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If so, will Microsoft sue Apple for stealing their look and feel? #irony
There's a bit of discussion loosely collected here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary_future
I doubt Ive is going to take it as flat as Metro. It seems more likely that it will take cues from recent changes like iOS 6's App Store and Passbook, which dropped the shiny glass appearance but still have some amount of lighting on them.

My personal hope is that they push it a bit flatter than that to something like what Google did in their new iOS Maps app. We'll see.
But they seem to allow pages behind some kind of login see http://support.optimizely.com/customer/portal/articles/43730...
RTFA. It clearly states that this is an exercise in fun, not in judgment or criticism.
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That was just what I needed to hear.
Im curious if you have a critical mass eqaution involved what would be the author or hn community in generl thinking on this type of strategy
What are you running in production (Apache/nginx/mod_php/php-fpm etc.) & why?
You made me curious. According to http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/980225a.... there is no real connection between the direction of rotation within the Solar System and the Sun's orbit around the Milky Way. And again the Milky Way's rotation has little to do with its motion in the local group.

However across the Milky Way there are again a whole lot of things roughly moving in the same direction.
Who here on HN is running any portion of their startup or established Internet business on Azure?
DirectX on the Xbox 360 is very lightweight and exposes a lot more of the hardware than what you get on Windows.
Considering legal costs (which, while I imagine are lower than patent litigation, must be formidable for random Joe), I'd imagine that some 'entity' would have to do this on the behalf of said contributor(s).
You're talking about something wildly unrelated to the OP's basic anonymized analytics. Yes, Facebook is very invasive. Is the OP's app anything like Facebook? No, it isn't.
Okay, Thank you for all your help in helping me understand. From what I understand, this article was written by a clueless writer that wanted to jump on the 'glass' bandwagon. He falsely claimed that google released glass source code when what Google actually released was kernel code that means nothing to developers and it was code that Google was legally required to release.

Instead of letting this article die off, some people in HN were equally clueless and upvoted this article because of the misleading title. They upvoted either without reading the article, or read the article and did not have the technical ability to detect the bullshit.

This article should not be trending on the front page.
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Personally I would have liked if iOS kept the skeumorphism look and feel. I prefer that to Flat Design. Now I guess all the platforms would look and feel similar :( (Android, Windows and iOS) I hope iOS 7 look and feel much different.
dude this kicks so much ass.
I loved the use of Real Life Metaphors :)
For what it's worth, Google is still usable in lynx.
In theory, yes, but at least in the US, you'd also have to register the copyright.
Plus a random patch runs the risk of getting a decision that it was de-minimis, etc.
I've seen this a couple times. Honestly, it's not surprising so much as it's cool.

Subways are fairly predictable and they have a natural rhythm to them, animals can deal to deal with this sort of system.

We should be designing more user experiences that are so natural and predictable, even dogs can take advantage.
What is a good developer?
What is your definition?

How do you determine that in the hiring process?
Wow I totally thought this guy (linked in parent) was an actor when I saw him in last year's Google Glass ad campaigns, not a Google employee.
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It looks like the microsoft site is "feature detecting" at some level, and serving up a really basic mobile-oriented site. Think feature phone web browser.
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India is electing a new government in 2014. Giving the $1 trillion expenditure a better chance of curbing said problem.

Most of the contractors will be foreign. e.g. The North-South Rail Corridor being built by Japan's International Cooperation Agency
Technically, Google would only be required to make a written offer, and we could ship physical medium copies to folks who wrote them.
5 Google Apps on my homescreen. 2 Apple apps, Settings and Camera.
What do you mean by "later day"? Amiga demos are still being produced to this day.
What kind of batteries do you have that do not contain toxic chemicals or heavy metals? Just because some people (countries?) let you put them in the trash doesn't mean they should go in the trash.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_recycling
The rankings are more than a little silly.

I don't know american schools (I'm UWaterloo) but the difference in Canadian schools seems to be whether you went to a school that took their program seriously or one that just has it their to round out another program (computer science at Wilfred Laurier for instance).
Just another thought that I forgot about last night. You were asking about teams and maximum line length. As I think back, most of the teams I've been on in recent years just weren't very worried about that. We all kept to short lines as a matter of readability, but didn't have any particular hard limit if a particular piece of code happened to be more readable with longer lines.

Of course this was long after the days of 80-column Teletypes, and we were mostly using various GUI editors that didn't have a hard restriction on line length.

