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Google's only unique offering is search

All the other stuff, maps, email, translate, etc... were incremental improvements of already available and competitive free services.

You also neglected to list the dozens of flops that Google undoubtly spent millions, perhaps billions on. Remember Wave, Answers, Jaiku, Dodgeball, etc...? And how much of those billions of unpaid taxes went to buying out the competition and thus reducing the capitalist drive for improvement?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google
Doug Landis draw Sketches only by mouth
Have you heard about Doug Landis? This artist is amazing! Look at his pencil sketches. They are very unique!
> LLVM is just a replacement for GCC

You're confusing LLVM and clang. LLVM is a bunch of tools to build compilers with, one of which is clang. With Apple moving to tools that support LLVM, they could easily switch out backends to generate, say, ARM rather than x86_64 instructions, allowing them to keep the same software, but run it on different hardware.
This is a great ground-up solution, but I would consider it far from trivial in practice for Facebook at this point.

The current ids have completely permeated every part of their public APIs and likely every part of their internal systems...
The Smart Hiring Standard
I'm not sure that API complexity is that different from UI complexity.

From the article:
"But APIs are different. An API with 60 options makes for longer documentation, certainly. But if the options are well-chosen and well-documented, an API with 60 options is barely more complex than an API with 20 options. You should be able to safely forget about features you aren’t using, and just use the features that matter to you. Done well, incremental features in an API only increase complexity by O(log-n) or even O(1) – virtually no complexity increase at all."

This is true, but how is this different from a UI that's done well? With a great UI you should also "be able to safely forget about features you aren’t using, and just use the features that matter to you." Isn't that just good information architecture combined with a design that prioritizes and encourages accomplishing the most common tasks?

A poorly designed API adds just as much complexity and frustration as a poorly designed UI. But I doubt that a UI "done right" still increases complexity by O(n) or O(n-squared).
>Making some hardware and writing a device driver is hardly fragmentation.

What exactly is your definition of "fragmentation" then?
Honestly, you can't just toss bacon into a pan willy-nilly and whip it around like scrambled eggs. You must lovingly lay out each slice so they all get the heat and crisp up. That bacon is all soggy and tangled together. You need to go home and do some serious soul searching. Talk to your bacon. See what it needs, and more importantly satisfy those needs. Help your bacon reach it's fullest potential. Then come back to me.
A good interview process should be resistant to gaming. For instance, multiple interviews. Multiple people doing the interviewing. Asking the candidate to demonstrate a capacity to do the work.

But, let's say the candidate does successfully game the interview and gets hired. Your company should absolutely use the first N-days of a new hire to check fit. Many I've seen explicitly say the first three or six months is a probationary period. The problem is when companies aren't honest with themselves about making a bad hire (capability or fit) and letting the new hire go.

Particularly for internal job candidates, I highly recommend being direct and saying, "Here's where you're short. Here's what you can work on over the next year or so to get into a better position. It's not a guarantee, but you'll be better prepared." Give them homework.

If a candidate is really and truly interested, they'll follow through on the advice and follow-up on it. That gives you a better candidate to look at for your next req.
G20 Toronto cop who was afraid of girl blowing bubbles sues YouTube
I'm pretty sure that the patent situation between AMD and Intel is one of mutually assured destruction, given that AMD created the 64-bit extensions to x86. Intel could complain a lot and file some lawsuits, but if they seriously tried to block the acquisition of AMD, they would be putting their whole patent portfolio at risk and opening themselves up to billions of dollars of punitive fines from antitrust regulators.
Yes, that was my point, but I totally forgot to make it!
You might even be looking into it to far ... the last time Apple shipped Flash with their OS they pressed a vulnerable version onto their DVD's that were used to install the OS and that made them look bad. This time around that just won't be possible.
I think the biggest problem is just finding a relevant application that you want. I think an App store will help with visibility and awareness of smaller applications that would otherwise be unheard of. The only way now is to really either know of the app and search it on google or search on google mac + "keyword of what you want the app to do" sometimes you have to go through page after page of google results reading random forum threads and never find anything remotely useful. Apple realizes this.
Exactly ... this encryption is absolutely useless for intentional sharing. Facebook does have rules against sharing ANY data with third parties, however people are clearly violating that. Update ... I just blogged about it here: http://www.allfacebook.com/is-facebooks-proposed-user-id-sol...
How does an accounting standard like the FASB prevent cheating?

My understanding of the most egregious creative accounting tricks was via shell/dummy corporations. Even if each of those corporations individually follows an accounting standard, the graft comes via many companies acting in concert. It would take someone investigating from the outside to matching all the involved companies together before the ploy was exposed.

