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One of the most depressing areas of Windows to look at is the various control panel screens. Some of them, I kid you not, will show different bits of text in up to three different sizes. If Windows itself doesn't deal with different DPIs correctly, what kind of example does that set for application developers?

Another application that definitely deserves mentioning is Chrome. It looks absolutely terrible. It's really blurry and browsing the web for even a couple of minutes really strains my eyes. If you run high DPI Windows, you're going to need a different browser than Chrome (Firefox looks fine but unsurprisingly does not perform so well at such a high resolution. Internet Explorer is actually not a bad choice - high res and fast)
every day the movie 'Enemy of the State' looks more believable.
That's kind of a silly list. Look at the 11 countries above the U.S. in 'economic freedom'..

First, there's Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, Mauritius -- Mauritius...?!?!? -- Ireland, Denmark, and Estonia.

Really? You're really going to compare those postage stam...sorry, countries, and their so-called economic freedom to the U.S.? Really?

Australia, Canada, Chile, and New Zealand...OK, I can perhaps buy that. Particularly Australia and Canada.

Now look at the countries below the U.S. Included are:

Taiwan, Germany, South Korea, Israel...all doing quite nicely on the capitalist front.

Not to mention Norway, Sweden, Finland, and several other countries with arguably higher standards of living and qualities of life than the U.S.

A silly list purporting to demonstrate an even sillier implication.
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there will always be those hardcore "videophiles" that will claim they can see the pixels even at a nanoscale ;)
Related story here http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste...
Back in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 I remember this stuff actually working quite well, a lot of people I knew were running Windows with non-default DPI settings. As newer versions came out, and also as people started using third party GUI toolkits more and more, things started getting less consistent.
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I believe the author's analysis is relatively more sane than the general paranoia. Yes, google has tons of data on you but its primary use of that data is to try to get you to click ads. That's how they make money off of your data. But as the author states, that business grows with increase in internet penetration. Once the number of internet users stops growing significantly, this business model stops growing too. So it is not in Google's best interests to gather more data. What will Google do with it?[1] So it makes sense that the moves they make now are about diversifying their business. So now that they have this much data, they will probably create consumer goods that make good use of this data

[1] http://xkcd.com/792/
> You're really going to compare those postage stam...sorry, countries

I don't get it.
there are plenty of women who think gender is an issue

Women being paid less for the same job is an issue. Sexual harassment is an issue. Women treated as secondary when it comes to promotions/scholarships is an issue. Gender is not an issue and I just dislike the implication that women cannot find their way into tech if they want to. Are we concerned that the infantry isn't 50:50 men:women? Not bloody likely.

If you think me bitter, you're wrong. I am just tired of the trend to think of women as people with "special needs". I am perhaps concerned with gender more, after all.
Search & read some articles on 'retina' DPI. Sure, no-one can agree quite on what point DPI becomes so high that we can't notice further improvements, but the issue is that recently, displays are suddenly getting very near to that level.
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I'm actually impressed that windows apps support it at all. I didn't realize it could actually work properly if programs took the time to do it right. With High-DPI monitors finally coming out I'd expect dramatically improved support moving forward.
Presumably they mean that literally: enabling the type of communications you need during a political revolution.
It's pretty amazing that Adobe is doing particularly bad. Keepers of pdf and postscript, you would think they knew all about fonts and dpi.
Apart from the privacy issues, which the community already raised here, there's another fact that bothers me: Applications do can not discipline yourself for you.

I have tried many applications which should increase by productivity, sleep quality, or you-name-name-it. I don't recall a single one that managed to do so in the long run (most not even in the short run...).

So either one is open to change and that has little to do with technology or... You're toasted anyway. But even when you decide to change for yourself and not because a notification tells you to do so, these technologies become time consuming and troublesome to use. Of course they look nice on TV and ads, but in real life, most of them are frivolous IMHO.
How many people have died in the same timeframe in the Bay Area let's say in car accidents or in homicides?
From the video: "PrivatOS is the Android you are familiar with"
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Very interesting that the fast track bill was introduced with no Democratic cosponsors, only Republicans. That's a sign that there may be real opposition to this deal forming within the President's own party.

