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Hey, I am interested. Why didn't you send us a pull request? If it's rough, we'll iron it out!
I think you mean the no-shorter living :-)
I do, but honestly, we aren't doing anything particularly evil.

You may not be. In fact, it's probable that the vast majority of people working for the banking industry are honest, law-abiding citizens.

But just because most people are honest, doesn't mean all of them are. I find it somewhat hard to believe Madoff was the only one lining his pockets at other people's expense.
Hope you find it useful. Thanks for checking it out.
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Okay, thank you for checking it out.
a half baked cake is not delicious. might as well finished it fully before shipping it..
The problem of being super productive is that the organization can't exactly support it.

Just because you are 10 or 100 times more productive doesn't mean the company can sell 10 or 100 times more.
Chinese sounds like rapping. "I say H crazy":

http://translate.google.com/#zh-CN|zh-CN|pv%20zk%20bschk%20p...

Greek just reads the name of each letter:

http://translate.google.com/#el|el|pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk...
Although the 'smart' ones are something of an endangered species
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what do you guys think? haters and takers of spring framework, i need your opinions
I'm not sure that's even likely. I think business and the cable system continue as always. The leak only occurred, from what we know, due to the actions of Manning. That's one person, out of the estimated 3 Million who have access to Secret classified cables. The punishment pursued against him, and the screening FSOs go through, make future leaks, I think not so certain.
If any of you want to hear some ridiculously awesome beatboxing, check out Roxorloops - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7sdo_Aj0o
If involuntary transparency applies to individuals, it will inevitably become applies to corporations and governments whether they want it to or not.

If the individuals that make up companies and governments can no longer hide their secrets, it becomes a defacto reality that those agencies will no longer be able to hide their secrets in individuals. There's a whole sci-fi AI theme here, but I'm sure an object made of data will have worse security than a human that can voluntarily withdraw all its data into its head.

Humans have unlimited privacy, so long as they keep it inside their head. My peers today that blurt every cogitation out on Facebook and Twitter have no ability to comprehend the use of privacy until they feel they desperately need it. How is a government or corporation going to maintain its privacy when it employs people who can barely keep a thought to themselves?
You've never used the term "stack"? Its one of the more intuitive programming terms.
So your whole beef with the article is that Apple/Microsoft/Google should ask whether to install the plugin but that the default answer should be no?

ps. I'm a fan of ninite, not trying to attack you just confused by your objection.
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"paragon of small government"

You must be thinking of a different Texas than I live in. :P

Even if the $25B deficit pans out in the end, and aside from the other differences between the states (including the counter-intuitive one that Texas has been less hard-hit during this downturn), you still end up with a situation where states face major budgetary crises at every downturn because revenue only balances spending near the height of economic booms.

That's a budgetary policy problem even when it's not unique to California. And for California, it's turning out rather badly.
I don't think it is, I think it's JavaScript interacting with the Flash object.
This is the core of the problem. My problem with this article is that you can apply the same arguments and paint a picture where the US itself has a rosy economic future. But the problem isn't even merely today, November 29th, 2010, it's the scope of the future obligations we've taken on. It's not that the US or California has necessarily that exceptional of a debt load right this second, it's that the money we might be using to service it is already nominally allocated to other "untouchable" projects.

That's the big change; entitlements (and pensions as a subset of those worth calling out specially). To do an article about how glorious the California future is and to criticize not just the arguments but the motivations of those saying there are problems, but for neither the word nor the concept of entitlements to show up is just constructing a straw man and cherry-picking the budget numbers.

For that matter reading the article straight you might be mystified about why California has very recently resorted to the very legally-dubious IOU-money-but-not-quite-money scheme. If it was even half as rosy as this guy is arguing that shouldn't have been even close to necessary, but in the real world, it was.
Raise your hand if you have damning documents on your corporation. |o.

It's pretty obvious that we as the masses, get shat on by people above us. It's a fact and unless you bend the financial tax rules in your favor, you're getting smacked around too.
While I don't think making installers more complex is the answer, I disagree with your first paragraph. I pay general attention to what installers do but I don't scrounge around my computer looking for changes. I especially don't go to the menus-deep plugin list unless I want to do something like reset flash.
>It is far from an intelligent response and reminds me of the meta contrarian [1].

Talk about forcing a response.

You're petitio principii is showing please put some pants on.

