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I do many searches a day, but I use the built in search in iOS... pull down from the home screen and get a search box. Hits apps, emails, everything in an integrated search. The backend of this is "SIRI" (I believe it's the same platform that siri voice search uses) and ultimately it may result in google searches. For now.

My career has spent a fair bit of time working on search engines... google's moat is that everyone uses it, it has the audience. Providing competent search is something a company the size of Apple could replicate with some effort.

I thin the threat to google is real... I think google knew this a decade ago, and that's why they bought Android Inc. and developed the android OS.
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It's not inherent to mobile, but the form that smartphones have taken.

I remember owning a Treo way back and at that time, a phone was something I could easily compose text and be productive on. Ever since my first smartphone with a touch screen keyboard I've thought of the phone as something to read or play games on. Entering text has become enough of a chore that I stopped thinking of a phone as a productivity tool. It's good at keeping me entertained on the subway or being a music player, but that's it.
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Focus on cultural and racial diversity in my experience tend ignore age as part of diversity. Lets not pretend 'they' would actually give a fuck about older developers.

Here is a "diversity team" http://diversify.github.io/images/diversify-group.jpg

Beware of hypocrites abusing "diversity" for PR reasons.
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It's certainly preferable to team of analysts spending 6 months writing specs, then engineers spending 12 months writing code, then 2 years spent testing and fixing things only to find out that while that's all been happening the internets been invented and the original product has no purpose.
It would be interesting to add standard fee's to the game.
I agree with you in theory but thats just not how things work neither in Denmark. Public opinion can try and do some (banning smoking, adding taxes to things you want less off) but I don't believe it's going to solve the issue I am describing.

Health and well-being is too weak a way to look at things and so people will put into it what they want. Not everyone will agree that regular exercise and eating salad is well being.

And actually getting people to do the "right thing" even if you could define what that is would be much more costly. Also many sicknesses are age related and so even if you could get people to live more healthy lives they would just accumulate even more so the older they get.
That's how SPKI (RFCs 2692 & 2693) worked: one only trusted an authority for certain things. This would work very well for DNS names and IP addresses alike, since both are allocated hierarchically; with SPKI one could guarantee that one is talking to one of the parties who is allowed to use a name or an address.

Sadly, SPKI more-or-less died on the vine: the atrocious XPKI 'system' won by default. One of my rainy-day projects is to try to revive it: if the last 15 years have taught us anything, it's that centralised global trust is insane.
Probably a dumb question but how do you apply your own css? With a browser plugin?
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I'm aware that my own experience clouds my perception but it's still surprising to me. One of the main uses of a smartphone for me (even since my first Treo) is that I've got a "pocket Google". Messaging and social media and games are all great but for me, having a pocket reference the size of a massive global library remains one of the "killer apps".

I used to joke that smart phones are the equivalent of Penny's "computer book" from the Inspector Gadget cartoons I watched as a kid. I remember being in grade school watching that show and thinking how awesome it would be to have a powerful computer I could carry around with me all the time and use to find any info I wanted.
Yes because what we need are more browsers with less function parity.
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I can't see how this is good for Amazon in anyway. Going on the offensive like this in a PR battle doesn't make you look strong, it makes you look brash. A little humility would go a long way for their reputation.

I thought Bezos's response at the time was the right one - "That's not the Amazon I know". It is still defensive, but not overly antagonistic.

I'm frankly very surprised that their head of PR is going this direction. I would have thought that he would have known better. This direct conflict with the Times is not helping.
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Wow, that's a drastic move. What sector and which country?
Hardly surprising. On Google desktop most queries are navigational these days, something that's unnecessary when using mobile apps (spotlight search). And doing research on mobiles is a chore.
I suspect this is a naive guestimate by the author. There are many ways to search that don't involve going to google.com in a browser, and with the combination of Google Now and Google Maps/Nav, people surface a lot of queries through organic behavior. It can't be overstated, too, that Google is making the majority of the money from in-app advertising, so that additionally mitigates the decline.

If I were an investor, I might be worried about some aspects of Google, but this isn't one of them.

I'm probably biased, though. I am constantly "ok googling" to learn stuff. Having young children will do that to you.
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It's important to remember the historical context for Agile. Agile grew up and started where there was Waterfall. From that viewpoint of Agile != Waterfall, it is a step forward.

There will always be resentment towards agile. There are too many botched attempts at making a methodology work from well-meaning but inept individuals that have effected lives and workplaces.

