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Are you sure this is not about the facebook 'like' concept? Facebook has brought the 'like' keyword into the mainstream, and the 'like' concept is creating a graph over the entire web that is basically sorting the web by how many people actively like the pages.

Perhaps google sees that this approach is basically like their page-rank, but more exclusive and less spammable. Since this 'like' concept was quickly understood by people on facebook, owning the key 'like' domain means that google is poised to exploit the understanding of 'like'.

Additionally, it gains all the search knowledge and skills of the people behind the like.com website.

This facebook social graph thing with 'liking' websites may be important.
If all you know is that the zygote machine and our simulator machine are two machines - program size on the zygote tells you nothing about program size on the simulator.

If you assuming that there exist machines with properties which cannot in any way, shape or form be emulated by digital computers, then you are declaring that the Church-Turing Thesis is a priori false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Now, I'm fortunate enough that I can afford the necessary hardware (a relatively high-end PC) to play Portal. What about those who cannot? Is their performance in the course automatically degraded simply because they don't have the outside job/rich parent necessary to get the PC or XBox?
kill -9 0, forgetting of course that I'd su'ed. Long drive to the colo.
Any sale of a search engine to Google is an asset/talent sale, right? They're not going to operate a competing search engine brand (aside from that one they do user testing at) -- they're going to assimilate its technological and biological distinctiveness into their own.

Google has 23 billion a year in revenue, substantially all of it from two products. Operating an internal competitor to Product #1 will not move the needle. Its, quite literally, less likely to make them less money than changing the shade of blue they use.
Actually, most of these truths should be very well known; I've seen them thoroughly explained and documented in books like 'Code Complete', 'Peopleware', 'The Mythical Man-Month', 'Refactoring', etc.

If there are people thinking they're bullshit, then the author is twice right.
Even if the people who actually become billionaires are small those who attempt and fail are often better off than they started. The middle ground between ones current status in life and reaching billionaire status is an immense landscape with many opportunities. In contrast to the counterpoint in his article the middle ground between playing basketball in say high school playing in the NBA is very slim; it is very much an all or nothing game where as the quest for wealth is vastly opposite.
I really hope "inception" doesn't become a thing...
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There's an app for that - HipMunk might solve this problem (A-B flight route planning).
If it was as polished, fluid, and well-thought-out as the iPad, I think it would. Microsoft is doing well with the XBox; it's not completely incapable of cranking out new innovative products. (Kinect, for instance.) It's just that they don't do that very often.

Microsoft doesn't have the aesthetics to build something like the iPad; it's completely foreign to the way they approach almost all of their products. They're not known for the thing that makes the iPad successful: simplicity. Simplicity in hardware, software, and product positioning.

If Microsoft made the iPad and its ecosystem, it would be successful. The trouble is, they didn't -- and they don't seem to have any cohesive, likely-to-succeed strategy to attack it.
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I agree with you. I can only add that PZ Myers, unfortunately, for Science and scientific blogging has become a buffoon, and some of his posts are just as detrimental to the scientific community than most of his opposition.

It's not difficult to know more evolution than creationists, as most of evolutionary theory is just logic and facts, something lacking in most creationist reasoning.

This is not the first time that he uses his mob-leadership to attack someone, and it won't be the last. He is not a scientist anymore, he's just a blogger, that for better or worse has cult followers.
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Classic videogames didn't really go for the self-aware pretentiousness that makes Portal a compelling choice for academic study. (I mean that in the nicest possible way: it is a game that knows it is better written than 90% of the stuff on the shelves next to it, and it isn't afraid to hit you over the head with that fact over and over and over again.)
Looks kind of neat, but I always thought it was a shame that spherical mercator has become the standard projection for web maps; it's kind of ugly.
finally: a purpose for turtles! :)
I once did the old "rm -rf *" in my home directory in college. It wasn't a system I used a lot, so I wasn't missing much, but I went ahead and asked for a restore from tape anyways. I didn't hear anything for 3 days. Finally I caught our head sysadmin in the hallway and asked about it. He said, "the good news is: we're getting a new backup system." The bad news? "Your files are at about gig 7 of the 6 gig tape."

