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Apple never did anything remotely comparable to MS's rampage of destruction in the 90s. A few lawsuits against smartphone makers is small potatoes by comparison, especially since they didn't really work out. How many competitors has Apple put out of business, not by having better products, but by simply leveraging a monopoly to drive them out? The answer, of course, is none, because they don't have any monopolies and aren't in a position to drive better products out of business.
I did look into JIRA integration before release it, since we also use it, but the on-demand version don't support CORS or JSONP, this is something that I would like to have but will require some extra work, so maybe in the future.
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A funny thing about the family pack is that for at least one version of OS X, the only differences between the family pack and the single user version were a sticker that said "Family pack" on the front, and the price. The contents of the box were identical.
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Windows 8.1 is free if you bought Windows 8 or if Windows 8 or RT shipped on your computer/tablet.

Mavericks, on the other hand, is free if you have a Mac that supports it.
There intellectual property they purchased. You don't have to be smart, just have money.
I think it is because people are terrible at considering hidden complexity and the odds of something unexpected happening.

My biz partner has a philosophy of "there is no such thing as a simple app." Hidden complexity is everywhere.

Consider user login. A form with username and password right?

Do you show the password as they type it or obfuscate it? What if the user forgets username or password? How do you handle password reset? Did you make sure you are sending over https? What about captcha? Do you use one at all? Do you have password strength requirements? How do you want to store the password data? What about security questions? What about error handling? Do you support oauth like facebook login? Will this work for login via api? How are you going to test login? Will you write feature specs, unit tests, etc?

Now, how often do people think through features in that kind of detail when estimating? Look at the above questions. All of a sudden the last 20% starts to look like 80%.
Let me take a look. This isn't my field but I have a couple of colleagues who might have an interest here.
Nothing the NSA was doing was news. Or indeed even hidden, much of it having been previously reported on HN and even the mainstream news.

Few people connected the NSA dots because few people connect any dots. There are dozens of other important stories snowed under by the same blizzard of laziness and stupidity.
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Anyone using stop loss orders harmed themselves. It's like saying that you wouldn't have gotten hurt rolling down the steepest hill in town on a skateboard with no helmet if someone hadn't parked in a red zone.
Pleasingly ambiguous phrasing. The first two times I read it, I got that this was the smartest anyone had ever looked (no one has ever looked smarter). Apologies for going off-topic, but I hadn't come across this particular cramp in the language before.
Left a reply in Github https://github.com/Wizehive/Firepoker/issues/14
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i agree that there is likely something better down the pipe, but at this point almost 5 years on, BTC is finally gaining traction and awareness from even non tech savvy people. The entire ecosystem is not going to be easy to duplicate.
In place editing? Instant copying/backup? I feel your analogy is a bit broken.
I love how Apple ended the era, when Microsoft just offered their last update for free starting last week. But enough of the Apple sensationalism, in fact, this is just not true.

The OSs are only now free as upgrades, sure this seems free from the end-user point of view, the real money is made (by Microsoft) on the licenses manufacturers and businesses pay for the OS. I suspect the 'upgrade' fees were always just a nice icing on the cake.

Furthermore, with the free upgrades, OS companies get to decide when you are forced to update your hardware. Automatically stripping the availability for hardware more than two years old (as I believe Apple have done with iOS7) means that those devices now feel ages older. Both Microsoft and Apple can play this game where devices runnning an older chip are not allowed to upgrade and possibly not allowed to run newer programs, suggesting/forcing the user to purchase new hardware.
In my case it's more grudge than hatred. The fact that a company made me pay for VISTA is unforgivable. \joke

More seriously, I've noticed that a large portion (like in 90%) of the CS department and Statistics department in my Uni (US, Ivy) run mac os x, or linux. Is that a general trend elsewhere? I have my own reasons for preferring OSX, and I have a hard time believing that these 90% picked osx or linux just because of a "vogue" or "trend". Genuinely curious here.
Guess the Michael Lewis story (damn, he should write more again) also explains the commits to https://github.com/goldmansachs a few months ago.
Yup - making it sound like paying for software is bad. Considering how long Windows 7 is lasting me, it was worth every penny since I can transfer it between devices!
I have a WNDR 4700 and I can't replicate as described. However, I've also never trusted the stupid thing since it stores passwords in clear text (or at least is happy to display them in clear text on one of its admin pages).
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1. Infrastructure - Even if you overcome Internet and Power outages remember that your users may need to overcome these too to use your product except they absolutely don't need any kind of infrastructure which i think is rarely the case

2. Niche focused - Remember hierarchy of needs. If you are running a startup in a country where 90% are at the bottom of the pyramid your solution has to be properly tailored to the few 10% or the many 90%.

