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I never said they want to kill it off or implied anything like that. I stated the obvious that they are trying to make it less accessible to get ad blockers because it is in their interest.

You claim that they are trying to promote less popular extensions, which you have no way to know because they just started removing the most used popular list from the front page _today_.

Unless you work for Google, or had any conversation from anyone from Google regarding this in the last 24 hours, how can you claim such a thing?
Loving this tutorial... really easy to follow and talk about "getting real?" this tutorial does just that. rSpec, git... it's all in there and in the right order!
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I'm more excited about how well it integrates with Objective-C to be honest. I think all objects are descendants of NSObject, right? It's got a lot of innovative stuff like that to tie in with Objective-C including frameworks like WebKit.
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Chromium is open source, not Chrome. This may seem like semantics, but when users search the dominant search engine for "chrome web browser" they are going to get directed to Google's version of the browser. No amount of open source linkfests are going to budge that link from the top of the search results. As a consequence Chrome will always be exactly what Google wants (or allows) it to be and nothing more. If Google decides at some future point that ad blockers are eating into its bottom line then the ad blockers will disappear, end of story. I am sure it will be couched in some pseudo-technical justification (c.f. why adblock won't work on Chrome) but the end result will be the same. What separates Google from Apple is that at least the latter will have the balls to tell you to your face instead of pretending they don't know what you are talking about.
That's what made me give up WoW myself a few months ago, after playing for about year and getting my sister hooked worse than me. I played rather leisurely until Blizzard added Achievements. My play style changed drastically afterwards, especially with regards to holiday events. My desire to get titles (especially the Loremaster one) really burned me out. Brewfest was the final straw, since you have to do several annoying grind quests every stinking day for the two week duration. Really ruined the game for me. (Blizz had to extend the holiday for a few days even due to glitches that really screwed up the acquisition curve.)

I pity the players having to deal with the Valentine's Day event coming soon; that was the second worst, IMHO.
No, but both of my parents are teachers, and I was in a poorly-structured (IMO) gifted program for a year of elementary school. I also worked as a math tutor when I was in high school, and still tutor family friends on rare occasions. My suggestion is based on a combination of what I think would've helped me perform better when I was in school and my observations of other students.
What the hell. Even if there isn't a viable alternative you shouldn't support fish oil if it's at the cost of the environment.
How about wording it like this: the density of racists in a red state is statistically significantly higher than that of a blue state.

But I'd agree, considering America is a salad bowl of cultures, it's probably more tolerant than most homogenous countries out there. Of course being a salad bowl, you'll get more collisions too which is why it may seem like America is less tolerant of different cultures. More homogenous countries simply have less foreigners to be racist towards.
Everything humans do will somehow take a toll on the environment. So unless we all go kill ourselves, we're going to affect our environment one way or another. We can instead be responsible and make sure we don't strain a specific resource, and be educated consumers (it might just happen). So a solution would be to find alternative fishes and balance it out, cut out other fish oil uses.

That being said the article stated that fish oil is only one of the many things contributing to this. I think we could cut out lipstick before we cut out treating mental illnesses.
Mostly up to date, but I freshened some things.
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Eh? AAPL isn't telling-you-to-your-face the reasons for rejecting iPhone apps (heh, such as Google Voice). Every large company attempts to coat its shallow self-serving behavior with bullshit-flavored rainbows and unicorns.
I think one of Hitchens' points is that there may be no good to be done with a civil position toward North Korea. In discussing the book, The Cleanest Race, he says the conclusions of the book could "mean that peace and disarmament negotiations with [N. Korea] are a waste of time—and perhaps a dangerous waste at that."
Yeah, a lot of things seem to happen "by magic" and one wonders a) what seemingly-invisible element on the screen is the user touching to make that happen and b) how did the user learn that? I didn't get that feeling from the iPad videos I've seen.
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Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean they're lying.

If you are presented with 500 investment opportunities a year, and only have enough capital to fund 5 of them, you are going to pass on a lot of +PV opportunities.

Maybe they appear positive to you, but don't cross your hurdle rate. Maybe they're overly correlated with other existing investments, so despite being positive, they're not ideal for your portfolio. Maybe you want to avoid certain risks because you already have that risk in your portfolio. Maybe you're running a double or triple bottom line company, and it works financially, but is inferior to another investment in another way. Maybe it has more vol than you can fade. Maybe it's fantastic, but you have another investment that's really fantastic.

There are almost countless reasons that a company could be great and a worthy investment, without being right for a particular investor at that moment.
Private property does not automatically make an event private.

