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MS could, erm, look up those org charts on linkedin.com for $0 (indeed very useful at times.) What value is added by buying LinkedIn for $26G? How owning LinkedIn is going to add $1-1.5B/year (assuming eventually you want a P/E between, I dunno, 15 and 25), to MS's revenue?

(I'm sure someone at MS has an answer to this, it's just that they haven't been tremendously successful in the past with their big acquisitions; I don't think Skype or Nokia paid off. And in general tech companies often buy other companies without much apparent success. Why is it so crazy to doubt their wisdom in any particular instance?)
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If you do nothing but write code all day every day, you're not providing leadership, not managing, and not helping to others to develop their skills.
Apple's proven that the general population get over this pretty quickly, though. Look at their iOS 7 update.
I think the important question is why did linkedIn want to sell itself .. they were not in as much trouble as Twitter.
> You can pull assets from RAM somewhat transparently already (if you want to do it well you need to optimize it further, but to some extent NVIDIA and AMD do quite a bit of optimization in the driver too), shared page table between the CPU and GPU is also already in place under WDDM.

Can GPU page table entry point to non-present page(s)? Or does it only work for "pinned pages" [1], that cannot paged out of RAM?

If it doesn't require pinning, then what prevents from mmapping assets on the disk even today?

If, however, it does require pinning, then John Carmack has a damn good point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory#Pinned_pages
Or a world where a forced update breaks my parents' computer that was working perfectly fine before.
Did you try the hyperbook tutorial? I found it significantly easier (and better documented) than learning almost any new programming language. The main concept -- that of the action -- is confusing at first, but once you understand it (which can be gradual), there's really nothing more to learn...
"Corporate social network" is nowhere near an oxymoron. The value of strong and weak connections alike is critical to businesses and professionals.
Was this Microsoft's elaborate $26bn marketing plan to get the media to look away from Apple's WWDC announcements?
I'm surprised that no-one has suggested getting a VP Eng alongside you.

http://avc.com/2011/10/vp-engineering-vs-cto/
Too much money. Wayyyy too much.

And if this goes the way of most other very large MS acquisitions, it'll be utterly wasted.
Previous discussion, before the current amendment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11779453
How does it work when a public company acquires another public company? If you have existing LinkedIn shares, do they get converted to Microsoft shares?... or do they just disappear one day, and a pile of cash takes its place?
It's the 196th purchase that they bought at $196 / share. Somebody was having a laugh in the Finance department.
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Generally, the corporation's internal governing documents will specify the rules for sale, but the norm is a majority vote of the shareholders. Those who voted against may have some remedies if the firm was undervalued, but, yes, they can be forced to sell stock.
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I wonder what the future holds for Lynda.com which was just recently purchased by LinkedIn. I've been a member for years and was already concerned over the LI acquisition. Hopefully, they are not lost in the shuffle.
LinkedIn + Skype + Yammer gives MS the best inter-business or B2B directory/identity/contact-ibility.

Extremely valuable for a company competing for inter-business collaboration.

Depending how used, of course.
I predict the next version of AD/Outlook will allow for direct integration between a company's workforce information and said workforce's public profile. Why bother with scraping your user's contact list when you can feed directly from the source system that already includes their name, email address, and job title.
I note on the reviews the "Helpful" click count gives some indication as to how relevant they are. I see

> Everyday brings new challenges, and you are able to approach these challenges with autonomy and creativity.

gets Helpful (1) and

>"House of Cards comes crashing down"

...A front row seat and education how to adulterate documents and strategy!

gets Helpful (76)
While it´s true that lots of the right extremist stuff started in East Germany, you have to see that there is a nationwide rise in right party activities and election shares. I think it´s also a European problem caused by the "refugee crisis" at all.

National "sponsorship" was a big deal in East Germany to develop that part of the country after the fall of the DDR and the Berlin wall. It didn´t work out so well, I think. Lots of companies moved over there, took the money they could get and moved on, once funding was over and you could produce (cheaper) somewhere else. Some companies obviously stayed, yes, but they do not necessarily provide well paid jobs, so the overall living standard won´t increase for most of the people, although rent, taxes and more are lower in some areas, yes.

This is what frustates people and makes them throw molotov cocktails against refugee camps, because they think the refugees are the problem. This damages the areas' reputation and keeps companies from starting there. I think the situation "over there" is quite complex and will keep Germany troubled for quite some time.

What I like about East Germany is the nature. There are really some quite untouched places which are great for holidays. I´d love to have a house or an old farm over there, somewhere in the nowhere for the times you want to get down.
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I'm still wondering which company is which in that.
That depends if the sale is for cash, stock, or a mix. Could be either or both of the alternatives you lay out.
I'm getting "refused to connect"

DownForEveryone says it's down too.

anyone have a mirror?
>there was no transaction fee on Dankort transactions. It was practically a public subsidised credit card system.

i.e. You and non-participating parties were paying for it through taxes. So the transaction fee was hidden by layers of bureaucracy but was still existent.
Eum... What social network is really making money outside of ads and lots of it?

