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Buggy.

It also pops up a nag dialog when you try to close it, which is a crucifixion offense in my books.
I'm honestly unclear about this: Does Facebook actually have any operations in the EU, or does it merely not ban Europeans from accessing its servers in America?
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I would think that many websites these days start with a blogging platform for a combination product presentation / blog. At least we did. ;-)
Wow, jonnathanson, you couldn't be more spot-on! That's unfortunately how I see it ---- the Fortune 500 world forgets that copy can have a huge impact on sales/signups. (On the other hand, Groupon takes writing very seriously... but I haven't heard that they pay very well; I'd be interested to hear how they compensate writers.)

You should do a post on the subject!
Agreed on points 1 and 2, but for front-end development, 3 and 4 are unnecessary and will pull you away from more relevant lessons, or (even more important), applying what you've learned to new problems.
What would be awesome is something like this for e-mail.
Fairly mundane observations.

I liked his point that today's Japanese executives are all corporate drones, salarymen that worked their way up through the system and aren't going to boldly design anything.
But here's the thing: if i had sold out for almost a billion, you could either see that as a retirement, or you could see it as a platform that you can use for even bigger entrepreneurial projects? Ie with that kind of money behind you, you can take on, say, healthcare or something much bigger.

There can be more to it than 'if i take the money, i'm forced to spend the rest of my days on a yacht, enjoying life but wasting away'. At least that'd be how i'd justify selling out to myself :)
... presented in a slow, ugly slideshow. This is a better link:

http://mashable.com/2011/10/18/twitter-startup-investors/#vi...
I would think that Zuck's experience is in founding a tiny startup, and growing it into the company that everyone points to as the poster-child target for your liquidity event.

I don't disagree that for people who are now in the early stages of launching what they hope to be the next big thing, there isn't a 1:1 application of advice from the creator of the current big thing. I'm just puzzled that your initial comment seemed so puzzled about what value having Zuckerberg speak could bring.

The guy started a fantastically successful startup. He's bought a bunch of other startups. That would seem to make him a good candidate for talking at a startup-themed event (even if his current company isn't really a startup anymore).
You can also get the "correct" type (type of &x[0]) by using:

*(&x + 1)

I would be hard-pressed to call that idiomatic, however.
> As an example, in France it is forbidden to count the
> number of people who get in & out of a subway at a given
> station.

That seems lame. That number is highly anonymous. How does a statement like "between 8am and 9am 250 people boarded the subway, and 130 people exited the subway" affect a person's privacy?
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Haha, totally understood, glimcat. We hate those too, but they are necessary to prevent some sites from auto-redirecting the whole page elsewhere (e.g. nytimes.com did/does this).

Clicking “start over” disables the confirmation.
Identifying or targeting individual police officers or bankers or protesters, for that matter, misses the entire point of the OWS concept. The banking, investment, "I got mine" culture is the common target of those occupying Wall St
I don't think the Facebook API allows you to find your location (although it is possible to retrieve your Facebook location by scraping the Security page for your current login session (which displays your location)).

Also, the location data that is displayed on that page is kind of inaccurate (it says I'm in another state).
I actually did not click on the movie link initially BECAUSE it has the word "quantum" in its title. To me, that's a bee-ess test, if the link is very popular with the media.

Then I saw some comment threads on various sites and I was like "okay, let's see what's going on here". Heh, cute levitation effect.
While I don't necessarily disagree with the notion of minimizing television exposure this is starting to develop a smell of dogma.

The one thing we know about young kids is that in spite of our tendency to treat them like delicate petals they are actually incredibly robust and the idea that 30 minutes of well chosen television in a day can be so harmful that it outweighs the benefit of the tremendous relief it may give a parent to have this small amount of time to do other tasks - or god forbid, relax for a few minutes - seems crazy to me.
"Expect this company that I'm dealing with to act within the law" is almost always reasonable.
Nitpick: It should be %zu, not %zd (size_t is unsigned).
You got downvoted for a simple compliment? Many people here are really smart... but many of them are not nice at all.
Django is where the jobs are. If you want to profit from your skills, the smart bet is in learning technologies that are in demand.
The issue that I have with that attitude (as an experienced Python and Django developer) is that there's a lot more to it than just "swapping out Django's DB and replacing it with SQLAlchemy". You miss out on most of the infrastructure around Django's database stuff that makes it so easy and worthwhile to use.

