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For me, it's both. Windows 7 hasn't gotten in my way yet. There is no value-add large enough for me to go out and 1) learn a new OS UX paradigm, and 2) potentially be forced to purchase touchscreen monitors to experience 8 optimally. Windows 7 runs everything I could ever want it to run, and this is as an avid gamer and lifetime .NET developer.
The restaurant industry divides itself into four classifications - quick serve (Wendys), fast casual (Chipotle), Table Service (Chili's) and Fine Dining (Ruth's Chris). I can see e-menus making headway in Table Service spots where people are usually in more of a hurry, might have kids, and the restaurants don't always have the best servers. I can envision wine menus in Fine Dining locations.

Most restaurants focus on keeping costs low even more than top-line revenues, so my guess is an innovative business model might be needed for a wide deployment. But nothing wrong with a little disruption in this space.
Depends on where you live. Certainly not in San Francisco, where I pay $2800/month rent.
I didn't even get that far... I got 100 of these on the first step:
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For me, the killer app for android is dropsync. This program works like the desktop Dropbox client, providing true two way syncing of a directory on my device with a subdirectory of my Dropbox account.
Am I the only person who finds these things impossible to scroll through and read properly? It frustrates me more than anything.
I think it strongly depends on cost of living where you are, mortgage size, etc.

The article mentions that the $75,000 is per household, and "About one-third of U.S. households had incomes above $75,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The average household income was $71,500."

That number varies quite a bit based on location within the US, but it's good to be reminded that one person's "barely enough to make ends meet" salary is something that 2/3 of US households don't reach.

(I vaguely remember that after that article made the rounds originally, someone posted a link here to an article that adjusted the $75,000 based on cost of living in a long list of different cities to see what number would (theoretically) better apply to you)
My, that was certainly cringe-inducing. The only thing I really came away with is: I hope I'm never trapped in a room with Dave McClure... <shudder>
I didn't install anything specifically for this site but looking through my installed packages I now recall I had previously installed e.g.:

browser-plugin-vlc

chromuim-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

gecko-mediaplayer
Exactly why I never play the lottery. I'd rather strike it rich by working.
There is a huge research literature about money and happiness.

For many years, the consensus was that wealthy people in a given society were happier than the poorer people in that society... but that wealthy societies weren't happier than less wealthy societies (as long as the mean income was over $5000/yr or so). This was called the Easterlin Paradox.

Then there was some research suggesting the wealthiest people in any given society were not happier than average for that society.

But the most recent research I've seen says that wealthy societies are happier... and relatively wealthy people in any given society are happier than average for that society.

In any case, it's a very tough question to answer... and it's been studied heavily enough that you can find research supporting almost any possible conclusion.
I'd vote for her too if I had to, but this wasn't a surprising move on her part.
What about prepaid credit cards?
I don't understand how Firefox/Chrome getting rid of their in-navbar subscribe or Google not advertising Reader doesn't just put them at the same level of Twitter when it was just starting out. Twitter didn't necessarily need large marketing efforts to take off as far as I know.

I feel like this is a case of the tech savy being somewhat removed from the majority of the web's consumer base. Honestly, I've had a surprisingly large amount of trouble explaining something like IRC/RSS to someone like my parents or my non-techy friends. I try to explain that IRC is just like any other chat room, but honestly it's incredibly scary and unattractive to most people.
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You forgot the return operation.
No, YOU'RE a FISA-backed surveillance.
Yes, if we just stopped spying on foreign powers, China would totally stop hacking into our systems.
From the Racket docs:

This evaluation behavior is sometimes called tail-call optimization, but it’s not merely an “optimization” in Racket; it’s a guarantee about the way the code will run. More precisely, an expression in tail position with respect to another expression does not take extra computation space over the other expression.

And you're right -- typed racket is still in its growing stages. There are a lot of guarantees you don't have.
I don't know about "necessity". Only that it was part of the Dorset culture for 2,000 years, and used by even earlier Arctic cultures.

A search for "dorset soapstone lamps" finds plenty of examples that lamps were used, and even pictures of the archeological finds of such lamps.

http://books.google.se/books?id=kGWuMa6sRYsC&pg=PA372... says "Winter light and heat were supplied by soapstone lamps ... The previous Dorset inhabitants of Arctic Canada had used soapstone lamps for some 2,000 years. ... Soapstone cooking pots ... "

http://books.google.se/books?id=iBCc5bQlP1wC&pg=PA179... has "The most conspicuous difference between Saqqaq and Dorset sites lies in the occurrence of fire-cracked rocks. These are common in Saqqaq sites ... During the Dorset culture, the heating of winter dwellings relied on the use of soapstone lamps."