It is doable even in Africa.
It is a good thing because the countries are DEVELOPING so there is hope.
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You don't have to love MS or upvote their articles, just not use the flag button to kill articles because you don't like them.

I definitely empathize with much of what you are saying. But many of us are just average joes working for a big company with diverse interests. You might still want to interact with us because we know things and have interesting stories to tell. Even if you hate a certain team, would you really give their players a cold shoulder?
Its funny how old rivalries never die. Meanwhile, Google and Amazon are bringing better hardware to market faster and cheaper than Apple.
Up front, social media is largely about signalling. If X is deemed unpopular amongst 'those in the know', you signal your disapproval and vice versa.

Context matters a lot for Microsoft.

Amongst older people, there are enough casualties of Microsoft's success around to warrant a default hatred for the company and it's values.

However, the saddest indictment is even at the height of their success many people didn't like or even hated using their products (take the parody of Windows/BG in South Park the movie in 1999 as an example if you like).

So I think Microsoft as a deserved reputation for considering the enjoyment of their products as a separate from the success of their business, at least in the mainstream. It's not to say that Microsoft don't do good products, but it's difficult to regain trust which is lost.
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Wow. This seems like big news in the Bitcoin world to me. This means Apple is giving the green light to Bitcoin related apps in the iTunes store.

I wonder if Apple will start allowing entirely phone-based wallet apps now...
That feeling of having to keep GBs of Visual Studio 2008 installed merely to be use the most recommended python XML library (lxml). Alternatively you can just add a 2MB egg to the repo.

What is involved in getting a wheel file to pypi so that `pip install lxml` happens out of the box in windows?
The screen of pretty much all smartphones/tables nowadays are made of tempered aluminosilicate glass.

One of the properties of tempered glass is that it can withstand great impact on the front, but can shatter if dropped on the side. If you look closely at those Youtube videos, they will all probably be hitting the glass dead center. If you want to see a smartphone shatter, look for a video where the brunt of the impact is focused on one edge of the glass. Like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Nyr...
What you haven't shown is that the market is liquid when it comes to cashing out. Not too long ago someone dumped a bunch of coins at once and the market cratered in a matter of hours.

That's the only statistic that matters: how much USD-equivalent is being injected into/out of system. That tells you whether they're being hoarded.
Saying that members of some races are shorter on aberage than others may be "racist" in some sense, but it's also informative. Same with life expectancy.

Now how much of it is genetic vs lifestyle and cultural is a different story. It's not easy to tease apart genotype vs phenotype arguments or nature vs nurture. But I don't think I would take offense to ACTUALLY 90% TRUE generalizations about MY race and ethnicity, and I don't think others should, either.

That's different than saying POTENTIALY UNTRUE things based on anecdotal evidence, such as that Mexicans are usually bad at physics, that women bad at programming or that Jews are averse to taking low paid menial jobs. Disclaimer: I am Jewish. But I have no issue discussing things dispassionately like that. However I am sensitive to how they are presented, and MORE imporyantly careful ny to perpetuate harmful stereotypes that are possibly untrue or may cause people to actually suffer as a result.
That's adorable that you think that you have more choices if you're a business owner.
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I think this is a real trend. When I go to an academic CS conference, 70% of my peers are using Macbooks these days.
Multiple moderators seems a good feature.
A chat box may not come to this, I believe for most of the time users will be using another communication tool with audio/video like Google Hangouts, Skype and etc..
Thanks for the feedback.
That article was not flagged off the frontpage. It set off the flamewar detector.

As for recoiledsnake, that is one of many accounts created by a group or individual who is either an astroturfer or indistinguishable from one. Part of his/her/their m.o. is to talk constantly about there being an anti-Microsoft conspiracy on HN. Sometimes he/she/they would use multiple, separate accounts in the same thread.
In this thread: People getting confused over what Hacker News is.

We're not the OSDN. In fact we (as a collective group of users) are not related to the open source movement in any way. Why should MS's closed-source viewpoint matter to us? Are we not here to build businesses in the tech space?

Sometimes the right tool to use is made by Microsoft. Sometimes it's open source.
The real tragedy is how many brilliant and motivated people end up in finance nowadays and how the industry overall continues to grow into an ever greater portion of the US economy. I'm not belittling the role of finance in an advanced economy. But you would think with the incredible advances we've made in electronic exchanges and the free flow of information on the internet the role of finance would have taken a backseat. Unfortunately, Sergey is just another example (guilty or not) of wasted talent down the financial sink hole.
How are 'workstation' GPUs better than good 'gamer' GPUs? Isn't that differentiation basically a big marketing con in the first place?

