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So, I'm not a huge fan, but definitely an interesting attempt. Some commentary, because why not:

- As others have noted, the "moonshot" imagery is a good idea and manages to seem classic and futuristic at the same time.

- The wordmark is a little cliche (lowercase sans wooo), but it looks okay. I like the beveled foot of the t, which provides echoes of the slanted logo, but feel like it's just an afterthought right now. I wonder what it might have looked like with a few more bevels.

- The slate shape is nice, but it's not an uncommon shape. In order to avoid confusion you're going to need something to make it extremely recognizable. A strong color identity will help a lot here. Your system of positioning the log above the top-left corner of text also helps, but only if there's text around. You know you will have succeeded when the demo image of the woman in the orange jacket is unquestionably your logo and not a random part of the jacket design (which it could be mistaken for at the moment).

- The derived logos (Windows, Office) are a little confusing. Why is windows two slates? Why are the slates fighting in Office? Why doesn't metro have any slates / why is it even up there with Windows and Office? To create a family of logos you actually need a sense of "family" -- this just feels like the first two things that popped into your head.

- It's still a little unclear whether the slate logo is also Microsoft's logo, or whether the corporation itself will just use the new wordmark. Why is the slate logo used on the Windows Phone? Shouldn't it be double-slates?

- Maybe it's just my screen, but your color palletes for metro don't look that great. Dark blue on black is hard to overcome; the teal is too light compared to the white text; the black theme is hard to distinguish from the black background.

- I really, really like the combination of screen reflection and slate logo that you see in the ad for the Nokia phone. You see those fake reflections on any ad for a device with a glass screen. I think you could turn that into an enduring visual language for ads.
Well, mathematics is somewhat unique in that ultimately, it's purely detached from reality - it's purely conceptual.

When we can use it to model the things we percieve, that's great, but at it's most fundamental level, mathematics is not a natural science (if that's the right term) - it's a human construct - purely abstract.

But to be fair, when we say "prove" in common speech with regards to science, do we really need to say "science can't prove anything?" - every time? Most people get that on forums that discuss such things - "proven" in these things simply mean their theories checked out.
We'll never know what the universe really "IS" - we only know what we percieve, directly or indirectly,and what we can predict. It's still turtles, all the way down.

- not literally that it's an absolute truth - that's impossible, as you said, other than in mathematics.
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The west coast loves avocados as well. They are the fruit of life. California produces about 90% of the nation's avocado crop. http://www.avocado.org/fun-avocado-facts/
What is the point of having all those billions in cash on hand, and an R & D budget exceeding the market cap of many DJIA participants, if you're going to penny pinch where it counts? http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft What timeline is so important (short term) if you lose the future, period?
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Sure, but only because they apparently don't have enough non-bullshit, non-FRAND patents with which to play the "IP litigation counter-counter-...-counter strike" game. Apple sucks, but so does every other major player in the "mobile" industry. I could be wrong here, but no counterexamples come to mind.
Even granting your premise, who wants to be the ONE developer stuck working on some project that clearly has no future?
There's a bit of a difference between trying to kill the entire phone industry and suing obvious copycats who don't differentiate their products.

If Netscape has sued MS and won an injunction a lot of people would have cheered. Which brings up the old 'who's most like MS in mobile today?' question...

Microsoft made a netscape clone and gave away the product for free.
Google made an iOS clone and gave away the product free.
In that case, I've got an even cheaper and faster solution: Pick some points on the map randomly.

Now that I think about it, this could be used as a control.
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The creator of this site is reading all of your feedback. He gives his thanks, but warns that this site wasn't supposed to be ready to launch yet.

(I know him in RL, and right now new HN accounts cannot be created.)
Who is sponsoring our politicians?
I have a T420s with an SSD, and it's a charm. Light but solid. A refreshingly honest appearance, too, especially if you like the more boxy and somewhat cyber-industrial look that Thinkpads have. A little less gimmicky and passe than minimalism (and not just Apple's minimalism) tends to be.
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Would people complain that the police are or aren't visiting their neighborhood?
"Wikipedia represents a massive expenditure of energy recovered from not watching television" - hear, hear. Open distribution of file format documentation? Pfft, licensing issues...
Pirlo for Italy was 34 for this years Euro's, and look at the tournament he had. Its possible if Xavi is rested appropriately that Spain can have the same effect in Brazil. Scary actually.

Stats are important to Football, but pure data is useless to sport in general without a way of applying the data. Interesting is how the data is applied more than anything else. Can comparisons across time be drawn to teams across era's to statistically determine who the best team of all time are?
> Siri, while it might not have as good a recognition as the Android solution, is much better in that regards: It always confirms your command.