For example, fixtures. In Django, you can include them in your tests and have it All Just Work(TM):

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/testing/#fixtur...

You can also use them outside of testing, too:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/initial-data/#pr...

Fixtures in Flask/SQLAlchemy? Not so much - you have to roll your own (crappy) implementation:

http://farmdev.com/projects/fixture/using-fixture-with-pylon...

http://flask.pocoo.org/mailinglist/archive/2011/3/6/flask-sq...

Also note that, while I'm picking on fixtures here, Django also has a bunch of other database related features, like introspecting a pre-existing database, and generating a bunch of Model classes from it. Combine that with South and you're 90% of the way there when migrating the data from a legacy system.

This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I've seen a lot of half-baked reimplementations in "pluggable" architectures of stuff which Django just gets right.
I still watch Tom Preston Warner's (Github) talk occasionally.

http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272178966
I'm curious, there is a "money back guarantee" line on the site. How does this work for ebooks? I buy it and I can ask for my money back? How do I "return" the ebook?

Is this usual for other electronic goods? (ie. software)
I don't know if you have kids, but looking after them (some kids more than others) can be an utterly exhausting task that starts at dawn and doesn't end until 8:00pm. Television turns out to be something that can occupy some of the most hyperactive kids with minimal supervision.

If you asked any worker "why does there have to be a lunch break" they'd look at you like you were insane. I think the same applies here.
Actually it seems https://encrypted.google.com does this, simply acting as https to http normally would. Where as https://google.com refers you through a http intermediate and simple sends across an empty query string.
First of all learn HTML and don't use WYSIWYG editor, then learn CSS and Javascript. Yes, learn database language is a good thing and after you know SQL language you probably can switch to any database engine.

If you know Python, then yes Django would be a good choice for you.
I don't need to run that to know that it calls foo exactly once. Function designators decay to a pointer to the function if they are not the subject of the & or sizeof operators, so the string of *s simply converts it repeatedly between a function designator and a function pointer.
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In a filesystem, the data isn't scrubbed but it's marked as space that can be overwritten. While the completely removal doesn't happen at once, it's slated for complete removal at some undetermined time in the future. In the case of Facebook, they are making a conscious decision that they do not want this data to ever disappear. I doubt very much that there are policies to remove data marked as 'deleted' after a set time period, or plans to implement something like that in the future. They keep the data around because it is still useful to them, even though it is no longer useful to the user.
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I think QNX is a neat platform but I really question whether this will be enough to save them. BBX looks like a blunt tool for what is probably a multifaceted cross-company problem.

Edit: Apologies for the Business week article - I haven't come across anything else yet.
Another example of an organization that takes copywriting seriously is Zappos. I actually read what they send me because it's generally pretty good.
It has a headquarters in Ireland. Apparently Ireland is a popular tax haven. Ireland is also part of the EU... Oops!
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In C, the array as a function parameter is different from an array as a variable/struct member. So, as a parameter, sizeof(x) is sizeof(int*). As a variable, sizeof(x) is sizeof(int[5]).
Expectations from analysts who are mostly wrong.

So that means Apple is Doomed?

Probably not.
I seem to recall (although perhaps folklore) that the GPL condition "[...] by the Corresponding Source fixed on a durable physical medium customarily used for software interchange." was a response to someone trying to get away with offering the source as hundreds or thousands of printed pages to discourage people
From your site:

Eack book is dedicated to one topic you can master, like writing headlines

"extended acknowledgement book", advanced subliminal typo marketing :)
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Since you didn't provide the answer, I'll take a whack at it. It'll call foo() as usual, since function pointers dereference to themselves, right?
For one thing you are wrong to assume they are completely legal. Big companies with big legal departments regularly make mistakes... its human nature, but I think with big businesses the problem is exaggerated by the implicit assumption that they must be legal if they are big.

