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Fair enough. The reasons why it rubbed me a bit are (1) I know you're an American living abroad, so at least you've seen both sides of the fence, and (2) I used to think much like the OP and today I won't even go to the USA for business any more. They've managed to eradicate a good part of my respect for the country as a whole as well, and one of the main issues is the way new arrivals are treated by immigration.

How the government treats people that are at its mercy is a pretty good indicator for the state of affairs, and in this respect the USA is not looking too good, to put it mildly.
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Except he did make the lives of a few hundred of million people a little better. It's an immense accomplishment. Did he singlehandledly solve all the problems in the world? Nope. But he easily did a billion times more than you and me. The impact a single person can have on society is absolutely mind-blowing.

Note that you're comparing him to Bill Gates, one of the (if not the) most effective philanthropists on the planet. By comparing him to Bill Gates you've effectively conceded the argument.
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I have recently switched from Roundcube to Squirrelmail - the former worked annoyingly slow for me. I only had to tweak the source code a bit to get rid of these _ugly_ iframe borders.

I don't use web interface too much though.
> I am not sure why a Google founder did not find it worthwhile to go thru it.

Because a Google founder and current executive doesn't have half an hour to devote every time an employee writes a long post about the company. That's what underlings and assistants are for.

edit: I see by the downvotes some of you disagree regarding workplace organization. Fair enough, but consider: if someone at Apple had emailed a letter this size to Steve Jobs, and he had responded with a trademark "don't write it that way if you want busy people to read it," would you disagree? And this post wasn't even aimed at Brin directly.
I agree it was worded a bit harshly but on the other hand, that dream I had honestly is gone. So it's not hyperbolic, just maybe not worded perfectly I admit.

Some people may understand my initial comment as bashing against the USA. I want to clearly state that I didn't mean that at all. The last sentence was to express that I'm sad to see such things happen and I'll be the first to cheer if the USA can restore what it used to be and I believe it has everything it takes to achieve that.
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Well, then maybe he should have said something to that effect. The problem with speaking in public is that people will actually hear what you say. If you don't intend to come across as flippant don't be flippant.
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I really like the "choose your own work station equipment (battle station)" idea, wonder why more places don't do that?
Sure it's not as convenient to look for wifi, but when I did have a data plan, the actual number of times I'd look something up on the go was so low that it worked out to about $5 per thing looked up. That's just not a cost of convenience I can justify.

Once I cancelled the plan, I soon realized how little I actually NEEDED to look something up on the go. It's a lot like how I got rid of my car and all associated expenses after realizing how little I actually drove it. Now, if I need a car, I'll rent one. That's only happened once so far.
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It doesn't matter if he worked for our express benefit or because he simply wanted to. Intent is nearly meaningless in the grand scheme of things. The bottom line is that he contributed an enormous amount and he inspired a generation of technical people. Maybe it doesn't deserve the label "charitable" but it most certainly is hugely beneficial to mankind.
Odds are in the case of the Galaxy Nexus, Samsung's using the OMAP at Google's request; to serve as a reference platform for ICS. AFAIK Samsung doesn't sell Exynos, so other OEMs would be at a disadvantage.
I would love to find some more information how he is visualizing that stuff. Despite the "To give you some idea of algorithmic complexity, the renderings included on this page took less than a second to layout."this seems to me not hard coded but based on some visualization tool?
> ... our 18-year immigration ordeal

I wonder what this is referring to and how it reconciles with

> ... living legally in the United States for over 20 years

Something tells me there's more to the story than what's in the linked post.
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I think in this context, "living legally" means you are not Out-of-status by overstaying an I-94, issued to you by the USCIS (fka INS) officer at the point of entry.

IANAL.
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A lot of places, mainly more established organisations are restricted by compliance and vendor agreements so they have to use uniform equipment. That's where start-ups and new businesses have an advantage in the sense that they have a budget but no restrictions so rather than making the choice for the employee, allow them to choose themselves.
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I share much of your sentiment, possibly for different reasons. I keep hoping for that moment when the country that I thought was going to be the example of how to run a country will find its bearing again and stop the madness.

The potential of the United States is to influence the world from the moral high ground, the last decade have undone the 20 years of building up that image prior to that.

And it will take at least another 20 years (if not more) to fix that.

About 5 years ago I had an opportunity to move to the US, another year ago a fairly well known company wanted to hire me. In both cases I said 'no thanks', in large part due to how the United States has behaved in the recent past.

