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This is great.

It will never work.

A brand has to reflect the culture of how a product is made, sold, experienced, etc...

Microsoft is not about simplicity, it's about feature creep. Microsoft sells software and licenses to big companies. Big companies don't want simple, they want value for their money - features!

A better brand promise would be Microsoft - It Does Everything!

Look at Windows 8. Is it going metro only? No, Metro is a feature on top of the existing mountain of features. Instead of one UI, it's now TWO UI's!!!

Putting this kind of branding on Microsoft is like putting the geeky kid with oversized glasses and suspenders a new wardrobe. Sure, the kid will look cooler, but it won't stop him from playing Magic: The Gathering in their basement.

Microsoft has built their company on saying "yes" to just about everything. The simplest Windows ever sounds like they are saying "no" to things and that's not what Microsoft does.

I love the design, but it's not Microsoft
"Amount of physical violence" is an unreasonable way to measure proportionality of punishment. Someone who destroys $10 million in economic value has probably done much more harm than someone who drags you to a jail cell for a few nights. (Disclaimer: I think Megaupload is creating value, not destroying it.)
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it's a SHELL for God's sake! I shouldn't need 8GB and SSD!!!
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This is of course interesting and will lead to inevitable comments about disruption being needed in event ticketing.

Let me save you the trouble as this has been rehashed many times already: the problem here is Ticketmaster's exclusives on venues and the entertainment's willingness to let Ticketmaster be the "sacrificial anode" and focus of ire from both audiences and performers.

There was a deal done some years ago--I forget the name--whereby performers would get 90% of ticket sales.

The way around that is not to increase ticket prices but to add "fees". Online transaction fees, mail fees, processing fees, booking fees, you name it. The fees in some cases are approaching the ticket price. Ticketmaster does this, splitting the proceeds with promoters and venues while the artists get a 90% cut of an ever smaller part of the pie.

Ticketmaster has multi-year exclusive deals with venues such that none can really afford the attractive cuts they get to "go it alone".

IMHO this situation has reached the point of requiring government action as this is now an antritrust issue (the ticketing market basically cannot function now).

Until that happens any ticketing disruption is doomed.
This sentiment was echoed by pretty much all the engineers (Canonical, StatHat, Heroku, Iron.io) who presented in the "Go in Production" talk at I/O 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A
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Author here. I realize I might have appeared 'immature' in my aversion to responsibility, but my natural fear of it comes from experience. Mainly from witnessing my dad be driven into the ground by responsibility by his business, his family and obligations. The same has happened to friends who have saddled themselves with so much, and so young. Kids, cars, houses, etc. None of these people are happy, and that is where my fear stems from.

To clarify, I am mainly looking to avoid responsibilities that can be easily avoided. I do still have responsibilities though. I work, have a steady relationship, a pet, friends and family, etc. so, so far I am doing well in avoiding unneeded responsibility, but still enjoy the small amount that I do have but am not looking to add any at this time.
Perhaps the refund isn't digital? I.e. you get refunded at the entrance if you have a scalped ticket
IANAL, but I believe a ticket to attend an event is different from a CD or record. First Sale states that when you buy something like a book or CD, you have full right/control over what happens to it. But I believe that Louis has the right to revoke a ticket, making scalping virtually impossible.

I would like to know what a lawyer says about this, though.
Contractors not dogfooding their apps is common. I would think that if you sent that exact paragraph to him through some sort of feedback/contact form from his website, he may actually realize that there are some poor UI flows.
This is one of my major annoyances with python and ruby. I want to take all the package dependencies and toss them into a single executable that at most relies upon the interpreter to be there.

With a bit of hacking you can do it but it isn't the most straightforward procedure, can be messy and isn't really supported by the community.
Ticketmaster has had most of the issues nailed down for 12 or so years. Nobody ever said disruption wasn't messy :)
The people overseeing Microsoft's business strategy should really take a look at this article. Virtual Pants hit the nail on the head: "Now they’re in the business of maintaining other people’s cars for peanuts." A company can't feasibly compete with Apple whose revenue is from hardware and Google whose revenue is from advertisements just by reducing their "Cash Cow" to $40.
Putting a cache in front is not a solution to all performance problems!
I don't understand all the hate on the new Windows logo in particular. Am I the only one who doesn't have a problem with it?
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Of course nature has reasons. Natural selection is the prime example.

The reasoning doesn't have to be simple but there must be a pretty good explanation of why it is so complicated. Lets not forget that even Einstein thought that something must be wrong with quantum physics because it doesn't make sense.

