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Yishan Wong pointed out that the backbone of a mainstream social network is primarily moms and popular attractive females [1]. And I completely agree that testing for them is more important than nerds who worry about the privacy settings of their gender.

Besides we as a demographic are not very good for personalized targeting. How often do you guys click ads?

[1] http://www.quora.com/Yishan-Wong/Why-would-you-post-publicly...
But what you are saying is essentially that they build on top of other engineering work. And that's all engineering is, anyway.

Maybe in X years Intel will just be a manufacturing company and not an engineering company. But that's just the way of things -- when an industry is immature, engineers are needed to make stuff work; and when it's mature, they don't need so many engineers.

But there are new industries, new applications, and new expectations that will need engineers.

Or, maybe everything really has been invented this time, and we're just done.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2765942

>> OK, finally found a decent explanation of what a Git generation number actually IS:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg161165.html
If a public beta test of driverless cars were to cause a significant loss of life, it'd sour the idea in public opinion to the point of killing all potential sales of the vehicles and probably lead to legislation banning the vehicles in at least part of the country. The tech would be set back for years more.

The road to driverless vehicle public acceptance is paved with extremely limited trials and an absolute focus on safety.
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Actually, yes. HIPAA -- the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act -- is the watchword in medical recordkeeping, these days, and cloud storage is a major point of failure if you don't do it right. Neither DrChrono nor the linked article mention HIPAA, except to say they're compliant. They need to say how they're compliant, give details up front. I'd be more willing to take them seriously if they discussed the topic more like this:

The Nirvanix Cloud Storage Network meets the healthcare industry's need for secure archives. You can use policy-based replication to store data at multiple storage nodes that meet SAS 70 compliance. Nirvanix solutions encrypt data both in flight and at rest and enable you to instantly verify the integrity of your files. You also can make data securely available to selected users. We even seamlessly migrate data to new discs on standard refresh cycles, eliminating the complexities of long-term retention. With its secure long-term storage, the Nirvanix cloud will help you to comply with HIPAA Privacy and HIPAA Security Rules as well as other mandates for data privacy. (http://www.nirvanix.com/solutions/healthcare.aspx)

Here's a few other links that discuss the topic in a more informative manner:

http://www.hipaacompliancejournal.com/2009/05/cloud-storage-...

http://billkos.squarespace.com/hit-journal/2010/1/21/cloud-s...

http://hipaaaudit.com/2010/06/22/do-no-evil-says-google/

EDIT: Replaced Nirvanix quote with the correct paragraph. Oh, and I don't represent the company. Just picked 'em out of a search.
So it's almost, but not quite, like the revision numbers everyone else has always had?
It's kind of a silly guessplanation, but I have a feeling that Linus Torvalds made the call and it stuck. I don't know anything about the people who actually maintain Git, though.
How do you know the manual affected how well the computer played? IMHO Put a machine learning algorithm into playing enough games and it isn't so unreasonable it would do better than the default AI on at least some games.

They need a control where the computer doesn't have access to a manual and compare to that.
The most important aspect that nontechnical people need to understand about technology development has nothing to do with technology itself. It has to do with process. Understanding how estimation works, the importance of environment, the role of refactoring, automated testing, and debugging, etc. These are the things that will provide far more value than an explanation of MVC frameworks.
It's definitely right for my circle of friends (and my Facebook is about 50/50 split).

To be fair, I know more tech-savvy (though not nerdy) men than women, so I could understand why most of my circle is largely dudes.
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> They need a control where the computer doesn't have access to a manual and compare to that.

Which is exactly what they did: http://people.csail.mit.edu/regina/my_papers/civ11.pdf
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Part of me wants to see this come into fruition, and I think that's the same part of me that wants to look at car accidents on the side of the road as I drive by.
Thanks for the advice, I'm going to distill your points and put them on postit notes on my monitor :) Also, thanks for those links, this list looks like a great place to start!
I'd love to buy my dad an iPad with this app. He's old but moderately tech savvy so I'm hoping that the UI will be simple enough for him to understand.
Some good takeaways here, and an inspirational message, but the human brain still has a reasonably fixed (over the long term) bits per second acquisition/retention rate for pure information and a fixed degree of neural plasticity.

