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1) This is a false dilemma. There are probably many ways to improve gender-disparity in tech without emasculating men

2) I agree it's a shitty term, but it's from the article we are discussing, so I used it. Sure I'm happy talking about overconfidence

3) I choose not to accept a status-quo where there is clearly strong discouragement to a large fraction of the population from entering into a field in which we can use all the talent we can get. I'm not trying to "fix" either side here, as that is untenable. I'm trying to come up with an environment in which those differences don't cause the undesirable outcome we now have.
I'm already at the point where I want to jump ship; I just can't figure out how to do it without losing contact with my friends.

I'm in the exact same boat, but I decided that the risk of losing contact with a few people I don't talk to often is worth it at this point. I've spent the last few days making sure everyone has my email address, phone number and google+ and will be deleting my account in about a weeks time.

There are many reasons why I am deleting my account, this issue (and their response to it) are just the latest problems that finally pushed me over the edge.
then go for it!
> In a MOVE application models only wrap knowledge. That means that, in addition to getters and setters, they might contain functions that let you check "is this the user's password?", but they don't contain functions that let you save them to a database or upload them to an external API. That would be the job of an operation.

I cant understand the distinction between a 'setter' (stated here as part of the MOVE 'model') and 'functions that let you save... to a database or upload... to an external API' (stated here as part of the MOVE 'operations').

I would understand the logic a lot more if the 'model' excluded 'setters' entirely and just included 'queries' (which don't change the underlying data set) as opposed to 'commands'/'setters' (which do...). As it is I'm not sure where the line is between 'operations' and 'model' except for the use-cases that have been explicitly stated.
If you're an OS X or iOS user, check out RadarScope: http://www.basevelocity.com/RadarScope/ - it's a prosumer weather radar app, and it's got what you're looking for. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a happy user.
That is really unfortunate. Weather Underground actually has the weather, the Weather Channel on the other hand is just crap.

Obviously this is another "acquisition" that is intended solely and transparently at eliminating an agile competitor who makes a better product.
Both of you gents are doing some neat things with the weather. We also do some ski centric forecasting @ http://www.famousinternetskiers.com/weather/
Thanks. This is very interesting.

But I don't think UEFI is going to make much of a difference, even against the next version of TDL4; In order to get installed in a system in the first place, it had some administrator permissions. What's to stop it from getting those permissions on win8?

From this article, the boot sector lets it hide better and earlier in the process -- but it wouldn't have been less scary to ordinary people even if it couldn't infect the boot sector.
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Let me give you an example. In your model, you have represented the salary of an employee as an integer. In a web application, the salary can be presented to the user through numerous different views - as a number on the screen (plain HTML), as a slider (jQuery UI slider), as a bar in a bar chart (using some charting library). The tools you use to build the view are not relevant.
Microsoft’s Smartphone Marketshare Down 0.4% Since January
ipad schmipad. Who gives a rip...
When Windows 7 launched, early adopters could upgrade for $50. I doubt Apple had little to do with it. Microsoft always has a huge incentive (regardless of competition) to move consumers to their new OS.
Does anyone else think that it's weird for the model to be sending events directly to the view and have the view listening for those? That seems like something that should be going to the "operation tree" and having that push changes to the view.
>Of all the cultures for this industry to embrace, the internet -- where users exploit the veil of anonymity to be sexist, racist, homophobic, etc. -- is one of the poorest choices.

FTFY

You're saying that just because other gamers are sexist, racist, and homophobic, the entire tech industry has to avoid any mention of it even if they genuinely find the games fun and entertaining? The advertisement itself isn't offensive, so your argument is just as absurd as berating tech companies for recruiting on online forums, or even the internet in general.

Companies have cultures that might not be all-inclusive. I heard of a company (I want to say Palantir, but don't quote me on that) where breaking the build required taking a shot. Non-drinkers wouldn't fit in very well, but while the company was still small it was worth it to have a strong culture and keep their existing employees in a close-knit group.

Like my sibling said, you wouldn't like working here anyway, and I'm sure there are places with a strong culture that you would fit into, and that I might not.
>Can you upgrade if your computer doesn't support "Secure Boot"?

You've got it completely backwards. Windows 8 will boot on any machine, regardless of secure boot.

