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Indeed, more competition is good. Apple has finally spiced up Mail.app to have a conversation view, and far better filtering.
Is it really HTML5 if it requires javascript? I saw more with no javascript than with javascript.
Great usage of the G+ photo viewer for slides, but I don't think G+'s main focus is about moving apps/games into the cloud ..

The most convincing argument I have heard is that 'social signals' are (going to be?) a fantastic resource for cutting through the spammy, link-swapping www of today.
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Still trying to catch up with Apple then.
The kid's a customer, they're customer service people. They should give the customer some service.
According to this explanation, the behaviour isn't completely specified: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/558#comment-2698
The video and audio recording APIs look cool. Though what people will end up using them for them will probably be dreadful.
Agree, looks about 1.4 fully-open.
Amazon is a famous example of this. Search for "Amazon patent" on Slashdot for some history.
Thank you for pointing that out. Didn't realize that I had Js enabled. (me too Ubuntu)
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Ask HN: Is there any empirical evidence that patents do good in some industries?
I know most people here will agree that software patents do more harm than good, but is there actual data to show that patents are good for other industries?
For backlink juice almost certainly not as the links don't stick around very long. For traffic on the other hand? That's a more likely possibility.
I don't think I mentioned office politics once in my response. If you regard all communication in your office as 'office politics' you are probably going about things in a less than optimal way.

A 'good developer' is someone who can speak to his team, his bosses and if exposed, the stakeholders, to identify the problem and be able to identify any potential hurdles or roadblocks that may pop up. All of this is learning to be a good communicator, (not politician), learning that your tools have limitations and learning how to manage peoples expectations and understand that what they ask for isn't what they actually want.

For what its worth, your post is an oxymoron - you can't be a 'good developer' without the above. You might be able to code but you aren't a developer.
Actually, I was more taken by the combination of the clickwheel, good firmware and nice hardware design which together make an ipod an amazingly nice device to use - unlike most of their competitors who fell down on some or all of those and ended up with something that could physically hold a thousand songs but couldn't actually deal with them all.

Although, I suppose it might be that itunes forms another part of that; I've owned an ipod but never installed itunes. For a lot of people it probably is a big deal though, especially if the only alternative they'd seen was whatever awful thing Sony was packaging at the time.

I'm still not sure that any of the competition have really copied that. At least I haven't seen a replacement yet that really felt equally well done. My guess would be that too many companies think their "innovation" is going to be "it's cheaper" and compromise quality in order to get there.
Great point. I was including them in the first two points, but their welfare was a huge consideration and I should probably have called it out separately.
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I'm about to move from Europe to the US (Bay Area) to work for a big tech company and need a US bank account (checking, saving and credit card). They all look the same to me, and maybe they are but I'd love to hear some experiences. The banks I'm currently looking at are: BoA, HSBC, Chase, Citi, Schwab.

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Of course I subscribed to BankSimple, but I doubt I can get an account before the 1st of August :-)
That is what I meant, apologies for not making that clear.
>Yes, I would like to drive the cost of software to zero, for the same reasons that I would like to drive the cost of energy, housing, and food to zero.

Then you're going about it exactly backwards, the worst possible way.

Wages/prices are driven by perceived value and constrained by price floor. If you want me to work for free then you first have to get energy, housing and food to be free. As long as I have to pay, I have to charge. What kind of stupidity leads one to first kill wages instead of rent seeking?

>This is in fact how most developers are paid today.

So what? The reason many of us are in this field is because it is one of the few left where we have the potential to escape wage slavery. If you want to close that door expect to meet resistance. You're basically telling us all to get back in the mines and stop dreaming about the future.
This should bypass it. On the page, open up the console (right-click Inspect Element and go to Console tab) and type these 2 lines to remove 'to-build' class. Then you can read through the slides without having to wait.

j = document.getElementsByClassName('to-build');
for (k=0; k<6; k++) { for (i=0; i<j.length; i++ ) { j[i].className = j[i].className.replace(/\bto-build\b/,''); } }

PS I haven't done too much Javascript and someone else can probably write a shorter version, and I'm also not sure why looping just once isn't working.
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It use to be that you required larger teams to build software as a solution to problems before. As software tools get better and infrastructure tools get cheaper, it's more and more feasible to solve problems with software with a smaller and smaller team.

