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I think this will be a really good move for Google and has been a long time coming. Up until now, the SVPs all had quite a bit of autonomy but were still burdened by their reporting structure and the friction caused occasionally when team mandates overlapped. This divisional structure effectively flattens the org by allowing product managers and engineers to get things done at the SVP level w/o any other burdens.

I think the challenge will be to see how hands off Larry can be with the SVPs. He has a natural interest in getting deeply involved in some projects, and that could be a source of additional overhead.

Most mysterious to me is what is Sergey doing right now? Larry's getting all the attention, but it seems like Sergey's just lying low.
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Admit to yourself that you have an internet addiction. Come to terms with it.

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You won't be able to get depth in your thoughts if you keep feeding yourself bits of useless info.
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The OP seems to attribute the "failure" of bing to common problems associated with Microsoft (in specific) and large companies (in general). With a specific point that it all started wonderfully, then got corporatized. I'm happy believing that this was the main problem.

But...as an end user i don't think Bing was/is ever as as close to Google as the OP seems to think.
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South Africa is in the unique situation of having developers and business communities with access to all of the resources and education of the West living as little as 20 minutes away from townships with millions of people who are as under-resourced as any in Africa (well almost - they do still have access to a well-funded government). It is the perfect proving ground for applications for Africa.

Obstacles against success are in brief:

- Schizophrenic government policies, swinging from incredibly enlightened consumer protection legislation to, "We should establish a regulatory body for the press to prevent them from embarrassing government officials when corruption scandals occur"

- A legacy of underinvestment and draconian regulation in telecommunications. My 10Mb line costs me > 100 USD / month, and that's the fastest connection money can buy here.

Another country worth singling out is Kenya, which has produced incredible innovation like Ushahidi (http://ushahidi.com) and MPesa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa). Technology is a focus of government investment there, probably more so than SA.
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I know some people with families who can do 10:30-22:00, but they usually have work-from-home arrangements during their evenings. The problem with investment banking ("eye-wanking") and other professional hazing cultures is they count working from home as time off. If you're not visibly suffering, it doesn't count.
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That's some seriously mixed messages. Is the bottom line that they're deprecating Silverlight for use on the web and they're going to be switching the effort to building HTML5 tooling instead?
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I can corroborate this. VLC is the one piece of software that will happily play back a movie as it's being downloaded. It's a fabulous example of tolerant software.
while we're sat here debating the subtleties and semantics of what "democracy" means, Anonymous is out there being the change they want to see in the world. Anonymous are better democrats than I.

To criticise exclusively "the means" of Anonymous in this sense is to close your eyes to the other sides "means". Things like lobbying, spreading democracy through war, nepotism, and simply ignoring constitutions altogether to do what ever the hell you want. All of which are privileges you and I don't have. Your vote will not change that. You can march on washington (or London (or anywhere) as they did against the Iraq War, Student Fees and Austerity Cuts) and you will not change a thing.

The banks have taken all our money, but while you pay full income Tax, Barclays Bank pays 1% corporation tax. Monsanto poison our food and use their power to make what was illegal yesterday, legal today. Pharmaceutical companies fudge trials or re-market pills and potions in a way that they know will harm people, but no one will ever go to jail for manslaughter or murder or bodily harm.

I've yet to see a better advancement for democracy in my lifetime than the Low Orbit Ion Cannon. It only works when we all pull the trigger together, which is a safety feature no other kind of democracy has.
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Is his C# code available somewhere?
Never considered using head to get a bytestream from /dev/random. I've always used dd. Thanks for the tip!
Because far far more people on iOS are on hardware of the latest, standard hardware that the software is aimed at.

As I understand, the Nexus is the one Android is putting forward as an example, it is the highest quality of all phones. The whole of the current generation of iOS devices are the same, perfected examples of the hardware and software working together.

There are probably Android phones of better hardware than an iPhone, but do you know any apps that demand these phones, that are too slow on anything with a slower processor?
The first two graphs are about the phone market, not the smartphone market. It's not clear that the author realises this.

Maybe it's a very subtle and sophisticated jab about how these kind of numbers are meaningless without proper analysis. On the other hand, they may have just been desperate to create any kind of graph that shows Apple's bar as bigger than the rest. The reasoning given for showing the second graph at all certainly supports that theory.

Strange, given their closing sentence: "Please, lift your game. Go beyond grabbing the simplest number you can find and using it as the basis for useless, potentially misleading conclusions."
Finland is the odd one out in the language similarity thing. Scandinavian languages and Dutch are pretty close to English, but Finnish isn't even Indo-European.
I got an email from amazon about this but I just have a couple of sample apps in there.
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Nice to see the refresh rates are steadily increasing on e-ink displays. Anyone got any thoughts on what kind of growth rate function we're seeing here? Does it fit moore's law?
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for the sake of counter-example: facebook does. E.g. if you try to log in from a different country than ones it already knows you have to go through a long process of reauthentication by inputting your friends' names based on pictures. At least, it happened to me twice.
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Exactly -- we don't need fast human travel anymore. Our thoughts can travel all over the planet with almost the speed of light.

