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I don't think you read the same article I did. He mentioned several things that appear to be major bugs, apps that are missing so many key features that they're practically downgrades (like Mail), and things that were removed for no apparent reason (like a clock).

If all of that is just "different", perhaps you're right: Windows 8 has a different bug count than Windows 7, a different number of frustrated users, a different standard for what makes sensible software and ultimately a different idea about what's worth that kind of money.
I think part of the reason "weakly typed" is ambiguous is because it's a bit pejorative, and "sloppy type" certainly isn't helping that. Maybe just "less typed" ? It really is an engineering tradeoff of how many assumptions you want to make explicit.
Really? The girlfriend and I shop at Costco, eat very healthy meals and it runs us about $400-500/month for the both of us.

Back when I was poor I could eat pretty healthy for about $150/month.
> - Start menu gone, wtf? Yes I do use it, and yes I do still click on it with my mouse to find certain things. The new search is worse... If I want 'windows update' I first have to click where I want to search for 'windows update' (and if I can't remember the name of what I'm looking for, this doesn't even work).

How do you find anything in a windows start menu? Every application has its own naming scheme and complete control over where it puts itself in there. I consider it one of the worst long standing user experiences that still seems to be promoted/accepted for some unknown reason.
Killing your favorite features
Seems like a good solution to the problem. Is this not a common conflict when working on iOS? Seems like the only long term solution would be a dependency manager a la ruby's bundler.
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They don't publish their api publicly but I believe they have capacity to do so - http://redwoodhfg.com
She's married to a co-founder.

If she thinks that she's increasing the odds of a successful exit, then below market compensation could be financially worthwhile for that reason alone.
Calendar Plus has launched
XP was also based on the NT kernel and it was a direct descendant of Windows 2000.
Well, placing papers on cars is legal in most cities, and is not littering unless the recipient (or weather) places it on the ground after it's been placed on the car.

All one has to do is discard it. To go the extra mile to trudge down to the police station or Mayor's office and make a stink about it appearing to be a ticket would indeed make the person a vindictive jerk.

Now, as an aside, the mindset of one who sees a "ticket" on their car from a distance is probably not conducive to a positive response to the pitch.

The fact that the poster here clearly calculated the weight of his actions versus the impact of the preceding event the on the attendee was what I thought was interesting.

It's a calculated risk, and one or two pings of interest is clearly worth the possible fine.

Again, in my opinion.
One of the donators was:
Joseph Sikorski
"FRAGMENTS FROM OLYMPUS-The Vision of Nikola Tesla"
Joseph Sikorski: co-author/director

The other was anonymous, but I doubt it will stay that way considering they chose the write-up reward.
Why not use Org mode in Emacs?

http://orgmode.org/

There are a butt-load of features and 50% of you retain your favourite editor.
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Yeah. And as above I'm kinda sorta with you. People tend to criticize Go along similar lines, that it's not particularly innovative, and my reaction is similar. It's not meant to make you look smart or blow your socks off or whatever; it's meant to help you be productive in no small part by being very, very straightforward.

As such, I'd actually criticize Java for not being simple enough. It's well and good to be staid, but excessive bureaucracy is problematic. Arrays are thoroughly un-idiomatic in Java. Exceptions play hell with attempts at control-flow analysis. Lack of type inference increases repetition. The language is embarrassingly devoid of literals. Pick your poison, really.

And people should feel free to disagree, but I don't think such as type inference, literals, or multiple return values are anything particularly flashy. If anything, they tend to make code simpler and/or cleaner.
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It's interesting to me that most publishers won't sell ebooks directly to the public.

DRM not only protects the content but it also locks the customer into a vendor. By the time the publishing industry decides to give up on DRM (like they did with music), the landscape will be buttoned up by the big three (B&N, Apple, and Amazon.)
I'd further break down Windows 98. My experience with the initial version was that it was not reliable. Microsoft actually released a Second Edition that I considered quite capable. The SE Version also should be considered when USB on a consumer OS really became usable.

I also recall many disliked XP in it's early days(until SP2) and Windows 98 users were "never going to upgrade." Funny, how things change and yet remain the same.
I agree with that it doesn't have to be different and that PCs are not tablet, at least on the preview version you could set it to be just like Win7. So I was reading through the article to see if the OP had actually run it in old school mode and still found it unusable. I can't tell. Maybe they will post here.
In fact, it's here http://www.elidickinson.com/story/weather-updates-your-hp-pr...

I think it was the first python script I wrote.
He did say "roughly."
Another thing that made this situation complicated was
that Kyle and I are recently engaged.

