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My project is just a fun website and is kind of like DearBlankPleaseBlank, FMYLife, and TextsFromLastNight.

It would be like me creating a website called ScrewMyLife and finding out that FMYLife already exists. The only difference is that FMYLife is wildly popular and all clones automatically fail. My competitor has probably received a couple hundred thousand visits (the content is very viral), but not enough that a well designed website could easily crush it.
In most cases those requirements for name format are not goverment mandated at all.
Not my experience with Apple: I've had years-old bug reports where Apple suddenly emailed me and asked me to confirm that the bug was fixed in the latest developer preview (for an major OS version later).
Countered - I was thinking sarcasm along these lines too.
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It happens all the time. What I've learned from past is if your idea is unique then it is likely that there is no market for it. Idea doesn't have to be unique, there can be two players in the market, it's execution that matters.
That is fair. I think you missed his subtle point though. For the person giving the millions it matters a lot if the numbers stuck up. For the hacker news bak of the envelope calculater estimates, round ups, even guesses suffice.

I think it is fair to say that while of course one should do the things you mentioned, one also would be wise to trust slightly more the "qulified" person, unless of course they want to go full blow on the matter and engage in thorough deep analysis.
Here's my trouble with testing as espoused by proponents of TDD: I bought into the Agile Manifesto. I believe in working code over specifications. How then, am I supposed to write a bunch of tests that will in turn tell me what code to write?

It is not a coincidence that one of the reasons TDD'ers love rspec so much is that the "code reads like documentation" - it's even called r spec.

Perhaps that is ok for mature projects. But I often hear TDD and agile used together as if they weren't in conflict and I get confused. Then again, I've only ever worked on new projects.

Maybe I'm missing something?
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I'm guessing the founders have already cashed out, at least partially.
There is a difference between suspension of your Google Profile, and your entire Google Account. Merely violating the common names will not result in the entire Google Account getting shut down; just the Google Profile. This will prevent other people form seeing your Google Plus posts and from seeing your Profile, but things like GMail will still work just fine.

However, if in the course of the review, it becomes apparent that other Google Terms of Service have been violated, such as the 13+ age requirement (and you can thank Slimeball Politicians and Legislators all over the world saying, "Think of the children" for that one), the entire Google account might get suspended.
Make your site anyway.
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What a laughable comment - I can only assume that a troll has hacked your account.

Define non-trivial in this context.

Cite some examples of female only gaming events.
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Oy. Maybe if you have a relatively Googleable name like "Dave Winer", you could expect your theory to hold. But GOOGLE SHOULD KNOW BETTER. Try correlating my name (Michael Roberts) with anything just by name. It can't be done. There are an estimated 5589 Michael Robertses in the US (howmanyofme.com) and several of us in any given town. And my legal first name is actually James, so you can't correlate that with airline reservations anyway (thanks so very much, TSA).

No, Google really didn't think this through here. And the "hoo-ha" (I'm not sure that means what you think it means) is about more than that. It's about a ToS that says "use the name your friends know you by" - often a pseudonym. Google will still delete your account with no recourse.

(This even omits the real-world examples of people who don't fit Google's Anglo naming assumptions - the real world really does consist of about 20% impossible hacks, and you'd think Google, of all companies, would get that, but they seem not to.)

Of course, Google's famous omission of any discernible customer service or appeals process only plays into this even more.

No, it's a trainwreck. Google is responding well, and it's true it's still actually a beta - but pseudonymity is important, and the ability to correlate with banking records is broken anyway. So why stick with it?
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That is an important point and should be clarified in the blog post. Whoever organised this event are being (quite rightly I would say) made to look like massive douche-bags and it seems a little unfair for it to be people or organisations who aren't actually involved to the be ones getting the blame.
The next step is releasing a decent terminal program for Windows.

You're absolutely correct.

You're absolutly correct. I know that I'd pay $30 for a decent terminal program. I live in ipython / PowerShell. I want things like tabs, syntax coloring, copy / paste, automatic hyperlink generation for urls and file links.
I have a `poweroff' account on my machine with sudo poweroff as a shell with possibility to use the command without a password.
jwz wrote on this:

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

"This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surprise!) that module is rewritten from scratch -- and the new maintainer can't be bothered to check whether his new version has actually solved any of the known problems that existed in the previous version. "
>> you have to get another job within 30 days. <<

I don't think you get any days at all, you have to get the visa approved for transfer BEFORE you quit your existing job otherwise you're out of status. I strongly recommend anybody planning to do this to check with a lawyer. According to what I found on the net (I am not a lawyer):

Under current law, H1B visa has no stipulated grace
period in the event the employer-employee relationship
ceases to exist.