(If Hollywood revenue hiding never got that advanced, then I blame Hollywood movies, and their fictional depictions of accounting practices.)
(I'm not an accountant and this is out of curiosity.)
That is the truth that is often overlooked.

Feedback is not entirely useless, but good managers know that how useful a person ends up being, is not a function of his knowledge at the time of the interview. And that is true even for highly skilled professions like programming.

Performance/productivity is dominated by human factors, psychological factors, office environment, team synergy etc etc.

Even when I do technical interviews, people assume I am interested in getting the right answers out of them. In truth, while I am somewhat interested in what answer they give, I mostly watch _how_ they answer the questions.
What website are you reading? 35% is damn high by international standards. I read that US Corporate tax is the second highest in the entire world.
I did not find anything offensive in that line. He did not write

'...answered by a terrible/awful Java Programmer from India'.

If he wrote following,

'...answered by a Perl hacker from Germany.' his point will still be valid. I think you are reading too much into it.

P.S.:I am an Indian.
Never said the public is getting his money worth.
Well, you did spell three of the five words in the title correctly.
At the same time disk images are essential for power users, they are just as confusing for typical users.
> I just need to add some more features before I start plugging it ...

Maybe I've been hanging around here too long but my first thought in response was "you probably don't". As in, you probably don't need to add more features before you start plugging, MVP and all that. :)
Government spending is up 100% over 10 years. Maybe someone should look into that.
We seem to be going round in circles here. As someone who has received healthcare and education for free courtesy of the UK government I find the earlier claim that this is of less value to me than a search engine and associated apps, even though I use them daily to be fairly ridiculous. Taking your arguments about us being better off with Google managing more money to their logical conclusion, would you prefer to pay your taxes directly to them, without any say in what they spend their money on?

Continuing to restate that Google provides a significant amount of value as acknowledged in my original post (and profiting directly from most of the value-adding-services to the extent that such services would continue to be invested in at a much higher tax rate) fails to defend the original bold assertion that "Anyone who thinks that England would do a better job with the money than Google hasn't been to England". As I'm a British citizen who has not only been to England but actually lives there and uses both Google and our government funded services, I feel I'm in a good place to dispute that claim.

Right now the principal problem with UK public services is a shortage of money; not a problem for Google and their profit-generating services. Google is not going to die if it takes them a little longer to generate shareholder return; people are going to die if they don't get hospital beds. Believing in the benefits to humanity from successful, innovative free enterprises != believing they and their investors should keep all the money.

Moreover even if one accepts the claim that Google and people smart enough to invest in Google are on average better at allocating resources equitably than the government I think it could be argued to be ethically dubious for them to pay lower tax rates than less profitable companies with equally ambitious and beneficial goals. Someone still has to foot the tax bill
1. There are simply more of these people that make their way to Cambridge for obvious reasons. Naturally you'll find a larger proportion in most environments there.

2. These people probably don't have much in the way of manual labor in their day-to-day work but do have a higher level of stress (manual labor and exercise reducing stress) and mental exhaustion. The guy that spends his day working with his hands might like a drink after work but it's more likely at home and not as much because he doesn't have the physical energy to stay up and drink.

Someone that has mental exhaustion wants to unwind and has the physical energy to take themselves to a bar and socialize.

I know I've worked a full day in one part of the country, got on a plane to another part and spent the night out drinking. I don't think this is because I'm more intelligent than a guy swinging a hammer all day but I simply had the physical energy to do it; the work wasn't physically exhausting.
Free Luna!
I'm more interested in private asteroid mining.
I was being sarcastic, what's the upside? You get to hang out with the community on Reddit and get paid for it?
Gave it a try on Ubuntu. Extensions are very alpha but nevertheless a welcome move.
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True, I meant trivial in terms of complexity (as opposed to encryption). Implementation/migration would be tricky, but not impossible.

Also, anyone who's worked with their APIs before knows not to underestimate Facebook's commitment to the "move fast, break things" mantra.
Are we ready for new form of terror?
... and Opera is still a niche what 2% browser share?

It's not about 'fooling' people though. It's about people being overly skeptical, assuming everything is a scam, assuming conspiracy theories, ulterior motives.

I'm simply saying that the Reddit userbase is untrusting and not an easily monetizable demographic.
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they no longer need two chips

Today they have C2D + 320M; in the future they'll have Sandy Bridge + southbridge. It'll still be two chips. I also wouldn't bet on Apple ever using Arrandale in the low end, since it's going to be obsoleted soon anyway.
Oh of course, thank you.
Connections Will Be To Each Other, Not The Web; We’ll Be Dial Tones
I'm not sure what the Elastic Load Balancer is for when it's only a single EC2 instance.
I think the author makes a good point.

