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Buying big sticker packages and selling them individually in the school when I was about 9, I made a killing as a 9 years old :) From there to today did about ~20 different jobs, selling water in football (soccer) games, training police forces on computer security field, SaaS, making money from Adwords (when it was possible), penetration testing, selling t-shirts in bazaars, selling desktop software, etc...

First consultancy job at 15~, 2 failed companies between 18-22, about 5 failed web project around the same years.

Started my own company again at 26 again, been 2 years now, became profitable in first 6 months of starting to sell and so far so good ever since.
I've lived in both Sydney and Melbourne, originally from country Victoria. I'm definitely more of a Melbourne guy than a Sydney guy :)
When you word it like that of course it's stupid, but what law would you suggest that doesn't use arbitrary ages? Obviously they don't fit everyone exactly, I know I was drinking before I was 18 and think that was fine, I've also known people who really hadn't matured by the time they were legally adults.

Do you agree that a 40 year old shouldn't be able to have sex with a 6 year old? Do you agree that a ten year old shouldn't be allowed to walk into a shop and buy a packet of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka?

Assuming yes, the only two options are an arbitrary age that won't be perfect for everyone, but will at least protect as many people as possible, or no law, and if shit happens to kids then oh well.

After that you can of course debate where the arbitrary ages are, for example I think it's ridiculous that 21 is the drinking age in America.
I'm saying that almost all the tasks you describe above also fall under the responsibilities of a good Product Manager (at least on small teams, which is what we're talking about here).

If your "Idea Guy" comes from a Product Management background (and can do all the things you mention above, plus "Strategy"), then you should be in good shape.
But it's not Google fault if they lied, right? (In case they are for example exposed to 18+ content on Google+)
This isn't the most important factor by far, but alcohol is about 3x what people pay in the US across all products. I only said wine because that is what I drink.
When did you buy, and could you still at today's prices on your reasonable salary?
That said it is incredible frustrating talking about G+ without an invite. sigh According to reddit the only thing worse is being on G+ but without friends and incredible bored to death.
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Why bid over 6 billion when the current bid is at least below 3.1 billion right ?
It's a single video.
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It wouldn't make me, because you can't just buy changes of the law, not even in the US. Three billion dollars is a lot, but will never match what other big companies stand to lose from software patents becoming less important.
This is the worst possible outcome for Google and the open source community. Apple, MS, Sony and others will be able to sue everyone - but not each other. And after laying that amount of cash on the table, they will.
Google is right to be pissed off, but they can't do much about it.
I'm already doing that.
Why do they parse 16 bit UCS2? Although Javascript strings are internally UCS2, the files as transferred on the web are all UTF8 which should be easier to parse fast, and involve less conversion, unless there is something really broken in the spec.
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FTA: "... the future is wireless" followed by "retractable iPhone connector". TeRRabytes of storage won't save him...
what investors refer to as 'cash on hand' doesn't literally mean a room full of bills or a bank account. a 'cash asset' is anything that can be theoretically converted back into cash quickly and with little trouble (tbills, term deposits, bank accounts, any AAA+ funds, etc.)

for eg. if the Greek government owed me $1B, I wouldn't call that cash on hand, but if the US government owed me $1B, it is
No, but that's already on the list for enhancement in the next point release- I struggled with that because it isn't a strictly necessary feature, but I agree it's needed.
Ugh. I certainly consider it immoral to lock children away from the ability to talk to one another online.
Agreed- That enhancement is coming in the next point release. (the one about the train wheels :-)
So who owns US media lock stock and barrel, why GE mostly and a few multinational runner ups in their little Fascist Rulers club.
I think Google's plan was to get the other parties to pay more for the group of patents than what the original price was (~$1.5B).

They probably decided that they may as well have some fun with it in the meantime

(although google has a history of using mathematical significant figures in financial dealings, such as in their S1 filing)
Sure, but remember that a lot of these Nortel patents are hardware patents.

Does anyone have a link to a good overview of what kind of things are in the portfolio?
Not required? How many things -are- required? I'm guessing the number is near zero.

Talk to me about pros and cons, not requirements.
Technically they aren't being prevented from doing it, they just have to have a guardian's permission. Much the same as a 7 year old could join a local football/baseball/whatever team, but would need parental consent to do so.
Is this relevant now with the spread of the Internet? As long as a government does not filter or censor the Internet, no single entity can control information and the news.
I think video chat isn't done exactly right , so it hasn't become very popular.

You see this in many responses to google+'s group video chat. many say it's done right and want to use it.
Another hint is group telepresence for businesses. it's pretty successful even tought very expensive.

And some people who use video chat to remote relationships use it in a unique way: not the center of the experience but part of a shared experience.
So they put a video chat on a laptop and in their main computer they watch a synchronized movie together , for example.

And still the quality for most people isn't very good because of cameras and bandwidth issues.

So that's part of what exciting with google+ video chat. that they may finally get it right and at scale.
Should Twitter be concern about Google+?
Too bad that the video is in Flash.
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Make an ultimate MBP by _removing_ things? I think not.

