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Women got better quality jobs in the 30s/40s not because they were capable (they were) but because there was a shortage of men to do those jobs.

Eventually those in control of a mean, sexist elite were forced to modify their perceptions because of economics.

I'm ultimately just saying that the only thing that will force a mean, privileged elite to modify their perceptions will be economics.

Class war sure would give my sense of vengeance a boner, but I think it's both less likely and much more risky for those who we'd like to benefit from it (at present).
>There is NOTHING that can alleviate the unpleasantness of changing a blow-out diaper or dealing with a feverish, vomiting child at 3am.

How a robotic AI with long extending arms in every room?

An act of God?

Or maybe a maid...

Mayhap paying your wife $20 to do it?

These are all reasonable suggestions.
> I don't believe that a state born of brutality can be anything other than brutal.

This is kind of a funny sentiment. Can you name a state that wasn't born of brutality?
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Whatever the larger significance, surely these sales figures represent billions of lost dollars (or dollars not earned) for Microsoft?

EDIT: to downvoters - I'm just assuming that Microsoft make at least tens of dollars per licence sold. Am I wrong?
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I've looked at your project for the purposes of writing a book but it feels like the technology should be able to do so much more and make things easier.

These were my initial penflip impressions:
* I'm ambivalent to markup, it's not a big feature to me. It's another thing to get used to when I'm really looking for book writing to make things easier straight away.
* It makes certain actions more tedious. I want to be able to write subsections, move 'm around if need be. I don't want to be tasked with creating files for chapters and what not.
* It's far too technical looking. It's too much like Git. Git is great for code, I love it for that. But Git is pretty involved. Writing should be made easy. The only thing hard about writing should be the writing itself. I don't want to read a manual to learn how to use the tool. If I'm writing a book, all I need to know is how do I create chapter 1 and start typing from there. Everything else becomes information overload. Surely there must be a nicer way to get the benefits of Git for writing but for an audience that doesn't want to think technical.

I do recognize your project is still in the early stages and you've purposely kept your feature list small to begin with. I hope it becomes something huge and I agree with you the market is there.
Such horrible hatred in your post. What in the world has caused you to become like that?

Did someone offer you software, with no cost attached, and promises that you can modify and share it, and then it was not enough? You wanted to also have the right to threaten your users with lawsuits if they in turn did the same thing as you just did to the program?
I been in exact same position recently.

PHP is the language allowing to craft something quick and crappy and making "it" to work on any platform it is easy to get lazy with this.

I found myself I stopped growing with PHP.

Quickie, interpreted languages for "hit and run" projects are not my stuff. Spiritually it is not mine.

I used to do lots of high performance, multithreaded, backend apps coding in C++ before.
So I decided to switch to .NET / C# platform.
Love it. It's secure, it's fast, it's enterprise supported, it's has the best development and deployment tools on the market, it's fully cloud ready.
It's strongly typed (no RoR junk like: "cat ran on my keyword and I successfully deployed it to production" any more).

It's convoluted, it's overly complicated and it more and more poorly documented but I having fun with it. It gets the job done.
I'm not so sure. There are more PCs around now than there were then, and the number of computing devices has grown vastly. However they aren't windows PCs...
much respect if you pull this off, sort of like those mugshot sites that scrape public jail mugshot pics and extort people to remove them from their site-- except for cops and no way to remove the public info. I would donate for features like this.
Windows 7 is not an anomaly, the OS sales numbers should be on an increasing trend. Windows 8 is the anomaly that is comparable to the failure of Vista. I am pretty sure that they could have achieved a sales better than Windows 7, if the product was really compelling.

Unlike in the past, the OS upgrade cycle has shortened considerably thanks to mobile devices. People don't really mind upgrading their OS even though Windows users might be more reluctant than others. But I am sure that the Windows 8 user interface changes are the real reason why most people would not even want to upgrade.
> Does anyone know why OCaml gets compared to Haskell so often?

I seem to recall (incorrectly, apparently) that there is a common thread going back to Standard ML for both OCaml and Haskell. Appears, Haskell goes back to Miranda which borrows from SML -- but it's not entirely incorrect to say that both OCaml and Haskell are built on the shoulders of SML. My take is that OCaml was seen as a way to make a "useful" MetaLanguage, fit for more than experimental language implementations -- while Haskell was conceived by some crazy people that didn't think it was hard enough to get any useful work done in SML ;-)

Now, Haskell has evolved into something that actually is useful, and the biggest difference AFAIK is that Haskell leans towards strict and lazy than OCaml.

As they are both "modern" MLs, it's natural to compare them -- why Haskell isn't compared more often to SML might just be that there are a few programs actually written in OCaml that people are aware of ;-)
How else do you propose removing a large group of people who also have the largest amount of wealth and political influence and a high life expectancy who are purposefully removing economic opportunity from younger, less fortunate generations?

