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That would require changing every single existing header that currently contains reserved identifiers. Do you have any idea how much work that is? Even if you could somehow magically enumerate and alter them all - and test them, since the necessary renaming of identifiers in non-system headers might introduce a bug - legacy versions would be floating around for years.

Conceptually a warning is a nice idea, but it just isn't practical.
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"Dear Internet..." Oh wait, someone already wrote that blog post and it was already featured on several outlets. Look, Internet, I love you, but here's the thing: it's true. If you want to effect change, you're going to have to work within the framework of the govt. That means that posts like these, after a certain point, aren't gonna do much to help Congress understand the problems with their approach. To recap and paraphrase, Congress does not really care much what some bloggers are saying about issue x; instead the group that does the best job of figuring out how to educate Congress probably has the best chance of seeing the change they want. What say we focus on doing more of that?
Yeah, selection bias alright. I just think I have the more plausible selection bias. That's all :-)

If you are selling nearly a million phones per day it's not the geeks who are buying (don't get me wrong, geeks are buying tons of Android phones – but they are a minority), it's normal people. And normal people don't buy for the OS (at least if it's not the iPhone).

It is my very clear impression that Android phones have become the default generic smartphone. People who want a smartphone (and in all likelihood also people who don’t even know they want a smartphone) but don’t know anything more specific than that will (with high probability) walk out of the store with an Android phone.

The carriers’ marketing speaks to that and also how they place those phones in their stores. Sure, the iPhone gets its stand and Nokia gets its stand but the big table in the middle is full of Android phones at all price points. (And, by the way, no big Android logo anywhere. If there are logos at all it’s the logos of the manufacturers.)
I was about to post about LinkedIn too. I am convinced it uses, among others, reverse view lookups. I have had suggestions for people I know whose LinkedIn profile I had never viewed or searched for myself; the only explanation is they had looked for me. I don't know if it's because I interact with it more frequently and using real personal info but its "people you may know" predictions are eerily more accurate than FB, or anything else for that matter.
yeah this is by far most likely. The guy's wife or whatever had her phone turned on while in labour, facebook knows her GPS coords, facebook knows she's his wife, and so on

doesnt take much to throw out a guess based on a single GPS location + timestamp. Even if the guess is only right 5% of the time it is still a profitable guess to make.
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Facebook has suggested twice accurately places I've visited, but I pretty much specified it in the album (Singapre and Australia).

There is an album now with random photos, with the location "Plekke" (which is afrikaans for "places"). They are suggesting "Plekke, San Juan, Puerto Rico". So, currently I wouldn't suggest machine learning, although it is not entirely dismissible. They have the largest photo db in the world, they could eventually learn and then seed it with stuff like checkins, status updates, etc.

EDIT: I have another album called "Kuala Lumpur and Thailand", which have pretty iconic pictures in it (Wat Pho, KL Towers, Batu Caves, etc) and they haven't asked me about that album at all.
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The first thing our teacher said in my introductory course in CS was that the only difference between a good programmer and a bad programmer is the amount of code they've seen. And from that follows that the only way to become a good programmer is to look at a lot of other people's code.
Count me also for the white version.

The contrast (for me at least) on the green one between the green section and the rest below is a bit jarring. The white one could maybe use a little more colour on top but I do like it.

I think it's pretty damn nice though :)
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I have heard exactly opposite argument. When I automated a process which used to consume hours, vp said this is good but I will prefer to buy a product because inhouse automation creates dependency on individuals. He was right because after hearing this I left within a months.

Years later they are still using my dirty scripts :)
fb don't even matches the check-in of my fake wife at hollywood walk of fame to an pic of it uploaded by me.
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I prefer the green version actually, I think it looks more 'designed' but I also think that 'caw' has a good point about color blind individuals. Also, the wording under Happy Staff = productive Staff doesn't stand out as well on the green. Personally, I am at the point in my own endeavor that I think we spend too much time second guessing ourselves when an A/B test can answer so many of our questions! You might try that.
VA Linux is now Geeknet and is basically ThinkGeek and a few other minor properties (/., sourceforge, freecode). They've shed all of their other business lines, hardware, consulting, Animation Factory, etc.

