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They had been threatened a few times before implementing it. It's about time we stopped to play this game and make it clear stuff like that won't be tolerated at all.

It wouldn't have been better for Microsoft. They know very well that each product they establish as a monopoly increases their chance of coming back as an all-around industry leader. Actually, I'd be willing to bet this wasn't a "technical error". I've never seen features just unexpectedly disappear out of any piece of software.
Ah, it's the "Don't upset corporations or they will punish us with infinite price hikes" mantra.

If they raise the price by €1 and for the sake of argument we assume a net profit of 50%, they would have to sell 1.1 billion packages to recoup the fine (I don't think Microsoft has sold that many software products in their lifetime, but it's a fun little thought experiment). 1.1 billion Windows 8 licences at €280 a piece is €308 billion revenue of which the corporation taxes will flow back to the EU members. It's a win-win for our tax payers!
So true. The overload of "broken" when you want to say "not working as I would like" is annoying.
That seems to be the direction I was looking for. It is subtle, but I see the difference. What I noticed in your example is two things:

1. The statement is framed as a personal viewpoint, rather than absolute truth/fact.
2. You not only state the problem, but also the intent or direction for a fix.

I'll try to see if I can adopt something along those lines. Thanks.
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For Android users there is the Chrome to Phone extension which uses Web Intents. No need to scan a QR code. You can directly send selected text, web links, phone numbers or map links to your phone.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-chrome-to-p...
They probably made much more out of their previous monopoly anyway.
> why are other proprietary operating systems not obliged to incorporate a similar feature?

Because "proprietary" is irrelevant, the operative word relevant to the original judgement was "monopoly". And more precisely abuse of a natural monopoly.

> It's Microsoft own operating system and they should be allowed to incorporate whatever piece of software they'd like, albeit to a reasonable extent.

If they were sitting at a 10% desktop OS market share that would be the case. But over the last ~150 years, natural monopolies have come to be seen as too dangerous (due to their ability to leverage an essentially impregnable stronghold into dominance in other domains through "legal" market distortions) to be left to play by the normal rules, so many first-world countries have additional rules for monopolistic entities to follow.

In the EU, companies in dominant positions have "a special responsibility not to allow [their] conduct to impair competition on the common market".
Not without a warrant, which is presumably useless against good encryption. Moreover, the dominant view is that a judge can't compel you to disclose the encryption key unless the authorities have already seen what was encrypted.
What colorscheme? Is it just not changing the default colors for the SignColumn group?
I've found them horribly useful for passing authentication tokens from desktop to mobile devices. It means that you can move tokens without having to type enormous screens or go through a normal login form.

They're even pretty if you embed them with a bitmap using QArt — http://research.swtch.com/qart
As a developer who has to do some email marketing, I can say "It doesn't work in Gmail" is a shame, but not a non-starter.

If you're used to HTML5 and CSS3, HTML for email will make your eyes bleed. Many CSS2 (!) attributes have quirks, few are cross-email client compatible. It's recommended that you inline your CSS, rather than using a <style> block, to ensure that it works as widely as possible. Even the <p> tag is considered a no-no as not every client renders it properly.

So while this doesn't work in Gmail, the <p> tag doesn't work in Yahoo!. #fml
So they fined a company which controls almost entire European Government infrastructure. Company screws up, gets fined, things will continue business as usual, Microsoft still can do whatever they want, at least in the medium term. What EU could do is to actively try to reduce their dependency to a single firm, they can check the future deals, look for alternatives. Then they can have an upper hand and then no companies would screw up a simple thing like this.
And if you have a Mac.
I've never had this problem. Why would you even wrap a block with a tags at all?
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"While those football players are getting 6 figures salaries"

- just to note, some of those players get 6 figure sums per week, not 6 figure salaries!
Are you talking about salmonella?