A deadly flu (which is something that used to be and will again be common) seems like the LEAST mean/stupid option to me.
Windows 7 was the first compelling upgrade of Windows in over eight years, it pretty much works, and it was a necessary upgrade to properly take advantage of 64 bit computing.

Windows 8 is a customer-hostile mess that adds very little to the Windows 7 formula.
Same logic used for the broken window fallacy.

Things would be better if only we destroyed some existing value.

If you applied the same logic to the whole world, it would mean billions dead, because hey, what good are those 600 million Chinese living on $2 a day. Any time an argument begins with: hey you know what we need, a billion dead people - you know immediately the argument is false.

If you have vast under-utilization of labor, there are numerous obvious solutions to that problem that don't involve millions dying.
A store is the wrong analogy for the point you're trying to make. A store has the dimension of locality, which means that a store that duplicates another one exactly but is in a different location can still propser. (Starbuck's, McDonald's, etc.)
I recently bought the first Windows computer I have had in years. It came with Windows 8. What a disaster. In a few days I upgraded to Windows 8.1 which made things a bit better. You can right click on a start menu button and pretty much get a much reduced functional start menu and boot into desktop mode by default.

I'm glad Microsoft is backtracking on this. What they did was bold, but the product they forced down everyone's throat was just so terrible. Maybe it was innovative, but so much functionality and customizability was stripped. The Windows Store is a joke. I hate metro apps, I hate that Skype is a metro app, it's the only one I use and it bugs me that I can't put it on the desktop somewhere. I just want metro to go away forever.

Luckily under the hood is still that vaunted desktop Windows from old. It just needs to come back as soon as possible.
because people do not like having software offered to them for free, and especially not so that linux can use it under the same license.
Take this one further, and you might ask why it's all run by cartels. We make it profitable for them with prohibition. We give them the resources to wage these wars ourselves. The only reason this violent industry exists is because the government makes it that way with unjust laws. Tax and regulate just like alcohol and it will be run by normal non-violent people. Just like liquor stores. Prohibition has never and will never work.
If you want a mean but more creative fix for a large number of society's problems in one go, here's an idea: take the 1000 richest people and split them into teams, Red and Blue, 500 on each. (Don't put immediate family on opposing teams.) Put collars on them that can kill them instantly. After one year, whichever team has fewer people alive will all be killed. (A less vicious version of this is that they lose all their money.)

If you do this, you have artificially created an irreparable cleavage in the elite. You will suddenly have unprecedented social mobility in the world (and, likely, full employment) as Red vs. Blue recruit the smartest people they can (and pay them handsomely) for their existential struggle. I can't say that this will improve the world. It may cause more problems than it solves, but it will shift power and wealth to talented people in a way that would otherwise never happen.

Conspiracy theories are a massive oversimplification of what actually goes on, but elites would rather collude. If you don't give them an immovable enemy within themselves, then their enemy becomes us (and that's not a fair fight). Obviously, this Red/Blue thing is an impractical fantasy, but it may provide insight into why the world seems to demand that wars (despite their being extraordinarily destructive and seemingly utterly undesirable) happen.
Give it time...directed history..then they'll get you a job burying the dead !
We're actively avoiding it because of the interface issues, but even if Microsoft restored the start button and desktop there's no business need for an upgrade.

There may be businesses that will benefit from of the new features, but we're not one of them.
>Vista was not a realistic option mainly due to a lack of drivers at release, much higher system requirements, and absurd pricing

Also, many people avoided Vista because it was the release where Microsoft made significant improvements to their security model by showing (by default) UAC prompts every time the user installed software or did many other actions.
Any examples of countries worth moving to that have these alternatives? Or is this really just a pipe dream?
Yes it's actually really different because the error is non-specific (unhelpful) and can be caused by a completely unrelated operation, so debugging is harder.
Sounds like you are more of a C++ = C with classes type of guy.

Maybe this will interest you:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/GoingNative/GoingNative-2012...
A lot of businesses jumped from XP to 7. Maybe Microsoft has a chance to hold on to them if 9 isn't garbage. Scarily, I also see a possibility that business start jumping ship to Apple, Ubuntu and/or some Google ChromeOS offering on the desktop, and Active Directory, Exchange, and MSSQL servers the last remnants of Microsoft operating systems in the enterprise.

Granted, I think it's a slim chance, and I might be crazy.
"Also, SOPA didn't just happen, it was built up to."

That's one of the biggest points missed by the NYT piece, in my opinion. To play devil's advocate, I do think it raised a good point: namely, that this particular fight is more abstract in the public eye. But in the set of all possible points to be made about TDWFB, that was a relatively minor one.

