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> Why JavaScript?

Because websites (and thus JavaScript, in some form) are the future of programming at this point in time. JavaScript just happens to be the primary programming language for interacting with HTML5 and a lot of people happen to know it pretty well.

Plus, JavaScript is not a terrible language but it does take a lot of knowledge to work with it cross-browser and use browser APIs (these browser APIs tend to suck).
Thanks I am very enthusiast about the course, one thing I want to mention that if fee of this course can be paid in instalment then it will be best thing as I am from India and $7000 is equal to 350000 INR(big price for average Indian)
2 - Gmail supports SMTP and IMAP, so any mail client should work. The top hit for [windows 8 gmail] is http://www.redmondpie.com/how-to-configure-mail-in-windows-8... , which indicates that the Windows 8 mail app has an icon specifically for configuring Gmail accounts.

3 - According to http://blog.chromium.org/2012/06/try-chrome-in-metro-mode.ht... , Chrome has supported Metro since June 2012 when running on a non-RT version of Windows. Computers running Windows 8 RT can't run any browser in Metro mode (see http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/05/09/windows-on-arm-users... ), so it's not like Google has a choice there.

6 - To root a device means to gain full control over it. It's not obvious how you could have full control over your phone without rooting it.
I've been reading responses on this site for the past day, and I think some of you are a little insane. You don't think Google Maps changed the world? Translate, search, etc.?

We should all understand that google doesn't deserve relentless praise, but some of these counterpoints are more baseless and distasteful.
I heard this a couple of weeks ago (on Hacker News), and I was SHOCKED!

I have worked for years as a .Net consultant, and I had no idea Azure had grown this quickly. A couple of years ago, I thought their entire set of literature was counter-intuitive, and I quit paying attention to them.

How on Earth did they grow to be in AWS's league so quickly? Surely just getting the "default Microsoft business" wasn't enough to put them at $1 billion ??
> Point is, there was no huge shift to MVC after it was released.

Why would you assume that if they can't move to a new architecture, they'll move to a new language and OS?
FreeCiv now playable as HTML5 game, including on mobile devices
I expect Azure to be successful for Windows servers, but I would like to know if there are Linux users that are switching from AWS to Azure.

I see Azure as a cloud service for Windows dev, I might be wrong it, Azure may just have an image problem but it just doesn't ring a bell outside the Windows world.
So, .NET is dying because quite a few people are locked into it? Sounds like you got it backwards.

And the red herrings about the name .NET don't make any sense except if you look from the context of the prevalent buzzwords and jargon at the end of 90s. Like, say "dotcom".
Why NASA doesn’t have a Chris Hadfield
I work at a fairly staid software company in NorCal, and that would definitively not be grounds for firing.
Don't make me relieve my callow youth and go on about the evils of 'M$'. ;) The ire directed at Microsoft back in the day was due to their ruthless business practices and their attack on Linux.

Whether employees of theirs ever indulged in things like astroturfing was irrelevant because their official actions were so upsetting.
Not sure if that is a prime example, since StackOverflow was built with the wealthy businessman Joel Spolsky as a primary backer. That doesn't diminish anything they accomplished, it just means that they didn't do it without access to sufficient resources.
I'm pretty sure there's an explicit law enforcement exception to HIPAA.
Maybe he can try starting a charter city.
'After Random House finally agreed to a contract on Jan. 18, 2011, Eddy Cue, the Apple executive in charge of its e-books deals, sent an e-mail to Mr. Jobs attributing the publisher’s capitulation, in part, to “the fact that I prevented an app from Random House from going live in the app store,”'

Three years ago I gave up on iOS because I could no longer look the other way while Apple took control over which programs a user could and could not run. For me the last straw was the edict about the acceptable programming languages a program could be written in. However, over the years I get more and more confirmation that I was right about Apple.
I'd still classify it as mildly NSFW. Cartoons and other depictions are less NSFW than images. Or else the following would also be a fireable offense:

(.|.)
Hah, I can barely get clients to pay $50/hr an hour for Graphic Design and Web Design work let alone $100/hr. These formula conversions baffle me as well.
Beta testing a new country? East Timor comes to mind. It's a fairly young independent country. Maybe the newest actually.
Nor did it indirectly state it. It's certainly true that those events resulted in increased sensitivity towards school violence and explosions, so it's worth asking what context the GP's actions happened in-- doesn't imply the sensitivity is a good idea. I don't believe you can read any value judgement out of csense's comment at all. Don't put words in other people's mouths and then lecture them about it.

Edit: clarity
They're not done yet.

According to my G+ stream, Amit Singhal has announced that Hangouts is also going to be the future of Google Voice. And apparently you can already choose to get SMS messages from Hangouts when you are idle. A less important piece of SMS integration, to be sure, but that certainly looks like a starting point.
There's a LOT of startups here http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Partners/Startups.aspx

>This is the same selling scheme used by drug dealers.