Even better, Siri gives confirmation by default, but you can disable audible feedback if you so prefer.
Class-based argument? Your prejudice is showing. The 'true fan' part is about following the goings-on of the performer and being aware that there's a show coming up, and trying to get tickets ASAP instead of two days before the event. Please stop trying to make absolutely everything about money.
I wonder how predictable Go is when scaling up. Are there any weird optimizations to do or surprising memory growth ?
A lot of webscale people don't use VMs; you're not going to run too many in 4GB of RAM anyway.
Does this mean that Thinkpads are retro now? People always seem surprised that my thinkpad has a trackpoint-nub-thing and yet is less than a year old.
Nobody cares what HN thinks.
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You sir have improved my life by a definite measurable amount. Instantly a fan. Very clever programming!

Some points:

- Great usage flow by having both keyboard shortcuts displayed. I would label each in a smaller font (i.e. "Take Screenshot By..." and "Paste Here With...") for less savvy users.

- Could you insert a preview after it finishes uploading? A quick visual check would rock.

- I would love you if you could picked a colorful name. The trouble with "clean" sterile names is the fact it is really difficult to remember compounded with the url hack. Animals work well.

- My favorite tool: http://www.domainhole.com/brainstormer/ Try using the word "snap" / "paste"

- Change the tagline to say something about pasting it directly. Your clear differentiating feature is the fact that uploading doesn't take a dialog. Something like "Instantly paste your screenshot"

- There's that momentary ecstasy going "Wow, this is amazing." Have Facebook like / Twitter share buttons available the moment people see their pictures appear. This is when the magician just completed the trick and people want to applause. That's your window to spread the word.

- Add a link to your blog! I had fun reading it. Much more interesting than just a twitter handle.

- Polish this site up some and spread the word. It's a very simple app but has incredible utility. It may take a day or two to polish but it'll provide a multiplier to the rate of spread. Good side projects can get legs of its own and help you later down the road.

P.S. Have you guys decided on a project yet?
It's just a model - finding higgs will add validity to that model as a useful tool. not finding it - invalidating that theory puts us back to the drawing board and/or focuses people on other theories. It's not the end or beginning of anything, just another step.

I want my time travel and anti-gravity and FTL drive, at consumer prices. I want to see dinosaurs and travel around the universe in the blink of an eye. Keep working science people.
Please explain.

I have sites that run for years without me editing a single line of code or any other sort of maintainance. Backups run automatically, so do regular clean-ups of the database and certain directories.

What sort of maintainance would you say a largely client-side application like iGoogle does require?

Edit: anybody care to explain the random downvoting?
The network shows Torres upfront for Spain despite his not appearing in the final until the second overtime (106th minute), but shows Van Bronkhorst who was substituted in the 105th minute?

From all that analysis, it doesn't really follow that the 2010 World Cup Final was Spain 1-0 Netherlands with the sole goal coming in the 116th minute after each team used all their allotted substitutes. Though Spain had more of each, corner kicks, shots and shots on target were similar for both teams.

The real telling statistic is fouls - which ultimately led to the Dutch being a man down (Heitinga) when the Spanish scored, through the center back position which he played.
See Might's talk at http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ay1011.html .

Parsing with derivatives can take advantage of the Pratt hack to go even faster.
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Oddly enough, both.
"The derived logos (Windows, Office) are a little confusing. Why is windows two slates? Why are the slates fighting in Office?"

Apparently you missed what I thought were some pretty awesome visual metaphors:

* "Why is windows two slates?" there are two of them, hence Windows plural

* "Why are the slates fighting in Office?" They look like the walls of an office (the transparency helps with the 3D illusion)
> an sleazy businessman whose picture and life history are repugnant to those who are uninformed on this issue.

Can you point to some posts of this nature? All I've seen from the "uninformed" so far is heaps of support.

(Which I actually find pretty funny, because while Dotcom may have landed on the right side of things by chance this time, he does seem pretty repugnant.)
Regarding your confusion over the logo brands (which I shared in), I think some of the choices were made to distance Surface and Windows Phone from the Windows brand.

This is why in this concept, Windows Phone is "surface phone", and it uses a simple slate icon rather than a double slate that would refer to the Windows brand. At least that's what I got out of it. Still a little confused.

EDIT: I think this image might clear it up: http://www.minimallyminimal.com/storage/post-images/microsof...

It appears that the single slate logo is Surface, the double slate logo is Windows, and the intersecting slates are Office.
Oh that is Facebook screwing up. I'm not trying to pardon that. I just hate people who complain about stuff when they take a well defined risk and it backfires on them.
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If you go lean, revenue is everything. You start with something small, you fight to get every single customer, you grow with every project, staffing up another developer or sysops engineer paid from your own pocket to do a bigger project than the past one, trying to get your "side-product" ready to not be dependent of more projects at some point...

