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I cant say it's for everyone, and time will tell if it helps or hurts my path. Personally I wanted to make a bigger impact within my company & future companies for the solutions I was delivering. My CS courses didn't give me any information on how marketing, accounting, finance, HR or operations worked and WHY they mattered. I felt beholden to these departments to deliver the problem, i then negotiated the solution. But because i didn't know what their end goal was or how to talk in their terms, I couldn't easily reshape their problem to ask better questions. Improved understanding of these groups & their motivations let me better deliver solutions to their problems. I believe you should: 'Know your user inside and out' if you can. Sure it's not impossible to learn all these areas on your own, but I quickly got the lingo I needed to make sense in meetings with any group of the organization, and a degree that will follow me around to boot.

ymmv
I don't think it would be shocking to see it open sourced. Microsoft has been making a lot of changes on this front: http://microsoft.github.io/.
Their comment wasn't based on using it but simply based on "Visual Studio on something other than Windows" more than likely.

Registration walls are only a bad idea when you care that a product reaches as far as possible. Given "Visual Studio on OSX/Linux" is going to drive humongous amounts of interest the extra metadata they get from the registration wall is worth annoying a few people.

On a side note several people have said that it is likely not available yet.
A flight plan and a procedure are very different things. Every commercial flight in America has a hard copy of their flight plan in the cockpit.
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cool then. Let the wait begin.
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Hi guys, I'm the co-founder of TrafficGun - a platform to make cross-promotions b/w bloggers easier.

Happy to answer any questions.
Is it webtech based(built with html/css/js) or hardtech based(C++,QT whatever...) since they are talking about Monaco,it looks webtech based. nice.
For a front end web dev that makes sense. If you have been working on e.g. internal tools or some other proprietary stuff for a long time, how are you supposed to prove their existence?
Or that their cities can't really cope with the amount of people they currently have.
Hacker News uses asterisks for italics. Consider replacing some of them with 'x'es.
You do if those scripts can affect the system and need to run as root. Powershell is incredibly powerful (and dangerous) and some security isn't the worst thing.
I don't like your homepage design or the comic font, it isn't a good image for business applications.

I think you should reconsider the images and the font as it doesn't make your application look professional whatsoever. It isn't advisable when you are trying to advertise that your task management application makes people's lives more organised...
As countless others have stated it's not live yet but will be "later today". The login only allows Microsoft employees to access it.
> Node’s development model encourages developers to think multi-process from the beginning because we know that without the crutch of threads, the only way we can scale our applications is to multiply the number of processes

>This means that Node applications scale as easily across clusters of servers as they do within a single server.

Yeah, the loss of efficiency that occurs by starting up an entirely separate V8 VM on the same machine is equal to starting one on two separate machines... But how is that a plus? Especially if you want to start more than one thread on a machine.

Also, that part had nothing to do with Node. Perhaps Node may be optimized for ARM, but that really isn't informative in how it performs compared against (say) Java on the same platform. Java's optimized for ARM, too...
Seems about right, you have to tally up the entire economic cost. Salary costs of everyone handling this issue, the cost of them not performing other tasks due to handling this issue, it is not just weeding through emails.

I've been in an 2 hour long meeting with 8 people who are effectively paid $400hr to talk about how to handle a $58 fee.
Satya Nadella is taking the right decisions for Microsoft. I don't think Steve Ballmer would've done this.
I think the key question is whether they will reach that level of users...I guess not. To reach 10 million + users which is the only way I see to make this worthwhile would take a massive amount of effort in a crowded marketplace like this, it isn't likely at all.

So with that being said, going freemium is probably the death-knell for the product.
So the statement is to stop cut through traffic in stead of fixing the broken LA system.

How about we offer acceptable public transportation alternatives such as a proper metro and more frequent busses?
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For California, that above average outlier appears to be counties Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernadino and Inyo. Wonder what that's all about?
https://github.com/dump247/docker-ec2-metadata and https://github.com/AdRoll/hologram exist as examples of this, just FYI.
I only program as a hobby. Cloud9IDE and other cloud services have let me build a site / service that is ranked in the top 9k globally (per Alexa) without having to fuss about this sort of thing.

There are many things I could do given the time and interest. Learning everything needed to get where I am has taken lots of time that I feel is better spent providing direct value to the product and its users vs. wondering what the 'optimal' dev environment might look like.
> on every machine...