In this case, this was a US government funded event (taxpayer money), with tickets handed out to the __public__. The only thing private about this was that the area was rented from a private owner.

http://www.ck10.uscourts.gov/opinions/09/09-1085.pdf

If you think this is private, I don't know what to tell you. I guess you support restaurants, supermarkets, and businesses being able to discriminate based on whether someone wasn't Christian or white.
Sounds like a longer term adaptive testing method like they use on the current computerized Graduate Record Examination.
I think it's pretty fair to write using some assumptions about the audience (ie that they are 'reasonable').
Here's a map of hate groups:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/images/splc_hategroups.pd...

As you can see the blue states and the red states are fairly well represented, with CA having the most. The southern states which are typically red have a significant amount. But the western states that are red have less than the western blue, so as I said before I don't think you can draw any conclusions. Also the majority of the southern red states used to be blue, so that's something else to consider.
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Thanks for the reply. It is an interesting idea.
I've never actually played (long story, but essentially my gaming tastes have been permanently stuck in 1998), so I was referring to the broader lesson in life. Glad to know the lessons continue to apply specifically and generally.
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For those of you running postgresql with some kind of multi-server setup, how do you do load balancing and replication right now?

I'm running pgpool-ii but just tonight noticed some pretty serious discrepancies between the two backend postgresql instances so I am getting rid of pgpool for the time being.

Will this change make pgpool-ii obsolete?
This is correct, but it's not that the other ventures are all losers. It's that AdWords is this supernova that outshines the entire galaxy.

Gmail, Google Enterprise, Google Docs, Google Apps, Google Checkout, Google Earth, Google Maps -- these would all be highly interesting startups, some of them profitable, were they not inside Google. As it is, now they are more part of Google's long-term strategic plans.
Seven Things I Learned From WoW (The Business):

1) Put obsessive attention into making the first five minutes of use of your product awesome. It is the five minutes people are most likely to see. It is also a gate through which all subsequent use of your product must pass. (Seriously, folks, if you value conversion optimization, I want you to play five minutes of WoW and five minutes of any other MMORPG, and take notes on what happens. WoW will drag you around by the nose. WoW will point you in the direction of the next thing to do. WoW will show you success in those five minutes, even if you're terrible at what you're doing. We should all aspire to making products that nail those first five minutes as much as WoW does.)

2) Do not devote disproportionate developer resources to content/systems which the majority of the user base will not interact with. (It took them years to learn this, but they eventually go around to it.)

3) Make it simple. Then, make it simpler. WoW is one of the most complicated pieces of engineering the world has ever known, but six year olds can pick up and play it.

4) People will put up with any amount of drudgery if you give them small, frequent, random rewards for doing so. This is in fact so powerful I'm kind of scared of doing it.

5) If people are bringing their boyfriends into your product so that they can spend more time together, that is probably a good sign you have reached mass market success.

6) Monthly. Billing. Minor discounts for cashflow in advance.

7) High quality visual design can be made rot-proof by using iconic representations, bright colors, and timeless aesthetics. If you chase the leading edge of graphical sophistication, on the other hand, three years from now plan on doing a total graphical rip-out or you'll look dated.
It's irrelevant. Apple has already decided they can
move forward without Flash. If they won Flash in the lottery they still wouldn't incorporate it in their mobile platforms regardless of how clean the source is...why would they bother?

Yes, there are still large parts of the web that rely on Flash. And popular parts of the web. But none of them are important parts of the web. There is no critical Flash-based infrastructure that, if Flash went away tomorrow, would prevent people across the Internet from doing their jobs. You can't run Farmville without Flash, but Farmville is a fad...six months or a year or two years from now people will be obsessing over some other online diversion.

The only people who depend on Flash are the people who design and run the sites with Flash content. Lots of others enjoy Flash but can live without it.
I work for Google, on Google Chrome extensions.

The change to the gallery was actually made awhile ago, and discussed here:

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-exten...

mmastrac is correct. We always wanted the front page to work this way, we just didn't get to it in time for ship day.

The idea is to spread the wealth a bit on the front page. Otherwise the lead the frontrunners have becomes difficult to challenge.
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I think it's pretty fair (and easy) to write accurate, correct titles. We can dance all night about what's 'reasonable' and what assumptions and on and on. The article was poorly retitled. No getting around that.
I'm not an expert, but PgPool also servers as a local connection pooler, so for those purposes it won't be obsoleted.
Actually, Alan Kay appears to be a big fan of the iPad concept.