I've often wondered why Obama is pushing this TPP deal in the first place. It seems to directly contradict what he said in the 2008 campaign about NAFTA hurting American workers. Of course it shouldn't be a surprise that politicians lie, but rarely do they get away with such a complete reversal.
zzzz, when it comes to a certain (starting with three digits) concurrency of your app you are lost with php.
Not so curious. As numerous comments here show, just about every display subsystem (be it X, Mac OS or Windows) has been DPI-aware for some time, but the 3rd party software that runs on these systems has made woeful use of it. Apple's fix gave consistent, reliable results.
I guess it makes sense to talk about "High DPI", because there is a kind of barrier. "Resolutions" or more precisely pixel counts kept getting higher and higher for years, until they stagnated at 1920x1080. Display vendors couldn't go higher, because consumers would complain that "everything is too small". The reason is that the majority of software plays like it's still 1995 and you have 640x480 pixels. Everything is a fixed pixel size, not a fixed physical size.

I'd say that all displays with a resolution (here I mean dpi) so high that its uncomfortable to use with current desktop programs are "High-DPI". Once the software is changed to allow arbitrary dpi scaling, there will be no barrier, so there is no low or high dpi anymore, just higher dpi. (And ultimatively, as soon as you can't see individual dots anymore, it won't make sense to increase the dpi further.)
As an owner of a ASUS Zenbook I can confirm it is a pleasure, almost orgasmic, to program on such resolutions :)
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Mob rules. If people don't want your g+/fisher price notebook, force it down their throats.

Who honestly had the idea that an operating system should be based on/should revolve around a web browser? If it would be a startup offering such an OS, the plucky innovator would be told to start again and do something different.
This is precisely how Safari's Reading List feature works. (Not that anyone would ever use it to know.)
Doesn't seem to be.

Domain name:
blackphone.ch

Holder of domain name:
Geeksphone S.L.
Geeksphone Rodrigo S
calle Manuel Silvela 1
ES-28010 Madrid
Spain

It's just very curious that they feel like they need to pass for a Swiss company.
Fonts specified in points are correctly rendered using the DPI setting correctly, as it has always been. So, as far as 99% of my work is concerned (terminals and text editors), there is no problem.

However GUI elements of most programs are still specified using pixels, so buttons, menus and some icons might look "tight" around the text if the theme is sized using pixels. Recent GTK/QT versions do support point units, so it mostly depends on the theme you choose. These toolkits also always (historically) had resizable dialogs, contrarily to window and mac, so even with "bad" support for high DPI, the text will be readable and the interface will be scalable.

Legacy apps, such as WindowMaker dockapps (which are historically sized as 64x64) though will be unreadable. Frankly, I can already cannot read them anymore.

Given the configurability of most programs, I would say it's really not a problem. Most of the other programs will be adapted very quickly.
You never know who will be next to say X sucks and then have someone personally involved in creating X speak up unexpectedly.

So then HN is now the /. of the mid 201X? /. Was at its best when people in the know were finally pissed off enough to chime in and set the hooligans straight.
> DRM only works if you don't know how it works.

That's not entirely true, I don't think? What about AACS, which uses a very clever master key / sub key + key revocation mechanism. People figured out exactly how it worked well before it was actually "broken" - and it was broken by stealing private keys from devices.

> For games, Steam makes it easy to avoid SecuROM Hell

Steam is DRM. Sure, it's fairly nice as DRM goes, but it is still DRM.
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Happy to see the guys behind Violet are not giving up. I believe they're on to something but the branding / language choosing is indeed poor. Whatever they launch with now will surely be extended, I'm hopeful that they've learned a great deal with the Nabaztag (which I've owned one back in the days).
Twitter - yes at least one https://twitter.com/tipdoge, Email - I've seen rumblings, but not now I think.
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You didn't respond to the "now you have two problems" point.

Keeping asm.js a subset of JS avoids all the back-compat-locking/future-hostile-lowering problems. And engines have only one parser to make super-fast. (Already there.)

This is a significant win. What your "sane" means is mostly aesthetics. asm.js already has int32 and uint32 conversions and casts. There is no big semantic gap for vanilla C/C++ source to JS. Typed array views help a lot here; JS's built-in operators and a few helpers in ES6 (Math.imul, polyfillable) do the rest.

The non-vanilla gaps of note are mostly gaps in JS (e.g., int64, uint64, SIMD), which we're filling in ES7 for many reasons.

Shared memory threads are indeed a gap to confine to a checked subset, not push into JS along with data races (VM-level and usercode-level -- this is fatal). We're working on that too, but it's not a "bytecode" issue _per se_.

If you continue to believe that "it's not just syntax", and you have something in the way of semantics other than the above in mind, please state it explicitly.
Looks amazing .. I've sent it to some music buddies of mine, I hope you get some new users out of it.

