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> The search is broken

It's not broken. They intentionally split apps from settings from files. It's a different search style that takes some getting used to, but it's not broken. All the functionality is still there.

> I don't get that, even though there is room on that full paged search screen, they only show a couple of apps.

This is exactly why they split them. In the Windows 7 start menu, you get 3 programs, 3 emails, 3 documents, etc (and these change based on what got returned). There's not enough room to display a significant number of results if your search hit multiple types.

Now, instead of getting 3 programs, of which none might be relevant, you'll get all the app results. Or all the settings. Or all the files. Or all the store results. Or all the Bing results. Or whatever else you choose.

> You have to click on options at the right to have it search settings or files. What a stupid, stupid oversight.

Tab works fine.

I get why you're annoyed with this. It's a very different style of search than what Windows 7 trained us on. And personally, I'd prefer if settings had been rolled into apps instead of being a separate category, because, e.g., I don't think of the ClearType tuner as a setting. However, I think on the whole the search functionality is greatly improved, because now 3rd party apps can plug in trivially.
Great article highlighting some of Adobe's new web-related products.

I especially excited about Edge Animate! My little brother (who majoring in Animation) asked me, "If Flash is dying on the Internet, what will people use to create animations?" I didn't quite know how to answer that question a few months ago -- it seemed to me that Flash the application was more accessible than writing dozens, and dozens of lines of code to produce sub-par animations.

Yay for Adobe getting into this space, and for charging a subscription fee rather than a huge, up-front price (I believe this will substantially lower the amount of pirated software, too).
I've found that I end up heavily reliant on the VMWare Fusion app menu for anything other than launching Internet Explorer - which, to be fair, is 99% of what I use Windows for.
>They just said it was "at risk to generate fraudulent activity" (loose translation).

Wow, so they didn't even accuse you of fraud... just "pre-fraud". It's especially funny since every active AdSense account is one malicious visitor away from "fraudulent activity". I'm not sure how you can be more "at risk" than that.
clickable: http://fliqq.com
Not in the US, mostly they get a "administrative" leave and go on vacation until things die down. Small pawns however are fired, but that's about it.
Are you trying to say this is not representative of Windows users?
They could trivially bring Google Maps from iOS5 to iOS6... if Apple wanted them to.
+1, "Kicking it into mode 7" was one hell of way to spend a Saturday night.

There's no youth like nerd youth.
Mapping isn't a finite problem. If you read about the Coastline Paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox), every map is based on abstraction. You can get more and more detail but there will always be parts that are simplified and abstracted. It's like trying to get to the door by going half the distance each time. Eventually, it'll be a small distance (and not a big problem, which is generally the case for Google Maps) but you'll never completely solve it.
I'm kind of a casual gimp user in that I can do simple things with it and when I need to know a little more, I dig deeper into the docs. Maybe others in your intended audience are similar. I'd like to learn more about things I see on the menus but don't use because I don't know why I need them, like layer groups, layer masks, and alpha channels. The other major hole in my gimp knowledge is about the scripting features.
Chsudo - drop-in replacement for visudo
Simon Peyton Jones - Haskell is useless
Gold ferrari, gold rims = awww yeeeeeee

Super impressed by the quality of this - I've played with webGL a good amount and I don't think I've seen anything this clean and bug-free. Super props to the author
My experience says that you need to be good at at least one of these. Ideally, you should do all IMO:

1. Network especially with people you have already worked with/for in industry that you are now freelancing in. Most ppl underestimate this. For example, I have a list of contacts whom I email at least once a year just saying hi. I usually do it during christmas/new year eve. Never burn bridges with anyone and always try and stay in touch.

2. Get found by people/clients/recruiters/employers by building a strong online presence. I constantly get good offers through linkedin. To do this however, you need to focus on a more specialist profile vs. a generalist profile. Focus on your niche, add the right keywords and experience, get recommendations online in that domain and frequently update your profile.
Reminds me a bit of Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress

The colony is dug underground in the moon and various resources are shot back to earth with a large catapult. And a super computer plays a large role in the plot.

