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"But it’s remarkable how much my appreciation for Google has shifted over the last year or two"

I suspect this shift in sentiment has more to do with Google evolving from being Microsoft's competitor (back when Microsoft was the boogeyman to Apple), to Google being Apple's competitor.

To many who hold Apple so dearly to their heart, this causes a serious conundrum. Suddenly every move by Google can only be seen with incredible suspicion and assumptions of worst intentions. See the recent raging about WebM as a perfect example.

The Android operating system it makes for mobile phones has become a viable challenger for Apple’s iOS. But for all the talk about it being open, they’re not giving it away out of the goodness of their hearts

The link provided to purportedly demonstrate this undermines the point, because it is, demonstrating the point above, nothing but the raging conspiracy by an Apple fanatic who abhors any perceived threat to his love Apple.

Nonetheless, as a consumer I am fully aware of Google's ambitions with Android, which is the same reason why I don't use Chrome. However Android is the best available option in the space for my rights, and the best opportunity to stop those rights from being trampled, however many ridiculous scarequotes are used to express the author's total misunderstanding of open.
I wonder how many people will realize that Ace is the new Skywriter. The last name change was only in September.
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As I say in my comment above, this splash page was meant as a humorous parody, thus the use of the word "hip." We're like everyone else in this thread: we want stuff that works well. And that's what we're working hard to build.
According to people I have known who negotiated with them, Apple was far, far harder to deal with, and paid less than other customers. The "PITA" factor I find credible.
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Hence the "technically".
Are you saying that you can't understand why Twitter's services provide an incentive for you to be online all the time?
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A foursquare joke? what is this, 2010?
ARGH. The title completely ignores the fact that the experiment-subjects that retained the information the best DIDN'T just take a test, they also retrieved it from memory and wrote what they knew. THEN they were tested on it.

Horrible, horrible summary.

A better title might have been "What they say is true, Read, Write, [Recite] - Then you'll test well."

That is: "Read the Source Material - let's say a chapter of 10-15 pages. Close your book. Meditate on it for a minute or five. Now, without looking at the source material, write a one or two page summary of the material. Review your summary. Now, without looking at either the book, or your summary, verbally summarize the chapter."

It's the foundation of every study plan I've ever seen - and the NYT article goes off on this "Just take a Test" tangent that isn't even supported by the observations they make.
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Even if you don't have a dog in the Android/iOS hunt, resenting Google is as easy as trying to use its search to locate information around anything even remotely related to commerce. Or programming questions.
This create a really interesting dilemma for Google. A significant portion of Groupon's subscriber base comes from the Google Ads they are running.

Now Google can either:
1. Ban Groupon from advertising on AdWords
2. Use the CTR and conversion data from Groupon's campaigns to learn exactly how to target ads for Google Offers.

Since they have massive amounts of data from Groupon's campaigns, it's definitely feasible for them to capture lots of their traffic. But will they really run Google Offers and Groupon ads next to each other?
What a horrible advice. Don't do assumptions on our behalf!
You'll be spending a lot of time with computers once you graduate, so better off spending it off computers while in school.

Socialize, make connections, study art/literature/philosophy.
That's why claiming potential religious truths are "clearly false" is a clear marker of weak thinking.
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His first request was "Super Co-Founder"
I should also add that we are currently hiring mobile and PHP developers. Any one who would like to join a quickly expanding pre Series A company as a lead developer, please contact me: alex@life360.com
I find it disturbing that people get so caught up in the marketing spin and counter-spin of these amoral giant corporations that their personal self-image becomes tied to the companies they root for and they create these moralistic interpretations of their actions. Grow up. Corporations are just money making machines, they don't have your or anyone else's interest at heart besides their shareholder's.
They probably would have never made a dollar, but it would have been awesome

(btw, Larry and Sergey bought Android without telling Eric, to give you an idea of what could have been)
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Another way - if you really want to understand something, teach it. The preparation required to not embarrass yourself in front of students is huge.
Good point, hadn't thought of that. I do wonder if proper search would affect people's time on Twitter. I don't find myself coming back for fear of missing out on something, but I do scroll down a lot when I visit. This must be expensive to them, as it causes lots of unnecessary db queries.
I would suggest taking some music class. I am not a music person but have recently taken up piano and somehow feel it's a great way to spend time after a day long of programming (or... reading) in the office.

But this won't directly help you with programming as career, it's just one way to spend time. YMMV.
back in 2006 when i first moved into the "game changing strategies" role at Microsoft, we spent a lot of time analyzing Google's culture. one of the things we spotted was that "Don't be evil" isn't sustainable. there are a lot of situations where any option is at least somewhat evil; and business pressures have a way of forcing you to do evil things.

