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Even though they were bullied into it by China, and not (I think - let me know if I'm wrong) because they dislike the guy personally?
I'm a first year college student, and I relied on my Java experience and the 3 times I've seen Python code to get me through it. Unfortunately, sorting algorithms were the one thing I didn't pay much attention to, so I was clueless. However, I feel that with a little bit of background knowledge, the problem would be relatively easy.
Ok, instead of reading the daily mail or various G+ posts, I went to the source: Chitika.

They show a clear spike and return back to normal levels, as can be seen in the graph on this page: http://insights.chitika.com/2011/failure-to-launch-google-gr...

Key Notes:

1. Chitika's conclusions from the data are sketchy and I don't put much stock in them.

2. The overall spike and rapid decline back is undeniable and troubling.

3. The press of course likes headlines and Google is most certainly not a media darling any longer, thus the news sensationalizing a relatively humdrum statistic.

~~ Chitika's headline is quite clearly accurate ~~
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Maybe because doing the same wrappers over and over again, as short as they might be, is boring?
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Mmm async.

Does that also mean that it will have better support for timeouts? I'm not interested in socket timeouts, more in a 'finish this in N seconds or just give up' thing.

For that reason I am using pycurl now for some stuff where I had previously used the requests library. Which has a really really horrible API :-/
Don't be so sure. I'm currently writing C code that has run on Linux (Intel, both 32 and 64 bit systems), Solaris (Intel 64 bit, 32 adn 64 bit SPARC) and Mac OS-x (not sure, since we don't actually deply on Macs, but we have several developers that use them), and most of this code deals with binary files and some custom network protocols, so alignment issues are important.

It was also neat to see my code run flawlessly under Valgrind (we were attempting to debug an issue with the 32 bit Intel Solaris build---it may be a compiler issue since that's the only platform (out of the ones listed above) the code broke on, but I haven't investigated the issue enough to say for sure).
Not a bad idea, I'll talk it over with my co-founder about making the change.

We're trying to keep it as clean as possible, but I think you're right, we went overboard in exchange for burying an important data point behind another click.
I'd like to meet this person. It takes deliberate choice and a MUCH effort to act out against your nature. Though it may not be of the same degree, the effort shown here is not unlike that of a 12 year old suspected of ADD trying to do good in school.

My glass is raised this person.

And here is the ironic part. While the author of the letter chooses to place emotional stability over strategic ploys, most of our MBA schools, finance majors, corporate lawyers and hopeful business students want nothing more than to become what the author is coming away from.
Unfortunately, I think that some companies are in it for the funding as opposed to the experience itself. The real value of YC has little to do with any checks you get, but the knowledge you earn. I would take a YC spot over a $5 million VC check in an instant. $5 million buys a lot of Heroku dynos, but the YC-knowledge/experience is something that can make you potentially 50x anything you could get without YC.
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Netflix is an established public company with experienced professional management. It isn't appropriate for them to thrash around spastically like some kid who's putting up his first web site.
`requests` used `poster` at least in the past (if I recall correctly)
I believe the expression is "Maven downloads the Internet".
Part of a comment I left on a discussion on LessWrong last week:

it has been annoying me lately that there are three distinct usages of "empathy" that are frequently conflated.

1) "Empathy" as the emotional interest in others, could also be called "moral sense", the kind of empathy that sociopaths are said to lack.

2) "Empathy" as the ability to identify emotionally with others, the set of instincts or "firmware" that make interpersonal communications and interactions go smoothly, the kind of empathy that autistics are said to lack.

3) "Empathy" or "imaginative identification with others", a more intellectual version, part of the definition of an intelligent being which is associated with metalaw. The ability to intellectually and purposely imagine yourself in the place of another, even a very different other, such as an extra-terrestrial alien, hence its association with metalaw.
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I bike to work through the winter in Chicago. I don't do anything special except have indoor storage and lube the chain each week.

I just plan for the bike to be ruined and ride a crappy bike that I replace every so often.
No, let's not say it's World War II, because it isn't.
The philosophy of Python is that those wrapper methods shouldn't be necessary.

I'm glad when language quirks and libraries get linked, it's good for discussion. (And more informative than a good third of the stuff that gets linked.)
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If bignum performance doesn't matter, then Dart-to-JS code is generally no faster than other JS code. Duh!

If, as the leaked memo asserted, JS's lack of more than one number type is "unfixable", and we now see that Dart's fix is to add bignum as well as double, then bignum must matter. Else why do bignums in Dart?

This ignores the live bignum strawman on the ecmascript.org wiki, which Googlers on tc39 failed to champion.

