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I dropped out of engineering and did a fine arts degree for exactly this reason.
> and probably even some firings

I was with you until you said this.

If the problem was a company-wide cultural mismatch, it strikes me as somewhat absurd to declare that the answer is to fire the people who happened to be posted near the border of that mismatch. That doesn't fix anything.
so you can finaly separate the company and your life.

get the money and use the savings as savings. i.e. rainy days money. every one needs it.
Here = union square.

Legos: decided to spring for the new lego trains 7938, 7939, 10194, and 10219. For some reason the train crashes arent as satisfying as i hoped ...

The new mindstorms aren't as satisfying as I remember (and maybe the trains are more enjoyable because I didn't get them when i was younger ...
can't say about the app. but it wans't fun to see all the images slowly apearing top-down at your site...
That's not what a shibboleth is.
I hate the writing of the article, but the point of having a 25% bonus tied to social being a dumb move I actually find myself agreeing with based on the information presented. (I'd love to read the full memo...)

People should share social features because they want to, not because they're getting a bonus. Google is ignoring an intensely valuable internal feedback mechanism by re-aligning their employees to adopt new social features without skepticism.

The other big problem I see is tying bonus compensation to an area where you are looking for passion and innovation is the easiest way to replace intrinsic motivation with external motivation, the latter having been proven ineffective in research over and over and over again. You can't incentivize passion, you can only create the environment for it. They will likely end up with products built for bonuses instead of products built out of passion as a result.
Is there a free-market for the right-of-way the isp lines travel through?

Is there a free-market for spectrum?

In both cases, no. There are very heavily regulated markets. So if they benefit from very heavy regulation, and they do, then they should be subject to some regulation as well.
Strange, it looks to be working fine for me: http://cl.ly/460I3Z1V1R0F1y3W0J3d.

Is there a specific page where it's broken for you?
"have now been integrated firmly into the sidebar."

having to scroll down, click "more tools" and finally seeing the options is not that firm in my book.
This whole article is premised on the idea that Google is trying to "beat" Facebook. That assumption, to me, is folly.
Apparently, they sell software that adds mouseover hotspots to photos (revealing an informative div, like Flickr, Facebook, or Bing). It costs $4000. :/
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Ooooh, that looks sexay. I will play with this now.
Reinventing just about any wheel will at least teach you a lot about how that type of wheel works, even if your reinvention never makes it into production.
I guess it's loosely equivalent to an essay topic today on:

1. English city life in the 19th century.
2. The Battle of the Somme
3. The character of Lady Chatterley
4. Apartheid

I'd expect that whilst they might seem absurdly dated 100 years from now many contemporary British Cambridge applicants today could confidently write essays on (2), a fair few on (3). I'd be really happy if (4) seemed like an odd subject in 100 years' time.
So, this is a top5 post on HN?

>The phrase it's self is flawed.

itself. I stopped reading there.
We just lost a couple hundred of our esignature customers because FannieMae has stopped accepting esignatures on docs...
That's it. I'm starting a new organisation called Greypeace, to protect the moon's ecological system. Our goal will be attacking these lunar rovers with inflatable rockets in order to raise public awareness.

I'll post a link where you can donate money for this completely legit organisation shortly.
Yes, definitely do this. Don't let people try to convince you that you shouldn't reinvent the wheel. Typically they just have some wheel they've reinvented that they want you to use. Instead, you should implement as many things as you can to learn how they work, and then use this knowledge to select tools and avoid bullshit and marketing choices.

And who knows, maybe you'll do something better. That's progress.

Also check out gevent and eventlet to see the differences with those systems as well. I just submitted a patch to eventlet to give it better zeromq support.
It's like oil exploration, there's a cost at which extraction makes sense. Since the price of the resource varies over time, the economics of extraction will as well. There's no firm "yes" or "no" to the "Is it worth doing?" question, there's only "worth it / not worth it right now."

The much bigger obstacle will be political, breezy as the article is about ownership of lunar resources.
Discussion on Minecraft's use of Perlin noise: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1733157
Actually, no. It's a win in that case too, as I mentioned. The customer gets something to complain about, so they win by appearing thorough and tough on the vendor, and the manager gets something to fix, and wins by appearing reactive to customer needs/wishes. I've seen this scenario so many times over my last 25 years of doing this. To date, I've only had 1 manager admit that's what's actually taking place.
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and today was a pretty good day
There are two free alternatives that come to mind. Cloudmade.com and Yahoo Maps!
how do you measure the hours someone used to write something?

i'd have studied decorative calligraphy and spent 2.5 hours on the title.
"few things rile me up like a manager giving me directives to 'evangelize' products to my family"

