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By design, Nadella is getting credit by design for 'overnight changes' many years in the making. Windows 10 reflects the strategic decisions embodied in Vista. Ballmer owned enough stock that along with Gates' backing Microsoft could produce a largely incompatible new version of the Windows OS and Wall Street could like it or lump it. Gates and Ballmer have been divesting Microsoft shares and the new company is beholden to the "What did you do this quarter?" analyst's mindset. Before he left, Ballmer set the course and ensured there was a tick tock product development cycle.

Ballmer wasn't an idiot. It's not as if he didn't see the changing landscape. He left the company in a position to shape the future.
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Of course there is. What there isn’t, as far as I can see, is a working solution.
> Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company

From Wikipedia:

Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 percent to $23 billion

May all companies suffer equally incompetent CEOs.
Honestly, I find that XCode is exceedingly painful, almost laughable to work with relative to Visual Studio.
It would be cool if you gave the actual code snippets where the routine happens rather than just a summary. Not that I don't appreciate the explanation--I'd just like to see how it's actually done, if only because Carmack's code is always interesting to read.
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You should develop towards standards rather than a particular platform.
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Word mail merges are actually a fully featured templating system. On top of the whole thing being scriptable. But I think this is less "discoverable" than Excel.
Box paid 7 figures for the Box.com domain name, so I wouldn't say that raising money to buy domains is dead yet.
I expect that USB type C support on monitors will become ubiquitous in the next couple of years.
Sounds like he overpaid for the franchises themselves. That's just called a bad investment.

I'd generally expect a restaurant to do twice as much in sales (or more) in a year compared to the initial cost, and be able to recuperate the initial investment in 5-10 years (one of the more recent restaurateurs I worked for paid back his investors in 3 years, and has a second location 5 years in).

But even using his sub-par numbers, $750K a year since the 80's means he's already recuperated his costs and made some serious profits since. What more does he expect? He could close them all tomorrow and be ahead. If anything, this anecdote does show just how greedy some people are.
> They also are both designed to glue together independent programs via the pipe abstraction

PowerShell and its object pipeline are focused on cmdlets which are not arbitrary programs, they are .NET classes, and PowerShell objects are .NET objects.

Unix shells like sh and bash are focused on tying together separate programs and only have a very minimal set of built-in commands.

The focus of each one is very different, despite PowerShell's syntax.

Piping objects between cmdlets in PowerShell is analogous to working with objects in Python, Ruby, Perl, etc, not like Unix pipes.
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It's pretty simple, Visual Studio Code, the .NET Core runtime for Os X/Linux, ASP.NET 5 and TypeSript are only useful to do Web dev. With Azure they provide the best cloud to run those web app. So they don't lose any VS customer that do software dev, not lose much web dev VS customer on windows because the full VS will always be better and they provide tools for every web developer on other platforms in their area of expertise : development with code completion tools. It's a pretty smart strategy I think.
why? .cmd and .bat can run any time, and can do just as much damage as powershell.
If anyone needs it (since Microsoft didn't supply it) I made an installer for Visual Studio Code Linux.

The installer grabs the archive, puts things where they go, and makes sure you have the nice shiny icon that it ships with.

http://www.thepowerbase.com/2015/04/install-visual-studio-co...
You could say this about every single startup, and you'd be right 99.9% of the time. The other 0.1% you'd find a way to make yourself right.

It's a really, really silly thing to say.
>If I understand correctly, you are asking the browser to provide a workaround for a website that isn't optimised for mobile, and asking that browser to maintain that workaround forever?

Yeah, why not? Programs exists to help their users. I could not care less if the website developers are sloppy or whatever, if the browser can give me legible text, it should do it.
Lots of good advice here. I myself don't have any advice, but I'd like to pass one that I got from a ridiculously smart engineer few years ago. He told me to "learn something of everything and everything of something" - what he meant was, have a broad knowledge of many many topics (breadth) plus deep knowledge of a few topics (depth)
Fitness angle, prepared meals that help you maintain or lose weight. Tabloid huckster Perez Hilton dropped all his weight from using those Los Angeles low carb gourmet meal delivery services.

Here in my city restaurants seem to be all about specialty cured and smoked in-house meat there's an explosion of hipster hand-made Ramen noodle houses with said specialty meats that have lineups down the block everyday for lunch.
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Restaurants aren't high-profit businesses by and large. As Peter Thiel observed, in order to make significant profit margins, you need something monopoly-like. In perfect competition, profit is impossible, and near-perfect competition like restaurants drives profits very low.

