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It's interesting that you say that.

I was actually primarily referring to the non-financial side of the employment decision which I would argue is huge. That's why I said "they want to work for big dogs rather than wimpy bureaucrats" instead of pointing out that the SEC could never pay them as well as BMO or GS.

Setting aside whether you think this to be true the perception among undergrads headed into finance is that investment banks offer work environments which are high intensity, committed to excellence, meritocratic and so on. To them the idea of being involved in some sort of paper shuffling bureaucracy is really repulsive.

The truth is there are still lots of people who don't hear that their buddy got a job at GS and immediately think they are some sort of a scumbag.

I haven't responded to the comment below about the CIA but I think that rather than proving the point that its all about the SEC being underfunded it actually shows how culture/ perceived importance of the work/ mission/ impressing your friends etc etc can totally outweigh an organizations ability to pay when it comes to attracting talent (Wimpy bureaucrat certainly isn't the first thing that comes to my mind when someone says the CIA or the NSA). The CIA's entry level economic analyst positions top out at 90k which is where most entry level IB positions start, yet the CIA still manages to attract some of the United States' best and brightest econ/math/finance graduates.
yes and sophisticated HFT systems screw large funds from moving into and out of positions with relative ease/fairness. This cuts both ways, thus pros and cons. At least with a specialist, everyone was relatively even in that regard. Now, measuring the distance to the server in micro-seconds of fiberoptic wires, I can literally create an unfair system by owning the closest supercomputer. I disagree with your point and think that my 'compromise' tax is pretty damn fair considering. Also, I'm not arguing about the merits of digitizing the exchanges, I'm arguing that there was a cost to removing the specialists, it's obvious now, and we should fix it. The specialists were bad in some cases, enough to get people to change, but the system is just as corrupt now as it was then, just differently.
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I also found strange was the "Like the iPhone itself was standing on the shoulders of giants (iPhone to PalmOS: hi daddy!)"

But wasn't PalmOS at least inspired by the Newton?
Dear sbuk,

After the cold war, the military cut off most of its funding to AI research, resulting in the AI winter. Without that source of funding, we have to look for the next best source, which is big corporations. Google is one of the best examples of such a corporation because they deliver AI services to billions of users every day.

Now is google a "paragon of virtue"? Hell no, nor is any institution in capitalism for that matter, however, we should still recognise _allies of virtue_ and in a way I would say that Google is one such example, not only through their support of AI but also through their support of software freedom.

For example, the Android project, lead by Google is an essential part of the free software movement and really the good option on mobile devices. And well Anrdoid 3.0 isn't entirely free, Replicant largely fixes that, and Anrdoid 4.0 largely resolves any of these issues. Apple iOS, on the other hand, isn't even comparable, because it is full of DRM malfeatures.

The workers at Xerox PARC stole those same ideas from people like Engelbart and Sutherland, at the very least Apple paid for them.

The workers at Xerox PARC never "stole" anything, they hired lots of people from the nearby SRI organisation which first released most of the features of the GUI during the mother of all demos.

just like Apple and Microsoft are.

Before, Microsoft and Apple, the GUI was essentially the exclusive business of a few private individuals, and the "contribution" of Microsoft and Apple was to make it into a tool of screwing over millions of people. The thing they "contributed" to is their bank account, not technology.

The offer their services for free for the purpose of gathering data about you to sell to the highest bidder.

Then don't provide Google's services with data you don't want them to have. That's pretty simple. At least Google isn't selling stupid DRM ridden devices like Apple is.

like the opinion piece that you link to

What is your objection to that piece?
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provide a legitimate reason why he was an asshole.

Judging by his fanboys' comments, this should be guilt by association.
Then you end up with a situation like they have in Russia:

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See my response to sanderjd above.

No one ever thinks wimpy bureaucrat when they hear CIA or NSA. They think security clearance, report to the president etc. Thats definitely part of the reason why the CIA can pay relatively low starting salaries for economic and financial analysts (I checked) and still compete with the banks for high quality talent.
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2. Change that to "limit leverage, everywhere".

30-1 and up leverage never has been and never will be safe, necessary, or a good idea. Not for Fannie and Freddie, not for investment banks, not for Citi and Wamu, not for LTCM, not for the Euro banks, not for individual mortgage borrowers.

Never, for anyone, ever, a good idea. Far, far, far more destabilizing than something like HFT.

