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I know the Microsoft process all too painfully. RI,FI,RI,FI,RI,FI,RI,RC,RTM,Ship It,Repeat.

But as to the "usually painless" at Google. So when does that pain happen?

Can you take me through the following scenarios: change a variable name, change a base class name that lots of people extend from, file renames?

How do you go about refactoring? Do everything at once? Breaking it into pieces? Do file rename then variable and base class renames? Or smallest piece at a time?

Once the refactoring is complete how do you communicate to others the changes so when they merge the code in they don't get too messed up? Or worse undo something in the refactoring. (Also follow up is it better to do the big refactoring so there is the one big merge or a bunch of little refactorings and lots of little merges across the spectrum).

I guess the code change isn't the problem. It's making a big change and getting people on the same page is much harder. Especially when their are varying degrees of skill and experience on a project. And it's this stuff that is painful and leads to not wanting to do big refactorings at a lot of shops.
They are talking about "users from Google IP address ranges". What do you mean by explanation? Do you want to see the actual log files?
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Same here. I went through 3 Kindle 3Gs and each was replaced within a day or 2, including them covering all shipping etc (I'm in Australia), and each without any fuss at all. Call them, explain that the screen broke, get a new one a few days later.

Amazon's customer support is what turned me into such a huge fan of them. Even if it's just a quick question I've always found them fast, knowledgable, and friendly. A nice surprise compared to the "customer service" we're used to here.
I think I made the wrong choice of words there. I am really truly sorry. I think donations is much more appropriate. I don't know, maybe someone will understand. I just wanted to say that kickstarter didn't imply any ownership in anyway. Ever.
If the boot partition has to be some other non-resilient FS, the whole system isn't very resilient.
Cliff Click's presentation on the subject are quite enlightening. Although, Azul's hardware and target are quite different from the 1000-core tilera idea. I doubt it is a counterpoint to Ungar's message.
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Oh, look - he did an initial commit! I'll play with it on the bus tonight. :)
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Kind of an aside but the post relates to a UK purchase and in the UK there's a reasonable chance that Amazon are actually liable for a replacement under the Sale of Goods Act.

Part of the SoGA states that things must be "fit for purpose" and it's not uncommon to deem something that costs £150 and only lasts 13 months without ill treatment as not "fit for purpose", regardless of what the warranty says.

The trick tends to be to read up on this and make it clear that you understand your rights and that your claim is under the Sale of Goods act rather than against the warranty or whatever. It's astonishing how many previously intractable companies change their view when you calmly and politely explain that you understand your legal rights and are willing to hold them to them (which you can do very cheaply without legal representation through the small claims court).
Not precisely. They're bound by the same California (or whatever the local jurisdiction) laws that everyone else is. The laws state that the employer has no claim to any IP developed by the employee "on their own time, without use of company resources, and not along the lines of business of the company".

The problem is that third clause - since Google operates in so many businesses, there is a potential conflict of interest with virtually anything you might want to do. Google's policy is no different from any other employer's. It's just that if you work at a financial software company and want to develop a social network, you are not competing with your employer. If you work at Facebook and want to develop a trading platform, you are not competing with your employer (yet; who knows what they got planned?). If you work at Google and try to develop either of those, you are competing with official Google products (Google+ and Google Finance, respectively).

There's a procedure in place to clarify whether any IP developed on your own time conflicts with current or present lines of Google's business. I don't know the exact numbers, but IIRC they release about 70% of proposals back to their owners. You can, of course, just take your chances and develop the software anyway; lack of an official release does not mean Google owns your software, it just means Google might own your software, and that's up to a court of law to decide. But who wants to fight Google's legal department? And most VCs or acquirers won't go near you if there's any legal uncertainty surrounding your startup.
If you do:

#!/usr/bin/env scala
!#

it appears to work.
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I wholeheartedly disagree. If you are blogging ideally you are doing so because you are injecting valuable insights or information into the world at large. The value is not to you that eyeballs are on your blog but to the eyeballs themselves.
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This rather violates the idea of 'sell your by-products' though doesn't it?

I agree for the initial phase of a startup this is a good strategy, but does it really make sense to ignore additional revenue streams which might actually be better than those you originally decided to concentrate on?
The original HN thread was here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3469692

I appended ?concluded to make this appear as a separate thread.

I guess there are still open security risks. ie that the QR code you're viewing isn't credible. Or someone picks up your unlocked phone for a second and suddenly has long-term desktop access (which a G+ friend mentioned in comments here https://plus.google.com/106413090159067280619/posts/KDtbaWgY...).
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They are spot-on. SOPA and PIPA are just part of the problem, symptoms of the problem, which is a particular brand of censorship spreading all over the world. It is by no means restricted to the US, and while defeating these laws is nice, the "war" is far from over.
The limiting factor in end-user browser latency is almost always download time. The cost of JQuery is primarily the cost of downloading JQuery. The advantage of doing everything sans libraries is that you ship only the code you actually need to use to the browser.

