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> If people were hating on you, and I have no problem believing that you may have been followed, harassed and even threatened, it is not because of you as a human, but you as a representative of an oppressive, smug, petty, abusive and racist proselytizing space ship fantasy land thy wants to impose your particular lunacy on the rights of others.

Why? Why do you do this?
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a very slim chance. would he stand still and let his child die?
Further down in the article I mention that a possible vector was that I tweeted from my personal Twitter that I was considering buying a T4i and that someone searching for that might consider me a target and try.

It's definitely an interesting question, but it's clear he was just hunting and pecking, which is why he wanted all the order numbers from November and December... not sure if he initiated a few other chat sessions to figure out what was in each order and found a high-ticket item to pursue, or what, but it's a good question... I don't know what made me an initial target at all.

Interestingly enough, Amazon offers a "Tweet this purchase" option which I did NOT avail myself of, but which would definitely exacerbate this problem.

(Also, my name is Chris Cardinal. I don't know the scammer's name, but of course he couldn't request Amazon to change the shipping address AND the name for the replacement order. That would be a bridge too far.)
Facebook interns make approx 50% more than entry-level engineers here, before considering currency conversion.

Hooray for living in a third-world country!
I bet that Target and Walmart have a very different ratio of Engineers to labor workers, than what Amazon has. Comparing revenue per employee is very misleading here.
> Minimalism and skeumorphism are not mutually exclusive.

> Skeumorphisms are adopted on UIs, a priori, to give hints about the function and ease the interaction with new users. It's a metaphor to reuse prior knowledge of how things work in the real world.

Indeed. It gives hints and makes elements stand out. Take the Nest presentation from the examples in the original post—it uses realistically looking elements to make them more noticeable in contrast to ‘flat’ surroundings. This helps highlight the design of the Nest thing and link to the store, for example.
Haha that reminds me of a similar hack we discoverd as kids. Australian payphones had an interesting feature where you could place a call without paying however the call would hangup almost immediately upon being answered. There was a split second where you could actually hear each other so we'd usually yell something out and our parents would know it was us waiting to be picked up from the beach or some such.
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Ha! I'm the same way. It's so damn slow compared to how much I can put down in the same time if I were on my mechanical keyboard instead.

I always hated high school in class essays because all I could think was that I'd be able to write 3x better/more efficiently/produce more content if I were doing it on a keyboard. Plus, it always gave me handcramps. :(
They ought to revamp their marketing efforts from square one, starting with figuring out who their customers are and what products those customers will want to purchase.
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To this day, I have the sneaking suspicion that it ended up in some HR persons thesis. :)
Os are becoming less relevant for "most" of uses , with cloud services ,and apps running on the browsers. Os will always be relevant for software requiring intensive computation ( games , complexe CAD programs , etc ... ). So Microsoft might lose some relevance , it is normal.
Microsoft has also a branding problem regarding public products.But is doing very well in Enterprise products.
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But they are probably less happy than I am.
Are you being sarcastic or are you just immature?
My god, give them a break. Can we get at least one positive article about Microsoft on HN? It doesn't matter what Microsoft does they always get ridiculed for it. Any effort, no matter how good, gets completely obliterated. Microsoft hasn't been the most innovative company lately but they're slowly adjusting their line of products to at least try to get somewhere. Yes, Surface doesn't stand up to iPad, but it's a very solid product nonetheless. Yes, Windows 8 is a big deviation from norm, but it is an innovative move forward that needs a bit more work. Yes, C# and the entire .NET ecosystem isn't as popular as Rails and gets absolutely no love on HN but it is an incredibly powerful environment. For fuck's sake, stop hating Microsoft just to hate it and embrace their efforts to move forward and compete just like you do Google and Apple.
Do you consider these lists interesting? Are you happy when you see YC names in this article?
I'm going to get downvoted for saying this, but you guy are really wasting your time. Python was never intended to be fast; even Guido considers it "fast enough," which is a polite way of saying it's going to stay slow. Yeah, you could use weird hacks or write half your program in C, but why?

There are a ton of good languages out there that can give good performance on these kind of problems AND don't have the problems of C++. I mean you've got Golang, Scala, or Erlang for starters. Just sayin'.
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Yeah, I know that _now_…

I've got real live client sites which I haven't (yet) migrated important S3/Route53/EC2/CloudFront services out of the "I'll just try this out on my account to see if it'll work" setup.
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These are hardly problems. Users don't generally encounter system directories or identifiers in IDEs, and these patterns have emerged from MS's traditional dedication to maintaining backward compatibility, which is usually much more important to developers and power users than having directory names be completely descriptive of what's in them.