That, along with the trend of software being used to solve more and more problems (more stuff is being solved by computers), it would seem like that eventually, even something like spending people to space would only take a small team, as infeasible as that seems right now.

To farmers of yore, it would seem laughable that we are able to produce a lot of food with so little farms. To builders of yore (like pyramids), it seems laughable that we're able to build taller buildings with much less people.

Given that technology and pace of innovation keeps accelerating, we should be able to solve larger class of problems with less effort and less man power.
I use GNU Screen for similar purposes (on Mac OS X)
While I think that the video would use a change in voice-over (something more clear and more emotional), there was something touching that moved me near the end and made me think about people and simple, day-to-day life. Maybe it's the sountrack. Anyway, well done :).
i think this is intended to be, and will always remain, vaporware.

or perhaps i misunderstand what is meant by "concept".
We only need that many people because our tools weren't sufficiently advanced at the time. We had to invent a lot of things on the fly there.
You're not the only one. I don't really like web applications too. It is irrational of me, but I really feel better about desktop, on-line software. I think I don't really trust "the Internet" and "the Cloud", and would like my computer to be usable even after the whole networking infrastructure burns down.
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theres no reason why this sort of experience couldn’t be achieved my merging gmail and g+ a little more closely
In the short term, but the free clone only exists from the innovation of indie developer. If he is put out of business then all the things he would have made that helped everyone even more probably wont be realized.

It's not so simple, everything has a cost.
> I half expect to get banned from this forum for taking this minority view, in fact.

This kind of sentence reveals much about your psychology, and not in your favor, you should avoid it.

I think your comment is a little confusing, and I am not sure if you re trying to argue in favor of crowd-sourced reviews/ratings, apart from arguing against the effectiveness of peer review and against "government influence."

Anyway, if this is the case (that you believe that the opinion of peer scientists is of lesser value than that of the general public), I would like to point out that you are not examining properly any alternative to peer reviews, in particular crowd-sourcing. You also take your experience emotionally, and some arguments seem weak evidence for the dysfunction of the system as a whole:

> ... Sometimes we'd have to submit the paper to another journal.

> I don't like that some Professor Emeritus is holding to an older view, as that forces us to make our argument a bit stronger...
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VMWare have started Screwing their Customers? Thats quite a diversion from virtualized operating systems. Does it scale?
just to play devils advocate

predictable shortcuts are like bookmarks, easily manageable (tabs expose for chrome) - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ackpfhlmgjdjlohhjm...
your ISP is tracking, cookies are tracking, or basically its more of a hassle to minimize all tracking than to stop thinking about it.

Either way in the end it is about preference
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Its certainly possible, the problem is those people don't care about press or PR so they are very rarely heard about until after the event. Look in the various universities across the world and their spin outs and you will find some incredible people.

This is the main reason I live in Cambridge Uk and not London or SF, the vibe is very different around the startup scene, it actually feels like one of maturity driving a vision not a media circus. Sure it's smaller, it's all done behind the scenes, but some of them have and will continue to change the world for the better.
Aside question: Can anyone elaborate a little bit on the camera, lenses, and graphical effects used to produce the blur/focus effect in this video?
But... but they're the nerds who triumphed! The pirates of Silicon Valley! This messes up my hagiography in all sorts of ways!
consumers in the USA clearly want to play Angry Birds, whereas in some African countries consumers are more likely to be searching for their nearest Malaria drugs clinic.

