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I would describe the danger to MS/Windows a little differently.

Windows was fairly protected by being a big natural monopoly. Making a good OS is itself a difficult task. Making a good OS & getting an application market to grow around it in a deal-breaker rich environment is nearly impossible. There were no ways to climb the hill other than straight up the steep face.

Smartphones/tablets are an angle of attack. An easier way to climb the hill. Android & iOS matured without having to compete with windows. Now two of MS's most dangerous competitors can both launch new smartphone derived PC (keyboard & mouse) operating systems with 80% of the work (in both OS building & in app ecosystem building) already done.

Even worse, there may be room for new mobile OS' to get going. The market isn't tending to the same kind of monopoly as PCs.

I predict that iOS, Android and/or yet-to-succeed OSs are going to hop from tablets & phones to TVs and other devices. Its only a matter of time before we see one gaining traction on laptops. Apple could probably release a $500 post-PC PC within a year that will double (in units) Apple sales out of the gate. Google could too (though it probably wouldn't hit the ground running as fast).

Eventually, this market will fold in on itself and we will have several OS families. I would be surprised if any one (including windows) gets as firm a grip on any market as microsoft did.

This doesn't mean that MS dies. They are (despite the criticisms) a very competent company. It just means they compete with 2-5 different companies for market share in a bigger market. consumers win.
Indeed, it would be crazy to sell a mobile device that can't play video. But what you quoted doesn't say that -- it says that Windows Media Player does not run in the "desktop mode" of this device.
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You definitely need to get this out on the table. One thing, though, try using the word "difference" instead of "fault." So say something like "I've noticed some differences in how we work together and I feel like it's affecting my commitment to the business."

Make a list of the differences beforehand and go through them one by one with him. Make an agreement beforehand that if it gets emotional, you'll take a break on the current item and revisit it after you've each had a chance to process it.

Also, ask yourself if there's anything you can do to change how you perceive those faults.

For example, I used to get defensive about my code when my partner criticized it in a certain way. One day I realized that, if I just wait 5 seconds before responding and remind myself that my partner has the best intentions in mind, the emotion drains away.
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Take that up with UPS. I ran their shipping calculator for Rome to Dallas and got rates well in excess of that[1], so either they are eating part of the shipping or they have a preferred rate.

[1] Cheapest I saw was $109 (83 euros)
For camping surely an old nokia will do? I keep one, which isn't much bigger than a mars bar, for this purpose and the battery lasts for ages.
Reddit killer startup has launched in beta
it's anonymous platform that users can collaborate to the challenges and generate idea-trees/mind-maps from this collaboration.
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This

I used to have a list as long as my arm of pet projects, with a full time job and a life outside coding its pretty much impossible. but you can make a serious dent with a single project.
They do, on the Surface Pro. It just comes out a little later, presumably to not clobber hardware vendors' sales. Microsoft has to be very careful in that market since so far they have been (largely) only a supplier of operating systems and software while others built the hardware. Now they risk alienating their former partners (and large customers).

So essentially they let Dell, Lenovo, HP, ... have a first go at building and selling tablets that can run the “normal” Windows 8. Surface then is just a reference implementation of sorts – it needs to be good and compelling and show off the platform particularly well. But it shouldn't make big sales (and the price point will probably be chosen to reflect that too) to avoid bad blood between the usual manufacturers and MS.
I'm currently an intern. I get into the office at around 9am and I get home at 8PM. For the last 3 weeks, I've been working on a mobile web app(onevoteamericamobile.appspot.com) and I finished it over the weekend. Every night, I would get home at around 8PM, eat dinner and then program until 12PM. I wake up around 7AM and take a train to work. During my commute, I would research various technologies and come up with ideas for my pet projects. Its all in the planning my friend.
What's your point? I haven't seen it before, so I'm glad it's reposted periodically.
do you work for them much?
She should next demand a copy of all information Amazon has on her under the Data Protection Act (1998), since that's what the Act is for.
This is cool, but it doesn't look like it's doing even trivial optimizations...

(?:\d\d[\d\d\.\d\.][\d\.](?:(?=([\d\.]+))\1))

"[\d\d\.\d\.]" is equivalent to "[\d\.]", right?

It's also got a useless non-capturing group and lookahead.
sadly, this was my life for the last 3 weeks. But I'm an intern and I'm not married :)
I am new to Arduino but very interested in starting. So far I have read that the Uno R3 is the best for beginners but now that the new Due is out will this be preferable for a beginner?

From what I've read, the Due is faster and able to handle more things. But is it easier to use compared to the Uno?
Kindle Keyboard. Haven't seen the paperwhite. Not that interested though TBH, the grey screens are fine.
I am planning to as soon as our lease expires, but unfortunately that's not for another 10 months. :)
Telling her privately that her account is associated with a fraudulent account has not caused her any harm, thus its not libeled her.