In reality, there is a speed limit. At least until Kurzweil gets his way.
Do you mean this was some kind of tumblr template markup to XSLT translator?
Git is more comparable to Vi or Emacs than Dropbox or TDD. Or compare it to grep or sed.

The article is intended for deep understanding, not as a tutorial.
Microsoft Research projects seem to rarely turn into real projects. This will probably be the first and last we see of this.
I agree with most of your post. I'm not saying designers should actively hinder accessibility or make users uncomfortable. We should do the opposite.

Still, in 2003, ems might have been best practice. In the modern web, ems and pixels are equivalent when it comes to scaling. One shouldn't avoid a good tool because it's hard to learn. (Example: I use Vim for all my coding.) However, one shouldn't use a tool just because it's hard to learn. Ems, in my opinion, introduce bugs, make planning more complicated, and have no meaningful benefits.

Using ems is like avoiding functions and instead duplicating code everywhere it's needed. Ems behave differently depending on their scope, and they're a pain to keep track of.

There's a similar issue with percent-based sizing. Let's look at some css:

*{font-size: 75%}
h1{font-size: 125%;}

What size is h1? I honestly have no clue without a calculator. It almost definitely contains fractional pixel value. There's no way I'm getting appropriate vertical rhythm with percents. It's the same for ems.

I might be entirely wrong. Maybe I'd fall in love with ems if I started working with them regularly. It's a personal choice, from my understanding of modern browser scaling. Pixels are a completely valid method.
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Tell it to my wife and daughter-in-law. But the mix isn't so surprising considering that every person on Google+ was invited by (recursively) someone who works at Google only a few weeks ago. Male geeks know a lot of male geeks. Male geeks are early adopters. Frankly, I think requiring users specify sex was a mistake for many reasons, not least of which are premature conclusions like this article.
My wife isn't.
Besides many theorems math does have design patterns; Tim Gowers in his essay "The two cultures in mathematics" argues that part of the reason mathematicians in other fields sometimes think there's not much to combinatorics is that they ate used to having widely applicable insights implemented as theorems whereas combinatorics tends to have them as design patterns.
I've had a phone for just over one year, and it is apparently stuck with Android 2.1 (HTC Hero on Sprint). I'd like to be excited about what Google does with Android, but they aren't solving the single biggest problem: users can't get their improvements.
Yes, the wisdom of the crowd is often about connecting with the right individual. One can argue that overall wisdom is always a function of speed of thought, and network effects often speed up contacting the right individual.

But.. there are counterpoints too: For example, this is what Kasparov said about his 1999 chess match against "The World":

It is the greatest game in the history of chess. The sheer number of ideas, the complexity, and the contribution it has made to chess make it the most important game ever played.

Many critics agree with him.

The important thing here is that no participant on "The World" team was remotely as highly rated as Kasparov on their own.

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/kasparov-versus-the-world/
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Are developers so dishonest that, when asked if they were contacted by a recruiter, they'll say no?
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Hey Joel, I remember seeing this post on HN ages ago and tried to find the link recently :) I wanted to show this "api first" approach to someone who was building an XML API for Flash sites. I showed him the Decal API [1] but wanted to give him this as an example a well, thanks for reminding me!

[1] http://www.decalcms.com/page/Decal_API_Quick_Start_Guide
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Let me present the case of Ubercart as a counterpoint. It was the upcoming, loved by many e-commerce system built on top of Drupal. When I first looked at it in 2008, it was still in alpha. But it looked like having solid devs and good community behind it. So I jumped on it, built my site around it and even developed custom modules for it.

Fast forward to 2010. The project has forked and the main dev has gove over to develop the next generation of Drupal e-commerce system which is a completely separate project. It is only being developed for Drupal 7 and has no migration path from UC. I heard that someone from the original team is still continuing to work on Ubercart but the site has had no updates for about a year.

To put it in perspective, this leaves me with 2 options. One is to live with the old UC (which still lacked a lot of stuff since it was pretty much work in progress) and keep investing further in developing on it while knowing that underlying platform is dead. Or I can jump over to Drupal Commerce which would mean I would need to move to Drupal 7 which would mean porting all the rest of my custom development (which has nothing to do with e-commerce part) over to D7 which I had no need to! For those who do not know, Drupal does not maintain backward compatibility between major version upgrades.

