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I'm willing to postulate that the shady tactics are originated by the sales reps, but not that Yelp isn't responsible in that case. Tolerance of a culture of unethical sales, creating an incentive & hiring structure that encourages it, and being obstructionist when someone who encounters it tries to get their issue dealt with speaks rather more to complicity than innocence. As further anecdotal indication (since you appear to believe that all complaints are isolated and don't appear to have any threshold at which you'll accept otherwise), my girlfriend's cell phone was listed as her restaurant's phone number and she was told repeatedly by support staff, sales, and supervisors that Yelp would not under any circumstance correct this unless she paid for an account. Since her place was open from 6pm to 9am and she had to have to phone on in case of emergencies there, she got calls all night long seven days a week. The only thing that fixed this when she was at the point of involving her lawyer was a random Yelp employee who frequented the restaurant hearing about it. If a single internal comment is enough to fix it, but a legally actionable case (non-public number acquired from a review, refusal to address, telemarketing calls to it) gets "sue and be damned" I'm inclined to think that the company has a major issue at the interface with businesses. She literally did not care what the reviews were because word of mouth in a couple of communities was far more important, but they kept trying to sweeten the deal by offering to "fix" the negative ones.
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Plenty of facts there that's why I gave specifics.

I'm curious, how well do you know Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman? Do you guys meet for coffee, or are you guys just casual acquaintances from your visits to the Yelp offices?
When I came to Google, of my team of 25 people only 6 were from the US. The remainder were about evenly divided between Europe, India, and China.
For the right to vote: Because rather than bringing science into politics, it would bring politics into every facet of science. Funding large amounts of science via politically-based processes has done a good job of that as it is but this would make it orders of magnitude worse.

And what happens when the official government position on a bit of science, upon which your voting rights rest, turns out to be wrong because science, in its capacity as an ever-changing best-current-snapshot of our best guesses has moved on? Oh, and it turns out it is in the best interests of some interest group to keep it wrong just the way it is, because otherwise it might let entire battlefield states sway the other way in the next major election because more of the "wrong people" will now accidentally get that question correct on the next voter survey. Not to mention creating the ultimate "teaching to the test" situation for the voters.

Interesting question, BTW.

For immigration: Isn't that actually our official, legal policy? I don't think we officially import low-skill immigrants. We unofficially do it, wink-wink nudge-nudge.
> In other words, the majority of graduate students are incapable of fully understanding a newspaper

I think this indicates a serious problem with the study. While I'm sure there are exceptional cases where someone could graduate from a post-graduate program as functionally illiterate[1], every other non-exceptional case is able to function quite well in our society. You don't need to know every word in the newspaper (you can get those through contextual clues) or if there are 8 ounces in a cup or a pint (I'd Google it) in order to function in our society or to interact with other people writing the same language.

[1] Using the common sense definition found at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy
This is what worries me about Apple post Steve Jobs. While I am almost totally certain that there are people in the company with all the vision and creativity of Steve, I don't think anyone else has the clout to pivot the company on a dime the way Steve did.
> Remember: under DNSSEC, Libya would have been BIT.LY's CA.

Remember: With or without DNSSEC Libya sets falsified MX records for bit.ly, buys a certificate (without any hacking), because after all, a valid SSL certificate for domain.example means that someone verified that you indeed receive mail for webmaster@domain.example, and also suddenly has a certificate for Bit.ly. This has been critized by Kaminsky and other researchers for ages now.

I know you love SSL. In fact, I like SSL too. But please stop advertising the CA system along with it, because it is horribly broken.
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Last I knew, science is not currently very kind to the old "styles of learning" theories, which turned out to be Yet Another Educational Theory Spun From Whole Cloth by "educators" unqualified to be spinning such theories. (I give it a "Yet Another" appellation because this turns out to describe nearly every educational theory you've ever heard. The standards of rigor in the field of education study could stand to be improved quite a lot.)
I just realized something, back in 2001, the day before the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centers, Donald Rumsfeld said that the Pentagon lost $2.3 trillion dollars.

It's funny how that same sum comes up again:

the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to bankers over the last five years. For banks that have filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the sum stands at an astounding $2.2 trillion

The government seems to keep losing its money through malice and corruption.
BitKeeper actually prohibits their customers from contributing to competing projects?

Using the product to reverse-engineer a protocol to develop a free client is not 'contributing to a competing product'. Which is against their license (though that may be void because the law grants you reverse-engineering rights, no matter what a license says. Otherwise nothing could ever be reverse-engineered at all).

they were afraid that he "might be moving BitKeeper technology into Mercurial."