It is the machines that will come with secure boot enabled by default (which you can disable via the firmware setup screen) and may not be able to boot Windows 7 in the default config.
This seems to be pretty much the same as MVC, where "Operations" are controllers and "Events" are essentially routes. Am I missing something?
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Would a JavaScript toolkit run games in the browser, or as a native app?
This price feels to me like a lack of confidence in the product. Microsoft needs adoption rates of 8 to be high. $40 might not be much, but anything is too high when the OS feels like a UI downgrade instead of an upgrade.
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it expand its business. We are a small team with big ideas getting
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We are looking for someone comfortable with web programming, familiar
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Design skills and Javascript / CSS mastery is a plus. We are using
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Hundreds of real estate websites running a CMS built in Python+Django with a MySQL datastore
- Real estate data is all stored in MongoDB, served up over an HTTP API written in Python/Tornado
- Varnish for our front-end caching as well as load-balancing our MongoDB servers
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Real Geeks is based in Kailua, Hawaii on the windward side of the
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I can vouch for Matt being the real deal. He's successfully been working on Stormpulse in South Florida for the past several years and he's a super helpful guy to know (in the world of weather or not).
Did you actually see new task manager? It is big improvement above old one... At the end, what nemo said is that there is no earth-shattering improvements in _any_ single area, but that overall you get something out of it, even if you do not use new Metro apps...
For less introverted people, "friend" and "acquaintance" are more-or-less synonymous. See why Facebook chose the word "friend" now? (I agree with your assessment of course, I consider them very different. My best friend doesn't even have Facebook, I only succumbed a few months ago...)
I don't care to have xrays randomly fired at me.
I don't think Weather Channel was threatened by Wunderground's market share. A more plausible explanation I've heard is to reduce competition for advertisers in the weather space.
Show HN: My friend and I just wrote this distraction-free editor for Android :)
IMO the competing MVP is Twitter stripped down as much as possible. When I consume my Twitter feed about 50% of all Tweets have a photos or video. So the consumption process is scroll, read just a bit, watch or view something and repeat. For me that pattern is a pleasant experience. Stuff can be removed. The MySpace like backgrounds to start. Thinking big: remove or tone down mentions and hash tags since IMO they're visually distracting. Point is to make a list-based product where people consume photos and videos from a lightly filtered group of peers as easily as possible.
Here's a bookmarklet: https://github.com/niyazpk/Collapsible-comments-for-Hacker-N...
Well, thanks! :)
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Number 2 is very interesting. I don't know either how it would work, but Bitcoin proves that intelligent stuff in this direction can be done and have some success
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On every version of Windows I've ever used, the search indexing service steals precious background disk and CPU cycles, and almost always causes issues with the two main things I use my computer for: gaming and music production. I can't even count the number of times that the search indexing service spun up in the middle of a gaming session and made my system start to lag. Of course they say it runs as a low priority process, but heavy disk access is going to give you performance problems in CPU/GPU intensive games. Making music is no different - heavy disk access makes it that much more likely that my system will have audio dropouts or in some other way ruin my recording session.

I've disabled search indexing in every version of Windows. In Windows 7, it even makes the start menu almost non-functional because you have to make 3 clicks just to get to the Run dialog.
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"A view is a (visual) representation of its model. It would ordinarily highlight certain attributes of the model and suppress others. It is thus acting as a presentation filter."

Source:
http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/1979/mvc-2/1979-12-MVC.pdf

And you are not a human user, you are an engineer.
The number one thing is to make sure that all of the software is compatible without having to jump through a bunch of hoops. Law firms are notorious for using OLD software.
You come close to smearing roughly half of all people with the comical stupidity of the worst within that half. All of what you say seems true, but even describing reality along those lines (even without your epithets) arouses passion+stupidity.
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Fedora will support booting on secure boot hardware: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html
$280 a year is an absolute joke for a weather site for an individual user.
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For security purposes, wouldn't it be enough for the mechanism to simply display a change in the signing status, and not restrict boot? This would allow for the detection of malware without restricting how people use their hardware.

Displaying or dismissing such a notification needs to be built into the hardware in such a way that the OS wouldn't be able to interfere. There should also be a read-only channel for applications running on the OS to access the signing status to enable security programs.
NC State researchers find ICS rootkit vulnerability
I would guess most of Windows' revenue comes from selling with new PCs rather than upgrades.

It's mostly power users that that take the pain to upgrade OSes(risking breakage). Most regular users seem to think the upgrade is not worth the hassle of things breaking.

I've seen this attitude even in enterprises. The OS(and even Office) is almost never upgraded on the same machine, but if you get a new machine, it comes with the latest Windows and Office(provided it's compatible with the apps/network etc.).
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In short, I was simply more comfortable with Sparrow.

