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Has anyone else been caught with random popups on facebook "offering" to link your profile interests to public pages?

It's really scammy. Once it pops up, you're trapped. Click on the facebook logo, and it doesn't take you home. There is no way out unless you either agree, or manually go back to facebook.com yourself.

What are they thinking doing crap like that...
If the author is correct that developing in Perl is very different today, the logical thing would be to bump the major release number.

But they can't because everyone already knows what Perl 6 is (and most people have very negative perceptions of that). It would have been better to call that project Perl 3000 or give it some code name. But it's too late.

I suggest calling the next release of Perl 5, Perl 7. If Perl 6 ever gets to 1.0, it can be Perl 8.

(half serious)
That seems like the sort of market that google is going to win. Apple is going to want to sell you an Apple-branded piece of hardware (either a TV or a box) that lets your TV do new things. Google will simply license their technology to Samsung, LG, Panasonic and all the other existing TV manufacturers and have it built in to every TV that gets shipped.

(Except maybe Sony, who will probably attempt to build their own system. It won't work very well outside Japan.)
5 tips for enjoying the software development profession [2006]
I guess you have to try harder to get your humour across.
Well, if your world-view contains only OSX and Windows.
I agree that it's important for the community as a whole. But for a junior position, isn't the key that the person can write working Ruby, can get along with the team, and has growth potential? Would you hire someone who had been a hobbyist, produced some cool, working web apps, but happened to not have written a single test for them?
I was happy to read this post as I am moving to SF on June 26. And it sounds like we roughly had the same budgeting done, except I plan to live with roommates so that will save me some money.

Renting a place off AirBnB for a week while I find a place with roommates. Got rid of almost all of my possessions except for essential computers, clothes, and books. Shipping the computers and clothes that I can't take with me on the flight. Storing the books until I feel like i live in a somewhat permanent place and want them shipped out.

I can't wait to not have a car. Shipping my bike out as soon as I get a place. Going to have a TransLink Muni/Bart pass and a ZipCar card on me as soon as I hit the ground. Plan on using the ZipCar for those rare instances when I need a car/truck. Like my maiden voyage to Ikea for a desk, bed, and maiden Trader Joes grocery trip.
"4. Generalist technical knowledge." is good, but the ending of "* You need someone who can optimally work on all parts of the stack." is delusional. You want most of your people to be able to do credible work on all parts of your stack, but doing really good work requires some* degree of experience and the specialization that comes with it.

In general while the author's biases are by and large good I can seem someone following all these points ending up with a lot of technical debt, something that companies don't always survive.
Great time lapse movie. No, really great. Made my day.

But... It would have been even _better_ if it had used _The Blue Danube_ for background music. Especially as it was being hoisted on the crane.

Edit: I just tried this by finding a _Blue Danube_ movie on Youtube and playing it in the background while re-watching the movie. It should be a _crime_ not to try this. Some interesting serendipities in timing, especially involving violin solos and the cable top shot sequence.

I'll try _Dark Side of the Moon_ next...
I refer to the first as "Never be too proud to sweep the floor."
But this is formulating the question in the wrong way. The question isn't whether or not pot use is a good thing. The question is what is the most rational and empirical and effective social policy.

If you begin with the assumption that you can effectively control use, you're probably already off on the wrong track, based on the results of almost 100 years of failed policy.
And make it like an iDevice and only allow sync from one computer...
Your edit doesn't really make it very vague, still.
I'm 6 weeks into the exact same jump and I couldn't possibly be happier that I took it. My impressions thus far is that the industry is growing unimaginably quickly. I'm thrilled to get to be a part of it!
Computers? As in Desktop computers and laptops worldwide?
I can't find current numbers but i wouldn't think that Apple has reached a global market share for desktops over 10%.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Thats what i meant. Now tell me that in _this_ area Apple is exactly worth as much as MS. MS doesn't produce computers, so the comparison is not fair. But that's why i said i would want to see the numbers for all the departments of MS and Apple.

Also, the global market share for smart phones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

You surely don't want to know the numbers for mobile phones in general.
Thanks for the congrats. It feels good to ship!
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That's for packages you install manually without an install script.
Of course the things you're suggesting will allow Facebook to add features to the product, and indirectly perhaps add revenue.

That is very different from this: "The only way they can do it is by selling users data one way or another.". People often claim that Facebook wants to "sell" your data to advertisers, and I'm simply saying that claim is wrong.

(I've never been secretive about the fact that I worked at Facebook, it's on my profile. )
"Apple has not been the bogeyman to Microsoft in a long time. They are more than happy to have a legitimate threat to their business, and it's called Java."

