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I think that's a fairly naive view - or at least one that ignores the nuances of the virtualization market.

VMWare sells mainly to enterprise buyers. Many of them are a few years away from even beginning to use a public cloud provider like Amazon.

In that market VMWare's competitors are Microsoft (HyperV), Citrix (Xen+CloudStack) and Redhat (Enterprise Virtualization).

VMWare's biggest problem in the enterprise market is price. Any of the companies listed above are significantly cheaper than VMWare, and in the last few years have reached feature parity with VMWare.

VMWare is playing like they have vendor-lock in. The thing they seemed to have missed is that virtualization is accelerating, which means companies can look at what VMWare wants to charge for a new license, look at how much money they will save using (say) HyperV and see that the costs of switching are easily saved often within the first 12 months (sometimes many times over!).

The whole "open" thing is kind of wrong too. VMware might not be open source, but they have open APIs which are just as important in this market.

Then there is CloudFoundry. No one understands VMWare's strategy with CloudFoundry. It is like they are doing the Gillette strategy (give away the razors/PAAS and make money on the blades/virtulization), but then made sure their razors/PAAS could work with any blades/virtulization technologies.

They have been so aggressively open with CloudFoundry it is amazing. They literally have no way to pay for it, and are madly trying to commodidize themselves by making it run on Amazon/OpenStack.

I've never seen any analyst explain it, and I've spent a long time trying to understand it. In the end I've concluded they are trying a platform play, combined with an IBM-like move to consulting. That doesn't really make sense, but not much about it does...

Edit: I should say - I do really like CloudFoundry. I think it is a little early in the market still, but in a couple of years it will be in a very strong position. I guess then they could sell management tools ontop of it...
You cannot do money laundering in a McDonald because you need to buy everything from McDonald. It is too easy to easy to control for the authorities. In France, money laundering is normally performed in small pizza restaurants or way easier, moved across the border to be handled in casino-like shops in Germany where it is easy to open such bet/play shops.

For the why this reaction, I have no ideas, plain stupidity is often the good answer.
Great idea! UI is also great and easy to use but you should put an example for the custom feed.
cool stuff, how did you do it?
wich tools did u use? how much time takes to build such a nice mapping page?
"Essential Frenchness"? What does that even mean?
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Trying to make sense of why or why not an advanced species that has mastered space and time, would want to do something so pointless as visiting planet earth, is the weakest argument one can make against this. Just because you cannot understand their motives, and it sound implausible, hence it cannot be true, is like a caveman trying to understand why modern humans stare at flat luminicent screens while tapping and clicking away randomly in front of it for hours.
Hold on a sec, I thought the UK outed all their UFO cases a number of years ago.
Well, 16 MB is a really quite a nasty large size for an app. For reference, one of the low-end phones I target has 180MB of internal memory. (And I don't think I can tell an app -- and certainly not an AIR app -- to install itself on the SD card, though a wizardly user certainly can.) You can get away with 16 MB in a graphics-heavy game, but something that's mostly forms and screens really ought to come in under a megabyte.

Phonegap gets to bundle the platform because their hello world is only 300k. I really don't think AIR could get away with that.

But I agree, the user experience might be better if that was an option.
> even if most times you will not get any reaction

Oh yes you will. They will shout at you and some may try to take your camera.
Is there something unclear about this?

"Our mission is to strengthen the gaming scene on Linux, both for players and developers. This includes Linux ports of Steam and Valve games, as well as partner games. We are also investigating open source initiatives that could benefit the community and game developers."
This is a great tool! I was also able to get in on the .98 domain deal.
I have never met any of these people; not at events, not at parties, not on vacation (to numerous countries). Where are these 'lots of people' besides at McDonalds France apparently? Most people I know would 'strike a pose' when someone takes a picture, even if they don't know the someone.

Note; I don't take pictures, but to get upset about it; isn't that a bit over the top? You could kindly ask to refrain but actually spend energy and get upset for something so unimportant.
Why? These two people are clearly idiots.

Here's a chance for you to improve your standpoint; I'd recommend taking two minutes aside, typing both names into Google and reading a bit about both people first. You might learn something ;)
> that the laws of the universe prevent interstellar travel

Not true:

Hawking: Humans must colonize other planets
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15970232/ns/technology_and_scien...