Having said that, I don't have any gripes with UC devs. I have benefited from their hard work and thank them for that. I am just pointing out that even Drupal ecosystem is vulnerable to what the original article said.
>It seems really ugly to store derived information in a commit

I don't understand how generation numbers are derived information. They are used to find the position of the commit in relation to another. That makes them information that is essential to the commit. The problem was to get around them not being there timestamps were compared and that is not reliable for obvious reasons. So I really don't understand why any one would complain about this.
Is this guy nuts? I'm on iOS 4.3 and I only need to hit the home button twice in a row to get from Safari to the home screen. One hit to send Safari background, and another hit to scroll from the current screen to home screen.
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Damn, I'm average. Does the 101K+ crowd care to share what industry/stack/niche you work with? Hints acceptable :)
very true...its all Mktng gimmick....this strategy offers free publicity. See what happend to iphone4...huge hit after " Being left at a bar Accidently :D "
It's crazy to charge twice as much for fat as for sugar. Sure, fat has a little over twice as many calories as sugar, but fat won't give you diabetes and kill you. Sugar is actively dangerous. The country is still in the grip of the low-fat diet fad which has had the result of...wait for it...making us all fatter. And sicker.
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It's a step forward. There were security issues. Some sites used "name" as the user identifier, because obviously nobody on Facebook shares the same name (sarcasm).

Even email isn't safe, unless all the OAuth providers validate the email. Does Twitter allow me to change my email address to "president@whitehouse.com", and then return that to OAuth consumers as my email? I don't know.

There's too many things ways to shoot yourself (or someone else) in the foot.
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The value of the house is about 1 year of salary for the engineer in NC, and about 5 years of a higher salary for the engineer in the Valley. No, its not a better deal for the valley engineer still, but at least they have something to show for all those mortgage payments that are bleeding them dry.
Microsoft licenses much of the Kinect technology from PrimeSense, and I believe another company. PrimeSense was founded in 2005.

PrimeSense, Microsoft and many others were working on, and have developed similar technology. Did Microsoft steal from Carlos Anzola?

It sounds like nothing more than a coincidence that Carlos sent his patents in two days before Microsoft announced project natal.

The patent has a filing date of May 2009, here is a PrimeSense patent filed in January of 2008 http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2010/0020078.html

Now, of course non of this proves that Microsoft didn't steal from Carlos, or that they haven't stolen from anybody else.

But in this instance, I think the timeline evidence is stacked against Carlos. Though he may have comparable technology, there seem to be competing patents already in place. Who's to say Microsoft hadn't seen PrimeSense technology or other similar technology before they saw Carlos?
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There are 100 other comments about all the things you mentioned. DanielBMarkham's comment is great, can't we just leave it at that or add to it constructively?
Does that mean this is as secure as the user's email provider? What if I have an AOL email and AOL gets hacked?
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having the header domain like social won't do anything for them. They've got live.com, and look how little they've been able to do with that.
I will second the write your own micro-framework statement.

When I first began toying with frameworks, I felt much you, chromium. I understood the concept and the idea behind everything, but some of it felt like "magic." So, I sat down and wrote a basic clone of rails in PHP.

It lacked a lot of features but it had basic routing, models, views, controllers. I even wrote some code to generate migrations and applying/rolling back those migrations.

I never even finished that little faux framework because once I got into it and started mucking around, everything kind of clicked into place for me as far as demystifying the "magic" of everything.
Me: This works with 2 people.
You: Yes, look, here they do it with 22 people.

2 of them are described as "Lead" which is contrary to the point you want to make: "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss."

Additionally the problem of putting someone in space is different from putting someone on the moon and back again.
What bearing does the fact that Google and Yahoo chose shitty hard-to-remember OpenID URLs have to do with the overall fact that OpenID uses URLs for authentication? That’s like saying using email addresses for authentication is a terrible idea because mail administrators can assign really hard-to-remember email addresses. The solution is simple: set things up so they’re not hard to remember. Again, there is no reason why your OpenID login can’t be ‘name.my-open-id-provider.com’.