Nature is what it is but that doesn't mean that we can't question what's happening and seek answers to every single aspect of life. That's the basis of science.
Well, remember that it is "Digital Rights Management". It's the time it's about our rights. I hope it means that any DRM will be obliged to include a resale functionality.
Morality and legality are two very different concepts. You can do something that is illegal that is moral and you can do something legal that is immoral..
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I would be really easy to create the same type of scale-able ticket selling system and in-venue verification scanners.

As a Previous Ticketmaster employee I believe the one thing that help prevent competition in this space is that they work with venues and performers. They subsidize Opex cost for the venues, which I think keeps them happy. For the life of me I can't explain why Ticketmaster would go and "merge" with a competitor who had driven themselves (liveNation) to the verge of bankruptcy (publicly stated within 30 days) just to take some venue market share and select artist. LiveNation now runs this combined company - it was less of a merge and more of a bankrupt company convincing a profitably company that they should "merge". IMO this has everything to do with piss poor management at Ticketmaster and the real value of select venues/artists.
If it makes you feel any better, I've been in plenty of first world homes that had no Internet options faster than 33.6 modem. No cell access, either. These claims are just as annoying here as they are in Capetown.
Well if the manager can't define a system that everyone buys into for measuring results, there is a problem. Ultimately it's going to be a judgement call to some extent.

The bands are just there to force the manager to avoid adding noise to the signal. If she has to follow the rule and allocate bonuses w/in the bands, she doesn't have to be the bad guy.
You can do the same thing with any compiled language

This is not necessarily true. Remember the DLL hell? Go does not support dynamic linking at all (some say this is a disadvantage), so you are forced to produce a single self-contained binary.
Well, if HP wasn't going to use their MovingBrands rebrand, Microsoft might as well steal it.
Static linking is easily available with C/C++ as well. The main trade-off is how critical bugs in some library your program uses can be solved.

With dynamic linking it's possible for the library author to publish an API-compatible update, which when deployed fixes the issue in all programs that use this library. With static linking you need to recompile the whole program and publish the update.

For real world examples you could look at the Microsoft C run-time. When a security vulnerability is found & fixed, Microsoft pushes the dynamic link version of the update via Microsoft Update and millions of programs are no longer affected by this issue. However when you linked statically, you need to update your program as well. Many programs do not have good automatic update systems, and many programs aren't even under continued maintenance and remain forever vulnerable.
I don't have any experience using the wireless SD shield, but after looking at it, I see what you are saying. It forces the connection on 0 and 1 and then has a switch to use when you need to program it? That seems like a silly limitation of the wireless SD shield. I use the Adafruit breakout boards for my Xbee's or wireless modules. You should still be able to use software serial to setup a debugging serial environment, so you can use Serial.print() etc. Here are some references:

SoftwareSerial- http://arduino.cc/hu/Reference/SoftwareSerial

Wifly Tester- http://arduinology.tumblr.com/WiFly
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Well said. Pages that start with the view like PHP and JSP fare better than most dumb MVC frameworks.
Louis must have spent an absolute mint on Paypal fees...
That's an interesting perspective that I'd never considered before. If you're right, and you sound it, then Microsoft clearly has an internal struggle.

Metro is all about simple. It's fast, it's fluid, it's simple, it's "alive with activity". But it's not complex, packed with features. This is the image Microsoft wants to present to consumers.

On the other hand, Microsoft's Business division is all about things packed with features. Huge, bulky, expensive, extremely powerful but bloated products. Products licensed with 3 to 6 zeros on the price.

Perhaps they need two brands. The consumer brand, and the business brand, because otherwise you have constant conflict.
It would probably protect selling the paper, but not the service it represents.

/ianal
How much is the truth worth (or a glimpse at why things happen)?

If I'm starving? It's not worth more than a meal.
You may never say that everything in the Other page is spam, but if you present moving all messages not from friends into a folder called Other to solve the spam problem...

Either you're going to have a horrible false positive rate or a horrible false negative rate, because sender email address is a really poor feature to determine spam from ham.
I think there's a selection effect at play. There are many more lower rated players, but fewer CEOs and cofounders. Remember that this list is about executives. As they go up the list, the pool of players narrows. And thus, they have to dig a bit farther down into corporate ranks to find their execs.

However, the finance correlation would be unaffected by this effect.
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After looking at quite a few of his blog posts, I wouldn't be THAT surprised to read articles in a few years time about how this guy is the new Jonathan Ive.

Now if only he could start working for an innovative company, I feel great designs on the way.
Could have easily made the same criticism of Apple in the mid 90s. Microsoft can definitely be saved. You just have to fire Ballmer and put a visionary in charge. There are still some really good people working at Microsoft. Unfortunately, the leadership and vision haven't been there. Nobody has been willing to take risks.

