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I've never found the abstract argument about more control a compelling reason to choose a product

Wow. You've never found anything compelling about being able to take a pain and being able to fix it yourself? As opposed to having to rely on others to fix it for you, sometime in the future, if they can be bothered?

If you can see no compelling value in that, your opinion is worthless as far as hackers goes. To me your reply reaks of iOS apologetics more than anything else.

And I don't have a 2 year old i need to accommodate. When I was 8 I was programming my brother's TRS Color Basic. Despite not even knowing English. I don't mind technology upping your understanding.

The simplicity of iOS also puts severe limitations into what can be done with the platform. To put it bluntly: It bores me. It is boring technology.
Great, I'll be looking forward to it. Cheers!
You have pointed out some of the other big problems but I disagree that any of them are "the real problem".

The biggest problem, as the parent said, is that brick and mortar stores would be actively hostile to this idea.
I think this is a step forward for Microsoft, and besides, end-users will benefit form the Microsoft-Apple competition.
They innovate and we get better devices :)

Im an Apple user, but earn my living as a system admin for windows and linux servers.
I get all my work done from my hackintosh , and if nothing changes probably will not go back on using windows anytime soon.
I truly hate windows, especially Vista which made me turn to Mac OS and never look back.

Despite all this I will never become so narrow minded as most apple fanboys and dismiss everything new.

I'm tired of reading/hearing:
"Apple has already done this, Microsoft stoled their ideea", "Apple knows the right way to make a product", "This will never work for Microsoft", "Microsoft failed again", "OMG look at the product page, Its crap so the product must be a pile of dong too!"

Common people, what is wrong with you?

I say good job Microsoft, finaly something promising. How well it would do in the real world remains to be seen, but I think there is a huge market for this device.
Reddit has http://www.reddit.com/r/startups which is about startups. It is not exactly a launch pad, but a lot of startup stories are shared.
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Your comment points to the solution: that of increasing retailer specialization, and the need for local stores to focus on items that are not easily purchased through mail order.

The corner grocery in an urban neighborhood doesn't compete on price with the supermarket 10 blocks away. It competes on convenience.

I'm not saying the idea works, but there is more to it than just mapping all existing old school retail establishments into a search engine.
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There's hard and there's having one entire side of your business (the actual brick and mortar stores) being actively hostile to the idea.
The best uses of QR codes are DEEP LINKS. Not as "mystery links", not to look modern, but to jump directly to one item in the middle of a hierarchy or a pool of options.

Check out how Tesco used QR codes in Korea to make a virtual grocery store:
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This is a great use of QR that is a mile away from the typical "scan this instead of typing two words and pressing .com" usage that is typical in the US and confuses people as to why QR even exists (as in this comic).
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I believe I heard in the video that Office is bundled with the RT version of the laptop

Necessary disclaimer: Microsoft employee
Addendum: I did not work on this machine, and did not know about it (I don't think?) until today.
I know of Awwwards.com, but they cater to specifically advancements in the design aspects of the actual site and you have to pay for a submission. The usual go-around is to submit to HN, TechCrunch, maybe the Next Web or Engadget depending on your product. There are boards on Reddit and Digg that attract a similar audience to HN, so it really depends how you want to launch whatever it is you're working on. If you are looking for users I would not recommend coming to HN and similar for your audience, however if you are coming for criticism and maybe some (VC) capital, HN and those listed above can sure meet that goal.

[Edit] I found your site, cafecoders.us and would also recommend getting your SEO in place so it is easier to find you. I was using Google and your Whois lookup came before your actual site did. In fact, this submission is ranked higher. I like the idea and would be willing to help if you ever need it, http://bit.ly/MCnWmq (free).
Even my boss and my partner, died-in-the-wool Windows fans, are well aware of OpenOffice. The idea that MS Office is necessary for productivity simply does not exist. Anyone in an office still using Windows has at least considered the possibility of seeing Linux or Mac on their desktop. Maybe not seriously, but the thought has crossed their mind.
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Not if they specialize in items that are not well suited to mail order. The urban corner grocery doesn't compete on price with the supermarket 10 blocks away. Locality is the foundation of their business.

I'm not saying that there are enough categories of items that are not well suited for mail order, and have a high degree of value based locality. But this is the central question for such a product.

Retailers whose businesses are protected by locality won't be as reluctant as you imagine. Note that these will be the only successful local retailers over time anyway.
This rowe sounds interesting - how long have you been using it ? What changes did you noticed when you started it?
I'd never say such a thing. Same way I'd never say "Well, yeah, he got his ass kicked, but look what he was wearing. He looked like homeless. Maybe if he wore something normal." I agree that justifying doing harm by what the victim wore is disgusting.

