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It's a myth that the Windows version of WordPerfect was bad software; I'm not sure where that comes from.

1) The initial version had some problems but was fine, I think by v5.2. Regardless, by WordPerfect 6.1 for Windows, most software reviews picked WordPerfect as superior to Word. I and many others I know preferred WP into the 2000s, at least. It was good software.

2) IIRC, a major reason Word became dominant was because of anti-competitive practices by Microsoft. Microsoft required computer manufacturers to purchase an Office license for every Windows license. As a result, every new computer came with Office installed. I believe Microsoft was convicted of violating anti-trust law or settled with the government, but too late for WordPerfect. My memory is vague on this point, however, and I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it.

3) Also, IIRC, Office was easier to integrate with other software, in part because it was object-oriented and because of Visual Basic. That made it appealing in the corporate market.

Finally, many here wonder why the legal industry preferred WordPerfect for so long (as did government). IME the reasons were A) Legacy; attorneys were heavy users of WP for DOS, when it dominated the market; B) Word offered no benefit in return for retraining users and converting all the legacy data, customizations, and macros; C) WordPerfect was better for power users, due to the fine formatting control, and many legal secretaries and others were power users. I recall one legal secretary's response to Clippy: 'No I don't want help formatting a letter -- I've been formatting them for 20 f!@#%! years!' D) Government liked WordPerfect's built-in SGML editing. I always thought WP should have used Reveal Codes and some updates to sell itself as a low-end XML or HTML editor.
Awesome! I've actually been looking for something like this a while back but didn't find anything.
In theory you could install Windows Performance Toolkit from Windows SDK and then trace shutdown with xbootmgr command, then try to analyse resulting .etl file (xbootmgr will save it to the current folder) with xperf. In practice that will probably take more time than you could save by optimizing shutdown.
Huh, I've got enough points, maybe I should do a poll of Objectivist, Libertarian, Anarcho-capitalist, anarchist, Republican, Democrat, Socialist, Communist, Green, etc. self-identification. Anyone I'm leaving out?
> It's against the HN guidelines to go on about getting downvoted. Please don't.

Technically it's not, it's discouraged, direct quote:

> Resist complaining about being downmodded.

I have no qualms with downvotes, but I do have issue with people not explaining their rational for either up or downvotes. By simply downvoting/upvoting and moving on, discussion and debate cannot occur and no one can have their opinion challenged.
They may be just using the wrong business model. If you can pitch a good enough idea, I easily see either a kickstarter one time or ongoing patreon like project to support a games development would work, where the assets are CC licensed and the code GPL, and the community funds its development and anyone can play it for free.

Think 0ad, for mobile. No reason the model couldn't transfer.
The oakland city government is focused on being a police state/surveillance city.

They worked closely with the USG against Occupy Wallstreet (where they were actively working with officials on how to handle the leaders of OWS) they have also been very actively building out a surveillance HQ with pretty advanced monitoring.

I can only assume that they are also a customer of the Stingray cell tower MIMs.
It's not an excuse for illiteracy. Language trends change over time, including among highly educated people.
When I lived in NC I never knew ANY of my neighbors. When I moved to Chicago I met all of my neighbors except for one. [That one lives above me and I'm pretty sure everyone in the building hates them.]
How do you control the quality of that automation code? Doesn't that add an overhead to your operations?
Methodical Trouncement of an Evolution Denier
Then don't develop for it.
For anyone interested, I did a write up on Iris a few weeks ago, including how it stacks up to other golang messaging libraries. http://www.bravenewgeek.com/iris-decentralized-cloud-messagi...
Robin Williams Potentially Killed Himself Today at 63
> loss of Reveal Codes is a definite backward step from WordPerfect for DOS

All versions of WordPerfect for Windows had and have Reveal codes. Word on the other hand ...
Yea seriously, he was commenting on how it sucked he was paid 2 months and was not working, but it isn't his fault his boss didn't balance the books and went bankrupt, and that he had to seek alternative opportunities.

