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It's just frustrating that they're constantly entering every vertical.

They don't completely dominate and eliminate the competition (in most areas), but they are building an impressive portfolio of acquisitions.

Probably not an anti-trust case... but it's going to be something. And we'll figure out the laws and legislations necessary to regulate it when it happens. Until then I will remain shamelessly paranoid of the company.
In that case please don't read any books about patterns, or best practices.

You might be the best programmer on HN for all I know, but personally I'm willing to admit Doug's decades of programming and international reputation might mean he can teach me something, without me having to learn it the painful way.
I've used Selenium for automated webapp testing. Some people don't like it, but I've found it a good fit for the abilities and preferences of my testing team. Having scripts runnable in a Firefox plugin as they are developed, and then also from a command line server to do mass unit tests, makes for a pretty flexible testing setup. You can test against multiple browsers including IE.

The major complaint people have is usually against the command arg1 arg2 grid for the scripts, but here's the thing about programming in a table: you can get your testers to do it without freaking out like "I can't learn how to program, I am bad with computer languages". The command table gives them exactly what they need--a way to repeatedly run a series of actions in a web browser--without making them learn anything more.
A easy takeaway for me from the video was that people are more productive when they work on things that interest them. This just makes sense.

What was interesting to me is that it wasn't as much of Google's famous "20%" concept. All they highlighted were people working on new commercial products that they wouldn't have had the freedom or option to build in the normal course of their jobs. There didn't appear to be diversity in scope or direction.
On a tangent: where are all the iPad apps? Aside from this one and some of the apps that were ready at launch, I haven't heard much buzz about apps in the last 4 weeks.

Perhaps developers are less interested in creating iPad apps in addition to iPhone apps (especially when their iPhone app will work on the iPad)?
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However there's the problem of accelerating and decelerating your fragile body to and from 100 mph. This gets pretty nasty with trains that run off of overhead wire (which is more likely the higher the density of stops), you'd have to get the shuttle in motion and then move it sideways once the engine cars are out of the way (to get on top once the connections to the wires are past you).

There's also the problem of "what if more people want to get on or off this stop than the shuttle has capacity?".

Somehow I'm reminded of (mostly) bad combining giant robot anime....
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Agreed, I was hoping for more dramatic/unexpected/insightful story than 'we picked an easy to remember number and it turned out to be too much effort to restrict access to the public'.
This is PaaS, but Heroku looks amazing and has a great UI. Also, Divvyshot was beautiful.
I agree with you. I guess I was simply stating the way it is.
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Genius? Or just highly-skilled?
I'm amused that you don't think it's already full civil war.

You simply cannot definitively say that the US leaving would result in more deaths. The US isn't there as peacekeeper. It's there as invader. Many of these "insurgents" are fighting directly against the US, and many are dying in that battle. We don't know what would happen on a US exit, but to say that there would more violence int he long term is simply disingenuous. You can't know that.

If the US was to say, "We'll leave and we need one year to do so," no one would be mad. But they don't. They instead increase troop levels and give every indication that they're not going anywhere.

Let's dispense with the blue-eyed "America is there to make Iraq a better place" bullshit. They didn't spend hundreds of billions of dollars because they so desperately care about the beautiful Iraqi people.

They care that the big oil fields like al Ghawar and Cantarell are making gurgling, slurping noises because they're finished. They care that, unlike other countries, they have virtually no public transportation or other means to handle a spike in oil prices. They care that the last big untapped oil reserves are under the Iraqis' feet. And they're willing to whatever it takes to make sure that they have control of it.
I'll give you an upvote if you give me an upvote and reply to this post.
I've been trying this for a while and intend to write a nice post about tweaking friends' lists on Facebook. In summary, I created two lists:

1. One for people who "can see everything" (that's the name of the list actually) and that's where I keep my closest friends. They have access to everything I share.

2. Another for people who "can't see anything" (again, that's its name) and that's where I keep people who I can't avoid adding as friends but I don't want them to see anything I share, think big company's partners who wouldn't like me to reject them.

Everyone else is not on a list and they can see my profile and photos but won't see my status updates. There's people from school days whom I have no connection besides that and don't deserve to keep them updated on my life but I still want to keep their contact.
I try my best not to post things on Facebook that I care about keeping at all private.

This should be the attitude for putting anything online. If it's posted online I find it best to just assume that it is, or will become public at some point and base if it should be posted on that.
http://freeagentcentral.com/ and http://campaignmonitor.com are both paragons of SaaS UI: beautiful form, and elegant function.
John Hawkinson had set aside 4.2/16 ("under the label "Numerology" since he had the wisdom to see that the numbers in themselves could be valuable").