They took a risk in killing the OEMs and building Surface in house. They now need to take a bigger one.
yeah I'm confused, isn't scalping a necessary side effect of the process? It seems natural if you sell tickets at a constant price over time and don't adjust that for higher demand (as event gets closer in time) or lower supply (as tickets are sold).

Also, is scalping a bad thing? It seems to me that they are making the market more efficient.
DLL hell only happens if you use dynamic linking. Static linking is always an option. (actually, is it? I don't tend to use a lot of libraries, how much stuff that isn't part of the OS can you not statically link?)
But the motivation given is to beat the people around you. Which in many cases does not help the company as a whole. It also puts a damper on team coordination.

Nobody here is suggesting a total lack of merit pay. We're just saying that it is awful to assume that in any small group in an organization there is always someone who deserves to be fired, and someone who deserves a big bump, etc.
I think you're mistaking feature creep with their crazy good backwards compatibility. They simply can't remove anything.
Awesome, that's exciting news!
The idea of pulling existing video or interactive learning resources into one location is interesting, but there are definite improvements needed.

First, people looking to learn things often do not know what is required of them, that's why they're learning. Taking a play from the Khan Academy or Treehouse playbook, offering a suggested order that the user should complete the videos in (from most basic to most advanced) eases the learning process. Otherwise, they won't know exactly where to start.

The other issue is with content curation. Aggregating learning resources from different places adds the problem of an inconsistent instruction style, teaching method, and process. For example, different design resources may teach different design principles. Different development resources may teach different ways of solving a process. To advanced users, knowing multiple ways of doing something, or even alternate/conflicting methods or approaches isn't a bad thing--they can use their existing knowledge to decide which is the best in which situation. But for someone new, being presented with alternate/conflicting approaches will just confuse them.
Surely a new logo and "branding communication" will change the way a corporation works and conducts its business.
I'm actually curious whether all these startups are linked, like through the same incubator or something.

If so, clever strategy for getting press, esp. on HN.
Explain the Burning Man comment please.

I'm involved in the local Burners scene, but I've never been to the the big one in Black Rock City. My wife is going this year with a friend, but she was gifted a ticket. So I would like to know what stupid decisions and exacerbated problems I will see if I decide to buy a ticket for next year's burn.

Thanks.
Ah, to be clear I was asking for MP3 support or flash support, not both (flash support would indirectly mean MP3 support). Essentially to be on par with mobile Safari on the audio front is all I'm really asking. :)
Except for the 6,000,000$ in commerce that LouisCK managed to do? I imagine the problem is with larger venues than most stand-up performers might appear in. Louis CK has a lot of sway when it comes to pretty much anything since he can guarantee a sold-out show practically anywhere. But I wouldn't exactly call this a moot experiment.
The irony being that chunks of that (note the boxes, bags) would match Apple stock product surrounds almost exactly if they had an apple on instead.

I also don't understand in a branding exercise why you pick some photos of planets (when Apple is known for its use space imagery on the desktop) and start from there. There needs to be a reason to result path, not a pre-determined result and then ignore of fit some reason to it.
"They’re not exactly forcing Blogger users who currently run Opera to migrate to Chrome, but they are making Opera untenable, and suggesting Chrome in its placev"

I have also had this feeling that Google is trying to monopolize the web. Hopefully this is only a misstep or my paranoia.

Chrome is very nice browser, but so is also Opera!
Market efficiency is not necessarily a person's aim.
This is an excellent argument for why Poker is more correlated to business skills than Chess or Go: http://www.quora.com/Is-it-better-to-think-like-a-Go-player-...
Loved the Arden-Reed mock, although frankly I think providing style for pasty guys with excess mass is probably a more interesting angle that no one seems to go after. I means Kim Dotcom used to have serious money, you could liberate some of that with something targeting that space. Too many folks trying to capture the hipster chic it seems.
I’m surprised nobody yet posted the obvious http://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumblr.com
For thousands of years the only application electricity had was that you could rub fur and amber together and then they would attract small objects. The word electricity actually comes from the Greek word for amber.

So your point about Penicillin might be correct, but you are completely wrong about X-rays and electricity.
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"A single responsive codebase really forces a lot of tough content questions to be asked and allows a simpler path for those problems to be solved."

Sounds like approaching the problem from the wrong direction. The primary ingredient of a site is the content. The content informs the design. The moment the design forces the content is the moment the design fails to be a design, and probably becomes decoration.