(It's the same reason why Google uses browser-sniffing instead of feature detection in its JS. It lets us avoid shipping IE-only hacks to W3C browsers, or W3C code to IE.)

There're secondary issues with browser CPU time, and you eventually learn to avoid CSS or JS constructs that tend to peg the browser CPU. Anything that causes a reflow is expensive, and certain selector engine constructs require JQuery to traverse the whole page. But this is typically secondary to download time unless you're doing a complex animation or mousemove handler.

G+ performs badly on the phone because it does a lot. G+ has so far prioritized features over latency, so they optimize for development time. The result often isn't the tightest code. They operate under very different constraints from websearch, though - typically, people open up G+ and then leave it open for a while, but they run a search and then hopefully immediately bounce off the SRP.
> Well, in fairness, that couldn't happen to Wikipedia directly because of provisions in the SOPA legislation.

'till next time? Good thing you show that you won't let people walk on your turf.
For the record, the title is misleading and Andrew Dunstan (the guy whose blog this entry links to, a major PostgreSQL contributor and one of the people involved in having a JSON type in Postgres) clarifies:

http://people.planetpostgresql.org/andrew/index.php?/archive...
I wonder if Amazon's back-end is clever enough to flag big spenders and know whether it's cost effective to send a replacement kindle.

It's a clever idea, but then if the information leaks onto the web people may get pissed at the double-standard which to them may seem arbitrary.
It's exactly from a strategic perspective that this is a misfire. SOPA is already in the bin, and the general public has a very short attention span.
That is a good idea.
Maybe an animated gif - just to get the ball rolling, then use video next screen or two on.
My brain skips this area of the site, I'm sure this is true of many others.

The proper effect tomorrow will be a full page one however.
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How about another "Protest" for Open Access? How would that go though, maybe OA advocates could refuse to do article reviews.
I've said this before, I'll try to sum it up as succinctly as possible:

Google's innovation was 3-fold: better search algorithms (pagerank), which did use the implicit data from the interconnectedness of the web to judge the relevancy and rank of search results; revolutionary data center ops (using commodity hardware with heavy reliance on automation); and state of the art software engineering (sharding, map reduce, etc.) The last 2 enabled the first to run efficiently on a rather small set of hardware and to scale up speed just by adding more hardware. The end result was better results, delivered faster, and at lower cost to google.

This led to a much better product for the end users (better/faster) and allowed them to acquire a huge portion of search marketshare quickly. But the low cost of operations meant that they could better take advantage of advertising (lower cost per search means that even lower revenue per search can be profitable).
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I don't think there's anything specific to EC2; so your question just reduces to "why FreeBSD rather than Linux?"

There's a lot of differences which are more matters of taste than anything else: FreeBSD's ports system, the rc.d startup system, the fact that the kernel and userland are developed in tandem rather than independently, the presence of a central SVN repository, et cetera. I like all of these, but I know there are Linux people who prefer the "Linux approach" for each of these.

Some things which I've heard even hardened Linuxites saying make them tempted to try FreeBSD, however: ZFS, DTrace, LLVM/clang (now building the entire FreeBSD base system), virtualized networking, Capsicum. Also new in 9.0, but not getting much attention yet, is journaled soft-updates -- essentially the "best of both worlds", using soft-updates for the 99% of operations which soft-updates can handle quickly and safely, and journaling the remaining 1% to ensure that a dirty fsck is fast.
I don't know much about law school, so bare with me if this sounds far-fetched.

Have you considered trying to offer legal consulting as a service, especially for start-ups?

I mean it cant hurt as a side job to pay the bills.
> This post is so deeply antisocial it makes me sad

The post is describing what works for him. While in the midst of something, mails, random greetings, IM pings are extremely irritating. When I was at my day job, I always had my headphones to cut myself from the open cube farm.

When you are working on something, apart from the required inputs and division of responsibility, it isn't a group activity. If you find it antisocial, well, that's how it is.

Programming isn't alone in that regard. Think sculpting, painting, theorem proving, creating music etc. All of these activities can, and are generally done as a team, but the individual's work is his own.

> I invariably have more fun and I am more productive and creative when working with other people.

I am curious. How else you suggest you go about programming?

> Maybe this is why so many programmers struggle with being social.

Since your premise was lone wolf nature of coding, I presume you will be making the same conclusions about sculpting and painting? I don't think you have a valid inference here.

> I feel like there is a message about work/life balance in there

It's simple - when you are working, you aren't free to take long and/or frequent calls from family/friends; or go fetch grocery even if you are working from home. When you are at home, unless it's a serious outage, you don't take unnecessary calls relating to work.
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I did some work for them years back, have a sweet forensic set at home.
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I think the boards concens and response is fair enough, google employees have an obvious potential conflict of interest if they are vandalizing maps, even if they are acting by their own volition it is still something I would expect Google to take action around and publicly not condone, assuming even the most innocent of circumstance.
And the entire site has 6 complaints. Since 2009. And two of those got free replacements.
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Since he has already written about it (88%), I don't think many people will take that wager :D

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/trouble-in-the-hous...
Even when you reparent a directory? Reparenting a directory to a longer prefix would have to sometimes fail.
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The fact that the internet can be almost entirely anonymous and unaccountable is something of a historical accident

The best things in life are something of a historical accident. You can't plan for the good, unexpected stuff. That doesn't mean it is not worth preserving or fighting for.

