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> the future of business software is gradually being built by Salesforce, Google, Dropbox

What color is the sky on your planet?

Enterprise software -- the largest software market by a long-shot -- is not scared of ... Dropbox. That's like saying that cars will be wiped out by lawnmowers. The statement doesn't make any sense. Nor does using Facebook and MySpace as examples of enterprise infrastructures. They're medium sized companies with disproportionately large infrastructure needs. What happens at Facebook says virtually nothing about what happens at Mercedes. And nobody in the enterprise trusts Google since enterprise software is all about managing worst case scenarios, and Google's "here, talk to a robot" isn't even in the same galaxy as an acceptable partner program for the enterprise.

Salesforce is the only one of those companies that even should be mentioned in the same breath and they're mostly a pain in the ass for Oracle and SAP because they've been chipping away at the low end of the market (very successfully). It is plausible that they'll continue to push upward and conquer increasingly larger markets, but that's something that will take a decade or two to unfold.
Remember "Hackers and Painters". Painters like to work alone. http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
Thanks - I don't think they had the tutorial when last I saw it.
Got any recommendations on companies to check out / learn about that are starting up in Rochester?
I live in Rochester but don't have much free time. Have a 1 month old at home.

Granted, a good number of the younger talented engineers are leaving upstate NY once they get some experience, many are still in the area. The past few years have seen Harris RF hire like crazy in the Rochester area, which has helped with the decline of engineering locally at Kodak and Xerox.
The difference is when Jobs started NeXT it was a new iteration of the Apple idea, so when he brought that team in it was a new heart for the old body, with the same DNA. There's literally no available comparison to that situation, and nothing remotely to do with HPs situation today.
I’m pretty sure it’s deliberate. I have heard more than one Apple engineer say in their WWDC talks that you should always make sure to indicate when there’s more content and the way you do that is to cut off the last entry in a list.
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I lived in San Francisco without a car for about 4 years.
San Francisco is very small. It's possible to walk from the ballpark to Ocean Beach in about 2.5 hours. I often walked from my home in Cole Valley to my office in SoMa, even though I could just take the Muni.

The public transportation is pretty good for a city in the USA but pretty bad compared to Europe and really bad compared to Japan. People who like the public transportation in SF usually live near one of the Muni train lines. People who hate the public transportation are usually in a neighborhood where they are stuck taking the bus (which is most of the neighborhoods).

That said, having a car in SF is nice, too. The downside is parking. The upside is being able to just drive over to Safeway for groceries, or drive up to Marin, or throw a surfboard on the roof and go down to Pacifica or Santa Cruz.

You can get most of the way there with Zipcar, but I found that if you regularly want to get out of the city on weekends, Zipcar was not as cost effective as owning a beater automobile.

I just saw your edit. The public transit is not as good (comprehensive) as NYC but is a little better than Seattle.
I've lived in both places - public transit in SF beats the pathetic pants off of Seattle for sure. It won't hold a candle to NYC though, so you may be disappointed.

It's entirely possible to live without a car - very, very much so, but be prepared to pay if that's the case (i.e. neighborhoods well served by transit are expensive, think Manhattan rents... up to $2K for a studio? You bet!).
Little as in its size and population, as well as how no one cares what Germany does with their Internet (except for Germans, of course). What's really cute is how people whine about privacy but use the Web. Two things that clash entirely at a fundamental level (the client-server model).
I would tend to agree.
I have seen over the last couple years a number of people who were passionate and dedicated to learning programming fail, and fail hard.

Two years ago I was tutoring a young lady that had a serious passion for programming, it was what she talked about constantly, and she was in college taking a number of beginning courses in programming. She studied day in and day out, working countless hours every night trying to "practice being a programmer". She did every exercise given in the text books, and even had a number of other textbooks on VB.NET (the language being taught in the course.) and she studied them for hours every night. At the end of two semesters she still could not program anything if the steps to the goal were not outlined for her. She could recite to you the syntax of VB.NET and many of its companion (.NET) libraries by heart, she could tell you what a piece of code did when she looked at it (she was strangely adept at reading code and knowing what it did) but to ask her to come up with the required steps to sort an array of numbers from highest to lowest and her brain simply could not break down the logic to a point where she could write it herself.