You're shifting the goalposts a little by starting with "building an equivalent PC" then concluding "but it doesn't use the same parts"
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That's 9.8 feet, not 98.
I think a lot of the MS hate is due to what started with Stephen Elop becoming CEO of Nokia that came from MS and ended up with MS acquiring the company.
Then don't upvote the PC-esque articles, but why flag them?
Even major browsers store/show passwords in clear text, can it be that wrong? ;)
It's not a question of one or the other. If you're a billionaire, it might make lots of sense to have a whole bunch of accounts in different countries with "just" a couple million, since that will still allow you to live reasonably comfortably for the rest of your life and yet is an insignificant fraction of your total wealth.
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Why the past tense in so many of these posts? Windows and especially Office are still an efficiency and $$ tax on businesses and consumers around the world.

I would guess that 1% of Office sales are for folks who "need" the functionality of (most likely) Excel over what is offered by OpenOffice, Google Docs, etc. All the rest are driven by the effective monopoly of the Office file system "standard."

I am happy to pay for great products, like my MBP, but these aren't great products - even after decades, Word is still a <NSFW> to use.
I've already sent in a few suggestions! Sqwiggle is great. :)
That wasn't the point: you don't have to upvote their articles to not flag them.
I don't know exactly what the author is referring to, but I know that C is unique in that it will never go away. So long as new hardware primitives come into play, we will always need to return to the level of C to squeeze out performance. This will only become more and more true as the ascendancy of multicores continues. A buddy and I were thinking about it just the other day: could you even imagine a closer wrapper for assembly with comparable ratios of effort to level of control?
Silicon Beach is a good start.
http://www.meetup.com/Silicon-Beach-Brisbane/

If you can stomach being in a Microsoft building, the Startup Masterminds group is fantastic. I go each time I can.
http://www.meetup.com/StartUp-Mastermind-Groups/
Wow, that actually looks pretty impressive. Might have to give it a go.
As a web developer, I will hate them as long as I have to support IE7-8
''The devs love it and it makes me happy.''

Not all devs. Microsoft tools have contributed to a long, successful, and enjoyable career for me, and I have yet to find an IDE as nice as VS (any contemporary version). The MS toolsets have been mostly good to work with, a few warts not withstanding.

What OSS tools and IDEs are making your devs so happy, and making their jobs better than say, VS 2012? (serious question)
What's worthy of posting here? I'm not sure what "10x founders" like you expect to get from hanging out here for multiple years.
Some advice from my experience; 1. release the source with tests; 2. keep in mind people may be expecting source code that they can easy take away lessons
My, how entitled we are!

Lord! Do it yourself!

Your complaints infuriate me!

It feels like at some point the quality of the discourse on hackernews went downhill.
I actually come from the opposite side of you. I've always developed with opensource tools on windows machines (running VM for Ruby, but most others run just find in windows).

I really like all the consumer products by Microsoft, but never liked or got into the development stuff.

At the same time, I've tried OSX a few times (I have both a Windows and a Mac), and just never got into it as an OS.
tl;dr - 5 of the top 10 are big technology companies. #1 = Google, #2 = Apple, #5 = Microsoft, #6 = Facebook, #7 = Amazon. Of the rest, ~40% are what HN readers would consider technology companies.

There's some further infographics hidden within the list. Quite a nice presentation style in my opinion.
Rails initial release: 2004
ASP.NET initial release: 2002

I've heard nothing but good things about RubyMine, but few people use it because a good text editor is all you need to work with most dynamic languages. C# is practically unusable without Visual Studio.

I've worked with both, give me Rails any day.
> But I don't think stultifying bureaucracy is the answer, either.

Something that seems hard for people to grasp is that "stultifying bureaucracy" wasn't an "answer". It's the natural consequence of not having an answer. We have the luxury of sitting back on an Internet forum pontificating on the drudgery; they have to enact the laws that Congress passed.

> There must be some government out there, somewhere in the world, that has sorted out an efficient, effective procurement process.

The main examples of the same scale and scope as the US are Brazil, China, Russia, and India. All of these have been regularly painted as worse: more corrupt, more stonewalling, more favoritism. Whether that's just American propaganda or if there are specific processes that can be imported without breaking things is worth examining.
For years, it was a rule-of-thumb that your dream machine was always $5000.

Fully trick-out a Mac Pro, and that rule might still be true.
I'd like to use this opportunity to vent my frustrations using cubism.js. I love d3 and I love the idea of cubism. But doing a real-time cubism vis with custom data sources was a painful task. Not sure if it would be less painful than doing real-time horizon charts or sparklines myself.
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Thanks for the clarification. I admit that I still don't know how Hackernews works, and that opacity leads to confusion. This is the first time I took something like this personal on HN, and I have been here for awhile.

