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What resonates with me is the growing feeling of vulnerability with google integrating everything and weaving it through my entire online existence coupled with their arrogant refusal to deal with people except through deaf automated machines. It feels like you're playing hide-and-seek with a giant growing robotic panopticon that's trying to find arbitrary infractions as an excuse to disable access to Gmail. It's probably an irrational fear, I haven't been targeted yet (and neither has anyone I know), but I have also never had any positive experiences with google customer support. Fear is fear and it's insidious in a relationship. Maybe if I had a positive experience with google customer support at any point in my almost 8-year relationship with the company--anything to help me believe that "things won't be so bad" should things go wrong, I would feel differently. Heck, if they just sold real support at some fixed price/event I would probably be OK. I don't like feeling like helpless input to a triage operation.

For me, the Google warm fuzzies have all been evaporating since Google+ rolled out and people started to lose access to their Gmail because of pseudonyms on Google+. Now, bugs in a rollout are to be expected, but it was the stubborn-headed defenses of the policy and bans by deaf Googlers that's the most threatening to nobodies like me. Yeah Google fixed problems for VIPs, but I'm not a VIP. Unfortunately, Google really hasn't done anything to regain my trust and they continue to hide behind their machines while growing the beast larger.

Unfortunately for Google this all made the reality of my relationship with them very clear to me--Google is just maintaining a big enough herd that it sells to advertisers. It's the herd that matters, strays are expendable. In the months before Google+ rolled out I purchased my first smartphone (Android) to bring Google and Gmail further into my life. In the aftermath of Google+, I'm looking for ways out. I used to centralize all my email at Gmail, but I've started to undo that. For now I still have Android Market on my phone, but the other apps are being slowly purged and replaced as I have time to explore and learn about alternatives. (It also does not help that search has become awful seemingly in the last month or so. The latest example is that for whatever reason (even using verbatim mode/personalized/world etc) if you search for "octave blah blah" looking for information about using GNU Octave, Google's search insists on showing me page after page of results for "matlab blah blah" instead.)

My goal now is to make my Google account expendable. If I lose access, I want to be able to just easily create a new one. Clearly the fundamental problem is I place more value on my account than google places on me. I am toying with deliberately destroying my google accounts following a schedule of a few months (the only thing holding me back is my library of Android Market purchases)--I already do periodic deletions of my other social networking sites just because I find ekarma/gamification counterproductive to happiness.
And you're in the same boat as before...
I am excited by golang and plan to start hacking with it. Here's why:

1. language designed with good intentions (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#What_is_the_purpose_of_the...)

2. designed and built by a group of veteran system researchers and engineers (ie. not javascript)

3. implementation open sourced from the start: http://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse

4. not overdesigned (http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#Design)

5. a real and practical abstraction for multicore computing (http://www.usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf)

Its success, like most languages, will depend on library support. Here's hoping it catches on.
...the subreddit itself was illegal.

I never said it was.

Could you reconcile these two statements?

Also, if you believe that the stolen facebook/photobucket photos are illegal, should facebook/photobucket be held liable for hosting it?
I've been on ddg for a couple weeks now. I agree the speed is, by far, the biggest issue. I find it quite inconsistent..sometimes its ok, sometimes is slow (3+ seconds). Though, I've gotten used to it somewhat and it rarely bothers me. Think I'm gonna stick with it.
No, don't leave the app developers alone. Apple has merely failed to protect its customers; it is Path, Instagram, Voxer, and whoever else who have actively taken advantage of this lack of protection to abuse the trust of their users. Yes, Apple could do more to protect their customers, but the fault lies with those people who are uploading address books without permission.

When I install an application on my computer, I do not expect it to upload arbitrary information from my disk to the developer's servers. If an application did, I would be quite upset, even though any application that I run on my computer will generally have access to all of my data with no substantial platform-provided protection.

Why should I suddenly give the developers a break because the application is running on the computer I carry around in my pocket, instead of the computer I put in my lap?

Would you forgive a company if their application grabbed your cookies, and uploaded those to their server, so that they could log into your Gmail account to find your contact information? Decided to upload all of your documents to their servers and convert them to a convenient HTML format to make it easy for you to share them with one click to your friends? Rooted around your hard disk, uploading your tax information to their servers?

