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Sounds like one of my projects, Perl as well. What did I do? I manned up and got it done. I took on a load of technical debt to do it, but that didn't matter, because the cost of missing the deadline was higher than the cost of sorting it out later (which another team is doing in C# I believe).

What exactly do you think you do that the company pays you for? It isn't programming. Programming is just a tool you use to solve business problems.
"Don't be evil" is a flawed motto to begin with and should have been something like "be good" if they were serious about it. People thinks all kinds of things, like war, are "not evil".
You have no idea how many jokes he makes about the length of the Android source code. They're hilarious too.

He was just trying to be funny. I don't know why one comment about a post that wasn't even intended to be posted to the public is being nit-picked to such detail.

Sergey is just a normal guy like all of us. Sure he's the CTO of a very important company, but it'd be cool if he were treated like a normal person too. Why should he have to be held to a higher standard of political correctness at all times, even when commenting about something fairly insignificant (in both mine and probably his opinion).

I don't want to argue about the importance of Steve Yegge's post, but let's just assume that we've already made the assumption that it isn't too significant.
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Oh, that looks really interesting. It looks like it didn't exist last time I was looking.
I have real problems with declaring Bill Gates 'amazingly chartitable'. Yes, he's given away huge chunks of money to worthy causes, but how did he get that money? By operating a business in a way that twice got him convicted as an abusive monopoly.

Microsoft's market position was hugely enhanced by them illegally using one captive market to create another. They forced up prices for their customers and forced competitors out of business by illegal means.

So yeah, he's giving away lots of money, but to me it's stolen money. That's not charity.
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Who said anything about entrepreneurs? Most Google+ users and not entrepreneurs and don't want to be entrepreneurs.
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Which bits would you leave out?
Everyone seems to assume that he meant this in a serious fashion, but for all we know he meant it in jest and had a huge grin on his face while he said it. It's easy to jump to conclusions, the internet being what it is (the biggest 24/7 news network on the planet), but without at least the audio, and preferably video as well, we shouldn't be so eager to take up pitchforks and torches.
What do politics have to do with it? He clearly cares about Google, or he wouldn't have bothered to write his post. Also, there are classes of problems that can realistically only be solved at a big company.
The first line of his response ("I stopped reading after ...) was a joke. I don't see how the second line, quoted above, can be construed as a joke.
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But then you're adapting against yourself, or some limited set of demo bots. It's not the same as out in the wild.
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Ok, just for mr. Brin then:

"Services should be composable or sooner or later we'll get a competitor that gets this who will kill us."

I hope that accurately summarizes the essential bits, if you disagree or can shorten it further feel free to correct.

If there was one thing that pre-saged the decline of any large entity then it was probably the management being surrounded with people that agree with the management, and having their ears closed to the rest.

Someone that disagrees with you, even if it is verbose is worth 10x more of your attention than someone that agrees with you. Why? Because in disagreement you will find knowledge, alternative viewpoints and advancement, in agreement only confirmation.

Worst case he could have asked one of his underlings to summarize it for him and hope that nothing of the message got lost.
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I'd never use it either, but I'd also wouldn't post nearly as much information on facebook as most of my friends do.

Ones own preferences might not always be a good indicator the public's preferences.
Did they use their new funding to pay for this?
With great power comes great responsibility. Once you are the CTO of the #1 web company you have to expect that you're going to be held to different standards than J. Random Blogger.

The fact that you consider it 'fairly insignificant' is probably what drives your view of this more than anything, consider the possibility that you are wrong.

Yegge is anything but dumb and when people like that speak up, publicly or otherwise and you employ them to further the goals of your company the smart thing to do is to listen.

Nobody is all knowing.

If you hire such people to ignore them do them and yourself a favor and don't waste their time. After all, what's the point of having talent like that on board without at least hearing it out. Verbose or not.
I don't pretend to be a comedian, but it seems to be just reinforcing his first assertion (which he was kidding about). I actually think he's referencing something internal related to having to make certain descriptions shorter.

So, I should probably also mention that Sergey is known for making /lame/ jokes.
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Looks like a good idea. Anything to improve personal finance education for children has to be applauded.