And then, you've the Double Stealth. Why bother with revenues, if VCs are throwing money at you? Why bother with customers at all? Why bother with products? Hell, why not just completely hiding what we do, as long as the money is flowing? Problem? :D
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On Disqus, Google+, Facebook, and most other sites supporting "likes", you can see who upvoted your comment. But this site is missing that built-in functionality.
Interesting question. It made think of another situation.

How often would CK have to perform to make scalping essentially a non-issue?

More than once a year I would guess. But once a month? Every week?

What factors determine this?
Are you from the US? If so, you can make money on the Android market quite easily. The idea that iOS is the only platform that can make money is a very dated idea, and one that never really had any merit in the first place.

There's a reason why the cliche exists, because it is true. The biggest truths in this world are the obvious ones, not the exciting ones. You pick a platform on perceived value and it's likely that your gut feeling (along with the crowd) will lead you to Apple.

If I'm wrong, then why aren't developers ditching Apple? Why is no one boycotting a platform that is happy to litigate, rather than innovate? Why are there so many weak money-related excuses to not developing for Android? It's because of personal belief, and it is your personal belief that iOS is better and will make you more money.

By that logic, we'd all set up shop in silicon valley, otherwise working would just be pointless...
Now if only google supported Golang as a first class development language on the Android platform...I would divorce and drop Java in a heartbeat.. sigh
This is the story of every large company out there including Google. With size, comes structure, and with structure bureaucracy. Metrics take the place of intelligence and straight jacketing becomes the norm. Some companies (like some people) live to a ripe old age; some die a premature death. A 100ton truck cannot take a hairpin at 100mph.

Decline and death is the norm in industry as in life. The next microsoft would come out of the thousands of startups that are being hatched today or tomorrow.
In this case I was able to confirm the key by matching it with a copy they uploaded to https://policy.heroku.com/security
I don't know why you switched off the javascript. If you want to test how it looks where js can't run check this: http://imgur.com/wJIGO. It's w3m browser, and both work fine without javascript.
At some point "why" becomes impossible - everything just becomes a set of relationships between things that we can define and predict. The only real answer to "why", from a scientific point of view, is ultimately "because that's how it is"
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This is really good!

do you have a personal email i can contact you on?
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> EVERY emotion you feel about Microsoft is arbitrary. Branding is just the mental handle we use to talk about the automatic emotions we get.

That might be true for companies that are completely unimportant, but many of us have seen whole careers, companies, and industries rise and fall on the movements of Microsoft.

As a relatively small example, when Microsoft tried to lock my family out of our home PC using and accused us of being software pirates that brought up some emotions that were certainly not arbitrary.
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I'm looking forward to the SourceMap (SMAP) [See: http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/08/debug-languages-on-javascr... ] extensions, which will help developers debug CoffeeScript, IcedCoffeeScript or any other possible meta-langauge built upon JavaScript. For me, I'll continue writing what I need in CoffeeScript and always keep in mind the ASI problem—and avoid idioms that use it.

I don't much like the implicit function invocation feature of CoffeeScript so I always include parenthesis to explicitly indicate my intent to invoke a function.
The difference is that at Fukushima the generators were underwater from the tsunami. A bit difficult to get them started, in that condition.
You know what they say about a joke that you have to explain...
From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
Great feedback. I am going to add that right now. Look forward to seeing that change pushed to the site in an hour or so.
In other sports both teams are expected to score tens, even hundreds of times. In soccer one goal often is enough. Collecting stats for analysis seems entertaining for the observers, but how is that useful for the teams, in a sport that is so dependent on luck?
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Twicklish gives you a bird's-eye view of your Twitterverse.

At a glance you can see which of your search channels kick out the most tweets, or better still, log in to Twitter to see which of the people you follow have the most chat!

We built Twicklish to get a quick-and-dirty relative feel for how many people are tweeting about our product, Qiqqa.com, vs. its competitors.

Pure client-side HTML5 – no server side components whatsoever. Login to Twitter is performed directly between your browser and Twitter.

At a glance:
- The bigger the search segment, the more tweets it has.
- Hover over a segment to get its timeline.
- Click near a tweet dot to see the tweet details.
- Tweets by the same author are the same colour and line up to get your attention.
- Add the search segment topics that interest you on the top-right hand side.
- Add your personal Twitter timeline segment by logging in to Twitter on the top-left side.
No, the Google Video the article refers to is a google hosting service for videos that directly competes with youtube. But you haven't been able to upload new videos to there since 2009. The video search will remain unaffected.
What are you talking about? How exactly is it malicious to build a game or build a music web app?