Shouting "this can be nothing but a good thing" [wake up sheeple!] and claiming that this is blatantly obvious to anyone of modest intelligence doesn't make it true. Only if it's an obvious answer and I were reacting to that would it make this "meta-contrarian".

>There's the launch code; what use is it to you?

With no secrets I know where the bases are, all the computer schematics, all the cable connections whether or not remote launch is enabled, where to dig to jack into cables, which satellites to tap, what the guard rotations are on bases, what the secret service have found out about military personnel that foreign powers might use to blackmail them, etc., etc.. To me, now, those codes are useless - so is the knowledge of how to build a nuclear bomb though as I don't have the resources to act on it. There are plenty of people who do have the resources and who would be interested in holding America to ransom using their own nuclear arsenal.

IMO to consider that this sort of information isn't harmful to the security of a country is naive in the extreme.

Yes, if no one in the world were greedy or lusted for power then there would be no need for the final remaining human to keep secrets from himself.

How about a tamer example: if the government can't keep secrets then anyone can log in to Obama's email account and send an email that appears to be from him. Suddenly no government entity can be authenticated online. Iris scan, well yeah but the output of the scanner is public knowledge and the signing key is too.

At the very least I hope you can concede "well of course some secrets have to be allowed". Now define the boundaries.

To me, your response sounds like the knee-jerk reaction of a rebelling teenager. Do you think that Iran's closest neighbours want them to be invaded because they doubt that Iran will use nuclear weapons?

Your 100 informants getting murdered sits well with you? If it does it can only be because whilst you see that as saving thousands of Iranians you don't consider the billions that would most likely die if Iran initiate WWIII.
Or a good moment to remember what happens when a less advanced civilization meets a more advanced one.

It never goes well for the less advanced civilization.
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I can see where they might not think of CA that way as it is not the only game in town and the whole water situation might come into play at some point.

It should be noted that at least one "farm state" (ND) is becoming much more of an oil state in recent years. It looks like this will continue as they just discovered another reserve that is bigger than the current one.

If you have some free money, building rental housing in northwest ND is a very safe bet.

//edited because of odd autocorrect
Shouldn't have baited, period.
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John Doerr: “Bigger than Billion-Dollar Greentech IPOs in 18 Months”
Didn't really mean to bait the "skeptics". I just forgot how many of them there are, here, as I really was reminded of the behavior.
Would you stay Comcast if it meant losing Netflix? I bet many times the answer is no.

Anyone in my area code switching to Qwest for Netflix will be disappointed. Friends a few blocks away with DSL can't finish a streamed program without dropouts and rebuffering. AT&T delivers better service to my phone. The "pretty easy" option you alluded to entails moving out of the city to one of the suburbs with FiOS.
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In context, Schmidt's comment is more like "If you have something to hide you shouldn't be doing it on Google servers because we're legally obliged to hand over your data to the government." An important difference, I think.
Is this "called out by Mozilla" or "called out by Asa Dotzler"? After all, Benjamin Smedberg just posted a reply that begins "Asa is wrong":

http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2010-11-29/software-integr...

If Asa's post represented official Mozilla policy, I would have expected that to be more explicit.
I prefer Beardyman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIxKseRus
here is a link to a non-mobile version:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28digi.html

Here are some sample stories:
http://buckeyesbeat.com/ohio-state-basketball/game-recap/ohi...
http://bluedevildaily.com/duke-basketball/game-recap/duke-wi...

Not bad, but not great either. I think this is more academically interesting than practically being something that will be used by people. Pretty much every div 1 college has a school paper that will have someone to write up about these games that is as good or better than these examples. It would be interesting though to see what the quality is after working out a few grammar bugs and adding to the 5k corpus of phrases.
In my head he does. Regardless, the point stands: he seems like a fun guy to hang out with and I think he showed it in this interview.
I'd be surprised if they're not working with Rockstar Games to build Grand Theft Auto maps from Google maps data.
One big difference is a direct revenue model, making something that creates direct value for clients is vastly different to making something cool and trying to figure out a revenue model later. Not to say that either type can both be a success and failure, just in this case it's much easier to monetize the customers you have.
Latin is very funny listen to this
http://translate.google.com/#de|la|pv%20zk%20bschk%20pv%20zk...
Most company blogs are giant ads. What matters though is this article still provides value despite being an ad. I agree that this is wonderful marketing.
WikiLeaks spurned New York Times, but Guardian leaked State Department cables
Net Neutrality vs Open Access - Sweden's Open Network Pioneer
Allowing school choice is the single largest thing we could do to address the culture problem. That's my point. You're just handwaving on the culture problem, I'm giving you a step you can actually take to get there.