Only if they published it to the world, she could claim her reputation has been harmed.
Your only option is to work hard. Any spare time I had went into my side projects. I stayed up late, got 3-4 hours of sleep a night. It sucks for a while but your body gets used to it.

All of this panned out for me and now my side project has turned into a main project and career. It sounds a lot worse than it is but in reality I enjoyed what I was doing so it wasn't really like "work" to me.
There is a simple way to solve the original problem and the one you mentioned. A load balancer. One that you have a good amount of control of and an API (such as Zeus, F5...)

You basically take the nodes off one at a time, wait for connections to finish, sync over code, then bring it back up. This does make some assumptions about assets -- that they are in a different location, such as a CDN or static server. If you are removing assets, you need to do this at the very end of this node-syncing process, so that any live "old nodes" aren't linking to deleted assets.

As for newly updated assets, you should be doing versioning for those anyway (even this 'symlink trick' fails when multiple application servers are involved and no shared code space).
I've been working on a lot of my projects lately on a prgmr VPS and I just tried out the Chrome SSH app and it's pretty good. I could see and ARM-powered chromebook with 3g being a pretty good hack anywhere kind of laptop with good battery life. Of course, the new iPad with 4g is a bit more with better battery life and could work the same way. In either case, I like the direction things are heading.
In the Navy we knew that about 10% of the people did about 50% of the work. If you needed something done quickly, you would assign it to the busiest person. Having kids and a full time job forces me to be really efficient and effective when I'm able to devote time to my project (Gramicon.com).

It also forces me to approach spending/building decisions differently. I might solve a problem with my site's code in 5 hours where an educated and experienced programmer or designer could do the same in 5 minutes. Thanks to elance and github, the ability to have others asynchronously work on your project has never been greater.

I think that people who have said it depends on your circumstances (ie: demands on your time) are completely right, but it also depends on your passion for your project. If you want to do the work and make your project a success you will find a way to do so, otherwise it doesn't really matter how much free time you have because it won't get done.
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I spend every Sunday morning working on projects with NFL Red Zone on in the background.
A lot of the discussion in this thread seems to be along the lines of “if universal care is instituted in the US, then it will be ruinously expensive, because doctors will authorize every kind of treatment and the taxpayers will pick up the bill” vs. “no, because when this is done in other countries, the agency that finances health care sets standards for what procedures and drugs they will cover under what circumstances”.

I would like to point out that whether or not universal health care is brought to the US (it’s scheduled to kick in under Obamacare, but if the Republicans win they can effectively kill it), the fee-for-service model of paying doctors will have to go away, because right now that model is one of the things running up the cost of private health insurance here. The insurance companies, faced with rising costs, can either impose more restrictive rules about what they will or will not cover, or they can hike their premiums.

In the former case, they’re doing the same thing that a government agency would do, except that people generally change insurers when they change jobs... meaning that any care that costs money up front but would prevent problems five or ten years down the line is not worth spending money on, because some other insurance company would be picking up the savings.

In the latter case, middle- and upper-class families see more of their paycheck going to insurance, while people who can’t afford the premiums but aren’t poor enough for Medicaid just go without insurance, depend on the emergency room if they really really need something, and risk getting bankrupted by medical bills if a serious condition does appear.

(Which is why Obamacare was passed in the first place.)
If you are lucky to be rich, nothing is stopping you getting better health care and trying to add 1 or 2 years of life at extraordinary cost.

It just won't be covered by your insurance. To me, universal healthcare is a tradeoff. Everybody will get at least some care and nobody will go bankrupt because of medical bills.

Rich people will be still able to get whatever care money can buy. I don't understand how this is a question of freedom. Nobody is giving up freedom.
>That's a pretty irresponsible omission by the author. It's about as bad as his claim that ChromeOS is based on "Ubuntu Linux".

The author states the _interface_ is based on Ubuntu Linux.

He obviously hasn't used Ubuntu much.
Ah, alright then. Looks like danilocampos was right.

My mistake! :)
It seems that the Norwegian consumer protection agency have heard about this case and have started looking into it (link in Norwegian http://www.itavisen.no/904648/forbrukerraadet-helt-haarreise... ).

It's going to be interesting to see if they are able to get any traction on this.
They actually might since her contact in Amazon seemed to be working for Amazon.co.uk, and Norway is part of the EU's inner market.
is this really your "not-trolling" for monday?
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I like how the article completely disregards the positive things said by the customers in the video. Typical BI crap.
It's funny, I was going to put my username in the title, but that just seemed a little too ... much.
Fixed, sir. All the passwords are hashed and salted, btw. No worries.
I expected this to be a short, mainly fluff 1 pager based on the title. I was pleasantly surprised when it wasn't. In order to pass judgement on MS's design choices for WinRT you really need to understand the history of the technologies involved. I think that this does a great job of doing just that.