Out of all the things to end that sentence with, Java was probably the last one I expected.
I did this. I lived in Ecuador for a year as a kind of sabbatical (though I'm not an academic.) Before I went I took a 6-week Spanish 101 class so I wouldn't starve, and then just muddled along as best I could. After about 3 months I had the basics down. I could ask for and follow directions, buy stuff, read and write business email, and have a conversation with someone. But socializing was hard - a conversation that involved more than one other person left me wondering what was going on, and I couldn't figure out how to say things fast enough to contribute before the the topic had changed. Also, I didn't consume media like TV or newspapers because it was too much work.

Then I started dating an Ecuadorian woman, and my Spanish acquisition just took off, especially when we moved in together. Like the Korean, I put in a tremendous amount of effort, although without flash cards. I did repeat everything over and over, to make sure it stayed in my head. But mostly it was just the endless necessity of communicating on a practical and intimate level about everything.

"Where's my blue shirt?"
"Why is your friend angry?"
"What's this letter from the electric company about?"
"When I was a kid, my grandfather gave me a baseball glove for Christmas."
"No, I wasn't looking at that other girl."
"There is corruption in the U.S., it's just more sophisticated than in Ecuador."

The other important thing that happened was that I started watching TV with her. She was really into telenovelas and sketch comedy shows.

Let me tell, you telenovelas (spanish soap operas) are awesome for learning the language. First, the characters all have accents that convey their social position, and different novelas are made in different countries. So you get exposed to a lot of variation in pronunciation and vocabulary. On the other hand, this is TV, so everybody enunciates clearly and there's no hemming and hawing. Finally, everything is so dramatic and over-acted that you can tell what's going even without understanding the dialog. I alternated between rolling my eyes and concentrating furiously to catch all the nuances.

After a year, I was pretty much fluent in Spanish, though not quite at the level of the Korean's mastery of English. I have an idea of what kind of effort would be required to get to that level, but since I'm not in Ecuador any more, I haven't bothered. My wife and I speak both English and Spanish around the house, but we try to keep it to one language at a time - not always easy.

So yeah, marrying a Spanish speaker was an enormous aid to learning the language. I don't know if it was the "quickest," but it was definitely faster than doing it on my own, and much more pleasant. ;-)
Why do you think it is blogspam? You can also read the H-Store papers if you're interested in the details.
Prohibition of a substance people wants leads to illegal distribution....

Most of your post I am entirely in agreement with.

The problem is thus:

Currently we are discussing cannabis legalization. I for one could see myself being convinced, and even supporting, it's legalization at some point (certainly my attitude has changed in the last 12 months!). However, in realistic terms, that is not going to reduce overall crime related to the illegal drugs trade - dealers will simply shift focus to other drugs (I admit that there could well me a small reduction where dealers find it too much hassle etc.).

For your scenario to take affect all drugs have to be legalized. I cannot see a reasonable argument for making Heroin, a highly addictive and dangerous substance, legal. I'm fairly sure that many people behind the legalization of cannabis would feel the same way.

And even then I feel the problem would not go away - at least in the long term. Illegal markets will always exist. Sure we can keep legalizing them - but at what point does the danger become too great, at what point does designer drug X become too dangerous? I posit that such a point will come (given rampant legalization) and as such the illegal trade will continue to flourish.

Essentially what you are arguing is the idea of shifting poisonous assets (crime) elsewhere to allow positive gains in certain areas (cannabis industry/use). Which is fine but a) you have to be aware of where those poisonous assets are going to (can you control them?) and b) those assets still exist and you have to deal with them at some point.

That is economics :)

With regards your other post, which you deleted, I can't (and wouldn't anyway!) down mod your replies [for obvious reasons] but I suspect the reason was because of the first comment - the tone of which is usually frowned on here.
Indeed, for example the express framework appears to be optimized for high performance http://expressjs.com/
Surprisingly, but the same IMHO is true for the
industry. No teenager prodigies in garage can change modern landscape, owned by big corps an research establishments.
Even better, the stock ticker was pronounced "misfit" internally, back in the dark ages when I worked there :-)
can you elaborate more on those reasons? (just asking)
There are certainly reasons why Apple shouldn't buy Dropbox, but I think there are more reasons why it should happen:

1) It DOES work across all OS's. iTunes works really well on Windows and OSX. Apple would actually want something that can easily be used by all customers. Imagine how small the iPod/iTunes/iPhone base would be if it were just an Apple only product.

2) Their mobile API. This would be a great offering to iPhone devs. By using the Mobile API of dropbox, the filesystem needs for iPhone/iPad apps gets solved.

3) The Dropbox team clearly knows how to build a great cloud product. Apple just doesn't have that in their DNA from what MobileMe has shown.

4) I think Apple could offer a price that makes sense to the Dropbox team and investors like Sequoia and YC.

5) I'm assuming Apple would offer the service for free. Maybe not the 50gb service, but certainly > 2gb. Dropbox would now be used by tens of millions of people within the next 12 months. Could you imagine how much better people's lives will be?

