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Oh, I wouldn't consider Metro style apps as any kind of replacement for desktop apps or most professional tools. I've been running Windows 8 for a while now, but to me on desktops or larger screened laptops they are just fancy gadgets that live off the left side of my screen. I like having them because they are isolated and suspended when not running, so I can use lots of them without impacting the system (or even cluttering the taskbar). I just grab one from the switcher or the start screen, check something or do something simple, and then click in the upper left corner to go back to the desktop. It's a bit like I might have a phone next to me while using a PC and check mail on it sometimes, but there are some advantages such as being able to use your keyboard to enter text, being able to click on a link and have it open in the desktop, etc. However for integrating into any more involved workflow I would stick to desktop apps for the reasons you mentioned. (I also agree that the Metro open file dialog is really lame, it somehow manages to be even worse than the Windows folder browser dialog and I didn't think such a thing was even possible).

There is a lot of weird FUD about the desktop being "legacy" and on its way out, and although that's not something Microsoft has actually said it does come partly from them being overeager to hype their new thing because it's their new thing, and partly from the press echo chamber liking to hype things in general. But it's completely absurd.

re debugging, I think there is an "emulator" you can use which is really a remoting session into your own machine, but it will run your app in a window.
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Decline doesn't meaning dying. While there is a large amount of software that will continue to be written in C++ for years to come, there is also a large class of software that 10 years ago would have automatically been written in C++, but today is just as likely to be written in something CLR or JVM based, or even a dynamic language like python/ruby/javascript. I also wouldn't be surprised to see languages like Go or Haskell continue making inroads into areas that have traditionally been the domain of C++.

And even in video games C++ is being used in fewer parts of the codebase as more and more code is being shifted to embedded scripting languages like lua.
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["nightmare" - all the more reason to use a good ide, then...]

they are the first and third most popular languages, according to tiobe - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

even if that is somewhat wrong - say, that they are actually second and fourth - it's still incredible that the best / most popular commercial ide (i buy and use each release) doesn't support them. http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-86304
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Android seems to jump the shark more and more with each passing day. You've to work harder as a developer, catering for all the hardware and OS fragmentation in order to distribute apps on a platform riddled with piracy and sub-par apps.
This is just a bunch of unverified blanket statements and what-ifs. From my own experience, I can tell they don't apply to Haxe. Also, Haxe is revolutionary, but to understand that, you'd have to actually use it in production.
If, for some reason, you are using AWS as shorthand for Amazon's general site, they haven't landed here yet, but I'm very interested to see their entrance into the market and how they perform against Ponto Frio, Submarino, MercadoLivre, etc.

Brazil really needs centralized sites (Amazon, CL, etc) because having to check dozens of sites and services just to maybe find something similar to what you need, it can get tedious...and I'm sure I'm not the only one. At least there's Estante Virtual for used books. That's a great service.

As long as we're on the subject, it'd be really nice if there was a way for non-Brazilians to buy things online here. This would be solved if PayPal upped their marketing and really made themselves known on the Brazilian market.
I know this is exactly what the medical industry is suffering from right now, in a real bad way. Contractors and outside companies now dictate much of the policies and timelines, without the accountability, downtime, or maintenense.

"The problem with outsourcing IT and dev stuff is that even if you are yourself a developer that you still quickly get dependent on the contractor and over time your influence on this contractor will vanish away until the contractors dictates timeline, priorities, features for slowly raising day rates."
> I switched for two reasons, the first being the much higher quality and innovation seen on iPhone apps

That's debatable. I'd argue the opposite.

> The second reason I switched was due to various software problems i experienced on Android such as the screen brightness randomly dimming and needing a phone restart to fix, and the fact that Android is installed on seriously underpowered phones that take ages to do anything.

That's two problems:

1. The carrier controlling the updates, rather than Google. (solution: get Google to supply the updates by buying from the Nexus range and ensuring you're running the Google ROM)

2. Underpowered - which is rubbish, because he then went and bought an iPhone. Not a fair comparison.
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You pretty much can't buy Lenovo in Brazil (I mean the Thinkpads).

Dell is established, affordable, good customer service. Competes here with Acer, HP, Toshiba and even cheaper brands probably assembled in Brazil (like Positivo).
Sony Vaios are normally a little bit higher priced, closer to Apple.

