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C is officially deprecated.

Personally I would like to see proper C++11 support instead of playing around with C++/CX and while they are at it, either provide a native compiler for .NET or improve NGEN's optimizer for C++ performance level.

Given that Microsoft had .NET native compilers for Singularity and Windows Phone 8 .NET apps are compiled to native code, it isn't as if they don't have the tooling already available.
The article may not have been so bad (though I will not patronize that site with any further page views). The title is clearly revisionist on the other hand, and it's what I had to go on.

But merely "challenging a #1 belief" isn't inherent justification for the legitimacy of an argument either; that's the same tack the creationists take when trying to blow up evolution.

By all means people can and should learn about the Pacific War. But learn the actual lessons of that conflict, don't just use it to reinforce your own previously-held beliefs.
ACL stands for Anterior Cruciate Ligament. (In case I'm not the only one who didn't know and was surprised to see this was never mentioned in the article or the comments.)
Yeah, when you get to some level in karma points (currently 500, I think), you're allowed to downvote comments. Comments with negative score will appear lighter/harder to read.
Has any of this been peer reviewed?
You might be different, but I've always found firing employees and/or not meeting expectations pretty stressful, no matter what my personal financial situation.
To me full stack means front and backend.
You have to have css and js in addition to whatever is running on the servers and persistance.
We have no frontend where I work - it's all hardcore SOA - I wouldn't call myself or any of us full stack.

I've done fullstack and it is a much softer skillset as you need to talk to a lot of people like product owners etc.
http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/doesvisualstudiorotthemind...
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>Stalin has always been under-rated in the United States. Truth was, he was a hero who helped to defeat the Nazis and Imperial Japan.

That anyone in the 21st century would ever attribute heroism to a man who murdered 20 million people (that's a low estimate btw) is beyond comprehensible.

Was Stalin the "lesser of two evils" in the fight with ole Adolf? Perhaps. But anyone who holds Stalin in anything but contempt is either utterly ignorant of a huge swath of 20th century history or has a profoundly twisted sense of morality.

I suggest you take a brief spin on Uncle Joe's wikipedia page or read Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin to get a feel for just what sort of hero Stalin was.
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> This is not a Madden game, nobody is asking for yearly updates for Visual Studio.

Sadly it seems to be the way it is going. Most likely driven by Windows 8.1.
That is a good idea! One difference from CSS though is that code presentation rules should be reversible. E.g. when you author a Python code with more than 79 characters in line, your environment should seamlessly convert it to PEP-8 compliant source before checking it into the repository.
Similar to my experiences as well. I once compared the price of a knee MRI scan across several countries by calling folks I knew.

This is why I was dumbfounded by the call for "innovation" in medical industry at the end of the post. There's plenty of innovation is going on, it's the corruption and extortion we're looking at here: $60K were simply extorted from a person in pain.

It's a legislation+law enforcement issue.
Crazy, but dog lifespan is considerably less. How long does the repair really have to last for?
We've looked into most of the blog posts about negative SEO, and in most cases we've found major flaws or bad assumptions. Kind of like this guy was convinced that authorship caused his traffic to go down by 90%: http://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decreas... except that wasn't the case: http://aberrant.me/no-google-authorship-didnt-decrease-your-...

The disavow tool is not "incontrovertible proof" that negative SEO is effective. We introduced the disavow tool for people who had trouble cleaning up their own spammy/bad linkbuilding and weren't able to get every bad link removed from the web before doing reconsideration requests. Please go back to read our original announcement at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-new-too... to confirm that was the primary purpose.

By the way lingben, I just took one of the most passed-around examples where someone claimed that negative SEO worked and debunked that blog post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5815658
They'd turn into a ghetto-AWS.
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A note is by definition brief and informal. I think the employees deserve that any official communication in this kind of situation be neither.

Edit: And I'm sure I've put more weight on that one phrase than almost anyone else, but I've worked at startups for years now and been through rounds of layoffs at a couple. It's appropriate to err in the other direction.
Legitimately wondering if you feel that OSX's default font size is too small. Are we at the cusp of a universal uptick in font-size? *updates single variable.
Upvoted, you're getting pretty good at Hacker News.
> Often the problem with these queries is that there are not enough devs complaining to MSFT. No PM/engg manager is going to ignore a bug/problem if it shows up high in customer requests.