The potential for greatness is there, but just like with any project execution matters.
Thanks for the head up. I bought it right away!
I seriously cannot believe that something that looks like it was designed for Netscape Navigator still exists. There must be a need for it over everything else, I'd love to know where it's still used.
> There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country.

Depends on what you exactly mean by home country, but there is an investor's visa - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-2_visa
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The paid time off figures say something about the US compared to the UK, where the statutory minimum for a full-time worker is 28 days. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Timeoffandh...
Yes, and they're also useful for helping the interviewer feel "smart".
What it used to be when? When black people couldn't vote? When the US was propping up various dictators by virtue of them being "not communists"?

There have always been ugly things about the country - just like pretty much every other country, if you dig some.

Not to say people shouldn't point out the defects and work to improve them, just that hand-waviness isn't part of the solution, IMO.
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> You only go outside when the weather is sunny?

Did I say that? I won't stand for a long time at a street corner typing on my phone without gloves, in bad weather.
Both the points you are making, makes Google a bad marketing/strategy firm but not evil: the sentiment I was replying to. And this is being done after they have agreed to provide support for pseudonyms! It may not be their first priority - or may require significant changes in the way data is being handled to allow for security of the real identity. But the OP assumed that this is because of a conspiracy between the firm, ISPs and Government, and that the company is not to be trusted. I fail to understand how does this results in the conclusion that the company is not trustworthy or moral. It can be derived that company is rigid, slow, lazy and even a poor investment. Failing to provide a feature(and yes it's a feature not a right - the service is no way mandatory) that might affect a significant (in terms of their reach and not numbers) consumer base makes them a bad service provider - not evil genius.

Additionally, this is not the worst of both worlds. Worst of both worlds would be to selectively allow pseudonyms to some and while others have to use real identity. That not only makes the service partial, but skewed towards anarchy (using it for the lack of a replacement).

Given a choice between pseudonyms and real identities - the choice is based majorly on the type of culture the networks supports. For example: I tend to use the same username nearly everywhere - unfortunately I can't comment on youtube; the culture is very troll-y and I would not like to be associated at all. On the other hand, Buzz was quite successful in my university - majorly because it was associated with sort-of-a-real identity (Everyone was using clean & real names) which resulted in much saner, smarter interaction that was fun to be a part of. Facebook seems to have achieved the same though real sounding names which is the reason many blogs use their comment system.

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I'd love to read it, but I think it's kinda pricey..
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Failure of Google+? What?
I would expect the OS to be checked for safety before an attempt to install it in a place it had access to infect other machines. Anyone with the ability to install an alternate OS working in such an environment should have the knowledge to not do something that stupid. The fault here is with the person, not the software. Protecting users from themselves so much that they have no control of the software on their machines as an alternative to your scenario seems like giving up too much.
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Sergey Brin doesn't matter any more. He's been off in his own little world, making acquisitions and having them report directly to him. They don't get integrated into the normal engineering environment, and they wind up in more buildings which normal badges won't open. Look up building 1489 for an example.

When I heard about this non-integration, my interpretation was that normal eng is where things go to die, so they were keeping the new things separate so they would not die. Then I realized, hey wait, if the core engineering area is sufficiently broken to where one of the founders is purposely keeping his own toys away from it, what does that say about us?
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I agree that a documentary would be cool, but I'd be hesitant to say that it would need to be produced under the guise of a network or other professional organization. If anything, I'd love to see a glued together collection of videos from the founders, pg, and the rest of the team (sort of like pg's post not too long ago of pictures of the early days of YC). It doesn't have to be produced to be entertaining and the story wouldn't need to be written (it would simply be the YC companies going through the experience).
Shouldn't 429 (Too many requests) be a 5xx code?
If it was the migration I was told about, no, they give you about 2 weeks notice that they're going to do it on X date.
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Thats actually a very good idea to simplify it, thank you!
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Home country -- on track to be a citizen.

And even E-2 is not just anyone -- it is for rich people. Even the minimum amount quoted $50,000 is considered enormous by most of almost 7 billion people living in the world.
> Around this time Sony also came up with other ways to stop people listening to the music they had bought. A system appeared which inserted noise and interference when people tried to compress music from CDs.