Or through one group policy pushed to every machine.
Until they put up signs forbidding rush hour traffic for non-residents of the street. At least, that's what they do around here (DC area).
The arguments against jvm vs node I'm not buying. You don't automatically get scalability for free with node any more than any other platform. If anything the JVM has been further optimized, particularly for servers, for years over v8. You also don't see ram helping node not because node is so much more efficient -- it's because the design of the v8 limits how much ram it can use.

I'm not sure even why it serves to try and make this comparison if you're talking about node running well on modern arm processors.

There are a number of arm hosts out there now, but none seem to have caught on big. Perhaps in a generation of processor or two someone like aws will start to offer it and there might be a plausible shift.
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Can access without school or work account, I don't know how to get this.
I think so, and here is why it makes sense. Maintaining a steady employment is a pretty strong indicator of not having debilitating health problems and of having enough income to avoid poverty-driven health problems. The employee pool of a major corporation is probably a healthier pool than the one exchanges serve.
> While the JVM is right at the heart of the monolithic software stack and the tooling that surrounds it, Node, or server-side JavaScript, is arguably at the heart of the new SOA stack.

I love developing with node.js, but this doesn't sound right at all.
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Why not just put up "No Through Traffic" or "Local Traffic Only" signs as many other cities do?
Can you provide a counterexample?
Electron is formerly known as Atom Shell, which powers GitHub's Atom editor.

http://electron.atom.io
Stackoverflow: do you really still believe in private offices?
If you're about to be fired, I advocated saying NEXT and moving on to something better. We work with about 25 tech startups here in NYC, and currently have a handful of Data Sci Roles that could be more than happy to chat. Feel free to shoot me a note: taylor@singlesprout.com. Happy to help!
No emacs ? :(
Ask HN: Coffee or Tea?
...there can be only one
It's a disaster. The proper way to do it is distro packages, but for some reason every language, framework, ecosystem and individual developer wants to reinvent this particular wheel. I really don't understand why.
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I know HN hates memes but...if ever a thread needed an itshappening.gif, this is it.
> Unifying multiple distinct package managers is a fool's errand

I disagree. Why do you think that is the case?
> they are generally used to extract more revenue from the existing model instead of supplant existing incomes

Blendle is doing the latter and I would only argue for micro-payments in this context.

> If your domicile had the ability to charge every time you go to the restroom, I guarantee they would just raise the rates

Going to the bathroom is something you need to do, not something you choose to do, and the friction of finding another bathroom every time you want to is quite high. Reading articles is by no means a need and free alternatives are a button tap away. You're comparing one of the most demand inelastic services with an incredibly elastic one. They will never be able to extract unfair prices because readers will simply stop reading.

So I agree that micro-payments have their place, and that place is the digital world where we consume many small things that we could do without if we thought that they were too expensive. The world that most of HN lives and breathes. But to write off micro-payments entirely is short-sighted.

As for your original question, the reason a lot of people think that micro-payments are something that people want is probably because of Jaron Lanier's book, Who Owns the Future. It's a good read.
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Wow. I seriously don't know what to think anymore. What is their end game? Which platform are they hoping to become / remain dominant in?

Don't get me wrong---I'm as happy as the next guy about this. VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE, if they take 25% of their VS engineering mantra to this it will be better than almost anything else.

But where does it end? I am clearly so not in touch with my inner mba. I just cannot even think of how what they are planning in the long run, here.

What's going on? Have they lost their minds? Is there a secret master plan? How realistic could that be? Is this the red giant to their eventual white dwarf?

Just... what?!
I consider this outdated due to the age of Social Media where people can be easily searched up and identified to see what they look like.

The reasons for not attaching a photo are largely out of date.
I'm trying to understand it, kind of. I don't have the time to really learn it, though - too much else on my plate.
Thanks for the feedback I appreciate. While it is beta we are not charging and what you're using now will remain free but we will be looking at expansion, for more information you can take a look here.

https://quire.io/pricing
Take away the tax incentives and let the market readjust. Imagine if employers provided our food directly and all the issues that would result from that. And then imagine what would happen if someone suggested ending that - we'd hear about how employers can buy food at a bulk discount, tax breaks, everyone's going to starve, etc.

Getting employers out of the health insurance game also conveniently dispenses with controversies like the HHS contraception mandate/Hobby Lobby etc.
I wonder which technology they are using to archive multi platform ? Are they going native Qt, Gtk and Cocoa or they use Mono and Window.Forms ?
YouTube banned on HN?
When I try to submit a YouTube video, I get a STOP SPAMMING message. Is YouTube banned?

The video I wanted to submit is of a selfmade drone with 2000kv (not mine).
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I do agree that serious applications moving towards a more cartoonish feel is not a good design trend.

