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Although this is a much better looking concept than what is currently available in Windows 8 I still do not understand how it solves anything for people who actually need to do development on these machines. I would hate to have to do development in an IDE such as Visual Studio or Eclipse while being restricted to this sort of interface.

Trying to force a tablet interface on a desktop machine is simply not acceptable. It makes matters even worse when you look at a server operating system such as Windows Server 2012. That is simply the biggest FAIL for an interface on a server OS I have ever seen.
It's optimistic to think VLC will be available for Windows 9. It's still not out for Windows 8.
forbes.com == full page advert == close the page

I really need to get into the habit of checking the URL before clicking on articles.
It is even less appropriate on a server OS - I have no idea what they were thinking making Windows Server 2012 use the same touch oriented start menu replacement nightmare....

[Having to use a demo VM that has 2012 installed at the moment and I'm finding it incredibly annoying].
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Not really impersonation, but trademark dilution. Pinterest argues that their mark is famous and instantly recognizable brand name, which gives them extra trademark protection against infringement.
You're definitely not the only one.

Honestly, I feel like it's a break in my momentum and flow of creativity (that really sounds pretentious, but it's true) to move my hands from keyboard to screen. It's not like keyboard and mouse where both forms of input are on the horizontal plane.

I rather liked the idea behind the Nintendo DS where inputs are available on both the horizontal and (semi) vertical plane. If a touchpad can be made sufficiently intuitive and comfortable enough to serve as both keyboard, touchpad and display screen, I'm in.
I think this is one of the great things about being a coder. I think for most of us, we love the process, we want the results of doing great work, but the act of what we do is pretty cool.
If you can't do it through extensions, you may be able to remove window decorations using the window manager. The configuration is dependent on the specific window manager that you are using, but it should be possible.
Ex-Microsoft privacy advisor: I don't trust Microsoft, thanks to PRISM
Seems like the defendant is just a "shell company". Qian Jin in Chinese is 金钱, or gold.
Try workflowy.com.[1] It's a minimalistic bullet-point, hypertext note taking service; I think it has potential, and quite good usability.

I predict of of these lots services that are popping out everywhere will eventually achieve just the right features/simplicity balance, becoming a killer app through network effects a la Facebook and wiping out all the competition. Evernote is close, but not quite there.

[1]http://workflowy.com
"Manual window management is awful. Windows 8 ditched windows in favor of fullscreen apps. Traditional desktop window paradigms are powerful but obsolete."

Just NO NO AND NO, I can't be the only one who hates the new Windows interface, I want to be able to place my windows where I want them not be forced to use full screen for everything, or rely on some automated way to place them, I know better than the OS how and where I want my windows.

Sorry but I had to get that out of my chest, I can't deal with the new Windows interface, it annoys me.

Microsoft please stop trying to force a tablet/touch interface into a desktop computer it just doesn't make any sense.
Am I right in thinking with this design you can only have one app as a point of focus at a time? So assuming I'm doing development, I can't be in my IDE, with a browser open on a particular stack overflow question, while having the app I'm debugging open in front of it all and some other app also in view showing diagnostics?

Instead, I'd have to flick back and forth between the apps like a headless chicken?

[Edit] Actually, take his example apps as a suggestion. He's running VLC to watch star trek, but can't watch it at the same time as say using the browser. In a traditional window set-up, you can just set VLC to stay on top and overlay a portion of the screen while you can continue doing something else (like using the browser).

Although the concept looks pretty, it almost seems to be a step backwards in available functionality.
The hell is going on with that icon hover animation..?
I know those papers, like any one that cares about compiler design should know.

As for MSR vs MS Corp, as you put it.

It is called Microsoft Systems Research, it is still a Microsoft unit, with researchers on Microsoft's payroll.

So it is plain and simple, Microsoft.
Now imagine having to manage servers everyday with that interface (yep I have to do it)
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Manual window management on Windows can be awful. With decent window managers one can hold keys (alt in my case) and then drag or resize windows easily by dragging the mouse. They snap. And you can have more key combos for things like snap to left/right, maximise, minimise, always in front, etc.

Ever since getting used to this (in XFCE), using windows in Windows feels incredibly annoying and infuriating.
Windows had to give us choice to use old windows 7 style, or windows 8 style for touch. Right now for enterprise I see, that for companies it is no difference to teach how to use Ubuntu or new windows 8. Windows 8 put OS from leader position on PC to mobile OS for touch devices.
When it works fast, face unlock can be rather stunning. Occasionally it would catch a glimpse of my face obliquely and unlock before I even got to position it correctly.

