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This guy's was off. Who are these Scobalites he's talking about? Are there really people who just copy whatever he does? Doubtful.
I'm not sure this was obvious until Friendfeed became so popular that Facebook acquired and integrated them into their redesign in 2009. It seems like a pretty recent innovation to me.
It's relative to your current level of business "success". When your time becomes worth enough at your business, it becomes false economy to be too frugal. This is what the article is all about.
You type the code in so that you get practice at typing the code in since in order to write code you have to type code in...a lot of it. If you don't then you're only learning 1/2 of writing code.

Another reason is because anyone who's good at coding learned it this way. Anyone who's bad at coding tends to just copy paste. Usually, you should copy what people who are good at something do.
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* What school? They can be very different. Some curricula are highly theoretical, some practical, some hybrid, but most still are termed "Computer Science."

* What is your background? Have you been exposed to mathematical proofs, logic, discrete math, or computer programming?

* What is your purpose? Are you worried about filling a single freshman requirement, or are you planning on studying computer science?
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Remember Friendster? My social graph were already established on Friendster. People gradually moved to Facebook and reestablished their social graph.

I still remember when I first joined Facebook, my stream was dead. I had very few friends on it.
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I think the issue could be easily solved by adding alternate (additional?) personalities to a profile. Then, when posting, you'd add "Markus Persson, Minecraft developer", remove "Markus Persson, default" and voila. No change to circles required, UI could be kept simple and clean, etc. I guess channels are basically the same thing, but depersonalized, and google has/wants to become people-oriented with G+, so name should matter to them.

Or let people attach search terms to people in circles.
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One of the most valuable parts of an online identity is the attention you receive from other people. Social networks make getting attention more efficient. In this way, proprietary tools do a lot to enrich your online identity.

For me, this is a great tradeoff. For example, I'm happy to put my pictures on Facebook because my family and friends see those pictures and leave comments that I enjoy. In comparison, my local copies feel like those dusty old photo albums in my parents' basement that nobody ever opens.
That's usually the case if you've just verified the site for the first time. It takes a few days for the first data to be collected. Because of this we always recommend webmasters verify early (before things break) and monitor constantly.
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Add to that that at least my muscle memory is especially flaky when I try hard to remember what I'm actually supposed to type and/or I'm otherwise under stress/nervous. Usually just not thinking about the password for 5 minutes works, potentially facing 10 years in prison is certainly not gonna help.
I'm the guy who posted the blog - thanks to @mcantelon who posted it here, I didn't expect that but so far the response has been positive.

I did indeed post my story in the hopes that it might resonate with some people in the tech community. Sometimes I feel as developers we have the skills but are at the mercy of the people who have the money, and almost all of the time none of the same skill we do, yet their expectation of what we can do is almost always too high.

That's the situation I was put in and while I never felt bullied in any way, I did feel that at any time if I didn't perform to their expected level then the rug would be pulled from under my feet. In the end this did happen, and I pretty much drove myself to stress doing that.

On top of it, I had lots of personal stuff going on as well that not everyone will experience, but some certainly will and I'm a guy who wears my heart on my sleeve - personal stuff will always come first - Hoes before Bros. That doesn't mean I won't put in 100% when I need to but life isn't all about work - and I think some developers forget that which in the end causes the burn out.

Anyway thanks for all your positive comments on the post, great to see.
It sounds like you had some bad times with Lenovo - that's too bad. In the past the x series have been really really solid and a lot of linux distros run well on them without much trouble. 2-3 years ago a consulting company I was working for deployed lots and lots of them to picky VCs and hedge fund managers and they held up well to their abuse.

If you are going to go the linux route full time I would go for an x series from Lenovo or a Dell Latitude. Dual booting linux on a MBP is just a little bit more of a pain in the ass than it should be in my opinion.

That said I paid what I consider a shit-ton for a 15" MBP in late 2008 and I have no regrets though I am on my second battery and currently lusting after the 13" Air.
Nothing like an article about Facebook written by someone who admits he hates seeing people, "waste time," on Facebook!

Regardless, I Find using Google+ is just easier. For example, if I want to change my profile picture, all my Picassa albums are right there (as well as phone pics). I can choose any picture I want and edit it right there, in Google+, and poof! New profile pic. I rarely change my profile picture in FB because, frankly, it's a hassle. Maybe not a huge hassle, but the process involves logging into Flickr (or Picassa or whatever), or finding a file on a hard drive, then going back to FB to upload or link the photo, then cropping it from there, then posting. It's always seemed like too much of a bother.