I never heard about this, but I'm very interested. Can't seem to find anything about it on Google, can anyone link me?
OMG really? Do we want to make HTTP even bigger? Don't we want to dump it for good and look for something more suitable to what the modern web needs instead?
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Its interesting to see this site. I didnt find this type of site ever. A lot to learn from this site. News from this site is very crucial and truth. There is nothing fake or unusual in this site.
I think it's fine. 4xx is a way of saying the client did something wrong that it can potentially fix (i.e. slow down requests). 5xx is more opaque meaning there is nothing the client can do to fix the problem.
I agree there are rules, and rules need to be followed. I immigrated to the US as well, and went through a lot of troubles to immigrate legally and successfully, so I very much do not like the idea of people trying to skip the line.

That being said, in the 20 years since he's been here, presumably legally since he was legally allowed to stay while fighting his case, he's made a good life for himself and his family, and they appear to be productive members of society.

If it were me, I probably would have denied the asylum application, but given his entrepreneurial skills, I would have allowed him to apply on an investor's visa and let him stay during the process. The problem is that it took 20 years for the case to go through, which allowed them to create a good argument to stay in the US by being productive members of society. If they sped up the process, this wouldn't have even been an issue.

In the end, aren't these people what we want from immigrants? It's ridiculous how politicians don't try to do very much about illegal immigration because it's so pervasive, but when they find a productive member of society who is trying to immigrate, they throw him in jail because he has revealed himself.
The point of secure boot is that it protects the environment before the operating system starts. If the operating system you're installing is untrusted then you've lost regardless.
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This is the worst kind of marketing for tech stars. I wonder how many people who held them high esteem are seriously questioning any motivations of attending.
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Lots of people in incredibly high-end jobs suddenly find out that these jobs aren't as hard as they always thought, relative to what everyone else is doing.

Forgive me if I'm not exactly overflowing with sympathy.

More power to them though obviously.
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Not a doctor, but my wife is a nurse who cares for renal and GI diseased patients for a living. She has told me that liver problems are common alongside pancreatic cancer and that patients often receive extensive treatment for liver problems, sometimes including transplant depending on the prognosis following remission of the cancer.

There's no doubt in my mind that the liver transplant was directly necessitated by his pancreatic cancer.
Regardless of whether this story is true or not, it's sad to see dedication to work and devotion to the company over all else idolized to such a degree. The only other place I've seen this is in Japan.

I'm pretty sure someone's taking the piss, but I won't be completely certain until I start hearing reports to the effect that his last words were "I wish I'd spent more time at the office".
Or there's very little need for it, which is why nobody has made anything better since.
And you're a fool if you think that the fact that there exists no "total anonymity" (pretty much like there exists no uncrackable encryption) is an argument against striving for a feasible level of protection of anonymity rights.

It's not a question whether you can stay anonymous. It's a question of whether you should be allowed to - which you should.
Yeah, but those things took place before reddit so we don't have to care about them.
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There's always http://checkip.dyndns.org , which has a lot lower chance of just being suddenly removed for whatever reason.
While this is certainly an impressive feat, I've not found myself impressed with DuckDuckGo's results. I love the principles of having search results be free of personal information but, for a search provider that essentially collects and organizes other search engine's results, I always find myself back at Google. Often times the result I wanted was as many as 4 or 5 pages back, whereas with Google it's usually in the first 5 or so results, immediately seen on the first page.
Google said all along that Honeycomb source wouldn't be released, and that ICS would be the next public code release.

Public code releases have always lagged official announcements by a few weeks.

Google is doing exactly what they said they would and what they've always done. The whining strikes me as a bit silly.
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Perhaps it is because they don't want you to pay US taxes?
AT&T iPhone 4S activations top 1 million
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Showing the power of social media: Rovio marketing budget for Angry Birds: $0
There's not much of a story here. Where chips are fabbed doesn't matter than much. When the A5 came out in the iPad 2, it was manufactured by Samsung (that decision was probably made around two years ago) and nothing has changed since then.
It might be a substantial amount, but it is a legal way to live in the US. So your factoid while interesting is not exactly accurate.

Also, to put the $50K in perspective - Canadian permanent resident visa has a requirement of showing $10K in available funds, and there is a metric ton of such visas getting granted every year. $50K is not far off.
I think the point is, ethical progress (be it through abolition of slavery or greater tolerance of difference) should lead to a greater positive effect on the status quo.