However like others, I turned it off because the performance was highly variable, and the failure mode consists of a many-seconds wait which can be extremely infuriating (even embarrassing, as as you stare blankly at your phone for 5 seconds at a party, trying to quickly get someone's number or something).
Ask HN: who is going to MicroConf Europe?
Microconf Europe is in just a few days. I know patio11 is going to be there - he's speaking. Who else?

http://www.microconf.com/europe/
Agreed! Thankfully there is something else. Ubuntu baby!
I wonder if this project will suffer from same things that haunt Mono and Moonlight - chasing a moving target that does not want to be reached.
What happened to nReduce? It seemed to be a good idea, and had some traction for a while.
If they sell Guinness instead of coffee, I'm in.
What kind of usage pattern leads to 260 tabs? It's a genuine question, don't take it the wrong way.

You can't possibly have your attention spread over a hundred sites at a time. Are you using them as bookmarks?
Is your work better than kittens?
> As a U.S. citizen, this is actually my biggest concern - this is all going to hurt us economically.

Of course it is. Always the effect on you "as a US Citizen". Because that's the only way you can think. What about the rest of the World?

Are you not a "World citizen" too?

Think about this for a moment. Is your economy really your biggest concern? What is the US doing to the rest of the world? Do you disapprove of this behaviour just because of the effect it might have on you, economically? Of course it is a reason, but is it really the first and foremost reason? When you look at it in the light of what the US is actually doing in your name?

You do realize that when you write things like this you post them in front of an international audience, right?

I'm not singling you out, I see this attitude everywhere. In particular in regard to the blatant spying and thrashing of our privacy. If it's your privacy it is an outrage, if it's everybody else's privacy it is "expected".

I just can't understand this attitude. If my country would be engaging in such behaviour, in my name, I would strongly denounce it because it is wrong to treat people like this regardless of where they live! Sure I might think "huh this could be bad for trade-relations of the Netherlands, and we're a trade country", but not for a single moment would I consider this a major reason to fault those actions. It is wrong because you should not treat people that way.

Like, what you just said is basically, if this couldn't hurt you economically, it would be much less of a concern to you. Because economically is your biggest concern. So all the other concerns must be so much smaller.

Hm.

How nice.

Say that to my face?
Unity is no better IMO. It feels like another counter-intuitive and ultimately awkward (for me) interface. Which is why I'm right now on Linux Mint which ironically has the most "Windows 7-like" post-Win7 UI.
A brief primer for you on US financial products:

Certificates of Deposits (CDs) are issued by banks. They're insured by the federal government against loss, up to a large enough number such that the typical freelancer or small consultancy would expect to never lose a penny of principal. Unfortunately, they're very poor for holding cash for freelancers/small businesses: 1) Interest rates are currently terrible virtually everywhere. 2) CDs have a duration, set in advance. 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, 5 years, etc etc. You can typically redeem them early, essentially at-will, but will pay a penalty to do so.

The option which you probably want to recommend to American freelancers/small businesses is called a "money market fund." It is a demand account, held at a financial institution, from the perspective of the customer. You can get money out of it essentially instantaneously. The money market fund invests in short-term debt, and historically they're very, very good about not losing principal. (One lost principal -- "broke the buck" -- as a result of a municipal bankruptcy in the 90s, and one other threatened to break the buck during the financial crisis.) The federal government treats money market funds as systemically important, so these days they're also explicitly federally backed (and implicitly backed by the fund sponsor).

MMF interest rates in the United States are currently also very low -- 0.5% yearly would be a pretty representative rate at the moment.

The best reasons for good cash management in the current interest rate environment are a) peace of mind, b) avoiding having to borrow money at credit card interest rates (typically the only credit source available to very small businesses in the US), and c) sometimes you can pre-pay vendors for things on terms which are scandalously good relative to short-term investment opportunities. For example, when I have a few thousand dollars burning a hole in my pocket, pre-paying a SaaS vendor often locks in a 10 to 20% APR-ified discount.
econophysicists? Wtf?

If you want to avoid the term "economics" because most people associate it with "made up financial bollocks based on applying completely inappropriate models from unrelated disciplines", then why include the "econo" part.

Also, you appear to be trying to be modelling a financial phenomenon by applying a completely inappropriate model from an unrelated discipline.
I tried to use it ~1 month ago, it wasn't a great experience. I tried playing video and several games on Kongregate, and almost nothing worked, except Flash ads (only few games showed anything similar to loading screen -- most of them just didn't start at all). But the most problematic thing was its slowness. Even small almost static ads brought entire Firefox to its knees. I am looking forward for this project, but I really hope the developers will solve the performance problems before shipping it in stable Firefox.
Not all that crazy, but realtime raytracing (or more usefully, path tracing) WILL eventually get here.