(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa )

the applicant becomes out of status when the applicant
loses his or her job. The laid off H-1B worker will be
considered out of status even though he has valid H-1B
visa in his passport or valid I-94 card."

(from http://faq.visapro.com/H1B-Visa-FAQ12.asp )
There's no deposit insurance in New Zealand. And deposit insurance isn't that old to begin with.
> There's a very simple business reason why Google cares if they have your real name. It means it's possible to cross-relate your account with your buying behavior with their partners.

The idea that google somehow wants track your behavior through your name is laughable. Do a facebook search for your name. Do you see all those results? Those are all false positives that google would have to build algorithms to try and weed out.

... or (assuming they actually wanted to track users in this way), they could just use the unique-by-definition email address you registered with, or the unique-by-definition credit card number you used in google checkout, or get that information from AdWords partners when they track conversions ...

Since there are a thousand better (and less noticeable/public) ways to track users, we can safely ignore google wanting to "cross-relate your account with your buying behavior" as a possible motivation.
It's funny you say that. I made a website last summer targeted to freshmen entering college. There was absolutely no market, so it did really well and got 150,000 visits in one summer. I got an offer to buy the site (for a couple thousand) and said no. The guy ended up creating his own site and out did mine in every way. That's partly why I decided to work on a new project mid-way through the summer.
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend the book Networks, Crowds, and Markets [1]. It's an awesome (undergrad-level) introduction to graph theory, and has a ton of practical information on how it applies to modelling networks of people, as well as economic things like auctions and (game-theory) games. Since it's a textbook, it also has full exercises and advanced materials.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Networks-Crowds-Markets-Reasoning-Conn...
Hackers for hire are (generally) much more hit-or-miss as far as capability (dedication really) goes. This is kind of a worse-case, but just think of all the government websites out there that are nearly unusable. It's because the coders have no stake and just put in their 8 hours. Stake in the outcome is what makes a person create something great. For example, I'm typing this at my day job instead of working on my projects, but over the weekend I worked like a machine for about 12 hours without a break on my current venture. And that's because I had other obligations and couldn't afford to put in more time.

I recommend bringing in a tech guy and giving him something to own.
some UI stuff could benefit from this: things like turning a list into an accordion. (Normally there is at least a little work to be done to ensure you don't get a flash of unstyled/unscripted content, if this fires fast enough you could avoid that)
Can you expand on this? What's the risk? What's the attack vector?
It's not even that. The app is buggy and doesn't even work well. The Messages, Events, and Chat are all horribly implemented.
Your website doesn't really say what you do. You need to give some examples of what stuff people are going to be getting.
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wait for it...

so, i guess that means 2000 less rim jobs?
To be fair, testing a hardware-specific bug is a bit more complex.
OK, thanks to you and zumda.

Interesting TDD argument. I'll buy a book or something and try again when my present hobby project is done and I have time for experimenting.

(IDE refactoring needs a stricter language than I prefer. Also, without an IDE and using my old eyes I have 2 A4 of code + 1 A4 of bash on a 24" monitor...)
Google knows who you are. Google knows where you've been on the web, and what you're doing. They long have. Google told me on my own + page several of the pseudonyms I've used across the web.

The "Google wants to sell you" bit is not insightful. It's not a unique perspective. It's the same superficial analysis we see with every single thing Google does.

Google wants an online community of real people, with what that entails. There is a long and documented trail of discussions on this topic regarding the downsides of anonymity. Yet there are also upsides, and if someone wants an anonymous discussion forum that supports that, there are plenty of options for that.

But it is wholly inconsistent with the goals of Google+.

Alas. Whatever Google does, just say it's because they want to sell you out. It's a clean, pat answer.
Which can be paraphrased as:

"Performance under modern software development interviewing practices has a very low correlation with on the job performance."
The point is not to do it the cheapest possible way, the point is to do it in a way that appeals to hackers, makers, and other tinkerers.