Would you hold Google to the same standard and say that's true of their free Google Apps for education and how they use free email to sign you into Google.com so they can track you across different PCs?

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/
I find it particularly interesting when people complain about the ActiveSync thing. Did you know that Microsoft patented it, and Google has to pay a license for each user? I can entirely understand why they block it from Microsoft devices if they are also forced to pay a license for them.
Have you visited the front page of HN recently?
Great...now I can waste company time AND my own time :P
Microsofts openness about MSN was because they were the underdogs. As they gained users their desire for openness evaporated.
AS includes additional plugin(s)?
I don't know if that's a valid extrapolation. I, for one, in all my working years have never met a Linux company that was interested in switching to .NET, but I met many that wanted it the other way around if they could only justify the upfront investment to convert the proprietary application stack.

With cross-platform compatibility, specifically mobile compatibility [on platforms people actually use, i.e., not Windows Phone], being a major sticking point, .NET is becoming less and less desirable on the surface level.

Microsoft is just like Oracle. Big fancy businessmen who know nothing about development automatically buy into the MS stack just because it's a big name and the labor is easy to retain. Hardly any technical considerations go into it, and then they're upset when they [eventually] learn that the end result won't work with the iPad.

What about the alternate explanation that Windows Server is growing because demand for the products that already use Microsoft's stack is growing, despite the stack itself? What about the explanation that people are buying more server licenses than they used to due to increasingly widespread virtualization deployments? Whereas people used to buy relative big metal and run one OS on it, now people are taking that hardware and deploying many small VMs across it, each requiring its own license?

There are plenty of interpretations of that data that aren't "people are flocking to .NET".
JavaScript is not the future of programming. It is the past, present, and (most likely) future of client-side web programming, but that's all.
Weather effects with gravity in HTML5
You mean Linq-to-Sql? Entity Framework lets you use Linq and manages your db for you. As long as you use the Code-First approach it's... okay. But it does at least support compiling Linq to Sql mostly alright. (I'm looking at you NHibernate)
Copy pasta from someone else's HN comment on Google sending cease and desist to MS for Youtube story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889

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 suggested Google should updated it to the following:(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".
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmPa_KxsAM&t=34m20s
Making a good product people like to use is not "changing the world." Not to mention that MapQuest, Babelfish, and Altavista were all reasonably good and useful before the Google counterparts existed.
I agree. C# is a very robust, professionally designed language. I enjoy using it through Mono.
I don't have a very positive view of Google, but it was obvious that article was written solely to be a headline grabber.
> It's not obvious how you could have full control over your phone without rooting it.

It could come with root access enabled, just like your computer does.
Have a look at MIT Open Courseware.
You don't think Google Maps changed the world? Translate, search, etc.?

Those examples "changed the world" in the same way the iPod and iPhone changed the world: extremely elegant implementations of products and ideas that had been out there already.
>>You don't think Google Maps changed the world? Translate, search, etc.?

Did MapQuest change the world?

Did AltaVista or Yahoo!?

What about the thousand translation sites that exited before Google?

I'll tell you who is changing the world. SpaceX. It is led by a man who started it despite all odds. A man whose sole drive is to get humanity to Mars so that if something happens to Earth, it doesn't wipe out our entire species. A man who believes he has a mission, and believes in that mission so strongly that he is willing to invest every last penny of his personal fortune in it, and work himself to death to see it accomplished.

THAT is changing the world. Not being able to look at pictures of a street from your computer or find the translation of a spoken phrase accurately or make payments via your email - all the while being served shitty, mostly useless ads.

I'm sorry, I love Google and the convenience it provides, but at the end of the day, it is just an advertising company. And you cannot change the world with advertising.
What a crock of shit. Have you heard of MapQuest, Bing Maps, or Yahoo! Maps? How about AltaVista or Yahoo! Search? BabelFish ring a bell? If Google changed the world through all their ad-infested crap, it certainly was late to do so.
A heart to my key
Can you release a metro app for sale without Microsoft taking a cut? I.e. does windows 8 allow metro sideloading?
Here's the Q&A for those who didn't see it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfK8h73bb-o
readers, friends, consider this:

most of these posts and comments have less than one thousand votes. the daily or hourly readership at this fine establishment far outstrips that.

what we have here is a selective democracy, or whatever academics call it. it's what happens when a very small proportion of your participants actively vote. they can be dominated by 'vocal minorities'. welcome to hacker news. welcome to usa.

welcome.
So what if there is a bias ? EVERYONE has biases. It's what makes us different.