Yes malaria is a huge problem in some African countries, but in case some Rovio staffmember reads that and suffers an existential crisis, here's an anecdote to make them feel better:

My 3 year old nephew loves Angry Birds, and got his nanny to play it with him. She was intrigued by it, and started learning how to use a mouse, launch Chrome, and launch and play Angry Birds. This is a 30 year old black South African woman from a rural area, with no prior experience of computers, who was forced to leave school in Grade 9, because of a lack of funds, who began learning a new skill. Will she pursue it? I don't know. Will she encourage her own children to become computer literate, maybe buying a cheap computer for her children to play with? Quite possibly. But it wasn't some World Bank funded outreach program that got her using a computer, it was Angry Birds.
Gimp. If that didn't exist for free maybe someone would have created a product by now that actually competes with photoshop. Of course I can't prove this, but I'll offer the app store as supporting evidence. Look at all the photo editing software that sprang up as soon there was a place Gimp couldn't get to.
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You won't be able to get a bank account without your social security number. Don't use BoA, they suck bad. I use Chase and have never had any issues with them.
Why can't it be about both? Also, from the perspective of Google, why let Facebook enjoy the 'blue ocean' of social, if the blue/red ocean is such an important concept for new products?
Web apps have their advantages but their integration into the desktop, responsiveness etc. is lacking far behind desktop applications.

Browsers fail horribly at providing a desktop alternative.
>IE xmlhttp

MSXML XMLHTTP. MSXML 2.0 released with IE5 was first to support it. It got copied first by Mozilla, BTW, then as AJAX caught on in 2004 Safari copied it too.
Our relocation consultant can set us up with Citi and HSBC without a number. But from what I understand they should all be able to do so, although it's a bit more hassle.
What is wrong with that? It's a vendor extension, like most new CSS and JS features are implemented. A draft specification for the Speech API exists since last October, if I'm not mistaken. So why would that not work?
Simple and effective.
No more maintenance hassle.
Would you believe I heard something being bandied around about a $200 bit of software that converted c# code to java... and then have the devs fix the 20% that didn't convert.... I kid you not....

There was also talk about bringing in parts of the JBOSS stack... and I am not exactly sure why... but synergy might have something to do with it.

RHEV 3 will use more oVirt developed technologies (libvirt, etc) but now they have Enterprise customers who need compatibility for an extended period... so its going to be the ugly stepchild of RHEV2 (aka Qumranet's Product) and oVirt (redhats R&D). I suspect that RHEV is going to be carrying around baggage for a while.
My experience was: worked fine in Firefox 6, crashed on today's Chromium 14 nightly, worked with ridiculous occasional lag on Chromium 14 dev.

Obviously, more of the feature demos worked in Chromium than in Firefox, but the presentation experience was smoother on Firefox.
when did something great need rapid user growth? Investors often require that to make a return, but does that define that you've made something great? Random example plastic logic, no customer growth, raised ~£1B, will plastic electronics technology change the world more than any Valley based company to date, who knows, but it has a damn good shot at making an entire new industry. They might not succeed as a company, but as an idea they are making something astonishing.
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Is this being developed?

I think that there are some original and interesting ideas in there.
I tend to feel the same way, but you have to ask: Which is more likely to burn down, the whole networking infrastructure or my house?
The soundtrack is "Ágætis Byrjun" by Sigur Rós-- I'm not sure how they'd feel about their stuff being used in a commercial setting.
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They are advancing the concept of 'conversations' that Gmail introduced in an interesting direction. Basically, the second tab at the top is the Gmail conversation view. This view collects emails by topic, which makes it behave more like a threaded discussion board in a way.

The interesting part is the first tab though, the 'people' view. They seem to go for an IM-style persistent conversation log between a fixed set of people. That is quite an interesting way of looking at conversations, pushing email further from the original 'digital letter' towards shorter, more transient messages. Basically, it tries to make email behave more like a persistent IM chat.

I find it interesting how the email protocol gets pushed more and more in the background and applications implement their own interfaces on top of it. Email seems to evolve from the definite way of sending stuff over the internet towards just one other communication protocol that is more or less on equal footing with, say, Jabber, or Facebook, or maybe even Twitter.

What with Facebook integrating email into its site and Google dumping IM chat logs in your Gmail inbox, there is even some sort of cross-protocol talk. This gets even more obvious with Facebook or Google+ or Twitter sending you emails whenever you receive messages on their platform. Now if you could reply to these emails and the platform would 'do the right thing', this would actually implement email as a ubiquitous interface to all of these services.

