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My (poorly worded?) question was asking whether we should consider the employer's perspective when leaving to join a startup, and how do people most often handle this. In this particular case, there was clearly a failure to see that the developer was getting bored and so nobody expected him to leave. He had a private office, flexible hours, freedom to work on open source projects, and excellent benefits (profit sharing, pensions, etc) -- but I found after he left that bioinformatics development was just not his interest. He jumped to a startup that used the open source code he contributed to. So in this case, management was not taking advantage. Perhaps the other way around. But based on comments so far, employee management relationships seem not so good, in general, for developers.
10 hour per month limit still means you get about 20 minutes of free listening per day.
In the late 90s, early 2K, I was erroneously enrolled for a semester I never attended (left University) and received all Fs, except for one class, I received a D.
Thanks for the great feedback!

We had a landing page but we were losing a lot of people on it. Switch testing made it clear that more people preferred the current layout where the age/interest selection is optional.

We'll go over your comment again and weigh each one in. Thanks again!
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There are acutally entire colleges like that...

http://www.ncf.edu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_of_Florida#Distingu...
Now that we have entered the machine thinking age, where tools like IBM's Watson can answer open ended straight forward questions, grades measuring memorization and straight forward question-answering miss the mark.

I predict the ability to answer a multiple choice/fill in the blank test will be dominated by the machine once IBM's Watson gets deployed to all the arts and sciences.

There needs to be a bigger emphasis on what you can build given the sum of human knowledge instead of "how much you can remember".

I'm thinking of a grading system where you measure the number of processes and tasks you can do which are useful to humanity that $10,000 worth computer can't do. High = A, Low = F. "the arts" doesn't count. I'm talking creative thinking, innovation, things like that.
Similar problem here - eg. I once almost failed a course because I decided that writing a computer game for a Lisp competition is much more fun. I get A's in courses I care about, which is a suprising minority, and learn some of the rest while procrastinating, in completely different order than university would like.
If Facebook were confident that they make a better product, they'd embrace competition as a sort of self-check in the system. They'd spend a day or two to adapt their already-developed you-can-download-your-whole-account feature to allow customers to switch to Google+, if they desire.

But they won't do this. Their reluctance underscores their belief that they don't make a product superior to Google's; if they did, they'd have no problem with these advertisements.
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If I google "facebook games" I see a few AdWords listed. If a Google user clicks those ads, it's not like that will drive the user away from Google search. But if someone on Facebook has an ad that reads "Julio Fernandez moved to Google+ ...", then that is driving users away from Facebook. I don't see why a company should facilitate a mass exodus toward a competing service. I don't use Facebook and think they're kind of creepy, but I can't fault them for this.
perhaps fridge will go into stasis and come back in freak super-human form, complete with anime-style avatars with bulbous heads which bop along as you post. :P
I once read an article by person who primarily interviewed "C" grade students for positions.

His philosophy was that students that where talented often cruised along and didn't try to hard, the ones that struggled often put in more work and got "A" because of it, but the "A" wasn't a reflection of talent. Just a reflection of an ability to pass a test.
Yeah, Standard Oil and U.S. Steel were pretty awesome.

Without robber-barons, we would have a dearth of philanthropists.
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This is a very good point. As users of Adwords become more familair with its abilities to customize campaigns, they can spend less and keep their same conversion rates.

For instance, only advertising at certain times of day, or certain keywords for specific regions, not advertising in specific geographical locations, the use of quotes and brackets in keywords, etc...
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Devil's Advocate:

Could it be the ad-revenue is down overall, and this is an accounting game to prevent GOOG stock's price from dropping?
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The baffled geek geek. :D
Seeing this guy give a talk next week.
Cool use with BSON as mentioned in the article:

http://bsonspec.org/
You forgot a "May" in your title. Please.
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What about "I run a software company. Like Microsoft, like Google. Only smaller but nonetheless growing."?
Fair point!

Linux, of course, has symlinks too.
you usually don't have the luxury to pay your bills, pay your employees in full etc, let alone do stuff orderly.

Make not mistake about it: paying your bills and paying your employees in full are not luxuries, they are requirements.

Grandparent didn't say you have to do it now, just that you have to do it.

