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From Google's About page:
"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Last time when Google was intentionally blocking Google maps and then deprecated ActiveSync on Windows Phone someone posted this funny line(which seems quite true given how much of the world's crowdsourced video content is on YouTube):

"Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, except on Windows Phone".

Also, HN's post about Microsoft's reply is getting heavily flaggged as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889
Actually, no they couldn't. Patents only apply to the right of "first sale". You can resell any patented invention without the consent of the patent holder.
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Call it sharing memory if you want, I guess. I call it "communicating".
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> Where was my SSN issued? Multiple choice. - Which month was I born? Multiple choice.

I am fairly certain both of those can be determined with reasonable accuracy from your SSN itself. (the middle two digits of your SSN should roughly correspond with the month of issue (likely the month of birth), and the first three digits should give you the area).

Edit: Nevermind, it only asked for the last four of your SSN I guess.
Looks great! Any plans for a mobile layout?
>I dislike large corporations of all stripes (especially smooth talking ones) that are trying to take over the web for their own financial good.

From you profile. You don't think that maybe this bias is showing through in some of your comments?
You don't need to buy them: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx

Prime example: Stackoverflow/StackExchange is built on the Microsoft stack.
Post a link? :)
To someone with very little understanding of these technologies, could you give a quick word on what the problem is with Mono? Are we talking about performance, completeness, support or something else?
donations to arts organizations are way down...would be great to see the denizens of hacker news get serious about art, of any kind.

If you want to try collecting yourself try the many open studios in SF. You can find many works for under $1000 and plenty under $500. Here's an example: http://www.artspan.org/sfopenstudios
This is the author.

I agree very much with both of you. I assemble all the tiles into texture atlases (and earlier post discusses the technique) and then use a fairly simple shader to render. If you look in the gb/graphics directory [1], then you can see the GLSL code. It was originally coded for OpenGL 3.3 with geometry shaders but I switched to OpenGL 3.00 as a stepping stone to ES 2.

The whole model is based on the concept of "SNES Unbound": I want to have effectively infinite numbers of sprites with many layers and any Mode 7 effects with arbitrary scaling and rotations. This is a very small level of expectation of a modern GPU, so I can get about 1,000 FPS on my laptop with millions of sprites, because I only use a single OpenGL draw call per layer.

Anyways, I'd be happy to comment or chat more with you. Maybe I should post some screenshots of the editor.

Jay

1. https://github.com/get-bonus/get-bonus/tree/master/gb/graphi...
And they say the halting problem can't be solved!
I condemned her for what she did, but I also said that it was stupid for the school to involve police, and that it was something that should have been dealt with in school.

I was not downvoted.
As a Racket author, I can tell you that we provided them with a hack to enable mutation on arbitrary conses, so they can upgrade whenever they wish, and I don't know whether they have or not.
>But I can go anywhere in the world and say "Barrack Obama is a piece of shit" and sign my name to it.

Not if you don't want to get audited by the IRS.
Dude, did you read the article:

>"The pending case has been dismissed. No formal charges will be filed," read the office's statement.
Ask HN: How do you suggest we technologists get our industry back?
At least on Hacker News, it's well-known that we (technologists) work in conditions of low autonomy, answer to arrogant non-technical forces, don't get to pick our tools or projects, are often forced to deal with awful legacy complexity that any reasonable person would discard, and generally have pretty miserable working lives. We make half-decent (but not great, especially considering what we have to deal with) money, but often find that some VP/NTWTFK (Non-Technical Who-The-Fuck-Knows) is getting higher salary and ten times as much equity.

It has to end. And we have the talent to stop the world if we want to do so.

I'd like to ask the crowd, to source some new ideas: what do you suggest that we do to win back the autonomy that is rightfully ours? What's the best idea you can come up with for how to restore our industry to decency? How do we get back the autonomy originally associated with software development, when it was an R&D job? How do we professionalize to such an extent that we answer only to our own, as attorneys and physicians do? What do we do to shame (one hopes, out of existence) the phony startups where VP/NTWTFK's outearn programmers by a factor of 10?

Do you have a personal plan to contribute to fixing this? Or am I completely insane for thinking this cause is still worth fighting for?
From someone who admittedly prefers to use a text editor in a terminal: It's horrendously slow, especially to start. It's massively overcomplicated. It's laggy and unresponsive in ways that only java software tends to be.
It'll arrive in the next release or two.
Still, of the questions asked, last four of my social were the most secure in my opinion, and it's fairly easy to come by that information.
Is Your City Making You Single?
Exactly what I thought. The master piece of herb and Dorothy is their life time meta art of modern art collection at shoestring budget.
Google is the new Microsoft. All this "Don't do evil" bullshit is just another illusion to sell more ads. That's all Google has ever been and ever will be. A fucking Ad company. Over 97% of their revenues prove that. If they can't plaster ads on your shit and sell your data, expect a nice big blue, red, yellow and green fuck you.
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Oh yes. I agree absolutely.
BizSpark has rules many startups cannot follow and is only valid for 3 years. This is the same selling scheme used by drug dealers.
That's what I think is holding Austin back.

