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The point I was trying to make with the McDonalds example was simply that a scalable and successful business model necessarily implies that they are unable to create the "perfect" hamburger. They have practical limitations inherent to their process that makes it impossible. If they instead were running a two star luxury restaurant they might have a chance at making a perfect product. But that wouldn't be a scalable and sustainable business, and most like not very profitable either. Most luxury restaurants have extremely low margins and in many cases operates with considerable losses.

And just to make it clear, I am not trying to criticizes capitalism per se. I'm only basically stating the same thing the article is stating; that there is an inherent paradox in capitalism that makes it more complex to deal with than is directly apparent. Everyone that goes into business or deals with business indirectly through policy-making should be as aware as possible of this paradox, simply because it will prevent us from collectively ending up in a world with great processes but awful products or with great products but awful processes. Neither of which are very tempting scenarios.
I think this is a good start, I don't think you need to change the theme to test this idea.

I'd buy some adwords and see what happens. Maybe test it at different price points. It seems a little expensive for me on a quick glance, but I may not be in your target market, so I'm not 100% sure.
Since when does a coffee shop have a 10% success rate? According to a large study by the Speciality Coffee Association of America, independent coffee shops in the US have a 90% success rate. Perhaps the author mistakenly assumed coffee shops have the same market dynamics as a restaurant, but coffee is low-staff, low-overhead, and high-profit. So long as people are walking in the door, you'll do okay.
Another bogus patent? Reusable Masters?
Why? He can get a job anywhere, but Google is still actively searching for people as smart as him to work on their stuff.
It speaks well of Google's openness that Brin's response is a quip about how long it was, not a serious comment about how such discussions should stay internal.

If Google were to fire Yegge, it would be for (voluntarily) deleting the post, not for accidentally making it public. When he publicly posted it, everybody was talking about what a great work environment Google must have for people to be able to talk so openly. After he deleted it, lots of people inferred censorship and Google's reputation suffered.
Science progress is not just a question of intelligence.

Therefore, even if computers become more intelligent than humans, it is doubtful a "singularity" will occur.
Someone was too lazy to google it:

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Really? QOTD is blocked? What big threat is there from quote of the day? Did some nerd just sit down and arbitrarily pick antiquated unix services and mark them as "unsafe?"
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I find it explicitely insulting to claim 'programming isn't all that hard; anybody can do it'.

Its Pollyanna to say "you can be a programmer! Anybody can!" without explaining the layers of the onion. You can be a (passable) applications programmer with a little effort. The rest takes sweat and study, sometimes years of it.
Coffee is an insanely high margin product. You think it costs $4.00 for the 5 grams of coffee in your drink?
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Has confidence, but not over-confident. Obviously knowledgeable about the work to be done, but not vaunting.

Someone that looks like they could potentially handle tasks on their own, be a good apprentice, and that you won't have to spend time arguing with to get them to do something simple.

Basically an intern should be a humble worker that gets the job done.

Interns come to work the first day feeling like they will be valued and a part of the team, but are hired because they are seen as cheap labor by the employer, and once they get there are usually not treated as a "real" employee. So they need to get work done, but in a way that doesn't rock the boat.
that's great, thanks!
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Plenty of problems. Apps never look quite right, because there are too many different resolutions, and maybe or maybe not have this or that button. With engineering resources split over so many products and conpanies, you don't get the best designers and the best hardware people working together on the same device. With all these "enhancements" from the OEMs, upgrading the foundation is more expensive to port and takes longer.
This strikes me as pure arrogance. If that's Serg's general attitude about what Google does, I fear for its future.
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It's even worse than that if he's on a 64-bit machine!

It runs just fine on my box with i = 2^32: 10s to completion or thereabouts.

However, the way this is written, the code has to construct the entire list in memory before it can print any of it out so for larger lists it is pretty much guaranteed to blow the stack and / or memory depending on the computational representation.

If it was using a snoclist or something then it could stream the output and perform the calculation in constance space, as it stands it has to hold on to the whole list of integers before outputting any of them.

I'm surprised that the OCaML version 'just worked' frankly: either a) the OP didn't use QuickCheck with their OCaML code or b) the OCaML QuickCheck doesn't bother testing across the whole Int space.
And the ability to save all of that into a variable so that you can pass it around to other parts of your program means that your programming language supports Continuations.
They're fine reasons, I just think it's lame to tout how "open" they are when in practice, it's more like "open when we think it's a good idea".
Must take issue with one point - whatever technical debt they may have amassed has little to do, I suspect, with holding on to the same boring old programming languages too long.

