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Was there any particular reason why it ended up so huge then? Trying to handle each and every possible use/edge-case completely? Why not Java (from your previous answer)?

I loved Wave despite its warts and managed to run several extremely successful small team document writing collaborations through it, completely replacing IM, email, groups and lots of early document drafting in Docs/Word. There was nothing that anybody on the team had experience with that came close to that. We went from hundreds of emails a day and hours of IM'ing to absolutely zero of each within a week of moving to Wave.

My only real complaints were that the web client was dog slow and going from a Wave of draft-edits to a final document was kind of painful.

Never did find a use for lots of the other bells and whistles (embedded widgets things, channel bots, etc.), perhaps that's where a lot of the extra LOC went to...

The entire Wave story would make an amazing case study if Google would ever let the entire story out.
Doesn't sound right. We've already seen single core Android phones cope with speech recognition without a problem (though they send their data to Google's servers). Gubber's 'capacity planning' theory seems more plausible if indeed the audio is being sent over the wire.
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Keep at it. You may wish to charge more (more professional, etc) and emphasise less on age though because you'll definitely face youthism. Especially where the law frowns upon child labour. Also, the government will refuse to allow you to form your own company until you're 18.

You may want to consider alternative sources of revenue such as odesk, etc. Contracting work and more. But sadly, don't look for a job for reasons mentioned above. If they find out that you're too young and don't want to work with you, move on. Don't dwell on them.

Go to networking conferences. Establish a social reputation for what you do. Do NOT rely on your age to help you. Lie if you have to and pretend to be that 'age' from then on. No one will demand ID.

Protip: Reiterate many times on how to lie about your age. Maybe pretend that you're short.

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Since this is the first time I've managed to address someone who worked on Wave, I'd like to say "thank you". I thought it was tremendous, if flawed, and found it useful while it lasted.

In a team of about 6 remote workers we used it to create collaborate documents - starting with something that looked like a chat and then giong back and editing the chat into a finished document.

You may well be right that Google was correct to kill Wave, but thanks nonetheless.
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Simply getting it in front of more users might make the difference. It's also a lot more tightly integrated I would assume.
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My guess is that the Web interface only exposed a small part of the functionality. There's all that syncing and federated server goodness under the hood to take into consideration too.
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>Billions of successful projects run on Java.

I will give you billion dollars if you can prove that.

My personal guess (using my personal metrics) is that there are 10^3 to 10^4 successful Java projects and 10^9 failed ones.
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I'm surprised this is an external post.

Stubby services, eh?
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amazon.com runs java since day 1, fairly successful too :-)
I disagree; Google should have strong rules to filter out crap and give me great search results.

In this case we have something of an edge case; the site is useful, but the auto-generated pages cause potential problems for search results.

If you were talking about how Google communicates these issues, or how it goes about resolving these edge cases, then I'd be agreeing. Much to be improved.

But getting rid of the potential issue.. thumbs up.
I can't wait to see how it copes with British accents. Not just English vs Scottish etc - but the hundreds of variations.

I grew up in the East Midlands and now live in Leeds, 70 miles north. The difference in accents is night and day (although no-one in the UK knows what a Nottingham accent is). There's even a significant difference between a Leeds accent and the next city, Bradford (about 5 miles away).

I really hope Siri has some sort of unobtrusive training built in...
What evidence do you have that the pyramid builders did not have permission to quit? Its just as likely that they saw it as a huge honour to work on a pharoah's tomb. c.f. French cathedral builders
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A lot, yes. Apparently you can just hold the phone to your ear in order to activate it.
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when i left amazon in 2006 that was MOST DEF not true. well not the backendy parts of amazon. maybe some of the webservers were, but i somehow doubt it.
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Sounds like it would almost be easier to start from scratch with the protocol spec and build something lighter weight and not Java.

Then in the client only expose a subset of features until they are really good, then another, then another. Keeping the client codebase small as well.
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"I don't think we (tech people) appreciate just how magical the public is going to find Siri."

I think that that is exactly why we (tech people) hate it so much. We like to be in control of what happens, and Siri is all about giving most of that control over to your iPhone.
That would be security theatre. Any actually dangerous attack on systems such as these is likely to be bespoke, like stuxnet. Therefore the platform doesn't matter.

Also, it shouldn't be too hard to create a virus that could spread via windows PCs but still carried a linux payload, for example.

As soon as you're up against bespoke, targeted attacks, the whole game changes.
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Maybe we can have special drones to hack and take over other drones. That'd be pretty cool in a command and conquer sort of way.
Any company that wants to provide "Siri-compatible" services registers on the apple developer website. Apple defines a set of services that it believes customers will be asking for (appointments, location-based recommendations, product-recommendations, weather, stock data, general search, etc...) and each provider can register their API endpoint and the query types they support. It seems that they already do this categorization to determine what to use (the built-in stock app for example) for a given query. Siri-compatable devices will regularly ping apple for a list of supported API endpoints and report back to Apple on how well these endpoints are performing on query speed and user adoption/satisfaction.

That's all just my guess of course...
I'm more interested in how it handles slang and local colloquialisms.
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I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea.
Hey guys.