Same goes for Sparks. Rather than find an article on the Web, then copy the URL, go to FB, share it, yadda yadda... I just peruse Sparks (essentially Google News as far as I can tell), find something interesting and hit, "share."

And, of course, there's the invaluable Circles. I can finally brag to a selected social circle that I logged forty hours playing Call of Duty without revealing to everyone else what a total slacker I am.

Personally, I've never been a huge FB fan, but my move to Google+ has more to do with its superior design as opposed to rebelling against FB. So far, Google+ just seems more fun to me.
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I disagree. First of all, all the torrents of recent shows are very, very fast. Much faster than any streaming service in fact. Getting well over a meg per second is a common case.

For old episodes you do hold a point, although waiting a few hours or even half a day is generally still more convenient than not getting the episodes at all or waiting through countless FBI warnings.

Now then again, there is Netflix. Its not too bad. Its only available in the US, too.

For example, if i want to follow game of thrones, i can wait a year or two until its available in my country. For some other shows, they'll just never be shown in my country.
Or I can pirate it and reduce the wait from a year to 10 minutes.

I'd gladly pay up to $100 a month for quality, ads free streaming to anything recent and I think i would be over paying it. But the offer just isnt even there, free, $1, $100, $1000, $10000 it doesn't matter, there is no true offer available.

What we have here are some streaming content provided by the cable/dsl operators or tv channels which comprises tv shows that are ~5 to 10 years old and movies that are 30 to 5 years old, and a slim catalog of them too, generally the crappiest.

So I pirate the stuff. I feel a little bad about it, but it's that or nothing, and I won't be ok with nothing.

I shall also mention that I would want to be able to stream the stuff on any device/system or optionally save it for offline view, although id settle with streaming only as well.
A comparison chart of features against competition (both web and non) like Billings, Harvest, Ballpark, and other services (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_time_tracking_sof...) would be useful.
I don't think he gets what makes Circles good. Their privacy and asymmetry is exactly why I like them. You don't want other people knowing 'how you classify' them, and it doesn't matter to them, really, unless they're being neurotic. Circles is an unobtrusive way to show the people you want precisely the things you want them to see; this would become an awkward tug-of-war if they had to agree on what you did.

EDIT: After a little consideration, being able to designate Circles as public does seem reasonable, though. I follow games industry, comics, and Uni club people and have them in groups saying as much. I'd feel perfectly comfortable publishing those for people who're interested, and would like to find those people.
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Whenever I have a hankering to learn something new, I usually try to incorporate it into a project somehow. Usually it's made up just for that purpose. That way I get the feeling of being productive and the enjoyment of learning something new. The downside to this method is you spend less time on the fundamentals of the new language, so you might bring in old ways of thinking that are as efficient.
Through our work on Domainr (http://domai.nr/ -- a domain availability search engine) I've gotten to know folks at:

- iWantMyName (Timo already posted in this thread)
- 101domain
- Dreamhost
- DNSimple

...and I'd personally recommend all of them, for having solid services, ethical business practices, and good design (for iWMN and DNSimple). I've also heard good things about Namecheap and Gandi from a few friends.
The signed contract says nothing about copyright transfer though I've heard by default your work belongs to you until you explicitly transfer rights.

Even if the contract did say something about copyright transfer (as it probably should), they don't receive those rights until they pay you. You absolutely have the right to shut them down.

IANAL, though. You should see one if it has been more than 90 days since you delivered the work.
This is the best advice anyone can listen to! Resonates very closely to the experience I had (especially the 200% for 5% and no bootstrapping or fund raising).
In all the discussion here, I think yours is the absolutely best analogy. Perfectly illustrates the cost of brute-forcing versus the accused just revealing the crucial little information. Even informed guessing of the password is covered (the accused was seen lately in that corner of the Mojave, maybe the box is there?).
I've not heard of it before, but this DECE thing is not going to create a single source for digital delivery to make it easy for consumers if it also involves a suite of DRMs and a rights locker (whatever that is). The two concepts seem entirely antithetical given that DRM inevitably makes things difficult for consumers.
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Sure there is: it's Not Facebook. That means a lot, really:

No Aunt Martha seeing those pics from Atlantic City that you might otherwise like to post for your real friends to see.

No friend requests from that asshole in high school that used to beat you up and now wants to pretend that everything's copacetic.

