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Absent overall changes to the competitive forces that drive pricing (which is complex, because this might force some companies to increase prices, which would decrease competition for companies which don't need to, which would allow them to increase prices), and assuming this pricing change doesn't make labor alternatives (eg increasing automation) economically viable, it's actually pretty reasonable to expect employers to eat the labor cost. It's probably the rational thing to see.
...so what's the checklist to mitigate the situation "the monitor which normally displays the checklist on this airplane failed"... :-)
Windows Store: Win32 apps now supported
I fully agree with you there.

"Microsoft has come a long way from the company that everybody loved to hate"

Although, during the last few years, MS seemed to be the company that everyone ignored. But there is still a lot of built up animus against MS, due to their past business practices.
You're still using their engine and their world. Just because I bring a dish to someone's house doesn't mean I own it. (Of course, in this case, you own the house and you're bringing the dish.. so.. doesn't really work as well)

Of course, this goes back to what was posted last week about true ownership of products (John Deere issue). I'd say you're still right because we've already paid them for their portion of it by buying the game. Not to mention, they'd likely make more money because people have to buy it to use your content.
This move is so smart. Windows, which is app deficient, is now super easy to build to. I wonder how this will affect the Xamarin ecosystem.
Microsoft hopes to get Android and iOS phone apps in Win 10 Store
Mate! Sorry but only in Argentina / Uruguay / Paraguay...
Verizon warns FiOS user over “excessive” use of unlimited data
Could employees of different companies form a group that could get better rates? One of the problems with 401ks is that they are still related to your employer.
Audi invents new fuel made from from CO2 and water
Its based on Electron (see https://github.com/atom/electron) so... its almost like a re-skinned Atom editor at the moment.
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Why Putty over mintty? mintty is a fork of PuTTY's UI for local use, and is the default in cygwin these days.
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And big companies aren't? They aren't built on greed and squeezing every last bit of productivity out of someone for the absolute minimum they can pay?

Seriously, the only reason people have that perception is because big companies have the money to run smear campaigns against labor.
Microsoft Makes It Easier to Bring Android and iOS Apps to Windows 10
So does it mean it can be used with things like Rebound.js (http://facebook.github.io/rebound-js/examples/) to provide spring like animation?
Funny thing is most MS devs seem to think that asp.net is on its way out.
Food service workers and laborers are the most likely to be affected by these wage increases. I don't think anyone's going to be driving to China to get a Big Mac or flying in shelf stockers from Shenzhen.
It is not safety critical. In the unlikely event of both flight computers failing (many aircraft carry a backup FMC/FMS, but even a single computer is far more reliable than anything made on HN), and the consumer iPad which is barely FAA approved as a backup not working, any pilot can land the aircraft with their eyes closed. You think reference materials for the aircraft are the only thing keeping you alive and everything is hopeless if the pilot loses his weight tables? They're specifically trained when they get type rated and have all of the important figures memorized. Not ideal, sure, but "not safe" is another ballgame.

EFBs have a long history in the cockpit. Charts are required to be carried by FAR, but honestly, a scheduled commercial flight genuinely needing to consult one in anger is very rare. That was the impetus to get the FAA to approve iPads for EFB use in the first place, I think, was pilots making the case that they're needed so infrequently that an iPad is fine.

Threads like this make me wish there was more general awareness of what goes on in the cockpit, because I think it would go a long way toward assuaging unnecessary fear. Aviation is one of those rare regulation success stories where pretty much everything has been thought of.
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Discussion on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9459364
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Ah web-rings! I remember they were quite fun and interesting at first. I'd actually click from one site to the next in a ring to check them all out. Of course that was a time when there were limited numbers of sites for niche topics, and discovering them was a more "word-of-mouth" thing. I was also surfing on a 56k modem.

Not to poo-poo on what seems to be an honest effort with TrafficGun, though. I don't know if the sharing spirit of website owners is the same as it was back then, but it would be nice.
> paradox (whats the latin plural)

I think it's "paradoxa", but I've never seen anyone use that in English. Just go with "paradoxes" :-)
Definitely. It's because, fundamentally, Ballmer was not a technology person. He simply didn't get it.
Keep in mind that this time they are not just giving away stuff "free as in beer" they are also giving it away not under AGPL, not under GPL, not under LGPL but under a MIT License which is one of the most permissive licenses out there.

Contrast this to Oracle/Java. Or about any other huge corporation.
> terrible rename to "Skype for Business" that they secretly shoved out in Windows Update this month - confusing and pointless

It's not pointless. Having one name for your business and consumer products makes things simpler.
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Sounds very much like Firefox Hello.
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This was something that was supposed to be about the single best case for hotspot: a single code path almost always, inside a single while loop that's doing the same thing over and over, with a couple sanity / bail-out checks that are rarely (if ever) called.

