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I'm confused. Why does it take you longer to find something on the Metro desktop? At least in my usage, it functions exactly like the old start menu did: I either start typing to find a program (most of the time) or I hit all programs and look around for it. What slows you down?

The main things I dislike about 8/8.1 are hot corners and the Metro apps being default on desktops. (Seriously Microsoft, I'm glad you finally implemented a native PDF reader but come on.) I don't understand complaints about the start screen.

That being said, Windows 8 did one really great thing for the desktop: multi-monitor support finally works the way it should have all along. The upgrade is worth it just for that, for someone like me with three montors.
You would say the "unless you're a coder" part is wrong, but otherwise it has the ring of truth based on my experience.

Configuration when not using UIs is hell because each application has its own format, settings file location (if it uses settings file at all -- you might be required to run a curses console program) and generally its own idiosyncracies. For a single logical concept (e.g. sound, ditto for display), a plethora of layers are involved and they all clash heavily, both in term of settings and abstractions.
it might just be.
the idea of open source encourage them to contribute and make current projects better - if nautilus isn't suit for them for some reason they should try to cooperate with this project developers to add features and changes, and IMHO only if they get some really tough "no" on their most needed features they should start their own replacement. preferably as a fork.
just as google does with webkit - they contribute and make the current open source project better and only when the project management (AKA Apple) blocked them too hard they had to fork it.
I liked the days when Ubuntu was a nice, simple distro that I could recommend to beginners. Nowadays, every desktop distro is becoming more and more of an "island". The main "alternative" to Ubuntu, Linux Mint, is also replacing pretty much every piece of the OS with its own (NIH).

I would actually like for there to be a nice, simple distro that anybody could use, with only general, vanilla Linux software.
I think $60 is pretty high price for a game. I'm a very casual gamer and I'd probably would never ever paid this much. OTOH, thinking about it I realize that I would pay like $15 for a movie ticket, to be entertained for like 2-3 hours, so if the game entertains me for 20 hours, I should consider $60 a bargain. But I guess linear extrapolation does not work here.
I suspect what you will find is that API's are defined with records, one or more of whose fields is a map. You do kind of do that with Mnesia tables where you want to specify the indexable-keys up front, but need to have the flexibility to extend the schema - a nice kv list does the trick.
Why is Visual Studio worse than (say) Word or Outlook, which (of course) did the same thing?
Are we really going to fault Canonical for developing new open source projects, or for those projects not being adopted outside of Ubuntu? I don't have a need for another file manager any more than I needed another init system, but if this was being done by anybody besides Canonical, the comments would say ~"So stoked to see a new option disrupting the file manager space".

They're betting they can provide a better UX with their own tool. If they fail, or can't maintain it, or whatever, then that's on them, and people will shift onto other distros.

I'm looking forward to seeing what they do better, in the hopes that other projects can benefit as well.
Desktops with touch are stupid.
My monitor is up in front of my face, and a good distance back on my desk, not down on the front of my desk where my hands are.
I'm not sitting at my computer to give my shoulders a workout. Besides which, any idiot who gets fingerprints all over my nice monitor deserves a slapping, even if its me.

Having touch sized buttons on the screen makes the mouse and keyboard experience worse - everything has to be bigger, with giant borders and separation because your finger is ~100px or more across, and my mouse pointer has a single-pixel click area.

Te problem with the hybrid approach is simply that I, or any anyone like me, can't or won't use touch for our desktop use, so why should a touch oriented UI forcibly impinge upon our experience?
They didn't keep the desktop as it was - they removed the start button and a bunch of context menus and hid them in those ridiculous 'charms' pop-outs. The start screen is an enormous waste of time. If they were optional, or the defaults changed based on whether a touch screen was present it might be different, but they are not optional, or even configurable without third party software.