Yes, LinkedIn and it's also the most "business minded" social network. So it seems an obvious (good) choice ( don't forget, MS also bought Yelp - which was also considered a 'business social network')

There isn't any social network that has this much paying users.
What a terrible time to be burning that much cash, just before the next recession, and on a resume site. I was starting to see some good things coming from Microsoft but this makes me shake my head and question leadership big time.
And in case you need more flexibility juggling one-off calls to various similar tools, try:

:cex system('grep_or_ag_or_whatever -flags pattern') | copen

With proper ':set errorformat=...', you can call your compiler with this, or 'go test', or much more various stuff (even Go panic stacktraces).
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Calling LinkedIn a business tool seems more appropriate. No one actually thinks of it as a social network anymore do they? (In the consumer sense of the term, not the graph theory one)
>The kitchen became such a part of the culture as a place to sit down and talk privately, that there have been articles and books written about it.

Here is an interesting article on soviet kitchens on NPR if you don't have the time to read a book about it .

How Soviet Kitchens Became Hotbeds Of Dissent And Culture
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/05/27/314961287/how...
Many people cannot fathom the concept 'alone doesn't necessarily mean lonely'.
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> I wouldn't personally hire someone via recruiters or LinkedIn, but I would hire someone via a recomendation from a contact I maintain on LinkedIn.

I'm a recruiter, and fully understand reluctance to use recruiters (expensive, not to mention a host of other reputation issues).

I don't quite understand "I would't hire someone via...LinkedIn". 'Hire someone via LinkedIn' could mean a host of things.

The most obvious would be an ad - you might place an ad on LinkedIn, and that could be 'hiring via LinkedIn'. LinkedIn ads are relatively expensive, so I wouldn't fault you for not placing ads there either.

But to many, LinkedIn is just a database or catalog of people who you can reach out to (or who can reach out to you).

If you saw a LinkedIn profile that you thought would make a good addition to your team, would you not reach out to that person just because you found them on LinkedIn?

If someone approached you and said "I saw your profile on LinkedIn and I like what your company is doing, I'd like to get together and discuss the possibility of working with you", would you say no?

I expect the answers are "no" to both questions, but when we (in recruiting) talk about using LinkedIn for hires, we generally would agree that there are a handful of ways LinkedIn might be useful in the hiring process.
So.. about that non-eating crap low level job, any open position for me? :)
It amuses me that they paid people to make their search engine look slow.
Just to clarify, the main reason that the "Coca-Cola" tradename is not a recognized asset is because it was generated by the Company and not purchased, not because of how difficult it is to value. I agree that accounting is very different than it was ten years ago, but I think that has more to do with SOX and the increased requirements related to financial controls. The FASB (accounting rule-making body) has tried to improve the disclosures for those items that are difficult to value, but the subjectivity of these valuations will continue to exist for the foreseeable future.
Ouch. Reid Hoffman's 11 percent stake in LinkedIn is going to result in a $1 billion tax bill.
MS : "If you don't upgrade to Windows 10, we'll create a linkedin profile for you."
The human brain stores information. I would not call it a database.

Let's start with your statement: "If it can store and retrieve data, it's a database." One of the notable characteristics of human memory is that it is not reliable. It does NOT reliably retrieve the data that it stored -- and I don't just mean that we forget some things, I mean that many of our memories are factually incorrect.

Human memory is extraordinarily USEFUL, but in order for the term "database" to have a useful meaning, I have to categorize human memory as a form of information storage that is NOT a "database".
You don't even need the animation speed for this. In the GIF format you can have a new color palette for every frame so paint the first 256 colors in the first frame. Add 256 more colors in the right spots in the second frame etc.

See http://notes.tweakblogs.net/blog/8712/high-color-gif-images.... for a nice animation
Don't know if Lynda is a particularly great platform for training but imho MS would be well advised to spend the pittance it would cost to develop high quality free training for all of its applications. Productive users of your tools is important, or should be.
I went to a store once and that didn't happen. I work in a building of 1000 people. MAYBE 30-50 of them cared, and half those people still won't act on it. People are trying their hardest to find allies. When it comes down to it, consumers are perfectly OK with the status quo. The status quo is Microsoft doing whatever they want. "Everyone" hates Monsanto, yet they still are one of the largest companies in the world. "Everyone" hates Goldman Sachs, yet every retirement portfolio is filled with their products.
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> For my entire career I feel as though I've been working towards being the CTO and now I'm here I find it's not at all what I expected. It seems to be mostly about dealing with everyone's crap, trying to fight fires and constantly battling with the other managers and tech team to get things done. I haven't even written a line of code in months.

