josephcooney

Treating Microsoft as a single, whole, coherent, consistent, and logical entity is the first mistake you make when trying to understand their actions and motivations.

How old was the webcam?

So, as per usual, when apple stuff doesn't work it is the user's fault. Right?

So why are they updating at all then? If they don't expect any change (either positive or negative) why are they doing it?

When you sit back and look at it web application development is a total disaster. If you tried to conceive of the "ideal" UI platform (or even a "good" one) you would never, in a million years, come up with what we've got now. It is a testament to the skills of everyone in the industry that things like google maps, Gmail etc. can be built on this sky-scraper of bananas. No wonder it is hard to learn.

Wow, awesome. How could you not write/create something beautiful working there.

Plus there are some truly amazing library interiors. The state library of NSW is one that springs to mind. A really uplifting setting.

[large-ish image, but doesn't do it justice] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Mitchell_...

What do you mean by "upgradable components"? Apple aren't looking too good in this regard of late.

"He seriously that that was a good line?"

Ironic.

No, but they still had a choice.

Apple had the choice of shipping nothing at all, or licencing map data from someone else.

How does google force Apple to ship broken software again? I've forgotten....

I'm glad you reminded me that Steve Blank is the only living authority on start-ups, and that the word start-up can only mean precisely what he says, and nothing else.

Is it just me, or does the digital version have a more prominent drop shadow on the hands, and thus look more "real" than the real watch?

Same thing goes for the word 'incredible'.

What teams inside MS do you think are dragging their feet?

I think the nazis stole the bird iconography from the romans.

I disagree. After using and enjoying my iPhone 4 for quite a while my next phone is going to be android, to see how the other half lives. $10 in the play store and a few hours making sure all my settings are synched should be sufficient (and the synching I would have had to do anyway to go from iPhone 4 -> iPhone 5).

re: the abolition of slavery and your economic argument - do you believe this to be the case in all instances where slavery was abolished? or just in the US? Spain abolished slavery circa 1550. Great Britain abolished slave trade circa 1810. Did the US just lag these economies (and GB lag Spain) a lot at this point?

It's an easy mistake to make - to assume two things with the same name might be similar. Especially when paper documents have been called thus for a very long time.

It seems like another instance where all the good names were taken. http://jcooney.net/post/2012/04/03/Transaction-Argument-Clas...

How? I would love to do it!

One time my friend trolled another friend of mine by pretending to be one of these "PLZ SEND TEH CODEZ NOWWW" people. It was quite amusing. The "victim" did a write-up here http://buffered.io/posts/go-with-your-instinct

Minimum. Viable. Product.

This seems to have been written before the Apple v. Samsung verdict was handed down.

Script# is alive and well AFAIK. It is hosted on github, with about 9 commits from the primary author in the last week.

https://github.com/nikhilk/scriptsharp/commits/master

Why is / inherently better as a path delimiter than \ ? DOS was built to be compatible with VMS and other DEC OS's, which used / as a switch character.

Don't they say that EVERY firefox release?

Plus the ink from a fountain pen stays "sumdgier" longer than modern pens.

I think even if your handwriting is crap a fountain pen just looks better, or at least more auspicious. Horrible for lefties of course, but very nice to use if you're right-handed.

re: your privacy concern - if that is the concern why did you mention the SSLv2 stuff at all? Although I really don't like smart-screen filter there are really only two ways this could work - Win8 downloads a big white/black list every night, or it checks each time an .exe is launched. I don't think it is particularly shocking that it does the latter.

Microsoft already gathers lots of information from customer experience improvement data and crash dumps and stuff like that, and goes to tremendous efforts to ensure that it is never traceable back to an individual. I don't know for sure but I'd be surprised if the same policies were not in play here also.