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For the record I consider Facebooks UI dated. It's ripe for a serious competitor to come along and take a slice.

GMail by itself is fine. I do nothing that would cause it to be shutdown and I have not heard of anyones gmail being shutdown by using it. What I do have a problem with is taking on additional services which add little value to me personally, yet massively increase the risk of my very important email account being seemingly randomly chosen for closure with little chance of appeal. Google had one chance to win everyone over and it failed.

To be perfectly blunt about it, I think Microsoft could actually do it. If they put together a great new-tech team and pulled something together I think they could be a serious competitor to Facebook. Embed within win8 with no BS and I would sign-up in a flash. It's funny how its come full circle, but right now, Microsoft are the only tech company I would trust not to delete my important work at seemingly random and to respect my privacy and that of my data.
I've had success with Thief/2 on Win7 x64/Phenom II 965/Radeon 5770, thanks to setting the processor affinity and applying DDFix and the Enhanced Resolution Patch. They look better than ever and the lack of resolution change when displaying maps/books improves the immersion.
http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=121449
http://www.thief-thecircle.com/guides/hyperthreading/
Interestingly enough Hanzi Smatter focuses on mistakes with Kanji or Chinese, but I guarantee that those french translations of meals are equally hilarious.
Surely some organization at some point is going to have to start paying licencing deals for using Microsoft products which violate some other organization's patents (I'm looking at you Google).
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Nice, and a very cool explanation. But I find it a bit ironic that a snipit of code meant to be a form of self-identification has the output: "i is not defined".

http://jsconsole.com/?%28function%28%29{var%20k%3D[]%3Bretur...
I 100% agree with you :) I think the way I wrote the post may have stated the GSD side too strongly. I totally agree you need really sharp people who are a good culture fit who also GSD. Thanks for reading the post.
I know they say this, but I don't trust them that they'd ban you here but not there. I'd rather avoid it and know my Gmail account is 100% secure (or as close as it can be).
>> per capita.

As I already replied (to another poster), my bad.

>> You get what you agree to in exchange for your efforts. If you work the same menial job year after year, don't expect much income growth.

This just isn't true. A menial worker makes a little more than they would have in 1960, and a lot more than they would have in 1920. Innovation trickles down. Rich bankers riding a bubble on the way up, and bailouts on the way down does not.

"The system" isn't totally broken, but it's a little rigged. It always has been. The more corrupt the system is, the more certain people get paid for not innovating, taking risks, and working hard; which doesn't create a lot of real growth.

I'd say a lot of the corrupt growth is the result of bubbles at the moment - making short term gains at the cost of long-term gains. Tactics include dodgy financialization, creative accounting, ripping off customers at the cost of goodwill, mistreating employees then being screwed when talented staff abandon the company, outsourcing cost centers then getting hit by bait-and-switch prices (Chinese and Indian wages will rise), and so on.

People who are already rich benefit (due to good dividends, higher stock prices, and performance bonuses), but will lose in the long run (unless they get bailed out). Nobody complained when the rich were making money, because they though the benefits would trickle down; but now that a lot of the benefits have proved to be illusionary, people are pissed.

Name one person (not a left-wing nut-job) who bagged the Enron execs when everyone thought they were actually making money ;)

My point is, I don't see any good reason for relative difference between the rich and poor to change over time (past a certain point, say, what it was in the 60s). If it does, it might be because something is broken.
I'm fine with the changes Netflix made, although I would prefer to login to only one site.
It appears not; one of the exceptions to the loss of citizenship at 22 is "If loss of Danish nationality will make the child stateless".

If I read it correctly, that's required under the Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Convention_on_the_Reductio...), which Denmark's signed, and which commits a state to "grant its nationality to a person, not born in its territory, if either parent had that State's nationality and the person would be otherwise stateless". But in any case it's also part of Danish domestic law.
Those ninety days felt like forever, and it's because they kept opening and closing the invite windows seemingly at random. There were a lot of false starts and stops -- confusing the users on the inside, and frustrating the users on the outside.

On any given week, for instance, the floodgates would appear to be randomly open or randomly closed, and I'd send out a small trickle of invites while I could. I would have little indication of when the gates opened and closed, so eventually, I just stopped bothering trying to invite people.

Needless to say, this did not make for a robust graph. Sure, I had my "inner" circles up and running just fine. But whenever I wanted to broadcast something -- in the true sense of that word -- I'd have to go back to Facebook for the bigger friend set.