The problem with Windows RT is exactly the opposite: they've broken backward compatibility, severely, and created a product that bears no resemblance to what the vast majority of users recognize as Windows, yet they've decided to call it "Windows" anyway.
I use Python for nearly all of my ETL processes that involve text processing. Even in production systems, I'd be hard-pressed to admit any significant performance issues. Python facilitates implementing algorithms in a functional style, which I tend to prefer over the imperative style (i.e., Java). With C++11 and boost, I'm able to translate my Python code to C++ while preserving the functional style, which has immensely simplified prototyping/deploying NLP/ML algorithms while simultaneously begetting enormous performance gains. I see Python as an extremely viable alternative to Java.
Hoary old cliché is clichéd.

In this reality, the $50/shot business model would fall apart in a hurry. After the first couple of poachers were killed by drones, hunting season would be pretty much over. For everybody else, including the endangered animals, life would go on.
I use Better Touch Tool [1] which is mostly about expanding defaults for multitouch gestures. I haven't gotten around to using the Better Snap tool which focuses on window management yet.

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Confusion OS.
I respect your opinion and am actually opposed to the banning of any firearms to those who are qualified and have passed mental and criminal examinations. Currently, about 40% of firearm purchasers are not examined and I believe this number is too high. I appreciate the dialogue, as I believe we need more discussions on this topic.
It is too bad someone hasn't gone back a released a retooled, s-expr version of Dylan. It was an interesting language. People should read the manual (infix) just to see how they did macros.
Exactly. This is why we can't have nice things. Here is a company that has given its CSRs enough power to resolve issues, and someone is taking advantage of it. Clearly, they need to implement something like the pin number challenge Chris mentioned, but I for one am impressed that Amazon trusts their customers to this extent. Someone has just found a weak link to exploit, and Amazon needs to fix it, but I hope this doesn't make them change their policy of trusting the customer.
"If the only risk is the loss of value of a product to Amazon"

Unfortunately, that's externalizing the real cost to the customer of having their account flagged as "possibly fraudulent".
plunker does have that : http://plnkr.co
I see the consumer market as a "lower-end" enterprise market, or the enterprise market as a "higher-end consumer market", just like I see the server chips market as a higher-end consumer market.

The problem is that when you lose the "lower-end" market, it's only a matter of time before you lose the "higher-end" market, too (5-10 years), according to Innovator's Dilemma.

I know it's not a perfect analogy because it's two companies instead of one, but Nokia losing the leadership in the "consumer smartphones" market, made it even more obvious that RIM will lose its leadership in the enterprise market, too, but with a several years of delay, because the enterprise world moves more slowly.
> Microsoft hasn't been the most innovative company lately but they're slowly adjusting their line of products to at least try to get somewhere.

They're slowly adjusting their products in order to jump on someone else's bandwagon, instead of maximizing their own unique competitive advantage.

Why the hell is Microsoft making an ARM-based hardware platform in the first place?
I'm curious, How big is AWS within Amazon's revenue?
Back in the early '60s (or late '50s) I had a thing called a Brainiac kit[0] - a minor league version of an IBM wire panel: I wired it up to play tic-tac-toe.

[0] http://www.word-detective.com/2007/07/brainiac/
Wow.. speechless..
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It seems bad form of PC Mag not to link to the source, given that the whole article is based off it.
Because people want to demonstrate how compassionate they are. Everyone else is letting everyone know that they are praying for someone, then they should too, or else they are "bad."
Agreed, if that is the case it is a fraud. If there was an official offer and they hide it, it is fraud. Every shareholder has the right to choose.

However, what I also meant is that in the article they talk only about the money side, there is no mention what else was on the table. For example, may be the strategy that Instagram is interested in is closer to that of Facebook than to the one of Twitter. Or maybe something completely different. We don't have the full picture.
not it's not , the idea was "relativity" not "comparaison". Backbone doesnt do serverside request handling , nor does AngularJS.
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As a developer working with Microsoft products I have a very mixed feeling about what the company is doing right now.
The tools and products for developers and professionals are amazing. Visual Studio might be the most visible example but there are really tons of great tools and libraries (and many are actually open sourced).
The problem is that I cannot see any of this greatness translated into end-users killer-apps. LOB apps surely benefit from it and other ecosystems (OSX, iOS or Android) will not catch-up for a long time.
For me there are two Microsoft: one for the developers and headed by Scott Guthrie and the other for consumers. This last one does not have a clear vision and is just trying to catch up with Google and Apple.
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No, she did mandate corporate theft however.
Thanks, 10minutesmail.com. It was a trap.
Only if you think that knowing the syntax of the puppet config language is a show-stopper.