Of course I was very careful about saying this around Microsoft. People there are very competitive, and being evil used to be a core competency. I didn't want to get into a situation where folks were saying "hey we have an opportunity to can be more evil than Google!"
The title is interesting, but the article contains zero content beyond it.
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My guess is this is aimed at stopping Google from hemorrhaging engineers in Facebook's general direction. "Look, we've got a programmer in charge again!"
Google's just reached giant status. They're no longer the plucky little underdog, and we shouldn't expect them to act like one. As far as large corporations go, they're on the "less evil" side of things. They still do some shady things, but I would call Apple and Microsoft far shadier. Google only looks bad in comparison to their stated motto, not by real-world actions.
Awesome. I am so writing my facebook killer on this. Then I can deploy in the cloud!
I was there for the 30-year reunion, where my photographer recreated the original shot. (And also, despite my pleas that people wanted it as originally posed, did a bizarre setup that confused people, too.) Then I did a group interview. The tone was very upbeat and warm, though clearly there were some underlying issues. But I think that the group was simply happy to look back at an exciting time. We were all sad that Bob Wallace was missing (I knew him and really like him--he was at the first Hacker Conference!) There was a lot of laughter and good natured fun-poking. And at the time Miriam Lubow, the office manager (den mother) of the group, knew she had cancer, but had come to terms with it, and was loving the reunion. She died not long afterward. For me, it was an amazing experience to moderate the group discussion of these people coming together 30 years after they worked at an obscure startup, and were now on the campus of an historically huge and powerful corporation they helped launch.

And yes, I am under the impression that MS paid expenses for this reunion. (But I didn't confirm that explicity.)
Ok, help me understand this - if Google really wanted to get into this business, and if they couldn't acquire Groupon, then why didn't they try to acquire Groupon clones like LivingSocial, and many more? What could be rational behind starting from scratch?
I've been a casual observer of plan9 and inferno-os for more than a couple of years, and while I understand why there is not a great deal of mainstream support, it would be nice to see things like acme live and grow on more of the standard platforms.
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This brings up an interesting question - what are the ethics involved in Google having exceptional access to market data in the area it competes in?
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So you know: bcrypt is inherently randomized. You don't need to "comprehensively salt" it.
I never heard people use the term "texting" when they are in fact emailing, regardless of the device used. Over here texting is specifically SMS.
While I understand your point, I feel like mine was missed. Perhaps I should have worded it differently. The fact is, the web is a constantly evolving ecosystem that as a front-end engineer, you do not get much control over. Yes of course the code YOU produce should be predictable and stable and so forth. However, at any time, the rug can be pulled out from underneath you by a browser update, the uptake of a particular device (e.g. iPhone), etc. When you are working on a website where the WebKit nightlies compose more of your traffic per day than most of the sites on the rest of the Internet get in their lifetime, you have to be extremely flexible in your interpretation of what a successful feature looks like when applied across the board. I do not feel that one faces this same level of constant uncertainty in backend environments where the engineers have much more say in what is running their software.
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There are a number of sites with downloadable dharma talks, guided meditations, etc. Those would be helpful people who don't have a nearby center. (Or whose nearby center is of a variety that isn't agreeable. For instance, when I took a meditation class at a Korean Zen temple in Chicago, full-length prostrations were a significant part of it. I'm not keen on prostrations. As an atheist, they feel silly.)
Basically how I got a First from Imperial. Have fun 9 months of the year. Last three months before exams, get all the problems, tests and exams available and answer them all.
Although it has little recent activity and could be bitrotted to uselessness, there is a standalone acme package for various other systems:

http://code.google.com/p/acme-sac/
You're right, that font does look bad. I fixed the problem by making it normal weight instead of bold. Thanks for pointing that out.
It is not my experience that craigslist shuts down those who use its data. I am torn over this. I'd like to rid my days of some of them, but I make great use of the RSS feeds myself.
The source for "Pentalobe security screws" is Apple's internal service manual, which is not publicly available. The tamper-resistant goal is evident from the context. You'll either have to trust me on that or find an Apple authorized technician to verify from the manual.
They don't seem to provide any pricing information beyond the free, non-commercial level. This seems unfortunate, and signals to me that if I'm not making a "major" product, I probably wouldn't be able to afford it.
Yet the marginal cost is supposed to be all that matters in a competitive market. Of course, real competition doesn't work that way at all:

"Charlie Munger: And maybe the cereal makers by and large have learned to be less crazy about fighting for market share—because if you get even one person who's hell-bent on gaining market share.... For example, if I were Kellogg and I decided that I had to have 60% of the market, I think I could take most of the profit out of cereals. I'd ruin Kellogg in the process. But I think I could do it.

