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Facebook is a social network. Being social, it is subject to the same laws of attraction, affection, excitement, and coolness that the hot new restaurant, dance club, and sports stadium are in your particular city.

Step 1: the cool kids spot a new place and start hanging out there.

Step 2: the first signs of the popped collared masses show up, pushing the cool kids out as they realized the lame-streamers have spotted the new venue.

Step 3: the masses start reviewing the venue on Yelp and in local hipster papers claiming it is the hot new spot.

Step 4: the suburbanites located a 30 minute drive from the venue (without traffic) read these reviews and start frequenting the venue, causing long line-ups outside.

Step 5: the masses proclaim the venue to be uncool and/or played out and move on to the next best thing.

Step 6: the venue becomes filled with 30 and 40 something divorcées who are trying to be cool and crossing their fingers that they win the lottery so they can avoid having to do the whole Match.com and eHarmony thing.

Step 7: the neighbourhood that the venue is in becomes fully gentrified and the venue is sold to some entrepreneur who wants to make it into a Starbucks or fake Irish pub.

Facebook's history follows this same pattern:

Step 1 (2004-2005): The place for cool university kids.

Step 2 (2006-2007): The 20 somethings show up and proclaim how awesome this new phenomenon is. Not to be out-done, they claim ownership to the new network, and get their friends to start checking it out every so often instead of MySpace.

Step 3 (2007): The young professionals show up and start discovering that their old high school sweethearts grew fat, old, and unhappy. They revel in the spectacle. The cool university kids start complaining that the place was better when it was just Stanford, Harvard, et al.

Step 4 (2008-2009): Your mom, dad, uncles, and aunts show up to the show. With every Like from their mom, 20 and 30-somethings start cringing and trying to figure out how they can lock down their privacy settings. Word starts leaking out about how the cool kids are now using something called Twitter.

Step 5 (2010): The first murmurings about it being cool to not be on Facebook are actually taken seriously as every 50 year old and their day job at some boring Fortune 500 company setup shop with a Facebook Group and a QR code advertisement. "Quit Facebook Day" becomes a movement. The cool kids, having adopted Twitter en masse, now start being over-run by the 20 and 30 something professionals who are desperate to find their new fix.

Step 6 (2011): With most actual action happening on Twitter, Facebook is relegated to the social networking equivalent of having brunch with your friends. It's no longer the cool party spot. It's just a place you go to brag about that other cool thing you were up to the night before.

Step 7 (2012): Facebook announces its IPO and officially becomes the Hotmail of Web 2.0.
The graph is from this wiki page, which explains the axes slightly better: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_Days_Destroyed#Graph_of_P... : the x-axis is time measured in blocks (created on average once every 10 minutes).

The percentage is (bitcoin_days_ever_destroyed / bitcoin_days_ever_created). Today there will be ~7.2 million bitcoin days created, because that is how many BTC are in circulation.
I always find articles about Yahoo to be so sad sometimes.
> Why are they doing this?

Because it serves a majority of users.

When I search for "ubuntu sound garbled random", I need an answer to my query - I don't care about 'garbled', 'gibberish', 'distorted'. Or 'random' or 'after some time'.

If your needs are specific, you need to prepend a '+'. But general consumer queries don't need it. People who need to use that can know about it and use it. The overhead isn't that high.

EDIT: And if you need to prepend a + to query terms, that means for the given query terms, the missing word is rarely occurring and the overall ranking is low. Eg. 'ubuntu sound issue gibberish'. You won't see any results with 'gibberish' in it, but the results are relevant. Google isn't a giant hashtable - it's a search engine, and this behavior is desirable.
Their saviour is going to come in fb vibes. Hope they nail th vibes music deal well. I'm watching from the sidelines, i deactivated my account this year after not using it for a year
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You are confirming what I said originally. What you call "handle the result" is quite frequently something that can be done in a set oriented fashion using orders of magnitude less code.

But what ORMs encourage you to do is to load a bunch of objects and then use procedural code to do the real thing.