Note that you switch between "devs" and "customer" there. I argue that the real problem is that for VS those demographics are different. Devs in "Microsoft shops" don't go out and decide on a complier, they use VS because that's all there is. And the decision to purchase that compiler is made for them by the suited management class who frankly don't care about C++11 support beyond what they see in a line item checklist.

But you're right, that clearly the "devs" have preferences. The problem with your mechanism is that they don't express them to you in customer service requests. They just job-hop to another environment, doing Javascript work, or Linux, or Ruby. And you never hear from them.

Basically, the way feedback works in this world is with feet, not bug reports. If you build it they will come. If you don't they will leave.
A few things to consider:

1) You can't turn an operating room immediately. A 1hr surgery requires significant prep time _AND_ cleaning time. These rooms are used for many different kinds of surgeries — changing everything takes time. To make matters worse, each surgeon has their own preferred set up, and it needs to match that.

2) All medical supplies are expensive in part because your body is pretty sensitive, and you need to be careful about what's in there, but also because doctors almost always have _COMPLETE_ control over what equipment they use ... including screw and tool brands. This means that hospitals have little-to-no leverage to get lower prices. This is particularly true for implants & other complicated equipment.

3) Insured people subsidize the uninsured.
Not hard. But how hard would it be to make large existing codebases which have always been built by VC++ compile against them? Very. Let alone the institutional aversion to admitting their competitors have done something better than them...
75. Give your investors something to do.

sama can you clarify - as you could take it a couple ways
Feels like there is some wheel-reinventing going on here. Maybe someone could help me out on why the build scripts here would be preferable over something like Chef to manage the repeatable builds within a new container? Or maybe I've totally missed the point.
The gaming industry is so fucked. On one hand, you've got huge conglomerates like EA that release shitty game after shitty game with invasive DRM that would make Orwell cringe, and on the other you've got 2300+ people working on Farmville. I just feel bad for indie developers that release progressive and inventive games competition after competition with tiny teams of 1-2 and live on shoestring/student budgets.

Steam Greenlight ended up being more of a failure than a success, next-gen consoles won't even give a shit about indies, and we wonder why this industry is so screwed up. Don't even get me started on the lack of proper infrastructure for competitive games, etc (at least in the West). The whole thing is just depressing.
> intellisense randomly breaking and putting a red line underneath half your statements

There's a reasonably simple solution with which you can solve the red line problem, if you're talking about the C and C++ projects:

http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/5...

"Posted by JoeWoodbury on 25/02/2010 at 10:16 (...)

The solution is to add the location of the stdafx.h file to the include path list. This is often a matter of simply putting a dot comma (.,) as the very first item in a projects include list."
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One of my clients have been using cloudflare for quite some time, over the pass months we have been having all sorts of problems like caching not being invalidated,rocketloader failing to load inline/external javascript which in turn is costing my client $ for lost leads. In short I was wondering if anyone know of another service. They are hosted on Rackspace so I'm thinking of just trying out Rackspace cdn (wordpress site) and see how that works, but thought I would ask you guys. Thanks
>I don't want to install eclipse to write for Android

Well you don't need eclipse to write for Android
So, I have a few questions.

> Going in, I had anticipated that doctors would take the lion’s share of the costs. I was surprised when the facilities ended up being the dominant cost; over 40% of the total.

Is that because you're paying for the cost of nurses here, rather than breaking that cost out elsewhere?

> This centimeter-wide cutting machine cost $900 according to the price sheet.

That seems to be a bit much. I'm used to silly prices for tools and equipment in electronics, but still. Perhaps they're charging you for the whole tool, and not just the disposable blade? (Which would seem to be a bit cheeky.) Have you tried to get a price quote from anywhere else? (http://www.arthrex.com/products/AR-2285-10) Because they sometimes turn up on Ebay (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arthrex-AR-2285-10-Parallel-Device-1...)

> but the blades get thrown out after just a single use

One reason for that, at least in the UK, and maybe this is historical, is because of diseases like CJD.

But as ISL said a sharp blade is a good blade and when you're slicing people you want the best blades you can get.

> Most of the other drugs cost between $40-60 per dosage.

In England everything is free at the point of delivery. Medications are a bit different. If you're in hospital they're free. Most people get exemptions from paying. The people who do pay need to pay about £7.50 per line item per month. There are discounts for people who need a lot of meds.

