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Just today I was thinking of why Jobs works so well for Apple: could it be that he doesn't let the company become complacent? Every other big company seems to become complacent. There simply is no need to invent radical new products if you are still bringing in money by the truckloads. But I could imagine for Steve Jobs it is not the revenue that makes him happy, it is the optimum product. So if a product could be better, Apple employees will have fires under their asses.

Anyway, I wish him well.
Or perhaps the software got an accidental "early release"?
> Sorry, but that's nonsense. A CEO that tries to 'drive the company in to the lake' would find himself fired just as fast as a busdriver that did the same.

But it took them quite a while to fire Darl McBride, didn't it?
It's not nice to try to fool Mother Nature. To get girls to major in computer science, you are dealing with forces you cannot possibly understand.

There can be a reason for a girl in college to take some courses in computer science: Look for a husband!

Having women pursuing computer careers will stick like water on a duck's back -- not a chance.

What possible avenues for a "reasoned rebuttal" do you see here?

(I am not being sarcastic. I am with you on approaching an opposing opinion from a constructive point of view but how do you rebutt butt-headedness of such epic proportions)?
Also, use PIP and VirtualEnv! Makes deps and packages so easy. Especially with virtualenvwrapper.
Good advice. I wonder about this bit though

>As for them finding out, I don't know where you are at in the world, but in the US their is no way for them to find out unless you provide them with that information.

Professional networking tends to be a big factor when moving from job to job (this may be extremely different in startup communities). This tends to mean that as your career progresses, you have probably worked with 1 or 2 people at a prospective employer. Those people are generally asked about the perspective hire, including their estimates of what that person has made.
A lot of apps, especially games, you can finish using within 7 days (or even 1 day, plenty of iPhone games do not have over, say, 12 hours of gameplay).
This is very close to how we develop at TripAdvisor, though we have a suite of tests that get run during a branch merge and code review (of at least one more engineer) of anything going into the livesite code base.

We also have very small QA team. They work to make sure that the buttons that make us money aren't screwed up.

The key to this sort of uber-agile development is that you have very, very talented engineers, a release process flexible enough to deal with errors, and a management that buys into moving so fast that mistakes will happen.

I have to say that it is simultaneously exhilarating, humbling and a little terrifying to work like this. Luckily, mostly the first two.
As to the "in a hurry" bit, we know that to be true, or at least we do if we believe the recent NYT article. Obama was, according to that article, briefed on Stuxnet before coming into office. As soon as he was in office, he rushed the program. It may be that he simply removed some bureaucratic hurdles, or he may have told the team that said they needed 9 months to get in done in 4. I suspect we'll never know.
Yeah, I'm really hating the Verizon iPhone. Verizon's network is great with Android right now - fast and reliable no matter where you are. I hope all the iPhone users don't spoil that.
This would probably help to increase the bid amount. Otherwise you're going to have a lot of people bidding the same things, or lower than the current highest bid. This will include a lot more email correspondence than required. Although, that might be better because it allows you to arbitrarily inflate the "current bid" on a per-bidder basis. So you can kind of inflate the bid behind the scenes too.
Agreed, I found myself staring at pictures and text more than once because I wasn't sure which went which. I think the top of the page is also being underused. It's the first thing a new user landing on your page will see, so it should be what grabs them.
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I have gmail on my phone and I used to do the same quite often. The problem was that I'm kind of an "inbox-zero" junkie, so I would always archive my ToDo and reminder emails. Not a great way to get stuff done, so that didn't last long! :) I said to myself "if only there was a way that I could text notes to myself..." It's faster, easier, and the notes would stay there forever (or until I got them done)".
I’m Not Sure Steve Jobs Is All That Sick…But He Also Might Not Come Back
I've experimented with the new twitter web app on both Chrome and Safari (Mac).

It automatically loads a chunk of data when I scroll to the bottom. The CPU use seems to be proportional to the number of chunks that have been loaded. Initially about 2% and increasing to 50% with 20 chunks.

The new twitter almost unusable because of this. Hoping for a fix soon.
I do not understand this criticism at all. Stuxnet worked, right?
Pure cyberwar? Not gonna happen
Chris, you've been on HN for over two years and I'm just finding out about this now? For shame :(
Ask HN: feedback on my app - search your Twitter timeline
I'm a developer at IndexTank, we are having an internal contest similar to the public one we had with Heroku a few days ago. My entry is an app to search your personal twitter timeline, something I've been wanting Twitter to do but for some reason they don't. Does anyone find this useful?

http://friendtweets.heroku.com/
Needs moar javascript!
Firefox has crazy memory leaks. Don't blame it on twitter, regardless how bad their code may be.