This article puts the cost at ~0.05 cents per egg ($0.14 per hen, each of which lays dozens of eggs).
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€1 was just figure of speech. (Still, Governments pay for a ton of Microsoft products; Ms office, Windows, Exchange mailboxes, Sharepoint licenses, SQL server licenses etc. etc. How much money do you think Ms makes from EU governments in one year? in 5 years?)

High software prices indeed harm tax payers. There is no win-win.
DeviantART actually interviewed me, but I was unimpressed by their hiring process. It seemed very make-shift (i.e. "I'll contact you shortly," then next contact comes 3 weeks later). In the end I was waiting for another interview (apparently the interviewer was on vacation), but was then dropped because 'the position was filled,' or something similar.
I assure you that every useful implementation of an HTML Parser--apart from validation tools--will handle the missing alt just fine, regardless of what the spec says.
What determined the outcome of your service was the convenience factor. To use it, the user needs to select the information, go to your webpage, and then submit it. It's too much work for the user.

OP's program removes 1/3rd of the steps, making it much easier for the user.
Property P107 (http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P107) has emerged as Wikidata's de facto upper ontology. It currently consists of six main types: person, organization, event, creative work, term, and geographical feature. It's essentially a clean port of the high-level entities from the GND Ontology -- a controlled vocabulary developed by the German National Library and released last summer (http://d-nb.info/standards/elementset/gnd).

There's a fair amount of debate over that property. Are those current high level types (person, place, work, event, organization, term) a good fit for a knowledgebase that aims to structure all knowledge and not just library holdings? Does classifying subjects like inertia, DNA, Alzheimer's disease, dog, etc. as simply "terms" make sense?

More reading related to Wikidata, ontology and types: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/02/22/restricting-the-world/.
Seems like a typical idea v.s. execution case. I found it funny. Thanks for taking the time.
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Actually, what the article calls "the easy way" is often harder than "the hard way". "The hard way" is a lot about jumping into the obvious approach at the first opportunity, while "the easy way" may require some heavy thinking and discussing several alternatives, one of which still is, after all, "the hard way" (sometimes you HAVE to reinvent the wheel).

However, "the easy way", done well, can be faster and thus will feel less work-heavy.

I think I'd go as far as to say that I'll never be a very good engineer because I'm always very "hard way"-prone, and it's a flaw that I don't seem to be able to get rid of.
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But Facebook and Youtube and Gmail run perfectly on 5 years old hardware - probably even much older. Why would anyone need 16GB RAM or a blazing fast SSD for web browsing or other simple tasks that even phones with much worse specs can do these days?
if you like URL "hacking" you can do something like this

http://miniqr.com/http://www.example.com/
http://miniqr.com/"hello world"

does mostly the same as mentioned above, does this for i think now 4 years (i coded this on a beach in mexico, lets say my memories are fuzzy)

after looking at the market fo QR codes now for 4 years, i don't think i will get rich with just that side project. QR codes just do not fulfill any use case for users (they fulfill a use case for content publishers and advertisers, but non for users)

p.s.: if you want to (really) see people scanning QR codes, there is a page for that, too http://replycam.com/browse.php
In my opinion, the <a> tag needs a few boolean attributes:

ad-supported: true|false,
requires-free-registration: true|false,
behind-paywall: true|false. :-)
I wonder how they built in the universal search without adding any APIs. Were they already indexing the content (and prices) for all of the channels?
I find this interesting - I too discovered the square root at 5 - but I had little help from my parents and actually I reverse engineered it to find out how it worked. square rooting from 0 up to 10 and scratching my head for a while trying to work out why 0, 1, 4 and 9 were special...

Calculators are great. The first time I encountered one I learned more maths than the next 4 years of school would teach me in mere hours...

I'm not sure how but mass education seems to have made difficult and scary concepts like decimals and negative numbers, which are so intuitive that they require little or no explanation when naively encountered 'in the wild'.

