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There is a fundamental business reality however that following an extended period of hyper growth (during which RIM nearly quadrupled in size over the past 5 years alone), it has become necessary for the company to streamline its operations in order to allow it to grow its business profitably while pursuing newer strategic opportunities.

So basically they're saying they're taking a break from innovating and will spend a little while just cleaning up shop. Do they not realize they can't just rest on their laurels while the rest of the industry leaves them behind? Take a look at Nokia!
Maybe a minimum wage policy has a wider remit than "the economy."
Why bother with any regulations, or indeed employee rights at all?
As for your arguments about immigrants - people may migrate to live "the American dream", but how many people's situations are actually improved?
It would seem that way, but this is municipal government, so there is likely local code (law) that imposes requirements that will boggle your mind and are likely unique to NYC. Take any trivial software task, target municipalities as your customer, and you'd better triple your budgets.

Municipal governments are a large portion of our business, so I'm intimately familiar with the challenges. What's unfortunate is that it's infrequently the fault of the individuals running the municipality. We meet a lot of really great people out in the field. It's just that they're doing their job with one hand tied behind their back. They have to operate within a framework that is (mis)guided by public interest.
supposedly that why QNX was acquired..and yet the fruit of the mew full QNX OS still not launched in a real touch smartphone..oh wait they want to switch to WP7..
I could tell that Android's growth had stalled when people stopped posting nigh-weekly updates of Android's market share on HN.
it's the typical developer response, that all concepts, no matter how abstract, should be captured in Code.

In saying that, it's easier to shove a bunch of classes into your html, and that's kind of what the multipurpose class tag is for. As to whether the binding should be done via css selectors or via html classes... well, I think the appropriate phrase is "6 of one, half a dozen of the other".

I've done most things both ways at some stage or another, and the maintenance is the same, the complexity is the same, and there's an advantage to having a label directly on the html node, that tells you what the hell is being applied to it.
While I agree that trying to challenge Apple is a mistake, the problem with your suggestion is that Apple _already_ has entered the enterprise market.

Big Fortune 500 companies are rolling out iPhones and iPads because enterprise employees want them, and they meet the list of required enterprise features: Exchange support, remote provisioning and app deployment, VPN, remote/incorrect PIN wipe and encrypted storage. That and a rich app ecosystem covers 90% of enterprise usage.

Unless BB offers truly unique, compelling features that employees _want_, you're only going to come off as the sad employee that has to use the crappy clunky phone that you got from work rather than an elite member of tha BB gang.

If they manage to make a great phone that employees want, they might as well sell them as upmarket consumer phones as well. But as you said, I don't think they'll succeed in competing in that space, so I think the ship has sailed.

To make an analogy, Apple could have decided to focus exclusively on shipping Macs for media professionals and education, where they had the biggest user base in 1997. However, had they not come up with products that were unique and compelling in the PC, music player and mobile markets, they would never have had the success they've had.
Instead, they might have ended up like SGI.
In the US at least, there are many opportunities for paid internships. All the major tech companies offer them - Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Zynga, Boeing, Lockheed, etc - and many of the smaller ones do (though in smaller numbers). At almost all of them, interns are treated as normal engineers and put on teams as basically full time employees with an end date ~3-4 months after they start. They are paid very well (competitive with what a FT employee would make for 3 months). The internship can, and in many cases, does result in a full time or reintern offer.

The thing is, you have to be able to cut it and basically interview as someone who they would WANT to hire as a FT after a year or two more experience.
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Am I being unrealistically impatient, or is the only feature that actually matters the feature that lets your friends sign up? Google+ is a ghost town for me right now and there's nothing I can do to change that.

It's very frustrating. I love the ideas in Google+ and want to use it, but I've got no ability to share or add friends.
it is a samsung-specific feature. it is not present in AOSP or most other manufacturer builds of android.
In these types of projects it seems like no one wants to point the finger. Once costs have doubled, or tripled, everyone is afraid of taking the blame for wasting all that money. So they keep 'working with' the vendor.

Clearly fraud and kickbacks kept this stumbling along much longer than a normal failing IT project would. I'm not sure why or how an expense like that on an overage like that on a major payroll system would not be on the mayor's daily agenda. The right people must have been getting those kickbacks.
After having played with Google+ for a few hours, I find that the Circles feature is deceptively complicated, and can lead to unintended information leakage.