Travel is risky (however exciting), slow, consumes a lot of resources and causes pollution.
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İt is just far easier with java.
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You guys maybe don't know this, but there's a huge ongoing scam generally advertised as "work from home" or "make 4000/month working on your computer", etc, etc, which is basically aimed at housewives and old people and shut-ins who can't work shifts, but want to make money. Amazon is providing a non-fraudulent, though badly-paid, alternative to this scam. Feel free to outlaw it, though.
Hey,

Good question indeed. I've been looking for some stunning and innovative Windows software for quite some time too.

Most of them are either from the Mac platform like OmmWriter or where created from the beginning to be X-platform like Tweetdeck, Evernote or Wunderlist. However, some still exist such as Windroplr, Xobni, Hamster Zip,etc.

the main thing is that on the Windows platform there is no strict graphic guideline like on Mac. So most of the less graphical skilled developers end up maybe coding a great software but with no UIX whatsoever thus creating a "crappy" application.

Also, the business models of software distribution on the windows platform are not prone to create quality software. You ever go Freeware with Toolbar & crapware to monetize your application which piss off your consumers or go with a trial version.

In the trial model, to differentiate their software and force the users to buy it, the developers piles up on useless features, that end up making the application more complicate to use. The perfect example are all the "Pc optimiser" and "Media converter" out there on the Windows platform... They basically all do the same thing with a crappy UI :(

Finally, to mass distribute them, they don't use fancy homepage like on mac ( see Panic.com for a good example ) they go to the download.com and softonic.com which are filled with advertising and fake download buttons. This also lower the overall perceived quality of windows Software.

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I had to do some web scraping for an application that I recently wrote and only when my app's performance started to rely on the results provided by the various search engines out there, I started to fully appreciate how good Google is. It's just no comparison; in edge cases, misspelled and unconventional searches (where it really matters) Google completely creams the competition.

While Bing came closest to providing search results as accurate as Googles it still wasn't at any comparable level, so all in all I agree with your point.
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What oversized icons? You need these to work reliably on a 3.5" touchscreen with a finger. It's good design to be "generous" in target area.
By definition, there is no point in having an anonymous conversation with your dad, because it wouldn't be anonymous. Right now, we're seeing freeversation used with much larger groups of people, where guessing which email matches the password is impractical, even if someone does reuse a password.
Meh - it's not for those us who like everything in its place, fully native "oh my god it's so elegant" software.

It's for those of us who want something that does everything we want (plus some more) without being too hard on the system resources and has the ability to stay out of our way when we need it to.

It's true, Jetbrains products are not the most beautiful, and yes they're mostly written in java. However, they do make incredibly functional products with a slim learning curve with some amazing features. Jetbrains products (from Python to Ruby to PHP, and I'm sure their new AppCode) have consistently shown the best understanding of the code being developed which contributes to the best code sense and refactoring support I've ever seen in any IDE.
why was kami8844's comment instantly flagged?

it's really disgusting to see people quietly being blacklisted.

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I had to do some web scraping for an application that I recently wrote and only when my app's performance started to rely on the results provided by the various search engines out there, I started to fully appreciate how good Google is. It's just no comparison; in edge cases and unconventional searches (where it really matters) Google completely creams the competition.
While Bing came closest to providing search results as accurate as Googles it still wasn't at any comparable level, so all in all I agree with your point.

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Absolutely.

PhpStorm is simply the best IDE I've used for our very large PHP application. And I've tried almost all of them.
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I don't know how good Bing was, but Google put a lot of work into modernizing it's website after the launch of Bing so maybe they did see it as a threat.
I find it telling that he admits to moving on from Microsoft and trying "a long list of failed ideas"

From the sounds of it, they had very little process in the beginning, which implies to me that they would have eventually failed to compete with Google anyway. He's crazy if he thinks Google has no process in place when shipping software.
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I know what you're saying about AppCode's ability to understand the language, but after seeing first-hand the refactoring support of Jetbrains products for dynamic languages like Python, Ruby and especially my enormous PHP project - I don't think there's anything to worry about.
Probably they just wanted to make sure they stayed ahead of Bing on all levels. Like Apple is doing right now with the iPad.
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Japan doesn't normally dub movies, but it doesn't score well. On the other hand, it does have a strong domestic film industry, so perhaps that is part of the reason.
Being 'easy' is irrelative when it results in a terrible user experience. There's no way to explain to the user: "oh this would look a lot better but we wanted to use a different language so it's not our fault".
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Gruber's just picked it up with no comment other than a strange piece of snide: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/04/07/android-apps-loo...