On desktops with Flash or the HTML5 Audio/Video API you can already do these things. I don't see anyone complaining that things like Youtube and Grooveshark are malicious, so why should iOS be sabotaged? Non-Apple devices like Android, and Playbook work just fine. You can build music, and video, and game web applications on those devices without these limitations, and it is not a problem. Apple simply wants a hobbled platform, to force all content through the iTunes store instead of over the internet.
Interesting but Section 296ZE(2) specifically excludes the prevention of access when it is by a "computer program" and sub-section (9) excludes works for access by private individuals at a time of their choosing. So it seems to be very narrow in scope of application - how do you know about it?

I only skimmed it but doesn't it merely allow you to complain; the SoS won't necessarily take any action.

Do you know what this section is directed towards? It appears to be something like forcing a company to hand over data necessary to allow a researcher to work with the companies copyright materials??

Note there's a bulletin, http://www.share-the-vision.org.uk/bulletins/bulletin_70.doc, from Aug 2010 where it says that section has never been applied (see also page 2 of http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file51998.pdf).
From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
Got it, thanks! I clarified it to "Sublicense".
It didn't 404 for me... Not sure why it doesn't work.

I've used the service for well over a year now and love it. I'm going to sign up just to keep the service going.
... Then what are you doing in these here comments?
I am a developer (web dev by day), and I have developed and published apps that are on the respective marketplaces for Android, Apple and Blackerry.

Regardless of my credentials, if you're relying on building apps to feed your family then I highly suggest that you find yourself a proper job before they starve. I've known enough people jump on the app bandwagon and drag themselves into the dirt.
The problem with this analogy is that it's actually the wrong way around. The problem firearms are the handguns - the US has 17k murders per year, 13k of them are with firearms, 11k of those are with handguns. Much as people like debating about rifles, it's handguns that do the work.
> Your Dodge Neon is a piece of junk, true, but before you shell out cash for BMW 5-series, why not take a look at the Ford Fusion?

Excellent point.

I'm not saying people that are sick of cheap/crap laptops need or must go and buy an Apple product. I'm saying they start to realize buying something more expensive works out better in the long run.

When looking at something more expensive, Apple's products come into the picture (but are not the whole picture, obviously)

While we're here, lets not exaggerate too much. Apple makes exactly one laptop for $2300, and it's probably the fastest/most feature packed laptop ever made, without a competitor right now. Lots of their laptops are $1200 - $1700, which certainly is more expensive than the competition, but again, we've already decided we're willing to spend a little more for higher quality at this point.
From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
Got it. I am adding some things to distinguish the two.
From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
Too bad, it's on. :D
I'd pay 400 dollars just for MacBook's lovely, lovely multitouch glass trackpad (I'm not kidding). I can't imagine my life without it (I'm not saying envy your was a bad machine or anything; just saying MacBooks offer more than just OS X).
Yep - thats the best one.
With the website you are on it is highly likely that many people would instantly recognize the logo. Maybe not the general population, but here, definitely.
From Kevin (TLDRLegal Guy):
Done. There is no longer a delay and submitting only part of the title will redirect you to the page.
It's easy to blame scalpers, but I'm not convinced they're a major component of the shortage.

Lots of large events sold out this year much quicker than usual: the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Penny Arcade Expo, and others.

I think that the recession is less of a concern for many of us this year, so there's pent up demand being used. Add a lottery to increase the sense of urgency, and you get a lot more people registering for tickets. Not scalpers, just people who haven't been going every year.
I don't understand the belief that minimalist design is obvious and that everyone else totally would've designed it the same way.

It's almost like when someone walks up to a work of art and remarks that they easily could've done it themselves. Yeah, but you didn't.

Minimalist design is hard, and you're kidding yourself if you honestly think that Vizio's line of computers would've looked the same had Apple never existed.
How else do we come to a meaningful conclusion when posed the question "why won't iOS app developers leave the platform if the conditions are so poor" if it's not from assessing the motivations of those that build them?
The only thing that strikes me as in poor taste is the choice of colors for the new palette. His monitor must have really low saturation, because a few of those colors look pretty bad on mine. The light grey looks dull and dirty, and the contrast with the text is insufficient on the light blue and orange backgrounds, both of which are too bright to be comfortable; though they might be fine with dark grey text instead of white. It's really hard to find a light blue and light orange/yellow that looks good as a solid background for text on a wide range of displays, and white text on a light background is just asking for trouble.

Other than that, this is some fine work. Microsoft should hire this guy to replace the person currently in charge of branding, marketing and packaging design (or invent that position and make all those people report to him).
>start working at 10:30

>day ends at 18:20

>working more than 8 hours in a day is "start-up life"

I feel cheated.