Now the fact that they collect this data and people voluntarily agree to it is precisely the evil part. People agree without realising what they are agreeing to. There is a more general problem here which isn't Facebook though - its that EULAs and fine print are given legal weight when nobody reads them and this is common knowledge.

Now... to tie this altogether I never realised Facebook would store my deleted messages that might have been in the agreement I "made" with them when I ticked that check box and pressed okay years ago. Now, flagging for deletion is fine, in their case though it costs them expensive storage space - maybe its cheaper than the processor time to delete things - either way its irrelevant because they shouldn't do this because the Data Protection Act says that information should be kept for no longer than is necessary.

I don't know if they have any need to comply with UK/EU law to allow accounts for people who live here - I don't think they do, but I would hope US law has something similar...
The company I'd like to know about is Woot.com; they need to pay their writers by the truckload. I hit that site every day.
What Apple has executed is actualy mass luxury. Its goods are perceived as high value objects, where status is more important than breadth of functionality (more on this later).

Perception is very important. For instance, a discount store would stack up items and use cheap-looking layout to create the perception that they are cost cutters.

Similarly, a luxury item should be perceived as objet d' art where functionality is clear and straighforward.

Viewed from this perspective, an iPod isn't about inbuilt graphic equalizers. It is about frictionless and effortless getting-music-into-your-hands ease. I remembered that even the Queen wanted an iPod. It is obvious one would know how to use one.

It is the same with the iPhone. The less the engineers talk about dual-core, split antenna, the more they focus on how users interact with their devices. Even the app store is actually a luxury bling. It signals all the things are are potentially available "at your service" without actually cluttering up your device.
Pay is a big issue. Hell, it's probably the primary -- if not sole -- reason why I haven't grown the stones to toss aside my golden[1] corporate shackles and ply a trade I actually love. I flirted with copywriting, be it on a consulting basis, or perhaps in-house at a former employer. But, as we know, a lot of companies just don't take it seriously; that attitude is reflected in the pay scales.

That's why I have a boatload of respect for you and for this project. It's up to writers to differentiate commodity wordsmithing from genuinely powerful work. And it's up to a few daring employers to know the difference, and to demand it. Your startup makes a fairly bold declaration of the importance of an underappreciated skill. And it's positioned well, in a market full of entrepreneurs who are more open to new ideas than most F-500 middle managers would be.

[1] OK, maybe they're only electro-plated. At any rate, they glitter significantly less than Goldman, for instance.
Users signing up in Europe will form a contract with Facebook Ireland Limited, who are registered and operate under EU law. It's not just a legal entity either, there's a pretty sizable engineering and support presence.
Nice idea - I think you could use a bit of tweaking regarding elements you can select, for example I don't think anyone wants blog posts in divs smaller than 100x100px
"the human desire to clean things up."

I'm not sure I like where popular game-design seems to be headed.
Core game mechanics driven by completing tasks, leveling up, reducing entropy, and competing with friends certainly have their place, and you probably couldn't dissect 'mafia wars' any other way. But it irks me that this is a trend, and that they're trying to hack through the average gamer's mental framework.

I've played at least 20 games that've mesmerized me and gotten me addicted purely through their graphics, characters, soundtrack, ambience and game world. My experience with the Final Fantasy series early on, was memorable despite the core gameplay mechanics. I was mostly drawn in by the vivid, dreamy environments and the interesting/quirky characters.
I completely agree. Working in web dev / internet marketing this is deff something that people would pay money for. I would even think that an agency level pricing model would be something to consider if you went that route.
And besides that, it is not the manufacturer of the filesystem that is in control, but the person that installed it, likely the same person that is deleting the files.

For web based services the rules change dramatically, because you are no longer in control of the data. Because the past has shown that companies seem to have a hard time to play nice with the data they store on behalf of their unsuspecting users there now is in some parts of the world a government entity tasked with precisely that: making sure that users right with respect to their data are respected.

If you don't like the way your filesystem deletes the data you can always cut up the platters.
> I would think that Zuck's experience is in founding a tiny startup, and growing it into the company that everyone points to as the poster-child target for your liquidity event.