I fully understand that not all types of algorithms and datastructures lend themselves to set oriented thinking. I work mostly with those nowadays. But for those cases it makes no sense to use RDBMS at all.
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The ECMAscript standard is actually a bit more prohibitive: you can only use Unicode letters or (non-space) combining symbols in variable names.

IE has relaxed this a little bit, by allowing variables to contain (but not start) with symbols.
I love these types of articles.
It's a shame that this sort of thing is true.
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You're missing the point. This is not a tool for end-users, but rather for developers. iOS/OS X already have a means of distributing third-party libraries with projects (the "./Frameworks" directory), there just has not, until now, been a good way for developers to find and organize these libraries during development. The goal of this project is to give developers that way of sharing, discovering, and resolving dependencies of libraries, but at the end of the day everything will still get packaged up as a "*.app" that is distributed via the App Store.

Also, the reason to create a custom tool for this instead of repurposing one of the many existing package managers is that it allows for the tool to be specialized for the specific case of developing App Store apps. Sure, you can install a third-party library via macports, but how do you tell macports to compile the library and place the resulting frameworks into the right directory in your Xcode project?
My experience shows otherwise. When I listen to some deep, gloomy metal, that's a far higher diversion than listening to, say, some ambient music with a female singer. Even though the latter has far more high notes.
In the good old times, when sky was more blue and trees were taller, there was two almost distinct approaches to use SQL database. They call them OLTP and Data Warehouse. Some vendors, such as Informix or IBM even offered a different products for those two segments.
The firs one, as one can understand from its name, is about fast and reliable online transaction processing, which means triggers and stored procedures and loads of small queries, mostly inserts or updates. Now all those no-fsync options and noSQL and mem-caching solutions solve similar problems their own way. You can have a thousands of writes and, if your system never crashes, with some data consistency (and forget about triggers) In old good times Informix Dynamic Server was the answer.

Data Warehousing is all about JOINS, big JOINS. Or that thing they call it data-cubes. In that case you need query optimizer, lot and lots of buffers, data partitioning and several layers of caches. You also should use stored procedures, because it is a good way to structure and manage your code, same way modules work for other languages. So, you know, that old lovely DB2.

Even in old times, people who claims that there is a solutions that fits both cases were considered crazy. That is why no sane person considered MSSQL (leave alone MySQL) as something other that a taste-less joke.

Nowadays people forgot about designing in terms of data flows. Everything starts with installing some framework, such as Spring+Hibernate, Rails or some PHP crap. They forgot that not tables itself, but queries (which type, how often) to them is what matters, that indexes optimized for actual query flow is what performance of a server is all about, and that actual structure of tables (and corresponding indexes) must be adapted/redesigned for that particular production flow of data. That was a DBA's job.

Today some people believe that they can eliminate smart but costly engineers (DBAs or sysadmins) by some software which is marketed to them as Easy, Smart, Fast, Zero-thinking or whatever - ready meals for a mediocre crowds. OK, if you're building a 20 pages web-site for a 100 visitors per day, that might work - you can save some money and time, but, if it is a industrial or internet-scale solution, there is no chance that you can run Rails or say Code Igniter crap in production without huge changes or total redesign. No fucking way.

So, all those specialized solutions, such as memcached, redis, membase, mongoDB are about dealing with flows of technical data, such as AJAX queries from UI, logs, authorization requests, chats, photos and other unimportant things, OR about building a huge distributed cache layer above actual data store. But, of course, you cannot build a Data Warehouse out of it. (Or invent a complete different approach to dealing with data, such as map/reduce).

So, ORM is anti-pattern? It is not efficient? Ridiculous. It is just broken by design. ^_^
Nowadays this is the default again, no?
I forgot Trunk Club

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I suspect that you'll see many more benefits of using MacRuby for the project going forward. For example, think about the sorts of things that Bundler (being written in Ruby) can do for Ruby gems that rvm (being mostly written in shell script) cannot.
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> but the average person is going to be charmed by the gimmick of it

> Again, normal people are unaware.