The shareholders should fire Brin if he suggests re-writing boring old "legacy" code in a sexy new language!
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This is all great until you actually try to raise money in one of these towns. Atlanta is a great example of that. There are a lot of ideas, and very few people that can actually execute on them. Also, even if you have a viable product you will still play hell getting a decent round of funding in Atlanta which is why a lot of startups and talent have left for the Valley.
Doing this has some really cool advantage, but also some significant disadvantages. Namely, it gives a large advantage to those with access to powerful computers. Ideally, the contest would be one of "Who can create the best bot?", as opposed to one of "Who can afford/borrow the most computing horsepower?"

But feedback is always welcome.
Whoa, iOS doesn't have Share function?
I gave Berkshire just as an example of returns that are possible in the market.

When you've got 140 million to invest you don't buy stocks like the little people. You put it in a hedge fund like Blackstone that has returned an average of 20% per year over the last two decades.
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While this is true, it would also mean that more games could be run concurrently as the total computing horsepower would be larger than what the contest can afford to fund. :)
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There's no way DDG can outbid Google or Bing. Also, it's not the default search where all the money is so they probably didn't have to beat out the big dogs to get into the list.
I've not seen very many articles about Ritchie, period. While his work was significant, he was not quite the public figure that Jobs was. Many people who are not programmers were aware of Jobs; not so with Ritchie. And even among programmers, there just weren't that many public details of Ritchie's life to weave into blog posts, at least not compared to Jobs. So it stands to reason that lots more articles will be written about Jobs than about Ritchie.

We can't vote up what isn't submitted, and we can't submit what doesn't exist. If you're aware of more articles about Ritchie than what you've seen here, please submit them!
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You could try Netvibes, they have a news reader which was good enough for me to make the switch.

You can have two different views. Check the second and third screenshots of this page: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/netvibes-wasabi-a-blow-your-soc...
It's probably tough to find a technical cofounder if you're not willing to at least try to learn how to code or spend the cash to have someone build it for you.

More than finding a technical cofounder, a minimum viable product should help you decide if the product is worthwhile to pursue - which is the biggest reason to build it. If the product won't connect with customers, you don't need to waste time finding a technical cofounder.

Why not try to build something simple yourself? Even if it's a landing page test to see if people will click the buy or download button like Eric Ries' wishes he did at IMVU?

If you're looking for someone to build the mvp, I still run ibuildmvps.com.
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The difference, is that US (and Canada I guess), unlike many other countries was founded on immigration and prides itself with that fact ("melting pot, yada yada.."). However it ended up as a country with one of the most complicated and difficult immigration systems in the world.
You're arguing about minutiae in contexts you don't seem to be familiar with. Perhaps things are easier in North America?

In fact, Channel 10 is actually a network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Ten

Ten's programming is national. I highly doubt they do their in-program advertising on a per-station basis.

The writer wasn't blaming the movie producer for the advertising, and I'm not sure what gave you that impression. He was lamenting the fact that the quality of the viewing has been damaged by broadcasters' greed.

Netflix isn't available in Australia.

I don't want to deal with physical media nor the DRM that entails. I don't want to have to go to a store every time to find something to watch. It's 2011, and I want digital access.

iTunes is really expensive, and only works on the Apple TV or whatever it's called.

Cable on-demand has a shitty selection, and is exorbitantly priced. And the quality sucks (compression to the max!).

I would pay for the convenience of preventing any legal issues posed by pirating content. I would pay for the convenience of high-definition content which I can download from high-speed servers, and be able to watch it on any player I want. I would pay to support future content creation. Such a service isn't available to me. That's the problem.
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I was only referring to the other statement in the article that they didn't fire him because of some reason (forgot - maybe because nobody can realistically be expected to figure out what is being shared with whom on G+).

No value statement about holding a job at Google was intended. Although he repeatedly claimed it was his dream job.
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Fallacy: you don't need to live in Palo Alto to live in the Bay Area. There are much more sensical places to live, particularly if you have kids.
hinted at by Google employees in the past, is that much of the code is a kludge unsuitable for publication.

They could have used some help from the opensource community to clean up the kludge....but they don't take pushes from anyone not Google.
You can find links to the full text of the directives here: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/securities/isd/mifid_en....