From Janko Roettgers:

I interviewed Kay late last year, and while he didn’t mention the tablet by name, he did share a story about the unveiling of the iPhone, to which Steve Jobs invited him in early 2007:

“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.”

Guess about how big the iPad's screen is?
You get xenophobic racism when you never see outsiders, but you also get racism when you see a bunch of outsiders in the wrong kind of context. A lot of black writers historically reported experiencing better treatment in Europe than in America, during an era where America had millions of black people and Europe had barely any. Now that Europe has millions of black immigrants, they have race issues.

If your society systemically creates a vast underclass of impoverished, poorly educated people who are oppressed as such because of their race, people are going to have their racism confirmed by those very effects. Likewise, if your society is flooded by a vast number of impoverished, poorly educated immigrants, people are going to hate the immigrants. (Judging from America's experience, this seems to be a temporary problem in most cases.) In either situation, you create racism by having more people of a different race, so long as those people are poor, segregated, or different enough to piss people off.

American racism was not as much xenophobic, it was always based on the difficulties of integrating immigrants and on the ongoing, cyclical oppression of the black population. You had some xenophobia during wartime (http://img.moonbuggy.org/superman-says-you-can-slap-a-jap/) but we tend to forget how much we hate other people after the war's over.
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Do you have the opportunity to work with the startup on the side? (I realize this might be hard with family and other commitments)

Maybe you can take on a reduced capacity role at your current place of employment in order to make time for the 'new' something?

I'd say you have a few options, but they all require some level of sacrifice - but you'll probably enjoy the startup life! ;)
Please read the post before making a comment on what you don't like about the game. He just used WoW examples to contrast with life lessons.

The #1 lesson is probably the most important to life success, "Don't start something you don't intend to finish." is another way to word it.

This is even more important to startups -- if you are constantly getting features half way done and then scrapping them you should spend time figuring out why.

Yes the "new feature" you thought of today might be better measured side by side than the one that is half way done, but is it better for the effort required?
The biggest thing I learned from world of warcraft:

If you quit wow and spend all of that time that you would have been playing WoW on other tasks, you can actually accomplish some pretty amazing stuff.

(Get in shape, become a hacker, learn music, get girls... pretty much anything.)

Grinding levels in WoW takes discipline.
Grinding levels in WoW can be a time investment similar to a second job.
You can literally waste YEARS of your life playing WoW.

If you have the energy and discipline to sit at a computer for 8 hours or whatever after you've done all of your daily stuff, you could just as easily be spending that time accomplishing something great or learning.

And you will have tangible rewards that you can take with you everywhere, not just bits on a server.
I think content content matters to him a lot. My theory on his axis of evil theory is that it comes from the same opposition to totalitarianism and internationalism. I think he wants to believe in internationalism also. The UN (which was never intended to be a guardian of democracy, human rights or such things) was failing. It would never 'liberate' Iraqi, Afghanis, Burmese, North Koreans or anyone else. So, he turns to the US for this job with, I think, the hope that this will eventually result in a paradigm shift empowering internationalism in general. Remember that he comes from a very internationalist socialist "heritage."

Afganistan and Iraq were (and still are) oppressive totalitarian regimes where the individual's mind was being invaded. He supports liberation. Iraqis largely see the coalition as occupiers, not liberators (apart from the Kurds who never saw themselves as part of Saddam's Iraq) regardless of their views of the previous regime. Accepting that Iraq was not in fact liberated is accepting that liberation is not possible. His solidarity is delusional. That's got to be a bitter pill for someone like Hitchens.

The thought of North Koreans rejecting liberation from their regime to Hitchens is like the thought of an American slave rejecting abolition to some lingering flag bearer of the Black Panthers, like Hatians begging for the return of the French.
You're obviously trolling your balls off.

To be fair, so is Hitchens, in a sense. The difference is, Hitchens just does is so much more eloquently than you, and has a good point hidden behind all the invective. You're just giving voice to a cliche.
Really? For me it took about a week.

It's just a matter of psychology. You still have friends outside the company... but you can't talk about what you're doing. You can't even talk about the perks without becoming deeply annoying. You can't talk about the scale without giving away competitive information, or sounding like you're bragging. So at some level, when it comes to your work life, you start putting up a mask to everyone else, and your only true confidants have to be other Googlers.
From what I can tell, a cron job randomizes the front-page [1] every 1 to 2 minutes (try refreshing the page a few times over the span on a couple minutes). Ad-blocking plugins appear every so often.

