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Those who set out to make something awesome for profit often fail because they only have a superficial understanding of what it is that makes something awesome. It’s all facade and those who get it will be disappointed and feel icky after their close encounter with the supposed awesomeness.

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One thing a show like The Wire gets to do that would be nearly impossible for an academic paper is follow dozens of characters, their relationships, their private lives, their motivations, their interactions with public institutions.

Sounds like an ethnography, actually. This is exactly what anthropologists do in the field.
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Reminds me of the elevator button example:

You're in the fourth floor, the elevator is on the fifth floor (indicated by a display above the door) and you want to go up.

Do you press the up, or down button?

At first this seems obvious, since you want to go up, but it's only obvious because you know how elevator interfaces work.

Another valid way to interpret the elevator interface is to press the down button, since you're in the fourth floor and want it to come down to you.

Yep, interface design is hard.
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> What I don't want is another Facebook clone

I think for this time, this is exactly what Google needs to do to kick facebook out of business. Facebook platform is a proven success. If Google clone it, they will eventually get users.

Google have other sources of income. But for facebook, its just "Facebook.com". If "Google" makes the clone and gets users, facebook.com is almost dead then (read like "myspace").
Alright, you had some kind of primitive system for communicating certain "messages". It could be comparable to Morse code - two taps on the table means "me hungry", etc.

But I don't think that's related to people saying things like "70% of all communication is non-verbal". I just took it at face value, and tried to point out that it's not. It's just a comment that's tempting to throw around because it's kind of dramatic.

Instead of slapping an arbitrary percentage value on it, I'd be more comfortable saying "a considerable part of our communication is non-verbal", which it obviously is. 70% is just too high a percentage to be realistic.

Yes, language had to start somewhere, and because grunting and gesturing just isn't enough, it had to evolve to what we have now.
I would give him a break if his more recent published opinions didn't sound like a more mature and intellectually vailed version of the very same attitude.
I must have scrolled right past it when reading the PDF.

It turns out that no, you can't just materialize all the source by simply typing one command. get_reference_source is a rather absurd python script: https://gist.github.com/86abe580675500a35900

It requires your nonsecret AWS account ID as a parameter, but the server it's making requests to is only available inside the EC2 network. They already know who you are, they rented you the damn box! There's no check that the account ID is the one that created the box either. As an added bonus, the input sanitization code allows dashes, as Amazon always displays it, but it passes it along verbatim to a web service that does not.

It takes one package at a time, which must already be installed for it to match the name, and the script is interactive — it always attempts to prompt you for 'Are these parameters correct? Please type 'yes' to continue' even if it's not connected to a TTY.

The web service responds with a unique signed S3 URL that are set to expire 30 minutes in the future, plus or minus a minute or so. It then downloads it to a fixed location: /usr/src/srpm/debug/

Most of this could be alleviated by just hacking up the shitty python script, but still, this is ridiculous. Why did they do it at all?
Well, in that case they should just tackle me to the ground the instant they see me touch a water bottle. Why don't they do that? :)
The point of this is to make one image that is up to date and works well so that there's a good official choice. Even if you're fine with rolling your own, not having to do so really lowers the barrier to entry.
I think it's a matter of being book smart vs being street smart. There's still room for both.
I was a minor participant in the tvtime project years ago. HDMI and HDCP came around and made that kind of thing highly improbable for HD content. CPUs and GPUs are now at speeds that make advanced HD video manipulation practical. I hope this HDCP crack, if verified, makes a tvtime-like application for HDMI video possible. Better yet, a PC-based realtime compositing and overlay system, requiring only a $100 GeForce GPU and HDMI capture cards.
Of the two public people who left Engine Yard, Ezra and Yehuda, they have different qualities. Both notable and oft overlooked in our tech-bent community.

Ezra writes technology and Yehuda informs technology.

I see Ezra doing things beyond me. I see Yehuda bridging the gap between myself and Ezra.

It doesn't matter where they are. Watch each with their strengths and you will see fantastic things.
> If Google clone it, they will eventually get users.

Why would anyone leave Facebook to join Google's ghost town? Further, Facebook is impossible to successfully clone because part of Facebook's inherent value is that it already has an incredibly large userbase.
Thank you. It's awesome to hear that you like it. Let me know if there's any other feedback I should work off of.

