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> Have you ever tried to set up a Gitorious box?

Yes! :'(

Complicated to set up and complicated to maintain. And its black box approach to storing the repositories on disk - using UUIDs as folder names, doesn't inspire confidence if the complicated card house should fall over.

I'm not saying Gitorious is a house of cards, but it didn't fit the bill for me at all as a person with limited time to fiddle with a source control setup but still want some self hosted repos. Gitolite ftw.

I'd also be suspicious of the integrated features of Fossil, which from a quick look on their site wouldn't be enough to cover what I need anyway. I'd be curious to know what the thought behind integrating everything is. Could be handy for a hackathon or such I suppose?
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I believe they had 20,000 employees few years back. Now it should be much more, if not twice that.
I was talking to a friend who works at Yahoo today. She's feeling terribly overworked and unproductive mostly because of some boneheaded organizational practices. I don't know the full story, but it sounds like she has pretty much accepted that management is brain-dead.

At Google, there's a culture that if something is broken, call it out so that it can be fixed. At best, you will save thousands of employees hundreds of hours. At worst, you'll learn why it's broken. Many problems are inherent in running a large company, and there is no easy fix for them. But many others have simple solutions that make everyone's lives better.

The way I see it (and this is completely my personal opinion here, not speaking for Google), he and other Xooglers who've written posts like this are being Googley. You don't work for seven years at a company without absorbing some of the culture, and that culture doesn't simply leave when you hand in your badge. Posts like this are not all that different from something you would see on internal Buzz or mailing lists, and I think the spirit of them is not to "bash" Google, but to call out things that Google could improve upon even after the Xoogler has left.
Has anyone else noticed you can move most of the design elements around and they interact with the balls. Everything except the Android holding the QR sign, the clock itself and the copyright line can be dragged around. The Google IO logo is the only one that you can move, but doesn't interact with the balls.
That graph is screaming out for a log scale.
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ARM chips don't have good performance compared to x86 chips. Most people would be unwilling to accept a performance downgrade

I'm not so sure about that.

Excluding gamers and power users, I'd say that in the last 5-10 years, most people haven't even had a clue about how the performance of their personal computer will compare. Everything's just "fast enough" for most people.

Performance increases, if any, are more likely to be attributed to Windows reinstallations or the fresh setup in a new computer rather than the CPU power. Installing more memory and better hard drives have more to do with the snappiness of a personal computer than the CPU.

In fact, heck, I'm a programmer and the last time I think I cared about the processor speed was in the turn of the 2000's. I do notice CPU performance when compiling big codebases but compared to hours of turnaround time in the 90's any messages from the compilation units have generally just been swooshing by at an unprecedented pace during the last decade.

I would notice an ARM CPU on my main development laptop but I could probably live with that easily, especially given the better battery life and decreased heat production of an ARM chip.

Anyone else from office workers to my parents probably would never guess if it's ARM or x86, even if the former was 1GHz and the latter was 3GHz.
Did you notice you can drag other elements on the page down below the clock and the balls will bounce off them. ;)
Mobile safari is kinda freaking out if you watch this on an iPad.
or Maybe that why you remember him due to his personal appearance...

I saw many talks in past years and I'll always remember the ones from rms but more for his message than his personal appearance.
Beat me to it. The balls interact with the logo for me though.
I've been following douweosinga's blog since before he joined Google, interesting to see he's moving on. Part 2 is a little more interesting than the first.

He linked to this, though, which I didn't know about, and seems at first glance to be very useful and neat: http://sharedspaces.googlelabs.com/
The idea is to version control not just the code but the entire state of the project: bugs, documentation, discussion etc. I do think the implementation in fossil is a mistake though. If they had tied it to the code dag then you would be able to go back to any point in the project history and see the exact state of the project at that time.
Well, it is already being used by drug dealers (see Silk Road). In fact, if you have bitcoins it's probably easier to exchange it for illegal drugs than for food.
Based on the same idea http://www.purincess.com/ExplodingBuddha/
Just a few days ago I was reading about how Intel might start making ARM chips. 2 + 2 = ...?