Please tell me you are trolling.
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2B, LinkdIn shares jumped by 40%
I mostly avoid LinkedIn, then they acquired Lynda.com and began integrating into (and basically degrading the experience of) a platform I had enjoyed for many years.

My only concern is what this means for Lynda.com, it would be great if it could return to its pre-LinkedIn state, but I have a feeling it will somehow only get worse.
If you bought into the IPO in May, you'd have realised a 33% compound annual growth rate (CAGR).

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SEEKING CO-FOUNDER, Columbus, OH, .net developer, some marketing, owned pizza shop and a mortgage company.

I think there's huge opportunity in food, lawn care, cleaning, small warehouse distribution etc services driven by robotics similar to driver-less cars. I think in the short term there's an opportunity to build tele-presence robots that could provide a profitable business model to get a foothold.
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Most of the beginner's problem is: how should I phrase this question I have?

Instead of searching for specific jargon they don't know about they'll come up with their own terms to try to explain their problem.

This is another acquired skill, nowadays to be a good programmer you need to learn how to search for documentation and how to phrase it and to learn that you need to become a programmer and be in contact with the technical jargon.

I don't know another way to overcome this except for experience, what is exactly what newbies don't have so I try not to bash them but educate in how they can find the stuff they want.
probably there are some information hidden behind scene.
/sarcasm?
>- There's a bunch of interesting opportunities for intrgating Dynamics, Yammer, and other MS tools with LinkedIn.

I doubt there are any "get $26 billion dollars back" opportunities...
Sweet thanks, I'll check it out.
This is the best thread I've seen in a while - it will be really helpful if I decide to get back on the market. Working remotely full time instead of just the occasional day or two seems ideal for me.

Somewhat related, but reading that book "Quiet" about introversion really made me feel validated on my feelings of hatred towards the modern open office, and how important it is as a dev (or most people really) to have a quiet, private place to work.
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...Because that worked so well with hotmail.
It think the negativity is mostly due to the price tag. If I was a shareholder I would be furious over Microsoft paying $26billion for a money losing company. Even if Microsoft see some potential the rest of us aren't, and we have to assume that they are, they still need to find a way to turn a profit on the deal.

Given that they bought Nokia, only to shut it down, more or less, it would be reasonable for the shareholders to get a plan, detailing how LinkedIn will boost Microsofts business, with more that the $26 billion.
Was the money even good?
What I'm about to say may be considered harsh, but I promise I don't mean it to be.

Quit. Just leave. Go back to coding. It's obvious you don't enjoy management, there's no shame in admitting that. Rather than inflict your misery on the rest of the team, get back to your wheelhouse where you can be happy, your team can be happy, and ultimately your company (current or future) can be happy.

I have worked in a job where the CTO (my boss) was in your exact position (in fact, if it weren't for your style of writing - English was very obviously his third or fourth language - I would almost bet money that you were him, your stories are that eerily similar) and it was a miserable experience. $CTO was an otherwise brilliant coder who was on his first cto-gig outside of 'team leader'. Outside of work, he was a great guy - warm, personable, funny. At work, he resented not being able to code in many different ways, often with the team bearing the brunt of his misery. He'd often make decisions for others to implement, then second (or third) guess himself days or weeks later, insist we throw out all the work, and start again. He'd often be irritable, make rash decisions, have temper flare-ups, ask for feedback then get upset when he got it, etc. It was a bad scene for all involved, but the dude was a walking personification of the Peter Principle. He would have been infinitely happier remaining a coder, and his team (myself included) would have been infinitely happier with a CTO comfortable in a leadership position.
Reminds me of those puzzles where you change one letter at a time to turn one word into another word. Except its with words. Not really poetry - I think somebody noticed that the collated lists of derived sentences resembled some kind of free verse, and said "Hey! Its writing poetry!"
This is your enterprise agreement bot:
We've noticed that 83% of your IT department has employment applications out with other enterprise customers. Here is the list of names and what they are looking for in future employment.
$26 Billion is actually fair : The question is, would it provide earnings of $2.6 Billion per year discounted over the next ten years?

I think so.

Keep in mind, MS sells $90 billion of product and services a year, so we're talking less than 3% of that. (MS cost of revenue is about a third of revenues!)

1] First imagine LinkedIn used as the primary sales channel for MS products. Head of sales is probably salivating.

2] And then there is advertising. I think part of the reason LinkedIn is valuable is this: apart from LinkedIn there is no simple way (barring credit cards or other documents) to verify if an account who signs up to an online service is a real person, or who they claim to be. For an advertising business, this is gold: Expect the LinkedIn federated sign on to be integrated into many microsoft services (and by more third party services.)