What's insane is the marketing around Agile and more specifically Scrum.
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It's really not helping their 'we aren't a bunch of dicks we promise' line at all.
Set aside time for your side projects. If they're that attractive then use them as a reward. Pavlovian Training works on humans and we can self implement.

Don't forget to socialize, while you focus on that your mind will do its thing without you even realizing.

Music helps some people.

Force yourself to stay disciplined, habits take a while to form. You can have a friend help. Friends are good at telling you when you're being dumb/lazy/distracted.

Your college might have a workshop to help you with vital skills. Take advantage of it. When I did my grades went from Bs & Cs to As.

Work in 25 minute blocks with a 5 minute break. Studies suggest this is an effective time split.
Wow, what the f_ck kind of person do they want? You showed when you can code, build a complex application that actually does something valuable. You know, understand, and can use deeper level stuff.

I get that they and every other business wants to find a team of wunderkinds that can plug right into their repo and get to work. That's the ideal.

My advice - don't sweat it.
Do you have an iPhone? I use the OK Google voice search feature all the time on my phone.
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Serious question: have you ever made a purchase because of (indirectly or directly) an ad that appeared on a search page? (Maybe this should be an 'Ask HN')
One challenge would be maintaining the native mobile platforms. Because of local storage limits on HTML5, I think you need to use more then the stock browsers on get it done.
That sounds an awful lot like browser JS/HTML/CSS standards. Or perhaps the OpenGL standard. Doubtless you'd have a long incubation period of inconsistent cross-application behavior, and a proliferation of vendor-specific extensions.

Microsoft would have to be involved in any such effort for it to amount to anything, and I'm not sure they really have much incentive to do so - unless it is along the lines of, "here, LibreOffice, this is our document API, go implement it, and, by the way, make it compatible with all these legacy VBA scripts out in the wild".
In the US they sourced at least some of their data from the Census TIGER data (In my town it still shows a big jag that is particular to recent TIGER data...).

The older editions of the TIGER data tended not to obsess over street level spatial accuracy, I think it was mostly used as a catalog of where a given address would be, so a few dozen meters was fine.
Interesting. I have an android phone, and I never noticed the google search bar. I just looked and yes, there it is. I've never used it.
There is also another factor that may influence this statistic: most android phones in the general population are slow as hell. While in IT, especially in mobile development, phones are fast-ish. Developers keep adding features (OS as well as app) when they should be doing performance optimization.

I have a 1 year old, low/mid range phone I bought because I just didn't have the cash for a flagship. I have only the "most common" apps installed. Mobile web is unusable. Opening chrome takes 2 minutes, doing the actual search a minute more, rendering the site ... well, let's just say I have JS turned off. Unless I don't have access to the internet some other way and it's really crucial, I'm just not going to bother.
This article is very poor quality.

... GM of course is one of those corporations that Hayek didn’t see were centrally planned institutions

Hayek is not stupid; for example, in "The Use of Knowledge in Society" he explicitly discusses the role of such institutions. He also notes that such institutions are not truly "centrally planned":

"Even the large and highly mechanized plant keeps going largely because of an environment upon which it can draw for all sorts of unexpected needs; tiles for its roof, stationery for its forms, and all the thousand and one kinds of equipment in which it cannot be self-contained and which the plans for the operation of the plant require to be readily available in the market."

http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html

Key point - the central planner is only a central planner in a very narrow sense and heavily depends on markets providing information. Also, competition between GM and Toyota provides an escape hatch for when GM performs horribly.

But again, he never specified closely what the mechanism [of price adjustment] was.

Perhaps Hayek didn't (I haven't read enough of him to be sure) but generally econ says that speculators provide the mechanism.

The remainder is just a bunch of whoo, life is so complex that we can't understand it, yay regulation. Because, um, if a situation is complex you can be assured that your attempts to control it won't cause unexpected side effects? Huh?
> Many, many people still don't use their phone for anything other than texting and phone calls.

This is me, well except the texting part. I only have a smart phone for the occasional time I need navigation. The vast majority of days I use it to make one phone call.

