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Wow, that thread is, in of itself, a fascinating time capsule.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/06/04/1347253

"How long before the google engine only becomes accessible through some overburdened overbranded 'portal' site?"

This made me smile in particular (a perfect sum up of the fears I had back then as well). Glad to see it never really happened.
They support it, although it is tricky to set up and it sometimes gets confused if you have to sign into ancillary Google services with your secondary account.

I am always signed into my personal account in one pinned tab and my apps account in another. The secret is in the gmail URL, specifically the /u/0/ in the URL. It turns out you can switch the number and be able to sign in multiple times. This may only work after you have enabled the multiple sign on that you can find with a quick search.

Lifehacker covered this fairly recently.

http://lifehacker.com/5733636/switch-between-multiple-gmail-...
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Eventually. Kod is still a very young and a relatively immature product, but as it stabilizes (in several aspects) we will make it available in the Mac App Store.
Just guessing, but it's probably because most browsers heavily cache the favicon image.
I looked at the google facilities and met the google people. They are great people. Not the place for me tho; no privacy and too much groupthink.
I have none. I have a complex series of filters which direct mailing lists, automated emails, etc into separate labels which bypass the inbox. If it makes it to my inbox, it's important enough to be read quickly -- this generally means only about 50-100 emails a day.
Intuit.

(If you are a good engineer) You'll be bored out of your skull and you'll drown in middle manager games and meaningless meetings. But they pay very well.
What happens if you get acquired by Google? Do they still make you go through the interview process?
It's there- look closer.
Could you make one with a piece of card taped to a microswitch ? You could adjust the size of the card and the angle of the microswitch until it detected if the fan was on or off.
I loved my Trident. It was the first video card I owned that could do 1024x768. It's been so many years that I don't remember all the other steps I went through between Hercules and CGA to a modern nVidia, but almost every one of them was special in some way.
This may be better addressed to Eric. He is still the CEO.
I think that's already been invented in several forms:

Here's 2

a) Users donate money, a la wikipedia (except with FB they can advertise that they are great people and donated, thereby encouraging others to donate)

b) Users pay for access, subscription or some such. If it's optional, paying users get perks (more space for photos, searches across the graph, etc.)
This is kind of interesting: http://www.pythonchallenge.com/

I started out with python doing project euler (http://projecteuler.net/) though that really won't give you that good of a background in python for the web and I mostly learned by going through the tutorial on the python website and going through the docs.

If you want a book I think apress begginning python is among the more recommended books after you have started out, and for the sake of time and your wallet avoid oreily's python books as they are about 700 pages over length.

You might want to give the Python Essential Reference a try instead as it is quite a good reference and something like the first 6 chapters are a nice quick tutorial, though it probably is more high level than you want (probably read it in a store first).

The django book (http://www.djangobook.com/) is available for free and is good for learning the internals though it can be a bit dry and there a some screencasts for django around if you look.

Hopefully that helps.
With my desktop I have all sorts of combinations. One row is mounted right, the other is upside down and then there's a bus on the side that's aligned vertical.
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if you were Kayak, and you already had a backend in place, wouldn't you assign at least one designer/developer to play around with novel UIs?

What's to say the current players haven't already tried those UI changes and found them less usable by the general population?

I don't know for sure, but I do know that calling the current competitors lazy is the completely wrong view (and factually incorrect). First, they deal with an older, less "techie" audience, which means different UIs are immediately viewed as confusing rather than cool. Second, they have the traffic to run A/B tests on everything, which allows them to know what such changes will do to their bottom line without having to publicly deploy or announce them.

Full disclosure: I worked on TripAdvisor Flights and was in the same YC batch as Hipmunk, though there was no overlap between the two and I actively avoided mixing the two circles, so I don't actually know anything about how Hipmunk views TA and vice-versa.
This sounds like it's more difficult
Hi Shawn, have you heard of this: http://developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopers.org?

Startups and small companies like Twitter, GitHub and Heroku are going to be there. I think registration is already closed, but maybe you take down the list of companies and apply to a few specific ones you like directly. Yeah, I know how the job market is, but often there are many cool companies that are overlooked because they don't have the 'brand names' like Google or Microsoft.
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Is your team responsible for the recent changes to the Web Inspector?
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Multiple inboxes and filters are from Heaven. Pretty sure that my unread message count is directly related to how busy/crazy my life is at the moment.
Any Google employees here, can you ask about how Larry, Sergey, and Eric respond to email? I wished Larry and Sergey had a public Buzz or Twitter account.
That is not an off the wall suggestion at all.. I love it. Will look into these Microcredit orgs.