Few things make me worry more about the product too. If it was good, you wouldn't need to order people to evangelize it. They would be doing it because showing off something cool is fun, doubly so if you had a hand in it.
That is correct. However, to the best of my knowledge this activity does not take place in a "hard-drive repair center". In fact, there's no such thing as a "hard-drive repair center", with the exception perhaps of an RMA department of a hard drive manufacturing company. That gave me the impression that the story was either made up or badly translated.
Excellent - I'd be interested in that!
I'm no astronomer or physicist, but isn't the mass and weight of the moon sort of vital to maintaining stable life as it is now on Earth?
It remains to be seen whether this is true, or just a scheme to provoke an outpouring of support ("support" in various ways, shapes and forms).
I agree, plus if you take the time to get this working, the only limit is your server (assigned) space for file storage.

I hope there will be a follow-up with step-by step info, I am interested.
A method I've used a few times is to have some kind of competition, win some free recording time for example. The twist is you only show the entry form to people who have 'liked' your page (Facebook documentation can show you how to do this). It's easier to get people interested when there's the chance of winning something :)

Here's one I've done using that method - http://www.facebook.com/aintree

Edit: there was a competition on that FB page, but the event has now passed.
This is the sort of language feature that looks very neat at first, but there are simpler ways to solve the same problems. If you want to search a space by trying all possibilities ("generate and test"), the most straightforward way is a nested for loop with an if statement.

The advantage of using nested for loops is that it's pretty clear that there's a performance problem and most programmers will have a good idea what to do about it. (Perhaps change the order of the loops, do checks in the outer loops to avoid running the inner loops, and so on. For larger problems, figure out how to parallelize.)

Of course, a for loop isn't very modular, so something like Python's generator expressions might be more suitable for building pipelines. In Java, this can be done with iterators and some good iterator utility methods, such as those in Guava.
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Compare it to the original on a GBC or an emulator. It looks and sounds just like it.
It does make me wonder if java libs are a plus or a minus for clojure long term. Will they prevent the language from growing its own, more vibrant ecosystem?
No idea what is going on with the youtube embed. I've used css media queries to use a placeholder image on mobile safari that is a thumbnail you can click and will load the youtube video.
I'm wondering what you mean when you say that Google have done their best to thwart Opera users from using Gmail. Is this commonly accepted as true?
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Why does Google need to have some centralized social product? I think that the strongest thing about +1 is that it's totally built on top of their wildly successful core product. Its social, but it's more passive, and relevance remains at the core. I don't need another timeline of stuff that is relevant to people I know, but not necessarily me.
It doesn't matter how many people are tweeting, what matters is the number of tweets that find a pair of eyeballs.
Earlier that may have been a worry, but I think it's pretty clear by now that's it's only helped. It's entirely possible to write comprehensive, complicated, programs in Clojure, using no Java. There are, too, many Clojure libs that either wrap Java or forgo it entirely in replacing Java. Java is really used to as a syscal language, and as Clojure runs on the JVM, that makes sense (no thank you, JVM bytecode).
And that's coming from the guy who wrote the mongrel2 wheel :)
Unison rocks. I've been using it for a couple of months now to move back and forth from a Windows desktop to a Windows laptop through an archive on a central Fedora file server, and it just ... works.

It doesn't handle mailboxes all that well, I have to admit (but then, neither do I; my mailboxes tend to grow towards infinity).
Nearly 40 years ago I heard the sometime astronaut and future senator Harrison Schmitt speak at the Colorado School of Mines. Nearly all I remember is that I learned that it was possible to sleep sitting up in uncomfortable plastic seats--Schmitt was not a good public speaker.Yet I remember him, in response to a question from the audience, distinguishing bodies of ores, which can economically be mined, and formations of minerals, which perhaps can, perhaps can't. Schmitt, then and suppose yet the only geologist who had been to the moon, did not seem to think we'd be mining there soon.
The moon is quite large. To move a measurable percentage from there to here (one large enough to affect things like tides) is well beyond our current capabilities. We'll be OK. :)
Valid questions, but there are some 'known' unknowns which is to say you can't even start if you can't get some way to manipulate the moon on to the surface of the moon. There is a variety of material on the surface [1] which removes the need for excavation. Economically one would want to post process raw regolith into the desired materials to improve the profitability of sending mass back from the moon to earth.

But what I like about these guys is that they're in kick down the door and get a search warrant later mode. There is a demonstrated capability in the Falcon9 project to get an earth/lunar/lunar-surface mission together. If you borrow the Merlin engine from SpaceX for your rover, autonomous landing in a gravity well with a power variable engine is a solved problem. [2] So most of the questions vis-a-vis "How do I get something on to the surface to mine?" is an engineering / cost problem rather than a 'create from whole cloth' problem.