SOPA and PIPA had much higher general awareness before the blackouts, and the blackouts were built up to for weeks on end. (Maybe even months, judging from a quick look back at my own HN history from the time.)
That's an very good interpretation of the 60s, and I get behind it 100%. Regrettably though, that in enforcing segregation -- for which segregation is of course is not-discretionary, because they're government institutions -- we also got the federal government's abuse of the interstate commerce clause in applying the same standards that go for government institutions to privately owned businesses.

Any thoughts on how effective Kansas' proposed "allowed discrimination of gays" for private business owners will hold up, if enacted? My thought is that, despite there being a ton of bad precedent regarding the Commerce Clause, private business owners should not be required to obey the 10th amendment, just as Facebook isn't obligated to respect my First amendment right, though I find it curious that they put the 10th up against the 1st, such that only those of a "sincerely held faith" may choose to discriminate, as I think it should be allowed for all private business owners.
Aside: I would vote outside of party lines. However, I am forced to choose a very slightly smaller evil at every turn. Democrats gave me a president that started doing smart things for the economy and rights of minorities, yet brought about drone strikes, codified the Wild West that arose from the Bush era and allowed the NSA to blossom further.

The Republicans gave me a non functioning Congress and a presidential candidate unable to pull his head out of his ass.

No other party matters unless you live in a specific district where an old time independent is an incumbent.
You just moved the goalposts. Previously health outcomes was your target. Your source does not demonstrate that quality of care wentt down.

What data (if any) would convince you that inequality is not a problem?
Well, mostly during debugging. But not only.
Quite a lot of banks will simply say "no,
not with any amount of paperwork"

You're going to need to provide a source for this statement. HSBC was just pilloried in the press for denying large withdrawals to the point that they reversed their policy.

"Suspicious Transaction Reports" or "Currency Transaction Reports" only take a few minutes at most and can be completed online. The AML threshold applies whether you're using cash or a check, so you're basically saying that banks won't deal with transactions over $10,000 which is absurd.

Nearly every bank and credit union has a 'Large Cash Withdrawal' policy that merely requires ~7 days' notice prior to the withdrawal so that they can order the cash. It also of course waives their liability if you lose that cash or get robbed, but that's to be expected.
We're talking about people with a preference for bicycles not their religion, race or gender. And, yeah, you could replace it with driver, that one at least is valid.

I don't know if you've heard of this rift between cyclists and motorists but it gets pretty heated and intense in urban areas. Typically the people pushing for legislative changes and updates to infrastructure are cyclists. Typically, those cyclists are the militant ones and NOT your "A-to-B style cyclists, just going to and from work with a bike, yeah a bike lane would be nice but whatever"-style cyclists. Many of the militant cyclists hold an attitude similar to parent, which is "yeah I broke the law but fuck the police" which makes it very difficult to enact any change.

I'm talking specifically about the militant cyclists which, like I said, are also the ones attempting to push the cause, enact positive changes, for cyclists.

So.

We can't have MILITANT cyclists(again the ones doing the walking when it comes to updating infrastructure etc.) pervade an attitude that they're above the law because surprise no one will take them seriously and thus no positive changes for cyclists.
Failure to recognize the argument. I'm not advocating mass death as the "cure". I'm saying "you know, traditionally, lots of people dying ahead of their life expectancy had an (typically healthy) impact on the economy and since that's not happening right now, that's having an impact too."
yes, i am aware of that, will be fixed soon.
Amazon WorkSpaces and VMWare Horizon both use the same protocol (Teradici PCoIP), so it's likely Amazon will be able to replicate the VMWare Blast product shortly.
> Awesome if they can come up with MacOS VM for iOS development

Unless Amazon can cut a special licensing deal with Apple, for now the only legal way to run OSX VMs is on top of OSX itself on Apple hardware. Since Apple discontinued the rackmount Xserve line in 2010, that would require a datacenter full of Mac Pro towers on shelves or something, which sounds unlikely to be appealing to Amazon.
For me anyone that uses the term "NoSQL" to group completely different databases simply doesn't understand what they are talking about.

Cassandra and MongoDB are completely fine as general purpose databases. With CQL3 Cassandra is just as easy to use as any RDBMS with the advantage of being infinitely more scalable and easier to manage.
No, but

- try to hire people who are better than you

- remember that people do grow; recognize potential, but don't assume that someone can be fixed

The sense that someone is merely adequate is a killer. When I'm on the fence about hiring someone, the correct answer is "No hire."
Lowercase-l libertarian checking in.

I don't oppose governments. I oppose some of their laws.