If your argument is that bignum literal and operator syntax, not bignum performance, are what matters, I am with you -- but then why did no Google rep on tc39 work to advance the bignum strawman?

You can't have it both ways. It looks like some Google heavy hitters focused only on Dart as if it has a native VM, and not on Dart as a source language for JS, which implies certain obvious extensions to the ES standard.
As a Forbes employee, it bothers me that it appears that Forbes is the source of the misleading statistic rather than the outlet that published the analysis of its incoherence.

We have a lot of really smart non-staff contributors (like Tim here, or my personal favorite Timothy Lee) and they never get enough credit for the independent thinking and analysis
It was in the book Ship It (IIRC) that put the proposition down to putting a project at risk because you wanted to save on purchasing storage instead of downloading andhosting external packages (libraries); penny smart and pound foolish.
Stallman doesn't just want to use Free software himself. He wants everyone everywhere to use free softwhere and nothing else, and even calls those who dare to use something proprietary "fools".

So as I said - he is a dictator and wants everyone to do as HE sees fit, whereas Jobs was perfectly happy for people to use other platforms if they prefer - he just wanted the one he was offering to be the best it could be, and in many people's opinion, he succeeded.

Jobs was called a dictator because he had very stringent control over Apple and the devices/software they create (both in terms of the design process, and to a lesser extent the users), but they never once said "hey if you don't use our software you're a fool".

Stallman is a (failed) dictator because he thinks he has the right to tell other people what they should be doing, and should not be doing. Why he tells them or what he tells them is irrelevant. If he truly believed in freedom, he would be happy that Apple and all the other computer/phone manufacturers are all driving each other forward in terms of innovation, and that ultimately, that means MORE FREEDOM for the user - freedom to CHOOSE WHAT THEY WANT TO BUY.

In Stallman's ideal world there is no Apple or Microsoft or any other company that sells products, and everyone uses Linux or BSD etc, and anyone who dares to think they can make something better and make money from it, is laughed at. That isn't freedom, that's an out of touch toe-jam eating nerds fantasy.
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No, you ignored that social network was not what it is today. And Facebook played an important role in shaping what the social network should look like. Google had its social networking site at that time, but they failed to iterate on it. Facebook's success is not accidental, there were a lot effort and thinking into it to make what it is today, and people shouldn't take it for granted to say that they can come up with a Facebook alternative in 3 months at 2005.
Again this is my opinion, and I say this as a very mediocre developer in a past life and having managed many developers, both mediocre and ninja awesome.

I agree that there are some amazing Java devs out there.

Most Java devs are not amazing (and heck most devs aren't amazing). But Java devs are not amazing with a frequency and depth that both boggles the mind and is entirely expected as that's the point of the language -- accommodate mediocre developers in a large shop producing boring enterprise code.

If you look where it's publicly known that Google uses Java, it's pretty much in Ads. The most boring, enterprisy kind of dev job Google has, but it's the money maker so it has to work despite having unmotivated "I'm just here for the paycheck" developers hacking on it.

Yeah, I know, it was used on the backend of Wave, and via GWT for the Wave web client (which was dog slow btw, I loved Wave, but have yet to encounter a web app as slow). And look where that got us.

As an aside, here's an interesting little writeup about why GWT is bad (with bonus example by pg of all people)

http://ryandoherty.net/2007/04/29/why-google-web-toolkit-rot...

And, at least publicly that's about it. If a dev can't be bothered to just learn the syntax of another language in a couple of weeks in order to properly support their target platform, they are a mediocre developer almost by definition.
I assume there will be much tighter integration of Google+ into the next major release of Android

that won't happen, if only because google maintains complete control over any android applications that interact with its services. gmail, voice, market, etc. are all closed-source proprietary applications that ship with most phones and are not part of android's open source code base.

integrating any g+ features into android would also mean that google would not be able to push out any updates to that code to take advantage of new features. some phone carriers/vendors release devices and never send out updates for them. at least with separate applications, google would be able to push out updates through the market.

of course, that's not to say that google won't develop a tightly-integrated application for g+, but that is possible today with android's current api and doesn't have to be a part of the system.
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That's an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp

(Not the primary focus of the snopes page, but they cover this sweetener change and debunk the myth surrounding it.)
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TLDR: We have a higher ownership rate now than America did at the bubbliest moment. Theirs topped at 68%, and ours is 70%. They built 29% too many houses. We built 41% too many. They assumed record household debt. We’ve piled on even more. And we share the same basic economy.
static methods, inability to add behaviour to base objects, no metaclasses

It's early days, and they haven't presented yet, but son I am disappoint.

