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Versus a small corporation?
Or versus his image not being used at all?

It is a tribute, with at least some degree of creativity and effort put into making the video. I don't see this being exploited to gain Google any more users than, let's be honest, they would have anyway. Especially since it is on Google Japan, I would anticipate people going to the main page, watching the video, and then not even performing a search. And in instances where that does occur, Google is gaining nothing financially from something which, again, is a creative tribute.

I don't really see it as shilling at all.
Very interesting article, for a number of reasons. Back in the 90s I was just a kid, but I distinctly recall the major changes in the telecom landscape happening then: DSL/Cable internet access becoming "a thing" as well as huge changes in telephone rates & rate structures. It's always interesting to read articles describing the history of market changes in retrospect. Also, it's eye-opening to learn how we got to where we are now (arguably crappy telecom infrastructure) and about the regulatory changes that guided us.

This piece is from 2006. What I'd really like to see is a similar article written today about the wireless telecom industry. Certainly the wireless telecom has been a pretty exciting industry in this past decade - smartphones are very, very mainstream now (if I had a Palm VII when I was in school, I would have undoubtedly been denounced as more of a dork than I already was) and sms/wireless internet access has arguably supplanted actual voice communication, at least in the younger crowd. At the same time, costs for these services have increased substantially. Just five years ago, I remember paying $30 for basic cell phone service. With a smart phone, can you even get voice+data for less than $60 or so? The pattern for industry consolidation is following the wired telecom's footsteps. I guess we'll see in the next few years if the wireless telecom market becomes as consolidated as the wired market is today.
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#3 The new reviews were obviously written in response to the article. Three of them actually reference it!
...ah, but that's the whole point! The iPad could never have come out before the iPhone because it wasn't perfect yet.

In fact, were the iPad under development at a different company, it probably would have been released in '07. The logic and reasoning from the top execs would have been: "Well, we know we will sell some. We'll probably make back our investment and then some! Besides, working out all of the kinks will take another 3 years and billions of dollars. Who wants to do that?"

This is what annoys me about most people's understanding of MVP. I see too many companies whose approach is: "Here's our thing. It does these 10 things. Each feature works. SHIP IT!"

Instead, the Apple approach is:

ENGINEER: "Here's our thing. It does 10 things."

MANAGER: "Does thing 1 work 100% of the time?"

ENGINEER: "Um...more like 85%"

MANAGER: "Is thing 2 so intuitive that your Grandma could explain it to me?"

ENGINEER: "Well...there's still 5 panels of configuration required..."

(...time passes...)

MANAGER: "Make it do 1 thing."

ENGINEER: "But, but..."

MANAGER: "And it better do that 1 thing better than any damn product even GOD could create!"

ENGINEER: "Ok!"
I feel bad for Linus. On Google+ and, now, at Github, he seems to attract irrelevant and foolish (mostly) and sometimes trollish comments. People seem to get starstruck and blabber whatever is on the tip of their tongue without thinking if Linus will even care to read it.
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The sales org only has access to Salesforce copy of Yelp's internal data, and numbers like "contacted_by_sales" never ends up back in the main Yelp database. It's not something the algorithm could take into account because it doesn't know about the sales org at all.

Disclaimer: I used to work on the Yelp engineering team, at one point on the Salesforce data refresh project.
My understanding of the comment is that the commenter makes the point that VS is almost too comfortable (sorry if I'm mis-reading this), and that comfort is actually a hindrance to learning things.

I see it where I teach, the students that come in are most comfortable with windows + VS and they are productive in this environment. However, after just one course in C programming using vim, the students have a much greater appreciation of the process of producing software. They gain an understanding of compiling and linking, Makefiles and automated builds. (I'm not sure all of them like vim + make, but they see where VS is automating stuff for them and I think this is a valuable thing to learn).

Do you need this understanding to be a productive programmer? Of course not and indeed learning it is a bit of a timesink compared to getting your features finished.

Eventually like most things it is horses for courses (it doesn't make sense to me to develop C# code using vim as you have the worlds best(tm) IDE to help you), but personally I feel that IDEs have become too much of a crutch, they help so much that you can be productive without knowing what you are doing and, this maybe elitist, I feel this harms the industry a little.

