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My Fusion4 install still works fine on Mountain Lion. Unless one of the new features is sufficiently compelling for you, I don't see why you have to upgrade.
It usually one in the top left corner, just as it always has.
Depends on the relative values one places on form, content, and completeness.

In HN terms, Microsoft's website[s] is[are] great as MVP's and improvements thereupon.

On the other hand, in terms of Apple's ex cathedra philosophy, then perhaps, yes it[they] is[are] bad.
Microsoft Unveils a New Look, New Logo
I agree, I believe it would be best if everyone paid the same cost, then no one could say it was unfair. Although I'm sure that someone else would be in the position I am complaining about it, so maybe I should just accept that for now at least, I will have to struggle.
Arguably (for this logo) seemingly wrong proportions are worse than too similar looking shades of grey, since no writing or visual metaphors lost are lost when you convert this logo to greyscale.

And I personally believe that this could (and should) have been worked around in some way since about 7-10% of the population has some kind of color blindness.
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It's hard to collect royalties from individual users.
NOW I don't, but while setting IRQs was annoying, some of the weird stuff that sometimes happened in the earlier days of plug-and-play was worse.
The Top 5 Risks Confronting Startups
Not only did I never upgrade past 3, but I just got a new MBA and decided to go with VirtualBox (which works fine, though I have a sneaking suspicion that is uses more CPU and is less energy efficient)

It appears that you can upgrade from 3 or 4 to 5 Pro for $49.99. As far as I can tell, I don't need any of the Pro features. And that's the same price as buying the non-pro version outright. So not much of a deal.
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Introduction to jQuery UI Training Course (w/ 19 free videos)
Archive.org shows it's been like this since at least Jan 1, 2011 (did't check any other or earlier dates), so it seems like fixing it must be really low priority.

http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.smushit.com/ysmu...
>"We didn't make our goals this quarter, and many in our industry also showed reduced sales numbers. It is clear that we need to reduce our expectations. Next quarter's numbers will be lower, and shareholders are just going to have to take a loss."

Uh, they do say that all the time.

I tend to agree with the other poster: our expectations are too high. It's a product of having witnessed one of the greatest runups in wealth (and debt) we've ever seen in history.

A 2500 sqft house, two (or three) cars, regular vacations to Europe or the warm south, maybe a summer house, boats, motorcycles and other toys...these things are now expected by the "middle class". It's completely out of whack with history and the rest of the planet.

So whether you choose to lower your expectations or not has no bearing on what will actually happen. We're going to have a deleveraging run where the average Westerner is, as a whole, poorer than the generation before us.
And probably a lot of people not using Gmail use Google Apps. I rarely use my @gmail.com addresses, but all my domains with mail are managed through Google Apps.
Indeed. Chemicals are the implementation. That doesn't mean they are the essence.

In fact, I think the design of a thing is closer to its essence than the implementation. Moonlight Sonata is neither just bits, nor just vinyl, nor just vibrating strings. In any implementation, it is Moonlight Sonata. The essence of it is the music, the information, Beethoven's intent and insight.

Love is the same way. Of course consciousness and will are implemented in chemicals. They have to be implemented in something. That does not make them less real.
> Thanks to .NET support, Microsoft does have a measure support for alternative languages; it is the Common Language Runtime after all. What would be better though would be to support LLVM, as Apple does on iOS

this is super confusing. iOS can run LLVM bitcode? I would link to the "LLVM IR is a compiler IR" email, but UIUCs email archive server is down ...
Apigee Opens Up Enterprise-Level API Management to All for Free
Poaching doesn't work when the people you're trying to hire fall out of bed and land in 10 job offers. These people aren't job hunting.

Acqui-hires generally have a tension where the founders/investors want money for stock, but the acquirer doesn't really value the stock very highly. If it were up to them, they'd want to dissolve the company and hire the team with big signing bonuses and retention packages.

Practically speaking, what generally happens is that the team gets a "back-loaded" deal where they get a combination of signing bonuses, stock payout, and annual retention packages that start small but get larger every year. So if you quit in the first year, you pretty much get nothing other than a few stock dollars.
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Looks like Workstation's been bumped up a version number as well, now standing at version 9:

http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/overview.html
More accurately it would be "analysis of user-strings of people's browsers whose referrer was hacker news when visiting my website"
No-one cares about your app
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Nobody is forced to buy, in fact the old version should still work fine.

No, it doesn't. That's the problem. Fusion 3 is buggy on Lion and doesn't run at all on Mountain Lion [1].

Though there is some truth to your point. I'm guessing it is a non-trivial amount of work to support new OS releases. Perhaps it's even more work than the new features being added. Surely they shouldn't be obligated to support old releases forever. But a discount to existing customers sure would make me less likely to explore cheaper alternatives...

