what's really worrying is that in all this time I've never seen a convincing benchmark, to motivate diving 'head first' into Datomic. For all the hate that the MongoDB guys get, they alteast piqued interest with some arresting charts and figures.
Right now, the impression I get is, "ooh, because Rich Hickey..."
The really stupid trend in laptop (and most portables) design is non-user replaceable batteries!! What can be at most a 10 USD, 30 second affair is now a drive to the service centre, a two week (if lucky) wait and a 100 USD bill ...
My paranoia in installing extensions is finally justified. If Amazon is pulling these kind of stunts, then imagine the kind of mischief the smaller apps are pulling off.
This whole "scorched earth"-style permissions model that users can't make educated decisions about is what annoys me about current platforms like Chrome, Android and iOS.
JavaME had an interesting model where the app asks permissions after it is installed (e.g. internet access, local file system access) for each thing it wants to do. And the app has to consider the fact that the user can decide not to grant that particular permission. Of course, once you decide to trust the app, you could disable the prompts.
I hope government IT departments take these threats seriously and start updgrading/isolating the still significant numbers of Windows XP systems that have access to critical databases.
I'm more interested in the HN comments here. Personally, I felt it was an inconsistent, and pretty tame take on an iconic brand (I'm not a fan of the new Windows logo either).
Check out his HTC 1 concept.. a bit dated but still interesting
People just don't seem to be comfortable with grey. And this is a problem I especially see with newer devs: there has to be one right way that fully solves a problem.
The balancing act between seat-of-the-pants thinking and methodical problem solving is THE key to business survival.
Aside: What a blast from the past .. "Three years ago, a ballistic Bill identified the phone consortium Symbian as enemy number one and this year singled out Nokia for particular attention" and mentions of handsets like " Siemens S55, Sony Ericsson T68i .. Nokia 7650"
I don't think apps have a major impact on purchasing factor for the general public. I would imagine that the most important web properties would already have Windows clients.
I feel the real reason is that the hardware so far has been really bland and nothing catches your attention. The Lumia has a fresh design that could kickstart the 'wow' factor.
Upvoted for "coding takes very little time" ! Most often, you are making 100s of small but significant decisions of algorithms, runtimes, libraries, memory footprints etc that the actual coding part ends up being the less significant aspect.
Also, I really admire the polite but confident way you responded to eropple's borderline trolling. Good show !
'de-authenticating' a "machine" can be done just by clearing your cookies ! AFAIK, there's nothing machine specific about the two factor authentication ..
It was pretty disappointing for me really .. I would have liked to actually authenticate specific MAC addresses .. but then, I'll take what I've got :)
Right now, the impression I get is, "ooh, because Rich Hickey..."
Could anyone share anecdotes to the counter ?