My opinion is that among the reasons it is so well known are that it was designed from the very beginning to be memorable, and they folks setting up this service had the foresight to realize that having it on an easy IP was valuable.

I don't agree with the author's idea that an easy IP address is especially valuable. They're not making any money when technicians use their service because the IP is memorable...
Sketerpot's pretty much right. I'm no actual PE historian (somehow I doubt such a thing exists), but I've heard several times that what the article describes is how it was supposed to work. It probably never did work that way, though.

I'm really reaching here, but I'm pretty sure that idea goes back to Plato, if not even earlier.
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"Outdated" is a fairly specific factual claim. What is your evidence for that claim? That is, what is the evidence that current professional editors are on record as saying that the quoted advice is old-fashioned and not to be regarded? (This subthread started, after all, with an HN participant noting that editors were FOLLOWING the quoted rule.)
It seems to me that Google has been much more responsible with their power than other tech titans like Microsoft and Apple (of late). Apple is doing things with iTunes/iP.d/iPhone that would have made Microsoft blush.

Besides, what are you going to break Google into? One profitable advertising company and 30 loss leaders?
Many of his actions since returning to Apple have been contrary to that goal.
It's now becoming so popular that the Department of State is introducing a fee to renounce - $450. See DOS-2010-0035-0001 on regulations.gov.
I'd instantly buy this...

If I ever used FTP.
If you take the Flash market as an example, any sort of configuration seems to be too much effort for most developers to undertake.

(Although I happen to be building a Flash engine that would simplify adding configuration options.)
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I never claimed that they are.

From the upvotes on your comment and the downvotes on mine it's clear that you're not the only one who mistakenly thinks I did.
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> I'm amused that you don't think it's already full civil war.

It's currently an insurgent war - there is a big big difference.

> You can't know that.

Precedence - look at other historical examples.

> You simply cannot definitively say that the US leaving would result in more deaths.

It's a reasonable and logical assumption; the US has vastly superior weaponry and organisation to the insurgents. They abide by much stricter rules of war/engagement. It's an engagement weighted on the side of the US. If a more even balance was in effect the casualties would, logically, be much higher.

How can you reasonably assert that the US leaving would result in less deaths?

> Let's dispense with the blue-eyed "America is there to make Iraq a better place" bullshit

Be serious; who suggested that (I certainly didn't)?

But your posting smacks of a massive anti-US bias so, I guess, it's pointless to continue arguing :)
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Prentice Hall owned the copyrights. Only after minix lost significant ground to linux was minix released under a different license.

I think that one was one of Tanenbaums great strategic mistakes. The world of software was definitely 'ready' to adopt minix instead of linux (micro kernel, big name behind it), but 'free' won out, and minix is a footnote whereas linux is the unix with the most distribution ever.
Isn't that what lists on Facebook are for?
Oh, true. It's very similar to a trade school.

I'm just saying that it should start much sooner. For a lot of people, a part-time job in high school is just for extra cash to see movies. For a lot of the same people, if the school had been a little more involved and had relationships with a lot of local small businesses, they could have apprenticed at accounting, lab/research assistant (at a very basic level, mainly observing) at a local university, etc.

It's a serious shame that tech/trade schools have the stigma they do.

It's also a serious shame that said tech/trade schools typically treat their students as older high school students instead of valuable members of the current/future workforce.
I gave you an upvote, let the tit for tat commence!

(for the record your post had 0 karma when I upvoted it)
So they are getting rid of all kid toy apps? No, they aren't. Only the ones with these learning through programming aspirations. There are all sorts of other cheap looking toy apps let in, therefore your argument doesn't really work.
You can actually define groups of friends and then set permissions based on those groups.
What's wrong with it entering 'every vertical'?
If they have something to offer it's only good for consumers as they introduce choice by adding a new player to that vertical, it's still a free market. Paranoia alone isn't a solid ground for antitrust allegations.
I think athletes also have an easier time pushing themselves to their limits. They are acclimated to exerting themselves to the point of physical pain/extreme fatigue. The psychological process that makes this acceptable to athletes may translate to other parts of their life, positively or negatively.

Just a theory, as I have no evidence besides my own experience.
Google's total stranglehold on effective online advertising for firms with less than $100k to spend is an annoyance to me -- I wish they had some competition.

