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Isn't it just like any other office?

I work in a small FM radio station and we quite frequently get visits from listeners, both on request and unannounced.

I'm not sure what sort of showbiz glitz and glamour they're expecting; apart from one room with a few microphones and a mixing desk in it, it's just a few fairly dull offices in an old house, with computers and desks and papers lying around. People often leave feeling a little disenchanted after we've made them a terrible cup of tea. They come thinking they're going to get a "tour", said tour lasts about 10 minutes if you stretch it out, awkwardness all round. We're happy to meet our listeners, they're why we exist, but there's just not all that much to see.

I can imagine Google being similar; people wanting to visit because it's Google but then being greeted by an office block not dissimilar to where they themselves work. I'm sure there are more interesting places in the area! I wouldn't, for instance, put my bank's head office on the list of places to visit in Edinburgh...
O unkind mirror.

That magnifies our flaws,

hides our virtues,

shatters our illusions.

If we hold our leaders responsible,

will you hold yours to account?
Interesting. Lots of stuff to work on.
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Exactly. No surprise there. That's my point.

I'm sorry if I take a bit of a negative attitude towards it all, I just get tired of people who completely overlook the impacts their own actions may have on other people.
Where's the giant 200-comment HN thread about this? Maybe I'm blind, but this seems at least as important as Google withdrawing from China or Yet-Another-RDBMS-vs-NoSQL-debate.
I did some development for a startup back in the .com 1.0 days that was doing just this. Name was "air valet" and they would schedule UPS/FedEx to pick-up your luggage and have it at your hotel before you arrived.

It never really took off. They targeted it at executives/first-class travelers and, at the time, most airlines didn't charge for bags.

Might work a little better now, who knows.
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I think he was suggesting his comment was downvoted after a reader read the first line or two.
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Does anyone, and I mean anyone, intentionally click on mobile ads?

I pay attention to and click on way more web ads than average, but only when I'm "browsing" -- just scanning and reading information. I don't think I've ever intentionally clicked on an ad in any app (mail, game, whatever), mobile or not. I don't think I look at them much either, and that's horrible considering I've got ADHD.

However, ad-supported apps still work on me as trialware. I'll get a feel for the software, and if I'm going to keep using it, I want to buy a copy that doesn't waste my space.
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How would you trial this as a minimal viable product to gauge whether that is the case?

Would an ad to a coming soon landing page work?
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Fair point, although it is less applicable for Google Apps account, since it is not on @gmail.com and likelihood of sending password request to a stranger is much smaller.
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If you're a CS buff, visiting google is a trip to the holy land.

It is borderline obscene the legendary names they have working there who you'll see just wandering the halls.

Seriously, it's like nothing I've ever seen before. Think of the most prestigious CS department imaginable, now multiply the size a hundredfold.
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Many people stand to lose quite a lot.

Decriminalizing weed is like fixing the mainframe program bug. Sure you were hired to stamp it out, but in the process discovered that you had a monopoly on the knowledge, and you quite liked the life of "unsuccessful" bug fixer and wealthy charlatan. I am primarily speaking of Politicians who always have a vote-profitable story in the form of drug seizures, arrests, et al., but also the Federal Government - far too addicted (no pun intended) to the billions of dollars appropriated to fight this so called War On Drugs - to ever end it. My guess is you will continue to see the passive-aggressive Ad Council ads for at least another decade.
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They still allow it.
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BTW I'm wondering how these amazing figures are made?
You got to give Deus Ex a try.
nosql databases do not free you from having to design your schema! they do free you from having to run migrations, but those are trivial while you are small, migrations are only a problem when you have huge tables. With nosql dbs you can skip migrations and do 'repair on read' schema changes, but you still need to design your schema. and coming from sql world, designing nosql schemas can be a lot of pain since you have to change your perspective completely. and crazy naming (of cassandra and other big-table derivatives) doesn't help either: wtf is column family, etc :).
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Couldn't they have just told Apple "Change your device name. Not that big a deal"
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/inside_google/

If this is your definition of "like any other office" i am seriously working for the wrong company :P
Huh. Have you actually managed to respond to any differing viewpoint here without wildly misrepresenting that person's remarks in a way that starts at disingenuous?
I remember that the Universal Turing machine needs an infinite tape. But I don't think you'd need one in practice.

