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Well, obviously before that phraseology goes into a contract it would need more refinement. A better term is probably "Any work not performed in the course of regular employment duties", or something like that. The point is that Google should not be claiming copyright on things that they have nothing to do with.
Maybe Robert Scoble was prescient [2009].

"Here’s the phases of Facebook:

Phase 1. Harvard only.

Phase 2. Harvard+Colleges only.

Phase 3. Harvard+Colleges+Geeks only.

Phase 4. All those above+All People (in the social graph).

Phase 5. All those above+People and businesses in the social graph.

Phase 6. All those above+People, businesses, and well-known objects in the social graph.

Phase 7. All people, businesses, objects in the social graph."

http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/21/why-facebook-has-never-list...

> The takeaway from that is that the social features are really the killer part of this,” Zuckerberg told me. “Having good social integration is more important than high-res photos.”

Look at the rapid rise of Instagram. If you make a product that makes you appear cooler to your friends and followers, you can attract a lot of users quickly.

[1] "Previously, Instagram reported 100,000 users in its first week post launch. The startup is now said to be close to the 1 million mark"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mashable/20101203/tc_mashable/instag...
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Depends on what the app is as well and how you can split the work up into stages. Are the features clearly defined? Can you work on small feature driven iterations? Or is it better to work on goal based sprints? One general piece of advice I can offer is that since you are a team of two you might not need to take an approach which has a large review based section in it. This is again purely situational. If you are doing usability testing then this can change. Also are you two working in the same location or is it remote? In the end the methodology has to suit your needs. Consider the above stuff and if you can hit us back with a bit more details I'm sure there'll be more specific answers.

As for specifics... Look into FDD. Feature driven development.

Oh and good luck with the work :)

Edit: by less review I don't mean testing and stuff. I mean formal and rigid sort of meetings every week. Sure have a proper review at regular intervals but most of the reviewing should be happening automatically with every feature/sprint completed.
Actually the biggest problem you'll run into with a Ferrari and similar in the states is that they ride so low that you will be continuously screwed by US speed bumps. Hearing the bottom of a Ferrari scrape against a speed bump is a truly tragic sound. For whatever reason Porsches actually do ride a bit higher, just enough to avoid speed bumps (although some curbs can still be a problem).
I don't think cdibona is a lawyer or on Google Legal. Last I knew he was "director of open-source operations" or something like that. He is a developer I think. I also think he had some involvement with SourceForge back in the day but am not sure.
Ask HN: How to speak confidently
Hi everyone,

I am a regular visitor and occasional contributor at HN. This is the first time I'm actually asking HN as I think I really need help with speaking to strangers and clients.

I work as a Business Development in a startup, where my role includes conversing with clients, building a professional relationship with them, getting new business etc. I've always had a problem speaking to strangers, relatives and also clients but I am very comfortable talking to friends as I most often speak a lot more than anyone else. I joined the startup as a Programmer but shifted to Business Development as we didn't have projects.

Lately I've been to meetings with my boss where I've not even uttered a word in the whole of an hour meeting except Hello and Thanks. Most of the times, I am just a spectator in the meeting just acknowledging other's conversations in the meeting. I can never speak up my point in a meeting as I am afraid of saying something wrong which might affect me.

Can somebody point me to some books, blogs or just advice to speak confidently and also be able to put across my point.
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Agreed- If the assessments are honest and unbiased, then I think few will mind them- although world leaders are known to have overinflated egos and not tolerate any critique well.

Some jobs have risks associated with them. This is one of them. Time and time again our government has told us that we are made safer by having less privacy, but now when it comes to the government having less privacy, they don't like that feeling.

In either case- why wouldn't what is said and done by diplomats carry consequence? Politicians always talk about responsibility and accountability. This seems to be a ripe time for it.
Yes, stuck forever, because there is absolutely no way I could pick up a telephone and have a pleasant conversation with the person responsible for making that decision. He lives in a cold granite tower guarded by dragons and evil wizards. And snakes. Thousands of poisonous snakes.
Is there a major US company doesn't have that policy?
Actually I agree with you completely. The 5x improvement is what it takes BigCo management to notice you. However startups are getting the 5x advantage all over the place. Nimble platforms plus smarter people plus stripped down organizations give you your 5x.

I have been inclined to think for quite a while that a good IDE / compiler combination would achieve a lot with a language Python. (I've been doing my Python development with an ordinary editor.) Python 3 allows type specification, but doesnt do anything with it. Have the
IDE get feedback from the execution profile to advise the programmer on possible type errors.

