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If only there were a framework for keeping track of all these frameworks!

Basically it just lets you drag little Christmassy type icons over top of your uploaded image. Kind of underwhelming, especially since the small dimension limits on uploaded files means you're basically going to obscure your entire logo with little pictures of gingerbread houses or whatever.

I actually have a Kin One and I really like it. The web browser kinda sucks because it's based on IE 6 but the messaging and actual phone parts are great and I love the UI.

If you have a PayPal account, having a bookmark for PayPal is not any more secure than typing paypal.com into your browser's address bar.

Yeah, the hover trick is only recommended for looking at URLs in e-mails before clicking them (no sane client would execute JavaScript contained in an e-mail), but really you should just never click a link in an e-mail anyway and open up a new window and type in the URL of the website.

Open a new browser window and type in PayPal.com rather than clicking any links in that "You need to update your information or your account will be shut down" e-mail.

Once you're actually on PayPal.com (or whatever), looking at the hover URLs is pointless.

I'm not really shocked by the slant to the advertisement.

However it's interesting because Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and they're using their advantage in that area to push their products, now that they make products.

Seems like a poor path to go down if you want manufacturers to keep selling products through your store.

It's also a weird marketing tack to take since "thinness" doesn't really matter on a desktop system. It's another example of Apple's impressive ability to shift the conversation (as polshaw mentioned above) when their products don't come out on top in traditional specs.

I'm holding out hope that Google is going to release an actual Metro-tailored UI for Chrome around the time of Windows 8 GA instead of the current thing which is basically just desktop Chrome locked on maximize.

It's going to take a while, but they are definitely going to keep moving in that direction. I think it's safe to expect future versions of Windows to continually de-emphasize and virtualize the desktop (much like what they did with DOS). Remember how they almost didn't release a version of Visual Studio Express 2012 that could target the desktop?

Judging by current trends, the number of versions of Windows available for purchase is tripling every week! By Christmas we'll have 59,049 versions of Windows to choose from!

Yeah, there's no way they don't make an exception for legitimate mature rated games. The restrictions are just there so they have something they can point to when they reject malware apps or apps that are blatantly promoting violence or drug use or whatever.

They just released a Netflix app, and you can watch as many R-rated movies on it as you like. You can certainly view adult content with any Metro-enabled web browser. There's no way, as a corporation, that they're going to give up the revenue stream that is mature rated PC games.

I expected it to be a plugin that replaces all the article titles to either "Vaporware Press Release" or "Trend Article Ending With Question Mark." :P

I agree, I don't see how implementing the same thing as Twitter but with missing features (like posting via SMS) is supposed to draw away Joe Everyuser.

The reason Twitter is popular is because there's a large active community of users and they do a good job of enabling you to discover and follow people you're likely to be interested in. It doesn't really matter how "open" it is, any more than it matters if Facebook or Tumblr are open.

WordPress works with a distributed "install it yourself" model because people use it to power their websites and they want configurability and extensibility. With social networks like Twitter, they want community and baked in support with devices and other services.

Tags: yahoo, Marissa Mayer, home page, joke

This. People don't even have Windows 8 tablets yet, and the OS itself is still only available to MSDN subscribers. Once the OS and devices hit store shelves development will ramp up exponentially.

Most iOS apps weren't developed before the iPhone was released. They were developed as a result of somebody getting an iPhone or an iPad, thinking "Why can't I do X with this?" and then building an app.

The internal name of the design style doesn't really have anything to do with whether people move to the new runtime API.

No platform can survive without 300 different "Fart button" apps!

Once someone has access to your e-mail, they can reset your password and log into anything that you used that e-mail to sign up for. With Dropbox, all they'd have access to is whatever files you happen to have in your Dropbox at the time.

Although each status update is a discrete element, so it's not as if the dual column layout really matters.

I mean, you're not reading a book-- it's more likely you'll read a status update and then expand and read the comments directly below it rather than reading a large number of statuses in a row.

The news feed is still in a single-column format because you might actually read quite a few in a row of those.

At any rate these extensions seem like an exercise in futility as Facebook will surely completely remove the non-timeline functionality sooner or later.

Yeah, I'm mostly curious how this codec stacks up against WebM/VP8 or whatever other free codecs are out there. It'd be nice to see something take off that's less encumbered by licensing issues.

I'm curious what kind of hardware will be required for playback-- my homebrew'd Wii already has trouble playing back highly compressed h.264 videos. I wonder how much more power will be required to decode high-motion scenes in real time with h.265?

Yeah, I understand why movie theaters are interested in 5k, but I don't think most people will be able to see the difference on home televisions.

Not that that will stop them from making them, but it'll be interesting to see what happens after 4k/5k when the limit of how much resolution the human eye can perceive has been surpassed.

They also likely have a much lower volume of files to manage, being non-technical and all. I could probably get by with the single folder level at home, where I mostly just browse the internet and watch video on my PC, but having to manage all my various projects at work would be a nightmare.

How are you supposed to check out a source code repository? Many frameworks require things to be in a specific folder structure in order to work.

I like the effect of the monochrome images inlaid in the "slate", though they could just do that with the new Windows 8 logo anyway. I don't think the slate shape does anything to fix his criticism that the new Windows logo looks "visually uncomfortable" when applied to devices however, his looks just as akimbo applied to the Surface, if not more so.

Introducing an entirely new API with Windows 8 is incredibly risky.

So basically he's just putting the controller methods in their own namespace. Which is all well and good, but I don't think anybody argues that all of your business logic has to be in the controller class for it to be considered MVC.

Yeah, I've always used MVC with a repository pattern for handling Model operations. The controller is still calling the operations here, and handling events triggered by the user.

The O and E in MOVE sounds effectively the same as the C in MVC.

Model objects are generally just POCOs (or POJOs, or whatever) and should not know about their storage mechanism or dealing with user events.

Sounds like he's basically been doing MVC wrong, and thinks MOVE is something new, when really it's just closer to the way MVC should be done in the first place.

I'm pretty sure it was solely because Zuck happened to have a LAMP host at his disposal at the time.

The API is what it is, but the real biggest problem with PHP is also it's biggest feature: it's got the lowest barrier to entry of any server-side language.

The result is that a lot of PHP is awful, cargo-cult stuff glued together by people who have no idea what they are doing.

It's possible for talented developers to create really good programs in PHP, but I don't see how a new language is going to solve the essential problem. People who don't really know how to program and just want to accomplish some simple goal are going to use whatever language is the quickest means to their ends.

Copy/paste spaghetti is a nightmare to maintain in any language. And the people creating it are the same people who are /not/ going to read Atwoods post, don't understand very much about how programming works in general, and will continue to create cruddy programs no matter what language it is written in.

You just need to find an organization with a culture that fits you well, just like in any other profession. If nothing fits with you, then yeah you probably aren't meant to be in that profession.