I'm not saying they can't or shouldn't change things. I think the start menu could have been re-drawn as something visually like a charm menu, fading in from the left edge of the screen, so long as it doesn't take you away from what you are doing it would have been fine.
The problem with that approach is that you are likely to get lots of highly negative (one-star) reviews.
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I think the problem is not that the start menu is a fantastic piece of UX (which it clearly is not), it's that Win8 takes away a key method of interacting with the system and replaces it with something worse.

Do something better and there'll be less complaints.
I would say any strategy game would be just fine with touch controls. Any quest or exploration game too. Many puzzle-type or construction-type games as well. So I don't think touch is a huge problem here except for some genres like hardcore "click-click-click" action or racing games.
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That example just shows, how easy it is to be scamed. No matter how smart and how much of an expert you are, you still may be vulnerable from an totally unsuspected angle. Don't ridicule someone who "deserved" it because of his "stupidity" or "naivety", because you may be the next laughing-stock.
I think the OP meant NIH (Not Invented Here), rather than NIMBY.
If you take Unity as an example. It's a wonderful idea that is full of bloat, bugs and small usability problems but nobody really seems to care about it.
The worst problem with Microsoft's touch interface on a non-touch machine: ordinary mouse movements get interpreted as gestures sometimes. You can lift your finger off the display, but you can't lift your mouse pointer, so you end up issuing commands that bring up various screens when all you were trying to do was move your mouse around. I was pretty surprised that got through Microsoft's QA.

I decided they had left behind anyone who wanted to get actual work done, and bought a System76.
I'm sure that there's going to be plenty of dissent on this, but Arch is a pretty simple distro and attempts to keep packages as vanilla as possible. Their wiki is also an awesome resource (I find myself using it even when troubleshooting things on non-Arch systems, to great effect).

It's definitely not a one-click deployment, and they've made some design decisions I'm not a fan of, but as far as simple systems go, they're on a great track.
> I would actually like for there to be a nice, simple distro that anybody could use, with only general, vanilla Linux software.

Your are looking, depending on your use case, either for Debian or Fedora.
> Do not, do not, DO NOT, try writing raw transactions at home. You will fail and you will lose a lot of money.

I don't see the harm in putting a dollar or two into a new wallet just to have some fun. Just be careful not to mix up the private key with your real wallet, if you have one.
It's bad if for no other reason than they're spreading their resources thin. They've already got a huge number of projects to maintain -- a window manager, an entire graphics stack, an init system, a cloud storage stack, all used almost exlusively in Ubuntu, and all in addition to the more traditional distro duties of maintaining a set of kernel patches and an up-to-date and secure software repository. I'd rather they concentrate on the latter.
This is great. Simple and seamless. Got online with a couple of guys at the office right away to test it and worked pretty flawlessly. Couple lags here and there but no biggie (likely network on our side).

Didn't get to test desktop share but if it works as well as the video chat did we will definitely be using this for client presentations.

We would previously use Skype and/or join.me for client calls, but like gchat a login or installs were necessary (even if only for the host). This is a much simpler and elegant alternative. Particularly with the background option.

Love it so far!
This jibes pretty well with me, in regards to most games. However, where do games like EVE Online fit in, where (IIRC) a month's subscription is an item in the game world that you can pay real money for and trade with others (who are using their in-game wealth to pay for their game subscription)? Technically it does confer advantages to people with cash to spare (who can bypass normal progression through trade), but the way it links the in-game economy to the real world and the fact that it's an organic, player-driven process and not some "pay2win shop" makes it seem more legitimate to me.

I've never actually played the game, so I don't know how well it works for them, but it's always seemed like an interesting idea to me, and EVE has a lot of hardcore fans that don't seem bothered by it.
Typical dental x-ray's expose you to drastically less radiation than a CT. Wikipedia:

> The dosage of X-ray radiation received by a dental patient is typically small (around 0.150 mSv for a full mouth series, according to the American Dental Association website), equivalent to a few days' worth of background environmental radiation exposure, or similar to the dose received during a cross-country airplane flight (concentrated into one short burst aimed at a small area)
I can walk into my local Best Buy and find an entire section of computers that are prominently featured that don't feature touchscreens.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/laptop-computers/macbooks/pcmcat...

