BlakePetersen

The most definitely do!

Thanks, I think my initial comment was a bit misguided and the feedback here has definitely made me reconsider my preconceptions.

However, it should be noted that Macs make for amazing Windows machines.

You are probably correct in that the trend has changed. My feeling is that it may be that the companies we do business with are a bit more established and they may still be subject to the decisions made during a trend-phase that doesn't really make financial sense to step away from and build again from scratch, but if those decisions were made now, it may be taken in a different direction.

But the fact that they no longer have such a strong foothold in their home turf is a bit concerning for MS I'm sure. That's why I was curious to see whether there was any effort on MS's part to change their approach and invest more in grassroot business building that will establish those long lasting relationships with brands that will be both valuable and recognizable in the future.

Great feedback. Thank you!

Yea, my specific instances may be speaking to too narrow of a sampling of Seattle Start-up scene, and it may be that the vendors we do business with are a bit more mature than what is featured here.

Mainly, I was wondering if there is any sort of outreach by MS to any of these small companies. I know they have a presence in the Valley and have MS Ventures to nurture fledgling companies with start-up capital, but as far as strategizing to keep new companies in their ecosystem long-term, I was curious to see what sort of efforts they are putting forth to address this.

From my experience, working with any vendors from the pacific northwest, they're all MS shops. Is this trend changing considering the added expense of working with any MS Licensed software (where an OSS solution with little or no cost could suffice)? Does MS offer incentives to local startups to build their platform on existing licensed MS products? Or is it more of a Seattle Pride thing? I personally don't feel the MS Business model is one the works well for scrappy young start-ups, yet pretty much every company in the Pac Nor Dub I've worked is completely MS'd out.

I didn't even know there was a MS service called Lync until we did a training with Mercent (FYI, Lync doesn't work on Linux, I was shocked too).

I actually just noticed the menu scaling feature (new in 14.04) over the weekend. And it is "multi-monitor" in scope as it can be defined per monitor as opposed to globally.

I doubt that feature was approached with a "This better make up for the Ubuntu phone!" mindset.

Some features that may be lacking would be some Ultramon offers, like menu bar buttons to send the window to the another monitor or span the entire set of screens, but now that I run a 3-monitor set up with two in portrait mode, that sort of feature doesn't really strike my fancy. Plus dragging works.

What practical features do you feel are lacking from the current Ubuntu implementation?

Don't provide alternative viewpoint, just downvote.

Allow people not on your payroll to take care of these sort of low-return items. (Open Source?!)

Because they are complaining about factors that an Open Source approach would mitigate, like development resources and targeting features that make the most money as opposed to what benefits the community.

If Windows was Open Source, this would have been addressed a long time ago as this feature is desirable to what one would consider a power user. Advanced users are also the ones who roll up their sleeves and will fix a problem if they can, especially if no one from the parent company is making any effort to do so. But, thanks to Closed Source protectionism, they can't. And because their value to Microsoft is the same as any other user as they pay the same license fees as anyone else, the voice of the power user is drowned out and their concerns are never addressed.

This is just one glowing example of Closed Source working against the betterment of a platform.

Seriously, how can one NOT reach the same conclusion?

So, essentially the answer is, "We're not Open Source." Nice.

Looks like their WP DB borked...

If this can scan for carbs/sugars, this could be a real winner within the Diabetic community. I would love to be able to eat out and be able to scan my meal and know for sure how much insulin I should take.

Maybe this could even be used in conjunction with an insulin pump and some sort of sensor to determine the amount of food consumed and, BAM, artificial pancreas. (It's that easy! LOL)

HAHAHA. The first thing a French founder does is learn English so they can start finding funding.

If only the french treated Startups with the same respect they treated their Football/Soccer clubs...

"You CAN be 'rich', but only if you are a professional football player. They're the only one's who actually deserve to keep the money they make."

Use a tablet, not a laptop. ;P

You're correct, however I would not consider nerd selfies as pleasurable. Not Useful.

Yea, soon as I heard it, I noped outta there. Not worth muting... Just, nope.

12834982 -- can't believe I can still remember it. I haven't signed on in well over a decade. Kinda proud, not gunna lie. And according to Google, my last nickname was "Blake's Alright", must have been going through some teenage melancholy at the time, haha

So, you're suggesting him just giving up on his site and moving on? One issue that wasn't even his fault and he should walk away?