Virtually all of their business news for years has been ThinkGeek related (which is doing pretty awesome), and various corporate level failings such that all of their other properties have always been a drag on the company, frequently throwing it into the red despite having an extremely profitable e-commerce division.
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Not sure I understand your comment:

* The share of minorities doing startups being at an all-time high in developing countries -- are you referring to people who would be minorities here in the US but are majority in their own countries? How does that refute PG's point about the problem in the US being "upstream" of YC?

* I don't get at all what you're trying to say in your third paragraph, about the USA problem being directly tied to housing debt, etc. -- again, how does that refute PG's point?
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Got to love a "reference design" that looks like a cheap knockoff of an iphone4.
Those birds in the third screenshot look pretty much the same as the Angry Birds to me (I didn't compare them directly, but I don't think that's necessary anyway). You're also directly advertising this with reference to Angry Birds (see title of this post).

I'd say you're pretty much flouting basic trademark law here, and the only way for Rovio to react is to protect their trademark, or lose it. It's all the more likely if they are working on their own title from the viewpoint of the pigs - and I'd say the odds are pretty high that they are.

In addition, the idea of this being parody is not something I'd want to defend in front of a judge...
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No I mean watching it on Megavideo (where you have to reboot your router every x min, watch it in small crappy format). Somehow "google a torrent file, download that file if it has enough seeds, open it with the torrent client and when it's done it will be in this folder on your hard drive", is too complicated.
I really love reading the thoughts of those further along in life than myself. It's like a cheating-style glimpse into the future.

When he talks about college, I can see myself in a lot of that. His perspective on being homeless through college - sophomore year I wanted to build a small house in the campus woods and skip on paying rent.

But once you've established that base connection, it's the thoughts from ahead that are the most enticing for me.

Reading stuff like this is like saving the game in Civ3, then "retiring" and watching the world history animation - seeing the bird's eye view of the world; watching the countries grow and battle and contend for land. And when you revert to the save file, you have a clearer picture of what the future holds. It gives you a sort of pre-emption on the challenges you'll face.
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At some point it should make sense for Mozilla to support Bing : Mozilla is here to bring a better internet, and there can only be a better internet with competition. MS is losing tons of money for operating Bing ; there is a risk that they decide to stop losses. If Bing was shut down Google would be the only lasting real player in the search space, and that would not bring a better internet. My 2c ;)
My photo locations seemed to be mainly based on the album title - I was impressed that it got both locations from "St Catharines and Niagara" correct.

I haven't checked to see if the individual photos are correct. However, at the time I didn't have a smart phone and I'm pretty sure my camera wouldn't provide much useful info.

UPDATE: I take it back: fb thinks I was at a football camp called St Catharines and Niagara! http://www.facebook.com/pages/St-Catharines-and-Niagara/1821...

I think that shows that the title is the most important indicator to fb.
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I would speculate that Canadian Funds and Institutions that hold significant stake in RIM are loathe to see perhaps the most prestigious Canadian company be no longer Canadian. That sucks for me as a shareholder; RIM's management that was once stellar is no longer hungry and focused as it was in the past.
Hi Aisha,
Craig asked me to drop you a line.

There is not enough info here to look at the specifics of the issue, although I do note that you are seeking general advice as to the line you should take - in short what degree of pragmatism you should exercise.

That is a difficult one to answer. You mention lack of time. It is always difficult to ascertain at the start of a problem how much time an issue will take, simply because it is impossible to determine how far the other party are willing to push things. If they dig their heels in, the time expenditure could be considerable. If they are flying a flag, they may simply go away after an email or two - the problem is, you just never know.

In terms of costs, again, it could be a simple matter and cost a few hundred pounds and be resolved by a few letters. They may dig their heels in and you then face either spending more, or finding a work around. Again it comes down to whether they are simply flying a flag, or whether they are prepared to push matters.

