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Two wild guesses:

Video ads - They finally figured out efficient video ads and have turned YouTube from a loss leader to a money-making machine

Mobile ads - Do GMail and other Google apps on Android already show ads?
Some combination of:

1) Panda, which redirected hundreds of millions in revenue from some content farms to other parties (including, likely, the ether) which do not show up on Google's books

2) Google is being increasingly aggressive about monetizing the Google SERPS. More ads in more places with more prominent billing. Other sites on the Internet have not been aggressively up-monetizing principally because they have less room to do so. Google has a cash cow and they've only really been working one or two of the squeezable portions, somewhat halfheartedly.

3) Google is cannibalizing the organic results for high money verticals, for example with consumer finance comparison products. Why have Citibank pay an affiliate $200 to buy $160 of AdSense ads to pay Google ~70 when Citi is perfectly happy to pay Google $200 directly?

4) Routine optimization works. Google+ gets all the ink, but Google is keenly aware that they have two products: core search and AdWords/AdSense. If you thought Circles got some programming chops thrown at it, pretend a 1% improvement was worth billions and you had infinite R&D resources.

5) Something else entirely.
The simplest way to design an API, is to use an existing one. I work with a CMS where JSON documents are posted using the WebDAV protocol. Settings for documents and folders are all set with the PROPPATCH verb. The WebDAV protocol has defined API's for ACL, versioning and namespace management like delete, move, copy.

Info about Vortex CMS (in Norwegian): http://www.uio.no/tjenester/it/web/vortex/
In that diagram, I see 2 sequences of commits (two branches).

The 'original branch' (e.g. "unstable") goes: 0,1,2,5,6

Then there is a topic branch (e.g. "add-frob"), which goes: (0,1),2,3,4,(5). Note that I consider the the 'add-frob' branch ended at the merge commit, so there is no "revno 6 of 'add-frob').

I don't consider that merging 'add-frob' back into unstable means that "revno 2 in unstable" could mean commit D - I would call commit D "revno 2 in add-frob".

Does that system work?
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Sounds very good. Would the DAV (REST) APIs be accessible for something like https://github.com/bergie/VIE ?
I tried to address the issues of the PHP CMS space here: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/my_secret_agenda_for_php_content_m...
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First of all, mysqlnd is not a proper extension itself, but a backend for the mysql / mysqli extensions. Anyone that bothers to build PHP 5.3.x knows that mysqlnd replaces the libmysql dependency if the --with-mysql(i)=mysqlnd flag is passed to the configure script. Which brings me to the point that the author understands little of the internals themselves.

Second of all, people should man up, step up from their lazy ass and move on. If the code is so really hard to refactor, maybe that code sucks really hard in the first place. I've seen incredible piles of garbage PHP code just to keep PHP 4 compatibility. It's 20-fu-11. 5 years since PHP 4 is officially dead. Maybe, just maybe, the internals team is not to blame for this stuff. I'm not even mentioning sentences containing the word "security" that seems to be some really scary stuff for some pumpkins still trying to figure out how SQLi works.
The weird thing about this is most ports inspect goods and anything that isn't 'sanctioned' (most companies have regional distributors) gets put on hold, the company gets called and if it is a knock off the merchandise is destroyed and the receiver usually gets a visit by local police.
The book does point out some interesting side-effects of long hours such as "it lets you get away with lousy execution" and "you don't need more hours; you need better hours". I can say that both of these are valid statements given my (limited) experience. While I initially felt that self-selected hours were better across the board, I'm now starting to have second thoughts on the matter.

There are pros and cons to anything. Just make sure you have your eye on the prize and not on some proxy for it that you think is what is needed. In other words, if someone is putting in long hours to get the job done because they aren't staying adequately focused, work on the focus piece of it rather than on a specific time frame to work in. And don't forget that we are all human and no matter how much you do right, sometimes someone will be short of sleep, under the weather, distracted by a personal issue, etc. If it is short term, just be tolerant and supportive. If it is chronic, work with them to try to resolve things (or, if intractable over a long enough period of time, consider letting them go).

Different people work best in different conditions. Developers are often introverts and will tend to not be real happy campers when having to be surrounded by people and putting up with their chatter and general distraction. My ex and my youngest son are both seriously introverted and we homeschooled. I was the family extrovert. My computer area was in the middle of a high traffic zone where everyone could interpret me to talk to me. I handled it fine. The two extroverts had desks in secluded corners of the apartment where they could turn their back on the world and also shut the door. So if you can arrange the physical space the right way, that might resolve the need some people have for quiet and solitude in order to focus. And this is not just a personality thing. Some types of work need some certain environments to be done well. If you can't arrange the physical space to be adequately quiet when all hands are on deck, then letting the developer stay late is a timing option to address this issue.