Startups here tend to be pragmatic and a bit dreary, Indeed just had a big exit, but how exciting are they? The big idea companies (gowalla) or the ones doing something truly new (five runs) have either not done very well or have been bought out (Other inbox, Hey Ride).

I think its because most of the hackers, VC money and technology leadership here come from Java and semi-conductor backgrounds where the kind of truly creative thinking and crazy experiments that lead to world changing companies aren't exactly encouraged.

But in addition to that, the gravitational pull by Silicon valley of talent, ideas and money is going to be very difficult to overcome, without some really deliberate effort and resources.
In my experience the core UI systems usually lock up. I can't use even the simplest already-active non-memory-allocating programs. And can you explain caps lock not responding for 8 seconds without 'total system lockup'?
As pointed out in the comments on the article: Google monetizing my web behavior doesn't deprive me of money, and also makes my ad experience "more positive" (less painful). It may also make me more likely to buy the products being advertised, but that is in no sense a fault - if there's a great deal on skis, or climbing gear, or something else I care about, I would far prefer to know about that than to see an advertisement for a <some demographic group> specific dating site.
Tesla Motors Announces Offerings of Common Stock and Convertible Senior Notes
Google Music - should Spotify be worried?
If Javascript had a saner type system, better scoping, and a decent module system, it would easily be the best language out there. Right now, it is a diamond covered in loads of poop.

I still haven't found a language that implements events as elegantly as Javascript.
This is why statistics get people in trouble (and are only really useful for quantum physics and propaganda). He is measuring his certainty, you're measuring odds of interference, on top of which both are conjecture.

Regardless I am quite sure that he is far better 'equipped' to decide his own certainty, just as you are yours.
Quite a few people are locked into that toolchain and don't have a choice but to continue buying what Microsoft is selling.

And I think that is one of the main reasons that many .NET developers who are a little bit familiar with open source and non-Microsoft technologies are starting to wonder if its worthwhile paying all of that money to have Microsoft make all of those architectural decisions for them.

Just start with the name, ".NET". What were they referencing there? The network. The web. Especially if you interpret that to mean the web, which I think it really is referring to, you have to ask yourself, is Microsoft or ANY one particular company really leading the way on the web? I think the answer is no. The leaders may be employed by some particular companies like Google, but they are mainly organizing projects on their own through things like github.

They chose that name for a reason. They knew if they wanted to stay relevant, they needed to focus on the web.

Does web development need Microsoft? Ask the average web developer. Personally, I don't think I can ever forgive them for what they have done (and continue to do) to Internet Explorer.

Does Microsoft need web development? Actually they are opposing forces when it comes right down to it. Microsoft makes too many billions of dollars through Windows-related products to really push the web platform forward. So they have actively been working to impede it by pushing out incompatible and underpowered browsers.

Can Microsoft's traditional licensing revenue streams survive a real conversion to open-source? LOL.
Being able to successfully use something doesn't mean it was a good idea.

Even though it's common, I don't think referring to programming languages as tools is actually accurate. A programming language is more like a building material. And this is an important distinction.

Let's look at scenario.

Say Fred hired Bob to write a program for him. Bob decides to use PHP. After finishing his work, Bob moves on to other projects. A while later, Fred realizes he wants some changes made to his program. So he hires George. George can't make changes to the program in Haskell. He has to modify the PHP source.

The reason I bring this up is that the choice of programming language is important, and is not the same as the choice of tools (e.g. your text editor).

You can build a house out of paper mache, but chances are you'll end up regretting it.
> This is pretty crazy considering the huge investment Google has made into Eclipse to create the SDK there.

What's pretty crazy is that they were insane enough to base it on Eclipse in the first place, seeing as it's probably the only IDE that so many people hate so intensely.

I'm a Linux user primarily, use OS X at work, and detest Windows, yet I'd pick Visual Studio ca. 1999 over Eclipse any day. I'm an Emacs user, yet I'd switch to Vim in a heartbeat if I had to pick between Vim and Eclipse.

I suspect you will find quite a lot of people with similarly strong hate for Eclipse. It's a trainwreck. Though in slow motion, as Eclipse never seems to do anything fast.
I am connected via Adium pretty much all the time, and talk to multiple people every day.

