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OSS is nice, but why do you guys keep pushing the shitty HTML5? It is totally crap for enterprise. Also EF is always trying to catch up with NHibernate, why not simply contribute to the latter?
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230kg?!

Jeez, I never fully realised how big those suckers are.
It's because it is not about generation. It's a matter of social classes, if I may call it that. Most HN's folks are not going to do politics. The ones who end up in political power groups have been through different education and developed mindsets closer to the ones already there, who became their models.

tl;dr: time won't make thing better, we need refactoring
C# is a pragmatic language. It never was about pushing boundaries.
Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Uber, Lyft are mobile apps because they suit the context of mobile or rely on their features (camera/video). I think they are obviously mobile first because without mobile they wouldn't exist.
http://blog.angularjs.org/2012/06/doubleclick-super-powered-...
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This might be a plug, but I do think resin.io fits the list. We have ported docker to ARM devices and are using it to build a dead easy way to program and deploy to things like the raspberry pi with a simple git push.
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One can classify sw development companies into dev centric or UI centric. Microsoft is the former. Tivo, Apple ( more to apple than this though) and some others are User centric.

It refers to where the seat of power is in the company which defines strategy and envelops products. A dev centric company like Microsoft does not become User centric by hiring a UI designer..

Hence, Windows UI will always be sub par. USer centric design is very deep, not superficially changeable, and can't be simply bolted on.
Steve Fucking Jobs said that (the desktop PC was dead and
innovation had virtually ceased). He was exactly right.
And who knows where we’d be today if Jobs and Next had not
been reunified with Apple the next year.

As a Windows user, I suspect I'd be about where I am today, except that I wouldn't have to install ClassicShell to get rid of Metro.
Huh, I've never come across that before. Yeah, that is a problem, and one that I hope they address soon. Fortunately a workaround exists in the form of naming conventions, tedious as that may be.

So the Angular approach is modular, but slightly broken.
What a fascinating idea.

I'm particularly intrigued by the perspective of hypothetical intelligent life in this era. They'd presumably be able to discover the laws of physics and the evolution of the universe as we have. They'd see that the universe was millions of years old, and presumably that would be considered a really long time. They'd know that the universe was expanding and cooling.

They'd extrapolate out to our era. Would they consider this era to be cold and dead? I imagine their view of this era would be similar to our view of the dark era roughly 100 trillion years hence after all stars burn out and no new ones are being created. Incidentally, the distance is at a similar order of magnitude: we're about 1000 times farther removed from that 15 million year mark, and that "dark era" is about 10000 times farther out from today.
Most of time I just work in my room. I find public places far too distracting.

Plus, I vape like fiend when I code, good luck doing that in starbucks or any coffee shop.
People born when the antitrust lawsuit was prosecuted would now be in college. So I would expect that if what you said is true, going forward, MS hate explained by those reasons would decrease. It would be like people in their 30s today holding a grudge against IBM for their role in the PCs v. clones battle.

Edit:
I suspect the problem for MS is not lingering hate from the early-mid 90s, but more one of fading into irrelevance among people who are today 18-25 y/o
Yeah. In the past three years I've gone from Windows, to a CentOS VM, to an Ubuntu VM, now on OS X. Node has worked on all of those platforms. I can't say the same for my .BAT files.
Not to mention most of that cash is overseas, and it would be extremely costly to pull in onshore. They actually took a loan to pay out the dividends as it would be cheaper than paying the tax required to onshore their overseas monies.

I expect if all that money was in the US they would be spending it on something else. There are only so many fancy stores with expensive glass you can build overseas.
How are you any more tied to old JDK versions on Linux, compared to Microsoft? Also, I'm curious to what requirements you have that makes it OK to upgrade hardware and apply service packs and Java updates, but not to do OS release upgrades on Linux?
SaaS as a business model, not as a technology. Webmail was a feature, not the entire business, for the most part. I'm sure you can find examples of SaaS before 37signals, but that doesn't detract from the fact that they were amongst the first to build an entire company from the business model.
Nitpick: the British submarines carry ICBMs (technically, SLBMs, which is mostly just an ICBM launched from a submarine), not cruise missiles.

(In case anyone is wondering what the difference is, a cruise missile is basically a suicidal unmanned drone that flies like an airplane, while an ICBM is a rocket that goes into space and then falls back down on its target after burning its fuel.)
> 3. Sign up for a pool other than dogehouse, which has a highly disproportionate number of of the mining horsepower.