Upvote for you.. Thank you very much!
Have we actually built one that gets this kind of efficiency? I've heard people saying that pebble beds could combine high core temperatures with gas turbines to get around 50% efficiency, but the only commercial-scale pebble beds I know of are the Chinese HTR-PM, which uses steam turbines to get around 40% efficiency. Still damn impressive, of course.
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Does anyone know how the tabs are integrated into the system? Is it a library or did he just try to recreate the experience?
I think the fact that it took 30 minutes to get through a Hello World program is pretty telling. Here's how I would teach 8th graders using Ruby:

puts "Hello World"

Ok cool, 5 minutes. Now let's learn about loops and conditional statements!

Edit: I absolutely do not think there's anything inherently wrong with Java, or with kids learning Java. I just think it's better to show them why programming is awesome first ("Look, you totally just made the computer do your algebra homework for you!") and THEN get into more complex (i.e. harder to debug) languages once they have a firm grasp of the basics like conditional logic, loops, objects, etc.
On the side, a block of chinese text will -always- look busier than an equivalent block of latin alphabet text. It's just the nature of the symbols. There's a lot more stuff being packed into the same space.

Also, I really dislike the interchangeable use of chinese and eastern here. Just because the author states that he's going to interchange, and is possibly overgeneralizing, doesn't mean that he should do it. You recognized and -admitted- that you're probably in the wrong. And then go ahead and do it anyways.
It's more like a restaurant hiring a third party to handle billing without you needing to collect cash or hold consumer receivables. (ie. credit cards)

Who do you trust more to control who can use your identity? A gossip blog like Gawker Media? Or a place like Google, Verisign, etc who employs real security experts who know what they are doing.

I have a PayPal token so that I can use two-factor authorization for my account. Since Verisign PIP is powering that solution, I also now have a two-factor openid that I can use anywhere. So if I decide that I want to have additional protection for my StackOverflow or Tripit accounts -- I can.
I was excited but it seems slower than <title> to update. Ugh.
I wish people outside US were eligible :-/
This is also a good idea! Appreciated!
If you use Priority Inbox it will show you the number of unread messages in that, not in your normal inbox.

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/priority-inbox.html
I find the 'unread messages count' to be extremely distracting when I'm trying to actually get real work done.

Through the corner of my eye, I'm constantly glancing and thinking: did it just increment?

Just keep your email closed until you get stuck on that hard problem, ha.
They have cheap desks but the chairs are not $50 ikea crap; they're pretty comfy. fyi

And at least when I was there, go karting was really about a 5-6:30 activity.
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It's common because the legal environment around hiring is so fraught. It's not merely a cultural habit; there's significant money at stake.
nice article, i've also often thought the same that sites in china lack sophistication. a quick note about myself, i've spent the past four years living in japan and china, originally from america.

i think japan is an exception, there are a lot of very good designers in general in japan, web design being no exception. and china reminds me of how japan was in the 70's, rapidly growing, quite far behind and needing to catch up. so just like the japanese who started making cheap cars and televisions following in the footsteps of the western companies, china is doing the same except across many other industries. and because things are rapidly growing here, it's about time to market, grabbing the opportunity which often times means taking whatever's out there (that worked locally), copying it and going to production.

over time the chinese customers will seek simpler, cleaner designs. it's just a matter of time.
Interesting... I like it, but it's entirely eclipsed by extensions like Google Mail Checker Plus[1], for me.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gffjhibehnempbke...
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I think there are quite a few of us who have at least a thousand unread messages. I have all kind of git commit messages that show up in my inbox that I don't always mark as read, not to mention all the mailing lists I subscribe to that aren't all in filters....
Karma to burn, and I'm hardly the only one here making the 'entropy' argument: Quora will wind up like Yahoo! Answers given enough new users + time, and by then the cool SV people will have found another plaything.
A fair number of those could pretty easily be managed by an extension. Others... that'd have to be one heck of an extension.

Could be a fun project to understand creating extensions better. Though I don't have 2010, and I gather that's a heck of a lot easier to make extensions for.
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I've been using Better Gmail for Chrome to get this functionality: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gmfocnipihcoejdi...
This is the game. Though all kinds of implements were used, up to and including paintball guns. Luckily, we never had an run-ins with the police. It was very, very fun because you didn't know who to suspect. Everyone was involved, and walking/biking to work was an interesting journey of paranoia.
Dive into Python is pretty good if you're a programmer already.

http://code.google.com/edu/languages/google-python-class/ind...

