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Where in that massive patch is the bank bailout? I can't find it in a quick scan.
I created a simple notepad for personal use. It's a textbox that syncs to my server. I have a bookmark to it on my Kindle as well as a notepad widget on the new tab page of Chrome. It can also be accessed from my phone (any device with a browser, really).

When I'm on my computer, it's there every time I open my browser. Anywhere else, It's just a few clicks away.

That seems to be enough for me as I rarely need to sync files, and when I do, I have dropbox.

Edit: Also thought I should mention that before I created my own solution, I used Simplenote (http://simplenoteapp.com/) for the webapp and iOS app. Since then they've added an API and have a few other apps I think.
It's true that people are more creative in private than they are in public. But, that is why brainstorming sessions are so useful.

Brainstorm sessions might surface creativity that has already happened. If you ask a group, "What are some product ideas we haven't considered?", there's a chance that some people have been independently thinking about new products, but wouldn't have thought to propose them.

Or they can serve to direct/request creativity. If you ask "What are some product ideas we haven't considered?", people who had not been thinking about new products, might start. It gives them something to think about on the drive home or in the shower. I've received some great ideas via email a few days after the actual session.
Off topic: The illustrator is apparently Andy Rementer, and while his name isn't familiar, the art very much is. Where else has this guy's work been featured?
What? No top bar customization? That is the biggest giveaway for Bootstrap and the easiest way to differentiate your site.

Once you add that then you'll have something super useful. I've customized the top bar color for a few different sites and it is a bit painful. (there was an open bug about making it easier, haven't checked it lately though)
There ought to be some explainer on the home page. I was staring at the page thinking "...okay, and this thing is ???" The less curious will just leave. Perhaps you want that?
That's nuts, I can't believe they even copied the name.
a nice addition would be a disable button. For example, I never use the grids. Otherwise, great work!
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> that is why I criticise it

You criticise but don't even suggest an alternative, let alone evaluate how well or badly that alternative compares to the median.

That's empty criticism.
there is definitely a a line to be drawn. leaving your family $1bn should suffice for any family of any size, for many generations, for all imaginable purposes.

But when the remaining money is made on the backs of people who struggle to feed their own families, i believe it's quite selfish not to give most of it back for the benefit of millions. It's not quite blood diamonds here, but a similar gist.

THIS would have been his best legacy and valid claim to actually transforming people's lives - not the materialistic vanity gadgets he sold to the rich.
Yeah, CloudApp (Mac), TinyGrab (Universal), and Droplr (Universal) are all great products that provide this functionality. For example: http://d.saew.it/ocSW
With a large company things like this need to be addressed; a lot of time the incentives are perverse to set this up. Consider WalMart. I am 99% certain that no execs there say "make your employees work off the clock" but they definitely have incentives for managers to get more work done with the same payroll, which translates to an incentive to engage in illegal behavior.
Rarely (I want to donate more, but I'm worried about online financial transactions in general). I donate some patches, bug reports and code, though.
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With Windows 7 (maybe Vista also?) you can just type "cmd" in the path of any open folder and it will open cmd in the current folder.
When you pin it to your taskbar you can also use a keyboard shortcut (Windows key + number).

But you're right though, it doesn't save you that much.
I think this comes down to an issue of balance:

Places which have nothing but cubes and sealed-off workers do miss some of the "creative" or "interactive" benefits of open, collaborative workspaces.

At the same time, places that strictly "open"...do indeed inhibit certain types of focused work. Isolation definitely helps progress in particular problems. There are examples throughout this thread of that.

I think the best work environments/attitudes are those that encourage a blend: the last few companies I've worked at have had open, collaborative workspaces, but at the same time really encouraged folks to go find their own nook (in the building or somewhere else entirely) when they needed to focus. The concept of "desk hours" or "continuous availability" was basically nonexistent.

It's all about balance. If your workspace lacks that in any aspect, you'll have something to complain about.
I believe the restrictions on individuals placed by copyleft are necessary and justified.

I'm not against restrictions in general, I'm against draconian restrictions that do much more harm than good.
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I don't understand the appeal of open layouts either. Wherever I've seen them, they have been pushed unto developers from top-down. The arguments I've heard in their favor boil down to "they force people to communicate". Well, obviously, if developers don't communicate than it's a problem, but forcing a layout (or pair programming) does not seem to solve the root cause of the issue.