I've described it further here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333
LinkedIn is a goldmine for recruiters and hiring managers.

Hell I used it back in 06 to do reference checks on independent contractors using my network for a small-group CRM project.
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my guess is most of the time was spent in analysis and consensus building being that it was for government. The code is surely atrocious
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It's a two paragraph response to a well-reasoned critique, which outlined several important, thoughtful points. By contrast, the response looks as though it was co-authored by an accountant and an HR rep.

> ...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, but regardless of whether the letter is real, fake, exaggerated or written with ulterior motivations...

That seems like a petty way to respond publicly. Especially in juxtaposition with the first letter, which was frank but polite.
working in fields which were quite dependent on the housing bubble

To be fair a few years ago one quarter of working men worked in construction. That's just crazy.
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It doesn't quite map to any known mental model, though, because when someone replies to your post, it's broadcast to your friends instead of their friends. I think this is potentially extremely confusing and weird. I think "Places" are a better metaphor: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333
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It would be great if Google would allow for managing of a custom reverse proxy with unique IP into an app.

This could solve the naked domain and SSL issues and enable other cool customizations.

Has anyone done this themselves? Just put Varnish or Nginx in front of GAE?
thats exactly what they're doing. they wrote a short and contentless response, and they spent 50% of it pondering if the original letter was real. whether it's real or not isn't as important as the fact it's raising some serious issues.
More importantly, no emotion. The letter to RIM used personal pronouns and conveyed a sense of exasperation or frustration, while the response by RIM is incredibly dry and distant.
>Facebook feels more intimate partly because of the use of colour, but partly because of the small fonts and lack of white space and photos everywhere.

On the other hand, I really love the page design of Plus because it's nowhere near as claustrophobic as Facebook. The larger fonts and increased whitespace make me tend to slow down and read more carefully whereas I have a tendency to simply skim over Facebook posts as quickly as possible. I definitely appreciate the large photo thumbnails, too.

I don't know, it's kind of hard to put my finger on, but I'd almost say the layout feels more relaxed to me.

FWIW, Andy Hertzfeld was the UI lead on the whole project.[1]

>but the Firefox 3.5 on this laptop can't be that out of date, can it?

FF5 was just released and FF4 won't be receiving any future updates, security or otherwise. Not supporting older versions seems in line with Google's rapid iteration approach.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Hertzfeld
Ah yes, I'm well acquainted with the simulator. Unfortunately, the reboot time was on par with that of a physical device which lead me to the drastic measure of snapshotting a running simulator inside of virtual box since I could boot virtual box in 20% of the time it took to start a fresh simulator.

The simulator is also throttled to a paltry 10k/sec when performing network access (why?!), and the app I was working on was for music streaming which forced me to do most of my testing on physical devices.

Regarding the connection factory, I was aware of it; however, given the market share of older devices, it makes sense to support them. If you're going to do so, you're going to have to roll your own connection code since older devices can't use newer OS versions. I'm not talking about ancient devices either. The Curve 8900 shipped with the 4.6 which doesn't support the connection factory.

In our case, it didn't make sense to have two builds (legacy and modern) since we'd have to support legacy anyway. I suspect this will improve as the older devices disappear by way of attrition, but it made things difficult at the time.

Regarding the people willing to spend money on software, we never applied to get into the marketplace; however, all of RIM's competitors have similar offerings, so I see no advantage here.
"In the 1990s, the philosophers of language Jennifer Hornsby and Rae Langton developed an account of the mechanisms of silencing that could substantiate MacKinnon’s claim."

An account that could substantiate?

'Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, it is difficult to have a reasoned debate about its costs and benefits when the invasion itself is called "Operation Iraqi Freedom."'

It is? Good thing they didn't call it "Operation Motherhood and Puppies"--we might still be there.

'Similarly, whatever one thinks of tax-cuts, or the estate tax, it is difficult to engage in reasoned debate when they have been respectively relabeled "tax relief" and "the death tax."'

The debate seems to go on. Or maybe he means that he fears that people without advanced education in the philosophy of language are being snookered.
There will always be people looking to take advantage. I had a potential employer call me in for three multiple hour "interviews" during which time they grilled me on how I would handle problem X and design system Y. I was fairly naive because in hindsight it's obvious to me that they didn't want an employee just a free consultation. Smart hack on their part though, and I learned something too.