Good programmers will always be good programmers, bad programmers can hide with an IDE, they have to learn what they are doing when dropped into vim + make (or other lo-fi tools of choice).
Why the downvotes? I'm sure everyone thinks highly of their own reviews, but let's be honest -- not everyone is Walt Whitman.
Wrong. I was replying to this comment: "I would expect that the note is then buried or removed under Yelp's labyrinthine terms of service."

I unfortunately cannot downvote your reply.
I'm assuming this is snark, but I admit that the statement "where would we be without Apple" isn't necessarily the strongest argument for better science education--did the author put Apple in the same basket as gene therapy?

That's not to say Apple hasn't raised the bar of industrial design (and made some folks very rich), but I'm not sure that Apple is a critical piece of Anerican's science landscape.
On the subject of Japan and Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", here's another curiousity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTo-wFfIXKo

Somebody took a copy of Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo and hex-edited the levels so that instead of requiring a human player, the game's built-in physics propels Mario through the level. And, the levels were designed so that the various sound effects caused by Mario stomping on and bumping into things vaguely approximate the music to Don't Stop Me Now. AND four entirely different levels were created, each attempting to reproduce the part of some particular member of Queen. AND they occasionally sync up for the more spectactular parts of the song.
"When soldiers kill people with drone aircraft in video game-like conditions, it removes the reality from something that would be extremely traumatizing when done with bare hands."

This type of physical disconnect is discussed in a radiolab episode on morality (http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/13/). They discuss two scenarios: (these versions are a bit different, copypasta'd from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem)

Scenario 1:
A trolley (i.e. in British English a train) is running out of control down a track. In its path are five people who have been tied to the track by a mad philosopher. Fortunately, you could flip a switch, which will lead the trolley down a different track to safety. Unfortunately, there is a single person tied to that track. Should you flip the switch or do nothing?

Scenario 2:
As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people. You are on a bridge under which it will pass, and you can stop it by dropping a heavy weight in front of it. As it happens, there is a very fat man next to you - your only way to stop the trolley is to push him over the bridge and onto the track, killing him to save five. Should you proceed?

In short, more people will flip the switch in scenario 1, but will not push the man off the bridge in the second scenario. From this result, they (researchers) hypothesize that an entirely different part of the brain handles more abstract (i.e. non-physical) decisions; while the more basic, physical decisions may be made elsewhere.

Really cool thought experiment, and a good listen overall. Then again, that's par for the course when it comes to radiolab.
Won't mirroring a project show up in your public timeline? I'm mirroring Rainbows! (https://github.com/nilmethod/rainbows) and bits of it show up in my timeline when my mirror script fires off.
How many times does the google logo appear in various forms during the "tribute"? If you don't think google gains anything financially from this, then you don't understand how advertising works.
This is what I do, Win7 for games, debian for work.

I like the dualboot nature as when in debian I have no excuse to startup a game and get distracted, when in windows I know I'm off work and I can relax.

Also having access to good command line tools is priceless - I'm not conversant with powershell, so maybe windows is good for this now, but being able to quickly grep/sed/awk/vi/etc is so useful.
Wow, all you people with your fully functional color vision. Maybe I won't get the retinal DNA hack if it causes this much pain.
The reason he developed Git was that Tridge reverse-engineered BitKeeper protocol, hacked together a free BK client going explicitly against BK licensing terms. That created an unhealthy amount of controversy and started to affect the development - an unpleasant situation, which Linus in his holy torvaldness solved by writing a BK replacement. Not because he loves the GNU way, but because he hates counter-productive bickering and would rather write code than feed the flames. Ta-da.
It looks like either you have never been interacting with a business owner you know and trust, or you are a Yelp employee.
Believe me, my wife can handle negative review when they are truthful but when you see a negative reviews that is clearly advocating for a competitors and Yelp doesn't do a thing to remove it, you have to wonder what are they up to.
Additionally even without getting all the information about a review that Yelp is getting (IP address, frequency of visits, etc), we saw a few times similar negative review being posted on the same day with similar wordings for 2 newly created accounts. Interesting enough the same day one real customer (with many Yelp reviews) posted a 4 stars reviews... Guess what?
Yelp 'algorithm' filtered out the 4 stars reviews and left the 2 one star reviews... Sorry but as an engineer with over 15 years of experience it sounds fishy to me.

Since my wife started her business, she has met various other business owners with similar experience...

