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integratonon When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared

The person you are responding to doesn't say anything about Chrome. WebKit can be built on Windows and Linux and there are browsers that use WebKit that support Windows and Linux.

integratonon When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared

Total market share is not useful in this context, since contributions to innovation are not evenly distributed among the global set of computer systems.

integratonon The new MacBook

If it was expected to be a common use case, it would be included as a core feature. Furthermore, the number of people for whom "show[ing] up to give a presentation anywhere in the world" is a common use case is likely very small. I would go so far as to speculate that people in that category are greatly outnumbered by people across all demographics who use their laptops for sending emails, browsing the web, using productivity software, organizing media, and doing other software-centric tasks.

integratonon The new MacBook

That particular use case is apparently not expected by Apple to be a common use case for the target market of this particular device. Fortunately, other devices with different features focused on different usage patterns are available for purchase from Apple and other manufacturers. It's strange that this is at all controversial.

integratonon The new MacBook

In the current era of ubiquitous saas/cloud services, abstracted file systems, multiple device types, large internal storage options, dropbox, box, drive, and icloud, there are many, many people who haven't used a USB drive in years (or ever) and have no use for one.

integratonon The new MacBook

Not every device needs to fill every use case. Apple apparently has reason to believe that use cases that require simultaneously using the port for multiple purposes are rare enough among potential users of the MacBook that they don't need to support those use cases. If this particular product doesn't provide all of the features you need, there are other products available from Apple and other manufacturers with additional features.

integratonon Angular 2: Built on TypeScript

Microsoft is currently in the middle of a push to get more developers onto their proprietary platforms. Microsoft isn't doing these things because they are just so friendly and selfless. These are strategic moves.

Not only are these strategic moves, they are strategic moves by a large company aimed at competing with people like me who develop software on multiple platforms and contribute, unpaid, to an open software ecosystem.

integratonon Understanding .NET 2015

Playing along with the exercise (by temporarily ignoring everything else that indicates the Java is far more popular than C#) and just using your job site approach, it seems that the UK is pretty different from the US.

Looking at US job search sites, Java has about 2 times as many results as C# in the US overall, and 3-6 times as many in SF and New York. Java even has almost twice as many results in Seattle.

From indeed.com:

Java - 81,818 [1]; C# - 35,623 [2];

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=java&l=

[2] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=C%23&l=

comments:

- Java has more results than even ".NET", which encompasses more than just C#: 73,971 http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=.NET&l=

- C# has about the same number of results as Python: 35,072 http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=python&l=

From StackOverflow:

Java - 794 [1]; C# - 479 [2]

[1] http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=java

[2] http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=C%23

From indeed.co.uk (the only one that has a similar ratio as itjobswatch.co.uk):

Java - 25,478 [1]; C# - 28,037 [2]

[1] http://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=java&l=

[2] http://www.indeed.co.uk/jobs?q=C%23&l=

From indeed.com, Bay Area:

Java - 5,997 [1]; C# - 1,013 [2]

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=java&l=San+Francisco%2C+CA&radi...

[2] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=C%23&l=San+Francisco%2C+CA&radi...

From indeed.com, New York:

Java - 6,941 [1]; C# - 2,548 [2]

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=java&l=New+York%2C+NY&radius=25

[2] hhttp://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=C%23&l=New+York%2C+NY&radius=25

From indeed.com, Seattle:

Java - 3,832 [1]; C# - 2,124 [2]

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=java&l=Seattle%2C+WA

[2] http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=C%23&l=Seattle%2C+WA

integratonon Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?

You can't predict the future, the standards process is messy, and Apple hasn't actively taken a public position, so at this time your comment is disingenuous.

integratonon Is Apple stifling progress in Web standards?

Microsoft significantly stifled progress on the web for a decade. Now, after WebKit's progress wrestled away Microsoft's dominance and eventually forced Microsoft to spend years trying to catch up, Microsoft wants everyone to get out the pitchforks because Apple isn't supporting Microsoft's latest pet standard fast enough.

integratonon Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say

That position depends on the assumption that criminalization is benign. However, it's entirely possible that criminalization harms more lives and creates a greater strain on society than the act itself, as has very likely been the case with the broader criminalization of marijuana.

Defaulting to the position of criminalization regardless of the evidence, particularly in this context given the history and impact of existing marijuana policy, will likely perpetuate the creation of flawed policy.

integratonon Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say

> drive under the influence

The research about Marijuana's impact on driving is inconclusive, but there are indications that it might have no negative impact (for the most recent example: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1667...) and even that it might reduce risks of crashes.