The lower end Dells start around R$ 1700 (820 USD): Core i5, 4GB Ram and 1 TB HD. The higher end (gaming or slim) ones, my guess would probably be around R$ 3500 (1700 USD).
No, I mean't the webservices. If Amazon came to Brazil I really wish they'd disrupt the market in terms of customer service. Americanas/Submarino are lousy in customer service sometimes.

Estante Virtual is really great - the moment I found out about them I stopped going downtown to hunt for books (the good thing is that they're just "forcing" owners to index their collections, and they get to be the middle man).
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Thank you. I'll fix this :)
Which means the home keys are out of position. I want to sit dead center of the screen, not at an angle.
What you did end up choosing? I would love to get a laptop with that much memory.
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I suspect that in most cases where people need a very high end machine for work, price is not as much of a factor as running the software (including OS) that you want.

Having very demanding needs in hardware specs but flexible on operating system is probably a relatively rare occurrence.
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It's a fairly nice summary of Flame, but it could do without the link-bait title, since the conclusion of the article is exactly the opposite.
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My name is Peter Smart. I am the creator of this project.

Thanks for all your constructive thoughts and comments so far. I am 23 and this was a university project that has generated a lot of interest. Apologies it's so slow right now - apparently that the HN effect.

Thanks for your thoughts on the site design. The site has won Site of the Day at Design Taxi and Awwwards. This was really unexpected as I agree there is still more to be done in terms of making the site as intuitive as possible.

However, the most important thing isn't the site design. It's the premise. What can design do - if anything?

I took a risk and set out into the unknown to answer that question. Some days I failed, some days I succeeded. The most important thing is that I dared to try (and when I failed - got up and tried again). It was an incredible experience so I hope you continue to enjoy it.

Pete
"A great [website] is one sentence." ~ Clare Boothe Luce
Click Grid and it's much easier on the eye.
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At work I have a Leap. It's pretty good (lots of knobs to adjust), but at home I use the Herman Miller Embody. Personally I feel it's more comfortable than the Leap, but chairs are very subjective.

You may like it because the seat "pan" isn't actually moving the seat. It extends the front of the seat further out. That way you don't feel like you're sitting off the back end of the seat.

Have you had a chair fitted, or read the instructions on fitting? If you haven't I highly recommend it. The Steelcase vendor was in my work the other day explaining proper posture on the chairs. You're not supposed to sit up, but rather recline at a slight angle.
It's clearly linkbait but it is actually nicely written and informative so I'll give them a pass on this one.
I understand and I'm sorry if I came across as insensitive - I was half-joking. My own experience with these technologies is not favorable. Every year or so the company I work for experiences a day long mail outage. My wife has lost about a month of work because Sharepoint died and no backup could bring it back to life. And yes, both installs are maintained by people with plenty MC* certifications and, in both cases, the reasons for using the software were not tech-driven.

I hope you have better experiences.
Who said that Flame was Lame? I haven't stumbled on that much critique about Flame.
browsers are the new operating system, but what was learned in security architecture of operating systems wasn't carried across.

chrome et al at the moment (and other browsers) are the security equivalent of DOS - single user, unprotected memory, no file permissions etc.

a lot has been done well with isolating the browser from the operating system, but within the browser itself is where more and more interesting information is being held, and the security model there is almost non-existant.
Thank you for citing your experience for credibility purposes. :)
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Of course there are some success stories, and in this guy's case it didn't hurt that this guy already had a large fan base, Humble Bundle exposure etc.

But I still maintain that it's far, far easier for the average competent solo developer to make money consulting than developing new apps.
I was worried the Retinabook was only going to double the pixels. The ability to select a 1920x1200 "mode" is awesome.
"I really wish the $2199 SKU had the 512GB SSD, or at least offered it as an option - otherwise the spec is near perfect in my mind."

Many of my colleagues agree. Slower cpu with 512GB at ~$2500 would be just about perfect.
Why are they faking the resolution? Is it that the graphics card has problems, or is it to make their own apps look nicer than competitors, or what? I hope they are not rescaling stuff like photoshop to something other than actual screen res, otherwise they will severely piss off graphics professionals even more than they managed with the Mac Pro workstation non-upgrade.

[edit] reading through the article, it seems that they've either gone and broken the word 'resolution', or Anand is very confused.

At 1440 x 900 you don't get any increase in desktop resolution compared to a standard 15-inch MacBook Pro, but everything is ridiculously crisp.

