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> What is extremely false? This was said at British parliament. To quote Cameron: "people had to dring from flower vase, not to die of thirst". There are thousands of deaths because of basic neglect.

That is not a direct quote, as I said there are flaws with the NHS but I dispute that there are thousands of deaths because of basic neglect. Feel free to provide data to backup your claims.

> As for my personal experience. I only wanted rentgen to see if my hand is broken. I could not just 'walk in' and buy a service, I would had to go through GP referral than booking specialist appointment and finally week latter have xray.

> The Emergency Room is used by everyone who needs prescription for flu, so I had to wait 6 hours in bloody line full of coughing people. I should have probably just walk in front of the hospital and call myself ambulance from parking lot.

You went to accident and emergency at a busy time and were treated based on the severity/priority of your injury/illness. I'm sorry you couldn't just buy your way to the front of the queue but that is a feature of the NHS.

> The healtcare is not free, as visitor from other EU country, my insurance company has to pay. Also local cresidents pay higher taxes. Sure there is no lawyer overhead, but that will only impress someone from US.

That is why I said 'free at the point of use'

> As for waiting for non-essential operations, you probably meant non-life threating. Some procedures solve crippling pain, but are rated non-essential.

No I meant non-essential, how fast you are treated is based on how urgently you need treatment.

> And on top of that you can not choose hospital where you will go. Some hospitals are better, some are really bad. Obviously the elite lives in areas with better hospitals.

Actually yes you can choose where you go. Of course some hospitals are better than others, that is true in every country in the world.

> The story about baby was in national Slovak news, and forced embassy to step in. I am too lazy to look for english translation, but there are other similar cases. The time line in this case is this:

Once again I would like to see some proof that this story ever happened.

> Embassy even recommends to avoid giving birth in UK, since you could say something stupid, which would be held against you.

Really, which embassy? Please point me to where they recommend that you avoid giving birth in the UK.

You obviously have an issue with the NHS and I am more than happy to admit it is far from perfect however I would appreciate if you're going to criticise it you do so based on facts not fairy stories.

I'm sorry but this is just completely false. The UK health system has flaws yes but it is free at the point of use for anyone in the country and provides an extremely high level of care at a very low cost.

You have to wait for non-essential operations yes, and the less essential the longer you have to wait. That's because it's not a private health care system where your treatment is based on your ability to pay. Of course you can always get better treatment if you want to pay to use it. You can do that in France if you like or you can do that in the UK.

As for your baby story I would like to see some evidence that a GP broke a baby's hand and then forced the parents to flee the country to avoid having their baby taken by social services.

> What I hate is moving my mouse to the corner by accident during a DayZ fire fight and windows charms covering up my screen.

Turn off corner navigation.

> What I hate about Windows 8 is that it has two kinds of applications, from apparently two different universes and they can't interact, or if they can I can't figure it out. I just pretend one of them doesn't exist.

Metro and desktop applications can and do happily interact, I don't understand what you mean here.

> What I hate about Windows 8 is that I have to right click on start button

Why do you have to? You get a menu if you do but you don't have to, you used to get a menu if you right clicked the start button in Windows 7

> You drag your mouse into the top corner, then drag down to see all the open applications, this list also includes metro applications.

Just use Alt-Tab it works like it always has, you don't even need to see Metro

> The Windows 8 search thing is not even remotely as good as the old Windows 7 search

Here I have to respectfully disagree, IMHO the search in 8 is way better than in 7

Without wanting to make you even more angry and annoyed every one of the other issues seems to basically boil down to things have changed a bit and I don't like change.

Could you explain what it is that you actually hate about Windows 8? I keep on seeing this sentiment and I just don't get it. I've been using it since it was released and it just feels like 7 with a flatter desktop and a different start menu. I get that a lot of people lost their minds when there wasn't a button that you could click to get to the start menu but since that's been added in 8.1 if you want to completely ignore the new UI you pretty much can.

Is it just the fact that things have changed that causes all the hate or is there some rational explanation that I'm completely missing? You're right the Windows Store is pretty feeble but if you hate it's easy to ignore.

Why can't you use private windows in firefox instead?

OK, so that's a very link baity way of saying. I don't know JavaScript or how to use source control and when I come across unexpected behaviour in my code I don't take the time to understand the cause.

JavaScript is hard, it's a very loose language and it's implementation in browsers sets you up for all sorts of falls. If you're going to code using it you either need to be disciplined or understand it intimately, preferably both. The problems in the article were not caused by Ember.js

Scan and Observable are part of System.Reactive the other two are I think part of System or System.Data.Entity

Can you point me to where Electoral Roll data is already publicly available on EC websites?

> As a dotnet developer, you (and me too) put yourself into a position of ignorance. Then you wait for someone more senior to come out with a simple method that you could use

> for rapid prototyping. You rely on that senior person not because you can't code but because you really don't know the nuances of the framework you are leaning on. This

> refusal to learn the bare bones of HTML and adopt some micro framework creates the phenomenon where you are kind of hosed into grabbing the quickest path to productivity.

