Basically, people don't want the minified versions of files while they're developing, and there will always be people coming to the project with whatever minification tools in their build that can't handle the missing semicolons. Currently, the answer is "change your build tools".
> many providers (o2, t-mobile, vodafone) across the world embed another js script
> The lack of semi-colons in the dropdown js file causes this compression to break
Thanks for the heads up, no bootstrap for me! (At least without something that's going to add the necessary semicolons... I wonder how many HN weekend projects out there simply don't work for people using their wireless connections?)
Also interesting that it appears the issue was closed because it contained the key phrases 'compression' and 'semicolon'... but it was not re-opened even after the maintainer realized the problem is with the wireless providers.
"Mesh is a secure, lightweight grid middleware that is based on the addition of a single sign-on capability to the built-in public key authentication mechanism of SSH using system call interposition."
Is this the "we're thinking about a product" page or the "we have a product you can start using now" page? I can't tell... the question not answered is "when?"
This led me to pay slightly more attention and notice the pretty background pegging my CPU. It does look nice though.
Tangent: Ever notice how some of the most interesting threads on SO are [closed]? Especially the ones linked to from HN.
Edit: BTW, I didn't mean to imply that this was necessarily a bad thing. It's in keeping with the facts, not opinion, guidelines of SO, but an [opinion] tag might be a nice addition to SO. In this case, the question wasn't bad, and although some of the answers are mere speculation, comments like the one made by Larry Osterman help put to rest some of the BS that gets spread around in this industry.
In fairness, I think its because Hacker News is mostly about things that are matters of opinion, or at least worthy of four pages on the subject. Stack Overflow aims to be about one or two definitively correct, short and usable answers to specific, well-bounded, problems.
Which of those answers do you prefer? Accepted one seems a bit far fetched and simplistic. As Tatiana notes: "SharePoint is .NET, and it's half of Office.". Also see Larry's comment.
I'll warn in advance that this is the jazz hands answer, because it's really impossible to tell. I doubt any one person decreed WinRT should be native; most likely it was the best of many compromises. Anyone willing to name names while documenting the internal politics that went along with the decision(s) could write quite the page-turner!
* I could see decisions being influenced by long-term career prospects, but believe that people would be smart enough to hide most of this by working harder to find evidence supporting the direction they needed the tech to go.
* According to my limited understanding, Microsoft long ago threw out a bunch of OS-level managed development pre-Vista (WinFS-type stuff) in part because of performance related issues.
* ASP.NET (SharePoint) / managed code server-side is not going away any time soon, if ever... it's just too easy (and server hardware can typically handle any overhead).
* .NET client-side could go either way; I think this is what the accepted answer is saying (eg. Silverlight as this decade's VB6 - convenient LOB tool killed with no direct transition to new tech)
* Mono/Unity 3d/etc. are wildcards here, particularly as they support C# for non-Microsoft platforms (especially iPhone/Android).
* Microsoft, or at least powerful people within Microsoft, love COM (one of my least favorites, but I don't deal with cross-language runtime/binary compatibility).
I found this StackOverflow link on a huge discussion of the death of Silverlight, saying it was the first casualty of a "death to managed code" campaign: http://forums.silverlight.net/post/612643.aspx
The highest voted answer is clearly the sensible interpretation, but people do like to indulge in gossip and the 'politics' answer pushes those buttons.
"Industrial control systems are used in electric power, water, pipelines, etc. These systems were designed for performance and safety considerations, not security. Traditional IT security technologies, policies, and testing may not apply to these systems. Moreover, there is currently no university with an interdisciplinary program accross multiple engineering disciplines to address control system cyber security. There have already been more than 200 actual control system cyber incidents to date, though most have not been identified as cyber. In the US alone, there have been 4 control system cyber incidents that have killed people, 3 major cyber-related electric outages, 2 nuclear plants shut down from full power, etc. With the advent of Stuxnet, cyber has been introduced as an offensive weapon. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a state-of-the-state view of control system cyber security."
The speaker gets quite a grilling from the academics.
If you have an Android phone and care at all about your ever-growing message history, install SMS Backup+ by Jan Berkel or an equivalent ASAP. (https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus)
"It's something that a cryptographer, a Japanese cryptographer created about two years ago called BitCoin. ... this thing really looks like it's the first solution to the concept of a distributed, non-central server, no central clearinghouse. ... it's Internet currency, which can work and is working."
https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/1795