That navigation part makes the cost to upgrade every few years worth it though.
I don't think he's lying, and I don't understand why people seem to use 'lying' as a synonym for 'wrong'. Lying requires an intent to decieve. In this case, the GP probably believes, albeit incorrectly, that the media reports about the sentence Swartz was likely to recieve were correct. Remember that the 50 year figure was widely reported at the time, often by sources that seemed reliable. Your issue should be with the media outlets that failed to fact-check in favour of a sensational story...
True. Another problem is that people lose PGP keys and they also expire but i guess it's hard to find a one size fits all solution. In 40+ years, the secret info might not even be relevant anymore.
Using a phone for search is like sucking in information through a straw. Even if you do find something, nobody really wants to setup copy-paste infrastructure between their phone and desktop/laptop. Yes, I know about AirDroid. Loading almost any page is going to be painfully slow, render poorly, and then break completely. When I have loaded a page, I use ctrl+f to search for whatever I was looking for, and I use a large screen to render all the content so my eyes can lock on to whatever I am looking for. Going through 10 different results is just painful on a phone, and on a laptop I can do it in less than a minute. Small screen and touch doesn't benefit me enough to switch from desktop search to phone search...
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Depends on your circumstances. Like all widely applicable but unevenly enforced laws, this gives selective enforcement power to the authorities. If you're a regular guy of no particular interest to the government or police, you can toke away pretty securely. If you need a clearance for your job, no. If the police are looking for a reason to take you in, a seed in your car - or the claim of a marijuana odor - will be the excuse.
It means it's trusted by all major browsers, which is what matters. You may not like the terminology, but that's what it's called.
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There were two parallel investigation teams with different agencies. A different team tracked down Ulbrich, and it was the other team's evidence that was used at the trial.
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Agile can be defined, but at its core, Agile is a set of best practices that by definition can be ignored. It's a collection of optional components that can produce a functional process when cobbled together in the right way. But figuring out what works for a team is often a lot of trial and error, so a skilled "Agile practitioner" can help you look at what has worked for you, what hasn't, and suggest things to try.

And you're right; when defined this way, Agile cannot fail. Agile isn't a magic bullet for your development team - at its core, Agile is a method by which dev teams can more or less self-organize around a set of generally agreed-upon processes. But it's up to each Agile team to develop those processes themselves.

I have yet to see an Agile team fail because their Agile process failed. I have seen Agile teams fail because the team was too inexperienced to provide their own direction. I have seen Agile teams fail because the dev lead wanted to play dictator. I've seen Agile teams fail because their business counterparts kept changing the requirements and demanding impossible things of the dev team.

I've never seen an Agile team fail because they couldn't figure out how to assign user stories or because they had no concept of release management. Sure, those things might be a disaster, but usually (after enough times going through some painful manual process) some developer steps up and says "Hey, I think I know a better way we can do this..." And those problems almost never endanger releases because Agile teams are by their very nature empowered to solve problems. Sure, the solution may have been inefficient and non-repeatable, but it worked.
I search more on my Android compared to my (former) iPhone but as my Galaxy S4 ages it has becoming increasingly slow to open the search app and slow to open the browser. Sometimes I avoid searching entirely just because the latency is too much work and involves jumping between the search app and chrome/firefox.
The UK still has a free, universal healthcare system. Where are you getting your facts from?
> Germany tried that, in the end they've spent more money on migrating to OpenOffice and then even more money on migrating back.

This is not how the people working in the Munich municipality tell the story. [1] Although the new city major has made statements of wanting to go back to Microsoft, [2] apparently the open source system is live and well. [3]

So it seems that the whole story that "Germany switched from Windows to Linux, only to regret it years later" is a myth.

[1]http://www.techrepublic.com/article/no-munich-isnt-about-to-...

[2]http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/mayor-o...

[3]http://www.ocsmag.com/2015/08/24/no-munich-is-not-considerin...
Precisely, this is some atrocious analysis by Charles Arthur.
This seems a potentially shaky basis:

> guessing that 50% of those corporate machines, ie 450m, can’t make Google searches
Well definitely gets easier. Got up to 10+ million starting from 500, and then used that to get to 16 billion... One more round and I'm richer than Bill Gates lol...

And made it past a trillion...
Here's an apt quote from HN a few years back regarding tools.

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I'm not sure if institutional investors would ever hold positions for years on end.

This is extraordinarily common, particularly for institutional investors who are not attempting to generate alpha.
Sorry, all the nitpicking about small points in an article don't mean nearly as much to me as the dozen or so people I've known who's been miserable working there for low pay, and told me so personally. Embrace the culture you have, or fix it, but stop denying it exists, Amazon.
I see your point, and I admit that incidents have occurred where they have prevented firefighting efforts and have fallen, injuring people.

I'm not going to comment on the 'invasion of privacy' part, as it's a strawman; there are no cameras that are easily available on these devices that can 'hover outside someones apartment' and spy on them any more reliably than a cell phone on a stick.

