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..and Blackberry, Symbian and Windows Phone. Absolute god-send for my startlingly diverse (smartphone-wise) circle of globally dispersed friends.
> Well, Google has always had internal accounts for most of the services that are tied to your Google Company account.

Ironically, this is exactly one of the points that Steve made in his original post.
RIP Dennis Ritchie.
I can't honestly say that I've spent an entire day at work over the last five years without looking at something that was either created by him or inspired from his work.
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Just wanted to reiterate two points: (i) you are never as happy or as unhappy as you think" and (ii) you can contact HNers, including me for support, just so that you see that you are not alone.
Rohern makes a statement, you call it disingenuous, and then "prove" it by quoting the company making the same statement.

He's downvoted to the point of being grey while you are not. My comments here are down voted without replies.

I think this proves Mr. Graham's and my point.
How can you say entrepreneurship is a secret cult when there are so many small businesses in Brazil?

Your problem right now is you lack domain specific knowledge. Over here in Australia, there are several software companies focussing on agribusinesses. What is there to say there isn't similar needs in Brazil?
Well if the valuations are lower now, wouldn't that mean that now is the best time to invest?
JavaScript has problems. Do we need Dart to solve them?
That's incorrect. Wolfram Alpha's responses are specifically marked as such and aren't nearly as entertaining.
This is an attempt by an entrenched interest to stave off and destroy innovation for their own benefit.

No, it's a way by an entrenched interest to cut funding for teaching. They couldn't care less about the quality of the ecucation rendered.

Yes, I'm talking about the UC.
I would think so, but if you put a number of these into Wolfram Alpha, you usually just get simple definitions rather than Siri's clever responses.
Even with no speedup, the main benefit would be the ability to use pypy for the rest of the "supporting" python code.
@perokreco just like the stock market, the best time for entrance is when the market's at rock bottom.
We don't discuss PR on HN. Public relations is beneath PG.
Yes, but this is a problem that will only affect Google employees, not the world at large. Steve says he meant to be signed into his internal Google account, not his external Google account.
I do not believe this to be factually correct. Unfortunately, just as this guy can't list his sources, I can't explain why I believe this to be factually incorrect (in the letter and spirit).
That position is used very rarely by UC. In the dozen or so departments I worked in during my time working in UCSB's administration, I can remember one or two lecturers with SOE -- it would generally be used to attract or retain a superstar lecturer, but it's not the default. (Tenured positions in general are much harder to come by than they once were, particularly in the humanities.)
I think Amazon would be a good purchasing party, Google alike.
Inbound links, organic search, and word-of-mouth are the main methods. I experimented with AdWords, but the conversion rate wasn't good enough, and I was too lazy to try to improve it.
This is great news. There are so many great packages that depend on NumPy support.
The reason is because the market doesn't demand vacation time. We get paid more and have less taxes, though.
You may be in a miserable state right now, but you've got the most important thing: your youth. I'm twice your age and still trying to find enough guts to do what you did.

Remember: Nothing, nothing is worse than being late!

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No one is better than anyone else really. dmr's work has likely touched more lives than most, but like many researchers and programmers, his work is mostly "behind the scenes" and not flashy or glamorous and he probably wanted it that way.

We on HN realize the significance of his work, but most other people won't and that's OK as we all benefit from the things he did whether we realize it or not.
Ask HN: How should I present computer science to high school students?
I volunteered to help a friend (a physics teacher at a local high school) by presenting computer science to the science club he in charge of. I believe the idea is to give about a 30 minute presentation to expose them to the topic so they can decide if it's something they want to pursue further, perhaps in college.

The students range from sophomores to seniors in high school with at least some interest in science and mathematics. The presentation can get technical even it's a bit over there heads. Also, I just found out they can have access to laptops for each student if need be.

I'm looking for ideas on how to present the topic in an interactive and attention keeping way.
While this is very sad, I think he would have wanted us to remember that working in a field so young that you have occasion to mourn people who built its foundations is inherently exciting.
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I love the comparison between personal branding and corporate branding. I've been told that to "succeed" in life you have to work on branding yourself. But I think you point out the flaw in branding oneself is that you end up boxing yourself into your brand. And what happens when you can't live up to your brand or you slip up? You get mad depressed and upset. Better to be honest and open.
Which is pretty ridiculous, since Appleseed had circles since 2007, and I know Diaspora was aware of Appleseed before they released any code. Also, I spoke with someone from Google about Appleseed's circles two months before Diaspora even released any code.