Traditional PCs are coming with touchscreens because Microsoft insisted on shoehorning touch into their desktop interface.

This is not a case of Microsoft being in danger of being left behind, but a repeat of the disaster of XP tablet edition - Microsoft completely failing to understand where touch is and is not appropriate in UI design.
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I also remember seeing such comments on HN, but all the references I could find searching just now say a combination of Erlang and C++ is used for FB Chat.
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Vegas is not ripping you off. Vegas is selling entertainment of the game, not winning. Except small percentage of professional gamblers, most people won't go to Vegas if not for the experience that surrounds the gambling process. Otherwise you could just as well play state lottery or gamble on forex markets online. Would also save on the plane ticket.
Because it wants to scare you, not reassure you. If it had started, "We've been so successful in tracking down and treating the things that lead to heart disease, it may soon drop to second place leaving Cancer as the #1 cause of death." Then you would be all happy that you weren't going to die of a heart attack and realize that your risk of dying from cancer hadn't changed (actually its been going down as the cohort of major smokers leave the population). But who wants to feel good about this stuff really? :-)
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There are two things I know to be true about humans.

1- Humans think they are good at risk assessment
2- Humans are very bad at risk assessment

In particular, humans suck at dealing with very big or very small numbers.
There's nothing very new about this. Aboriginal societies have been exercising the principle of permissive education for hundreds for years. There is something very logical about the idea of applying the premise of learning from one's mistakes to even the most basic things in life, which are learned as children.
Microsoft likes to bring out the number of apps in their store, especially so it looks competitive to the Apple App store.

Unfortunately, cleaning junk out of the store is counter to that goal.
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Nautilus, like any other software of the GNOME project is subject to the "unexpected" changes by the GNOME team... as when they decided to remove the type-ahead-find feature.
As long as the Ubuntu team create better software and replace "bad pieces" I'm with them.
Try Xubuntu. The interface is about boring and rock solid as it gets - it hasn't changed in years. And you still get Ubuntu's excellent hardware support.
Try elementary OS.
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I like to think that was discovered when somebody was eating a cake or something next to cement mixer.
I use Ubuntu without any desktop, using the dwm window manager. My "file manager" is the bash shell. None of their interface experiments affect me, but I get the advantages of the drivers and PPAs. I haven't yet seen anything in any desktop environment that interests me; and running this way leads to low memory overhead and a very snappy response on older hardware.
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Try debian.
I bet it's gonna be a file manager useable by power users with built in terminal, full copypastable path shown by default, ability to navigate inside of zip files as if they're directories, tree view, directory bookmarks, etc...

Ah wait, no, that are the features of file managers of 10 years ago, after that they only got dumbed down to target regular joe. Yay progress.
I switched to Arch Linux after the Amazon fiasco and can only say I wish I did sooner. It's marvelous, and if you think Ubuntu's PPAs are good, you need to see the AUR. I think I've done the `./configure && make && sudo make install` thing literally once on this system, and it wasn't because the tool wasn't in the AUR, but because I needed special compile flags with vim.
And you fail to understand the sheer amount of incompetence present in the gaming industry. You also overestimate the amount of anayltics (or even anything you could call math) happening in the gaming industry.
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No... #emacs is not lenient... It's just that everything is applicable to Emacs and vice-verse. ;-)
Same here, works fine. Disclaimer: My brother works on it at Google :-)
Arch Linux might be what you're looking for, if you're willing to take the plunge. You get a bare bones machine when you install it, and you make your own desktop experience. You can install GNOME or KDE, or something more lightweight like openbox, or a tiling wm like i3 or xmonad.