I think the author really wants to have a MacBook Air and not a Pro. If anything, the Pro needs better screens (1440+ matte on 13" please), USB 3.0 support and more powerful hardware to differentiate itself from the Air line.
Just an anecdote, but I have been using chrome for the last six months because everything else was slow as a dog on my Mum's MacBook Pro, and chrome was super-fast. But the lack of decent keyboard link navigation is driving me crazy, and may drive me back to firefox soon.
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I had problem finding the compose button before. I am glad that it won't happen again.
Also, it's nice to have Facebook (and LinkedIn) maintain your contact information.

I've got several hundred FB friends, but I only follow a few dozen of them in my FB news feed.
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Add eye tracking in the hardware and build the right software to make it useful. Done right, this could be the next UI revolution beyond touch. Some possible scenarios:
- pay per actual view advertising
- automatically scroll as I start to read the bottom of the visible region
- automatically enlarge parts of view (e.g. who I am focused on in a 3 way video chat)
- rapidly increase cycle of usability improvements in UI through better eye tracking instrumentation

The trick is having someone like Apple figure out what works well and build the right platform. Too much of things like auto-scrolling, auto-clicking is probably the wrong direction, so the key is having high judgement in the platform.
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Italy seems a very recent example (well, media was bought rather than bribed).
You're right, youtube supports HTML5 video, doesn't it? I'll have to switch over the player so that people don't think the references to flash in the source are from my animation :-)
See. Another case of 2π being more suitable.
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> Back in my day, copying a competitor's feature was denounced as ripping off.

Going all the way back to the Founders, U.S. law has encouraged copying competitors' (publicly-known, unpatented) useful features.

The rationale is that society benefits as a whole when better ways of doing things get put into practice as widely and as quickly as possible.

A second-order benefit is that the prospect of being "ripped off" encourages innovators to keep innovating instead of resting on their laurels.

A worthwhile read on this point is the Supreme Court's 1989 decision in Bonito Boats v. Thunder Craft Boats [1], in which the Court unanimously struck down as unconstitutional a Florida statute prohibiting plug-mold copying of boat hulls. The Court said, in part, that "imitation and refinement through imitation are both necessary to invention itself, and the very lifeblood of a competitive economy." The only permissible restrictions on copying of publicly-known useful articles, said the justices, are those of federal patent law, which have been crafted by Congress to strike a nationally-uniform balance between the interests of inventors and those of the rest of society.

[1] http://supreme.justia.com/us/489/141/case.html
I'd be astonished if any news organization used WP as a reference. It totally wouldn't make sense.
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In its first 18 months windows 7 sold about 650.000 licenses a day. According to Andy Rubin there are currently around 500.000 android activations a day. Since not all windows licenses that are sold are actually used, and the number of licenses sold is probably declining, while the number of android activations is increasing, I'd say it's fair to say that they're roughly as popular, and android will probably overtake windows some time this year.

Sources:
http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive...
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In security the most important thing you can teach people is to be aware when things are harder than they look so they'll take a bit of extra time educating themselves and talking to other people.

Learning how to separate good from bad advice is a skill that needs to be maintained. Also, in all software that is supposed to provide some form of security, one has to be prepared for the eventuality that it probably contains errors.

I used to read a lot of books on cryptography and the use of cryptography. I've forgotten most of it by today, and to be quite frank: the more I know, the less I want to write crypto software. There is something deeply unsatisifying about work where you know that what will in all likelihood trip you up is some trivial, stupid mistake.

It isn't hard because of the crypto itself. Sure, certain cryptographic libraries can be extremely awkward to use (which in itself is a security risk), but the problem usually comes from where you aren't looking for them.

I cringe a bit when people advertise software as being secure because it uses this or that encryption scheme. I also cringe when people claim that they "encrypt databases" and their systems are therefore secure -- because, for most usage scenarios, I can't think of any really secure way of doing this. Not without compromises anyway. And while I honestly know that I have just a rudimentary grasp on cryptography, I know a lot more about it than most people who make products that hinge upon correct application of crypto.

Just the other day I was trying to determine how many rounds I wanted to use in bcrypt for storing passwords for a given system. I think I spent most of the day pondering this question, writing benchmarks and reading up on what other people said on the topic.
A couple of days later a friend of mine emailed me a code snippet that implemented the password hashing scheme of a commercial product they use that makes shameless claims about being secure. (I think he probably just looked at the hashed passwords and made a guess about the method they had used. I don't think he had a look at the original source code). If memory serves the product uses unsalted SHA1 hashing. In other words, the vendor didn't even bother thinking about the problem.

What scares me a bit is that even I thought "well, if they claim to have well thought-out password handling and they are in the business of selling security systems, I suppose they have probably given this a lot of thought" the first time I visited their website. After all, large companies give them millions. Right?