And it still didn't optimize something as trivial as avoiding an unnecessary copy that it was taking ~50% of the time doing.

It's too bad - Java is a fine language in many ways (though it tends to be rather overly verbose for no good reason, but meh. Looking at you getters and setters and lack of operator overloading), but it's saddled with a reliance on the arcane to actually get non-hideous performance out of it. I mean: 13ms per copy of what should be a single integer? (Milliseconds! I'm not joking. 595ms inside 47 calls to EnumSet.copyOf (mainly inside Object.clone))

That's, and I'm saying this quite literally, more than a million times slower than what it should be.

Assuming it needs to be done at all, and you can trivially show that it doesn't.

(That being said, I need to explicitly check that Hotspot does do it's full optimization pass on that chunk of code. I see no reason why it wouldn't, but maybe Hotspot doesn't want to. Though that'd be a WTF in and of itself.)

(On a side note: does Java cache hotspot optimizations? I think it does, in which case there's definitely no excuse. And if it doesn't that's a wtf in and of itself.)

(On another side note: is there a Java bytecode-to-bytecode optimizer that'll do optimizations based on the code you've got in front of you now?)
I had an idea a while back that a job doesn't provide wages per-se, but a level of lifestyle.

E.g. as a software developer in Silicon Valley, my salary is somewhat large compared to the rest of the world, but my lifestyle is fairly unremarkable for a working professional (2 used cars, a house that needs updates, weekends off, vacation time, etc).

I could move somewhere with a lower cost of living, and my compensation would decrease, and if I did the same job I would probably live approximately the same lifestyle (perhaps with marginal improvements to the house considering SV's real estate situation).

If I moved up the career ladder my lifestyle would improve a bit; if I moved down my lifestyle would get a bit worse.

Using this rubric of job type = lifestyle, what kind of lifestyle is a minimum-wage job meant to support? There will always be a bottom-rung lifestyle, and those that support themselves on minimum-wage jobs will always occupy the next rung up from the bottom. The ladder itself may move up or down, but compared to fellow workers in other jobs, they will always feel the delta. And that's what this is really about, the unhappiness caused by seeing that delta.

We were never meant to support entire families on minimum wage jobs.
No, your job is to communicate to those other assholes that your team member isn't slacking; that he was here at 6 in the morning.
Could health care payments be tax deductible?
You're completely lost in your Silicon Valley mindset. Most of the western world still shows up to work and uses Office on Windows. Even in tech, I've seen non-technical workers request PC's just so they can use "real" Office. Office for Mac doesn't cut it. And while it might be good enough for you, it's not for many people who rely on Word, Office, and PowerPoint for work. Oh, and Google Docs is hardly free in the office.
The only thing I haven't liked so far is the "Go To File..." search isn't fuzzy. Other than that my very brief usage has been pretty good.
I feel your point about international students may be overstated. A lot of international students who come to places like HBS are extremely rich (some in the sense of owning huge portions of their country and having slaves rich).

Read about Harvard "Section X" for example. It is an elite enclave of students within HBS who outspend other HBS groups (who spend a lot anyway) by a mile.
well, it is not that bad because as part of the tests it also parse all the code of Javaparser and spring-jdbc (by no means small projects). Parsing it is an expensive operation also because the Java grammar is quite ambiguous
The current crop of store apps are in a more limited API. But as of today, MS is also going to be selling traditional Win32 apps shipped in a sandbox that allows for clean install/uninstall. Demo showed Photoshop Elements.

They're also supporting Objective-C now, with VS slupring up Xcode projects. Did not expect that one.
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> And the Valley will win as well due to increased demand for automation.

You mean a win for humanity. How can anyone be against automation?
I'm sure the Greeks would be delighted to hear that more debt spending is the shot in the arm they've been looking for.
Where are the payment hooks? Seems like that'd be useful.
8pm would be a late night for me, I try to leave at 6pm but sometimes a bit later.
"If you paid your health insurance premiums with your own after-tax money, they’re deductible."

http://healthinsurance.about.com/od/savingmoneyonhealthcare/...

With a bunch of caveats, of course.
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Thanks for the feedback. I have a 2012 rMBP 15". I use Windows 7 VM in VirtualBox primarily for Tableau and large Excel files. I noticed the fan runs continuously and MBP gets hot while using VM. I am concern that if something similar happens on new MacBook w/o fans, it might be cooked. Both MS Office and Tableau are terrible on OSX. My wife is more concerned with Quicken. She prefers Quicken for Windows.
With a brief attempt, it's surely not ready to replace sublime for me. No package support, doesn't even come close to replacing fuzzy file matching (and the current file opening doesn't work over osx fuse). Not to say I don't welcome the attempt to replace Sublime, it just can't compete yet.

It does appear to load large code bases a lot snappier than Atom, and at least they got panel resizing working unlike Atom (which is still a hilarious thing not to have in Atom).