Anyone who hides behind "market conditions", "the bank", "unrecoverable errors in judgment", or old faithful "bankruptcy" in order to escape their obligations doesn't deserve a second chance from the same investor.

OTOH, someone who finds a way to do the right thing, not matter how difficult, probably moves right to the top of that investor's list.
Not really. In Europe Spotify does have radio features - both genre and artist-based versions. But to be honest, neither option is very good. My music tastes don't seem to fit in well with the genre options you have on Spotify, and the artist-based radio plays that artist way too much, so you don't get a lot of variety. --Hopefully this is something Spotify will try to do better on. Right now you really have to know what you're looking for.
I'm curious as to what hardware specs are used for these various cases.

How much RAM? How many instances per server? How many servers?
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While it is true that India tolerated a variety of cultural norms amongst its many people before the British, practices like those you mention were fringe practices and by no means mainstream. It was Indian reformers like Ram Mohan Roy who asked for British for help in removing them. The British being the much stronger party do deserve credit for heeding these demands, but in relation to the widespread damage Indian industry suffered under them, these were things that made for good press rather than something that bought about a systematic positive change. It was only after the 1857 war/mutiny fought by the Indians which ended the 257 year old East India Company that Indians were given greater share and responsibility in self governance. Not doing that would have been a fundamentally unstable government system. This very limited civil governmant participation is what eventually grew to a movement which led to independance. You only need to read the writings of Lord Curzon to see that the British never intended to leave India and on the contrary wanted to expand their control over China and Japan as well.
By your standard, we should let the machines vote because that's a multiple choice question.
Google+ is not Facebook. Nor it will ever be. The only hope google has is not to make a better facebook, but to change rules of the game.

There will be no exodus from facebook. Evolution moves at its own pace, regardless of facebook or google. Only those that go in step with evolution will flourish.

As such exodus from facebook will never happen. Though young and bright - most lucrative section of advertising market might just go and do something else.

Restriction seems to always backfire as in this case, it may well play out.

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I passed this 'test'/suggested a clever way of solving it at a relatively early age, but have always been pretty poor at Maths.
I think it's more indicative of a problem-solving intuition than maths skill, or even thew child's conception of integers.
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You can authenticate any way you want, so that's not a problem.

If NAT and firewalls weren't such PITA, browser could even act as an OpenID provider for itself (e.g. Opera Unite makes it possible).

The problem with OpenID is lack of discovery. AFAIK there is no way to advertise that website supports OpenID login and where it should be submitted, so browsers are unable to have integrated UI for it.
What is uncreative about twitter, hulu, etc.? Anyway here is the list of top100 rails sites by Alexa rank: http://rails100.pbworks.com/w/page/8815411/Alexa-Rankings There are other lists online.
How is this not a violation of Sherman anit-trust legislation?

Sometimes metaphors for the internet/cyber world don't map well to real worl past examples. But this instance aligns very well to Standard Oil's transport rebates for their own oil. Oil is to content as railroads are to networks.

IANAL but until the US starts enforcing anti-trust legislation this kind of thing will continue to happen. Net neutrality doesn't stand a chance against these kinds of behemoth ISPs and their lobbyists.
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How this is fair, I fail to comprehend. When laws allow things like this, maybe it's time for laws to change?
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I think an advanced objective-thinking algorithm like watson advanced another 15 years would provide night-vs-day superior choices than your average self serving voter who has the objective thinking capability of a random number generator.

Voting is basically a popularity contest anyway. An objective thinking machine would have to be fed an objective question, like: "Which candidate has appealed to the politically active youth community with a tech-savvy hip message of 'change' "?
You don't have to use Linux VM for anything other than PHP + web server.

You can still develop on Windows, just instead of testing on localhost, you'd test on local VM.
I hope and pray a single sign-on system that doesn't depend on a specific third party catches on. Any system, OpenID, BrowserID, I don't care. It's about time we do away with the insecure and complicated system of one password per site.
Take a look at Parrot

http://www.parrot.org/
I still encounter this on many websites unfortunately :(

I'm thinking there should be a browser plugin that lets me report this and also warns me when I'm on such a website. Who's with me?
Without arguing definitions, I'd say the net effect is that discovery is good for advanced users (who will use those third parties) and not for basic users. Integrating this kind of thing into the actual service would be a good move.
Kept hearing about Spotify this week and after reading this article decided to give it a try...and found like almost everything else involving media, Canada's left out in the cold. Guess I'm sticking with grooveshark for now.
I think the OP is also talking about the impact Leonardo had on the fields he worked in not just his scope. He made a similar impact that Einstein did in physics but in a dozen different fields.

