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Good Idea/Bad Idea: A&E Making a Psycho Prequel Series
TCA events bring news that A&E is developing a prequel series to Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, to revolve around the early life of one Norman Bates and his beloved mother at the infamous Bates Motel. While intriguing, it prompts more than a few questions... like, who wants to watch teenage Norman devolve into filmdom's most notorious creep on a weekly basis? What gives writer Anthony Cipriano the authority to explore Hitch's iconic killer? And, most depressing of all to ponder -- do people these days even care about Psycho anymore?
As a Xoogler, I agree, too.

It feels like this is an amalgamation half-accurate summaries from other articles cobbled together and puffed out.
What is really frustrating about scientific research? Working in a research lab, looking up something you've found from your research in the literature, and then not having access to the article without paying for it. $30 is way too much to be spending on an article that might not even have the content you're looking for as it might not be mentioned in the abstract. (I'm working in a virology lab with a professor at a smaller university and this can be a frequent occurrence, meaning we have to wait for the library to go and get the article for us, hindering our progress).

I found out about a pretty cool project called "Total-impact". They're basically tying together metrics from a vast number of social networking/online sources into one view about a specific scientific article to understand how far this research is reaching as well as the overall impact of how many people are talking about it. You can view it at http://total-impact.org/, and there is a sample collection at http://total-impact.org/collection/MqAnvI.

I'd also recommend looking at Science 2.0's FriendFeed, http://friendfeed.com/science-2-0, as it contains some pretty interesting content.

I really hope that the "open science" movement gains more traction in the immediate future.
Yeah I'm going to be on IBR no matter what, it's the only way I won't go into default.

My loans are all mixed but a good chunk of them are at the GradPLUS rate which is 8.5%.
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I agree, however its somewhat disturbing how often I have to view customer data in my current job. I think the bigger companies that have good processes in place probably don't have to have people do it much but lets just say some companies that have older applications (like the one I work for) that have seen better days end up having people have to make a lot of manual database updates and also end up giving access to production DB to their developers in case of emergencies.
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Frankly it looks like dream work environment to every nerd.

Someday I would like to work at a place like that.
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You're falling into the "if you've got nothing to hide, then you have nothing to fear" camp even if you aren't directly saying it. You're alluding to the fact that anyone that 'really' needs anonymity has something to hide from powerful people.

In reality, there are a lot more reasons that someone might want anonymity. Someone hosting a forum for battered women might not want to get contacted by violent ex-husbands/ex-boyfriends looking to find the woman that left them (and went into hiding).
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Yes, thank you for making me feel a little more confident that I'm not missing the obvious-point-to-be-mad-about because I'm jaded/apathetic.

How many real life cases has it been impossible to ascertain the identity of trouble-causing site's owner, anyway? Everyone knows who is behind Wikileaks, for example. Anyone else wanting to do disagreeable things is far more likely to do it on the many existing platforms instead of hatching the complex fake-identiy/credit-card scheme to purchase a TLD that can't be easily tracked to him/her.

To become effective participnts in politica, the tech community activists have to tilt less at thinly supported grand conspiracies and focus on the more mundane workings of the sausage factory that produces our laws and regulations.

EDIT: I realize I've set up a straw,an, and in fact, there are many dissidents who'd like to have less requirements in registering a domain name...but why they would go that route rather than creating fake accounts on well-used services...in any case, Joel currently has the benefit of the doubt in arguing that the OP is factually wrong
I totally appreciate your perspective on this. But I think you were missing part of the point of kickstarter.

These are projects, not products. You're making a donation, not buying something. For that donation you are often promised a reward, but you are not guaranteed one.

There is a certain amount of risk associated with backing a project on kickstarter. Projects don't always turn out the way you hope. Budget issues, design flaws, etc, are all par for the course.

I've backed a number of projects now. I just checked, and I've backed 15 projects out of which 9 have received funding ($346 pledged, $284 charged) since August 2011. So far I have only received two items.

I hope to receive all the items I've funded, but I know that even with the best intentions, not every project will be able to deliver.

Since you believed you were "purchasing" items, perhaps kickstarter needs to do a better job of making it clear that what you are doing is making a donation, and the whole thing is running on the honor system. They do say that (http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backing%20a%20project#Ac...), but I guess they could do a better job of stressing it.

Because it's a donation, it's my understanding that kickstarter, amazon, and the police would have no real recourse unless there has been serious fraudulent claims of some kind.