(Note that "Saqqaq culture existed from around 2500 BCE until about 800 BCE", so is before Dorset, pushing back the use of fire even further.)

Or for a regular HTML link, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/dorset-cultu... says "Dorset culture, 500 BC-1500 AD, is known archaeologically from most coastal regions of arctic Canada. The Dorset people were descended from Palaeoeskimos of the PRE-DORSET CULTURE. Compared to their ancestors, the Dorset people had a more successful economy and lived in more permanent houses built of snow and turf and heated with soapstone oil lamps."
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Can somebody list he 10 things so I don't have to watch the annoying video?
It's more like people in cars yelling at people who have attached wheels and diesel engines to horses.
Seriously, no one becomes tenured at a university by teaching a lot of classes. Not only is that not the "track" to become tenured (the way to do that is to get a tenure-track gig, see how that works?), it will likely detract from your chances because:

1. the longer you do it the more tarnished you'll become;
2. the more you rack up teaching gig after teaching gig, the harder it is to establish a research record, for various reasons: if you're adjuncting, it takes tons of time; if you aren't (if you have lots of visiting assistant professorships, for instance) you still potentially have to deal with annual moves, lots of class prep (you won't have much say over what you teach so you won't necessarily get to repeat classes), and less institutional support than your tenure-track colleagues.

I sincerely hope none of the people who were blogged about actually harbors the hope attributed to them, because if they do they were badly misinformed.
Android fanboys are so lame it's not even funny.

"Ohmigod I have spent my breakfast money on a gadget that's slow and broken, so to ease the inevitable butthurt let's remind the world of how open Android is and how many things I could have done with it if it worked."
The two that stand out for me are NFC and app integration (intents).

With Android Beam, NFC is a pretty cool way to share things. The only quirk is the positioning of the NFC chip by different phone manufacturers, which means bumping phones back to back doesn't always work and you need to slide a few cm up or down.

Meanwhile, Intents is something which iOS developers would appreciate. Both Dropbox and Microsoft (Live) faced problems recently where their SDKs were found to be in violation of the iOS App Store. This resulted in third party developers being punished, by not being able to update their apps until the SDK issues were resolved, even if the update involved bug fixes or feature upgrades unrelated to the SDK.
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This matches my experience from the last few years as well. I was burned by denormalizing too early and not fully understanding the trade-offs I was committing to for the sake of not dealing with 'schemas' (which I actually have no problems with). And just like the OP, I have found far better success sticking with SQL early on for many of the same reasons mentioned. Later, as products and data schemas matured I found very specific uses for data stores like MongoDB. But, they are never the core data store.
selection bias though. Financially sensible people don't play the lottery.
The factors limiting our freedoms are not always financial constraints.

I've known many people who were not rich who had a great deal of freedom to do what they wanted. Sure they couldn't buy a ferrari every week, but they were able to travel, explore, move around, do creative work and be pretty happy doing it even though they had almost no material wealth.

We make choices to take on responsibilities and to follow certain paths, but it's a double-edged-sword. There's something to that quote from 'Fight Club': "The things you own end up owning you".
If someone's talking about PHP and they don't mention composer or packagist (and instead bring up PEAR and PECL), it becomes immediately clear that they don't know what they're talking about.
I think you would first need to define what a super power is in this world today. Then find the most effective book in that area. I feel the super power of today is the ability to sell because money is one of the most important raw materials from which power is created. Or you could be selling a vision if you are one of those "money is the root of all evil" types. Unfortunately, I don't know of a good book on selling. ;)
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This is a good read on singletons.

http://www.object-oriented-security.org/lets-argue/singleton...

"Singletons are possibly the single greatest obstacle to good object-oriented design today. They are often at the root of huge intractable design flaws in large systems, and yet many programmers continue to use them and even insist that they are a good design pattern. Many programmers point to the fact that the singleton pattern is a prominent part of the book Design Patterns, but don't realize that at least one of the authors of that book (Erich Gamma) is on record saying that it shouldn't have been.

We argue that Singletons are almost always bad design and almost never needed. In the few cases where singletons seem necessary, the "environment pattern" offers a reasonable alternative. Therefore, we recommend that programmers always avoid singletons and that programming languages ban them or at least provide an option to ban them."
ICE cars have a lot more moving parts to break, so it's not a one-to-one comparison. When you buy an old ICE car you know there might be lots of small (or big) things that will need fixing soon. When you buy an electric car there are much fewer things to go wrong, and only one real big one (which you will be able to approximate since it tells you how worn out it is).