There doesn't seem to be much structure or categorisation of the videos unfortunately. Surely there should be some basic concepts introduced first before moving to a more advanced level.

Ideally, I'd love to see a children's version of the Richest Man in Babylon. The seven rules in that as an animated series would be great, for children and adults alike.
dangrossman has given an adequate explanation though I have a question? Why couldn't the Opera people make it the default search engine? It's their piece of software and you're free to change it to anything you want.

People seem so quick to cry wolf.
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>"He was intimately behind pushing us"

A poor choice of words perhaps...
This is kind of off topic, but isn't it a bit of an unchecked assumption that Steve actually died of pancreatic cancer? He had pancreatic cancer, seven years ago, but it was operated on, and his more recent health problems involved a liver transplant. How do we know that it was a reoccurrence of pancreatic cancer (which wasn't supposed to happen, and which reportedly didn't happen when Jobs had his earlier health issues) and not some other problem caused by a side-effect or complication of the Whipple procedure or something?
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I think people took exception to the quotes around working which implied disbelief.
I think the right to film a public official doing his/her duty in a public setting should be a no-brainer.

However, this article goes to state that in France, there is no right to free speech (no equivalent to the US First Amendment), which I think is 100% false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_by_country#Fr...

The French Revolution followed our own US Revolution and Constitution fairly closely, and the French "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" also guarantees the right to free and open speech, as a cornerstone of a free and open democracy. The difference being that the courts can limit certain types of content that harms the public (i.e. Nazi propaganda, certain types of pornography, etc). I think those are valid arguments that the courts rightfully decide in regards to where free speech ends, and harming the rights of others begin.
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By no means did I mean it was dumb. I meant that this kind of thing happens almost every week inside of Google. There is a ton of discussion going on all the time and Google is known to be a company where every employee's voice is heard.

Steve's rant was a bit longer than usual rants, and he was just pointing that out in his kind of lame way. What would be a satisfactory answer anyway? "I thought it was a good idea, we are going think about making all of Google into platforms right now"? Or, some no-op response that most CEO/CTO's tend to give to things like this?
I don't doubt that Max Klein heard this rumor from his "angel" investor friend, but there's no backup and a random(?) picture to get the point across. For me, this is just a rumor until the news breaks with more substantive details.
Not to forget being listed as the best search engine for private browsing by ConsumerSearch which is a part of the About.com network and has pretty decent traffic. http://www.consumersearch.com/search-engine-reviews
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Nonsense. I'm a big fan of long-form literature, short stories, essays and plays, but if all you want to do is get a point across, you'd better use something else.

;-)
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Nicolas Nassem Taleb, in either Fooled By Randomness or The Black Swan, opened my eyes to this. He was talking about the financial press. He gave an example of something that rose dramatically early in the day, and the news confidently offered an explanation, worries about X. Then it fell dramatically later in the day. The explanation? Worries about the same X.
Here in Austria we have these things already .. dunno if you need to get a license for them, or something. But anyway they're definitely available to the general public - I've been in a few restaurants with 'jammer' stickers displayed prominently on the front door.

I'd buy one, personally. I can't stand dickhead drivers and if this is some way to make the roads safer I'm all for it ..
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Besides, tablets which are pretty much in the same range as Netbooks are nicer for all of these activities, and with better battery life. Though writing emails isn't as comfortable.
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It's an ARM core on a chip manufactured by Samsung (i.e. not a Samsung core).

Also, if the "A5 is SoC including RAM", then the RAM is on the same piece of silicon as the ARM core (for it to be SoC). Not sure how it's possible for Samsung to make part of the silicon (for the core) and someone else to make the RAM. Perhaps the RAM isn't on the A5 after all ;-)

There's no risk in Apple switching manufacturers (e.g. Samsung Nexus uses a TI OMAP SoC CPU, instead of a Samsung Exynos for the Galaxy S II). Switching to Intel is the massive risk, since they don't use ARM cores at all, so the O/S would require a rewrite.

Finally, the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture isn't aimed at lower power computing (Intel Atom chips are based on the Bonnell microarchitecture), so there's unlikely be 3D transistor technology...