Anyway, I would urge you to change the way you look at kickstarter, and then give it another go. I'm a huge fan of the model, and have enjoyed both the items I've received so far. You can always give them for xmas next year :)
Despite all the claims that confirming ID is just common sense, the fact is that there are thousands of sites which are run by dissidents protesting oppression and crimes of their governments. Anonymous/Fake Credential registrations allow this to happen. So this is still very troublesome for free speech.
This is good advice.

Even better advice would be to serve different content for regular users. This is easily done through User Agent sniffing. You can do it at the app level or web server such as Apache's Rewrite rules.

Is this cloaking? It might be. However, for only a day, there shouldn't be any harm in it.
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Yes. Backers on kickstarter are not sophisticated startup people. They're regular consumers. Most kickstarter projects are ones that appeal to them, and are also low tech. If a project expects a lengthy development process they can say it in the project.

I've done some mechanical engineering, but I'm no mechanical engineer. I can't know whether an iPhone dock is going to require 3 prototypes and 4 nearly complete versions before being ready to ship, and all this will take 9 months, or if what they're showing in the picture can be manufactured in 60 days in volume, all they need is the money for the injection molding forms, which are very expensive.

Hell, I bet most people who fund kickstarter projects don't even know injection molding forms are expensive.

So, if the project has high risk, and this isn't disclosed by the leader of the project when asking for funding, that's an error on their part.

The problem projects I've seen (that are products, rather than pieces of art) tend to pitch themselves as completed products that just need manufacturing help.
I think the author makes a very important point about being willing to throw away stuff. I think artists struggle with this too, because they project the amount of work on to things they make, which makes them see it as more beautiful and satisfying than their audience in some cases. I have actually started taking pleasure in throwing things away after working on them for a while, because I've learned that, like in music, what you leave out is just as important as what you leave in.
I find this to be reasonable for overfunded project. Release only the funds they requested for, until the milestones are met.
My assumption (in your example) was actually that with PIC, func2 would return the address of the real func1 and a hypothetical 'func1();' would call a stub that calls the real func1. On OS X, this is true. On Linux, func2 returns the address of the stub, and I see no reason why (DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES works fine on OS X.)

This is actually the specific thing that prompted the author to investigate and write up this whole post. It's so what the fuck to me that I didn't believe him at all until I tried it myself.

EDIT: actually, I finally realized one potential benefit to this: it lets you completely lazily resolve the functions address. But again, variables can't benefit from this so need to be resolved immediately. I really wonder whether the load-time gain is actually worth the runtime hit for this case...
Throwing away code feels good inside. It feels a lot like shrugging off tons of worry ^^
I haven't noticed any limit on guests at Google NYC, either. I was never under the impression that Google didn't want you to have guests.

(I did read something suggesting that you should feel bad for eating more than $3 worth of microkitchen stuff per day. I don't think I hit the $3 threshold, but if I did, I wouldn't feel bad.)
Hence the very hostile attitude towards the Internet in government, perhaps.
You can't necessarily fault the founders for not thinking through all of the potential pitfalls. A proper plan will not cover all of these details. Take the apple death grip issue -- they had a plan, it was produced, and the issue was really only emphasized after it was produced and sold to customers.
By the example I do not mean driving around the country but keeping owned objects down to a manageable amount where moving easily is possible. But that will turn into an uninteresting side topic as -internet- discussion sometimes does. I have a habit of looking for ways for people to agree and what assumptions are causing disagreement. I believe I've accurately described your initial disagreement with detrich as a difference of assumptions about a definition. To me minimalism is keeping the number of chunks one has to consider low enough so up and moving to another city, by car or plane, is easy. (I can't find that Trio's song. But I'm not sure you mentioned it before either.)
> anyone that 'really' needs anonymity has something to hide from powerful people

I'm on your side in this discussion, anonymity is a foundation of free speech. But I want to say that with battered women and people protesting powerful corporations and governments both, the person does have something to hide from powerful people - their identity - and that is perfectly reasonable. Wanting to hide my identity from powerful people who have the ability to harm me and whose crimes I am criticizing is common sense. I feel this idea that hiding something is intrinsically bad has become really widespread and has been accepted as axiomatic rather than being properly critiqued. I, and many others, definitely have something to hide from powerful people who can harm us because they don't want their dark deeds known and they will kill or hurt who they have to to make sure that happens.
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I just formed an LLC in California, and the process and the associated hassles suck. It's a bootstrapped business that's profitable, but barely, so I didn't have a lot to spend. However, I needed to get the LLC in place relatively quickly (days, not weeks or months) to sign a contract. Here's some of the schleping involved:

- Creating the LLC itself sucks/is expensive. I ended up using Legal Zoom to create the LLC because California's government is so understaffed that they're weeks and weeks behind on processing LLC paperwork, so the only way to get your stuff processed quickly is to have a courier walk it into the office by hand, in addition to paying all sorts of expediting feeds. I think I ended up paying Legal Zoom $900, in addition to the $800 franchise tax, etc.

