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I don't find it appealing. The surface version of the logo, especially, bothers me; it feels off-balance due to the size of the geometric block and its placement.

Personal issues with the design aside, I also don't think the overall idea is any good. Microsoft as a whole doesn't need to be futuristic or hip or apple-ish. For its corporate customers especially, I think this would be counter-productive. Instead, they should take Microsoft Research and really DO SOMETHING with it. Such as attaching an accelerator of sorts, where small groups of entrepreneurs/innovators can take something MS Research has developed and see if they can make a marketable product out of it.

Surface really feels like the case in point here - they're how many years behind in finally releasing something to the consumer market? I remember reading that the cool desk in the The Island (2005, two years prior to the iPhone) was a MS research surface prototype or something; and yet it took them another four years to get a product out, and they priced it at 10k and sold it to phone retailers. Phone retailers! What the actual fuck?! Today, all of that seems to have fallen by the wayside in favor of tablets. It feels like MS is following the TSA model - wait until something big happens, then do something about it, instead of the other way around.

Anyway, if MS Research got a new logo that could be attached to semi-independent MS-funded experimental projects aimed at getting something to market, I could see a futuristic/high-tech branding being a useful thing to have. For MS in general, I don't.
I run into this all the time. There is always something more to know and everythng is evolving so fast that I personally don't think you can be an expert in any technology anymore. If you can understand it well enough to produce a completely new product and be able to figure out what you don't know fast enough to not make it a hinderance, then I would call you at least very knowledgeable.
I agree 100%. The MSDN kits used to be like candy, but were super useful for configuration testing (test your product install on a new install, now on a new install with Office, now on a new install with ...).

This really seems at odds with "Developers, developers, developers."
Now, as an outsider, I'd say AWS and the Amazon web store actually work pretty darn well. I've had some issues with orders (not Amazon's fault), the whole thing was handled pretty well. I could also see the infrastructure behind it all chugging along, it seemed well thought out.
That’s like saying that if you want to learn how to paint you shouldn’t be visiting the Louvre, you should go to a mediocre art fair instead! That’s not true, you need great examples at each stage of the journey.
That is a very poorly laid out map. This one is much better indexed by time

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/tongues....
Kim Dotcom: Joe Biden Ordered the Megaupload Shutdown
Fake Tor SSL cert found in the wild
Activision takes free "Call of Duty" online to China
Looks like Google got into OR recently:
https://plus.google.com/117790530324740296539/posts/fcDYLZjH...
An odd comment - I didn't say either of these things.

However, other people are saying them and I'm with you - both are fallacies. Particularly on the first, I'd suggest to "real fans" that they consider whether they prefer paying more than face value or not going at all (just in terms of their utility, not as a point of principle). If the latter, then consider the option of refusing the higher price - same result, you don't go! There are no easy solutions.

The perceived issue - I guess - is when a very high percentage of tickets become resold and you don't agree with this method. I'd say your very small chance of getting a face value ticket is still representative of a world without scalpers as they are, as always, acting as a proxy for real demand, which would otherwise be competing with you for face value tickets directly.
What's the second one?
Edit: never mind. Its Square Up. Found it on the second page of a Google Image Search.
Sounds interesting. Link?

The Soviet aesthetic can sometimes look retro-cool but you have to admit it's not much of a hit with Western consumers.
It's a thought provoking study.

However, the 2012 Windows logo kerns with text (Metro is text centered) in a way that is simply not possible with the proposed slash...which reminds me of a Kubric's obelisk. With the downside of suggesting "2001."

And the translation of the slash to Office looks like cubicle partitions rather than the shared workspace of the current logo (e.g. office doors all facing each other). Though that's not to say that the current Office logo couldn't use a makeover.
Interesting, thanks. I agree that company culture comes from the top. Regarding google I question the strength of their leadership. Larry and Sergey don't seem to be as out-spoken as Bezos or Steve Jobs. Eric Schmidt certainly didn't strike me as being a powerful leader like Jobs or Bezos either. I sense a lack of strong leadership from the employees I know. Kinda funny how the Android team members keep looking at each to answer questions in the recent I/O videos. I got the feeling no one was really in charge. However that wasn't my impression from watching the Go team in said videos.
Dear everybody,

Are you paying attention? This is how you build a portfolio. Did microsoft ask this person to do this?

No. But he did it, and it's brilliant, and now he can put it in his portfolio under "speculative work".

And then he gets a job doing this.

I can't tell you how many people I talk to (I live in a college town, and frequently go to bars and strike up conversations with people) who just finished, or are working on, some degree in "design", but have an empty portfolio, and are waiting for their "big shot".

Good job, Andrew.