Even this week I've reminded people at work that if you don't test your backup (and restore) system, then you don't have a backup system.
I like the sound of that one... would probably be good for gaming too. Nice wide field of view on the main monitor, and other views / meta-info on the sides.

Now I want that, so I can play Descent ][ and see 270 degrees.
A lot of colleges/universities require/provide laptops to students. They also usually have computer labs.
There's quite a bit of stuff from the 80s that is self-aware of videogames as a medium, and is actually studied by academics pretty frequently. Chris Crawford's Balance of Power / Balance of the Planet duo are two that are frequently discussed. Crawford is so sure that his stuff is better than other stuff out there that he's even written several books about why his game design is so great, and other game design is so bad. ;-)

And in terms of academic interest, I think SimCity or Civilization, among a dozen other choices, is far more compelling than Portal, and we also have enough distance to see how games like that influenced their successors. Mostly the choice of Portal smells to me of a university picking a famous recent title in an attempt to stay relevant--- like if they'd picked The Matrix or Inception as the one film to include.
"Fred" torched a factory. He's a criminal pure and simple. Not stealing from everyone around him would be a surprise.
Maybe it is turtles all the way down after all.
Computer labs usually have decent hardware, and are free for students to use. That should work as long as they can get the administrators to allow Portal on the computer lab machines.
Ask HN: will googles app-store be a viable option to getting a Merchant Account
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Do you see a down side or a reason we couldn't?
he's dedicated himself to creating the technology that will force temporary identities

It seems like we are to blame. If we were really creeped out by it we wouldn't use.

Creepy is the weirdo standing down the street looking at you funny and you just don't know what he is going to do next. With Google we know - they are going to collect every morsel of data about us that they can.
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A dentist friend once asked me why is software development so difficult and cost so much. I told him that's because a competent developer has to become an expert in the domain of the application in addition being an expert in programming. It's like learning a new field every time you develop a new application.
It still boggles me that that's Ebert's position. I've played plenty of games which were significantly better narratives than the vast majority of movies I've seen, much less that's out there. A good game can be far more immersive and emotionally powerful than a book or movie, unless you've set yourself up to not notice it.
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Good ol' ad hominem, it always seems to do the trick. Creepy, I guess that's better than some other things you could be called.
"... How many people make a serious commitment to becoming a billionaire, research how to do it, manage their time, and actively try? I'll wager - not too many try, and quite a lot of those who seriously try succeed...."

Success or failure that is earned ignores the reality of an individuals station in life ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtSE4rglxbY [0] As for money, "be careful what you wish for". [0] Alain de Botton: "A kinder, gentler philosophy of success" TED 2009 ~ http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_ph...
Google ventures != google.
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It would seem that it was subconscious inspiration. Things you see around you can easily get into your creative work without you realizing it (I know, [citation needed]). I did see a show where someone anticipated the nature a creative drawing, just by showing them similar imagery a while before. But that doesn't count as a citation.
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They don't exist: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-...
1 for 2: I missed the part about the keyboard cache (although unless the cache organizes the data in their original sentence structure, I don't see how useful it would be).

However, taking screenshots /= "takes pictures of you"
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> Seriously, if someone in the Google executive is reading this: You guys are clownishly amateur at dealing with this stuff.

They may not care.
Another option would have been to take time out to study the underlying theory better. The initial spec was trivial, if there had been any indication of how immense the requirements were going to be I would have either refused the work or I would have taken out a year or more to educate myself on the subject matter.

On the other hand, maybe you actually learned it faster this way. I guess it depends on how good you are at book learning, but there's no way to grok a process like jumping in and coding it.
>earn a fan

Live in South Korea, die of fan death?

But on topic: I think the thing that infuriates me the most is when a support person clearly doesn't read what I write to them. I can't count the number of times I've had to reply and say, "Listen, I know you have canned text to make your job go quicker, because most people haven't researched their own problem before coming to you, but if you'd read what I actually wrote, you'd realize why your response was completely unhelpful."