In short, I think you need to do more analysis than what I see in your post. You need to know more clearly what the problem is and you need to think more broadly in terms of what your options are for addressing it. This isn't necessarily just a question of "flexible schedule or fixed schedule".

Best of luck.
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One thing to always remember, in any negotiation (house, car, pair of socks on the market in Casablanca): always be ready to walk away. Once you've committed to the deal before the other guy has, you've lost. If you commit to the job prematurely because you're afraid nobody else will hire you, you've lost.

Apart from that:

- Always ask for more. It's never enough.
- Don't let yourself be compared with others (co-workers). Make sure you have a story on why you're different from everybody else. The naive strategy, that most hiring managers nonetheless use, is to compare people with each other and say 'I can't pay you more than the others'.
- The other guy dreads the discussion just as much as you do. Exploit that. Drag it out over a couple of days - make him lay awake at night for having to have another talk about the money. He'll be willing to give in if the discussion is uncomfortable for him.
- Get the other guy to commit to hiring you before the discussion is over. This is turning the table on my first paragraph. Once he's decided he will hire you, he will go the extra mile to pay what you're asking (or at least closer to what you're asking - if they pay you what you're asking, you asked too little and have left money on the table).

All that said, I've held the same job for 10 years, so I may be talking out of my ass. I have hired people in those 10 years though, and rather successfully 'coached' others in salary negotiations, and I know a few head hunters who I discuss this with every now and then (privately - for example my brother in law is one). So I think I do know some basics.
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Having worked recently for a large media company (controlling half the TV, radio, and a sizable chunk of online news to an entire country) we had very close ties to Google i.e. there salesmen where constantly knocking and begging us to use there products. Direct dial numbers to peoples offices etc...

Anyway the thing is adsense would pay anywhere from 2%-10% the value of an advertising campaign which our sales team could source, and if it was a true multi-media campaign across radio, tv ,online Google revenues across the whole network for a month wouldn't even ad up to one sale. Even a standard interactive take over would pay in one week on one site what adsense would for a whole month.

So it was considered a last choice to have adsense on anything, even with foreign exchange rates making the adsense payouts more valuable. Infact we often ran house ads in favour of them as it was considered better value to self promote than run lower return ads.

So I wouldn't be surprised to see lots of other partners taking a similar stance in a tough economic climate by chasing after better returns than Google can offer.

(and yes we had our pages fine tuned for ad sense. We had our SEO team working very closely with Google trying to get things running at highest efficiency/return).

EDIT: If our sales teams figures seem high compared to Googles payouts it would relate to our position in the market and audience. Our sales teams could naturally haggle a far greater rate than smaller websites could.
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Are those pre-tax salaries ?
Strange, one would expect The Smartest Man in Europe to be at least somewhat contrarian.

What I have read is a collection of pop fearmongering. Basically his stance is the prevalent position among people out there today. Thus it reeks of manipulation. It is a piece meant to evoke a specific emotional response. That it is written by a hedge fund executive only reinforces the stench.

Thus I mark this piece as hedge fund propaganda. True meaning is a feint within feint.

Edit: I suspect that Blackstone is trying to unload its gold and trying to create a market. Gold is probably in the last phase of bubble. Why do I think so? Only one reason. In my country there is a vocal MLM type gold investment operation going on. Very similar to what was going on with stocks and derivatives in the 2006/2007 era. If there is one fundamental truth about markets, it is that when your hairdresser and butcher start giving investment advice it is time to get out. There is no more bigger fools out there. Gold is going down.
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If I share a picture or album on Google+ with someone who isn't yet on Google+ (sharing via email) this person will be provided with a public link as well. Does anyone know if this link will be generated only when I share something as described above or are there public links to any album/picture by default anyway?
The 'black box' of AdSense payout rates has long given Google has a lot of discretion, checked only by publishers' other alternatives (credible threat of switching) and Google's strategic goals.

Perhaps the next-best alternatives to fill the same space aren't paying as much. Perhaps Google was strategically overpaying AdSense partners for a while, to achieve critical mass (of advertisers and publishers) and forestall the development of competitive networks.

Now, having achieved an enduring dominance in this two-sided returns-to-scale market, they're dialing back their AdSense payments. Only the emergence of a strong alternative would prompt them to continue paying the same premium that was offered during the capture phase.

(And even if Google thought a competitor of similar scale was likely to arrive – eg Facebook – they might want to continue charging a lot for their market-making, building a large warchest, until the competitor arrives. Then, crush the upstart by dynamically charging very little, making AdSense extra-attractive for exactly those advertisers/publishers of greatest importance against the upstart. Similar to how a hundred years ago, Standard Oil was accused of using targeted rate changes to undermine upstart competitors.)