Besides, memory and states in modern computers are finite too, and they're all Universal Turing machines.
I'll try to make it as clear as possible: As history has shown, the executive branch has a lot more power when it comes to classification authority and FOIA practices than most people seem to believe and is able to extend that authority almost at will. This is one example of a growing number of executive authorities being virtually unchallenged by courts, and is not dependent on whose administration it is (look at Clinton's controversial use of his pardoning authority in his last weeks on the job). Society underestimates the executive's powers.
I'd even argue the Computer History Museum is more interesting than Google. Over 100 years of computing machines, free tours, interactive exhibits and a lot more.

I've interviewed at Google a few times and eat lunch there every week or two. Great campus, but not exactly something that I think people should push for touring when they're in SV.

A few other awesome nerd things to see/do:

* Winchester Mystery House http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/index.cfm

* California Academy of Sciences http://www.calacademy.org/

* USS Hornet http://www.uss-hornet.org/

* Fry's http://www.frys.com/

Or visit Mozilla (I work there ;) )
I really meant that comment to be restricted to a commercial context - in someone is paying you to code, they are usually asking for problems to be solved and sometimes those problems don't require much (or any) code to be written.
Nobody with any sense calls that "faking" objects, and that doesn't have anything to do with C anyway. He's probably talking about the use of C structs and functions that operate on them to create an object system.
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So cliche. It's like the report was written by communist propaganda.
Oh wait: it IS communist propaganda.
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That was my thought too, but a surprisingly large number of people were impressed. Which was the article's point. There's no accounting for taste, I guess. (Well, actually there is an accounting for taste, and that's what the article was about. People can be irrational and yet have perfectly rational explanations for their irrationality.)
Author misses an important point. Evolution by sexual selection only applies to a woman's choices 3-5 days out of the month, when she is able to conceive and become pregnant. Any study that doesn't take this into account is going to get some misleading data - a woman's preference in men the non-conceiving 25 to 28 days out of a month has a lot less bearing on evolution and sexual selection than the other 3 to 5 days.
Busted it is.
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Well, it's still quite obvious that something is missing there, as the central area of the picture is visibly less blurred than its surrounding. I guess you could fix that easily by just blurring it with ordinary gimp blur. (But great start indeed, comrade. :o))
Hah, very nice. Clearly we should just make every crime punishable by death without trial, then our crime rates will be as low as China's!

They actually missed the important human rights issues in the US; things like how nobody gets a trial because to avoid overly-harsh penalties, innocent people just take the plea bargains. That is a real threat to human rights, but it's not mentioned.
Wow. http://arclanguage.org/install should really be updated then.
American? I know for a fact that they don't do this; I often fly the 6:10am flight out of PHX, and the plane for that flight sits at PHX overnight.
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http://en.wikipedia.org

Wait - they use wikipedia as a reference? Are the Chinese even allowed to view wikipedia?
People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

However, the US is not squeaky clean and could do a few things to improve.

But China has much much further to go than the US. Nice example of propaganda.
That's it. If the server is down, goodbye wikileaks. If the bank accounts are seized, goodbye wikileaks. If the leaders are imprisoned, good bye wikileaks.

Freenet offers a more resilient architecture.
I wish we would take this political discussion out of technology forums. Even if google started it, this is just a propaganda war between two countries with opposing political ideologies, and just the same we we are not discussing U.S vs Al Qaeda or Israel vs Palestine, we should not be discussing China vs U.S.

It's the same political stuff - it's about free market, currency control, exports of cheap product and access to the raw materials of developing countries - but they say it's about free speech so that they can activate the democratic grassroots movement in support of this.