Realistically, I would suggest you need to ascertain your legal position in terms of:
a) Whether they do have a trademark;
b) If so, whether your name/logo is close enough to breach that;

Taylor Wessing run free events, both on their own account http://www.taylorwessing.com/twtechfocus/events.php
and through the new Tech hub initiative of the Start-up resource centre http://www.techhub.com/magazine/read/techhubs-startup-resour...

I would try to speak with them - they may offer an initial free appointment for a start up, and take specific advice on your problem, then decide the way you want to go.

Milly.
You know plenty; there is simply even more to know.
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(Works on Windows, too)
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> That's just the largest, most-well known events.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. The fact is that all of those nations I listed have, at one point or another, knuckled under (collectively, if not in the case of every individual) to a despotic government. There's no question that the Russians were cowed to the point that they were afraid to protest, for fear of being ratted out by their neighbors.

Are you trying to say that because some people protested, it's a different story? I that doesn't wash. For every one that stood up, countless people were ground down (e.g., accused of being "Kulaks"[1] or "wreckers" [2]), sent to the Gulags.

> Where was the Nazi injustice for the Germans?

It was positively rampant. If you didn't toe the party line, you were doomed. See, for example, Defying Hitler, by Sebastian Haffner [3]. Quote regarding the latter [4]:

The book is carried forward by waves of contempt and disgust — for the Nazis; for the people who believed them; for those who didn't, yet failed to do anything to stop them; and for the German character itself — but reason is the source of its passion. ...

The question that always springs from accounts of Hitler's Germany is "Why didn’t the Germans resist?" Some of the reasons have long been obvious. There is a natural human instinct for survival, however odious the forms it takes or the lengths it may go to.

...Haffner takes it for granted that Germans knew about the brutality of Nazi rule — brutality that, logically, would only increase as the state consolidated its power — and that they lacked the will to resist it.

...

If by now the incidents that follow are familiar — the intimidation, the erosion of press freedom, violence in the streets, people fleeing or attempting to flee — it’s their novelty to Haffner that carries the book, the distorting mirror effect of the degradation of the ideas of freedom and individuality that should be the very stuff of everyday life. And at the book’s end (Haffner never finished writing it), Haffner sees how easy it is to get swept up in the spirit that was taking over Germany.

It’s announced that all law candidates (including Haffner) must, before taking their final exams, attend training camps for ideological indoctrination and to perform military exercises. Haffner goes off with trepidation, determined to keep to himself lest he reveal his true political beliefs...

Perhaps we're having different conversations here...

EDIT: Added some citations. Upon re-reading the thread, I do think we're viewing this differently. I believe that your point is that some people, maybe many people, did protest. My point, however, is that most people knuckled under. The questions "why did some people stand up for themselves?", and "why were most people cowed?" are both worthwhile, but distinct.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulaks

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(Soviet_crime)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Haffner

[4] http://www.salon.com/2002/09/03/haffner/
I've found the opposite. LinkedIn has been right only once for me. The other 23 people it suggested I might know were people I have never heard of.

Facebook usually suggests people I have met but do not want to be "friends" with.
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It keeps asking me if some screenshots from a virtual world that I'd location-tagged with "Cyberspace" were taken in some net cafe with that name in British Columbia. I'm really tempted to answer yes.
More to the point, the design doesn't tell my what your service actually DOES; some sort of calendaring thing?

The category it's competing in (and thus its feature set) is not obvious to me (a 21yo professional software developer working remotely for an SF company).
How important is the name to you? That's what you got to decide.

If you decide you'd like to keep the name, then don't worry. These guys will have to get serious and actually follow legal protocol before even filing for any case. Such a case would be held in the high court, and this will cost them tens of thousands.

What they have sent you does not appear to be a protocol letter and if they do send you one, they must explore resolving the dispute amicably before they can file for a case. You will get at least 30 days after receiving a protocol letter to respond.

I'd check out what exact trademarks they hold and research a bit into case law surrounding this. Find out if they have a strong case, if they don't, I highly doubt they will spend tens of thousands on taking this to the high court.