In UI design, you're working with platforms that have limited display space, and you're working with users who have limited attention spans. To be great, you have to know what to leave out. Sure your inherent abilities in design are important, but as the number of features approaches infinity, so do your chances of designing a shitty UI.

APIs are a different story. Whether you have 10 features, 100, or 1000 is almost totally irrelevant. It doesn't affect the user experience.
Netflix's Squeeze -- No Not That One, The Other One
There's simply no way they're making anywhere near that from advertising. I would even have a hard time they're making that a year from advertising.
They need to clarify the terms, it is unclear if this minimum usage is free or if they will cancel your account if you go over. These are both in their agreement:

"You also will be charged AWS’s standard rates for any use that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer."

"You will become ineligible for the Offer if, ... (b) incur fees for use of the service that exceeds the free usage amount provided under the Offer. ..."
> Maybe it is the lawyer in me, but why wouldn't any international business do whatever it could legally do to minimize its taxes?

It all comes down to ruining competition which is crucial for capitalism to improve the quality and decrease the cost of services for society. Do many startups have the money to hire a bunch of lawyers to find out the latest tax loophole and the money to setup multiple shell corporations?

I think not.
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Hootsuite Co-Founder on Building a Successful Startup
But really, the continuing argument that because you like Google Maps it's therefore better that Google gets to keep all of its tax euros out of the hands of underfunded public services is close to incoherent.

Unless you can show that those services are in the same sort of existential danger as high-end cancer treatment is in the UK, the argument is specious.

a. I did not say that Google shouldn't pay any taxes.

b. Whether you believe something to be 'underfunded' is a matter of perspective.

c. Not funding cancer research is not equivalent to not doing good or creating value.

I think you do have a point in that Google's slogan does make this about ethics. I still maintain that Google can do more good with more efficiency than any government.
Essentials of Bash Scripting: Using Loops
Everyone that uses gmail (or any other Google service) does so because it's better (in some way that we can't know) than the alternatives. The very fact that people have chosen to use it rather than those alternatives means that it has made their lives better.

And Google should pay their F-ing taxes. I do.

By all accounts, Google is paying the taxes they're legally obligated to. If you don't like the way those obligations play out, then you ought to be talking to your legislators, the ones who are architecting byzantine tax systems. Their efforts to control our behavior, pander to buy votes, etc., by giving preferential treatment to some, is what created the problem.
I'm assuming it can load balance to paid EC2 instances also. Even if not, it would let potential customers learn how to use it.
> Our deployment process was always at night (10,000+ user org).

You didn't even get to the second paragraph of the article? Really?

> Many web applications, including Scout, have customers around the world. There isn’t a perfect time for a deployment.
Tax law changes all the time. It is a cat and mouse game. Loopholes are closed, lawyers see the statue which closed them and come up with other loopholes which are closed...

A start up could possibly hire such lawyers to do what they do for national for the general public, but possibly each individual has his own requirement and tax lawyers are quite expensive.
The web services use WSE3, and there is a lack of will on the part of management to have them ported to WCF.
Looks like this was a result of old data.. The score of 78 was measured on October 2nd. I hit the "Click here to re-check now" button and the score is now listed as 88. We're looking at the sub-scores now to see exactly what's different.
That's assuming the majority of OS X users are currently Super-Users. :) I don't know if they are or not, but it would be interesting to somehow find out. I bet at one time they were, but when you see that 80% of incoming freshman to US Universities have Macbooks, I think it is no longer the case.
Perhaps, but this particular form of loserdom seems to be a common enough trap for smart people, so it's an interesting one to analyze.
Dynamics between Investors and Entrepreneurs: Guide to Relationship
High school sucks for everyone, but it's worst for LGBT than almost anyone else. Suicide rate is at least 4x what it is for the general teenaged population.

However, despite being ~straight, I really want one of those "Android Pride" t-shirts from this video.
A Big Idea for Rural America: Wordpress
As a first step it might be more useful to terraform, say, Mexico. Or Australia.
While we do have a phenomenal amount of power in our hands, the fact is that the rest of the industry has grown in step with the hardware in a lot of ways. Browsing the web (admittedly as a power user) is one of the most intensive things I do aside from compiling software.
If—and I think this is possible—the only way to make a more usable machine is to take away some "power" (not the right word, but I think everybody knows what I mean), then I'm very happy for there to be more-usable-less-powerful machines, as long as there are still less-usable-more-powerful machines available, too. I'd hate to see a whole evolutionary branch of more productive/enjoyable machines be not explored just because they don't do some of the things that we like to do.

And if it is possible to achieve the same usability gains without taking away power but Apple still goes that route, then I'll be happy to see somebody beat Apple at their own game.

All this is talking about some hypothetical possible future, of course: nothing Apple's announced so far has in any way reduced the capability of Macs. But, yes, such a route does seem more "on the table" today than it seemed a week ago.
iTunes will make this trivial for you and keep your apps up-to-date.