Thanks again.
yes you do. and not only on production. if your dev box with mongo is rebooted unexpectedly, there goes your data.. you'll have to do a db.repairDatabase() or restore completely, which can take hours if you have a lot of data.
I think that this is a warning to all of us. Please, be a respectful and civil net citizen. If you troll around like crazy it may come up in the future and come back to hunt you.
P.S. I have done my share of occasional trolling and silly comments. I don't think that they were offensive though.
I think the second problem is much more interesting, because the first one can be judged pretty objectively.

The second one is more about trade offs.

Assuming optimal coding, "better" output means more complex code, and means lower performance in terms of processing time and memory usage.

For example, you could write a very complex version that tracked the lifecycle of a file by it's name, and "folded up" the manipulations into a couple of lines of output.

This would be more complex, slower and bug prone - but more human readable.

A test like this is a very interesting way to understand someone's programming taste.
You get to be a good developer by repeatedly building software that solves problems and creates utility. Heed the advice of others who suggest learning different classes of languages that affect the way you think about problem solving. But pick something and don't toil over it too long.

The other part of the "doing" side of things is finding something to do. A good place to start is by solving a problem you have yourself or that you are interested in. Maybe you think all the todo list managers suck, or maybe you want a tool that helps to organize your porn collection. Great, pick a language and get to work.

Another secret is to hang out with smart people and other good programmers. Talk to others about their work and learn from them. The rising tide raises all ships.
I'm curious, why do you spell it with an H?
any details?
Classic music notation is pretty and all, but it's about 1000x easier to learn (and read, even if you know how to read music) this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O93rQtWJVM
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Not a journalistic investigation, but a while back I decided that I need a new gmail account. I signed it up using some different credentials, including a different name. However, I did not mention my old gmail account in the entire sign-up process. After I activated my new account, I got an email on my old account referencing the new address I just signed up for and a verification code "in case something happens."

From this it seems to me like this is not a deliberate maneuver to deceive, but rather just an oversight.
In fact, there is a type of "browser" that does support this feature already: desktop widget engines, i.e. Windows Sidebar, OSX Dashboard, et al.

Now, of course, these "browsers" don't support most of the other features that browsers usually do support (for example, navigation), but if you want to make a little, oddly-shaped gadget using HTML+JS, they're just right.
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Yea, that's what a recruit candidate would expect. It's just that I was one of unlucky ones to be in such loop along with some others. I also think the "reorgs" played some part there.
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Use encryption, Bob.
I wonder if Facebook will be the new Netscape and this will be the new Internet Explorer 4.
Ya, you're not the first such case I've heard of, so I know it happens. It is unfortunate, but I think you slipped through the cracks. I definitely don't think it was intended to go that way.
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> If Google clone it, they will eventually get users.

That's highly unlikely. Facebook benefits from network effects so strong that Google would have to come up with something revolutionary in terms of social networking to replace Facebook.
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Do you only have one computer? Is it a notebook or desktop? It's hard for me to relate to these kind of use cases, because I use many computers, several of which are notebooks. I could never use a workflow like you because I'd always be losing all that state.
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I know for sure that all of the Manga style drawings DO NOT look asian, so there was a marketing element to it. Seems like Japanese creators wanted to make Manga universal and appealing to everybody - and of course they were successful at it. So, rather than drawing asian looking characters, they have created a "universally appealing" characters. This is equal to "bigger audience".
You mean the burnt state, the smoke, or the herb itself? It's not true, it smells like a nice floral plant in its natural state. 'disgusting' is an opinion, anyhow. Millions and millions of people disagree with you.
There was similar experiment with teenagers and cell phones. The conclusion was cell phones were like crack at least as far as their neural pathways were concerned. The kids without the phones reported things like feeling they had lost an arm, heightened anxiety, itchy fingers, etc.
He probably just stepped out of the 1930s
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I would imagine music scores in IPads or other touch sensitive screens. No more books or sheets.
I agree. I have a few applications which I suspect could benefit from a non traditional data store. The reason I haven't used one yet isn't that, though, it's simply that I am much more experienced with installing, tuning, maintaining and programming for relational databases.
You're welcome for my jumping in, sorry I later decided to not attach my real name to it. There are reasons for why that would be unwise.