I think it was a combination of a bunch of factors. I was learning iOS development at the same time as I was learning cocos2d, all while brainstorming and hacking on my first ever mobile app. Thus, every time I couldn't remember / figure out how to do touch handling, or place a sprite at the correct location, etc... I blamed it on cocos2d. :-D Of course, cocos2d is a fine toolkit. Just see how many games people have developed with it!

Before doing iOS development, I had spent my 2.5 previous years doing AS3/JS development. Before that, I spent ~6 yrs doing Java development. Sparrow happened to match my mental model of how graphics, event handlers / touch handling, and animation worked.

So if you have a similar background to me, then do give Sparrow a try!
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no just found out two minutes ago (from a comment on facebook) that it exists :) actually, we don't have windows and we didn't know it, we were inspired by PyRoom on Linux.
Would you have said that it's acceptable for black people to be forced to ride the back of a bus? Or perhaps that women should not be allowed to vote.

The idea that all ideas have merit is complete shite. Some ideas and attitudes are reprehensible - the more so when being cloaked in language like "social conservatism"
http://www.google.com/finance?q=gsk

Stock is up 1.73% for the day. Impressive.
when you migrate, you may want to setup jekyll to handle your redirects (from your old site's url structure)

I wrote about a jekyll plugin that allows just that (used it when I migrated away from tumblr)

http://rawsyntax.com/blog/blogging-on-jekyll-url-redirects/
> The computer security model for most users is incredibly broken.

Agreed.

> The alternate to secure boot is something like an ios app store for all apps.

That's not the only alternative, though. Having a way to simply notify users of a signing status change would be enough.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4190930
I hadn't realised that the codebase was so different. How much code is actually shared between B2G, Mobile and Desktop?
You need to upgrade to a solid-state boot and app binary drive already! There is no going back.
entirely true, but some things are easier to abuse than others, just like how every computer is theoretically hackable, but some are easier to hack than others.
i think we'll have to change the name, i just need to wait for my pal to wake up and talk about it
Why would you use the start menu to get a run dialog? Windows key + R

I haven't had any performance problems while running games with search indexing on. This laptop doesn't even use SSD.
For those looking for an alternative: http://weatherspark.com/#
Windows 8 start screen right now has a sideways scrollbar scrolled by the mousewheel! It's a sad joke. But I'm sure that aspect will be cleaned up somewhat before release.

I'm not looking forward to Windows 8 because it's a mess; it jams together two completely different idioms, tablet-oriented full-screen apps with legacy desktop apps. But as it is with Windows 7, I don't run any - none at all - applications maximized, not even VNC or RDP connections. I have a minimum of 5 windows open at all times across multiple monitors, in a cascaded configuration for quick access. The idea that a maximum of two apps with a fixed split position is workable? Only for tablets and, maybe, laptops. The full-screen idiom is a complete non-starter.

So I'll be spending most of my time in Windows 8 in the legacy desktop. I don't think it would be a big development hardship to have a floating start menu emulator in the lower left corner to avoid doing a big dramatic transition to a full-screen menu just for launching an app. So I'm not too concerned about my personal productivity.

But I am concerned for MS. I don't think Windows 8 is going to work. It's a classic power-play; trying to leverage an existing monopoly to invade a new market. By forcing a tablet UI on all desktop users despite their protests, MS hopes to prime the market somehow for their tablet (Surface etc.) offering. But I think it's a step too far; I don't think they have the leverage they think they have. They certainly have built up contempt for their users to try and pull it off, though.

(Have you tried the preview in a VM? It's shockingly bad for something allegedly going to run on people's desktops. The discoverability of the Metro UI is abysmal. I was in the IE browser, it took me a good 5 minutes to figure out how to enter a URL, because "helpfully" everything was hidden. It was complete desperation that I right-clicked!)
If you register for an account, you can resume your game from a different device... we can't keep track of your games if we don't know who you are.

Why couldn't I just email myself a URL in the same way I was invited to a particular game in the first place? It might have to be a different URL (if you wanted to use the same invite for multiple players).

Maybe accounts are better overall, I don't know, the above just made them sound more required than they seem to me to be.
I'd also guess the fact that very, very few individual users have ever bought Windows upgrades at $100 a pop played into this, too.
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Thanks! That's a useful solution; the Posterous importer I used added a permalink, IE "/path-to/original-post" in each post's header. Worked reasonably well.
If. Enterprise and Chinese pirates[1] might not be able to upgrade anytime soon.

[1]: http://www.troyhunt.com/2010/08/aye-pirates-be-reason-ie6-ju...
I'm curious if these people properties can be used on the segmentation screen?

We're were doing something similar with mixpanel, except (in mixpanel client-side parlance this is called super properties) we have to send all attributes such as "number of pages viewed", "amount of money paid" with all our events in order to segment by that data.