Cachet restaurants offering singular experiences can get that monopoly of uniqueness to a certain extent, but it's very difficult and requires operating at an extremely high level of art.

So basically, if you want to compete on price, welcome to racing to the bottom, and competing directly with the likes of Dominos and McDonalds. At tiny margins, economies of scale become extremely important.

In the case of this story, by bringing a world-class chef like David Chang in (see the first season of Mind of a Chef to grok his greatness), they're going for an upscale market - people who really care about eating. Those people will always be outnumbered 100:1 by people eating wretched disgusting crap at Subway. That's where the quasi-monopoly comes in - not just delivering food, but delivering the kind of food a mind like David Chang can create, at lunchtime prices and convenience.

So Maple isn't competing with Domino's. They're competing with fine-dining lunches.
Not to mention location costs are MUCH better when you don't need popular frontage.
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Our last (and according to Yellen, et. al., our final)[1] QE was in October 2014. Is there a reason why you continue to talk about QE in the United States in the present tense?

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/102009066
Seems like Google is trying to apply web development methodology to software...
No problem, this was my first impression. Those are valuable, so I love to make lists out of them.

I added the search bar, but I can't figure out how to make it bigger. It shows correctly in "edit" mode but shrinks to something very small on the actual browser.

As for the pin tab feature, sure, they get smaller (like they would in Chrome) but I usually pin a media player and my email client to the left, in icon format. I let my 10 other tabs at full width. This allows me to ignore the media player altogether unless I need to change the current playlist.

In poly, I wish I could hide those tabs and only have them display when needed. A minimize tab feature, perhaps.
How is BMW's business model different from Hyundai's?

Upscale experience matters.
I agree that there isn't necessarily anything unethical about this. The investors knew what they were doing.

However, founders who would pocket $6M from a not-even-close-to-profitable company are probably not good founders, or they don't believe in the company. Either way, their behavior doesn't inspire confidence.
I am under the impression that it's possible to compile Wrk for Windows [1], although I have not personally done so.

Incidentally, I've not read the linked article, but skimmed the first few paragraphs. The numbers of requests per second that he was able to generate with various tools seem remarkably low. ApacheBench is the least performant load generator since it's only single-threaded, but it can generate tens of thousands (about 25,000) requests per second on a i7 desktop machine. Wrk can generate significantly more since it uses all CPU cores of the load-generation machine.

[1] https://github.com/wg/wrk/issues/49
WPF is, by far, the most pleasant and flexible thick client, windowing system out there. XAML is a bit verbose, but the binding capabilities combined with an open source MVVM framework like Caliburn allow you to build extremely flexible UIs.

WPF also abstracts control behavior away from presentation and allows you to easily and quickly extend the base set of controls to do whatever you want to.

After building multiple thick client applications using VB6, MFC, Swign, Winforms and WPF, WPF exceeds all of these, by far, in flexibility and maintainability.
1) I would suggest you be more specific. "Tech stocks" is vague. Do you mean tech consumer goods, industrial tech, tech materials?

2) It seems to me that your ability to take risk plus your confidence in your foresight is nearly equal to your perceived costs of doing the speculation you've set out to do. That tells me that your profit margin is too slim, that you are looking to compete where there are lots of eyes, lots of other people thinking the same thing. I encourage you to find an speculative investment that you believe in more (or with less eyes on it) before you pull the trigger and slap down some cashola.
Good, and good riddance. Anyone who invested in Secret is a fucking moron. You can't monetize anonymous messaging, and no established company would buy technology they could build in an afternoon hackathon for the cost of a couple cases of Red Bull. If you need proof, 4chan's run at a loss for over a decade. Any investor in a VC fund that invested in Secret should sue their fund for mismanagement of money.
Another tool I have been using on my personal project is wrk [1]. It's pretty simple to use and can generate thousands of connections with multiple threads.

[1]: https://github.com/wg/wrk
I have no association to hackcampus. But if they're fairly new, that kind of feature (to save you probably less than a minute, and not applicable to a many of their applicants) might well be on the list, but shouldn't be top-priority.
Because it's got a nice, clean UI with interesting ideas?

It's not a bad platform, save for the lack of apps.
The Economist published an interesting report about that some months ago. The main takeaways were that (1) Argentine was rich, but lagged behind its money-peers in human development indexes such as literacy rates and (2) The elite from Argentina benefited from high food prices, so the rest of the country resented them, a brewing pot for populism.

But your point stands, monetary (or fiscal) policy was awful.
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Reflow on pages with indented text, as HN, is a borderline mess. More often then not the text is reflowed but the indent preserved, thus requiring horizontal scrolling to bring the full text into view...
People keep talking about "you don't want to add meters to feet", but that's exactly the opposite of what you want to do. You want to add inches to yards or furlongs or flea wings, and you want to get it right.