What you want, though, is something like PPAs. You're looking for the Arch User Repository [1]. You can install some helper like Yaourt [2] and run something like `yaourt -S leagueoflegends` to get user-contributed packages.

The other thing that really does it for me with Arch is the excellent wiki, which documents nearly everything you'd ever want to do with Arch Linux.

[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/

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There still is a sane solution: make a game free with a small number of free levels and sell unlimited levels for a fee as a one-time in-app purchase.
Yeah, I can see how too much passion can burn you out. I'm borderline obsessive about some of the things I do in my spare time. The thing is that I really like doing them but taking a break from too much intellectual stimulation is probably a good thing. I'm probably not old enough to know but it may be more necessary for older workers. Probably also the reason I can handle it relatively well is because I don't have a wife and/or kids. Again, all the more reason to take advantage of passion when you find it in the younger folks!
>Even though I think the link between authoritarian institutions and bullying is real, there are too many variables at play to make such a direct assertion.

On the contrary, the problem is that schools are insufficiently authoritarian. Low-level harassment by students goes unpunished, while outright retaliation (a well-deserved punch in the face) is punished.

A lot of schools are in this weird uncanny valley between freedom and strict discipline. Both would create order, but choosing one in between will have the advantages of neither.
If I remember correctly there is a testing network for bitcoin. You shouldn't try on real money but you should definitively try.
Up until Linux 3.8/3.9 the shutdown() syscall was not container aware and hence shutting down from inside a container would shutdown a host

It has since been fixed and attached to the 'PID' namespace meaning that all processes in the PID namespace get shutdown in the same manner as the host calling shutdown() (ie init gets a specific signal, userspace processes get signaled as well)
This seems to be the demo mailbox:

https://demo.mailpile.is/in/inbox/
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I have hard time believing HUGE amount of people jailbreak and pirate, given that most people wouldn't know their way around jailbreak and with all those iOS upgrades you'd need to re-jailbreak it at regular intervals.
Or as usability people say: "you are not your user".
For the most part imo the flattening of the ui was an improvement. Puts the code in focus and minimizes everything else. They did go a little bit too far I think especially with the icon set but overall I've found it to be cleaner and easier to focus on the code. Hopefully they'll back off a little from extreme flatness and find a better balance in a future release.

Seems to me the whole win8 ui fiasco is something Microsoft does a lot.. Have a good idea, go way overboard with it, and end up having to pull back and find a more refined middle ground in a future release. If only they'd find a way to internalize this process instead of making us all into a usability study...
Solution: make a game free with a small number of free levels and sell unlimited levels for a fee as a one-time in-app purchase.
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Gfycat (http://gfycat.com/) is a fantastic solution to this -- it loads HTML5 video or an animated gif depending on what the client supports.
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This is pretty much spot on based on my experience writing containers implementations. I have been putting together information documenting containers and just added some notes about security earlier.

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As a PC game developer I was angry when I installed Windows 8 for the first time. It's just so bad it makes me angry.

My immediate reaction was "Why are you killing Windows, Microsoft?". From that moment I installed the beta I could see the destruction of PC gaming and everything that came along with it following in it's wake as clear as day.

A lot of people misinterpreted Gabe Newell's dislike of Windows 8. People seemed to think that he disliked it simply because of the windows app store. Just because it might compete with Steam. The problem is much more fundamental than being competed with. He disliked it because it's a terrible release of Windows that destroys the very platform Steam is on.

It's no wonder Gabe decided to go all in on Linux. It may be a slim hope getting that to stick, but at least it's a chance. If the platform you rely on is going to self destruct out from under you, you need to jump to whatever has a chance of keeping you afloat.
Do you have any examples of file managers like this from back then?
I don't see how ads sitting on the separate column and bothering nobody destroy anything. I personally didn't notice them at all before you said there are lots of ads. So I guess we can say about destroying ads industry since most of the target audience does not see them, but I'd say that's their problem to find a way to be more useful.
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