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Oh yes, it very much is, for the most part. Some things MS does which are legitimately better than the competition, and that helps along with in general just making fewer mistakes than Sony/Nintendo.

However, if you look at, say, Valve/Steam vs. Microsoft, especially now that Valve is moving into the console market, that should terrify people at Microsoft. Valve is starting at a disadvantage, but the future of gaming on any platform is digital distribution and they have by far the most experience and the most connections in that area. Most importantly, they have a long history of helping game publishers squeeze the most revenue out of games through sales and promotions. At the end of the day game publishers follow the money (indeed, one could describe that as an almost darwinian process), and the most profitable platforms for 3rd parties are going to be where the development effort and player base will end up coming to rest.
Yes, I don't have a link to the original article, but iirc they gave the elephant a gigantic dose compared to its body weight (the amount needed per kg of body weight goes down dramatically as body weight increases). The elephant started having what looked like seizures (faire enough, after basically eating the human equivalent of a full thimble of LSD), so they gave it a whole bunch of other drugs to try and stop the seizure. Then other things happened, so they gave it more drugs... etc.
Read the article the original rant was posted as a comment on. It discusses exactly that.
Many luminaries including Peter Thiel have been saying this but I see a little bit of a contradiction while comparing their statements to their backgrounds. Peter Thiel, for example, went to Stanford undergrad and law school. Chris Dixon has an MA from Columbia. PG has a PhD from Harvard etc...I'm also wondering if the reverse is happening in the startup world where investors see you unfavorably if you're not a 19 year old college dropout but instead have an advanced degree. In addition, like the previous poster pointed out, credentialism exists everywhere. People want to trust one source for vetting multiple candidates. This happens with YC for example. YC startups are more likely to raise money because investors trust the partners' judgement in vetting the founders.
While you are correct, you are completely off topic and not really helping. Plus, it's not like HN needs another reminder of vim's infallibility.
Death seems like a pretty mind-blowing trip without any drugs required.
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Office jobs come with a ~1.5 hour lunch break, where workers go home for a lunch and nap.
But, as opposed to real computer networks, packet transportation is much more energy efficient. Sending twenty people to the same destination in one `packet' uses much less fuel than having those people travel in twenty separated `circuits'.

As a society we seem to have mostly established the abstraction that energy is free and unlimited. From the recent explosion of amount of things humanity does we can see clearly how practically free energy is a desired state. However, we're not there yet. Until we really get there, forgetting that this is only a leaky abstraction is dangerous, as the leaks have deadly consequences.
The open device can be freely inspected by the big, closed players, who will inevitably find infringement of some trivial patent. Then there will no longer be an open device.
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You didn't ask to be born. Humanity has done an absolutely terrible job of managing this planet. It's not fair that people have no say about being born into it.
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>>4. Heat. In hotter climates, humans are rewarded physically by not working as hard by the fact that they don't get overheated. This is engrained in almost all of us, but even more so when evolution and natural selection also have rewarded lazy behavior. I will probably get downvoted multiple times for saying this, and it isn't true everywhere, but I believe that it happens and can become a cultural phenomenon. Ever heard of a siesta? I know it is just a "break", right...

The 19th century is calling and wants their theories of the development of western civilization back
Cable companies log remote-button presses and other fun facts from big data
Yet they asked him for his SSN. They didn't ask for him to fill in his "tax paperwork".

I'm very interested in what tax laws you believe he's broken though.
But what is your plan for when a bunch of trivial parts of your invention are already patented by trolls as things like "method and apparatus for suppling power to a device"?

I don't think you are wrong, I just cannot see a proper solution either way.
Opera moves to WebKit
That wouldn't be a problem if the original creator had published or patented the invention her/himself. Which is what the patent system is designed to encourage.
I don't think that's entirely fair - we can safely assume the Chinese tech forum techsmth has a techie culture, because to the relevance of the rant.

That does not mean they do not have heavy influences from their own (and from a quick surf-by Japanese) culture - lots of threads on photos from the 70s and what was it like then.

They will export back. Just because all the money in Hollywood is forcing young pretty WASP vampires at us does not mean its the only way to express oneself
300 million users strong, Opera moves to WebKit
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What exactly do you think a compiler is?
"Obedient students who do exactly as they are told and nothing more, who only learn what their teachers expect them to learn, receive the best grades."

I always completed my homework, and then went on to learning the more advanced things. It was so simple for me that in the majority of cases, completing it took me very little effort or time.

However, I'm sure most of my teachers would laugh if they heard me called obedient. I'm sure they'd have loved to have flunked me if I'd ever given them the smallest opportunity to do so.

