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TBH I've only seen a couple of "rotten" machines in the last few years. It's not all that bad.

Regarding WP, it's a fucking mess. I've had two handsets now and while it's a good product at the core, some of the decisions (such as isolated storage) are just shit. It's virtually impossible moving data around apps except using cut and paste or network access. Also, the network and connection management stuff is painful if you have to switch between 3.5G and WiFi. The battery life on my last handset (a Lumia 710) was abysmal even with no apps installed and everything cleaned out. Oh and long term support is just crap - look at the palava around the 7.8 upgrade.

My other half's Galaxy Ace is actually pretty crap as well TouchWiz is horrible, it's slow and the screen is crap. Everyone I know with a Galaxy S2/S3 is not satisfied with it.

I got given an iPhone 4S as well (which the proximity sensor had packed in on) which was horrible as well - iOS UI is so noisy, the handset is obviously suspect if the proximity sensor doesn't even work (didn't work properly from purchase date) and you can't even replace the battery.

All this pushed me back to grabbing a Nokia 6303 until I found out that the things are changing hands for £100GBP+ now from people who have given up on SmartPhones.

It's all gone batshit.

I just want a phone that works.
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While this is admirable, public health should be funded by the public through taxes and not the whims of the 1%.
ok, definitely interesting to learn how you define "pair programming".

so basically both are fiddling around with the same cursor?
Balanced is in a dogfight for peer-to-peer marketplaces
I can only imagine the corporate decision process behind this disaster: some big kahuna pushing this idiocy with everybody else too scared/apathetic to oppose.
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This is just the sort of thing that could have been avoided with some time spent researching the Android-oriented web sites and forums. No current mobile platform is without flaws but assuming that everyone thinks alike with regards to those flaws is just foolish.
I thought this was "hip" or whatever you want to call it, and pretty clever for a long term hearts-and-minds strategy -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk
The former. Pairing feels subjectively like a great way to teach, but I'm not sure how much difference it actually makes - those who want to learn will find a way, and those who don't always manage to avoid it somehow.
I would not say it's a grave exaggeration. There are differences. Poverty is not something one shows overtly, in Japan. One must, under all possibility, show social dignity. This means you don't panhandle, you don't push carts picking up recyclables, etc. There is a lot more poverty than one would think there was if one's assessment consists of just walking down the alleways or riverbanks.

See what the Economist has to say http://www.economist.com/node/21549003

And Asia Times [it's even more pronounced, now, 7 years later] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/GB11Dh01.html
Faster GPS that won't kill your battery via the cloud, and a crowd
You've forgotten the crown jewel: the video for Vista SP1, "Rockin' Our Sales."[1]

I realize it was meant for internal use only, but good lord, somebody put a lot of work into this thing. It makes me so uncomfortable to watch, and to imagine the culture that might well have embraced this.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPv8PPl7ANU
I hope the few fake reviews they got out of this was worth the bad PR. Whoever decided this was a good idea should be relieved of these kinds of decisions.
It is always difficult to explain this part to people. That simple typo that stops you for five minutes while typing? Your pair caught it before it ever happened. Saved five minutes right? Not exactly. The stoppage of flow to fix the trivial problem takes your mind off track. It is going to cost you far more than five minutes while you get your mind locked onto finishing your work.

Then there is the removal of code review meetings/gate keeping. Little to no team silos and higher team redundancy. Faster team member ramp up. Lastly, higher code quality.
I apologise, I did not mean that people who were 'unwilling' to learn other languages are lazy. It is hard to demand that everyone know every language, so a lingua franca (English in this case) is all right.

What I meant to say is that languages are becoming more and more plain. It seems people - and sometimes with language institutions with them - are accepting that the languages should be less complicated, so we can say the same thing with fewer words.

An obvious example is people writing 'u' instead of 'you', but is actually even more obvious in other languages than English. For instance, I am not a fan of people saying 'issues' in Danish, when we have the word »problemstillinger«, simply because the English word 'issues' is shorter. Should English use »arv« instead of 'inheritance' because it is shorter?

Languages' vocabularies shouldn't cherry-pick.

I do not oppose a lingua franca, I merely advocate keeping each language separate.
One of my favorite Microsoft ads is Ballmer selling windows 1.0:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk

I'll let you be the judge on 'hipness' here.
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G+ community doesn't appear to be solving any of the old online community problems. The first question I would ask here is: Who's Hacker News Community is this? Each and every member of the HN can create his or her own HN community on Google+ and that's exactly what Google+ is allowing so far.