That's usually followed up by another batch of canned text. ARGH.
Why do companies produce these toolbars? I can think of two reasons:

1. as an enticement to install something they want on the client (e.g. spyware)

2. as a way to place their services closer to the user to make them more likely to be used (e.g. search)

So, to respond to your ideas:

- Useful, thoughtful plugins serve a completely different purpose

- Unnecessarily restrictive

- The problem isn't users going out and installing stupid toolbars, it's companies bundling them with other products.

I would propose this instead: since toolbar-pushers are relying on the toolbar being trivial to install and annoying to remove, the browser should just make it trivial to remove as well (a mandatory "x" on the right side that uninstalls the toolbar).
to play devil's advocate: could it be that your comment is a perfect demonstration of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Selling what you don't have yet can be immensely helpful (cash is helpful :), but one you need to exit that mode rapidly.

You also need to ensure you are converging on a product and not just doing services work around a common problem.
Nope, it varies widely depending on the metal, thickness of the metal, temperature and pressure, etc. I don't really know any of the details.
Part of the problem here is that we're talking about fairly obscure knowledge, at a minimum you'd need a good sized library with articles about the problems you're trying to solve. This being the Netherlands such articles were not easily available and the www did not exist yet.

So my sources of information where I was located were fairly limited. If I could have taken the time off I would have spent that time first on a literature search and after that on tracking down copies and reading those books.

I agree with you that I learned faster this way but not as thorough and as deeply integrated as I would have liked, it usually was just enough to get the job done before moving on to the next crisis.
One issue with games is that anything older than about 2000 is going to look really dated, potentially distracting students from the substance of the game.
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I'm not sure which is worse: that Advanced Task Manager fixes a problem in Android or that it's a placebo.
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> In the colder climes, we should be shipping in "accent" products from the west coast to liven things up, but there's plenty of regional produce that can and should form the staple.

Yes! For example: I live in western Illinois, and my seasonal eating involves summers with lots of fresh local fruits and veggies, reserving the jars of pasta sauce and much of the meat for the winter. (Meat, if you think about it, is the original preservative: no need to refrigerate until you kill it, you just need to "fuel" it through the winter.) I certainly don't forsake things that can't be made locally but I try to mostly eat them during the times when the things that can be grown locally are offline. Hence I now think of orange juice and mangoes and such as "winter fruit". :)
Reminds me of when some cities (I think at least Chicago) fined IBM for their chalk-based painting of the side walk "Peace, Love, Linux" campaign. IBM said it was supposed to wash off, but it didn't.
I run a jobs (entry level and internships) website, so I'm extremely familiar with this seasonal trend. I have a lot of data supporting the trend, but not a lot on why it exists.

I never really thought of the seasonal jobs thing because my site is focused on permanent full-time jobs/careers, but I'd bet it's at least part of the trend.

My hunch is that it's more related to New Year's Resolutions along with some other factors. Not a lot of hiring gets done between Thanksgiving and Christmas beyond seasonal jobs. Most companies lay low during that period, and some are also waiting for new budgets for the new year. Basically, companies wait until after the holidays to start hiring again, and most job seekers take a break during the holidays too. The trend also applies to internship searches, so that's why I think it's not just people looking for a new opportunity after seasonal employment ends.
One of the problems is that movies re-enforce that image. Even when the past is depicted in color, effects are applied, as spoofed in this 5 second film: http://5secondfilms.com/watch/its_not_ww2._its_hbo

What struck me most about the photos was the formality of the clothing. People used to dress nicer. I remember seeing an old Yankee Stadium crowd shot and almost everyone was wearing a tie. It makes for nicer imagery, but I'm not sure I would want to return to that.
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Thanks @faramarz a lot for the try. I cannot say that it doesn't work; it definitely does. The thing is, this solution cannot be accepted as generic. I couldn't explain all the conditions in the twitter post; my mistake. But it was rather a sarcastic post. If someone would want to try for a generic solution:
1) Horizontal centering isn't necessary. So let the DIV width occupy all the available width.
2) The height cannot be fixed. The content can vary.

I doubt if there exist any solution to this. My point is, if we are talking about Clones, Moon, Rocket Science and HTML5, a simple thing like this is not possible even today. If CSS can offer margin: 0 auto; why can't it offer something to align elements vertically center? May be, margin: auto 0;???