So why do you say that we should forgive companies for making the deliberate decision to grab private information from your phone, and upload it to their servers, just because the platform vendor never implemented a feature to explicitly forbid that?
In this age of SEO'd dreck and machine-generated content, I'll happily take a few "bubbles" over a static (read: gamable) ranking system.
As long as I can disable the Media Library I'll be fine.

I use VLC because it doesn't thrust another library organization task in front of me.
MPlayerX (for OS X) does this, but personally I would prefer if it didn't. But that's probably because I watch a lot of short clips I'd rather have restarted, than long movies which I'd want to keep watching where I left them.
I don't think it is legally possible. I believe these requests are usually accompanied by gag orders.
The basis of your question is untrue. The links on the page are direct links to the sites; what's shown in the status bar is where you'll be taken to when you click. The redirect is added through JavaScript on the onmousedown event. You can disable it by disabling JavaScript.
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This will really suck for these countries. As someone who lives in an oil producing country, OPEC is a horrible model to follow. Almost all the countries in OPEC are corrupt, inefficient and have dictatorial govts who oppress the majority poor in their countries.

That said, I wonder what impact this will have in other conflict regions that provide lithium or substitutes to lithium like Congo and Afghanistan.
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While I'm not saying that I don't partially agree with you, please provide your reasons for thinking so.
It's not just your email but the recipients as well, and they can do what they want with it. Why would you care if they were able to figure out that you like computers and target more relevant ads?
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Detroit was the Silicon Valley of the first few decades of the 20th century. What would be interesting would be to study why Detroit failed.

My thoughts are that, as companies became larger, they calcify and innovation ceases. Graham mentions Detroit in passing in that article but doesn't acknowledge that, in the 1910s Detroit WAS a hub where enormous innovation was taking place. I want to ask: where did Detroit's nerds go? The region still is quite wealthy[0] and has more millionaires than San Jose. However Detroit has neither an intact urban core, nor a flagship university. The auto industry barons (like Henry Ford or Walter Chrysler) never built a namesake college, the reason for that I'm not really sure.

Graham also mentions Pittsburgh in the article. As a native of the city I think he discounts the changes that have taken place in the decades since he has lived here. There is definitely an interesting old urban city here with a reasonable sized start-up scene. The winter weather is no worse than a place like Boston. He's right about the lack of VC wealth, though. It seems that all the old steel money isn't really interested that much in funding tech start-ups, although I think that's slowly changing too.

[0]http://247wallst.com/2011/07/13/the-american-cities-with-the...
It's different when the privacy violation is followed by being involved in somebody else's sex act without consent.
wow loads of nay-sayers.
There is nothing hokey about the science, of course it will work.
I dont see the issues, it clearly isnt supposed to be a direct replacement for energy hungry batteries, but for low drain, use a lot, maybe even critical applications, like oh, I dont know a transistor radio maybe.
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Doubt it'll go through.
what abour rvm?
I agree, and I don't even read Techcrunch. For me, what really hits home is all the advice you can get about entrepreneurship, and startups, and winning, and whatnot - and you're starting to get it from kids who literally have no idea what they're talking about, who have never actually started a company, and who are doing nothing more than spouting some kind of Jobsian rhetoric mixed with a dash of old Paul Graham essays.

But everyone wants to be influential, and everyone wants to be read, and the best way to get read is to write what people want to hear, and your writing doesn't need to be especially introspective or well-revised in order to give people their five-minute content fix.
I guess this is where we're actually parting ways. I agree that learning a platform, its APIs and idioms is important, non-trivial work, but...

As you might guess from my username, I'm a fan of more than a few languages where (at least I believe) the differences go well beyond syntax. That means I want standards because I want to know what I can (or could) take with me to another platform and what I can't.
Sorry but no, this is today's upgrade in Google, I think. Try this in your shell

curl --header "User-Agent: " "http://64.233.183.132/search?gbv=1&tbo=1&as_qdr=all&hl=en&num=50&q=keyword"

You can see all links are wrapped with `href="/url?q=`

Yes, it was used to be wrapped by javascript.
Nothing is wrong with yajl it is awesome! I have used the lua module for yajl for some time with no hiccups.
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Jailbait refers to adolescents, not children, which is relevant if you are doing a moral not legal analysis.
It does, but most states/countries have some exception. For example, here in Australia a psychiatrist has to report someone they think is going to cause harm to themselves or others.
Note TrustWave, a widely trusted certificate authority, has recently explicitly acknowledged selling devices with subordinate root certificates that allow them to spoof certs for any domain that they want in order to allow companies to snoop on their employees. http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2012/02/clarifying-the-trustwave-...

