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BitTorrent is a trademark of a legal company that's trying to make money to pay employees. Google is censoring their name because they've decided they're involved in illegal activity, not because they actually are.

If Google decided to censor your business would you be happy about it?
I'm sure the "bit" in "BitTorrwnt" is used because people don't know the difference as use the brand name as if it were the same as the technology. Do like Rollerblades? I much prefer inline skates. See what I'm saying?

The real solution would be to solve the piracy problem and have the BitTorrent protocol go back to being widely used for its intended purpose. It wasnr intended as a piracy tool, it was intended to be an efficient, decentralized file sharing tool like p2p networks. If those protocols were being used to share the newest office memo in the company network or just non piracy related files in general then there'd be no need to the restriction and it's unintended consequences and we could revert the autocomplete policy.

It's the rule breakers that made it this way and that's where your frustration should be directed. But I'll admit that's pretty hard these days. I'm only 25 and I'm the exception but the rest of my generation and younger seem to think piracy is fine and have this sense of entitlement about it. That needs to stop.

It's pretty clear this isn't arbitrary just like the Rollerblade example I gave before. Typical users often think you have to type in a URL into the search engine. They never use the address bar! They get from site to site using a 3 step process. 1) Go to search engine of choice. 2 Type in desired URL 3) Click the first result. Those people are the reason the filter is so broad, but in the end it's the pirates who created the need for a filter to begin with.
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I understand his perspective. I dabbled in programming as a child and teen, and then was an advanced user, running Linux on my desktop for years. At the time I started actual programming, I knew what a 'for' loop was, but not how to write one in any language - even Bash. I didn't know what an array was, or say, the difference between C and C++, to say nothing of functional and object oriented concepts.
> I think the fact that no one has bothered to write a
> limited configuration format is telling.

Specious reasoning. There are a lot of people that just know enough Haskell to fiddle with their XMonad config and/or copy-paste bits from other people's XMonad configs.

I'd say the ratio of XMonad users who would build a easy-config system to total XMonad users is small. You're trying to claim that total XMonad users = X, and since X people are using it without creating the 'new system,' it means that no one sees the utility in it.
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Why is that lockup not 34 days for execs and 18 days for employees?
I haven't been in the hardware world for a while, so I don't have a great answer to your question. For concrete embedded systems tools, I'd look to see what springs up around chips like the OP (I think Parallax made a massively parallel chip a while back, too?). Hardware system design is already all about explicitly decomposed parallelism. The problems to be solved are really from the software perspective of not caring about how concurrent resources are automatically allocated, as long as the constraints are met. If you're looking to learn how to think about parallelism in that manner, I would learn to program in a popular high level language such as Erlang.
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A while back I got frustrated with slogging through the ultra slow Apple documentation pages. I kept asking "Why is it faster to lookup the UIView docs in Google than directly on developer.apple.com?" So one afternoon I cooked up this super-simple page to make it quicker to get to the docs:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1892875/ios/ios_search.html

Just start typing a class name in the box. It autocompletes for most class names, or you can hit "enter" and it will run a little Google search for you. Stackoverflow answers are thrown in just for grins.

As you can see, this little page is super primitive, but in fact I use it constantly when I'm programming on iOS, just to avoid that molasses-like Apple interface. If anyone feels like expanding on this script or building a better version - please have at it.
I don't understand it. Some of the people posting comments on this topic are acting extremely pompous. The word 'programmer' on a resume does not mean you're in a elite club or society. It means what the job title implies: a programmer is someone who writes computer programs. There are all different variations of skill level though, just like in any profession.
You're right but the only way to make that important number better is with growth or cutting expenses.
I allready posted it in this thread but I just cant help myself.

Stuart Halloway: "Simplicity Ain't Easy" (https://blip.tv/clojure/stuart-halloway-simplicity-ain-t-eas...)