Not that I'm claiming that Google+ stole Appleseed's idea for circles, since they put out a presentation in June 2010 talking about social segmentation from a theoretical perspective, and even if they did, it wouldn't raise much ire, since I stole the idea from Livejournal's friends list, which it had since, what, 2000?

There was a lot of precedence for groupings of social relationships, and honestly, I was shocked at the hubris of the Diaspora* team to claim that Google had pilfered them for inspiration.
This is the worst prediction ever.
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You might want to add (2004) to the title.
There is a PR war, and it's been waged by Amazon since the mid 1990s when they went public. They had terrible numbers, and so they reframed themselves as a "tech startup" to get in the dot com boom.... and it worked.

There has been, and continues to be, massive propaganda efforts from Amazon to try and pitch them to people, and to position Bezos as a visionary in the style of Steve Jobs. In fact, I saw an article the other day comparing the two.

It's nonsense. Bezos, in any other context, would not be a bad person. He's got good management skills, and he has a desire for keeping the quality bar high. But the problem is, he doesn't give a damn about other people.

He's got a very utilitarian viewpoint of other people. Every interaction with them, from his perspective, seems to be about how he can best profit from them. He sees people as resources to be exploited.

I'm a pure capitalist, I don't have a problem with trade, but he's more like a predator.

At least, this is what my interactions with him, and the culture he created at Amazon tell me.

You can sustain such an illusion only for so long, however. In seattle, as far back as at least 1998, everyone know that Amazon was a terrible place to work and an even worse place to do business with (as a supplier, etc.)

I knew that, but I didn't want to believe it, when I took the job.

I do accept responsibility for the stupidity that I displayed in doing that, and in sticking around after I should have left as others have pointed out. I could have avoided this, and should have, by simply holding myself in higher esteem... and never taken that job.
His legacy lives on in the Danny Lewin Best Student paper award at STOC, the premier theory conference. Here's a list of awardees: http://sigact.org/Prizes/Student/
Wow! :)

- a 3GS user
The all-silicon data centre?
I once somehow butt-dialed 911 on my old dumbphone, which was embarrassing and terrifying. I awkwardly apologized and hung up, and there were no repercussions.

I once was showing a baby how to push the buttons on a fax machine. I pushed the 9 as an example. She copied me by pushing 1, then did it again.
It's a testament to the quality and reach of his vision that these words are coming to you via systems that recognisably Unix and written in C _40 years_ after Ritchie (and colleagues) created their progenitors. His work has literally defined generations of operating systems and languages and seems likely to continue to do so for some time. What a great...
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Nice!
Good luck, and hopefully the other company is more of a startup.
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There's a counterpoint at http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/10/cr...
Today, a friend and I have been having fun using the Android version of Siri http://speaktoit.com (best one we tested).

It understands 90 to 95% of the conversation we spoke to it. Also, it understands 8th grade humor type words and reprimands you by saying things like, "Would you talk to your mother like that?"

Fun stuff for the 8th grader in all of us!
Including all of the tech that Steve Jobs had a significant impact on.
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Ask HN: Where do you advertise online?
Just started a business www.pleasereturn.me which sells recovery labels for devices. Going well so far, we have roughly a 75% return rate but we want to grow our user base (Who doesn't?).

I am curious to where you advertise online, if there are any niche services that have worked out well for you, or if you can recommend something for our service.

Another nagging question I've had, how is advertising on Facebook compared to Google? Better or worse?

Thanks HN
Please stop, this isn't a contest, and I for one don't want to see HN kicked in the junk again over it. dmr wasn't a household name simply because most people lack the background to see the clarity and suitability of his work.

As much as I cringe at seeing "undefined behavior" robustness compromises today, when he started they were absolutely necessary, and he got our profession through one of its most difficult periods. We few know what we owe him.
That makes no sense. If you are as much a fan as you bring your family there, but you don't know what Steve Jobs looks like? Has he not be on the cover of absolutely everything since 2007?
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This makes me wonder how the majority of the people are even going to use it if it isn't immediately obvious how to activate it. I used this gigaom article to setup it up on my 3gs: http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-5-imessage/

It works pretty well and I can't wait for the mac version.
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I'm interested to tap into the collective wisdom of this community on this topic. What strategies/tactics/tips can you share that you've used to help you accomplish your goals more effectively without sacrificing the quality of the goals or balance in your life?
You're probably right. De facto, Taiwan is a separate country right now. But they at least have to maintain the diplomatic fiction of being Chinese.

You're right that I don't read Chinese or Taiwanese, and that I've never been to either country, and the only second-hand knowledge I have of the situation is decades old.

