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This is a problem that libetc is supposed to help solve: http://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/
What's faster? I've never read even the most fervent proponent advocate it as either a more efficient or speedy (from a usability) perspective. That isn't to harsh on it -- the compromise is better touch usability and purportedly better aesthetics, although that is deeply subjective.
Surprisingly low latency, since you can parallelize. It would be expensive, but not THAT expensive. You would also want to pad the traffic to complicate/eliminate traffic analysis, but all of this could be done outside the hardware.

It might cost more than buying US equipment, though. Although you could add it as you turn up waves, so not that bad upfront.
I have mixed feelings. The Metro UI described one specific portion of the Windows 8 interface, which gives it a use for differentiating between metro-style and old-windows-style. It seemed like good branding. And, one that could be shared across platforms.

Now it's "Window 8 Phone featuring Windows 8-style UI" where the unique Metro branding could have served well.

Then again, I noticed a friend had Windows 8 loaded on his laptop the other day, and he had no idea what I was talking about when I asked how "metro" was
It also begs the question, why it was named "etc" :)
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There's some sort of joke in here about there not being a working form that I don't really care about getting.
"but isn't it a coinflip as to who will win in the long-term?"

One of the more ill-informed questions I've heard in awhile. Do you have any idea how much energy, persistence and brains go in to creating a successful, winning service?
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If not dot files lazy programmers would have just found another way. Just look at the results of lazy programmers on any Android SD card.
For those who object that dot files serve a purpose, I don't dispute that but counter that it's the files that serve the purpose, not the convention for their names.

I would like to hear a good argument for why hidden files and folders are a good thing.
I don't believe that is a driving factor. Is it that hard to believe someone would want to do something soo ambitious just because they want the future to be better? I would say that's the default desire of a human being until it's beaten out of them by society.
So can anyone send me in a direction to use this with LaTeX?
Wait Microsoft has stores?
Is Postgres gaining momentum such that it might displace MySQL as the go-to DB?
I totally agree with you. In fact, that's why I wrote an alternative logging library — to try to do the same thing for `logging` that `requests` did for `urllib`. Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/peterldowns/lggr

EDIT: Forgot to mention that although I haven't worked on this for a couple of months, I'm about to revisit it and would love to have other contributors. Please, fork this and make it better!
That doesn't mean picking "Windows Phone" isn't still a blunder. "Windows" is not a great brand to begin with and it already had a worse reputation after Microsoft abandoned Windows Mobile. Unfortunately, all of the WP7 shenanigans have only made this worse.

At this point, they really should go with something like "Xbox Phone" and I half-wonder if they'd do better with "Bob Phone" (it was at least a long time ago).
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iOS devices are jailed. OS X devices are relatively open.

Yes, and Apple has publicly said that iOS is for the general public, while full-featured PCs will become "trucks" only for specialized usages.

When Apple introduced locked software on the iPod Nano, it was ostensibly to prevent clone makers.

What does forbidding users from running software of their choice have to do with preventing clone makers?
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Yes. I believe it helps with motivation, which for some people, like myself for example, is often the bottleneck of productivity.

Off course, others may have more intrinsic motivation, or just more discipline.

But if you are lazy like me, it helps a lot. Whenever i reach that point, i get into a zone, and just keep going and going. Im not working better, or more effectively, im just more motivated, and end up investing more time and effort.
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There's actually a generally interesting question here:

When is an RFS considered "closed?"
I'm guessing it's because /etc contains configuration files and dot-files are just configuration files. Or do you mean, why was /etc named etc?
I'm arguing that humans are designed to eat meat. You're arguing against factory farming.

Different arguments.
At least my NFC mobile phone has remote wipe.
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Yea, came to say the same.
Change that link to w3schools for the good one: https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/
The online version of NBA league pass is basically useless.

1) All nationally televised games are blacked out (anything on ABC, TNT, ESPN, etc.)

2) Locally televised games are blacked out on a by region basis. So if you want to watch the Heat play, but they're broadcasting the game on Fox Sports East or whatever and you live in Florida, you can't watch it.

