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If Google wants to win the so-called "talent war" going on right now in Silicon Valley, then it would seem Google would rather hire the talent immediately simply to prevent the talent from taking a job elsewhere. This seems to be Facebook's strategy with it's so-called "manquisitions".

If you're Google, waiting until you absolutely know you need a specific talent seems like an approach that would definately keep fresh innovative ideas and creativity out of your company.

Imagine a young Mark Zuckerberg going to Google for a job. Zuck says "I got this great idea for social networking for college students." Google HR says "We don't have a position open for that right now. Plus you don't have a good resume and you're not a fancy-pants PhD. Don't call us. We'll get back to you." Zuck goes down the street, continues to work on Facebook, and then promptly hires away all of Google's employees. The rest is history.

What I want to hear from Google right now is "Patrick, we don't have a specific job for you yet, but we would rather hire you now anyway to prevent you from accepting an offer elsewhere." But that'd just be too damn easy, I guess.
I don't think it's your intellectual property that they care about...
He did not contact the CEO of AdMeld first. It sounds like Arrington's default policy is to not call first.
Google voice search
I see that the voice search is enabled for me in the google. In the search box, there is a Mic button which starts the voice search. Well done google!
Maybe store the private key on your smartphone, and have the smartphone do the actual decryption of the secret message so the key never leaves the phone.
"Second, he seems to have the attitude that he owns the information that he comes across - that the people the story is about don't have the basic right to say it themselves."

Actually, Arrington made it explicitly clear he was fine with them releasing the information themselves, and they had every right to do it. But, he's going to avoid giving those people a heads up in the future if all they're going to do is scoop him on a story by releasing themselves.

As a result, those people who decide to take advantage of the heads up they've been given by him, will no longer get an advance heads up any more. Those people who do let Arrington release his story first, will be given both the opportunity to respond, as well as a heads up that a story will be filed.

And, you aren't publishing rumors if you've been able to sufficiently confirm a story - frequently the one being asked to respond about a story is often the least willing to provide the truth, so getting their response is quite often being polite, rather than really clarifying anything.

With all that said - I think Arrington was being juvenile in his rumor mongering in that article. He could have cut about 20 percent of the speculation and it would have been a better article. This is where bloggers lack of editors results in (significantly) reduced quality of articles.
Your blogpost mentioned using Git with Dropbox was too much of a hassle, could you elaborate why? I want to know since all my private repos are `git init --bare` within Dropbox directory, which works very well so far. What's the main benefit if I were to switch to Codeplane?
Why would it add attention to this issue?

Microsoft would just say they are responding to Chrome's accelerated release schedule and redefining what a "major" release is.
Indeed I see now what you mean.
Firstly, i'm going to agree with you - Yes, ObjC isn't that hard to learn and people intending to distribute apps on the App Store really have no excuse for not using it. If you want to use new features (Game Center, Notifications, etc.) there is no better way.

Now I have to disagree with you... There is a use case for tools like this, for me anyway - building small one off demo and kiosk type applications. I built a "small" app for a customer the other day which was a menu with 7 or 8 videos linked from it and transitions between the menu and videos., with some logging to say how many times people had viewed each video. Building this natively in iOS meant messing with all sorts of API's, handling multiple different scenarios that I really didn't and shouldn't need to care about and generally consuming far too much of my time and the client's money.

Building the same application previously in Flex took me all of about 5 minutes and I suffered no performance issues whatsoever. If Adobe can deliver me a tool to do the same on the iPad/iPhone, both myself and my clients will be a lot happier for it.

Don't get me wrong, i'll still need to heavily weigh up what tool to use in more complicated scenarios, but if Adobe can give me something to save time on the smaller jobs (and it works), i'll take it.
Do you have an offer from elsewhere? If the answer is no, then your logic is falling flat.
They won't as long as they have a significant market share, but IE7's market share is like 6%. I think they can live without that, especially if it means pushing a few more users to upgrade to more modern browsers.
And of many/most non-techies who do know about other tablets they think "tablet == iPad" like "paper tissue == Kleenex" and "photocopy == Xerox".
Looking for a calm game that will make you think, but not too hard? I recommend the Lemmings-like Cargo Bridge, a highly addictive Chrome Extension game
Knowing how to host a repo considered basic

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2675464 (I can riff off of Dijkstra too!)
Here is a slightly different question, how do you get "no country redirect" to stick reliably?

I cant begin to describe how annoying it is that I am presented with a different language when travelling to a different country. All I ever want is Google in English but it keeps going back to a localized search regardless of the many times that I choose "google in english"
'Web Ninjas' Hacker Group Claims to Have Traced LulzSec Leader
This is great, thanks.