Everyone should let their kid play with a calculator I think. :)

I'm also strongly in favour of encouraging children to learn for themselves through experimentation. Explaining things is difficult, and at that age - you may not remember - but learning things is not. Not to mention that when you do reinvent the wheel you get a truly deep understanding, rather than some rote memorisation tricks to pass highly targetted exams.
This thread seems to be heavily flagged, but nobody mentions in their comment that it's irrelevant or that they've downvoted or flagged it. Any of the flaggers would care to share their reasons?
Yes, true. My thousand dice comment was intended in vein of "if you put a thousand monkeys with typewriters in a room...". I did not mean to imply that the probability of rolling a thousand sixes is similar to the probability of contamination.
I just email myself. That works on any combination of computer/phone OSs :)
At what sort of age do you think people are ready for proof by contradiction? I remember being taught it explicitly at secondary school (in the UK) but we may have seen implicit uses of it earlier. I would imagine that some very young children might find it difficult to remember the train of thought.
Kudos. Very clean design. I toyed with pretty much the exact same concept a few years ago when I wanted to try out Google's AppEngine:

http://yakeze.appspot.com/nick/hackernews2013/
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Cool, I like it and would use it daily. I sometimes use dropbox like a pastebin for same thing.

QR Code transfer is probably patent encumbered (like well almost everything).

Nokia has app to do this but in reverse. Look at photo gallery on phone in their app. When you find picture you want to see, open browser on desktop and see QR code. Point camera at screen and the QR code in browser is replaced by image from phone.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/11/30/photobeamer-the-ma...
I see this a lot in my friends who've decided to raise tiger kids, so lots of math, python programming, foreign languages, music lessons at a young age. You'll never know how they respond. A couple turned into academic and musical prodigies, the others are normally bright kids for whom Xbox vs. Windows gaming is the big issue.

tl;dr time intensive, expensive, can't hurt
Unless you can share your clipboard between them, which works even better.
For me, it was more about sticking the whole process in an OS X Service available by right-click than actually generating a QR code. Of course you could also write one that sends a text message (via Twilio perhaps), or beams something over Bluetooth.
It's not nearly as fast, by at least an order of magnitude. Also, because there is no centralized location for apps to be stored (e.g. /Applications) it has a harder time succeeding as an app launcher.
No. Python/Ruby/Javascript don't even come close to JVM performance even without multi-threading, though.
> Another recurrent problem is that links cannot be nested.

This bit piqued my interest, so I made this: https://bitly.com/13F3dIy
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Really ?!

attractive
abusive
bra
style
naked
seduce
seductive
sex
sexy
gay
homo
oral
testicle

WTF?
Google / Android + Chrome is not a monopoly in the same sense that Windows + Internet Explorer isn't neither. Maybe in other ways MS has abused its position, but not in IE. At least in my opinion.

Why? Because IE was a default browser, all the OS have a default browser. Microsoft didn't prohibited anybody from installing another browser.

If we consider that a monopoly and something punishable, then Android + Chrome is another monopoly. In EU, Android has over 61% market share [1]. And every Android comes with its default browser. And as your parent said, I don't see any ballot screen telling me to choose an alternative browser, but Google doesn't keep you from installing other browsers. Is the exact same situation.

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/article/apple-raises-market-share-to-5...
This is one I found....a music-theater project for immigrant kids in Germany...have a look
http://www.culture4change.de/helfen/online-spenden/
true, but lots of things work in special cases.
I have recently started seeing a decent number of Constant Contact TV commercials which I thought was interesting.
Io-streams looks nice, but I think I'll stay with pipes. Along with pipes-safe, it lets you for instance open resources safely inside your stream, which is a very convenient feature at times.
Semantics are non-obvious with href on a lot of elements like tr/td/form/input/textarea/button/head/script/style for example. A lot of work would go into specifying and implementing the interactions of combinations of href on table/colgroup/tbody/tr/td for example - for no significant benefit.
| Even if there were millions of email providers running this OSS Gmail, the government would just knock on their door, point to (e.g.) the PATRIOT Act, and surveillance would begin.