Gmail shows me one "chat", from years ago, which consisted of me and a friend trying out the chat-from-within-gmail interface. Nothing else is in there.
Wasn't there a saying: "90% of everything is crap"?
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Somehow I doubt anyone really joins a programme like YC's for the money.

In any case, if you want to work with the best tools, sometimes you have to pay a premium to get them. That's either damaging to people who can't/won't pay the money or it's an advantage for those with enough confidence in what they're doing to make the investment, depending on which side of the line you're on.
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Microsoft's single agenda these days to derail Google is hurting Microsoft and is only benefiting Google.

50% of top windows8 (RT) paid apps are in Gross violation of Copyright/Trademarks (Mind you including microsoft's own Copyright/Trademarks).

Instead of cleaning up that mess and providing proper opportunities for legitimate developers, why is microsoft encouraging doing something by violating TOS of another major company?
Right so who makes Mono? Is it primarily Microsoft developers? No. Of course not.

So where does that leave Windows for internet servers?
I don't write Java or C++.
Laugh if you want to, but the point is pretty serious. Azure supposedly racked up more than $1 billion in revenue in 2012 (http://www.zdnet.com/windows-azure-joins-microsofts-billion-...).

Amazon's AWS, on the other hand, is estimated to have brought in between $1.5 and $2 billion (http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2013-03-07-what-if-amazon..., http://www.informationweek.com/cloud-computing/infrastructur...) during the same period.

So while Azure is still booking less business than AWS is, it's definitely a major competitor. Maybe the major competitor. And since the market for virtualized platforms is still in early days, there's lots of room for that revenue figure to grow substantially even if Azure ends up stuck at #2 behind AWS forever.
The point of a search engine is to drive traffic to the pages that contain advertisements. MS was putting "eye's" on the content without the ads.
I believe the conversation would gone like this:

Microsoft Legal: No way! We may get sued and lose!

Microsoft Strategy: Okay, I see, how much will we lose?

Microsoft Legal: Maybe 2 Billion in damages, maybe 5 Billion with a big B in the worst case.

Microsoft Strategy: Okay, Finance Department how much cash do we have?

Microsoft Finance: 75B billion cash in our bank account.

Microsoft Strategy to Dev Division: Okay, make the YouTube app, oh and by the way stick a download button in there too.
It is advisable to taboo your practice of taking any thing X that differs from your viewpoint as a "no".

It is also advisable to taboo projecting your own experience/thoughts onto another, as if that is his/her experience/thoughts, as well.

That you love JavaScript, even for server-side programming, has absolutely zero significance in evaluating whether jfb (or anyone else, for that matter) knows enough to know what s/he is missing.
I do a lot of video calls with startup founders and other startup investors in and out of the Valley. YMMV but my breakdown is probably 95% Hangout, 3% Skype and 2% Facetime/GoToMeeting/Other.
ASP.net MVC is pretty awesome, there are some good open source projects like Nancy for more lightweight stuff, Entity Framework isn't great but it's pretty mature and fast for an ORM. Visual Studio continues to be the best IDE on the market.
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I'm in one right now- www.LaunchAcademy.com in Boston. It is a lot of hard work but totally worth it so far. I cannot believe how much I have learned in a few short weeks. I'm exhausted and going to bed but maybe I can answer some questions in the morning.
That just means yc gives too little money.
If we can build a space station together, why don't we pool our resources with EU to create a larger supercomputer with even greater resolution/accuracy? It seems like a tremendous duplication effort and delay (until 2015) when we could work together to improve things immediately.
An obvious question that wasn't addressed in the article - could they manually fix it? I don't think most people remember what a punchline Hubble was immediately after its launch, until the rescue mission turned things around.

Obviously, our access to space is much more limited currently, but it seems like finding a way to make it happen via the Russians or even SpaceX (depending on how quickly they can get to manned launch capability) would make a lot of sense.
Maybe its not politically correct to point it out, but here is a bit of history.This isn't unprecedented in Arabia.

Hind, the pagan wife of Abu Sufyan, hired a slave to assassinate Hamzah, an uncle of Prophet Muhammad, and then chewed his liver. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hind_bint_Utbah

What kind of people do that? People who feel Hind is worthy of emulation and respect, because she eventually accepted Islam.
"That's an opinion, but I no longer fall for Google's kool aid...and yes, there's some boomerang from having drunk it earlier on."

Why does everyone who's despondent towards Google act like the company is some sort of abusive ex-boyfriend?
depends on the context and the standards.

The nakedness in question here is not intended to titillate, but to illustrate (ha) a point. To anyone who's ever taken a drawing class w/ a nude model, this is scandalous in the least.