Not really, by the time Facebook became a proper "company", it was already huge and growing faster. This is where we must draw a distinction between a "website" and a "startup". When Facebook became a startup, it was already in a position (vis a vis growth) that 99.9% of startups never achieve.
It's not the same thing, I believe. When an OS deletes a file, it's actually deleted as far as the OS is concerned (thus they do make a best effort). When FB "deletes" something, they only make it unavailable to you, but they retain the option of using it themselves.
At the beginning of the saga, I remember reading something about them requiring a fax of identifying papers.
This malware does not target air-gapped industrial control systems. This is just a remote administration trojan with a keylogging component. The kernel mode driver architecture and hooking method is the same (probably same code) as used in Stuxnet but the malware's purpose is information gathering only, not industrial sabotage.
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EULAs are not intended to be properly read. Every $BIGNAME has a lengthy EULA, to the point where it's just a click-through. No reasonable person can be expected to read every tech EULA, let alone understand all its provisions.

Even then, whenever EULAs get updated, rare is the company that highlights the change - most expect you to reread and figure out the difference for yourself. You also have no choice but to agree or lose your existing body of work - it's a unilateral license change, not a mutual change of contract terms.

The whole "but you voluntarily agreed to their terms!" concept is a canard which disguises how obfuscatory and misdirectional the EULA process is. It's the difference between "consent" and "informed consent", which is significant.
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That does count for a lot with us. It's surprising how many of the groups who apply have a cofounder who's not willing to quit his or her job. It's a worrying sign when someone who knows the company a lot better than we do isn't willing to bet on it. But again, there are always exceptions.
The problem is that so often users will express their desires not in the most distilled form, they will typically express them in the form of some unimplemented solution that they have arrived at via a process of mental satisficing. They don't know how to design software, or hardware, and they damned sure don't know how it works either. But they sure as hell know that if your product would "just" do this one little thing it would help them out.

The problem, of course, is that you then end up delegating design to people who lack the expertise. You can end up implementing ridiculous features if you just implement suggestions uncritically. For example, if you sell a sports car that people think should be more powerful they could express that by saying it should have a bigger engine, even though there are many ways to approach that problem (EFI programming, turbo chargers, lighter frame, different gear box, etc.) If you end up doing this a lot you end up with a big ball of mud design-wise as everyone's disparate needs and half-thought-out solutions collides with each other.

It takes a lot of effort to take the needs of customers and distill it down into a core set of functions and then tie those functions together in an elegant manner in a cohesive and highly useful design.

If you look at a lot of the "also ran" products from any given genre you will notice a trend towards a chaotic implementation of a laundry list of features whereas the market leaders tend to present a more elegant and cohesive design, even sometimes at the expensive of a handful of features.
Surely because what a person claims they want often varies drastically from what they actually want.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh...
I don't get it. Did apple invent screenshots aswell?
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http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?factsheet

Dublin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Stockholm.

Even if they didn't actually have physical offices in Europe, there are any number of situations in which Facebook may end up subjecting itself to some European laws. Consider:

* Taking advertising from European companies.

* Partnering with European developers on its platform.

* Using the services of European companies (datacenters, bandwidth, marketing...).

* Employing European employees, whether as ordinary employees or contractors.

* Attempting to enforce trademarks or copyrights in Europe.

In addition, if they wish European corporations to use Facebook to communicate with their customers, they need to not do anything that would expose those corporations to potential liability under European law.

There are a half-billion people in EU territory. They are on average relatively well-educated and wealthy consumers. That'd be one hell of a market to cut yourself off from financially.
That's really not fair. Some of them are competent foreigners that get thrown out when they expose yakuza cronyism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020365880457663...
example: my favourite EULA to date was one in a Windows OS installer, which weighed in at 3000 words... which you could only read in a box four lines high.

Still, it doesn't beat the 'voluntary' license where you can't read the license until you unseal the box, but unsealing the box indicates you agree with the license.
>the referrer (sorry, "referer")

It isn't even an americanism, its a straight-up misspelling.

Every time I have to type it I die a little inside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer#Origin_of_the_ter...
> Don't visit sites that use the Like button

That's nice in theory, but of course you can't know which pages have the 'like' button on it until you hit them.