In some businesses, the participants behave like a demented Kellogg. In other businesses, they don't. Unfortunately, I do not have a perfect model for predicting how that's going to happen.

For example, if you look around at bottler markets, you'll find many markets where bottlers of Pepsi and Coke both make a lot of money and many others where they destroy most of the profitability of the two franchises. That must get down to the peculiarities of individual adjustment to market capitalism. I think you'd have to know the people involved to fully understand what was happening."

Munger uses a technical form of the word "demented" here: companies are "demented" if they don't collude on price.
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Try google.com/offers and you get a different 404 than if you typed offer, deals, coupons, etc...
Me too. After about 5 seconds all I could think about was whether it was gonna be a shark jumping out of the water at me, a big fat seagull coming for me, or just some random screaming crazy jumping in from the side of the screen.
For many founders, is there really an other option?

I think some people simply aren't meant to be working for someone else.
Some categories would love for CL to legitimize the third party services by charging and accepting bulk feeds (like CL does for real estate). Until the demand is served, third parties will innovate externally.
What's going on here? Google Search for Tarsnap.
I was able to receive an upgrade for

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/papfpipabpficccg...

That included upgraded API thresholds and all, and I wouldn't consider the Chrome extension to be a "major product"
If I had been more definitive, I would risk making the same mistakes that the people who inspired this article were making. That is, to rigidly define what a front-end engineer is in terms of completely arbitrary constraints. I wanted to provide a set of commonalities that I have found through my experiences, but not to explicitly say "this is what a front-end engineer has to be." A good front-end engineer can come from ANYWHERE and I state that by saying that there are clearly going to be exceptions to whatever I write.
My understanding is that the lotus position forms a tripod or your two knees and your butt, which is supposedly pretty stable.

I wouldn't know, as I haven't a prayer of attaining that position.

I have a little folding wooden meditation bench that I use. I don't think I'd want to meditate for more than half an hour using it, though. Some similar benches are available with cushions.
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Yes. This is exactly what I intended. Thank you for clarifying.
There's also a podcast available from them.
Google can just claim #2 as a natural competitive advantage. (It's like if Apple were to build an OS-level feature that competes with an app.)

Option #1, however, could get Google in trouble for anticompetitive behaviour.
>> What incentive is there for someone on the Supreme Court not to interpret the Constitution as saying, "Supreme Court Justices can randomly take everyone's money for no reason"?

> Integrity.

You mean impeachment.
so what should the google movie be about then?
Is there any way you can make the results public so we can see them, or are you going to wait before sharing?
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These are exactly the kinds of questions that the "don't be evil" motto is supposed to answer. That phrase has been flung around over the years by people who get angry at Google for this-or-that, but during the time I worked there, I found that the most common internal usage of the phrase spoke directly to ethical dilemmas like this. I have a feeling they've kept that in mind while building this product.
They'd be sued for doing 1. plus it's unlikely given that they accept Bing which is an even more direct competitor. 2. is probably illegal. Don't think it's worth it for google to put itself into so much trouble.
I don't know. Patrick (patio11) said he thought it was due to my (mis)use of rel="canonical", but I'm not 100% sure that explains it.

All I can say for certain is that somehow the Tarsnap index page disappeared from the Google index. (Googlebotbait: Please follow this link and re-index it: http://www.tarsnap.com/)

EDIT: It looks like the page is now back in the index, just not ranking highly for "tarsnap" -- a search for "tarsnap site:tarsnap.com" now finds it, which didn't happen yesterday.
I think that's a product of the same initiative, honestly. Like some sort of attempt to strike the achilles heal of Google. "Ha ha, your search stinks!"

Searching for programming questions always sucked on Google proper. The only redeeming target was the Deja News corpus Google acquired. I doubt I'm along in my sadness at seeing the beautifully categorized and well discussed Usenet groups descend to uselessness, replaced by a disparate collection of poorly organized, polluted Q&A sites.

Commerce -- like finding a review. When do people ever think that was good on Google? Seriously I'm seeing people talking about trying to buy iPhone cases -- come on. Again, it always sucked on Google. Always. It's worse now simply because there is remarkably little real content (the professional review industry has almost disappeared, as it was supported by magazines, and the consumer review space disappeared because people stopped hosting their own Geocities sites and the like).