However, and this is a very important distinction; these are the small majority of all RC flights by all amateur pilots.

I agree that there should be stiff fines for those that break the regulations. I do not agree, however, that everyone should be subject to some crazy ill-advised extra regulations.
My guess (and this is a reasonably educated guess): a data scientist creates models and usually has an advanced math or stats degree (or similar). A data analyst uses models created by data scientists, and often has a business/econ or other undergraduate degree.

Of course this is a generalization, but in my perusal of job openings over the past year, this seems to be roughly what companies mean.
There really isn't a good way to rate turbines to hp. I did find this article [1] that says a 747 uses some 87000 hp in cruise across all 4 engines. That's approx 20000 hp per. It also says that's only 1/4 of the rated thrust it's capable of. I have no idea if you can say each of those engines is capable of 87000 hp or not since it's entirely dependent on speed.

If you watch agentjayz on YouTube he rebuilds turbojets that have been converted to become gas generators for power plants and some of those are easily capable of generating 30000 hp using tech from the 60s.

It really is phenomenal how much power turbine engines can make. There is a thread on the Concorde [2] that goes through a q&a session with the people who operated it. In that thread it says that the engines at idle consumed some 5 metric tons of fuel per hour per engine.

1: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/propulsion/q0195.shtml

2: http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/423988-concorde-question.html
Wikipedia says five died. But that's why I mention this. Today, it is possible that no one would have died or been injured but the project would probably take ten times as long and cost ten times as much. Partly due to the modern infrastructure which seeks to minimize all risk.

The additional time and expense devoted to safety isn't without it's own costs.
>Those "agile advocates" are just trying to sell their own services to improve your "agile functioning". Shame on you for falling for it. Agile is so widespread at this point that "doing Agile wrong" isn't a reason teams fail.

To be fair, it isn't often the individual developer who "falls" for it. These management methodologies are imposed on them, and the developer has to learn to roll with it. You may not be in a position to determine whether or not a project manager was sent off for "Scrum master certification".
be much harder to shoot potential enemies when they literally are your friends

If this were the case, the US wouldn't be notorious for high numbers of police shootings. It's far more likely that if there is some kind of US civil war it would be race-based, like the previous civil war and the Indian wars.
I just bought a 2015 Moto G (the 8GB/1GB model, to use without a data plan). It works much better than you describe.

Is $200 unlocked not what you mean by low end?
Your response - totally. Similar experience: I was asked in a technical interview to use the "correct" collection class given the (very academic) sorting problem. I responded with "there is no right answer, so my answer will be the simplest one". According to them that was wrong. The "right" answer was the best performing scenario (although more complex of a solution).

So, again. "It depends".
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I worked for Amazon, I found it an abusive workplace. Not just because after a re-org I was taken away from a good boss and put under an abuser, but because the culture of the company is set up by people who clearly don't respect employees. I had interactions with Amazon management all the way up to, and including, Jeff Bezos, and the problems outlined in the article are systematic.

By definition any previous employee who does not like a company is "disgruntled". And while there are employees who are insulated from the abuse, often by working for the good people at Amazon (and there are a lot of good people there) the idea that companies are good by nature is a mistake and there seems to be a bias that any employee who complains must be the problem.

So, it's natural to bash the employee speaking out, and that's the route that Amazon has taken.

Well, there are thousands of us, and what we witnessed was not one off events, but the result of a culture.
There are studies that suggest that teams that take time out of the day to joke and laugh with each other are still more productive than the teams that are heads down all the time.

(I'm grateful my natural inclination has proved out to be a good use of time, but now I don't even feel guilty about it, which is nice.)

If we were robots or Vulcans, perhaps socialization is a net loss, but for humans in general it is not. If you are trying to optimize your productivity, removing social contact is not necessarily moving in the right direction; the productivity optimum is not "zero social contact".

Of course "social networks" may be low-grade or negative socialization. Perhaps the fact it is "low-calorie" social interaction causes people to spend too much time on it when they could do better by other mechanisms. I don't know, really. I'm just pointing out that assuming social == not producing value is an oversimplification, if you're a human being.
I concur wholeheartedly.

I've had people claim that they do agile. No retrospectives or any kind of feedback loop in their processes. No modification of work tracking either. All of that customization was from the top. Basically breaking several core tenets right there... But I digress.

We really need to accept that delivering is difficult to do. Creating new teams is a _hard_ thing to do. Delivering a project on time when the team wasn't formed at the beginning and had no input into the timeline is difficult. No matter what methodology you use there are things that can kill the project.