Google having total, unchallenged dominance of navigation on the Internet: that is a threat. You could swipe the URL bar from all browsers tomorrow and most people wouldn't even notice. Turn off Google for five minutes and the Internet stops. Google's ability to do that to individual sites, selectively, at their sole and unchallengeable discretion, has me go from disquieted to terrified some days.
This is so stupid in so many levels.

One of the reasons "Bell System" was broken up in to smaller companies because they had overwhelming majority on a technology and they were using their monopoly and power in preventing any real competition in that market.

Google doesn't share the same type of monopoly Bell system did and there's a lot of players in the search and advertising market. As a matter of fact anyone with little cash and a good idea can enter this market anytime they want and Google can't stop them from doing it.

This is also true for Gmail, ad-sense or any product Google has.

MSFT has a bigger market share in Personal computer OS than Google in any market it operates and Microsoft actively conspires against any other company trying to enter their market. They did it with Apple and Linux for as long as I can remember.

Google has done more good for the internet and online-technology and they are the single largest contributer to open-source software than any other company in the world. Why the FUCK would you want to break them up?

There are genuine concerns about privacy, but Google doesn't tie anyone down and they don't hold any monopoly. You can stop using their service anytime you want and there are some very good alternatives out there.
I felt the same way about Divvyshot but now can't find screenshots of it anywhere (and I don't have an existing account, so I can't log in to see it anymore)

Do you know where I can find some screenshots of it for reference?
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Yes, it's hard to imagine that Level 3 has made much money from that IP address. But that doesn't mean memorable IP addresses aren't, in general, valuable.

4.2.2.2 could still be considered "valuable" because it's used as a public service for the Internet community, and its memorability increases the value of that service. And Google apparently thinks it can make money from the data it collects on its 8.8.8.8 nameserver; do you think that project would be just as valuable to Google if it were 216.44.159.113 instead?
This was possibly interesting ... before the leak of the emails that made it crystal clear that the "consensus" group systematically kept the other side out of the peer-reviewed literature.

I'd also note that "consensus" is not a word you find in real science; one inconvenient fact can destroy the position of a consensus, although as Kuhn says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...), grossly oversimplifying, you might have to wait until enough of the members of the consensus retire or die.
The inability to call out to shell commands makes for a very poor development environment, pretty much everything has to be built into the app.

For web development this might work ok, although you mention git, and there is no (fully working) library for that.
So true. I remember that girl who had a nice smile and were pretty cute. Every teacher loved her and she always could give her homeworks late. More than that, she were always copying homework from her older-sister which had saved all papers. When it didn't work out, she started to cry a little bit and it always finally worked.
That is a pretty narrow definition of "valuable."
>The name needs changing.

What about the Autonomous Sniper System? Or the Autonomous Rotocraft Sniper Engine?

It was so close, I just had to make the joke.
Jobs sure is doing a good job of making Microsoft and Gates look saintly.
Break it up into what? Google has lots of projects but they have a limited product (money making things) portfolio. I don't think many their products would be viable as seperate units.

The privacy policy that people don't like is easy to solve, don't use it. Except for search, there are many other viable products in each space.
I'd have to say no. Google has been supportive of open technologies and interoperability rather than walling themselves off and keeping customers locked in.

Don't like Gmail? Have your Gmail address forward to another address or access your Gmail account via IMAP or POP.

Search has no lock-in other than being better than the competition.

Consider this: Google's video search returns results from YouTube AND other video sites. Since when does a company do that? Does eBay return results from other auction sites? Hell no! That would give people the opportunity to use whatever service they wanted and ruin the eBay monopoly. Does Facebook allow you to chat with people on other XMPP services or friend people from other services? Hell no! That would ruin their walled garden.

Google has been championing a lack of lock-in. Without lock-in, a monopoly isn't exercising its power. Google could have made Google Talk like Facebook, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN and not made it inter-operable. They chose open. They consistently choose open.

Even one of the complaints - that Google favors its own services in search results - isn't true. Try looking up a stock. Most of the time Yahoo Finance comes in first (http://www.google.com/search?q=goog). Sure, they have the nice little summary there, but Yahoo Finance is the first regular result and they even have links in their special summary to Yahoo, MSN, CNN and others.

Now, Google does purchase ads for their services, but it is a real purchase. Let's say I search for "shopping" and they decide to display an ad for Google products rather than displaying another ad bought for that keyword. They lose that money. Therefore, they're bidding at least equal to the price that the other advertiser would have paid.

Heck, search for "shopping" and up comes Shopping.com first, Overstock second, and Google Products third.

