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I believe that you are ultimately correct about the word 'career' in your well-written post, but the narrow way that it's constantly used in Corpspeak has generally ruined its meaning in that more broader sense.

When I encounter the word career it's almost always paired with 'climbing that career ladder', with the implied 'toe that line as a dedicated corporate soldier or your career is finished'.

It's a sad state of affairs that those with over-simplistic attitudes and an ultra-conservative agenda have seemingly hijacked such a fine word. What to do if your self-described 'career path' doesn't sit well with the pointy-hair's idea of a proper 'career'?

I'm feeling that the word is tainted among the more thoughtful and enlightened and it's better to just not use it at all, lest one risk coming across as a Philistinistic simpleton.
That's precisely the problem. People routinely drag links and images from a browser window to their desktop; it's a feature as old as Netscape Navigator. I would never expect or assume that the image or link I'm dragging to the desktop would act as a proxy to an entirely different document.
It did absolutely need to be said. Perhaps not the names of the informers, but as he says there is some media manipulation going on. Have you actually read the leaks? I haven't. I haven't got a clue what is in them. The Washington Post could tomorrow say whatever it likes in regards to its content.
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Wouldn't a CNAME be a better idea?
It's really funny because when I started working on the demo I had a full slide deck. Each time I practiced I eliminated a slide or two until there was nothing left. At that point I decided to just show the site and start coding.
Fascinating what a multi-billion dollar software company

can finally do when they have some motivation from competition.

Now just allow it to run on the millions of Windows XP installs

who have modern hardware but don't need Vista/W7.
Gays have the right to marry an opposite sex partner. They may not prefer this, but they have the right to do it. Thus, laws prohibiting same sex marriage discriminate against people who prefer same sex relationships.

The right in question is not the generic right to marry someone, but rather to marry the person you want to marry (if that person will have you). And it's pretty settled at this point, since the definitive ruling was over 40 years ago; Loving v. Virginia struck down "everyone is equally free to marry someone of the same race as themselves" as discriminatory, and this case is now simply following the logic to strike down "everyone is equally free to marry someone of the opposite sex".

As to your mortgage examples: marriage is and has long been held in US law to be a fundamental right. Renting a house, meanwhile, is not and has not been held to be such a fundamental right. And specifically in the case of laws which subsidize buying but not renting, such "discrimination" is allowable so long as it serves a compelling government interest. Proposition 8 was found not to serve any such interest; its sole purpose was to make law out of the religious beliefs of a particular group, and this is not something government legitimately can or should be doing.
There's some jujitsu going on in your justification of the accusations being waged against Google, but I think it's a little silly to think this is just a PR stunt.
> Ultimately though, AFAICT you and Zed are looking at - and generally agreeing with - the same facts, ie. that epoll and poll perform better depending on the situation.

Correct. For some value of 'better'. Clearly that difference will be larger if you do less other stuff.

> If I am understanding you correctly, where you both are disagreeing is that you are determined that no webserver will actually reflect the usage pattern that would make it worthwhile for Zed to implement this 'superpoll' feature, while Zed is thinking that it will be worthwhile.

That has to do with the way epoll is implemented and the expense of the calls to ship fds back and forth to the kernel epoll structure.

Some research has been done on this and it shows that even improving epoll did not matter enough to care about:

http://www.linuxinsight.com/ols2004_comparing_and_evaluating...

> Which makes you seem like two reasonable people agreeing on the facts and both coming to a different conclusion, unfortunate but it does happen (and always fascinates me).

Yep, that's pretty much it. But part of the different conclusion is in the input to the pipetest program, if you feed it unrealistic data you will get unrealistic answers. There is a hint in my piece about what is happening in the more realistic segment of the problem domain (the 0..2K threads section).

> I wonder if part of the reason for the differing conclusions is differing expectations for Mongrel2? you seem very focused on 'expected real-life scenarios for existing websites', but I do have the feeling that Zed is anticipating/hoping/expecting that Mongrel2 will have a broader set of uses and be used in other ways in addition to the standard webserver.

