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Sounded like standard bland pr-speak to me. They didn't specifically address any of his points and it comes off as extremely impersonal. I hope for RIM's sake they are sending around a much more detailed memo internally. For instance, the second sentence:

"It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult to believe that a 'high level employee' in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner"

seems to just strengthen the original author's point 8
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does play Magneto to be a star? For this question, Raven / Mystique is played by Jennifer Lawrence, just nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress. Now is a shapeshifter with blue scales. The price of fame.
Would love to discuss with you the heuristics that we are using in more detail and see what you think about them.
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8. is very important. Once you decide to write article, you got to have solid knowledge about the topic. You just can't write the code and see if it works :) you got to know why and how!
Funny you say that because my neighbor has a half-pipe (apparently, that's how it's spelled) in his backyard and I've never heard his son talk about editing video with FCP. And he actually does have a fair bit of video, as he uses a helmet cam.

But again, for him its usually management (I actually recommended something I saw called Project Odessa to him -- not sure if he's using it though). He does super simple titling, and on occassion a soundtrack. But he doesn't need something like FCPX. And if he did use it, he wouldn't buy it. Give him a copy, and I'm sure he'd use it (if he had a Mac), but free does everything he needs.

This isn't to say that some won't buy it (clearly the singular of anecdote isn't data), but I think its like non-free and non-pro music mixing software. Sure there is a market for it, but its just not huge.
"to convince ... again" or "to delete ... again" ? I mean have you tried to delete already ? :)
If it doesn’t yet have a feature you need you can continue using FCP7

Except, apparently, you can't buy FCP7 any more (at least that's what I've heard from one guy I know in the industry). Which means that if you're a Final Cut Pro house and need to hire more staff, I guess you're kind of stuck going the pirate route for getting editing software for your new employees.
super excited about this release!
absolutely - they key point is that they actually took halting steps at 'implementing something specific' [ by implementing I dont mean writing code.. it could be cardboard flash cards of the workflow ]

I'm endlessly surprised to see how rare this is.
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So far, this method has worked for some lucky users. Don't worry, you'll be included in the access list soon. This happened because of too many users trying to join Google+ at a time. Google+ is just not ready yet, it is still in field trial. Apologies to everyone who wasn't able to join Google+, I'll re-send all the invitations once this gets fixed.
Wow, this sounds really promising. Definitely going to check it out!!
They aren't. I got an invite on my epochwolf gmail account but signed up with my personal gmail account. (Which I happened to be logged in to at the time)
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sounds like directly from Zuck's mouth
Was thinking the same. Fuck any company with that level of lock-in.
Looks pretty interesting, even one of them had my Trust API idea I had but dropped. You have stiff competition from half bakery and several idea websites out there though.

However I see it inherently flawed like the other idea websites:

1. Visitors tend to be idea people only and not really potential customers.

2. There is no clear promotion plan either except for 'build it and they'll come'. Ideas people see very little benefit because there's no user base, there's no user base because there's little benefit (chicken and egg problem).

3. All ideas are given weight equally. If I propose a flying car, that's great, everyone wants it but no one will want to take on such a risky idea. More: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy

Look at Kickstarter; they have their users advertising projects and acting on them after the site got some momentum.

Needs improvement and change of current priorities.
It's a half-PIPE, gramps.
RIM prefers to merely adress their shareholders on this issue, while the smart move would have been to include some lingo addressing their customers and the valid concerns raised in the 'open letter'. This won't work in the long run.
So you went from @gmail to @gmail? Not Apps domain to @gmail
This is what RIM is going to do because thats the type of company they are. Their management style is perfectly suited to sell stuff to shallow people based on an exclusive image. This is something they CAN do. , and while it won't change the world it will get them their Christmas bonuses.
Thanks. The way the kids talk nowadays, you can't really tell what they're saying. :-)
Shameless Plug: I just wrote a chrome extension that adds that little red notifications box to the browser, so the persistence of Google+ is unavoidable :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2716053
This is actually a intentional move by the android team. It is a security issue to implement screen shots because any android app or service could immitate user actions and save the image. Imagine malware that took screenshots every time you logged onto your bank account.
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What do you think about his slide about the applied CS? That was one of the things I thought worth discussing. Most of everything seems to make sense in the context of programming indie games.
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I think it's difficult to make the anti-trust case against Google.

Unlike Microsoft's control of the desktop, people choose to use Google everyday. It would be so very very easy to switch to Bing tomorrow (even easier than choosing not to use Facebook!) but people have chosen not to switch.

