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Well I take it you have never maintained a 10k+ installation of Windows machines then? How do you imagine this is done? An army of sysadmins going from PC to PC and manually clicking through installation dialogues?
Is this really a thing? WTF?

I feel very ashamed, as someone who works in IT, everytime this happens. I mean, people can opt-out, of course - but, in order to do that, they need to know what an SSID is, and how to change it. What about people who don't? Will we just assume that they don't care or that their opinion doesn't matter?
One way to understand limits is compound interest. Start with a dollar, compound 100% in year to get $2. Halving the interest rate and compounding twice gives $2.25. The "limit" of this less-interest-more-often process, ad infinitum, is e (2.718...). This introduces both infinitesimal and infinite.
If I remember correctly, the cause of this accident was that one of the nozzles had been wired in reverse, causing it to move differently from what the rocket ordered it to.
Surfing  1000 frames per second
Well, perhaps you haven't kept up then. It's a while since W3C was considered either authoritative or relevant for the modern web.

HTML5 is most all WHATWG.
Been rejected , but been viewed by 6 people (alumni/or YC) and it is a victory for us for a first time.
In the end it is all about what resonate the most to them, YC has its agenda if you dont fit in it , doesnt mean you're bad or your idea is not smart enough. It means you don't fit . That's all. We will keep on working and apply in 6 months or just never apply again and make it work on our own. And I think the worst case would have been to be accepted by YC and fail once I got out of it ... which happens a lot !! :) Thanks for all YC
I made a Firefox OS port: https://github.com/clochix/FxStumbler
But it was my first Firefox OS app, the code is awful and it would need a complete rewrite.
Nevertheless, if you have a FxOS device, don't hesitate to try this port and give me some feedback.
Well even a new Graphics driver (by NVIDIA) installs and restarts in place, try to do that in Linux without manual intervention.
Those are PowerShell cmdlets - and follow PowerShell verb-noun naming convention. There is a finite set of "approved" verbs (though you can use your own) representing the "actions" you can perform against a resource (the noun part).

From within a PowerShell console I can "add" a lot of things. Try typing

gcm -verb add

from a PowerShell console (gcm is alias for Get-Command and the command above will list all commands where "Add" is the verb).
> The large majority are furthering their own ends.

You sound uncannily like the misinterpretation I held of D&D3.0's moral system. The Morality of Killing people to further your own ends Is highly dependent on what those ends are.

Plus I'm pretty sure if there is a majority among murderer, it is anger problems, not slytherin
This is why I could never figure out why anyone could possibly want to do anything with Twitter...

I keep hearing how it's great to keep up to date with whatever you're interested in - but I just can't see it.
But why need such a layer when the keyboard could easily handle it itself? Each USB keyboard would need its own special driver to be installed on the system? Or would you have instead a large list of USB IDs and associated layouts? With some separate mechanism to allow custom layouts, or something.

What's the problem with the keyboard knowing its own keys and just telling the symbol of the key that is pressed? Sure, it would still need some sort of escape sequence, or a way to mark whether a key's string is literal like Ù or symbolic like AltGr, but that doesn't sound too difficult.

It would also make it less difficult to add a new symbol like € to keyboards.
If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.

This is trivially incorrect. If the problem is the creation of a magnum opus, then the solution is creating a magnum opus.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with it. It's not necessary to fail at all to improve your process; that this is the approach that's often most effective has nothing to do with the approach itself, it's a reflection of our poor models of the problem space.

If we had a thorough understanding of the problems surrounding human-powered flight, we'd be able (or much closer to being able) to create theoretical solutions that could be effective.

I don't know if Mr. Macready actually stated that "the process" was the problem, but if he did, I disagree with him as well. That the process many people use is sub-optimal and you find a better one does not mean their process was the problem. It means it was one of their problems. Further, that it can be much faster to iterate on experimental results without a solid model of the problem does not mean iteration is somehow "the answer." It means it's one way of getting to a solution without an accurate fundamental understanding of the problem.
Do the names XHTML2, XForms, XLink, XEvents invoke an image of something like XAML to you?

We would have ended in some huge JAVA EE circa 2004 mess, with XML to spare and perhaps RDF and a couple ad-hoc languages thrown in for good measure.
We were looking to replace our ancient Exchange server with an Open-Source equivalent but nothing has a feature-parity. Nothing has the widespread support as Exchange: ability to fetch on all mobiles, widespread desktop protocol support (not just IMAP but you know, that Exchangey binary protocol), a web interface etc. etc. etc.

It just is a massive continued success, although from my migration from 2003 to 2010 and subsequent pain to 2010 SP2, I didn't find it successful or painless - I don't miss maintaining it.

