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I've been using Windows 8 for months (always upgrading to the latest version), and don't have any problems whatsoever. In fact, I'm certain the thing actually runs way faster than Win7.

This is because I've basically got everything configured like Windows 7 (I don't really use the Start screen), but the Win+(key) combination is what makes the difference.

Take a typical almost-every-day activity for instance: checking the weather report. On Win7 (unless you had things specially configured for this event), you'd have to go online via a browser, find a suitable website, and wait for results - quite possibly having to physically type in your location if the site couldn't get it automatically.

On Windows 8, I just press Windows + (the letters w e a) and the search instantly finds the Weather app - I've got it open in less than 0.3 seconds, and the app itself fetches the data in just a few seconds. This kind of stuff works straight out of the box, and wasn't possible on Win7. It shows that even desktop-only users like me can make at least >some< good use of the RT apps.
we still need your request headers.... the real ones, not the one you think you have
"Methods can also have the property of "idempotence" in that ... the side-effects of N > 0 identical requests is the same as for a single request." [1]

The HTTP spec clearly talks in terms of the effect of sequences of repeated operations, not in terms of the results of individual operations. The side effects of a single logout are the same as for 6 - you are logged out and whatever logout triggers exist are executed once.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.1...
Yeah, this article is insane!

I mean this article is targeted at what, the top %15 or so of Windows users? Look at how long this article is! For us!

In all honesty, how the hell can someone not just say "By a mac pa/ma" at this point. I mean the recent patent thing makes me want to spit in Apple's eye, but wtf Microsoft. Who can pretend this is a reasonable alternative for anyone who isn't pretty computer literate?

They are obviously betting on the merging of tablets and laptops in the future, but seriously, this shit better have a 30 minute tutorial and 30000 minutes of M$ tech support budgeted in.
Just after you silently remove PYDCA you also add them to the block list, and they never see you again.
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It's not hard if you have no traffic.
UX Lessons From Facebook's New iPhone App
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If it has a good view of some civilization I bet there are some point to point wireless internet providers in the area.
Diablo 3, new patch 1.04 with a lot of changes.
You've got a point.

I've been scouring the internet for an MSDN iso to go with the key. On certain ocean-theme based web sites I see people activating Windows 8 by the automated phone option. Assuming this is legitimate, is it a bug from Microsoft's side?

Strategically, since this represents a paradigm shift I can't help but have this sneaky suspicion that MS is going a bit lax on pirates. I mean, they are trying your new PC OS, aren't they? Once you've got them converted, you can milk them in the future directly (when they buy Windows phones/tablets) or indirectly (when they recommend the entire Windows eco-system to their family/friends by bragging about how they got their copy and how awesome it is).
Opera's built-in plugin blocker has a clickable icon in the address bar, which enables all plugins on the page.
Windows 8 is the Digg of OS. Complete redesign for no purpose at all.

And the fact they HAD a start menu interface until the final release (it was in the beta/candidates) is just a bigger insult.

W8 is actually usable once you add back in the start menu and have it go immediately to the desktop via a 3rd party program. Why microsoft didn't allow that option when they original did, is clear demonstration of them being obstinant.

Once again the lesson is - if you must change your product:

1. change it gradually
2. give an option for the old way
Why not? They can get them for $99 and the rewards will likely net them thousands of dollars before Apple catches on and revokes their certificates. If you want cost to be an obstacle to malware authors, it needs to be more than a measly $99.

This is simply a mechanism for Apple to stay ahead of any worm-like activity and they decided to attach a barrier to entry ($99) and recoup a pittance while they're at it.
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Insightful.

Interesting hypothesis that they need to hit a homerun now with every gadget they make.
The only thing that's "broken" here is that the site redirects you before you have any chance to enable plugins for the page.

Your Javascript comparison is inaccurate, no one is demanding the site should work without Flash. If a site redirected you before you could click on noscript (or whatever Javascript blocker) to load all scripts, I bet you there would be a lot of complaints.
Article is generally correct ... as of 2008.

Facebook changed their strategy, though, which is why it doesn't ring quite so true today.

The key issue Cory picked up on is that FB2008 had no concept of delineation of social circles -- between actual close friends, family, people who happen to know you, folks who used to be friends ages ago, "frenemies", and people you want to keep tabs on (and vice versa). Nor did it have any concept of different social roles -- e.g. Cory's teacher example. FB2012 is still pretty crap at managing all those aspects of multivalent identity, but at least they've made a few gestures in that direction.

Meanwhile, FB2009-FB2012 picked up users on a wave of network externalities; if everyone is on FB and using it for messaging, you can't ignore it.