I do know that the pan-blue coalition has abandoned the idea of unification for now. I also understand (if I'm not mistaken) that the pan-green coalition has also abandoned the idea of formally declaring Taiwanese independence. So despite whatever side either party is notionally supposed to be, both sides have accepted the status quo and campaign on how they are to govern Taiwan.

In any case, this is a matter of some interest to me, and I appreciate you sharing all of this. I wonder, is there still an ethnic division between Taiwanese and the descendants of the Chinese that escaped from the mainland?
Monsanto is one of the biggest pushers for and beneficiaries of corn subsidies, and corn subsidies are one of the biggest examples of corporate welfare in existence.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/ken-and-den.jpg

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/chist.html

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/hist.html
Maybe you could have them code a simple program that does something funny.

How well do you know <student name>?

Then do a multiple choice. Then they will probably share the quiz with their friends.
Yes they do. First of all, saving energy is in itself a reward. Moreover, that's easily gameable by simply comparing yourself to a group of strangers at their energy efficiency house. Airline miles is kinda a hard one, except for the people in that group, competing there (and I'm sure there is), and as far a s random stuff...I'm here in large part because every once in a while I wonder if I can't get a few upvotes on hacker news, hopefully by saying something helpful or insightful, of course.
I wish I could say I met the man, but it doesn't really matter to me because in a way I've got to kinda know him indirectly through his work; through UNIX-likes and what little I know of C.

So RIP, you crazy tinkerer.
I don't think Google will or should care about this post being public. I think Yegge was generally being really constructive and cares passionately about seeing Google move forward.

Amazon, on the other hand, might take a small hit in recruiting given the way Yegge portrayed their culture as a former insider.
Phone calls get ignored too. Just ask my credit card company.
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10 points to anyone who can reliably identify when the market is at rock bottom.
I noticed every computer around me, be it a laptop, a phone, a TV or a router, runs some kind of Unix.
On top of Ruby we put the Rails web framework. It’s not very common to actually code anything in Ruby.

Is he really confusing programming languages with frameworks? I can't take anything serious that he writes anyways but that's pretty ignorant.

Even if it weren't an absurd statement you could say the same thing about Java, "on top of Java we put the Struts web framework. It's not very common to code anything in Java."
It would be interesting to know what these start-ups facing a cash crunch are all working on. Are they all chasing the same pie or are they a diverse bunch engaged in finding technology solutions for problems in a range of industries? I asked the question but I think I already know the answer.
I find that routine helps quite a bit. Also sitting time limits on what you're working on.

I've read a lot of books on productivity, the one that has stuck with me is called "The 4 Hour Workweek" by Timothy Ferriss. If you haven't read it, read it now.
Haha. He must've published it on purpose, right? That seems like a Yegge thing to do. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission and all that.
Google voice solves this pretty well... I get an email saying someone left a VM with the poor but adequate transcript.
Can you elaborate on how setting time limits helps?
There has always been interest from the KMT of either recapturing the mainland or, when that became infeasible, peaceful reunification, though (according to some cousin comments) that's become a minority viewpoint and the entire question has been tabled for now.
Goodbye Dennis. You were a giant. You'll be missed.
Just an observation I've made, but isn't this almost identical to what WolframAlpha's goals are? With the exception of handling your own personal data, they both seem to work in the same ways: Understanding natural language and interpreting massive amounts of data in different ways. I'd be interested to see how they are different underneath.
Yup, really rare.
Very clever.

Wonder if an iPad on the other side of a keyboard to the mouse could be useful in Photoshop too (somehow) - colour palette, brush selector, etc. While I'm at a computer, my iPad is sitting there doing nothing.
Right. This is the argument popularized by Penn & Teller in their GMO Bullshit episode.

1. My $3/meal was for US eaters. Remember that locally grown crops in 3rd world countries cost much less, as the cost of human time and land is lower there.

2. Ignoring #1 (ie. if we're looking at the choice between dying and eating GMO food), then of course eating GMO is the lesser of all evils.

3. GMO isn't the only way to produce enough food for the world. Better storage and transport tech would go a long way. There is also the agri-skyscraper concepts, but I'm sure you've seen those.

4. Even using GMO food, and producing enough to feed the planet, we still have lots of hungry people for reasons other than production capacity. See http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20f...
I think there are huge numbers of low level, new, or just... B and C level developers who come in to fill the ranks. A lot of the best devs at Amazon, when I was there, were indians who had to keep working at Amazon as it was the only way they could stay in America. I felt a bit sorry for them (and of course, from their perspective, Amazon might have been great compared to the alternative.)