Plugins/effects?
Windows does let you disable high dpi scaling on an app by app basis (if you right click an app icon, pull up properties and go to the Compatibility tab).

In Windows versions prior to 8.1 the UI wouldn't let you do this for 64-bit executables, only 32-bit ones. For 64-bit apps the checkbox to disable dpi scaling was greyed out, even though if you set the key in the registry (using the same key that the UI would set for 32-bit apps) it would work just fine for 64-bit apps too.

In 8.1 they fixed this stupidity and the compatibility tab UI will work for any app regardless of being 32 ot 64 bit.
> Managing drink consumption - Drink more or less than you currently do.

You know that the human mind doesn't work like that -- mine doesn't, at any rate. Reminders, bribes, little games played around chores, those things tend to work.
That's not many. Most of older languages have even more implementations.
Might Docker containers be a valid solution to this? Shipping old games is a sorta-kinda-similar problem to shipping frozen versions of web-apps.
It will be more entertaining when an unanswered question on stackoverflow gets an answer after the best part of a decade.
Gnome 3.10 has it mostly right. I find there are less issues on Gnome than on Windows.

But then there's the problem when you open an app which is not native GTK/Gnome, for example Libre Office, where the fonts look OK but the icons are minuscule.

The Desktop itself and the Gnome applications look awesome on high DPIs.

Also Firefox works flawlessly, though on Linux you have to manually set the option "layout.css.devPixelsPerPx" on about:config.
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> I say just man (or woman) up and accept the fact that you are nervous. […] It's valuable to realize why you are nervous.

I can realise that I'm being nervous without it getting crippling (literally, with shakes and cold sweat). Which is what currently occurs because following a medical reaction a few years ago my body has apparently discovered the underpants gnome strategy of handling stress:

1. somewhat stressful situation

2. flood the whole system with adrenaline

3. ???

4. profit

> You're nervous because feedback is (often) immediate and you can be challenged directly. You're nervous because you're not completely comfortable with the subject matter.

Well you've got today's prize for the most condescending and least correct statement at least. Bravo, I guess.
It depends on the virus strain, in some strains it's the young and strong who die easy due to having a stronger immune system reaction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm
IDK, there was an alarming comment on the doge community page that this particular system would soon have a block chain that would be too large to contain on anyone's computer if the transaction volume keeps up. Could be someone (or many people) just spamming transactions for the lulz to make dogecoin unfeasible to keep.
The analogy between the spying government and the spying parent is a good one, and I am interested to hear how you say that it's different.

In both cases, a figure of authority (legitimate authority!) spys on you, pro[poradly for your own good. (Maybe even really for your own good! Just because the NSA's spying hasn't actually successfully foiled any terrorist plots yet doesn't mean that all spying programs of that sort are ineffectual...)

The one difference that I can see (and it's not an unimportant one) is that a good parent is open about what they are doing, and talks to the kid, gets the kids opinions. While organizations like the NSA try their hardest to make sure the citizenry don't even know that they're being spied on. This is a way in which a parent's spying might be not quite as bad.

However, remember that at least in theory the USA is a democracy, while a family is best described as a dictatorship. In the ideal world where the US government actually listened to its citizens and engaged in discourse with them, the USG would have by far the moral high ground over parents, even over parents who run a benevolent dictatorship where they actually listen the kid and make family policy accordingly, as a benevolent dictatorship still has certain problems when compared to a true democracy.
It is different from BTC - it's a fork of Litecoin, meaning it uses scrypt rather than SHA-256 and cannot be effectively mined using BTC-oriented ASICs.

There is already at least one scrypt-focussed ASIC, however. https://alpha-t.net/product/scrypt-asic-miner/
We have tried facebook and google advertising but so far the results are not what we were expecting
This isn't ageism. It's simply that "dying of old age" has always meant to die from some common illness that younger people don't die from as easily.
I think those old settings only concern fonts. Icons and other pixel-measured things would still look ridiculously small (making it a mess of small-things-with-big-fonts).
> People who can't read Wikipedia ask questions on Stackexchange.

Not saying this is an example of this behaviour but there are also groups of people kudos whoring on SE/SO by shill posting questions and then providing very thorough/researched answers shortly afterwards from their real account(s).
Huge pinch of salt and 'citation needed' on this. The Heritage Foundation is a self-described conservative think tank, and just seems to be relabelling 'low tax' as economic freedom here.