If you're presenting to your board of directors, it might be (presuming that character design is not pertinent to your endeavor).
Yeah, but who cares who is "1" and "2" on the list, or "1a" and "1b" even. Both have been responsible for an awful lot of killing and mayhem.
> I'm not making a judgment on whether on whether it's good or not, just pointing out that it is.

Are you saying we should just accept it then?
I'd much rather do something about changing it.

> Given that most countries are objectively terrible

You need to get some better perspective.

In almost every measure for live on the street for the average Joe, America rates dead last among developed countries, and is often very comparable to developing countries. [1]

Heath, crime, safety, education, infrastructure, murder rates, etc. etc.

> I'd much rather live in a world with the U.S. as the global bully than one in which the "smaller kids" have a say.

If I had to choose one "bully", I would pick America dead last after every other developed country.

[1]http://www.oecd.org/statistics/
It was your idea. You were blowing things way out of proportion too, and I don't really mean it. I'm sorry. Now come down from there.
The point of mixing the chemicals and doing the procedure yourself is to understand it properly. Just being told about it in vague terms is far inferior in terms of learning.

It becomes a mere 'demo' once you're well-practiced in the specific procedure. And she wasn't.
Ask HN: What do you think of the new Google+ design?
You can choose between a two-column, somewhat Pinterest-y, feed, and a one-column version that's more Facebook like. I've seen a mix of reactions over there; Scoble loves it, others find it ugly or confusing. Your thoughts?
It's possible that there's some engineering reason why they haven't. From a quick search and skimming a couple of research papers, it looks like magnetic bearings are used on smaller craft, but it sounds like they're still being actively developed for larger craft.

I guess the tech might not have been available for use on Kepler when they were designing it (they seem to have started design work in the late '90s sometime), or it had some kind of limitation or drawback that they couldn't accept.
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I wonder if how others perceive you has anything to do with the pain reduction...
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I think it's a natural reaction when your opinion on a subject shifts drastically towards the negative; when you've 'grown out of' an opinion it seems silly that anyone else could still hold it afterwards.
Fascinating, I tend to offer first to avoid the awkward lull of waiting to see who would otherwise, I rarely ponder how that would be taken.
The good developers in developing nations are still going to charge more than $15 an hour. They tend to be more in the range of $40-$50. The $15 an hour guys in my experience are either:

1. good (quality-wise), but slow and don't speak much English,
2. or they are just horrible.

I have seen two projects coming out of the $15 an hour shops. The only way to have a sustainable product is to start over. The sad part is that I have also seen a lot of people throw a significant amount of money at these $15 an hour deals when they could have created a better product for the same amount of money with fewer high end devs.

One of my favorite outsourcing stories was when a guy wanted me to be his CTO and he was considering hiring a company that outsourced to China at $15 an hour. So I asked the outsourcing company if I could interact with the devs directly. Their answer was no, claiming that it was for everyone's protection. I won't even get into them describing a waterfall methodology and telling me that this is Agile. Let's just say that we didn't use these guys.

The bigger issue here is this. If you are doing a tech play and can't code, don't have a technical founder, and don't have the cash to hire good people should you even be playing in this space? I'm sure that there are a few exceptions that are able to do this, but that seems to be few and far between.

If you don't have a deep passion and understanding of your core business, which in a tech play means the tech to execute it, along with the market that you are going after......or gobs of cash to bring in the right ones I'll bet you there are some great stats on how successful they are. I know what my anecdotal experience is but would love to see some hard data to confirm or deny my experience.
pretty sure he was being funny (hence the :P ... and the court cases).
Dude, I work at a fairly liberal software company in SoCal, and if I scrolled down to the bottom-most picture with the hand-drawn fully-naked chick and someone happened to glance at my screen, I would most likely be fired.

As a rule of thumb, suggestive/sexy clothing is "mildly NSFW." Full nudity, regardless of context, is "very NSFW."

(It may be different in Europe.)
As much as I philosophically agree, and want to agree with much of the sentiment being evoked here ("solve problems", "cooperation", "progress", etc.), I can't help but shake the feeling there's a shark out there currently being jumped by a vibram-sporting surfer.
Jesus, that was some serious word-twisting. It was an impromptu response and IMO they should be weighed with the spirit more than the words in mind.

Given the benefit of doubt, I can totally see where Larry was coming from. In fact it seemed bold and even slightly refreshing to hear him convey his thoughts without the usual restrictions. Industry wide conversations start these ways and examination of a problem is crucial before we can attempt to solve it.
Agree w/ mikeash
Every time I open eclipse I feel like crying. Is just that awful (usability-wise).

On my search to replace Eclipse for my android development I think I came across IntelliJ and it was very resources-heavy compared to eclipse which in the end made me give up on it. Let's hope it's more efficient now...