I couldn't disagree more and I would really like it if people would stop spreading this kind of nonsense. Being a .Net developer does not make you ignorant, some people choose to be ignorant that has nothing to do with the technology stack they're using. I am a .Net deveoper and I absolutely do not put myself in a position of ignorance, I actively work to reduce my ignorance on a daily basis and so do all the other good, .Net or not, developers I know.

html5test.com is a test of HTML 5 in the same way that w3schools.com is a school for the w3c. Just take a look at their FAQ http://html5test.com/about.html and you can almost instantly dismiss their scoring system.

Chrome and Firefox are awesome though.

> Is hardwired power required for new construction?

Yes [0], although this is obviously country specific.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_detector#Installation_and...

I did rather assume that but consider this a retraction of my assumption.

Oh please. I have a theory about people who talk with patronising disdain about how programming is easy and you can do everything with open source already. Work is work, if it was all fun you wouldn't get paid for it.

If most programmers want a challenge in their day job they could try learning how to communicate or how not to assume that everyone else is an idiot or even try and improve the processes their team use so that everyone benefits.

The biggest problem I find programmers coming up against is cummunication and understanding and yet 95% of them would rather point out how their immediate coding problem isn't challenging enough to their almighty brains.

Method B calls A it doesn't share any code and it is then explicit that one method is async and the other is not. You want to do two different things so why not have two methods?

So why don't you just define a non async method (A) and then one that is async (B) that calls A? If you want to run async then call B if not then call A.

If you could define a method as async and then call it either syncronously or not the whole point of the async keyword is lost. You would end up with the compiler doing a load of work because every developer will just slap async on every method just in case rather than actually thinking about what needs to be async and what doesn't.

Adding the async keyword is not a magic bullet, there's a huge amount of work going on under the hood every time you use it and it's important that developers appreciate that.

They probably didn't leave the country they probably left the area you live in and were sold on the net, via newspaper or in flea markets to someone who justified buying stolen goods in exactly the same way you just did.

Also the Azure management portal is written in typescript.

I honestly think it's a very informative article, clearly SQL Server doesn't adhere to the standard (whichever one you choose) but I'm not aware of any RDBMS that does so I was curious as to whether there was one.

There's lots of amazing databases around, each has their own quirks and as the gp says it's generally difficult to drop in replacements due to those quirks. There's a few listed in the article for SQL Server I'm sure anyone could easily find where others deviate from the spec too. But anyway getting back to what you said:

> He is giving examples of violating the standard

That's absolutely true and it's something every other RDBMS does.

So, just out of curiosity, which other RDBMS doesn't violate the standard?

Yeah unfortunately for WP7 you needed a Nokia device to get the Nokia apps, all WP8 devices get them though.

Windows Phone 8 has offline maps via Nokia Here, you can also use Nokia Drive to get offline navigation. Both are free and have helped me navigate without a data connection in Europe, Asia and North America.

In order to be testable there need to be a statistically significant number of women in CS programs so I assume from your comment that you arguing for them.

Or are you saying that these programs need to scientifically prove their value before existing in order to exist?

CS should belong to women as much as men and in an ideal world it would. But you're 55, how much has the percentage of women in CS increased since you were 21?

That is a slightly disingenuous question because I know the answer which is that it hasn't, it has in fact fallen. While I wish your argument were true it is clearly not.

How does open-source counter the issue of monoculture? If there is a monoculture and it's open source it still has the same problems. You can fork but there's a monoculture so your fork is irrelevant. You can submit a patch but there's a monoculture so your patch doesn't get accepted. Open source isn't a magic bullet, try forking Chrome and see how far you get without prominent adverts on the most popular page on the internet and investing millions into packaging your browser as part of Flash/Java/etc. updates.

IE only had a horrendously slow development cycle with minimal resources committed after it became a monopoly. Up until that point it was regularly updated with features and bug fixes.

I doubt that Chrome/WebKit will stagnate if it becomes the de facto standard but I'd rather it didn't have the chance and I'm constantly amazed that so many comments on HN seem desperate for one browser to rule them all.

I was rather hoping for some more independent statistics, those links are all to posts on your blogs with your numbers but anyway let's take Tesco for example.

Tesco is huge in the UK but let's be very conservative and estimate that they have 10 million customers a month (in reality I expect they have more customers than that in a day) apparently 6000 of those are engaged enough with QR codes to use them which is 0.06%. That's not a very impressive statistic from where I'm sitting.

> You are not a representative sample. If you look at the statistics for QR codes, you'll see that they are fairly widely used.

I would be fascinated to see those statistics, please share them.

Thanks padenot, it would be great if you could point me in the direction of where to find the builds.

Does anyone know the state of a Modern UI (what used to be called Metro) version of Firefox. I've recently switched to Windows 8 and love it apart from the lack of a native Firefox, obviously I can run the desktop version but I'd rather use the new UI where possible.

The last release/mention I found was a preview [1] in October last year and then nothing but tumbleweed ...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2012/10/04/firefox-m...

Don't worry it's late in the day here and took me a while to work it out. It's a joke, draw.io is always free.