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>I don't see where you're coming from on b/c. Motorola makes great hardware - it would be hard to improve that.

That's exactly the problem. Google, as a software company, doesn't currently have to worry about a lot of the issues that the hardware side of Motorola does, like supply chain management(both on the production and disposal side), dealing with retail outlets, directly dealing with cellular service providers as a device manufacturer, governmental agency compliance for hardware, etc. Google doesn't have really any experience with this, which means they absolutely need to keep the people that are currently doing those jobs.

Also, from what I've heard from people that used to work there, Motorola's engineering culture is on the "very corporate" side of things. Integrating that into Google's rather loose culture will be difficult, I think. This is especially important because both sides will need to be working with each other very closely.

Best case, Google doesn't change much, and integrates Motorola's hardware chain well. However, if they do exert a lot of control over the hardware side, quality could decline in the short term as the issues I mentioned above get worked out.

Overall, I think it's a much stronger position for both companies. Motorola gets Google's software expertise, and Google gets Motorola's hardware engineering and supply chain.
I understand your concern, but is Google keeping its most recent code changes private and releasing them in the future really that bad?

For example, John Carmack/id Software don't release their current engines until they've made progress on the next, better version. I don't think many people consider Carmack to be evil or non-altruistic.
Because it's "web scale".
For music startups, this could make music licensing even more of a mess than it already is. Imagine negotiating separately with every artist in your catalog. I know that to some extent separate negotiations already happen for the biggest artists, but further disaggregation of the rights can only make it worse.

Maybe over the next 35 years, everyone will reclaim their copyright, form a syndicate, and collectively license them on reasonable and flexible terms! I can dream, right?
I'm sorry, was it really necessary to remove the "Mobility" part of the original post for the title? This isn't an acquisition of the whole Motorola company...
Wow, very creepy stories that both of you posted. Thanks for linking to them.

> They are lucky because their case has a high-profile because of the film - but there must be many, many other innocent people in prisons because of false confessions.

This is exactly what concerns me–so much effort and attention went into these few cases that achieved a high profile, but I'm certain that many just like it–with inconclusive or completely unmatched DNA and police hasty to close an investigation–exist, and it worries and saddens me to think how many other people are innocently sitting in prison or on death row as a result.
In some RDBMSs, primary and secondary indexes are very different. MsSql clustered tables store the tuples themselves in the primary index B Tree. Traversing the data in the order of the primary index incurs no extra disk seeks. Also, you can add extra columns to secondary indexes to support queries without searching the primary index at all.

The emulation of secondary indexes is inefficient. In a RDBMS without built in index maintenance you would create table (LeaderboardId, ScoreId), not (*LeaderboardId, ScoreIds). There's no need for comma separated fields.
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That wasn't discussed, and I imagine it would involve what I got into when I applied.
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No, again, it's completely because humans have a desire to avoid things that are not considered interesting. We must get our kids to school on time, so we push ourselves to get up early, get them ready, and either drive them to school or get them to the bus stop. What all of us would rather do is read, or play games, or watch TV. Laziness is part of our human makeup, and our success in combating it makes the difference in our lives.
>I would expect MS to maintain the BlackBerry brand, which I think still has some clout in the enterprise.

Does MS really need a brand with enterprise clout though? Doesn't the MS brand itself have enough enterprise clout?
There are several different NoSQLs.

For example, currently MongoDB is a good choice if you're looking for indices, ad-hoc queries and want to get up and running quickly on eg. a web project. Interestingly, with indices and ad-hoc queries, MongoDB becomes a lot like Mysql, only you're writing weird And() and Or() functions instead of "SELECT ... WHERE AND ... OR". Also, indices are tied to the documents themselves, so it's not clear how that scales.

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Or you could go more bleeding-edge and check out ScalienDB, which is a straight key-value store built on Paxos and sharding. Nevertheless, getting started is easy:

https://github.com/scalien/scaliendb/wiki

I wrote ScalienDB. The plan going forward is to add a data model and distributed transactions and in general become a low level data layer substrate similar to how Google uses its databases.
Because first of all it's just a variation of round-robin, which doesn't take into account that different requests will take varying amounts of time.

Secondly, you can't (in an easy way) remove or add to the pool of backends.

I'm confident others will come up with more not-so-compelling reasons for using iptables for load balancing.
I think the quote I've heard is that they don't bother with outside market research. That's different from simply ignoring customers.