At the end of the day, you can't toy with people on the inside or outside of a product like this. Users on the inside want their friends inside. And users on the outside want in, to be with their friends. The seemingly capricious, chaotic, and extended open/closed period really caused an inordinate amount of frustration for both groups. Social networking is about one's social network, and when people already had extant social networks, they were extremely anxious to port those networks over.

[Bear in mind that I remain a loyal G+ user and really do believe it's a great product. I just think the extended beta was a bit too extended, and bit too schizophrenic in its betaness.]
Diego, it would be nice to know about the fiscal impact in Brazil. How hard is to 'get paid', and what is the size of the lion's (symbol of one Brazilian tax) bite?
I rarely do this any more, because I consciously assume that an expert knows more about their field than I do, unless I am certain of specific facts. (And, perversely, I want this article to be true, because I loathe the patent system in its current incarnation and I think it is a serious problem for our society.) That aside, there were a few things from this that didn't make sense to me:

> The theory is simple: a company's stock price represents the stock market's best estimation of the company's value.

This is contrary to all of the very little bit that I understand of the stock market. Investors attempt to find companies which are undervalued, and invest in them; by definition, that would mean that the market is not accurately estimating the company's value. A company's "real value", however you care to measure that, might be some kind of attractor in the market graph, but that's about the best I'd give it. Not that I know anything about this stuff.

> If the company's stock drops by, say, two percent in the days after a lawsuit is filed, then the market thinks the lawsuit will cost the company two percent of its market capitalization.

I am more certain of four problems here. One, that companies can take a stock hit for a variety of reasons, all, some, or none of which may be related to a patent issue. Two, although I can't be arsed to find an example at the moment, I'd wager a fair amount that there have been no shortage of data points where a company's stock market value rises, or stays level, in correlation with a patent issue. Three, "the market" doesn't "think". The market is simply an abstract construct composed of a huge number of individuals following individual goals and algorithms. Anthropomorphisation of complex systems often leads to faulty conclusions -- like using those systems to evaluate the value of individual elements. And fourth, since we can't accurately tie the company's value to its stock price in the first place, then concluding that a two-percent loss of stock price represents a two-percent loss of the company's fortunes is erroneous.

> But with a large sample of companies, these random factors should mostly cancel each other out...

And I am very certain that this is an error. Why "should" these random factors cancel out? Have there been any studies finding that they do, or are there any lemmas in statistics that supports this? Aren't the accumulation of errors in statistics usually represented as minima and maxima values, i.e., "we think the value could be here, but it could be as low as there or as high as there..."?

I like the conclusions but I'm uncertain of the claims.
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Windows Phone has mind share? Didn't we see some articles recently that even store clerks confuse Windows Phone with Windows Mobile phones, and don't care much about them?
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The timing of this opinion piece - just after Google annouces that Ice Cream Sandwich will ship on October or November - may be significant. Could it be that it's mainly intended to send a message to Google - a warning shot to encourage them to think twice about holding back the ICS source? Certainly other FSF people are ... actively managing the Google relationship http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL7BaJFotnU , so I think it's quite possible.
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This is just silly. The article just states the theoretical amount of time. Google would disable any small attempt at brute force.
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Is there any such database of book ratings / reviews that I can access from my code ?
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Working on a problem late can sometimes be beneficial. I've been up late with a problem in my head and went to bed with little downtime. It's hard to go to sleep, definitely. However, I've actually dreamt the solution a few times, and woke up the next morning knowing exactly what to code.

This happened two nights ago. I was coding something fairly complex and had a hard time connecting everything together. It was something I had been struggling with for two weeks. In a dream, I figured out how to make things much simpler. The next morning I deleted 1000 lines of code, re-structured things, and got it working succinctly.

But you definitely don't sleep very well when you do it. :)
You can usually establish that someone can't code inside one minute, which happens surprisingly often. You ask: Explain virtual methods to me. If they have C or C++ on their resume you write a three line function that returns a pointer to a stack variable and ask them to explain what's wrong.

If you feel like you even have to ask these questions your candidate selection process is badly broken, but the same approach scales up to all levels.
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Agreed. In the end this is all about Netflix and not about its customers. If any of this had anything positive to offer customers it could have been spun better, but it doesn't.

