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> I still don’t understand why no Flash on the iPhone is a problem.

Really? a full 50% of my browsing nowadays uses something with flash in it. (as I sit here typing while watching my hulu queue).

> HTML5 will very soon replace it. Good riddance.

We are in most definite agreement here. I'm not saying flash is great or anything, but not supporting flash in someway is like not supporting .jpg files. Heck, even my gp2x wiz ( http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/bfc7/ ) supports a little bit of flash.
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Yes, it seems like this will kill CTR, and distort CPM. Damaging to the publisher and damaging to the advertiser.

This makes it much worse than normal ad blocking, imo.
given that, why would unions have more rights than corporations?
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I prefer phing and a git post-update hook myself.
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The iPad will sell like hotcakes. While it doesn't have a true computing "niche", it has the Apple brand behind it, and seems extremely easy to use. I'd rather buy one of these than a netbook or an e-reader for sure.
FYI, I've had some really bad problems crop up when using sym links to deploy php releases (php selectively using files from older versions), and I've encountered others who've had similar problems. I don't know if it's been fixed in newer versions, but problems include the realpath cache not getting properly reset (and clearstatcache() wouldn't let you clear the realpath cache until 5.3).

Here's someone else who had this problem, although he claims cycling Apache would fix it (it didn't for me):

http://www.mikebrittain.com/blog/2009/05/12/case-against-usi...
"Without government, people have certain rights. They choose to surrender some of them to the government."

What "natural" rights do you have without government?
I think everybody was taken aback by the relatively low price of the iPad...when the pricing for this was set, I think lots of people were amazed it could be so cheap...now it seems a bit high in comparison.

The difference a day makes.
Python (Django) is big in information industry aka what people still call newspapers.

Python is also big in science so if you wanted to get paid little and deal with beauirocrcy look to gov/acadamia.
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LOL -- thanks for that link
I'm actively looking for more good interview subjects on this focused topic (getting traction). If you have any ideas, introductions, or would like to be interviewed, please let me know.
But corporations do not speak, people do. The management are all people, and the owners are all people. These people can and have been drafted into the military or arrested for illegal conduct. Congress can make no law abridging any person's freedom of speech, period.
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Freedom of speech isn't a right, in human history, it's an anomaly. We've elevated it's status to a right to make sure their is no dispute of its importance. These things are only held together by the blood and sweat of the people that are willing to protect them. Corporations have neither of these qualities so I fail to understand how they qualify for something that most people can't even get for themselves.
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> You can't arrest a corporation and send it to jail

No, but you can sue it and rule against it. Ever seen a ruling with a name like "Smith vs. Acme Inc."?

> Because corporations aren't people.

No, and corporations also can't speak. So free speech for corporations is an oxymoron if you don't mean free speech by the people that make up a corporation.
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the mistaken impression that the price should gravitate toward the cost of moving and storing the bits rather than the value in their particular arrangement

I disagree that the impression was mistaken. I also disagree that it was rhetoric about digitization that produced such an impression.

Even the word "publisher" means distributor, not content creator (or bit arranger, if you will). Consumers therefore have a reasonable expectation that the value they're paying for is the delivery of the content to them in a convenient fashion.
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I'd also be interested in something like that.

maybe we need to make a new website? ;)
Employees of the corporation may have different political views. When a corporation donates money to a political cause, it is not expressing the views of all of its employees.
You may want to keep in mind that using "ELT" vs "ETL" (even if that's what order Teradata works in) makes it harder to search for the job on most sites.

FYI -- I was about to apply for this until I noticed the 2-month contract. I'm more junior than what you're looking for but if you dropped the pay & extended the contract a bit I'd definitely be interested.
NASA has always purchased most of the technology for manned spaceflight systems from contractors.
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I thought there were some really interesting tidbits in there and I enjoyed reading about the office environment. About the information that they're hiring - has there ever been a time when Google wasn't hiring? (I mean that seriously, not to be snarky.)
This doesn't seem to me to have any merit, either legally or from common sense. Corporations have no rights under the Constitution? Oh, so can the FBI raid the offices of any corporation without a warrant? Could Congress pass a law prohibiting CNN from covering a war? Obviously, the Constitution should prohibit these things, and it does.

The reason the court did not elaborate on its classification of corporations as "speakers" in the context of the First Amendment is that it's settled law, with a long history you could look up on Wikipedia, and none of the justices (even the dissenting ones) disagree with that classification. The dissent of the minority was based on the idea that even though corporations should enjoy a strong right to free political speech, the state's interest in preventing corruption and the appearance of corruption is great enough that it should be restricted in this case.