I put it in revise and did a tiny bit of cleanup, but nothing worth really publishing.
Not just scraping. Any sort of non-human parsing of web pages. Look at the 1990s literature on web agents for lots of applications.
I'm not arguing that you are wrong. I'm just saying that I, like you, have actually used both 10" and 7" tablets side by side, and came to the exact opposite conclusion you did.

As for what I use it for, reading pdf's and ebooks probably make up 80% of my usage. As for my eyesight, it's OK, but nothing remarkable, very slightly shortsighted, but not so bad that I need glasses. And anyway I'm certainly not arguing against the existence of 10" tablets, but for the co-existence of both sizes and that one is not inherently better than the other.
(I really don't want to come off as bragging, please bear with me.)

I'm a programmer and I've got my reasons to believe I'm pretty good at my job. I love my job. But it's a job, and the amount of money they pay me to do that is directly proportional to the likelihood I'll accept their offer. For me, working in a management-infested big firm at 200€/hr beats working for a small, agile startup at 100€/hr hands down. I'd go for the big firm even if the startup offered 150€/hr.

Why? I can always work on my projects, and I do, on my spare time. If I work at twice the rate, I can take half my month off and take home the same amount of money I'd get for working at the startup.

Also, I really don't think we programmers get paid well for what we do. Think about our job: it needs a lifetime of experience and you always have to keep updated. When they say that the best programmers are the one with passions, think about it - there's no other way to be even a decent programmer if you're not very passionate about it, because it needs so much time and practice it is just not possible to be a programmer the same way you can be an accountant (just to say, nothing personal against accountants).

My idea customer is one who pays me a ton of money to work with shitty tools on problems he can't even define himself, and then blames it all on me when things go fubar (as long as he pays me). I really don't care - I don't want to be appreciated, I don't want to be cuddled - I'm a professional and I'll give 100% when on shift, I don't need a pat on the back. I will have my satisfaction during the huge amount of spare time that I'll be able to take for myself because you're paying me lots more than a "friendly" customer does.
If they are truly breakout industries, do they need taxpayers' money? If they are promising, where are the VCs?
That's because transitioning users from an older version of IE to a newer one can take years, while I think they said that when they upgrade Chrome, it takes about 10 days to get 99% of the users on the newer version.
ICANN approves plan to vastly expand top-level domains
You cant easily do this on a mobile device.
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A paragraph may legally consist of one sentence. It may legally consist of one word in some cases.

You seem to be trying to draw me into defending a point I'm not making. I'm making a much more subtle one, which is that you can't escape being in a bubble (not the bubble, which I initially typed, because there isn't the bubble, there's all kinds of them), so in a way arguing about whether it's "excessive" isn't even the right dimension to argue on; the filter bubbles simply are. (Not "simply ar excessive", simply are; they simply exists regardless of whether they are excessive or desirable or anything else.) The question is, what should be done about that fact, rather than how do we prevent that fact from being true, and to be honest I'm rather ambivalent about the answer to that question, because the answer is dominated more by your preconceptions and pre-existing goals than anything interesting.

I really should just blog this up.
Agreed that it's nearly impossible to generally parse web pages now, though if you're screen scraping it's still pretty easy (if not easier than before) to pull out data. Before you had to parse the DOM; now you can often get structured data via JSON APIs. It's more brittle, though.
paraphrased: "In C++/Java, you write an iterator again and again for every collection"

No, you don't. If you write them yourselves (which is in most but all cases the wrong approach, what with the Java libraries and the C++ STL), you use templates or generics, as appropriate, to define reusable ones.

In many cases, proper patterns are reusable--and in many cases for good programmers, design patterns occur automatically just because they're a logical way to do something. I don't set out to create flyweight objects, they're the simplest way to achieve my goal. I don't write a thread pool just to create a thread pool, I write a thread pool because it makes sense.

Even in 2002, this was the case. I don't get the feeling that the author of these slides knew either well enough to make the claims he made.

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The Gang-of-Four idea is to discover existing patterns of software development / Then program people to implement them habitually

Er...no. The book Design Patterns is descriptive, not prescriptive. Is that so hard to get?

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I am by no means a C++ fan, or even really a GoF fan, but this post is slagging it just to slag it. If you want to slag it after you understand it, by all means (and I have perturbed a great many electrons in doing so, myself), but it doesn't sound like the author does, at all.
It's your life and you make the calls but why couldn't you just work half the time then? You'd get the same money and 12 or so days off every month. You can do plenty of interesting work during that spare time.
What a ridiculous article - boils down to "how dare someone release their news themselves and not let us break their story".
With all the headless Webkit tools coming out nowadays (and all the free and fast JS engines like V8), writing a spider that runs a JS engine and clicks on all kinds of non-<a> elements is not beyond the reach of somebody innovative and motivated enough to create new kinds of spidering robots.

