randomhunt

Nope, and incidentally its not the same thing you originally said at all

productively

You missed the most important word.

As someone who has spent quite some time on Javascript codebases its amazing how quickly things break down when you get developers of different levels working on the same codebase. Optional typing allows a whole batch of problems to be caught way before weird errors/exceptions client-side. Productivity goes way up when the tooling can check basic errors.

(Part of me still wishes Haskell was an option for web scripting but I can dream)

Rubbish. TypeScript is more of a way for Microsoft to develop large scale JavaScript apps productively, hence its rather quick adoption internally. Channel 9 has quite a lot of information about who is using it.

It does help Visual Studio and other tooling, but to say it is only "to sell Visual Studio, nothing more" is ridiculous.

UPnP?

I've used an AdBlock alike proxy on an OpenWRT a few years ago which stopped a lot of ads in apps and XBox360, it worked surprisingly well until a power surge killed the box and I've never investigated hacking my new router.

Perhaps there's a market for such a plug-and-play product?

PDS also wished you Merry Christmas if the date was December 25.

I coveted it an unhealthy amount whilst being stuck with various machine code monitors on the C64 itself, eventually later having the money to upgrade to an assembler. Of course then there was a whole other class of memory problems as most of them hooked BASIC to work so you were quite limited in the length of programs; everyone became very good at manually laying out blocks to memory and disc.

Yeah but as Google do it so does Bing (after all why not copy Google's arrogance as well)

Just in case anyone is interested for Bing you have to use "?mkt=en-GB" (for example)

Not really, I feel exactly the same and as it's the top comment I guess a lot of other people do as well. I know it certainly comes up regularly both in the office (people traveling get very annoyed when Google decides they should fluently read the language of the country they're working in for that week) and among friends as a source of constant frustration.

Google isn't alone in doing it either, Bing has slavishly copied this absolute idiotic stupidity although they aren't anywhere near as insulting about it as Google _yet_ (e.g. where Google, Wordpress, Youtube etc. show it in the language it geolocates you to rather than either your browser's language or your profile's language)

"I am what I am"

If you know what/who you are then that puts you way ahead of most people...

That guy's blue hair is awesome

(the installer looks like an OK idea...maybe it/cyanogenmod needs some blue hair too...purple cow...)

Is there a direct link between you using this software under such a licence and then gaining monetary advantage (if not money directly itself)?

Using your process of improvement for me it is quite clear there would be.

[Perhaps the solver could be used to figure the applicability of the licence]

Admittedly with a European viewpoint, either common law based (UK) or administrative law based (France, Belgium), there have been cases where commercial was held to mean has the company benefited in a tangible way from its use of such licenced software.

Although if you speak to a lawyer I'm sure their training would immediately start highlighting this as a concern I don't believe it should be in the vast majority of cases. Wasn't there an article on HN a few days ago basically summarising this type of concern under "so sue me" (minus expletives)

Well you must agreed we should credit Microsoft on at least one thing...the third party driver install process from Windows Update is so smooth even Scence_Cast2 wasn't aware it happened.

Commercial = I make money from using this; Non-commercial = NOT commercial

(In case the sarcasm was a bit too thick, although it was at no less a level than your reply, I think it's plainly obvious what the licence is dictating and hope you will go into a little more detail of your viewpoint that it isn't)

Sorry for butting in but I've recently done this, the new Gmail compose "experience" was the final straw.

I'm happy - the only thing that is a bit weird is I'll sometimes get spam mails duplicated arriving at my outlook.com address. Never with "normal" mails only the obvious spam.

Does anyone know of an easy way to extract all my mails from Gmail? I'd like to dump them in the filesystem and then kill my Google account.

Dude, your ignorance is showing. Europe is trying to stop Google pushing its own above everything else, which is VERY different.