Edit: Atom seems to actually support dragging to resize panels in a recent update. Late coming but definitely welcome.
Microsoft Introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse
I'm scared to click the link because of the URL.
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Do you have a significant ownership stake in the company? If not, then why the fuck are you killing yourself working all this free overtime for nothing?
If you expect companies to care about you, you need a reality check.
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> dedicates 10 entries to black

I highly doubt this is because it was "poorly chosen" - it seems this must be due to some sort of technical limitation.
> We were never meant to support entire families on minimum wage jobs.

False. Americans used to raise large families on minimum wage.
This is like the John Deere article posted about last week. Bethesda must see the game as "rented" from them rather than purchased.

Example:

If you rent a house and you have a party and make a meal, you are allowed to use the house to your fullest extent and eat as many meals as possible etc but the house is still owned by the landlord.

If you purchase a house and you have a party and make a meal, you have complete freedom and own the house outright.

Your meal is your mod and your house is Skyrim. They built the house and apparently think that they're just renting it to you even though you flat out purchased it from them.
At the bottom of the download page, "If you don't want to send your crash dumps to Microsoft, don't install this tool."

That is rude!
Content for the sake of exchanging traffic by means of links. I'm not convinced this is much different (if any different) than what I mentioned. SponsoredReviews focuses on bloggers writing ads for products. Your idea is to have the arrangement be two-way so that both sites write about the other but then you have the issue of all these sites stacking up two-way links which looks like link exchanges. I doubt Google is going to be thrown off by the nofollow links. It's been abused to stop pagerank 'leak' to the point of losing its original meaning. I don't think emphasizing the use of nofollow is going to save anyone from Google realizing sites are putting out farm-style content.
This is a brilliant move to make Windows 10 much more relevant. I really like some of my Android apps, but I want a Windows phone. Hopefully this will encourage apps like Automatic to move to Windows phone.

I also wonder if this will affect Xamarin in a negative way.
An intelligently-designed IDE is still going to be far easier for anything but constant, everyday use -- the learning curve of "start using this with context menus, then gradually learn the shortcuts for the things you do most often" is really far better than "everything is key shortcuts -- keep these cheatsheets next to you."

I tend to use vi when doing sysadmin sorts of things... but there are a dozen commands that I've relearned several times now, because I learn them, don't need them for a few weeks, and then have to re-learn them when I need them again.
Consider the fees just the cost of doing business. If the fees seem too high then it's not a good business for you at this time. Because shorting has potentially unlimited losses, the high price of entry is a filter to keep out those who may not really be suited for the risks.

Good luck.
I was at Microsoft when Nadella took over Azure but I left before he became CEO.

While it's true that Microsoft was taking steps to open source products under Ballmer, it was despite him, not because of him. There was an incredible amount of red tape, dragging of heels and internal fear uncertainty and doubt. Even internal only projects to synchronize open source practices among divisions were an uphill battle. If anybody deserves credit for Microsoft's open source efforts at that time, it's Sam Ramji who should get the credit, not Ballmer.

From the outside, Microsoft under Nadella has all the stops removed. This all lines up with a quote that I heard from Nadella 3rd hand: "We [Microsoft] can either push the 'One Microsoft' vision, or we can make money."
Wonderful effort. Possibly a better link is their more recent blog post:

"Earthquake Relief in Nepal: How can maps help?"
http://kathmandulivinglabs.org/blog/earthquake-relief-in-nep...
I don't even mind the multiple restarts, the part that bothers me is that I have to babysit Windows Update as soon as my machine finishes restarting, tell it to get updates, tell it to install now, and then have it restart again. If Windows Update could collect all the update packages, and I could leave it alone for 20 minutes and come back to a fully updated system, that would be fantastic.
Some of us are interested in providing every human being with dignity and comfort, if at all possible.
> Without Visual Studio, which installs the C++ and .Net dev env, it's a pain to install anything which works out of the box in Windows.

Depends on what you're working with. I don't have VS on my Windows machine at home, but everything tends to work out of the box. Granted, I see plenty of installers with the VS Runtime redistributable, but that's not proper VS.
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Here's another way to think about this:

Transit LA is irretrievably screwed by its design.

Traffic relief using residential streets is going to make things only marginally better for commuters (for the same reason that adding buffers to a router has diminishing returns).

Making full commuter use of residential streets is going to make things a lot worse, not just marginally but dramatically, for residents.

Meanwhile, the precedent that residential streets are part of the commuter transit fabric is eventually going to spread beyond the rich neighborhoods, right? That same idea is going to eventually harm lower and middle income residents of other neighborhoods that get coopted into the commuter transit system.
I'm not sure speed bumps scale -- you probably couldn't put one on every residential block. They also have drawbacks, such as slowing down emergency vehicles.