But back in the days when I coded on a Teletype, I definitely kept all the lines shorter than 80 columns! :-)
I personally think it's just the in-style at the moment. It's different than what we're used to, barebones, and uses vibrant colors -- the antithesis of recent popular styles. Some seasons blacks and grays and navies are in, other seasons women like wearing greens and oranges and yellows. UX-wise, though, flat has more problems, but people might not care because it looks so fresh.
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Just because the computer in my microwave doesn't have a GUI or a CLI doesn't mean it isn't a computer.

The first computers dealt with input via switches and levers. I don't think anyone would call the Colossus[0] a toy, and it had nothing resembling the command prompt that we know today.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer
I think the hard part about doing Tor for VoIP would be latency. It would be pretty difficult to have a voice conversation with the sort of latency you'd get from bouncing a connection through a bunch of volunteer computers.
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Funny, a statician would laugh at this discussion. XBLA remove games with lower than 6% conversion rates, and we are supposed to be surprised that their average is higher than in other markets? If XBLA removed anything below 6%, it has the exact definition of selection bias by only allowing the top ranking freemium games a place in the store.

This will sound rude, but are you trying to fool others are have you just fooled yourself? Comparing a restricted store which only allow a few marked freemium games, with the PC game market in general is ridicules. The article is about the PC market and PC pirates. Not only is the PC market massive bigger than the total of 588 titles since 2004 that XBLA has, but XBLA has less freemium games per title than the PC market has. They also have a different demographic. A XBLA users is average ages 22, is a causal gamer, and has a middle class income. The average PC pirate age is lower, has less exposable income, and preference more hardcore game.

There is no shareable trait between the PC pirate, and the XBLA market. Trying to present the PC market as if its somehow would be the limited selection of XBLA titles is just false. Presenting a small selection bias as representable for the game industry is just...
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"The changes would likely be welcomed by most, though they could result in a negative reaction from users who’ve grown used to the current Apple way of doing things."

What extraordinary insight…
That route would make a lot of sense since both London and Tokyo are major financial centers.

Tokyo - Frankfurt would be great as well since (a) Germany and Japan have a lot of ties in their manufacturing industries (ex: autos) and (b) since Frankfurt is the international air-travel hub of Europe.
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> reconsider either the length of the second

This one is done - the definition of the second is not based on astronomical observations.

"Since 1967, the second has been defined to be:

the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom"

The accuracy of this kind of measurement is so high it's also used (along with the speed of light) as the basis for defining the meter. Earth-time is a complicated and messy business but the base unit, the second, is pretty much nailed down and independent.
Got me there, but i fixed it :p
Google Now for iOS highlights sad state of Android
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Please everyone, not all at once.
Sure, and when humans create links, they should continue to create them just like they do not. I'm picturing an "auto linkifier" that creates links that no human has gotten around to creating yet.

Whether or not something like that would be a net win for Wikipedia is up for debate I guess. That said, I think they already do have a bot that can do at least a limited amount of auto-linkification, but I can't swear to it.
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Fashion and automobile design are quite mature fields, though, compared to human machine interfaces. This is reflected in the fact that most changes in digital interfaces include shifts in terms of functionality. These kinds of changes are very rare in fashion: pants (either BE or AE) all work mostly the same -- and so do cars. The choices made seem to affect mostly aesthetics as opposed to functions.

I guess it's possible that at some point the major interface methods will be standardized to such a degree that future changes will be aesthetic, to avoid putting off people, if nothing else. For instance, there was considerable resistance to MS changing the functional interface of Office not too long ago. But even mature consumer interfaces such as windowing systems continue to introduce additional functionality, although I guess some might characterize those changes as mere window dressing (heh), as well.

Some computer interfaces do head towards what some conceive to be the true answer, with a slow stream of incremental improvements, e.g. the Unix shell. But that's a professional interface subject to other kinds of pressures than consumer technology.

IANAD.
skeuomorphism is the dream UI of the baby boomer generation who always wanted a fancy desk set. I'm so glad to see it finally gone from iOS. These best part of this for me will be all the skeuomorphism apologists bloggers over the years instantly hail flat design as the smartest thing ever. Ever. I see its already started :)
Your computer in microwave is not a computer. You can't run custom programs on it, it's not turing complete for you in this sense.

To run custom programs on it, you'll need to add a terminal to it or succumb to the sin of batch processing.

