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dbgllmon Google+ Redesigned

You widen the single-post, maybe add inner padding, increase line-height, font-size. It just looks weird otherwise, the post is too narrow. Make it look like its comfortable in its environment instead of very shy and afraid to take any space.

dbgllmon Show HN: Amazon Search on Steroids

I really like the interface.

I played with resizing the window of my Chrome browser to see how it would react, and the UI is resizing really well. However I did it quite a few times, from phone size to desktop size, and after a bunch of times the sidebar (with categories)'s scrolling is getting more and more sluggish. Just so you know.

dbgllmon Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world

Yeah it felt like a superficial reflection the author wanted to concretize in words. It certainly prompts discussion but it provides only fragile arguments.

dbgllmon Why professors, pundits, and policy wonks misunderstand the world

It seems to load again. Stability issues perhaps?

dbgllmon Show HN: Postleaf – Open source blogging platform

Reminds me of the Ghost blogging platform, tho there's inline editing for non-devs. Neat, competition is fun.

dbgllmon Mark Zuckerberg on the next 10 years of Facebook

>Compared to other giants of our industry he seems dull and irrelevant

Well, that is if you only view facebook.com, the product. But the tech that it supports and develops can be pretty cool. Oculus, React, and all kinds of research stuff. A bit like you don't necessarily regard Bell at anything exciting but it still finances Bell Labs which is pretty cool.

But I realize that's not what we're talking about.

dbgllmon Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem

You mention a target as compliance or certification, but I don't think this is a direct concern for the WSL. They want to support specific use-cases, at least at first.

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"Moving forward we will be investigating new areas of interest while continuing to support the following scenarios:

+ GNU command line tools such as grep, sed, and awk

+ File system and symlink support within the WSL environment

+ Ability to run apt / apt-get for installs, updates, and package testing

+ Basic functionality for languages such as NodeJS/npm, Python, Perl

+ Command line tools such as Vim, Emacs, Git, and SSH"

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2016/07/08/bash-on-ubun...

dbgllmon Satya Nadella just fixed Microsoft’s biggest problem

I don't think your kernel of choice is of direct interest here; I'm fairly certain what you're interested in is access to your familiar tools, which the "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" system would potentially provide.

As for a POSIX sub-system on Windows, well there once existed such a system that was near-compliant, but MS stopped supporting it a few years back. As for Wine, I think cygwin fulfills a similar role.

Anyway, you want your tools. You might even want your familiar filesystem and its hierarchy. I think the primary reason Microsoft deemed it worth it to implement Bash on Ubuntu on Windows was to provide webdevs access to the same tools they had on osx/linux.

All in all, I think a bit of reading on these subjects would help, because I think you're confusing the kernel with the userland.

Note: I'm faily young and inexperienced, and when I heard the "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" announcement, I didn't really know what the meant. But learning about these bits on wikipedia/various blogs was certainly interesting.