The purported benefits: "Countries achieving higher levels of economic freedom consistently and measurably outperform others in economic growth, long-term prosperity..." really? From 2000-2008, Ireland held 3rd or 4th spot in the list[1], and is now 11th. Worked out great for them, what with the recession, the bailout, and the 2nd highest level of household debt in the world[2].

To those who would reply 'but that's outside forces, economics is complicated,', well, exactly. Reducing it to a list like this is wishful thinking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932013_Irish_financ...
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Snowden leaked a huge amount of data to journalists that he trusted to decide what was in the public interest and what would harm national security.

I actually think they have mostly done a good job. I think this story, and the previous one on TAO from Der Spiegel, are substantially different to the other stories that have been run from the leaks.

I do think there is an argument that these kind of details weaken security, and it's far, far less clear cut in my mind that the public interest argument outweighs the security argument in this case.

If you believe it does not that isn't a belief I would challenge - but blame the journalists who have made the wrong call, not Snowden. Deciding which 0.1% of the 100,000 documents to leak is their job.
Are they contagious?
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Agreed. At the very least, invoice the client and issue a credit note against it, so that the client can see with their own eyes the actual cost. Then they might thank you for it.
> Use the apps you know and love.

Ok, so how do they stop Facebook et al from abusing our contact lists and location data as they do on existing smart phones?
Completely useless web page. All wooly 'feel-good' words and no hard, concrete information. So I guess we just have to take it on trust then?

Also, their privacy policy is laughable:

We turn the logging level on our systems to log only protocol-related errors - great!

the pages on our main web site pull in javascript files from a third party. This allows our web developers and salespeople to know which pages are being looked at - so instead of keeping your own logs, you are outsourcing this to a 3rd party with worse privacy policies, and who can now aggregate your website usage with other sites.

Why didn't they just keep logging on and get rid of the 3rd party bugs?
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The JVM contains decades worth of knowledge, some of which was developed for languages like Self.
Move to the Bay Area. The actual financial EVs are strongly in your favor starting here over anywhere else. Your family might be far more open to the idea of moving here than you think. Ask them. A lot of people, including kids, have been properly convinced by the media that California is kind of awesome.

I think Oakland is the best place to actually build a company while raising a family here right now, by a long shot. The Oakland hills are fantastically livable, and the city of Oakland desperately wants you to start a successful company that will eventually want a waterfront corporate campus in the redeveloped area around 5th Avenue east of Jack London Square. However, your initial fundraising will happen in San Francisco and Mountain View, so San Mateo is the cheap, nice, developed, delicious, urban core halfway between San Francisco and Mountain View.

Befriend the leaders of companies that are leading angel and venture funded companies. Instead of asking for money, ask for advice.

Sign up for https://angel.co, fill it out, follow your friends and people you're a fan of.

Apply to incubators, including YC, for the experience of getting rejected from incubators while psyching yourself up for the experience of getting rejected by angel investors and honing your short form pitch.

Does your business school ever invest directly in companies founded by startups, or is there a group of alumni investors? Ask.

Do any of your well-paid coworkers and bosses from your previous job want to invest and live vicariously through you?

I like 1.5 million as a totally arbitrary amount you should raise.
ha, I just saw that movie last night, great ideas in there and I like how everything works so seamlessly.

Kind of gets you thinking about the singularity doesn't it?
Remote desktop is really annoying on high dpi screens - the client cant scale up (although it can scale down) so you end up with a tiny view of your server.
Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?
I can't even use my Windows 8.0 on my 32 inch TV that is 1080 sitting a couple of metres away, while keeping the resolution and boosting all the accessibility settings to the max.

Even the metro Apps I can't use.

I'd need a 50ft display! It's another facet of display/accessibility issues.

I had high hopes after Media Centre, that Windows would get this right. And bought Windows 8.0 specifically for this purpose. Disappointing. I'm forever going over to the TV and my neck hates it.

Personally I think part of the solution is to change the menuing system, breaking it out from the window. If I can at least use the menus/controls on apps I have a good chance of using them.
Made a chart of the results http://i.imgur.com/pIDP9kA.png
> Ah, but C++ "const" doesn't do what it says on the tin! What "const" means is not "constant", but "read-only".

Yes and that's a huge trap, which is why I'm so annoyed that D has copied 'const' from C++ instead of renaming it to 'view' or 'read'..
There is a huge difference though, in that millions and millions of people get the flu, and very small percentage of people die. With things like bird/swine flu, a much, much higher percentage of people die.