You won't need to write a complete JavaScript library. Look at all the testing suites that automate browser instances, Selenium being the most well-known.
With "geek" it's a matter of emphasis. The prototype is the same, but it's generalized differently. To a lame-o mainstream person, geek just means a frumpy, weird, socially unsuccessful, and possibly smelly person, but to a geek, it's all about pursuing interests in a particular way. Both definitions include a common group of core prototype geeks who look and act a little weird and have an obsessive interest science fiction and/or fantasy. In the lame-o jock douche (pardon me; showing my prejudices) definition, those prototype geeks get lumped in with all the frumpy, weird, socially unsuccessful, and possibly smelly people, which includes many people with intellectual disabilities, whereas by the cool geek definition, they get lumped in with anybody who is passionate about their interests to the point of being regarded as a little weird, which includes many geniuses in diverse fields. The difference can be summed up by asking, is Milhouse a geek ("I'm not a nerd, Bart. Nerds are smart,") or was Einstein a geek? They're different generalizations from the same prototype.

For the mainstream, the prototype hacker is someone who does something nefarious over the internet with no regard for any damage he or she might do. That's not the same prototype we have in mind when we say "hacker." We include those guys with a certain amount of reluctance and distaste. To us, the prototype hacker is somebody like Richard Stallman, the Richard Feynman of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman or What Do You Care What Other People Think, or the folks who perpetrated the classic MIT hacks (http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/misc/best_of.html). Most people wouldn't even understand why we include those guys unless we explained.
If you created any of these entries and you are looking for work, like contract or full time, you should post on this entry. These submissions are impressive.
>>These manufacturers aren’t software companies: they’re hardware companies that write software out of necessity. Apple is a software company that makes hardware out of necessity.

I like that, but I don't think it's true. Apple computers are (in my opinion) more reliable hardware; a lot of the appeal to Apple laptops are their simply designed hardware and their durability.

However, the opposite point is true: Apple's competitors are not in the software game.
Ask HN: Any east bay / Oakland based hackers looking for shared office space?
Im a freelance developer and looking to find some office space to support my work. I currently do most of my work from home but Im starting to tire of spending so much time working at home. Im looking to find some dedicated office space to serve as a healthier alternative to spending so much time in one spot. Ive looked a bit at finding a space on my own but I think if a few developers got together we could get a much better deal on space. If you're also interested in finding some shared office space please get in touch (pahowe at gmail)
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Sure there's probably a better market in Tampa. But... If you pay the developer what the area dictates they're worth instead of what the developer is worth you'll experience a high turn over rate.
It's probably the easiest way for agents to shore up their numbers for promotion.
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"The next war is not going to be fought with bullets, guns and bombs, it's going to be fought with code and computers."
Would the U.S. Government use a hacker group to launch a campaign of global terror?
In my experience,it is much easier to find talented coders willing to improve the performance of clean (or at least sane) code than to find ones willing to endure insanity.
This should not be underestimated when facing turnover in your development team.
There's suggestions that neither (1) nor (2) will happen. Currently, Tim Cook is (generally) expected to be Jobs's successor, and he's unlikely to change things that work. But there's a recent article -- sorry, I don't remember the title or have a link to it -- which was talking about "Apple University", which is apparently an HR effort inside of Apple to figure out what it is that makes Apple, well, Apple and make it something teachable so that as new executives come on, they internalize that which makes Apple Apple.
Can't you secure everything on the operating system level?
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Arrington said he was fine with it, but the tone and the content of his post says to me, "See? This is what you get." Referring to calling the people ahead of time as giving them a "heads up" is part of why I find his attitude perverse. I consider that part of basic reporting.
Monopolies aren't required for antitrust, but monopolies are watched more carefully for antitrust violations. Antitrust is more about anticompetitive behaviour than market monopolisation.
Joining an early stage startup just for the experience?
Hacker news community, I am a longtime reader but first-time poster. I have been interested in startups since college, and I've had the opportunity to work for two Internet companies since graduating.

My predicament is this: a few months ago I decided it was time to leave my previous job, as it was becoming a bit too "corporate" for me. About this same time, a friend of mine from work had an idea for starting a company and I decided to join him. I felt that his idea was solid, and I felt that it would be good experience for me even if it did not work out. For a couple months I helped him develop the idea, helped formulate a marketing plan, helped out on the sales side, etc. My primary motivation has not been financial but rather has been more about the experience of being in a very early-stage start-up and my passion for the underlying idea.

Fast-forward to last week. I disagreed my partner on a key issue, and was told that as a result he wanted me to take a more minor role within the company.