Totally rebranding the window to the "slate" is incredibly ambitious, but it certainly looks good.
I had a similar experience at Amazon.

I saw D players give B players scathing interview comments. It almost sounded more like they were scared of being replaced than actually evaluating the candidate.

I watched a teammate get promoted while I was putting out fires for and barely managing to keep running their horribly designed, over-complicated Java service, which really just needed to do CRUD.

I lasted 2 months before I started interviewing elsewhere, but I made it out in 8 months. I happily paid back the signing bonus and gave up the non-vested stock.
EA Games Soon will be a 100% Digital Company ~ Softview
I'd say their bigger problem is that they can't say "no" to anything (which is a consequence of their enterprise focus)
> If all art is popularly funded, you'd only get pop.

I'm going to go ahead and yell, "False!" on this. Music is almost entirely popularly funded (i.e.-no government grants). Pop is not the only music that exists. There are many niches and genres of music, for good reason--there's a lot of money out there. It's not an American election--more than one party can win.

Your other points are moot. Research and art are two very different things. Art is an expression, research is the seeking of knowledge. That knowledge may or may not be valuable to us in the future (and may or may not be worth the cost), but we're willing to take those risks because the reward can be fantastic. Art has its importance, but scientific research has practical and valuable applications, and there lies all the difference.

I cannot think of what art could possibly require a long-term and high-risk investment (long-term being on the order of a decade) that is currently not supported by the private market.
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Interestingly, we asked a related question during Customer Development for our startup:

Will You Pay for a Responsive Redesign? - http://blog.roveb.com/post/15394363841/will-you-pay-for-a-re...
Backgammon sits nicely in-between chess and poker; Players have perfect information, but there is well-defined element of chance in it. Dan Harrington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Harrington) famously excels in all three games (chess master, champion backgammon player, world champion poker player) suggesting a link in proficiency.
There's a pretty big shortage out there. Be ready to pay $100+ / hour. Your other alternative is to learn it yourself, or find someone who knows java, and pay them to learn Apex.
Because text is read horizontally, not vertically, so horizontally oriented title areas are more natural. Same reason applications put menus at the top, titles at the top, etc.
I like the ideas.

Personally, I would set it up as follows:

1. Have a fixed price for non-transferrable tickets, which are identified by ID/CC or sent to a specific mobile device with a QR code or something. These tickets will be refundable.

2. Have a variable price for transferrable tickets, and use an auction type system. These tickets can be transferred but the user must go through the auction and there's a sufficiently long auction period to purchase them. These tickets are not refundable.
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> nosql vs rdbms

Why not use both? For example, store your session info in redis, but have it refer to user data which is in the DB. This effectively turns it into a cache to make short-lived data cheaper.
New or next. Same thing in new package. Microsoft is a proprietary dinosaur of the previous era, which doesn't realize its time is slowly running out.
Performers now know that they lose good will when a fan has to pay a scalper to see them. Louis C.K. is earning tons of good will by doing this, and the only person who loses out is the scalper. Wealthier fans have always been able to work the system to get extra tickets, back stage access, etc.
Many of us go through incredible hard times and have to make difficult lifestyle decisions, if you can get media attention while at it - more power to you!
Microsoft largely resolves this conflict in a way that works for consumers but not for tech pundits: they bring the same B2B customer service principles to their consumer product support channels (e.g. three years of Xbox repairs for the red-ring of death - on a 90 day warranty no less).

Keep in mind that Metro is exactly what enterprise wants. Just listen to the good people at 37signals.
Personally I wouldn't develop for iOS because "I have a family to feed." Selling apps on the app store has to got to be one of the trickiest things developers for the platform have to put up with - as discoverability is part timing, part luck, and less marketing than most would prefer.

Also, if your app gets pulled, gets rejected, or you have trouble getting a new version out for whatever reason, the lack of straight-forward communication with Apple could be dangerous if you have other mouths depending on that income. My roommate worked for an iPhone game company and he and many other developers got laid off when one of their games got rejected.
Laughably bad fan-made hypothetical Apple products are old hat, but sometimes design fanfiction gets the attention of the companies: http://9to5mac.com/2011/12/13/apple-hires-designer-jan-micha...
Wow, overreaction... there is a standard human communication idiom that is being followed here. For example movies are labeled as "must see", food is described as "you have to try...", and so on. Everyone[1] understands this to be a hyperbolic phrasing that isn't to be taken literally, but to really emphasize how important the speaker[2] finds the experience. Relax a little on the pedantry, it invalidates any statements made about better uses of one's time.

[1] The sentence that references this footnote uses the phenomenon it describes for emphasis.