On the real, ranked Popular page [2] you can see that ad-block is always #1. While it is possible that Google is rotating the front page to minimize the number of downloads of ad-blockers, I think it is far more likely that they simply want to give more exposure to other popular plugins than the top X, which will likely become static.

This is a non-story.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/extensions?hl=en-US

[2] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular?hl=en-US
Great cinematography there. Really. I mean, just point that fucker at random shit. Maybe the wall. Maybe your pants legs. Maybe the desk. Maybe some people who are focused on their diet sodas. Maybe just shake it around a bit. No, wait. Shake it around the whole time. Whatever you do, don't do this: Focus the camera steadily on the person who is speaking. Cripe.
Thanks for clearing this up. I just noticed the change from today too.

BTW, I am a big fan of GreaseMonkey and I really appreciate your work on it and thanks for porting it to Chrome. :)
I'm unaware of a truly great basic circuits book, but if you get one, choose one for electrical engineers. Physicists flip the direction of current flow, which is mathematically equivalent but confusing. Once you learn basic circuits, Sedra and Smith's "Microelectronic Circuits" is an awesome text for analog transistor design. Lots of people use Razavi's "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits" for advanced analog design, but I found the text full of contrived examples that don't teach you practical design principles. Most people don't go that far (senior-level EE electives), so you'll probably be fine stopping at Sedra and Smith.

Hennessy and Patterson's "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" is a comprehensive look at principles of computer architecture, but if you want to actually design the digital circuits beneath them, you'll want something more specialized. I used Wakerly's "Digital Design Principles and Practices." In retrospect, I found it lacking on different types of arithmetic circuits, but it was good enough for me. Keep in mind that most large-scale modern circuits will be designed using hardware description languages, so you may want to invest in a Verilog or VHDL text to continue your study but only after you have come to understand digital design. (HDLs require a different type of thinking than sequential programming languages.) AFAIK, Verilog is more common in industry, whereas VHDL is more common on government and university projects.

Good luck!
Point taken regarding the geographic element, your argument makes sense.

But I'm still having trouble understanding how your gripe with the other accelerators is legitimate....

In founding YC you came up with a wonderful, innovative model for birthing startups. Kudos for that. You invented a whole new paradigm of investment; that's f-ing cool. But whenever an entrepreneur comes up with an brilliant new way to do business, other entrepreneurs follow. I struggle to think of an instance where a company created a new industry and other folks didn't join. And I don't begrudge the followers; they are part of a dynamic that is central to the innovative beast that is American capitalism.

Perhaps other entrepreneurs follow because a single company can rarely support an entire industry. Perhaps they follow because they think they can do things subtly (or radically) different to improve the model. I'm not sure the reason is terribly important. The point is, inventing an industry niche does not give you a monopoly right on that niche ad infinitum.

The internet space is full of examples. Aliweb was (arguably) the first commercial search engine. I remember trying it back in 1994. At the time, it seemed damn cool. Then, soon after, I heard about a new search engine called Lycos, so I tried that. It was similar to Aliweb--I thought I slightly preferred the Lycos results, but I wasn't sure. Lycos begot Altavista; Altavista begot Dogpile; Dogpile begot Google. Each new search engine was doubtlessly dependent on its predecessors. And each new search engine had no obvious new innovation--changes were subtle, usually hidden under the hood.

I don't buy the argument that entrepreneurs should be frowned upon for entering a new industry without a radical new twist. Begrudging folks who are making subtle changes to your model seems petty. YC will, for the foreseeable future, have the name brand and network to attract better talent than all other accelerators. That--not a universal monopoly--is a proper reward for being the first mover.
He's an awesome writer with a knack for argumentation.
He's also rare in that he boasts of the merits of Western liberal democracy yet is mostly scornful of the Right. He doesn't let bastardized concepts of multiculturalism force him to tolerate flagrant intolerance.
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Yes, but that's different. It has almost nothing to do with membership in the WTO.
A 1.6GHz Intel Atom spanks an entire week of lunch money out of a 1 GHz ARM, in terms of CPU performance. No doubt AAPL can mostly hide that with faster SW, relative to Windows Vista/7. But I would hate to compile anything on A4, whereas, a $200 Linux netbook is fine for most development.

IMO it's sad for something iPad's size to not have a reasonable native development environment.
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I have never been satisfied with a piece of software as I am with Postgres.

Fact: 11 year old version of postgres are still actively maintained.
It's not called "Hacker News" for nothing. :)
YouTube changes the balance of power though. Before the case goes to trial, the entire jury pool has seen the police officer do whatever it is they did.