The 'knotty bits' in this particular endeavor are then three;

a) Do we deliver a return capability to the surface (aka a return craft) or do we create it on the surface from materials we find there?

b) What is the energy infrastructure, solar? nuclear? And do we build it on site or do we transport it?

c) Of the prioritized targets (in terms of value per lifted ounce of the surface and into low earth orbit) what are the extraction techniques for each and their repeatability?

That would be a helluva lot of fun to play with wouldn't it? Building a series of modules that could deploy on the lunar surface and provide a refinery capability.

Presumably there is a scenario where you put a variety of payloads on the moon and a means to assemble into the infrastructure you need.

[1] http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.ea.05.0...

[2] http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home
Which would be a relevant point if the Java language had changed since 1994, 1958 called it wants it's lack of closures back.
Ported is different from emulated though. Ported involves altering the game itself to run on a different platform. Emulation is building a virtual version of the original platform that does "translation" of sorts between the original platform's methods/attributes/etc and the new platform, leaving the game itself unaltered.
I know this isn't a tech support forum, but in a fit of lunacy I figured I'd give Acme a try last night (the Acme-SAC version) and after using it for an hour of so I can't even figure out how to open a text file (it seems like it has its own virtual directory structure that I can't seem to navigate out of).

Anybody here successfully using Acme for coding?
"But other reputable scientists researching the most radiation-contaminated areas of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are not convinced. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, another UN agency, predicts 16,000 deaths from Chernobyl; an assessment by the Russian academy of sciences says there have been 60,000 deaths so far in Russia and an estimated 140,000 in Ukraine and Belarus.
Meanwhile, the Belarus national academy of sciences estimates 93,000 deaths so far and 270,000 cancers, and the Ukrainian national commission for radiation protection calculates 500,000 deaths so far."
You just say that because you've not lived in a country where you can walk the streets alone safely at night.
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Arguably, if they did it too much more firmly, sites would start to game it.
Interesting, you seem to already harbour ill feelings toward Groklaw:

http://lwn.net/Articles/401923/
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There is no law clearly defining private property rights on the moon, but you can bet that it's not going to be as easy as just showing up and starting to dig.

A couple key quotes: "The UN says that private expeditions count as national activities and are covered by the treaty, which has been signed by all the major players. Lawyers disagreed and a second agreement - the 1979 International Moon Treaty - was drawn up to explicitly ban private ownership of lunar real estate." -http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/oct/24/spaceexplorati...

"the activities of non-governmental entities in outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, shall require authorization and continuing supervision by the appropriate State Party to the Treaty" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

Some good articles on trying to use the moon for private gain:

http://www.slate.com/id/2202888/

http://www.space.com/6210-owns-moon.html
Groklaw filled a huge void. Done by someone who is a proponent of free software but also knowledgable about the law. As similar debates rage on in copyright and patent spaces, I think the need for that perspective will remain. We don't need more commentary from folks who don't know what the patent act §101 bars are. We need folks who understand the legal framework and can advocate for consumer rights within that framework. Hopefully someone steps in to fill PJ's shoes.
But... but social is an adjective. As far as I can tell, Google is talking about implementing social feedback in a sense similar to Slashdot (also Digg, Reddit, HN, etc), not social networking a la Facebook. And this feedback mechanism on search results is the basis of the 25% bonus[1]. How does voting on search results relate to Facebook?

[1] -- since this could use a source, see http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/08/google_bonuses_tied_... and 'Page is tying a proverbial lamb chop around the neck of its new social thingy, "Google +1" [...]'.
I'd say Facebook's party ended when peoples' moms and dads joined.
They're centers of offshore financial activity in the West and India, respectively.
Impressive. Any information on the inner workings?
Big shame. While in the SCO case groklaw was useful as an information source and an advocacy conduit, I feel there is a need for detailed coverage on court cases that revolve around technical issues or major technical players, even if there is no obvious position to advocate for.

I hope somebody else can take up the torch.
Does this mean we're in a bubble now?
Social software and slick UI design is not in Google's "genes". That's OK, but they should just admit the fact based on past performance. Google's engineers are great at building computing infrastructure that scales. They should acquire a bunch of young, promising social startups. Then let those engineers and designers expand their services on Google's infrastructure. Google could organize into nimble app teams building on platform teams' work.
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I've used it and it works great. The only problem I remember encountering was getting it to work with a virtualenv, but that was probably just inexperience on my part.
There are something like 20 minerals that are important to US industry (some are essential) for which the US has no usable internal sources and so relies on imports. For many of these, most of the world's supply is in assorted unstable third world countries (mostly in Africa), or the former Soviet Union, or China. These minerals are often called "strategic minerals".