That's not what's happened in the iPhone world. Developers with apps on iPhone and Android have written that their iPhone version is never up-to-date, because the App Store approval process takes so long.
Live performance with iPhones, in NYC subway
Olin College was amazing; I wish I'd been a year or two younger so I could have been part of the founding class.

They did backpedal a bit on the "free for everyone", unfortunately.
"An option has now been added to have plug-ins such as Flash content load only when clicked on.."

nice feature there!. no more of pretty-woman-greeting me on page load.
The original post makes no mention of how a UI "done well" is different from an API "done well." I'm really interested in the omission and think that might be the only flaw in the argument.

I've never developed an API but the difference between 10 and 1,000 features is huge for the consumer of an API. With big enough APIs, even if the individual calls are beautifully simple and well-documented, I always wonder if I'm ever using the right parts just because there's so much there.
If you like this stuff, you'll love the book "Hacker's Delight" which is just full of these:

http://www.hackersdelight.org/
This is a great move that will hopefully have the side effect of VPS services reevauting their current plans. Slicehost/Rackspace for starters should have done so a long time ago. Linode is a slightly better option, but they are still going to be under pressure to make a better deal now. A great move by Amazon to help make the entrance into web based software easier. Sadly my needs require around 17 instances so I'm out of luck :P
There could be some confusion here due to the different cuts of pork which are called "bacon" in different countries. It appears that you're Scandanavian and appear to be using "full" bacon whereas Americans only use the small strip bit at the end. The two types of bacon demand different cooking strategies.

I can go on for hours about the wrongness of American bacon, but I don't want to get too distracted right now. Anyway, as an Australian that bacon there looks delicious to me.
What does Jobs love? Flash. He loves it.
Top 45 hits sales managers shouldn't do
Could somebody help me out here - I was under the impression (and perhaps this is just the case for Canadian schools?) that you need a student number to register for courses. If you're not admitted to the school, how can you get a student number to register for courses?
I like it :)

drop me a message offline (see my profile) perhaps we can share our research?
I agree it's a good start, makes me want to go check out a store and play with one. I can't really get one though since they're not on Verizon.

But things like not having copy/paste are pretty questionable - it's like they're several years back when iPhone came out without copy/paste.
Make your team happy: give them good food
Maybe it is the lawyer in me, but why wouldn't any
international business do whatever it could legally do to
minimize its taxes?

It's the lawyer in you and he's misleading you. It's not a question of doing what they can do. The economist in you should conclude that it is a question of doing what they must do in order to remain competitive. You can't choose to 'do no evil', when all your competitors are doing evil. That road leads only to bankruptcy, as they can undercut your prices, because they pay much lower taxes.

This is one of the examples explaining why capitalism is fundamentally incapable of providing any moral guidelines. It doesn't care about what is right, only about what turns a profit.
Yup that is usually the problem, when deploys are the exception rather than the rule you are looking for problems.
Actually that's exactly what I came up with later last night after posting the comment. Lock screens on android are replaceable right? Maybe I've found my first dev project...
Hi Abi, this is Monica from Braintree.

The cautiousness around trial periods, discounted offers, and continuity programs by credit card processing providers is due to recent crack down from Visa and MasterCard. The guidelines and rules passed down by them are a little vague so the card association banks have mostly erred on the conservative side.

The premise behind the concern is that these types of offers and billing methods increase chargeback risk and financial loss. This is especially true for new merchants or higher risk products or services.

We've been hearing from some of the banks we work with that they're considering loosening up their rules or applying them differently to certain types of merchants.

Regarding your dilemma, option #1 should have fewer chargebacks, which can be costly to your business.

Hope that helps!

Monica
> Case in point: when I saw the title "The language I wish go was" I expected to find an article about google cancelling the go language.

I'm not a native English speaker, but I do think my English is pretty good. Care to explain why the plain past form made you expect that?

In any case, an article titled "Go language cancelled" would have shown up much before anything else. That's what's generally meant by "context".
From TFA:
> that's why profs shy away from foreign students: they can't contribute to discussions.

In a field like computer science, or indeed any engineering, I haven't known a single professor to "shy away" from foreign students. To put it bluntly, they wouldn't have much choice if they did.

The author prefaces his comment with "I don't mean to be a bigot", but unfortunately, just saying that doesn't mean what you say isn't bigotry. Lumping all "foreign students" into the same category sounds pretty bigoted to me. And I speak as a foreign student who is perfectly able to "contribute to discussions".

FFS, "foreign" != "can't speak English"
Most us schools offer student id numbers to non degree seeking students. They are charging/filtering mostly for the prestige of their degree.