Ideally, I think developers should have a choice. There should be rooms for working in a group when necessary, and there should be cubicles or rooms for working in isolation. People would switch depending on the situation or personality.
I like this.

Make items unique per user though to save yourselves a lot of trouble.
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I agree that someone has the right to do as they wish with their money, but that doesn't mean that be exercisingthat right they are doing the right thing. Equally I'm very aware that people could look at me and judge me for not giving more to charity - I judge myself, but ultimately I know that while I'm not selfish enough to give nothing, I am selfish enough to not let charitable donations change my standard of living.

I don't think children should be brought up wealthy/spoilt/privileged.

Again the issue here is where to draw the line? Arguably there are plenty of people in countries like the US and UK who are on benefits and consider themself near the bottom of the ladder, but they are wealthy and privileged compared to people in other parts of the world living in famine.

Equally, leaving family with enough "to take care of" children makes them privileged/wealthy/spoilt in comparison to people not lucky enough to have a good inheritance.

I've grown up in the UK, pretty middle class, never having to worry about family money problems, and if I had no money of my own then when both my parents die, the combined money will be more than enough to buy a nice house. There's no way to look at it that other than to say I'm very lucky, I may not be able to retire right now, but I can become a houseowner without ever saving any money, and I'll probably never have to worry about debt or live paycheck to paycheck.

But at the same time, I'm talking six figures, not seven+, my father was a postman, and if I stood to inherit, say, twice as much as I actually do, I wouldn't think "right, 50% of it is instantly going to charity".

Essentially, any inheritence is giving whoever gets it an advantage over some, and (except for the single richest person in the world) a disadvantage over others. The question of how much is too much is incredibly subjective.

edit: In fact, I said I agree about it being a right. Actually, in a way I don't. I wish the entire world was based on communism, I really do. Sadly I can't imagine it could ever work, and as such I don't consider myself "a communist", nor will I ever in my life try to push for communism to happen anywhere. I say I can't imagine it, I mean it could never work, it's completely impossible. But I wish it was, even though I would personally be in a worse situation if I did live in a communist state.
Uh, none of this makes any sense.
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I made something like this for my friend when I wanted to try out the drag/drop API. One thing I also did was give him a little bookmarklet with his hashed password that he could drag into a "login" box so he could quickly log in without typing his username and password every time. You may want to try something like that for quicker logins.

It looked something like...

hisusername:19fij12dio7giw3
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That's how the game is played. First, you make ludicrous demands, then when you later change your demands to be merely ridiculous, your opponents think they've scored a win.
This needs to email the entire thing to me once per week before I use it, because I won't start using it if I'm not sure that it will be there in 6 months.
Couldn't have said it better. It's their entire approach to the process is wrong.
Thing is that Google (and those like them) bring a lot of revenue to boost your GDP.

Picking up a cell-phone left in a bar shouldn't get a whole platoon of police officers mobilised either (eg http://www.pcworld.com/article/195006/police_seize_gizmodo_e...).

Aside: the downvoting of unpopular but nonetheless cogent and well put arguments here is getting rather silly; will pg step in to sort this out. IMO this has got worse and worse since comment scores were hidden.
Not the same thing at all. Google claimed to represent Mocality - AirBnB did not claim to represent Craigslist.
It'd be worthwhile for you to discuss and argue the process in your company. Having worked in startups like that, there will be times when developers will say, "I need some time without distractions. I'm going to be way over there; please don't disturb unless it's a serious emergency." As far as I've seen, people have been completely understanding of this.

Discussing it might not work if your boss/coworkers aren't good at grokking your needs, but their priority should really be to enhance your productivity the way you need it enhanced, not to force you to conform to their style.
You'd almost think it was a CIA/FBI plot to split off the intelligentsia from the working class.
Most of the founding fathers had a huge problem with inherited wealth. Indeed, the "sanctity of inheritance" is a fairly recent concept. The historical view of Anglo-American law has been that property rights cease to exist at death, and that inheritance is a mere courtesy provided by the state: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl81.htm.
I found that I regularly emailed myself notes and files for later processing, and they'd then get lost in the inbox. I wanted to be able to search my notes (and only my notes), as well as easily share them with one or several people.

Every other one of those services got me partway there but felt like they were lacking (no web search, burdensome to use, etc). Paste and forget until later - no more than 20 seconds to save something.

Notifications and device web apps are coming, too. Does that help?
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Buffet isn't a hero for how he made his money (not from a charitable point of view anyway), but for what he does with it.