I think there are much more elegant solutions for traffic calming. Like this: http://i.imgur.com/Jn78gQY.jpg
A lot of places won't hire someone full-time for just the summer. I was in the same situation: I could have applied for a full-time job, but I can't be full time once school starts up again.
Well, the oft-maligned Luddites were against automation because it was a tool used to cut them out of the income stream. To be absolutely certain, however, they weren't anti-technology, they were anti-getting-screwed.
Lync branding was confusing anyway.
Not sure why this comment is getting a down vote, this is a very important issue. I understand a lot of startups get money from Microsoft, and a lot more use their products, but that doesn't make this less of an issue.
> Now, a robustly anonymous exchange network with value pegged to something external - say, a cryptocurrency backed by EUR, USD, or actual grams of gold - that would be something different.

This statement demonstrates that you have no idea how cryptocurrency works. As such everything else you say on the subject is pretty suspect.

Also, complaining about speculation-caused instability and then claiming that pegging the value of Bitcoin to gold would solve it is hilarious. You do realize that people speculate with gold, right?

And finally, cryptocurrency isn't currency. Making assertions by analogy is at best an educated guess.
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The proper time for austerity is when things are good. When things are bad, juice it up, especially if you can borrow at rates that are negative when inflation adjusted.

The problem with austerity now to make the long term better is that it's not a zero sum game. Austerity lowers GDP growth, which can offset any move toward solvency. You spend less and surprise, you also take in less. Eventually you recover, but poorer than if you had juiced things a bit and no less in debt.
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People in affluent neighborhoods tend to hate speed bumps more than traffic, because (gasp!) they allegedly lower the property values

https://www.realtown.com/Ardell/blog/speed-bump
This is interesting but is there any commitment to support it long term? I remember when Silverlight was supposed to be the savior that brought .NET to Mac and Linux, but that didn't last more than 5 years. Would be nice for MS to say they guarantee support for 10, 15, etc. years.
Laptop screens are so tiny, and they've got so little on them, I find myself instinctively moving my face closer, presumably in the subconscious hope I'll be able to see more, like I might with a porthole or a small window ;)

Increasing the resolution actually helped with this a little bit, I found. The non-integer scaling is pretty unnoticeable, thanks to the ridiculous panel resolution, so you can select the fake 1680x1050 without fear of everything turning into a blotchy funny-pixelled mess.

Though the ergonomics overall still aren't all that great, because you need to be pretty close to the screen if you want to actually use the keyboard...
They make a lot of money from casual purchases of in-game items and the games themselves. Every day someone's too irate to purchase something is lost revenue.

It probably hit them harder than that, it'll take time to see what kind of a dent sales in add-ons have taken.

Honestly, I thought it was a good idea, funding mod makers to do even better work directly, but maybe they should've stuck to a new game to launch that idea rather than push it back into existing titles where people might get miffed their formerly free mods go paid.
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It will dictate when the labor-saving technology is cheaper than cheap human labor. If fast food workers were making $200/hour, it would probably be cheaper to replace them with robots today.

Keeping that inflection point far away gives us time to solve other issues (like housing affordability) that will impact the minimum-wage class of workers extremely hard when they're automated out.
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> VS is the only tolerable language-dedicated IDE

Jetbrains?
Don't worry, it's just "yet another hipster technology manifesto" (their quotation).
I really want to run it on a Raspberry Pi
Can you elaborate? Our customers tell us it's one of the best things we offer.
technically, if labor is 25% of costs and the cost of that labor is increasing by 66%, prices would only need to rise 16.5% to maintain current rates of profitability (.25 * .66)
I think you mean "prioritize everything". I am not making that assumption. I am doubting the general ability of teams to self-organize as you describe, even though some teams can do it.

Teams certainly need the flexibility to adjust their organization in order to best accomplish their goals. Most of the problems with large corporate bureaucracy come because someone up the chain wants to impose control by dictating how every group organizes.

However, at some level there needs to be a team of people working together to accomplish goals, and that team needs a program to get with. Now, if all that is meant by "come when you want" is that each team is free to determine what their own program is, then I misunderstood the point being made and my original comment on it does not apply. There does need to be some sort of accountability, though, or the team dynamic collapses. In the context of a company, this has to be integrated with whatever policies the company as a whole has.
Ah, thanks. This would still be an issue with some other benefits unless they also are tax deductible or made tax deductible for individuals. My 5% matching on my 401(k), in particular, would be an issue without increasing the tax deduction limits on 401(k)s.
With two minimum wage bread winners, there are places to live a somewhat normal lifestyle in the United States.

http://www.thestreet.com/story/12557757/1/5-housing-markets-...
They mercifully waited until Java caught up a bit with version 8.

Seriously, they could have fair chance, C# was so much better, but today it's still quite better but java is proven and has more libs.