6) I don't know how Apple is post acquisition as they don't do many of them. My guess is, that the team could still flourish/enjoy themselves there.
Tighter integration with an OS would be a good point. It's possible to open a file in your dropbox folder that's only partially synced and BANG!

If it popped up a dialog saying hold on, just syncing, it would be a lot better.

That's the biggest thing an OS vendor could easily bring to the table (other then a large pile of cash). Other then that. I can't see any upsides.
In matters of real-world safety, hard rules like "never attach it there" are MUCH better heuristics than "don't attach it there in the wrong situation."
So long as Perl is useful, I will continue to use it. It is still useful, and so I continue to use it.

Perhaps for hacking up a fancy program it is a poor choice, but that's not what I use it for. For me, Perl is a step above bash when it comes to scripting. You can throw other languages at me all you like, but in my experience it manages the task perfectly well, and is second only to bash itself in terms of spread on Linux machines. Python is the only possible alternative, and I have not yet seen a need to switch nor been convinced Python is nearly as universal (plus the Python runtime itself tends to give me more trouble)
"absolutely" is a hyperbole, but you're right, let's not add to the misinformation--it's self-defeating.

BTW, are you a facebook employee? I went through your comments and a good 90% (no hyperbole this time) are comments related to Facebook posts, and some looked pro-facebook. Nothing wrong, of course, just curious.
I used to obsess over computer games, but one day coding up fun projects and being able to brag about them to my friends was the best game of all. It wasn't so cool to have a high score in a game, at the end of the day it was lame.

Now I play games to study the way they make people obsessed so I can apply it to my own projects.

I'm pretty hooked on a few ngmoco games these days, they have their game engine down to a science!
I'm readily agree that his could (or even is) an individual/specific case; but I am 100% certain that his decline was purely due to the drug (I lived with him during the whole period and we were extremely close).

It was mostly intended as a rebuttal of:

Anecdotally it has little or no effect on the ability of a person to "function."

further up the thread.

It seems that a decision has already been made: prohibition.

I think there is dialogue to be had. I suspect (talking realistically) I will see legalization of a number of drugs in my lifetime.
I love Ubuntu personally and I think it's awesome that Dropbox works for it. Objectively speaking now, it's just irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Largely nothing. The investment at the time was seen as a public sign that Microsoft wanted Apple to stick around, not a make-or-break deal that could leave Apple crippled if it fell through. That, plus the announcement that Microsoft would continue developing Office for Macintosh, helped assure the public that Apple wasn't going anywhere, at a time when a lot of people feared that Apple had become completely irrelevant, independent of whether Jobs would manage to succeed where Amelio had failed at fixing the immediate problems. I think Microsoft could have not invested and things would be the same. I'm less confident what would've happened if they hadn't pledged to support Office and IE.
> Nobody knows for sure how crop circles are made.

Maybe this guy does. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2191565.stm

These two, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle#Bower_and_Chorley

edit: and anyone who reads this: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Crop-Circle
There was a good chance that Microsoft would have been split up (due to monopoly concerns).
Adobe does exist in part just because Apple invested in them early in its days.
Shouldn't this company be very worried about the implications of this article's title and the line "The App Store has not yet switched on the Genius feature for iPad apps, so this functionality is definitely compelling"?

What are they going to do once Apple does "switch on the Genius feature"?
"99% of the world are schmucks and followers. But 1% are the leaders, creators, inventors. Be the latter, not the former." I try to take his advice to heart, being into research and startups.

"Religion is candy for the desperate, and a profit-generating machine for con artists and pedophiles."

Edit: he would add that there was a small group of people who belonged to neither group, as they were popular leaders, but did have any inherently useful talent. These people became religious leaders and politicians.
Apple overtakes Microsoft as biggest tech company
Physical Terminations/Connectors Cheat Sheet
Although these seem like useful (and impressive) baseline benchmarks, won't the really important benchmarks come from measuring actual dynamic content generation, and/or caching performance for generated dynamic content?
The point of making pot legal is so that casual users aren't fined or criminally punished for having a joint after work.

Ah, well that seems reasonable. I'd actually come out in support of decriminalization - it seems to have tentatively worked in countries where it has been trialled.
Good question. I couldn't find out since I can't get either google finance or yahoo finance to plot market cap, but I did get this:

http://ycharts.com/search?q=MSFT%20vs%20AAPL&c=market_ca...

It only goes back ten years but it at least shows that MSFT was vastly bigger than AAPL back in 1999.
the CEA levels of hookah smokers is very interesting.

Do all American tobacco farms use phosphate fertilizers and other countries don't?
This section should convince anyone this article is full of crud. Why would Google continue to pay Apple if Apple cut off some of Google's revenue?