> The screws and washer are made out of titanium. I haven’t had any problems with MRIs or the metal detectors at the airport, but they do show up very clearly on my x-rays:

When my father died he had left me his artificial knees in his will. Luckily he had also asked to be cremated, so it was nice and easy to get them.

What I'm particularly curious about is why this market doesn't seem to work.

Insurance companies want customers to pay them. Insurance companies don't want to pay too much to hospitals because that's cutting the margins. So why don't insurance companies seem to be driving the costs down? Are insurance companies equipped to investigate the costs reported by hospitals?

Some kind of anonymised crowd-sourced data would let people know if their operation was around the same price as other people were paying. Perhaps you'd need to break the price down so people were able to compare similar things.

I hope your knee heals well and that you start to feel the benefit of that surgery!!
1) realize that there is no 3 point list to success

2) ???

3) profit!
... but exec share dumping is not unusual and happens like clockwork at most companies despite market conditions. Typically execs sell off their shares on a preset schedule, they sell as much as they can as soon as they can because of the bird in hand and all that. The truly evil execs are those that sell-sell-sell as much as they can while telling their employees to hang onto their shares and wait.
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If you really want to make it difficult for people to find this place, an idea might be to raise the technical threshold required to view it: serve it on telnet like a BBS-era board, or run it as a Tor hidden service, or better yet: both!

It might be a bad idea for some reason I cannot conceive of right now.
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Five years ago, I used the previous closed-source version of NuPIC for my MSc thesis to build an evolutionary simulation of a predator/prey relationship to evolve camouflage patterns. The NuPIC network was the "predator", trying to categorise "prey" patterns against background images. I only scratched the surface of what it could do, but it worked incredibly well.

It looks like this new version is a completely different implementation [1] but, in my experience, the idea is sound and the approach is very promising.

I'd love to revisit the project at some point. The fact that this is now open source makes that much more appealing.

[1] http://numenta.org/faq.html#whats_the_difference_between_thi...
Were we looking at the same Wikipedia article? Its first sentence is "Medical tourism (MT) is patient movement from highly developed nations to other areas of the world for medical care, usually to find treatment at a lower cost." Later: "[I]n the US, the main reason is cheaper prices abroad." And while I agree that it's not especially well-written, it does provide some hints as to why even insured people might like to go: elective cosmetic surgery, elective orthopedic procedures that may not be necessary but may improve quality of life (knee replacements, etc.), or reproductive procedures like IVF, all of which may not be covered by insurance.
Yeah it is a Dell U2410. Not sure what they did but it looks just fine rotated.

I also have an older one from 2008 which looks very horrible in portrait mode.
As someone who uses reharper to make the IDE cool, git for source control, teamcity for builds, nunit for C# tests, mocha and testacular for js tests, and a goddamn whiteboard, cards, pens, and blue-tack for "agile portfolio management", I'm not seeing a lot here that interests me.

I'm underwhelmed with the desire to suck all activities into the one tool to rule them all. Especially when it rules them from bleh TFS.

I want VS to let me write code. I want to find and manipulate text. I want it to compile fast and produce relevant warnings. I want a debugger. I want it to host duiverse plugins. That's mostly it. ALM? I'm probably doing whatever it is that you mean by that and I don't care about integrated tools for it.
I'm sitting opposite the two guys who work on RocketLoader. Have you contacted support about the problems? Would like to fix them.
1.5 million is a comically low estimate. Where did you get your figure? Over 3 million died in the Ukrainian collectivization political famine alone.
Very few engineering managers are in the position to have significant no-hire piles these days.
its arguable there are far less emacs commands to learn to get started coding compared to vims modes and key combinations.
That doesn't make sense, just because a company has a history of making bad management and product decisions doesn't mean the engineering talent is subpar.
I believe the logic of the U.S. military planners was that they were worried the Japanese would assume the bomb was truly unique and novel. They didn't want the Japanese to assume they could simply hunker down and expect a bomb every 2-3 months or so; the Japanese were already surviving equivalent damage from mere conventional bombing raids.

That doesn't mean the U.S. couldn't have waited more (the Nagasaki bombing occurred while Hirohito's Supreme Council were discussing Hiroshima and the Soviet invasion), but I don't think they would have waited much longer either.
I think a lot depends on Turkey here. Quite a lot, indeed.
Do you have any managed improvements you'd really like to see?
There is a lot of UI discussion at the top now.
> You are perfectly able to choose when / where ad revenues are paid, rather than being tied to someone elses business model.

