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I can't speak authoritatively since I didn't work on that component, but Amazon takes the integrity of these things very seriously. I would be extremely surprised if any of these widgets are "tainted", as it were.

For all the crap I've thrown at Amazon in this thread, if there's one thing they are clean of it's working against their customers. It is, by a very long shot, the most customer centric big company I've ever seen.
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pg, I understand your frustration. The OP starts off in a tone that is way over the top, and the language is completely unnecessary. However, wouldn't you appreciate the distinction of a “partner” (a conscious relationship) from a “consumer” (unconscious)? They might be consumers of Apple/Chevy/Clorox products, but this seems more like a partnership.
This. A million times this (and the parent comment too.)
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We don't have one historical person who invented the paintbrush. It's prehistoric probably. But we do have Ritchie.

And yes, ge gots to be far more important because he's first in the food chain. He invented the paintbrush and went on inventing the art itself.
I would have agreed with you except you ignored that I did indicate a specific incidence, the fact they hold a Superfund site. I didn't want to get back and forth on points, as I knew pg would not wish to debate them.

I did a full research study on Monsanto as part of TA'ing for a Professor who taught "International Political Economy" of Food & Hunger. I'm about as informed on the subject as I'm going to get short of doing a graduate thesis.

Regardless of how you count the numbers, Monsanto has at least one super fund site, a public externality that we have to deal with. See here for a discussion of reasons you can count many more to be under their guise: http://projects.publicintegrity.org/superfund/report.aspx?ai...

Or just skip along to http://www.epa.gov/reg3hscd/npl/WVSFN0305408.htm
Or look at some of their past sites: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/npl/d980309.htm

Furthermore, you can take a look at some of the litigation: http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/MONSANTOpressrel.htm

Or go straight to the meat of things, the case of McFarling vs. Monsanto: http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2008/artspdf/feb0803.pdf

Oh, and there's plenty more factual points of interest, this is just the tip of the iceberg shall I go on?
You may wonder why Apple just released an iTunes Movie Trailers app:

http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/12/apple-releases-itunes-movie-tr...

Well the 'trailers' part is just an excuse. Its real purpose is to provide the showtime and ticket purchase facilities which can then be hooked up to Siri to automate all of this. Apple currently uses Rotten Tomatoes for its movie ratings on the iTunes Store, but as you mention the integration of the iTunes Movie Trailers App, Siri and user feedback is likely the future plan to replace any reliance on third parties.

The next step for Siri is e-commerce; to integrate purchasing of tickets & table bookings through the voice interface. The original Siri (prior to Apple) did this and its only a matter of time that Apple re-introduces it with that extra bit of polish and automation through the iTunes / App Store CC account.
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I think they having made bigger mistakes than this, seems a bit of a non-story really.
Not always dumb, sometimes just angry. Maybe even with good reason. But that's still no excuse for the behavior.
Happened to me before.

But I luckily noticed right away. But its not really something that Google could completely prevent.
Condolences to family and friends. C was my first programming language. Owe a lot to this man.

What a sad week.
Yes, but that's true of anything, right? You could accidentally misread a traffic signal and drive into the middle of oncoming traffic. But like with sharing on social news sites, you can usually recover quickly enough that it's not a big deal. Slam the brakes, delete the post, etc.

People make mistakes and no software can prevent that.
Shame on Hacker News's audience that the front page isn't filled up with Dennis stories right now.

Right now 14 of the top 15 stories are about Dennis Ritchie.
They did admit it was a mistake and apologised. That's quite a lot of big businesses these days
Theano is also very interesting in regard of array computing, I've used it for very fast convolutional-neural-network training on GPU, but it can do many things (automatic symbolic differentiation, code generation, etc): http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/

I do really love the PyPy work for 'creating a faster Python'. I have a lot of scripts in Python that do parsing and then some work with numpy. These would hugely benefit from this.
I read K&R at university in 1986 and found it to be a model of clarity, spent a year supporting Turbo C for Borland when it was first released (that improved my language knowledge no end)

Biggest problem was the first Turbo C compiler folded floating point constant division back to front which makes one of the early programs in K&R (Centigrade to Farenheit conversion) fail. That got fixed fairly quickly.