This is a cute article but for obvious reasons completely inapplicable to anyone else seeking a job at a startup.
I think we already have this system - it's the browser's cache.
Consider the following sequence of steps:

1) add the "SIG" values to the tags in the HTML page that have SRC attribute. Be it scripts, or images, or iframes, or what not. So far, we've just bloated the page a bit with no good effect for the user.

2) update the code in the browser to calculate for each resource in the browser's cache the values of a few "frequently used" signatures, and allow the signature-based access to the content [compressed trie?], in addition to indexing the cache by the URL. Now, the "bloat markup" from step 1 starts to kick in - and you can reuse web-wide all sorts of resources - scripts, downloadable fonts, artwork, whatever. At this point the user spends the time only on the first download of the file, even if that file comes from a very slow VPS.

This approach could dramatically decrease the load on the CDNs for the frequently-repeated content, and get the latency down to near zero, so it would be much better than even the ISP-hosted CDNs.

Maybe anyone is reading this who is familiar with the FF/Chromium codebase to comment on the feasibility of such an approach ?
I got it, and I was thoroughly impressed.
It may be I self filter, I read this comment:

"There are certain things that you do with your PC every day that should form the basis of the operating system. Email. Instant Message. Calendars. Media Playing. All of these functions in Windows 8 are carried out through Metro apps, and they are universally awful. There are no desktop apps included that do a similar job."

And I thought, you didn't open up a web browser? I do all of those thing on the web and none of them in the OS's UI. Well maybe not media playing.
Shift click? Didn't try that yet. I always just click the VS shortcut again, and voilà: a new instance is launched.
No, from what I understand there are no changes to the rules about investors needing to be accredited (http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm) which prevents the general public from investing.

This would just allow startups to publicly state "I want investment" instead of saying "I have this awesome startup [wink wink]" and waiting for an investor to say "would you like investment?".
I grew up reading a lot of Golden Age (1938 to 1946) science fiction authors (Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein et al.) and this article provides a wonderful insight into the publishing world in their formative years.

It must have mirrored something of the revolution that has gone on in modern times with the internet opening up so many new markets that individuals can exploit. Certainly before the advent of paperbacks genre fiction was mostly confined to magazines which is where most (all?) of the Golden Age authors got their start.
I had no idea.. if so, they do a good job of making themselves appear smaller than they really are.
In Win7? Tap the Windows key and type the name of the program. At least for a power user, this is quite nice. It's arguably on par with Spotlight as an application launcher, with similar trade-offs (e.g. multiple matches--- which is the right one?).

I'm not a huge fan of Windows, but this is one thing that Win7 (or Vista?) substantially improved over XP.
THIS. I'd say at least half of the time I went to retrieve a good revision of a file from backup, it was already too late and the backup was trash as well.
What's the experience of a Metro app on a large screen monitor...always fullscreen? The app is either running or not? Multiple Metro apps displayed/running simultaneously? Is Metro on by default for "pcs?"

Yes. Yes. Sort of. Yes, and you can't turn it off.

You can run 2 metro apps at a time. 1 in fullscreen with the other "docked" in a limited mode to the side.
That's hella creepy.

What if I think I'll be happier living closer to friends or family and that happens to be far from your office? All of a sudden you're going to pay me less? Since when are you a better judge of what will make me happy than I am? Since when is that even your job?
Yes, metro apps are fullscreen. No menu bar or anything like that. So if you have some background tasks you won't be able to see if they're finished...

And apps can be suspended or closed. Suspended is something like 'sleep mode'. They're still in your alt-tab menu (you can directly launch them).

And regarding the last question: yes: metro is the default. When you boot up Windows you will see metro. And as far as I know there is no longer the option to remove it. Every time you need something you will return back to the metro start screen.
Funnily enough, I thought a missed opportunity was using emacs' Org-mode syntax, or at the very least exporting to it.
There's Vendor, which is like bundler: http://www.vendorkit.com/

But there's a bit of a bootstrapping problem and doesn't seem to have gained much traction in the last few months.

There are a few other approaches for Cocoa in general:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/178434/what-is-the-best-w...

Sadly, preprocessor macros ended up being the most pragmatic solution I could come up with. I'd love to hear other ideas though. :-)
I wrote about the exact opposite: what I've learned about getting users without any marketing or PR.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4415473

I am posting this here in case someone who's good in marketing or PR sees it and reaches out.
As annoying as it can be to come out and find someone has placed a flyer on my car, I very, very, seriously, highly doubt that I would NOT be charged for assault if I was to beat them up for it. But I'm willing to look at evidence in the contrary.
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It's not quite true anyway (it still includes Windows Media Player) and, besides, Windows 7 didn't include mail/IM/calendar apps of any kind.
> Presumably, Amazon powers off the hardware until it’s needed.

