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I know the feeling... I wrote a compiler that converts a language i created into brainfuck code, and then put it on google code. I was ecstatic when one day I received an email from some guy asking for help on it
I Was a Teenage Hacker
Twenty-four years ago today, I had a very bad day. On August 8, 1988, I was a senior in high school. I was working my after school and weekend job at Safeway as a cashier, when the store manager suddenly walked over and said I better stop ringing up customers and talk to my mother on the stor...
98 was good, me was bad, xp was good, vista was bad, 7 is good, 8 is ...?
I just cannot get to grips with the fact that it's a PHONE ui intended for use on a desktop. It just won't work. Also there's no way it will be picked up in the enterprisey stuff. It doesn't offer enough new features and all the IT guys think is "more training for the employees..." (yes most of the people who use a computer are utterly stumped if one single thing changes.)
Therefore I think that windows 8 will end up like vista did.
Betting the Company on Windows 8
I'd argue that the last truly revolutionary version of Windows was Windows 95. In the subsequent 17 years, we've seen a stream of mostly minor and often inconsequential design changes in Windows – at its core, you've got the same old stuff: a start menu, a desktop with icons, taskbar at the bot...
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