I created this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2374271).

Well, I did quit my full-time job. I wish I could say it was 'the best single thing I've ever done' or 'why haven't I done it earlier' but I'm not going to say it. Just to offer the other side of the perspective. And because it wouldn't be honest and I don't give nearly enough fuck to be dishonest. Yeah, seriously, what do I have to lose?

It was a bad idea. I moved back with my parents, my freelancing thing barely works, I'm constantly broke, on the verge of poverty, I'm deeply depressed and contemplating suicide. I have to constantly hear my father shout what an idiot I am for quitting a high-paying job. My friends make fun of me for making a retarded life decision. I can't really do anything else, since apparently finding a new job, is kind of hard and I have to go through the whole step where I admit my failure and start over and I don't even know what I want anymore.

I thought I would become free, but I've actually become less free as a result of it.

Essentially, shit is very hard and I barely have any idea on how to get out of this mess. What doesn't make it any easier is that I'm 20, I have no college diploma, no high school diploma, no idea what the fuck is going on.

I'm an idiot, essentially. This post serves mainly as a warning for those who could be in the same position, contemplating quitting. It's not as much fun as you think. It's not like Office Space. I'm not saying you shouldn't quit, but you should really put more thought into it.

And fuck, I even had enough savings for four months after quitting. I thought a lot of things through, includes finances etc. I even managed to live by myself for the entire four months until I finally gave in and couldn't pay the rent.

It just didn't work out and it feels very painful.
I don't think pageviews per visit is anywhere near what it is in Facebook - probably even by an order of magnitude. That is just my own perception from using it, though.

Facebook really do know how to suck time out of their users.
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Does anyone know if there are cues that remind the end user to use Siri? (eg. "you haven't used Siri in a week," or something of that nature). This feature, since it is primarily hidden behind the home button, might be forgotten by the average user.

As Mr. Gruber stated, once he got it into his workflow, he missed it when it was gone. However, I think one of the biggest hurdles to mass adoption will be getting it into the workflow of the average user.

Anyone have ideas of how to address this problem? Or do you think the product video is enough?
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This was not true at all, at least thru 2007. At that time, there were some minor services that made some use of AWS services, mostly newer things that had been created after AWS was created.

AWS was not available to developers within Amazon to use at any time before the day it was publicly launched. At least not on a broad basis, and none of the main Amazon.com services ran on it in 2007.

They did share some data centers, however. And I guess data centers are "infrastructure".

I was in a position to know this because I had my hands deep in the retail site as part of my job.
I'm not sure the connection between the two is as strong as the article suggests. The new attack in the article is hard to carry out on a tram (hold a probe attached to a oscilloscope next to a reader for 1000 transactions) but certainly it's better to issue new myki on secure cards
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I have one odd guess about why Google can get a decent "platform". They hire "hackers". Their recruitment process involves 99% computer science and almost none software engineering. So the people there, being amazing at the most complex computing tasks, just aren't seeing the "big picture".
I know this is a rather late reply. But I just saw this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/l94s0/facebook_has_gone...

This is why people let Google Contacts and iCloud "have a free pass". Neither Google Contacts nor iCloud does anything with my data - it's on their servers for backup and sync purposes. Could they be doing anything nefarious in the background with my private information? Sure, but neither company have a strong history of this.

With Facebook this trust simply does not exist, and when coupled with a poorly explained, poorly documented feature that seemed to have very few privacy controls around it (many Facebook features with less privacy impact have more privacy visibility), people flip out. Rightly so.

We cannot trust Facebook not to mine the shit out of the information uploaded from our phonebooks (and in fact, Facebook has never ruled this out), and eventually expose it to other people, even indirectly. When your company has a long track record of taking a cavalier (if not outright dismissive) attitude towards user privacy, the onus is on you to show you're above-board. The phone sync feature hasn't done this due diligence.

The fact that the phonebook data I'd be uploading isn't exposed directly to my other friends is very, very small comfort.

[edit] I've seen this exchange way more times than I'd like to. It's just a total failure of communication on Facebook's part:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/l94s0/facebook_has_gone...
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In truth and in large part because people in the field that I am interested in are not addressing the real problem, ie, they are all 'barking up the wrong tree'. When you have an answer/solution and when others still don't 'get it', there comes a time that you have to step in. I don't want to sit by the sidelines anymore, so I'm rolling up my sleeves to do it myself.
I'm deeply depressed and contemplating suicide

If you are having suicidal thoughts then please talk to someone about that now. There are lots of people you can talk to.

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lol, poor Matt, always under fire from everybody who hasn't got the rankings they want. It's simple really, Google try to make it fair for everybody (and granted it doesn't always work perfectly, which is why the continue to make changes, it's evolution) and if some sites give themselves an unfair advantage and are caught, then they're punished. How else could a search engine work? If it were any different then al of our results would be greed pages with no useful info and everybody would stop Googling stuff.

As somebody once quoted, "You can please some of the people, some of the time, but you can't please all of the people, all of the time!"
Interesting... any current Amazon employee that can confirm/deny this? Perhaps things have changed since 2007.
So, there is a platform rule now -

A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.
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In any event, the failed ones don't mean anything useful.