I think a lot of folks on here look at the world through very narrow glasses where they write Python web-apps under Linux, or work in SOHO environments that rely on external email providers; they don't come across the all-pervasive Windows desktop culture. They never need to touch Active Directory, let alone understand what it is or why they'd need it, and never have to touch an Exchange server or roll-out applications across an array of desktop machines.

It is a pity because some end up making short-sighted narrow-FOV comments about Microsoft and Windows etc. that are unnecessary. Just because we don't use a system, we shouldn't assume that nobody else does.
Yep. Incidentally this is the exact same reason why I can't have conversations by shouting out the window of my car as I speed past people on the street.
"Have you wondered what honest video feedback aligned to your own movie watching taste looks like? Check us out at tinj.com"

Haven't looked at your site yet, but this is what I would relate to. Good luck!
I imagine not that many people would care if they turned into HTML5 Canvas games.

Nothing kills a laptop battery or spins the fans like BS flash browser games.
I wonder if it was because nobody used it? It must have been a large thing to maintain and test every release.
> And yet: There’s a smartphone in your pocket and you have five minutes to kill. What else are you going to do—play Flappy Bird?

No. I'm going to read a book or an article. Why do you assume everybody needs
to hang out on some sh*ty social media all the time?
How would redistribution cause inflation? In order to redistribute, you would need to collect the money to distribute through taxes, removing just as much money from the system as it injects, thus maintaining average purchasing power.

If the money would just be printed, it would of course cause inflation, but that's not redistribution, it's just distribution.
You're right that it is an anti-pattern of capitalism. However it is possible for an anti-pattern to be completely rational, while having horrible consequences, given the way the system is set up. The consequences might be more clearly unacceptable when you see it with Blackwater, but exactly the same perverse incentives are driving every company.
>whereas others will be completely underwater

Feels good to live 4 metres below sea level.
New browser games are rapidly moving away from flash to html5, unity, etc.
I'd say it depends. I'm a 30 year old Linux/Windows system engineer, spend too much spare time reading about distributed systems and programming matters, but really only use my phone(Nexus5) the same with the addition of pager duty and the odd boarding pass. The "basics" really. My mate is 7 years younger in the same industry and I don't believe he's snapgrams or instachats. Partner doesn't even want a smartphone because she's afraid she'll lose it. My father uses Facebook way more than I do.
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A reasonable part of them does. Sure, there's a huge group of people who treat flights as getting from A to B (I'm looking a business travelers here), but a decent portion of them says they'd use an app like this if they had more control over who gets to see them.
Open cmd window, left click on icon on left of cmd title bar, adjust window size in Defaults and Properties. This includes, height, width and buffer size.
I believe that small blogs and RSS/ATOM are a good answer here. I can't and don't want to follow high-volume streams, be it Twitter or "news" blogs. However, if you combine 20 interesting but low-volume blogs in your feed reader, you will always know when something interesting happened, without having to check all those sites by hand.

(Of course I also have high-volume sites in my feed reader, but that's more for "news" / skimming though, not for keeping in touch.)
"If one wants to go because of in-person networking opportunities, or physically touch some new gadgets (e.g. Microsoft Surface table, etc) that's understandable."

I'd go as far as saying that is what you should optimise conference attendance for.

I learn a lot from attending conferences. But it's mostly from the conversations I have with people, not from watching the sessions.

The opportunity to meet and spend time with really smart people is worth way more to me than sitting and watching talks.

When I first started going to conferences I used to spend a lot of time agonising over which session to go to at multi-track events.

These days I optimise my time for talking to smart folk I'd rarely get the opportunity to spend time with otherwise. Both speakers and attendees. I'd rather continue that hallway conversation and learn something new, than go along to the talk that I can often catch up on later.
> The Store Even Pollutes System Search

> rse yet, the Windows Store is now integrated with the system search feature. Search for an application using the Start screen search or search charm and these garbage apps from the Windows Store will appear. For example, whenever I use the system search feature to launch Firefox, I see a link to install “Firefox Training Lite” from the Windows Store.

This is insane.