Yes, I believe that he made an educated guess for the accounts, possibly off of IP.

As for the security stuff, you're familiar with http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/06/security-first-... and the linked white paper at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/pdf/ds_gsa_apps_.... The "Access Control" section says that we grant access to as little as we can, to as few as we can. All access is logged, and the security team has the logs. I'm sure the logs are about to be audited. I wouldn't want to be a Googler who had violated the privacy policy!

SREs do "production stuff". Responsibilities vary widely. Some need access to user data. Most don't.

I have no idea what alerts exist, or will be made to exist. I have confidence in the security team's ability to find effective ones.
Which places are they going?
...one would hope a sysadmin on project X only has the keys to project X.

That is indeed how Google works.
I'm amazed, positively. I wouldn't have thought they would be taking the users' privacy so seriously.
I really use google just for search and their ads which I find useful and I often click more than any other kind of ad.

I don't like where this is headed.
I'm a lot more concerned about the data centers full of government employees wiretapping innocent people for no apparent reason. A fair bit came about concerning this a year or two ago, with ex-employees stating that the system was routinely abused for amusement. What's up with that these days?
This is just the sort of resource that I will pass along to friends who want to start learning how to make web pages. Would be fun to see the series continued with similar introductions to the next levels of programming beyond HTML, CSS and Javascript.
Why are so many people expecting this to be a "killer" when they have failed to gain much traction with their other attempts to compete with Facebook/Twitter. I don't know many people using Orkut, Wave, Buzz, Picasa, etc.
Isn't that like saying studying real world physics is hard, so we'll study Star Trek instead?
Well, I hope they don't automatically sign me up and add my contacts from my GMail account like they did with Buzz.

Partly because that's annoying and mainly because I don't want to belong to another social network.
Great list Jeff. Thanks for putting it together.
You're right, they've definitely earned a distant number 2. Hooray!
As far as shortcuts I'd recommend doing the "app" as a jqtouch view of their rails? app. That should work for the vast majority of users and avoid the whole outlay for the app store. They could also look at phonegap. It's far better to figure out down the line that you need a full blown app than to figure out that your app could have been done in HTML. iPhone is a pretty big learning curve.
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Google does something smarter than that. http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/pdf/ds_gsa_apps_... explains what.
> Why would anyone leave Facebook to join Google's ghost town?

You don't have to leave Facebook. And most importantly (and highly likely) you don't need to join the ghost town. You are already there if you are using GMail. Don't you know that after using Buzz?
I actually somewhat empathize with lotus's view that Gmail should just be Email and that's it. I think it is bad UX if people who just want email and not these confusing new "social" business have their software change in their face with disruptive noises.

I think Google is moving in the right direction when they introduced that account page / dashboard thing that acts as a hub for Google services. Unfortunately there isn't much besides just the list there for now. What I'd hope is for Google Me to expand on this idea and actually show people how they are related to the data Google has about them, and more importantly, what they can do with it.
Before you get too excited, it's obviously an exaggeration. Like on TV they don't show Jason Bourne taking a break from assassinating people to go to the bathroom.
Ms. Meyer is very atypical.

Do you understand the economics of book publishing? They have nothing to do with page count. Typically, an author will be awarded an advance on signing their contract with the publisher. For a first time fiction author, that would be about $5,000. They are then given a percentage of sales of hardcover, trade paperback, and various other channels, with the first $N of those royalties kept by the publisher until the advance is "earned out", after which the author actually receives royalties.

Because publishing is a hit-centric industry, most first-time authors will not earn out their advances, so the total compensation for their first novel will be $5,000 (plus, more likely if they're successful, money for the sale of ancillary rights, such as foreign publication rights, etc). If it goes on to be a mega-blockbuster, the sky is the limit. J.K. Rowlings' revenues attributable just to the first Harry Potter book are in the hundreds of millions -- most for the movie rights.

For more on the economics of authordom, I highly recommend reading jakonrath.blogspot.com
CR's own wording is pretty dry and matter-of-fact, just reiterating: their testing suggests the antenna issue can be serious, and a fix should not require individual consumer appeals to Apple. (No need for a word like 'savaging' to describe CR's consistent position.)