I have an FB account. I hate and loathe FB, but my publishers' marketing folks insist I have an FB account. "But I've got a blog that gets 10-15 thousand daily visitors!" I tell them. "But everyone's on facebook," they chant. So I also have an FB author page with about 2K folks following it (and less than half of them actively reading it), and it forces me to waste time maintaining it and tweaking my privacy settings every time FB create a new privacy leak. This annoys me, and I'm pretty sure it annoys Cory as well, because we both have public personas and the relationship someone with a public persona has with FB is somewhat different to that of J. Random Member of Public. Whether it's truly as bad for everyone else ... shrug.
Amazed by how well it works on iPad.
Except that since there is a pending suit over the Galaxy Nexus, and this suit found that the Nexus S is infringing of all of the same patents, both ICS and Jelly Bean (stock, no TouchWhiz) are non-unique user interfaces. They've been found to blatantly copy iOS. Stock Android, including the most recent version, has been found to violate the patents in this case.

Think about that.
> Name one pre-iPhone smartphone that you'd be willing to pit against the iPhone.

Any phone that let you install your own applications.
I don't know about you, but I tend to multitask with things like research. Did I spend two solid, uninterrupted days without touching any other projects or not performing any other work-related activities? Of course not. This kind of thing is right up there with "Why is the sky blue?" and researching until you're satisfied with the answer. I spent the money, I'll see a return on the 'investment' before the week's out. But I'd still like to know more about what Apple said, when they said it, and how they've changed it since then.

Also note this in my comment above: "...in the Grand Scheme of Business, it's just not that much money."
Nobody are claiming Apple invented phones with big screens.
But you have to be pretty blind to not see that iPhone was a revolution in the smartphone market, which had barely seen any user interface innovation in 10 years prior to that.
I apologize for the hero worship, but I was merely trying to share some information that might be interesting to others. Elon is by no means perfect, his public speaking needs a lot of work, for example. Curiously though, he doesn't stutter at all when he was interviewed by Hannah. =)
This seems a more common trend. Windows really was the exception, where they aimed to please neither professionals, nor "average consumers", but this mythical "poweruser".

They didnt exist, Microsoft created them. And that was not a good thing. Many of them had a beaten wife syndrome: they became experts because even doing mundane trivial tasks, like burning a cd, organising your documents, installing software, required "poweruser level skills". Now they are afraid of change. They worry, they have to relearn all they know. They prefer to stick to the man they already know. Sure, he may beat them, but after all these years they know where its going hurt, and what his triggers are. Who knows how much more another man will beat them?

Im glad Microsoft is cleaning ship, and i understand that the windows "power users" will need counseling. I dont like the walled garden future though. But wouldnt it be great if my mom buys a new pc and she was actually capable of doing things with it, like she can with her ipad, without needing the assistance of a power user?

So, there i stand: death to the poweruser. They have to either man up and get professional, or lounge in the casual area, but lets not have them keep things back. From people being scared of shortcuts or powerusers dismissing linux because they have nightmares of terminal commands. Grow a pair, or embrace the new usability for casual users.
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Which itself is a clone of XJump from long ago..
Since when does becoming an advocate for open source make that advocacy exclusive?
I'm pretty sure podperson wasn't talking about himself. The main problem with Win8 seems to be that it's going to be difficult to learn for not so technically versed people, e.g. at least 80% of their userbase. And no, it's not true that they will just 'stay on win7'. a) They don't even know what version they're on anyway, b) they will just buy whatever is in store. I expect a massive wave of complaints to store support and OEM support hotlines, possibly enough to give some traction to easy-to-use preinstalled linux distros.
It's awkward that I can't vote and therefore save stories anymore. So I have to comment even if I don't have anything useful to say. Can't be the goal of Hacker News, can it?
I really like your proposal and as you said, it is perfectly in line with creative ethics. However it would not work for the part of innovation that is further away from end-products and their appearance.
Sometimes it is worth a lot to produce something cheaper by improving the production process. And that may mainly just mean lower prices.
By the way it seems to me that the hugely increased role of design - such as UX design - is now also reflected in shifting the economic battles from hardcore technology to something more "superficial". And I'm using that word neutrally.
I wouldn't say the article is insane. It's positive in nature, but Scott Hanselman has always struck me as an upbeat guy who isn't prone to overt cynicism. However, I noticed that the article does focus on working around Win 8 instead of with it, so (unintentionally) it's not a huge endorsement.