Politics will come and politics will go, I don't think it's relevant to technology. All it will do is inflame passions and lead to name-calling on both sides.

These are two different systems, and if they want to fight each other, let them, but why should we be involved? The chinese have an 80% satisfaction with their country, the Americans have a 50% satisfaction with their countries. Their leaders are the ones saying that the people of the opposing country are unhappy.

Politics is people talking a lot, getting very angry, digging opposing trenches and changing very little.

We can talk about this forever, why don't we stick to the topics we can change?
Wikipedia used to be blocked, but it's no longer blocked
Because we can't change something if we don't talk about it?
People have been talking about Israel vs Palestine for 60 years.
Dunno, this has also been useful. Imagine a scenario like UAL811:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811

You are downstairs in your bed, when the cabin depressurizes and you can't move around. The depressurization also damages the flight controls, making a clean landing unlikely. The unclean landing occurs, the plane catches on fire, and you burn to death in your bed because "regulations are silly".
Even though this may be biased, etc., it actually is quite worthwhile as another, external perspective on the activities of the US. It's so easy to get caught up within your own country & culture that you start to experience cognitive dissonance or turn a blind eye to the bad things that go on. It would be a real shame for the US government or ordinary Americans to dismiss this report from China as a pure propaganda stunt. Instead the US should allow the report to highlight areas in the systems that possibly need reassessing, if only to show that the US is serious about addressing human rights issues everywhere. Of course the counter argument is whether one should take anything China says seriously since you'd just be feeding the machine, etc., but I think that it is beneficial to look at criticism from any background on its merit alone, rather than who publishes it.

Disclaimer: I am not American, I'm Australian living in Europe. I think all countries could benefit from similar assessments from external perspectives.
You know that there are many countries in the world where police take criminals or anyone they suspect of being a criminal into the bush and shoot them? It's nothing unusual, it's just a day to day activity that everyone knows about.

It's pretty much documented that this does not happen in china. Do you know the countries that it does happen in?

I think it's unfair that you accuse china of doing this without any proof, but you will not lift a finger to stop it in the actual countries that it does happen in. Even though you can go watch YouTube videos showing this.

If you care about that, then fix it where the problem is, don't accuse countries where it pretty much does not happen of it happening.
In the mind of a typical high school student, being a team captain is a known path with many known examples. Being a part of UN is not so obvious thus it's a risky path and it may take many failures before stumbling upon the right path.

Sure, the right path may be simple. But so are many successful start-ups ideas. Yet you can't just discredit the skills of the founders just because the ideas were simple. Because simple ideas usually came many iterations of bad ones

If I am an investor I'd invest in Steve because, he is, as PG once said, relentlessly resourceful.
Problem is that every other metric is absolutely worse.

When you think about it, the whole idea of rating one human being as "better" or "more deserving" than another is pretty much absurd. But universities have a limited number of spots that they can devote time and attention to, and they have to prune the applicant pool down to something manageable. People are very uncomfortable with randomness, so if a university's admission policy was "We'll pick 1 out of 10 at random", the applicants would go "WTF?" So they make up some arbitrary metrics, add in some guesswork, and try to assemble an incoming class that they feel will be as interesting as possible.

It's sort of unfortunate that their rather arbitrary decision acts as the gatekeeper to something that lots of people want - a good, high-paying, intellectually challenging job. Chalk up another one to "life's not fair".
I don't see how it would be like visiting the holy land.

google headquarters is not a tourist's attraction. I wouldn't want to be accosted by random people at work, if I were the luminaries.
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Those are nonsense "statistics". What does "50% satisfaction" mean?
You can always put your IDE workspace on a networked filesystem the target system has also access on, so you get similar results. Also SSH can be started inside eclipse for additional tasks.
Couldn't you provide a demo without me having to change the source code of my web site?

Not sure what it is yet, but I don't think I would open up my site to external JavaScript just for popup bubbles, to be honest.
There are ways to do that that are somewhat more credible, though. For example, Amnesty International issues reports on human rights in the U.S., without the baggage of being an official publication of a rival nation-state's PR department: http://www.amnestyusa.org/annualreport.php?id=ar&yr=2009...