That was the death of his dream as much as the authors, but it died due to someone elses mistakes, not his own. I think his art assets look great, since I imagine they are to the authors vision and spec in the first place.
Sorry for the silly question, but the slides seemed to indicate that any USB keyboard can read any other keyboard's keystrokes? Is that a correct understanding? Otherwise, I don't see how they can steal passwords. Am I just missing something obvious?
Yes. It's a 100G service though. Infinera runs on 25G spacing so at 25G dual wave dual polarization is 100G in the same spectral efficiency as single wave.
I don't usually get my pop culture breaking news from HN but wow. Sucks to hear.
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I like it :)

That said I'm not convinced that all of the options there are actually in the same category; some are philosophies, others are political choices based on philosophy. E.g. I know of Objectivists who vote Republican, and Anarchists who vote Green.

Perhaps two polls: one for philosophy, one for voting choice?

Edited: I guess you could have one poll, & people could vote in two categories? I've never set up a poll myself so I'm not sure.
0ad only raised $33,251 (21% of it's target) , not really a great model for success.
Ask HN: Why are decent grid widgets so difficult to find?
In this age of web technologies (let us not forget that it has taken this long to reach AngularJS) why is it so difficult to find a decent grid widget when much of the spectrum of day-to-day commercial computing from system monitoring straight through to business functionality requires dynamic table widgets which have decent sorting and filtering capabilities?
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This is pretty much the premise behind Nextdoor.com, you guys should check it out for your neighborhood!
APRS messaging is awesome. In many cases, you can leverage iGates and the Internet-based APRS-IS backbone to move your messages from RF (radio) to Internet and then back on to RF at a remote location.

I've built an APRS library for Go as part of a high-altitude balloon project that I've been working on. It can encode and decode APRS messages, ACK received messages, and send/receive APRS packets over AX.25/KISS (over serial or TCP/IP). The library is currently bundled with the balloon code but I plan on breaking it out into its own project soon.

Code here:

APRS library: https://github.com/chrissnell/GoBalloon/tree/master/aprs

AX.25 encoding/decoding: https://github.com/chrissnell/GoBalloon/tree/master/ax25

APRS-IS library (thanks to @dustin):
https://github.com/chrissnell/GoBalloon/tree/master/aprsis
In Australia, investment residential property is seen as almost an inalienable right and a cultural norm.

I've lived in the UK and opinions there vary a lot. In London, it doesn't really have a negative connotation that I can recall. In rural parts, it tends to be viewed very negatively. I seem to remember reading a story about anger against "Londoners" driving up local property prices (with weekend homes) resulting in someone burning one down.

Weekend homes are a different beast of course but the anger comes from basically the same place: the perception that "outsiders" are making housing unaffordable for "locals".

This seems to be a very Luddite view. If it weren't for people letting out property rental homes wouldn't exist outside of, say, council-run rental buildings. I don't see that as a good thing.

Some places have tackled this problem with regulation eg making it difficult for foreigners to buy real estate or punitive capital gains taxes on short-term property sales like in Switzerland.

In NYC we have a different problem: rich people parking money in real estate leading to what are known as "ghost buildings". This is mainly a Manhattan issue.

Historically NYC had rent control that ended in the early 70s (meaning no new rent control leases were issued, existing ones remained while the tenants remained). Reforms were enacted to allow tenants to buy their apartments leading to the "coop", which accounts for the vast majority of Manhattan apartments.

A coop is an interesting beast. Technically you own shares in the coop. The coop owns the building. Your shares entitle you to reside in a given apartment. You must comply with the coop's rules. Coops are typically for primary residences and, to a lesser extent, pied-a-terres.

You can sublet coops you own in some cases but it tends to be pretty restrictive (eg only for 2 years out of every 5 and you have to own it for at least 2 years).