Reporter never heard of tape backup.
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I totally agree with this. Each new app that I install prompts a new hunt through the Programs part of the Start menu for where the app might have stashed its icons -- would they be in a new folder with the same name as the app? In a folder with the name of the publisher? In the random dump of icons at the top that don't bother to create a folder for themselves? This leads to typing in the name of the app in the search box and letting Windows do this hunting for me.

Microsoft's UX research found this as well. People prefer pinning apps Windows 7 to the taskbar over the Start menu[1].

The "hit Windows key and type name of app" scenario is preserved quite nicely with the Start screen.

1. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/10/03/evolving-the-s...
All of the things in your 'courts of law' routine work with case studies. Ironically, the major caveat with case studies is that they are not considered the 'final word' (#4 in your court requirements), yet you're demanding that science doesn't exist until the final word is known. Case studies are falsifiable (which I presume is your sticking point) because later observations can counter them. The context of your court points is that creationism does not allow later observations to counter it. Your own court-appointed words are not as strict as you think.

This, by the way, is why there is so little science in psychology

You're also showing prejudice here, and with a profoundly unscientific single anecdotal point used to tarnish an entire field. Psychology is a vast field and yes, there is a lot of shoddy science in some areas, but to say that there's little [good] science in it is just plain wrong. There are thousands of explainable, testable theories in psychology.
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Sir Ken Robinson FTW!
Wait, are you opening it from the Start screen? That switches by default instead of opening a new instance, but for desktop apps there's an app command (right click) to open a new window. I'd still recommend shift-click from the taskbar though (same as in Win7).
Salary for angel/VC-backed startup co-founder?
I meant to have a lot of qualifications in the submission: Faster than google by being slower!
- you need to find a price
- you need to find a image
- you if google front page doesn't show you that, you have to count browsing to the link, opening it up, finding price.

When I googled Apple Iphone 4, google still wins, as one of their ads shows me a iphone 4 with a price.

But for some more unique brands, something more interesting, often it takes a browse into the site to get an image and price. Google will always get initial results faster.
The money is goin gto a nonprofit.

http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/about/
>"that's exactly what you do"

No, it isn't what I would do. You might re-balance your portfolio if your capital is limited, but you'd be crazy to sacrifice high expected returns for the sake of zero beta. Admittedly, my personal portfolio is much smaller than Peter's.

>"How much do you bet?"

If I were looking to profit from games? A lot. What I wouldn't do is go to a game with worse odds, that paid me for a roll of 6, for the sake of "diversifying", which is essentially what you're implying by saying Thiel sold his stake for this purpose. I would stick to the game with the best odds just like I would stick to the asset with the highest expected return.

I other words, if Mr. Thiel truly believed FB was a $100BB company, he'd be a fool to sell off his shares right now. I think this reveals that he doesn't really believe that. Neither do I, so I don't blame him.
Interesting. So doesn't sound possible to divide the screen such as for an editor/Word on one half and to read a PDF or use a browser on the other half?
Yeah, that was that I intended -- a general example. Given her previous salary of $116k+, she was obviously in some kind of professional/technical IC or low level manager role before.
If you really wanted to preserve something, I'd consider printing it on gold leaf. One gram of gold turns into about 4 sq ft, and assuming we can print at 1200dpi, we'd have 4 x 144 x 1200 x 1200 bits, or about 100 megabytes. So you'd need about ten grams, at a price of $530 or so, plus storage. Though you could just bury it in your backyard.
Doesn't the new folder get highlighted the first time you check the start menu after installing a program? I don't find it difficult. Though the Win8 method (the new apps are just put to the far right of the start screen, so I hit winkey -> End) works fine too.
That assumes that his network allows anyone to connect to the internet from it, which is not implied here. Open wifi usually lets anyone who hops on the network talk to the world, but I'd bet someone like Schneier is more sophisticated about that sort of thing.
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Absolutely. Were an alien to pick up this thread it would think that programming was some God-appointed job.

Jeff, congrats from another (ashamed for the moment) programmer.
I know of no employees who took the mostly-cash offer, but that may be a selection bias on my part; I've never worked for Palantir, and am just friends/hang out with people who particularly care about their job (independent of where they work), don't have children or other major cash obligations, and are libertarian tax-minimizers. Those people are highly likely to shoot for highest EV (vs. low risk) and pushing as much income to capital gains as possible.
Breast feeding is hard to learn, no doubt about it. I disavowed the saying when I had learned that, and had an opportunity to do so. But the saying does point out how absurd the 1990s human interface "intuitive" fad was.
Funny, I would never have guessed that the book world had been rocked by such a revolution so relatively recently. Had I been asked about this yesterday I'd have guessed that the book industry had been relatively undisrupted between the invention of the Gutenberg printing press and the invention of the e-book.