This Talk is all about what simplicity acctually means. He compares what people think it means and he looks at the words origin to find out what it acctully means. Then he shows a quick example.
"Here is what to do if you want to get a lift from a Vogon: forget it. They are one of the most unpleasant races in the Galaxy. Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous. They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters."

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This is a video of Reid Hoffman talking about the importance of giving and impact. Happy Thanksgiving!
While I agree that Picasa's UI is pretty bland, I still love it because it so easy to upload and sync and share photo albums, which is basically all I do with it.
From what I've seen, not really. GitHub.app saves you from needing to know what staging, push, pull, fetch are. If you're already productive with Tower then I think going to GitHub.app would be like putting the training wheels back on.
I think only ~50% of google's revenue comes from adwords. That's leave's 50% as a target for facebook.

Also there can be other ways to measure intent. For example analysing content of chats or status updates in real-time.

And given large amount of IPO cash + huge user base, maybe facebook can build a good enough or interesting search engine that could draw users.

Also , facebook's data could be the basis of TV ad targeting when internet TV becomes the norm. So there's another revenue source.

On the other hand, google can combine all sorts off data to get strong targeting, so it's not clear who will have better targeting.
I'm a lousy chess player, so I'll stick to your comment about "small quanta". What you suggest is one of the features of Agile Programming and the art of refactoring. Taking your music theme further, many applications are like a symphony or even an opera; large, complex, lots of performers, large complext score, need for a conductor, etc.

Your chess inspired idea of programming is more like a jazz group - being clued in, playing off one another's riffs, improvising, etc without a score or conductor. Speaking of which, you might want to check out Live Coding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding).
There is no problem. Some websites are just hiding behind "censorship" so they can look like victims when they're actually acting illegally. Now I seriously doubt that Google will begin to blacklist these sites. That would be a step just a bit far. That is true censorship.

For now they'll let you find whatever you want, legal or not. They just won't give you any extra help along the way. I mean, even without the bells and whistles like autocomplete, spelling corrections, +1 suggestions, etc. you can still very easily find anything on Google without much effort.

It isn't Google's job to punish illegal activity but they have every right to take away the extra helpful tools that basically shove it in your face. In fact, why would Google even want to censor sites that contain illegal material? Forget the outrage about censorship for a moment. I think law enforcement would want "bad apple" sites in Googles index so they can be easily found and their owners prosecuted.
True, but it's constantly evolving, the technology as we know it today would have been given nowhere near the resources without a large source of income attached. Given that as it stands it is an arms race with ever evolving SEO strategies I don't think it's to big of a leap to suggest that Google Search without the resources it has would be less equipped to keep up.
Google is a search engine, not a content provider: the less time I spend on it, the better it works.

On a personal note, I very much dislike the walls facebook builds around its experience: it annoys me almost as much as content farm popunders.
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Yeah, I've had similar experiences with Wikipedia. In the end I just gave up trying to contribute. Some user even has a bot that now chases me around when I make edits...
To clarify, over 800 followers on github. Over 10,000 followers on twitter.
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I still have MSN Music and Buy.com purchased albums in WMA format hanging around my music folders on backup drives... paid in full, "purchased" music that was turned into junk data I can't decrypt and play when the stores turned off their licensing servers.
I believe he did engage the committer and membership population. You're response, disagreement or not, is proof of that. Disparaging the way he did it with statements like "just because you post to your blog" is completely unfair.
My experience is similar to his. I have a business degree and worked in accounting, but decided I'd like to get back into programming after dabbling in it when I was younger. I wrote some Rails apps as side projects and put them on Github, which ended up helping quite a bit.

What made the difference in the end was good social skills. I met the CTO of the company I work for at a Ruby meetup, and had a good conversation with him. I ended up applying for a position he was trying to fill, and after an interview and a review of my projects on Github, I ended up with a development job without having any formal experience. I've been at it for over a year now.

So, this is definitely doable as long as you're committed to learning a lot, and are able to sell yourself well enough to convince someone to give you a chance.
Ask HN: Google keeps randomly consolidating and unconsolidating URIs to my pages
Hi Guys,

I need some help here because I'm at my wits end.