(What is he implying? Assuming sarcasm - he is saying that it's not a coincidence but that some unnamed other parties claim it is. I don't really get it but it seems like he's getting too lazy to actually offer an extended argument these days)
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Real sustainable expenditure on space projects can only be from the private sector. What governments do are generally boondoggles, which sometimes show pretty results.

The space shuttle, for instance, persisted not for the scientific or technical advances, but that it sent money to lots of political constituencies, which alone made it viable. The Hubble, while giving us spectacular images, was still horribly overpriced and NASA ended up paying for it twice over (once to send it up and twice to send the shuttle after it).

There wasn't a lot of opposition to the shuttle and the ISS from within NASA (for 'eating up the budget') because they were aware that budget only existed because of these high-value items. They might have liked to have the money for other things, perhaps, but political money doesn't work that way.
I got rejected twice. However, I have a different idea for a startup. Non web startup, not based on coding. Based on the fact that I never even got a reason why I was rejected, I thought I'd apply differently this time. Saved my application in a file and then posted it here:

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Tried to make them think. I believe they're in a loop of... self-indulgence, really. Since I think they do their best to stay the $#@! away from taking risks with any "unorthodox" ideas.
Hadn't heard about targeting CPU or GPU dynamically. That's very cool. Thanks.
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How would you store 500TB of stuff you don't need everyday?
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the gaming industry is slowly but surely morphing into the movie industry as the frictional costs associated with creating games goes down.
I like the idea from a technical point of view, but I doubt it would make much of a difference in practice, because most home users log in with administrator accounts anyway. So do most developers. Only the rare, security-conscious power user would typically log on with a restricted account and even then.
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Was the reporter respected or the system assume a new reporter weight is the same as a veteran user to hide it?

If so, don't give too much weight to new reporters for flagging.
This seems mostly accurate from my knowledge of the Great Firewall, but some of the info seems out of date (maybe the video is old). For example: Wikipedia and BBC News have been unblocked for a while now.
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You say it as if the gaming industry is becoming worst. Isn't the article a sign that the demand for games still exist?
I wonder whether it's an automatic consequence of having substantial negative karma.

(I'm ambivalent about the stealth-blacklisting thing. It's probably the right thing to do with genuinely abusive users. It might be the right thing with people genuinely incapable of contributing much. But I've seen too many cases where someone's comments are all being auto-deaded -- invisibly to them, AIUI -- with no obvious reason why they should deserve it.)
and Japanese isn't similar to English.
I think you've made a bit of a misconception here in confusing the underlying programming language (Java) with the UI library. Assuming you want a program to act and function naturally, like an OS X application - in which your problem is really down not to the programming language used. It is down to the libraries that are being used to develop the UI. Were people to be using Java as the language, but building from a Cocoa binding then you'd be able to have the same UX as a native app. Netbeans uses its own library, which is based on top of Swing. This doesn't feel native at all.

It is also worth noting that there's a big difference between the Gui Libraries that Eclipse and Netbeans depend upon. SWT, the library that eclipse depends upon is actually using native widgets /most/ of the time underneath. Unfortunately it does a lot of its own UI stuff on top of those widgets, and doesn't really follow Mac OS guidelines. I still feel its an incredibly well designed UI though in many regards.
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Yes, I noticed as a Canadian living in Germany, that the Germans seemed to dub almost anything, even some pretty small indie films.
Let me first not that printing was a little sub point.

Second, in what you quote from: easier and nicer than to read it on a screen.

So your argument seems to be that it is equally nice to read fewer lines of paper in a smaller font. Huh? Also, my eyes can't handle 4 pages on a page any more -- and your eyes won't be able to do that after 40, either.
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I believe some companies are claiming 20ms refresh rates, which is hitting 50fps if these claims count for continuous changes or just one-offs. Certainly a lot of display manufacturers have been showing off video, but you've got to consider the growth rates here can be biased for one reason: colour.

E-ink and every other company wanting to produce e-paper want colour. If they can hit continuous frames above 24fps in full colour, then they've got a massive game changer. I mean think of the game change in laptops where the display uses 60-70% of the battery life of the device if you're capable of dropping that to 5-10%. Your average piece of shit netbook will run 24-hours. Your laptops that already run through a full business day plus commute, will be able to last you the full week and maybe a saturday on a single charge.

I think the black&white e-ink displays aren't advancing as fast as they could be simply because developers are trying to find their holy-grail of a video-capable colour display.
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