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Testing allows people to have an objective means of determining others' worth as external storage in specific situations.

While I like the improvements to regular taxi service that the competition has brought, I don't like Uber. They're just shady all around.

The "We're not a taxi service, we just sell software" is a load of crap.

How many apps take a piece of the gross? Purchase a license? Ok. A monthly fee for ongoing service? Sure. A chunk of all the money made from using it? I don't think so.

It is somewhat lacking in the community. What's there is quite friendly, cool, and often doing neat things. There just isn't as many libraries as, say, Python, because there aren't as many people.

I'd say learn the MS ecosystem for the same reason I learned Linux way back when: a different perspective.

You'll see all the same things, but sometimes done a different way. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. I'm pretty confident you'll have at least one "that's a great way to do that" moment.

Maybe you'll come away from the experience much as I have: I don't really care what the tech is. Will it do what I need it to? It also has made picking up "new" tech (ain't nuthin' new) really easy.

Oh, and search for "dotnet". Most places use that. Google will search for ".net" if you add in "C#" or something.

I start my day just as if I were going to work. Get up with the alarm, do morning chores, take a shower, dress decently (but not office-nice), sit down and start working.

My first task: send email to someone, preferably a team.

There might be a little web surfing first, but I did that in the office, too.

My work doesn't require set hours. I do it this way simply for the discipline.

I'm not Gates, or Ive, or anyone famous.

I am the best, though.

I'm the best coworker. I'm the best friend. I'm the best mentor. I'm the best leader.

Plenty of people have told me so. Not newspapers, not random internet commenters. People who mattered to me told me to my face that I'm the best.

Gates, Ive, and whomever else you might think of aren't "the best". They're just well-known. I'm not famous. So what?

So, I have nothing to "deal with".

My approach is fine. I'm not having trouble finding work. Your approach sounds fine, too.

That doesn't help the huge middle who only seek work every few years. Nor does it help those employers who are just trying to find someone who's good at their job.

I'm trying to change (oh so slightly) the system. Plenty of employers and hiring managers read HN.

In the best of systems, there eventually has to be some trust between the principles. The current system begins by establishing _distrust_ from the outset.

I'd think there would be plenty of people who would be interested in doing something about that.

Or maybe everyone is happy with the status quo except me.

I'm not discussing maximization, nor am I trying portray myself as anything other than what I am: just some guy with good skills looking for work.

I'm pretty much a tradesman, much like thousands of others out there.

I see so much discussion about getting the best, being the best, etc. What about that huge middle which is so poorly served by the status quo?

I generally agree. If a job is so close to being marginalized that it would be eliminated by an increase in the minimum, then the cost of that automation is already pretty close to replacing that job, anyway.

My pie-in-the-sky ideal would be if Corporate America (tm) decided that getting enough out of employees was better in the long run than getting the most out of them to make this quarter.

Could you add a "hearing test" to your app, which does at least rudimentary tuning? Call it "headphone calibration" and I bet you'd improve the listening experience of people who don't know they are hearing impaired.

I genuinely enjoy driving cars and bikes. I blow through 40-50K miles a year driving country roads and highways, for no other reason than enjoyment.

I am completely on-board with having my commute automated. If public transportation was an option, I'd take it. This is the next best thing.

It doesn't matter if it has bugs. All Mega needs is plausible deniability. They've got it.

The keyboard shortcuts don't work in a less-than-fullscreen terminal server session. That's where a lot of my admin work happens, and having to hover over that corner sucks.

I was just thinking about this too. If the networks were up to it, we could have multiple addresses. Not just for receiving, but for sending.

A "phone number" is unnecessary.

Exactly. If it replaces anything, it's because it is more efficient at it. This is all anecdotal, I know...

Since Facebook, my email inbox is almost devoid of "RE:RE:FW:FW" broadcast messages.

I still get plenty of email from family and friends, but they are more selective in what they send. Things that are personal, or detailed, or very specific to me.

I still use my phone a lot, but spend less time telling people how great (or not) my weekend was. If they want to know, they can look. If they want details, they call and ask.

Heh. I just checked. "Type" is an alias for "get-content".

I suspect bringing all that up would just confuse the issue, and detract from your goal.

I missed the previous link, so I'm glad it came up.