I also tutored a young fellow last fall that was in a similar predicament. He was trying to pass a basic programming course so he could get an IT diploma and this one beginner programming course was a requirement for this diploma. He was driven to study, and was willing to put forth the effort to get through this course, and he most likely would have (given multiple choice options been) able to see the pattern. On the other hand ask him to assign the value of “b” to ”a” and he would start to get lost. Ask him to assign “b” to “a” and “a” to “c” and “d” to ”b” and he completely shuts down. No matter how many examples he was given, no matter how hard I tried to show him alternate ways of looking at it, the act of assigning values to variables and then interacting with those variables to manipulate the values just would not stick.

My opinion after dealing with a number of others like these two students is that some people lack the ability to develop patterns. Not necessarily to see patterns, but to come up with their own. They tend to have poor visualization skills and they tend to find it hard to understand the pattern links when given something like an analogy. I would say that the ideas behind encapsulation and inheritance stem from assignment but they look at larger assignment patterns than a simple a = b. Thus, if the individual lacks the basic ability to conceive the pattern of assignment required to get to the goal of the code they are not able to learn the ability to program.

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Interesting fact from the second video: The vehicle is controlled by a Honeycomb app.
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I think you've nailed it. Apple's focus on typography, spacing, and proportion puts it directly at odds with the notion that a UI can always be fit snugly into a fixed width grid pattern.
I suppose I could just Google this, but if you know off the top of your head, is ZipCar subject to the same age rules as normal car rentals? i.e. I think you have to be 26 or is it 24 before you can rent?
I got by without a car when I lived in SF. It can be inconvenient if you make many trips outside the city, but it's not hard at all, and considering the high cost of living in SF, a great way to save some money as well.
You're not including the concept of overtraining, so your example of athletics and its self-evident truth is "not even wrong."
This was certainly not about feelings of superiority. It was more about how every now and then we hear about some country somewhere wanting to do ridiculous things like ban a widget and fine you 50,000 euros if you have it on your site. That doesn't sound retarded to you?
Many germans use local mail providers because providers are legally constrained to handle user data better than US providers. EU privacy laws are not such a bad thing. Of course sometimes they are very local judgements happening that makes the news, but that's not like that never happens in the US... Amazon and Texas, does it tell you something?
May be I've become cynical but

90% of the email I get in my personal account is from people/startups/companies selling me stuff.

90% of the twitter stream is people pimping their wares (either blog posts or products they endorse).

90% of my facebook wall is filled with inane things.

May be the only way to be successful is to constantly sell yourself and your products.

I haven't viewed the world this way until I started friending and networking with entrepreneurs.

I keep telling myself, there has to be a better way, there has to be..
>The thing is, the Touchpad already had a dual core cpu built in.

Except it's an A8 instead of an A9.
This reminds me of Gerstner's OS/2 move with IBM in the early 90's.

Does anyone have insight into why Palm (pre & post HP) struggled to get the hardware right and remove glitchy behaviour from the OS?
I guess by "taste of alcohol" I mean the taste of beer, wine, champagne, tequila, vodka, and anything else non-mixed I can't think of right now. I pretty much tried them all in my pursuit to find something I can drink without feeling tortured. In this quest I found that I was ok with cocktails (Long Island Ice Tea was my drink of choice for a while), but those you can only get when you're out at a bar. What about parties where the drinks come straight out of bottles from the grocery store? This is where I discovered Smirnoff Ice, which to me just doesn't have that gross alcohol taste. But of course because of that it's not generally considered a "manly" drink, so my peers always pressured me to drink "non-girly" drinks instead by making fun of me. After a while I just got sick of it and decided not to drink at all anymore, because it just wasn't worth the constant teasing.
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I meant to include Steve Jobs when I referred to engineers/technologists/innovators
Bundle them with PCs, most likely. Landfill space is expensive.
How many users quietly think "gosh, I wish we could move past Windows/Intel/PCs/filesystems/internal-combustion/XYZ/PDQ and do something _better_"? Lots. Huge big piles of lots. People WANT disruption. Oh, sure, some companies come out with "disruptive" products, but those fade and die far more often than not. It's not just the product, it's the infrastructure, the ecosystem, the culture - all of which Apple identified, crafted, and nailed.

