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The one thing I dislike about how a lot of php code is written is the way that requires are used as function calls (but without any declaration of what variables the required code is expecting to find).

Oddly, Rails partials work this way too. They can see the controller's instance variables and are often written without any sort of defined interface, which makes for confusing, brittle code. Fortunately Rails offers the option to pass in :locals (just as php offers the option of simply using functions instead of require).
How many tech blogs did you send this particular email to? Apparently the only blog who wrote about your app was "TUAW" (never heard of them).

Why Techcrunch didn't write about Dayta 2.0 as suggested in the title of your submission?

Don't get me wrong, I think you are an awesome designer. I'm looking at your portfolio and I'm totally blown away by your design skills but I'm just not impressed by your copywriting skills. that's all. :)
I often move my mouse pointer out of the way so it's not distracting me. Surely that wouldn't be too uncommon?
That would be solved if only we had a framework framework.
Sorry for the delay, I missed your comment earlier. I simply meant that it sounds mysterious, and it doesn't seem he has any competitors yet, or has franchised it. It sounds like it originated in a Seinfeld episode or something. There are ways to leverage the exclusivity factor.
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Yes, I could have stated it more friendly:

I disagree with Apple's policies so I do not buy their products. On some level I also do not understand why not more people are bothered by Apple.
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That was probably me. We have two sides to the webspam team at Google: engineering and manual. We definitely prefer to write algorithms so that we avoid dealing with individual websites--the idea is that you strive to fix the root cause of an issue, not to tackle specific sites. However, if we see a website that violates our guidelines and that gets past the algorithms, we are willing to take manual action. Where possible, we use the output of the manual team not only to reduce spam itself, but to train the next iteration of algorithms.

For example, one of the big issues in blackhat spam this past year was illegally hacked sites. Our algorithms weren't doing the best job on hacked sites, so the manual team kept an eye out for hacked sites to remove them (and often to alert the website owners that they'd been hacked). The data generated by the manual team helped us build and deploy multiple new algorithms to detect hacked sites, leading to a 90% reduction in the number of hacked sites showing up in Google's search results in the past few months. That decrease in hacked spam in turn frees up the manual team to tackle the next bleeding-edge technique the spammers use.

I suspect every major search engine uses similar approaches: try to stop the majority of spam with algorithms, but be willing to take action in the mean time while engineers work to improve the algorithms.
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Well, I tried it out on with a few very mainstream sources. It appears that it just takes the first few sentences. I was led to believe that it somehow extracted meaningful information, sort of like Amazon's SIPs.
> Uh, yes it does.

That makes no sense, having the exact same feature doesn't make CCL superior.

> And CCL doesn't. QED.

QED nothing, not having a gil does something, using OS threads doesn't.

> Not if you have multiple cores.

Yes if you have multiple cores as well. You just have to map your green threads onto OS threads or processes, that's what Erlang does.

> ;-)

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Your comment reminded me of an older comment here:

http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....
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Which has absolutely nothing to do with the original claim that:

> it has native threads (that feature alone puts it head-and-shoulders over Python)

As I wrote previously (and both you and lisper apparently decided to ignore), Python uses OS threads as well.
> I'm not sure where the headache/confusion would be here, unless you're trying to do very weird things with Python (which you should not)
Actually this is very common in many organizations. I hear many friends complain about their managers. It's a tough situation to be in. The part where the manager gets all the credit for work you've done, just isn't fair. Sometimes, I've heard good managers tell you to face the situation face on with that "bad" manager. If he/she doesn't change the situation, you go up to his/her manager, etc. However, it's not easy to do that, and how you do it may just make you look bad. Most companies should have feedback and review times, so that should be a good opportunity to raise issues. I think the root of the problem is to screen carefully when hiring the individual. Make sure the candidate goes through many cases studies properly or even go on a 3 months probation period. I also know big companies usually have leadership conferences or training seminars to keep the employees up to date. I took a course before, and realized I wasn't ready to lead. Not everyone can admit to that, when they have big egos or cocky attitudes. I'm curious to see what you and your buddy are building. Best of luck with your project.
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Does it have lazy evaluation?
TUAW is a huge Apple blog.
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2-3 years on Searching.com/Searching.ca. I definitely regret a wide swath of it, mostly not being more daring and trying out more things. They had me (a junior programmer albeit with a College degree) building out large parts of their infrastructure, then switching things at the drop of a dime. (picked up some good skills in the aftermath)

There were so many opportunities for me to have left.

- When I realized the business plan basically was formulated around a domain name.