It's quite easy to learn what you like, and have the best grades as well. The really annoying thing is running out of homework to do and then getting busted for reading a book quietly instead. (1000 page asimov novel being somewhat more obvious to spot than a page of algebra homework)

(That, and having a 105% in a class and still not being allowed to go back to sleep in your seat at 8AM. Zzzz.)
30.000 signups in 3 days on your landing page without any pr/marketing?
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Bad example. They have an incredible number of accidents (compared to a first world country).
He tried in 2008, which included federal money. It didn't get enough Democrat support.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/congestion-pric...
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Sorry for asking this cheeky question, but are Dell, Microsoft, Dropbox & Aol really clients of Raygun.io or just clients of Mindscape?

Always wonder how people manage to grab these big clients so early on.

Seems like a cool product!
In an email to the WebKit development mailing list[1] Håkon Wium Lie, the Opera CTO, mentioned that they've had engineers working on WebKit for a while now, and they'll soon be contributing their work on multi-column layout to the WebKit project.

[1]: https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2013-February/...
Everywhere and anywhere.

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My Dad grew up in the 1960s and he thinks the 60s were the best decade ever. My Nan thinks that everything went wrong after the 1930s.
Skype and other Video calling services are "illegal" in India
I was a big fan of DuckTales, Thundercats and a lot of the other cartoons of the time. As a military brat what would always amaze me is the different afternoon cartoons that would come on depending on what region of the country you were in. I know it had to do with syndication but whenever I moved or visited somewhere as a kid they would have different afternoon cartoons than I was used to. This was probably noticeable a little more before the DuckTales effect happened as stated in the article.

For example, when I lived down south I would see Tennessee Tuxedo, Sherman and Peabody and several other different cartoons. But when I would visit my grandmother in Delaware I would see cartoons like Chilly Willy, Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff. The only time I would get consistent cartoons was when they came on basic cable stations like TBS. When I moved to Massachusetts they had afternoon cartoons like Dinosaucers and Denver the last dinosaur, two cartoons I had never heard of before moving there.

The big budget cartoons (Transformers, Ducktales) were for the most part a constant no matter where I lived. But the next level cartoons that I described earlier I would only see depending on what part of the country I was in at the time.
Grunge led to Foo Fighters, Live, Collective Soul, Silverchair, Bush, even Alanis Morissette. That led to Creed, Matchbox Twenty, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Audioslave, Incubus, Nickelback. The next wave included Shinedown, Seether, and The Vines, as well as mainstream pop incorporation such as with Avril Lavigne. After that I lost track because millennials don't seem to know how to rock out.
So we should continue with the patent system because, without it, inventor's feelings might get hurt?
Absolutely not - no it manager worth their salt will pass up the opportunity to say - well we can do it but we will need more cash - we have to hire a ruby team a node team a ...

:-)
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At last. Opera used to be my favorite browser, thanks to their sophisticated UI. But I gave it up when HTML5 started coming in. I believe it had problems with Javascripts too.

Is mobile Opera very different from the desktop one? I see many Android users using it and being happy.
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Hey there - thanks for the response, but I've already wasted at least 15-20 hours over the last year communicating with Rackspace techs, management, and senior management (so I'm told). If you truly believe you can actually do something to fix all the problems, let me know.

Like I said, Rackspace's model of hiring great people and giving premium service worked great in the old days pre-cloud, but now the people are poor quality as the company has grown, the underlying tech is horrible, and the billing and other services so bad that you can't justify the premium prices anymore.

Rackspace servers and service (in all forms) are considered harmful. Just go with AWS or Linode.
WebKit was the reason why I started using other browsers -- I'm very excited to see it in Opera!

I wonder what'll happen to Dragonfly, their integrated development platform? It was a neat project, although arguably inferior to Firebug/Chrome Dev Tools in many areas.

Good luck Opera!
I bet you over engineered your startup
Missed the kickstarter but will gladly subscribe!
The countryside also can't sustain itself at its current standard of living without goods and services produced in cities.

The whole point of infrastructure is that it benefits society as a whole. This is just as true of city infrastructure as it is infrastructure in the countryside.

(Not to mention there's a whole lot of countryside that doesn't produce food...or much of anything, really, other than a place for misanthropic people to retire to.)
I tried this too and found the experience sucked. Microsoft just can't get its head out of the 90's. They still don't get the Internet. I think they never recovered after that.
And then there were three.