But it's hardly VLC's fault. You could say Windows is distributing malwares.
Thanks I didn't look at AGPL, will do!
OneGet comes with Chocolatey as a repository pre-installed for now - not sure if it will when Windows 10 releases, but I'm sure the repository won't be hard to install.
OK, since your definition seems remove every aspect of "desktop system" that makes it a meaningful distinction, we'll just have to agree to disagree here. As for linux on PC desktop, competitive in what sense? I prefer a good Linux based OS over Windows any day, but in terms of market share, it's just a ridiculous thing to say.
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The case of Dribbble and Behance
To decide is this is a success or a failure one need to determine exactly where was the error. If this new knowledge contributes to the design of better systems then this is a success, if the actual error provides us with nothing to learn then this is a very big failure. So there is an amortized cost of success/failure in long term enterprises.
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Alternative Evernote app to check out
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You would think a person who sees more shades of colors paints less flashy.
Thanks, I didn't know that it didn't have GNU user space programs.
But what's Twitters advantage over good ol' RSS or ATOM for this use case?
Mods: What happened with yesterday's target for a new HN layout?
I think we should differentiate between desktop and other uses.

If it is just (any flavour/use) of Linux vs (any flavour/use) of Windows, then I think the vast majority of people use Linux more than Windows. Routers, TV-decoders (and most of the streaming servers they use for on-demand content), NAS for home use, phones, etc all use Linux.
There are conversations that work on twitter, and ones that don't. In general, twitter conversations are quick back-and-forth affairs. If you need more than 2 tweets to express your thought, you're either using the wrong medium or thinking too far. If that conversation model doesn't fit you, that's perfectly fine, but that's not the fault of twitter. It's just a bad match-up. In that case, it's perfectly fine to respond to a tweet with a link to a medium that does support your model better.

If you do get roped into a conversation where you need more tweets to explain, here's a few simple guidelines:

- Don't split sentences over tweets. People will only read one part.

- If you really must, use "(cont.)" on both tweets (end of the first and start of the second), so it's obvious there was another part. I know that reduces your character limit, but it's worth it to be less ambiguous

- Make each continued tweet a reply to its predecessor. You can reply to your own tweets. It facilitates following the conversation on most clients.

- If it's more than 2 tweets, consider using twitlonger. In general, that should be a last resort, though.

Without trying to make it sound high-handed, there's something of an art to smooth twitter conversations. Terseness is the key. I find them rewarding because, when done right, they have an enormous density of information in a short time.
Like any high volume channels, you have to ruthlessly curate your Twitter feed. Be picky about who you follow and block the trolls. Twitter is a pretty useful source of information after that. I usually see hints of upcoming vulnerabilities before the details get publicly released. That's pretty useful.
Because the markets are too small. Windows is what, 90%+ market share? Why spend n2 or n3 times the effort (as a malware writer) when the absolute highest upshot is a single-digit percentage ?
It's much simpler to publish on Twitter than via RSS.
If you haven't sold a previous company before, you need to have strong traction (at least 5,000 users or $5,000 revenue within the last 6 months), otherwise you don't have a chance really.

Also, you need to have a full-time commitment, otherwise they won't give you $120,000 if that makes sense.
Singers now have a new road to stardom
Are there any similar applications like meteor?
https://whathaveidone.today

Automated time tracking for Google Drive. (rejected)
What about "historical" reactions to Hitler before ww2 ?
> much to the lament of Linux users

What? Everyone will be happy to have one, especially people that use Linux at least some of the time.
Planetary Resources vows to press ahead after rocket explosion
It depends a lot on how you use it. For me, it's a firehose of information (I follow around 2000 accounts). You drink from it when you feel like. If the fire hose is big enough, there's always something interesting to read. It could be the latest news, and it often is, or it could be someone just tweeting something they learned or how they think about things. Twitter enables that with the 140 character limit per tweet, it means the information is very condensed and you can ingest an enormous amount in a short time.
I'd love to see that video.
From the perspective of someone deeply rooted in UI development for the desktop, seeing stuff like this makes me glad I am deeply rooted in UI development for the desktop. If I had to build a Cocoa app with this messy, complicated shit ... I'd blow my brains out. All over my desk. Maybe I'd leave a note, but I think people who knew what I did for a living would get it and not need me to leave one.

It also makes me wonder, how we've all decided that HTML is the way to go for this class of application, how hacking a document display format to ape a native UI is a good idea.

I have to think that at some point people think that there has to be a better way to deliver a network transparent, portable UI without worrying about strange things like a Shadow DOM, the hack that is CSS, and all of the other weird shit web developers have to put up with to create something that mimics (usually poorly) a desktop app.

Like is there a breaking point where people are like "fuck it" and come up with an alternative browser that is specific to this and similar kinds of applications? I guess not because the gray line between what HTML is good at and what people need to HTML to do despite itself is a pretty big fat line.
The new archive.org is over 8MB of HTML, quite impressive.