3) The video quality is incredibly low. It's an SD stream at less than 1 mbps. Godawful. To be fair though, the Cable version of League Pass also sports some awful video quality (super compressed HD when that's even available, and it frequently isn't).
Maybe changing the name of the product when it is finally released to the public is a good idea?, they basically remove the link between the early reviews and the final product. So the public might not even see the these initial bad reviews etc.
Perfect for sending love to my technologically challenged parents! :)
While the article implies that corporate BES customers would be compromised with this move, Crackberry is refuting that aspect: http://crackberry.com/rim-encryption-keys
It certainly doesn't seem as promising a territory as it used to. Not so much because it's more dangerous as because Twitter hasn't turned out to be a "platform" in the same sense as say iOS has.
That's a valid point. I don't think the brick and mortar store would be a factor, but if Microsoft's app store had a Metro app section, then Metro AG would have a legitimate claim to defend their trademark.
Great!
Can't wait for it. :)
I am with you on the first paragraph. BS on the rest - we focus too much on FB.

HN is like a real time ticker for FB stock and stories while Elon should be valued at 100 times zuck.

We should focus MORE on spaceX and Tesla and zero on FB.
I suspect you're being downvoted because no, you're definitely not expected to have 32GB of RAM. I'd imagine the example just uses a high-end config to show that it's not a hardware issue bottle necking performance (or, rather, not a hardware issue you'd normally run into - e.g. not enough memory, too slow CPU etc).

Downvoting seems somewhat over the top, I'd say.
What does 'properly' mean? Does that mean it must be tweaked and optimized to run fast?
I don't know how they plan to initiate the connection, but if the way it works is that the boss is initially referred to the site and offered the service (not receiving any feedback at that point) and it is suggested they list other people who might want to provide them with feedback etc. then the system has much better chances. This has the extra virtue of making it more viral.

The point is to make the whole thing as little like a last resort and as much like an opt-in continuous process, no matter how it is initiated, as possible.
I think regardless of the lies, they had a superior operating system up until Lion. Now their business practices and complete disregard for their developers' comfort is fairly inexcusable. Nor do I like the draconian systems of the App Stores.
I posted a reply above, but I also wanted to point out that MLB is similarly blacked out on a regional basis. You could use a VPN to get around that, but that's an annoyance that most people will not (or can not) go through to avoid paying for cable.
I think he didn't include it because there is a (monthly) fee on this one.
But some courses are free and I agree, I definitely endorse this one to be on the lilst. I am one of those learn-by-doing people and codeschool is just great. Like codecademy on steroids.
Yes, they do: http://www.microsoftstore.com
See @pg's answer here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2341567
please do it. you might be able to convince me to ask you to take my money if you do. :)
Yeah, total butt heads for not wanting Microsoft to dilute their trademark. If the public starts to associate Metro with Microsoft, then that does affect them. Besides Metro isn't even that exciting of a name. Just some rudimentary due diligence in MS's part could have avoided this whole thing. Balmer has some idiots working for him.
Haters gotta hate. (I had to do this. I've never been down-voted before and I wonder what it feels like.)
According to Wikipedia "makro" also exists in the UK:

> In 2009, Makro is the third largest cash & carry wholesaler in the UK with a turnover of £1.1bn and a portfolio of 30 depots nationally.

I've not heard of them before (lived in England all my life) , it makes me wonder how many other giant companies fly under the layman's radar.
Yep here you go:

http://www.jhom.com/topics/voice/bat_kol_bab.htm
Yup, same here. I've never heard of her before, but thanks to this link I went to her site, listened to the album and picked up a copy. Great programming music.
They could all it Windows Metropolitan Sevice Pack for Workgroups Infringement Edition.
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You can add as many free dev databases as you want with a single account AFAIK. You aren't limited to one per app, account, or plan.
Their stores are actually pretty awesome. I used to shop there when I was in Shanghai and they're like a deluxe Sam's Club.
I doubt it. While PostgreSQL offers a number of technological advantages over MySQL, MySQL has a lower barrier to entry and easier to understand concepts than PostgreSQL as well as being a major part of the LAMP stack, which is still the most common entry point of web development. Rather than viewing one database solution as the dominant, what we are likely to see is the diversification of database technologies with the likes of NoSQL solutions coming to prominence in stacks.
I love mikeal's work and contributions to the node.js community — but I didn't care for this bit of satire. Some folks legitimately enjoy the experience of programming in CoffeeScript. I don't happen to be one of them. But I'm also not one to pass judgement on other programmers' choice of tools.