Which is his privilege.

And as I wrote in some other thread I'm hoping that he will succeed.
If you like this, you might enjoy this delightfully funny, yet effective, introduction to calculus book from 1914: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf

It starts by ranting about uppity mathematicians and academics while showing how simply you can get your head around basic calculus.
> boo hoo, so the economic sucks and you were lied to your whole life about how your employment situation was going to work. So? This does not excuse laziness and a crappy work ethic.

5 bucks says you never had to spend more than few months looking for a job after graduation.
Google wave is not really that complex, first thing to do before using it is to watch the video demo (I'm almost sure very few peoples did it), it's a collaboration and productivity tool, so you just can't invite your friends to use it at this stage, you can invite your colleagues and employess, but it's not a product targeting any casual Joe friend, but google seems to expect peoples to adopt it as such. You probably won't ask your friends to use a task management tool to keep in touch with you or what you do. I'm glad it may stick around for sometime,I hope forever, too bad, they will no more work on it.
This hurts all of us entrepreneurs the most. The cost of premium throughput for your website will be a major barrier to entry for startups. It will ensure that the incumbents who can afford it stay on top and it means startups who offer broadband services will need to raise more money to compete and grow.

Google just lost their rights to "First do no evil." because they are doing this first and it's evil. This hurts the web at least as much as Microsoft's browser monopoly did.

Larry and Sergey I want you to think about how you would feel about this if you were starting Google today.
What on earth were you saying then?
Japan is still an industrial power, but that does not imply that "opportunities ... are still there for those who seek [them]". It means that there are opportunities. To whom they are available is quite contingent upon social conditions. It is quite common for opportunities to exist, but to still only be available to a tiny group of people.
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Listen: Playboy is one of the most recognizable, respected brands out there. (Okay, its stocks sucks, but the brand image itself is strong.)

Not sure what you do, but if you're directly involved in tech, I'm sure it comes with lots of interesting challenges. It's a popular sentiment that the adult industry is the innovative force behind the web.
> ... but it's a double edged sword if they're going to ride that reputation (China, open standards, open platforms, etc) and selectively duck the responsibility at other times.

Very well and succinctly put.

It would probably be better if they never took a moral stance because they now risk getting judged by it, and thus appearing to be hypocrites.

That would create sort of a moral void, if you wish, ready for some other company to position itself into.

At the same time the moralistic motto was probably what propelled Google well ahead of others. When I think back, I wanted to work at Google because it was a "do no evil" kind of company. That kind of image will attract certain people. So if it was just a marketing ploy or they actually had to take short term losses in order to abide by their mission statement, it has served them well initially.

We'll just have to wait and see what happens in the future. I think they will start to abandon their moral stance slowly and turn into another faceless multi-billion dollar company.

I don't claim it is a bad thing. I had never bought into its morality anyway, I just bought its stock!
His point is that perhaps the anger should be directed not towards the messenger, but towards the one who has the power, that is the government, for not taking up on their offer.
No religious organization is being forced to recognize same-sex marriage. No religious organization will be required to endorse same-sex marriage. The case is solely concerned with the question of whether the state of California in its capacity as a state of the United States has grounds to refuse such recognition. And, under the 14th Amendment, it does not. That's the whole thing.

As to college housing and other situations, the real question is whether such colleges accept government funding. That puts you in the same situation as accepting any funding: the entity providing the funds has the right to attach conditions, and you have the right to accept or refuse (and if you refuse, you don't get the money). And the US government and state governments are constitutionally barred from providing funding to any entity which engages in certain types of discrimination, so that's the condition attached to the funding.
It's huge for a contemporary PC release. 150k copies would be great performance for a typical PC game in its first week on the market. Most AAA PC titles will never break a million copies.
How about a man and a chicken? If you tell me a chicken can't give meaningful consent and therefore a man can't force a chicken into marriage, then what right do we have to eat them?

Seriously, I'm not joking.