Addendum: No, I don't think this is a really good situation, although I doubt that the sky will fall; corporations already find ways to shovel about as much money as they might like at candidates. However, I think that it's just a consequence of two root problems -- the first being the great inequality of wealth (and therefore power) in our society, being nearly all concentrated in a rich elite; the second being the lack of serious and/or compulsory public financing for campaigns, so that wealth is usually a prerequisite to being elected.
I thought Jonathan Turley had a very insightful post on the topic: http://jonathanturley.org/2010/01/21/supreme-court-rules-5-4...

tl;dr: "In the end, I have to favor more speech than less in such conflicts. While I would have written a concurrence and have difficulty with aspects of the majority opinion, I probably would have voted to support the majority in the result in this case. However, I do consider this to be one of the most difficult free speech cases to hit the court in decades."
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The ruling isn't really about speech, though, it's about money. The ruling doesn't affect any person's ability to speak, it affects a company's ability to spend its money on political candidates, with a clear expectation of a positive ROI. How can that possible be legal? If money really is speech, why isn't it legal to talk my way out of a speeding ticket with a wallet full of bills?
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The Google optimization is more complex than utility. They optimize for clicks * revenue per click.

One example they don't optimize for - if there's a free way to achieve something , they don't show it to you.

Another - if the competition on a certain keyword is very high , you can get really high cost per click , which would push out good offers.

Another - if you can write great ad copy to lousy product.

Another - if a different way to display the products is more useful. that's the reasons google have different way of showing mortgage ads.
It's interesting to me how everyone who disagrees with this ruling keep acting like the justices are extremely confused and decided through some convoluted mental process that corporations are pretend-people.

Lets look at the First Amendment, shall we?

"Congress shall make no law"..."abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press"

Hmm... doesn't say you have to be a person. In fact it seems to just say, Congress can't make a law... abridging speech. Not speech by people, or speech by companies, or speech by the media. Just speech. As in, anyone can say whatever. Especially about politics.

Justice Kennedy brilliantly points out:
'"If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech." He also noted that since there was no way to distinguish between media and other corporations, these restrictions would allow Congress to suppress political speech in newspapers, books, television and blogs.' (via Wikipedia)

Honestly I'm not sure what's going to change... rich people and unions already dump money into politics, through various means.
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I worked on a Flash EMAR app that was deployed on touchscreen tablet PCs. You don't need to worry about how to do mouse over unless your app needs mouse over support. As long as your app can work with click and double-click you are fine. Feedback from users was overwhelmingly positive, partly because it cut hours of paperwork every week, and partly because the UI was responsive and easy to use.
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As a former aerospace major I have to agree. When I entered the program, Boeing was scaling back their programs and lots of engineers were heading back to school. The consensus I got from former engineers and some professors was it would have been wiser to go into mechanical. Then, if the aerospace jobs fall out you can coast by designing pumps or something.

I remember some joke about aerospace engineers and working in fastfood.
What a horrible deluded spin on reality.

Arrington didn't bail on anything. He got dumped, and cried foul for it to anyone who would listen.

He may have gotten lucky, but it was blind luck, not skill or insight.
Thanks for doing this, they are amazing and super-relevant.

Ideas:

@ev/@jack on twitter

@tonystubblebine on crowdvine

@joshu on delicious

chris dixon/caterina fake on hunch/flickr

pg on viaweb

kevin rose on digg

steven chen or chad hurley on youtube

andrew warner on mixergy (recursive intervews, perhaps? :)

craig newmark on craigslist

jason fried on 37signals

that's off the top of my head anyway.
Ha! I've visited Mountain View enough to know that it's a ghost town when breakfast is actually being served.
Google has amazing people. It is often said that engineers find working at Google a humbling experience. This is absolutely true. It took me less than a day to realize that the guy sitting next to me is clearly much smarter than I am [..] without false modesty I wouldn't be surprised to find that I'm as high as being in the top 0.1% in general intelligence (however that could be measured).

This strikes me as a problem, rather than an achievement. Google seems to be jam packed with highly intelligent eggheads, but Google isn't a pure science company - they're trying to work with consumers too. Most of the most successful businessmen and entrepreneurs I know don't come even close to the top 1% of intelligence (and are often even dyslexic) as they need a wider range of faculties like common-sense, charisma, creativity, and "emotional intelligence."