Specialized sites were always a world above any search engine. For game reviews I go to Metacritic. For movie information I go to imdb. For restaurant reviews I go to yelp. And so on.

So no, I don't resent Google for those things, because it was never good at them.
I periodically run this for a while and try really hard to like it. Plan 9 is a true work of genius in some ways but is really insular, and I just don't like acme (ironic, because I was a big wily fan about ten years back). Plan 9 in general and this port is no exception is the sort of thing that works best if you buy into it wholesale; 9term and rc look incredibly primitive until you run them both (and avoid anything that sends console commands...), I have never figured out how to get a preexisting ssh key into factotum, it is surprisingly difficult to get the plumber to work with programs that were not written to make it easy (simple example: make plumbing work for emacs), and others.

Still genius, and I'm glad this is still supported for when I feel like wearing the hairshirt.
With the 200+ million gmail email addresses that Google has access to, Google can instantly become a major competitor to Groupon & LivingSocial assuming a certain percentage of gmail users agree to try it.

It seems that each large internet company has its own deals site now: Google with Google Offers, Amazon with LivingSocial, eBay with Groupon, and Facebook seems to be developing its own type of daily-deals advertising.

I wonder what Apple and Microsoft will do. Both of them probably have something in the works....
What kills the warm and fuzzies I have about the 360 (a game like Assassin's Creed 2 is just...gorgeous. To see it running so incredibly on 5 year old hardware is a marvel) is Xbox Live. The operations of that service take an enjoyable platform and put a greasy, scamy salesman in front of it.
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This entire article is so full of that kind of crap - full of baseless insinuations and twisted meanings - it completely infuriates me.

With the influx of recent NYT articles on education I'm nearly convinced the NYT is purposely trying to sabotage education (or rather they have a clear agenda, which I wish I knew where came from, that they are pushing through by twisting other people's words).

As you say, retrieval practice is absolutely fundamental. Every person does it! Studying doesn't comprise of one method - concept mapping or repeated study - it's a combination! What kind of ridiculous study was this? Also, the article makes it seem like all experts purport 'concept mapping' as the "holy grail" of learning, that's it, nothing more.

The test obviously assisted by assisting in organizing and structuring the information for them, in addition to highlighting key points from the readings. Also, the article never mentions what type of test they were taking. Multiple-choice? Essay? Short answer? Verbal? None of the above? That information would be the single most important piece of this article.

To me this article seems to simply highlight how poor students are at understanding how they themselves learn and think.

What NYT seems to want you to think: Test taking is the best way to learn. Forget in depth studying techniques or figuring out how you yourself learn.

More of the truth: Tests (depending on how they are set up) are useful in assisting with learning in various ways, and super useful in providing feedback and assessing where a student is and what to focus on in the future.
nice! .. one weird UI effect though - when you mouse-over one of the three HTML/CSS/Javascript boxes, the box label disappears!
The claims made are that Apple did this in part because they knew the screwdrivers would be hard to find and/or overpriced so people wouldnt be able to get in.

I kind of gathered the feeling there was going to be good hack to solve this, well, the article then goes on to try and sell me that very overpriced screwdriver

No thanks.
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I know plenty of people who, even with an engineering degree, call themselves a front-end developer. I think to a lot of developers, whether you call yourself a a developer or an engineer or whatever else, is a personal preference.
I am working on a startup that will compete with many well-funded billion dollar startups and we need all the advice we can get.
After Amazon's investment into LivingSocial, the valuation shot into "over $1 billion" http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/02/livingsocial-confirms-175-m... but controlling only 8% of the market, vs Groupon's 79%. It would have been a very expensive acquisition.

For everything else near 0% market share, Google can probably easily get ahead on its own brand name.
> Now Google can either: 1. Ban Groupon from advertising on AdWords 2. Use the CTR and conversion data from Groupon's campaigns to learn exactly how to target ads for Google Offers.

Umm.. Are those really Google's only choices?
Actually, I'm on my mac and the menu is overlapping here too. Good post Ilya =)
You're probably not the only one.

Shoot me an email- I have some data for your space that might be tremendously useful.
I have several gmail addresses. Don't fall for the number hype.
That's how it works in Japan too. Kids study English for 8 years and aren't able to speak a word or make basic linguistic connections.

And it's all based on study and test taking.
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It depends on what you mean by "perform better". Any reference-counted GC mechanism will have memory leaks, which is a serious problem in a long-running process. Python gets around this by also occasionally running a traditional GC, which, btw, is a stop-the-world GC.
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