Still, an FPGA could be even cooler than an Arduino if it were reprogrammable.
Finally listening to it myself. I think they're talking about titles because that's the easiest way to get the ideas across to the listeners. It's not just the reporters who think that all of these patents are for the same thing, it's the guy who analyzes such things as his job.
Homebrew is just a Ruby project in git so all the packages (or formulas) are just rb files inside the project:

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula

They usually only provide the most recent stable version of each project but you can find other formulas on the web and just run:

brew install [url]
> women are disallowed from attending in order to protect them from misogynistic insults

Fundamentalist religious societies often use the same line of reasoning: women are not allowed to walk around unveiled or allowed to do pretty much anything because they are powerless and ostensibly have to be protected from society as much as society needs to be protected from the unrest their public presence causes. The deeper "logic" here is that women are held responsible for the abuse they are provoking just by being around, and also that they're somehow not mature enough to handle themselves.

This is exactly the same reasoning as banning, say, black people on the grounds that they might cause unrest among KKK attendees who might be present.

In one line: this is the most insultingly stupid thing ever and it's happening not only in Texas but all over the world. I just wish it didn't happen in so-called free societies at all.
Lastname + zip is more than accurate enough to drive a lot of value for advertisers. It doesn't take a lot of precision to improve advertising efficiency. Link a creditcard to your google account and you're marketer's wet dream.
Apple paid over half of the winning bid ($2.6B of $4.5B) for the Nortel patents
I agree that Clojure is not the best to start but if you take ML (OCaml) or Haskell does not really matter. Haskell has intressting typeclasses but that it is lazy is something that you might not want to learn (if you just want to learn the value of FP).
Many events that my school's Society of Women in Engineering group attend forbid men from entering. Ironically, the club president for a while was male, and he wasn't allowed to attend a banquet, despite his work promoting female entry into engineering.
Dave's been for a long time the tech version of an old man screaming at kids to get off his lawn. Matching your "Real Name" to advertising partners isn't at all why Google wants your "Real Name". They want it because it makes for a better social network. Most Gmail users provide a "Real Name" so Google already had hundreds of millions and so far as I know, hasn't decided to hook up with my grocery to somehow advertise better to me. They do use interest data, but it's one-click to opt-out of (http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/) and knowing someone's name adds little to being able to target ads.
Patrick, I love everything you post, normally. In this case, you've misunderstood. This is a development and test tool. If someone puts this into the production environment, he deserves what he gets. For development, this is invaluable and awesome.
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This article actually looks a little too optimistic to me. I see a lot of chaos with millions of desperate people robbing and hurting anyone that has any food or money, especially in inner cities.

"So what good will come of this?" is a little sickening and terrifying.

If the politicians were really serious about the debt crisis, they'd start cutting the military. But they aren't.
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Is it necessary? That's arguable. Is it a good idea? I would argue "yes."

Think about it... just because there are existing competitors doesn't mean there's nothing for you to learn. In fact, learning about those competitors is part of the Customer Development process. How are you going to differentiate your offering? Here's a hint... having a better handle on the problems your customers need solved, gives you a leg up on providing a better solution.

Anyway, if you go through the CD process, as laid out in The Four Steps to the Epiphany, you'll find that a big part of it is about learning the state of the existing market, making decisions about market type, positioning, etc.

The other point to realize, as @sgblank himself points out, is that if you already have a lot of knowledge of the area you're working in, and if your existing ideas are mostly right, the CD process will just go very fast... you'll basically just being quickly confirming what you already know. Just beware of confirmation bias and make sure you're not tricking yourself into seeing what you want to see.
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Except for extreme circumstances (emergency debugging) I wouldn't let this thing near production. For development, it's super-handy, though.
I think he's saying that someone can make you open a web page that includes an image with the proper src attribute and bang, your Rails site is broken.
Cross-site request forgery.

I should add though that even if this thing gets an XSRF token and it's secure, you might as well take the passwords off your SSH keys if you're running this, because you're coughing up an unprotected remote shell to anyone who can talk to a dev server once you turn this on.
More likely, your whole data center.
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When developing our new website we made a decision not to support anything older than IE 8, and the newest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. The only issue we've found so far is that things don't always line up perfectly on IE 7, and we therefore would like to have a bar or alert (possibly similar to the message StackExchange shows for new users) alerting people that the site may not look perfect due to using an unsupported browser. What approach do you take/reccomend? Do you know of any sites that have it live so we can see it?

Thanks.
... the cocaine-antibody complex is too large to cross the blood-brain barrier.