Maybe this guy's in the engineering department and Google does hire a lot of creatives, business types, and what not, but their products have a rather sterile edge that makes me think the engineers always win over there..
> No, but you can sue it and rule against it. Ever seen a ruling with a name like "Smith vs. Acme Inc."?

Not in a criminal court.

> No, and corporations also can't speak. So free speech for corporations is an oxymoron if you don't mean free speech by the people that make up a corporation.

The board of directors, actually, or, even more accurately, whoever holds a controlling share of the corporation.
The right to kill, the right take without giving, the right to go where you want, when you want. Pretty much all the stuff that is considered to be bad today. Those are rights that the government has taken away, probably for the better ('cept for the last one. I hate fences).
Interesting question. But --- do we want to?
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It's interesting that this is sort of self perpetuating, though. I was looking for python developers (I sort of still am; Python + NLP), and literally nothing promising came by. Part of that was being located in Scotland, but still. I changed the job ad to Python + Java and got a ton of recruitment agency spam as I had clearly hit some kind of programming-drone buzzword (not one of the candidates foisted unconsentingly on me looked remotely interesting). As a result I wouldn't hire for either skill again - as other posters in this thread have alluded to, it's more about general ability than specific Python experience, especially as Python isn't too challenging to pick up.
You can make your statement stronger by weakening the conditions:

"(3) I do things which are considered immoral by _some_ people, but which are not illegal."
About a year ago Google had a layoff and stopped hiring.

This was personally frustrating, because I got through the interview process in Feb, got approved by the hiring committee, then headcount was not approved. Which put me in a state of indefinite limbo. So I had found a different job by the time they contacted me again in October.
I've seen a fair few jobs for python and GIS, python and finance and python and most types of engineering. I agree that there doesn't seem to many pure python jobs, but lots of industries are using python as their in house language of choice. However they also expect you to have a good working knowledge of the relevant industry as well.
As our focus has shifted to the web in the past decade, I think a lot of us (myself included) have convinced ourselves that the future lies completely inside the web browser.

Hearing Gates address the issue, and combining that with what we're seeing now with mobile and touch-driven computing has really convinced me otherwise.

I see this interview as a call-to-arms from our heroes to gear up for this paradigm shift. They've gotten us this far; and now it's up to us, the developers, to really drive it home.
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Here is one:

http://www.transloc.com/site/content/careers

This is a Raleigh, NC company that was started by a friend of mine.
I think the proposed heavy tax on corporate contributions makes a nicer distinction between speech with words and "speech" with money.
The focus is on engineers. Google seems to hire people with exactly the qualities you mention to work directly with the consumers, and leave the hyper-genius engineers where they prefer, away from real people ;) Although there is an element of intelligence and also of having a technical background for many of the consumer-facing roles too.
No, "lots of people" don't kill themselves with marathons. A few people who try to go from couch potato to marathon in 12 weeks or who chug ridiculous amounts of water over the course of a 5-hour walk-jog kill themselves with marathons. (It's possible to drink to the point of excessive dilution of the sodium in your bloodstream, which can kill you just like dehydration can, but this is basically impossible to induce below an Ironman triathlon distance if you're reasonable about water intake.) That's not "lots."

Distance running is what humans evolved to do, according to a good deal of evidence. Admittedly, running on asphalt and concrete with awful form created by a lifetime walking and running in awkwardly built shoes and sitting in chairs all day is not what humans evolved to do.
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There's no law keeping them from speaking just like any other person. There's (well, there was) a law keeping them from using millions of corporate dollars to broadcast that speech.
Not to mention that out of the 50 states only 3 really benefit from the NASA budget. Aerospace tends to be highly concentrated around Alabama, California, Florida, and DC (obviously). Without the support of the 47 other states NASA becomes an obviously easy target.
Let your payment gateway handle it. Just store the reference number they give you in your database, and look it up in their web interface later if you need it.

Don't let the number even touch the disk!
>Cats are different, however. Nothing against cats, but Google is a dog place and cats wouldn't be comfortable.

Reminded me of this:

http://www.rhymeswithorange.com/2008/09/take-your-cat-to-wor...
As much as I would like to believe this, commercial -- especially publicly held or funded -- companies need some kind of serious profit incentive to justify the massive outlay of resources that space exploration requires.