Biggest reason the Apple-ARM rumor is not entirely infeasible to me is Apple has never been performance-first, and I could see them taking a performance hit for aesthetic or form gains.
Liberty dollars again? Man, if they hadn't gotten raided I'd be suspicious of affiliate link scams.
Two minor points.
1. The are not really new books. Both are new editions of older books.
2. One of the books is not by Richard Stallman, it is his biography written by someone else.
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The official version is also up in the Google logo archive:

http://www.google.com/logos/particle.html

(Actually, almost all the interactive doodles are up in the archive:

PacMan: http://www.google.com/pacman/

Buckyball: http://www.google.com/logos/buckyball.html

Particle Ball: http://www.google.com/logos/particle.html

Instant: http://www.google.com/logos/logos10-3.html (halfway down on the page)

Jules Verne: http://www.google.com/logos/verne.html

Bunsen: http://www.google.com/logos/bunsen.html

Charlie Chaplin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGSU2PM9dA&feature=playe...

It's missing Lennon (alas), Rube Goldberg, and Earth Day (which'll probably get up eventually), along with some other ones that were simple click-through images.)
That was the goal, though. At least I think so. After reading is honestly I still don't know why he left.
Several US reactors share a lot of the design of the Japanese and are built and designed by GE. That Lone would make me nervous.

The accident in Japan provided knew knowledge: it showed multiple scenarios which were thought to be extremely unlikely or which were not thought about at all.
Do you have a source on your assertment that Arrington was biasing his writing because of his investments?
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Is this common in certain OSS circles? I know stack overflow has a bounty feature, but I've never really seen this before.

I thought open source was about "scratching your own itch", not "here's $20, scratch me"
one of the biggest reasons Apple would switch to ARM for laptop-like products is to reduce their dependence on Intel's effective monopoly!
I think thats just to warn vista/7 users that it doesn't effect them.
I'm just refusing to acknowledge the canard.
I'd love to do it myself, but I've tried a few times without much success. Hopefully, I will be able to learn from someone else should they choose to do this.
And then, design became a commodity
It's not different. Both are random search algorithms packaged in a (somewhat complex) human abstraction. The convergence properties are the same as for other search algorithms using meta heuristics, including the classic simulated annealing algorithm.
That it has a cool name..
The most logical thing for Apple to do if they were to decide to switch to ARM would be to use it in the MacBook air only. People buy iPads and MacBook Airs to play with. People generally buy MacBook Pros, iMacs, and MacPros for work(I did.) The fact is that ARM chips are not cut out to handle the demands of professional users and won't be for the foreseeable future. Especially now that Intel has announced tri-gate. Finally, why would Apple switch when they are placing a major bet on Thunderbolt? It seems unlikely or more accurately unwise for them to switch to AMD without a tremendously compelling reason. And no, A15 isn't enough.
Google IO contestants had to implement this in a few hours on Android for their last call competition:

https://sites.google.com/site/lastcallforio2011/quickfire-su...

This is how I got my Google IO ticket.
re 1: I guess its more about "looking amazing", not about usability. I looked at the clock and forgot to look at the date (had to re-open the tab to see when the event was). Looks amazing, though.

re 2: I think that's intentional, because you can drag-and-drop all items on the page. Just drag the title from behind the QR to an empty place on the page.

re 3: Dunno. My arm seems to be a bit slow to actually move many balls simulateously with sufficient FPS.
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Working together on commercial space technology is good. But space technology also has military uses, in which case both China and the US have strategic reasons for being competitive.

Example: a few years ago China decommissioned one of its weather satellites by firing a rocket at it from Earth. Some speculated this new technology could be used to wipe out the USA's anti-nuclear system, leaving it vulnerable to an attack.
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A bunch of random stuff on a whiteboard from 5 years ago.

I'm not trying to be negative, but how is this pertinent to the hacker news community?
Depends on the crisis. For crises where you have a 'book' on the situation, dispassionate, by-the-numbers execution is important. For situations where you do not, somebody had better be ready to stand up and lead.

Both approaches are valuable, but they do not address the same problems.
I thought open source was about "scratching your own itch", not "here's $20, scratch me"

Open Source is about availability of the source code, not about paying for the development or not.
I don't really think it's about expectations or initiative. It's about accountability. He's simply saying that there are times when the guy on the bottom of the ladder has his hands tied and can say there is nothing he could have done(breaking and entering is not a viable option for a janitor). At some point someone has to take responsibility, Jobs says that starts at the VP level.

I also think people get a little carried away with this due to Jobs' persona. I don't think he means it in a, "you must get X done at all costs". I think he's simply saying, "This is your responsibility. You're accountable. Don't blame someone or something else".
Original paper: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

"This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed."