'by using "matter/antimatter annihilation," velocities just below the speed of light could be reached, making it possible to reach the next star in about six years.
"It wouldn't seem so long for those on board," [Hawking] said.'
Um, wouldn't just a cache of the last N (based on memory available) items (or their hashes, whatever) just do the job, and do it better than his solution (which removes elements randomly based on collisions, rather than just removing the oldest element in the cache when it gets full, a much better approach given the time locality he describes)?

The description in this article seems to add too much complexity ("the opposite of a bloom filter") for what really is just a simple cache (albeit, IMO, a relatively inefficient one for the problem he describes).
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If by reliability you are talking about it consistently not breaking between versions, then it's fine. Between versions the compiler does add new features but for the most part backwards compatibility has been kept between major versions.

If you're talking about does it consistently produce similar code across platforms, then it depends. Plenty of people are using it for 2D games (targetting flash, Android and iOS) and it seems suitable for this. Outside of that, it basically comes down to this: if you want your code to work cross platform, stick to the standard library or to known cross-platform libraries.

As an example, I had a piece of code which took markdown text input, converted it to HTML, and then manipulated the resulting HTML. The code worked on Javascript, Neko and CPP without modifications, because I stuck to existing cross platform libraries.
What do you guys think of this guy's site? Design for $20
Command key now works as META for Emacs. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Does this mean those places also ban people from using smartphones or normal cameras on the premises? There is no indications that Mann was actively taking pictures of strangers. And it would makes sense for a tourist to take pictures of his family at a restaurant. How are tourists normally treated when they try to take pictures of their vacation?
(Answering the GigaOM analysis ...)

They are a legacy player. Virtualization is available in just about every chipset and for free in the Linux kernel and newer Windows. Sure, they may still have some advantages in some areas, perhaps better high end management software, but it's really only a matter of time before everything they do is available at no cost somewhere else.

Anecdotally every one of our customers is looking to get rid of VMware.
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Nothing really happened is my guess. It's just been 4 years since he took the top job and he is moving on after vesting his stock/option grants (not that he needs them though).
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I was 99% sure our advisors had screwed us before they came in with the 20% lower offer.
"Overall, I find all three proposals are focused on solving yesteryears problems, rather than on creating a protocol that stands a chance to last us the next 20 years."
Screwed by EMC? The way EMC runs companies I'm surprised VMWare is still around! And now that Gelsinger is at the helm... Well, would suck to work there ATM!
At the first glance, I was very impressed with the design but I was unsure what the website is about. I was able to test out the app and what I got from it was that it is a slideshow with captions. Am I missing any features?
flash developer here

people have been saying since about 2008 (and before) that Flash has a diminishing future to HTML5. it bugs me. heres why

the fundamental problem with "Javascript", or as it truly is, "Every Different Web Browsers Custom Implementation of ECMASCRIPT 4", is that it will never be the same across all browsers and all versions. period. any app done in HTML5 will ALWAYS take extra development time and upkeep compared to code in Actionscript and Flash. Period.

Also, Javascript will always be a mess.

TL;DR: i'm not going anywhere anytime soon...
Not to mention the exhorbitant licensing costs!
Steam is a killer app, and I can totally see people migrating towards a distro built around it (and laptops certified for it).

http://xkcd.com/927/

Anybody willing to switch distros just to run a game might as well just install a Windows partition.
Love that video, but I fault it because it doesn't include our own living legend Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela. :( A true misfit who refused to accept the status quo.

And, in case you don't know, Rohlihlala in fact means "he who shakes the tree"! A name given to him at birth.

Talk about destiny!
Hacker news guidelines:

"If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
I know almost nothing about her, but these descriptions remind me of this post about Zuckerberg.

"Working with Zuck"
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=339013388919

"Every time Zuck looks at a product, it is as if he does so with fresh eyes... He doesn't care what he said yesterday"
I wouldn't accept Romney's ad was fair use, as he has something very big to gain from it. The same way he invested money in the making of the advertisement, he should also pay the royalties for the song composition.

I hate all these stupid copyright laws, but if we must have it, then we must ALL have to comply with it.
You make a convincing case. I didn't realize attitudes toward photography (and security in shops) were so different in France. I've taken quite a lot of pictures there, including inside shops and restaurants IIRC, but somehow I must never have tripped this rule.