I mean, I could ask people the proper incantation to rebuild a sendmail domaintable without using a helper Makefile. You either know it or you don't, but it's not something everyone is going to know, and it's not 1:1 for whether you're a good sysadmin or not.

Trivia is one thing, but blocking trivia?
Pointless. You can ask with the same success "Just how big Walmart is, if it is only one store?" or "Just how big is Chevron, if it is only one gas station?"
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It could also be that Amazon waives it's same address policy only around Christmas as it knows that a) people are travelling and b) a missed Christmas present is a bigger deal than a normal missed package.

It might have figured that this would be an acceptable loss given that it can only be exploited once a year.
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I'm not agreeing with him here, but 'maniac' may be a bit heavy considering the following:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rhino+poaching&hl=en&...
Don't you think it must be difficult for him to see his baby so badly mismanaged, starting with Vista, and now Windows 8 and Surface? He poured his life blood into that company, I can't imagine that he's unaffected by it's performance.
Not that odd. Isn't the whole point of the pay-whay-you-want model that some people don't want to pay the default price?

I quite often decide against offers because I feel they are marked up 20%-200% over what I perceive them to be worth, but have occasionally bought an extra copy later on (occasionally as a gift) if I've come to feel that I got a great deal originally. Other people pay grossly over the perceived worth if they want to support the seller for one reason or another.
That's an interesting find.

I hope the failure in 2003-2008 doesn't predetermine the outcome of such an effort in 2012, assuming such an effort does takes place.
They don't yet break out AWS revenue, keeping it in the "Other" category "Includes non-retail activities, such as AWS in the North America segment, advertising services, our co-branded credit card agreements, and other seller sites in both segments."

Q3 financial reports this "Other" category at 1.582 billion over 9 months. http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol...
I'm a really big fan of the .NET environment but you have to admit there is something wrong with the end-user products in recent years.
Looking at the modest success of the Surface RT, one might think it will end-up like WP7. You cannot recommend to buy a product like this for Christmass
If you want to go that route, just don't offer your product for $0.
While killing poachers may be on balance the right thing to do, actually taking pleasure in the act of killing, even for "a good cause", tends to have bad effects on the killers.

Maybe read LTC Dave Grossman's standard book _On Killing_. http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-So...
This is standard fare for that tier of company. Any company that is competing for that talent pays that much.
C# and the entire .NET ecosystem isn't as popular as Rails

Is that true? I mean, I'm sure there aren't a whole lot of .net people on HN, but I always assumed that there's a pretty large "silent majority" of enterprise devs that use .net exclusively.

And also, MS got some serious love the other day when they released TypeScript (and rightly so). FWIW even though I'm a java/javascript guy I got my start in visual studio and it's a great toolset, and C# really is Java++.
What's the point? There's something like 500 unintentional firearm deaths per year. With 100,000,000 million gun owners we're talking about $5/yr or something.

To put that in perspective, every year 25,000 people die from falling.
Bill still owns a lot of Microsoft stock. He might not care about the money for his personal gain, but he does care about the mission and goals of his foundation. More money for Bill = more money for foundation.

I don't see Bill returning to Microsoft being a likely scenario but the value proposition is definitely there if he feels his ability to do things with this foundation in the future threatened.
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No thanks. When you recall their once-titanic power, their vicious business culture, their decade-long seizure and stagnation of the entire web, the way they openly eat their own with gusto, and the incalculable amounts of money and effort thrown into the boundless swamps of their fetid platforms, you realize that watching them tumble and smash on the rocks below is never, ever, ever going to get old.
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The article has a very specific complaint - that Windows RT isn't Windows inasmuch as it doesn't run most Windows software and that this is confusing since Microsoft has trained us to expect that "Windows $FOO" will run Windows software. This has been the basis of their branding since 1995 at least, and a serious strength of that product line.

