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The only consistency in Microsoft's strategy for developer tools is constant change.
Seems like that would be a waste of paper/natural resources.
tr;dr (too rediculous, didn't read)

I hope MSFT does great, not going to make crazy statements like that though.
An easier way for your friends to try out App.net
I suspect some people are missing the declension here:

* I am a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.

* You should work harder to be successful.

* They are poor because they are moral degenerates.

As long as you can keep the three attitudes separate and attached to the proper groups, you'll have no problems understanding modern American culture.
No, the calendar files are anniversaries not timelines.

Have some fun:

alias anniversaries="ack -a -h `date +"%m/%d"` /usr/share/calendar | sort"
I decided to abandon bullet-based decks a few years ago for images and narratives (even when dealing with programming), followed by a live-coding demonstration; anecdotally, the response to talks I've given in this format has been great.

Years later, people will spontaneously write and reminisce about such and such a talk on e.g. extending Roxygen.

This is, incidentally, the same format as my daughter's bed-time stories; coincidence?
> According to one industry watcher, however, they should all be watching out for Microsoft (MSFT).

Indeed, just a few years ago an advanced research team at Microsoft found out that any rectangle may be closely approximated by a sufficiently straight parallelogram, thus reopening the door to the World of Innovation.

"You really thought", commented Steve Ballmer, Chief Officer of Plane Geometry, "that all those squares in Metro were actually square? Foo!"

Apple did not comment on the issue. However, rumors about the NeXT cube "not being exactly a cube, either" started to run rampant on the 'net.
Microsoft can't win with "muscle" or brute force or any back room competitive shenanigans.

Microsoft will win when they design great things that make their users happy. It's that simple. That's the world we live in now.

These guys had to cut component orders for the Surface because they skipped the part where they made a product people would enjoy using. There's too much choice now, the standards have grown too high. Microsoft has to compete on day-to-day ownership happiness. And that's tough because they've been leaning on vendor lock in and Enterprise IT fiats for their success a little too long.

Ballmer's the one who needs muscling out. Microsoft needs a leader with a deep understanding of consumer products if they want a seat at the table for the next generation.
It's there, it's now called Up Next.
even if you give 100% to THQ, you're pretty much giving it all to charity, since they're not exactly business at the moment.
It would be cool to have these games available for Linux, but I just can't see the extra humble bundle money and good will being worth the engineering effort required. Valve has done a lot to get L4D2 working on Linux, and has a ton of resources and a long term business agenda to move away from Windows.

I think the only way we'll see a lot of AAA games going to Linux is if someone releases hardware that is Linux based and it has a large install base comparable to other major consoles. Most AAA game developers see extremely reduced sales on PC vs console already, so Mac ports are rarely worth it, let alone Linux.
The problem is that it was not reasonably secure. As I understand the complaint, you can't integrate PGP into an extensible, skinnable interface securely. There's not firefox or OS support for making that kind of thing doable. You'd want to have some sort of OS and app support for being able to encrypt a message in a widget on a GUI layer above the browser and then transferring it in, so that PGP and Firefox never come into direct contact. Qubes OS has a rough mechanism for keeping different security-level apps separated, and identified via a colored window border. I wonder if something similar to this is the correct solution.
Home Page Split Test Reveals Major Shortcoming Of Popular Testing Tools
This is a great step imho.

I wish other large box stores would step up to the plate aka BestBuy. BestBuy should be reaching out to successful Kickstarter projects and start selling them in stores.
e.g. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/flomio/flojack-nfc-for-i... or http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thingm/blink1-the-usb-rg... or even http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arca...

As for Staples other services - they still need to make it "easy". Focus on deals for startups like creating notepads, stamps, etc. monthly subscription and/or better design/offers. SXSW deals, etc.
Stuff they already do but don't market as aggressive.