A tab should be completely and utterly destroyed when refreshed. It doesn't matter how much memory it used, refreshing it or navigating away from that page should (ignoring optimizations, caching, etc. etc. etc.) be like you were never there.

Just look at the hundreds of complaints here: http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/firefox-3-is-still-a-memory-ho...
>Nah, this is just a stereotype. It is born out of the stereotype that the female oriented jobs all tend to be inclined in that way; female oriented jobs are historically non-academic, practical and not usually physically taxing. This is due to historical prejudice against female ability.

Or arguably a historical prejudice against female expendability. Males are expendable - http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm (this comes up here quite frequently, you've probably seen it already).

Quoting that link:

"A second thing that makes men useful to culture is what I call male expendability. This goes back to what I said at the outset, that cultures tend to use men for the high-risk, high-payoff undertakings, where a significant portion of those will suffer bad outcomes ranging from having their time wasted, all the way to being killed."
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> And now someone from Facebook chimes in and replies to this and talks more about their developer privacy safeguards and makes us all feel better. Go!

Former Facebook dev here. That's all I have to say in response.
I was joking, of course, but this is something you see with linkbait blog posts quite a lot. The title is an outrageous question that gets people to click on it, then the body is a mundane argument why the question is false.

Title: "Is Steve Jobs really an alien?"

Body: No, he's not.
I'm often poor with my communication (in terms of: clarity, consideration, and courtesy), but when a new piece from Rands comes out I consistently find myself forwarding it or printing it for a loved one and saying "This is what I try to mean when I say ___________"

His Nerd Handbook (http://randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbo...) quite likely saved my relationship with a highly non-technical increasingly significant other. I owe the man a bunch.
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While this would be a great idea for a car or vase, he probably wants the "winner" to be someone he talks to first rather than the highest bidder...
Squishy little robots
I'm especially wondering: who will take this platform to the next level? Is there anybody besides mark zuckerberg in charge for designing and testing out new ideas. I don't mean just new features like questions or places, but really significant changes like a facebook phone, or a new friends model to better graph you real network.
What do you get if you win? :)
I have my Facebook set on Spanish to keep my Spanish language neurons firing even when I'm surrounded by Gringos, and their localization definitely has frequent bugs. There's been some issues for months with the birthday wall post aggregation they've been testing in production. I've frequently seen stuff like "So-and-so has written on so-and-so's muro for their birthday."

So yeah, lack of QA => lots of bugs.
Think of it as a massive key-value store: you construct your query off the key, use that to pull out the key-value pair, and when you sequence your key you continue to sequence more in order to pull out the value. If you prefer sequential addresses, your key could be just that.

And actually, this could be done at a much higher density than what the original poster described, as he's counting the full cell in the density calculation, and DNA is only a small fraction of the cellular volume. You could duplicate all the DNA 10-100 times in the same amount of space once you take out all the ribosomes, proteins and extra water. And as long as it's not stored in direct sunlight or next to your pile of plutonium, DNA is going to be much much more stable than aligning magnetic fields. We're still getting good DNA sequence out of bones that are tens of thousands of years old.

When you think of nanotechnology and miniaturization, think of biology, because that's where all the real nanotechnology is going on. We've not done any better than nature when it comes to making small machinery. Nature has already invented the commodity interchangeable parts (amino acids and nucleic acids) that can self-assemble into rather fantastic machines.

However, we have beaten mother nature on latency: as I alluded to, a DNA database like this would have latency on the order of days for a lookup. On the other hand, as much parallel access as you can imagine is built in, without additional volume. And this isn't a system that has been engineered at all, I'm just talking about the fundamental properties of a little puddle of DNA and water. If half the engineering that went into modern computer hardware were put into a DNA database, it could be quite competitive with our electronic systems.
The thing I noticed in the slow new Twitter is that typing a new status seems to involve continuous autofill-like behavior for each character typed, which seemed to introduce round-trip lag (or javascript-parsing, or...) and causes characters to appear at a rate of ~1/second. Unusable.

And this is one way that dominant sites fall: business considerations are given priority over the user experience. Maybe they just have Flickr-itis and just can't adapt to leaving well enough alone, but for the time being I'm on old-Twitter and not contributing much to the Twitterverse until this is sorted out. If it never winds up being fixed, I've got a head start in living without them.

There is also a possible Second System Effect amongst Twitter's UX gods. It's interesting that after having switched to the new Twitter a couplefew weeks ago, last week I started seeing a "Wanna switch back to the old Twitter?" header. Of course I did, but to me this possibly points to a level of complaints that I did not realize.
The current interpretation of events is that Stuxnet is a project of the Israeli government which has been at least partially successful in slowing Iran's attempts to build nuclear weapons.