It might be nice to mark why article have been killed so we don't go off and make the wrong assumptions about what happened.
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I think they're more concerned with their reputation and the perception of their internal practices and controls, and most importantly the value of their "technology." Just read the second and third sentence of Goldman's reply.
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I remember that recoiledsnake post and found it baseless then as well. Not only is a claim like that basically impossible to verify using the information we have, it's also a perfect case study of selection bias, since of course the thing that you care about jumping down the page is going to stand out to you, while the many many stories you either don't care about or don't notice sail up and down the page without raising any flags.

Personally I don't flag submissions for the submission itself unless I find it completely egregious, either from a journalistic perspective (many techcrunch-like articles) or just flat out lying/snake-oil, but I will at times flag a story if the conversation here on HN has gone well past the net-negative for humanity limit IMO. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. My understanding is that HN has systems designed to discourage things like that (eg rapid flamewars) and mods may do the same as me. The Nokia tablet story, while fine itself, was attracting pretty shitty comments. I wouldn't be surprised if it was getting knocked for those and not people trying to suppress Microsoft news. (and, yes, that does suggest a DoS approach, but hopefully there are other things (permadeath, etc) keeping that in check).

edit: ninja'd
Wasn't he doing this for the entire time he was employed at Goldman? They only checked _after_ he decided to leave?
Exploit doesn't appear to work on a WNDR3700v2. I'm hoping it doesn't, as this has been the only router I've ever liked after years of dealing with complete garbage.
Apparently the company itself if he or she is an officer of the company (as in this case). :P
Thank you for the clarification, appreciated. Yes, that thread was a flamewar in one way or another, and unfortunately it was a product that took the brunt.

About, recoiledsnake I would not know much except his posts.
Are you planning on supporting .send()?
Yea, you had to use the server version of Snow Leopard.
> Why the Microsoft hate?

Because of Microsoft's shady business practices over the years (including Elop killing Nokia's most promising phone OS, Meego, and driving the share price down so MS could scoop it up) and the fact their software is just plain bad.

No one actually wants to use MS Windows. Microsoft ruined/killed some of their most beloved franchises (Age of Empires, Flight Simulator, Combat Flight Simulator). Internet Explorer is a joke.

Not to mention, the ridiculous licencing terms that come with MS software, the high prices, and questionable functionality. If paying for Vista was bad, it was worse that Windows 7 wasn't a free update.

And then there's all the attack ads and FUD Microsoft has spread over the years (especially against Linux), which continues to this day with the 'Scroogled' campaign and attacks on non-Windows phones.

Anyhow, a better question would be who actually likes Microsoft? Even OEMs are jumping ship and desperately searching for alternatives (witness all the Chromebooks coming out now)...
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What's not to get ? HP and Apple are giant Silicon Valley companies started by two dudes in a garage. HP recognises/celebrates this on its website. Apple not so much.
This, along with bufferbloat [1], is why you run OpenWRT or another similarly modern, fully open source distro on your home routers.

Right now, the best supported devices are ath9k's, so things like the Buffalo WZR-* models are ideal.

The WNDR 4700 model specifically doesn't have good support for 3rd party firmware [2] due to it's use of NAND flash in an unsupported manner, so if you have that model you're kind of sunk at this point.

1. http://www.bufferbloat.net

2. http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Netgear_WNDR4700
"with the same parts" is a quote from the original comment I was replying to way up there. No goalpost-shifting is occurring on my end.
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I'm tired of Apple and I refuse to buy a Retina MBP. What hardware is out there that is worth to buy? What OS do you install on it?
What does a virtual machine + language have to do with a package manager?
Wow, some of these phones are not just copies but pretty awesome on their own. Eg:

http://www.xiaomi.com/en/mi3
> The bias is real and documented

as I mentioned above, this is not the case. While some Microsoft stories may be knocked down the page, you would have to measure what happens to every other kind of story to know if Microsoft stories are in any way special.
MAN!

Apple is first to do everything.

First to free, first tablet, first rounded rectangle.

Amazing.
The story I read about it claimed the following:

He had made changes/improvements to various FOSS projects he was using at Goldman that he wanted to submit as patches upstream but his bosses wouldn't let him. He figured that since he was leaving he might as well take the FOSS code he had modified with him so he could submit patches later. The legality of this maneuver is tenuous at best, as others in this thread have noted, but in my opinion probably doesn't merit years of hounding prosecution and criminal charges.
After perfecting the NSA OS with cloud based keychaining for easy access you can now be backdoored, free.