I have read this sentence three times and it still makes no sense unless the word 'resolution' has been completely mauled by marketing idiots.
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yeah, can't say that i have either. most of what i've read about it has been somewhat in awe of the complexity of the thing.
Because the UI is too small at the real resolution.
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Yeah, pretty much because they can. The average buyer doesn't compare USD to EURO - they just see the price in EURO and it seems normal. Keep in mind that the salaries are also similar in both countries USD=EURO (so technically US workers are paid less if you convert).

Running a company in the EU is also harder than the US, at least for smaller businesses and startups - that may account for something...
This is great app, keep up. Will use this :)
My prediction: We can find a subset of proteins such that they do not interfere with each other, and still large enough that they can perform useful functions.

It is possible to write threaded software in a way that everything interacts with everything and it is almost impossible to make out how anything works. That's why we don't. The halting problem never stopped us from writing software.
As a citizen of a country in the EU, I certainly feel different about dealing with a Greek business than a Russian one. For one, I know they are required to provide me with a two year warranty by law. Likewise, there are other community directives that I know Greece was required to implement and that apply to them.

I also feel more confident about my ability to influence consumer protection entities in case something goes wrong, 'though I'm not sure if that's actually true.
Completely agree. That novel cryptographic hash collision thing is mind boggling, all the rest is just run-of-the-mill.
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I'm sure they would be happy to quickly distribute the source code on replacement missile along with a bugfix.
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> When was the last time there was an outbreak of malware on Apple iTunes or Google Play? How many users were affected?

Daily, based on the number of apps I see where the updates include security fixes.

> If every web page had its own full chroot/jail (or equivalent), then they would be as secure as native applications.

You should read up on the Chrome security model - they're trying hard to produce this.
Interessting approach of not retaining his own sales force. Echews a lot of pain of matching company goals with incentives able to attract good sales people. Thing is I didn't to take this fact as far as to outsource sales. I like that guy!
Thank you for the kind words. :)
They clearly stated in the keynote that Adobe is working on a retina version of Photoshop.
IT IS lower! I've been buying stuff from the US for years now - even accounting for VAT, certain IT products are cheaper, not to mention there are a lot of products you can only find in the US or online...
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If this was indeed developed by NSA, wouldn't this sort of attack be easier for them since NSA gets access to Microsoft's source code for Windows?
Is this guy an analyst or an oracle? The way he predicts all this gloom and doom, with the gory details of how the killer would emerge and how facebook will fail to detect it, etc etc all sounds like some judgement day crap.

Nostradamus thou hath reborne.
1. "Basic commands" are what you know after 30 minutes of

$ vimtutor

2. "Syntax to chain basic commands" is what you get when you think about what you are going to do. Like in any spoken or written language: "copy this line and paste duplicate it 10 times above" would be

yy copy this line
10P paste above, 10 times

You have verbs (yank, paste, delete, join, move down…), direct objects (this word, this line, this html tag, this function, this paragraph…), indirect objects (up to this word, between line y and line x…) and, well… "counts" to do all that multiple times.

Vim's language is a lot more natural and intuitive and efficient than any variant of Cmd+Left - Shift+Ctrl+Right - Right - Cmd+c - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v - Down - Cmd+v

Saying it's too arcane/complex/hard is just lying or being lazy.

3. "Ability to form other commands from basic commands" is achieved by writing small (or big) functions and bind them to your own commands.

4. "Way to write macros" is by not writing macros. You record a sequence of commands/keystrokes and run it later:

qa record a macro in register a
yypj duplicate this line and move to the line below
q stop recording
10@a apply the macro 10 times

No need for a cheat sheet if you are commited and don't rush it.
Don't know about just the high end. At my "starving artist" son's college, he was the only one who didn't have a Mac. At my other son's college, easily 3/4 of all the students used a Mac.
I think it's a reply to this article: http://xato.net/malware/flame-is-kind-of-lame/

(discussed on HN here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4087914)
Sadly in Linux you don't have the luxury of Visual Studio and I've tried doing portable C/C++ in Windows (with cygwin and various make programs). It just doesn't work right.

But I agree with overall sentiment. We shouldn't try to make programming hard. It is hard already.
The article about the new MacBook Pro line also included a discussion of Airs and Mac Pros. Sometimes the discussion strays beyond the boundaries of the headline.