No Farmville spam.

No six-times-a-day status updates from that one person in your circle that just loves to "hear" themselves "speak"

No profit for Zuck.

You get the picture: there are a lot of reasons that people have left Facebook lately. It no longer has the exclusivity that drew the early adopters originally, and as we're getting older and realizing more and more that we want some privacy, Facebook has resisted making it easy to come by.

Even better, beyond just being pre-Eternal September (and let's face it, once Aunt Martha is on Facebook, it's that time...), G+ has mechanisms in place that seem likely to keep the S/N ratio that I see high for a good long while.

Sure, plenty of people don't care, and they'll keep using Facebook, and that's fine. But right now, the most important thing that differentiates G+ to me is that the people I care about interacting with are actually using it, even though many of them haven't been active on Facebook for months, if not years.
Saw this ad via the deck on @Dribbble.

Not sure, but I saw some pics of some devs who built a loft in the facebook office and thought this picture might have been the loft.
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Whoa, refreshed the page and the image changed!

Checked the source and found this, haha:

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Facebook - The Deck Ad (Summer 2011)
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If you're looking at our html, this is a good thing.
You should reach out to our design team recruiter directly.

Drop a line to Greg Hoy at: Greg Hoy <greghoy@fb.com>

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By the way, this was the image I was talking about re: the loft:

http://dragon.ak.fbcdn.net/cfs-ak-snc6/84980/169/bgdarker.jp...
Back in 2004, Edward Tufte defined and developed the concept of a “sparkline”. Odds are good that — if you’re reading this — you’re familiar with them and how popular they’ve become.

Really? I've definitely read about sparklines, but I've never seen one used naturally, as it were.
And, as luck would have it, there's nothing an MBA teaches you about that stuff either.
While I think he's right that the OS should not automatically launch programs of an USB stick - how many people that are curious enough to plug in the stick would not double click "secret_documents.doc.exe"?
The current 'mature' design may have been somewhat recent but that's the general distillation process of software evolution. I think in general all successful software products of similar intent migrate towards a fairly common UI layout which works best for interacting with that type of data. Not too often we see paradigm shifts in software UI's for established tasks.
They were just quoting extremely discounted rates. You know, for their favorite government.
I saw that, wondered who wouldn't look at the html just out of habit...
You shouldn't confuse "should" and "could". I only watch a handful of shows but I have no business judging the author for spending his time however the hell he wants. I'll likely make millions of dollars before he will, and that's entirely his prerogative.

It was long winded and pedantic, but he's making a solid point metaphorically: this shit is painful, and no mortal can or would navigate the morass of technical, legal and financial woes without wondering the exact same things.

I feel sorry for people that don't know how to move comfortably around tech, because the one thing you and I share in common that they don't have is a choice in how this goes down on a personal level.
Torrenting is an entirely superior experience to Netflix for all of us that don't live in the US. All I see on netflix.com is "Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country... yet" and an invitation to provide my e-mail address so they can tell me when it is. Meanwhile, thepiratebay.org is entirely available in my country right now. I fully get that this is not Netflix's fault, and agree that they're a great company doing all they can about the matter, but the fact remains that Netflix simply doesn't work for me or the vast majority of people I know.

Also... disk space requirements? Really? Hard drive space costs nearly nothing these days, I can't imagine that's a big problem.
Just my opinions, after having a bit of a "been there done that" feeling reading this...

If you're looking for work, you aren't really burned out. I had to take a year off at one point, and I thought I'd never work as a developer again after failing a couple of job interviews for jobs that I REALLY wanted (google, I'm still bitter). It turns out I'm just fine, there's nothing wrong with me or my skills and I can make a real difference at the place I'm at now. It's just that those particular jobs sucked a lot and I took it all too personally. I resolved to never do that kind of thing again. I don't work for equity or promises or for people who make unreasonable demands any more, and I try not to get too wrapped up in work.

It sounds like you got burned, that's a different thing. And it will probably happen again. The same thing happened to me oh... 5 or 6 times until I wised up. Eventually I decided to work at stable, grown up companies and I've been much happier. I still get to work on fun stuff. You don't have to kill yourself over-working or neglect your loved ones to have a solid career.

Also, it sounds like you were trying to work two jobs at one point. Don't do that.

Anyway, good luck to you and yours, it sounds like you'll do okay!
Is there any current wisdom out there on this?