That's entirely reasonable. If you have deep knowledge of how proprietary system A works and are hacking on free system B that purports to do the same thing, there is every chance you inadvertently include proprietary knowledge into your code for the free product. It's very hard to avoid using the knowledge you have.
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I was intrigued by the "INfinite" in the title; but the author of the article just seems confused.
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I appreciate you sharing this; it was sweet. But there's something disturbing in the way you're framing it.

Have we lost perspective to the point where even the basic notions of how to live one's life have to be seen through the lens of a hacker working on a startup?

I say this as a hacker, working on a startup. When I'm done with my IE7 hacks, and I figure out why my production server isn't behaving like my dev server, I might take a moment to re-read that article and play some Queen, so I can fix my mind's eye on that beautiful human being who died too young.
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It doesn't matter how much free information is out there, the majority will still do better if there's someone there to help them understand the material.

Also remember that the "competition" also has access to the same free information.
It's a license, same as any other. Either you accept it or you don't. But if you do, then you're expected to be true to your word. Welshing on a deal, that's far more "evil" (a word that has totally lost any meaning on the Internet).
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Well enough. I presume you will consider me biased but rest assured I have no problem criticizing Yelp when warranted. But much of the criticism in the article and here is pretty weak.
I think there is little to no correlation between a programmer being "employable" and their level of education. I have no (finished) degrees from any universities, however, I've been employed time and time again, and I continue to innovate and have a drive for learning. That being said, some fields simply require a degree. I would feel a little uneasy (scratch that: a lot uneasy) about seeing a doctor or a lawyer who was self-taught.

This is all pointless if you can't afford school in the first place. I know too many people who fork out $40,000-160,000 for a four-year college degree, and for what? Most of them are "unemployable" as soon as they exit with their shiny, expensive piece of paper. This is why I chose to stop going to school and focus on making myself "employable" by learning new languages, new techniques, marketing myself, getting better and better at what I already know how to do, and focusing on gaining experience in the work force.

This sounds like what you need to do.
A similar thing happened to me twice (though I was never fired, but rather let go with nice severance packages). Glowing reviews for a year / year and a half, then out of nowhere they would let me go.

I learned a few things

1) Every time you are let go, it's an opportunity to find a much better job (whatever that means - more money, better location, startup). And this had been true EVERY SINGLE TIME. Every time I was let go, I increased my salary by 20-40%, and built more and more connections with interesting people.

2) There's no such thing as job security. Nobody owes you anything. You can be fired/let go for any reason, or without any reason, legally in most states.

3) If you're truly good, it's their loss. It's extremely hard to find competent developers within a given budget.

4) After this happened a couple of times, I shifted to contractor work, it's more money, and you expect your project to end. It might feel scary the first time, but don't be afraid, you're in IT, there are TONS of jobs out there.

5) Unless you're climbing the corporate ladder, do not participate in the office politics, or at least make fun of it. Yeah, you will probably not get promoted to a director or a CTO, but who cares? Do you want to develop things, or become a manager? Office politics is usually ugly, I've seen so much backstabbing in the industry among manager types and crappy developers, it's not funny. I've seen one shitty developer taking a code of a much smarter one, showing it off to the clueless director, showering him with gifts, and getting all kinds of raises and promotions. You can't fight it if higher management doesn't understand what's going on. All you can do is move on.

6) Most people are good, don't take it too personally, shit happens.

7) If you ever want to be in charge, start your own company.
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If you have bugs join the mailing list. Github issues are great (I use them too) but linux is a very large project with several bug trackers.

Kernel issues are tracked through distributions' bug trackers, bugzilla.kernel.org, and ultimately the mailing list.
I found the launchpad bzr code browser not to bad. Launchpad is also more project based then code based. The thing is that sourceforge and launchpad try to give you an overview of the project first while github show the code and a readme and maybe some wiki pages.
Thank you newhouseb! This is the most intelligent comment I've seen on the issue, by far.

(I hope this comment makes it through the filter, I swear it's not a fake... I don't even know newhouseb...)
I've actually done exactly this exercise myself having been constantly frustrated with the development platform in use at my company (Similar Dell PCs, Win 7, VS2010, RS6 etc.). Additionally we have a slow VPN to our servers which are hosted at our main office. There have been days where the total wasted time is >25% of my day.