The effect of this is that coops tend to have very high occupancy rates (in real terms) and relatively low turnover.

Most new builds are condos, where you own your property outright and are a member of an HOA (Home Owners Association). Buying a coop will involve getting approval by the board, which can place wildly varying limits on mortgage amounts, income to debt ratios, requiring personal and professional references and so on. Condos however require only finance approval (the building has a right of first refusal).

So a lot of condos are owned by wealthy people who might visit for a few days a year if at all. I don't think this ghost building phenomenon is healthy for a community and is certainly a problem if all construction falls into that category.

Buy-to-let isn't the problem here. Unchecked buy-to-let might well be. Banning it is throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A more nuanced scheme might give tax abatements for owner-occupied properties in the coop model. Or put quotes on investment property in a given area. You can even create markets for such things eg NYC has a market for "air rights" above buildings to allow really tall buildings.

As far as "crappy" rental property goes, that's pretty much rental property all over.
No, I do not have any evidence on the portion of uses that are deliberate. But it doesn't have to be deliberate in the sense that the writer is consciously trying to change the trend. Trends change slowly and "naturally," sometimes even due to misunderstandings of the earlier usages. For example, the word "apron" is widely considered correct and standard, but it arose from a misunderstanding of the phrase "a napron" (from Old French "napperon") as "an apron."
It is a false alpha. Twenty years ago, the "alpha" of today would be the release of yesteryear. If your game shipped with bugs, well, I guess its buggy. Because its never getting patched or fixed.

The fact you can endlessly patch your game remotely forever automatically is a blessing and a curse. It means many games continue to improve over time, while also meaning many games enter the market in shitty conditions and alpha state with a promise to see them improve over time.

In reality, I think it is more that it isn't a sensible business model to self-finance development, spend the years it takes to make a competitive product in the current market (versus Doom or Wolf3d being made in months) and then pray the sales are enough to not only cover the expenses of that game but fund enough of the next title to last to its release.

Its too unpredictable. Instead, people like continuous income. Alpha early, release perks, gating the community, and your release notes become your advertising. New players are attracted as you improve the game over time. And there are benefits - you can find out early on what mechanical systems don't work, and what features not to pursue because their early releases are rejected by the community. You can do Agile games rather than Waterfall ones.
The platform doesn't but the store sure does.

In iOS, your game is sharing shelf space with:
* Cribbage games that cost next-to-nothing to develop. ($1.99)
* Hobby projects where the dev isn't looking to make money. ($0.99)
* Free-to-play casual games like Candy Crush. ($0.00)

On PC, all the Candy Crush and whatnot is relegated to Facebook, and your game is theoretically selling on Steam alongside games like:
* AAA titles like CoD:MW3. ($39.99)
* AA titles like Lego [INSERT_FRANCHISE_HERE]. ($19.99)
* Re-releases of classics like Myst. ($5.99)
yes, i speak from experience. but unfortunately, i'm not at liberty to say much in detail other than the lame "i currently work at the walt disney company and all my opinions are my own".

as to marketing, yes, you will need to do a little bit of emailing and twittering. if your game is great, you'll get some pretty easy traction from places like touch arcade, tigsource, and indie game mag. from there, with no ad spend, i've personally seen much better than moderate, aggregate success.

especially when you consider the users are essentially free as opposed to paying $2-$5 per install from ad channels.
Hey Tyler, I hate to do this to you (and to SnapWidget and others), but there's something cooking.

With the API and feature rich product updates that are coming up, I think we'll hit a cross road. I don't think I have to go into details, you'll figure it out with this sample widget + Editor:
http://blogvio.com/widgets/util/map-with-google-maps/composi...

I just want to let you know that we appreciate you opened up and shared your story. I checked your product and it's cool. Keep up the good work! Don't hate the messenger. :-)
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Your parent post is not talking about some schmuck moving abroad for a few years. He is talking about the type of person who buys up property with the sole intention of making money by renting it off to others.
That's immaterial, frankly. The fact is that there's a growing ocean of data out there, collected intentionally, unintentionally, and as a side-effect of other activities.