And sending emails based on analytics is incredible! I've always wanted to build that for my app but didn't have the resources to. Is it horrible to gloss over the privacy concerns?
He claims to have 3rd party backups with verified dates. Also, any prior clients could testify.
I would be willing to go on record that I believe her in support of any possible future lawsuits. :-)
The guy they probably took the data from: http://www.asymco.com/2011/06/13/itunes-now-costs-1-3-billio....
I personally just don't see why I'd ever want to buy one. As a developer, I'm not interested in the MS ecosystem (been there). As a consumer, WP7 isn't the cheapest option either (I'd rather use VirginMobile or StraightTalk), nor does it have the most active and exciting app store. A lot of the apps I care about aren't ported (yet at least) to the OS. Most likely won't be as long as its market share is around 4%. Don't really care about XboxLive integration, I don't even have a TV to plug a 360 into. Zune integration is nice, simply because the Zune pass is a great offering and they killed the music player that used to support it. However, now that Spotify is almost completely caught up to Zune pass's catalog, there's not much of a reason to use a Windows-only service either. Skydrive/Office online integration? Google's services do the job well enough that I don't see a particularly compelling reason to switch over to MS's counterparts.

Can someone give me a reason why I should care?
I imagine this sort of app is more suited for tablets. Does it look good on tablets? Also, you may want to submit it to r/Android, too. I think they usually upvote new indie apps like this.
Definitely a win for those guys if they carpe diem.
It's like Xbox versus PS3, you pay for XboxLive! but the Xbox is cheaper or (when new) you paid nearly $1000 for a PS3 but got PS3 Network free, either way you're paying.

The old options was buy a lower priced computer with Windows but pay more for the OS/upgrades or buy a very expensive Apple computer but $40.00 for an OS upgrade.
If #1 is true in terms of past behavior, then expecting this price point to change that is doubtful. In my experience, the reason no on upgrades is because they then inherit all the cruft from their old install. I'm not sure that upgrading will ever be popular with the Windows crows.

#2 is also doubtful for the same reason. If users are faced with 900 versions of Windows to choose from while upgrading, they'll choose the cheapest. And if they find out that Feature X requires them to pony up more money through the MS Store, they'll be supremely irritated.

And you haven't really given any evidence to show that it's not related to Apple's pricing.
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> Also, anyone having physical access to your Chromebook can flip that switch and compromise your machine.

Gain physical access to Any machine, and all security bets are off.

> While you can set a bios setup password to guard against someone flipping the secure boot switch.

Actually, that's a good point. But what if the attackers has physical access and simply reflashes the BIOS?
Microsoft fully writes down aQuantive ad agency acquisition
I don't think it's an effective strategy at all. You're building a coalition of 'support' based on vague, positive-sounding platitudes, and this precludes you from being able to take any specific strategic action without damaging your 'support'.

See: modern politics, in which candidates are elected based on purely symbolic rhetoric, but actual policy-making is dominated by narrowly-defined factions that can act decisively toward specific goals.
I would wager MS wants to foster a stronger Windows App ecosystem and not necessarily App Store profits.
Everyone remember to wait for SP1 to be released before using this on important systems.
Hey, thanks for the bug report (now fixed)! ;-)

This is simply because before Tiny Piano was Tiny Piano, it was actually an app called Gravity Guitar: http://itunes.apple.com/app/id431782725

Gravity Guitar is one of my aforementioned duds. Despite its good reviews, since it is a paid app, and since I didn't spend nearly enough effort marketing it, it never got that many downloads.

At some point late last year, I got frustrated and decided to make a new app. I ripped out Gravity Guitar's guts, replaced the art and music, and shipped a new (free) app called Tiny Piano.

Turns out, free >>> $0.99.
OK, I should be allowed to post again (At least I hope so).

Let me know if you guys have any questions and/or feature requests. If I like the feature, I will implement it right away.. or if its a very bug feature, I'll at least put it in the TODO list.

Also would love to hear things people don't like about the library... that will be much more useful than what people like. No promises that I'll listen.. but I'll try to.
Wow, this is hilarious! Never knew it was so easy to get free money! :-P
This feels like a parody blog.
In 2005 facebook was just a way for univeristy students to connect. Myspace had 26 million users and facebook only had 11 million. I'm not sure without talking with the insiders personally would you have the insight to even guess what strategies they were thinking of using to get ahead. Liking, walls, third party api for games all of these things drove it's growth. all those things were influenced by outside ideas and probably weren't even on the list of things todo at that time.