For the right job I'll offer a trial period. Usually a one-two month stint followed up by a buy or fly decision. Play it right and you have a lot of leverage. They just finished training you and you're showing a lot of promise out of the gate. In the managers head they are dreading the idea of having to go through the interview process all over again. The key is not to go looking for people offering unpaid work, but to find people who want to pay and make the buy decision easier.

When negotiating keep in mind that you have nothing to lose. If the job is unpaid you gain by leaving. The other side of the table has a lot more at stake. They lose someone they've spent a lot of time/money training, and they have to start over at square one with someone new. Don't underestimate how hard it is to find good people. Frankly if they aren't going to pay you then chances are you aren't that good, or the managers are fools for not trying to keep good people. In either case what would you gain by staying?
If you are interested in what some people believe they would look like restored here are some photos:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/photos/?c=y&art...
I built http://www.onesong.me in appengine using the java playframework, and I quite like what I get for free.
I wonder though, if the fact that they have so much money (and thus so much to lose) is part of the reason why RIM has lost their direction? Surely that has to have some sort of cultural impact?
I love RIM - they're the gift that doesn't stop giving for my new Tumblr <plug>http://corporatebs.tumblr.com/</plug>; :)
Try this: Add all your friends to a circle. Share a post with that circle. They will all get email notifications, which will gradually allow them in.
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The author talks a lot about their developer centric culture and what needs to change within it. What he totally misses on, especially when comparing to Apple, is that there is a serious lack of design centric culture. Yes he says they should focus on the customer and user experience but I don't think he fully understands that an almost cult-like passion for design is why Apple wins in this area.

I do not see RIM suddenly gaining in this area and being known as the place really good designers go.
This seems like pretty terrible science. Correlation does not imply causality.

All that they did was observe that people who happen to drink diet sodas also happen to have a (slightly: 2.11cm vs .78 cm) higher increase in waistline. They didn't control for caloric intake, it wasn't doubly-blind, the choice of amount of diet soda consumption was self-selected.

This would be analagous to finding that people who are on diets are fatter than people who are not, and writing a headline saying "Dieting makes you fat."

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Timekeeping systems are actually extremely complicated. EXTREMELY sophisticated. The level of detail it takes to get one right is painstaking, and it is key to a city's survival. It's complex enough that you wouldn't understand it, nor would any auditor.

For that reason, I just started a new startup company: TimeKeep NYC. We specialize in timekeeping software for NYC area cities. Looking for employees now, especially ones who aren't snitches. Based on past products in this market, I think we can do quite well.
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Duh. Click around Google after being in Google+. Your full account loads into the interface, it's very apparent that Google+ is the "next version of Google". I assume that eventually the "+" moniker will be dropped and it will simply be "Share with your Google Circle", etc. They say they're integrating it into their products... I think it's the other way around.

Look at how Gmail contacts are treated in Google+, they're relegated to a stopgap. Look at the privacy settings for various fields in your profile - they default to sharing with your Gmail Contacts and once you chose a circle, you never have any context of Gmail Contacts anymore.

I love unification and data aggregation, especially with Google's Data Liberation efforts and the export they already have for taking your social data (potentially elsewhere).
I'm print this out in large type on 11x17 paper, framing it, and hanging it in our office hallway with the caption: "Never sound like this."
Idea: Google Apps Custom
Anyone else getting freaking tired of how Google Apps creates a new Google Account for every new domain/organization you're a part of? Well, I am. I'm tired of having around 10 Google Accounts, having to sign in and out of them all the time, etc…

I have an idea… :)
Worked for subsidiary of SAIC contracting out to NYC government over a decade ago. Trust me when I say this is nothing out of the usual... project will go order of magnitude over budget constantly.

As for the requirements that drive these projects, typically they are written specifically to present the appearance of an open bidding process while allowing the departments to know ahead of time who will actually implement the contract because they are so specific in certain areas that only one contract can possibly fulfill them.
> By reducing consumption.

If you're making minimum wage, there's not much consumption to be lowered. Rent, transport, and food will eat it all up (and then some).
This sounds an awfully lot like Nokia's reaction to the iPhone. And see where they went.
I think this idea doesn't address Google's main reason for designing circles the way they did it: privacy. People want to be able to control who sees what. Not, the other way around.
Looks like they are adding people in rounds. This morning I added some friends to circles trying to find out how to get them in then later in the morning all of them were added. I did the same thing again and it had appeared to stop working. Late this afternoon all of the additional people were added.