Testing tools: I would like a tool that can read a method and some annotation to generate a set of unit tests.

Given your list I think it results in way more than 50% improvement.
Every friend I have left (51 at current count) has expressed doubts re: Facebook use, and has contemplated switching to something. Every one came to the conclusion that the disadvantages to switching far outweigh the advantages of switching; more, there's no real competitor to switch.

You need to limit your Facebook friends. Having too many FB friends mimics the feeling of being overly fakely social: You get much more closeness if you stick to the people you really care about. Stop treating it like a monolithic connection. Friend and unfriend people whimsically. Stick to people you really care about interacting with.

Facebook is about the social. If you're not using it as a strictly conversational tool, then it doesn't work well. (Other than sending messages, but whatever.) It's not for documenting links, or documenting conversation. It's about today rather than last week or last month.

And no other tool handles that as well. Tumblr doesn't handle conversations well, Twitter doesn't handle multimedia well. Buzz is hideous and bad and it gives me skin-crawlies; plus I don't have a Google account. If there was a similarly social service, I'd consider moving over, but there's not.
I like Joe's, and the o'reilly book better. The examples aren't that great on this one and unlike the book claims the other books do cover some OTP. Read this one only after you've read the first two books, but even then I don't know if it was worth it.
Surely there would be many more unprofitable web companies going public today, were it not for laws like SOX passed after that last bubble popped.
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Do you get that eerie feeling that a bunch of that quantitative easing is ending up in the valley?
What do you mean "already started doing it?" Please point out the OS X or iOS device whose kernel has no notion of a "Hard Disk" or something like it. With what I'm talking about, the kernel would see nothing but RAM.

As far as I can see, they just started doing away with the case of the hard drive mechanism in their laptops. As far as even their iOS devices go, they still have a notion of a separate persistent store with high latency characteristics completely separate from a non-persistent RAM.

What I'm talking about doing is making dynamic RAM, Flash RAM, and the cloud all just a part of the memory hierarchy with orthogonal persistence.

This is going to entail a lot of engineering which isn't yet in evidence in any of their current products. Such devices would never have to boot-up! I'm not sure such devices would be capable of being booted up. They'd also need more sophisticated error correction than current devices have. (Current devices can just correct the rare memory corruption event by being rebooted.)
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Twitter is once again aided by the hard cap on tweet length. @Wikileaks' tweets are headline-like summaries, and quickly repeated widely, so it's hard to characterize the tweets as being 'classified' information themselves.

That means one possible objection that USG and others could have against the @Wikileaks account is muted, and even those who resent service providers who are a conduit for Wikileaks' bulk information won't become equally angry at Twitter.
Excellent reply.I am one of those people who after making and losing can say this one will be much more sustainable.So I use young for some things, tech stuff, quick thinking. A little older for more mature and responsible work.And older still for their particular experience.Just do it!
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-we-believe-why-seomozs-tagfe...

Rand's style there piles over into his SEOMoz philosophies, which, not surprisingly, he's also pretty open about.
I'm reposting my comment from here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1883313

I had Lasik surgery 6-7 years ago, and I had a bad experience with it.
I went to a highly recommended surgeon in my area. I had the procedure done using a machine that didn't have eye tracking, so I had to look straight ahead and not move my eyes during the procedure. I must have done something wrong because my eyesight had some...issues.

All the visual anomalies they'll warn you about in your consultation (halos and starbursts), I had in spades. They were so bad I had trouble functioning in dark settings. So walking around at night was difficult, watching movies was awful, and so forth.

My vision DID kick ass though otherwise.

My surgeon had me coming in regular to monitor my progress, and when things weren't getting better scheduled a touch-up (all included in the initial cost). After the touch-up, all the problems were resolved, and 6-7 years later my vision is still pretty damn good. I don't need glasses, but my vision took a tiny dip a year after the surgery and maintained the quality ever since.

So with all that said, would I recommend Lasik? Absolutely. First, the technology has come a long way since then. Two, my brother had the surgery the same time I did from the same surgeon, and his turned out fine the first time. Third, having perfect vision is something I'm still thankful for all this time later.

tl;dr - I had Lasik surgery twice. First time gave me problems seeing at night, a subsequent touch-up fixed the problems. I still recommend the surgery, but when they say problems can happen, BELIEVE IT.
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>If you're salaried (exempt), you're paid for your ideas - you can manage your time as you please, but anything you think of relating to the company's business belongs to the company.