Just my $0.02
That logo just keeps getting more and more atrocious. Goodness.
A somewhat tangential point. Like how lawyers have to specify that they're not giving legal advice. and how it's 'best practice' in auto-journalism to disclose when a manufacturer has provided you with perks while 'reviewing' their vehicle. I'd like to see 'analysis' which carries a similar disclaimer, Has a long position in Microsoft, in the original article. Not a link to it. that way no one can copy the press release and miss 'the only important point of the article' which as you say is linked.
Just because Natural Selection(tm) isn't selecting for attributes that you regard as important doesn't mean it's dead. What it takes to have a better chance of survival now might be different than it was decades/centuries/millennia ago.

If "having what it takes to climb the corporate ladder" is what gives your offspring a better chance of survival, then that is what is being selected for.
Under your Public WiFi heading, you should add a warning about surveillance cameras, POS credit card trails, and employee memories. These days, cameras are everywhere, and video storage has gotten very cheap. Assume investigators will visit each shop from which you surfed and act accordingly.

Best to buy your coffee at coffee shop A and do your surfing from near but not in coffee shop B.

Also, if, for instance, you are on a book tour to hype your biography of P4, be aware that, even if you follow WiFi best practices, you will still be leaving a geographic trail that investigators could find very interesting.
Finished games can be horrible disappointments too. Kickstarter isn't going to create any unique failures.
What's up with the awful bold fonts everywhere in the interface?
> Evolution will act on our species' population for many hundreds of centuries before any significant impact from technology is seen.

You don't think that, say, genetic engineering will change the genome? I'm betting we'll be primarily artificially designed by the end of the century.
Ask HN: Laptop for Linux Software Development
So the article on the main page regarding Dell's laptop got me thinking I need a new laptop for development. I'm currently still using a 2008 Lenovo X61 when I'm away from my desktop. I initially chose this laptop back then as it would be pain free when it came to drivers, and that it was.

I'd like something a little bigger - perhaps 14"? Ideally quad-core, and can handle 16GB of RAM as that would allow me to replace my desktop with it.

Anything fit the bill?
I think a good response to this would be a four hour live-coding session of trying to get shit to be backwards compatible with 6, 7, and 8.

Oh wait, I can't test your browser without a VM because I didn't buy your OS? Fuck you.
What's wrong with writing a kernel in JavaScript? This would actually be quite valuable as a pedagogical tool.
He is talking about an API for accessing iDevices on the mac.
I fully expected this is to be something like that despite their clean-room standards of handling the rover a bit of hair or skin did wind up in the thing somehow.
This is a fascinating announcement on two levels, the first is that these guys believe there is enough of a market to support the service, and two that the printers themselves are nominally turning cellulose back into wood carvings.

Has anyone seen a demo print from these guys? Something you could hold? I'm curious about three things: 1) relative density, 2) durability over time, 3) relative strengths in compression and tension.
This is a prime example that once again shows old != bad.
Its not hard to turn it off altogether.

http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/25/mouse-acceleration/
What was the article about? XP?

Surely Ward will get his picture in the WSJ in some kind of article about Wikis, if it hasn't happened already.
> I wonder who you think works on clang/llvm (or CoreAudio, or xnu, or Quicktime)?

People smart enough not to get anywhere near iTunes?

(really, would you trade clang or kernel dev for that?)
> I also researched _every_ person who I'd be talking to. Has a lot of PostgreSQL related posts on their blog? "Oh yeah I hate MySQL". Re-tweeted a tweet about a MongoDB bug report? "I prefer traditional databases for serious apps". Has a blog post about Go? "I think the speed advantage that Go can offer is really interesting" And so on and so forth. People like people who are like them, with pretty much everyone exposing their lives and opinions, stuff like this is up for easy pickings.

So, you play the pandering sycophant ? I _can't tell_ from here because you don't include any examples where you disagree with the interviewer's worldview.

If one of your examples had been e.g. "I've used Go quite a bit and it's bitten me in a number of ways, here's a couple: ...", it might look less like you're just researching exactly what you think people will want to hear.
Mouse acceleration is something you get used to pretty quickly, a full day of usage is enough to not even notice it anymore. I use both OSX (trackpad), windows with a 1600dpi mouse, and play games with acceleration disabled. For work I prefer OSX's acceleration, it feels more precise/natural.
I _do_ think that these analytics can play a big role in which shows get cancelled.