You are calling it Official, and that is another set of problem, because then I would ask (assuming you run HN which appears not to be the case): why? Why is there a need for a Google+ community for HN when HN is already a community here?

Is anyone following the issues?
Avoiding that problem was one of the main goals of Nikola's development, which is why it has a whole dependency build thing (based on doit, similar to a Makefile).

I have a 1200+ post blog so it was that or death by boredom :-)
Author here. You're right, high-DPI does not actually eliminate aliasing and I've toned done the wording slightly (added "nearly"). Certainly high-DPI is a huge step in the right direction even if several problems with aliasing remain.

I was simply attempting to say "thank you" to Apple for innovating with high-DPI displays so that I could follow that by saying more or less what you did: many things remain to address image clarity.
Next step a Reddit community for the Hacker News Google+ users!
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GET http://wombat.com/resources/foo/apidoc ==> A "RESTful" resource ...

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...
maybe he means that he cuts down the review time, because he avoids correcting mistakes after they happened.
I think this speaks towards a lack of confidence in the winphone product, at least on the part of the marketeers behind this campaign.

To go on the attack as part of your campaign says that you're feeling defensive and negative about your own position and that you've run out of positives to trumpet.
I have transferred most of my domains to hover.com and I love it. name cheap is great too though. oh how I despise GD.
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The Seinfeld ad is easy to explain: never hire Crispin, Porter and Bogusky to do your ads. I wish I could find the article right now to substantiate this, but IIRC they have been known make it contractual that you will accept their creative without any input. What could possibly go wrong? Ask Groupon.

Whatever the contractual situation, CPB is a train wreck for companies looking to be hip, and they've profited substantially from their image of being the hippest game in town. Ad associations keep giving them awards year after year.
We're not so much trying to make this an abstraction layer as we want to make this a library of API definitions that are clear, machine- as well as human-readable (to a point) format, that can be made usable by a connection factory instead of making it necessary to generate and maintain libraries.

I hope that addresses some of your questions.
Because first party Nintendo games still have some love and heart put into them, in stark contrast to a lot of the "AAA" titles on their biennial churn (Level 5 are one of the few others who keep franchises going yet manage to keep the quality up).

Granted there is a lot of good indie work on mobile but it's not a like for like, we aren't discussing the DS here.
Does this mean my old domains with 50 free users are now worth more?? :)
I agree, but a few bucks a domain really ads up if you're a startup with a lot of domains.
> CP + B, the same ad agency as Apple

Uhm, no it's not. Apple has used Chiat/Day since the 80s.
Surely the best Microsoft ad ever has to be the Songsmith one? It's just so, so awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E&feature=yout...
You are someone who hasn't lived in many of the 50 US states, apparently: there are no state car inspections in most places. Ever. I know it seems amazing to those of us who are accustomed to them.
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Tell folks who read the NYT in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, or people who watch Fox News - or any of the US mainstream media - that the traditional media has less misinformation.
I found the article interesting because he was talking about how mobile distractions could be better managed:

"Now, I’d love for there to be a way for me to know about high priority interrupts – things that actually are urgent. But my iPhone doesn’t do this at all in any discernable way. There are too many different channels to reach me and they aren’t effectively conditioned – I either have to open them up to everyone (e.g. txtmsg via my phone number) or convince people to use a specific piece of software – many, such as Glassboard – which are very good, but do require intentional behavior on both sides."

Again, not rocket science, but considering on the production side there are many folks jockeying for attention on your mobile device (download my app, use my app) it is interesting to hear from someone who funds some of those companies that a break is needed.

I for one will be interested to follow along as he tries other methods to increase effectiveness of the immediacy of his smartphone "interrupts".
I recently talked to a potential client about a major project that started out as an internal discussion about how to get off GoDaddy. I think there were GoDaddy whois results showing up in Google that they thought presented them in a bad light.
This sounds more like "designer's block". When you have the types of problems described in this post, you need to approach the design issues before you start writing code.
I'm a fairly junior developer at Braintree. I spent two months this summer working in our West Coast office pairing with one of our most senior developers. I spent almost the entire time at the keyboard. The senior developer provided guidance, a sounding board for ideas, kept me from diving too deeply into rabbit holes, provided context about the choices made in the project, etc. It was one of the most rewarding experiences I have had as a software developer.

Another thing to mention is that we generally rotate pairs fairly regularly. A developer will work with others with very different levels of experience both in general and within Braintree.
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One would have hoped that with an alarmist title like "At Dawn We Sleep" the topic would be about something very frightening, like the collapse of the oceanic ecosystems, the melting polar ices or the rapidly increasing global temperature. We already know that freak weather incidents like Katrina and Sandy will become much more common in the future and will take many more lives than any "cyber terrorism" ever will. After the war on Communism, drugs and terrorism why can't America declare war on climate change?
One of the solutions suggested by rms strikes me as reasonable: Ubuntu should make make search only local by default, but show a "search online too" toggle button right next to all search results.

