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And indeed it wasn't popular at all with devs: http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-8-developers-are-shunni...

Have you ever travelled any metro at rush hour?

How can you say that? You're happy a sentence a man and his family in a far-off country to death based on what exactly?

Interestingly the Unaoil scandal wasn't even reported by the BBC (except a brief mention on their World Service). I'm interested to know exactly why this scandal on the other hand is being covered so heavily by them and other outlets.

Or to use the same logic, maybe the lack of Americans implicated in the Panama papers indicates the the US is behind them?

No, I just did the online update.

Even before the iPhone came out, people used the abbreviation "app" for "application".

Source: I was around then ;)

This version actually installed a lot faster than the last update for me. Still kinda slow but not half-a-day slow.

Slightly off-topic, but isn't Oracle a bit of a dangerous name to use? I seem to remember it was something to do with some big company or other... ;)

This is becoming very off-topic, but if absolutism doesn't apply in the highly-ordered world of programming, to me it's even less likely to apply in messy real-life.

Not weird at all from where I stand: taxes cut to the rich, raised for the poor. Standard policy for Mr Osbourne.

We recently switched from a source package using MySQL to the omnibus package and the migration to Postgresql was really easy and went without a hitch.

Do you have anything to back this up? To me, they are biased to the establishment/center right, which seems borne out by at least one study:

http://www.newstatesman.com/broadcast/2013/08/hard-evidence-...

I'm not so up on Java, could someone explain why they chose "->" for lambdas instead of the "=>" that C# and ES6 use, as those languages seem to me like they would be the first place to look for inspiration.

I think this video is a good explanation you can use to refer to people with that misunderstanding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfSm6o-KlQ

(Assuming it's correct - I'm not physicist)

I think because the tone of the article itself is so horrible. I honestly couldn't read it.

Americans always assume you're from the US. Americans are famous for their unawareness of the world outside (as I'm sure you know, in reality)

I'm 40 and I think I might be the only person who really just doesn't give a shit?

I mean, I feel a bit different, sure - but do I really feel much different to when I was 20? Not really. You do some things, then you do some other things, life continues. Maybe if you stop thinking so much about it you'll feel better.

I don't think telling you how to format your code for a particular language is a bad thing. I am quite happy using { on a new line in C# but on the same line in JS, using underscore_separated_method_names in C and camelCasedMethodNames in Java. To me, once you've been round the block with more than one or two languages you can get used to whatever style, but using the style for the language that you're writing in is something you should try to do for other people who read your code.

Reading Java code that uses undercore_separated_method_names or C# code that uses camedCased immediately makes me think the author doesn't know what s/he's doing.

I'd suggest following the link that was posted.

Indeed, I was hoping it was going to be more stuff like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdDD9ViRZz4

I wonder how many of these techniques could be/are applied in other VMs such as the JVM or .NET?

It makes me wonder what sort of developer is still using VB6 and still liking it? I moved onto .NET around 2003 and even at that time it seemed such an improvement over VB6 that I couldn't imagine going back even then. Do you know any VB6 developers? What are they like?

Wait, did you just equate caring for minorities and people in positions where they can easily be taking advantage of, to buying TVs for people branded with a politicians face? I think you did. And you did it in an incredibly condescending manner to boot. If that's what waking up feels like, I'd rather stay asleep thank you.

I am really tempted to set up a new account just so that I can post "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" to each MS article. Just that. Three words. Each article.

The only reason I don't do it is that I'm afraid it won't be distinguishable from a small percentage of the HN readership who do so seriously.

Really, it gets boring.

This was a very touching story, and like others have said, I'm very pleased the author has found his feet again.

However, remember that for many people life is like this every day and has been since childhood. These people don't have the resources, skills or networks to pull themselves out of such situations as did the author.

Next time you're tempted to judge someone who has less than you (and everyone judges based on their own experiences, it's all we can do) - remember that you've had it good, despite the downs and maybe they deserve some help too.

This is something I need to keep reminding myself of regularly.

Just a quick plug then for my own project: https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/

That can be made even simpler in C#:

var blah = () => "im a function";

In what way is it more difficult in C#? C# has lambda syntax:

   obj.Function(() => { ... });

What are the legal implications of this? As far as I understood reverse engineering using disassembled code isn't legal. And this isn't just reading the disassembled code - they're taking it wholesale.