More and more the difference between "public" and "not public" in the future will be a matter of processing, not of existence. Imagine the maximal capability if computing were infinite and free.

Every piece of data that was vaguely public (and remember that things like purchasing history is not necessarily always private) could be cataloged and collated together. Imagine if every picture you've ever been in could be pulled up by anyone on a whim, and then fleshed out with metadata as appropriate. Everything from that selfie you posted to facebook when you were 12 to your car in the background of someone else's picture on the street just last week. We will lose a lot of privacy just through things like this. Strangers will be able to track our lives and our histories just through the careful application of computing power. As computers get more powerful that capability will merely increase. It'll be possible to guess fairly accurately whether you are single or in a relationship, how much money you make a year, and so on just by observing things like a handful of pictures and collection of various other metadata, much of which is already out there.

Think about that in the context of someone who suddenly becomes famous, for example, such as a movie star or a candidate for elected office. If all it takes is pressing a single button to collect an enormous amount of information on someone's history. Now imagine all that data in the hands of people as callous and malicious as political opposition groups or tabloid reporters.
> Some games like Dust have exploded in popularity through word of mouth. For the PC release, I'm sure Totalbiscuit sold thousands of units by himself.

That is marketing. Totalbiscuit probably couldn't have found it himself without the creator of Dust getting the word out to him (directly or indirectly).

I agree, it's probably easier and more beneficial on PC, but that doesn't really take away from my point.
Correct. To summarize, the stellar foundation basically runs the accounting ledger and has absolute control over what transaction are and are not processed.

Of course the standard Ripple/Stellar response is to say "but you can run your own node and get people to use yours instead!" Which is of course true, except that the consensus mechanism diverges when the network contains nodes with disjoint validator lists and there are hostile actors present.

So for the system to work at all, all nodes much share a common subset of validator nodes in their lists, which in practice ends up being the default set, which are given de facto control the transaction selection.

Which is to say, Ripple/Stellar is not significantly better than the PayPal model.
Awesome article. I remember running a bunch of D2 farm bots in high school, and waking up every morning to put them up on Ebay, ended up making a few hundred bucks - first time I've ever made any money.

Really appreciate the writeup; it was very well written and its cool to see the guy figure it out and scale out from his initial experimentation.
Robin Williams dies at 63 in apparent suicide
The NSA Tried This Before – The 90s Clipper Chip Debate
I didn't see it mentioned, so I have to bring up that a magnet mount will not cut it for action sports where you might 'crash'. I know multiple skiers who have lost their GoPro in the snow because mount plastic snapped on a decent fall. I can't imagine a magnet will do better.
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Do they usually pursue side projects that help them get better at their troubleshooting/automation skills or do they tend to keep them complementary to avoid burn-out?
I don't know about the first, but as for how easy it is to find decent paying jobs, quite easy. There's a whole list of local companies that hire in the regular ways ( meetups, referrals, resume cold calls ) and most multinational companies will phone interview & let you know if remote work is an option (it invariably is for most teams)
That's what I feared, it seems the answer is to have either highly curated stores (Steam, traditional gamestores) or sell directly from your own website (Minecraft).