Most ordinary people oppose laws--half the country opposes the ACA, the other half opposes the Patriot act. Perhaps libertarians oppose more laws than the average person, but opposing laws and advocating full-on anarchy are two very different things. There is no hypocrisy inherent in calling for the repeal of some laws and calling for the enforcement of others, because this is what Democrats, Republicans, Greens, Libertarians, and all the rest of them do 7 days a week.

You reference Ayn Rand in jest but it is worth pointing out what she and other libertarian thinkers have actually said about the role of government:

> Such, in essence, is the proper purpose of a government: to make social existence possible to men, by protecting the benefits and combating the evils which men can cause to one another. - Ayn Rand

> The free society has an indispensable role for government. The law, in a society of free people, protects the life, liberty, and property of all persons alike, ensuring peaceful conditions within the community. Government performs as an impartial umpire, by interpreting and enforcing the previously agreed upon rules. - Ludwig von Mises

> A government which maintained law and order, defined property rights, served as a means whereby we could modify property rights and other rules of the economic game, adjudicated disputes about the interpretation of the rules, enforced contracts, promoted competition, provided a monetary framework, engaged in activities to counter technical monopolies and to overcome neighborhood effects widely regarded as sufficiently important to justify government intervention, and which supplemented private charity and the private family in protecting the irresponsible, whether madman or child -- such a government would clearly have important functions to perform. The consistent liberal is not an anarchist. - Milton Friedman

In fairness to you, there are some libertarian thinkers who have been more on the anarchist side (Murray Rothbard comes to mind). But there is nothing inherent in libertarianism that would require libertarians to adopt an anarchist position, and in fact most libertarian thinkers have taken a very positive view of government when it enforces those laws that libertarians think are important.

What I'm trying to say is, libertarianism isn't the same as anarchy, and most libertarians aren't working to destroy the government. They're working to change it, to make it better, the same goal that conservatives or liberals or anybody else has. And there's nothing inherently hypocritical about repealing drug laws but keep prosecuting thieves.
my rant about hypocrisy had nothing to do with morality, and i wasn't suggesting you accept moral advice from either person. i thought that was pretty clear.

given the recent news regarding pot - i'm pretty sure that assumption was a safe bet.

my first example is ridiculous. that is the point. no sane person would do that. i went less over the top with armstrong. he's obviously a very skilled cyclist, and knows a lot about it. if he offered me cycling advice i would probably listen to it. facts are facts and are independent of who says them.
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In New York City, landlords will run background checks that check if you've been arrested or appeared in housing court, but not whether or not you were convicted (or even charged!) in the arrests, and not whether you won or lost the housing court case (or even whether you were the plaintiff or defendant).

It's incredibly pro-landlord, but because there's a shortage of housing supply, they can get away with it.

Only source I can remember for this offhand is behind a paywall, but I used to work in drug policy, so this is something I've witnessed many times: http://bklynr.com/arrested-developments/
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Somehow, with stories like these being so common in the news, I just don't think I want to live in that country. Apart from warmer weather, I'm not sure there's anything worth moving for.
> Conspiracy theories are a massive oversimplification of what actually goes on, but elites would rather collude. If you don't give them an immovable enemy within themselves, then their enemy becomes us (and that's not a fair fight). Obviously, this Red/Blue thing is an impractical fantasy, but it may provide insight into why the world seems to demand that wars (despite their being extraordinarily destructive and seemingly utterly undesirable) happen.

Thank you for explaining this in a way that won't cause the kneejerk hate-response from people. This is exactly it, but I'm a jerk and like to phrase things in ways that provoke.
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For comparison, fewer than 25 million Macs were sold over the last 5 quarters. Not quite an order of magnitude less, but close to it.
The starting premise is entirely false. I don't propose removing them at all, and I argue that you're wrong across the board.

It assumes that one person's wealth is an impediment to another person's opportunity, such that there is a finite amount of wealth to go around and no more is ever created. Classic fraudulent economic argument.

In 1932 your argument would have held just as much weight then as it does now, and would have been just as false. We're vastly better off and wealthier as a nation across the board than we were then. Wealth is not finite, and one person's success (or failure) does not mean there is less or more wealth to be had. A simple proof of this in action, is the stock market crash of 2009. Trillions were lost by the 1%, and that wealth should have been picked up by the 99% in your theory; it wasn't however, specifically because wealth can created and destroyed, it is not only transferred as your premise assumes. The 1% suffering a 40% haircut on their wealth did not create more opportunities for the 99%, which again your theory proposes to be the case.
I think you're describing hit men.
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Yeah, I wasn't saying that at all.

I was attempting to show that his response was a strawman.

After further reading I'm guessing his entire online personality is an act though so the topic seems to be worthless discussing.
It's not "sophistry." You are way overthinking it.

It's hostility. Maybe it's been earned.
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