- When a superior said "We don't have to build anything new, what people want is one place to get everything and we'll provide it to them". (Basically a "Don't innovate" directive)

- When the investors sued because they contended they company was trying to steal corporate resources (mostly domain names). (I don't think my boss was, but clearly there was a lack of trust on both sides)

- When a superior asked us to all go onto Digg and "digg down" people who had taken issue with him for trying to purchase wiki.com for 2 million dollars.

Eventually, even the depressed shadow-of-myself left after my boss said "I'm going to make Bittorrent legal! The labels will have to accept it because it will be the same as a swap meet". I realized the writing was on the wall and I had to get out. (This was... after 6 months of not getting paid)

I left about a month after and had a more interesting startup experience at Soundpedia (didn't work out either, but I have zero regrets and loved every minute of it)

I regret that I let my early start on RoR waste away while I was building stuff in PHP and Perl/Mason for them. (ouch) I regret that I didn't have the courage to try to do something on my own, or to go to the states to try working for a more properly managed startup. I regret that I didn't have a more social environment (since I was working remotely). Finally, I regret that I let myself get carried away. It was a classic story of manipulation of a green wild-eyed college kid. Someone posted a while back about the classic pattern of manipulation in an open source project and my experience fit that to a T.

Now when I look back, I can kinda laugh about it all. I learned, moved on, and I gained a lot of skills after doing so. Was I stupid? Hell yes; but it's the kind of stupid you can get away with once in your life.

Would I work for a startup again? Absolutely, even if I had no stake in the business. However, no more remote working, and I won't accept a job where I can't perform excellently.
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I think most of MS's biggest problems are symptoms of its size. MS has had empire-itis from the beginning. From their original mission statement, through their huge acquisitions, through their refusal to spin off substantial portions of their company, their approach to competition, etc, etc. If they had been organized differently or if they had been split up into different corporations as a group they'd probably be better off today. Not least because each group would have the freedom to make the choices they need to (free of the MS overarching strategy straight-jacket) and they'd have the motivation to build truly great and disruptive things, rather than the relying on the usual strategy of getting it sorta-kinda right on the nth try through sheer brute force (read: massive investment from Windows/Office profits of the past).

P.S. Also a former MS employee, for what it's worth.
Don't forget that Arnold has said the biggest problem with the budget is the state workers unions, like the teachers unions. They are under CONTRACT and cannot change those expenditures at will.
I think it depends on their financial stability. I don't think a consulting company should ever do work for a startup based on equity, the risk is too great. But if they're not financially stable, then equity is all they have to give. You should do due diligence on the startup before you do work for them. If they have financial clout, but no technical clout, then it's a match made in heaven for you. If not, seems to me it'd be like hell.
A simpler question is, why doesn't Microsoft have people like you working for them? My bet is, someone that came into an interview talking like that would be considered by someone, somewhere, eventually in the hiring process to be "too ambitious" and feel their job is threatened.

Supposedly Windows usability is tested up the yin yang, but I (as could millions of other people) could easily come up with a list of 100+ items that could make a real, tangible improvement in the windows user experience. Anyone with similar ideas I suspect would also fail the interview process at some point.

I'd say its a fair speculation that one difference between when Bill was running the company and now, is that people used to be hired based on what they could do for Microsoft overall, and now they are hired based on what they can do for the career of the person at Microsoft hiring them. Bill used to run Microsoft with an all seeing eye and an iron fist, just as Steve does now with Apple.
I am curious. Did you outsource the UI/US as well to the Indian Development firms ?
Interesting movie, I actually just blogged about what I got from the movie. I guess entrepreneurship didn't cross my mind, but a more generic term, "commitment."

http://dreamsofrandomness.blogspot.com/2010/10/facebooks-suc...
http://dreamsofrandomness.blogspot.com/2010/10/another-meani...
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OTOH, $$foo does not work in Tcl.
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I don't look-- I'm an American, and I find the whole thing skeevy. Many people do look, though.

I live in a small town, and the year before last I was actually the top earner in the town-- which got me a whole raft of unwanted newspaper and radio stories.

Meanwhile, the names of people convicted of crimes are withheld from the press. If you rob a bank, you can live anonymously. If you earn more than your neighbors, you're going to make the newspapers.
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The problem with these sites is that transferring large files is not really a problem businesses have that much - certainly not to the extent where they want to buy accounts on sites like this.

The people who do need this kind of services are independent musicians, folks wanting to spread underground music (dubstep, grime, etc) and warez. I've been known to dable in those scenes. There is no money in it, but people with skill who will try to subvert your service

I know from speaking to folks who ran the service you mentioned in your post that they were always fighting battles to keep the hackers out, the porn out and just dismayed to see their site being used to share music and other non-monetizable content.
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Sound like pretty much every single inhouse developed or extended app after a few years/personnel replacement cycles. Yeah it sucks to work on. Apart from the register globals, it says nothing about PHP though.

