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Honest question; in a small MVP like this, how would I, as a developer, ensure that I cannot access user data? I understand that you can encrypt at the app or database level, but at the end of the day I would have (or could get) the encryption keys (obviously in an established company there would be protocol about who has access).

I guess you could use the users own password to encrypt the data, but then you're pretty stuffed if they forget it. Ideas?

I have one and I really like it, it's beautiful to use. I haven't used Android enough to compare it against, but having used an iPhone quite a bit, I think they're pretty even. iPhone is ahead on the the number and breadth of apps, but WP7 is better integrated (between contacts/facebook/pictures/twitter etc).

Regarding the voice commands, I've only ever used them to try them out (and results were patchy, maybe my South African accent), I couldn't imagine ever using them in everyday use, so I'm not too fussed about Siri (although it looks amazing from a tech point of view).

Damn, we're getting ever closer to Atwoods law!

"Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...

As @maw said, most top sites remove the http headers that identify the web-server. Also, if you had to take the top, I don't know, 10k sites by traffic, I would imagine all of them use a load-balancer, so how can netcraft know what the web-server is behind them?

Question; how does netcraft determine what web-server serves a particular domain? Most big sites hide those details in http headers, so how do they tell?

Nice idea, but very jerky for me (FF7)

Ditto on the WP7 integration, think it would be a killer feature. Would fit perfectly with the model they've taken with 3rd party platforms; merging account details from multiple sources (e.g. twitter, facebook), so click on a contact and "Call with Skype", rather than going into a seperate app.

Fair enough. I did just read this - "Various parts of Hadoop are executed using shell scripts that will only work on a Linux shell.". Sounds like you need Cygwin (currently). Guess those are the bits that will be ported.

I'm confused, if Hadoop is Java, what is there to port? Won't it just run as-is on Windows (Azure supports Java already)

For sure. Combine the 2 mistakes and you're pretty fucked

Haha, blame the client for copying and pasting between pages, that sounds fair.

This is also a pretty good case study of why using authentication frameworks is a very good idea.

Its sounds like a spectacularly stupid idea, but it appears to be opt-in, so the title is pretty misleading here.

Sorry me too, you're asking for too many permissions, why not just read-only if it's auth only?

Me too. With our history of repression you'd think they'd be a litte wary of who they jump into bed with.

That code is filled with all sorts of horrors (Sql injection, passwords in plain-text in DBs, passwords sent in query-string, all logic in web-layer), but redirecting in a using block is ok, the disposers will always be called (outside of fatal exceptions like StackOverflows)

In English?

Nope there is still the traditional desktop there if you want it (although no start menu anymore). The article is showing off explorer for the traditional desktop mode.

"Make It Simple! Stupid!" - they have such an UI - Metro.

If you read out all these new features, does it not strike you that they ARE building this for power users? I reckon Windows 8 is the transition OS, in the future MS will try get standard home users off the traditional desktop and onto Metro. There you probably won't even be able to see the file system at all...

I think MS is sort of splitting Windows for casual users and power-users. Casual users will eventually use Metro for everything and not use the current desktop paradigm. Will take a while though.

Wait a minute, are you really putting a negative spin on someone giving away their billions to charity?

They're different posts

What do the slides say just before this statement? "Unverified rumour"

I'm sure this is well intentioned, but wouldn't it leave employees to doubt whether they're taking too much leave (i.e. "Is my boss testing my Commitment?"). I can see how people may land up taking less leave due to fear of being judged to as work-shy.

> Polymorphism is an abstraction technique whose goal is substitutability

If you said that to students in lesson #1 of an OOP course no one will understand what you're talking about.

Sure maybe the Duck extends Animal example isn't a realistic one, but you've got to give students a chance to get their heads around the very basics first, and they can at least understand it by using simple real-life things.

Aren't you describing a niche here? Sure tablets are going to be great with some uses in business, travelling salesman, in meetings/presentations etc. But surely the vast majority of office employees sit behind a desk, making a cheaper more powerfull desktop computer the standard choice?

Surely buying is the safest long term scenario? I wouldn't want to be renting when I'm retired, as you become totally dependant on the rental market (i.e. if rents shoot up, you're screwed). Even if the housing market tanks and my house halves in value, at least I'll have somewhere to live.

If I look at my friends parents who live in some nice parts of London, there is zero chance they could afford to rent the houses they live in now, the ones they bought 30 years ago.

Think we're going need a new "who's suing whom" graph, getting hard to keep up... (http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/whos_suin...)

Wicked idea, nicely executed, wish I'd thought of it!

Got it to break; someone else here mentioned that when they cleared all bing.com cookies it generated the error - I got the same when I did that...

All the examples mentioned worked fine for me (on FF5, Chrome + IE9 on Windows 7). Weird...