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It seems to only work if you left align all your content.

At least that's how it is on Windows.

One government to rule the world. One government elected by the bankers and corporations and global slavery for the rest of us.

Absolute drivel. Where to start? There isn't only one government in this world. And most 1st world governments are republics of one form or another (elected officials representing a slice of the population). Bankers have a vote, but certainly not the only vote. Etc, etc.

He's either trolling or stupid. Either way it's not worth arguing, hence the downvotes.

He does in his book. But a blog post has to have a limited scope or it becomes a rambling mess.

From wiki: "Zero-day attacks occur when a vulnerability window exists between the time a threat is released and the time security vendors release patches."

A flaw exists. No released patches yet.

The whole thing is 81 pages. You could read it in an afternoon.

Remember, his article was about time management. The whole basis of his argument is that college kids assume "boring" code can be done quickly and thus can be delayed to last possible second.

The truth is "boring" code usually means API code, user interface code, and input processing code. They may involve concepts that CS students have already learned, but it certainly isn't a breeze. It's not whether or not a student can do it - it's how fast they can ship a working product.

As for the rest of what you wrote, you seem to have some grudge against Joel. Maybe it's just manufactured to produce traffic. But that's just my cynicism leaking through.

Real products (products that actually make money) consist of a few thousand lines of "fun" algorithm code and hundreds of thousands of lines of "boring" code.

But code length wasn't even the main point of his essay - time management was.

Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine)

Paul Buchheit (Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail)

Jason Fried (Founder, 37signals)

Paul Graham (Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb)

Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos; Founder, LinkExchange)

Mitch Kapor (Partner, Kapor Capital; Founder, Lotus)

Greg McAdoo (Partner, Sequoia Capital)

Mark Pincus (Founder, Zynga, Tribe, SupportSoft, Freeloader)

Biz Stone & Evan Williams (Founders, Twitter)

Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook)

Windows 7 was available via MSDN for the last 2 months. The October 22 release date was for consumers. I've been using Windows 7 since Mid-August.

Some articles & videos speak for themselves. See http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html .

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

When was the first time you needed x64? (i.e. when did you run into the 4GB ram wall?) This year, maybe. Last year at earliest. That's more than a 10 year gap from when a technology was conceived and when it was needed.

So if a critic expresses a view contrary to your own views he's a shill? Great argument. Windows 7 is actually really good. And here's the shocker: so is Mac OS X.

Must we have religious wars over which bits are on your hard drive?

I seriously doubt they rewrote Visual Studio to be completely managed. That would be incredibly stupid for more than one reason.

Of course, satellite dll's & exe tools aren't all written in managed code. It's silly to re-write everything. But the main Visual Studio application has been at least partially managed since the Visual Studio 2002 days.

P.S. I don't work for MS, but I do know this for a fact.

But, it's the latest tech word-soup. Like in 2005 when everything Javascript became "Ajax", everything distributed becomes "Cloud".