Colossus wasn't actually turing complete. It wasn't a computer except in historic sense.
I agree. Apple will try to do it is own thing with Falt UIs. And that is also great. The fact that things are progressing and Apple is again willing to experiment on that front is all that matters. Google will have its own take on Flat UIs as well, and that is cool too.
Similarly, in any industry, older employees are more difficult to fire (you tend to open yourself up to discrimination suits)
I like how fines will double each day if left unpaid. Within a few months, the fine will be much much higher than all money in existence.
What most people on HN miss (being the developers we are) is that having one relationship with a vendor is hugely preferable for non-development reasons. Billing (simpler, also savings in bundling), unified support (why doesn't x work with y!) and so on mean that going to a vendor isn't just the lazy choice it looks like.
This is a recording of the "show all windows" command (cmd+F9) on my machine: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12091499/Share/slow_expo.... It's that choppy.
NZ seems to have a pretty large and active MS developer scene.
There are probably some indie games that come near to what you like.

Prison Architect (http://www.introversion.co.uk/prisonarchitect/) with a video Lets Play here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXiJHJ2_Hwg)

Towns (http://www.townsgame.com/) with a Lets Play here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD5tbKITBT4)

and probably a bunch of others.

But then again, it's okay to not like games apart from the few you play. I love Total Annihilation, and haven't tried the various later 'versions'.
This article completely discounts existing install base as a viable market, as if hardware that was sold only a year or two ago is somehow nonexistent.

Check out how that same scary looking graph looks with a cumulative bar graph behind it:
http://i.imgur.com/kjmnmRK.png

When you're looking at an install base that's nearly twice the size, that doesn't strike me as "too late" for anything. Sure, we can all read the tea leaves and want to get ahead of the curve and all that, but hitting the apex line on a tight curve is far different from just turning way too early and plowing into the guardrail on a straightaway.
In magento, yes... but the full information is held for a small amount time. The module is self hold no card info its a run once and then destroy.
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True. But I do wondered, if Steve Jobs would have responded to Microsoft with another kind of UI other than flat. That is one thing that Jobs was great at it. Creating trends. In this scenario, Apple will be basically following the trend already started in the industry and solidified by Microsoft's push.

I think Steve Job might have come up with something different than Flat.
I'm sure Dieter Rams used some nice textures here and there. Ive can steal that too.
I really hate the flat design. I prefer to see some depth as a indicator that something is clickable & active.
I think the voting at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5628769 has slowed down now and we can safely conclude that it is still a majority (albeit not as strong as it was in the first few years of HN)
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For a similar flattening done in a good way, look at the window chrome in the Windows 8 desktop compared with Windows 7.

Not Metro or Modern, the desktop.

Window titlebars have lost the peekaboo effect and use a solid color instead. The min/max/close buttons do a simple color change with a quick fade confined to their own little rectangle, instead of glowing around the edges. It's a subtle but pleasant improvement.

I don't like the Start screen, but not because of its flatness. It's the tiny text that doesn't obey my screen DPI setting and the gratuitous animation that really bothers my eyes. But that's OK, I use Start8 which brings back a non-animated start menu with the correct font size.
I agree, that design style strongly distinguished Apple from Android and MS.
Love this quote:

“The biggest advantage I have with Microsoft is I don’t have to go to any other vendor for any solution -- I can go to one partner for all of my operating systems, all of my development environment and all of my infrastructure tools,” he said. “Why would I waste time looking at another third-party solution?”

...

"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
"I'm a lazy C-level exec."
"I love having all my eggs in one basket."
"I just write a check, and all my problems are solved."
"Money buys happiness."
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On the other hand, 9to5mac says:

The new interface is said to be “very, very flat,” according to one source. Another person said that the interface loses all signs of gloss, shine, and skeuomorphism seen across current and past versions of iOS. Another source framed the new OS as having a level of “flatness” approaching recent releases of Microsoft’s Windows Phone “Metro” UI.

So maybe I'm wrong. At the very least I expect it to keep the rounded corners instead of taking things to uniformly shaded boxes.
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They are fast too, they already have ubuntu 13.04
No, 3 years old. Geez!
It seems as though you believe this is a binary issue, i.e. there is skeuomorphism, flat design, and nothing in between; of course this is not the case.