Maybe ad-blindness (if not outright ad-blocking) is spreading more widely among the masses, especially in AdSense scenarios. Maybe AdSense was only ever meant as a moat to protect AdWords from possible network-of-ads competitors.
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Admin pages are one thing, but with VIE you can make content also editable right where it is. See for example what we did with Midgard:

http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/introducing_the_midgard_create_use...
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Maybe they were simply better than their partners. Is it really a mystery?
That would be nice, but honestly I doubt it since they have been trying to release it for longer than I have been alive.

Anyway the Linux kernel is good enough, so the effort seems wasted.
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I don't mean to nitpick, I'm genuinely curious: how do you know Facebook is telling the truth about the figures?

I always assumed they were telling the truth because they're legally bound to (and because if they're caught lying, it would suck badly for them). I'm just wondering if you have any more info than that, since you seem so emphatic about it.
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This is why I think a book like "Refactoring" is actually more important than the GoF book, because it beats "Design Patterns" at its own game. When someone reads about software design patterns they learn a lot of cool things but ultimately they are still left in a muddle, and as often as not they don't have the slightest clue when and where to use, or not use, which patterns. Worse yet, they can't even use the concepts to talk about real software since so much real software uses undocumented patterns.

I think much of this is because "Design Patterns" itself is too raw and too language-centric and too sterile. It's too much of a catalog and not enough advice on why you'd want to use a design pattern and where, and the tradeoffs of doing so.

In contrast, "Refactoring" builds up a robust, pragmatic, and practical set of models and terminology for software design and construction, and for making changes to such. It also provides a lot of good rules of thumb and general guidelines for when to know whether a particular refactoring is worthwhile or not. It's very much the level of glue that is missing between the airy almost architecture astronaut level of patterns and the muddy, ugly trenches where real code gets written and re-written.

On the whole, someone who's read both "Refactoring" and the GoF patterns book is much more likely to have stepped up their level of coding and increased the sophistication of their models and vocabulary for talking about, reasoning about, designing, and constructing code, whereas someone who has only read about patterns is as likely to be a danger to the codebase as a help.
US is quite easy to find; http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_stat... -> let's say 33 mpg for passenger cars (depends a bit on which vehicle classes you count). EU data is harder; Eurostat doesn't seem to track it (haven't searched very far - I'll ask my friends at the DG Transport if I don't forgot if they track it). http://www.greencarcongress.com/2004/11/average_fuel_co.html seems to suggest 43 mpg, but I don't see where they get their data from (the linked report is MIA). So US cars, in aggregate, use 30% more fuel. Which, intuitively, seems to be about right.

Taking into account gas prices, that still confirms that US citizens don't spend more than Europeans on gas, in absolute numbers, even given their different preference in cars, radically different urban development patterns and fuel purchasing power vis a vis the rest of the world.
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Hi all,

So I've been working on and off on this site over the last few months and am now at a stage where although personally I think it would probably be useful, I don't really know whether I'm alone in this.

The site is OkayID.com and I see it as being particularly useful for people buying/selling on the internet, although others will probably find it useful as well (I think!)

So a few things I would like comments on if possible and any comments are really appreciated, please be honest!

Do you think there is a market for this? How small/large?

Do you think this is something people would pay for/use if it wasn't free? If so, what price would you see as a decent price from both our point of view and the customers?

Any other comments?!

I'm in a position where I'm not really sure whether it's a good idea, so any honest thoughts would be much appreciated.

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Certainly the case.

The British Government is Her Majesty's Government as she is the head of state. This means that it was her government that was in power when Alan Turing died and when Gordon Brown issued the apology.

I'll be interested to see her words today when they are released, but I don't feel there's any need for Her Majesty to be directly apologize for Turing's treatment. She should be there to honour the work that was done at Bletchley Park. Her government has already issued the apology necessary.

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http://dbaron.org/views/taxes-2007.html claims that in California, total marginal tax rate including SS but excluding private health insurance is around 40%, depending on the income. So with some room for retirement and health insurance, yes 50% is about the same or less as in most of Western Europe (the 40% quoted for Germany is only income tax, you'd need to add the mandatory part of the health insurance to it, the local taxes and of course the sales tax which is 19 to 21%; I don't think it ever goes above 10% in California). Oh and 'capital taxes', (not even 'capital gains taxes', which you have to pay too, I'm talking tax on things that you own and on which you've already paid tax before).

Yes California is expensive, tax-wise, but it's not as expensive as most places in Europe. Other places in the US are much cheaper.
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