He was a polymath on an incredible scale.
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There actually is a service that backups your website through FTP regularly, just trying to think of the name...
The only API is in C, and there's no REST API, which probably tells you where the developers are coming from.

http://developer.spotify.com/en/libspotify/overview/
"The ruling is scary for competition because it could ultimately lead to the ban of all HTC Android devices and, to take things to the extreme, the ban of all Google Android phones and tablets."

Yawn Sensationalist, at best. The article goes on to quote everyone's favorite authority on the matter, Florian Mueller. Have we had enough of this tripe yet?
> you are trusting your email provider to be absolutely secure

Yes, because e-mailed password reminders are keys to my kingdom already.
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Here's a guide to FOIA requests from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

You don't need a lawyer to file a FOIA request, there's even a handy letter generator tool linked to from that page.
Leaving aside increases in human longevity, I think things will just continue to get more specialised. From being able to innovate in "everything" in Da Vinci's time, to just science, to just physics, to one branch of physics ...
This will serve nothing but encourage patent trolls and big corporations to invest more and more in ridiculously broad patents. Apple sues others, patent troll sues Apple and others, some other competitors dig out obscure patents and start sueing; someone gonna benefit from this, but definitely not entrepreneurs or customers.
Its impossible to get hard numbers, but I don't think Youtube has been the massive loss leader everyone assumed it was for a long time. Run a trace route from pretty much any home connection, Google is directly peered with nearly every residential ISP, that's bound to save massive amounts on bandwidth.
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Me too, but I don't really mind that it's frozen in time as it "just works". I use Dreamhost too and haven't seen much change there either in that time. Maybe a few more options, but it didn't make much difference to me.

The downside will be if Rackspace proceeds with their plan to move SH accounts over.
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I use friend lists and privacy settings on about a third of my Facebook posts. I can share something silly with everyone except my coworkers, something that's only useful to people local to me, or even share to the "public" with friends of friends or everyone. If I'm counting everything, I think it takes 6 clicks and picking a list name on Facebook vs. 2 clicks and picking a circle name on Google+. So the UX is a little harder. It wouldn't surprise me if Facebook makes some tweaks there.

I swear Facebook used to give you the option to view your incoming feed filtered by friend list but it's not there now. Maybe that can make a comeback.
As much as one can dislike the guy's drivel. There is some truth to his statements as well. It does not bear repeating that so many patents describe mathematical truths, trivialities, and common sense, that it is hard to make a product that does not violate a patent. Also, banning a product is one of the possible outcomes of a patent violation (besides working around the patent, or settling).

Wouldn't it be nicer if everyone just competes on quality and price? Also, in a market that moves this quickly, doesn't 'discovery' of some technique give a time-advantage already?

If the patent madness continues, let's hope the outcome is MAD, which would be better than a handful giants and trolls collecting 'taxes' on everything.

Edit: nice downvoting. Do we downvote for disagreeing these days?
You're missing living in (or proxying to) the UK, US or Germany, where it's still free.

http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement
This is a real problem, as far as civil services are concerned. If you want to go to some service to do some work, their opening hours are frequently 10am-1pm. It's ridiculous, and really makes things hard for the public. I'm not familiar with any service that stays open to the public after 2pm, post offices, hospitals, whatever.

Meanwhile, employees in the private sector work 11-13 hour days, 6 (sometimes 7) days a week, so calling Greeks lazy is unfair. Most of my friends are amazed and envious when I tell them I don't work on Saturdays.
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I don't think there is a wealth of FOSS programs when in comes to designing. Hence, I tend to use of various web-apps for design tasks:

http://layerstyles.org/ - Css generator

http://0to255.com/ - Color/gradient chooser

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/06/10/useful-html-cs... - Link collection
Apple and Lodsys are in the same category.
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Because they're in Canada.
Indeed; was coming here to say that. If you have the strong belief you are the best (and you should) then you don't care; it's income and the competitor is not as good as you anyway.
And, for what its worth, we launched toll-free phone numbers this morning.
For a long time I've liked Horgan's book "The End Of Science", although you'll never meet a working scientist who thinks the book has any value.