[1] http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?langua...
I disagree re: steel frames. All of my bikes are steel, from my race bike (yes, actually raced... well, in the past) to my city bike. The race bike weighs in right around where the aluminum bike it replaced came in.

Steel rides great. Cheap steel will weigh more than cheap aluminum, but is not that much heavier once you factor in yourself and what you carry.

The nice thing about steel is that it's repairable, rides nicely, and fails gracefully (should it fail at all).
We consume more than ever, but does that mean we're richer? (especially in terms of wealth per unit work, given that this generation has vastly more participation of women in the workforce). The fact that we have bigger houses and more cars doesn't mean anything if we're having to take on more debt, or devote higher percentages of our income to them. And at least for your "average" middle class family there are often two wage-earners now...

Also, wrt growth, the argument I would make is that for much of the last 30 years, most of the economy's growth has not been shared with the middle class. Some of this is undoubtedly structural - the technology revolution has put a higher premium than ever on those with highly developed skills/education and there are certainly workers who have just been left behind. But if you look at the data, the wealth gains over the last 30 years have pretty overwhelmingly been concentrated in the VERY top of the income distribution (I hate to use the rhetoric of the Occupy movement just because it is very inflammatory to a lot of people, but it really is a top 1% phenomena). If this inequality could be mostly explained by education/skills, you'd expect something more like the top ~20% to be vastly pulling away from the bottom 80% of the distribution.
Slide rules? I have a couple, but never learned more than the basics before the TI-30 came along, and have forgotten most of what I had learned.
Um, ever seen the old Windows logo?
I'm not sure what you think makes that complicated to implement without HTTP, or why you consider it 'free'. Netflix had to write custom code to support that, and could have just as easily done so on top of a message passing architecture ala ZeroMQ or even AMQP.

It's free because it already exists. Load balancers for hypothetical protocols don't.

Not really, no -- neither a tautology nor are they particularly useful for API implementation. Their primary value is in caching resources for HTTP requests in a way that meshes well with the complexity of HTTP.

If you need geographically distributed resource distribution than HTTP may be a good idea simply because:

- There's widespread standardized support for HTTP resource distribution.

- Its inefficiencies are easily outweighed by the simple transit costs of a large file transfer.

We're largely talking about server "API", however.

Isn't the whole point of this system to transfer people's content - posts, pictures, videos, etc - between servers? I would think pure API "calls" would be a small part of the whole traffic.

No, the core concepts are more-or-less fine. It's the stack that's inefficient and grossly complex, largely due to browser constraints and historical limitations.

But to implement them, you need more than "a bit of framing and serialization".
Ask HN: Career advice - don't know my value, or my prospects
So, HN, I need some advice, career-wise. (Sorry for the throwaway account, but I'm already including way too much personally identifiable information for my comfort.)

I'm 28, and I've been at my employer for 7 years. I'm the only developer for my employers' ServiceNow platform. We were one of SN's first 10 clients, and I've been working with the software since SN was <10 employees. (ServiceNow is a Javascript-focused SaaS ITIL system, went public recently.)

I'm the only internal person maintaining our platform, and a group of consultants who are recognized SN experts have recently vindicated a number of my design decisions. (Building out a billing/invoicing system using SN/Javascript and (sigh) Crystal, some data synch stuff, tons of metrics/reporting, etc.)

After 7 years, I'm making $47.5k a year. On the flip side, I've only got a 2 year degree, and I work from home. (Home currently being Nebraska, since I can afford a mortgage there.)

I've been told that my current salary is low for my time at my employer and my skillset. At this point, I'm very burnt out. When I was able to solve problems and help people at work, I loved it, but now, it's just maintaining code. I've also got to think about my future prospects; the whole "current salary affects future salary" thing. I like to negotiate, be diplomatic, and prevent conflict. I've never fought for a raise in my life.

I really don't know where to go from here. I have a salary review coming up soon, and I don't know whether I should make a case for more money, or just take what they give me. I don't even know if what I'm earning is unreasonable or not. It's absolutely not about the money, it's about my future prospects. (If that makes sense.)

Any suggestions or advice? Even just some information on whether I'm being paid fairly or not would be a huge help. I've considered asking this on StackExchange, but I trust the HN community and thought this would be a good place to ask.
Trolling? No, given how angry Steve Jobs was when he felt Google just copied iOS there's probably just that latent feeling left.

There's plenty of quotes out there of him, they got mentioned in the trial, but excluded. Personally I think it sounds like the motivation for all this in the first place.

Indignation, anger, but not trolling. Trolling is a different sentiment, this is something else entirely.
hope to see all the web like this!
Yeah, I'm just imagining this conversation.