I would be willing to bet Google and Yahoo made their OpenID URLs hard to remember because they already had single sign on products that they wanted in the limelight preferentially over OpenID. However, cursory support of OpenID made them both look like supporters of open standards even if their implementation (hard-to-remember URLs) doomed it to underuse.
Sounds more like a Quora competitor than a social project.
If it weren't for the fb and twitter logins, I'd suspect this was aimed more at the corporate user base than as a public site.
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> just a number the parents that a commit has

It's the max length from a commit to reach a root node in the graph. So any time that you hit a fork in the path you take the longest route.
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This is of no surprise to me, and I think we can all agree that its because of the technology oriented crowd. I'd actually be willing to bet the tech crowd is early adopters for most new software/services. The only reason we're hearing about it now is this information is accessible (mostly) to the public.
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XML/JSON stuff

Difference between server logic and application logic; and how they work together.

Why does Android app take almost as long as the iPhone app to make - SDKs and differences
> number of parents

s/parents/ancestors/

But that statement only holds up on branches without any merge commits. Because the actual algorithm does not just total up the number of ancestors.
They might of downvoted you, but this is hilarious. Thanks for sharing my man. I feel invincible now.
Well it does provide them with a sort of "market viability" test. Leak some information to see how the world reacts, and then decide if it's worth proceeding or not (obviously not, in this case).
Yeah, how long ago was I supposed to see surface tablets at my local restaurants/bars? And that was something I actually wanted...
I like the suggestion of storing the generation numbers in the pack index. When you generate a pack you're already parsing the entire tree. That makes more sense than requiring all future git objects to have 'generation numbers' jammed into them. Especially because it introduces an incompatibility with current git objects, which it would probably be best to avoid.
I make just over 50% of that (about US35k, full-stack web developer with one year of professional experience and no degree).
AS long as you set a couple of APIs to account for security and standardization across the site, I don't see why not.

Also, someone has to be the Gatekeeper to push code to production.

That's essentially what Wordpress plugins are, its all open source.
This is really cool. I have no idea what is going on, though.

Is this a senior project? I'm unfamiliar with the course numbering at your school.

I'd love to see it even non-commercial open-source, I have some game ideas I'd like to implement (about 2 projects down the pipe. :D), but don't feel up to putting together a graphics engine.
The problem is that the RESTafarians spent all their energy telling us what was not REST and no energy showing us what REST is.
Will this ever reach phone currently running Android 2.2?
Hey man I live in Gifu and often go to Nagoya. Email me if you want to meet for coffee. （There is no contact info in your profile）. I don't know if I can help but i am in a similar position.
For me, I could learn git no problem, write wrapper scripts for some things, etc... But I'm not explaining it's idiosyncrasies to other people on my team.
Ask other members for help, use it to promote the forum's sense of community. Who knows, you might end up appealing to someone who knows the person irl or knows how to stop him.

Not sure what else you can do, please do post when you figure out how!
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The 0-60k range seems quite large, maybe should of had a 0-30k option too.
He didn't try to murder anyone. He made some threats, and he tried to get his neighbor in trouble with the law.

I'm not saying he should go free. But I am saying 18 years is incredibly harsh in light of the crime.
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This is an extremely well put article. The series of events and the way that it was written kept me reading it to the end. It was a very interesting article.
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Correct. When they did this analysis, only about 12% of the profiles they looked at listed an occupation at all.

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I'm not too familiar with ASP.Net, but if you view source on socl.com that is some jacked-up output.
They're derived. You can tell that they're derived information by the fact that you can compute them for old commits, long after commit time, which is exactly what part of this proposal is to do. You can derive them simply by counting the maximum number of steps between a commit and any of its roots. The essential information isn't the generation numbers; it's the structure of the commit history -- the actual chains of commits, with all of the branches and merges. Generation numbers are just an artifact of counting.

On the other hand, this information is very handy, once you have it, for certain algorithms, and it could be expensive to re-compute all the time, which is why the proposal is to generate and store them explicitly. (This is also the reason that timestamps have been used before, even if they were a bit of a hack -- they're readily available, and way faster than recomputing generation numbers all the time)
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