I guess I'm not super-excited about it because I was expecting something revolutionary, but when you think about where they're coming from, it was to be expected. Lars and co are simply building on V8, so it makes more sense that Dart is some sort of improvement on javascript, rather than something entirely new.
Agreed. Another one is Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, which work together to stabilize the home mortgage market, resulting in lower mortgage interest rates than would otherwise be the case.
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You still end up with a psychopath with moral goals. The rules leave room for manipulation, exploiting weakness, feigning emotion without understanding, lying, etc.

I think there are still more great sci-fi stories to be extrapolated from Asimov's laws.
Makes me wonder if in 20 years, physical location will still be as important as it is today?
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I did a quick search through the comments, but didn't see anyone mention crime and schools. Believe it or not, there are start-ups in the Southern states and they tend to be in the cities (New Orleans, Baton Rouge LA, Jackson MS) where crime is pretty bad. If you have children, the public schools are pretty bad, so you'll want to send them to private school which will run you 6-10K per child.

The only alternative is the suburbs. It's tricky, but I found a place about 20 minutes and 20 miles away, but we looked for over a year. The schools are relatively good and the private schools tend to be a bit cheaper.

People don't want big houses (please show me the evidence that they want big houses), but big houses tend to cost more, which means the neighbors you'll likely have are people who are educated, well-behaved, friendly and have a good credit score. "Big houses" is a polite way of saying I don't want to live by people who can't afford a big house.

...I should also mention. Yeah, bus rides - you don't want to do that.
They much be very excited to wade through 100s of buzzword compliant ideas with no business model attached and the plaintive cry of "it's social and location-based. We deserve some money!".

Bubble? What bubble?
But what with the ever growing dynamics of the automobile, including the industry as a whole, it will be pertinent to maintain outside relationships with providers of new and valuable components; whether that comes from outsourcing or not will be the question, or race I should say.
I don't really see his conclusion following from his statements.

Also, what phone doesn't have a search feature now to find the app you're looking for?
Key Note: The Chikita graph measures a 'traffic index', which could be anything.

The bump is because G+ launched last week and it was linked to from Google.com - the most popular web page in the world

Show me a product that has launched and not experienced a traffic 'bump'

If you measure the backend of that bump, you will always show a decline. Zoom out.

And that is not to mention that Chitika do not publish their traffic collection methodology. It is just some chart they pushed out to bloggers in a press release (with their branding on it!) and all these bloggers have been far too quick to publish.

edit: this tilted me enough that I wrote a blog post about it : http://nikcub.appspot.com/lies-damn-lies-and-google-statisti...
Apologies for the typos - I posted from a phone.

As for "Secure by default". PHP can be perfectly secure. PDO supports parameterised queries, and was first available in PHP 5.1, which shipped just short of SIX YEARS AGO. Even mysqli supports parameterised queries, and that shipped more than SEVEN YEARS AGO.

If you're using the ancient mysql extension (i.e. the mysql* functions) that is YOUR FAULT, not the fault of the language.
Lots of people find cowardice to be one of the more disgusting of human characteristics.
What interests me most is the change in Obama's domestic security stance after assuming the presidency. Remember his promises to close Guantanamo Bay? Now Obama seems more authoritarian than President Bush was.

To me, this radical change in stance suggests that there is in fact a credible domestic threat against the United States - that Obama, on assuming the presidency, learned some things that made a deep-enough impression on him to transform his stance on national security. I don't like that conclusion, but to me, that's the simplest interpretation of his behavior. (I'd love to hear other, less frightening interpretations. As it is, I try not to think about this stuff too much.)

If so, perhaps many of the actions of this and the past administration are justifiable as lesser evils - perhaps. However, the executive branch shouldn't get to make this determination alone. It's not necessarily the administration's decisions that are the problem here, but the complete veil of secrecy around them that's keeping us from having an informed debate.
I'm sorry for not being well versed in this, how is wifi software? I thought thats hardware/software mix.
Another datum: I sent an IM at 2pm PST and haven't received any response yet. (Looks like quixeychallenge offline the whole time)

It would have been fun to take part but I think the poor guys are swamped.
... or if they posted the source code...
This is, indeed, terrible.
I guess we should all make music.
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I've played with it today and the joy I admittedly feel was quite similar to what I felt when coding LISP. However, I only coded LISP in academia and would not feel comfortable at all using it in a live environment.