Considering that the alternative would be bombing of nuclear facilities involving perhaps unauthorized overflights of neighboring countries and the risk of inflaming a hot war in the middle east (through the overflights and the bombings) I don't think I can rate this operation as anything other than a huge success.
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From the people I've talked to at facebook, this is not true. Just because engineers have access doesn't mean the company doesn't have controls in place. As I understand it, access is carefully logged and you better be able to explain exactly why you needed to get specific information at any given time.
When I click Play on the demo it wants to start a Java applet. WTF? We are willing to use Java but the Flash Player is somehow dirty? Maybe I'm missing something..
Why is pulling caching into the middle of an app a good idea? Memcached should be a last resort. The database should have a cache for things that get asked for over and over. Having a full page caching solution like Varnish is pretty doable for most sites where the only customization is the username at the top of the page which could be populated with javascript. Cache invalidation is a hard problem, why would most devs want anything to do with it? On lightly customizable sites, the only thing I would consider using memcached for is a faster session store.
"1. Where did you get your idea? Translation: if your simple idea is so great, why hasn’t anyone else done it?"

I assume every idea I think up has already been thought of, in fact, I'm almost certain they have been. A better question to ask would be "How are you going to successfully execute your idea?"
If the opportunity exists, I would absolutely love to make money from this and other future web apps. Peldi (and Balsamiq) has been a huge inspiration recently and the freemium route is exactly what I had in mind.

While building the app, I told myself that I would be satisfied if I was the only person in the world that used it (it was just a testing ground, after all). With this overwhelmingly positive response, I guess I can have a little more confidence to pursue things further.

Thanks for checking out Pocket!
Stuxnet is a hugely complex piece of code already, and it's something that needed to be as bug free as possible, and that means avoiding unnecessary complexity.

A key part of being a software developer is knowing when to make trade-offs rather than striving for "perfection".

The virus did it's complex job successfully. Building a piece of software of this complexity that has to work in an unknown environment first time is amazing.
(I know this is a bit pedantic, but I do want to remind people that not all jailbreak users -- and, in fact, more than half of them -- aren't pirates.)
The winner gets a Nexus S. Too bad Instagr.am killed the unofficial api so my entry is now stale :(

http://igsearch.heroku.com/
Sometimes the market works against you -- if the public bids stall out at a certain level, then one big buyer knows exactly what to pay. Private bid makes buyers guess against an idealized competitor.
"no QA at all, zero"

As someone who develops on top of the Facebook Platform, I'm not surprised. Huge, obvious bugs that affect many applications are released far too often.
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I'm not a physicist, so if someone can explain why, I'd love to hear it - but basically, putting something metal down in a radioactive area means it becomes radioactive, too. I assume that the radiation transmutes metals into radioactive elements?
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As far as one can tell, it looks like she turned out OK (the little I've read of her writing is hella good) ...

to be candid, if it was a short-term situation I don't think it would have been announced, based on previous Apple practice.

thoughts are with them, as was mentioned above, tech things are more interesting when Steve is doing them.

stay hungry, stay foolish... (Steve's commencement address 2005)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc&feature=playe...
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what is twitter?
Is GS a US-based company, or not? How do they get to pretend they are outside the SEC's jurisdiction?
I can choose between a Nexus S or an IPad.
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Definitely something that I have been wanting for years. Not sure about your implementation, though. You are aware that twitter search only goes back a couple of weeks? Somehow I couldn't find the things I expected to find.

Should I be more patient waiting for results (in case your app loads all my friend's tweets incrementally)? Then maybe you should display a spinner or something.
Is face-ville a ponzi scheme ? well i doubt they have 500 M verified accounts. Just my GF created about 10 acounts for exchanging farmville items between each other.

And other persons are creating accounts for their pets !

Ponzi it the Man of the Century, he enabled the service "industry".
Unless they're the most difficult, ToS breaking, bandwidth sucking users on the network. I think it was AT&T that showed us the stats on mobile data usage. They stated that only 2% of mobile data users were consuming over 2gb a month. They could make a lot more money for the same bandwidth by losing these customers (and gaining different ones). Just playing devil's advocate here.
Pay no attention to the stock options behind the curtain...
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I've noticed the same thing on mine. It seems like the site is only functional when you first load it. After new tweets start rolling in, it becomes worse and worse. I don't think it's the fault of the CR-48, I think we're just seeing the effects worse on this hardware.
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I'll second this. It's by far the worst performing website/app I use on a regular basis on my Cr-48.
It's refreshing to see an article like this not contain points like "My CS degree was pretty useless and everything I need for my job I learned on my own"... While college isn't for everyone, much of the "developer approach" that I use to learning a language (whether it be from the docs/blogs/book) are skills I learned from my CS degree.
> the database is enormous and constantly changing, so it's probably impractical to have development copies that are sufficient to test your code against realistically