For instance, here's a map of where cobalt comes from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/2005cobalt_%28.... (Cobalt is essential in making the alloys used in jet engines, so a loss of access to cobalt could serious harm the US militarily).

Having an emergency backup plan for these minerals, such as moon mining, would be good even if it is expensive.
So, is your position that we shouldn't pass any laws or regulations because they may have unintended side-effects on companies that may exist in the future ? That sounds like pretty weak tea to me.

What on earth is wrong with the FCC stating that no company can give precedence to any specific source/destination's traffic over another source/destination's traffic ? All it does is codify the basic principle that the Internet was founded on, and the same principle that allowed it to become what it is today. More importantly, it doesn't involve any changes for any company unless they're already breaking the rule, in which case isn't it a good thing that we make them stop doing so ?
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What I have discovered is the more you learn about any particular technology the more you fully understand its weaknesses and limitations. If you learn enough you eventually get so frusterated that you have no option other than to sit down and start over from the beginning.
I think there are people who have interesting ideas but who can't express them as well as others. The ideas may still be worth discussion. And of course anyone who doesn't want to comment doesn't have to.

Its a bit dissonant when a post is upvoted enough to be on the front page but the highest voted comment is about the post's style rather than content. The post upvoters were probably voting on content, not style.
Good luck. Mayer used to date Larry Page.
A reasonable FOSS library in C++ for those attempting to quickly play with coherent noise (Perlin, cellular) is http://libnoise.sourceforge.net/ Used it in a couple of projects and been happy with the ease of use. Also has some good doc pages to supplement those in the linked article.
For those not familiar with the above poster's relation to Groklaw:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091021164738392

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100408153953...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110122054409107

Edit, for a little more context: http://twitter.com/FOSSpatents
Fastmail has always been aimed more at paying users than free ones. The taglines go away with anything above the free acount.
I do prefer your title time implementation over steep.it or e.ggtimer.com ebcause I can actually see the time remaining even with the ususal (10+) amount of tabs open. Cool project for an hour, really could use the audio alarm though as already mentioned.
The author has a good point which should be contemplated in the context of one's company. Incentives should be tied to your performance.

There is a small backlash against "social". Google pushing social will not help that. Facebook and twitter own social right now. Next year, who knows? The better way forward is to figure out how to give users clean and excellent tools to manage the privacy/transparency aspects of social and integrate that into a platform with a great signal:noise ratio.

That's not an engineering problem. That's a people problem: a business, legal and UX problem sitting square in that gooshy, touchy-feely, soft side of how people think, operate, and want to manage their data. The question is, can Google play in that arena? Can they hire some flake fruity designer who totally groks how non-engineers think and integrate that understanding into the engineering teams?
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You probably got downvoted because you show a lack of understanding of what grellas was saying. What he was saying was that if the FCC had been allowed by the courts to use 'ancillary jurisdiction' to impose new rules, the FCC would indeed be in the very situation which you say is impossible, a situation of broad, unchecked power.
Janis Common Lisp implementation is also very interesting. Moreover, it explains how to optimize CL code:

http://t-b-o-g.blogspot.com/2009/10/brians-brain-on-common-l...

http://t-b-o-g.blogspot.com/2009/10/brians-brain-on-common-l...

http://t-b-o-g.blogspot.com/2009/12/brians-brain-on-common-l...
Free market does not necessarily mean perfect competition, or 10+ competitors to choose from. I don't know where you got that idea.
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Great post. But I can't help wonder how governments would stop an organisation that has sufficient technology to go and mine the moon.

A well-capitalised moon mining operation could maintain a base in space and send energy to Earth via laser beam (or whatever similar scientific approach you favour). I'm sure that governments could confiscate earth-bound assets of such enterprises, but they will presumably retaliate by keeping all their assets in space.

I think that exploitation of space (as an activity) will completely screw with our concepts of "nation" and "government". Once a private enterprise can go mine asteroids they're going to have far more capital (i.e. money) than any nation on Earth.
Getting coreboot running on the Facebook motherboards would be a nice next step. It's probably not feasible for the Intel boards due to NDAs, but AMD is probably game.
Actually now you have me reconsidering even using tornado as the http server. I got more to research and think about
I don't believe such blatant partisanship belongs on Hacker News.
It's an emulator: http://www.grantgalitz.org/gameboy/js/GameBoyCore.js

Edit: Here's the home page, with a full UI: http://www.grantgalitz.org/gameboy/
Where is the startup competitor to Netflix that will be hurt? Can you send me a link or something?
From the perspective of an individual, fixing a systemic flaw is going to take much longer than just operating within it. There are cases where "reinventing the wheel" is just the best way to go.