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That is incredibly interesting. That essentially boils down to "make ads that don't piss off users, or be blocked".

I think this is a viable truce between people who hate ads and people who make ads. The only people who suffer from this on-going war to increase the snr of the Internet are website owners themselves.
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Wow. Makes me wonder: Does Apple have a design division that does all the design? I assume that Google does not, ie they have a "Google Maps" division, a "Google Currents" division, etc. that just creates the product, and delivers it. I wonder how these companies differ in this regard?

Thoughts?
Making an observation isn't in itself problematic. It's all the bullshit that people tack on after that. To wit:

There are jobs and social roles that are clearly perused mostly by men and some mostly by women. That's because man and women are different.

This is either tautological or fatuous. You've gone from a simple observation (in 2011, some jobs are held at different rates by men and women) and suggested that it's somehow a natural feature of the universe, like the gravitational constant. There are a lot of possible explanations for the different occupational frequencies, and you seized on one of them with no proof and no apparent thought about alternatives.

200 years ago, women (and, say, black people) weren't doctors. People argued then, as you do now, that the current situation was just the outcome of natural differences. They said that not because it was true (it wasn't) or because they had any real evidence (they didn't). They said it because it was convenient for them to believe that.
This is really interesting. I wish the pictures he provided were a little bigger though. I still don't know that this really improves on the originals. To me, part of the genius of Van Gogh is his unusual use of color. The "improved" versions look nice, but they also look sort of boring compared to the old versions- they are more realistic, but they also loose a lot of the whimsicality and surreally of the originals (two of my favorite traits of Van Gogh). I guess my problem with this article isn't as much the new versions of the paintings, as the authors assertion that they are superior to the originals.
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the standard adsense doesn't, but the publishing network does (with doubleclick)
Back of the envelope for the computers is what, $12k? Add in $2k or so for the TVs and you're at at about $15k. That's a pretty doable amount for someone without other expensive hobbies at ~$100k/year, which is around the starting salary for Google SWEs. So I guess if normal SWE compensation in the Valley is defined as wealthy then yes?
The vision of the initial creator often needs refinement to achieve its highest impact.
Amazon has quite an awesome service actually for the few times I had to deal with them. They also have quite a few users. Oh, but right, those are actually customers paying for what they get. I guess Google support is what you get for using a free service after all.
So what you're saying is that Gecko (libxul) has gotten too big, and that development of libxul stuff (Gecko) has stalled until it has fixed. How is my title sensationalist? For those wondering, the bug where this is discussed is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709193
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The problem I have with this is not the display of some ads; it is the tracking that advertising networks perform. I would love to support some smaller sites, but not at the expense of my privacy.
Early 2012 we're aiming for. We're launching our WP7 and Android readers first.
In regards to "kids these days" and

> What happens when a generation completely comfortable with remix culture becomes a majority of the electorate

Not shit.

I grew up several generations ago. We all made mix tapes, violated copyright with our VHS and Betamax recorders, Xerox machines, etc.

Then we grew up and most of us discovered we liked money and so sold out to anyone including copyright cartel who would give us a share of their take.
I hope Howard is even a fraction of the investor Warren is. I mean, don't get me wrong, Howard is probably great, but when your dad is considered one of the best investors ever, its hard to live up to that legacy.

And yes, I've read the article, thats a pretty long list of what Howard has achieved in his life thus far, its nothing to sneeze at.
Could this be simply because you're taking their search for granted? Perhaps because I Chrome, I find Google search to be my main way of getting around the internet, both for specific sites and specific queries.
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I've put many hundreds of hours into making my forms simple and to the point. I've considered dropping them into a public github repo, under a simple attribution license. I'd really like to have other people fork them and make pull requests for corrections/improvements.

Is there any interest in that?
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Oh, be very careful what you wish for. I'm quite the blabbermouth and have spent many years working on learning to restrain myself. <smile>

To try to put it in a nutshell:

I have a genetic disorder -- "atypical cystic fibrosis" -- which is a relatively mild, relatively recently identified form of a very deadly condition (life expectancy around 36 or 37 currently in the US for the traditional form of it). I had to nearly die to finally get a diagnosis. This empowered me to finally leave an oppressive marriage at a time when I was still too sick work. I'm currently facing eviction and have a mountain of personal debt related to getting myself well when doctors say that cannot be done. It's entirely possible I will be homeless come January 1st. I am continuing to function and even work overtime rather than taking a lot of personal time to have histrionics over the latest stressors in my life.