Also a very cool short story about this idea: http://qntm.org/responsibility
Its important to remember that Kara Swisher is just an employee, one who draws a salary, and therefore doesn't have an ego the size of Neptune. Arrington is a master of the universe. You can't expect him to be constrained by anything resembling ethics.
A project I worked on needed more than just the value (or lack of value) from a sorted array---it also needed the index where the item would have been had it been in the array. The standard binary search in the language I was using didn't return that information.

Sometimes, the requirements exceed what the standard stuff gives you.
Not entirely - what about deaf and blind people, or those with cognitive disabilities?
This image was referenced in the post "Leaving Google". Thought, might interest someone...
I think the idea is that the VP is involved in setting the goal, so if they fail to achieve it they take the responsibility for not having planned correctly. If they agree to an impossible goal, it is on them. If conditions change and they see the goal will not be met, they need to manage the expectations and not allow the situation to surprise anyone, especially Steve Jobs, like the example in the article.
This is more common than most folks seem to think. I've noticed the curious delusion in talking to acquaintances where ABMers who stridently complain about Microsoft innovations and tools insist that XHR "doesn't count because Google made it popular."

When gently informed (not reminded--most of the ones I know have never touched Outlook in their lives) that Outlook Web Access was the reason XHR was invented, the response so far has invariably been "but that doesn't count, because it's Microsoft."

I somewhat chalk it up to the "cool factor" that surrounds Google, but a good part of it may just be ignorance.
While I am sympathetic, this is the same sort of argument that was made in the past with napster and the trend of later laws has been to hold "enablers" liable (at least when it comes to copyright). Given what happened with egold I would not have much faith that the US (and western world) legal establishment will tolerate something like bitcoin. But who knows, maybe we'll get a judge who is willing to make fine distinctions from technical arguments, or is more favorable on free speech vs the interests of those who currently control the flow of capital.

Follow up:

egold plead guilty to "operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business". While I'm not familiar enough to say definitively if bitcoin could avoid this same statute in the US, I'd guess not.
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Honestly, while I understand what you're saying, I disagree. Changing plans and/or pushing back schedules is independent on who's responsible or to blame. If something happened that can't be worked around and my VP neither made contingencies or raised that risk to me from the start. It's their fault. Period. Might sound harsh, but I can't see how you do it any other way.
Yes, they lost control of road traffic enforcement as well, but not to the extent that they lost control of the taxi industry. Having some form of regulation would have kept the taxi operators busy evading the state rather than acting with criminal impunity (maybe even behaving better to not arouse suspicion), a better result than what actually happened.

And the state is stronger now than it was in the past, but the legacy of deregulation lives on - getting the genie back into the bottle is harder than letting it out.

Same crime, only institutionalized, sanitized, and socially acceptable.
"Sanitized and socially acceptable"...sounds good to me.
Not necessarily. To quote the cliche, OSS is free as in freedom not free as in free beer.
I've paid for features to be implemented and been paid to implement features. It's not common per se but it's not frowned upon in my experience. It's often a lot more efficient to pay someone else (or them you) with expertise and a commit bit to get something done; just don't expect money to allow you to go against the projects grain and tack on cumbersome or obscure functionality.
Ford didn't invent the automobile or mass production either, they just elevated it to a new level that defined it for an entire era, just as Google did with AJAX.

I wouldn't credit Google with as big a part with the NoSQL movement. BigTable is a big innovation but it wasn't making much of an impact on the rest of the industry for a long time. Memcache probably had a bigger impact on the NoSQL movement, for example.
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That's not really all that surprising - Cambridge's CS course is highly theoretical, and very grounded in mathematics. It doesn't really train programmers as such. I decided before going to uni that I wanted a more practical degree, but I think it's important for some universities to teach pure computer science as opposed to a programming/cs mix.
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If it makes you feel any better, I was a janitor too. My first job with a steady paycheck was being an assistant superintendent at a condo. Effectively I was doing the work of a janitor.

Asses were busted but at the end of the day you go home and there's no lingering stress. I did my rounds, I cleaned my floors, I noted the gauges and rewound the tapes. It's someone else's shift now, they can deal with the leaky pipes or the stuck elevator or the mold in the stairwell. It was a very different type of job from say... founding a startup, or even just being yet another software engineer.