Strategically if you are selling software/anything, you have are better off targeting the top 10% of earners rather than a gazillion broke teenagers.

Of course there are fake profiles on LinkedIn, but they are minor, and weeding them out is probably easier than on other platforms.
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I often need to search only on a subset of the files checked in git. Example, I don't search the min.js files but I need them for the deploys.

It would be nice if they could share the same format.
As CTO of a mid-sized insurance company, I spend less than an hour per week writing code. My job is to lead the architecture and infrastructure teams in meeting company objectives. It is not my job to personally deliver solutions.

CTO is all about leadership. If this doesn't work for you then I suggest your "what next?" is a return to Lead Architect or Lead Developer roles at another company.
That is true. However, lots of internal messaging app is not 'convenient' per say, especially for senior managers. And I see no fix for that problem.
You are mistaken. In Lisp, lists are constructed out of NIL and dotted pairs, so,

(1 . (2 . (3 . NIL))) = (1 2 3)

I chose to implement lists in Python in the same way, out of () and 2-element tuples. So

(1 2 3) = (1 . (2 . (3 . NIL))) in Lisp which becomes (1, (2, (3, ())) in Python.

(cdr '(1 2 3)) = (2 3) = (2 . (3 . NIL)) which should therefore be (2, (3, ())) in Python, i.e. the second element of the 2-element tuple (1, (2, (3, ())), NOT the 1-element tuple
((2, (3, ())),) obtained by removing the first element.

I should point out that there is one difference, in case anyone else spots it: tuples in Python are immutable, whereas dotted pairs in Lisp are not, so my implementation won't allow rplaca and rplacd.
Have they? Business wise? Or because he likes open source (which is orthogonal and irrelevant to the discussion)?
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> Voting rights tied to the length of time one has held shares? That cannot fly.

It also raises the question of how in the world they'd expect to prevent working around it by using something similar to the Depository Trust Company so that the actual shares don't change ownership.

Given that large markets already have mechanisms in place where nominees/trusts/proxies are used to work around other inefficiencies in the current systems, it seems a bit naive to think this wouldn't be worked around too.
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In it's current implementation, Wit.ai is broken.

I built a bot recently on it and it was one of the worst experiences I've ever had integrating into a third party API.

By a long shot.

1) chat logic is declared on their buggy web platform, which is inconsistent if you use multiple tabs, and doesn't actually indicate current system status. I had a number of "bugs" whereby my "story" was correct, but attempts to test it failed and only after I gave up and let it be for a few hours did it start to work. Meaning stories that were broken would all of a sudden be marked green after a few hours. Flows that failed would start to work given some unclear quantity of time. Oh yeah, and the opposite too: things that worked while futzing around with their interface would potentially break after a few hours. Delightful.

2) Documentation is horrific. It's not clear from any of their examples how to build anything other than a toy to turn on and off lights. If you can figure out how to build a "yes-or-no" entity that follows two different paths from their "recipes" I will buy you a drink ($10 USD and for the first five people). Just provide proof and a BTC address.

3) Flow control is next to impossible to implement, and when you do, it's totally opaque as to why the bot actually chose one flow over the other.

4) can't currently version your stories, which means you can develop new features without breaking production.

6) their support is horrendous. I have four outstanding questions, all unanswered after, oh, two weeks?

The combination of all of the above means it's INCREDIBLY brittle, hard to reason about and extremely time consuming to develop against.

If Facebook wants people to build bots for their messenger platform, open source wit.ai, and then pay people to develop it. This current state of affairs is untenable, morally questionable for all of the reasons outlined elsewhere in the thread (which have gone unsatisfactorily answered by apparent Facebook employees who should know), and fundamentally broken.
Except I haven't gotten a gig in years from LinkedIn. I use it as an automated resume generator tool; I don't give a rats ass who sees my resume on LinkedIn itself.
This is a horrible idea. These are powerful medicines with potentially very serious side effects. Their use (especially dosing) needs to be regulated by a trained medical professional. Medicine should also be balanced with non-medicine treatment.

There is OTC sleep meds, benadryl is the main one.
No, it was just my lame attempt at coming up with a marketing phrase for the OP's "Voice to Skull (V2K) mind control technology".
Why do we keep focusing on the guns? The weapon of choice is the least important part of the entire problem.

Until the media will stop with the hype, and focus on the "why", rather than the "how", the cycle will continue.

We need to attack these types of problems with logic rather than emotion.
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Jokes aside, I would really like a UI/UX inspired by outlook.com and the other MS web apps.
The number of jobs postings on LinkedIn could be a terrible sign for the economy
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Put the Yammer product folks on LinkedIn and clean up the LinkedIn web and mobile products.