He is now requesting that I sign a contractor agreement that will provide minimal pay and no equity. My question to you is: if I am not primarily motivated by money, am I an idiot for accepting this agreement?
>Of a market they created and had a headstart on.

The real question: why is Apple so much better than these other companies at creating markets?
What else is the author supposed to do? HTML5 is still in its infancy and browser support varies quite a bit. I have written several HTML5 experiments that work in some browsers and not in others (most notably for me is Chrome and Firefox support the FileReader API while Safari does not), there isn't much else that can be done at this point.
> Convince the loophole abusers to support a new tax system that incentivizes what needs to be incentivized,

Every "loophole abuser" believes that her incentive is something that should be incentivized.

The only way to stop the gaming of tax incentives is to eliminate all tax incentives.
And the socks kick in. Pfft.
Yes.

If this is his conflict resolution system, I can't imagine that this is going to work out very well.
Um Apple is a hardware company, not a software company. Their revenue is based almost entirely on hardware sales. They create software and either give it away or sell it cheap in order to sell hardware.
The Unreal Engine is written in C++, however, which counts as native code.

(Although I think games are a different beast altogether. They don't have to adhere to any unifying HIG, and are fully justified in doing their own thing. It doesn't really matter what's underneath in that case, as long as it gets the job done.)
Have you read anything by Alexander?
I've been saying this from the start. Normal people just don't need tablets. What can you do on it?
Music - Have an ipod or other music device
Movie - Have a big tv
Movie in bedroom - Have a big tv in bedroom
Internet? - have smartphone/netbook/laptop
Games? - Xbox/PS3/smartphone.

At the end of the day, when the dust has settled, there's just no use case for tablets.
>But it has absolutely nothing to do with "luxury."

And then you proceed to describe exactly what I'd expect from a "luxury" device. Polished experience and excellent customer service. Heck, that's precisely what luxury is - not-crap and others standing by to meet your desires.

>About mediocrity – and higher aspiration.

And not mediocrity - and luxury? Seriously, what's the difference? Any smart phone / supplemental computer is very strictly a "luxury", because it's not necessary. Or does it need to be made of gold to be luxury?

>Apple is preferred because they're the only ones who are.

Does it need competition to be luxury? If I make a fromjab, spend billions developing it, sell it for millions of dollars, and polish the heck out of it, is it somehow not a luxury item if I'm the only fromjab maker in the world? What does this say about Picasso artwork? There's only one producer there.
I don't think anybody is "complaining about GitHub's prices" per se...at least not the way you are implying. That is, I don't think anyone is saying GitHub is greedy, or not worth it ever or something like that....

However, the fact of the matter is they have a particular pricing plan, and that pricing plan is such that for certain people it becomes not worth it.

When you go to a fast food place, they generally offer you varying sizes of soda.

For most people that's fine....but for some people their needs may fall JUST in between two sizes...for example they want more soda than a medium, but they don't really need a large.

So they start buying a large...because that's a reasonable compromise.

Sure, the large may be a very good deal, but that's completely besides the point. It's more soda than they really need, and they are wasting money by buying it.

When someone offers a size of soda that happens to fit their needs exactly, there's no reason they shouldn't switch to that. If their needs change they can always go back to their old size, or even a newer one.

Or to pick another soda analogy, imagine that the fast food place only charges for the soda cup. It's a dollar a cup for everyone. This is a GREAT deal for most people...they come in pay a dollar and get a cup of soda, with free refills. The fast food place does alright because it all balances out in the end, the people who drink a little soda subsidize the ones who drink a lot. Even people who only drink one cup of soda get a reasonable deal.

Now imagine you come in with 100 kids who only need a thimble-full of soda each (for the sake of argument). You're paying 100$ for the amount of soda everyone else is paying 1$ for! Overall, the pricing plan is reasonable...but for certain people it falls apart.

Why should those people go with a deal that doesn't work for them? It's better all around for them to find a better fit.

The fact that github is awesome and a great deal is completely irrelevant re the issue at hand. The point is some people don't need all the github awesomeness, they just want somewhere to stick their code.

If that's all you need, there's no reason at all not to go with a cheaper option.

That's not to say that the cheaper option is this guy's service....it could be any number of things. For some people this codeplane is a good fit, for others...not.
Wow....there is a lot of hate on this thread for Arrington. While I don't share in that sentiment, it does come across as 'douchey' of him to be upset that the source wants to announce their own news themselves.

Talk about unnecessary politics in a day and age when I can fire off a blog post or a tweet, I should run it by Mike first to see if he wanted to break it ?

With all due respect, that's wrong.

I understand Michael's desire to always be breaking cutting-edge news (after all, that's how he makes a living), but this is kinda ridiculous.
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