I guess the more you introduce creativity, ownership, and absence of process... the more you depart from the land of janitorial services.
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I think its surprising to see such little growth in number of users using python from last year. http://www.go-hero.net/jam/11/languages vs http://www.go-hero.net/jam/10/languages/0

I answered all the questions using python and was surprised to see the majority of the top coders (you know, the guys who solved everything in ~30 minutes) use C++ and Java. I had the impression that the difference in python's runtime would be made up for how much more succinctly you can code in it and by all the syntactic sugar... but I guess not. In fact, I noticed some of the top guys have various built in libraries to help them reduce their time spent on input handling and various solver interfaces. The auto generated code from those libraries dwarves the actual solution code in size.
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This zoomify applet is incredibly annoying! Forcing people to use 10% of the screen to look at the huge picture sounds like an especially perverse torture technique.
The concern I have with the transition when Steve finally does leave is that no one at Apple has the "I don't care what you think" attitude required to force the rank and file to the level they operate at now. I fear that once Steve is gone, Apple will become a "good enough" company. Hopefully, Tim Cook will be up to the task, but I am not optimistic about it.
> The largest empire the world has ever seen whittled down to its homeland, a naval base in the med, and some godforsaken islands in the south atlantic. I'd call that pretty disastrous.

Actually, I would count the graceful degradation of the British empire (i.e without the entire country going to hell) as quite an achievement - particularly considering it happened with a surprisingly low level of long-term resentment incurred from the former colonies. Further, the claim that it was due to poor management more than, for example, two ludicrously expensive wars, is more than a touch disingenuous.

I suppose one could argue that the first of those wars was rather a waste, but Britain was hardly the only country to be affected by that particular insanity.
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Wow - five coders use bash as their favorite language (including me :) ).
I don't think Larry/Sergey will check for Why I left Google posts on the web and create taskforce to fix all these things. There is always a better way to give feedback to management without posts like this on the web. I hope Xooglers don't become Google haters and spend their energies on creating the next Google or Facebook and create a culture they dreamed of.
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I just tried to add $100 to the bounty from StartupsOpenSourced.com -- not sure if they'll accept it or not considering it's not necessarily coming from an individual, and they don't know me personally.
Bash? No. Try to fix? Absolutely.

Ever watch a friend slowly slip away? They change from something you knew to something unrecognizable. You have to at least try to do something about it.
Thanks for that link, it's exactly what I have been (not very actively) looking for (in the back of my mind) for quite a while now :)
The end of the second part explains it. It makes perfect sense to me. From google perspective, there are lessons to learn from this, but that is easy to say.
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It is not as common as hacking for yourself, but it does happen. Stallman used to be paid to add features to the gnu system, money which he lived of.
That's why you never rebase something that's already been pushed to a public repo or some other shared "master" branch. Rebasing is for making a clean history before you merge into master or make your changes public.

It's really a magnificent tool because I never have to worry about the cleanness of my work-in-progress commits.
I'm sorry but at this point we should all know what kind of company Sony really is. They don't deserve positive PR from trying to sucker geeks again...

edit; Not sure how I'm being voted down. This is nothing more than PR. We have already seen their true colours.
I'll allow it. :-)
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That seems like a god way of working - I might try modifying my UI-driving in line with that :-)
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There's a bug in the online shop - the "add to cart" button for the first book doesn't work (second one does).
> I'm surprised he didn't just write a 10 line script that wraps a command line utility and call it a day. Oh right, he did.

What's up tlrobinson?

I wrote a stop gap hack to get stuff done while I prototyped the JSONloops format and merge algo. tmpvar and h1jinx then helped out with writing an irrklang wrapper to get low latency playback when my side was ready (see: https://github.com/Marak/JSONloops/blob/master/vendor/play.j... ). Now that both things "work" I want to improve the project.

Why the snarky comment? I'm just trying to have some fun with a little side project. :-(
So Germany was inspecting that their nuclear power plants could stand up to a 9.0 earthquake followed by a tsunami?
Bitcoiner was just released on the Android market though I haven't had the chance to dive into it yet. Can anyone comment on it's merits?
A great feature would be for Google to retain the checksum of the page at the time it was indexed and pass that along to the browser (eg: Chrome). If the checksums don't match, the browser can do a background call for Google to re-fetch the page and recalculate the checksum. If the checksums still don't match display a warning message to the user.

There would likely be some work required to weed out false positives from things like dynamic content, so perhaps only non-text parts should be checksummed... but if one of the biggest issues is malware sites serving up an innocuous page to Google crawlers instead of the malware-filled page that is served to users, something like that would be a good initial sanity check.
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