You can do that by just not visiting the website. I find it to be a lot more worthwhile because you actually find legitimate alternatives instead of [in my personal opinion] cheating the system.
The book has been out for almost a decade. I've read other published papers over the last decade. They've shown remarkable result from what I've read. I'm not a peer exactly but it seems that they are on to SOMETHING. That being said, they've changed direction a bit since doing nupic. Grok takes a different approach to solving the same problem(ie generalizing the structures of the neocortex and using it to make predictions about incoming data).
The problem with Google+ is that they are so terrified of the user seeing no content, it comes pre-loaded with... well crap. Friends list is empty? Let's import everyone you know, but create 5 separate contacts each. Then spam those people to join because they are not actually on G+. Send them a message? They are not actually there. You cannot hide that your social network is a ghost town by putting fake people in it.
Docker could be customized to run on ZeroVM :)
Perhaps you're unaware that Zynga explicitly treats games like skinner boxes? Their whole deal was using metrics to manipulate the feedback loop to maximize profit.

Even the most mainstream traditional games were designed to be fun -- they might aim for the lowest common denominator, they may artificially inflate the game length, but the goal was still entertainment. Because all they wanted you to do was buy the game.

That's not the case with the microtransaction free-to-play model -- they need you to not just play the game, but to feel a need to play the game. That means their goal is getting you addicted to the skinner box. The mechanics of such a game are all built to reinforce this goal. Zynga took this to its logical conclusion by A/B testing the various game parameters.

As Tim Rogers said, such games are "a love letter from a computer virus."

http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=1076

(Warning: long but insightful article (But if you recognize the author's name you'd already know that.))
What is the deal with so many sites requiring you to log in to simply view content? This does not work.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Worlds_Mission a proposed $3B space-based occluder, to be used to directly image exoplanets with space-based telescopes.
>Searching for alien light pollution from planets found by Kepler would be pretty neat.

IIRC that's one of the things that James Webb is going to be used for. It'll try to take transit images of planets so we can get the spectrum of the atmosphere and look for excess oxygen and stuff.
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How about improving F# support?
That looks narrow-minded for those particular employers though. The leadership might have made a lot of questionable decisions, but I don't think that should affect the quality of the engineers from that company.
What is he talking about? He isn't talking about a saying like "stubborn as a mule", is he?
The news of Nagasaki reacted the leadership before they voted on their final decision.

They split evenly on the question of whether to surrender or to keep fighting in favor of conditional surrender terms (and this after 2 atomic bombings and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria).

Hirohito had to break the tie and decide for peace; he did mention the atomic bomb as one of his reasons, but we can't know where that ranked vs. the Soviet invasion, American preparations, etc.
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The further we get away from the events of those times the easier it is to second guess those decisions and not be challenged by someone with first hand knowledge of the events.

Great observation, summarizes one of my main quarrels with people trying to reimagine history.
I'm sure he was being sarcastic
Accidental entities - what about the UI?
dave said:

> what does it mean????????

decide for yourself, dave.

(by the way, one question-mark is quite enough
to mark something as a question, i have found.)

*

also, "bowerbird" is my performance poetry name
-- which i now use for all creative purposes --
so it's not some name that i am "hiding behind".
i've signed all my posts on the web since 1995.
and i'm still using the @aol address i had then.

if george orwell was coming here, would you want
him to use "george orwell", or his "real" name?

how about mark twain? or beyonce's husband?

indeed, you can call me any time at 310.980.9202,
if you want to confirm that i am "a real person",
or discuss the specifics of anything i've posted.

-bowerbird

p.s. i also appear regularly on poetry stages
here in los angeles, if you happen to be in town.
Are you sure droids aren't modeled after CEOs?

Unfortunately, there's no great way to say "we're firing 18% of all employees." If you're whimsical or casual, you'll be blasted for not taking these people's lives seriously. If you're gloomy in solidarity with their misfortune, your stock takes a hit as it looks like your company has lost hope. Most announcements like this are written in business-ese because there's no great "human" response that really works.
That's unfair on the employees. Sure, Zynga has a reputation as a scummy company with low morals, but I don't think it has a bad technical reputation. And the day-to-day programmers, architects and designers won't have had much influence on the behaviour of the company. I don't think they'll be tarnished, and it would be dumb for a potential employer to reject them just because they worked there.
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