If the cocaine were weakly bound, it would spend part of its time detached from the antibodies, and during those times be able to enter the brain in the usual way. Since the antibodies have a large effect on the psychological effect-response curve, the binding must be quite strong. Therefore cocaine is sequestered throughout the body.
This is the reason why some beggars on the street make more money than a full time job (If they're in a really good spot).

Everyone thinks they're just giving them a little bit. But all those little bits add up to a lot. Without any visibility into how much other people have already given them, there is no way for people decide if they really need the money or not.

If you saw a beggar on the street, and knew that they'd already been given $1000 so far that day, would you still give them a dollar?
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He understands that. Like me (we've trained him well!), he does not have particularly great faith in the insulating powers of the words "development environment".

At a minimum, after running this you are one Twitter shortened link away from losing your development machine. The link will probably show you a cute cat picture just like any other one. You'll only find out you lost the machine later.

At worst, you're one of the 80% of companies that keeps development machines in your data center protected by a firewall/VPN. Now you're a cute cat picture away from attackers with direct TCP access to your database servers. Wee!
I doubt it. Google wants your real name so it's easier for your semi-friends to find you, and drive "engagement".

I'm pretty sure my classmate from high school won't find me I sign up under the name "wisty". Which would be a mixed blessing, but very bad for business. OK, there are a few internet celebrities who are best know by "handles", but they aren't the bread and butter of social networks.
It sounds like your process optimizes for bright 22yo kids straight out of the institutional lifestyle of school. SAT prep -> college -> Google.

Any other company, I can talk to them about what they actually need, what challenges the business is facing, what I would bring to the table, etc, basically a human conversation about the day-to-day and the big picture at that company.

It sounds like an interview with Google would go like BLEEP YOU HAVE SCORED 4.789/5 BLEEP SCORE SUFFICIENT BLEEP PROCEED TO ALLOCATION.

I mean, not to put too fine a point on it but fuck that noise. There are plenty of kids with a higher GPA than I had, graduating from top schools, and they're much more cool with being herded through a system like sheep. They're your ideal candidates. They also don't have much/any real-world experience, so you're relying on your senior engineers for anything that requires spider-sense. You're not importing any, anymore, because most good/solid 30+yo engineers want to know what they're working on before seriously considering an offer.

Not that I have a better idea for recruiting for companies with >1k engineers, I doubt IBM's process is much better. ("I can be a senior solutions architect? Cool!").
Thanks for the kind words. If I'm honest I think 'inspiration' may be playing it down a little, I pretty much just ripped off the Google + feedback tool :)

As soon as I saw the G+ tool I knew it was something people would want on their website. I also knew I wouldn't be the only person doing this, which is why I went for a really lean approach, and managed to go from idea to first customers in 2 and half weeks.
Telling a business why they've lost your business isn't rude.

But getting pressured to sign long multi-year contracts for thousands of dollars when you go into a store to buy a connector is.

That's why I'll probably never go back to Radio Shack, even if they did stock capacitors again.
What if the features are the almost the same but the design/experience is vastly superior?

Imagine that FMYLife was created two years ago but never really went anywhere because it was poorly marketed and just looked like crap. You KNOW there's huge potential and it would do much better with an improved design/experience. That's sort of where I'm at right now. The problem is that the only new feature I can think of is to use Facebook connect to grab a user's like and suggest personalized content.
Try ajaxwhois.com to include the TLDs you want (if they're supported), or just search gandi.net for all of their 96 TLDs :)
I suspect you are correct. I think Google wants G+ to be a useful way for people to find people they know, as that is the sole reason many people are on Facebook.
yes, it can also happen you discover a new market. In that case, great :-) However, I think many developers make a mistake of doing something that has absolutely no market...
If not they will release a better version of the drug that they had been sitting on for just such an occasion.
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I'm fine with a solution that is elegant and works perfectly well 95% of the time, rather than one which is clumsy and works sort of well 100% of the time.
> What's the attack vector?

CSRF.
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Well, it wouldn't stop generic versions of the old version of the drug. And if they couldn't demonstrate increased effectivity of the new drug compared to the old one, why would anyone buy the new one?
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Have you actually used it?

I am right now, and I couldn't disagree with you more.
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>>Another possible problem is that your spouse can get a visa but cannot work (until you both get a green card, which might take a long time).<<

Your spouse qualifies for H4, a dependent visa, based on your H1 visa. However, they can find sponsors for their own H1.
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