Actually while I won't defend register globals in 2010, back in 1998 (am yes, I wrote PHP code in 1998) when nobody understood web development really (do we even today?) it was a handy feature, that prevented much line noise on pages that were (back then) usually composed of html with a few <? ?> tags and code in between, pretty much the way javascript was on pages until a few years ago. It was only as the php became heavier and was moved in to common include files and later into libraries that the usefulness went away (but the potential issues remained).
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dealing with highly charged emotional people

Sometimes I wish we could just delete extremely violent emotion from the genetic code. People living their lives rationally as well as emotionally would make for a much better world.
Humility is huge and almost nonexistent! I remember when I first did something hugely visible and couldn't handle it, felt like a total failure. But learned from it. It's funny how the best leaders I've ever seen or experienced also happen to be the most humble. Maybe that's why they become so good, because they're willing to acknowledge their imperfections and thus willing to learn.
I've always gravitated towards startups and small companies, and have, over the years, not made the money I would have if I'd worked for some BigCo year in, year out. I do have some regrets there, as it'd be nice to have more money.
That's just silly. You want a generic framework factory factory, that you can then use to create a framework framework factory. And then you can get your framework framework.
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Is this already a YC startup? I think that better data visualization tools would help reduce the hold journalists have on peoples' perceptions of the world. Journalists would interpret data more and tell people what to think less.

http://ycombinator.com/rfs1.html
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Hey PG, Any ETA on this? Know you're busy, but it's been a while and releasing this will be so helpful to so many people. Thanks.
For more detail on the background of factory education and the reason for it, and a bit more details on alternatives, check out John Taylor Gatto's works. He's a former NY state educator of the year who came to realize that school as we know it is bad for people.

Transcript of one interview:

http://www.ttfuture.org/files/2/pdf/gotto_interview.pdf

mp3 of another interview:

http://jari.podbean.com/mf/web/ja8dm2/LivingHero19--JohnGatt...

He also has a couple books in particular "Dumbing Us Down" and "Weapons of Mass Instruction".
Another factor here is the "fear of the new". Which is worse, dying in a car accident or dying in a nuclear blast? Well, neither really. But which generates more fear in you? Dying in an accident can easily be a horrific, painful death, but everything else about it is familiar, so we turn down the knob on the fear-o-meter on the idea.

Similarly, banks treat their customers like crap all the time. But it's a crap that everybody has grown used to and come to expect. But when PayPal makes a mistake or has bad policies or poor customer service in any instance people will scream to high-heavens on the internet about it until the entire world has heard.

For myself, PayPal has treated me better than at least half the banks I've ever had accounts with (especially Bank of America), so I'm inclined to give them a little slack now and again.
These guys are getting a lot of overtime in their last year so they can jack up their pensions. Some fools in Sacramento agreed to just consider the LAST year of work when calculating their pensions.

Obviously, Californians are being taken for a ride. By the union, by whoever is approving the overtime (probably another union member), by the legislative majority and whichever governor signed this very bad deal for taxpayers into law.
I don't think that was the issue. The fact is that if you've got dozens of websites, each of which has lists of domains/IPs like http://www.mattcutts.com/images/verypopularwebsites-com.png , that is the sort of thing that users complain about and don't want showing up when they do a search. Especially if sites have autogenerated boilerplate content for each one of those links.

I mean, if you're auto-generating a page that has this text: "Elcorillord.com

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Surely you have to see where many people would consider that either keyword stuffing, gibberish or typo spam.
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Total Wii games sold as of June 1, 2010: 573 million

Total Xbox 360 games sold as of December 2009: 353.8 million

Total PlayStation 3 games sold as of June 30, 2010: 315.3 million

So yes, the Wii is beating the crap out of the Xbox. Americans don't realize that the Xbox only does well in the US. Europe and Asia are a tough market for Microsoft.
It's weird. No offense but BART janitor makes 80K. Someone I know is a chemical research scientist, with advanced degree is making 70K. Now we are talking about cutting education budget, some schools are loosing non mainstream course work all together.

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I used to be huge fan of AppEngine, then I realized that no company will ever pay me to build anything on top of AppEngine. :(
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Naming, oh god yes, the naming. Nothing is consistent with naming functions at all. My favorite example of this is the aptly named "parse_str" function:

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By the looks of it, you could also consider offering this for free and charge for some sort of api access.
Am I missing something? Isn't this just a rather awkward 'eval'?
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My webapp requires payment which is handled through Paypal. The user clicks on a button on my website, gets redirected to Paypal and makes the payment there.

Paypal then notifies my webapp and redirects the user. In this scenario, do I really need to get an SSL certificate from vendors such as godaddy or verisign?