I think this will become less and less of an issue as these cars become older and more common. On the other hand, if this does kill the resale value, I will be all over a cheap electric car and replace the battery myself.
Having used come-a-longs and hi-lifts as come-a-longs, I would never wish that agony on anyone else. It's better than nothing, but far worse than an electric winch by a long shot.

Generally speaking, if the engine can't start/run, and help is nowhere to be found, winching the vehicle out will be more trouble than its worth. The best part of an electric winch is you may use it in conjunction with the engine when solo, meaning you can generally free the vehicle as soon as you find some traction, rather than constantly advancing, re-entering the vehicle and checking for traction again.

But you're right about and additional strap: one should always have with their winch, at a minimum, a tow strap and a tree saver (plus requisite shackles, snatch blocks, and gloves if using wire rope, or rock guards with synthetic). I once got stuck deep in a ravine, and 150' of synthetic rope fell short of the nearest tree by 5 feet, but a tow strap and tree saver made up the difference and I got to sleep in my bed that night, rather than in the jeep.
People invented writing thousands of years ago so they could quickly communicate ideas without having to act them out each time. Now we're regressing.
In the early stage startup a Founder/CEO should also play a PM role.

It might be not obvious, but the main problem having a dedicated PM on the team, is that unless PM has very strong engineering or business experience [and in this case that person should either code or bring in money], the PM would fill very insecure , surrounded by highly experienced people, who can actually do things. Cost of somebody on the team, feeling very insecure and trying to bullshit/manoeuvre/bully his way around outweighs any potential benefit to the team.

From my personal experience, I've seen projects fail solely because of PMs protecting their turf.
The sad part is you aren't wrong
1. Customizable App integration

2. Setting Default Apps

3. NFC Tech

4. Google Now

5. Larger display with "HD Resolution"

6. Wireless Charging

7. Widgets

8. Soft Keys (e.g. the bottom row of keys dissapears in landscape mode)

9. Swipe Keyboard

10. Photosphere
For me the process of designing my schema and planning my project are almost one in the same. I have a hard time thinking about how I'm going to build something without thinking about the schema.
Thats funny because there are so many third world countries, with higher per capita incomes, better infrastructure and far better legal systems than India.
Sounds like you want to change the world. In what way, and why?
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Huh? Where in the Constitution is Congress given authority over "spying"? At all times, not just when authorized to use military force, the executive branch controls the military and governs foreign affairs. Your comment makes no sense.
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yes, because 1 company/restaurant failed...no other will ever succeed. Thanks for your ever so brilliant wisdom.
Honestly, I'm surprised there are still as many Windows OEMs as there are right now. The consumer PC market has cratered since the iPad, and Apple's tactic of getting Macs into colleges is paying dividends now those students are moving into their 30s. How many people really want a Windows machine at this point? With Valve's aggressive move into taking PC games off of Windows altogether, I really don't know what market segment is left loyal to the platform.

Samsung might be taking a hit on experiments such as Chromebooks, but my guess is its going to be the OEMs that diversify quickly and focus on quality and not quantity that will stay in the business of selling computational machines to consumers.

Windows 8 is Microsoft's parting gift to the desktop. I'd put money on Windows 9 going Metro only, and perhaps a revival of the NT brand for enterprise buyers to keep the desktop around.
It's a disaster on my Android phone as well.
I have a complete set of the first 2 years of Creative Computing which I'd love to scan & put online for free, but there's that dang copyright law.

I think copyrights ought to expire after 20 years.
The book that has changed my life the most, so far, has been The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman.

In 2010 I started a job that was far, far ahead of my skillset. I'd written fewer than 10,000 lines of code in my life, and I was completely ill-prepared for the work I was supposed to be doing. I picked up SICP about a month or two into that job.

Fast forward a year, and I felt that I knew more about programming than half the people I worked with, and I'd moved to a smaller, more awesome company doing work that I think is much more fun.

A year since then and I've picked up half a dozen new languages, given talks at user groups on some of them. Next year I'm aiming for conferences.

Pick up this book. It gives you superpowers.
The number of replies defending PHP make me think that HN is very close to becoming a useless place, dangerous even, for obtaining programming (and probably other) advice.
I am surprised by all the pushback here....even for HN! Only explanation I can come up with is that you pimply faced virgins feel better about yourselves because you told off Dave McClure.

Ummmm, congratulations?
High density doesn't directly translate into longer commutes. It directly translates into better jobs. Since people are willing to travel longer distances for better jobs, longer commutes are an indirect result.
This would be nice to know, because they're serving as a password-management app for all of your email passwords.

Presumably, they would not store your Inky password as well -- instead, they'd store a secure hash, not MD5 or SHA-1, which are built for speed, not security....
In the 19th century and before, this is actually, more or less, how professors made their livings, at least in the German system. They were paid on an individual basis by their students. Naturally, you had to teach classes that lots of people wanted to take if you wanted to make any bucks (or Deutschmarks or whatever). I don't think this is a system particularly worth returning to.