I think netflix is actually in deep trouble. It's lost Starz, and could be losing other valuable rights, it's changing its business model in a way tha damages its own stickiness, and it raised its prices in a recession for reasons that make no sense to customers.
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Original post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3018126 (top link at the moment).

I don't think this link contains anything that isn't in the Google announcement:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-92-93-94-95-96...
"I have no idea why id software decided to trust the C Standard Library at this point"

This quote reminds me why I liked watching Notch's video for Ludum Dare. We not only get to see the final result, but the way it got to be that way, and some of his thoughts on it as well.
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Thanks for doing this, Simon.

Erlang Factory (www.erlang-factory.com/) keeps a pretty decent list of Erlang goings on. Info about ErlangDC 2011 should be posted there, too, shortly.
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I think "Netflix Classic" would be a poor name for the old service. It would be shortened to "Netflix" in conversation and cause a whole host of problems and confuse customers which "version" they were on.
Incredulous is basically the opposite of credulous. It totally is a word, though the grandparent used it incorrectly.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incredulous
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I find this quite funny considering they are doing a world-wide unveiling of one of their new Hangout features with such a profile: https://plus.google.com/u/0/109351399938437494273/posts
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Keeping the logo and the word Netflix in the new company name makes it less attractive should they wish to sell it off. Just sayin'.
Your parent probably means you should start a business of helping other people hire good programmers.
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I agree. They had to know they'd confuse and alienate people by changing the name of the service _and_ creating an whole new website for people to figure out. But it does allow them to extract the highest value should they sell it off later (and they will).

With plans to sell there was only two things that would have been even more bone-headed than what they did:

:a => "Sell it as Netflix DVD (or something like that) and have two companies named Netflix running around."

:b => "Sell it and force the acquiring company to change the name, in which case they would have to accept a huge discount on the value of the business."
I 100% completely agree. I think asking programming trivia questions in this day and age is ridiculous because everyone now has memorized every single CareerCup question out there.

When I interviewed for previous copmanies, this is actually one of the questions I would use. "What is the hardest bug you've ever worked on?" If you take this question, and keep pressing for more and more details, and expand on that question, you can get a surprising amount of information about someone's experience and understanding. If they can't adequately answer this question, it means they haven't really been deep in code, or don't have a lot of experience, so that sets your expectations relative to the position that you're hiring for. If they claim to have a lot of experience, but can't go into too much depth, it means they're not very excited about getting their hands dirty or they don't understand what really happened, which are both bad signs to me.

I don't care if they can write up a function that can spit out the Fibonacci sequence. I can that they are smart enough to figure out relatively complex issues and can communicate this intelligently.
So. Incredibly. Frustrating.
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So you can hire someone who gets stuff done, but if getting stuff done in your organization requires them to be an asshole, and they aren't up for that, well they aren't going to be nearly as successful as you would like them to be.

You've sort of nailed it. Also what I see is, how much people are addicted to the NIH syndrome. They have a ways of working which they won't change, adapt or even agree debate for their own good.

The way I see, too much or too little process are both equally dangerous. The key is neither to over play nor under play the game. Too little management leads to wandering in the wild with no goals, plans, tracking and destination. Often overly delayed projects.

Too much management gets in the way of achieving what would have been even easily possible.

After all the analysis I can say, sure you may want to hire every smart guy on the market. But you must also know to manage them. Bunch them together, create a positive environment and enable them to be as much productive as they can be. Good people need to be taken care of, Senior developers/architects even though not managers need to have some people skills. Its simple, if interacting with people is a part of your job.. People skills become part of your job.

To be good alone is not sufficient, if you are good alone you can probably get a maximum of 9 hours worth of job done everyday. But if you can manage 10 such brilliant guys you can deliver 90 hours of such work every day. But that requires spotless planning, tracking, course correction and most important creating an environment where such people can be productive.

Nothing big in software these days can achieved without team work. If a person is not good with teams, may be its time for him to look somewhere else. Being a jerk, rude and arrogant with junior developers may help you give a false sense of superiority but that won't bring you success.
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Could a mod edit the title? As it is right now, it's rather misleading to those of us hoping that they've finally made + open to apps accounts.
I don't think any of the serious complains about the letter had to do with the new name or the tone in which it was delivered. I don't think anyone would cancel their service over the name Qwikster or because the CEO is a jerk.