Most of the time that is a good thing - I for one am interested in the point the OP raised, which is that RDS (at all instance sizes) gives you no visiblity in to what is happening under the covers on your DB server.
But the point is if you're ok with a Rasperry Pi class computer, why not just put it in the phone? And indeed, the Pi is outclassed in performance by pretty much every Android device in existence.

You're already carrying your phone with you. There might be some value in a "shell" with a Raspberry Pi level computer in it, but in that case I think you'd see the opposite happen to what you're suggesting: The shell using the phone for additional computer power when present, and the Pi class computer simply being a way of offering very basic dumb terminal capabilities when no superior computing device is present.

> Historically though, things such as laptop docking stations and laptops with detachable tablets have never really taken off and I imagine this could be a case of the same.

Historically, laptop docking stations were a big deal for businesses, and "laptops with detachable tablets" are where the tablets were/are actually usable is a very new thing. I don't think you can draw any conclusions from that.
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Most people don't want to deal with the extra waiting time and warranty issues to save $100-200, though...
Sorry already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4098918
As opposed to the $769 Billion the US Federal government spends on Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP ($2500 per capita, way more than e.g. France). And of course, the US doesn't have state-sponsored education, it's all private, right?
I too have a first model iPad and it sucks, but I also kinda expected it. Other developers also don't seem that much surprised/disappointed. The problem is RAM: The iPhone 3GS and the iPad have the same amount of RAM, but the iPad has twice the resolution and almost 5 times the amount of pixels to push to screen.
I suspect Apple and third party App developers will support the second Generation iPad exceptionally long, because it is still selling (obviously), it has much better hardware specs and it outsold the first Generation over 3:1. It makes sense to make the cut now with iOS 6.
The FreeDos thing has something to do with some obscure rules about having to sell computers with an OS. No is expected to actually use FreeDos, and in fact the reason they use FreeDos rather than, say, Ubuntu, is to make sure no one does run it, and thus not having to offer support.
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To paraphrase Edison, anything worthwhile is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration. The novel md5 collision/windows update propagation is Flame's 1%. The rest is just what's made possible as a result.

It is a cogent reminder of the fragility of the Internet's security infrastructure.
Summing it up - EU prices have VAT included and exchange rate is best possible for Apple in long term perspective.
But correct me if I'm wrong - if you buy Macbook in Apple store in US their adding some kind of local tax, right?

Also - if you're running a company in EU you can refund overpaid VAT, right? So the only difference is, that currency exchange rate is worst possible.
This is true, but I'm not sure if I understand how SSL support for this would increase security since the request and the response go no further than our internal network.
I thought most of the FCX grouses had been responded to.
What does Apple typically charge in processing fees on top of their 30%? I’ve tried to find some information on this, and every source I’ve found says they only charge the 30%.
UI can scale perfectly well without faking resolutions.
Some examples:

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/05/flame-malware-m...
"The hype surrounding Flame may be partially the result of the ITU"

http://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Is-the-hype-surroundin...
"None of the methods of this malware are particularly new."

http://xato.net/malware/flame-is-kind-of-lame/
"It’s just not that impressive as far as features go. In fact, 10 years ago it really wouldn’t have been that impressive."

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I think tptacek has hummed a few bars in this direction before, but it has become received wisdom on some parts of the Internet that geeks vs. government is an asymmetric fight and that since governments are stupid geeks will win. You often see this in, let me cherry pick out of charitability, threads suggesting that the OSS community develop surveillance countermeasures for use by dissidents subject to certifiably evil regimes.

It doesn't really matter whether the nation state in question is Iran or the United States. Do not pick fights with people who can respond to a hacking incident by writing a check for $5 million dollars to a defense contractor and consider that low-intensity conflict resolution. It will not end well.
I'm going to guess the Lenovo W520/W530 or a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation. Those are the major laptops I know of that come with 4 DIMM slots (32GB now, 16GB last year because 8GB DIMMs were crazy-expensive).
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The access to source code is mostly irrelevant.

Access to signing keys is very relevant, and I think there is a very real chance (p>0.2) that the huge oversight MS did with the terminal server keys happened because they were ordered to do it.
So the current existing version of photoshop can't access all the pixels then? Excuse me while I scream in horror and dismay.
No. The key to this malware being NOT lame is that it uses a new cryptographic attack. Which is, not helped by looking at Microsoft's source code.
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