[2] This is a similar, but distinct phenomenon of using a term, in this case speaker, with the implicit understanding that it can be generalized, in this case to "communicator". It shouldn't be confused with the situation described, but is also a useful pattern to understand for basic communication.
Oh, huh, I didn't know about that.
Your presenting a straw man. I used MegaUpload many times over the course of playing World of Warcraft, because one of the better known players had put his configuration files and some of his videos on the site for others to download. I also used it myself as storage for several (non-important) pictures. MegaUpload is very much a file sharing service. It is also used for sharing copyrighted files. It is nothing like an assault rifle.
8 months in, 11% of Android devices run 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
I'm not sure how helpful this article really is .... as a journalist, i'll tell you what press releases are very often used for: trashcan filler, or deskfiller to make it look like you've got too much work on your hands (ok that last bit is a little bit of an exaggeration).

This is the most handy piece of info in there:
>>Finally, don’t hound the journalists. After your initial pitch, following up once or twice is fine—but any more than that and you’re approaching stalker territory. If you don’t hear anything after the first two calls, move on.

The right approach is to look at pitching a journalist as if you are looking to get hired by a company, and he/she is the hiring manager. Journos get shittons of press releases a day. You have to stand out head and shoulders above the crowd. And there has to be something /useful/ to the publication's readers about your product. You say you've got a great new e-pub app that will make it helpful to publish books electronically? That's not really that useful to readers .. there are tons of those around. What is /special/ about your product to a pub's readership? Find someone in the paper's coverage area who was a raging success story and who used your app/product. That'll be more likely to get a journo's attention.
The punchline of the article was pretty funny.

The title of this submission, however, is pretty damn misleading.
I've had very positive experiences with statically linking against musl[1], As long as your code and the required libraries don't use dlopen() tricks (e.g. as glib GIO does), you can quite reliably create a single statically linked binary for your program. Admittedly, this isn't as easy to setup as Go is.

[1] http://www.etalabs.net/musl/
I have never wanted a Microsoft product so badly. This is such a bad ass project!
I'm pretty sure this is already possible with hangouts? Or you could use SynchTube with or without hangouts.
I think this story is about not giving up on hard/impossible tasks. Most people would not have even tried to attempt to contact Michael Jackson because to them it would be an "impossible" task. Just like most people will tell you why a new business or product idea should not be made.
2nd this!
Thanks. I don't hold out much hope of getting that actual one back, given the number of different companies involved, but at least the value is within the claim limit, so there is some chance of getting the value of the items.
It's still a significant number overall and has large shares in some countries. From the Wiki:

As of December 2011 Opera has a 1.3% to 2.6% worldwide usage share of web browsers.[111]

The browser has been more successful in Eastern Europe, including about 47% market share in 2009 in Georgia, 43% in Ukraine, 39% in Kazakhstan, 36% in Russia, and 8–11% in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic.[112]

In July 2011, Opera broke its previous download records when Opera 11.50 was released and was recorded to be downloaded 35 million times during the first week of release
In most jurisdictions license (or any contract) is not the end of the world. If license conflicts with a law, guess what wins.
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^ this and this and this.

You put it so much better than I did.
Just because he is doing himself a disservice doesn't mean the scalpers are doing us a service.
How is your second point at all relevant? No one is talking about being owed anything. This situation isn't the consumers pushing against scalpers, it is the performer/artist himself.

You seem to be against Louis C.K. having the freedom to sell his product how and at the price he chooses (for whatever reasons he thinks are of merit). Why?
The presence on your list of a complaint about workspaces is evidence that Windows is not so bad because having workspaces is not that important.

OS X did not have workspaces at all for many years, and the two different versions of it they have introduced are kind of lame in the details of how they work. (Specifically, Command-Tab cycles among all open apps, not just the ones in the current workspace, as is done on Linux, and there is no other quick way to switch to a different app in the same workspace -- Mission Control not qualifying as quick -- with the result that I sometimes make a point to put two windows that "belong together" in separate workspaces just so I have a quick way to switch between them.
Leon Lederman, who popularized the phrase "God particle" with his book,

http://www.amazon.com/The-God-Particle-Universe-Question/dp/...

has some serious street cred as a physicist

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/198...

and as a promoter science education reform. (I heard him speak on the latter subject in my town at a science museum a few years ago.) I agree with you that a term like that probably needs explanation in a popular article about physics, but I can think of much more harmful terms in popular articles about science.
Absolutely exceptional work.
Google Shutdowns Continue: iGoogle, Google Video, Google Mini...
I like the designs but to me, space signals "past" more than "future". Or rather, it says "future, as it looked in the last century".
It's basic research. Some countries' politicians were convinced that you need basic research to do applied research. It's also a great international collaborative project, where subcontractors from many countries get actual money making contracts to build the required detectors, magnets, etc.
Sooo... what IS it (daily toaster)? Google Now for iPhone?
I agree. Reading through this list, all I saw was a bunch of sites trying to solve problems that someone else had either already solved, or targeting a market that was too niche to gain much traction.
>To his credit, Mark chose to think big. It’s no surprise that he is now one of the Senior Executives of Red Box where he currently serves as SVP of Strategy, Innovation & New Business. A perfect gig for someone who thinks big.