I wonder if iOS had launched without being locked to a single store if things would be better?
Robin Williams Dies of Suspected Suicide
Encryption isn't necessary or even wanted in an emergency situation, which is when something like this comes into play. I've been a licensed amateur operator for 16 years, and during relays and training events we've always gone by the maxim that the most informative, clearest, and shortest message possible is the best in an emergency. Bringing amateur radio text messaging into the modern age is never going to be easy or 100% practical, but it can be done, and I think it would be great if it makes any headway.
I have a Contour; I bought it mainly because specs-wise it was much cheaper than gopro equivalents. There was also some driver issues with the latest gopro model at the time. In hindsight though I think I should have got a gopro. There are certain features that the Contour doesn't have that I would imagine should be easy to implement: mainly the ability to take a mixture of video and still images on the fly. I also think that the video quality is now lagging behind gopro's for equivalent models. Having said all that, I do think they are still a good, cheap, alternative.
Thats a terrible analogy. Ebay sellers are scamming. Hes taking advantages of mispriced items and arbitrage opportunities of others' ignorances. The real currency -> gold mistake is, granted, crushing for the seller making the mistake, but part of the game.
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Fluent interface (method chaining)
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Robin Williams Found Dead in Possible Suicide
Android is a much more modular OS than Windows, whose source I can audit, and whom I can make derivatives of like Cyanogenmod.

On the desktop, I can have interpreters and sandboxes. The modern web app is its own desktop app store sandbox. You could even argue the JVM and .net / Mono runtimes are their own sandboxes, if you want them to be.

Meanwhile, Linux distros have had the curated software distribution problem solved for years. You will never find fraudulent or unapproved software in the official Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch repos, yet you can install whatever you want.. if you want to.

And you could make an app platform on top of it, no problem. ChromeOS is freaking Gentoo. It was built with portage and now its app store is the Chrome app store.

But arguing software freedom has been a losing battle for years. Even when consumers can see the consequences - the evolution of fenced off playgrounds with no room to innovate - they just don't care.

I mean, hell, we still don't own our hardware. How many of us are running open source firmware? Even if our mainboards are free, our hard drives run proprietary microcode and our graphics cards run binary blob initialization code. Our cellular data radios are proprietary black boxes by design. The evolution of the app store is obvious in hind sight considering it all.
What sort of qubits are y'all using? I'm guessing "superconducting", because only those seem to be close to the [published] error thresholds right now.
How a Bitcoin address gets made
Not exactly. This isn't about creating a single protocol to replace the existing protocol, but instead recognizing that there are many existing protocols in use today, none of which seems likely to supplant all the others, and instead looking at ways to tie the systems together so I could send a message from my APRS radio to someone else using D-STAR. The bridges would happen behind the internet gateways to the systems so the RF side doesn't change, and no one needs to upgrade hardware.
If you get to know them better, will you feel less anxious?
This "retro" style is also an artifact of the average age of the amateur radio population in general, which skews 50+. I'm 37 and got into it young, and I'll be one of those "elmers" soon enough. Though I do sometimes cringe at the low-fi design of most ham sites, I take it as par for the course. They are often much more interested in getting their circuit and antenna designs (or ideas like the one in the linked article) out in the open, than making it pretty enough for the current college kids.
That's where the definition of "value" gets blurry. If in your analogy you use the hole I dug for raising plants, does that mean you created 20 dollars worth of value? It's uncertain, neither "yes" or "no". Maybe the plants bring unwanted insects to the yard. Maybe the plant has to be removed just 2 months later because you need to build a new room. Maybe you forget to feed the plant and it dies two weeks later.

The concept of value is completely related to what
you value and absolutely nothing else; if you value having a 60 level character you are willing to pay for that, if the game company does not offer that deal you are going to look another way to pay for it. Is like when someone give you apples in exchange for oranges, is not about creating value, is about exchanging. If you value more the oranges that's completely up to you. Therefore, charity (non-exchange) is a whole different subject.
How much would they have paid for 2500 machines that can do 230 Ghash/s each?
Funny that people think Twitter is hot stuff, when APRS was instant, group-wise messaging, wirelessly, for many year prior.
A few years back there were a fair number of quality RPGs coming out on Android. They typically cost money ($3-$5, sometimes a bit more), had decent gameplay and good graphics.

Eventually to keep up they went F2P and things went down the proverbial drain.

No one was willing to pay for good games, so good games are no longer available.

We are victims of the world we have created.