Why not Doge House? Any problems with them? Or is it specifically because you want to encourage people to spread out between pools more?
Maintaining two products that overlap that much is going to look like a waste sooner or later.
"this was over stolen property"

That (slightly misquoted) statement is the crux of the matter; the level of response, from situations like this, to pepper-spraying college students sitting on the ground, has spiraled out of control in recent years.

There needs to be a nation-wide effort to retrain police forces in "old fashioned" methods of crisis management, instead of battle armor & bulldoze.
That is certainly a clear headed and reasonable explanation of why it might be tabled as an option... but I can't fathom who thought deploying a nation state level intelligence agency (in a western democracy) against the communications infrastructure of political dissidents was proportionate. Or even a good idea.

I would love to see how the DDoS was argued as being "legal". Whose bandwidth was used? Where was the target server hosted? Is it legal for an intelligence agency to launch a denial of service attack against civilian infrastructure in another sovereign state to disable dissident political speech? And if it is legal for GCHQ to do it, then why is it not legal for MSS to do the same thing? If GCHQ can DDoS Anonymous, then MSS can DDoS Falun Gong. If GCHQ can hack Anonymous' laptops, then the PLA can hack Tibeten government in exile's laptops.

Allowing GCHQ to be used like this undermines the ability of the UK to be a force for good in the world. Losing the moral high ground for something as pathetic and petty as this? It is embarrassing to see Western Democracies behaving like script kiddies.
More to the point has anyone bought or going to buy a new gtld in the coming week?
How is it compared to IntelliJ?
Except that, I'd dare say most of the successes in the last 5-10 years, IMO, have not been merely "brute force" successes. XBox is a fantastic product, all things considered. Azure is a compelling competitor.

It would be more accurate to say Microsoft is willing to plow money into a product long enough for that product development to get past the barriers to success that are inherit in a 130k person software company.
Unless you postulate a spy within the game company, I don't see how a payment that wasn't made even though multiple people checked it and thought it had been made could be the work of a spy.
Two steps ahead in terms of GUI design though (not talking about applying it correctly everywhere).
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Well clearly people go on cruises for reasons other than staring at the ocean from their room, else no cruise ship would have ever been designed with cabins without a view.
While I admire 37signals I do find myself increasingly comparing them to Google and their offering. They make incredible services, but it's hard to trust them to build your business workflow around their products. If there aren't stripping back critical business features such as time tracking for our billing in the new Basecamp, they are looking to shutdown or sell others a few years on.

I hate corporate software as much as the next guy, but at least you know it will be around and supported for a long time to come and without stripping features core to running your business. /rant
Well he may mean that, but that's not what comes to mind when most people think of the word "dead." And picking that particular word to use as liberally as he does comes across as overly dramatic.
The fact that a large number of comments here are clarifying what he means by 'dead' is indicative of this baity nature of it. He specifically chose to say "Microsoft is dead" not "Microsoft has lost mindshare", and now its conveniently providing him protection by interpretation.
Azure has been playing catcup with aws for quite some time now.

And it shows. A year ago I wouldn't even consider Azure as a platform. Now I'm starting to wonder if AWS is worth it.

They've been iterating like crazy.
Have a look at the documentary "Growing up in America".
It is about the activists of the 60s, how they thought they could change the world, and what had happened by the 80s.
There was also this idea that everything would improve once the old generation would be dead, but it did not happen.

https://archive.org/details/Timothy_Leary_Archives_019.dv
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Red Hat are taking steps to address the development software through "Software Collections", but JDK wise I don't see how that differs from windows?
Keywords:

- Web
- Google, Apple
- Startup

Insight:
Web: Infrastruture (Cloud) + Apps (HTML&co, Native)
Are Apple & Goog better than MS @this ?
So it was never about terrorism to start with; it was and has always been about retaining power & oversight by selling "security" to the cheap sheep. Was there a doubt on its true motivations? No, I don't think so.

But looking at how things have been in America for the last 10+ years (since the justification of WTC) I don't see much hope unless the citizenry rises to the occasion and fixes these rascals to their place. I sincerely hope they do, but I am given up on this already.
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MS currently has an advantage in digitizer features on the Surface. But if a swing like this was going to happen, for the reasons you suggest, it would be happening right now.

Furthermore, even if such a swing does begin, you are assuming two things: Firstly that Apple will not respond effectively to MS establishing such a niche. Secondly that Android will also fail to compete for that niche.

