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They probably made much more out of their previous monopoly anyway.

They had been threatened a few times before implementing it. It's about time we stopped to play this game and make it clear stuff like that won't be tolerated at all.

It wouldn't have been better for Microsoft. They know very well that each product they establish as a monopoly increases their chance of coming back as an all-around industry leader. Actually, I'd be willing to bet this wasn't a "technical error". I've never seen features just unexpectedly disappear out of any piece of software.

Same goes for reviews on Google Play. No reviews for anyone, then.

Sorry if you found that insulting. I guess I got used to this aspetic cold language you see on HN to make emotion invisible. That's one of the things I miss from Reddit.

I know there are many people like you that somehow intuitively capture these abstract concepts, and I respect that. I just find it amusing that you can notice these things even when the person is out of work. That's when you differentiate the manipulative managers from the true ones.

My point wasn't particularly focusing in offices. Being pragmatic and rather emotion-less, I find programming requires more logic and method than feelings.

Your sound like an executive too, putting emphasis on well-researched words, and mentioning things like capturing inspiration.

As far as I've seen, there is little inspiration involved in most programming environments, just a lot of thinking.

>I too was unsure what to call it, but if they listen to the feedback, I think "whatever it's called" is really awesome and could be a legitimate substitute to the ppt platform. At least I would be interested in making a few presentations with it.

Agreed, I like it. It looks like the stuff that goes on in futuristic movies, with a lot of things happening on the screen and no one is really looking at anything particular but it's impressive. This has a potential. Who's up to make this WIC software?

Both work for me.

And this is exactly how we generate random values with a certain distribution.

It's not actually ASCII, there are many more characters used. It is however "ASCII art", in that the characters are used to graphically represent places and objects.

Why would you go through that when paper is much more comfortable to write on?

You're thinking of referendums. A petition is a small number of people pissed about something that not everyone may be interested in. I'm sure my grandparents have never heard of Aaron Swartz and don't know what "jailbreaking" means, so it makes no sense to make them take a decision.

The last two sentences you wrote are incompatible.

How about a garden with directions on the ground? Like Android, that gives you suggestions with most popular apps. If anything, it fits everyone.

In the example of the legos, you could include a document with examples of what you can build, and note that at any moment you can improve anything here and there.

More importantly, with the portable work stations available today. It used to be a big event to move desks. Now you can work in another floor, no need to take your bulky computer and all the cables and network configuration with you.

That's the Middle Ages mentality: in some religions where murder was not tolerated but people wanted to get rid of other people, they put them in a terrible position (buried alive, closed room with no food, daily torture) with some sort of fatal weapon. The poor person would usually suicide, and no murder would have been committed. These people were cheating God's system.

In modern societies, this kind of thing is fortunately not tolerated, and is usually punishable as murder or conspiracy to commit murder. So what you said is an invaid argument. It remains to be proved that Schwartz was punished unfairly and too much, given his psychological past.

And the house would be the White House (in the sense that SEOs aren't just working against Google but against its billion users).

Sounds like http://reddit.com/r/todayilearned/

Basically, "I found an interesting article on Wikipedia".

>You don't have to buy twice.

How do you know ports will be free? It removes most of the incentive that developers would have to make a good port: money (unless Valve pays for the ports, which would be very expensive).

A few days ago, a Microsoft employee who has worked on Windows 7 and 8 said on a Reddit AMA:

"There is no doubt that we have catching up to do. We even do funny ads acknowledging how bad we were: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk "

They still know they're not perfect but they seem to think they're good enough already. I hope one day they learn to do things right.

It sure is an interesting concept. I didn't really want to know all about North Korea. And somehow, thanks to the layout, I think that I got the general idea in a better way than I would have if it has been one big column.

It feels with an approximation algorithm that enables parallel processing to an usually linear task. It saves some time to get the general idea.

I find it singificant that you used the word "justice" against the judicial system.

The very concept of law started as a need for order and justice, preventing grave crimes. Now, controlled by the powerful, it stands as a way to reduce justice, and to increase injustice.

Agreed. With him in jail for decades, this was probably the biggest action he could have ever done for the rest of his live. This man had devoted his life to progress and may have very well sacrificed himself for it, given the date of his suicide. If only more of us had a fraction of this courage to stand against the enemies of progress and freedom.

Can you prove it?

His whole point is that there is no conclusive evidence that there is no purpose to life, and there will never be if there is none to be found, and that is precisely why the only way to find one is to keep looking for it.

Specific religions as we know them have nothing to do with this. Indeed, even he said he had logically convinced himself there is no God. It doesn't all have to be about God-in-a-book.

Then Swartz was no threat. He was going to upload the articles to other people if he wanted to. He was going to have to provide the search tools.

I don't understand why they would "[secure] from Mr. Swartz the content that was taken, and [receive] confirmation that the content was not and would not be used, copied, transferred, or distributed".

He says he expects people to work full-time for about a month and will pay nex to nothing before he sees some code.

So yeah, I guess about one per month per person...

If I were OP, $5000 for a -in my opinion- promising application delivered within a month? Sign me up!

Honestly, I'd probably pay $5000 just for some good ideas if disclosure didn't ruin the concept.

I believe most people would like a cheap and small board to use it like they would use a regular computer: high-level development, media player, various "apps", small home server. Clearly, for these people, performance/price is the first and foremost criterion. If it works like it's supposed to, it's a done deal.

As for lower level development, you are probably right, few boards can claim to beat the Pi.

"!=" as "non-identical sets", not "mutually exclusive sets". This is generally the expected behavior of the "!=" operator in sets.

He posted this link below as an answer to another similar inquiry: http://usetempo.com/learn

Yes, for Kanji. These hieroglyphs is what most people are having trouble learning in Japanese and Chinese, as far as I know. Grammar is hard but it's not such a barrier.