However if you can read EU directives for more than about 8 seconds without begging for sweet oblivion then you are far stronger than I.
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As a coffee blogger in Kansas City (kcperky.com) I can attest to coffee shops being a hazardous business to be in. For every two shops that open, I expect one of them will close in 6-18 months.
Do we have a term to distinguish between the two different models of open source? The two models being the "development in public" model (Chrome, Firefox, Rails, etc) and the "release finished code" model (Android, most GPL components of closed source software, etc).
It has never been theft, that's part of the reason piracy can't be decoupled from the (false) moral rebellion mindset.
Please, please don't make comments to the effect that there are hundreds of such postings within Google and that the management cannot read all of them. Steve Yegge is not a hot shot new engineer with some cool ideas, when he talks about SOA you listen. Just as if Peter Norvig (ever) rants about how AI and/or NLP is handled in Google Search you listen or when or when Andy Tobin talks about Android or when Matias Duarte talks about how UI is handled, well you get my point. So the comment that Yegge's is just another comment is PR-speak.

It seems Brin and others want to diffuse the situation with jokes, etc. It would have been much better if Brin would have said "Look, I don't agree with Yegge and here's why..", giving strategical and technical reasons why they are not doing what he's suggesting. In its place we get a sad, half-jokey response that would have come from a peppy MBA-type.

Had it appeared in the HN discussion for Yegge's post, I would have downvoted Brin's response, because it doesn't bring anything useful. Others probably would have done the same.
You are right. I said it because I am not an immigration specialist (apart from having navigated the system myself and know people who for for it). So it is possible that I am wrong. I did not go and research the laws in depth before posting. It is just what I heard from others.
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Thunderbird good enough?

(Although I usually kill the default tags that Thunderbird still includes as a hangover from the original Thunderbird release because that way I get useful tag names in the Maildir should I ever need to hack on them directly.)
It's depressing, for someone considering working at Google, that all Brin can do is attack the form of a well-respected team member's rant. He should have said something like, "We encourage open debate at Google. Right now, I think that developing everything as a service will restrict the independence of teams and slow down our quick development cycle." Instead he says, "TLDR".

If there's one thing that Google should not let any of their higher-ups do, it's talk in public. They are really, really bad at it.
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Being house-poor is extremely common in the bay area, to this day. It totally baffles me as to why people keep doing it. My only guess is that people are more economically irrational than I'd like to believe.
Mutt supports IMAP, too.

http://www.mutt.org/
Techstars founder?

You mean 'founder of a business that is funded by techstars' I presume?
Actually, that was a username I've used for 13 years. Currently I'm mainly developing in TCL professionally and Python personally.
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No, he's asking about something else - an audio technology.
I was really expecting some sort of awesome Zelda memorabilia but instead I was greeted with some insipid pseudoscience.

Their little instructions are a fairly simple application of the ideomotor effect combined with that other effect which I can't remember the name of where you push against something for ages and when you remove the thing you muscles move involuntarily. Probably some nice ordering bias in there too.

How on earth does this fly at google?
Thanks so much for the feedback.

The translation was written by a native-Japanese friend who was born, raised, and currently lives in Japan. (I'm sure he'll see the feedback here.) If you've got more specific feedback on the translation or copywriting, I'm sure he would appreciate it and it would help our efforts.

We'll have a direct support line in Japan soon. In the meantime if a Japanese-speaker did call the number we've got listed, we should be able to solve any problem or answer any question they have the same way we would for our English-speaking customers.

I'll take your advice about coming over there. :) I'd love a chance to meet more developers over there. I actually just missed a chance to come back over recently to visit one of our consulting clients in Yokohama because the meeting was too soon after my daughter's birth. Let me know if you can think of any events in particular that would be good to attend.

To your point about PR, though: Publishing the site in Japanese (even as a work in progress) is a part of our efforts to do PR in Japan. Launching the site enabled us to get coverage on Penn-Olson (http://www.penn-olson.com/2011/10/20/limelight/) which I'm hoping will help lead to some Japanese-language coverage as well.

Again, thanks so much for the time you took to provide the feedback!
> use a smartphone to read on the beach

Not only that. To the GP: I read also on my phone (Nexus one) but I feel the backlight is not very gentle for my eyes, even when using FBreader in night mode. Also, characters are too small. To me, a (real B&W e-ink) Kindle is better, or a paper book.
Why are you downplaying "minimizes friction"?