"Should we let some charities know they can come get free furniture when we're done?" "Nah, it's probably break if they try to move it now that it's already set up. Just trash it."

And "we don't have a few hours to wait" doesn't sound like a great excuse, either.
'Tough love' is a normal part of any physical training (Military , sport, you name it). It prepares pupils for the tougher things they are going to encounter in the real world.

As for Michael Jackson, I don't think it was any different than a lot of guys who throw babies up in the air and catch them on their way down. Gives me a mini heart attack every time I see one.

Babies love that stuff though.
And people without javascript or blocking w3counter are also not shown
love it! bummed different parts keep going down; although I'm sure servers are getting slammed :)
I like the less formal, personal tone. It makes you seem like a real person, and it makes you more likable. That's important. The problem is that it's all about you.

A cover letter's goal is to position yourself as the solution to someone else's problem. That means showing that you understand their needs. It's hard to do that without a cover letter that is highly personalized.

You also don't mention any specific accomplishments. You can write for hours about how much you love programming, but what most hiring managers are really concerned with is your end product.

Keep the personal tone, but talk more about the employer and less about you. When you do talk about yourself, talk about specific things that you've done that demonstrate that you're the guy for the job.
How is it compared to StartupGuild (http://startupguild.net/)?

EDIT: Just opened it, have another question: How is it compared to Ask/Show HN?
T9? Seriously?

I think you're an outlier, my friend.
Ok I give you that :)
Well, that rack at Rite-Aid is full of glasses that claim to have UVA and UVB protection. Is the concern that these claims are false? Or that the degree of protection is insufficient?
Have they added the ability to prevent that darn menu helper thing from loading in the menu bar? That's all I really want in an upgrade.
Upvoted you for being the only response with numbers so far, even though I disagree with your conclusion.

The average price of a new car in 1980 was $7,200 [1]. In 2010, it's $28,400 [2]. That's an almost 300% increase.

Federal minimum wage in 1980 was $3.10 [3]. In 2010, it's $7.25, a 130% increase. That's lagging pretty far behind new car prices.

You point out that fewer people are earning minimum wage now than in 1980, but I would counterpoint that more people are unemployed now than in 1980 -- by almost double in terms of the real numbers of unemployed people (but "only" a rate increase from 7.1% to 8.4%) [4].

Although car ownership did increase from 1980 to 2010 [5], total new passenger car sales actually fell from 1980 to 2010 [6], which is closer to what the original article was actually discussing, and would support the conjecture that there are simply more cars on the road now than in 1980.

Further, the inflation-adjusted income of people aged 25 to 34 has stayed roughly level from 1980 to 2010 [7], which pretty well jives with so much of what I've read everywhere else that shows a tremendously overall weakened buying power amongst the youth demographics -- which, again, was what the article was trying to be about.

So, in summary: the price of a new car has gone up a lot but wages have not, especially if you're young. I'm pretty confident that this might be a factor in why young people aren't buying new cars.

[1]: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1980.html -- might not be a good source, I'm open to suggestions for something better.

[2]: http://www.ehow.com/facts_5977729_average-cost-new-car.html; this number seemed high to me, but http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2010-07-12-carprices12_S... corroborates it.

[3]: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0774473.html

[4]: http://www.nidataplus.com/lfeus1.htm

[5]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle#United_States -- because I questioned the partisanship of your source.

[6]: http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_stat...

[7]: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77
So basically, Segoe is to Myriad as Arial is to Helvetica.

Got it.
What you do versus what your customers want Venn diagram
This may be a stupid question but can you even see something that is just one molecule thick? Is it mostly transparent?
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Silicon Valley Hacker Hangouts Risk Being Shut Down
Same here with latam keyboard layout, the problem seems to be on every symbol on the keyboard number row, ej. =, /, &, etc.
Twitter Bootstrap and AJAX
Will this still collect the data if someone is running no-script?
Absolutely. Step outside the HN bubble and there are a hell of a lot of people bootstrapping their own ideas and making money from them.
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It looks like the $50 upgrade takes you to the otherwise $99 professional version. I can't seem to find an upgrade link to the standard version.
I'd actually assert a portion of people buy Apple products out of goodwill to Apple. This should not be taken as a compliment, though.
More like an editor truce this time.

As long as it lasts, I concur: having built-in export/import to existing popular solutions would be very helpful.
If consumers don't spend money on cars then they will just spend it on other things.

