A Microsoft Without Sinofsky? 14 years ago
Microsoft announced perhaps two years ago that the health benefits were being reduced starting January 2013
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Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? 14 years ago
Even outside of .NET, it's got a tool built-in to make L"strings" 16-bit on all platforms, which is cool for portability (and an implementation of nmake for unix, which can also come in handy)
C++11 threads tutorial 14 years ago
This is a difficult question. If the number of C++ developers is growing, but at a slower rate than the number of total developers, is that a decline?
Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux 15 years ago
What about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas ?
Interested in a Seattle HN Meetup? Sign up here. 15 years ago
As long as it's Belltown or Downtown arounds. Fremont is a lot harder to get to.
The Ambiguity of Open and H.264 vs. VP8 16 years ago
Doesn't matter if the patent holder is a troll with no viable products of its own.
"Naenara" North Korean government online 16 years ago
What else would they call it? (use DPRK everywhere?) They don't recognize the "other" Korea. South Korea does the same, e.g. at http://www.mofat.go.kr/
How a Vim user converts to Emacs 16 years ago
I have, XEmacs -> Vim.
I had a very simple reason. I spend 4 hours a day in front of an editor, so I need something very powerful. I had standardized on XEmacs, but I had to stop when the pinky muscle strain got too bad (this was years after having remapped caps-lock to control). My hand would hurt when I got home.
I usually program in C/C++, Perl, and some XML & text editing, so I wasn't using Emacs' dynamic or programmable features much.
Vim is attractive because there's not really a need for modifier keys, just key sequences. Additionally, the great text navigation features are good when working with large existing codebases, it makes reading other people's code easier.
I kept going back to Emacs for XML editing for a while, but the mental overhead of keeping track of two systems is a bit much, and I found Komodo Edit a nice replacement (that incidentally also has a Vi-mode).
The only thing I really miss from Emacs is being able to "Ctrl-K" 3 times and pressing "Ctrl-Y" once to move 3 lines. With Vim you have to count the number of lines ahead of the operation, which is a real speedbump.
It does support Macs. It's got an API so hopefully someone will build other clients, like for Linux.
Celebrating its death