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I'm not arguing to suddenly put irrelevant info onto WP. The high standard can still be achieved, the level of detail is just higher. Turing might get its own set of pages, while my kindergarten teacher maybe gets a few lines.

Everyone should have a wikipedia page. Notability and value of information however should be clear: Turing's page should clearly be different then the page of my teacher in kindergarten. How? I don't know. We can go much finer in granularity. To be successfully usable, developments are needed to cope with the finer grained information (like having ~10M pages of teachers of kindergartens).

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

> Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia, written collaboratively by the people who use it.

There's the problem. Wikipedia should stop being an encyclopedia and start being Wikipedia.

> Cool story, bro. Most people these days either use the browser that comes with the OS, or install the one they want.

This does not refute in an way that MS quit the EEE game. Merely, you seem to troll me ("Cool story, bro.").

> Really? Did you forget that Oracle started a lawsuit against Google for the usage of Java within Android? Or how about Apple's lawsuit against Samsung for the look and feel of the Galaxy Tablet? How about i4i's lawsuit against Microsoft?

Exactly, a few big fish and some smaller pure trolls. I am not aware of industrywide patent enforcement. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands of IT companies, who don't pursue software patents let alone enforce if they have.

> [Citation needed]

I am not aware of industrywide patentfights regarding software patents. Telecom companies do battle each other ferociously over patents, which are not necessarily for software (from what I read, not relatively many software patents are involved).

> From Wikipedia: The C# language definition and the CLI are standardized under ISO and Ecma standards that provide reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing protection from patent claims.

If MS decides to sue they decide to sue.

That previous attempts failed does not mean they quit trying. IE9/10 does show some goodwill, but also shows the are still in the EEE game. Take for example the hardware accelerated canvas: Several (non-MS) websites had "optimized for IE" marketing campaigns. Such optimization is nonsense when using standards. Also, MS publicly stated WebGL has security problems because of direct access to the shaders. However, they forget to mention Silverlight has the exact same problem.

> In addition, Microsoft's actions against Android, while despicable, are hardly different than what most other tech companies are doing,

Eh, no. It's true more patent trolls exist, but not many companies in the industry try to enforce software patents.

About C#: Microsoft has stated several times that open is not the same as patent-free. They did so in context of Linux/Android, but also in the context of .net. Also, anaylis exist where C# tech is tied to patents.

The article is laughable. Microsoft itself is an important reason to develop Dart to begin with. MS has EEE'd html/js/css with IE 5.5 and up, and developed .NET to offer a competitive (proprietary) platform. We can't use C# although it's open, because MS is acting as a patent troll.

It's not about taste, but about readability, a part of usability. Why act like a technologist while flushing about 50 years of usability knowledge (Helvetica is from late 50s) down the drain? Heterospaced fonts with significant contrast are used widely for good reasons. Ignoring these harms credibility of the writer severely, at least for me personally.

A div/span with vertical aligment containing 2 divs, of which one has border-bottom or border-top set.

Ugly monospace font in 2011 for a blog? Halfgrey on white background? I now have trouble taking anything you say serious.

As a primary visual thinker, I cannot express my gratefulness enough. This is just the best visual explanation I have seen. Concepts intuitively stick now, after 10 years of struggling with version control.

I have read so many books/guides/etc to grasp VC to try to achieve the level of understanding to the point where one would wake me up, and get a thorough explanation of VC. I have never been closer to intrinsically understand what's going on.

Awesome!

Apparently. It's a shame that researchers hae to use such software. Probably part of why research is so conservative and slow. Why not a funky html "paper"? With interactive formulae, clickable links (hey, wasn't PageRank based on references? Maybe time to turn that around) to references. Most important, a clickable link to an academic profile.

-Extremely annoying voice of vid. I don't know why, but I could not finish the 1 minute vid

-A Super Mario themed birthdaycake? Really? That takes the cake.

Now I remember wishbox as an annoying voice trying to sell me supermariothemedbirthdaycakes.

Loose details in a promovid, and hire a professional voice.

Lobbyists.

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I had to write a paper with it. I found it so horrible that I ended up not writing the paper (on a very interesting topic) and failed class. I just assumed the professor was nutty and kept onto some weird niche software.

Can anyone explain the downvotes? Thanks.

I thought Latex was dead? It's a system I see no one ever use. With right, as it's as horrible as a doc system can get.

After reddit submits, now HN article and more coverage this is transforming into an epic example of usability fail. I cannot think of any precedent or similar mistake.

TL; DR:

  The idea is that you update the client before you send an Ajax request to the server.

"Optimistic updating", not "Asynchronous UI". The UI is already asynchronous (regardless of UI updating order).

  "request/response model". 

"Pessimistic updating" -> i.e. update UI only after successful response

Thanks. The first time an esoteric language actually seems interesting to learn ;)

I am an average programmer, I know C#, Java and dart. Can anyone explain macro's? Wikipedia/internet is not very helpfull because of ambiguity. Thanks!

This looks more like an elaborate, very early prepared aprils fools joke.

HN critics best be intepreted for what they truly are. Not critics, but truly caring about software. In doing so, weak elements are pointed out. Not to make any coder look bad, but to improve it.

What cool stuff am I looking at and not noticing? I see a website with solely static content.