As a result, it's unfortunate that it's apparently socially acceptable to assume without question that marijuana has a negative impact on driving. New research could still demonstrate that it does not, just as new research has been strongly suggesting that our other assumptions are likely flawed. If marijuana is found to not be dangerous for drivers, then it will very unfortunate that we've promoted yet another misconception about it due to unchecked assumptions.

integratonon Io.js 1.3.0 released

As far as I can tell, The Bloomberg Way is the only major guide that encourages that, and Bloomberg's own editorial standards are inconsistent such that they only use it half of the time: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:bloomberg.com+iphone

integratonon Io.js 1.3.0 released

I'm not sure which Observer you are referring to, but the well-known one with a famous style guide (http://www.theguardian.com/info/series/guardian-and-observer...), the Guardian / Observer, consistently use "iPhone"

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:theguardian.com+iphone

See the sections "capitals" and "company names" here http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-c

In particular:

"In general, we use the names that companies use themselves: c2c, Capgemini, easyJet, eBay, ebookers, iSoft Group, etc."

integratonon Io.js 1.3.0 released

That's not true at all. You shouldn't capitalize a brand name like iPhone, for example.

http://english.stackexchange.com/a/9065

integratonon Extracting the SuperFish certificate

In the US for the past many decades the word "ghetto" has referred to qualities associated with poor urban american neighborhoods, specifically black neighborhoods, and only has a historical connection to jewish ghettos.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/27/306829915/seg...

integratonon Bringing asm.js to the Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10

The fact that it was stagnant, ubiquitous, limited to Windows, and encouraged ActiveX were the major issues, since it made it more difficult and expensive to develop and transition to web applications for about a decade.

integratonon The State of Go

Also known as "easter egg navigation."

integratonon Why OCaml, why now? (2014)

F# seems like a very nice language, but it won't really be compelling outside of the Microsoft bubble until it's divorced from the thick layer of Microsoft .CORP Brand Identity 2010, Visual Studio Visual Studio Visual Studio, and posts from Microsoft Outreach Engineers.

Compare these two Stack Overflow "getting started with" answers for Haskell http://stackoverflow.com/a/1016986 and F# http://stackoverflow.com/a/11974625 With the Haskell answers I don't know or care what platforms, operating systems, editors, or IDEs they are using. With the Microsoft answer it's like a dystopian scene filled with Branding, Branding, and more Branding.

Personally, I spend a lot of time experimenting with languages and ecosystems and the ".NET" platform is the only one where I feel the need to put on a plaid shirt and dockers with a Windows Phone on my belt and schedule a conference call with a committee at Microsoft to tell them to give it a rest already.

integratonon Sublime Text 3 builds picking up steam again

You can use arrow keys, Ctrl/Cmd+x/c/v, and your mouse in gvim and macvim just like any other editor.

integratonon Windows 10 for Raspberry Pi 2

After using Ubuntu Desktop recently for the first time in a few years, I completely agree. I'm really surprised it's not more popular yet.

integratonon Microsoft announces Project Spartan, its new web browser for Windows 10

> a Webkit/Blink dominated monoculture is bad

Gecko exists.

Furthermore, having many browsers using Webkit, Blink, and Gecko isn't "bad," and calling it a "monoculture" is a weasel word attempting to link it to the problem of IE's dominance in the 2000s. The problem with the 2000s IE monoculture wasn't just that it was a monoculture, it was that it was closed source, stagnant, and mostly single-platform. Webkit, Blink, and Gecko aren't.

integratonon Github Student Developer Pack includes Visual Studio and Dreamspark

This post is about the GitHub student developer pack.

integratonon Farm 432

Insects are more closely related to lobsters and shrimp than they are to spiders and millipedes, and genetic studies suggest that insects evolved from crustaceans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod#Classification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrustacea

integratonon Intel Compute Stick

What are the existing products this will compete with?

integratonon Ask HN: What is the best JavaScript stack for a beginner to learn?

To provide a counterpoint to many of the responses here, I find that the best way to ramp up quickly in a language is to build a few small things using one or two of the main frameworks or libraries, rather than trying to just learn the language or specifically working only with microframeworks.

There are a lot of benefits that come from using mainstream existing frameworks and libraries from the beginning. You learn conventions pretty quickly, and immediately learn to write idiomatic code for that language. When you use a major framework or library there are typically a lot of blog posts and stackoverflow answers, more so than just for a language itself. When you track down errors you'll end up learning about how the frameworks and libraries work, and thereby learning about how to implement things you wouldn't have considered independently.

As a result, what I'd recommend is coming up with two extremely simple ideas for tools that he'd find useful for himself and implement one each with Ember and React.

Personally, I've been following this approach for many years (I'm currently simultaneously working on three new projects in multiple new-to-me languages like this) and it works extremely well in my experience.

integratonon Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (1996)

"SQL" is pretty complicated:

http://patorjk.com/blog/2012/01/26/pronouncing-sql-s-q-l-or-...

integratonon The Party Is Over for Amazon

The New Republic's majority owner, publisher, and editor in chief is Chris Hughes, one of the Facebook cofounders.

integratonon Ask HN: How did Microsoft hold back the Internet for 6-7 years?

Additionally, many enterprise web applications developed in the early 2000s solely targeted IE and often used ActiveX controls, which made many companies standardize on IE6, and in turn made IE6 support (and dealing with its limitations and bugs) a requirement for most web applications. The result was that even as other browsers started to innovate, it wasn't practical to leverage those advancements in many web applications.

integratonon Semantic UI 1.0 released

I'm not even joking when I say that the creator of this framework should consider going into marketing or sales. It's pretty impressive that he managed to take a framework that violates so many semantic HTML principles that it seems like it's being done on purpose, have the audacity to then call it "Semantic UI," and actually have it get some level of traction.

It's like if someone took a bunch of iron beams, claimed that they were actually 100% natural wood, and managed to get a bunch of people to buy them.