I hope Apple doesn't pursue the flat UI route a la Microsoft, not only is it not to my taste, but the use of subtle lighting effects have legitimate uses as cues to the user that an element is a button and can be pressed for example. Clearly this is not skeuomorphism as it's not a frivolous accessory but an aid for the user to understand the UI. This is not new either, buttons have been beveled since Mac OS 8 and Windows 3.0!

Essentially I think Apple will ditch the revolting skeuomorphism e.g. leather skinned apps, and continue to use subtle lighting effects and gradients to augment their UIs, and if they are truly planning a radical departure you can bet that it will be something rather original and not simply following Microsoft's lead. That is not Apple's DNA.
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Hey guys, I made this map. Happy to answer any questions about how it was done, I'm going to do a detailed writeup when I have a chance. The short version is: no Wikipedia link-up, it's all manual research from archives, books, and sites (including Wikipedia). There are lots of Wikipedia links included but that's just for people who want more detail than I included in the descriptions. I parsed the street/polygon geometry from OSM and tied it together with Leaflet and then added lots of nitpicky extra design choices in JS.
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I played around with Azure and Heroku for node.js hosting and found that Azure wasn't as painful to setup and didn't trip up as often as Heroku (though my statement should be read as more of a criticism of Heroku than an endorsement of Azure)
I live in a modestly-sized Brooklyn apartment which I bought before the real estate bubble. Not in a 90th percentile house. So I can afford to play music.

For perspective: I am not making music in a small way, I am an extremely fortunate musician who has worked with legends and toured the world many times, I have played Lolapalooza and the Sydney Opera house, I cowrote one of the most talked about records in the past few years and I have released a bunch of music solo and with my own bands as well.

It is still easier for me to make a buck pushing pixels. I don't know, maybe I am a genius at computers and absolutely suck at music. I consider that possibility at least 3 times a week.

But mostly, it just seems like one is a lot easier than the other. I talk to guys all the time who are the elite of the elite world class musicians, and they have to really hustle to make ends meet.

YMMV.
I'm hosting some (really) non-critical stuff on a Ubuntu image on it.

It seems fine. The manager interface is actually pretty good IMHO, but Linode is really cheap and running Linux on Azure is (I think) still a "beta" feature. I get the hours free though BizSpark. I was thinking of setting it up as a slave/mirror of our main sites for use as a fallover backup. It's been pretty reliable but I haven't done any benchmarks or really tested it in any way.

If I had need or inclination to use the Microsoft stack, though, it would definitely be a serious contender.
I began experiencing this problem on my mid-2008 MBP late last year. More recently, I've found that slipping a piece of paper between the battery and the golden electrical strip helps a lot.
Good to know. I am not sure if that is a relatively new feature, but a quick Google search didn't reveal the answer when I initially ran into the problem. It was easier to just change my password than to delve too deep into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDAyI0imqGE

I checked this out as a pretty heavy AWS user, and I have to admit that GUI looks pretty nice.
Automotive design has changed radically around function - safety and aerodynamics being the most obvious visible changes which could be trivialized as styling.
I can't see Apple being able to do this even if they tried. So many apps in iOS rely on the standard elements, mix them with others, make overlays using them and so forth. For them to "remake" the OS now would break tens of thousands of apps, and to offer a new UI as an upgrade would stunt adoption.

No matter what happens in this scenario, Apple is left with two half interfaces. Not clean at all.
Well, I could write down card numbers, but that would not prove anything would it. I had cards used exclusively on amazon.com for 3-4 years. Suddenly, one day, I got a report from my bank that my card number is among some numbers stolen in USA and they cancelled it. As I only used it with Amazon, I can only conclude that it must have leaked from there. Luckily, I did not lose any money, as the card was blocked by the bank immediately.

E-mail addresses are even better. At first I used an email I rarely used for anything else for some 4-5 years. The day I completed my first purchase on Amazon using this e-mail to open an account, was the day I got first spam message on it. And it kept flooding with more and more messages each day. Once it reached about 200+ spams a day, I decided to ditch the address and created a new one for myself and a specific new one on my domain for Amazon exclusively. It was amazn123894@[mydomain]. Anyway, when I got the first order using that e-mail, the same story happened. Now, I don't think hackers have a got a hold on the Amazon servers, it's more probable that you have employees selling the data. Especially since I never heard anything like this happening to some of my friends in western countries. I guess it's easy to decide that nobody would care or notice if a guy from eastern Europe gets screwed.

I'd really like to see Amazon's internal rules of data access clearance.