With all respect, it was a silly article. Guy decides to say 'Okay' to a higher-ranking officer once in his career (who used to shout or cry like a goddamn child whenever others didn't listen to him), and you magically psycho-analyzed (it's not the word I want to use, but I'm not English and can't think of anything better) him and decided that he's a good fit for his new position at Red Box company (I have no clue whatever the hell that company does). He might be the perfect guy for the job, but how did you conclude that from this short scene?

I just hate when I see posts like this that try to capsulate a human being (that has lived 50+ years, or 1,650,000,000+ seconds) into just one or two brief instances and/or key decisions in their lives.

People are more than the sum of the few key decisions they make (and this wasn't even a key decision).
Nicely done. I think the only 'mistake' is the shot of Balmer in there - nothing against the man, just think if you are truly trying to break their current image problem, then showing him doesn't help that cause.

Otherwise, really well done.
Hmm. Opera didn't support CSS 3D Transforms last time I checked. Maybe that's changed, but it's disappointing nonetheless.
Ask HN: Startups in Suburbia?
I'm from Central NJ, right along the shore. Today, while driving, I was wondering why tech startups are usually in big cities. I thought it would be really neat to have office space near the shore (or on the river around here). Is this foolish?
SynchTube doesn't do Hulu, and hangouts wouldn't be able to account for things like pausing or commercials. You could watch and chat, but this add-on makes it so that if one person pauses or skips around, it happens for the other person.
I didn't really understand BMORG's response to a ticket shortage - Lotteries play right into the scalper strength - the ability to file lots and lots of requests with different credit cards. I only had three active credit cards, so I could only enter the lottery three times (I didn't get a ticket this year) - but scalpers have a whole catalogue of credit cards and addresses to purchase tickets with. They must have been chuckling with glee when they saw the system this year.
Browser tabs.
That slate and the word "next" remind me of something...

Ah, I know - http://www.logodesignlove.com/images/classic/next-logo-paul-...
I wonder if there's a way to have your cake and eat it too.

Publish your app as a dynamically linked binary to an app publisher, the publisher takes your dll and mashes it with its dependencies into a single dll that they deliver to the customer.

When there is a security update in a dependent dll, a new binary can be delivered by the publisher to the customer with no need for the original author to push a button.

I'm guessing something like this exists already?
As worded it is implied that the scalper is doing _somebody_ a service, and I disagree with that.
Allow me to be contrarian for a moment and say I don't like it. It's a nice experiment, and it's better than the new Windows logo, but to me it fails on a few different grounds.

-- The typographic mark is less substantial, and the typeface is just poor. The existing logo isn't pretty, but it works just fine, and the arrow device connecting the O and S is cute.

-- The use of a lower case "m" is just a slave to a trend that died years ago. And some idiot in marketing will decide that it has to be written as 'microsoft', even at the beginning of a sentence.

-- The new design language with the "Deutsche Bank" logo competes and clashes with all the work Microsoft have put into their Metro design language. As much as I despise the new Windows logo, the Metro theme has been well implemented in stores and marketing.
Ah, the bi-weekly anti QR-Code rant. QR Codes are amazing, have wonderful potential but are under-utilized at this stage. And just for the record, for everyone who still thinks Japan uses a lot of QR Codes. Just came back from 2 weeks in Singapore. Singapore > Tokyo.
I noticed the same thing.. the windows 1.0 logo looked like something modern. I don't know why they did not just dust it off and go back to their roots.
Why would something like the administration pages for Google Blogger need CSS 3D transforms?
I know that is what he is doing, what I don't know is if that was worth my time or money. I am nimble enough to see lesions for myself and smart enough to see a doc if I get one.

But that was not my main concern...

The worst thing is that instead of using the the data in combination with all their patients to form some sort of massive dataset that could help everyone... they print a chart for my file.
This is a branding exercise not a GUI implementation.

There has never been any connection between the actual products and MS branding. In fact for most brands those two are only connected via post rationalisation.

Of course it can work.
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I don't have any definitive advice for you, but I'm curious where you are? I'm also in Central Jersey right on the coast!
Right. I found it. Probably not the best example of a ubiquitous company with an instantly recognizable logo, unless it was just a joke.
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