So what? How does that fix the distribution problem that motivates people to pirate? And how does it affect the propensity of media companies to sue people who pirate, instead of fixing their broken distribution system?
Touché!

In fairness, though, the iTunes client team is a lot smaller than most people probably realize. Problems with the software are almost certainly the fault of management trying to do more with less, and not the competence (in my experience, extremely high) of the individual devs.
> Artificial interference is going to kick in long
> before that

If we're constantly 20 - 30 years away from a major break-through, it will eventually come true! ;-)
There are some automatic engraving algorithms out there you could try.
Right, because facilitating that is the only reason someone might want to operate a Tor exit node....

The relationship between speech, particularly political speech if the distinction matters to you, and Tor should be plain.
It's certainly a bundle.
The fundamental misunderstanding here is that police (and, down the chain, other authorities) actually care about the nature of an exit node. From their perspective all they see is that this guy's IP address was used to distribute child pornography. All his stuff is gone, and they will persecute him for that offense. In all likelihood the court trial will go like this:

Defendant: "But I was merely running a Tor exit node!"

Judge: "What's that?"

Court-appointed expert: "It's a computer program that allows
pedophiles to exchange pictures online."

Judge: "I see. That'll be 10 years jail time plus court costs.
Also, please stand by for your copyright infringement trial
that came out of searching your computer equipment. Thanks.
Next!"
Humble Bundle is investor-backed and for-profit, so I don't really find their "commercialization" surprising.
This guy makes a lot of sense!

When Apple brought out the iPod, Microsoft quickly copied all of the features and released the Zune, which quickly stole the market. Apple then added in the new feature of having your iPod be a phone and released the iPhone. Microsoft quickly copied that feature and released Windows Phone by combining their Windows Mobile offering with Zune to copy all those features and stole the market again! Apple released some nice new hardware Macbook Airs - but not to worry, Microsoft and partners quickly brought out 'ultrabooks' which are beating all sales records and nobody would touch a Macbook Air anymore!

On the Google side, Google gives away their search with some mere advert backing. Google obviously doesn't care too much about search, they just throw it around to everyone! Their maps too. Given away for free. Anybody could easily come and charge money for maps and just take all of Google's maps users away. Users want 24/7 phone support for their maps, and search! Clearly, Microsoft can come into any market Google plays in and quickly beat Google out by offering far superior solutions. Bing is a clear example - it's just about killed off any reason to use Google Search and shows how good Microsoft is at features.

Can't believe how anybody could argue against Microsoft at this point - their record of success over the last 10 years speaks for itself!

</sarcasm>
The New AWS Data Pipeline
Yea really, I can't even believe this was posted.
Harnessing Music’s Technological Future
And so the networks involved in those VPNs need to support path MTU discovery, and they won't have any problems.
...except the previous listing does basically the same thing, but doesn't have any comment about R1's refinements not working when you're using R2.
I can't stress enough how important it is to read Darwin's original work. Contemporary understanding of evolution outside of academia is deeply flawed.

There are two forces at work in evolution. Natural selection (survival of the fittest) and sexual selection (reproduction of the sexiest). Out of the two, natural selection is by far the weaker force.

> Intelligence and other positive characteristics don't seem to get involved in whether they have surviving offspring today the way I imagine it did a few thousand years ago.

You're thinking very narrowly in the "survival of the fittest" mode.

You're ignoring sexual selection entirely.

It doesn't matter how hot, strong, or brilliant you are, if you have zero kids, from an evolutionary perspective ... it's the same as if you were killed and eaten by some wild animal.

And, of course, the quality of your offspring matters as well and is determined by mate choice.

There's plenty of evolutionary pressure around today. Actually, I would say it's far more extreme today than ever before, especially in our urban areas.
>These guys had to cut component orders for the Surface

Reference?
Silicon Carbide Logic Circuits Work at Blistering Temperatures
Is there no hope?
> Intelligence and other positive characteristics don't seem to get involved in whether they have surviving offspring today the way I imagine it did a few thousand years ago.

Selection is always active.