However, in this case I can't agree as I don't think anything you pointed out is over-done. The font comes close, but it isn't used for every single word, just for emphasis on certain words.
I'll be the first to say here that if this effect is actually supported by data, and not just anecdotes, then the councilman has a good point. It's rude and dangerous to cut through residential neighborhoods to save one or two minutes off of your car trip, and mapping apps shouldn't be so quick to direct you to do so.

Pedestrians and cyclists have already lost access to major roads (see invention of jaywalking, etc), but it was OK since we could still take walks in our neighborhood. If every road is open to its full traffic capacity, the only safe place to be is in a car.
Microsoft in particular has a history of using "shared source" licenses that are not free.
I wish someone would stop some of them and ask them:

"What do you think will happen if you actually GET $15/hr?"

"Do you expect your employer to keep his same prices and same amount of work force and just eat the labor cost?"

"What happens if you make $9 now, make $15 tomorrow, but tomorrow the prices of everything you buy suddenly doubled?"
Litmus sends out email that breaks
The attached link was from Litmus mail out to all clients, to promote their new toolsets that relate to the Apple Watch.

Unfortunately, and rather embarrassingly, for the email testing company, is that the links were broken. The analytics for the Apple Watch link in the email seem to break when users clicked on them. The result was users being brought to a page that simply says..."Error establishing a database connection". For the more dev-head user, simply removing the "utm_campaign" related querystrings gets you to were you wanted to go.

https://litmus.com/blog/apple-watch-favors-text-version-breaks-links?utm_campaign=apr2015news&utm_source=Pardot&utm_medium=email
That's quite a jump...

My first thought at seeing this announcement was also that I would be uninstalling Sublime on my Mac. I'm not a Microsoft employee. And give MS time, they just announced it, available "later today". No need to assume a lack of brains.
Yeah I think they need to address this but it's going to require a pretty big, fundamental change so it might take a while. It's certainly needed.
Thanks. Everything I wanted to see its there :)
http://tacreports.org/storage/documents/2013-justifiable-hom...

This report talks about a "serious mental illness".

Those words tend to be used for diagnosed mental illnesses like schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses, sometimes major depression or severe bipolar disorder. Very roughly one or two people per hundred meet this definition.

An appropriate adderal prescription would be for a mental illness or mental health problem. It would tend not to be described as "severe and enduring". This "severe" label is in the context of mental illness, not the general population; it's not meant to imply that ADHD etc are trivial.
> Frankly, that's a cop out

So is saying that the rules can be broken because there are no parties who would remove them. European democracies generally allow people to form new parties, and I don't belive Portugal is an exception. If the population was pro free market, there would be parties that are pro free market. If there are no such parties, that is because the population doesn't support that idea.
The download will be available by around 11AM PT today. Hold tight!
I think they understand that the long run is not in platform dependency.
The only real advantage to node is that it doesn't have all the "enterprise" baggage: the apps people build with it are a lot smaller and a lot more decoupled.
And hire the off duty sheriff (with HOA fees) to enforce it like the neighborhood I cut through does...
Cross platform developers tools by Microsoft! Great news! MS has some of the best developer tools out there. In my opinion, the only downside has been the dependency on the Windows platform. As a developer, I feel much more comfortable in a Unix environment.

This move was unthinkable a decade ago. I'm very glad to see MS moving in this direction. Just because of this announcement I want to start playing with TypeScript and C# again.
Since its webtech it will interesting to see the speed vs atom and sublime
More than a year ago I skipped the page that asked me to enable the two-factor authentication, as I didn't want to give Microsoft my phone number. One day I found myself completely locked out of my account. Long story short, I've never been able to access my email account again, since that day. The instructions to unblock the account [1], say, I shit you not:

>"To unblock your account go to https://account.live.com and sign in to your blocked account."

If I try to enter my number, I get an unspecified error and I'm still locked out. Obviously. But not to worry, the page says:

>"If you can’t unblock your account with the security code and changing your password, customer support can still help you get your account back. To contact customer support, you’ll need to sign in to your account, and fill out an online form."

...

I really don't know what kind of brain-dead monkeys they put in charge of these things. And while it's hard to believe that a functioning human being could ever come up with such a bullet-proof procedure to unblock an account blocked for "security reasons", what really baffles me is that this has been going on for almost two years. This should give you an idea of how much Microsoft cares about their consumer products.

So, consider yourself lucky to have gone past the login, which, apparently, isn't something to take for granted with Microsoft.

[1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/account-t...
It ties into Azure services. As I understand it, you're not bound to Azure, but it's an easy path from VS Code.
They're just about unenforceable.
I don't know but I would be unsurprised were spammers plying their trade through youtube.