Successful ones mean "You can succeed using this".
The failed ones mean "This failed, could have been for a ton of reasons".
It's really great to hear someone follow up on a previous post

For what it's worth, I still think you did the right thing. That job obviously wasn't going anywhere and sounded pretty miserable. Perhaps your mistake wasn't the quitting but the freelancing over taking another job, and the option is still open to you.

So the freelancing thing hasn't worked out for you. Perhaps taking a full-time job, even for a short period, will be enough to get you back living independently, build up some savings, make some new contacts, have a social life, and perhaps eventually even build a product business in your spare time. Give the freelance thing another go in a year or two? You've undoubtedly learnt plenty of lessons which will help you the next time.
What he says about Chrome doesn't seem to be really true?

> And so we wind up with a browser that doesn't let you set the default font size

You can set the default font size and zoom size in Chrome (chrome://settings/advanced then "Web Content").

But more to the point, although it's obvious Google Search is trying very hard NOT to be a platform, it would seem Chrome is already a platform.

No other browser in history has had a more straightforward way to build extensions -- and, for that matter, apps.

Also, Yahoo is not mentioned; Yahoo built many nice platforms (remember Pipes?) and it didn't quite save them.
I've been thinking for a while about how you could make an S3-like service by loading up 36 drive boxes and shipping them off to lots of different cheap colo providers throughout the country, duplicating storage across them and managing the whole bit on a reliable provider like AWS.
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He said "low risk" not "no risk." Low risk indicates that there's still some risk that you'll lose your money. I have no idea what that has to do with electricity supoly lines.
These attempts appear to include a large amount of data obtained from one or more compromised lists from other companies, sites or other sources.

Any guesses as to where the original list of usernames and passwords may have come from?
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I was feeling really sad for you until I read this: What doesn't make it any easier is that I'm 20

Relax. Get a job at the supermarket, or anything that will pay the bills for now. Figure out your main gig slowly on the side. If you share more about your freelancing work, people here might be able to help you out.
I'm from Scotland so, as you can imagine, we're somewhat less enthusiastic about this kind of technology—it never really works for us.

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Seems like it was removed? Too bad I haven't copied it off earlier....
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which came first, the product or the platform? I remember when twitter switched over their public site and services to run on their API. Instagram just built theirs earlier this year. If the platform has an outage, so does the product. It's tough to justify a platform until you have traction, and unfortunately the industry track record reflects this.

Excellent insights in Steve's post.
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When I left in early 2007 they were working on the transition. More recently I heard that they were substantially if not totally on the AWS infrastructure. So if Werner said it recently it probably is true.
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Well like steve mentioned -- you can't just have a platform and hope it will save you. You need a killer app on top first...

The only killer app I can think of from yahoo is mail & flickr.
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What are the fundamentals?

Are there specs that should be read?

Are there any lighter resources that will give me as high-level understanding?
Wow, looks like he got slapped by some Google VP or something -- the post ceases to exist.
I guess Yegge was a little too optimistic about the open-mindedness of the management at Google.
I'm sure sometime in 2007 or 2008 a directive went down that people had to build new stuff on AWS. EC2 is a reasonably good fit for much of the Amazon.com code, as it's just generic hardware. I'm sure in the past 4 years more and more stuff has been written to use S3 as a data store. The core stuff, Gurupa, etc, would have to be re-architected to work with things like SQS and other services.

I'm not saying that nobody in Amazon wanted to use AWS, just that we didn't know about it until the press release, and so there wasn't any opportunity to use it... and of course, all the code from the 1990s was built in a different way so it would have been nontrivial to migrate it.
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I think the title is a bit misleading... Developers can opt to insert CSS code that allows for page flipping instead of scrolling. Even then, the end user can opt out of this in favor of scrolling.
Has someone still got it open in tab to repost here? since it seems to have been removed.
Very well said.

I'm just really surprised about one suggestion: C++. Even if I used it extensively and with great satisfaction back in the day, and even if I personally don't like Java, I'd like to know what would have made C++ a better choice than Java for terseness etc.
Hey,

I think the most important thing for you to do now, is to get rid of the depressed and suicide thoughts. It sure helps to talk to people about it.

I'm rather messed up as well, as I gave up several well paying jobs to pursue my own startup dreams which eventually failed and I went the freelancing route which didn't work out too.

Speaking to people about my situation lifted my mood considerably and I urge that you do the same too.

Sort out those emotional issues first, and slowly plan to get your career back on track. Suicide won't solve anything.

Get better soon dude.
> of course, and I had to do it- RIGHT THAT MINUTE- in the middle of the night.

There is your problem right there. Why in your sane mind would you even consider fixing it at that moment? You should have told them to FUCK OFF - right at that minute - and gone back to sleep. Right there and then a loud and sound go fuck a rake and fuck off.
Obviously he did NOT do the right thing. There is nothing wrong with admitting a mistake. But it was not an entire loss - he was able to grow with the experience and realize that the lifestyle being sold isn't for everybody. Right, it is NOT for everybody. My advice is that he follows through his new found learning and tries to go back to a job. He is a more mature person now, and will be able to find one eventually.