That's going to have a major impact on 3D game engines, because it massively drops the amount of code required to produce extremely physically-accurate images. All the other components of game engines will still be needed, of course, but a cutting-edge renderer will go from being a massive, multi-month project to something that a skilled coder can assemble in 99 lines or so.

(No kidding. Here's a 99-line path tracer: http://www.kevinbeason.com/smallpt/ )
This x100. Show the actual equations no it can be useful for many more things.
I would also check out the readings and resources linked on http://www.cs171.org

D3.js was a major focus of the course, and lectures from previous years are published for free, as well. It was really well structured.
> After all, supporting Wayland means working in a committee-ish environment, with principal developers not on the payroll and thus not able to be whipped at a certain pace, and without a dictator's say in the direction of the product.

That's certainly unbiased wording.
I like it. I think the 2+ decades old idea of resizable and draggable windows is becoming a nuisance. With 5+ windows overlaying each others, the desktop becomes a chaotic mess.

People who say they need to be able to have multiple windows on screen should really be having multiple monitors if they don't already. Because even with high-res monitors, most productivity applications (IDEs,Excel,etc) are unusable anyway when not in full screen.

The drag&drop can be easily solved by dragging content from one app to another by dropping on their desired app icon on the taskbar. Or have dedicated share button to other apps like how Android does it.
there you go... Who owns The Switch?
I didn't mean you personally! I meant the author of the article. And 'you' at the end referred to anyone reading. Not particularly clear, sorry.
Find some comparison tutorials between canvas and either of these, to see just how much more labor-intensive canvas tends to be. Then maybe make a decision as to what to dive deep into first.
> people.. should really be having multiple monitors if they don't already.

Multiple monitors are used because hires monitors are expensive. Once that changes we are back to the same problem.
> In the brand new Visual Studio 2015 keyboard support has been dropped so that we could focus on delivering state-of-the-art handwriting recognition algorithms so that you can easily develop even the most complex applications with nothing more than a single finger or a stylus.
May I recommend the same link but via unvis.it?

http://unvis.it/www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2013/10/01/...
The real question is: did NASA also shut down the respective part of the ISS? ;)
Windows 7 onwards has keyboard shortcuts - WinKey + cursors moves the windows to snap to half of the screen (top, bottom, left, right) and learn the Alt-Space-then X to maximise and Alt-Space then R to restore.
If you happy using the mouse, Windows snap to the edges of the screen.
There is also a utility you can get for shortcuts very similar to the Mac OSX ShiftIt tool but I can't remember the name of it!
> Or do you just hate all tools that enable creativity beyond a plain text website equally?

That would be my stance. "Creativity" mostly translates to flashy adds, and while there are numerous examples of fun, engaging and useful Flash animations, they are vastly outnumbered by Flash banners, and the math is really simple: Blocking Flash is a huge net positive.
The best thing that could ever happen for Linux is for Microsoft to follow in the footsteps of Windows 8, with their design for Windows 9.
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1) Use Rails

Wordpress works on all manners of shared and dedicated web hosting because they all (or at least the majority) support PHP
how do you become an automated testing deity? Any recommended resources?
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Creating iOS 7 effects with CSS3: translucency and transparency
> The fact that my 4096-bit-gpg-encrypted mail has been stored by them doesn't mean my communication is pwned...

Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. However, if they ever manage to get hold of your secret key (or crack the encryption scheme you're using), they'll be able to decrypt and read all your old email.

How safe is your secret key? Is it on a computer than you connect to the Internet with? How do you know it hasn't already been purloined by malware? Have you ever left it alone at home or in a hotel room? Or carried it through an international border?

As for GPG, how do you know the NSA haven't been multiplying every single number together with every other single number for the past forty years to build a gigantic rainbow table that they just have to grep through to find the factors of any number?

$ grep 4294967296 products.txt | head -20
65536 x 65536 = 4294967296
131072 x 32768 = 4294967296
262144 x 16384 = 4294967296
524288 x 8192 = 4294967296
1048576 x 4096 = 4294967296
2097152 x 2048 = 4294967296
4194304 x 1024 = 4294967296
8388608 x 512 = 4294967296
16777216 x 256 = 4294967296
33554432 x 128 = 4294967296
67108864 x 64 = 4294967296
134217728 x 32 = 4294967296
268435456 x 16 = 4294967296
536870912 x 8 = 4294967296
1073741824 x 4 = 4294967296
2147483648 x 2 = 4294967296
4294967296 x 2 = 8589934592
4294967296 x 3 = 12884901888
4294967296 x 4 = 17179869184
4294967296 x 5 = 21474836480
$

Are you paranoid yet? ;-)

PS: Yes, yes, I know... sigh
What is a good way to do recommendation of music files? How would you analyse them? and what method do you compare them with? Is this possible with just the raw data itself rather than looking at meta data within the files.
Yes, you're right. It can be awful in Windows. But on the other hand, when I place my windows to their correct locations (on Fluxbox or Win7), it might take weeks or months before I have to relocate them again.
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I disagree, first of all I already have multiple monitors, and while my IDE is maximized on my main monitor, the secondary monitor has multiple windows with documentation, file manager and logs, or other stuff depending on what I am working on.