@faramarz, once again, thank you very much for spending time on this.
What made the iPad successful is that it works, and rather well. Apple has been making products that work-- specifically, the user understands how to use them and gets the results they intend.

This is a single feature that very few companies include in their products.

Usability is not a trade secret, it is simply not in the culture or preferences of the leadership of microsoft or google to make products with usability. Sony used to, but is more hit or miss these days.

Asking, "what if the iPad had come from Microsoft first" is a question that doesn't work. Microsoft introduced their iPad almost a decade ago, with windows for tablets. It was q flop.

If that doesn't fount because it isn't like an iPad, then the question is like asking "what if an orange tree bore apples?"
if you can pull it off, sure, that's great.

the problem is that it's /really/ easy to get yourself into the kind of trouble you don't recover from that way.

I understand that different markets are different, but in every business I've run, the limiting factor was my commitment or my reputation (sales) or some combination therof.

If I over promise a little, I can deliver for a limited time (as the OP did) at the risk of burnout. It sounds like burnout was a huge factor in the failure of the business this story is about. Burnout of key people can very easily kill a small company.

If I over promise a lot and fail, then we start taking hits to the reputation, and if I've accepted pre-payment that I can't pay back, well, at that point it's pretty much over.

so yeah, while it can result in dramatically positive outcomes, it's a /very/ high risk move.
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There are lots of things that "makes life more fun". I find that not having to work nights and weekends, but loving so much what you do and the problems you work on and the people you work with; makes life even more fun.
The problem is that the (current) notion of a "feature" lends itself to poor design. If it's a "feature", then there needs to be an entry on the drop-down menu, or an icon, or a name for the particular new thing that you can do.

What Apple seems to do right is to avoid thinking in terms of "features" and instead (strictly) in terms of use cases: tools should ideally be sufficiently versatile -- and simple -- that they can be applied to do many things without each of those things having a button. Hammers, e.g., have little in the way of "features", but are still pretty darn capable.
I'd be interested if he had given me a reading from the book. I don't understand exactly what he's selling me - a cool version of a Dummies book, perhaps?
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How about because people are traveling and don't have a means to do Google searches?
I actually wonder why, amongst all the billions of humans who have ever lived, there has never been a randomly mutated individual who exhibited negligible senescence. If such a person existed, man, the stories s/he could tell us.
Seems like a waste of time to me (to require in a class setting), but then again it is a liberal arts college.
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Agree.

Toolbars often change your default search engine for "Google search" affiliates, your homepage and redirects typos to money sites.

That's for sure a good business.
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I don't agree with the following comment:

"Great programmers spend very little of their time writing code – at least code that ends up in the final product. Programmers who spend much of their time writing code are too lazy, too ignorant, or too arrogant to find existing solutions to old problems. "

I mean so... who's writing the code then? Who's writing the original code? I would call a clever programmer a great programmer. Just clever. and sometimes clever can get you into trouble. But just sometimes :)
Digitimes does not have a paywall (at least for me) and the Engadget article is newer (August 12 rather than August 11) and cites the Digitimes article as a source.
Short of replacing the way toolbars work on IE now, I think the only solution for all the toolbars that already exist is for users to hate them as much as we do. Perhaps some sort of user education would help?

But many people don't seem to care, and may even feel that all the toolbars are useful to them. And if they don't care either way, perhaps you shouldn't feel quite so bad for them. It's not difficult to remove toolbars, and if you're not computer-savvy enough to do that, ask your computer-savvy friend how to do it.
Very funny. Though technically (ok I'm being anal) in Inception, the furthest embedded VM ran very very fast in comparison to the layers above. Now that would be cool... 20x the performance increase per VM layer. 5 layers down you can render an entire world for a lifetime in a few hours. Hardware scaling issues would be non-existent.
Chile its a wonderful country. I've been there several times. Its capital, Santiago has beautiful neighborhoods and they have this place they like to call something like their own Wall street center since all the big fancy pants companies are pretty much in the same block. Many of them speak english and they have a strong economy. I just cant find any cons of setting up in Chile a startup. Interesting.