BTW, I fall into the "programmer who hasn't been religiously tracking MS" category.
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Is there support for this kind of legislation?

It seems like a common sense antecedent to the DMCA - if I'm legally prohibited from circumventing DRM, companies should be legally required to provide a means to shift that content to other media - failure to do this on request should void the DMCA's protections against unauthorized copying.
Apple's App Store generates something near 2% of Apple's profits.[1] The number of apps that are 'for pay' in app stores is going down.

I worked on the Windows Phone 7 app marketplace. The economics of running such a service are not cheap, especially as you take certification more seriously (which Windows 8 is doing).

All of these contribute to the fact that even if MS ever makes any profit off of the Windows 8 Store, it will be minuscule compared to the overall business.

[1] http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/23/app-store-1-of-apples...
Show HN: my weekend project, OneVote
Thank you for the heads up. Fixed immediately.
Really cool idea (and nice design). I know it was a weekend project so I bet most of my feedback are things you've already considered, but here it is:

1) It's a little hard to tell the source of the quote from just the thumbnail, unless you recognize the cover. I think there should be a title above the quote that includes Book and Author (in addition to the thumbnail of the cover)

2) It's such a cool concept, but I'd like to be able to browse by books (business books, psychology books, fiction, literature, best sellers, etc).

3) Make the page more dynamic, so you don't need to refresh the page every time you call for a new quote. This will make it much nicer/enticiing to quickly scroll through quotes. The refresh creates a bit of friction

4) Make it easier to tweet/share it out. You have a tweet/pin button in the corner, but I would integrate it into the quote box. If it's a good quote, I want to post it to other places
Amazon settled fairly quickly: http://arstechnica.com/business/2009/10/amazon-stipulates-te...

The most interesting/relevant bit from the article "In it, Amazon's attorneys agreed to legally binding terms that describe its content deletion policy. When it comes to blog and periodical content, as well as software, Amazon retains the right to perform a remote delete. But when it comes to books, deletions will only occur under a limited number of circumstances: failed credit card transactions, judicial orders, malware, or the permission of the user."
In his demo video, he needs to run a specially crafted program to actually achieve privilege escalation. That's why you need both physical access and a local user account.

Social engineering only gets you both if you can autorun the executable upon insertion of the usb stick.
Yikes. This doesn't help me visualise anything. Something that could work: a tree view with bars for absolute size and size delta.
looks really nice! I just felt that some minor animation would have given it a better feeling, for example when I changed quote a fade would have been nice. I also feel like that a slightly moving background would give an amazing feeling, the image looks great and I really gives me a sense of moving. I'm not sure why but this is what I feel.
Can one or the other be (more or less) completely transparent? Is it possible to have one screen layered over the other such that the LCD only becomes active when the user is directly interacting with the device?

(Off to the patent office I go!)
Apple II to Macintosh (successful)

semi-successful at best. The Mac didn't get the same marketshare in the 80'ies as the Apple II had.
As a student from CMU, I must say, well played, MIT. :) We would have conceived of a hack as well but unfortunately we were in the midst of midterm week. Next time, perhaps. ;)
We call this the "PHP effect". //for the record, I love PHP
Throw away your television. About 95% of the time I spend on my projects is time I used to spend watching TV.
Break the lease. Gotta take some risks.
The last one seems a little odd "the person must prove that the statement was made without adequate research into the truthfulness of the statement".

What is to stop somebody extensively researching something but then just deciding to lie anyway?
It's an italian university, Università degli Studi di Trieste (northeast of Italy): http://www.units.it/
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These images are fantastic. I bet players would love to get the videos of themselves at these kinds of camera speeds, as it could do wonders for working on your swing. And you could finally understand why coach would always say "don't drop your elbow!"
Thanks for a great easy-to-follow example. I assume other UI elements are customized in the same manner?
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I'm sure SparkFun or some other American based company will import in bulk so you can get it cheaper from them.
Well clear numbers are pretty hard to get yes, but BT Openreach is a good source of data, as a government forced wholesaler of land line services.

Ofcom has set the current price of wholesale line rental (i.e. a land line only service, no broadband), at £98.81 for 2012-2013. [1]

This price gives Openreach a small operating profit, but not much at all. Remember that Openreach employs 19,000 field engineers to maintain the UK phone network, it's a massively expensive task. [2]

A mobile network has much less fixed infrastructure, and with it comes much lower costs, even disregarding the actual cost of laying wires (as you say, that's largely been paid for now, even the BT FTTC roll out is "only" costing £2.5 billion, or about £100 per home in the UK)

1 - http://media.ofcom.org.uk/2012/02/06/ofcom-proposes-new-whol...