Knowing about prepending a '+' to a query term doesn't make anyone 'exceptional', and not knowing about it doesn't make anyone 'normal/avergage'.

FWIW, products are written for majority, the so called normal, average people, and majority finds the way google useful. When majority doesn't adapt to their changes, they will iterate. It's product development 101.

> The debasement of the brand. I'm talking about the non-stop cutesy-pie logos. What if Coke did this?

Google isn't Coke, and Coke can't change its logos dynamically. And you know, your normal/average person doesn't give a shit about what is displayed at upper left - they care about the value the serviice provides. If Google is finding them things they want, cool.

And seriously, debasement of brand? When the 'Les Paul' logo came out, in almost every office in the world, and in almost every house which has a connected computer, there was at least one person excitedly telling someone else about the logo. A million dollar advertising campaign won't have got Google this much publicity.

> Very public flops outside their area of expertise. Google+, etc.

Too early to tell. But what does it matter to Google search? Google can deliver 100 flops a year. I will stick to search as long as search works for me.
My wife and I have worked from home together for years. We have a roommate who also has his own start-up and works from home. Different strokes...
I hate to say it but I think this article may be right.
Thankyou for writing this.
Not the first I've heard of this sort of thing but I think it bears repeating.
yes. this behaviour, I dunno when it exactly got as bad as this, is the first time in a decade that it really makes me switch away to different search engines, even for everyday queries.

I used to just switch if I had a particularly hard search or needed some special feature I knew another SE would provide better.

BTW I find that Yandex, the russian SE is also quite good. I don't know exactly what/how they did it, but it has a sort of smooth, quick, basic and simple "feel" similar to Google that makes me able to imagine myself really using it by default.
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Top of hacker news: a dot that.... pulses. And doesn't even work in most browsers.

I mean I know it's the weekend and maybe a slow news day, but really?
I wonder how one would even go about fixing Yahoo.
It's good that you have your priorities straight.
It's surprising how much you can save when you really put your mind to it.
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No she is wrong because of this:

c) If you become the decision engine (something Google and Bing are trying to do with their Flight Search and other initiatives in various verticals), then you can easily take over the entire business.

If people are coming to you and you help them decide what to buy - then you can start selling them that stuff.
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If you become the decision engine for Fashion you can decide everything else.

I think perhaps it's not very clear until you consider what WalMart has done and what Amazon is doing.

And what Google is trying to do.

You start off as the starting point and then you start taking over more and more until you start producing the products you were originally only linking to.
Looks really promising.
Would love to see more articles like this.
For some things, boring is good. Sell good car parts. Sell reliable financial services. Be boring and win.

But Facebook didn't their users and especially their sixty billion dollar valuation by being boring.

Facebook - at this moment - has one of the most amazing web development teams on the planet (if reports are to be believed). They do a lot of slick development with relatively few people. But how long can they keep that up now that they've stopped being "the thing that's happening??
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I think this could well apply to any government worker.
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Even if both teams failed to score on the "Giuseppe Meazza" for the final 0-0. This result was not desired by any of both teams, but the hosts can be a little more disapointed because they had more chances for goal...
Try keeping a schedule of exactly how you spend your time. I find that writing it down forces me to optimize.
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Give her more credit for what?

She did a fashion startup for a few years and she never figured out that nearly every luxury company gives 10% to 15% commissions?

If she really thinks it's 3 to 8% then she's blissfuly ignorant.

She doesn't get the fundamental concept of capturing the starting point. If a site becomes the destination for fashion i.e. where people go to search for the next thing they buy.

Then that site can very easily expand into selling that very thing.

At some point we say - Instead of getting 15% from this luxury watch maker, we ask for 25%.
Then we say - Let's make stuff ourselves and see if we can get more than 25%.