Friction is the only shield we have ever had to protect against invasion of privacy.
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From what I've heard, this has not been confirmed completely.
It's only "rebellion" because the AA's decided that it should be illegal. There's no moral justification for suing me for distributing music and movies. In fact, the "first-sale doctrine" normally prohibits that kind of behavior. The distributors don't want to compete with pirates, that's the whole problem. If they AA's went away, then who would piracy hurt?
I was under the impression that before people used to just get on a ship and sail to America. Land on Ellis Island, get processed and move on to build a new life in US. Isn't that true?
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I would like to suggest for those in position to hire interns: either give them something to do, or blatantly tell them that you have nothing for them to do. And if there's nothing for them to do, make it clear that their job is now to study or tinker on their own projects until there is something to do.

I worked a semester as an intern at a big technology company, and was constantly pleading with people to give me something to do. They usually didn't, so I ended up just reading books or writing toy programs. And then management got mad at me for not doing any real work, so I went back to everyone I could find pleading for work. And so the cycle went. I hated it, and the most notable thing I learned was that I did not want to work for that company ever again.
The phone company has been blackmailing the public with its White Pages for decades. Unlisting a number costs money.

Nothing new under the sun, just bigger and worse.
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This is an interesting article by someone who went through the actual coffeeshop version of the coffeeshop fallacy:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200...
Germany and Japan don't spew propaganda about them being built by immigrants or being a melting pot or something like that. US is, while at the same time having draconian immigration policies. I think that disconnect is interesting.
According to this[1] data Honeycomb is <2% of used Android versions. With the versions that 98% of the devices run being open I'd say it's a bit more than just touting about it..

[1] http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...
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I'm wondering what common solutions are used? Are startups rolling their own (is this even feasible, if so what's involved?) or maybe more commonly using some payment solution like Stripe?
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I'd love to receive chocolate each month however usually posting it ruins it.

I've had many packages sent from my friends in the US to me in the UK containing chocolate, usually it has melted and re-set at whatever was the hottest point of the journey. It totally loses its taste, it's a shame.

If you could find a way round this and reassure your customers on your site e.g "Our special packaging ensures our products reach you in the best condition" then I'm sure it would be popular.

You would also have to re-do your site to make it slicker and convey the style of a European chocolate shop.

Also a large portion of the chocolate shop experience is the shop itself. Maybe if you are actually visiting the shops yourself you could do a short video while you're in there.

If you're the presenting type it could turn into an awesome monthly podcast! That'd be pretty cool to sit down to watch the monthly episode with the chocolate box that was delivered a couple of days before. Sign me up!

Also adding extra value like the video and a community feel allows you charge a higher price. People will pay for quality if you can sort the shipping issues.

It could be along the lines of Gary V and his Daily Grape show but for chocolate lovers.
The reason this should be done as it is the law, pure and simple. I, by law, have the right to know what information/data a company holds on me. If they wish to collect data in the first place, and are a reputable company, they should be well aware of the "obligations" they have before then even start collecting it.......Why do they want my information? What do they plan on doing with it? Could it then end up in the hands of anyone who could do with it as they please?

Much the same way i wouldnt want to be contacted/emailed/telephoned/written to by companies i have in no way solicited to contact me....
This isn't just a problem for interns. Some jobs are just like that. They won't lay out what you need to do. It can be frustrating, but it is also an opportunity to learn either to function under frustration and duress or how you react to that. Learning about yourself otherwise may not happen until much later in life (i.e. midlife crisis). However, a smarter thing to do is to get a job that is more well-suited. Life is short.
That statistic is absurd, and highly suspect coming from the "Specialty Coffee Association of America". I have run a coffeeshop and restaurant both, and can attest to the high attrition rate in coffeeshop turnover. I'd be surprised if even more than 40% of coffeeshops are still open 3 years after establishment.
This just isn't true. I know for a fact JBQ has reviewed patches (and gotten relevant engineers to review things) that have made it into AOSP. The Android team does pre-push code review using Gerrit, and they often lack the personnel to review every change that comes in. As a result, patches sometimes (perhaps often?) wither on the vine before anyone can code review them.

Also: many potential contributors are scared off by the contributor license agreement required by AOSP. Patch contributions without the CLA can't even be reviewed.

As for not releasing honeycomb, look at releasing the kludged code from their perspective. They probably didn't want phones released from HC that wasn't ready for phone use, thus giving them a bad name when awful "Android Honeycomb Phones" hit the market.