Just because you have a lot of marketshare doesn't mean you are a monopoly.

It's also quite easy to say that consumers will benefit from the increased competition with Facebook. This is what anti-trust tries to promote, not restrict.
This is a fantastic concept! Good luck!
Dan from Braintree here. I think a QA team would be valuable; we just don't have one right now. To answer your rhetorical question, regression bugs aren't the only type of bug, but they're one of the most dangerous in a payments system. If there's a bug with an unanticipated use of a library, it will show up in our sandbox environment before merchants hit it in production. But if functionality that works in production breaks because of a change, that's a really serious problem.
Can you share an email address?
RIM's action to the open Letter:
http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/rim-agrees-to-consider-splitti...

RIM and NEI Investments Announce Withdrawal of Shareholder Proposal; RIM Committee to Review Matter Raised by Proposal

Waterloo, ON -

Research In Motion Limited (“RIM”) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) and Northwest & Ethical Investments L.P. (“NEI Investments”) announced today that, following discussions between them, NEI Investments has decided to withdraw its proposal that was to be considered at the RIM Annual General Meeting. The proposal asked that RIM’s Board of Directors adopt a policy that divides the role of Chair and CEO, and that RIM have an independent Chair. The parties have agreed that RIM’s Board will establish a Committee of independent directors whose mandate will generally be to (i) study the appropriate balance between an independent lead director or chair with full and exclusive authority customarily held by such an office holder, (ii) determine the business necessity for RIM’s Co-CEOS to have significant Board level titles to assist their selling and other responsibilities with certain large customers in overseas markets, and (iii) propose and provide a rationale for a recommended governance structure for RIM, which will include clarifications of the Co-CEOs and Chair roles, as well as the Board’s mandate. The Committee will consult with NEI Investments in developing the specific terms of reference for this mandate and before it issues its report by January 31, 2012. The Board will publicly respond to the recommendations of the Committee within 30 days.

As a result, the proposal will no longer be presented at the Annual General Meeting and no vote will be taken on the proposal at the meeting. RIM and NEI Investments are pleased to have reached an agreement on this matter, and these important issues of corporate governance will receive further consideration at the RIM Board level
Apple can afford to take a risk with FCP because it's absolutely nonessential to their business. If they're wrong then so what? FCPX becomes iMovie 2014 instead. Not even a blip on Apple's financial radar. I do think it's a growing market because video is everywhere these days and most of it (think corporate, political, educational, YouTube, demos for products, video reviews, etc, etc) does not require very high end features. Ease of use, performance, and fast production is what really matters. That's what Apple's betting on. Even if the vast majority of people are using iMovie or whatever the 10-15% who might go buy FCPX is likely still a much larger video than high end professional video editing.
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I don't think they should abandon the consumer market. They should just focus on the enterprise. There are lots of wannabes in the consumer market who will pay a premium to get "the #1 executive phone in the world"

RIM has always been a one trick pony run by hustling salesmen fueled with hot air. My plan is the natural continuation of their strength.
Tornado is great as a standalone API/WWW server, but for WSGI-based environments, like Google App Engine, I would choose Flask (>= 0.7.1) over any other framework.

Flask, despite being a micro-framework, is extremely powerful. It's core is well-written and there's a lot of useful extensions out there (like Flask-WTF or Flask-Assets). Flask also works really well with Google App Engine (see example skeleton: https://github.com/kamalgill/flask-appengine-template; there's more on GitHub). With little effort you get WTForms and even Webassets support almost out of the box, in really elegant way.

Tornado will also do, since it's very similar to webapp and has very good templating system. However, since extensions ecosystem for Tornado is almost non-existent, one has to write more code to make up for it (e.g. integration with Webassets, management commands, OAuth support etc.).

There's also Tipfy, but I have absolutely no experience with it, so I can't vouch for it.
You should also account for scale.

The City of New York employs about a quarter of a million people, which is around the same size as General Electric or GM, worldwide, performing a wide range of job functions.

Also: the particular system under development included hand scanners, so you should include developing for that.
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I know there's already a small discussion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714917) but I wanted to do a poll to ask if you like the redesign and say why or why not?
Yes, because...
No, because...
I totally agree.

Grid systems are great, but not in the way they're being used today - with lots presentational of classes and ids in the markup.

Are we going back to the days of tables for layout? Look, classes like span-x, grid-y, append-x describe only the presentation of the content. I thought HTML was meant to describe structure, not layout.

