Msconfig is in, yes, but the startup section is not. It redirects you to the startup section of the task manager, of which Metro is not an option for you to disable. Startup is simply the ability to disable services and programs that run on the desktop.
For example, mine has Java, Steam, Thinkpad Tools, Nvidia nView, Digsby, etc. Nothing Metro in there.
This would completely defeat one of the best parts of markdown, which is the ability to mix in HTML tags whenever you want, when you need to represent something more complex.
Underlines traditionally have semantically meant the same as italics. When an editor wanted the printer to make a certain word italic, he would underline it in the draft.
Really, underlines are a useless decoration. That's why HTML took them out. Not sure why they put them back in...
The primary reason is to provide for Chinese proper name marks (where underlining has a semantic meaning) and occasionally for misspellings (in English, we'd probably add the editorial text [sic]). As a decoration, it is useless, but there are circumstances where it has semantic meaning. (The <b> and <i> tags were promoted back to respectability for the same reasons, since using <em> for text that is not stressed or <strong> for text that would traditionally be bolded without implying extra importance is just as semantically incorrect as using <i> and <b> for stress and importance would be. Arbitrary spans don't imply any semantic meaning. Where I would have used <span class="foreign" lang="fr"> previously, I'd now use <i class="foreign" lang="fr">. The <i> tag marks the text as special rather than just arbitrarily styled.)
Like you said, they are a decoration. When handwriting something, some people use underlines for different kinds of emphasis. Those people want to make text look a certain way. It's good that HTML5 brought back underlines, just in case someone wants to use them, they at least have the option.
Actually, pretty much all Android phones use the same cable - a micro USB, found on cameras, hard drives, non-Android phones, garage sales, etc. And if you lose it or magically can't find anyone who has an extra few lying around, you can buy another one for less than $3. Try doing that with those ridiculously overpriced Apple cords (before the EU made them illegal, that is).
Complaining about the Apple USB cable is just not a very valid complaint. Micro-usb is nice and all, but with how many iPods, iPhones, etc... that have sold you're just as likely to find a person with a iPod cable lying around as you are a micro-usb one. Heck, my car stereo will charge my iPods through the dock connector, and came with the cable to do so.
I agree. For some things, like more mathy things that only perform one function, it seems like functional programming is the way to go. However, for HUGE programs based on data and complex interactions between and extensions of objects, it seems like a more object-oriented style would be better... all about the right tool for the job, I guess.
I think you're absolutely right that functional programming is particularly suited for things like mathematics. But you can also enjoy many of the benefits of a functional approach by moving most of the complexity into purely functional, well, functions and leaving the state-modifying code fairly simple. For a good pragmatic example of this approach, check out the snake game in Programming Clojure v2 from Pragmatic Programmers.
Coming from Ruby this approach was a bit mind-boggling at first, but even with my fairly limited Clojure exposure (or should that be expojure?) I've come to appreciate how easy pure functions are to test and to reason about.
I found the Python more readable even though I have written programs in Clojure and never written programs in Python. In fact I'd be willing to bet that Python-like syntax would be found to be more readable than Lisp-like syntax for programmers with N years of experience in that language, if such a study could be conducted. (ie, I'd bet that an average programmer with 5 years of Python experience and nothing else can correctly read programs faster than an average programmer with 5 years of Clojure experience and nothing else (not that the latter exists)).
True, but for instance I know neither Python nor Clojure, and yet Python looks more accessible on first glance - even though I have some experience with other LISPs.
I've started using Clojure after many years of Ruby and I have to say the parentheses are a non-issue. Emacs and many IDEs automatically balance the parens for you (see e.g. paredit). Once your eyes learn to ignore the bracket soup, the code starts looking an awful lot like Python (cmp. Emacs Lisp indention with Python semantic indention).
Yes! They cheat! Sometimes my internet connection will go out and all my tabs in Chrome lose their scrolling ability! It's like they just cached a bitmap of the page instead of the actual page itself.
We are going through a redesign for my company's web app and now we're going to have to insert a tiny bit of blank space at the bottom because Chrome's pop-up statusbar is covering a vital part of the UI! Doh!
"You have a >100,000 user base so push an update to the free app so that it now includes ads."
The problem is, the users who got it when it was free got the PAID version, so they can't push an update to the people who got it for free without making all the users who ACTUALLY paid also get ads.
They'd also have to add ads to the paid Google Market version, since the Amazon dev agreement requires that you keep app versions synchronized across all app stores. Amazon has basically put them in a position where they can only lose money or piss off their actual paying customers.
That makes a lot more sense, however, it's not entirely impossible for them to find out what users downloaded the app on that day and only target updates for them; they want out of amazon any way might as well break the TOS. They should be logging some type of 'first_install' after every user pings the server for the first time... but I'm making excuses for Amazon.
TBH both parties are at fault. Them for not reading the letter Amazon send WORD FOR WORD and not Amazon for discounting their app to 99cents the day after.
They still have that, right? It's been a while since I used Windows.