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Never Before Seen Bill Gates Photos
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#12wow, snore.
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#13Enjoyable or not, this was on the front page of cnn.com. I don't think anyone needed to come here to see this item.
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#14Enjoyable or not, this was on the front page of cnn.com. I don't think anyone needed to come here to see this item.
I certainly wouldn't have seen it on the front page of cnn.com -- CNN is not something I regularly check online.
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#15Is there some reason that alpha-males like Steve Ballmer always wear pink shirts? A play for contrast?
It could be an attempt to project an image of innocence. Or could be a self put down. Something like: I will wear ping, so I better make it up in behaviour.
Then I will wear pong so I dont' have to behave well :)
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#16Enjoyable or not, this was on the front page of cnn.com. I don't think anyone needed to come here to see this item.
I certainly wouldn't have seen it on the front page of cnn.com -- CNN is not something I regularly check online.
I read the guidelines or whatever and it said that generally you don't need to post something that would be in regular news. Well, this was on the front page of CNN. Not really hard to find.
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#17Enjoyable or not, this was on the front page of cnn.com. I don't think anyone needed to come here to see this item.
I come to HN mainly for the general interest stories (as opposed to the strictly "hacker news" posts), so I'm glad this is on here. Most of the time the comments from HN contributors are of equal interest to the story itself. They are generally quite insightful and definitely add value.
Yes I can go to reddit for this kind of stuff, but I find the comments aren't of the same quality and I don't really like the colours/layout, nor the ads. I much prefer HN's simple lo-fi layout.
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#18There's a Mac in the background in the 6th picture.
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#19I really enjoyed that. When Bill talks about growing Microsoft, and the early days, it always make me remember really great products like early Excel and Word, and the sheer excitement when MS Access (Cirrus) came out. It's kind of a shame that BG kinda let the technical aspect get out of control. The state of current MS tools, critical stuff like VS2005, is deplorable in comparison to the tight good performing code…
That's rather unfair. Visual Studio 2008 is several orders of magnitude faster, more powerful, and much more responsive than NetBeans. NetBeans is cleaner, but once you get used to VS you'll realize it's the best IDE. This, coming from someone who used to live and die by IntelliJ & NetBeans. Visual Studio is a really great IDE, and togther with the .NET Framework is one of Microsoft's greatest achievements and a huge boon for coders working on MS' platforms.
I agree with the rest of what you said though, but I don't think it's applicable to VS.NET. For instance, you could have talked about how bloated Office has become; while it still has tons of good new features, they're inefficiently done. You could have discussed how while Windows is a decent design/principle it has an increasingly more shitty implementation with each and every revision. But Visual Studio?? Well, I wish I could use it on Linux right now!
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#20There's a Mac in the background in the 6th picture.