Grid systems are destroying the semantic web.

EDIT:

Other classes-littered systems aren't any better (OOCSS, I'm looking at you).
No problem. I don't see how you can think amateur video editing is not a growing market. Vimeo/Youtube seem to contain a lot of evidence to the contrary...
Sure - no problem - the application is Generic Domain Finder - just search it on Google. The current app in the search results is still running GAE.

The things I loved:
- tight integration with Google accounts
- easy integration with other Google apis (we used a few)

The frustrating thing was dealing with the black box. We used an api to get domain availability. Every time it returns more slowly than the equivalent call on our linux based cloud server.

With GAE, you're basically stuck with what you get. With a generic Linux based cloud server - you have more room to optimize your environment, or even take your code and run it anywhere... AWS, Rackspace, Voxel...

I still believe in what GAE is trying to do - and I'll definitely try it out again for future projects.
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Have you ever heard Zuck speak? He doesn't talk like that.
Very cool, and certainly not easy to pull off. It would be interesting to see a good native run-time for Clojure, essentially freeing it from the JVM (though, granted the JVM is driving its adoption). I fear that this is a lot of work however. The JVM may not be perfect for Clojure but a ton of work has gone into HotSpot. One way out is leveraging native libraries, extending the language with means to call into them. If that could be made more convenient, it would be incredibly powerful.
Have you already looked into DCAA compliance? If not, your system can't be used for any federal systems, and likely aren't available to be used by most state and municipal government agencies.
Great idea! You should blog about the factors you are considering in deciding which items are more interesting and why.
He's a troll. That sentiment is not prevalent in the company.
by "Places" do you mean "chatroom"? Because that's a concept that's been around for a long time.

I think Google will allow for sharing of circles soon.
Sure they are. The enemy might send a guided missile through the window of the office next to the general's. What a disaster!
I like it because of the clean look and emphasis on viewing, creating, and searching events. All of the blue from the previous version now gets out of the way of the most important information and actions.

I also appreciate how the month view uses black text instead of white text on all day events. This makes them easier to read.
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I've worked at Pivotal Labs' office in San Francisco and done pair programming at a few companies now.

When you're pair programming, you're not wearing headphones and "getting into the zone". You're openly collaborating, sharing thoughts, bouncing ideas, prototyping things on a whiteboard, and so on. Just like at a party, you subconsciously filter out the surrounding noise when you're talking to your pairing partner. An open office is perfectly fine for this. I didn't think it would be a good situation at first, either. :)

However, I personally do not enjoy pair programming. There's a few reasons why, but the big one is that it's mentally exhausting. Eight hours of engaging in conversation completely wipes me out even if it results in amazing code. I couldn't deal with it any more. To a lesser degree, I do not get the same sense of accomplishment from completing tasks when pair programming that I do from completing tasks by myself.

That said, if I ever run a company with a handful of programmers or more, I'm going to hire engineers who like pair programming.
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For those wondering how the project could have cost so much, here are some of the annual salaries that were paid out:

Job Title Annual Salary
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Specialist, Level 4A $676, 031
Project Manager, Level 4 $661, 628
Project Manager, Level 3 $632, 653
Project Manager, Level 3D $601, 286

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A nice alternative to the built-in webapp framework is webapp2: http://code.google.com/p/webapp-improved/

It's basically a superset of webapp with some great additions and tweaks.
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"It is obviously difficult to address anonymous commentary and it is particularly difficult to believe that a 'high level employee' in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner"

says the unsigned blog post.
Seriously, we drop bombs targeted using this technology. I can't imagine that the military would let anything diminish the accuracy of existing systems.
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It's been one day, and I'm sold.
Yeah, they really nailed it with Circles. That's exactly what I want out of a social network, and they've managed to implement it in a very intuitive way. I can't wait for my friends to get on it so I can finally delete my Facebook account.
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Just received the following email:

As of July 29th, Livescribe will close its third-party developer program. With cloud technology and mobile information access becoming increasingly important to our customers, Livescribe is realigning its focus and resources on cloud access, storage and services. Our recent introduction of Livescribe Connect, which enables customers to easily send notes and audio, as a pencast PDF, to people or destinations of their choice like Google Docs, Evernote, email, and Facebook, is an important step in this direction.

Applications in our online store will remain available for download and purchase pending compatibility with future Livescribe software updates. We will continue to accept applications submitted for publishing in our online store, as well as pattern credit requests through July 22nd. At this time, the SDKs and developer website will no longer be available. If your application is close to completion and you would like to have it posted in our store, please contact us at developer@livescribe.com for support.