For now, I see DART as a proof of concept kind of thing and it definitely should /not/ gain widespread support any time soon. No matter how much money Google will throw at it.
Sweating is only a problem for most of you because you're unhealthy and overweight.

Maybe for you... but I've always been quite fit, never overweight at all, but biking to work on a warm sunny day is a guaranteed way to arrive looking like I just stepped out of a shower with my clothes on. Heck, I can stand still in humid 90 degree heat in the sun, and be drenched after twenty minutes. Plus, most of us don't have shower facilities at work to clean off all the sweat -- do you expect me to lock myself in the work bathroom for 20 minutes while I take a sponge bath from the sink?

And how do you bring a change of clothes if you wear a dress shirt at the office? It doesn't matter how nicely you fold it; it will be horribly wrinkled and creased after sitting in a backpack. Bottom line: it's simply not professional, in a lot of cases. It isn't making excuses, and it really is as inconvenient as people say it is. And I say this as someone who does bike to work, on the few days out of the year that the weather makes it possible to (without sweating, freezing, or being rained on).
I was considering filming an episode of "the hackers" in which we do a reality show following some hardcore hackers as they solve mind-boggling problems.

The show will mostly involve people sitting at the computer typing.
Agree. Relationships, advice and experience (probably in that order) are how you get on the path to success, not money.

Having said that, $5M or a YC experience would be a tough choice -- would depend on the nature of my idea. <=$2M or YC I'm going YC all the way.
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Rent is only steep because the supply far outstrips the demand for these neighborhoods. The government heavily subsidizes the incentives that make low density so economically attractive, skewing the construction and real estate industries towards those ends, even with the high demand. It's much cheaper to deliver services such as utilities and police/fire protection to high density areas, but low density areas pay the same rates and taxes. It gets even worse when predatory, independent suburban cities cherry-pick (thru zoning regulations) affluent households, offering them lower taxes and supposedly better services, which in turn further hollows out the urban areas, exacerbating existing problems.

Industry took place at the center of the city alongside professional jobs. It's only relatively recently that it's been economical to locate distribution & light industrial jobs in dedicated, industrial zoned areas, now that workers have been conditioned to agree to subsidize the costs of cheap land. Further, local governments agree to extend infrastructure to these places almost exclusively for the benefit of these corporations.

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I find statistics about this really inspiring. Even if YC only funds 3% if the volume keeps growing that is a good sign. Combined with the previous discussion on China which pointed out that growing an economy by infusing cash alone doesn't give you the results of long term growth, only innovation does, makes me optimistic.

Sure there will be a lot of hopelessly naive applications, can't be avoided really, but there could be some real ground breakers as well.
I think it's more general 'Google-bashing'. Developers have every right to be extremely cautious about adopting any new developer tools from Google.

Anyone who's used GAE has been badly burned, if not deceived by Google. Many unpopular, or costly API's were revoked unceremoniously. It is not easy to understand Google's intentions because they never seem entirely genuine or devoted to anything. This fly by night attitude is not acceptable for a tools developer. Developers want to trust people that are dedicated to their work. And I just never get this attitude from Google.
Have to disagree here. The limited mass transit system that exists in the South Bay is ridiculously slow.
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I have no doubt that there would be a cost associated with hooking in Google's code. And I'll take you at your word that it's not NIH, even though a casual reader might guess that you might be a bit more personally invested in Javascript than you'd be in the various things that, say, WebM seeks to replace.

Regardless, I'll leave your words to speak for themselves without further debating. I'll admit I'm a tad disappointed at the level of defensiveness and name calling (of both your competition and of those you debate with), though.
Can you give examples of features we know how to make fast?
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I'm not your parent poster but I personally dislike that you have to instantiate a separated Response object, and that you have to fetch a stream, even for tiny responses. In those Python/Ruby frameworks it's just one line. I always end up writing a wrapper just to change it.

And this one is a pet peeve, but I hate that verbose stateful OO idiom where you instantiate an object (with a factory) and then use setters to change properties, instead of setting it all in a single command. I don't know if other .NET HTTP libraries change that, though...
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Agree. The article believes SMS has higher value than optimized mobile apps. Quite a goofy thought (or maybe the person doesn't have a phone that is passable for anything besides SMS).
I don't think it's necessary to show respect to anyone or anything when they are being corrupt or unjust.
This is brilliant. It contains simple and direct explanations of C's (and C-based languages) rough edges that many programmers encountered or been bitten by but few have taken the time and effort understand.

I appreciate the presentation style too. The characters clearly represent the difference between deep understanding and casual knowledge of the subject. Good stuff.