He leaves behind a truly amazing legacy of C, *nix and the K&R book.
Most people make enough money to not need a bonus, so they might value spending their time not caring about Google+. I could make a lot more money as a hitman than as a programmer, but for some reason I choose programming.
This is again a different argument. I understand it is more fun, more rewarding and more challenging to implement a new array module on top of pypy. But it is seriously doubtful that it is the best way forward to make pypy usable for libraries which depend on numpy.
If they do this deal it's because they see Amazon as a threat.
I know what you mean, there is all that nostalgia of going through that book so many years ago and learning the programming constructs that would benefit all of us professionally for years to come.
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TechCrunch tries to clarify the contradiction.

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Similarly in mobile, where worldwide subscribers have grown from ~400 million in 1999 to over 5 billion today. The smartphone segment of that is still relatively small, but it's growing 100% year over year.

Meanwhile, today's largest Internet companies have five times as many users as the entire Internet subscriber base in 1999. My point is, startups that can profitably solve a problem have HUGE markets to sell to!
Exactly. It's hard to even really comprehend how deep his influence goes; we're so surrounded by it's hard to even see it sometimes.

Consider that every single person reading these words are doing so using technology he created -- after all, even if you're not on a UNIX derivative you're probably on an OS and web browser written in C.

How much code is written every day in C and its descendants? How much more in languages that themselves are written in C?

dmr is part of an very small group of computer scientists that truly changed the paradigm of computing for everyone everywhere (Turing, von Neumann, Engelbart, ...) As long as there are ones and zeros his name will be remembered.
K&R is the only book that I have currently three copies. Two editions in English and one in Greek. RIP DR
When I first learned C one of the things that a lot of professors hammered into me was that C doesn't care.

Writing good C meant really understand what was going on underneath. All the functions were meant to be powerful. You want to shoot yourself in the foot? C lets you do that.

Banning functions? To me that sounds ridiculous. That is why you wrap functions with another layer of abstraction. If you want a garbage collector then you should probably wrap your malloc calls. Same idea.
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I get to hear about how stupid I was to reject a regular job at a bigco from my dad. We've an agreement for an year, where I get to try out all unconventional ways to make money(startups, freelancing, indie game-dev,etc). Everytime he comes up with a phrase starting with "you should have...", I offer to add another month to the one year promise :-)

Since I work with a remote programmer from home, this becomes quite a distraction when dad's on a vacation.
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If you dislike the school system you'll love reading John Taylor Gatto.

ADHD is normal in a school setting, it's one of the most boring institutions on the planet, on par with a city jail.

I met the criteria for ADHD. However, when you have to give children the same class of drugs that cause people to find credit fraud interesting you know something is wrong with the school system and not the kids.

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This is what they had my friend on in Grade 7. Insanity.

"A meth user can stay awake for several days at a time, and is often content to perform repetitive tasks -- even having the patience to stitch together shredded documents."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4460349/ns/technology_and_scienc...
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They did a segment on that in an episode with Bill Bailey on QI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXSw07zrio
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Of course you should do what people need. But it's easier when you solve someones problem and you like what you do.
Right-o, that is the "tick-tock" terminology that I believe Anand popularized.

They keep tech the same and shrink die (32->22) then in the tock, they keep the die size the same and improve tech. Then the next tick, take all that new tech and shrink it again and on and on.

Seems to have worked out well for them.

SandyBridge (as you pointed out) was the "tick" (32nm) with the 22nm "tock" IvyBridge planned for next year.

I think the wildcard in this "tock" is the tri-gate transistor stuff. It'll either be incremental and we'll see our standard 15% hop in performance, or it will unlock a lot of potential on the high end for power savings, over clocking and growth which could be very exciting.

OR, we are all blindsided by ARM chips from Qualcom/NVIDIA/Samsung and start working on our phones :)
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I obviously never knew the guy, but something tells me he would have...
It really depends what you're bringing to the table.
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>We don't have a policy on how to accommodate deaf or sight impaired customers,

This is not legal in the UK under disability discrimination laws; I'm surprised it's not the same in other countries.