The real complaints dealt with the separation of the services and thus the separations of the ratings system and of queue management. This letter does not address either of those issues, and thus would fix nothing.
The parent was talking about $10K total, enough to carry them through e.g. six months of unemployment. Saving $20K/year is indeed a lot, but $2K/year for five years is very reasonable (~4.5%) and gets you to $10K.
They sounded completely CPU-bound from the blog post. They went with "high-CPU" c1.xlarge instances that had modest RAM and storage specs. They gave no details and expressed no concerns whatsoever about RAM or storage bottlenecks.

http://blog.cyclecomputing.com/2011/09/new-cyclecloud-cluste...
HPI = (Self-reported happiness + Life Expectancy) / (Eco-footprint) ?

Yeah, no. The HPI is not a measure of the happiness of a nation, it's a measure of self-reported happiness per unit of "imposition on nature." And according to that index, we should all strive to be like the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Columbia, and Cuba. No thanks.
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I'd argue that the difference between iPad, iPad, MacBook Pro and Qwickster is that it's very very easy to mis-spell Qwickster.

It could be Qwickster, Quickster, Qwikster, Quikster, Qwickstr (if you wanna go the Flickr route) and probably some variations I haven't thought of. At the very least, Netflix should have made an effort to secure the domain-names for these alternate spellings to ensure their customers can find them when they finally go live.
Your "about" page has a spelling error on the right column "About Me" block.

"I slowly thought myself how to" should be "I slowly taught myself how to"
Or perhaps even a architecture software architect!
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I wonder whether patent trolling like this isn't just driving businesses to move to countries with weak IP law.
blinkendroid has been around a while longer, and while going different ways, tries to achieve a similar goal: http://code.google.com/p/blinkendroid/

I took part in this try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhXRAaRFK-o and while it took a while to setup (due to syncing the devices) it was quite fun to watch.
You don't think other companies are capable of slipping a GPS/3G chip in your vehicle to do the same thing? I don't know what the legality of this would be, but I'm sure they could slide a clause into the pile of documents you sign when buying a car.

The difference with a GM vehicle is that the customer knows the data is being recorded.
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I agree they get sold all the time, I've been hearing advertisements that I can get OnStar on my non-GM car in the SF Bay Area, so I presume they are expanding their reach.

One of the interesting techniques here is to make this change, get some heat (as they are) but then saying "Hey, its just boilerplate, we're not selling this stuff take a chill pill." And then 6 months or a year later, when everyone has forgotten the ruckus, do start selling the information, except that now since its pre-authorized by the ToS there is no 'lighthouse event' that goes up to alert the public to that fact.

A crusader would now start watching for news about OnStar partnering in six to nine months with someone who could use information about where people are, or where they go.
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You raise a good point. So we can agree that those who wish to simplify documentation should contribute directly to the docs instead of making a tutorial. That way the author of the project can ensure the explanations/examples are accurate, and more people can use the man page.
A problem here is that I have no particular problem skipping "Lymania (named for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist)[1] is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.", and sometimes you get diverted off into weird little Wikialleys that are fun/enlightening.

Not every time I open a browser tab, for instance, do I want to get sucked into e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
Last stand? That implies a track record of failure, and last I checked Windows 7 was very successful.
Major population centers are expensive, and for a reason. If you can't afford it, don't live there (just like living in the opposite extremes: deserts/mountains are nice, but very hard to live in so don't). Lots of places _are_ affordable; there are even some towns that will _give_ you land, outright ownership for free, if only you'll live on it for a few years and build a decent home. There are also a lot of abandoned/tax-delinquent/foreclosed properties which are undesirable for most normal 6-digit homes but would work well for creative/eclectic dwellings.
In my experience, the difference between a GSD engineer and an average engineer is the understanding that it is up to you to be motivated, focused, and effective.

And, I've worked with many GSD engineers, so they definitely exist.
I think they will eventually have this option. Considering how important G+ is for Google, I don't see how they can keep the Apps folks in a ghetto much longer.

The big question is, whether they integrate circles in a special Apps-specific way (ie, default circle, private shared circles -- assuming "shared circles" are upcoming, etc)... some Apps domain owners (big orgs, gov) may NOT WANT G+ inclusion for their flock.
jegub I'm actually replying to you because there's no reply button under your comment for some reason.

I'm jealous - I really am ;) I know the process - hyperthreading fix, DDFix, DarkLoader, T2 meshes in T1, safe texture manager switch, reload the codecs and so on - works well for some people. I guess I'm scratching a (very large) personal itch.
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