Which will happen first, the death of one of (WebKit, Gecko, Trident) or a new popular rendering engine not related to any of them?
No. You should read the other comments before posting. DannyBee explains above: "It's about what happens when two people file patent apps for things they can both prove they invented." If I steal your invention and patent it, you still have the opportunity to show that it was your stolen idea.
See also http://amon.cx/ free open source for one server one application or $24.95 for no limits - host on your own servers

"Amon is language and framework agnostic and it doesn’t care if you have a PHP, Ruby on Rails, Node.js or Django app. The only requirement is that the language you are using supports http requests and json."
Now it's time for IE to switch to WebKit as well. Also, they should make it available for all versions of Windows.
I imagine old ministers discussing over skype illegality of skype.
Does anyone have real data on the LD50 (median lethal dose) for LSD in primates or something more similar to humans than rats? ...I find it nearly impossible to find any good hard data on this, and considering that the substance was once researched even by the military, there should be some data somewhere.

...and no, you can't compare LD50 for iv injected LSD with injested or mouth-absorbed LSD, there might be very different pharmacokinetics and the deaths from injected doses might be a "reflex" heart stop or some other preventable cardiovascular side-effect.
It looks like this is going to become a real problem soon. If I spoof my User-Agent, the demo works perfectly fine. Chrome is the new Made For Internet Explorer.

http://i.imgur.com/LsjVvlE.png
There seems to have been an explosion in error monitoring apps recently, competition in this market is great.

If you are checking out other services, our product Bugsnag (https://bugsnag.com) looks pretty similar to raygun, with more platforms supported, chat/sms notification and automatic issues/ticket creation.
They are Mindscape customers - we wanted to make sure we showed that Raygun.io isn't some new random startup but is a product from a successful, profitable company. It's going to be around for a long time :-)

We did make sure we said they're Mindscape customers by the logos for that reason, we'll replace them with Raygun.io customers soon - we already have some larger customers trialling but haven't got them listed as that felt dodgy since they aren't technically paying customers yet ;-)

I hope that helps - I like cheeky questions too btw! :-)
Does this mean they'll be using V8 too?
All I can say is "Woohoo!".
High hopes for Servo[1], but it'll still be years yet until it's able to challenge any of those three. Webkit2[2] will probably be ready sooner, but it's less of a radical departure than Servo's intended to be.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/servo

[2] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
I worked for Opera the summer of 2010 and I've also been using the browser the last couple of years.

Compared to Google, Apple, Microsoft - it is important to understand that Opera is a small, very small, company.

I'm very happy to see their resources better used to innovating and improve their exiting product, rather than trying to catching up to the other browsers.

A big loss for the general state of rendering platforms though, with now only Webkit, Trident and Gecko as serious contenders.
What's worse, the error message appears to be displayed using a redirection to another page, so I can't use Firefox's inspector to try to make it work (Yes, I know the source is on GitHub, but to see a simple web demo? Not worth the effort of cloning or forking and re-hosting).
What string did you use? When I set mine to Chrome 25 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.68 Safari/537.22) I still get redirected. I don't use Mac enough to know what browser you're using from that screenshot.
These sorts of people have every incentive to target those more likely to be willing to serve as grist for their mill; young, idealistic, inexperienced individuals that will take the bait.

Never mind that most of them will fail, or that they're really not remotely qualified or experienced enough to produce good work in their field of interest. The amount invested is effectively pocket change, so much so that it doesn't matter if you have a 100 failures for every Dropbox.

It's a fools game to see the VC market as anything other than just another business industry, with different set or empty credentials. They use those credentials to convince 'entrepreneurs' to make themselves into a product to be sold, for pennies on the dollar.
Yes it says so here http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...
15-440 with Andersen and Bryant was one of my favorite classes I took at CMU. I took it the first time it was taught in Go. I fell in love with Go and still miss it. I didn't find the language that difficult to learn. As he noted, not having to write your own data marshalling code and RPC let me focus more on the core algorithms.
Opera browser switching to WebKit & V8
The press release notes that they're using the Chromium port of WebKit, so it's very likely that they'll be using V8 as a JavaScript engine.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.46 Safari/536.5
You are wrong. The right quote is "Your order will be cancelled and refunded within the next 3-5 business days. If you still want the device, please place a new order", which makes sense. IOW while the first order was being cancelled, the representative informed that if he still wanted the device, he should place a new order.
I'm curious too! I think Javascript in Opera was a bigger problem than HTML.