Hard to believe that their filtering system is not directed toward the good of Yelp business plan for selling ads.
If you can't read or have a basic working knowledge of mathematics, what's the point of science?
When I was working at Apple the number of foreign-born engineers I interacted with was greater than the number of American-born engineers. If you added together foreign-born with 1st generation Americans (i.e. one or both parents were foreign-born), that number was far greater than the number of "purebred" Americans.

Not sure about Google and Microsoft, but it does say something that 50% of Google's founders were foreign born.

Anecdotally, in graduate school I have noticed a troubling trend. 10 years ago, foreign students would come to the U.S. to get advanced degrees and then stay in the U.S. to get good paying jobs. Today, many of those students are returning to their home countries for work...

In other words, the U.S. is riding a wave that was started by the educated class in the 1940s and 1950s and was increasingly supported by the immigrant class in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. When the immigrants stop coming, if the educated class is found to be missing...then, yes, the U.S. is screwed.
America is falling behind in the race against China and India.

America was falling behind in the race against Japan in the 1980s.

America was falling behind in the race against Eastern Europe in the 1950s.

America was falling behind in the race against the Russian communists in the 1930s.

America was falling behind in the race against the Germans in the 1920s.

And in the late 1800s, America created a universal public education system. Why? Because Irish and Italian immigrants were building Catholic schools that offered an education to anyone who wanted one. So American Protestants began to worry that if they fell behind, Catholic priests would brainwash America's children into willing accomplices to an insidious Vatican plot to dominate the world.

I am not kidding. This was published in Harper's in 1875. The artist is Thomas Nast, inventor of Uncle Sam, (the contemporary) Santa Claus, the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey:

http://www.harpweek.com/09cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon-Large....

ETA: Obviously, American education is not perfect. But it would probably be better if we could resist the temptation to panic about it.
You've observed something important: deployment is a frequent source of errors. It is a discipline unto itself which deserves understanding, study, coding, and infrastructure. Here is my system:

First, here are the specific types of solutions, from best/most-difficult to least-efficient/most-achievable:

1. Automation, e.g. have the date automatically set by the deployment your deployment script. Make your scripts be smart, so they can set things correctly.

2. Poka-yoke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poka-yoke): e.g. have the deploy script refuse to push out code if a configuration variable is unchanged, unless there is a comment on that config line overriding the check.

3. Checklist: Write down a set of procedures/checks to do when deploying. Make a copy of this list on deploy, and check off each item as you do it. (See also: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...)

You'll note that all of those are geared at reducing reliance on your memory, rather than improving your memory. Next, here is the overall process:

- ("5 whys") When you have a problem in deployment, write down what went wrong. Find 5 ways that problem could have been prevented.

- Address at least two of those with solutions from the set above. For example, you might automate part of the problem and add a poka-yoke in another script. Or if you're ambitious, you may be able to have two fully automated solutions, an automated deployment script and an automated test which checks that that automation is working. Not as good (but sometimes easiest) is to add it two different checklists, filled out by different people or at different times.

- Implement solutions even when something almost went wrong but didn't.

- Periodically review the overall process; refactor and otherwise improve it. In particular, push solutions up the chain, e.g. replace a checklist item with a much better automated solution.

Additional things to consider, specific to deployment:

- Deployment frameworks (e.g. Chef) can assist with automation.

- Deploying to a staging environment first can flush out many issues.

- Deploy first to a small subset of servers/users, following with deployment to all users X hours later.

- Get the advice and support of an experienced NetOps or sysadmin person.

Edit: shouldn't be so negative about checklists; they're often useful.
Biology is one of the most dynamic, rapidly advancing fields of science today. Can you name an important equation in biology? Quite a bit harder to do than for chemistry or physics...

It's also worth noting that the people who generally tend to be anti-science in America are typically not anti-law-of-gravitation or anti-atomic-theory-of-matter types.
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From what I've understood, a conference call video may be the best option. However, I've not been through the process, so take my advice with an asterisk.
I'm more amused by the people apparently taking him seriously (unless they're meta-trolling or something).
I'm sure most already understand this but when Yelp says the filter algorithmic, it's implied that a reasonable algorithm is being used.
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This is my opinion in education, and it tends to differ than the author one: You don't need to teach science in primary schools to have a science literate population. Teach them to read, only.

Why: Because reading is key. What I learnt on my own reading books in one year was more than what I was taught in all these primary years. They have helped, but even if I didn't take these classes that wouldn't be a roadblock.