What you don't want to do is add length to weight. The true type of your value is not inches, it's length, and expressing it in inches is a formatting issue.
> Seriously? If you were a Mexican national, why wouldn't you come to the US?

No, I'm more surprised that the US is so bad at dealing with illegal immigration. Do they tacitly accept it?
Perfect! Now I can call Spartan users edgy.

The tab preview is a small thing - and Tab Groups in Firefox accomplishes the same thing (but for every tab at once).

I wonder how difficult porting Chrome extensions will be...
Isn't that kind of use case what DCCP was designed for ?
Well, one is sponsored by and used in production by Google, and the other is maintained by the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation.
This shutdown - and some of the comments here that indicate how nasty Secret had become before it died - is quite interesting in light of the conversation surrounding Google's Real Names Only policy.

Secret cofounders David Byttow and Chris Bader-Wechseler were both veterans of Google+. Byttow, in particular, I recall being quite well-respected as someone who got shit done, quietly and efficiently, by the rest of the G+ team. I didn't know him personally, but I had a few professional dealings with him where I found him to be a straight-shooter that was remarkably effective and helpful. When I heard of the product concept for Secret, my first thought was "Woah, somebody's finally decided to take the other side of the stupid Real Names policy and build a social network that's completely anonymous."

Apparently that doesn't work either, and when you do that, people hate you just as much.

My take-away from this is that social software is remarkably hard, and that whatever you do, people will hate you. The social sites that survive - like Reddit, Flickr, and Facebook - are those that very carefully balance everyone's competing desires, making just enough changes to keep everyone slightly disgruntled but not enough to leave the site. The ones that die - like Secret, G+, LiveJournal - are the ones that either do nothing to moderate or that introduce heavy-handed blanket policies. (4chan, as always, remains inexplicable; somehow it is still going strong despite being a cesspool. Maybe that's the whole point of it, though, to be the Internet's honey pot of bad behavior.)
Standards are nice and dandy, real-world-implementations all suffer from bugs, missing features or implement undefined behavior slightly different. So if you want to support an implementation, you need to test it. If there multiple versions of an implementation you want to support, you need to test them all. Any other approach is "it works on X, it might work on Y, but we're not actively supporting Y."
From a practical standpoint, don't you still need to test it against popular platforms though? (If you develop to the standard and a popular browser doesn't support the standards correctly as far as your users are concerned, it is your problem.)
runas is more of a su analogy than a sudo one.
I use Opera Mobile on Android since it is available. The only reason for me is that the zooming and reflow works like I want it to.
Is there any reason not to use .NET now that it has been open-sourced?

What's wrong with C# and F#?
Font size should be in pt, really. Then it will never get "small".
Your comment is spot on. People don't look under the covers to realize this kind of change simply cannot happen over night or "because there is a new captain."

More specifically, your "By design" start is common in these kinds of managed transitions: you want the new leader to come in with tail wind.
This sounds a lot like the spirit of Skype in its early days.

I could be wrong but now that the latter has been integrated into Microsoft's tools, I think there's an open gap for what Skype used to provide: a friendly P2P chat tool.
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The Buquebus and Sea-Cat ferries (and the cuevas, etc.) are the incumbent. As I understand Christensen’s idea, a disruption is new, worse than the incumbent (for the incumbent's customers), cheaper, and adequate for some new customers. Without opining on whether Christensen’s ideas are accurate or valuable in any kind of predictive or analytic sense, I will say that Bitcoin in Argentina certainly seems like a textbook case.
Anyone have a non-paywalled source? NYTimes won't let me read the article unless I'm a subscriber, apparently.
I was curious so I went and looked it up in the App Store Review Guidelines

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Iirc, it is not strictly the render engine that is the issue but the JS engine. But quite often those are most often lumped under "render engine" by tech sites.
I think throwing around "David Chang" is going to make a huge difference. He is currently one of the most popular American chefs.

It's almost like Apple having Ives. Of course, we are ignoring all of Apple's other advantages too.
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I like coffee but whenever I drink it I get all shaky and start having anxiety attacks. Also, diarrhea.

Green tea seems to have just the right amount of caffeine to not make my body upset.
I think it's normal for startups to try to get things for free, be it software or work hours, and that's OK up to a point, but once a company reaches a plateau of business activity and operational maturity then it becomes a sign of poor management that they can't balance workload and workforce.