I saw a TV show once about a guy who made millions in (commercial?) real estate. In the interview, he indicated he had been career Air Force and flew over 100 live missions, all of which involved people trying to shoot him out of the sky. He decided that compared to that, the stresses of real estate should be a piece of cake to face. Apparently they were as he was wildly successful.

In addition to getting some life experience that makes you somewhat less thin-skinned, I highly recommend you work on getting information/expertise for any areas that concern you about your business. I am hesitant to say that because people who suffer 'paralysis by analysis' can interpret that to mean "study it more while doing nothing". I don't mean that. Talk to people. Show it around. Get real world feedback. Do research if necessary, but don't get mired in useless "academic" exercises. I guess, in a word: Launch.

Best of luck.
Those benchmarks are very flawed as HandlerSocket only works in InnoDB. This is a better post on the subject: http://yoshinorimatsunobu.blogspot.com/2010/10/using-mysql-a...
The bigger point is that Google has put the cart before the horse. Before they start piling on their superior features Google + needs a killer app or an identity. I wrote a longer thought but it looked crappy in the comments. http://bit.ly/rD59uE
Culture in the USA is not that different from the UK/Ireland/other 1st world English speaking countries. So you have a $109k/year position in SF and a $61k/year position in Dublin. Microsoft figured this out years ago.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-software-eng...
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/dublin-software-engineer-s...
Concur wholeheartedly. Van Gogh's unusual color choices are a feature, not a bug. The author asserts that the muted color pallet for 'The Harvest' imbues the painting with an autumnal glow. For me, it removes the element of the painting that I find most interesting. The other comparisons fall along similar lines.

Of course, this is art, and it's not truly possible for either of us to be 'wrong'. Taking a new perspective on Van Gogh's art is itself interesting, so this is a great read, even if I disagree with some of his conclusions.
(offtopic) Genuinely wondering: I once said "fuck" in an HN comments and got 10 downvotes. Used some other form of very slight rudeness (often considered humour where I'm from), downvotes again. Assumed it was an American thing, tried to adapt.

Now here's an article full of profanity, and an excellent read also because of that, and nobody complains. Don't get me wrong: I love it. I wish everyone on the internet would get their heart out so well. I'm just surprised HN digs it so much. Anything cultural I'm missing?
> Even Gruber can't manage to fake gushing over it

Is a non sequitur insult really necessary to this part of your post?
I haven't used Gmail in several years so I don't know if it offers anything not offered by other services. Smart, simple to manage email is available in abundance these days.

Google search on the other hand is to me at least the epitome of function. I don't even think about how often I use it but it's many many times per day.
Or fatuous. You've made a lot of sweeping assertions about what can be done about culture with no evidence and no obvious expertise.

You could be right, of course, but a lot of the weaker responses to feminism have the same basic "no point in trying, ladies" conclusion that you do, and turn out to be suspiciously convenient for the speaker. So anybody with much history in this is not going to have time for resistance-is-futile comments whose supporting evidence is, "Gosh, that looks hard to me."

That goes double for startup people. It's par for the course that half of everybody tells you your idea is wrong, unworkable, impossible, foolish, or dangerous, and that you shouldn't even try. You quickly learn not to listen to those people except to see (so rarely, alas) if they have some novel point.
dont take what he said just literally, he meant to say dont limit yourself to tradition, people do stuff that other people admire so you can do the stuff yourself, if you try harder..
1. Why junior level? Because I don't want to add memory leaks trying to add features to mongrel2, I'm not enough of a ruby wizard to hack on Rails or Sinatra yet, etc. When I start a project, I want to be doing stuff that will challenge me, but I can still get something done on. When I am hired, I don't think they're going to put me in charge, I think they're going to assign me small things to work on until I learn more and prove myself.