2 - http://www.btplc.com/mobile/Careercentre/Meetourpeople/Peopl...
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I don't know. Seems to me like artificial intelligence hasn't lived up to the hype. We've had great progress in increasing processor speeds, but not as much luck at the Turing test.
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It's also worth looking at Dojo's Deferred, which is what jQuery copied for its promises (and Dojo's itself copied the idea from Twisted). jQuery's implementation is broken and spread out over several releases though.
Looks awful under Chrome (Windows): http://i.imgur.com/c6t6f.png
I haven't read the article but I think it's important to point out that the comparison is between IE and Chrome not Windows 7 and Chrome. Put another way, if I had an OS specifically built to run a mail application. Then, regardless of hardware, it wouldn't surprise me that my mail application ran faster on that OS then on Windows 7, OS X, etc.
how did it turn out? was it used / reused / spur on something else? what lessons can be learned from what happened? (thanks).
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As you say the Due is faster however the downside to it especially for beginners at this stage is that it's new so less docs/blog posts etc. I started on an Uno with a few Shields such as an LED Driver, Motor Driver and Ethernet Shield and that worked out pretty good for me :)
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I can't speak specifically for him, but maybe he was being nice and providing the other threads so that you could peruse them.
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Well, when you have an awesome event and you're fully transparent about what's going on and where the money goes, things like sponsorship get pretty simple :) Everyone involved gets some good value out of PennApps (which is why you guys have absolutely no problem finding sponsors or funding your event).
Nope.

The vast majority of libraries won't work with the new Due, and some older shields (like expansion cards you put on top) won't either.

The ATMega based boards are cheaper & are easier to get hold of.

Additionally, the Cortex I/O is 3.3V, not 5V tolerant which makes it easier to accidentally fry.

It's exciting stuff for experienced arduino users who like the ecosystem, but if you really want it I'd wait perhaps another hardware revision so the hardware & software stuff is properly in shape. I've been using arduino since the early days and, trust me, you don't want to be the first one hitting obscure preprocessor/compile bugs. You will also be amazed at the amount of performance you can get out of the little ATMegas when you don't have operating systems sucking up all your cycles!
I just checked and they have no data for this year sadly :-( but they did used it for 2 years, I don't work for the ministry but I did worked for the NGO that made it so I don't know how well did they use it.
Working at a semi-large-ish IT company here and the computers we buy come without any OS. So larger entities than a single person apparently have ways of purchasing large volumes of computers and avoiding buying OSes multiple times.
Also, Ben Horowitz apparently not a fan of "bitch ass ness"
I didn't make that choice, it just happened. I don't regret it one bit, if that's the way my previous message came across. I'm just saying that I wish I had more time to work on some ideas I have. But I'll do that once they both enter school in the next couple of years.
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That kind of thing is usually prefaced with something like "here's some other interesting discussions on this." But maybe I'm wrong and webmonkeyuk had good intentions.
I have been wanting this for a while and I still can't figure out why no one has released one. In my mind, my cell phone (or tablet) should be an all in one device - which to a large degree is becoming the case. I hated having a stand alone MP3 player, GPS receiver and camera. Now that e-readers (and wannabe e-readers - kindle fire, ipad, etc.) are becoming mainstream, I don't want my next phone (first tablet) to be without a low power screen. I am a bit disappointed in the average consumer though - it seems like they have a hard time understanding the advantages of e-ink screens or they are ok with reading on an ipad/kindle fire as it can do more than a basic e-reader. If executed well, it could be a major product enhancement and give a mobile device make an edge for a while, esp. considering it would be cheap to add - the screen and the minimal amount of hardware to interface that with the rest of the phone.
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I also have a full time job as developer.
I don't have kids, but I live with my GF which is almost as being married when it comes to having time for each other.

Fortunately for me, my girlfriend works as a nurse and has lots of afternoon/night shifts, which is great for me so I can dedicate myself to some pet projects.

However it's not easy, it's very complicated to explain to her that "I don't want to go out because I'm working on this bug...".

So you have to balance your life a little more, instead of taking 2 months to complete your project, maybe it will take 3 months. And that's fine for me. Some times can be a good thing to get away of your project and come back a week later with a fresh mind, it makes you actually want to work.

With that said, after 6 months with lots of interruptions including holidays I was able to complete my app http://codebugapp.com/ , I just released last week.
I really like the design and the interface, nice work. One thing I found a little confusing is that if you go "back" and then "forward", the "forward" action seems to load a random quote instead of returning to the one you were on.