What's the problem with discussing that issue?
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So they call to replace one bullshit metrics with other bullshit metrics. Nice.

Not once in this article there were the words "Profit" or "Revenue" and yet they talk about business and companies.

Here is a surprise for you. Real companies are interested in real profits from real revenue and you count revenue and profit only after the money is actually in your bank account.

Otherwise one day you get the kind of terms of service just like Instragram these days.
No, I think there are a lot more people who can run a charity than people who can make the billions to fund one.
Ah, didn't realize he used the same name. So potentially

1) first chat session with Amazon support to claim that he lost access to his email and needs order #s (which is what you've tested out, and it works)

2) subsequent sessions from different accounts with various dot placements to inquire about the status of specific order #s

3) when a high-value item is found, sticking to the original dotted address, and asking for replacement

Is your mailing address available from public sources?
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Couldn't this be fixed by Amazon just requiring you to be logged in when you start a chat with them ?

Tiny bit of extra hassle for the user but is made up for by the fact that Amazon wouldn't need to bother asking any security questions to verify identity.
Sorry. That's some poor organization of the writing on my part, which I've revised slightly.

My article is still leaning heavily on Brian Ford's talk for the reasons why the current (lack of) process is an issue that needs consideration. I certainly could've done a better job of summarizing that before throwing in my 2 cents.
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I think you will find there's lots of people on HN who would love to see Microsoft hit a home run. Surface was highly buzzed-over, as were Windows Phone 7/8. There is genuine interest in the developer community for a really good alternative to the Apple & Google duopoly.

The problem is that Microsoft isn't providing a really good alternative. The buzzed-about products have all followed a depressingly similar trajectory: highly interesting on the drawing board, but then crippled on launch by some element of the product that MS just didn't get right. Windows Phones were hard to find on some carriers, for instance, and lacked apps. (This oversight was understandable for Windows Phone 7; less so for 8.) Surface manages to be too expensive to compete with tablets and too limited to compete with ultrabooks. And so on.

Say what you want about Apple and Google, but they at least know who their customers are and consistently nail the things those customers care about. Apple customers are consumers, so their products are heavy on style and sex appeal. Google customers are carriers, so their products are heavy on customizability and adaptable across a lot of form factors and spec sheets.

Microsoft's non-developer customers are... well, Microsoft doesn't really seem to know, and the products show it. They're a mishmash of interesting ideas and half-baked execution. Which makes them hard to cheer for, or to justify buying.
This is a matter of opinion, but here is my take: Microsoft has single-handedly delayed the progress of the Internet for over a decade. We have a very confusing environment, which we are painfully leaving behind, simply because they tried to own the Internet. What is the world GDP impact of trying to overcome the incompatibilities of IE?

And they have tried to tamper with my individual rights to use the computing platform I choose. Remember "Linux is a cancer", and bullying of manufacturers not to offer Linux? Where are my Linux laptops, please? I attribute 90% to the blame to Microsoft (and yes, I have a Linux laptop, no Microsoft tax attached. But the choice was very narrow)

For these reasons, even if tomorrow Microsoft announces the cure of cancer, I will despise them with all my strength. For decades to come. For the rest of my life.

There is no undoing the harm they have done to humankind. The only positive outcome, from my point of view, is for them to disappear as a company, and for their products to die (obviously, a very long death). Microsoft will never offer a product I want. It is really that simple.

And Apple is on a worse track.
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I didn't down vote you, but my experience with writing specs has been positive.

Maybe you are talking about running your own start-up where it might not be successful yet? And you're trying to find your market fit? Then sure, maybe just writing new code and changing the product on a whim is what is best without writing up a spec.

Now consider a software consultancy with enterprise customers. The enterprise usually wants time and cost estimates, which usually means agreeing on precisely what you will be delivering in advance. You WANT to write a spec, to prevent scope creep and limit your liability, and they want you to tell them how long and how much (and a spec helps estimate those things). It's win-win.

Most enterprise customers can't wrap their CFO's head around true agile with iterations and open-ended times and costs. They want as much of a guarantee as you can give them for what/how long/how much.

Not saying one way is better or worse - but maybe it's a case of the right tool for the job?
Determinism really does matter. You want it for debugging. Also for replays, if your game has that feature.
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Which should be called modern since Modern (uppercase M) refers, in the world of art, literature and architecture, to Modernism, which is not at all modern.

(this was written in jest)