> how the hell can someone not just say "By a mac pa/ma"

The median household income in the US is just under $50k. Mac's are not priced for the masses.
I find it interesting that a lot of these titles had their linux ports released on the Humble Bundle. Pretty cool!
> Hmm - i really dont agree with this. Apple revolutionised the industry - before the iPhone we were using tiny screens with Nokia SMS interfaces or Motorla RAZR. Apple frankly blew the industry apart.

No one brings this up, but all of those phones looked and behaved the same as well. Presumable the first inventor of said phone style could have patented everything and disallowed anyone else to make a dumb phone. This is what the author is speaking to; the notion that an inventor, if with enough resources, can legally own the only logical way to do a particular thing. And if armed with enough of those, can legally own an industry. You don't have to be a lawyer to see there is something wrong with that.
I don't think there has been any shift for him at all. Ive always found his views on things refreshingly pragmatic.
Yep. I was using a Palm Treo smartphone four years before the iPhone came out. A solid phone, the Internet in my pocket, email on the go, and plenty of apps. The Palm app market went back to 1997, when the PalmPilot first came out. So as far as features and utility went, the iPhone looked kinda weak to me at launch.

I think the iPhone's main novelty in the market was that Apple invested heavily in consumer-friendly design and aesthetic appeal, and then they marketed the shit out it. They single-handedly dragged the smart-phone market across the chasm, just like they did with the MP3 player market. Brilliant and gorgeous work. But not in areas that I think are deserving of patent protection except when the R&D drives some deeper technical innovation.
Thats not what I'm saying nor am I criticizing him for it. From prior experience, when I make something I can use on a daily basis, I would find it hard to use something different.

Also being an advocate for open source software would make it more difficult to transfer to being a closed source software user. I'm not saying its not possible or wrong, I just feel his case is a curious one.

He is effectively a self proclaimed Apple fanboy on Twitter etc, and I would like to know more about the circumstances.
I think the point is the problem isn't with the database, but with the code not cacheing results. This isn't some new problem. The database shouldn't be the problem because you should be cacheing results.
I find it really interesting to compare different iterations of the same application. We can learn a lot about what works from closely watching a design team like Facebook's who generally isn't afraid to introduce new design patterns to iOS.

This app is a huge improvement, but there is still quite a ways to go. I'm really curious how the reviews for the new version will be.
"The AEI is a laughingstock in economic circles..." <- Ad hominem. See also the third paragraph of your most recent post.

"You should also ask yourself why the authors go through such contortions to count things like rentals as purchases..." <- Misrepresentation. The authors attempt to measure consumption of housing, as does thaumaturgy. You are the only person discussing real estate investments.

"Their "income" figures are equally shoddy since they include government transfers through programs like food stamps as part of the "market income" of poorer people..." <- Misrepresentation. The authors explicitly distinguish between earned and unearned income.

To cite just one example as evidence that you need to read AEI "research" more carefully, you can find the authors mention the mid-1980s inclusion of mobile homes and trailer parks as new forms of "housing consumption" in the first paragraph on page 15. <- Misrepresentation. The "re-definition" was done by the government, not the AEI. It's also irrelevant, since I compared square footage in 2009 to 1989 (i.e., both stats are after the redefinition).
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I really love the improvements in Windows 8 that have been made to the standard desktop applications.

It's just a shame that they bolted on Metro and then force feed it to you by making it your start menu. The metro interface is truly unintuitive. I feel more at home on in OS X than I do in Metro, and I hate OS X.
The Apple Win was not over TouchWhiz Customizations
Samsung is one of the least creative companies that ever existed and in my view a low quality high volume manufacturer. I hate it when companies make no effort to be good and just produce mediocre products with higher profit margins. It's no surprise that they copied Apple's UX because they definitely cannot produce something on their own. They deserve to be punished for being a player who simply tries to make money off others ideas, using their distribution muscle and market hold specifically in Asia. Guilty!
How can we make these threads not be like comp.sys.mac.advocacy?
Apple's Top Supplier Raises Salary, Cuts Probation for Workers
Typical linkbait spam website. Most of those games are not even from 2012, some much older (Prey, Savage 2, World of Goo...). Looks like a random post just to make a list and get people to link it.
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What do I need to say that I can hear so that you believe me?
Wasn't Aero removed altogether to make way for Metro?
Looks really awesome.

Just a little note. In your demo one of the negatives is misclassified which shouldnt really happen in a demo :P
HN and other sites have an 'I agree' button. Should that prove insufficient for expressing your enthusiasm for someone's comment, you can always find a grammatically correct way of saying "I agree", ranging from "I cannot more emphatically state my heartfelt support for your point of view!" to "FUCK YEAH!". "This." has always just seemed like a meme for the terminally grammar deficient.
Evidence that you can actually do the work is what is essential, those are only examples. Generally, the broader and more interesting the work at the job you're applying for, the broader the examples of your work, and other evidence, like working an example problem(s) in the interview, will be required.