What the hell? why not?
Just added a note on my own dashboard to look into that issue =]

Thanks for checking out Pocket!
Assuming that Stuxnet was designed to delay Iranian nuclear efforts, there are different degrees of "working". Delaying for a week is better than delaying for a day, etc. If better cloaking would have allowed Stuxnet to remain hidden for longer, than it would have delayed Iranian nuclear efforts more.
It simply rounds percentages to two decimal digits, and when those two digits are zero, they are hidden. For example, see: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28e^pi-pi%29*100%25
Real Mossad Operatives Ship.

These guys weren't making a paean to beautiful, hardened software to impress their hacker friends. They needed to get the simplest, most reliable and effective code possible out the door in as short a time as possible.

Israel bought itself a few more years of a nuke-free Iran. This is a successful, amazing, even miraculous outcome. Outside of nerd circles, software is measured by results, not architecture or complexity. Beautiful systems that never ship are fine for weekend projects but, uh, we're talking about stopping a nuclear weapons program here. It's a bit like saying that Apollo 11 was bullshit because the accommodations weren't anywhere near as nice as flying on Pan Am.

Stuxnet is the Jack Bauer of software. Rough edges but badass and gets the job done under impossible circumstances.
You are no Steve Jobs
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What makes you think that without Android nobody else would launch an App Store, or that nobody else would have the clout to get the sorts of apps that users are interested in?

Android didn't prevent anyone else from entering the space. Yet where are they? If Android didn't appear and get a lot of often undeserved goodwill on Google's back (through much of its life it has been a seriously shitty platform. I've been using it since it was released but would not wish it upon even an enemy until recently), the iPhone would have conquered the whole smartphone market with ease.

Windows Phone 7 already appears too far behind, yet in an alternate scenario where Android didn't "fragment" the market it would have been impossible behind the times.
How long did it take you to build it? Can't you use Twitter search to do this though?
I'm always a bit awed when recognizable functions like 'if' and 'let' start emerging from a mess of lambdas and Xs. It amazing how simple items and simple rules can combine to create fantastically intricate systems (i.e. the entire space of computable functions). Thanks for sharing, Matt.
How many of these are actually "Cloud" companies?
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Can u tell us a bit more about the use case you are trying to build for? thanks!
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You're totally right about the 140 char limit. I should explain that beforehand somehow. Added to my Pocket #todo list.

Thanks for checking out the app!
Many businesses jump into offering deals on social buying sites without realizing the potential amount of customers it can get them.
The truth is business owners should first of all make sure the deal is worth doing, since sometimes they end up losing money due to the huge amount of people that buy the deal. Besides, getting so many customers all at once, requires businesses to hire extra help, make sure they have enough stock of whatever they sell and basically be ready for handling a lot of people all at once without these disasters happening.
I read a good article on what to take into consideration before jumping into offering a deal in sites like Groupon http://bit.ly/fd0B6E.
MySQL takes this approach too. 5.5 went GA on 5.5.8 I believe. It can be a little confusing at first if you're used to alpha/beta/rc candidates but it makes more sense over time since you have a consistent numbering scheme vs. something like 1.1-beta2.
It's his current knot he's untying...
Weird as it may seem I had the impression that his stockholders and board were actually behind him all the way.
How is it a subversion to dodge US trading regulations by not trading in the US?
One day, Steve Jobs is going to die
AAPL is down 7.96% on the Frankfurt bourse (markets closed today in the USA due to MLK Day) today, see:

http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/EN/index.aspx?pageID=35&I...
Twitter seems to be over capacity, that's probably preventing your timeline from being indexed.
I'm fetching your timeline, you friends timelines, and indexing them with IndexTank.

It's incremental, so it may take a while. There's a limited number of allowed twitter API calls per hour, so in case you have lots of friends it'll take some time to have them all indexed.

About the status, there's a status bar on the upper right corner.
Perhaps a company like Communispace, also headquartered here in Boston?
I use this site dailycheapreads.com, most of the time it is only fiction, but sometimes you get really good financial/biz books for free (or almost free).
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Sending a clear message of, "we have the ability to launch effective cyberattacks against you" may have been a goal as well. Make it too stealthy and it might be a while before anyone realizes they were attacked.