If the content is conducive to a responsive design, by all means consider a responsive design. But if the content isn't conducive, don't force it into a responsive design.
That's very interesting. Do you have any sources to back this up?
"And smartphone ticketing will get a boost from Apple (AAPL) this fall when the next version of its iPhone operating system is released. The new software includes a feature called Passbook, a digital wallet to store boarding passes, coupons, movie tickets, and gift cards—many of which rely on QR codes."

My iOS app, QRganize (launched Dec. 2011) already fulfills this need.
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Wow, Resource-View-Presenter is exactly my framework.

Except I call my presenter layer "resources" and my resources "models".

The state machine in my framework is a system within the view layer so you can asynchronously re-route through the "presenter" and re-use code.
QR codes don't even have to take you anywhere. The code can contain email addresses, phone numbers, phone numbers + SMS message text, calendar information, plain text, vCard data, etc. QRs containing URLs are the most common in my experience, but you'd probably need a HTML5 badge system* to convey what the QR code contained if you didn't want to spell it out right next to the code.

* http://clubajax.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HTML5Icons1.p...
Louis C.K. is attempting to transfer the benefit from the messenger to people that actually plan on attending the show.

He is apparently happy to suffer the market inefficiency that leads to his fans seeing cheaper ticket prices.
As always, I propose something like a non-for-profit DNS for storing pairs of codes and urls so all apps can access that site for free.

And a simple nomenclature like:

@ for places like @eiffeltower to http://wikipedia.com/eiffel_tower
# for products like #mbair565 to http://apple.com/macbookair
* for everything else like *google to http://google.com

I propose google or wikipedia to take the initiative.

* Or to make it simpler, just use square brackets as scanning delimiters [eiffeltower] [mbair565] [google]
I have lots of criticisms of a stack type of system. It should be reset more than once per year, should be light hearted, and one big part of it should be being a team player, etc.

My point is just that it's easy to have the whole team become fairly complacent and start focusing on other activities. Do you want your star team member spending all her time collaborating on a non-business-relevant fun project, or pouring that energy into work stuff to earn the $50K bonus.
I am particular to Netbsd's Kernel Normal Form:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/misc/style?rev...
I'm not a mathematician, but I am pretty sure you can go by a rough order of magnitude scale... If you have gross headings that are many orders of magnitude larger than others, your best bet is to look in those large ones for waste first. Scientific research would have to be eliminated tens or hundreds of times over to get to a level of savings that could probably be removed easier from waste in headings like defense and law enforcement and corporate subsidy.
Responsive design means that the flight to themes/frameworks will only increase. The effort to develop & test is doubled and relying on a foundation is no longer a "nice to have".
I belive you need to also provide re-linking mechanisms for your customers if you statically link something licensed under LGPL.
Willie, why do you rob banks?

"Because that's where the money is"
I've had two iPhones, a motherboard on a MacBook Pro (which I spilt coke on, and told them I did) and a replaced keyboard on the White MacBook that cracked all replaced out of the warranty period.

I thought Apple was over priced non-sense years ago, until I bought one thanks to a spending account from my employer. Now I find it hard to justify buying anything but.
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DLL hell happened (in Windows) because you had to dynamically link against system libraries which could change in incompatible ways making your code fragile.

Depending on the nature of the development toolset, you may not be able to avoid DLL hell. E.g. you may not have the right to build the library into your code and/or the toolset may force you to link against external code libraries.

The original goal of Microsoft's DLL strategy was to save disk space (and presumably memory) but the end result was a compatibility nightmare. Retrospectively, it seems to have been both a bad technical decision (disk space turned out to be a bad thing to trade against other considerations) and badly implemented (too many DLLs went live and then broke backwards compatibility in updates). It seems like other companies managed to allow dynamic linking without creating so much fragility.
I'm no designer, but aren't logos supposed to be recognizable? This is a geometric shape, why not just use a square for the logo, or a triangle?

Would people really associate this shape (which isn't particularly unique and probably not even trademark-able) with microsoft when they see it? I have my doubts

Also unrelatedly, the missing i-dot is really throwing me off (probably just because I am used to it)
The USSR doesn't exist anymore, and this slur on Russians is a little disingenuous, they did, for example manage to get the first man and first woman into space before anyone else.

Talented engineers don't only work at startups, most of the really interesting work isn't done by little companies, they just don't have the budgets to do much more than mashups of existing technology, it's big corps with deep pockets that do the really hard core CS.
Problem with scalpers is they reduce the supply of the tickets endemically, thus driving the market price up. If the scalpers aren't involved at all, the market price is lower than the scalped price.
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