Not necessarily true. Half the comments in this thread are saying that consumers don't spend money on cars, and don't spend it on other things, because NOBODY HAS MONEY.
Using All Your Keywords as Anchor Text
i think the worst part about their new homepage is the "Welcome to Microsoft" white bare/space at the top, they could, and should have made better use of that space
Certainly you want the overlap to be large, but if you always do only what your customers want, there's no room for innovation or vision (which, by definition, users haven't thought to want). But that said, the "frustration/annoyance" factors that the diagram outs outside the overlap are also real, so there are tradeoffs to be made. The real problem is in figuring out the proper balance.
How to Be a Good Guest Blogger
What is this garbage doing on Hacker News?
I have an HP-12C financial calculator, that I use regularly, and it's still on the original battery.
This is very interesting. We looked at storing stuff in BitTorrent's Kademlia DHT to do roaming NAT-traversal in Mosh, but their performance scared us off. Before building an application on this I would want to ask:

- Who runs telehash.org? Will they still be around in five years? Is there a well-known list of anchor nodes I can hardcode into my app, or how does the program find the DHT when it first starts?

- What is the median time to retrieve a key? What will it be in 24 months?

- What is the percentage of failed requests? Can we guess what that will be in 24 months?

The "mainline" BitTorrent Kademlia DHT started off great but now the statistics are apparently abysmal. In one academic study, the median time to retrieve a key was over a minute, and 20% of retrievals failed. (See http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/tr/BTMeasure-Main.pdf)

Why won't the same fate befall this Kademlia DHT?

(Edit: is this _A_ DHT, or is the idea that if you build your program to use Telehash, you are creating your own DHT that is only used by currently-running instances of the same program?)
Thanks! Yeah, I'm stuck with PayPal at the moment, which I know has issues internationally - I'm sorry, and thanks for supporting the book.
This is really awesome. Usually too busy to keep up on state politics, but I'm going to call Jerry Brown's office later and ask him to please not veto this.

Having the police force be able to track your every move for any purpose on a whim is by anyone's definition a panopticon. Many people voluntarily allow this type of access to their friends, but it's a different game when you have no choice but to inform the state of your location 24/7. What are you going to do- throw away your phone?

I really hope that Jerry Brown doesn't kill this.
IE 9 and 10 have been good to me. I just hope we keep a good balance of browsers going forward.
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My iPad app needs very few keystrokes to spell most words - only the first letter has to be correct. You can see how few keystrokes need to be pressed to type full sentences in this demo: http://ktype.net/demo (app is now free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ktype-free/id550288060)

I wrote my own algorithm that parses through a dictionary of one-million words and phrases in real-time (even one iPad 1) and suggests the most probable word based on the letters you've typed and in context of the last 2-3 words you typed. This means, typing 'P' after 'HARRY' will suggest 'POTTER' instead of 'PUT', 'PICK' or other common words that start with 'P'. I haven't made my algorithm public yet but when I have some time, I intend to, especially if there is a demand for it.
> When able-bodied competitors engage in hard physical activities like running or swimming, blood pressure and heart rate increase automatically. Athletes with spinal injuries do not get that response.

Can anyone explain why a spinal cord injury would render a human unable to raise their blood pressure through strenuous physical exercise?
It doesn't seem to make sense.
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I understand what mean about it not being part of Microsoft's DNA, but it seems like you're trying to blame Microsoft's poor web presence on its age. How do you then rationalize other pre-Web companies like IBM and Apple who have managed to successfully embrace it?
I don't like it. I like mimimalism but this clean minimal look that's virtually everywhere (as people try to outdo each other in simplicity) is just a fashion. You know already that there is going to be a backlash against this as there always has been in the past (how long did the Bauhaus last?) and then this will be outdated. Also the primary colours are a bit sixties'ish and shortly will look just as dated as anything from that time. Its just the wheel going around with some hailing each revolution as, well, a revolution!
I have the same issues; for me the red is much larger than the rest and the yellow one is pulsating. I have it with everything involving rasters and some colors. Actually some patterns make me nauseous (not this one though).

I'm not bothered much by it, but I avoid, while making things, combinations that make this happen.

I don't know if it is because I am slightly color blind (on tests I can usually read maybe 1 of those blotted spots with letters/digits in them; http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.asp => I can only see the top left one, which is the tester if you're not totally blind I think :), the rest is just random spots. People who don't have this issue might think I cannot see colors at all but I can; it's only in combination it might go wrong.), but it's worse when i'm tired.

The best freak show is a big squared 'tent', but with small squares of 2 horrible colors, like red + green/blue in bright power-saving-lights inside, for instance, a shopping mall and me not having had the best night sleep. Then I see these effects really well and actually have to move away from the offending object quite rapidly.

Edit: I mean 'checkered' not squared, so like http://www.schnittmuster-stoffe.de/images/product_images/pop... but then preferably plastic material, bad, bright colors and preferably so big I cannot look around it.