You shouldn't ever be downvoted for expressing an opposing position.
It could be broader. First few hires matter as well, not just the first one.
>Also, whether or not you get your flagging privileges revoked is, among other factors, a function of how popular the things that you are flagging are. That is why you can flag spam on 'new' all day long to your heart's content but one hour of flagging a dozen or two "Steve Jobs died" posts will see you unable to flag almost immediately.

Where did you gather this from, since you aren't banned from flagging?

Also, since you seem to be quite knowledgeable about HN's system, instead of just "disagreeing", could you enlighten us a few few ways other than flagging that all those posts in the screenshots are ranked lower than other older posts with less points?

Right now this story is like this:

101 points by CloudNine 4 hours ago | 46 comments

Yet it sits at #25, far below other posts with less points. What can cause that?
"You can reverse engineer binary applications but you cannot reverse engineer the cloud."

Umm, yes you can. It's all series of HTTP calls. Problem is not with reverse engineering, it's getting people to use your new reverse-engineered service with zero other users to provide content. You can reverse engineer Youtube and have all its features and API, you just don't get all the content and community in it.
I guess this is what I get for trying to be informative by pointing out that the post's content is in fact definitely, most very not-safe-for work: downvotes and ranting from the HN hivemind about how I'm oppressing art with my puritan American worldview, or something.

Let's enumerate the things I didn't do here:

- Say this post shouldn't be on HN

- Say the post is inappropriate for viewing by anyone

- Say the post was porn or smut

- Say anything is wrong with the post

I know tons of people who read HN at work, but screw those people, right?
Very nice! Thanks for sharing these.
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Well I guess he means everything. If one thing is not, then its no safe, ain' it?
Those numbers don't necessarily mean anyone is making a conscious decision to buy in. they could simply mean the installed base needs 11% more server licensing by dollar to scale/maintain their existing solutions.
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You are absolutely proving my point.

No, modern life provably does not require any of those skills in order to stay fed and warm and dry. For example, zero of my cousins (I have two cousins) have ANY of those three skills, and both of them have survived into their thirties. I wouldn't be shocked if one of them had reproduced, in fact (if so, I pity the female involved).

On the other hand, all three of those skills help to "determine how well we function in these new surroundings" of modern culture.

The minimum intelligence requirements to stay fed and warm and dry, in modern society, are far lower today than any time in the history or pre-history of "humanity". Just like with the minimum requirements for strength. This isn't even a claim about social safety nets. Society is just so rich, food is just so cheap, that you can be a pretty crappy contributor, and even so some other smart guy will figure out how to put you to work, to his profit, and give you just enough to live. It's a good time to be a loser. (It's a great time to be a winner.)

(Oh, and also, I happen to disagree that the intelligence required to understand monthly payments or logging into a website is greater than that for reliably hunting or finding reliable shelter. Interest rates, I'm not sure. But this whole paragraph is beside my main point.)
It was a pretty crappy article.
The "Ask Google" Syndrome
Don't you think Microsoft changed the world?
Don't you think Apple changed the world?
Don't you think Facebook changed the world?
Don't you think Skype changed the world?
Don't you think Napster changed the world?
Don't you think [] changed the world?

Map products did exist before Google and so did translation tools. Google search was much better than others but search did exist and similar-enough-to-google search tech exists today.
Vessel launches its “command center” at Google IO to help mobile developers
Great question. For classes with sufficiently rich customization options (UISlider, UIStepper, UIBarButtonItem, etc) I don't think it's necessary to provide a full-on subclass, as ultimately I'm not really changing what the class does. I'm really just providing a mixin for a particular set of UI customizations (setting colors, etc), which categories are perfect for.

Some classes (UIAlertView and UISwitch, most particularly) aren't very flexible in terms of appearance customization, so I had to reimplement them to achieve desired effects. Using them is more difficult: to use an FUISwitch (my UISwitch clone) you have to replace any UISwitches in your app with FUISwitches (also, if you were using categories/subclasses of UISwitch to do some custom stuff, they would break).

Moving logic to a base class isn't really possible, as most of those classes already inherit from UIControl (and I'm not crazy/motivated enough to reimplement them all from scratch - UIKit is awesome, and I want to lean on it as much as possible).

The single header totally makes sense, I'll be sure to add that.

TL;DR: UIKit is great, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, categories are really easy to integrate into existing projects.
Not only Motorola, but probably also HTC, LG, ASUS and whoever else is/was trying to sell Android phones. I honestly don't get it - do they want to actively kill off internal competition among Android manufacturers?
<i> I get a good dozen or so downvotes from them when I post something negative about Google. Usually it happens in a short period of time, as if someone gave them marching orders</i>

There are thousands of employees at Google. Maybe there are just are a lot of people reading HN during the day.
I suspect all your alternate explanations as to why the server division is growing are true. The server divison is doing extremely well.

My point is I doubt very much the server division would be doing as well as it is if the Op was correct in saying people are locked into that toolchain.