Maybe Apple even agrees with CR -- by September 30, perhaps all new iPhone 4s will have had some subtle new hotfix applied, or offered. With Apple, we'll only know then.
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I had an honor of being interviewed in Mountain View CA for a basic in-house tech support person, but didn't make it. It was in May 2006. I was one of the finalist, but just not good enough. The experience however was fantastic and a huge ego booster. They flew me over to California for few days and gave me a tour of GooglePlex. I have to say that my interview process was consistent with the article.
My "google question" was:
"How would you fill out exact 4 liters in a Can of 5 liters and another Can of 3 liters, with unlimited supply of water?"
I was able to answer it: Pour the content of the 3L can to the 5L one. Repeat the process again until the 5L can starts overfilling. So now you have 5L can full of water and 1L left in the 3L can.
So now, empty the 5L can, and pour in it that 1L leftover water from the 3L can.
Now you have 1L in the 5L can. Fill 3L can with water and pour it again in the 5L can. So 1L + 3L == 4L :)
Still it wasn't enough for the job as I may have failed the regular expression part of my interview...
Are UX discussions now really so played out that this little anecdote is considered insightful?

To summarise for comment readers "some people have a different understanding of complexity and how something you see as trivial might be confusing to others".
I wouldn't put money on it, but if this is IE4 then I think an analogous Facebook will probably be IE7 or IE8... or Chrome.
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I meant that the numerous references to porn detracts from the article, and instead makes you think about what the author thinks of porn. I didn't mean "haha, the author is a recovering porn addict".
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For some reason it took me a while to get that the stories were draggable. I understand you are going for a clean look, but maybe a handle would also communicate it it draggable?

Also, push the mobile aspect. The site makes sense on the ipad or a smart phone. Unfortunately, I cannot open the story data overlay from the ipad.

Also, try to have the overlays somehow originate (using animation) from the store or backlog or finished button.

Also, you might want to try a dotted border to separate the phases (not sure about the terminology).
I must admit, I don't understand the distinction. What does age have to do with it? The information seems to be the same in both cases: a man with two kids, at least one of them a girl.

Of course thinking about age is a legit way to calculate the probability of the second kid being a girl. It is just unnecessarily complicated.
100% agree with this. It's all relative. It's completely based on cost of living. In my opinion.
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I'll use it as a reference for my clients who ask about learning "web sites".
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You forgot to mention that you would be working for a giant corporate behemoth that is evil to its customers.
Right now I use a 27" iMac at home almost exclusively, but there's a handful of other computers that I use in various locations, and several have persistent sessions (which makes gchat think I am available almost 24/7). It was more of a problem when I commuted every day, but I mostly just had different sets of things that I was looking at on each compy.

The Google Bookmark sync actually works pretty well between all of them for things that aren't transient. I just realized that there's probably a decent 'bookmarks sidebar' extension out there, and combined with "Open All Bookmarks in New Window" that could alleviate a lot of my project-related tabcruft.

I have indeed "lost all that state" many times over the years, but it hasn't happened since I switched to Chrome (It did corrupt its session once, but it keeps a backup). It happened every couple months with Firefox on Linux, though I couldn't dig as big of a hole since it crashed more than once per day on average.

Years ago when I used Safari as my main browser it didn't have session saving yet, I used a SIMBL extension that continuously saved all state (including the full DOM with no redownloading), but ironically caused it to crash much more frequently. In those days I would rotate between Safari, Camino, and Shiira using two at a time, so that when the primary started to fall over I could start a fresh session and let the tabs dwindle in the old ones until they could be quit.
Please read this http://aci.byelarus.com/index.php?p=6#wag-fig. The average wage for a good software developer is close to 1000$ (note that minimum wage is $2.5 per month).
You say he is awesome, that ways I will put his to 2000$. He is consulting for you, so he should make 3X the money as his salary, that comes to 30$ an hour.

The living cost thing is BS. You are confusing between "living cost" and "cost for a good standard of living which everyone in US takes for granted". The former is less, just because more people are very poor, eat once a day and live like hell. I can bet cost for a comparable standard of living to US would be super high.

Just because your developer is OK with living poorly doesn't mean he has to. You can be fair and guide him to a better life.