How embarrassing to have produced an instance of the indignant and uninformed speculation that I so often groan to find at the top of HN comment threads.
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Why would he decide to escalate to physical violence? There is no evidence that he did and it would not have made sense to do so.
I don't think they do. I tried pasting a random non-screenshot image and it worked fine.
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Brilliant move! So they finally managed pull out a rabbit out from their ass. Jokes apart, Marissa is an excellent product manager and a strategist, and with her kind of experience at Google from it's good old days till now - she's just the flu shot that Yahoo needs.
They keep buying more and more products that have nothing to do with virtualisation. Typical EMC mentality.
Not sure if you're referring to IE6 or Vista...
I see that Excel still doesn't have any macro programming options except VBA. Where is support for C# (at least) programming of macros?
I love the idea that governments, so incompetent in oh-so-many ways, are capable of a multiple-decade coverup involving one of the most fantastic discoveries possible, somehow managing to prevent leaks of any meaningful data, including any mention whatsoever in data dumps such as, e.g. WikiLeaks.

And yet still people choose to focus their energies on UFO conspiracies, despite releases like these showing the true meaning behind the term UFO: stuff that looks weird in the sky and can't be identified by the viewer.
This seems unlikely given how little physical cash is used in VC funding.
By definition, a misfit is one that doesn't fit into the
mainstream.

I don't think one becomes a misfit by having and defending unique insights. I have a friend that has a Ph.D. in philosophy. He tends to say things that take some time to process and may initially cause a "what?" feeling. As any Ph.D., he did his small part in changing our understanding of the world. I wouldn't call him a misfit, just extraordinary.

Concerning that quote by Shaw: I believe taking that literally is mistaking a funny quip to make you think for a deeply profound eternal truth. Shaw does not seriously intend to say that e.g. Churchill was not a reasonable man.

I actually own a copy of Kuhn's book. I found it very enlightening. He's not a misfit either.
Just so we're all on the same - very ignorant - page, are you talking race in 2012? Come on, todays French are a big mix of whatever. This mix is what is French.
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Found it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4254598

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I have seen this kind of thing first hand. Men are taught to never show weakness, and are full of bragadocio in interviews. Women are taught to be humble. If you speak up or be assertive you get labelled a bitch. Thankfully this is changing in mainstream society.

There are some places where this change is happening more slowly than others, and the tech industry definitely needs a boost in this area. A massive part of the problem is that many men in the industry are simply blind to the problem. It's not a problem for them so they just go along with the status quo.
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Yes, sadly most people who dismiss UFOs, have not viewed or read - let alone examined the mountain of data and evidence that exist. Yes, evidence does exist - often as multiple cross-referenced radar readings, abnormal radiation levels, and even physical traces where UFOs have been observed. The true skeptic would not dismiss this out of hand, without some actual personal investigation into the subject.
I think it would be good to be able to cross reference browser usage with OS usage. For example, are people moving from IE6/XP to IE7/XP, IE9/Windows 7, Safari/OSX, Chrome/Linux etc?
Fair use is a three part test. Your understanding of the law is... limited.
I'd like to point out that this is a huge understatement. Roughly 10 times more people are killed on the roads in each year than have died as a result of terrorism on us soil (or us airplanes) in the past 50 years.
I don't see this as an either/ or thing, aiming for success is fine, so is building connections and relationships on the way. I suspect that your misery had little to do with what you attributed it to, but far more to do with the side effects of the misery.
How would you summarize the argument for UFOs being non-terrestrial for a skeptic who doesn't want to buy and read this book?
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I don't think they'd really reduce fragmentation by creating yet anther distro.

They could probably solve a lot of issues with fragmentation by establishing steam in a chrooted environment on the system so that it could maintain it's own versions of certain libraries etc. This could then be targeted by developers as opposed to targeting a specific distro. In essence, a "distro within a distro".
I was curious about how bad the GNU standards could be [they make so much great software!].

Holy crap. Function calls with a space? foo (x,y);

Braces indented halfway into the "else" keyword? Ugh. I'm no C guru but even has a freshman cs major I'd recognize that as ugly.
Most "profound truths" are fairly simple. But it's living those truths in your daily life that make them powerful. It's also about what you first encounter. I read 7 Habits when I was 13. I suspect if I had read it when I was 23, I would have had a different opinion of the book's insightfulness.
> How can I not take his advice?