My hope is that a private company may find profit in something like this, even if it is subcontracting for NASA or as part of the efforts of getting people to Mars.
Increasingly in the server space people use processor cycles additively (is that a word?) because to some degree you can work out how many vCPUs a physical server configuration will give you by adding the clock cycles of all the processors.

It's not perfect - but is a lot easier than dealing with having to look up Intel CPU numbers to see how many cores it has, then multiplying that by the clock speed, then guessing. Getting the total cycles means you can jump straight to the guessing ("estimating") part.
I remember reading a story about Pages for Pages on NeXTSTEP. The manual was done before the software, so if there was any design question about how the program should work, they turned to the manual. I think it was an article by Bruce Webster (he is an awesome writer).
How Do You Grade Yourself?
Bitcoin mining is pure integer, actually.
App.net Will Start Paying Developers $20K A Month To Be Part Of Its Ecosystem
Did he misspell declarative as array?
Do you have a source for that? All the chatter I've heard is that Apple Maps is actually really useful in China.

EDIT: Blog post from someone living in China extolling the virtues of iOS 6 maps http://anthonydrendel.com/blog/2012/9/24/ios-maps-and-china....
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Yeah right. Ask Steve Ballmer if he'd rather be beating Google in search or Apple in mobile. Latter pie is much, much bigger.
Again great suggestions. I didn't really know where to start so I threw something simple together to get some feedback. Thank you!
The problem is that with AdSense, there is no "coping". The lack of customer service means that once their algorithms decide that you are breaking the rules, your account is just gone, along with any money earned since the last payout. If you're going to rely on AdSense for revenue, you had better have another ad service in the chamber.
Trying to 'checkout' the book doesn't seem to be supported for this offer.
Instead the splash on the front page points to http://packtlib.packtpub.com/library

This seems to work for me.
Programs Prepare Developers to Meet Global Demand
I still mainly do Flex development (building educational research games on contract for a big university). I'm hoping that Adobe builds a Flex like framework for Javascript that integrates with their Edge suite. I'd love to be able to deploy games/apps directly in the browser instead of relying on a plugin or AIR on the desktop.
How do you open an application quickly? For instance, in windows 7 I click start, start typing the name of the app I want, press return, and it opens. I thought the start menu in Windows 8 loaded the Metro UI. How do I use that to launch my app quickly?

All the time it takes for the full screen metro UI to animate into and out of view, is time I could be searching for something.
>No data was stolen from the banks, and their transactional systems -- like their ATM networks -- remained unaffected. The aim of the attacks was simply to temporarily knock down the banks' public-facing websites.
This is a joke. If one wants cold storage, look to the mountains or polar regions. The latency won't suck as bad and it will be a whole lot cheaper.
Just so you know, Win+F is file search. Win+Q is app search. Win+W is settings search. I don't really understand how these particular keys were chosen, but that's what they are.
Whatever works. Just realize you'll have a lot to unlearn when you get done working on those projects, like the fact that your real rate is anywhere from 1.5x to 5x higher than you've been getting.

Also not sure how advisable it is to set up a stable of recurring/referring customers on a rate established in competition with the types of freelancers that frequent those sites.
You're right, I did misread your reply - I originally thought you said it was innovation that took laboratory time. Though, now that you've explained it further, I'm still not sure I agree with the concept. Pure research follows a specific method - you form ideas, form a hypothesis, create an experiment, and test your hypothesis, then revise and test again. There is nothing, ever, that is not tested. Though, you can certainly make the argument that a few of Bret's projects (such as Tangle) work as small-scale experiments for testing his larger ideas. I may actually concede that point; though it is not exactly the big picture he's talking about, it does test the tools he suggests using to achieve that big picture.