But if I wear homeless guys clothes to interview at the bank I might not get hired. I don't like it because I know that the things I wear have no impact on my skills as long as they are comfortable, but I won't be surprised by it.
People judge people by their clothes.

I think that women if anything have easier time with that. Some of their clothes are really ridicules and still they are tolerated. Man wearing skirts or stockings would have trouble even asking what time it is.

You want to be perceived as gamer. Look like gamer. Or be ready to override your looks by strong character and/or language.
Man value women gamers much more then men gamers but they have to believe that they actually met one.

> I am a proud, strong fighter and I have been a successful tech CEO for years.

I am honored with your response and sorry that I've upset you.
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> But you miss the real problem with the idea. System integration difficulties will prevent the system from achieving critical mass and broad coverage.

I don't think that would be impossible. Unlikely maybe, but if the Groupon approach was taken (huge sales teams) it could work.

The hardest part of this idea is not getting stores to use it[1], it's proving that the product has enough value to stores for them to put work into it. Look at Groupon, places are falling over themselves to get involved (or were) to their own detriment (see the stories of people selling $20k of product for $1k) and with the rise of the internet high street shops are having problems. A place in my hometown that had been around for 30 years shut down earlier in the year because their business was being taken by online alternatives; they would have jumped at the chance to take anything that would have improved the businesses prospects no matter the work involved. It's not the question of "should we have 100k profit this year of 101k?" it's "should we break even this year or shut down?"

If the product actually provided value to the stores (which I think it won't, it would harm them) then getting stores involved wouldn't be hard. Again, maybe it's England specific but a lot of high street stores here are losing business fast and I doubt any of them would be stupid enough to ignore an opportunity to increase their business, regardless of the work involved, I think that the OPs idea is the problem. Stores aren't big giant corporate machines with hundreds of different parts, if a system had a good sales team and a good product I don't believe it would be as hard as you state.

[1] Technically the hard part is getting stores to use it, yes, but that's a byproduct of showing there is enough value. If there is enough value I believe getting stores to switch to the system would not be as difficult as building a valuable product.
Yeah I see your point. I can see this happening in large malls where there's shops selling the same products.
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Admittedly details are everything but isn't the desktop replacement tablet Microsoft's vision all along？I mean Bill Gates back in the early 2000s promoted the concept heavily.

This is much slicker and powerful enough to amount another try, but "bold"? More like stubborn.
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Not that I'd ever bother looking up what it encodes, but the pencil-shave qr code http://pinterest.com/pin/23151385554160440/ is pretty damn good looking.
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Perfect examples, thanks!
I disagree with you, it is their customized hardware, I cant see them fitting standard computer components into a enclosure that thin. Almost everything is custom an for Microsoft it's a big technolohical leap because they've never done this before.
I work on a calendar application and I can attest to all kinds of issues dealing with time, dates, and time zones. It's very difficult to get right and most of the time we just hope that for our purposes it's close enough.

A big issue is dealing with timezone conversions especially because different applications represent time zones with different english language versions of the names, like "US Mountain Standard Time" (used by Outlook) is the same as "US/Arizona" (used by PHP among others).
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In the same week that one of Australias biggest (and only left leaning) newspapers sheds 2000 jobs and moves to a tabloid sheet.

I'm sure you could extrapolate something from that.
The Ivy Bridge won't offer anywhere near the battery life of an ARM tablet, though. At best it will be half of that.
Of course, it also allows the unjustified Goliaths to shake down the Davids with threats of bankruptcy.
For me here's the difference:

URL: Turn on phone, swipe right to unlock, press search button, type url, press enter.

QR: Turn on phone, swipe up to open QR reader, point phone.

Yes, I'm one of those rare people who not only scans QR codes, but does it enough to bother making it one of the three actions he can take from his lockscreen (Camera, QR, Unlock)
> Defense

I'm active duty Navy, so I hear you. I really do. I'm still using WinXP on NMCI and was recently directed to remove Chrome from my desktop. However,

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Easy there. You're projecting and reading a little too much into it. I'm not a fanboy, it simply struck me as a conspicuous oversight to write what appeared to be a survey of password hashing history and technology, and not mention scrypt at all.

It's very instructive, especially for people new to this stuff, to see the contrast between bcrypt's CPU-hard algorithm and scrypt's CPU-hard + memory-hard algorithm.

But jgrahamc's clarification above makes sense - it wasn't meant to be a general survey, but only what CloudFlare has done.
We think a lot about it. And even though this model definitely makes sense, we would like to build a business that can generate money and pay for itself.
This is very likely true today. But things will evolve. There are many variables to consider:
- Competition between shops
- product brand and quality
- proximity to clients (consider raise of petrol price)
- associate shop brand with product (locate closest starbuck, not only coffee shop)

This is certainly not an original idea and I'm not sure how it could be possible to become a leader in it. Users need a map to locate the shops. So the map is a key component here.
I had a _very_ similar question during my Google interview. In the course of the day I was tasked with implementing a generator (although answering with `(x for x in foo)` got a smile I did have to build a class) and later in the day was asked how a sequence manager can maintain constant time.