What Google is doing and what Facebook is trying to do is very similar. Expand and take over all the profits. But first you need to be the starting point or decision point for something (search, social interactions, dating, buying clothes).
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Since the book is mostly a collection of his essays you could get the 'updated' viewpoints from his most recent essays.
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I'm not sure what you think the bug is... the link associated with the story is not valid, so HN links to the comments page instead.

Would you rather people ended up on an error page?
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Completely agreed. Having children changes your perspective.
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I can use this. Great product. How will they monetize it ?
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It's like you read my mind with this.
would be an interesting hack to just add a frontend that prepended a + to each word and then submitted to google. (and it would be cute to call it +google, though that would likely get you a call from a lawyer or two)
The link is valid. I clicked on it, it resolved, redirected me to a .com address, worked perfectly. (But was spam.)
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Hi,

Just thought I want to put this beta site out for public review. It's a prototype of a cms/bookstore engine I am working on using google app engine.

The total work so far is clocked at about 7.5 hours -- using Gaelyk is really productive if you know Grails.

Comments and insights will be appreciated.
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I wish this weren't true.
I understand what you're going through man, you are not alone.
Oh.

The link is to http://coffeemakerspot/

I was redirected to http://coffeemakerspot.com/

But the redirection was done by my browser (Firefox). I had assumed that coffeemakerspot was resolving in its own right.

Either HN shouldn't accept the link, or it should show the domain name it putatively links to. As it is, it displays as if the link is to the comments page, but it is actually to the external url.
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That reply works for every place where someone criticizes any feature of any product. And it makes you look like a stuck up brat every time.
I'm pretty sure there's no way for a browser to take a screenshot of itself.
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You mean one to acquire customers and one to do customer fulfillment. And customer fulfillment is useless if you don't have any customers. This seems obvious.
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The death of Facebook has been predicted by someone nearly every month of their existence. I've pointed this out before, so I'll do it again. Facebook could lose an entire half of their users and it would only set them back a couple of years. Their doubling rate has been amazing.
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Working on a project like that sounds like a lot of fun. I guess there must not be very much money in it though because every company requires custom software, eh?
I'm confused; which of those ills (which one could compare to the corruption that this is about) do you not think had a "moral campaign" (similar to what the grandparent suggests) fighting against it?

I'm not saying it's the best framing of the situation, but going from "we should fight this because it is wrong" to "slavery, genocide, and reeducation campus" is a massive jump.
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You want a job that lets you re-use the same knowledge for 30 plus years with no need for effort on your own time to keep you relevant to a changing marketplace?

You don't get it. For most old COBOL geezers, that's just how they've always worked, they don't know any different - and neither would you in their shoes. All their peers and their managers are that way, that's normal to them, just as blogging and GitHub is normal for us. Show 'em there's another way and they'll take to it like a duck to water.

But don't whine about how this industry is so mean to you because of your age.

I'm in my mid 30s, and haven't encountered ageism myself. But I am aware that it is a huge problem, and when I'm hiring, I don't overlook these guys, because they don't have the latest buzzwords on their CV, and 90% of the time, I make a good call. A few are like you say, stagnant. Most just need their eyes opening a little.
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Or you could go for https://gondor.io/, a much more featureful solution by the makers of Pinax.
Poor Yahoo. It's disapointing to see it go this way.
Same here. I think we can all be guilty of this.
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Oh god I hope I never wrote code like taht when I first started out.
It seems the police are held to lower standards than normal citizens when they should actually be held to higher standards.
> I'm confused

The original poster advocated "beheading" people for doing economic activities that he disapproves of.

It's not a new idea. It hasn't worked well in the past.
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This line of research is extremely interesting.

The final author, Gerd Gigerenzer is a legend (in my eyes anyway) for both his writings on the abuse of statistics, and heuristic decision making. In fact, in one of his papers, he talks about the use of complex models to predict customer retention (pareto/negative binomial models) and how these types of strategies were outperformed by a simple heuristic, the hiatus heuristic which states that if a customer has purchased in the last X months (the example of 9 was given) they are active, otherwise inactive.
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