Making your money in stocks and shares isn't praiseworthy work at all, but I don't see how you can look down on someone who does that and gives so much of the profit to charity.
>It went on for months

Months is an incredibly short period of time for a large organization. Especially when considering a small, probably low priority group. A large organization isn't like a startup, for a small low priority group the feedback loop isn't daily, its at best weekly and quite possibly longer even monthly (and gets longer as you go up the corporate ladder). What you may identify about a groups activities in a couple weeks at a small company can easily take months in a large company.
I use screensnapr for that (http://screensnapr.com) and have it working with S3, so I hit CTRL+1, highlight and then it's on S3 in seconds: http://citricsquid.screensnarp.com/mmaeme.png
The notion that Google needs to scam some African directory service for profit just seems ridiculous.

For real, right? Next thing they'll tell us is that Google would assist companies in displaying illegal drug ads in the US for profit. This is Google we're talking about. Have people already forgotten their motto is "Don't be evil"? You can't have that motto and do evil stuff -- it wouldn't be consistent.
Both points are valid and one is often forgotten in favor of the other.
Wait for the froth to settle down and then dig it up again and pass it with virtually no contest later. Standard play and I don't see why it should be hailed as some kind of "victory for the internet".
I for one still enjoy me some Gnome. Unity tickles my horizontal scrollbar bone and my netbook doesn't like being tickled
"In one fourth-grade classroom I visited in New York City, students engaged in group work were forbidden to ask a question unless every member of the group had the very same question."

This is the essence of what's so destructive and horrifying about today's obsession with groups: the idea that everyone in the group is equal. Equal in talent, equal in work ethic, equal in drive, and equally entitled to being heard. And that the consensus of the group of purported equals is more important than the achievements of any of its constituent members.

The plain, and perhaps un-PC truth is that that's a load of hogwash. Some perspectives are better than others. Some people are smarter than others, or work harder, or are better read, or are more knowledgeable, or are more capable. Some creative visions are more correct than others, even if we imagine that it's not possible to be "correct" or "incorrect" in the praxis of creative expression.

Beyond these variances in ability or capability, we also encounter variances in style. As noted in the article, some people simply work best alone. Some disciplines -- writing, coding, art, etc. -- simply lend themselves well to conditions of quiet, relative isolation, and to long bouts of individual effort. That effort can be in service of a team, or as part of a team, but we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking that creating by committee is in some way ideal.

The creative output of a committee tends to revert to the average creative capability of the least creative member on the committee. Social psychological studies have borne out that fact, and anyone who's ever been on a design committee knows it from brutal experience.

That's not to say, of course, that group brainstorms and the like can't be productive. They certainly can be. But the people in the group are everything. They need to be very sharp and very creative. They need to get along well enough not to clash over personal matters -- but not so well that they simply agree with one another and revert into groupthink. But such groups are rare, and I dare say that they're the exceptions to the general rule. High-functioning creative teams are things of beauty, but they're not for everybody or every situation.

Finally, the structure of a group is critical to its success (or failure). Groups with well established divisions of labor tend to be more productive, and far less painful, than groups in which everyone does everything together. Ever try to write a school paper as part of a team? It was either a horrendous experience or a fantastic one. The horrendous teams sat down together and drafted every sentence, laboriously and unceasingly, by committee. The fantastic teams either divided up the sections by areas of interest or expertise, or delegated the task of drafting the paper to the person who expressed interest and professed great ability in writing -- allowing everyone else to do research, discuss and debate the topics, and so forth.
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I will soon get my CS PhD degree from EPFL and I plan to work in an industry research lab in the US (preferably Google, Microsoft or Intel). I really would love to know the salary range for research scientists in these companies. There is some data in well-known salary sites like glassdoor, payscale etc. but I really want to get an idea of the current salaries...

Thanks in advance !
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It seems http://www.kbo.co.ke/ is more or less free (anyone with a google account can create free sites), the only cost seems to be a domain name - follow the money.
In other news, Bill Gates has created more wealth and productivity for people worldwide than any individual (or government) in the history of the world.

I do not think this is accurate or supported by the article.

For instance, while I respect Bill Gates tremendously, I suspect Isaac Newton contributed more to the current wealth of the Western Hemispher than Gates did, and Alexander Fleming (discovered penicilin amoungst other things) probably tops Newton in contributing to the overall well being of the world now, as just two examples from "the history of the world."
>that means you'll do anything for profit, just like every other company.