There's some level at which I think you do have to take the source into consideration. Would you really spend a lot of time taking seriously a Greek government report on human rights in Turkey, or a Turkish government report on human rights in Greece? There are probably better places to get that information from.
Yes, the tone of the article is hostile. Yes, much of it is framed to depict the US as a nation on a downward path. Many of the issues brought up are side-effects of the recession and not indicative of systemic problems. The whole piece is what most people would call propaganda.

But that doesn't make the facts false.

Some of the points do hit home. Racism and sexism aren't as bad as they used to be, but they still exist. Our military harms civilians around the world. Various government agencies have increased surveillance of Americans since 9/11. A lot of people would prefer a world in which these things did not happen. This article is hypocritical, but it's not without merit. It shouldn't be dismissed so quickly and completely.
Just out of interest, in what way is the UK CIA-infested?
It makes pretty hilarious reading when you consider it was published by the Chinese government.

"In the United States, civil and political rights of citizens are severely restricted and violated by the government."

"Abuse of power is common among US law enforcers."

"Campuses became an area worst hit by violent crimes as shootings spread there and kept escalating."

"The US citizens' freedom to access and distribute information is under strict supervision."
I believe they've now moved to a more fine-grained blocking mechanism, where only articles on "sensitive" content are blocked, like the Tiananmen Square article, and, self-referentially, this one in both English and Chinese: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Wikipedia_by_the_Pe...
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I'd say talking about a problem is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for change.
O, Thor? :)
Not belief. Observation of actual reality during life experience. It's kinda funny my post got modded down. Means we have as much of a kneejerk P.C. crowd as say a college campus.
Oh, I totally agree about the use of Amnesty International's reports, but what I'm arguing for is the use of these other (for Western countries, especially non-Western) external perspectives in order to allow for some reflection on the systems and mechanisms we have in place. There's a lot of theory (and practice!) on the power of having an external "shock" to the system on allowing for the reflection required for good governance practices[1], and I don't think human rights governance should be any different.

As for your other point, if what the Turkish government says about Greece is true though, does it matter the source? Sure, some claims can be extremely biased, but if (to make up an example) n people actually are locked up without trial per year, then that's a factual statement that can be addressed. In these cases, we need to strip back the propaganda and look at the facts :)

[1] If you're interested in a lot of work on reflexive governance theory & practice, there's an EU project that has done a lot of work on it here: http://refgov.cpdr.ucl.ac.be/
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Shouldn't the onus be on ESR and any of his supporters to demonstrate why he does have a clue?
Noobs can't downvote. ;)
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Indeed... citation needed. Is there any such thing as a Chinese poll, much less one unvarnished by government oversight?
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And what kind of people does Stalin (a Scheme compiler) attract? I shudder to think.
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He fully qualified this statement I think... just follow the logic. He's saying that if you borrow from non-accredited investors, you introduce the risk of them reclaiming their money.

"Because if you think your startup is doing an exempt private placement and investors can demonstrate that it was not truly exempt, then it is an illegal offering and investors can rescind and get their money back from the issuer and from its officers and directors."
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On the other hand, the authors of this article are implicitly placing trust in the statistics presented by the various arms of the US government, and criticizing the police, for instance, because they punished officers for corruption. Would they rather such things go unreported?

Everything in the article is public knowledge, and could, on the whole, been lifted verbatim from the reports of several non-profits in the US (ACLU, etc.). That's the difference between China and the US.
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You definitely need a visit to Google HQ to understand what the hype is about. Definitely not run of the mill office spaces (ok referring more to the campus than the cubicles)
What's really interesting in this move is that an Apple-based ad platform would simplify things a lot for mobile developers: one partner, one financial statement, one source of revenue. Every time you add an external partner (e.g. Apple, AdMob, Urbain Airship) to your app its (bureaucratic) complexity increases.
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