2. My full time job is looking for work. I have many part time jobs, like freelancing, helping my family, farm work, etc. I want to contribute so I can learn. Starcraft will not make me any happier a year from now, or even a month from now.

I use lots of open source. I spent most of a day once optimistically installing what I needed to build Firefox, only to read how long it takes even on quad-core meat grinders. I have a single core 2005 vintage laptop.

In short I don't care if I don't care about the project. The goal is help the job search, sharpen my skills, and maybe contribute something while I'm at it.
I think that I've already read this somewhere? (Google made my son cry) http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-...
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That post is a pearl. Thanks.
However, the skills that make you a good devlpr are almost polar opposite the skills that make someone a good recruiter. Being a recruiter takes a strong sales aptitude.

The sales aptitude gets your foot in the door, a thorough understanding of your clients business and needs keeps you there. Your argument is one of a sales orientated recruiter grasping at straws.

A significant pay packet and a 1st class client list negates your argument that a technical understanding is a hindrance.
Thanks, that would be a good approach, mine is currently very barebones! just trying to get the syntax right and get a feel for using it in actual projects - hope to put up a real sample soon.
Because you're talking rubbish.

Are you an anthropologist, to be able to say how resilient culture is to change? Can you produce some studies to back up this claim?

How do you explain the anti-slaving and civil rights movements? They didn't take 1000's of years, yet the idea black people were inferior was pretty deeply ingrained in the white culture's psyche.

Saying "we can't change the bad things in our culture" is self-defeating and destructive.
Huhtenberg, care to provide a link, please?
Cultural barriers are beyond our immediate control where they extend beyond an immediate institution. If nursing is seen as unmanly, then there's not a lot one can do about that.

Just because it's not your forte does not mean it cannot be done. There are people who are quite skilled at "hacking" culture. Also, culture is not that homeostatic. One of the things about gradual change is that it goes unnoticed so that people take it for granted that "this is how it has always been" when, in fact, that isn't true. Culture evolves over time. The trick is to help it evolve more in step with the times instead of having a huge lag. It's often the degree of lag-time that creates huge friction and pain.
I'm not seeing a problem there. TechCrunch is still somehow widely read. Pointing out stupidity there is a public service.
I think one has to wait for a while before replying at that depth. Obviously it is impossible to adequately measure subjective things like how badly someone wants something except as a function of what that individual is willing to give up to get it. Women are more likely to sacrifice career for spending time with infant children, so we can conclude that they prefer as a group on average the latter more than the former, at least when compared with men. I don't know of a better epistemological way to measure this.

I think you have a fairly complicated set of balancing acts that happen in corporate America which make this necessary. The big one is that maternity/paternity leave has to be as short as possible to reduce disruption to the business, and it has to be fair so the same policies have to apply to men as to women (otherwise you have a big discrimination mess on your hands, bigger than we have now).

So what this means in effect is that the system demands that one parent makes a sacrifice. As we all know how financially strapped middle-income families are (esp. after the rise of the two income family, see Elizabeth Warren's excellent book "The Two Income Trap"), this means one has to go back to work soon. For biological reasons,* this fundamentally favors the man (who will then be favored when it comes time to assess promotions).

* When I worked at Microsoft, you got 1 month paid leave and up to two months unpaid. One month is probably not enough to get really adjusted to life as a new parent, especially for the mother who is going through hormonal changes as well as sleep cycle changes, may be breastfeeding, etc. So after that, the dad goes back to work and the mom stays home for at least a few more weeks.

However, even this cannot explain the willingness to quit so one can take a year or two off work. That's separate.
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The complexity has a lot to do with how a contract is structured.

A good lawyer avoids internal cross-references. They're like the GOTO of contracts. On the other hand, lawyers treat "sections" the way programmers treat "methods" – each section is supposed serve a discrete function, and can be leveraged via cross-references to avoid repetition. So you have a tension between DRYing up the contract language and increasing inter-clause dependancies.

Contract assembly technology is pretty useless in my practice, since I'm most often reacting to the other side's agreement form. It's easy to implement basic Madlib-style contract templates, but in the end it's even easier to just edit a Word or text file. After all, as soon as the other side gets your draft, they make changes, and all your precious metadata goes pretty much out the window.