Apple's real move would be to drop the A6 entirely and focus on the same CPU's used by Android, since the both Android and Apple are using ARM V7 instruction sets with Cortex A9 cores.
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Journalists edit quotes and mention them out of context. The "1000-page" comment surely wasn't completely serious.

Here's a 1-paragraph summary:

"Our current approach to building products closes them off from each other, and from the rest of the net. That limits their usefulness to only what our product managers could predict and our engineers could build. This is a serious issue that will cause the products - and the company - to die. The alternative is to start thinking of products as data and functionality sharing platforms, let them interact, let outside devs play, and let the ecosystem grow. Growing an ecosystem this way is worthwhile: Amazon did amazingly well out of it even though implementing it via Bezos-mandate sucked in so many ways. Let's do that, and do it better."
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The hyphenation seems a bit off. The word mathematical is split as "mat-hematical" which I'm quite sure is incorrect.
The funny thing is Brin's response is in direct contrast to Gundotra's - both of whom were being interviewed at the same time.

Gundotra was diplomatic and used the question as an opportunity to brag about Google's culture of openness. Brin used it as an opportunity to either:

A - crack a badly worded joke

B - slam Yegge

One can only hope it was option A, though given the way it's worded I don't doubt there is some venom in there.
I suppose now ICANN maintain it, it makes it easier for it to become an internet standard.
I wholeheartedly agree with you on this matter. Things are truly just like you stated them. But the truth (as sometimes the case is) has this property of being at least a bit inconvenient to some.
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Python was especially well suited for on-device development as you're not so dependent on special characters not available on typical phone QWERTYs.
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I can't see a Lytro camera replacing a "pretty decent point-and-shoot"; they're very different.

The post-hoc refocusing feature is neat but I can't think of many practical or artistic purposes for which it would actually be more useful than having way more pixels. But I'm not an expert photographer and could easily be wrong. One kind of situation in which it might be useful is where an object is moving rapidly towards or away from the camera, but not moving much laterally. Then the freedom not to worry about rapid and accurate focusing might be useful. As soon as your object is moving laterally too, though, the limited resolution is going to bite you: you've avoided having to locate the object accurately in z at the cost of needing to get x,y right, so to speak.

There may be non-gimmicky applications for which Lytro is The Right Thing. Right now, I can't think what they'd be. Depth measurement, perhaps.
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Followed by a long time with psychic and health issues.

I'm not sleeping too well this week, so not up for any brilliant public comments. Short version: I got into a job after 2 decades of hiding out as a homemaker because I was too overwhelmed with psych and health issues to do a full time job. So, yes, it can be done. I commented on this previously here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2293021

Best of luck.
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I think the very first judgement you should make about a piece of software is whether it works or not. After all the user will never care about anything else.

That being said, if you are in a team and you know you all will have to extend or maintain the code at some point, then discussion of coding style, program features, choice of data structures, etc, is healthy. These things are important for a growing application, getting them right will make the software more robust and make maintenance more efficient.
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> Switching to Intel is the massive risk, since they don't use ARM cores at all, so the O/S would require a rewrite

I think the idea behind the Intel rumour is that Intel would 'just' be a fab in this scenario. They would license the ARM tech and fab the A6, so the story goes...
To people complaining about the form factor: most cameras look like this. It's only consumer cameras (low and high end) that have the typical form you can hold in your hands comfortably. Industrial cameras for machine vision often have this "rectangular tube" form.

That said I don't know what their target market is...
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And an interesting contrast with writers, for whom, perhaps, technology is just a tool, not a medium.
I think I can see a big market in that old technology early adopter, the porn market.
That ... might not work well for putting photographic subjects at their ease. Or for casual street photography without getting arrested.
Except why only push it in their smaller markets?
He does mention port 65535 and calls it a "restricted port". Anyone have an idea why? Is it used/reserved for anything special? I have googled and that turns up only some trojans using the port...
I think I can see what you say about virtual property, even though I don't agree that it should all be logged, I agree that it would be public, something that any other user himself could track. So if they only see my activity within that property, than that's one thing, but once they get into my browser and gather information from it, than I think the boundary is oversteped, and they are now in my own property (my browser) and searching through my stuff.
That's an even bigger story, as it would mean Intel is no longer able to design CPU's LOL
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