I own a medium size site that has had excellent Google presence for the past 7 years. I have some very high-traffic pages that differ only in a URL parameter - but the contents of the pages differ entirely. No data is duplicated, no content is duplicated, or anything.

A month ago, I became aware that Google was consolidating all search results for mypage.php to mypage.php?id=4, which makes no sense as the most popular page is mypage.php?id=1

I added a sitemap with explicit references to the different urls, added the HTML canonical URL tag to each page, went to webmaster tools and resubmitted the sitemap and each link individually, and went to webmaster tools and specified that the id query string is NOT to be ignored and specifically defined its behavior as specifying and differentiating page content.

A week went by and a distinct search result for mypage.php?id=1 went back into the Google results and I thought it was all over... until today when I find that all mypage.php results are being consolidated as mypage.php?id=1

What can I do? Where did I go wrong?

Search terms: "EasyBCD" should go to neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 and has been in 1st place position forever. Now it's no longer there, but somewhere around position 6 is the result pointing to neosmart.net/dl.php?id=4 - a completely unrelated page. :(
> > Overall, it seems much simpler and safer to just correct overflows in the compiled code.

> Simpler: yes. Safer: yes. Unfortunately, it's also much slower.

In my experience with something similar - compiling LLVM to JavaScript in Emscripten, which also needs to properly implement integer math in JavaScript - it actually isn't a lot slower. On the Emscripten benchmark suite enabling overflow correction everywhere makes it only 5% slower. We might be running very different benchmarks I guess.

(However, overflow correction does increase code size a lot, which is why we have tools that let you get rid of it where it isn't needed.)
Hmm, how is this any worse than reddit or stumbleupon or delicious "profiting" from sharing everyone else's content? It's just reorganizing the information that is already available?
Some people working for Google pointed similar thoughts even before the launch of Dart, too.
I had similar experiences with Wikipedia. First time, I added some references and definitions related to a theoretical computer science concept and it was deleted for no reason.

Since then I stopped making edits unless something is incorrect.
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First of all, the author is wrong. Someone saying "Hey, I know that person, they're an expert on X," does not mean they belong in an encyclopedia. Furthermore, a sizeable group of people already had a discussion on whether the person meets Wikipedia's standards and decided that they do not.

Now, the author feels entitled to barge in without learning anything about how Wikipedia actually works, and complain that it's too hard to find the right place to go and complain. The author even managed to complain when someone helpfully pointed out that he went to the wrong place to revise a pointless and already settled argument.

Seriously, this is a Wikipedia success story. If this person had been allowed to just barge in and trample Wikipedia's policies on who is notable, despite having zero knowledge of how Wikipedia works, that would have been a Wikipedia failure.

If the author had just been willing to spend half an hour learning about Wikipedia's policies instead of bitching on a blog, and figured out how to revive an already-settled issue, he could have successfully managed to waste people's time on this. But no. "I demand to be listened to NOW, and if I'm not, Wikipedia is Closed and Unfriendly."
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I changed 'tyre' to 'tire' in an article and got a vandalism notice on my talk page. That's when I stopped contributing.
I know from professional experience that he can go from zero to competent very quickly. He will keep that job exactly as long as he wants to unless the company doesn't know how to manage their resources.
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Do you mean offensive sites in general or just these file sharing sites?

For torrent sites I think I'd be pissed. I'm no fan of piracy and I'm not an apologist for those sites at all but I don't think it's Google's place to do that. Google's mission is to index and organize the world's information and blacklisting websites like that would be hypocrisy. Even if we all agreed it was okay for one site it becomes a slippery slope where Google can use that for their own or their partners' benefit. There'd be an exodus and Google would slowly lose market share from that point on.

It's one thing to stop making it so easy to find a site that you barely have to type 2 letters before you get what you want. Its an entirely different thing to limit access to certain sites. If its not on Google then it doesn't exist on the Internet for all intents and purposes. We're back to emailing each other links in that case.