And, I have seen the talks where he demonstrates his software. I just wish he would make it available (open source, sell it, whatever) so that others could use it and test it. Wouldn't you like to try out those tools he shows?
Ask HN: Have you hired non-tech people from HN?
I'm wondering who has had success hiring non-tech people from HN who's hiring or jobs. What does the typical person look like? Experience, background, etc...

How valuable is non-technical experience to your start-up and what value do you see them bringing? Also, what is the most valuable skill set for a non-tech employee?
More people moan the more likely it is Apple will throw resources at it. It needs people using it and complaining to show where the data isn't working.
Someone was telling me only a couple of days ago about a time when Google Maps guided her to a nonexistent building out in the middle of nowhere next to some farm field in Pennsylvania. That story and some of my own Google Maps Fail experiences wouldn't scare me off of Google Maps since the tool, although sometimes mistaken, is much better than what I used to navigate back in the 90s! Reminds me of Louis C.K. joking about people complaining about not being able to get on WiFi when they're magically sitting in a chair 30,000 feet up in the sky. Apple wanted to build a mapping tool, and they'd probably get complaints from folks on here no matter whether they started with an excellent data source or whether they broke from their tradition and took a gutsy move that might hurt the user experience for a while. :)
I installed Windows 8 last week. After hearing all the noise, I was excited to try something so radical. I ended up a little bit disappointed that things were so similar to Windows 7. But it sounds like there are lots of ways to do things. (10 years ago, that was my primary complaint about Windows.)
Good article. I was surprised to see they left out Clayton Christensen and his work on the topic, "How Will You Measure Your Life?" A little more reaching in it's content probably, but still a very influential and thought-provoking book and philosophy.
1. Click start

2. Start typing the name of the app you want

3. Press return

4. It opens

Same exact flow as Windows 7. Typing while on the Start Screen will perform an app search.
Where's the love for languages like APL and J?
You can do the same thing - pressing the Start key does bring up the Metro UI, but if you just start typing there it does the same sort of search for apps/files/etc. that Windows 7 does.
Oh for sure. I'll try it when it comes out in October.
I'm not sure early adopters are the easiest people to please... thinking of "antennagate" from iphone4 and now "scuffgate" from iphone5 I would say early adopters (who I suppose are generally experts - or at least technology-orientated) are more likely to pick up and report on things that

a) get viewership (i.e. complaining) and
b) are so subtle the eventual mainstream user wouldn't even notice without it being pointed out to them.

I don't have any hard science to back my claim either way ;-)
This isn't satire. All you did was replace Apple with Orange and take a cynical stance on what they said.
> Has there ever been an OS release where (at first) people prefer the new one?

Every Linux distro with the possible exception of Red Hat 7 (when they bumped up gcc version and broke some binaries) and the ones that replaced the Gnome 2 desktop with Unity and Gnome 3. Every MacOS version with the exception, perhaps, of 7.5 and 10.0.
I know, it kills me to have to have that disclaimer on there. The reason is twofold: 1) Our payments platform supports U.S. only at the moment. 2) We want to start small and with what we know.

That said, we plan on growing this down the road. :)
This is not remotely as dangerous as e.g. the cyberattacks on Google [1], the cyberattacks on RSA Labs (and Lockheed) [2], or the cyberattack on Iran's centrifuges (allegedly; [3]) - it's just Yet Another DDoS. The chief national-security danger is that some bank will pay up and that this money will be used for evil.

Given those facts, "biggest cyberattack in history" is rather overblown. (It may be the biggest DDoS in history, but DDoS just aren't that dangerous.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

[2] http://www.scmagazine.com/rsa-confirms-lockheed-hack-linked-...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Apple CEO Tim Cook Is ‘Extremely Sorry’ About Apple Maps
This patent is also for tree branches. With chains.

Regular metal frames in playgrounds are exempted and so too are tree branches with ropes.
>with Cook having commented on "the number of app stores out there" and Jobs referring to the "four app stores on Android."