As well as being not legal it's a pretty shoddy way to treat potential customers.

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Cool! I'd be really interested to read how it goes; if you have problems; if you get any customer feedback.
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Maybe it should be better to say working smarter which includes not wasting so much time and validate idea. I agree with your argument.
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I see how some of that criticism might be valid, but I was missing an alternative suggestion for integration testing frameworks
Let's say you want to target the agrisoftware business. You might see if they don't have a tablet offering - then write a simple data collection app for farmers. There'd surely be forums online to give you some idea. Then show it to them, and see if they want to license it or buy your company.

You can also pick an industry and field questions on LinkedIn or Quora.
> The EU (and the UK)

Just curious, why did you make the distinction? The UK is an EU member state and is implied when you say 'EU'.
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I've talked about this with friends before and many of them were amazed at the amount of freedom I was given as a child. From about age 6 or 7, I was allowed to roam with local children until the street lights came on and as long as we stayed in a group. If I was late I would not be allowed out the next day, or longer depending on how late. Most of the other neighbourhood parents didn't really pay much attention to what their kids got up to (it wasn't an affluent area) unless it was illegal or ridiculously dangerous (bamboo blackpowder cannons fits into that category). We would go into forests, creeks and occasionally get all the way to the beach (about 5 kilometers from our neighbourhood). Most afternoons would be spent building things or planning something. I even taught other children how to fix computers so we could play games. I'm only in my mid-twenties so this isn't one of those, "back in my day..." stories but I rarely hear of similar experiences from anyone under 30. Has anyone else had a similar upbringing or have you raised your children with actual free time /and/ personal accountability for their actions?
>His spirit will survive longer, than we all can imagine.
Man is driven to create. He created.
And everyone wants to create something that lasts.
Link for anyone looking for the Unix haters handbook: http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf
Indeed it was an amusing tongue-in-cheek point of view on unix.
being able to write hello world in c++ and knowing c++ like a master are two different things.

I wrote a nodejs c-lucene extension in c++ and i still feel like a little baby in c++
Absolutely, unquestionably overprotective.

Children should be adults in training. Over the last 2 decades or so that has become less and less true.
If you click 'assuming it's a phrase', Wolfram says: "A strong positive emotion of regard and affection, of the kind humans sometimes express towards one another and computational knowledge engines express towards the internet."
link is dead :(, can this be seen anywhere else?
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Buy and sell stuff. Christmas is coming up, you could package together different things and sell them as gifts. Easy and cheap to test with Shopify and some Google, Facebook, Reddit, Stumbleupon ads.

When you do that, you're bound to notice lots of niggling problems about selling stuff online. Then you can make something that solves those problems, and sell that to other retailers.
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True, I hadn't considered that for a lot of those there isn't any other way.
In fact it is good recursive code, mathematically speaking. It's just that some compilers are bad at it aka doing brute force instead of tail recursion. The main selling point of these "interpreted" languages is the programmer productivity. Now why the hell one would have to write more complicated algorithms just to go around the compiler? C does this just fine. The 0.6 seconds to 5 minutes difference for the same simple algorithm shows that something is fundamentally broken.
You're looking for a solution, not a problem. I know that sounds like a cliche, but it's exactly what you're doing. And chances are, your solution won't have a problem. Or mostly likely, the problem will be so small and inconsequential that a viable market for a new unfunded business doesn't exist.

We founders overestimate the size of new/niche markets by orders of magnitude. We also forget that it's perfectly acceptable to enter existing markets.

You need to solve a serious problem that's a high priority for lots of people. It does not need to be new. In fact, unless you are very technical, your solution won't be new. Don't ask people if they'd use your product. Ask what problems they have. If they name your problem, Bingo.

Let's say my product is a an automatic nail clipper. It cuts nails perfectly in 1/10 the time. I ask you, "What's troubling you these days?" If you say, "It takes me too goddamn long to clip my nails", well, I'm onto something. So ask yourself, "What's up?"