First, there is sexual selection, not just natural selection, and there is no reason to assume that is not important today.

Second, as the article says, there is more genetic variety than before - we accumulated a lot of variation in recent millenia. That's the necessary foundation for selection.

Finally, a quick look around shows that some people have more children than others. You mention "Intelligence and other positive characteristics", but the fact is, it isn't clear intelligence was ever more important than say brute strength/social skills/etc. in our evolutionary history, so the fact it isn't the main factor now says little. But there definitely are factors that do contribute to having more (thriving) children today, and we are selecting heavily for them, for better or for worse.
That reminds me just how awful iTunes is. About a year ago, I switched to RDio/Spotify and I have not looked back. I do not have any local mp3s any more. Just some flacs for audio testing purposes.

It has been months since I last used iTunes.
I still use Sparrow as well and love it. So yes, if a similar solution was created and supported then I'd be all over it. Especially if it had support for Rapportive! :)
Funniest title I've read today. Thanks for the LOL's
No. I will never lie or say something that I do not believe myself. The research above just tells me WHAT to say, if someone has a viewpoint on a certain topic that is 100% opposite from mine, I will simply not bring it up and look for other commonalities.

>Not my preferred candidate....

Well the good thing is if I do my job right, you'll never know :)
Sorry, I was being imprecise. From a Compute/Memory/Storage point of view its nominally the same as a Macbook Air. Gives context on what sort of programmatic performance you get.

Agreed it has a different peripheral set which makes it 'better' for some applications and perhaps 'not as good' for others. But I haven't tried it out so its hard to know.

I do have a Kagi capacitive stylus for my iPad and its not nearly as nice as the stylus I had on my old IREX e-reader or the Bamboo Wacom tablet on my Mac.
like sparrow. Minimalist not to much distraction. Perfect...
Technology giants at war: Another game of thrones
There's a lot of things that get touched up without an intent to deceive. Probably the most famous non-malicious photo editing:

http://files.petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2012/08/kent1_mini...
http://www.maniacworld.com/kent-state-shooting.jpg
If you'll remember, Rémi Denis-Courmont made such a big stink about keeping VLC out of walled gardens that Apple was forced to remove it from the App Store. So my question is: why does VLC suddenly WANT to be in a walled garden now that Windows is following suit?
"Make others come up with your idea. / The next time you struggle with getting people on board with your projects and ideas, simply tell them a story, where the outcome is that doing what you had in mind, is the best thing to do."

Sounds like Inception!
Not so fast. Anti-circumvention laws are everywhere, we aren't talking about EULAs here.

The DMCA act in the USA prohibits DRM removal, under all circumstances, even if we are talking about your own content for which you own the copyright.

In Canada bill C-61 also made DRM circumvention illegal. In Europe too. It is unclear to me how these fare to the DMCA, because it might be that only providing the tools and information for doing that is illegal. But in Europe, even if we are talking only about the tools being illegal, if you end up removing the DRM protections from some content, it can be argued that's changing the format, which is a different thing but also illegal.

It is worth pointing out that pieces of software, like CloneCD [1], are illegal even in Europe, even though this software only makes exact copies and does not change the format (it does not remove DRM).

And the US, being the 800-pound gorilla that it is, is constantly pushing others for copyright reforms similar to the DMCA.

Also, whenever you're talking about "fair use", you're always in a gray and dangerous area, as fair use clauses are intentionally ambiguous, so sentences are passed based on subjective reasoning based on context and in the US on precedents. If fair use is your defense, then more often than not you're screwed if you can't afford competent lawyers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloneCD
I've had more than a few cases where I couldn't SSH into a system at a hospital or clinic because the VPN/firewall/whatever that their connection went over rejected packets with too high of an MTU. Generally you'll get your SSH connection and it'll hang in the middle of the MOTD.
Sure, there's a test for "future leaders": whether or not they are accepted by the Ivy League process. If someone gets that, they'll find it much easier to be a leader in the rest of their career.

Oh, you meant identifying individuals who would be good leaders? Yeah, you're hosed there.
NASA: There will be a year 2013, so plan accordingly