Basically add everyone you want to circles and make a post. They'll likely get through the invite within a day or less based on my current experience.
Could be. Microsoft seems to have suffered a similar fate. My original point was that with a company that is that fiscally responsible, it is much less likely for it to go belly up than to flounder for a bit and then refocus and find its market.
First, you have to be logged into the "new" Google Analytics. Second, it shows +1 tracking by default. To use it for Facebook and Twitter, you will have to modify your GA script. More here: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTracki...
I disagree. If they cost 4x as much as flash, then nobody will use them unless the performance improvement is huge (Remember, it's 100x write latency not throughput, and caching fixes latency problems quite nicely).
They all think they are the rare exception.
Actually there are provisions for insanity in the law. So, that's taken care of.

>>> Well, introducing rape in that way is a bit of a straw man I'd say. <<<

How so? It's devastating for the victim and ruins thousands upon thousands of lives everyday. It's not a straw man. It's just a natural extension of your suggestion. Who draws the line and where do you draw it? This is a very, very slippery slope and it's best that you tread carefully.

>>> their own clear long-term best interests. <<<

Their best interests as defined by you? Isn't that a wee bit arrogant?

Their best interests are in letting them be. Their best interests are in letting them breathe. Their best interests are in helping them live, instead of locking them away where they can't make people feel uncomfortable.

>>> We have laws against conspiring or attempting to commit crime - how is it different to incarcerate (for purposes of treatment) the disturbed individual who makes a clear and credible threat of criminal behaviour for purposes of treatment? <<<

Because,

a) Over there they committed the action.

b) Over here someone is just talking about it.

a and b are quite different you know.

>>> not happened 59 years ago and the offence for which he was prosecuted repealed 44 years ago <<<

It still happens today. It's just that humans have this weird penchant of abusing power, and that simply won't change for a long, long time.

http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic/4565c22532/4565c25f3f5.h...
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Why would you want to limit their market?

Enterprise bought into BB in the early days because there really wasn't anything else like it. It made sense, and worked for their employees. Now, however, every phone out there has a decent email system, and they're good phones as well. If you're trying to limit BBs to only enterprise, and saying that they don't need to be great consumer devices, then you'll be asking employees to carry two phones. They won't. Even if BB is better for enterprise, nobody is going to implement it alongside consumer smartphones.
I had the opposite reaction: At first only a couple of close friends were in my circles, and it felt like a true social site. Even though many of us are miles and miles apart, we were sharing, talking, hanging out and posting. All this without hundreds of relatives, coworkers, ex girlfriends silently watching us like some stalkers from the bushes.

It got even better once i realized that because of the way circles work, this kind of feeling might actually be preserved without much effort on my behalf.
Optimizely. I can't remember other big ones but there more. App engine has proven to be serving millions of requests per day without any issue. There are some case studies around, also some web caches hosted on app engine.
Also, spend time doing focused practices. Attend a coderetreat (www.coderetreat.com)
The guy that talks to other CEOs, goes to CEO conferences, decides on strategic development and signs deals.
My girlfriend, brother, and his fiance have been using Virgin Mobile's $25/month Beyond Talk service for a year or so. They're all using LG Optimus V phones now. They're satisfied customers.
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This article is dead on. I already have many google apps open all day and g+ will integrate with those nicely. A friend already exclaimed this morning that the google apps integration is what will kill FB (if that's even possible - myspace still has users). He then set out to move over those he actually cared about on FB to g+.

I especially like default use of groups and how it forces users to think about privacy from the get go. This is very different from my FB experience years ago and why I quit using FB.
"and twenty-five percent of young American women would rather win America's Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize."

I'd rather win the Boston Marathon than the ACM Turing Award. I'm no danger of winning either, so the priority could switch next week. Or maybe they look at the 2009 winner and figure they'd rather aim for something that requires work.

"Even bright, successful college women say they'd rather be hot than smart."

OK, but I've heard this before this author was born.(I suspect.)

I don't tell little girls they're pretty, and I don't tell children they're smart. I talk to them, when I do, without condescension, and we seem to get along fine.