See, this is why, if you want to sue people, you run your public statements by your legal team.
Conversely one thenth of a google at the competitor is better than 0 from google.
Even here in Dublin, Ireland it is pretty hopeless. The zoo is now in the centre of a shopping district in town (rather than a few km outside), and loads of smaller roads are missing / have the wrong names. There is pretty much no point searching for anything...
Curious, I've heard many times now that by simply using Apples new mapping app it will get better when more people use it. I have yet to understand how that process works. Can anyone elaborate? Thanks.
> Is the problem that Windows 8 sucks or that these users are extremely adverse to change?

Or both, perhaps.
I wonder if the best argument against this involves outcomes. How effective are these campaigns?

It seems a bunch of artifical Likes that no one will follow up on will go nowhere. In that case, someone might point out that this strategy is not working. Employee time would be better invested in improving the product, or coming up with a better marketing strategy.

If the strategy is working, then the company probably doesn't need this approach. The product doesn't take off because of these Likes, it takes off because it's a good product.
Some computer scientists (e.g. Martin Odersky, creator of Scala) don't see object oriented programming as a true paradigm, for it can be quite easily combined with them (hence Scala and its oop + functional programming approach).

I think this sounds reasonable, especially considering the pseudo-oop of todays languages.
Feynman would be happy.
As a non-California resident, Jerry Brown seems to be doing a pretty impressive job. He seems to talk about the real issues, especially when Cali's budget, and puts good legislation through.
Why do you say that? Google didn't make the the Maps app in previous versions of iOS, Apple did—they just used Google's data.
Bad Piggies (Angry Birds sequel) tops Apple Store in less than 24 hours
Your iPhone 5 costs only 41 cents for charging per year
Are You Choosing Facebook Over Your Website?
I don't know about that. More[1] and more[2] authors[3] these days are giving[4] away their books for free online as a form of advertising.

1: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

2: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

3: http://www.kschroeder.com/my-books/ventus/free-ebook-version

4. http://craphound.com/rotn/download/
Reminds me of the old expression: "fast, cheap, good. pick two."

When we were largely buying shrink wrapped software they almost all came with decent sized manuals (quality varied, of course). He tagged the post with a bunch of open source projects, which has almost never been an area of good manuals. It's very uncommon for "scratching your own itch" to lead to comprehensive documentation for obvious reasons. Developers seldom write the extensive manuals, tech writers do.
Standards are much higher for maps than when Maps was new (just as they are for planes)

You wouldn't want Apple building iPlane this way, right?
I share your concerns, though I'm optimistic it's not quite so bad. For one thing, I've noticed in some places that gentrification is not monotonically increasing, and is in fact cyclical.

I lived for some time in Belltown (Seattle), a former starving-artist neighborhood that then got hit by the gentrification bug really hard. At this point the artist population in that neighborhood hovers around zero, and has all been replaced by high-rises and expensive but mediocre bistros. From the long-timers (well, longer-timers) I've spoken to, Belltown is actually less expensive than at its peak, as the complete eradication of everything interesting about the place has caused it to lose a lot of the appeal - to the point where it may actually be cheap enough for art to exist again :P

The artists are alive and well - we're simply seeing a slow, decades-long process where different demographics ebb and flow in the different parts of a city. On a larger scale, we're also seeing a decades-long process where populations ebb and flow amongst different regions in response to economic pressure. Detroit has now established itself as perhaps the next "it" place in large part due to its affordability. I highly doubt America will ever run out of compelling environments for art to thrive.

FWIW, I'm a little skeptical about your Q train experience. I ride that train (and the F, more the F than the Q) regularly and have very, very rarely encountered that kind of attitude. IMO you're making a mountain out of a molehill - I would be very hesitant about guessing at demographics from it.

> "and realize the charm of the entire place is in danger of being lost."