We greatly appreciate the time, effort and support you have given to Livescribe and our platform over the past three years.

Thank you again for your contributions.

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Sure, that’s exactly the problem. I was writing about what Apple should have done, not what they actually did.
I think you're spot on - Facebook is basically an entertainment destination. If google is trying to become the same thing, they may end up making the search experience worse.

That said, it's not like there's a choice.
That last sentence of mine wasn't clear. There are tons of people who will edit video and put it on YouTube. That I don't doubt. And most will use free or nearly free software to do so (in a huge number of cases, no SW at all, beyond editing on the actual capture device itself).

$300 is a lot of money to spend on any piece of SW, much less something as niche as video editing. Especially if you were to ask people what feature they want -- all of them are available in free programs.
The complaint:

but unfortunately the culture at RIM does not allow us to speak openly without having to worry about the career-limiting effects

The response:

it is particularly difficult to believe that a “high level employee” in good standing with the company would choose to anonymously publish a letter on the web rather than engage their fellow executives in a constructive manner
I have to say, classifying my contacts is stressful. I created an "Inner Circle" and I'm thinking about creating a Professional one as well.

Or more likely I'll just stop playing with it.
Could we replace libraries with book swapping clubs?
This version of Final Cut Pro X is the Mac OS X Cheetah of Final Cut. It's going to be an early-adopter platform for the first year or so until Apple adds the necessary features that are required to bring back the 80% of pros that are up in arms right now.

This is a marketing fuck-up plain and simple. When Apple transited from OS 9 to OS X they communicated their plans very clearly. This time around they kept a despotic silence about their direction and reasoning.
So they'll just do exactly what they've been doing? That strategy seems to be failing for them right now.
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This is exactly what I'm looking for: a content-sharing site that easy to use and doesn't look like a big mess.
Streaming SC2, Street Fighter 4, or more = jail time?
With the recent events of the California government and Amazon, it's rather unfortunate to see another political bill attempt to strike down casual entertainment. I love Starcraft 2, I'd hate to see this pass.
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Great points on storytelling
The context with Gmail is exactly what got them in trouble with Buzz. People think of e-mail as a very private tool, as opposed to a social network where things are not exactly private.
Not only that, but they actually had found the right technical guy to do the implementation. They really were pretty close in that sense. In a different world where they partnered with him, or he was more ethical and helpful, they'd probably be considered the geniuses of the operation, in a Kevin Rose sense.
No. A receivable is money owed to the company (compare to accounts payable, money the company owes to someone else).
What repeatedly failing strategy? Their strategy seems to have created a very successful business, although they failed to update it with the changing market. They've acknowledged that and have new products in the works that they hope address their shortcomings.

What would you rather them do beyond this? Claim a major shake up of their internal structure? That would be incredibly damaging to their ability to quickly create and ship the products they need to. Not to mention, as outsiders, we really cannot know if there is even a problem with their internal structure. Certainly a single anonymous letter is not enough information to draw this conclusion.

It seems to me that people just love to see successful companies fail. Perhaps its reaffirming to know that even successful people make mistakes. Perhaps people are just morbid and love to see others suffer. Maybe people are too attached to their current products.

Regardless, all we can do is wait and see. Everyone has noted RIM's precarious position, RIM included. Hyperbolic negativity is unnecessary.
It's the same in Google+, but you still have to consciously check. My point being that it's not really the functionality that matters per se, it's the metaphor. Having the explicit metaphor gives you an immediate understanding of how the information flows. Having an optional setting checked does not.
Compiling to LLVM is an interesting prospect, because if you could make the language dovetail nicely with, meaning compile functions into LLVM functions and use their datatypes fully you could presumably be highly interoperable with other languages(?). Sounds like it could be a serious departure from the Clojure standard though, but perhaps another Clojure inspired LISP. Still, LLVM won't give you a run-time, which seems to be the main problem.
You are not talking about just an "Idea Guy" you are talking about a "Visionary". Vision is what separates an "Idea" from a "Business". All non-techies should bring the vision/strategy and all techies should look for people with a vision.
That probably depends on whether "taking action" means "actually addressing the issues" or "shoring up the stock price up long enough for the board of directors to cash out".
The presumption is that more expensive equipment based on GPS (aircraft navigation, etc) have the appropriate "filters" in place to prevent interference.

If LightSquared is to be believed, the problem is that commodity GPS makers did not take adequate precautions against interference.