Search for "search" and Google is SIXTH! It's Bing, search.com, Yahoo, Dogpile, and AltaVista before them.

Google has been championing the open web. I'm not always comfortable with their policies or decisions. However, they have not been exercising monopoly power.
"Eighty years from now, will we be worried about a competing economy that has the technical prowess to create such a killing machine as is linked in this article? "

Some economies are close. And it won't take eighty years. Try 10-15 at worst. And then we build sniper killers! (goes back to coding an "emerging economy" military system)
Sounds liberating, but still too much politics I think. I prefer to just rarely rarely post to Facebook.
Pledging allegiance to the flag of the United States is more of a ritual than anything else. Unless you're in the Military, it means very little.

If a U.S. citizen can't break the umbilical cord with Uncle Sam, then he's not free at all. The so-called Land of the Free has been converging to Authoritarianism for a while. It's really quite worrying that the few people brave enough to break-away are labeled as traitors.
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Yes, both of the other Lisp communities have done an awful job of the basic blocking and tackling that's needed in the foundation to do most of the interesting and useful work today. A big group like ITA's can get around that with no problem, but it's too much of a pain for most individuals.
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fairly be called the Anti-Google

It might be pedantic but Anti sounds like it is opposing or in competition with. This seems to me to be a complementary service for researchers. Not anti anything, in the same way that a hammer is not anti-chisel.
Nicely played sir.
Ask HN: /threads dog slow?
I'm not sure if it's just me, but as if times out while grabbing data for the first time I open the page, second time it loads faster, but same stuff happens again after some time again.
This is an interesting project. Do you have experience with it and if so what do you think? (Outside of just the UI).
And that is why it is generally necessary to "imprison" (as Stallman would say) the user. Otherwise you're making a product that won't make money. There are a few markets where you might find a connected business to recoup the money you spent on software, but it's not a general business model for development.

That's what I was getting at: It's hard to be rewarded for free software, so there really is a dichotomy between free and commercial software. It's not just Jobs and friends being dicks and restricting customers.
A 64 bit rewrite happened years ago. That's why they switched from CMUCL to SBCL.
If you do plan on removing friends rather than using FB lists and organizing permissions based on lists, I would suggest going to http://www.facebook.com/friends/

It allows you to click X next to each friend rather than going into each individual profile to remove them.
Interesting comparison, yet there are so many wrong implications that can be made from it that I don't Even know where to start.

Compare to: short guys in glasses earn 100x as much as tall athletic guys. "Proof": compare Warren Buffett and Bill Gates with the local college basketball team.
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Looks interesting, I technically check HN via my Headliner (an RSS app).

Does this just do HN or other RSS too? I did not see a link to a website for more information.
> But now I’m down to the lucky 35, I can speak more freely about my personal life

I see my "lucky 35" in real life quite often, and can tell them personal things in person, where it becomes a conversation. I'm not sure why I would ever need to share personal things online.

After all, the reason people become "online friends" to begin with is that you don't see that person enough in real life to maintain a friendship. If you really need to tell one of these pseudo-friends (or far-away family) something personal, there are many avenues for that, including email and the phone.
So this is using Canvas? I wonder for 2D graphics, especially for sprites you don't just use CSS, have all the blting and event handling done for you.
ha! That explains everything about the USA. Just kidding :P
Both:

"Good genes may account for some of the differences in ability, but even the most genetically well-endowed prodigy clearly needs practice—lots of it—to develop the brain of an athlete. As soon as someone starts to practice a new sport, his brain begins to change, and the changes continue for years."
pray tell what exactly is the difference
but you're at 1 now...

retreat, retreat!
Yes you can still remove connections, but you also remove the interest as well right?

Ok, then. If I later decide I really want to repost that info (and keep it friends-only), I'll probably stick it in "Favorite Quotations" or "About Me." If they scrape that too, maybe I'll repost it in captcha-like text in my photos section.
Yes, being morbidly obese isn't healthy, but I feel obligated to point out that being underweight is generally as bad medically as being obese, yet due to society's standard of beauty trending towards people who are practically skeletal, you don't see that mentioned nearly as much.
Check out the parental warnings in iTunes:

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Embarking and disembarking is still a problem. What if 100 people in a row want to get off at the same stop? If the queue is too long for the low-speed section, it will back up onto the high-speed section, bringing the whole system to a halt. What if 100 people in a row suddenly want to get on at the same stop? Where will the cars come from?
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How do they lose the money? I... what? Do they donate it to a charity or something?