Sure, and I'll agree with you - but my point also is that you weren't there first. Williamsburg was interesting and artsy before the new demographic moved in, but it was also completely different and interesting before the starving artists moved in. The existing charm you now miss was, in its time, an usurper of existing culture as well, and that turned out ok. I suspect this will also.
> blanking out the screen then the dialog

That was a much bigger issue than people give it credit for, especially since Vista shipped on a number of underpowered systems. My first encounter with UAC scared the living daylights out of me: I had just bought a new laptop. A few minutes in to setting things up, my screen turned off. For about a minute. Maybe two minutes. I was freaking out. Eventually it came back with a dialog asking if I would give permission to move a file.

Disaster.
Thanks for the reply. I'm trying to build something to help with the automation and would love to have a chat with you sometime if you're available.
Apple could, and apparently they have a year left on their contract?
This is a radical change from how we might have imagined Steve Jobs dealing with this situation.

I can imagine a scenario in which Steve spins the maps snafu so that the customers end up apologizing to him.

"In Steve Job's Apple, the customer is always wrong."
In addition to the many, many other problems with this, the moon is pretty well unprotected from cosmic rays and radiation. Hardening computers against that is, to put it lightly, uncheap.
No. This patent was for sideways swinging.
I agree on on the corporate envirnoment. I wonder if MSFT is even expecting Win8 to penetrate that market. I welcome them taking the big changes and moving forward with Win8. I'll have to wait and see how the hybrid tablet thing works out, but i'm going to give it a go.
Install Windows 8 and stay in desktop mode. It's faster and has nice improvements to things like task manager, file copies, etc. There's no need to spend significant time in the "metro" part of Windows 8 if you don't want to.
Why is this link back from the dead? It was front page HN months ago
Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit
Because he holds Apple in high regard?
First and only known time?
If Jobs were there, they wouldn't have release the phone with maps. What they should have done is put both maps and google maps on at the same time and have a switch off date for google.
Freelancing is all about relationships. If a possible client is looking for a freelancer to complete a project, the only difference between Developers A and Developer B is their price (because, the client isn't going to understand the skill/talent of the two developers - they're not developers themselves). But, if you're able to form a relationship with them, then you're not Developer A anymore, you're James. And there's a HUGE difference between James and Developer B. The client knows James, the client trusts James. The client knows James wont' screw them over.

So, I'd say make your approach a very personal one. Try to get them invested in you as a person. This will be difficult to do with those "one-off" jobs, but will work great for clients that have multiple projects that need to be completed. It also works well if you work as a contractor for local agencies (as suggested by @iantrerell).

Also, a decent source of information is Freelance Switch (http://freelanceswitch.com/).
I was going by http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-language-is-bes... . (the most naive/obvious approach - all benchmarks have weight 1, code size has weight 1, other factors have weight 0). I know it measures gzipped code size; I think that's a reasonable measure for "density".

Looks like I'm out of date, ruby 1.9 has overtaken python. Guess it's time to learn ruby.
As a web developer php type guy..

Things i have done to get work-

Network- attend tech conferences and talk to people

Blog about your area of interest

I ran google adwords on specific key terms, this helped to get a decent bulk of work with a 20x ROI

Over time your network will build up.
Funny, cause I changed the sentence last minute.
I had put "on TPB" first, but changed especially not to be said that I wanted to point to TPB especially :).
I can drag from nautilus to Chrome in kubuntu (yes, this is a weird combination), but not from Chrome to Chrome, for whatever reason.
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I thought the same thing. If 20% of the group polled likes XP over Windows 7, you have to wonder who is in this poll.

I bet most of the people in it haven't tried Windows 8, since at least 20% of the people haven't even tried Windows 7...I know that because no one (in their right mind) honestly likes Windows XP over Windows 7.

The other problem is you have no idea what hardware they're trying this on. Windows 8 will make a lot more sense when you run it with new IO devices that support Win 8 gestures.

The writers at ZDNet just love to hate on MS.