Some sites are a bit harsh to people new to a language. http://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython is often much more tolerant.
Who do you think should pay for the servers, maintenance & upkeep of the ACM site? It's a non-profit organization supported (barely in some years) by membership dues.
re Apple's 30%: do you guys (in the US) get itunes cards on special? Here (AU), there's almost always some place that has them 20-25% off.

I was thinking that for apps purchased with those cards Apple probably sells them at break even or a loss, assuming a few % goes to the retailer selling the cards.

I have an rss feed from here http://www.itunesonsale.com.au/ to make sure I never pay full price
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Uh... did you read the article? Did you read Robert O'Callahan's blog post it links to?

We sure can implement a broken version of SVG Fonts just to pass Acid3. We think doing that is 1) unethical and 2) bad for the web. So we're not going to do that.
I've been using SoftMaker Office 2008 for the past 2 months and can't believe how much faster it is than OpenOffice, which is a shame, because I've been using OO for years.
>p.s.-I love Hacker News myself, and take all my students there to open it up to them.

I have nothing against middle school students. I like kids. I also think exposing HN to kids at an early age is a great idea. However something about that idea bothers me and makes me feel uneasy. I'm not quite able to put my finger on it. Anyone else feel the same way?
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It's not a technical difficulty. It's pointless, because WOFF does everything SVG fonts do, but is actually supported by font foundries and the Web in general.
In most cases (with exception large or high profile acquisitions) they do. However, the process is much less selective (i.e., most -- but not always all -- engineers in the acquired company get an offer) then if you apply directly to Google. Those who do not get an offer get a generous severance package.
yeah you get lazy when you edit over ssh with nano.
I think it was more about how many tabs are open at once, which I would suppose means in memory since they're all going to be editable.
The USB 2.0 spec says that connectors have to stand up to 1,500 plug/unplugs.

I know people who have worn out their connectors. It's not a common problem, but . . . surely we can do better.

Too bad we can't get power over optical connects. Practical amounts of it, I mean.
I just booked a flight on Hipmunk today.

Brilliant work guys :) You have succeeded in your effort to make finding an agony-free flight easy.
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You can't use the new features of Objective-C 2 in GNUstep, at least not with the default Windows installation. I didn't tried on Linux.
While perhaps the list was heavy on dubious "achievements", there's nothing wrong with trying to have fun with your work. Obviously more achievements for positive things would be good, but as was mentioned elsewhere in this thread, "achievements" for negative actions could have a good teaching effect.
Mac Pros used to (maybe still do) come with a fully registered group licensed version, along with Art Director's Toolkit, which is an absolutely awesome tool.
Sure, all generalization break down upon examination, but I think any company that uses five people to set up a basic cubicle is pretty much a direct opposite of Google in corporate structure and culture. There are indeed companies, and large ones, where the autodidact can find a home, but it requires the kind of organizational looseness that an overwrought bureaucracy brings. In Google terms, this would be a lowering of the bar.
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A lot of these are bad Valve-style achievements.

When achievements were first released for the Medic in Team Fortress 2, players who weren't Medics suffered. Some of the achievements require the Medic to either become an offensive player, or intentionally make bad choices. The more players tried for achievements, the worse your team did. For future achievements releases, Valve changed the focus of achievements to reward class strengths, showcase new features, reward good behavior, or highlight awesome events.

A Visual Studio achievement like "Job Security" would be terrible. It just encourages bad practices. I don't want to fix a bug in a 30-line Linq query, or understand if it does exactly what you say it does. In fact, its opposite is a better achievement: "If You Linq, You Will Miss It: Write 100 Linq queries with 3 lines or fewer." It encourages users to use a great feature, doesn't punish them if they find a case where they absolutely need to write something longer, and encourages a good habit.

That being said, some of them were also good. I could see Visual Studio using "Gimme back my ASM" or "The Academic". Some also had a Valve-style personality, like "Shotgun Debugging" or "Rage Quit."
Target: the moderators/judges of the facebook coding contest

Approach: post links on the contest page to a site that claims to know future questions, write code for you, process your data whatever. They'll get deleted but some staff will inevitably want to check if it's legit.

Method: Today's money is on the IE CSS use after free bug - unpatched and widely available. Get some ie traffic by "this site requires Internet Explorer". Some other month it'd be a jre/flash/quicktime/pdf.

Execution: Transitory system access on one or more clients. Reverse shell or basic payload, good rootkits are expensive. Simplest is just copy cookies/autofills/saved passwords/ssh keys - for extra credit install a keylogger.