Don't get me wrong: I am not principally opposed to legal warrants being enforced, if fair and just. But this does exclude special interest groups with a lot of money buying the law in their favor, to be able to remove everything they don't like, such as evidence of their crimes.
While it's important to point out this inaccuracy, I don't understand the amount of attention in the debate given to whether SOPA affects foreign sites only or not. Would it make the bill any more acceptable if it were only to affect sites hosted outside the USA?
You don't need to. Just find someone at the company and ask them to get in touch with the right person.
> I've visited twice, read a lot, and conversed with a number of people who've lived there.

So did I before I lived there. Once you live there for a while (a year or more), you begin to understand that much of what you thought was true is merely a thin façade.

Still, compared to it's neighbours, it has come a long way. Mostly due to importing expertise and technology from the West.

>I admire how productive and peaceful Singapore is, with high living standards

It's not particularly productive. Singapore lives off the proceeds of its port and it's oil Bourse.It IS peaceful, I'll grant you that. When you have police with automatic weapons,ready to use, in plain view it tends to chill people out.

> a large degree of economic freedom/opportunity

A 'large degree'? Sounds very Singaporean. :)

>continuing effective investment in infrastructure and education

Debatable. Certainly that is the Govt. line, but like much in SGP, the reality is very different.

> From what I've read, its health-care system delivers results as well as any other highly-developed country, at much lower costs.

I know this is a BIG issue for USians, but most developed countries don't spend much time thinking about their health care system. It's taken for granted, because it is always there, and mostly works (with exceptions).
This is different. If you get a failure, like a flipped bit in RAM, it's a failure. With many-core processors, the normal mode of operation is to provide correct results but they may be different from time to time, assuming more than one correct solution exists. Even if the results are exactly the same or only one solution exists, the process of getting there might be different.
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> I guess quotas are out because there will be something else replacing it?

If it works like ZFS, then you will be able to create as many filesystem volumes as you want on top of a storage pool, each with their own size limit. You could create separate file systems for each user.

> Can anyone explain why a modern filesystem should have a limitation on path length?

The 32K limit doesn't really matter, because we're effectively stuck forever with the much lower and older limit of 260 characters. Longer paths would crash existing applications who use 260 byte buffers to store file system paths.

http://serverfault.com/questions/163419/window-256-character...
I think the point is that those byproducts are just that — byproducts, not part of your core business plan. If your business is relying on byproducts rather than just exploiting them when they appear, you have kind of a fragile model.
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> I don't know of any other site which does this.

CACert does.
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I think they have followed an erroneous path towards the decision that this should be a global blackout. I'm not in the US, so this affects my view. I believe the vote was highly biased towards contributors who obviously followed their way to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative because they already care about SOPA. As someone outside of the US, I don't particularly care. The US already has stupid laws, like the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which isn't actively copied by most other countries and has created opportunity and profit outside of the US. Like most people outside of the US, I don't care if they can't drink before they are 21, gamble online or export cryptography. In fact, I'm happy that the US can pass stupid laws like that since it creates opportunity for the rest of the world.

Not that I agree with SOPA, I think it's a stupid law, but I don't think Wikipedia should subject the rest of the world to this. Think about it, how can one now honestly tell countries like China that Wikipedia is not controlled by US political thought, when it's advertising exactly that through this action.
Yes, although if it was a real job opportunity I wouldn't mind. But I have no projects of mine on my Github account.
What, because MS is going to drop their old keys behind the sofa?
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Yes. There is an essential chasm there.

Treating people like computers/code means you are a sociopath, and treating code like people means you won't get it to do anything. Code needs control, not empathy.

We programmers are stuck in the middle, pulled by either extreme.

I wonder if we will bridge that gap in the 21th century (and how?). To me, it is a much more worthy goal then "making the damn things even faster and smaller" (but, see also my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3474387).
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Nothing Apple does will ever surprise me.

Managing to profile the world's single most profitable Top-5 tech company as a 'Peoples movement' is nothing short of genius!

I for one welcome the iDontneedtothinkformyself. (Wild guess that there is a patent pending)

:)
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> If you are in a position to say: "No problem, we didn’t really need them anyway," then why were you wasting time talking to them at all?

Maybe because it was a good way (or a potentially good way) of making money?

Maybe because you wanted to have a foot in the door in what might turn into a full pivot?

The example of Google is a terrible one, because sure they make all their money from advertising, but based on the "You want to focus on the most promising possibility, exclusively, until it’s no longer the most promising possibility" logic, Google shouldn't be doing anything except working on their search engine, not branching off and spending time/money on gmail, maps, plus, etc. etc. etc.
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What about Closure.jar? I know it has an option to remove unused code but don't know how well it works.
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