This is supposed to be exactly the kind of thing that we have governments for.
I like Google as a company and I love their products (As much as you can love a tool), but jesus how can he work there and use Blogger? It's such a piece of crap.
I was one of the people who was underwhelmed when it was announced the other day. I've subsequently realised though that it's true - there is a place for it. My mother would love one as all she wants to do is send/receive email, browse the web and manage photos. It should be a great 'family' device also that can just sit in the kitchen
Has anyone ever written a science fiction story based on this?
This is pretty hilarious, but before we start making jokes about how Rails is powered by LOLcats, keep in mind that all but one file touched by this commit is a test or test-related code.
I have no idea about official tours. I rather doubt it though. It is a work place, not a theme park.

However if you happen to know someone there, they have the freedom to meet you on campus and show you around all they like.
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I infinitely prefer a well-written piece to a video. With a video I have to listen and watch and have no idea if it's ever going to make a decent point, be relevant, or have a clever twist at the end that made it worth watching.

With text I can skim, I can go back, I can spot keywords, I can search, I can just do so much more. Plus I read a lot faster than most people talk.

Please, people, do me a favor and write stuff. If you can't write well, then maybe you're just boring and should learn to write better.
It's easy to program a Flash app to work with a touchscreen -- just limit your interactions to mouseDown, drag, mouseUp. But if an existing app relies on hover or keyboard, I can't see how you'd go about using it. Maybe if the screen were extremely sensitive, it could work like a Wacom: light contact "places" the mouse, heavier contact causes a mouseDown event. But that's not in the current technology.
it's a Google product. it was quite good in 2001 or thereabouts..
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"After all, if the corporate directors authorizing the donation didn’t expect to get some kind of benefit from the politician in return"

Of course. But, that thing in return might not be corrupt. Let's say you are a gun manufacturer and you give money to politicians who support the NRA. Corrupt? No more so than a gun owner making contributions for similar reasons. Beneficial? You bet.
Just finished watching it. The story is truly fascinating. I started off thinking "we have been lucky to find a case like hers". Then I realized that if her cells could practically survive anything, the odds of us finding it are not as bad as they seem.
How long have file-sharing lawsuits been dragging on for?

Perhaps we just haven't hit the magic number of glaring errors and perversions of justice that will bring change.
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Is there a video posted anywhere?
Corporations aren't normal associations of people or the arguments below would be correct. They're groups of people hired by others to spend their money WITH A SPECIAL LIABILITY SHIELD. That shield protects them personally from the corporations responsibility and prevents the human rights from leaking into the artificial, government-created entity that is a corporation.

The individual people involved, acting by themselves or as a group, are free to speak as much as they want, spending as much money as they want in the process. What they're not, I argue, is free to spend someone else's money through
an artificial construct that shields them from all responsibility for their actions.

Rights and responsibilities are two sides of the same coin. If the human responsibilities assoiated with a han right are shielded, the human right is shielded too.
In fact this is enshrined as an official corporate policy - engineers get 20% of their time to do with pretty much as they please, and are judged in part on how they use that time. I found a speech claiming that over half of Google's applications started as a 20% project.

>> (I'm surprised that the figure is so low.)

I wonder why you are surprised? Actually it's very high. Imagine Google don't offer 20% for its' employees, will their productivity (in their real jobs) increase? Probably not, you won't work 100% of your time, you'll work 70% or 80% in best cases.

Google profit from this wasted 20% to turn it into useful mini-applications, that can turn big in the future and the best example is Gmail.
>"Unfortunately there's no explanation which means there's no science here."

Experimental science has a long and colorful history of answering the what before the how or why. Consider the question of black body radiation. Without the experimental research results and Plank's desperate attempts to fit them to a mathematical model, Einstein wouldn't have had a reason to think of light existing as discrete particles and theoretical quantum mechanics would not have possible.

Creating frameworks for why things work is satisfying, but gathering data is just as vital to science.
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There's no such thing as a "Python job." Anyone who can't pick up Python in a week isn't worth hiring, and conversely, being productive in Python isn't proof of technical ability. Unlike with C++, Lisp, or even Java, if I was hiring for a Python shop, I wouldn't stress Python as an important qualification for the position.
Virtually no Google engineers use their personal time to develop new projects. In most cases, they have crushing responsibilities on their existing projects (that guy who appears to be 2x as smart as you and sits next to you? You are competing with him).

Usually, people use the official personal time to take mini-sabbaticals with other projects, or write tools to make their own lives easier (which may have more general use within the company, or beyond.)
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