This should be as far as Google reaches on this short of banning these sites. From there it's the job of users to stop supporting piracy and law enforcement to shut down illegal sites in their own jurisdictions using the current laws and without creating new laws to prosecute people unless it's absolutely positively necessary.
I think a lot of the problem is that measuring editors by edit count is like measuring programmers by lines of code.
I'm sorry about your case and the frustration that you had to face. However, they must be doing something right since Wikipedia has millions of user contributed pages? Also it might not be easy to administer a website of that size where anyone is free to go ahead and edit any of the hundreds of thousands of pages. Maybe they are settling for 99% satisfaction? That said, they do need our donations.
It works best with GitHub repositories, but you can use it for basic git commands with any git repository.

I'm not sure that it supports pushing to/pulling from anything except GitHub, so you might still need GitX/Terminal.app for that. I can't swear to this, though.
How are we blocking Googlebot? If we're using robots.txt then they can simply ignore it. Googlebot can begin to identify itself differently. There are a million ways to get around a Googlebot ban and I wouldn't be the guy who thinks he's smarter than Google. You'll lose that one. They'll find a way.

But anyway, this isnt really relevant. Can you tie it in for us?
My experience developing at digital agencies in the early 2000s agrees with the article. Terrible pay, insane hours and no recognition, even when you pulled off the impossible.

Never again.
Again? Are we not sick of this conversation yet?
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XMonad users by definition already know at least a minimal amount of how to create their XMonad config file. That's like saying: "We created a Linux distro for the masses and it didn't appeal to power users, therefore nobody wants it."

You're also dismissing the possibility that is just sucked, and was not an improvement in configuration interface.
The thrust of his arguement is that since he believes Jessica is more notable than he is, and wikipedia has an existing article about him then his opinion should count.

However, an alternative conclusion could be that he isn't notable by wikipedia's standards and his article should also be deleted.
The hardest part to that for me is the "get to know people" part. He already had a mentor before he started learning. How would one get a mentor in the first place? How do you get to know other people?
This is a funny one. I love designing and coding - it is my passion. I do it for my employer, but my passion is not the subject matter or business model of my employer. I have a lot more excitement working on my own coding projects at home. What is my passion though? The coding or the business?
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1. Split your workers into departments.
No one single worker should handle all the processes.

2. Use forms to guide people through the process. It
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3. Take some upfront payment. That will discourage customers
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I absolutely admire you.

There are so many people in this world who pretend that something is preventing them from learning or doing something and you went out just did it.

You may (or may not) be the best engineer in the world, but I'd hire you in a hot second just because you have the tenacity to make it your mission to figure something out. Sometimes, 90% of writing code is just sticking with a problem until you get it.

I've given 100's of interviews to people who are either fresh out of school or have been programming for a while now. The vast majority of these people have no gumption to actually create a github account or do any sort of experiments outside of what tasks they are given at work. It is very sad to me that most of these people just want to collect a paycheck.

The learning never stops, keep it up.
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Done. https://github.com/csytan/sublime-text-2-github

Funny how writing the documentation took the same amount of time as writing the code for this. :)
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I only ever work on something I would personally want to use.

There is no guarantee that anything you make will take off but chances are you're not alone and some people are enough like you to buy your product.

Unless you're Homer Simpson and are thinking of making a new car that is.
I was facing the same question with my website. I decided the best way is to put a minimum viable product out there with minimum investment to see if it is getting any traction.
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It blows my mind that anything has to meet some arbitrary standard of notability in order to have a Wikipedia page. This is the Internet. Encyclopedia Britannica can't have a brief overview on every topic imaginable, because it's got to fit in a bound cover. The freedom to have information about absolutely every subject in existence seems to me the biggest benefit of putting an encyclopedia online, not the fact that "anyone can edit" Wikipedia - obviously, this is not true. Anyone can hypothetically write for Britannica, but only those that pass a certain muster actually do.
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