I wonder what other things they are doing equally badly.
Indeed! I lost interest after the point on removing the ethernet port.
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An attacker in that position could also capture the password coming over the wire. Both are of equal security in that situation. SSL is also middleman-able.
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This is entirely too funny for HN.
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Yeah, you are close. I was more thinking about what Steve Jobs said when he announced the new MacBook Air:

"We asked ourselves, what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up? Well, this is the result, we think it’s the future of notebooks."

It made me wonder what would happen if the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro would hook up. Surely Apple is taking the best of both machines when they are designing the new MacBooks. So what would the ultimate MacBook pro look like? Well, more like a MacBook Air.
See how this is great for people in finance and law - they get big firms into bidding wars, end up paying a large number and eventually end up filing infringement suits to get back the $$$$ spent.
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What properties of bcrypt make it better than SHA-512 with more iterations to make the time taken to process it equivalent? Is there something about the algorithm that makes it more difficult to speed up via GPU/hardware?
I think you're kinda right but the force of your statement:

More people today purchased a computer running a Google OS than a Microsoft OS.

Isn't backed up by your source, there's a lot of hand waving going on there.

Also remember that phones have a much shorter life cycle than computers.

Edit: And remember that safari isn't on those graphs, you're talking about computers and smart phones, the article doesn't seem to be.
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The government is immune to lawsuit, hence it never has liability.
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Ah, I was thinking 6.6 Billion to mimic the prefix.
Tech companies like Google have nearly unlimited pools of money, so they can spend ridiculously large amounts of money for things that make sense to them.

People do the same thing. How many rich guys buy a $500k Ferrari that is never driven?
I dunno, this feels like a bittersweet victory to be honest. Android (the Linux variant in question) became big enough to get these Bing applications because it was developed and pushed by a gigantic corporation rivaling Microsoft in power and assets.

It's certainly an interesting victory to have Microsoft who is famous for pushing closed software to write software for an open software operating system. But I don't really think this is what Linus meant.
Retracktable iPhone connector? Yuck. My phone & MBP can both wirelessly communicate with devices half way around the globe, yet they need a special USB cord to talk to each other?

Plus, more than 50% of iPhone users never even bother syncing with a computer after the initial activation. Wired syncing & backups will probably be dead soon.
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This is hilarious! Looks just like my little sister's Facebook feed.
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I have not been able to work out two things here:

1) If I define a lambda inside a function, I cannot return the lambda from the function and use it right?

2) Recursive lambdas are not possible on account of the lack of recursion in C macros (not sure if that even makes sense without 1).
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Google plus seams to be another great success of google. Next will be the google+ api.
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In my mind (despite the precedent with Google), Google's irreverent bidding suggests that they were simply running up the bid. In which case perhaps the partnership with Intel suggests similar strategies from companies that never intended to win the portfolio. It would be interesting to me to know if Google later secures licensing on some or all of these patents for less than Pi billion, as licensing seems more likely than litigation.
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One thing to note is that when you think mobile, WebKit (Chrome, Safari, Android, iPhone) is already a dominant force. We don't know what our primary web browsing device might be 10 years from now and IE is trapped in PCs (yes I'm ignoring Win Mobile phones). Kind of interesting that IE and Firefox actually share Mosaic heritage.
I would also be interested to know exactly the order of bids, because if Google and Intel never bid directly after one another, it might suggest they had an allied strategy going in.
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Looks like they ran out of well known constants. I'm sad google lost this round.
The video puts down "Feature Branching" which is a very specific kind of "Code Branching."

I've seen Feature Branching work for some shops, but it can also create problems -- the more complex version control strategy you use the more likely you're going to make mistakes implementing it.

The "standard model" for branching that's most commonly used is to do most development in HEAD and make branches for releases. If you spin version 1.1 of your product, you should make a 1.1 branch, which starts with, say, version 1.1.0. If you find a terrible bug in 1.1.0, you can go back to 1.1, develop the 1.1.1 version, and then you can merge the bug fixes back into head.

The "standard model" minimizes the number of merges that need to be made while assisting maintenance of deployed software. Other branching models do worthwhile things, but the ratio of merging/benefits is invariably worse.
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He's taking full credit for a relatively minor part of the overall project, and setting the record straight.
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Probably not the answer they were looking for, but it was the first thing that came into my head.
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> Since the competitors had to stretch themselves for
> this one

What do you have in mind? Apple has about $66 billion in cash.

> Oh and I am well aware that these companies got loads of cash
> on hand. But it can't last forever.

They are still making money as crazy.
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Hm. Going to school 6 months later, with a wad of cash in your pocket, would have been a bad idea?
I'd let the user choose in such a way that they think they get a bargain with the lifetime pass. Something like $2.95 for one time, $3.95 for a month and $4.95 forever.

I guess you have to be careful in your terms and conditions when you say "lifetime", right? Obviously, you mean the lifetime of the product, not the client's
Channels Four and Five, two of the largest terrestrial TV channels here in the UK have been making their shows available through youtube for some time now. So in some territories it is working for them.
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It was pretty obvious the article was referring to the desktop so I ignored iOS/Droid..