1 rule and you can pretty much put a cap on how badly things can get blown up. Limit everyone everywhere to 10-1 leverage.

We can live with a slightly lower, more consistent growth rate.
>It's somehow disappointing that human race hasn't been able to come up with (or more precisely - hasn't evolved enough for) a better system.

A little off topic, but since it was bought up, I am going to mention that I have been thinking of a systems where members of Parliament or Congress are hired by a committee from the general public and then last for something like 20 years terms (unless he or she themselves resign of course). It would take advantage of the separation of powers spreading power out among different kinds of people, so it would not have the problems a dictatorship or monarchy have. It would also allow specialization.
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Very well put.

I think it is also because Rose is a huge Mac guy, even fell and bruised his eye while protecting his iPad, and wants to understand how Jobs was able to make products that have so captivated the world. I don't think either Rose or Isaacson are techies, so they aren't approaching the discussion from a technical perspective, which is good, but from a general business and individual in history sense.

I agree, a great inteview. Makes me want to read more of Isaacson's books.
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By pure coincidence, the exact set intersection for "things rms has stuck up his ass and been unable to extract."
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Emacs already supports touch gestures: https://github.com/greboide/emacs-gestures. As ever, we have it all ;)

While it's actually completely different from this, the way it worked on Emacs was neat too. Unfortunately, the video of somebody demonstrating the gestures seems to have been removed.

The one neat trick from there I remember is that you could touch a list function name, draw a question mark and get the documentation of the selected function. When I get a tablet (one of these days...) I'll have to try it out.
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There is more than portability to consider. I find the iPad is easier to use for programming in awkward places. But maybe I'm the only one that does crazy things like write code from the tractor while I'm out in the middle of a field.
In my state they can also tow a car that's parked without plates (I don't know about California).
Oh man, you read my mind, I couldn't agree more about everybody trying to whitewash the rest of his life.
I think this is exactly the idea behind projects like BYOB/Scratch (http://byob.berkeley.edu/). I think it's pretty successful at introducing people with no previous experience at all to programming at Berkeley, at the very least.

Coincidentally, making a Scratch app for tablets (I suspect Apple may not cooperate, but it could be for Android) would be really neat.
Why do you find it strange (iPhone inspired by PalmOS) and then make the same claim (PalmOS inpired by Newton)?

Most people accept that ALL mobile OS platforms gained inspiration from others. The only exception are Apple followers who seem to think Apple invented everything and now everyone just blindly copies them :S
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First, a note about political firings at Google. They're always made to look like performance-based terminations. This is actually a nice thing to do, because it gives the targets time to find other jobs. In Silicon Valley, a 60-day PIP is more than enough severance to bridge to the next gig.

Word coming out is that one person was, just this week, put on an unexpected 60-day PIP for sharing opinions of the Real Names policy on internal G+. It's likely that he's been set up to fail. If this is accurate, and I believe it is, there'll be more to tell in late December.

It's worth noting that individual Googlers have shown nothing but support for this person as the story has developed.
This is absolutely not the TLDR. It's this and it's so much worse. I'm in DC right now trying to put a stop to this.

Everything about the DMCA and safe harbor gets thrown out the window. These folks even have the audacity to redefine the word "including" to mean "including but not limited to" which is pretty shady.

There are people more capable than me who are writing about it -- Start with http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=protect+ip
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And iOS doesn't do that?

Let me get this conversation straight.. Someone says that it's strange that android is so large. Someone else says iOS is big too. Then someone comes in to say that they are not large, they just suck at getting the compress/encrypt issue right. No one, other than obtino, thinks that it was simply a mistake that Xuzz put 'then' in his/her post?
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Here's why the rich get richer: because the 99% produce too damn much.

Consumerism worked for a while to keep things even, but we've reached a plateau. People can only buy so much crap. But we're more productive now than ever [1].

So where does all that extra money go? The people at the top take it. CEOs don't give their employees raises, and pocket the rest. Bankers play games with your excess money you've dumped into the market and "lose" it. etc.

No-one's missed that extra money until now, because there's always been enough work to go around. Now there's not. Maybe people aren't buying because their "confidence" is shaken. Maybe the Chinese are "taking our jobs". Maybe people don't need more crap.

Guess what, it doesn't matter. Everyone's stuck on debating why there's not enough work to go around. But really, the solution's simple.

Everyone should do less work.