I do a lot of powershell, Zed. Would you be interested in feedback? For example, while "type" still works, "get-content" is the powershell equivalent.

Nice work, one way or the other. Please keep it up.

Yup. Posh ended my habit of installing cygwin, and now I cringe when I have to do it the "old-fashioned" way on a Linux box.

Powershell is more verbose, but much more expressive.

I don't think it is amusing.

I think it is a shame that it came to this. If these attacks required significant sophistication, that would be one thing. If these sites were mom-and-pop shops with low expectations for security, that would be another. (no offense to those moms and pops who have it together ;) )

How many years have we been blowing the trumpet for some rigor in security practices? I've lost track of how many times I've been overridden in the name of expediency and "no one would do that".

It isn't funny that thousands of innocent people are put at risk just to get past the false claims and denials put out by people who supposedly should know better.

The first millionaire I met drove a beat up white Ford Pinto, and used it to pick up two bales of hay a week - for his prize-winning Arabian show horse.

From him I learned to be extravagant about my passions, and parsimonious with everything else.

That aligns with what I was thinking - I guess we'll all find out soon enough.

Thank you.

Since hearing about the ARM port, I've been wondering: how hard is it to port a .NET app to ARM?

Seems relevant to the topic (if it is easy, that's a whole bunch of apps), so I thought I'd ask.

My guess is that when the money in the ATMs didn't reconcile.

It may be normal for a set of ATMs to be off by a few hundred a year, but anything higher than the norm would be enough to set off alarms.

After that, it just involves reviewing code checkins and camera footage.

Just a guess, though. Hell, maybe he used ATM card first before each "heist".

I think the difference is "interoperability" v. "integration".

The OSS community has typically favored the former, while denigrating MS for the latter.

There's benefit to the integration path. MS' tools play very nicely with one another, and it would be nice to see improvements on the OSS side.

However, I don't think the Gnome project should go that route. Part of its success has been its modularity - it has been long-lived, and used in unlikely places. Choosing the integration route significantly reduces future options. Heck, what if Oracle decides they don't want the expense of Solaris, and spin it off into its own company (yea, yea, I know)?

If Canonical (or other downstream) chose to do something like this, I would think it was a great decision. Ubuntu could end up with a superior experience, if done right.

I don't see the point of a core project doing this. There's nothing about the current model which prevents implementing this downstream, or as an add-on for those that are interested.

Part of the "spookiness" was that he was so easily found. Not so easy in the 80s. Nowadays? Meh.

That which you own, owns you.

Exactly. VMWare, right now, has the best tools overall. Everyone else is playing catch-up.

However, everyone has caught up enough that there are plenty of choices for competent hypervisors. VirtuaBox, Xen, KVM, Hyper-V - they may not be enterprisey enough yet, but they work fine for more and more cases.

MS v. Google? v. Apple? After reading this, and the comments, and a little thinking about it, the more this makes sense.

MS has a clear weakness in its lineup. Skype brings a bunch of existing technology and know-how, not to mention all those sweet, sweet users.

Multiply by some factor of Ballmer being an idiot, and 8.5 is almost reasonable.

Part of what convinced me - and I realize HN comments are anectdotal - was people's impressions of Skype and Google Voice (I've done no more than played with each).

From the sounds of it, Skype's biggest issue is its UI. MS has plenty of experience (and some success ;) with good UIs and backend work.

Other than that, it satisfies its basic function well: it makes the calls. It sounds like Google Voice, at least internationally, isn't as straightforward.

So, they get the users, and a jump on the tech. Okay, decent, but not great, business decision.

Will they turn it into something successful? Ehhhh, I have my doubts. Who knows? Ballmer isn't actually an idiot; maybe he's learned something by now.

*Edit - spelling

Ha!

Just the logistics of _handling_ 1.5B docs would keep six people pretty damn busy.

Kudos to Zed, for at least attempting to find a workable middle-ground. It's a change from the usual and useless finger-pointing.

I have no problem with this.

He doesn't need to re-invest - he's the only investor (more or less). As was pointed out, there's other sites which do a better job, so if you don't like it, don't use it. Mr. Newmark and his staff are well-off with little effort. Even if they lose 90% of their revenue, we're still talking millions.

Heck, that's brilliant.