Is the video hosted anywhere else?
How is the editing experience? Is it faster than Atom?
Tell me about the R# support. That's the only thing making VS usable.
Standard trick to enter a building you have no business being in: carry a large cardboard box while walking up to the door just behind someone else. Better than even money they'll hold the door open for you.
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"No thru traffic" signs have been a part of life for a long time, long before Waze came around, and that's the simplest answer to the issue for these residents. [1] Yes, as other posters have pointed out, this is an instance of technology butting up against entrenched interests and behaviors: the shortcuts formerly only known by a few, are now available to anybody with a smartphone; rich residents get mad at the increased traffic, and political action happens quicker when rich people are involved. [2,3]

Whether or not this is an example of the rich getting their way more quickly than the average person, I think that the point about residential areas seeing increased through traffic is an important one. No one, whether rich or poor, wants to live on a heavily trafficked street. (I believe that it is possible to create environments that contain both successful transportation infrastructure and livable streets for all people.) The answer, however, isn't to shut these roads off to thru traffic (an exercise in futility), but rather to create better routes for people to get to work. Whether these routes are better mass transit options, better new roads, or improvements to existing roads, they will all, unfortunately, be uphill battles against NIMBYers. Hopefully LA, and the US in general, can eventually come around from the car-dominated perception of the urban environment.

[1] http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=236446

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_City_Council_Distr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley#Property_v...
I don't think BASIC being loaded on old systems had anything to do with education and was really just a convenience factor. I think qbrass makes some valid points in the sibling comment.
My hypothesis is that winning over developers to use their platform will eventually result in more Azure users. I get the feeling Azure will be their one of their next cash cows, and this is one of the steps in enabling that.
It'll be interesting to see what the performance is like, since this has been a recurring problem with web-tech based applications (especially editors like Atom and Brackets).
There are a few streets off Sunset Boulevard with signs posted: "Dead end street after 10pm". Makes me chuckle every time I go by.
It's far more holistic than a simple credential that will get you a pay bump. Ten years after I graduated from B school, I've done significant amounts of business with several classmates and juat started a company with another. I married one of them, and made life long friends with many. I'm 100% positive that I've just scratched the surface of what my MBA will give me in life - much is still to come.

Contrary to the unfortunate opinions of many here on HN (I get it, I am a former engineer), there are more good MBAs than bad ones. What I can say with certainty, is that I have never spent time with a smarter, more motivated group of people than I did in B school. That includes my time at NASA and working at couple startups. It's a unique experience, and to me at least, worth the cost even with zero financial return. But if you want to make more after B school, it's easier. Not everyone chooses to.
Material Design? Man, I'm just excited to make one of those buttons you can't click on!
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Thanks for the feedback both of you. Our design was intentionally kept a bit light-hearted while trying to maintain professionalism.

We do think this strikes a good balance.
"3b. One-Way Traffic
Or you could just do one-way traffic. Details inside."

Can you explain?
I shouldn't have to. Beyond that, what format does it save it in?
Can you provide more details on one-way traffic?
This is decent strategy if the end game is eco-system around Microsoft technologies, not just windows but their whole offerings including Azure, IoT etc.
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This is touched upon a bit in this episode of .NET Rocks.

http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=1131

What I took from it is that Microsoft used to make all their money from Windows and Office, but now the company is looking to transition towards being a service company rather than a product company. As a service-oriented company, restricting developers towards a single platform doesn't really help them, so ultimately it's in Microsoft's best interest to get .NET out there as much as possible so that people will want to choose their services.

I won't admit to "getting it", but what I gather is that Microsoft want .NET to be a valid choice for everyone.
I used to drink tea exclusively but then my ex told me that she would not visit me at my home unless I bought a good coffeemaker.

A few years later I was drinking three pots a day. I mean I really could drink an entire pot then go right to sleep.

Nowadays I drink mostly coffee, but quite a lot less - maybe four or five cups a day at most.

If I am tired or otherwise not feeling well I drink tea. Tea soothes my nerves but if I am tired coffee just makes me feel worse.
Or, you know, people could start paying for software. (I know, I'm a dreamer.)
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The DOT numbers are based on median hourly income of airline travelers, rather than their contribution to the economy. You can read the report I linked for their detailed methods.
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I totally agree with anonymous comments. I guess its not the point of HN, but I'm unsettled by how negative users react to genuine attempts at humour. Maybe its just me.
1 - 2 minutes, sure. But what about 20-30 mins? Would it be OK then?