If Ubuntu does that, the problem goes away, because users who want only local search don't have to do anything, and users who want global search can turn online search on/off at will by clicking a toggle button right there on the Unity panel.
Which is a significant barrier of entry for western developers and may actually be part of the reason why MRI is not nearly as good as it could be (less eyes looking at it).

I've experienced this myself twice so far, with Ruby and with TokyoCabinet (earlier HyperEstraier). Upon investigation of lower-level problems I would eventually hit a brick-wall in the disguise of a japanese mailing list.

This seems to be improving for Ruby nowadays, but I did actually stop using HyperEstraier (years ago, before the rise of SOLR) for this reason.

One counter-example could be nginx where lots of discussion still happens in russian, yet the code-quality remains excellent. This is more of an outlier than a role-model, though. Most projects are not blessed with a lead-developer as talented as Igor.
The "Start me up" campaign from Microsoft with the launch of Windows 95 was both really good and hip for the time. That is, however, the only example of good marketing from Microsoft that I can remember.
Wow, that's really bad - it only works if you're looking at one particular car! If you're comparing, or researching, they add nothing.
For us younger programmers, 'Think first, code later' is without a doubt the best advice you can give someone going for their first interview. I still shudder thinking back to an interview when I threw myself straight into coding the solution to the given problem.

Stand back. Think. Draw/Design the solution. Code
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Shouldn't you hope it wasn't worth the bad PR?
I used to feel the same way. It largely depends on who you are pairing with. Nearly every experience for me was unique. The part I keep chasing after is your first point. I usually work that way when solo. But with a good pair, it is the same effect without all the planning. If the other developer is just as good as you are, you will inspire each other. One of you will try something that doesn't pan out, but with give the first a new idea that does. It is an amazing experience when it happens, though a bit rare.

The exhaustion you get used to. I feel more tired after 8 hours of pairing than 18 of solo.
Canonical people are posting here, so perhaps they can say if future versions of the Business Desktop Remix will have the search feature enabled by default in countries with a local Amazon store.

The current Business Desktop Remix is 12.04 which pre-dates the issue.
Author here. You're completely right. I did for fun, not because I "should."

I'm not a designer; just someone who enjoyed playing with SVG and SMIL to make a subtle background effect that I liked.

You can turn off the animation with the menu at the bottom right. Apologies to everyone for burning your CPU cycles so needlessly. Just turn it off if you don't like it.
That's not the point. The point is NO ONE can promise 100% uptime. One can promise a 99.999% uptime and refund for the downtime. If one promises 100% uptime, either he's lying or he's just stupid.
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Even in arguments around copyright law (like this recently concluded debate... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4882364) the general consensus seems to flow around comments such as "... was not trying to reignite the Great Internet Copyright Argument for the millionth time, and instead was making a point about what was politically actionable today"

On similar lines, why not acknowledge the reality of running a viable, commercial venture around FOSS by tapping viable revenue models?

A few others have written some very good points that I really enjoyed reading. Here they are (in no particular order of preference):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887261

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887132

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887365

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4887294 (I really hope that comment was rhetorical rather than being literal)

that makes the point of why the situation is much more nuanced for someone like Canonical. And if Linux adoption has to succeed big time, we need the Canonicals and Mints (with their warts and all) that give the general public a viable alternative. Mandriva Linux was facing bankruptcy a few years ago, if I am not mistaken.

EDIT: For the opt-in vs opt-out discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864783

The difference is that - for a chunk of people - this functionality isn't crap. It's actually useful.
It's out of the way for people who don't care. It's there for people who do. I've seen folk go "that's so cool" when the amazon stuff came up.
This stuff is much closer to the adds folk get in Google search. It's often relevant to what they're doing at the time. (anecdata, sure. happens to match mine ;-) )
Engagement is different than active users. I can click the red button on my gmail account once a month and be considered active. Engagement is how much time I spend on the site. I'm on HN everyday commenting and reading. That's engagement, but I'm never on G+
Yeah, there are tons of Hacker News communities popping up, we took out the "official" bit.
Since staging environments are often scaled down but functionally equivalent, it does not track that having one involves spending twice as much.