For example, you might have a good idea in some interesting field that doesn't happen to particularly involve the Internet.

At the moment it just seems like everyone arriving in California with a tent and a picaxe because they heard they'll get rich. Overly romantic maybe but I prefer the other way round with the chicken and egg.
In my experience, it always pays to substitute the subject to the broader version when determining if something is discriminatory.

How does this project sound?

"A project [to empower men], launched by men, aimed at men, because men are an observable majority in our industry."
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As a company your apps will be published by your company name, you can allow up to 5 users to work under your account. As an individual you have 1 login and apps are published under your own name (with a trading as name, which can be set only once). If you think you'd ever want to change to a company account in the future then do so from the start as it can be a huge pain to get changed in the future.

In the UK you need to provide company registration details to register as a company and Apple will give you a quick call to confirm that you personally have the authority to enter in to a contract on behalf of your company.

Edit: It's most likely obvious but worth pointing out that should there ever be a legal issue with any of your apps then these would be aimed at your company rather than yourself if registered as a business. For example, a Lodsys patent dispute would have been sent to a Ltd company in the UK rather than the individual who owns it. This being the better scenario as a Ltd company is limited in liability by its value rather than the owners worth unless a personal guarantee is given.
Can you point to the documentation of these events?
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> The fact that Humans exist proves there is some intelligence in the Universe

> The fact that humans exist proves no such thing

I think you missed his point. The fact that humans exist and are intelligent is absolutely proof that there is some intelligence in the universe, i.e. us.
Yes, isn't the picture on your front page from Paris?

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/paulgraham_2208_5897

You can take pictures of monuments; you can take "general" pictures in the street; you can take pictures of people sitting at the same table as you in a restaurant.

But if you specifically target a stranger in the street, or take pictures in a shop, etc. then it will cause a stir.
I believe it was at this McDonald's that I was deliberately short-changed without a recepit. This is a big tourist point where daily sales must easily reach five thousand. These guys are probably trying to cover a simple operation to rip people off.

If I recall correctly (murky here, I didn't really care and may be mixing this with another memory or a different location) the cashier even nonchalantly covered the front-facing display with his hand (this actually took a very unusual gesture), so I couldn't see what the entered amount was. I paid in cash, the sum was tiny, and I didn't really care. It's McDonald's.
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I'm not familiar with Hawking saying we'll never travel to a star (well hopefully not in a star). I doubt he said that. We could build a space ark and travel for about 50,000 years and hit proxima centauri, no big deal. :)

but yeah, most are either crackpots or reasonable but naive people.
> In my experience, it always pays to substitute the subject to the broader version when determining if something is discriminatory.

How does that follow? I'd genuinely like to know your reasoning.
I find the crackpot statement a bit problematic too. Basically he is suggesting that if you witness a UFO, you are a crackpot. I don't see any reason to think that. Indeed I have seen plenty of things I can't account for scientifically (no UFO's though), and I have had outright hallucinations induced by mystical experiences and meditation (those are terrifying believe it or not).

BTW, I don't accept the extraterrestrial explanation. I think when you look even over the last 50 years, descriptions and portrayals of UFO's have evolved with the times, and phenomena which are generally comparable in the outlines go way back, but are very culturally dependent.

The problem with the extraterrestrial hypothesis is actually remarkably simple and that is that one has to account why non-human entities which are reported to kidnap people, and have advanced technology, and are associated with lights in the sky, are so fundamentally culturally portrayed? Is it reasonable to think, really, that there is some great ET convention where they divvy up our cultures and follow them? That doesn't sound reasonable to me. I think it is more likely that there are multiple components to the sightings, some of which we may not know what they represent yet, and some of which may be our projection and making sense of what we see.
Read any of the books above or watch this Yotube documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyVe-6YdUk where hundreds of high ranking officials in Govt, military, aviation etc. are willing to go on the record and testify under oath, of some of these events.
Quite so. The differences between 2000 and 1912 are hard to truely fathom. I don't know how you could possibly attempt to predict at that sort of timescale. Even a decade would be pushing it as far as I am concerned.
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