(EDIT: Although I do pass judgement silently.)
I'm guessing he does, which is why he's wondering exactly how there came to be a half dozen players in this incredibly tiny market niche.
Does the explosion of results-by-tweet at the London Olympics, including first-hand from athletes themselves, shows that as an underlying platform for real time news twitter has strong disruptive potential?
I don't understand the problem. Did they not document their ABI?
I am always pleasantly surprised when programs follow XDG. One notable example is the fish shell. Most shells put dotfiles in $HOME, like .bash_profile or .zshrc. Fish puts everything in .config/fish/.
And of course the mods have gone and messed things up again.
You can ask this question for most of unix. Why /etc? Why /bin and /usr/bin? (Answer: At one time hard disks were very small and crashed a lot), why do we presume screens are black and white, etc, etc.

Try to change any of it though, and a lot of luddites will come out screaming bloody murder. It's just not UNIX if it makes sense.
"In comparison"
Yes, Twitter itself is clearly having a big effect on the world.
Maybe the alternative was "..." :)
Vanilla Win 8 install on a bootable vhd on my notebook runs noticeably faster than a vanilla install of Win 7 on the same machine. Also, once you come to terms with the start screen just being a full screen start menu (less than an hour of use), the whole thing just kind of makes sense. I don't use Win 8 differently than Win 7, when all is said and done, other than small productivity increases from everything seeming to be quicker to find/access.
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That’s nice, shame it’s not maintained. On the other hand, one the goals of XDG is to differentiate between application cache, actual settings etc. If FooApp stores 2GB cache file in .foo, redirecting it blindly to .config just makes my backups that much harder.
Does the same apply to Facebook? And if not, is it likely to within the next 12 months?

It seems like a lot of developers/startups put their eggs in the FB basket. I wonder if, from a funding perspective, that behaviour would set off alarm bells today?
Just to comment on the presentation, imo this would be a good kind of pattern to mostly demonstrate visually and with real-world examples, similar to the new breed of UI pattern websites (e.g. http://mobile-patterns.com/)
I love that they technically let people do this, even though it seems like a "loophole" ripe for abuse. It's a nice attitude.

(For those who don't know – Heroku gives you 750 free dyno-hours per app per month, forever. This is in contrast to AWS, which gives you 750 free instance-hours per month per account and only for the first year, AFAIK.)
I tried it out, the boss have to pay to read the message. Kind of smart way to get some income but from the bosses' point of view, having to pay money to get a bitter message will just make the day for them...
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I think they meant the latter. Why is it /etc instead of, perhaps more obvious, /config or /settings?
For the latter, a lazy copy/paste from Wikipedia:

"There has been controversy over the meaning of the name itself. In early versions of the UNIX Implementation Document from Bell labs, /etc is referred to as the etcetera directory as this directory historically held everything that did not belong elsewhere (however, the FHS restricts /etc to static configuration files and may not contain binaries)."
Thanks. I was considering a couple of full source files but wasn't really sure how to work them into the presentation :-P
That's really interesting. I always assumed hiding dotfiles was a deliberate convention, but to semi-quote one of the commenters, Rob's got a point. Or two.
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Normally I would just do some hand waving and mumble "people", but I will try to do something more constructive.

I believe it is the same effect as after a random rant article about firefox/gnome/pulse audio/software licenses. Everyone has some personal opinion there, so if the article lacks all form of basic research, people will immediately start to fill that void with their own anecdotal evidence.
This looks a lot different to the others out there.