It does seem reasonable to start some patent paperwork if it increases our company's leverage. But how interested are larger companies in this sort of thing?

Is patentability a criterion to think about when choosing the direction of a startup?
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I'd say a weapon is a tool whose only use is harm to other men.

The line gets a little blurry around things like guns and knives, but I think it still holds. For example, an AK-47 is a weapon, while a bird shotgun can be used as a weapon.
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We're very light in the marketing part of the site at the moment. Would you rather see a feature comparison or a short product demonstration video?
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I don't think Facebook will always be as relevant as it is today. I think it's relevance will eventually fade away, and be replaced by something else. But, I just don't think it will be replaced by something like G+.

I can see G+ becoming more and more popular. But not becoming as relevant as facebook for social.
I've never found a more honest company. For example, they recently discovered a billing error that amounted to $56 over 5 years .. so they refunded everyone double, donated what they couldn't refund to charity, and apologized profusely. (http://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2011/04/07/a-small-billing-...)
I think the "highlights" are going to have to be much bigger.

For example, patenting "A legal document laying the ground rules for running a nation", suing the United States for the Constitution, and winning.

Yes, the Constitution was written before the patent system even existed.

Like I said, it'd have to be big.
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Me neither, does anyone have evidence of how popular they've become?
I'm now gradually migrating all domains off GoDaddy (just waiting for them to expire), so this list comes in quite handy.

I'm moving to https://www.dynadot.com/, but no one has mentioned it here. Prices are ok, UI is simple. DNS management is simple too, so probably will not suit everyone. No upselling. So far I'm liking them, but bear in mind, I'm only few months with them.

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with DynaDot and how they compare to others on the list (especially Gandi, as it looked quite interesting)?
I'd kind of need a reason to switch over from Freshbooks, which works pretty well at the moment.
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Don't worry about DECE. I had access to draft technical documentation on it about .. oh .. early 2009.

I don't think it's breaking any NDA to discuss the overall aspects of the consortium's goals.

Basically what they are trying to do is produce a global network of secure digital content distribution servers. Under their model, all digital content retailers actually sell access to this single global commercial content delivery infrastructure.

However, it remains unclear to me under the proposed model:
a) Who will pay for the servers
b) Which devices will or will not be supported, and how media transcoding (to support differing device capabilities) will be handled
c) Who the user complains to if they can't get access to the content they paid for
d) What value retailers would add in such a scenario - indeed, how they would 'compete' with each other given very little control and thus capability for unique product offering

Like many dreamy consortia, I see this one as dead in the water. The technical problems are significant, and there is a general lack of impetus to actually get out there are solve the problems.

A DRM industry for plain media (consume only, non-interactive) that dreams of securing global distribution is, in my view, destined to self-flagellate until it is but a poor faded memory in the distant mists of time.

On the other hand, DRM can enable good consumer experience: I really like Steam, for example. I recently bought my first Mac and many of the games I'd purchased on PC instantly became available in my library. After just logging in, I could download them for the new platform and play away instantly... even though I'd changed countries and gaming platforms. This is what DRM should be doing: empowering people to mobility and choice through connected media. Steam just does so many things right: content discovery, supporting smaller and independent content developers, social elements.

I think the entire DRM industry should look up to Steam for a successful example of the future. Bottom line: THINK OF THE CUSTOMER.
This is still victim blaming. Just because you're a celebrity it doesn't give people some sort of license to invade your privacy. You could argue that anyone who wears a skirt is asking for it, because their panties are visible at a certain angle (but nevertheless public space). But we don't want everyone covering up just to prevent creeps getting pictures.
If you wear a skirt in a public space, you expect people to have a level of decency and respect. In case you hadn't noticed, creeps are in the minority.
People confuse special-cases (Monad instances) with Monads (the abstraction).

"Monads in C++" would be an encoding of the return/bind interface, which is possible (surprisingly, at least to me), and then writing a library of combinators that work with this interface and any instance of them.

What this article (and countless others) are about is a particular encoding of bind/return for a single type, and not the Monad abstraction in general.
Disable all keyboard shortcuts -- text entry only in text areas. No tabbing between controls. Keyboard shortcuts considered harmful.

Also, for the sake of completeness, randomize all on-screen forms to make it impossible to exploit a fake mouse. Muscle memory considered harmful.

For added security, display an authorization code on the display every half an hour, and expect the user to do a XOR with a one-time pad, then enter it on the keyboard. Or morse-code it with the mouse.