Having some servers abroad would make that much more complicated.
> What EU could do is to actively try to reduce their dependency to a single firm

Yeah well, fighting IE's monopole is trying to reduce dependecy to Microsoft.
I use Chrome to Phone with my android phone. One click on a button sends the current url to my browser, or I can select any text, right click it and send it to my phone where it is then available on my clipboard to paste wherever. It also keeps a history of all this on my phone so I can recall what I sent last week. That feature alone is why I'll probably never own an iPhone.

Edit: Still a cool extension you've got there! Not taking anything away from it.
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I'm not sure the volume is what you want to be looking at. Perhaps you're thinking of market depth?

Here's the mtgox depth: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD_depth.html

If you sold 200k BTC in a "fill or kill" fashion without giving the market time to respond, you would definitely wipe out most of the bid order book. The highest bid price standing after your apocalyptic trade would be $5. You would get about 4MM for your 200k coins (avg $20 ea).

However, there are currently only 66,000 bitcoins for the asking on mtgox. So how are you going to cover your short?

You might trigger enough of a panic to pump another 100k bitcoins or so into the market at fire sale prices.

However, it's much more likely you will get killed on the ask side trying to buy your 200k BTC back.
I think branding did have some impact on Foursquare becoming more popular than Gowalla, too.

At least the name "Foursquare" consists of real English words that mean something on their own. This isn't true for "Gowalla". It looks and sounds like gibberish.

A few years back, when this area was picking up, a co-worker of mine was talking to us over lunch about these different services. He could remember the name Foursquare right away, but not Gowalla. While trying to remember Gowalla's name, he said that it sounded like "Gorilla", but it was something different. It was only about a week or so later that I figured out he was talking about Gowalla, after seeing it mentioned somewhere else.

I wouldn't be surprised if other people couldn't remember Gowalla's name, as well.
University of Bristol teaches Haskell in the first year (along with C, Java and a Prolog varient called Frill) if you're doing CS or CSE (Computer Systems Engineering, four year mix of CS and EE).

I wouldn't be surprised if Oxford and Cambridge both teach it as well since last I looked (well over a decade ago now) their CS courses had a heavy theoretical slant and Haskell and the Lambda calculus go together well!

I'd imagine that the likelihood of being taught Haskell at university correlates well with the university treating CS as an offshoot of it's maths department.
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Any way to bind "toggle the gutter" so I can press my "set nonumber" button and have it toggle the gutter as well? [edit] Apparently I didn't read down far enough! This functionality exists already through the plugin. This works for me: nnoremap <F2> :set nonumber! <bar> ToggleGitGutter<CR>
Wow, that post was (not exaggerating) life changing. Thanks.
Is this all the linuxes?
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One reason to need a fast CPU and lots of RAM is building Android from the source (primarily within the Android modding/hacking community). I mostly point it out because it has a wider appeal than most other large projects that are built from the source by typical users regularly these days and also for its demanding build requirements. Rebuilding the entire source can be lengthy without a fairly new CPU, SSD and lots of RAM. Granted one does not have to rebuild the entire source most of the time, but rebuilding some parts like the framework base (the java userland area libraries), takes a while.

Following specs came from Google[1] the other year when ICS was released:

-6GB of download.

-25GB disk space to do a single build.

-80GB disk space to build all AOSP configs at the same time.

-16GB RAM recommended, more preferred, anything less will measurably benefit from using an SSD.

-5+ hours of CPU time for a single build, 25+ minutes of wall time, as measured on my workstation (dual-E5620 i.e. 2x quad-core 2.4GHz HT, with 24GB of RAM, no SSD).