Any sane company will tell you feedback is important, what can differ is where the feedback comes from, how it's interpreted, and whether customers have as much knowledge of what is or isn't possible/economical as the people at the company.

It's also important to note that companies like Apple are always trying new things, building strange prototypes, etc.. If a customer screams for Widget X, a company might try building a Widget X prototype, and discover it doesn't work so well in practice.
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whose sentences are so good that they get mis-ascribed to even more famous authors

There seems to be a bucketing algorithm that, over time, labels all the quotes in a bucket with the most famous approximately applicable name. For example, "First they laugh at you..." (early 20th century, subject: social activism) goes to Gandhi instead of Nicholas Klein (who? my point exactly); "Not everything that counts can be counted" (mid 20th century, subject: measuring shit) goes to Einstein instead of William Bruce Cameron. Often the quotes themselves get optimized along the way, so Eliot's "Immature
poets imitate, mature poets steal" (mid 20th century, subject: art) goes to Picasso, but as the snappier "Good artists copy, great artists steal".

It makes sense that this happens as time recedes, for the same reason that you see only the major landmarks at a distance. But it probably gives us a skewed idea of individual genius.
I generally don't use MySQL, but iirc it confirms that nothing went wrong saving the data (whereas with mongo there is no confirmation step, you just have to hope that it was successful), and the data is written to disk. Additionally, i've heard of zero "Oh no, MySQL just lost 50% of my production database!" where it wasn't the user's fault, and i've heard enough of that from Mongo to stay away.
My approach was to read the Dynamo paper. It's presents the goals of Dynamo and the technology from which it is constructed in a very compact form. From there you have a basis for understanding the engineering tradeoffs made by the other NoSQL databases. Then you can actually make decisions based on what fits your use case, rather than just choosing Mongo because it's popular. (Don't get me wrong, Mongo is great in its niche.)

Reading the Google BigTable paper would also be a good idea, as it represents another major strand of work.

My blog post on Dynamo: http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/01/21/all-about-amazons-dyn...
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A soldier is programmed to be the way they are, their lack of procrastination is beat into them as a response to fear, primarily the fear of death. Do what you’re told or your squad mates will die, your commanding officer will die, and by extension "you" will die. Death is one of the ultimate motivators.

That said you get a soldier outside the army life and he finds ways and methods of procrastination that rival the rest of us.

I have always fought with procrastination, and it always has boiled down to feeling forced to do things. If something is not happening in the moment, if it’s not feel spontaneous then I balk at doing it.

The analogy of rebelling against a virtual or fictitious oppressor self is very fitting, for me, and my natural reaction to this internal dictator is only heightened when it is influenced by an external entity.

I might internally procrastinate about doing dishes for example, but if my wife dares to even suggest or ask if I’d be willing... that procrastination will flare into an outright rebellion against doing that “THING” that is “required” of me. Not saying I externalize the conflict, but mentally that part of me that was causing me to procrastinate is now engaged in guerrilla warfare.

My morning was just ambushed by this small bit of writing btw. I'm "supposed" to be doing some programming you know. Deadlines are looming, people are getting anxious and I'm writing about my penchant for procrastination. ;)

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>GOOG is a s/w company and not a manufacturer.

Fanboys used to say the same thing about MS when they were working on the first Xbox, and they came out looking pretty silly for it. The first one was a bit clunky, but the second one, especially with Kinect, is gangbusters.

Integrating Motorola won't be as big a problem as you make it out for a company as smart and well funded Google.
I've tried a password manager. The fact that losing one password would mean losing all of my passwords really bothered me.

It's not commonly talked about, but it's possible to have multipassword encryption. I wonder if a password manager out there supports it. (I think GPG can, so if you consider a test file & gpg a password manager... ;) )

One scheme: There'd be the "normal" login, which would be rotated, then another ultra-high-entropy one written down and locked in a safe somewhere. That way when you spaced out your password, it'd not be "whoops, just blew my credentials... all of them".
Every Borders and Barnes & Nobles that I lived near. They do carry a few hard-core algorithms books and eventually it did show up there.

It's true that I don't get to university bookstores as often as I'd like.
I am not suggesting a bag of tokens. I think I would like some segmentation (e.g. a banking token that I wouldn't necessarily carry with me everywhere). But that's a personal preference - the more tokens, the more security and reliability. A single token can be used to sign on to many services. That's a technology that exists today - e.g. the US military, which deployed tokens to just about all service members and civilian DOD personnel, certainly doesn't give people a bag of tokens for all the services they need to access. They use a single sign-on system. I don't know if someone has already deployed this for general users (like OpenID) - but it's certainly doable if someone thinks there is a market for it.
I am quite confident that this deal does not bring much changes to Android and related companies, because even tough Google bought Motorola Mobility, their commitment to the other device manufacturers (Samsung, HTC, LG...) will be as strong as ever. It's Google's goal to reach as many people as possible with their Android operating system, so they can sell ads and be the default/dominant search engine on the mobile platform.