This is not what salary means. As I explained in another post below, salary is not an unlimited purchase of your ideas, imagination, or energy. Salary is a negotiated pay package that represents a fair cut for the employee because the value he provides is not directly correlated with the hours that he works.

That's why it doesn't matter how you spend your day when you're salaried -- because you and your employer have made an agreement that the amount of time you spend on something is not relevant as long as you're accomplishing the tasks that you're assigned within the terms of the assignment. It's not because Google owns all your software-related ideas over the course of your employment. A company cannot own your thoughts.
A little better than last time...
The author's previous post that is referred to at the top of the post is a ripoff of the top list (at the time) on commandlinefu.com with a very small link only titled "source" at the bottom. He would have done much better to write a short snippet about the the site with a real link and the actual name of the site somewhere in the post. At least this time, it seems not to be a direct copy of some list, and he links to to the site at the top of the post.
The comparison is wrong. Informations that could lead to the downfall of a corporation would not be plain industrial secrets (irrelevant politically). Companies would have nothing to fear if they did nothing objectionable from an ethical or criminal standpoint.
I thought GE Finance was a big part of GE?
I'm beginning to suspect that there is a good deal of quantitative easing money slithering into the valley.
For public speaking, Toastmasters.

It's an excellent environment to learn. You are usually not with people you work with (unless you go to a club that is inside your company - which I would not recommend). Not being with people who are your co-workers - gives you the freedom to screw up.[1]

For a book on public speaking, I highly recommend this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Secrets-Masters-Techniques-Pr...

Because it has a lot of different perspectives and views on how to do it.

If you go up to the mike at a public meeting and ask a question or state an opinion, that is public speaking. Try it, it's kinda scary but you might get addicted to it.

For conversation, the best technique I've learned to start a conversation - don't start with a question - that puts the person on the spot right away (for example - 'What do you like about this painting?' - what if they don't like the painting?, 'What books are you reading?' - what if they don't read books?). If you ask a question, you are asking someone to contribute right away - you need to start the conversation - you did approach him or her right? Instead, start with a context-sensitive statement ('I like the brushstrokes in the painting. It makes me feel like I'm watching an action movie.' - 'I don't read enough books. I feel like I need to find a new genre to read').

Also, for conversation, avoid the "God perspective". A lot of people make this mistake in conversation. See, I just intentionally used the "God perspective". Let me try again - "I feel that a lot of people try to come across as experts - especially when meeting new people - 'This restaurant is the best' and sometimes I think it backfires and just makes them seem insecure, seeking approval'.

Practice hearing people talk about feelings. From guys talking about their favorite team to women talking about shopping, there is always an undercurrent. The secret to relating to someone, to getting along with someone is to acknowledge how they feel and tell them how you feel.

[1] Also http://rejectiontherapy.com
I'm afraid I'm too confident in my masculinity, or lack thereof, to be much affected by any advice to "man up."
Ask HN: Why is Smashing Magazine so successful? 
I have previously tried my hand at blogging, and though the focus wasn't design, but more technology based stuff. This was back in 2006-07. My projects never took off / gained traction.

Smashing Magazine started in 2006, Tech Crunch started in July 2005, and Mashable was launched in July of 2005 as well. These sites became pretty well known by 2008 to a wider audience than just design and news enthusiasts.

There are literally millions of people churning content, so what is it that is making these <and some other> sites so successful, besides being early players in the market ?
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To be fair, we can make huge steps forward once the interface technology has improved resolution. I will trust your girlfriend's expertise, but I do know from mine in Machine Learning that we can extract a surprising amount of signal without knowing the neurophysical processes which generate the data.

A huge problem right now with the products coming out of Emotive and similar companies is that the level of noise is enormous and the resolution of the sensors is very poor. As we continue to remove the noise from the data (and come up with better sensors!), we can train better and better models to differentiate these various activities.

One PI working on this project whose work I am familiar with is Mike D'Zmura at UC Irvine. http://cnslab.ss.uci.edu/muri/research.html
What if you write a song about Google's business? If an employee of Google writes a song about working on a search engine, does Google own that?

I think that it's silly to presume that a company should own something just because it's the same class of work. Does a newspaper own the diaries or private correspondence of its writers? Why should it own the personal blog? If the work is produced without compensation from the company and without using any company tools or resources, how can anyone make an argument that the company "owns" it just because the originator is employed there?