It is also nothing to do with the switch learning 'fast enough' and everything to do with the switch having a fault which entirely prevented it learning certain MAC addresses. Would you care to clarify how your solution (above) would help in this situation, and how you fix switch firmware issues without escalating to your vendor?
Paperlex has a public free CLA manager which integrates with GitHub: http://clam.paperlex.com/
"that a lot of people think that the battle is now over, that "it's legal" "

People in Seattle do not believe this.
Linkbait title since the Wii U wasn't on sale for the full month and stock levels were low. I can't foresee a similar article after December.
I'm currently working on engineering a new system to replace an existing, aging one, and I find the worst "coder's block" that I run into is when I've finished designing a component and I go to implement it. Something about the fact that I already know how it should look/run demotivates me from actually grinding out the code to make it happen on my screen instead of just in my mind.
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A day in the life of an ad agency:

- Get hired by huge company

- Have dozens of creative ideas, present them each to the client

- Get rejected on all fronts

- Have dozens of watered-down ideas, present them each to the client

- They approve one of the ideas, but request X, Y and Z all be changed (most likely watered down)

- Create the idea, send over for approval
- Hear nothing back

- Email contact dozens of times hoping for feedback

- Finally hear back with contact saying it's going up the chain of command for approval(most likely lost in the email black hole)

- Someone you've never heard of from the higher ups emails you and asks for a bunch of changes

- Make changes (once again, watering the concept down)

- Realize the ad has nothing unique or creative in it, send it back to client; they love it.

- Cry at desk
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I used to work in Aerospace. Since we could barely understand our own analyses and documentation, I figured that the best thing to do would be to ship a complete copy to the Bulgarians (really, that was what the security weenies said they were scared of in 1986, Bulgarians) and let them waste their time trying to figure out all the inane assumptions, bad engineering, and dumb luck implicit in the designs.
Look at the screenshot... it's not a required field.

They're giving priority to those who have used Google Local. It may still be uncouth but the headline is baity.

>But, Friedman made clear, "If you RSVP you will definitely get a spot."

>He told The Appeal that an RSVP is necessary for security and catering reasons. "Everyone who goes needs a [security] badge to get in," he said. The space where the event is being held has a capacity of 200 people, he said.

>It's worth nothing, however, that at the same event last year only 25 people showed up, reports the Weekly.

etc.
I love pair programming. But it depends who you pair with.
If you ever need anything that can be sourced from German Amazon, poke me and I'll get it for you and mail it on. I'm Kliment on freenode IRC.
It hardly seems worth the trade-off. The more exhausted I am at the end of the day, the less inspired I am the next day. And trading two (experienced) developers' time for a rare chance at an epiphany doesn't seem worth it, either.
Great job on the plugin - one of the rare jQuery plugins to make the frontpage! Should tell you that you've created something awesome :)

re. the demo on the frontpage - even I was left trying to manipulate the image of the range slider on the homepage. Having a simple demo on the homepage would be nice!

Having said that, what prompted you to create this plugin? The concept of the range slider? Which purpose do you see it best serve?
But traditional gamers often spend more money than casual gamers over a longer period of time. Casual gamers are more inclined towards single experiences (Wii Fit) whereas traditional gamers often prefer to try many, many games, often at launch price.
Hmmmmm, you make a good point. My heart's not in it, so I guess 'doubt' would have been a better choice of words than 'hope'.
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I took a quick tour, and I believe this would be too cumbersome compared to an integrated solution.
Couldn't agree more.

There seems to be a strong correlation between people pushing pair programming and people I wouldn't want to work with in the first place.
Wow brilliant!
News just in: HackerNews users read HackerNews and avoid companies with bad business practises. Pretty much everyone I know with a GoDaddy domain shifted them over the last 18 months, even if it cost them more, as they didn't want to take the chance of sticking with GoDaddy too much longer.
No doubt in California this would show up as a trouble item in the OBD-II diagnostic and that would immediately fail its "smog" check.
This analysis, but for hosting provider (although most will belong in cloud) would be interesting.
if you start a search in google+ and press ht..it will automagically autocomplete to the HTML5 community page, if thats not too hard for you ;), if your friends posts about whatever is valuable to you so be it but I see more value in a community filled with like-minded individuals, to each his own! Reddit has no faces and real names and we all know how ugly anonymous posting can become, youtube now looks like google+ with faces and real names. Progress.
This is probably an internal strategy by google to try increase g+ engagement. Create these social groups on g+ that already have strong community behind them. The thinking is that on g+ things like photography, and geek related could become a beachhead community for them and they can use that as the foundation to build up additional communities to drive up engagement.
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It does make a difference, since the person is already locked-in by owning games for the 360.