Interesting times!
I love how we as a species can just rationalize anything. Google+ has been out for a couple of weeks. Yes, it's gaining new users rather quickly, but am I the only one who thinks it's perhaps a bit premature to write about its success and what we can all learn from it?
So... they've turned email into Facebook? Is that the idea? :P
why don't we work on creating institutions that preserve the advantages of having a boss while ameliorating the disadvantages?

What are the unique advantages of having a boss?
I don't know how they did it, but it could have been easily done with a DSLR with video capabilities and a decent fast lens. Note that the camera was mostly static, except for example when doing minute panning movements (not too smooth, so probably they didn't have the right type tripod head) towards the right and shifting focus so as to put the viewer's attention on the different icons.
I agree. I've had two articles reviewed by now (not in a science field, but still), and only one reviewer was relatively unhelpful (they thought the paper was too dense and insufficiently well presented to do a detailed review); all the others, even whey they could not recommend acceptance, went out of their way to suggest various ways of making the paper(s) better.

People are in general much more likely to bother giving negative feedback than to give positive feedback, much less defend other people's efforts. I'm afraid such a system would be no different: would a ton of "likes" offset the negativity of a couple of arseholes wreaking havoc in the comments to make it worth it?
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Anyone got a transcript so I can read it at normal human speed?
So, is this merely a design fiction, or are there plans for this to actually exist and be available somewhere?
> ...and thereby get rapid user growth.

Only for a small subset of businesses.

(Usually, the ones that investors are most interested in, because it's where they're more likely to make more money.)
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Surely there must be a way to simply ignore the lawsuit the way OJ Simpson ignored his civil lawsuit [1].

[1] Well, he had to move, but the point is he didn't pay the people who sued him a dime. This is what I would want to do; make sure the ones who sued me got nothing.
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Please add JavaScript and python runtime support as soon as possible. We need something like that. Would really save us time and maintenance headaches. #lean
What the hell just happened? Downvoted into oblivion for what exactly?
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Totally on our Radar. Will be adding that during the summer.
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Thanks so much for your feedback. To start, I'm going to follow @poisonpie´s advice and use GAE since I have some basic familiarity with Python. And will be sure to read up on how web hosting works -- hadnt even thought about that piece of the puzzle yet. And @swalkergibson will def be providing plenty of beer+pizza for a couple coder friends who've offered to help if I get stuck. Will let you know how it goes! Thanks again.
>Of course science costs time and money.

One problem is that peer review is essentially free for the journals, and people have to take time for it out of the other things they have to do (like teaching, or scrambling to get Yet Another Publication before the tenure review comes up, or doing the reporting to 550 external agencies). People are expected to uphold the highest standard of rigour essentially in their free time. In that sense, the current peer review leads to waste, by decreasing the efficiency of the investments originally made into other things.
Their homepage is all image, no substance.

I'm guessing their product is the same.
Couldn't agree more! A few years ago I saw a fairly new model of a Lego sportscar, and stuff like the doors were just single custom pieces. Lame... :-)
If it helps, Continuous.io has Python/Django support (with Ruby/Rails support coming soon).

Full disclosure: I'm the founder of Continuous.io
But not necessarily. There are some landmark papers like Grigori Perelman's solution of the Poincaré Conjecture that only exist on ArXiv.
It seems that the development of drugs is such an incredibly expensive investment that you need to grant a limited monopoly to the developer so that he can recoup on it.
I think a lot about this since email clients still seem like something done by a developer without wasting much time thinking about the user experience. For instance, I'd say most personal email conversations are between only two people and yet we still can't see it as the usual chat view which is much more easier to read, like shown on the video and the screenshots.

Please do it and keep improving it as there's a lot of potencial here. Good work!
Summary: Google+ is an attempt to move applications/things onto the web, and make sharing and coloborating easier. The goal is not to take on Facebook/Twitter, but to take on MS Office and App Stores
more code != more value. Lots of people can crank out thousands of lines per week, but someone should be responsible for the system to make sense as a cohesive whole - and that is usually the job of a software architect ( pretty unglamourous, I should add ;) ).