I can see how non-competes might be enforced to upbraid the release or participation of employees or ex-employees in businesses thought damaging to the employer. But that just gives the employer respite until the term of your non-compete agreement runs out; thereafter, all works should still be owned by their original author, and he is free to do as he pleases. You shouldn't be able just to steal that work without regard to the employee.
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I think the high concentration of tech jobs and employee-favorable IP ownership legislation are a great combination for the states you mention. Causality could easily work either way here though. CA, WA, and NC are some of the only states with enough tech companies and tech employees to care about this stuff. Software has a much more favorable cost structure than most industries; employees can easily fully implement their ideas on their own time and their own dime. So it makes sense that these issues have come up enough often enough in the legal system, or tech companies/employees have lobbied hard enough, to fully flesh out the legislation on the matter in these states.
"According to comScore, about one in four online display adverts in the US now appears on Facebook."

Most of the Facebook ads are easily ignored, but some are quite well targeted to things I'm actually interested in.

There's far too many "get a college degree" ads that don't go away no matter how many times I give negative feedback on them. Note to facebook- if I explicitly reject an ad more than once, you're wasting opportunity by showing it to me again, no matter how high the ppc is for education-related ads.

But there's also a decent percentage of very, very niche items that are advertised that I am truly interested in. I click on FB way, way. WAY more than I do on any Google ads.
It felt awkward when I wrote it. You are right. The wealth is absorbed/destroyed, but the money is still there with fewer goods to purchase, hence inflation (eventually).
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In most companies, that's what IT is: doing the necessary stuffs to support business.

On the other hand, it's their decision to specialize in such technology. Perhaps they have the necessary business knowledge and they just need to compliment that with enough IT skills.

Please don't act like a jerk by calling them one-trick pony. There are reasons before one came to make a decision, be it quality time with family, or piece of mind, or just to get by in life and do other things outside work.

I met tons of super-ego developers who always try to keep up with the latest greatest ORM tools in different languages praising the latest technology as the "best one out there" every 2 years. They did this for their on satisfaction, not for delivering any meaningful values.

I also met "one-language per year" developers who don't know low-level OS, or how computer networks work.

I met developers who know how to write code but don't know how to perform capacity planning, security audit, or heck, even write proper unit-testing, integration-testing, and acceptance testing.

I met developers who write code according to his/her "raw talent" (you know them developers, they're smart, but they can't work well with other people. Don't even bother touching their complex code).

People come in various experience and background. Don't make generalize judgement.

Some people decided to improve their skills once every 2 years, be it learning a new programming languages or a new web-me-too-framework. To others, that's like a rat-race. By the time these developers reached 40 years old, they have learned 20 different programming languages yet they don't understand the business inside-out. They deliver great architecture yet it's not what the business need.

What's that called? one-trick pony?
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In the case of a single author, the copyright holder has all the same rights he/she used to have (including to re-license under a proprietary or different open source license), except the right to revoke the open-source license already granted to people who have obtained the source.

In the case of multiple authors, the legal rights of any one contributor are significantly curtailed. Unless they vote with unanimity, the license cannot easily be changed: contributor X has licensed her code to contributors Y and Z (and everyone else) under BSD licensing terms, and it cannot be relicensed without her consent unless her contribution is completely excised from the project.

Even then, the waters can become murky because most code cannot just be deleted from a project, other code grows organically into and around it, so the line between what constitutes a "derivative work" and what doesn't can become really blurry.
You might be able to do this for now, but you won't be able to when Oracle buys Google.
He argued that the following 4 things were paramount:

-Perceived Control

-Perceived Progress

-...

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God, not another EEG-based BCI article (especially of Emotiv, whose core competency as a company is mostly being a hype machine). This stuff is trash from a neural interfacing perspective; your keyboard is much higher throughput and better fidelity, and as much a "brain interface" as this is (it translates brain activity into computer signals!).

EEG mostly detects scalp, eye, and face muscle activity, and some very gross brain state (such as awake/alert and drowsy). Subjects can get ok performance in demos by confusing this muscle activity with "brain activity", but it's absolutly not a "neural interface".
I respect your opinion, but I've gotta admit I chuckled at your list of discomforts.

In my case, I find that feeling of uncertainty on arriving at a new country to be exhilarating. I feel so comfortable in my day-to-day life, that it's rare that I really need to think much about my environment. Whenever I travel it makes me think about my existence a bit differently; that is the real value I get from travel.

Travel can be cheaper than being at home, depending on where you go and where you live. And in response to your fear of being robbed; just don't travel with much of anything and get travel insurance. The worst that can happen is that you'll end up without a passport somewhere and have to go through some bureaucratic process to get a new one.