE device. That's not the case here: this looks (to casual eyes) like an iPad equivalent.

Secondly that time round they went at it by making the phone alude to the Windows brand. Here they're using the Windows sales (which are assured) to get Metro in front of users.

Thirdly they're now copying a proven thing (the iPad). Last time they were half-leading the charge for semi-smartphones, and never figured out the right tech to evangelise people. They've always been better at copying than at innovating afresh.

Forthly they're all in. They basically screwed the desktop OS over to put tablets front and centre. All their considerable weight and spending power will be behind this - in shops up and down the land.

Of course it's not over yet. But if they play this right, it could be very interesting game indeed.
This. To me, Windows 8 is the first OS that actually makes sense of how people use tablets (and computers in general). Sometimes, I want to use it casually laying on the couch and sometimes I want to use it to be productive.
A game where you're shown a random happy trail and you have to guess the geek it belongs to.

God help you when Woz's comes up.
So what will happen when you have Word open in "ultrabook"/desktop mode, but then start using the Surface in tablet mode? Is the same instance of Word still open? Is its interface the same? These are the type of things that MS hasn't proven themselves good at designing. MS tends to overcomplicate their UI (Ribbon etc) and in my opinion, a tablet tends to benefit best from focus and simplicity.