As a company director I repudiate this so hard.

Most companies? Most-probably. Every company? Not at all.
How about sending also an email to my own inbox from every share which links to the content? Could be a good way to keep users getting back if I could just enter my email easily when trying it out.
It follows from how innovation increases productivity, and productivity increases real (adjusted for inflation) wages.
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Have you noticed that at first Kenyans were the ones that called Kenyan clients, but from one point on the people from India took over?

Mocality recorded the calls, the MP3 files are linked in their original post:

http://blog.mocality.co.ke/2012/01/13/google-what-were-you-t...

Douglas, Kenyan, so local:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mocality-wordpress/audio/...

Deepthi, Indian:

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mocality-wordpress/audio/...

It obviously can't be just "some team" when it spans minimum two continents, some small bad guys in Kenyan team are certainly not able to move the "local" operation to India.
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I don't know what to think, research seems legit, the doctor's work is widely recognized and widely used, but a lot of people think the video is fake.
The Wayback Machine (from Archive.org) has a copy, though: http://web.archive.org/web/19980110225731/http://viamall.com...
Actually, the same snapshot is still live under Yahoo!'s domain: http://oldvw.stores.yahoo.net/
It doesn't bother you if Google, the company, is committing crimes?

The cost of innovation isn't becoming a crook.
When studying vocab, some words stick out as words you'll never see, and because of that you may fixate on that single word. For me it's eleemosynary. Still haven't seen it used. Once.
If you're interested in charitable giving:

GiveWell (http://givewell.org) does in-depth reviews of charities and recommends the best ones, based on things like cost-effectiveness and transparency.

Giving What We Can (http://givingwhatwecan.org) is a place where you can make a similar pledge (like 10% of your income), and community to support people who have done so.
straight-forward when they got caught would be more correct.
I wish this story would have been written while Jobs was alive.....makes you wonder if it's true!
Looking at those criteria, it wouldn't flag terrorists who were well-funded, forward-planning, and punctual. Which sounds like prerequisites for a successful attack.

Hey ho.
What you describe would be orders of magnitude better than the current bill. That is how most court cases in the US today are run. I accuse you, the court issues a sopena for you (which you must receive), if you don't show up, you automatically lose the case. The problem then becomes, there is no way to internationally issue sopenas. The solution you gave was "if no official response is received in X days then ..." however a smart infringer could then sue for something along the lines of "our administrative contact was our (hosting company, private DNS listing company, at a non-existing building, made up, etc.), thus it never got to us" there is a way to write law to deal with all of these cases but it would not be easy to write for international dealings. (And I doubt anyone in congress understands how DNS records are listed enough to understand how to write it correctly)
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Looks like you were wrong chief.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115264064268941645500/posts/WfAL...
No, some regular person at Google behaved unethically. If Google locked down their employees enough to prevent this (which I doubt is even possible), then they wouldn't be able to do anything good either. You're saying: one mistake in a tiny branch office, entire global company goes out of business.
I think it depends on how you measure it.

Gates' realizations about business could have actually been significantly more rare than Newtons' observations. I think it's important to at least consider this to be true.
I just add "note:" to my emails and then I have a gmail filter that tags the messages based on that and the sender's address.
Spring Roo does the same through the use of aspect programming (code generation, essentially - it generates the boilerplate behind the scenes).
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I am most productive when I have a problem to solve and I can immerse myself in it for hours every day, days at a time, without interruption.

That's what's most productive for you, but it might not be what's best for the organization as a whole.
I just had a hard time coming to grips with the idea of a billionaire company committing outright fraud for ten dollar domain names.

The fraudsters may well have been Google employees and/or contractors. I think Willful at metafilter put it best [1]:

I worked at Google for a few years. My experience is that it's like any other huge multinational corporation in that there are regional teams that get more or less supervision. They're also somewhat hamstrung in that in certain regional hiring situations, they have to focus on getting someone who can speak the local language over getting someone of their normal standard of ethics and acceptable background.

As a result I saw people working in Google who did evil things, pure and simple, especially in the more obscure markets to reach their sales targets. When they were caught they were fired, when they didn't and succeeded as a result, they were promoted.

This type of thing will always happen. Thinking it won't is a bit childish. It's Google's official response and subsequent actions that defines their culture.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/111590/Do-Not-Much-Evil#4128023