Low and behold, poorly_paid_intern not only despams the contest page but does the same for zuck's pr account.

IMO not a local wireless attack - who on the peninsula would have such a idealized view of facebook's financing? Also US citizen+high profile=bad idea, see doing a year for guessing Sarah's yahoo.
> So if Google and Facebook are the sexy places to work, and can offer programmers less

They can, but they do not. The average salary may be lower as they hire more engineers out of college, but if you're an experienced engineer and have other offers, you'll get a good deal. There is, however, another other angle: they want 99 percentile talent, but are in the 75th percentile compensation wise. So a $130,000 ($100k + 30% bonus) at Google could easily be $150,000 elsewhere. However, this market value may not be realized until the said person has been at a 'brand name' company i.e., some will leave because having been at Google has made them much more valuable in the eyes of employers.

> Oracle? Something else?

Oracle pays worse, actually. Unlike Google and other companies, they also have strict rules about salaries for people with X years of experience: many excellent engineers left Oracle (and yes, Oracle can attract excellent engineers -- mostly to their database and middleware divisions) because they were told by their managers they wouldn't be able to receive any recognition for their work until they have spent N years at the company.
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Preordered from InformIT. I figured I'm one of the first outside a close circle to get my hands on the hard cover edition. I was following the shipment tracking. I thought it would already be here when I got home from work, but Mr FedEx delivered it in the dark after dinner.

At 883 pages, it's the longest of the hardcover volumes (so far).
im a FSF loving anti-capitalist and that read as totally pie in the sky, wishful thinking.
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That's a really terrible way to describe the study. What the study proved was that they could get people to interpret other people's actions using less empathy essentially. Specifically that they had a harder time interpreting an action that someone else did as harmful (not really talking about right or wrong - they tie right and wrong to harmful and not harmful which I think is a huge jump to make it sound a lot more carnal than it actually is.)
I hate to be negative, because I love the overall idea of the site... but for something so focused on minor details, all the little grammatical errors bug me, perhaps more than they should.
so, as promised, here are things i'm still having issues with in Chrome:

no script
session management
tab management
auto-discovery for RSS feeds
user-scripts
password hasher
https everywhere

for several of these, there are extensions available, but either they don't measure up the FF version, or there are several different extensions that i'll have to wade through before i can make any kind of judgement as to whether they're any good.
I think you're describing the type of behavior that emacs uses when you press tab, except it indents the line according to the default tab style associated with the file type. It's great for programming; I never have to worry about indentation because it's handled automatically.
Kind of ironic, considering Gmail's beginnings.
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Care to explain why? The essay isn't a statement of inevitability, but instead outlining how the problem is being approached by free software players. It's why, Diaspora's brief place in the limelight aside, there has been no clear "heir to the throne" that has emerged out of free software's challenge to walled gardens, and why there most likely will never be one.
What would this mean for services like Postmark (and friends) ?
Thanks for these links. I really liked doctype.com.
He's referring to Combinatorial Algorithms, the title of this volume.
Yes, it is generally all about cutting costs.
http://www.drawar.com is pretty nice albeit somewhat inactive.

http://forrst.com is invite-only and caters to both designers and developers, but it fits the bill.
Is the game hackable? I figure it'll be worth $5 to see if I can have someone execute a mission to "remove nanobot surveillance drones from the surface of my transport using a mild detergent and slightly pressurized water."
I use HTML based version (faster and less prone to JS glitches) and there's no gmail number in title.
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I feel that the blog is more about demonstrating against the fact that Java is too complex as a beginner language, not on how Java is the simplest, quickest, or even easiest, because of course it's not. All these comments make valid points, but as a person who has learnt Java as his first language feel that it opened me up to learning other languages quicker because of that fact that I found languages like Python much simpler, whilst I find many 1st-language Python students to be much more defensive and 'clingy' to Python because of its simplicity and directness.

While Python may be an easier language, I find that it is more difficult to debug than Java at times due to incompatible spacing alone, but that's beside the point.

I think that students should be able to decide their first language. I was 'stuck' with Java, but I don't regret it at all. In fact, after having transferred to another university with students having started with Python, I find that I'm ahead in terms of concepts dealing with OOP. I know that Python can do this as well, but Java (for better or for worse) shoves it down your throat.

So can't we all just get along? :)
while not really necessary here, the author reminded me of the bare protocol (href=//foo.com) trick to prevent http/s mismatches of page assets.