Second-order effects, second-order effects, second-order effects. When schools actually respond to more effort and it has some sort of visible effect on a child's education, more people will care. Incentives matter. The current system absorbs all of a parent's care and hammers it flat into the same basic mediocre product, suppressing it instead of amplifying it. A caring parent may do better than an uncaring one, but nowhere near enough better. Unfortunately, not investing a lot into the system at that point is perfectly locally rational.

How do you propose to fix the culture problem? The same-old, same-old first order solution where you appropriate some money and run some ads exhorting people to care more about schooling? New programs with the sweet, sweet intentions and nobody even examining the question of whether do anything because everybody's too busy feeling good about themselves? Paying people to care more, perhaps by incentivizing good grades? We've tried all those and more. It's not like "it's a culture problem" is exactly a new idea, and it's an easy one for "the system" to deal with because it does involve just what I said (money and government programs, for better and for worse not hard to push through), a solution very easy for the system to deploy. It won't work until schools actually magnify efforts instead of squashing them, and no amount of central mandating is going to get us there.

Cultural issues like schools aren't houses. That's first-order thinking. They're life forms, second order and so on. They react to your decisions, they do not passively consume them. With those sorts of systems it's actually quite common for the straightest path from here to there to be anything but simply striking out in what is most obviously the direction of the goal and pushing as hard as you can. If it were that easy, we wouldn't have a problem in the first place!
It's a very nice looking site, but I'll be honest I was logged into Facebook at the time and it really creeps me out when I see my face shown on other sites I didn't log into. But perhaps thats just me.
I, unfortunately, often fall into the first category. :(
Of course it's true, I read it on the internet!
It's that asking users about something like this is only a solution for the most advanced users and a burden for everyone else. If something is generally useful it should be bundled without question, and if it's junk or obtrusive it should not. This should be judged from the average, non-technical user's perspective.
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I've always been concerned that if I played it honest with my business if I would end up being fodder for the sharks that twist, bend and break the rules.
You would like for my comment to disappear forever? I find it worrisome that your attitude exists on Hacker News. This is suppose to be a forum for frank, honest discussions about the life of entrepreneurs. I think my point is valid: the early phase of a startup is uniquely stressful. That should not be the part of your life that overlaps with having a child. We are talking about maybe 2 or 3 years of your life, or maybe 4 at a stretch. Why not have kids before that, or after that? Why have kids just then, during what you know will be the most stressful years of your whole life? I'd be curious to know what your reasoning is. Of course, if you can buy enough down votes to make my comment disappear forever, then you won't need to address the point that I raise.
Planning on it. I was going to clean it up before I messaged you, currently it's "I use OpenBSD, want to play with this library, and know BSD Make like the back of my eyelids" only.

I said I'd keep you posted. By then, I'll probably have more news than just "I got it to build!", that's nothing.
BarMax’s Efficient Path To $200K In Sales: A $999.99 iPhone App
I'm with you.

Let's discuss architecture of the last app I built in detail, with the how's and why's. Ask me questions on it, rather than just letting me brush through it.

Let's talk about the most challenging bit of code I wrote at the last gig. Get me a terminal and I'll walk you through it. Let's do a "for real" code review--my stuff or yours, either is fine, and get into some meat.

Hell, let's even talk about our feelings.

But these questions in an interview are just not fun. I'm already nervous enough, and getting jostled by missing some stupid trick question that has little relevance just sucks.
If you are Product Manager for Google's Adwords, how do you plan to market this?

Bad question unless you ascertain the candidate knows enough about Adwords to give a good answer. (Whether a candidate should know enough about your core products is another question...)

What would you say during an AdWords or AdSense product seminar?

Bad question, again requires product knowledge a candidate may not have.

Who are Google's competitors, and how does Google compete with them?

A little broad but could be made into a good question.

Why do you want to join Google?

Waffle question that should be used as filler.

What do you know about Google's product and technology?
Have you ever used Google's products? Gmail?

If answer == no/nothing, kick candidate out of room.

What is the most efficient way to sort a million integers?

Poor question but asking general "how would you approach problem X" questions isn't too bad, at Google product managers need to be pretty technical.

How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?

Poor question but estimating similar product-related issues is good and they essentially break down into the same types of answer as golf balls, gas stations in the USA, etc.