I'm more interested in tools that help me make smart decisions based on best practices, and what options/risks I ought to consider based on a completely arbitrary contract input.
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In case you missed it, bean counters, not geeks, have been running google for a while now.
They center their products around ads, because that is where the profit margin is. Google is just unique in that it does a lot of externally tangential web services that on the outside don't make direct income but really keep the google brand going and strong. They are pretty much the only company to realize they can have a separation between what makes money and what makes customers.
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Functionally the same, but emotionally different. It's more official. Placing people into discreet groups feels weird to me. I don't really naturally do that. I don't really like the idea of placing people into certain circles while discreetly excluding others.

It's not an egalitarian thing, I just don't think that social groups are that easily defined. Illegibility is really at the heart of it. The entire notion of circles strikes me as being naive and kinda creepy but mostly annoying.
Would the world have been a better place if the civil rights movement didn't have support from non-blacks?

Positive change requires social awareness and participation in that change, not just from the disenfranchised.
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I was hoping for some more meaty details about what exactly is "subpar" about nvidia on Linux (except the closed nature of the driver).

In terms of GL implementation, the nvidia driver has everything you would expect. If you use GL directly, it is one of the most conforming implementations I've been using (supporting "deprecated" stuff like bitmap operations, line and polygon aliasing, imaging extensions, all GL revisions, pretty much all ARB extensions, etc). Everything works from Cg to CUDA to OpenCL to VDPAU. There is really no feature gap between windows and linux.

I've never compared OpenCL to CUDA performance really, but switching to OpenCL for new projects is something I'm planning to do.

My mayor problem, really, is that CUDA is locked to specific versions of GCC, and that is even of a bigger issue than the closed nature of the driver itself.
Who knows? Maybe she could just sell the ebook, then start taking pre-orders once it gets popular.

The majority of published authors don't really make much money at all. it's not uncommon to make less than $10k for a book that took over a year to write. Clearly they're not all in it for the money.

Maybe you wouldn't have as many mega successes, but are the current mega success really anything more than a product of the artificial scarcity caused by the publishing house gatekeepers. Again, who knows?
One problem I had with Pathogen using git submodules (and presumably Vundle as well) was the inability to tweak my plugins. I wanted the ability to be able to modify several of the plugins I had installed and I couldn't figure out a nice way of doing this. In the end I opted for git subtrees but this also seems like an overcomplicated solution.
You could try a side project ala "Start Small, Stay Small", with the 'stay small' being a great way to keep it from being too stressful.
i took a look at your past comments. i'm getting a little personal but i hope you don't mind. you have the financial resources and seem like a mature person, you should move out.

think of it like an investment in learning the skills to be fully independent. it'll also build self confidence and trust in your faculties.

separating yourself from the social conditioning of your parents will give you the breathing room to develop your own intrinsic goals and interests.
Spend a few years at a 9-5 corporate giant, let us know what happens.
Fundamentally I don't think you can motivate people. We may actually be saying similar things, but I think you can only really demotivate them by treating them in a psychotic, demeaning or inhumane ways. Motivation on the other hand is is an emergent, instrinsic human quality that can only be killed, not created. "Not killing it" as you say is largely a question of people actually contributing to work that they find worthwhile and having their contributions respected by the company. But there are some folks who would never be motivated, as they simply do not have that quality within themselves.
It's not the computers that prompted my comment, it's the whole house. The computer desks are just part of a custom built home. Just look at those photos. Especially in California. I don't live there, but from what I hear, a custom home of that size has got to be in the millions?
That's just like a really inefficient way of achieving the same goal (ie. getting the people who want it, to pay for it).

People have their priorities all wrong. You can get brilliant art/music/whatever for negligable prices. Or at least as much of it as is healthy to consume.

Removing copyright places a draconian burden on creativity, while only providing a slight real gain in accessability.
Out of curiosity, why would you suggest choosing from the default schemes? I picked my scheme from a downloaded bundle and then installed a plugin to make it work on a 256 colour terminal.
True, but you may be able to compile with the x86 compiler and link with the 64-bit linker.