- Figuring out how taxes works sucks. I'm a sole founder, and have only offshore contractors, no employees. It should be really simple. But I honestly still don't have a solid idea how I should be paying myself, what paperwork I should be filing for taxes, and what witholding and estimate payments I should be doing.

- Setting up proper accounting sucks. I used quickbooks to run a small freelance business 10 years ago, but I suspect there's something better out there that's web based. I'd really like to just be able to hand accounting and taxes off to someone who knows more about it than me, but I don't know where to go about finding someone, and am worried they'd cost more than I could afford.

- Figuring out how to get healthcare as a bootstrapped small business sucks. I'm on COBRA right now, but once that runs out, I have no idea what my gameplan is. This is separate from the suckage that is healthcare in general once you have it.

These are all things that are necessary to start a business, but at least for me, none of them are fun, or really increase the value of my business. They only cause headaches if I screw them up.

For most if not all of these, I'd actually be willing to pay someone to just say "Here's a checklist of how to get through all this stuff. Here's the paperwork to fill out, here's who to talk to, here's the service worth paying for."
I have no college degree. It did not come up during interviews at all. Having a degree gets you into Google at a higher pay grade if you have no experience. Otherwise, it's experience that matters.

Well, I think people like despite being having all it takes can never work there. You see I can research, think and build quickly. I can push long hours, I can do weekends. I can virtually work and solve any problems by reading manuals. I have worked at back breaking deadlines, delivered stuff when others said it was impossible.But I don't remember math theorems. And am not too much into text books. Unless those books are like OnLisp(Paul Graham), Higher Order Perl(Mark Jason Dominus)... Kind of books.

Umm. This is exactly what Google is looking for.

Read Steve Yegge's post on what is typically asked in interviews: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/get-that-job-at-goog...

Yes, you will need to know what a binary search is. But you can read "Programming Pearls" and that will be enough. (Good book, BTW.) You don't have to be an algorithms expert, you just have to be competent. It's not as hard as you think it is.
A friend pointed this thread to me & I found this to be interesting.

I am running stalkninja.com since Dec 2010 & noticed that grouptalent.com started 15 days later. Glad to see similar initiative around the world.

I agree with Kyle that such an initiative is pretty time consuming. Even I need to spend considerable time hand-holding the first time project creators as I am very particular about the quality of the work that comes. The only hope being - this is one time & if they come back again, they should be able to do it all by themselves.

Lot of people pointed out that it is a non-scalable way but I still think of taking my chances :).

P.S. cum shameless plug :-

stalk ninja is more of college hacker from India centric initiative. The idea is to expose raw but amazing talent to guys who can not afford to offer them a job (salary skew is pretty high in India).

We never got covered on any of the major tech journals as I chose to spend time listening to my clients, helping them refine projects & spreading the word to college audience. Not sure, if this is right - but again - I decided to take my chances & do things my way :).
>These are projects, not products. You're making a donation, not buying something.

That this was a sale isn't a question of perspective, but the legal fact of the matter. The project I funded advertised itself as "pre-sales". It was not asking for donations, it was asking for pledges to buy the product. Nowhere has there been any implication, let alone statement that I'm not "guaranteed" the product I purchased.

>There is a certain amount of risk associated with backing a project on kickstarter.

Sure, but that's not the issue. In this case, the flashlight I ordered was redesigned to be significantly larger than it was initially promised (when it was claimed to be identical to the other flashlight he's selling.)

That increase in size and weight actually makes this product much less suitable to my needs than the original one was. Yes, for me, that is an issue. (I live full time out of a backpack, I travel the world full time- I know the dates these were supposed to ship because I knew when I'd be in the USA and gave him an extra 2 months to ship, even.)

But I didn't even mention this design change. I'm ok with it. I did accept some risk, and I even accepted the risk that he might be as much as 2 months late in shipping. Now that I'm out of the USA, getting the flashlights delivered to me will be more hassle, and significantly more expensive due to import duties and international shipping.

I haven't complained about either of those- that's within the risk.

>Because it's a donation, it's my understanding that kickstarter, amazon, and the police would have no real recourse unless there has been serious fraudulent claims of some kind.

In no way is it a donation. When you offer someone a product for money, that's a sale. This isn't an issue of perspective, this is the nature of the law.