The problem is that all the innovative new mobile creativity apps are currently coming out on iOS, digitizer tech or no. Apple has never subscribed to the creation/consumption world view, or even used the term 'consumption' to my knowledge. It sounds like something people died from in the Middle Ages. Their flagship day one launch apps for the iPad were all creative apps - Garageband, Pages, etc.
sounds like a plan, although for anything that's fundamentally about incremental saves (like git), you're going to be competing with tarsnap.

i still don't have a dropbox account. i use rsync for the compression if there's a large file or slow connection, but usually i just just an sshfs fstab entry and mc for all the functionality i'd want out of a dropbox frontend.
As I understand it, the first version of the Microsoft Network (MSN) didn't allow general internet access at all - it was a completely proprietary walled garden, like the original AOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSN#MSN_Classic
Is next decade finally going to be the decade of Linux?
What about recycling the "private cloud" into something actually useful?

Microsoft has amazing expertise into taking any computer a 3rd party provides and making it work with their software. What about providing "cloud services" that can be guaranteed to never exit your own corporate firewall? I imagine this is going to be a huge need in the near future. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it were a standard EU regular within 5 years.

This seems like an amazingly huge opportunity they could capitalize on. Become the standard software cloud solution of all software the way they they own email in the enterprise with exchange. Plenty of companies are large enough to own their own racks of virtualized servers and would pay good money to run well integrated Microsoft software on them.
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Ok, let me clarify this for you. Warning: this is going to be rather Haskell centric. My argument isn't really about the syntax of the target language at all but the internal program representation in the compiler/interpreter.

Representing tree structures like abstract syntax trees is really easy and convenient in Haskell. The traditional example, curried λ-calculus with integers looks something like this:

data Expr =
Constant Int |
Identifier String |
Application Expr Expr |
Lambda String Expr

Haskell makes it easy to handle such tree structures using pattern matching. Of course it is at least as easy to represent s-expressions with a similar tree structure. However, there are multiple benefits of using a tree structure like that, for example you will get a compiler warning if you forget to handle one or more of the possible cases in a non-exhaustive pattern match.

It is also easier to write a parser and pretty printer (using Parsec and Pretty combinators) to convert that tree structure to/from human readable/writable strings (ie. program source code) than it is to convert s-expressions to such a tree structure.

So while using s-expressions is certainly possible, in a nicely typed language like Haskell, it will be nicer to have a proper syntax tree data structure and the advantages of s-expressions are not really there unless you are writing an interpreter for a homoiconic language like Lisp or Prolog.

The way I usually start a programming language project (I do lots of those) is writing "programs" by specifying syntax trees for test cases in Haskell using literals and then running them through the interpreter/compiler/type checker. Only when I have something that actually works (and developing and debugging by writing the tree structures becomes unwieldy), I start thinking about the syntax and write the parser and pretty printer.

So if you're using a host language other than Lisp to implement your compiler/interpreter and your source language isn't homoiconic, using s-expressions as your internal program representation might end up being unwieldy. The syntax of your source language is pretty much irrelevant in this discussion, but writing a proper parser to produce tree structure might make sense rather than reading s-expressions.

Does my explanation make sense to you? If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Here's a few of my toy language projects for your enjoyment, you'll find examples of the things discussed above there:

https://github.com/rikusalminen/funfun LLVM compiler for a toy functional programming language (with type inference!)

https://github.com/rikusalminen/slolog Prolog-esque logic programming language
His use of the word "dead" seems a bit dramatic, though the online dictionary has one definition of dead that is: "lacking power or effect"
This would be true.

They would have to work on the assumption that someone was inside, watching them, so they could plan an attack.

I would think this would be standard operating procedure, regardless of the reason they were there
This happened to me.

Sold a Blackberry on eBay and shipped with tracking. The seller claimed it didn't work with their network and despite me listing it as 'no returns' sent back a different (cheaper/older) Blackberry to me.

I told eBay and they told me to contact the police but not before returning the money to the buyer and putting my account in the red.

I immediately removed all my bank and card details from Paypal and requested my account be closed.