The important thing for the company is that you provide more value than you cost, so they try to weed out people that either can't do enough work quickly enough or will require too much hand-holding to be practical in their work environment.
2008 should certainly be in the title, because this argument is woefully out of date. If it were right, Facebook would be well into a Friendster-like decline now.

But everybody has adapted. To my eye, it looks like a combination of better features on Facebook's part (hiding users, quiet unfriending, friend lists to control content distribution, auto-filtering of feeds to people it thinks you care about, etc); more skillful users; wider uptake of good social network etiquette; and people just getting used to the fact that everybody is on Facebook.

I look forward to the day that somebody will find a way to challenge Facebook, but I don't believe this is any longer a route.
Check out the hover bike...
I have read through this. But thats what i think now getting selected at YC is not much on the application but a lot of getting in touch with people individually and drawing attention to your application. We cant do that we are not based in the US ! :(
This case is fascinating. I don't know much about cycling, but I tend to side with Armstrong in this case. Will be interesting to see how it continues to play out.
Although the Han ted talk is from 2006, before the iPhone but after the patent (2005).

The oldest multitouch device I know is the MERL Diamond Touch table (2001) which clearly predates everything Apple did. I am unsure whether or not somebody had implemented Pinch&Zoom on it before 2005.

In 2007 I worked on a Multitouch Table project as a student (http://digitable.imag.fr/). We built our own FTIR table and implemented a basic interface. We used Pinch&Zoom; I implemented it myself and I can assure you I had never seen an iPhone before. It is so obvious that when you include it in an interface you do not have to explain it to the users, they will try it naturally. If anybody using a multitouch interface tries that within 10 minutes, how can it be patented?

I wonder when Microsoft started to use it internally, too. They already had a working prototype for Surface in 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEiFhD-DIlA
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The link is a screen cap of the GET request and the displayed error message from Chrome.
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Is there any information on the actual technology changes they made? It would be nice to know what the code looks like behind the scenes.
Or alternately, use your browser's bookmark functionality?
The Bloomberg video is one of the most interesting tech interviews I've ever seen.
Granting a monopoly on insights does not benefit society. Granting a monopoly on non-obvious inventions in return for the knowledge to replicate it does benefit society. Pharmaceuticals take years and millions of dollars to develop. Pinch-to-zoom took a moment of insight and a day of development work to prototype.

Apple's victory in this case is a negative for society.
I haven't seen this yet, but I also haven't taken the time to work through all their posts about it. Someone else who is more dev focused (I tend to focus on design) may be better to answer that.
Man, that's a brilliant idea. I hope companies will use it!

Hey a few pieces of constructive criticism, I only did the Python lesson so I may have a skewed view though:

- your tool somehow collapses double newlines? in the example, after the import statements came a class definition, which are (as suggested in PEP8) separated by a blank line so I pressed Enter twice. But your program expected me to already type the 'c' of 'class' :(

- it skips comments. and not only comments, but also docstrings! docstrings are not just "comments that happen to be documentation" but actually proper python code and part of the program, they are not ignored like comments, but can be introspected. When I'm programming Python, I'm also typing docstrings.

- the example I got had me starting out by importing a whole load of modules that were particular to that project. for Python practice it would make more sense to practice typing imports of the standard library, or popular frameworks.

- You should try to figure out some way to incorporate the particular keyboard shortcuts, autocompletion and other typical code-editor features, because learning to use those properly gives enormous advances in efficiency. Does your program at least do auto-indenting? For other features it is more difficult since they are so different across editors.
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I don't even know where to begin with this article. It screams of some hipster annoyance at Facebook (uncool) liking Gehry (cool):

"Asking Gehry to design their latest building is the classic no-taste-masked-as-taste, socially accepted anti-establishment move."
The connection with EA online was lost.
> Here's another crazy idea for shutting down your PC or Laptop - Press the Power Button.

You can thank Windows for this. Back in the day when we went from DOS to Windows, this notion of a "proper shutdown" was introduced, and God forbid you press the power button, or bad things would happen.

I'm not positive Windows was the first to do this, but I think it's safe to say it was the one that started this habit for most people.

And now, it has became so engraved in our brain that it's nearly impossible to un-train. I to this day never use the power button on any device to shut it down out of uncertainty that I don't know what will happen[1] if I do.

[1]http://www.aeropause.com/wordpress/archives/images/2008/11/a...
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