"Google currently pays Apple hundreds of millions of dollars to capture the audience of Safari Mac and iPhone users performing search queries (just as it singlehandedly also supports Firefox development the same way). Apple could continue to get this revenue (because paid search ad placement is the most valuable thing to Google) while also stripping Google of its display advertising revenue via an ad-block plugin."
If you're interested in setting rules for other people to follow so you don't get sued, then yes.

If you're interested in taking care of yourself and those around you, you can usually exercise some common sense.
> public drunkenness is illegal because it is a nuisance

Depends on your country. (Also for the other things you mention.)
I'm young so I must relate my experience as limited and my advice as such, but most of the jobs we did in NYC came through networking. We had established relationships inside big players. These relationships fed the sales pipeline and kept us busy. Networking and, more importantly, building relationships were what provided the 80% of leads (ie. If there was a single effort that yielded the highest results it was networking).
"bonus points if Apple continues to support the Dropbox client on other operating systems"

Bonus points? BONUS POINTS!?!

I'm sorry, but the author comes across as a selfish jerk. He sees a product that is shared by everyone, and speculates how it might make HIS life better, with no regard for everyone else. The aura of "just-doesn't-get-it" is made even worse by the fact that one of Dropbox's GOALS (as I understood it) is cross-platform support.
"Apple, which ended its third quarter with $1.2 billion in cash, will use the additional $150 million to invest in its core markets of education and creative content, Anderson said. He added that the company expects to gain a higher percentage of its revenues from software and services in these core markets in the future."

Interesting how this gives us a bit of insight on the shift in business plans even before the iMac was officially announced. Obviously they picked the correct market to focus on going into the 2000s, but I wonder what made them specifically choose the "education and creative markets" 15 years ago.
I can personally vouch for at least 1 individual who isn't smoking now but would certain be interested if it was legal. Unfortunately, I err.. I mean "this individual" doesn't live in California. :-(
If you do Dark Side of the Moon please, send it. Awesome call.
really? I'd think that "some measure larger or smaller" could apply to companies from several thousand employees to a million.
People's performance are also impacted by stress, sleep deprivation, etc. - they should be monitored for performance, not blood chemistry.

Solid point. I can't disagree. Possibly the only issue worth raising is that cannabis influence may not be as physically obvious as those things you mention. For example a nurse may notice a brain surgeon is looking fatigued and raise concerns, but if on drugs his attention may wander at random moments which are not immediately obvious in the same way.
Sorry, I totally feel that way about, say, the economic theories favored by Democrats, or the things that boil down to conspiracy theories in which Wall Street is 110% responsible for every bad thing that ever happened economically (and a good deal of non-economic things) while the pure-as-the-driven-snow government is blameless in all ways, which by the way is pretty much the official platform of the Democratic Party.

(Don't tar me as a Republican. Tar me as a libertarian.)

Of course you're hard-pressed to find a Democrat that believes an internet-troll-republican position. You need to be looking for one that holds an internet-troll-democrat position. If you need help finding them, I suggest the reddit politics board or the comments section on the Huffington Post. Or the comments section on any major newspaper that has comments.
What sorts of older things did they throw out? And is there not even eventual persistence with VoltDB? Is there a recovery log or some such? Otherwise it seems like serious power event and you're toast.
Our company - [The Social Collective](http://www.thesocialcollective.com) - was part of last years class (their second).

It is very much in the spirit of YCombinator/TechStars where the focus is very much on advice and structure and execution.

I would definitely not be worried about a [Bootup Labs](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266723) type situation or anything like that.

All of the startup CEO / Founder / Mentors that they brought in were excellent and gave extremely frank practical advice. This was actually somewhat surprising because if you're hanging out on HN; watching talks these people give it's somewhat easy to think that you're getting the full picture. But, when you sit down at lunch with a founder and he describes exactly what happened in a situation the take away is quite different.

If you are at the right stage with your startup, I would definitely recommend applying to their program.
The Cold Reality of First-Time Funding
> If it popped up a dialog saying hold on, just syncing, it would be a lot better.

I prefer the idea of access to a folder that's out of sync than the inevitable frozen loading bars, 'loading' for all eternity and denying me access. A pop-up notice from the taskbar, or perhaps a background color change for folders still syncing, is as far as I'd take it.
Yes, it's what got me into programming. Though as I get more work, I don't tend to game as much.
fer gods sake!
There's a couple I think. If you create an account and enter in your location details, we sort mentors geographically close to you on the map page.

http://www.railsmentors.org/mentors

When you're a guest, it's just not really sorted.
If only coming up with a great political idea was as easy as writing a high quality encyclopedia article. Quantitatively there are several orders of magnitude more article authors than great political thinkers. If we place all activities on a continuum based on intellectual difficultly, there's a point where crowd sourcing stops working. I think it's pretty clear where political thought stands compared to writing encyclopedia articles.
Thanks. You saved me the trouble of reading it.