Lots of RAM allows you to switch the compile output over to a ramdrive (or if not, move it to a separate SSD if you have two). Moving the entire source to a ram drive or fast ssd also makes editing much faster (especially the initial load into an IDE like Intellij or Eclipse) or grepping through the codebase. Doing it on anything less becomes somewhat tedious from my experience.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topi...
Since human nature meant a substantial percentage of users are uninformed about what is available to them, and this is part of what made Microsoft monopoly abuse possible.
That's why flipping it to say that every rational, when squared, doesn't give you a prime. The concept of irrartional is already tough. I've found that when handled carefully, even quite young kids can handle at least some of it.

But you're right, proof by contradiction can be tough.
I created a bookmarklet that does the same thing for any website you're browsing. Makes it easy to transfer from PC to phone, assuming the phone can read QR codes.

http://keyboardp.tumblr.com/post/38976790879/send-webpage-fr...
Now I've tried normal and dev builds, OSX and Win7, none of them list my MIDI devices. Must still be a bit too cutting edge for me!
It's a fair point, though. The href attribute tends be very long, so if your criteria is readability, do you opt for attribute soup or put it in a wrapper div or span? It's a subjective decision, and I don't think there's a right or wrong answer, but examples should reflect real world situations.

Either way, I think href should be a universal attribute (obviously, it wouldn't make sense on something like br). It offers a lot of flexibility and is probably no more subject to abuse than anything else. I don't see how browsers would have a problem implementing it. Just look at the 3D view of a complex page in the Firefox Inspector to get an idea of what they're already coping with.
I can't recommend http://pushbullet.com enough... it allows you to send anything to your phone and works very well.
The article doesn't mention the bring your own hardware stuff that's increasingly happening at work.

Docking stations have been tried before, and they didn't work particularly well, but the time's right now for a great tablet and a great docking station. The dock needs to have keyboard & mouse inputs, network connectivity, and be able to output to a nice monitor. (Allowing user to have two monitors?).

Someone needs to sell that as a kit, with some kind of Office suite installed.

MS could, if they put a lot of effort into trimming down MS Office, make a lot of money here. (As could a Lenovo / LibreOffice collaboration. Because although Excel is still much better than Libre's spreadsheet it's good enough for many people.)
Something like Silent Circle for iPhone? https://silentcircle
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Well, that's actually a pretty nice idea

Maybe you can sign up for an SMS broker and send SMSs if you don't have a Mac (it's less expensive than you think)
That it is an integral part is relatively unimportant all the time there exists an independent market for it.

Tires are an integral part of cars, yet there is a thriving market for tires. A car manufacturer that got to Microsoft level market share and tried to shut out other tire manufacturers would face the same kind of scrutiny.
Only HTML5 compliant in the sense that it is not illegal. There is no standard semantics for data-attributes, so e.g. Google will not index your links.
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I think the creativity is intrinsic, the rest is a 10,000 hour thing (you have to train your creativity). Even planning and problem solving requires creativity. Our labels aren't really helping much (coding vs. design both involve creativity, but so does almost everything)
It leads to radically different behaviour in screen-readers, at least, and they most certainly are useful implementations.
As gjulianm stated, Android is a monopoly in EU. So I do not see any valid argument that Android should be punished the same way as Microsoft is/was.
I love the work that you guys are doing on these tools, they've really come a long way in a short period of time. I find I prefer them to the Chrome tools for a number of reasons. However, I occasionally swap to Chrome for a couple of things:

- The timeline tab. I know there's a profiler panel in FF now, but I have trouble interpreting the results. This may have changed.

- Better stack traces

- The networking tab. Looks like this is in the pipeline. I can't wait to see what you come up with).

- In the style editor, as an Emacs user, I always accidentally ctrl+n to a new stylesheet instead of the next line. I'd really enjoy an easier way to edit keybindings.

- Live editing of JavaScript in the debugger would be really killer

- I often wish the debugger had the "pretty print" button Chrome offers to diminify scripts in the Sources tab.

On another note, Paul, I love the work you're doing on JSTerm. Keep up the great work.