I guess trying to ask for advice and acting on that advice, all the while learning more and more about the potential attack vectors one should be aware of when dealing with these relatively new cryptocurrency services, is a shit idea.

BTW, love your intolerant handle. I guess you'd be bashing me then. Sorry my taste in music differs from yours, please don't "bash" me.

cowers in fear as the old, bitter hippie grabs his cane

I agree, this may be a more effective approach than trying to block the IP and the whole whack-a-mole issue.

Essentially, they trust the data you're providing and are trying to make a buck off that info. But if they lose that trust because they don't know whether the data is legit or not, you win!

I would also try to mask the fact that the data is not accurate, if they immediately see everything as simply zeroed out, it would be a huge red flag you're on to them. If you provide them ALMOST correct data, it would be harder for them to determine what's going on and their users will see realize the disparity and (hopefully) get burned and never come back.

Essentially, the trick is to destroy the site's credibility so there's no financial benefit to continue to steal from you.

Good Luck!

As a consumer-facing corporate web developer, I am constantly thinking about the design decisions sites make and whether there's anything I can glean from the perceived approach. When spending my time on apachefriends.org this week, it was always on my mind, especially with the narrow layout and that baby icon (seriously spent 5 minutes thinking... 'but... why?').

Unfortunately, I am required to code on a windows machine for my current 9 to 5, so I am fairly limited as to what tools I have to get a LAMP stack up and running quickly and locally. So, XAMPP is my homie for now and it's site is one I kick around from time to time, especially when trying to figure out how to turn off AsychDNS in the curl library (yea... you have to rebuild the lib... fun stuff).

Regarding the download pages, I feel the versioning makes sense if you assume the higher XAMPP version correlates to the higher PHP version, which makes sense to me.

Oh WOW! After kicking around the XAMPP docs for the last week, the difference is night and day. Literally, they were using a 600px fixed-width layout... with a baby as the home page icon?

https://web.archive.org/web/20140123124247/http://www.apache... <-- Only thing missing is here is the dial-up connection

Let's help Chris fill out his for loop list...

Lua:

for i = 1, 2, 3 do

    print (i)

end

Didn't think it was necessary... but... /S

For the true hacker experience, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOHell

There may have been a number of other factors at play that led to the decision to have windows 8.1 as the default. I wouldn't immediately jump to "shitty code" as the culprit here, especially when the tool works exactly as it should for it's intended audience. It may have been something as simple as developing this tool before having confirmation as to which user-agent win 8.1 would use at time of launch (is it be 5.2? nope, bumped up to 5.3. Good thing we put in that fallback before pushing into production!) or evaluating the ROI on supporting an 'other/unknown' fallback with additional development.

One may consider putting resources toward developing code for a user-base that provides no return on the development investment is 'shitty coding'.

You offer a tool that's directed at a certain group of people, namely those who are running Windows (which is apparent by the question it seeks to answers, "Which WINDOWS operating system am I running?") Then some mac user struts in, takes off his Wayfarers and goes, "Let's see what it will do when I check what version of Windows my MAC is running heh heh heh -- OH LOOK AT THOSE IDIOTS IN REDMOND! THEY 'CLAIM' I AM ON WIN8.1! WHAT MORONS. Market Share Conspiracy Rabble Rabble"... and so on.

It's like a dude signing up for a Gynecologist appointment online and then questioning why they 'claim' you are a woman in the background questionnaire.

I mean, come the on... Is this really trending at #2?

Dude, that site is riddled with out-dated and now black-hat seo tricks. It was just asking to be blacklisted.

Get that cheater off my SERPs, I wanna go with the honest portrait quilt providers.

I tend to agree that its a cultural issue and the values that culture champions, not an explicitly racial issue. There's no law of nature keeping black females from coding, but the values traditionally promoted by the culture black females tend to identify with doesn't include coding, which Kimberly Bryant is trying to change. If they actively kept non-black females who identify with this culture from joining, I would feel a bit more concerned that it's heading down the wrong path. According to the Eventbrite link, no such requisites are stated, only that the program is intended for females aged 7-17.