>the whole thing is running on the honor system. They do say that(http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backing%20a%20project#Ac...),

No they don't. Nowhere in there do they say its on the honor system. Nowhere in there do they say its donations. Of course kickstarter is attempting to disclaim responsibility by saying the project starter is responsible for delivery. However, this is not the case under the law of the land, nor the contract that Kickstarter signed with Amazon, nor the contract that Amazon signed with the credit card companies.

I don't care. I'll reverse charges thru Amazon and then Kickstarter can take it up with the project backer.

>You can always give them for xmas next year :)

Yeah, you like this project because you like giving money to people. Great. If this were kiva and I was bitching about a loan not being repaid, you'd be right. But this is not kiva.
SOPA could cripple the internet. I hope this brings awareness to that fact. I shudder at how I and many more others could lose their job over this, as I am working for a US-based online company. This pertains not only to the US, but internationally as well.

eWeek stated, "The language of SOPA is so broad, the rules so unconnected to the reality of Internet technology and the penalties so disconnected from the alleged crimes that this bill could effectively kill e-commerce or even normal Internet use. The bill also has grave implications for existing U.S., foreign and international laws and is sure to spend decades in court challenges."
Indian Horoscope: An interesting look on it
Nowadays, many people check their daily horoscope predictions in the morning. Some people believe in the predictions based on the Sun sign while others believe the Moon signs predictions more accurate which are found in Indian Horoscope.
In response to your suggestion on data being made available, there are often issues of proprietary datasets that cannot be made public (for legal or ownership reasons). It is a frustrating situation, but one that is not likely to change anytime soon, so I would be happy with just the open-access publication requirement.
> The way people share information, personal
> information, so freely disturbs me.

I'm curious for your perspective on this. Are you just talking about people sharing their personal lives via Facebook (or location data via Foursquare, etc)?

Are you also including:

* People that participate on mailing lists under their real name?

* People that blog under their real name?

* People that use their real name everywhere to build a 'personal brand' as a self-marketing scheme for things like getting jobs/contracts?

This isn't meant to be snarky, I'm actually interested in the answer. Because some of those things (like using your real name on mailing lists/usenet) are not new.
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What do you work on? Were you hired to do something specific, or are you in the general technical staff pool?
Of course. Is there any real job where you get promoted regardless of the quality of your work? (I guess postal clerks get promoted every 10 years or whatever. But you know what I mean.)

Google is like every company I've ever worked for, except that instead of the promise of promotions, people actually do get promoted.
If anyone has trouble with throwing code away: trust your source control system! If you need to, keep a file called "threw_away.txt" also under source control as an index of stuff you deleted but that might be useful later.
The terminology in the article is a bit confusing but if "backgrounded" is intended to mean "apps that are hidden by the Hide command", there is a way to represent that with a hidden preference:

defaults write com.apple.dock showhidden -bool true
killall Dock

When an application has been hidden its Dock icon is then given a semi-transparent, faded appearance.

Also, although Mac OS X Lion changed the Dock so that by default there is no difference between running and not running, using System Preferences (Dock pane) the "Show indicator lights for open applications" setting can be turned back on.
You're probably significantly older, and have a ton of life experience and achievement under your belt.

He's probably early-20s, fresh out of school, and that's still a huge part of his life experience.
Would you mind listing a few examples? I think I have an idea of what you're talking about, but I'd like to hear more (and make sure I understand, as well).
Make sure you consider any future accounts you may be opening when making your decision. For instance, my startup requires me to have three trust accounts that name a real estate broker as trustee, which really means that there can't be any commingling of monies. So far I've only found one (Mechanics Bank) that offers these types of accounts and it's not one of the 'top player' banks .

Also, make sure their services have low fees or perks , and if they offer services that may unique to your business, such as ACH transfers, or check courier services. It's really helpful in the long run.
US citizen living in Poland here. Here it is how providing the 'real name' will work in local circumstances here: Let's say I want to register piratebay.shark. I go to a nearby bum and for a small fee get his passport, IDs, etc, provide it to GoDaddy for registration. Good Luck ever finding out who I'm.

This may work very well in the US, but not in other places in the world where people had to deal with laws limiting their rights for decades.
I was not told what I would be working on when interviewing, but I was told before I accepted the offer. I work on the test infrastructure for payments (which is Wallet / Checkout / buying books and Android apps, etc.).

(As for level, I came in at 4/7. Out of college, people start at 1 or 2. So I'm not worried about the lack of a degree affecting my options or advancement at Google. If it does, Google will pay for the classes I need to take to get it :)
Ha, but our Congress is so inept they can't write bills faster than we whack them. So it pays to be vigilant.