Because that would suggest a lot of people would be unhappy with that situation (i.e. meaning bad press, bad word of mouth, bad for business) and many of those would also be trying desperately to leave that toolchain and succeeding (i.e. reduced sales).

The sales figures indicate the opposite is true.
The in-game developer commentary goes over this in some detail. It's quite good.
Link to PDF: http://www.scribd.com/document_downloads/direct/141677401?ex...

(Seems like it might expire, but I didn't see any other way to get at the PDF on the page... what happened to HN automatically adding [pdf] [scribd] to submissions?)
The quotes from Larry are interesting, the juvenile commentary that surrounds them is not.
Then why does Vimeo have a Windows Phone 8 and WinRT app while YouTube with a much higher revenue can't make one?

Why does the zombie company Yahoo Mail bother to a Windows Metro app while Gmail doesn't?

Or perhaps Google doesn't want to support Windows Phone and WinRT for the fear of rivaling Android phones and tablets.
If you set up multiple Chrome users (Settings > Add New User), you can log into multiple google accounts at once.
Are you suggesting that software patents are as worthwhile as videos and music?
@cma: No. Metro apps cannot be sideloaded if you are not a Dev. Tell me a store which does not take a cut? Steam, iOS, Nook, Amazon, Play store? Besides, Google's apps on iOS are free.
| he is willing to invest every last penny

Did he not also invest/build Tesla Motors? Let's not overstate things here.
Argentines are now allowed to know the real rate of inflation
The Model T was hardly the first car either.

Sometimes getting the details right -- turning a curiosity for the rich into a tool for the masses -- really is a key advance worthy of its own recognition.
I think the [pdf] [scribd] thing is something that happens for /\.pdf$/ links, a scribd link itself isn't treated specially.
>has nothing to do with interoperating, but rather Microsoft not showing ads (among other infractions).

Says who? Microsoft offered to show ads but Google refuses to give them access to the API since almost 3 years.

Perhaps you haven't read this story because Google fanboys on HN are flagging it heavily to keep HN readers like you in the dark.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5715889
Every HN post that happens to mention Javascript:

"Javascript is so shitty though!"

"I agree!"

"Javascript isn't so shitty once you get used to it"

"It's like lisp!"

"No it isn't. Javascript is terrible and everyone who likes it is a moron"

"No they aren't!"

"YES THEY ARE"

I don't know, should we expect more from the discourse here than just rehashing the same argument over and over again?
Google negotiated a contract with Apple in that instance. This is the way the old iOS app worked too - Apple licensed the API in exchange for them building it.

The main issue is that partners that use revenue sharing couldn't restrict their videos from playing on WP devices that wouldn't generate ad revenue. Normally, you can block devices from having content if revenue sharing is unavailable, something Microsoft circumvented.
Ah, that makes more sense, thanks. It's a shame Scribd doesn't have a 'fit width' option that I could find - small viewport drove me straight into a real PDF viewer.

EDIT: Oh, one of those unlabelled, tooltipless buttons is actually 'fit width'. Heh.
It's an app-specific problem. This is most likely due to an improperly implemented handler for orientation change events - if the currently displayed View Controller does not respond to the correct config callbacks the OS can get into a state where it presumes an orientation mode is supported, but the UI itself is rendering in that orientation - and thus all OS-level UI will render rotated.
I generally don't mind being hugged (given adequate cleanliness of the hugger and absence of anything that could be considered creepy, e.g. lingering groin contact) but I prefer the two-handed handshake (the "full Clinton") as a way to express more warmth than a plain handshake and less um, intimacy than a hug.
| Bing Maps

This was another 'me too' product from Microsoft. IIRC, Microsoft didn't have web maps prior to Google maps.
Yes, for now they're basically the same service. I'd imagine that this will change as Hangouts diverges more and more from what Talk supports, to the point where Talk will be killed due to disuse.
I Hate Motivational Anythings.
No, you can't: a service that shutdowns can't be recovered, and you can't learn about the advanced Google algorithms just scraping their search engine.

One of the core ethical purposes of reverse engineering is to leave the door open for competition.
You can say the same of any commercial vendor.

How you would do a startup in a world without BSD and Linux, just with commercial vendors?

There are more out there than just Apple and Microsoft.
They're fucking maps. All of them are 'me too' products.
There are clear benefits from having a package manager (if anything, pesky things like version numbers, direct dependencies, etc are self-documented). In addition, it does prevent people from taking shortcuts, and even good people take shortcuts when the deadline is short enough.
Because HN readers are too young to remember the days without open source, where you needed to pay for the tooling, and think Microsoft is the only commercial vendor of developer tools.
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Have you looked at the code? This is not reinventing the components. This is basically UIKit with a few things added to it.