I would even argue that, after the acquisition, they are going to take extra good care of their relations with Samsung and HTC. Also I'm quite positive that the executives of the before mentioned firms, who've already both been sued by Microsoft and Apple, welcome the acquisition at least in the short term, as it strengthens Android's position in the patent lawsuits. We must not forget that it's Android that made HTC and Samsung great in the smartphone business.

Androids (Google's+Motorolas) success, is HTC's, LG's and Samsung's success.

So from my point of view, all the above mentioned companies depend on each other, which is why I don't expect any big strategic moves/changes in the next few months/year on either side.
I don't think I'm going to be a billionaire someday, and if I did I couldn't care less about tax rates.

I do think however that maybe I'll be able to retire some day before I die. But the likelihood of this is very much affected by LTCG rate, wouldn't you agree?

Now how is it even fair that long term capital gains taxes even exist? I make some money, I pay taxes on it. I buy whatever instrument I hope will be the best at preserving the value of it (since I know if I just stuff the money under the mattress, I won't be able to buy much with it in say 40 years). After 40 years, the nominal price of the thing I bought will have gone up, chiefly due to inflation. When I sell it, I pay taxes again. How is it not double taxation?
I think Google would rather try to make something like Apple's record profits on their handsets, than try to undermine everyone else by subsidizing their own phones.

Also, a $25 discount on a $500 phone means nothing. A $25 discount on a $100 phone is quite a lot. So it makes more sense for them to subsidize the cheapest models, so more people can get them, rather than the high-end ones where it barely makes any impact anyway.

This acquisition will probably pressure Microsoft to buy Nokia, too, although I think they were already planning on doing it, but after they see what kind of sales Nokia will have with its first WP7 phones.
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Note also that much of that cash pile is overseas already, and might have tax implications if it is used domestically.
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There are some other essays of his in this directory:

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/essays/
I know hyperbole is trendy, but it took five years to get "Feast for Crows" out and six years to get "Dance with Dragons" out.

That's 1800 best-selling pages in 11 years. Not too shabby.
Of course not. But how is the MBA helping them?
A few more:

- I don't need to worry about the product. I hired someone for that.

- Hiring is for HR.

- I will be spending August on an island in the South Pacific.

- It is ok to miss payroll.

- Our value add to the customer-centric value chain is based on world class process excellence principles.

- That's not my job.
Since you said this:

>Android is platform neutral in a way no other can aspire to: it's open-source.

I was comparing that to other platforms, both desktop and mobile (the difference is largely irrelevant to the argument, isn't it?).

With Android, the openness is exploited by the OEMs and carriers to install applications and always running services that CANNOT be uninstalled by the user, unless you root it(not easy for average user, and tough for even geeks because of locked bootloaders). These services and apps take up space and suck down battery. With Apple, you don't get such unremovable crap. With Windows 7, you can somehow uninstall it using tweaks and workarounds. With WP7, nothing can run in the background, and OEMs/carriers get a bigger tile on the main screen that can be removed with a long press and even uninstalled. How is the openness of Android helping here?

OEMs HAVE to abide by certain rules to get access to premium Google programs like Maps and to the Android Marketplace(try selling a phone without those).

So you say the openness of Android was used to customize the UI? Most people hate the UI customization since it further lags the phone and sucks down battery.

>And Windows OEMs can't change Windows itself - they can only slap things on top of it

True, but you can install things into the kernel itself and Dell ships a OS X like dock.