If other forms of social, economic and political injustice take the place of previous abominations, the net result is a state which appears disinterested in positively affecting its ethical standing on the world stage.
This clearly violates Article 15 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

No it doesn't, no-one in this story is being deprived of their nationality. In any case, the prohibition is on arbitrary deprivation, and a 15 year long court battle is not arbitrary.
Just a note that you can easily get a credit card issued for Peter Parker.
I agree with your conclusion, but the violation of article 15 is not perfectly clear: the tricky word in clause (2) is the adverb "arbitrarily" - I think it is generally taken to mean that, in the context of the article 15 being about statelessness, nations are obliged to offer a citizenship path to refugees, but otherwise are not obliged to offer a citizenship path to anyone else.

I got this impression from an article I read ages ago, but 5 minutes with Google Scholar did not give me any sources to back this impression up.
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caniuse.com is simply a very useful website, is there any demand for an equivalent for C++11 features?
Linux development began in 1991 if I'm remembering right, and as far as I know, the first cash infusion came from DEC to help port it to their architectures in 94 or 95. The core of the OS was written, functioned and generally worked on x86 machines.

How much money did Drupal start up with? How much money did Wordpress? How about phpBB?

The distinction I might have failed to make is that the corporations came AFTER the product. They spawned industry around the product. Yes, Drupal et al have become commercial, but they were bootstrapped products to the best of my knowledge.

Again, $200,000 is a lot of money, and should have been a near infinite amount of money for a lean startup whose members are straight out of college. That they're only to the point that they are with the funding they've had, and that they're asking for more funding is ridiculous.
Can you be more specific on #1?
Monthly users: 130 million.
Daily users: 30 million.
Minutes of gameplay a day: 300 million ~
Marketing budget so far: $0
It looks beautiful but I have no idea what you are offering beyond something that sounds like a todo app? Didn't sign up for the newsletter.
It's my own hobby vps, so I could use telnet there if I felt like it. I think if I've made a screenshot of it it might make people's eyes bleed, since I've modified the minimal theme which came with it a little to fit my taste. :)

I don't see the web interface too often anyway.
I don't know why you're using scare quotes around open source. By every reasonable definition of the term, Android is an open source project.

It may not be RMS style Free software and it may not be a community-driven project, but it is absolutely open source software.
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This is great. Actually I think it says more than how to measure your startup. I think it says what are the important factors in your business. What you should be concentrating on doing as a startup.
Yeah, and I'm sure that his entire statement would have been quoted in the press :-)

"We talked with Yegge and dealt with the matter internally, and besides, I didn't read past the first thousand pages"

gets quoted as...

"I didn't read past the first thousand pages..."
This is incredible. I wish we developed mobile apps, because I'd jump right on this. I'm working on something similar for our web apps, but using the application logs (Rails) to develop "click paths" for a logged in user. We use Airbrake for error notification, and it collects a lot of useful data, but it doesn't tell us how the user managed to get to the point of failure.
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5. A device that lets you know whether the dishes in the dishwasher are dirty or clean.

I would pay for a device that simply washes the dishes at once, one at a time, only dishes.

It could be a hybrid of a toaster and a car washing tunnel: you insert the dish and it spins inside the device with sucessive phases of soap, rinse, drying, the the dish pops up, hopefully not falling to the ground.

Same for glasses.
I read most of the journal entries when they were on his site (they seem to be removed now) and found them hugely interesting. He is obviously very talented, not just at making games, but also as a writer; he wrote the screenplay for the recent PoP movie. The journal was well written and a really interesting view on the 80's video game industry.

The only shame is that this eBook won't contain the videos that were in the journals before. Most of the animation in the original PoP was done by rotoscoping (or something like that) and he uploaded some of the old footage he used. There was a particularly great one of his brother doing the running turn, which was remarkably recognisable.

I would definitely recommend if you have any interest in making games, or in the creative process in general.
That sounds so fundamentally broken that it's hard to believe you're not referencing a Joseph Heller novel.

As a non-Googler, I would love to hear more about this... if you won't write the blog post, mind if I interview you so I can? :)
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Sure, I'd be happy to. This is certainly a product I'd like to be using.
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This is the paradox of capitalism. Focus on creating something inherently good and it will not be sustainable. Focus on creating something sustainable and profitable and it will most likely not be as inherently good as it could be.

Example: McDonalds. Brilliant business model. Awful product.