Yes, advice can indeed be "be disruptive", just as good advice includes "do it right" (which far too many don't and know it). The successful will grok what that _means_, and how extensive it is, and will build a long-term business model to achieve it ... which isn't "hack together something simple and odd and sell a bunch and then sell the company to the first deep pocket who comes along."
You'll notice that if you replace the word "rhythm" in the OP with "grid" the whole thing sounds a lot less sexy and hence a lot less interesting.
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I think you make a good point. What I said also applies when one of our states makes the same kind of decision. I think it's dumb when Texas does weird stuff like this too, for example.
Tech community, are we MTV or TED?
> Personally I think that big enterprise software and its sales model, as perfected by Oracle and SAP is dead long term, it will be killed by an on demand cloud products. HP maybe had a chance to get into this market eventually, and WebOS was part of his strategy

It's not going to be the market it once was, but those companies have very, very good reasons to use enterprise software: they can't rely on no-name cloud providers for legal and ass-covering reasons, they need the local installations and control of their infrastructure, and their sales structure is optimized for dealing with large corporations.

> And why does no one want to try to compete with Apple?

Doing your own hardware is expensive, and getting good margins much more so. HP hasn't made high-quality hardware in ages, and they can't possibly compete with Apple or Google's partners in the arena when they have to catch up and invest even more money than them.
That would be really cool. And a small gizmo you could hang off the DVI port of your LCD, attach a VT-440 keyboard and serial cable and have a VT-440.

Or a VAXStation. Or a DECStation... Would be cool.
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Charlotte, NC (but the internship could be done virtually)
Unpaid 3-6 month internship

We need research to find data sets that show off the capability of our service.

Ideally we would like you to write blog posts on some of the interesting maps you create.
Privacy laws are actually mainly EU wide, which represents more than 300 millions people. Now you could say the US is little compared to China and India, but does it bring much value to the discussion?
"We get a lot done," is pretty meaningless without context. Do you know that the dev team likes it that way?
Does these adults learn programming because they want to program, or due to some other reasons (e.g. money, or they are forced to)?
I'd be curious about resilience in the face of nodes going up/down, whether there are delivery notifications (did the text make it? how do I know?), late/duplicate delivery when a node storing a packet comes up again. Lots of hard problems, didn't see any discussion of any solutions.
I, too, thought this was a pretty weak claim.

People can resize their browser windows to whatever dimensions they want; does that mean using any kind of grid or rhythm on the web is hopeless? Of course not.
I have no problem with TC rehashing this issue over and over again, regardless of whether they have anything new to say. I hope they repost this exact same article to the front page every day.

Clue train: it's not us who are the audience, they're hoping it gets seen by politicians, lawyers, and others outside the industry via reposts to Google+ and FB, and other network effects. The more cacophony there is about this problem, the better, even if it sounds a little redundant to those of us already intimately familiar with it.
Yes: http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/01/13/german-google-analytics-...

However, I've never heard of someone paying this fine.
It's not "essential" -- there is BART, Caltrain and a pretty extensive public transportation system in the greater bay area, but ZipCar could be a useful additional tool.

As far as your history lesson on rail expansion. You have it completely backwards. The bay area had a very extensive rail system 60-70 years ago. One level of the bay bridge was just for trains. Google the Key System for more information. When cars increased in popularity, most of the train and tram system outside of San Francisco went bust, rail corridors were turned into expressways (a great example on the peninsula is Foothill Expressway that runs from Stanford University to Cupertino).
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My point is, saying "be disruptive" is about as valuable as saying "just win!"

I agree it's not the most prescriptive advice, but it's not the same as "just win!". The term "disruptive technology" was coined by Clayton Christensen, who has written several books on the topic. In The Innovator's Dilemma he describes several disruptions in many industries in great detail.

The scenarios he describes (which the OP is referencing by using the term "disruptive") are not generic "here's a company who won!" situations. They are very specific. Namely, a competitor introduced a new technology that was inferior to established technologies in many important ways, but which was vastly superior in at least one. And importantly, it was superior in a way that could not be "backported" to the mainstream technology.

We talk about defensibility here sometimes, and each of these new technologies has a clear defensibility strategy.

Every Google Doc has a URL your coworker can click in an email, and be immediately editing the document, on any computer, whether or not they've paid for Office. That is a feature that will never be added to Office. It can't be added to office.

Telling Google (or HP, or Amazon) to be disruptive is telling them to focus on finding features that Apple won't or can't add to the iPad, and building your products around those.