Do you have any examples of Android customisations that the OEMs made as a result of it being Open Source that improved the user experience that wouldn't be possible with, say desktop Windows?
Would be nice if suuport for RPC (and generally) for Erlang was better. It's "currently" in alpha.
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What exactly is "Motorola Mobile" and what is the rest of Motorala? I saw that in the news headline and figured there was going to be a lot of confusion over what actually got bought.
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I've had similar, fleeting thoughts brewing for a while. Seeing this stated together like this crystallized it. Thanks for sharing.
When exactly do those kind of patents expire?
But Google can afford to use subsidized MotoGoogle phones as loss leader to capture nice chunk of high end market, and bank revenue on mobile ads. Then, later on down the line, they can start to look for hardware profits.
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One I've never heard:

We were an overnight success.
You're missing the point. Limiting campaign contributions is not a part of this. The point is to anonymize donations so that there can be no way for the candidate to correlate a contribution to a donor. That way the quid pro quo that is implicit in campaign contributions would go away. Politicians would have to go back to representing voters again.
Edo,

You ever practiced something like Tai Chi?
exactly my point. the guy makes a living writing, and never bothered to look for better text editors.

he is chanting about the progress of default text editors when all that was available from day one of his career.

it's like a developer with 30yr of experience just finding out version control
That makes sense, but it is certainly not 90% of what I use an RDBMS for as the author stated. Especially if most of the things I do are not real time web. I will take a look at the link above, as I am curious about it. But I am still struggling for use cases.

By the way, thank you for your comment. I up-voted it.
So, performance and scalability. Anything else?
Will they allow motorola employees to work on google things? I've known motorola programmers and they are not at all of the same caliber as google programmers
I'm sorry, after having just completed the Pinterest signup process myself I can't agree.
There's nothing extraordinary about their signup/login process.
I was pleased to see that they didn't ask me to log back in after signing up though.

Sidenote, a waiting list (for me it was overnight) lets the website leave my brain for 24 hours, then reappear via email (likely solidifying the name in my memory at that point). But it also allows them to do email verification in a nice way, without making it feel like a chore to me.
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or should I build an empire with lots of perks for me, and just make sure shareholders do well enough that I don't get fired, and who cares if the company goes down the tubes 20 years after I leave.
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What about the other OEMs? There are a LOT of small Android OEMs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Android_devices#O...

You think Google will share future plans etc. with all of those? Might as well broadcast it on Google.com since Apple, MS,HP, RIM, etc. will anyway get wind of it.

Reminds me of the Windows 95 and MS Office fiasco which resulted in Word Perfect suing them.
The announcement stated that they have 7,000 patents in the pipeline right now, so I would say that Motorola clearly still has a lot of important patents on modern hardware.

I'm also curious to know if the 17,000 patents number includes expired patents or only current, enforceable patents.
Its $500k if your business is setup in designated distress areas, for other areas its $1 million. From what i hear there is something called a "Regional Center Program" where you don't have to manage. There are companies which do it for you (and manage your immigration process). You just have to write them a big fat check and hope you will get it back in 5 years :)

Just google for EB5 investor visa and start contacting the law firms!
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But this is both awkward and hard to manage! You just don't get that with HAProxy.
Notice how short and thin those quotes are. They have no choice but to try and give it some positive spin.
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It's not misleading, but the combination of requiring manual silencing and not giving any indication of what needs to be silenced seems self-undermining. Your target market is now only those users who are sophisticated enough to figure out what needs to be silenced, but not sophisticated enough to figure out how to do the silencing themselves. That's a pretty narrow market segment.
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I nailed them on their description that the simplex algorithm was like Gaussian elimination for systems of linear inequalities.

I found your additional input on the topic helpful, but I'm having trouble picking out more helpful insights about LP from all the other unrelated discussion.
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I think that procrastinating is beliving there is an easier way to reach your real goals. If your real goal is to enjoy and do nothing procrastinating is the right way to go.
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What the heck, I seriously updated to FF 5.0.1 TWO DAYS AGO

Still, this is great.
The burden of proof has apparently been raised to ridiculous levels by CSI, according to some prosecutors. Juries believe that the sort of thing done on CSI is realistic, and they expect very definitive results and evidence, which usually doesn't happen.
Can anyone either explain or link to material that explains the relationships between the different projects and distributions that have sprung up since Oracle discontinued OpenSolaris?
The company structure can matter a lot. IANAL, but my understanding is that an LLC is not an appropriate choice for a company that hopes to be acquired or issue an IPO.

So don't obsess over it, but be sure you have competent advisers including an attorney who can help you make the right choice in such matters.
Although the rich do not necessarily use more of some services (i.e. food stamps), they benefit the most from government's main role: That of protecting property, ensuring safety/stability, and enforcing the law and contracts.
Why is that? What benefit does it have as opposed to not saying anything at all?
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I'm not sure that's the example I'd use. They sunk billions in the first on for little to show for it. Billions fixing broken xboxes in the second one and only recently have begun to gather some steam -- and even then it was helped by Sony's numerous missteps.