This country really needs a damn visa for technologists, or something.

Anyway, at some point software development became a very popular career choice and so there is an endless supply of warm bodies graduating from colleges each year, all of whom know the Amazon brand and think working there would be really cool.
Our customers are other businesses, but not focused on the technology field (electronic purchasing, actually), so your mileage may vary. I'm certain that if our target customer were tech-focused, that far more would prefer email, but that's just not the case for us.

I fully recognize the benefits of asynchronous communication, but I'm not out to educate my customers on the best way to communicate. I'm here to respond to them in whatever way they prefer. You'll be happy to hear that we let them choose the preferred method.
there's a whole cohort of people who are entranced by the iphone but have never seen steve jobs. To be fair, he doesn't appear anywhere in the stores or in most advertisements.

I realize it's hard to believe, but you can be a fan of the product without being aware of the key members of the company that produced the product.
[..] The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth." - Steve Jobs
I'd say it's conceivable. Isn't there a statistic out there that says something to the effect of a large portion of the population can't name the current president of the United States?
You say, I'm only going to work on this for 3 hours, then I'm done, and you don't allow yourself a second more. If I don't finish, tough luck, try harder next time. It forces you to focus on the essentials.
I learned BASIC and 6502 assembly in high school then went to college where the main language was Modula-2 on an IBM 370. I hated Modula-2 and wondered how people actually wrote those cool programs on PCs. It just seems like all the possibilities of assembly really weren't there. It just seemed wrong.

Took an optional language class in C which used the K&R C book (draft ANSI C edition) taught on the VAX and was finally able to say "Oh, I get it now". Bought Turbo C 2.0 and had a blast.

This is just a truly sucky month.
none of their published strategy makes a particularly compelling case

I find this to be one of their biggest running problems. I'm not one of those people who thinks highly detailed specs are needed before building a project like this (obviously, look at my own project). But from the beginning, before they started asking for money, they should have really emphasized their technical and philosophical approach, and how it differed from the dozens of projects that preceded them.
Two in year one, three in year two.

Plus an additional 6 "personal days".

That being said, I've yet to actually take a vacation day at Amazon, despite regularly getting automated e-mails about it from HR. I send a polite OOTO e-mail to my team and that seems to be sufficient. This may very from team to team and manager to manager.
Nice fresh interface, I like what it has to offer as a starting point this could be massive. It looks like it will evolve into something very special.
Yea I would do that too.
Dennis Ritchie. Hello World. May he rest in peace.
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Very true. Being mainstream also means the language is used for stuff it really shouldn't be used for.
There is no more security in DELETE than there is in GET. Using DELETE over GET would only decrease accidental changes.
Based on your other post, you should have quit. You weren't happy and were subjected to slave labor. Forcefully applying more time at a keyboard doesn't make you a more productive programmer. In fact, it makes you sloppy. Despite what "everyone" thinks, they're wrong. They're wrong because they're not you. They're wrong because they weren't there. They're wrong because they probably couldn't even do what you were doing to begin with. They're just plain wrong on every level.

At 20 you're still trying to define yourself so social approval matter but these are the experiences in your life that cause you to retreat into your own mental cave to carve out and define who you've always been and exactly who you'll become.

You don't know what you need to know to be a successful freelancer. That's obvious by the fact that you went broke. Find other freelancers and ask them for their advice. Go back to school and get your high school degree. Learn about business and marketing. Take on a job, it doesn't have to pay great.

In short find yourself. Find what works. You're young and you haven't earned your freedom. Freedom comes with a price. Go pay the price for your freedom or sell your freedom for a price. The choice is yours, and it is a choice.

Regarding suicide. I've felt like that more times than I can count. Don't do it. It always turned out that suicidal thoughts were always huge indications that the idea of who I am needed to die. Meaning it was time for a massive change. Look for what you'd like to change about yourself and your life.

And...for christ's sake find some new friends! Preferably friends with a set of balls who aren't such sheep and are willing to take chances in life.
Absolutely. Hell, at one point, praise for me from a former manager in a performance review was twisted around and used against me.

If I never hear the phrase "Bias for action" again, I'll be happy. (Though I laughed when you used it.)
Optimal use case is po box replacement. Not everyone needs a po box all the time. Think of this as an ec2 po box.

I bet focus groups said they hate not being around when ups guy shows up.
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Your personal data on Facebook is potentially their "trade secrets"