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A lot of great discussion on this article popped up when it was first written: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4364370

Microsoft actually does provide Visio to students through Dreamspark.

> "No wait; do you think, at all?"

Frankly, I'm offended and disappointed that you've decided to turn this into a pointless personal attack. You already know you're being rude and belligerent, so moderate yourself instead of throwing out a condescending rant.

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism for a few groups that the FBI has historically monitored (PETA IS on that list). Given that all of these organizations have been accused of actions that endanger the safety and property of other American citizens, the FBI isn't doing its job if it doesn't monitor them. The Occupy movement could easily have spawned destructive or violent protests, and being unprepared would have been irresponsible of the Bureau.

Of course they did. Let's ignore for a moment that protest groups (like PETA) are usually considered some of the highest risks for terrorism; it would be irresponsible of the bureau to take the protest at face value and assume they have completely peaceful intentions.

Obligatory XKCD comic reference: http://xkcd.com/1049/

A lot of this advice goes for those who are looking for their first co-ops and internships, too. If you haven't built experience yet, your GPA becomes a critical flag for how you dedicate yourself to the work you've been given. Combine that with interesting projects, and you'll be well on your way to getting the internships that will make you stand out later.

Is this just a re-implementation of the Google Maps API? Does it have the same one-MapView-per-process restriction as the Google version?

Every invention solves a problem, or else it has no reason to exist. Patents are supposed to protect the person who found a particular solution first; this isn't new.

I'm sure it was wrong of Eli Whitney to patent the cotton gin, too, since that's clearly the only way to quickly separate cotton seeds and fibers.

> Instead of waiting, consumers are buying MacBooks, iPads, Google's Nexus 7, and large-screen Android phones.

Yet the author offers no data that supports this conclusion. No real insights here.

Article summary: If you're not a prodigy, it's not worth your time because you'll never be any good.

If you have ideas, the author points out that he's accepting contributions from the community: https://github.com/codeguy/php-the-right-way

If I need something from my user directory, I always add ~\Desktop, just like Linux.

Why do uninformed rants from SemiAccurate keep getting posted here? Come on Hacker News, you can do better.

Anything you need a Run dialog for, you can just press the Windows key and start typing. Everything in your path shows up, with "recently used" suggestions on the right side, and quick feedback if you mistype something.

Careful, I don't think this is a "Apple patented executable code" situation. It looks more like the process is to build instructions to help concurrency, not just generalize program execution and compilation.

When the titles of most patents are taken in isolation, link bait is usually the result.

Not really news - the date on the article is April 30.

But it wouldn't weed out the people who can do well on tests but can't apply their skills to real problems. Part of the interview process is getting a better look at the person behind the resume, and mailing in test scores defeats that.

Also, all the SAT does is see how well you can take a 4-hour test.

That's why schools like RIT have a Software Engineering program. Learn the basics of CS, then go build real software with it.

I get the impression that the issue lies more with engineers' inability to choose a language based on the problem, and being forced into Java whether it made the most sense or not.

Except that Google+ is the new backbone of Google, not a research project.

Stop calling research products "Microsoft's new X." If it was a serious social network, you'd be hearing much more about it than this.

Cooking may not be the best analogy. What if everyone started learning to build bridges instead? Sure, the general population might benefit from knowing how bridges work and what loads they can take, but when a bunch of inexperienced, improperly educated bridge-builders start trying to create new ones because it pays well, we end up with dangerous bridges.

Jeff's article is trying to point out that while understanding code isn't a bad thing, coding isn't the most important part of writing software. Those who think it is end up writing code without purpose, something I consider as dangerous in the long term as shoddy bridges.

All I get in IE10 is a spinning loading screen.

For the gameplay, I doesn't seem like I can select the right state while the map is rotating. Not to mention that hitting the small states is incredibly hard when they're moving targets. If clicking is supposed to stop while rotating, you might want to make it happen much faster.

Are you sure you can't run them on one machine safely? Press F12 and press the "Browser Mode" button. That covers everything through IE 7 in about 3 seconds.

I was always taught the same thing. Most people use "I think" or "in my opinion" in a way that weakens their persuasive argument (what high school students typically have to write), so forbidding it forces them to write with confidence in their position. It's part of the formality of that type of writing.

In contrast, blogs are much more personal. I think it's ok to say that your statement is your opinion in that context, especially when you're writing a prediction like this.

Personally, I like it as it is. You took a bold stance and made a radical prediction, forcing the reader to think about how your inevitable future contrasts with their own predictions. If only that happened more on the internet.

I don't understand why msysgit is always considered an obstacle to using Git on Windows. I suspect the author isn't aware that one of the options in the installer is to "use Git from the Windows command prompt," which adds the got executable to the system path. I use Git from Powershell almost daily, and it works fine.

Not a bad plan, actually, since most of the garbage on Facebook's stream has always been the result of pointless apps. Google+ doesn't need to be cluttered with dozens of "What piece of office furniture are you?" quizzes.

NASA's putting quite a bit of effort into educating the public, or at least, more than they were a few years ago. I'm hoping things like this and the Lego sets they built will get us interested in space again.

Fake. The hardware shot came from a recent article by Paul Thurrott on the Windows start button: http://www.winsupersite.com/article/windows8/windows-8-secre...

If there's anything we've learned from the Engineering Blogs, they don't make major changes like this unless they have some kind of data that supports it.

I suspect we haven't even seen half of the things that will make this paradigm work, and I'd bet they have extensive Usability tests to back all of it up.