I'd add an additional cost into the analysis which is the frustration of engineers working under these conditions and the risk of them leaving to find somewhere that takes this more seriously.

I'll also register my continued surprise and disappointment at the performance of this typical MS development stack on a machine that should be more than up to the task (3 GHZ Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM).
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Queue the pointless forks... https://github.com/helloimowen/linux/commit/4f9fe8076874e2ba...
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Warm and fuzzy, but I have to ask how many people can honestly say they would pay a cover charge or monthly membership fee to be allowed to enter a bookstore. I suspect the number is quite low.
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As I suspected, they set a rather high bar for "proficient".

According to this study, a non-proficient person can: consult reference materials to figure out which foods contain a certain vitamin, calculate the cost of ordering supplies from a catalog, or figure out what they are permitted to eat before a medical test.

In India, we actually have a significant number of people who are functionally illiterate. Most people can't leave a note saying "please make sambhar" note for the cook.
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While it has come a long way, we believe the Internet is falling short on one very important issue: social discovery. More and more we're building networks around the people we know. Facebook and Google+ include our friends and family. Twitter the people we choose to follow.

But how do you engage with new people? What if you move to a new town and want to find a cycling buddy, or a bassist for your band, or a group to go hiking with? What if you simply want to interact with someone at the airport. How do you break the social barrier and make the interaction easier? More meaningful? This is what we're doing with Hyphos. Through an interest + location based platform, we're creating a system where people can discover others around them. We like to say Hyphos is the closest group of friends you never knew you had.

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While it has come a long way, we believe the Internet is falling short on one very important issue: social discovery. More and more we're building networks around the people we know. Facebook and Google+ include our friends and family. Twitter the people we choose to follow.

But how do you engage with new people? What if you move to a new town and want to find a cycling buddy, or a bassist for your band, or a group to go hiking with? What if you simply want to interact with someone at the airport. How do you break the social barrier and make the interaction easier? More meaningful? This is what we're doing with Hyphos. Through an interest + location based platform, we're creating a system where people can discover others around them. We like to say Hyphos is the closest group of friends you never knew you had.

If you can, take a look and let us know what you think. Would love some feedback as we gear up for launch in a few weeks. Also happy to provide early beta access, just enter "hacker" into the "Favorite Hobby" field.
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I wouldn't say they were doing quite the same thing. To quote Charlie Clouser (NIN's keyboardist from 1995-2000) quoting Florian Schneider, who had just seen NIN play in Dusseldorf: "I know zat you vere usink zome zynthesizers, but dere vere too many guitars and I could not hear zee zynthesizers well enough to know if zey vere any güt."

See also:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/attachments/electronic-music-...

Kraftwerk and Nine Inch Nails are two very different entities, most notably when you compare their live performances. Nine Inch Nails would not likely sound like what we know NIN to sound like had not Kraftwerk done their thing in the 70s, but you'd have trouble convincing me that anything on 1994's The Downward Spiral sounds like rehashed 70s music (Crystal Japan not withstanding).
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I feel you. The first company I worked at was like this, except I got out before I got completely exploited. It's a charming story.

I was interviewed by the lead developer and the head of Human Factors. Fresh out of college, I didn't have much experience other than a campus job, so I was turned down for a developer role. Two weeks later I get a call saying they'd like me to join their Human Factors team.

I accepted. Three weeks in I was tuning their speech recognition applications and committing code to their main application repo. Six weeks after that I wrote an algorithm to optimize grammars on sentence fragments for searching databases by speech recognition. They moved to have it patented. However, they ended up firing my boss and they put me on more mundane tasks. I ended up leaving because the CTO was more impotent than my grandfather after a bottle of Jack and the president thought he was Steve Jobs. It became a terrible place to work.

They never patented my algorithm because I was the only one who knew how it worked. The other developers weren't computer scientists and were just wasting time trying to dissect an implementation of expectation maximization. I'm kind of glad they spent a boatload on lawyers and came up empty-handed.