The only way to simultaneously (a) reduce the income gap, (b) lower unemployment, and (c) not return to wasteful excessive consumerism is to shorten the work week and raise the minimum wage.

Those at the top will be forced to pay more per hour worked due to decrease in supply. This will fix the income gap.

The unemployed will suddenly find work, now that more workers are required to perform the same amount of work.

And no-one needs to find any arcane means of "increasing consumer confidence".

I propose a mandatory maximum of 35-hour non-overtime weeks, coupled with a 20% (or greater) increase in minimum wage. Necessarily will likely be a short-term (5-year or less) exemption from these policies for small business owners (defined as those whose executives take home in salary + bonuses less than some threshold, say $200k).

There once came a day when humans were productive enough that a two-day weekend was warranted. As we continue our march down the road of automation, it is only natural that we give ourselves more time to enjoy the fruits of our labors, and not devote our time to serve those more fortunate than us.

[1] http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USARGDPH
The Google that was everyone's darling from the early part of the past decade is gone. If you want to learn how big companies work from the inside, or discover the true meaning of "the one that's deprecated and the one that doesn't work yet", go for it. If you'd rather deal with the acquisition and management of disk and RAM quotas instead of coding, apply now!

When one of the questions to "ask the eng elders" is "how do I become an elder", and when the only real answer is "go start your own company", the sweetheart days are gone. If you weren't there in the beginning, you missed the train.

It's unfortunate, too, since there's a lot of good infrastructure left over from those classic times which is all tied up inside. It's treated as Secret Sauce and will never see the light of day. Various escapees have started re-implementing bits and pieces on the outside, however, so this will eventually take care of itself.
It seems like it'd be pretty easy to have do "something" on a server, and then just mail you the package you need to submit to Apple, given a few extra bits of data.

To the point where I've been thinking about doing it for a long while, but clearly someone was way ahead of me. :)
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I don't get this article's logic. The original iPhone was unveiled in January 2007, 11 months before the timeframe of November 2007.

The grid of icons thing had been in mobile phones for years and years before Android or the iPhone. What Android borrowed was the capacitive multitouch-style interface of the iPhone.

I played extensively with the Android SDK public releases before it incorporated touch. So did perhaps hundreds or thousands of others. It clearly wasn't going the direction the iPhone was, at the time.

He talks about facts this and facts that. But the fact is, he's wrong. Android borrowed from the iPhone's new paradigms. Has it been that long ago that we've already forgotten history?

Note that none of his facts come from personal experience. They come from dug up videos.

And again, what's the big deal? Everyone's all of a sudden screaming theft. Iterative improvements are good. They promote evolution and competition (eg. one upping each other's designs).
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I can empathize with that, since I also have some traits that raise similar responses, which I'd rather avoid.

But I'd better word my request as "please don't question my choices" instead of going into that much detail about them, which is precisely what I'd like to avoid in the first place.
Having had experience organizing lots of public speaking/platform events, I can assure you that "please provide milk and sugar" is one of the easiest-to-comply with requests I've ever seen. He doesn't specify that it must be soy milk, or 2%, or half and half. He doesn't say it has to be natural cane sugar grown on the sunny side of a hill and harvested by certified sugar cane naturalists during the summer solstice. He just wants milk and sugar; beyond that he leaves the details to you.

Worst case scenario is that he doesn't use them, in which case you're out what, two dollars? That is peanuts compared to what some riders cost you by specifying elaborate A/V and lighting setups, specific vendors and contractors (i.e. friends of the speaker) you have to deal with, luxury transportation and lodging, et al.

As to the "what kind of tea" issue, he helpfully solves the problem for you -- he'll bring his own, which he is guaranteed to like. So there's no scenario where your failure to choose the right tea will result in him being tealess. Strictly speaking the only thing you're on the hook to provide is hot water, which is free and easy to scrounge up at short notice.

It's really a remarkably stress-free document, as riders go.
I remember vividly back in 2007 all the Blackberry-clone screenshots of Android with multiple buttons and scroll wheel. Not just the one referenced in the article, but many screenshots and no screenshots of a full touch interface. And then around the time the SDK was released in November, there started appearing the full touchscreen interface we see today.
Best part of this, for me:

> "The latest hot restaurant [in Oakland] only serves Mac & Cheese and beer in mason jars and is 2 parts hipster and 3 parts toddler."
This is a new bill.
I think tablets can be very useful as accessories. For instance, an iPad makes a great, general purpose MIDI controller for making music, but is currently a long, long way from threatening a laptop as a serious music production tool.
you've got to batch process this task. Just go through employees until you get the answer, or a close approximation. It's still faster than aimlessly searching. Think of it as a kind of meatspace binary search.
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The sad thing is that it seems that the worse a bill is, the more likely it is to pass.
I, too, was disappointed by Richard Stallman' talk. We were a bunch of students in a conference in general software engineering. And he was invited to give a talk about copyright and freedom.. cool, right?