That being said, it warms this bibliophile's heart that a previous revolution did not obsolete hardcover books. Perhaps they'll stick around through this one as well.
> (Expecting something like /dev/ttyUSB0 to point to a particular device is rather optimistic, of course, which is why you write a rule to make that /dev/avr_programmer or something.)

And then the rule format changes, or something. Point is I've never had a problem finding a device without udev; I don't generally hotplug things into my desktop. The exception would be flash drives, but the first one plugged in becomes da0, the next one becomes da1... it's never been an issue for me because my only use cases are "leave this drive plugged in all the time and mount it in fstab", in which case it has a stable device node in practice if not in theory, and "mount a friend's drive that I will most likely never connect again"... anyway. My experience is that for a system with the same set of devices plugged into it, multiple boots will reliably give each device the same /dev node on a non-udev system.
On the contrary, the author mentions tape backup:

> It’s the stuff you might normally put on tape in a vault somewhere.
There is no "old school mode" left. There are third party utilities to bring back things like the classic start menu, to disable booting into Metro, etc., but it cannot simply be disabled.
also

- right click on the running instance in the task bar and select Visual Studio

- middle click on the already running instance in the task bar

same as with Windows 7
Pretty good choices, users. Except for Arthur Benjamin.
Once the app is already running and visible in the taskbar, you can right-click the icon in the taskbar, and click the link with the same name as the app (e.g. for Google Chrome, the link I'm talking about says "Google Chrome"). This will open a new instance of the app.
Cool! That looks much more active.
I'm seeing a lot of these posts lately, it reminds me of a Woody Allen joke:

Roughly "I'm taking a class on speed reading. I was able to read War and Peace in one night. It's about Russia."
No, what he's saying is well known about those certification boot camps. They are notorious. This is not just his experience. It is well known, you could google and find probably a lot of articles about it.
Meanwhile, the Mac OS X users are buying magic trackpads in droves, scrolling and swiping between their windows and virtual desktops with ease, and enjoying non-crippled desktop apps...

A lot of the awkward controls in Windows 8 seem to stem from Microsoft's lack of a real multi-touch input device... hovering in screen corners, dragging screen edges, etc.
I think there are some major logical flaws in what you are saying.

1 - 'The most productive people' is a weak description of anything. Producing what? Money? If so, please just say 'the highest earners'. If not, please remember that some 'unskilled labourers' could be 'the most productive people' in their own fields (eg. construction). Some earn a lot of money too...

2 - Most 'unskilled labour' now happens in Asia. Work hours have probably increased rather than decreased as compared to 40 years ago (in the factories of the West, where at the time strong unionism led to better conditions).
If you guys have any questions, ask me on here. I will try to answer.

Although we got very far without any PR or marketing, we'd be happy to talk to someone who has connections to tech blogs or can help us with that in general. Until now, we've been pretty much getting everything done on our own steam.
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At a very early stage startup, being a late founder means $50k cash salary (I get $30k as a founder, and if we did a late founder, I'd push for the same salary) vs. $100k+ for employee #1, but huge equity (5-50% instead of 0.5-5%, depending on person, size of team, how late, etc.). If you don't view founder-level equity as being worth $50-100k less cash comp, you probably shouldn't work there.
Dropbox is currently swamped.
You can run multiple versions of VS (2012...I haven't checked others). If you pin it to the start menu and right-click and open a new instance it will open a new instance. Agree that this is annoying. It seems like the metro start/find screen takes the focus back to an existing instance by default, rather than launching a new instance. For a user with a fairly simple mental model of how things work this is probably a good thing, but for more advanced users it is a problem.
I'm a bit confused, how does this qualify as "we already have this system" when your step #2 is "update the code in the browser"?

Aside from that, yes, this sounds pretty much like what I'm thinking of.
> Amazon was not immediately available for comment, but in all likelihood, Glacier is based on older hardware that the company wants to wring some extra dollars from before retiring.

This seems unlikely. If it were true then Amazon would be in trouble if the service became popular and demand exceeded the supply of old hardware.
I'd like to see the author of this piece respond to the criticisms in the "uninstalling" article. Some of the answers will be "it's a lot better with a touchscreen," of course, but I'd like an experienced user to weigh in.
No need to tweak the mechanics!
Popcap has been around 12 years, Zynga 5. It should be expected that they might have to lay some people off after over a decade in business.
Congratulations!

I'd be interested to see some more detail. For example, how useful was the Facebook page compared to e-mail support? Can you show us a graph of user growth? What are some other things you tried that ended up not working so well?