For me, I was troubled finding medium term accommodation in a new city (Berlin). It really troubled me. I knew about AirBnB, but only went to it as a last resort. I messaged people asking what price they'd do for medium term. Worked great. Made me think there should be something dedicated to monthly rentals. I have this problem every 3 months when I move to a new city. It's such a pain in the ass that it's the only thing that makes me want to go back home.

Let's take AirBnB. Not new. Not even remotely new. Big market? Of course. Simple? Absolutely! Niche? I guess; they started in a smaller area.

Anyway, solve a problem you have. It's not easy to solve someone else's problems because, apart from having no industry experience, you don't even have personal experience.
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I got Dr. Sbaitso with my Creative sound card when I was little. I remember asking him all these questions about sex, then printing out the conversation. Then I panicked, thinking my parents would see it, and tore the papers up and hid them in our basement. Good times.
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Yeah, that wasn't true when I made that comment earlier. I'm happy that the community seems to have come to its senses.
HTML-ized version of the 1st ed. manual: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/

(Which works as mirror, given that the Bell Labs site seems to have crashed under the weight of the news of dmr's dead)
Yes, for many workloads C/C++ is faster, and often lots faster. However, we are now close with dynamic languages for some workloads.

Dynamically typed languages are doing AOT compilation and also starting to get very good type inference, such that code is getting similar to C++ speeds. See the 'shedskin' rpython to C++ compiler, and the latest firefox JavaScript type inference work. PyPy has shown faster than C speeds for certain workloads. Also, the luajit2 project has shown faster than C speeds for certain workloads. This comes from being able to do full program optimisations at runtime over module boundaries which is not possible in C/C++.

C/C++ compilation is still much more advanced and faster in certain areas. Especially with auto vectorising, and a vast array of research and resources put into it that is far ahead of dynamic language developments.

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When I read the original post I thought what a great company! This kind of a culture will enable them to attack themselves before anyone else can. I'd rather have people tell me what I'm doing wrong than false, drunk on kool aid praises.
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Phone calls make sure I waste my time trying to get your attention via low-paid level one staff who have minimal training and who possibly hate me and all other customers; until I give up navigating your awful phone-menu system and getting misunderstood by aforementioned staff and being put on hold for hours
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I agree that email (as well as phone) is a better solution.
Don't be absurd, that's not going to work.

Do you go after 300 million people or do you go after 10s of thousands?

This is a problem with your states, not with the general idea that in the US the internet retailers are getting away with helping people avoid sales tax at the moment.

This was inevitable, if you didn't see it coming you're a fool.

Also this type of 'problem' is easily automated by computers, you're just going to have to pay for it.
Hopefully the sale of his baby to Google isn't what killed him. My 1st gen Motorola flip phone was oh-so-cool! RIP
"UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity." -- Dennis Ritchie. RIP.
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It can certainly add things to the to do list (including geolocation information - "Remind me to call my wife when I leave the office" is the much cited example).
I think my childhood was similar. Although I recently went back to the place I used to live in, and the huge lawn behind the houses was not as big as I remembered it :-) There might have been parents watching from the windows without us realizing. But we also made bicycle trips to the lake on our own, certainly no parental watching.

It was also normal to walk or cycle to school on our own. I really hope my children will be able to do the same.
Style considerations in the other replies aside, this had the same hit-you-in-the-chest impact on me as the Jobs' logo. Kudos.
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For a total outsider it is nice to read what people inside google think.
Thanks, great! Is the semantics of a reminder and a todo the same, though? Perhaps it is. A to do list is a list of stuff you want to do at some point and mark as completed as you go along. You can probably emulate this with reminders, right?
Yes, precisely the opinion of somebody that has not written anything in Go.

Not to mention somebody quite biased given that Go has been way more successful in being used to build actual systems than Alexandrescu's D2.
I wonder what will happen to books like this, as these guys pass away. For instance, I don't see updated versions of Stevens' books, which are classics in their own right with regards to network and systems programming on Unix. I learned a ton of things from those, and wow, they're sure beautiful books.
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The HTC Desire has the speaker on the back and it doesn't have this problem.