Out of curiosity, are you German? My experience with German companies was centred in the financial services sector out of Frankfurt and some tech companies out of Munich and overtime was never even suggested so I'm thinking there might also be some differences between the regions.
4chan isn't a cesspool though, that's just an image they project to push away people who would respond to such pushing (approximately, the olds).

(There are certainly parts of it that are risky clicks though)
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That's because they're killing both birds with one stone, metaphorically speaking.
Very nice summary on ARM but I don't really understand the pitch for node in this context, unless "small" is the overriding design criterion.
I just opened secret for the first time in months(years?), and the first post was a very explicit dick pic... Seems like an appropriate send off.
You can take Java out of the enterprise, but you can't take the Enterprise out of Java.

What's sad is a bunch of us saw this coming the moment a J2EE spec first came out, and complained loudly that it was a trap, to no avail. Version 1 was written by grad students who had no idea what the 7 Fallacies were.

Version 2 was so complicated only a few big companies could implement it. It was a sad trainwreck that was hard to watch. And then Spring was supposed to save us all, and now it's more complicated than any of the things it replaced.

Which is why I do a lot of front-end code these days.
From your perspective that is true, of course, but it is a greedy perspective that optimizes locally at a cost to the entire ecosystem.
Interesting. By getting rid of front of house, that eliminates on average 80% of the square footage needed to be a full service restaurant, and they can vie for non-premium properties, so rent will be much cheaper. That said, all else is pretty much the same as any other restaurant business. Delivery drivers replace front of house workers on almost a one for one basis. Kitchen buildout is the same cost. And customers will be customers until they have their first bad experience.

They're playing a volume game. And without alcohol sales, they'll need a lot of volume. So then the question is this: Does "fancy food" from a high end chef like David Chang have a wide enough appeal to solicit the type of volume needed for this to be successful? I suspect it does in pockets of NYC. From a higher vantage point, I'm less optimistic.

Restaurants are about more than food though. Their job is to set a stage with design, lighting, music, background noises, service, plating, and conversation amongst other human beings. That's why people pay $1000 for a bottle of wine, $45 for a New York Strip, or $4.50 for a cup of coffee. If we didn't care about these other things, we would all be getting delivery, making our own food, or eating out of vending machines and paying 75% less to do so.
That doesn't make sense.

If you have such a modern infrastructure combined with a healthy market competition like you say, it's incredibly confusing on why your contracts are so expensive then.

Or why do you need projects like Google Fi, which is twice as expensive as similar data plans from Europe.

"We had 97% 4G LTE coverage across 320 million people before Europe got to even half coverage."

That's because you only needed 2 companies to offer 4G and boom, 97% of the population suddenly have 4G. It's called a monopoly.

Europe on the other hand has many, many companies fighting over dozens of countries, buying the rights to be the first 4G network, legally stopping other competitors to join until later on.
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New versions often come via windows update (which you _could_ consider easier than manually installing it -> apt).

Plus, this is a thread about the core clr and as I said: That won't be required/necessary in a system wide installation anymore. So you now install RandomApp and .Net is just part of it - just like you can apt-get install random-app.

We're comparing now the package management, not the ease of installation of .Net. There is no installation of .Net anymore (or - see above: It sooner or later lands via windows update).

I'm a Linux guy, but that's [1] just a weird case to make here, both in general and specifically in this context.

1: Easier .Net installation on Linux than on Windows
Can we speculate as to the timing of this with the DoD marriage with VC firms and investment groups in Silicon Valley, or is that too conspiratorial?
Depends entirely upon your religion. Not going to reach a consensus here.
Any misrepresentation of Chrome (product) vs Chromium (project) is uninteresting and unrelated to the main issue highlighted in TFA.

The main issue is: "(mobile) Chrome, and the promise of a stable official browser in Android is fucked because everybody ships 4 and 10 versions behind custom versions of Chromium, so its Android share and the hope of a single modern browser for Android users is slipping".

>In other news, GCC continues to fall apart at a brisk pace, with literally every distro shipping slightly different versions.

That's indeed one of the problems with GCC, btw.
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You don't need to start off with an agonizingly slow language like Python in order to quickly and flexibly build your software.
I subscribed for a while but it didn't succeed at being relevant for the kind of programming I do.
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What? Python isn't the kind of thing you would use as an everyday interactive system shell; it's a scripting language that can incidentally be used interactively but isn't well-suited for that, especially without extras like ipython. And quite aside from that, every unix-like desktop OS comes with Python pre-installed; Windows doesn't.
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Yep - https://trello.com/b/vRPTMfdz/net-framework-integration-into...
Do any platforms implement the standards completely and consistently however?
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