That's a hell of a lot more to go on than "just win".
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Rochester is an awesome place to raise a family. Housing is low priced, $150k gets you a very nice 1800 sqft house in Irondequoit / Greece or $200k gets you a very nice 2000 sqft house in Webster / Penfield. There's very little vehicle traffic (other than 390 and 590 southbound around 8am) and most places in Monroe county can be gotten to from anywhere else in 20 minutes. The spring, summer, and fall are amazing weather wise. There's tons of local festivals and parks. At least 7 local sports teams (men's [minor outdoor, pro indoor] & women's [pro outdoor] soccer, indoor and outdoor lacrosse, minor league baseball and ice hockey, and minor league basketball), it's an hour and 30 minute drive to Buffalo for Bills / Sabres games or to Syracuse for college sports. Both RIT and the University of Rochester are good schools and there's a bunch of smaller, lesser known, high quality schools as well.

Parts of the city itself may be in need of some improvement but the overall area around Rochester is a great place to live.

If only there was more local investment in engineering. The talent's here because of Kodak, Xerox, and the universities, how long it will stay is uncertain.
Thanks for the correction. Freudian slip perhaps.
Shopobot (Google Ventures Funded) in Seattle, WA (SLU) as of 9/1 is working on saving people money when they by consumer electronics.

We're a Java shop and will also consider biz dev or marketing interns. Internships are paid and we're open to any length. Email me at juliuss@shopobot.com -- a short informal email describing your skills is the best way to apply.
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Google Analytics was on a grey zone until this year, it seem to have taken some modification to conform the local law.
The article is kind of misleading.
After reading the original FAZ article (I am german and a site owner) I learned that because Weichert is the head of the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection of the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, he only has the competence to threat site owners within "Schleswig-Holstein" (Population: 2,8mio).
"I hope once Lik­ables and Denso goes live they will be proof for the production-worthiness of the 4-pixel rhythm. I also hope that Apple will see this and per­haps recon­sider the visual pro­por­tions of UI in future iOS versions." doesn't match what you just said ;)

What I'm saying is that "You can look at a 4-pixel rhythm as 8-pixel, 16-pixel or 32-pixel. 4 is just the lowest basic unit" doesn't improve upon our situation. The lowest basic unit is called a pixel. Grids make everything look consistent; but when the only requirement is that you snap to 4-pixels, things aren't going to look consistent, because you have far too much flexibility.
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>Does Germany take issue with Google Analytics as well?

I hope so. Subjecting users to tracking by Google without their consent (you have no way to know that website X is tracking before it does) seems very abusive to me. Nothing prevents webmasters from installing tracking software on their own servers.
@wccrawford I'm just putting out some advice that works for me and those who I work with. If you have some other methods of establishing habits that work for you, I'd love to hear about them!
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Yep, I'm not native English speaker. Okay I'll try to fix grammar issues.
I've done pair programming, and I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't want to make it my normal way of working.

As a math major, I was far more successful when I went to study groups, spent hours trying to prove theorems with other students, or the TA or professor, and so forth. In a way, you could say that's a kind of "pair math", at least the part where you try to work on a proof with another person.

I'd say stay very social and engaged with other people, and don't go dark, but I think tough coding problems require a lot of quiet focus in a place with minimal distractions as well. Like, I'd encourage programmers to find work from a local university library (for some reason, this works better for me even than a private, quiet office).
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Awesome! Thanks, this is just the kind of things I was hoping to hear!
San Francisco's MUNI has the problems of most large urban public transport systems (it can be a bit slow, it's not perfectly reliable, every now and then they'll be some crazy person ranting to no-one in particular), but it's OK; half an hour and two buses (or a train and a bus) will get you most places in the city. San Francisco's also pretty small - about seven miles square - so yes, it's pretty easy to get around in the city itself without a car. Of course, this only applies if you're working for one of those hipster Web 2.0 companies that are actually based in San Francisco itself - if you need to get around Silicon Valley, you'ld almost certainly need a car.
Hits too close to home, staff writer for Wired?
I would much rather ride a Seattle bus than a SF bus, but the likelihood of finding a bus that goes from A to B (without a transfer) is much higher in SF than in Seattle. This is partly a product of Seattle's shape, where the obvious thing for any bus to do is run north-south from a neighborhood to the downtown corridor. It is also a product of density, which Seattle doesn't really have in large quantities.

And re: expensive neighborhoods for transit. I think your numbers are quite a bit off - sure, if you want to live near the main Caltrain station, you are looking at that much. But you can easily find a large 1 bedroom for $1600 within 5 minutes of the light rail or BART for a total transit time to downtown of 10-15 minutes.