About the drag&drop I have a problem with that, supose the application supports more than one place to drop with different functionality, how do you solve that?
Get in early. Yesterday I got in a 4:30 AM, today 5:30 AM.
Get lots of work done before people get in and leave to go kayaking at 3PM... :-)
Hi Patrick! Thanks for the detailed post, much appreciated.

Note that the main point of the app is to do financial planning / forecasting and the associated benefits (eg: being able to avoid a crash on your bank account, setting your pace with regard to freelancing, negotiating, making extra time for open-source, holidays or building a SaaS, etc) - being able to invest is just a nice side-effect, and should be done very carefully.

Thanks again!
There's also a more intuitive eavesdropping functionality for NSA agents in the new Windows OS.
What if you have a laptop? I often have some crappy tv show over on the right hand side of my screen with the code editor taking up the other 3 quarters. Or two notepads in semi different places to be able to type text from one to the other with different formatting (eg eg brainstorm notes into DB query).

Not going to give those options up
As a disruptive product, it did exactly what you'd expect it to do, i.e. start slow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
Resizable and draggable windows lets you arrange items on the screen very similar to the way that you have items on a desk. It works - it isn't broken or out of date. When writing in a notebook on my physical desk, I do not want my notebook to be the size of my desk. I might be taking notes from a book. If my notebook was the size of the desk, how can I read my book? I can't.

Overlaying windows is brilliant. It isn't a problem to press Alt-Tab or use the taskbar. Personally, the grouped buttons on the taskbar is a nuisance as you need to click on it (XP) or hover over it and wait for a popup (7+) rather than just seeing loads of window buttons.

I have multiple hires screens but this doesn't suddenly mean I want one fullscreen window on each screen. That effectively reduces the windowing system to only displaying two items at a time. My physical desk has more - why should the computer suddenly be limited to only a couple of items?
George Soros knows a lot about financial systems. Strong evidence is the fact that he's rich and shares his perspectives, which are better than mainstream perspectives at interpreting market behavior particularly during major crises. My favourite quote of his is the oft-repeated notion that Classical economics is based on a false analogy with Newtonian physics. He generally spends some time either side of that comment making it really clear: there is no mystical market equilibrium of supply and demand, only the behavior of individuals.
Been using 8 for about a year and have no problem with the start screen without a touch interface - the workflow is pretty much identical to 7: Press the Windows key and type part of the name of what you want, with the bonus that it's significantly faster at giving results.

If you do end up having to select something in the menu, you now have more space to see what's available and modifying the layout to match your usage is a lot more accessible.
Sorry for the possibly stupid question.

Why do we not just use passwords to log into things? Why do we need a Username too?
You've misunderstood this decision. They've delayed XMir and Mir. Ubuntu 13.10 will ship with X as its display server, just like all previous versions of Ubuntu.
Can't you just use the normal desktop interface? It's still there.
Have you tried other window managers besides explorer.exe? There is more to window management than the old Windows™ routine of resizing and dragging windows by pointing device.
Well not really if you want to use Metro apps.
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My Windows 8 laptop next to me is playing a video using VLC.

What you meant to say was that VLC does not exist for the MetroUI (I forget what that POS is called these days).
That is sort of my point though. On the other hand, I can see myself just stopping to use sites that abuse JavaScript, keeping the "good" ones. Maybe that kind of feedback just have happened on the web a long time ago.
yeah, but that's not how I use 7. I click the "pinned" icon in the taskbar. (It's not as fast as a keyboard short-cut, but it's good enough.)
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"you now have more space to see what's available"

Actually, you don't - on the server I am using there is an (otherwise excellent) Microsoft product installed that prefixes all of it's menu items with the same name so all you see is a number of items with the same logo and "Really long product name...." and to find out which one is which you have to hover the mouse over them, which rather defeats the purpose of the whole exercise.
"About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
- Bill Gates @ 1998
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Please make this for Ubuntu.
Flash is far from moving fast these days.