This is an excellent post and every Python hacker should read it. Kudos to the author.
I am not sure why google (chrome) thinks this page is in Indonesian.

http://i.imgur.com/XWoja.png

Anyone else got that?
Plus, they don't even have a "retina" display for that RT tablet. And yes, best case scenario it will be $500, if they remove some other hardware features as well (cameras, etc). It will most likely be at least $600 for the entry model, again without retina display, or anything close to that.
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Only if you design your application to be. A region (in this case US-East) has multiple Availability Zones (almost entirely separate datacenters). Amazon reports that a single Availability Zone went down, so if you only used that one zone, so did your app.
On it's test phase it was generating hash collisions.

[this is not at all true - on purpose anyway]
Surfaces will have Bluetooth support [1], so I would imagine a fair number of accessories would work.

[1] http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/13263622-460/micr...
Some more falsehoods:

1. Time never goes backwards (as other people have pointed out, time zones break this).

2. UTC time never goes backwards (as other people have pointed out, leap seconds break this).

3. The system boot time never changes. On most platforms, the current time is defined as "boot time plus uptime", and setting the current time is performed by changing the boot time.

4. System uptime never goes backwards. Some platforms handle setting the current time by changing the system uptime.

5. POSIX's CLOCK_MONOTONIC never goes backwards. On some platforms and virtualization environments this can break with CPUs shared between virtual machines.

6. On systems without virtualization, CLOCK_MONOTONIC never goes backwards. On some platforms this can occur due to clock skew between CPUs.
I just timed myself, from phone off on the table, to having my phone's browser loading the page in a QR code I displayed on screen. 7 seconds. Pretty much the same amount of time it would take to open the browser at all.

Just tried again after I finally bothered to set my browser as the default link handler (so I don't have to pick from a list) and set my QR app to automatically open links I scan (so I don't have to tap the link) now it's 5 seconds.

Granted, I've found myself using QR codes frequently enough that I can get from my lock screen directly to scanning a QR code by swiping up instead of right (which unlocks the phone normally). So what I actually did was press power, swipe up, point at QR code, and that's it.
Optimus has to be one of the worst products nVidia has pushed. There's the Linux incompatibility, and there's the little problem where you are always tied to the vastly inferior integrated graphics. Games that I should be able to play at 60+ FPS with highest settings and resolution play at 20-30 FPS because I can't use the graphics card to the fullest. Then I need to do obscure hacks to get some games to even recognize the nVidia graphics card because the game developer thought it would be a great idea to wait until you downloaded and installed a 7GB game and launched it to tell you, "Oh, you're one of those Optimusers, well fuck you." Just google "sonic generations optimus" and you'll see what I mean.
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Even nVidia can't properly handle Optimus on Windows, so it's no surprise they aren't even trying on Linux.
Try running Visual Studio in safe mode to see if it's an extension / add-in that's causing issues: devenv /safemode

Some other tips here.

Like everyone else replying, Visual Studio 2010 launches in under 10 seconds for me; Visual Studio 2012 RC even faster.
It actually looks like a nice product. I can tell from your video that you feel about the same way I do of many of my projects. Even after a few months it's hard for me to look at my work and not see the flaws and missing features. But it's good to keep in mind that people who aren't building the app don't usually see those things.
It's tempting to think that since a group is bigger than an individual, they should have some sort of power to select beyond the individual's procreation - but while groups are more powerful than individuals, groups are not more powerful than procreation.

It's easy to expect, and believe, and accept group selection, because the method of transmission is so obvious, that behaviours are taught to the next generation! This obscure 'years later, gene expression' stuff just seems so unlikely - humans aren't wired to expect causality over years or decades.
I'd really love to be able to see an MMORPG take on politics like Civilization did. Would be interesting to see what happens...kinda Lord of the Flies-ish.
I agree completely. As the employee in the scenario, how do you influence your boss to buy into this new mindset of judging productivity and utility?
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Every day is slightly longer than 24 hours, accumulating more than 6 extra hours every year (hence leap years.)

Other than that, I can only think of local DST changes you mentioned.
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it seems clear you are mostly talking about defense contractors. I've been there. Can't take a phone with a camera either. Not really a representative sample is it? Also can't have thumb drives. Probably no fortune 500 companies have ever used one of those either.
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Yeh, I get that for all their talks. Not sure why either.
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> The simulator is not one. It's really a cross-compiling trick.

Uh? No, that's the exact opposite, the simulator is exactly a simulator. What it's not is an emulator: it does not emulate an ARM device, it simulates an iPhone by running iOS/x86.
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