I waited a week and opened a new account using new card and bank details. Thankfully they've never linked the 2.
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this sounded like pandering then, it sounds like pandering now.
he's in business, of course he's got a solid marketer in him!
Fair point. The PaaS statement was inaccurate. However, my point was that most were services for Docker. Of course this means they are "using" Docker, but they're only relevant insofar as other people are using Docker for other use cases, which is what I was really interested to see.
If all they were making would be light bulbs, why not?
RIM rebranded to BlackBerry (though RIP may have been a better choice :( ).
But wouldn't it be nice if Windows could be modularized in the process of such an open-sourcing effort, such that that comparison wouldn't be a mistake? For example, if just the NT kernel could be separated into its own project, with a clean linkage-point, there'd probably be all sorts of interesting efforts to, for example, create a Debian/NT distribution, or cross-pollinate driver code between Windows and Linux. (Actually, having two major open-source consumer-PC OSes would probably finally force a standardization on a HAL to allow a single driver-pool code base to be shared between the two systems.)
In France, since the Albertville olympic games (1992), the local ski venues are much more accessible (thanks to tunnels), and you still can use the bobsleigh track.
So it really depends if the infrastructures were thought only for the olympic games or with a broader view.
> In Microsoft's bottom lime, the Xbox is marginal at best.
In other comments people argue that Microsoft is dead despite their bottom line, because bottom line is not what matters. (pg essentially says the same)

Now you say Xbox does not matter because it produces marginal income only?
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There are no supported versions by RedHat other than that which ships with the OS distribution. To get a recent JDK we then have to deal with Oracle as well and the cost goes right up. With the CLR and Microsoft there is one point of call under one contract. Plus no one wants to deal with Oracle.

Hardware isn't upgraded. It's replaced when it fails. It's easier to get hardware off the shelf that is certified for Windows Server (any version!). This is particularly true on the tail end of a product lifecycle.

The OS upgrades in Linux are usually utterly painful (Debian included). If you go with CentOS/RH, you have to do this every 5 years at average due to the API churn in Linux distributions[1]. You need to get your developers on there ASAP. With Service Packs and Java updates, a simple test cycle will suffice as they don't break the API contracts. They promise this and deliver.

[1] The kernel syscall interface is fine but major versions of Apache, glibc and compilers and anything even vaguely related to client-side stuff is a PITA.
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I'd think a SJW would be more concerned that he's an able bodied cishet male. That's only marginally better than the dreaded able bodied cishet white male.
Microsofts enterprise business is founded on the fact that everyone runs Windows, so no, that doesn't work well in the long run (ask Novell).
Not sure about the move itself but I am glad they chose Basecamp. Started using Basecamp in 2005 and still use it. Basecamp is a nice umbrella all their products seem to fit into.

And I am for making the company and the product as one. One less thing to sell. For companies of that size.
You're right. But Windows has CLR which is integrated in Microsoft's support offerings.
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"The problem with the DEA isn't their mission or charter"

On the contrary, that's the only problem. Once you have an agency mission to violate human rights and the Constitution, all the abuses follow directly.

The problem isn't corrupt behavior from the DEA and drug police. The problem is that prohibition is illegal and unconstitutional and inherently contrary to basic human rights.

You can't create and run an operation to deprive people of their agency, choices, and rights and then conduct that operation in a decent, honest, and civilized manner. That would be self-contradictory; everything the operation does is wrong; doing it well can't make it right.

In fact, the abuses documented in op and widely elsewhere are really not a part of the problem at all. If we had an agency that read people's minds and imprisoned them if they did not love big brother enough, then failures of the mind reading device would be a benefit because at least some people would retain freedom of conscience by accident. Likewise, every time the DEA or drug police kill and imprison innocents, it's good for the country. They would be killing and imprisoning someone no matter what and at least when the victims are innocent, someone out there is retaining his fundamental right to choose what substances to use or not use inside his own body.
Interesting. Though I wonder whether temperature alone is enough. You need some gradient for energy to flow through the system.
How would Microsoft convince those guys or new companies to get rid of their solid, free and open stack and pay for Microsofts closed stuff?

They don't have to. They can keep on using their free and open stack, but moving to Azure instead of using Google compute engine or AWS.
I am more than open to vocabulary and grammar suggestions and corrections. My native language isn't english. Thanks for reading.
Exactly. I'm still struggling to find good use cases for containers over VMs. I get the instant on part but have yet to see a compelling use case that goes for container over VM.
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There is existing software such as Parallels, Sandboxie, or iCore Virtual Accounts which do something like container virtualization on Windows, so it should be possible. I'm not really sure how they operate under the hood however.