It is a valid point when arguing against gay marriage to point to the "slippery slope" of bestiality. But it is also a valid point to state that there's really no good reason to make marrying a chicken illegal. Fundamentally, I believe most opposition to gay marriage is based upon disgust. And I'm confident the same is true for marrying a chicken. Disgust is hardly an adequate justification.
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You'd be astonished how magical "I can make your phone ring" feels to people. Family, friends, and people who don't even know me giggle when I do my demo on them.
It's funny to see them making those remarks regarding Acid3 and having "tests" result on the same page showing how IE9 is has the best support for HTML5, CSS3. (Hint: it's best at passing MS tests, some of which are really obscure).
Real-world problems? I get that a lot of software is just toys, but isn't NYC the home of economy-jamming fictional assets which only exist so a permanent overclass of full time traders have something to make more side bets on?
I disagree on the current purpose of school (which really came to be in the late 19th century). School is there to train people to 1) tolerate being bored eight hours a day and 2) do what the authority figures say.

These two items were critical for training a workforce who would sit in a factory screwing the lid onto the tube of toothpaste.

Unfortunately, today's jobs are all about creativity. Knowledge workers increase value through their creativity, which is all but stamped out of them in school.
Is Google embracing or killing net neutrality?
We're talking about not listing your employer at all, rather than your employer's clients. Did your friend list the firm that was actually his employer on his resume? I assume he did. Not identifying clients of your employer is different from not identifying your employer at all. I've seen probably (by my last scientific count) about 19.307 trillion resumes and I've never seen one where the employer was just not identified at all. Even when it was the NSA. I can imagine that could happen in some sort of zany defense or national security edge case. But that's not what we're talking about here. If you put 'was employed by at major social networking site, can't tell you who it is' on your resume I think just about any sensible person would assume you're making shit up. And that looks a lot worse than 'worked on gay hookup site'. The advice to put something like that on your resume is just plain dumb. As is outright lying on your resume in general.
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I would have said this was a joke, except that I actually saw someone on Market wearing a scarf this afternoon.
What to use instead of Google Wave?
I use Wave as an organization tool. It's flexible enough to fit in many needs in many ways. What to use instead?
Link to Slidedeck:
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If you could export existing Waves into WizeHive you could be onto a winner, I know there's a lot of people wondering what's going to happen to all the content they've already invested in creating....
HOLY COW. That was the fastest programming I've ever seen. Haha - loved it when the room full of nerds corrected John on the one typo he made with the semicolon. Hilarious!
Good demo, yo!
There are a lot of people here defending working for porn sites. I'll play devil's advocate. (Or the opposite? Whatever.) In general, being associated with porn is a problem.

In hetero porn, tons of the models or performers or whatever are said to be involved because they were sexually abused when younger. Doing porn requires a certain numbness and if the performer doesn't have that when she starts, she will. It's just a very sad situation. A lot of people, including me, would never get involved with it, and consider money made there to be tainted.

(I know nothing about whether the same is true for gay porn.)

A hookup site isn't like that. Although there might be "numb" people participating, they aren't being exploited / selling themselves so there's just a different feel. But you never know where your life might take you. Sometimes very uptight people are gatekeepers to something you really want. You shouldn't let that possibility control your life, but on the other hand you shouldn't give up those unknown future opportunities for nothing. This job would at least have to pay more to make up for that.
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I'm with you for (a) and (b). The other thing I've found working as a consultant (well, an "off-site contractor" anyway) is that the freedom from "office hours" means I can structure my working day around time with my young kids (i.e. three meals with them and then working on into the evening) and still get lots of work done.

Of course this could just be due to my current project being particularly favourable, hence my interest in start-up ideas to try once it ends...
Opposite for me, bought the 3G and have used it twice out of the house. Maybe just that I'm not travelling much - I'd be getting a mywi though I think as then I could use the dataplan across multiple devices.
Same happened to me when german TV once showed a couple of the few WW2 video recordings in color.
You ask a question that has no bearing on your potential job offer.