How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?

Terrible, should never ask something the candidate may have already worked out in the past and which does not require much thought to answer.
The people going from Google to Facebook aren't necessarily entrepreneurial, they're just trying to hit the IPO lottery at another big company.
"Whereas if it were a traditional peering dispute, the quality of the service would degrade with longer routes rather than be terminated altogether.
"

Nope, if a pair of Tier-1 Providers De-peer, their customers can't communicate to each other unless the new intermediary receives some form of settlement. They won't do it for free.

See: http://www.renesys.com/tech/presentations/pdf/nanog43-peerin... for an example of this.
You're making a false dichotomy.
Clinton Condemns WikiLeaks' Documents As An "Attack On The World"
the last paragraph is the first one you should read in order to decide whether this editorial is worth reading. it is

"The right choice is to not worry about the state of Java's open or proprietary nature, despite some of the discussion occurring in the news today. It is not relevant to your business needs or the long term health of your enterprise software ecosystem."
Interesting, there should be more articles on this topic.
I can't see how there would be a correlation between answering this question well and being a good Product Manager.

What if there's a product planned that specifically aims at piano tuners? Or a feature change that would affect piano tuners? What if Google Maps wants to add a "Find your local piano tuner" mode? Estimating how many potential users/customers there are, how to reach them and whether it's a significant segment is pretty useful. Sure, the example is bunk but it's meant to be something you have no clue about off the top of your head.
Integrating Wordpress and Rails
In the words of Iain M. Banks, the kind of problem "most civilisations would encounter just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop."
Leaking US Government data could seen as a threat to US interests. Now leaking business information could be seen a threat to many interests.

Now It's easy to play the shift blame game if anything happened to the people behind Wikileaks. In the beginning it would have been easy to assume it was the US government taking convert action. Now who knows how many ways this could be twisted to hide the actions of any acting party.

Governments love secrets. Corporations love money.

If your going to play information warfare you might want to do a little bit of risk assessment.
World Events To Unveil Major Bank Scandal in Late 2008
Now, almost all of them: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2010/10/internet-transit-sales-2...

I wouldn't really consider Google a "backbone provider" since they don't sell transit; they're more of an "extremely ginormous end site".
I'm surprised, my first big question from them wasn't listed: You have search results coming in from a thousand servers, as a big stream. How do you sort them by Pagerank and send it down to the client? How do you do this on a page-by-page basis? (This was for a software engineering position on the build tools team, about a month ago.)
Google's Secret Social Initiative Delayed Until Spring, 2011
Are there good reasons to wait to release the documents other than to maximize publicity and fund-raising abilities?
"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it..."

-Abraham Lincoln (http://www.america.gov/st/peopleplace-english/2008/December/...)
I don't think I've ever seen anyone cherry-pick various points from other posts without attribution before. Anything wrong with responding in the the thread instead of constantly updating your post with other people's (including mine) comments?

Editing a post is typically for the purpose of fixing typos, making your (own) thoughts more concise or clear.

It's not for the wholesale amalgamation of other people's posts, as useful a function as you think you might be serving.

Let your original post stand on its own merit, or don't post it.
I think most of us who support the wikileaks stuff are indeed following a general rule -- large organizations that spend billions/trillions of dollars and kill people on our behalf deserve scrutiny. Individual human beings deserve privacy. Protect the little guys from the big guys, let freedom ring, we hold these truths self-evident and all of that. This is basic stuff -- it all hinges on individual privacy and the individual right to know what is being done with our money and our flag.
It's not just a sampling, though. Tests have to be constructed to fit within a single class period -- usually an hour or an hour and a half -- and as a result you can't really ask students to do any single problem that would take more than maybe twenty minutes. Unfortunately, most things in life take longer than twenty minutes.
Good argument, but you've got the main point backwards. Byte-for-byte people will value the email more. It's an incredibly economical use of bandwidth. A given 64KB chunk of my video may not even arrive and it's just a momentary annoyance in the stream, if not entirely error-corrected away.
I keep seeing stories pop up here that NASA has some upcoming announcement, but I never remember to follow up on the announcement day to find out what the hubbub was about. I'm starting to get annoyed that a government agency thinks it needs to save "the big reveal" for a press conference. Why not just make the announcement?
If this is copyright, I'd rather be wrong.
Same goes for a Singularity.
So this is a kind of digital pitchfork then - but with up-side-down economics: no need for an angry mob, just one person is good enough at a corp.