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Windows: Technology Foundation
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Windows: Technology Foundation
That would be my choice? 
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For a guaranteed surge of traffic and to hit the Hacker News homepage, all you need to do is write about why you hate MongoDB and/or migrated to some other database. We’ve been using it to power our server monitoring service, Server Density, for over 3 years now and so with experience, many of the problems cited in these posts seem like basic mistakes in deployment and understanding. Apparently not
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Microsoft has waffled over the past few days about how long it will continue to sell Windows 7, initially stating that it had already stopped shipping the operating system to retailers and OEMs, but shifting the status over the weekend to "to be determined." The governor called
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I got a feeling the hangman will again call after the buying season holidays.
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The biggest problem with password (in)security is that most of us are using passwords that are all too predictable: The include words that can be found in a dictionary, popular phrases, or follow common patterns. (And we're not even talking about the most commonly used passwords, "123456" and "password".) Microsoft's Telepathwords is a clever way to test if your passwords are predictable. "If you could read my mind, love, what a tale my thoughts could tell"
OK, I officially hate myself for that earworm.
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meh
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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I tested with the start of two of my breached throwaway passwords; my keying systems don't appear to be in its database...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Budget sequestration may be helping to chill market. It's almost as though it's near the end of the fiscal year (or at least some big holiday). Hoodahthunkit?
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Spying should be limited to specific targets and subject to independent review. "United we stand, divided we fall"
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More than a century after the birth of pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper the programming language she helped establish, Cobol, still underpins software used by modern businesses.
Happy 107th Birthday, Grace Hopper!
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Once more the Supreme Court is going to have a shot to kill off software and business-practice patents. Hopefully they'll get it right this time. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Mount Doom is like LA and the Shire like Lincolnshire, so says a climate model based on author's famously detailed maps. One more bit of world-changing research completed
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Mount Doom is like LA
Louisiana? 
I always thought L.A. was like Mordor.
Come to think of it, I had to travel a long distance to take a ring there once -- when I proposed to my wife.
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Nearly a decade in the works, Internet-wide projects designed to keep e-mail safe from scams, spam, and identity-thieving phishing attempts are paying off. Your Inbox may, or may not, agree with them
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Apart from Android, Google does Trunk Based Development (TBD) everywhere. They made the review process as lean as they could, by making reviews ordinary and continuous. Do no evil code?
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Didn't Linus's talk at the Googleplex on why git is so awesome and centralized source control sucks convince Google to switch to Mercurial a few years ago? With the author admitting his sources have no information past 08 this content seems pathetically dated.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Google to switch to Mercurial a few years ago
Maybe as a front-end to Perforce, but Mercurial is definitely not able to handle the size of the code base that Google has.
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Joyent expands support for the popular development framework to nearly every server and cloud base. "All the cool kids are doing it"
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Rx 2.2 is now available via the Rx CodePlex project and includes more support for Windows Phone 8, various bug fixes and contributions from the community. Now with even more reactivity
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In advance of Computer Science Education Week, which kicks off on Monday, Code.org has brought together some of the biggest names in the tech industry to teach everyone to code. All it takes is an hour to start learning. Happy Computer Science Education Week
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Microsoft has quietly ended retail sales of Windows 7, according to a notice on its website. I miss it already
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I knew I needed to stockpile Win 7versions.
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Ew, so the price will go up? 
My wife bought a laptop (Lenovo Yoga thingie) with Win 8.1 yesterday. I didn't know she knew some of the words coming out of her mouth.
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