From the article, this pair of things is absolutely bats:

<em>“Most importantly, teacherpreneurship is not about promoting a free-market vision for the profit of a few—but rather how our society can invest substantially in teachers who can expertly serve millions of children and families who are not in the position to choose a better school somewhere else or find the most erudite online teacher anytime, anywhere. Teacherpreneurship is all about the public good, not private gain.” (15 October, 2010)

Freelance teachers can cut out the middle man by gaining their own client base, choosing how much they wish to charge and by having more freedom in choosing their most effective teaching methodology.</em>

Right, and where would these teacher-entrepreneurs (if anyone actually says "teacherpreneurs" I hope to god their jaw rots off) choose, predominantly, to peddle their wares? I'm going to go ahead and guess that it's in the areas where people <em>are</em> in a position to "choose a better school somewhere else", because that's where the money is. They will, probably, set their wages and gain their own client base in places where they can be assured of clients who want to pay (people beset by class anxiety or who want to ensure that their kids go to the right college (or are taught be the right freelance prof---this scheme could not possibly work if there weren't gradations of status on which to judge people; that's a large part of the role the contemporary college plays)) and who can pay.

Keathley's wonderment regarding the possibility of "earn[ing] annual incomes in the six-figure range instead of the average contingent faculty rate" is also kind of strange; that's already possible---just not for contingent faculty.
Most of these discussions really miss the point. Money is merely an amplifier, an enabler. You can think of it like technology. Does the Internet make people happier? Nope, but it sure enables a lot of opportunities to be happier.

How would you answer the question 'does technology make people happier?'. Surely, having (say) a computer is not what life is about? When you stop to think about it though, having a computer is a gate to all kinds of things - communicating better with friends and family, a more flexible (and hence less stressful) work environment, and so forth. Does a computer necessarily lead to these things? Of course not. Is it a huge enabler for these things? Absolutely. Should you want a computer? In the vast majority of cases — yes. There's a qualifier though: the happiness you get out of a computer depends mostly on what you do with it, not you owning it.

Bringing the discussion back to money. Does it necessarily lead to happiness? No, but it sure opens a lot of opportunities. The same qualifier also applies: the happiness you get out of money depends mostly on what you do with it, not you owning it.

Should you go after money? That's a question that probably has no universal answer. My father likes to jokingly say: 'it's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick', and he has a point. All things being equal, it's hard to see how money could be a bad thing. Problem is, all things are not equal. If what you want to do with your life leads away from money, then doing what you want to do surely matters more than being rich.

If you do choose a path which will not lead to money however, don't try to belittle money's benefits by saying things like 'money does not make people happy'. That really is not the point. Money is a wonderful enabler of opportunities, and we should recognise that so that we can make better decisions.
"The Joy of Cooking" is great for learning how to cook.
The US government has a long history of using laws for much broader purposes than originally intended. The PATRIOT Act has many great examples:

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

I don't see why warrantless wiretaps would be held to a higher standard than similar prior laws.
Mongo is like the PHP of the database world. Many important features are dropped in the name of "getting started quickly".

What you gain in short term wins, are nullified by all the long term headaches you suffer.
That sounds like people were just more likely to buy apps around Christmas, like I'm sure happened on all platforms.
Why do students pay for the research professors do?
Some of them go to varying lengths to avoid publicizing their use of FreeBSD

Why?
I've found that the primary value for me in NoSQL implementations is in allowing for customization at the data level for the end users without having to explicitly build structures for it. So if User A wants to add a tracking field to all her data, she can do so without my having to build an extensible data structure on the back end; it's already there, and it doesn't affect any other user records.
I'm reminded of a favorite comic strip:

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/090614.html
Mixing and matching PHP components with Composer
Related: Charts Music, made with Microsoft Songsmith: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-BZfFakpzc
I've been running Win 8 on my home machine since it was available on MSDN. I went through the initial headache and then my old habits were replaced by new ones and I was just as productive again.

But, guess what. I recently realized that the reason I have no problems with the new menu is because I've managed to completely avoid it! For a little background, I'm a C# dev so I use VS 2012. I'm also an avid gamer. But there are times where I won't open the new menu at all for a couple of weeks. I'm not sure how I feel about this...

I'm generally optimistic about things from Microsoft, but this one has me puzzled. I don't think it's a negative thing, it just feels like a feature that's sort of "just there".

Edit - As far as I understand, it is required to use Windows 8 to develop Win 8 apps. So basically its only use so far is a dev sandbox.