Snark aside, i'd like to read a post about what they changed and why. For example i see they almost entirely removed the previously prominent links to the forums. Why is that?
Which version do you have of VS that installs without requiring a restart? Because I have vs2013 ultimate and each time I install it in a new machine I have to restart it (maybe two times if I have also to activate hyper-v)
I think it has to be Node.js all the way down.
Groupthink – The brainstorming myth (2012)
That's a slight miscalculation the article makes -- ignores that by reducing spending in the consumer level, also corporate (e.g industrial) spending is reduced. But that's not the real gist of the article, and it doesn't reduce from the core message.

The thing is, this "invididual reducing" is never enough or workable in itself. That isolated individual decisions by themselves can lead to sustainable change is the real myth (and the lack of real impact of all this "shorter showers" and "recycling" campaigns reflect that).

Invididual action only matters for large scale effects when it gets systematic and organised and ends up as some general guideline (from a new law to a regime change). However we like heroes, for example, Rosa Parks didn't end seggregation. Millions of black and white civil rights activists, demonstrators, lobbyists, etc, did.
When I want to write something over multiple tweets, I use a simple syntax to make it clear that each individual tweet is meant to be read in context with the others: I simply suffix all tweets except the last one with ">" and prefix all tweets except the first one with "<".

Additionally, I make sure each tweet is a reply to its predecessor. Here's an example: https://twitter.com/epaga/status/510316379833393152
I think the context has important role in technological issues and it needs to be explained.
Twitter is very useful when you need some quick answer, with no premises.
While a tweet with a post link is enough, one tweet is just buzz
The problem with a decentralized evolutionary economy is that it is blind to long range problems.

The solution is not to abandon the status quo. We are not smart enough to centrally plan even a small portion of it at the moment.

But rather educate the populace through solid, irrefutable facts over a period of time, until it becomes common knowledge that a particular action causes a disastrous effect.

Analogous to how smoking has receded from popular use.
It does say on the top right that this is a beta site, so it's probably a weeee bit early to be making comments about "the new direction" and all that.
TWTR is no good for conversations because there is no way to explain something new or controversial in 140 chars. Yes, this fits in a tweet
I think http://derbyjs.com can be seen as a competing framework.
> I am not sure why even in 2014 we have to pit Linux against Windows. We have surely grown out of that sort of debate.

I think it's unfair to frame any linux/windows debate as fundamentally childish. There are big differences between them, both philosophical and practical, in ways that have real impacts on the users.
The NOGAPPS project lists Mozilla Location Service support as an upcoming feature (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1715375).
Verizon-bankrolled “news” site bans stories on US spying and net neutrality
You do need a co-founder though to build a startup. The value of having 1 person to bounce ideas off is incredible versus just yourself. The value of the second co-founder for bouncing ideas off is 50% less than for the first one, that's why one co-founder is optimal.
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Wow, this is due to them including more than 50 or so base64 encoded inline images.

They should really change this. The page took more than 8s to load (with cached images).
That sounds like a problem of pushing too much processing to the client side.
I think part of the problem is that Twitter is optimised for machine processing, more than it is for human conversation.
shuttle used hydrolox, antares uses kerolox, hardly comparable.

hydrolox engines have vastly superior Isp but come with their own set of limitations.
If you can read between the lines then you will know that the author of "inconvenient truth" mr al gore tells you to cut down on co2 emissions when he flies his private jet between McMansions that he owns from your taxes and owns a business trading co2 quotas internationally. But you prone to his propaganda peddle your little funny bike. The Chinese put online 20 new coal burning plants a week while we are shutting down ours. The chinese, ISIs, Russia, etc don't even need to do anything kick our asses. They just need to sit and patiently wait as the cancer of socialism and cultural Marxism do all the hard work for them. At the end they will just need to knock on the door of our country and the whole thing will collapse under the weight of its own stupidity.
It's not only a cost issue - those old engines have performance characteristics that (in some areas) outperform anything that they could buy today off-shelf (as much as "off-shelf" exists for rocket engines), and developing a completely new model would likely be even less reliable than the current situation.
Author here. I was being ironic :)

I'm an equal-opportunities OS user. I have two Linux boxes (Slackware!), two Windows boxes, and an OS X laptop within arm's reach of my desk. I was just poking fun at the Year of Desktop Linux thing -- it's a bit of a meme/running joke in tech blogger circles.
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> Google, is of course happy to take your ad dollars and let you alienate your potential customers all day long, which is a broken model in and of itself.

There's an option[1] when you're setting up a video ad to stop an ad from showing to a person more than x times per {day,week,month}. If the advertiser doesn't bother using such functionality it's their fault, not Google's

[1] http://i.imgur.com/ckIZZFI.png