Gay dating is not porn, whether it's speeddating or not has little bearing on that. There are plenty of hetero dating sites that hook people up for casual sex, okcupid.com is one of those.

If gay dating is porn then hetero dating is porn as well, and I think we can all agree that okcupid.com is not a porn site.

Of course, okcupid.com also allows you to search for 'mr. or mrs. right', but that's besides the point, if the principle matters to you you have to ask yourself if you would work for okcupid or not.

If they are going out of their way to plaster pictures of naked guys and/or body parts all over their site then that's different, in that case it is a porn site.

But if all you're concerned about is the length of time people spend together than you have to wonder if you'd have a similar problem if the site was hetero sexual.

If the answer is 'yes' then don't do it, otherwise don't worry. In the end your reputation is yours and you have to be careful with it, if you put 'worked for gay porn site' in it that might not help, if you put 'worked for dating site' on it then there is no harm done.
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Reddit is also pretty "ugly". I put the word in quotes on purpose, since both are very functional and clean. On the other hand, they definitely don't have a particularly beautiful design, as most designers would tell you. They're enough for what they do, but they don't make you say "wow, what a beautifully designed site". That's my opinion, plus (I think) a common consensus among HN users.
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I'm glad you didn't deny the fact that she made porn :P
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What an amazing demo. Love the way the audience got involved in the coding ("semi colon!!!") and the interaction between you and everyone in the room. Steve Jobs is in trouble.
I'm no mutant (and certainly not a a merry one), but I got a lot of use out of it. And I certainly didn't invest a lot of time into "figuring it out", I just used it in the simplest way I could, which is create new waves, talk to people on them, and that's it.

This proves, imo, that it wasn't a failure of product, but of marketing. Most people opened Wave and had no idea what to expect and no idea what to do with it, which led them to believe it was an "inscrutable mess". If I'd have shown you Wave without all the hoopla that Google used, I'd have said "here's a tool for project collaboration. Open a new topic whenever you want to talk about it, then all the team members can add/edit content and everyone can see it live, and it just works!". And I think then you would both a) understand it immediately, and b) understand whether it is of value to you.

Google set up such different expectations for it that it's no wonder people didn't "get it".
That's my fear over getting the 3G - thinking I need it but then never actually needing it. Good point about a mywi device.

I now have to decide whether to get one or not _now_ or wait for v2
Finally someone from Google said it: "If I look at enough of your messaging and your location, and use Artificial Intelligence," Schmidt said, "we can predict where you are going to go." No wonder people worry about the privacy implications of their Google accounts.
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Imagine how these guys feel:

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He could put in an elevator, lift, a paternoster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster), or really anything in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vertical_transportatio...

Given real estate prices, it may make more sense to build on a small lot vertically, and then install a device if necessary, than to buy a bigger lot.
I suspect Google is hedging their bets. Google may be big and have a lot of money, but the telecoms have more politicians in their pocket. Google has spoken out FOR net neutrality many times before. I think Google's talking to Verizon now before they start capping access to their service.

I, however, think this will backfire and make people think that Google is OK with a non-neutral network, which will give other ISPs and content providers (e.g., ESPN) an excuse to implement non-neutral policies.

Thanks for nothing, Google.
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FWIW after reading this I felt like the time I finally got C pointers right.

If you pay attention you can even feel your mind expanding a little bit... ;)
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Even though I'm not a coder I was astonished by how he made his presentation.

I wonder now if a regular non-hacker VC would appreciate as much as we all geeks do :P #keepthatinmind

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FWIW after reading this I felt like the time I finally got C pointers right.

I think you can even feel your mind expanding a little bit... ;)
It sounded to me like they convinced Verizon _not_ to give preferential treatment.

Specifically, Google and Verizon's agreement could prevent Verizon from offering some prioritization to the biggest bidders who want better delivery of content on its DSL and fiber networks, according to the sources. But that wouldn’t apply to mobile phones, the sources said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the companies have not officially made their announcement.