I will never again work for equity or shares unless I really trust the organization or people involved. Money (cash) talks, and paper is used for wiping your ass.
How this made it up to my reader is beyond me. If handling the SSH keys is hard enough then I am afraid to see what you do when automerge fails and you need to resolve your conflicts manually. In my short time using github, I have came across issues, but they usually involved me just not understanding the design or usage of git. Read the guides or the book they put on their site. It is short, interesting and leaves you feeling a bit more confident in what you are doing.

http://book.git-scm.com/
Yes, my calculus professor this semester is terrible.
Just to be clear:

a) I'm not talking about the reverse-engineering thing. Them wanting to shut that down is somewhat reasonable.

b) I don't think this guy had "deep knowledge of how [BitKeeper] works." He just used BitKeeper at his job. Most people who use git don't have a deep understanding of how it works. They just know how to make it manage their code. It feels pretty evil to me to provide a general development tool and put limitations on what any developer who uses it may do. What if Microsoft said in their license, "If you are a Windows user, you may not contribute to any other operating system."? We'd complain about how evil and anticompetitive Microsoft is.
I think you're right on the cup vs. pint type questions. But quantitative literacy is only one of the three types of literacy they are measuring, so it doesn't really change the overall picture much.
I agree, the Mancala backstory sounds quite strange and unbelievable. To me it looks like it's made up (maybe partly on some vague recollection of the author) to serve as an introduction for the rest of the article.

The behavior of AI programming winning by 1 point does exist in real life for Monte-Carlo based agents calculating winning probabilities. You can see it in computer go games.
Grepping for "Tehran" revealed more secret messages:

Extended Validation CA","unknown","unknown",".SahebeDonyayeDigital.com","CN=.SahebeDonyayeDigital.com,SN=PK000229200006592,OU=Elme Bikaran,L=Tehran,O=Daneshmande Bi nazir,C=IR"
"2011-07-10 22:08:31","585a8ee9017a326d21bd19dce9d9777d","DigiNotar

Extended Validation CA","unknown","unknown",".RamzShekaneBozorg.com","CN=.RamzShekaneBozorg.com,SN=PK000229200006593,OU=Sare Toro Ham Mishkanam,L=Tehran,O=Hameye Ramzaro Mishkanam,C=IR"
"2011-07-10 22:11:59","aa239bf9fe84b25444be0799f40c9f67","DigiNotar

Extended Validation CA","unknown","unknown",".JanamFadayeRahbar.com","CN=.JanamFadayeRahbar.com,SN=PK000229200006594,OU=Sarbaze Gomnam,L=Tehran,O=Ke Jano Janan Toyi,C=IR"

Thankfully it seems someone already translated in the comments:

--- Translation one ---

Sahebeh Donya => Possessor of the World e.g. God.

Sarbazeh Gomnam => Unknown Soldier

Elme Bikaran => Science/Knowledge of the idle/unemployed

Daneshmande Bi nazir => Peerless Scientist

RamzShekaneBozorg => Great Cryptanalyst

Toro Ham Mishkanam => I will breakTOR too

Hameye Ramzaro Mishkanam => Will break all cyphers

---

--- Translation Two ---

Sahebeh Donya => Possessor of the World e.g. God.

Sarbazeh Gomnam => Unknown Soldier

Elme Bikaran => Science/Knowledge of the idle/unemployed

Daneshmande Bi nazir => Peerless Scientist

RamzShekaneBozorg => Great Cryptanalyst

Toro Ham Mishkanam => I will breakTOR too

Hameye Ramzaro Mishkanam => Will break all cyphers

[edited for formatting]
No, US does it officially. One tenant of American immigration is that all countries around the world should be equally represented. US has a diversity quota, which is essentially a lottery, which is purely dependent on luck.

On the other hand, if you are "individual with exceptional ability", but were born in India/China, too bad, we cannot admit you without long wait times of 5+ years.

Thus, while US might provide amnesty (in future) to lot of low skilled labor, it hardly shows any enthusiasm for admitting entrepreneurs or skilled people.
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Regardless of how exactly you define the word 'proficient', the fact is that these people spend 13 years in government schools at a cost of ~$200,000 and at the end of it they're unable to read at a level that would allow them to vote intelligently or contribute in any meaningful way to the democratic process.

If people can only read well enough to be consumers but not producers then it's only so long before society collapses, regardless of whether or not they're getting their vitamins.
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This may be hard to remember in these banner times for start-ups, but as a CEO, you may occasionally end up taking money from an organization that you don't see 100% eye-to-eye with.
The game is played at a high level, sure, but I'd call this a slight exaggeration. 1% of a player's income is less than a single worker even in the late game (when most players have around 70 workers), and a single worker kill never really makes a huge difference.
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...and celebrities probably wouldn't fly on airplanes if they wanted to avoid paparazzi. Banning yourself from using things that your friends and colleagues are using is not a reasonable way to solve the problem that some people do not know how to behave themselves. :(