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WPF is not dead. It is mature as Winforms is.

Microsofts now is more open to the open source community. That does not mean that 'old' mature frameworks are dead. It's all about choice.

great work. for anyone who wants an open source spreadsheet editor I can recommend handsontable

german or european Hacker News would have been better.

serious question: Does this watch anything do what my phone in my pocket doesn't?

I can't see a benefit of using a smartwatch.

what is the advantage in comparison to just use azure?

No cord is the future. At least Intel want to get rid of all cables with skylake platform.

http://www.cnet.com/news/intel-aims-to-eliminate-all-pc-cabl...

All from Isaac Asimov

Great to see typescript evolving. It's a nice approach developing software for browsers. Now we need tools bringing the bits (angular, breezejs, typescript etc) together.

I would love to see comparing costs of their solution against cloud solutions as Azure.

They say that hardware is cheaper than programmers. Wouldn't that speak for the cloud solution (software based scaling instead of admins)?

can anyone recommend a cross browser bookmark solution?

strange. For me it was no problem.

> You need expensive Windows Servers to host your stuff

no. For startups you get 3 years free server: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx

a measurable advantage of c# over java is LINQ.

look also at handsontable: http://handsontable.com/

Excel like spreadsheet editing in the browser

There is a book about this founding. The founder is the first professor of entrepeneurship (Faltin) in germany.

There are good android apps for HN

Paint.NET is one of the best free graphic applications. It' amazing how easy and fast it is.

I only miss a dark theme.

In general it is a good idea but there is to little information on the homepage. Do you also work for provision? Do you work with more technical saas products such as CAD/CAM?

That is good news! Finally I can say to my customers that my products work on all significant platforms.

Of course it always depends on how you use it. If you mostly use it on your lap and type things into keyboard a more laptop device is better. My usage is in average per day:

- 8 hours productive use on my desk with 3 monitors (form factor here is irrelevant, I just need a decent intel machine here)

- 2-3 hours mostly consuming use on bed and sofa (no need for keyboard here)

You could say that I just should use 2 devices but why should I when I can have it in one device? Another big point about the Surface Pro 3 vs other products is that you can use it for notes and drawings. There will always be compromises in 2in1 devices. For me the SP3 is the best 2in1 till now.

Surface pro 3 is exactly what Microsoft and the Windows Ecosystem needs: an innovative productive device which can compete with Apple products. PC makers like Lenovo, Acer and even Samsung seem not to have visions for new devices. Surface pro 3 is the first 2in1 device which is usable as tablet _and_ pc/laptop.

So killing the Surface is the badest thing Microsoft could do!

With german sites it does not work so well. There is no blacklist for to generic terms for other languages than english?

This is a notebook killer literally. It is for taking notes as a notebook should do. Maybe it is a laptop killer for some too.

Comparisons with Ipad and ohter tablets are ridiculous. This is a working machine.

I think this will be my next machine.

Nobody in the press has mentioned the new power connector by the way. If you look at the docking station all connections are done by this connector. I hope there will be a cable based adapter for usb+dp+power too.

I don't know /etc/hosts

You can block specific things like iframes on domains.

I first had problems with it too. You have to disable matrix filtering on all sites.

I know that boolean operations are cpu-intensive. I dealt with CAD modeling and especially with NURBS surfaces in the past. Therefore I asked.

I think of building an Html interface for opencascade.

are modeling features like boolean operations calculated on server or client?

I can't find any details about prices? All I could find was that it is freemium.

Of course it's only another currency but as stated it differentiates from current currencies with some advantages. The effort to regulate it is very expensive. Of course everything is possible but you have always to ask for it's costs. I don't say that bitcoin is the future of money but it can be. There is no need for men in the middle in the connected internet world.

it's deflationary nature is also an argument for it!