Just my 2 cents, i'm not a lawyer.
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This is how it can be done without any EXIF/GPS data with a fairly dumb algorithm.

It's a picture of a baby at a hospital.

There are probably hundreds of baby photos being taken per day at that hospital being posted to FB. Some have GPS and some don't.

The images that do have GPS, get recognized and lumped together as the same "entity" since they all look the same.

FB then looks up where she lives, then looks for any photos that don't have a location (like her baby photo), then tries to match it with any photos within a 50 mi proximity to her hometown. Bingo finds 90% match on the baby pic in the hospital, and asks user for verification. She says YES, then this pic gets lumped together with all the other entities. FB also asks more often since it's "right".
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My day job we have 2 holdouts still using iOS, the rest went BB->iOS->Android. 2 of us went BB->Android direct and based on our experiences we eventually converted the rest.

At a contract site I work at, out of 15 people on the team, only 1 has an iOS, the rest have some kind of Android variant (with 1 having a BB) two have switched from iOS to Android in the last 12 months. I wouldn't say there's significant peer pressure to switch, they just go to the store and end up with an Android device, so I expect carrier pressure is the source.

An inspection of the rest of the organization (about 500 people), shows it to be about 70/20/10 Android/BB/iOS.

At my startup we're 100% Android, but considering getting a couple iOS devices for development, but not day-to-day usage.

I have 3 friends who are Apple diehards, you'll get their iDevices out of their cold dead hands. But the rest are currently Android users, with one switching up phones every so often just to see what the other side has.

Coffee shops and trains around here (D.C.) show mostly Android phones and iPads. Very rare to see an Android tablet in the wild. iPhones are not too uncommon, but seem to belong to the younger, hipper crowd.
In some idealistic sense it's true there is nothing you cannot learn on your own, but in practice there is loads of stuff no-one ever learns except by doing a PhD.
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Years ago I worked with a guy who used to sell computer equipment to businesses.

He told me that when he went to different divisions in each company, they all had org/structure charts somewhere around the office. And in every one of them, their section was in the middle and everybody else was serviced by them. No matter what you did, you were the center of the universe to you.

Likewise, I've had experience building and working on many computer systems for businesses. Each of them, if successful, wants to handle not just their thing but everything for their customers. No matter what they did, they wanted to be the center of the universe for their customers.

You can laugh at these examples, and we all know most software companies have much great ambition than they do traction, but Facebook and Google are actually doing this. They are becoming the center of the information universe to their customers.

This is not a good thing.
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1. Spelling mistakes lower trust ("Maketing")

2. Stock photos disguised as clients lower trust.

3. Homepage doesn't actually say what you do.
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I think I'll set the date on my camera to 1911. A human seeing the timestamp on the picture will just assume its a Y2K bug and will guess the correct data. Since that's extremely unlikely IRL, the Facebook algorithm probably won't know to make this correction.
I have been trying to teach myself spherical trig on my own. I am struggling but the big issue I think is actually that with my ADD, I struggle to do some kinds of problems. I figure I will get it though. Why am I doing this? Because it is a challenge.

I would probably benefit from some mentoring, but that's not forthcoming.

I think a lot of this is the same for coding. You can learn whatever you want to/need to on your own. What a university gives you ideally is a level of mentoring and collaboration that can bring you to the next level (yes that includes, say, learning assembly, something I have taught myself the basics of but never gotten to the point where I feel comfortable in it).

For all this though, I agree that college is supposed to teach you the one think you can't learn on your own: critical thinking. I don't see how one can learn critical thinking on one's own, or at least not well. Not saying it can't be done outside of college. Just saying it can't be done in isolation.

From the sound of the original article though, it sounds like the author didn't feel like he was getting this, and that's kinda scary.
If I were to take a picture of a baby at a hospital, wouldn't the majority of the features be of the baby, not the hospital? I suppose if there's at least one picture in the album that's of the actual hospital, that's probably all you would need to infer the rest of the set was taken at the same hospital.
Facebook knows more about me than I do. I'd be interested in their history file of my location.
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