How I envision a successful education:

1. Language is priority: Reading, writing and communicating. Dedicate long hours for reading and daily writing. This is better than science or math. I need to be able to read, and also communicate effectively with others (forums, chat...)

2. Math: Math is also important. Dedicate a good amount of hours for a solid math education.

3. Others: It includes science, geography, history... What does the average person need of information to be relatively literate? Give it that amount of information; only. The bare minimum so he can understand things like nuclear radiations, ADN, therapies...

And then? Let people decide. Science is not for everyone. There is a writer, designer, business analyst... They don't need science, but they are in need in the society. Let everyone decide what he wants to be. You allowed him to read and communicate effectively. Don't worry about what will happen next.
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While it seems intuitive that a more scientifically 'literate' population is 'better', is 'scientific illiteracy' really a problem?

To me it would be a problem if there were lots of openings for jobs that require scientific skills without there being anyone to fulfill it. As things stand, to me it seems that there are tens, if not hundreds, of qualified people for every possible job opening, whether in academia, government, or the private sector.
This is good advice regardless of race. Yet, it's important to have successful individuals belonging to a minority be good role models and encourage others in the same minority directly.

Achieving your goals takes a lot of "acting white". Promoting it as something worthwhile, fun, and acceptable for black kids may lead to more children and teenagers considering it seriously.
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But that has never been proven and is highly unlikely. The critics always stretch the facts. For instance in the dog trainer case, the one negative review was by a yelp elite member (typically harsher reviewers) with over 400 reviews. While most of the hidden reviews were during a one week period and by users with only one review (ie, "drive by").
One thing that would help would be assessment of student learning done by persons other than the teacher, so the teacher can't give in to temptations to cheat when students are tested. (This is one reason I encourage my mathematics students to take the AMC tests and participate in other programs in which they can perform to show what they do that are not run by me.)

I think a lot more work still needs to be done on "value added," which is why I especially appreciate the submitted article. I mostly have the good fortune to teach "ringers"--the kids are already bright in math, and come to me as clients because the school lessons they receive bore them. A teacher who can take a child who was never particularly motivated by studying mathematics, and who has long since been turned off by lousy instruction,

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

which is a challenge I have rarely taken on, and who can motivate that child to child to excel is a teacher who is worth his or her weight in gold. I've requested from my friendly public library the book mentioned in the article, which had not been published at the time of the earlier submission, and I will try to find out what the book says about incentives that can be put in place in school systems to help teachers do their very best and to help learners learn better.
Not sure why he is getting downvoted as this is obvious satire, but this is probably the case at some startups.
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jballanc, Your point is good, but it is still true that you need both math and English to advance in science.

Any real advance in biology will require a well written paper for example. Also, if the person wanted to have access to the best minds, they will need to be accepted in to a good school at a minimum.

Math and English are great places to focus as amazing building blocks.
A van alone would not be sufficient space for me, but I have considered converting a van to a small motorhome (either a Sprinter or diesel Ford E350) and using it as my tow vehicle for a midsized travel trailer. It's a weird choice, but it would solve some of my problems with my current rig (a 34' class A).

I'm considering a Winnebago View or Itasca Navion (or Fleetwood Pulse), which are based on the biggest Sprinter chassis in a cutaway form. They're a little bit smaller than I want, but I think I could probably live with it, given the benefits. They tend to get 13-17 MPG. They're a little on the pricey side, since I'll probably be paying cash.

I'd really like to have something small enough to be comfortable in cities, while still being large enough to really live in with occasional guests (I may be a loner, but I like having the option of inviting people to come with me sometimes). Stealth campers (converted buses and box trucks and vans) lately have great appeal for me, since a lot of place I haven't yet visited in the US are densely populated cities...so, being able to park on the street in the city without attracting attention would be very valuable.

I have more stuff than most folks would need (I have a small recording studio, three guitars and a drumset in my current rig), and I have a 60 lb dog. So, we can't go van-sized in any way I can imagine, without giving up a lot of my music gear. But, we'll see how it all shakes out. I've begun to get serious about shopping lately, and plan to move into a new rig in October or November when I get back down to Texas (I don't want to buy a vehicle up north where I'm currently parked, since they take so much more abuse up here due to weather extremes; California might actually be ideal, since the weather is so kind to vehicles there).