It's definitely true that people are writing more papers than they've ever had and there's nothing to stop that trend.

On the other hand, Albert Einstein was able to discover some amazing things with simple pencil-and-paper calculations. The last "big theory" in fundamental physics to be confirmed in the lab was the electroweak interaction and that was 1983. Many of the great physicists of our day, such as Ed Witten and Steven Hawking have never had a prediction confirmed in an experiment.

To be fair, there has been some excitement in experimental fundamental physics in the last few years. Neutrino oscillations are confirmed, there are glimmerings of dark matter, and something interesting might happen at the LHC. However, even if Superstring theory is true, it's possible that's there is very little new physics left to be discovered within reasonable reach.

Now, look at other fields and you find similar stories. There is a huge amount to discover in the field of biology, but there's never going to be another Darwin or Crick.

All fields of knowledge face limits that are caused by undecidability -- computer scientists know they can't solve the halting problem by static analysis, and the field of classical chaos has been dead for decades. There's a linear plane, and a handful of systems that can be solved exactly, each with a pertubative island around it, and then a vast undecidable ocean.

He touches on the career problems of people in physics, which is probably the field that's been the most pathological for the longest. When I got my PhD in 1998, the APS estimated that fewer than 3% of us would get permanent work in the field. I found it quite hard to find a professor in my department who didn't have at least one professor for a parent, so the odds for a bright kid who comes from a working class background and loves science are a lot worse than that.

For all we know we could be producing 10 Einsteins a decade but only keeping 2 in a lifetime.
Your points are valid and should not be down voted! Come on guys, that isn't how this community works. :(

I completely agree with you in regards to how things /should/ be. But it goes without saying, we aren't living in that perfect world.

I don't think the ultimate impact of this ruling is going to be the banning of "all Google Android phones and tablets." I imagine in the worst case scenario HTC, et al, have to fork over some money to license the patents.
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Building things that depend on the sum of human knowledge is a very, very slow process if you are ignorant about large parts of your respective field.
Duh. Though it doesn't really work like that; there are enough ethical programmers who work their asses off and give you high quality despite hourly pay.
I agree with you that a machine may someday make a more "rational" vote than the average voter. We had quite an experience in Quebec recently...

That being said, your solution does not improve humanity. It does not make the voters (or the students) better understand their world. It's just a bandaid to hide their ignorance.
Ah. So can you name a contribution Leonardo had that, like Einstein or Newton, is still relevant today? Because he was working from scratch, much of what he did was utterly wrong. His work on anatomy is astonishing, and the drawings beautiful --- but not correct, nor even a particularly good approximation. He also had no global system
to spread his results, so what he did well languished, undeveloped (the helicopter, parachute, some choice geological ideas, etc. ) Leonardo was a genius --- but a genius of his ability would do more, of more importance, in more fields, more correctly, and with more far-reaching results, than Leonardo ever could in 1400's Italy.
I say this will spell the end of the US patent system before it spells the end of HTC or Android.
US patents can't be enforced outside of the USA. Why not just ignore US market and go on with the product in the rest of the world?
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To what email? :-)
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Spotify is C++ using the Qt4 toolkit. At least on the Linux client (still in "preview"), it also uses DBus to allow external applications to send command signals and receive current song information from the client. I actually wrote a wrapper for Spotify to translate Gnome media key signals to the MPRIS standard that Spotify listens for.

http://noswap.com/projects/spotify-gnome
http://github.com/jreese/spotify-gnome
There certainly aren't as many resources dedicated to e.g. GIMP as there are to Photoshop, but that's because Photoshop is (exponentially?) more popular. I've used GIMP some in the past and as I recall, there was a decent amount of information available, especially articles along the lines of "here's how you do _____ Photoshop thing in GIMP".
US market is kinda big.
I think PaaS would be worth mentioning at an introductory level - the difference between managing your own VPS/Dedi/CoLo, and using something like Heroku.
yeah, i wondered the same - that was a weekend, which i suspect is lower.