Not exactly. He came in and started acting like he really didn't wanted to be there and didn't care at all about us, the place and the organizers. I'm usually not the kind to judge someone else dressing but Stallman' look was terrible. Not terrible like in "old geek" or whatever; terrible like I had pity of him. Seems like he didn't washed for days.. anyhow, let's continue for the talk.

Before even starting, he started yelling "OPEN THE LIGHT", " I SAID OPEN THE GODAMN LIGHT". That was crazy as hell. Basically, what he wanted to say is "Please, open the light because I don't want my audience to fall asleep". But jesus, there's a way to say things and a way to say things.

And, as much as I wanted to like him and the talk, it was extremely boring and even false at some points.

And, with all that, it just makes me really sad. It makes me sad because this is such a genius and a legendary hacker but it seems that he stopped trying.

It's like if you see someone trying to open a door by pulling really hard when it's clearly written push. And, you see that person getting frustrated and over frustrated about the fact that the door doesn't open.

For me, Richard seems like that. There are ways to make things change. But you have to adapt. As someone already said "It's easy to go outside and whine, but true revolutioners dress up and change things from inside the system." (or something like that).

Stallman could give so much if he wanted just a little bit, but he decided to keep pulling that door.

Look, we get it, it's supposed to be called GNU os and not Linux. But there's a way to explain that to total newbies that don't know the history of unixes. It's not by being frustrated in front of an audience that people will understand and change their minds.

Or when he talks about freedom, it seems so theoretical. Yeah right, Ubisoft should publish their code open sources and preserve the right on their assets. But comon, there are lots of money and families involved. Even thought it would be nice to have everything open source, in practice, you have to make trad-of. And, in my opinion, it's better to be practical and try to make the world a little better, rather than being an extremist and changing nothing.

There's a reason why it's called Linux and not GNU; and yelling after everyone won't change that.
nitpick : the grid is not a storage system.

You can feed to, and take from the grid, but it's not a battery.

The Grid is like an open water pipe with holes in it - you can put water back in, or take water out, but you can't store water in it. The power stations are pumping in at one end, and the users are taking out all along the pipe.
Perhaps this is a silly question, but do we have any information on available roof space across the United States? I'd be interested to see what kind of power output could be produced if we were able to add solar panels to a large majority of the nation's buildings.

Though I suspect that kind of distribution would significantly increase costs for duplicate components and may fall victim to low efficiency transfers into the grid. Afraid I don't know enough about how today's systems operate.
he's a billionaire and the laws didn't apply to him.

It is more likely the other way around. People who see that kind of major success are people who refuse to listen to others. Not obeying the law of displaying a license plate is just an extension of the demeanour that allowed him to become a billionaire in the first place.
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I agree with everything you said but the one thing you didn't mention is he makes the mistake of dating the prototype to the Techcrunch post. When in fact the prototype was obviously from an earlier version (hence the SDK looking like an iPhone).

As he said in the article Android had been in development for years before Google bought the company.

What is noteworthy about the "Blackberry" phone is the entire paradigm is different. The navigation is different. The desktop-esque icons on the home screen are different (the blackberry prototype had a dock type system where as Android has the icons on the desktop). The resolution is different (notice Android phones with keyboards have smaller screens but a similar resolution ratio where as the blackberry protype had a wide, short screen)

Notice how the touchscreen in the video works like the keyboard prototype and nothing like modern day android. Look at the 3 minute mark. See he's navigating through a dock. See how the commands are through menus and not icons like modern day android. Notice no pinch and zoom (he uses a button on the side). Notice no swipe (he's using a button on the right hand side). It's as if they took a keyboard prototype and rushed out a touch version (and then added all Apple's look, feel and gestures later)

Compare the phone shown in the video to the G1 (http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artikelen/681/tmobile-g-...) which had gestures, 4 icons per screen, swipe to get between screens and so on.
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