Most of the startups you mentioned are trying to retrofit the loyalty card paradigm to smartphones. I'm not sure that's the right approach - time will tell.

It looks like FiveStar simply works with a business' existing POS / magnetic scanner - and is enhanced by social / mobile. I think that's a smarter, more frictionless approach.

The winner in this space will be the one that's easiest for a business to integrate. Both on a technical level via integrating with POS systems but on a human interaction level: if you're Starbucks you can't tell 17,000 stores that they have to faff with iPhones every time a customer wants to stamp their card.
"Windows 8-style UI"???? Did their legal team pick that name? This says so much about the state of Microsoft.

This new name has a totally different persona and sends a confusing, unsexy message about Microsoft's vision for the future. It shows no competent person/team is in charge of maintaining a unified, consistent brand, but I guess we already knew that. The name "Metro" must have been an accident. Is "Windows 8-style UI" even really a name? It's more of a literal description. I don't know how you could pick something more lacklustre.

The experience formerly known as "Metro" encapsulates all of the innovative, risky developments Microsoft has been making on the UI front, with mostly positive responses (at least regarding the appearance). Metro was the word for Microsoft's sex appeal. Changing the name to something so unmemorable and vanilla is like deleting the word and its definition from the dictionary.

While this could have been a great opportunity to fuel the hype for the new UI with a slick new name, instead they choose to wet blanket the whole thing, making "Metro" not even really a thing anymore.

Microsoft needs help, they're clearly very, very sick.
I have the same problem. When I first think of something I want to make I get really excited and I start coding and writing down ideas. After a few days or weeks I usually end up in the situations where I get home from work and the project doesn't seem exciting anymore.

To combat this I've been trying to fully plan projects while I'm excited. That way I have a nice list of individual tasks I need to complete and I know how each of those tasks is connected to the overall goal. When I get home from work and only have an hour or two free I can finish one of the small tasks. I end up feeling productive and like I've made progress.
Even though the comic was funny I felt the title was really misleading, but you're right: the article below it was well worth the read.
Heh, I remember when I first found out about dotfiles. I thought it was a genius idea...

Little did I know.
It's actually a good thing for them. Generic bland names, such as "Metro", "Live", "Color", "Slide" do not work. "New iPad" is better.
If you read my comment again, I wasn't saying that overclockers no longer exist. They don't exist in the droves that they used to - computers are fast enough now for most gamers to have acceptably fluid FPS.

Those gamers that demand 1080p@60Hz under load are a niche, not the standard for 'pc gamers'. And for those who demand it, shelling out a few extra dollars for hardware that exists (previously it didn't) is much easier than messing around with hardware voltages and crossing your fingers that your gpu is one of the lucky ones.

And frankly, the idea that gamers will flock en masse to linux for a few FPS is utterly absurd.
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I see no benefit.

It's not at all easy to understand, nor easy to implement, nor does it have any tangible advantages.

It's one of these superfluous pseudo-standards that do nothing but add needless clutter. But gladly nobody seems to be using it anyway, I see only one directory in my ~/.local: vlc.
>The people you label as plenty exotic from NOLA were actually deported from eastern Canada(your "tundra")...

Are we talking about New Orleans, Louisiana here?
Before it came out, the best guess for the name of an Apple phone was "iPhone." But Cisco already produced an Internet phone called iPhone.

Apple called their phone iPhone anyway and told their lawyers to work out the price with Cisco.

On the one hand this makes Apple look like jerks, but on the other hand there is no question who is in charge of marketing: the marketing guys. Not the lawyers.

This decision by Microsoft seems in sharp contrast. Here the lawyers are telling the marketing guys what to do. And the result is laughably bad. It's too bad because "Metro" was a great brand name for a new user interface.
requests requires urllib3, which depends on httplib and urllib.

I'd secretly hope requests was built on top of socket directly.
Apple would have kept the Metro name and settled out of court later. Its a shame that Microsoft is too risk-averse.