A year ago I worked on an app with heavy JS frontend and frontend guys told that they can't make it work properly on Opera.
Lancaster's TV Typewriter project was actually an influence on Woz, IIRC.
Seems a great news but I can't really understand the benefits and differents between Gecko and Webkit, can someone say?
Well, it's MSHTML rendering engine is used by many other apps too, for one thing.
> If there was no such thing as patent protection [...] any of the current big names in the market could take my tech and bring it to market with their existing connections and heavy market presence

If they do it despite patent protection, do you believe you would have the time and resources to sue them, and that you would actually win? I imagine those companies would have more time to dedicate to a lawsuit, better knowledge of the patent system, and that they could afford to lose more money than you... This is an honest question, I see patents used by big company A to sue big company B but I have no idea if the US patent system actually manages to protect the interests of "lone wolf" inventors like you in this kind of setting.
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he also left Microsoft 14 years ago, 2 years before xbox has shipped.
"I graduated high school in a rural, fundamentalist town."

Me too. Also lots of abstinence only education encouraging you to wait until marriage. What were gay people like me supposed to do? Oh, right. Not exist. Got it.
While I agree that webkit is a great piece of software, what happens when everybody switches to webkit? Will Google/Apple/developers simply ignore other engines and let it become the new IE of the decade?
For the normal user it does not matter.

It just matters that there are competing engines. As long as there are multiple implementations, we will have a formal standard for HTML and Co. If e.g. everybody (Microsoft,Mozilla) would adopt WebKit, then nobody would bother to extend the HTML standard. Just implement it in WebKit. Soon, HTML will be a mess like Office Open XML.
"Opera is for people who appreciate choice, and we are going to make it even easier to choose Opera in the future."

That's a nice spin. Less rendering engines, more choice!
Mixed emotions here. I think it makes every sense for Opera to do this. The cost of maintaining their own rendering engine must have been huge and the advantages it brought were slender.

It's also good to have another major player contributing to webkit.

On the other hand it's a step closer to an unhealthy monoculture in rendering engines. It's already the case for the mobile web that people are starting to define standards as 'whatever webkit does'.
Now, imagine being a man. Imagine growing up with TV cartoons grooming you to become a superhero, a movie star, if you failed at that, an office worker. Imagine getting only a certain kind of gifts for birthday, in certain colors. Imagine people paying more attention to your wallet than what you're saying to them. And then imagine hearing sexist jokes since you were a kid. Would you really find a sexist joke funny on the view?

By the way, I don't think that it is appropriate to show people in underwear at a conference unless it is relevant. I am just pointing out that what you said could easily be applied to men.
If there's one division at Microsoft that's killing it, it would be server and tools, which at $5.2 billion (latest Q) in sales is nearly as big as the Windows division now (and within 4 to 8 quarters - as the Windows 8 bumper dies down - will probably surpass it).

The $20 billion / year in sales server and tools does, is three times the size of the XBox + Live group.
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It breaks my heart to know that Presto is going to most likely be left to bitrot in some SCM somewhere.

But on the same note, I understand that using webkit will be better for Opera as a browser.
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WebKit2 is a new API layer on top of WebKit, not a new browser engine. It has been used by Safari since v5.1.
I wonder if Opera is making an overture to get acquired by Google or Apple. Opera's innovative browser features have always been a bigger draw than the details of its Presto rendering engine.
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The reason why it's missing velocity is because the MIDI.js implementation used is a simple sample player - it converts Soundfonts into a subset format. Basic features like pitch bends and vibrato are not possible from this format.

(With the newest revisions of Web Audio API it should now be possible to make a performant, fully-featured Soundfont implementation.)
Interesting... I wonder if they'd now consider opening up their browser engine as an open source project?

Not for any reason other than, if someone in the future wanted to. They could fork it and extend it and perhaps make something awesome. Nothing may actually happen, but you never know if you don't give it a chance to...
Those project are pretty damn cool.
I have a preference for servo just because of it's high coolesness factor. Being in rust and even more modular.

Oh yeah also, while I guess it's missing a lot, the code is actually very, very readable. That's nice.

https://github.com/mozilla/servo/tree/master/src/servo (the actual layout engine part)
For historical reasons, Webkit has turned out to be much easier to work on than Gecko.

With Gecko you get heavy-duty OOP module system riding shotgun (XPCOM). That seems to be a sufficiently high barrier to contributors that only Mozilla are using Gecko with any seriousness.

Webkit has evolved out of a different history as a sorta-kinda standalone component of KDE to be much more approachable to outside contributions. Since Apple forked it from KHTML it's gone from strength to strength.
You are right, I confused Saurabh and Æsa. However, 5 days after calling, he received an offer to cancel the purchase & disable the device, which may indicate that the phone call did help trigger something.
Doesn't Safari already use Webkit2?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)#WebKit2