If they are willing to sell these to private organizations, who's to say that one of the many certificate authorities have not sold such devices or certificates to repressive governments?

SSL is basically a joke at this point. Because it requires you to trust every single certificate authority for every single domain, it basically means that you are only protected against the average script kiddie, not a dedicated attacker. There have been plenty of CAs compromised, who continued to issue MD5 signed certificates well after it was broken, who are within the control of authoritarian governments, or who are willing to sell subordinate root certs for the purpose of snooping to any company who is willing to pay enough.

And that's not to mention that even if the information is properly protected in transit, putting this information on your servers makes you that much more vulnerable to attackers who may want access to this information, the government of the country in which it is hosted, legal process, or any number of other threats. Even if they had properly secured the information in transit, and SSL were secure, it still vastly increases your customers exposure to upload this information to your servers.
What are those dozens of apps that do the same thing? That would be a good story!
When I access that exact URL on a real browser, I get normal direct links.

<a href="https://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/" class=l onmousedown="return ...
My immediate reaction:

- There are circumstances where talking as if you know what you're talking about when you really don't can do more harm than good, both to you and to your audience.

- The idea that we should stop learning before we get so deep into a subject that we can't immediately communicate our insights to a layperson (which is not very deep at all) smacks of anti-intellectualism.
You pretty much have to do the same thing - release code using new models before migrating the db. Django tends to spell out all columns in its SQL statements, so when you delete one from the db, but fail to upgrade the code you will run into a db exception.

I'd also recommend using South for migrations http://south.aeracode.org/
Looks like a "cool but useless" idea to me. The spring is not being used to 'really' store energy...

So, you have a crappy (low capacity) rechargeable battery, that is paired with a crappy mechanical charger.

You would be much better served to have good rechargeable batteries, that you put in a good charger (which could be mechanical, if that's what you want).
Generally stories of this sort that make the news involve strangers, but such events are extremely rare compared to molestation by a friend or relative of the family. Those stories are much less sensational, and so don't tend to make the news.
The Firefox Google Search link fix add-on seems to do a decent job.
The fact you can disrupt a market means youre generating a net benefit or you wouldn't be able to disrupt the market in the first place. The opportunity for disruption implies market inefficiency and thus a failure to maximize social benefit.
>It's an accident waiting to happen.

It'll be a shitstorm when a large set of address books gets leaked to the internet (à la AnonOps, etc.).

(Though it would be a lot of fun to run some graph-theoretic metrics on the dataset (closeness, centrality, etc.). I've often lusted over getting an anonymized version of the Facebook graph (32-bit ID for each person, assume average of 100 friends, 700 million users, gives a total size of about 300 GB uncompressed), but a leak of a couple million address books now seems not far-fetched.)
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What's the difference between "US-style" basketball and "other" style? (i.e "chinese-style"?)

Doesn't everyone play the same game/style?
So, now that MG is now on the business end of the tech blog echochamber and allowed at the big boys table where "people/startups are willing to share information with me that they never would have when I was a blogger", it is all bullshit, facts be damned, and lazy. Also, conveniently as a blogger who has devoted himself to one company, apparently good writers can really only know one or two companies at a time.

If MG had a modicum of self awareness, I'd buy it, but this just reads like a high school senior who knows the real secret dope about how the world works and is just dying to tell you. And also a great example of changing the topic rather than dealing with your/your company's mistakes head on.
Much like those old-school wind up toys, a torsional spring can provide controlled rotation (ie. slowly release the stored energy at a controlled velocity using a tuned gear train). This would let you operate the generator at a specific (more efficient) operating point. Just a thought.
> Starting tomorrow

No you're not. I mean, come on. This guy is advocating an asocial lifestyle. We live in our computational environments, and we need constant contact with the world outside that environment, even though we're _using_ that environment to make the contact.

We're human beings, not machines.
I've used Macs since OS 8 and I don't quite get the symbols myself. It's command-option-escape, for future reference.
I tried really hard to get used to DDG for an entire week. I changed my bookmarks to DDG, learned hashbang syntax etc.. But at the end of the week I just came to know how much more google does than DDG. I kept missing:

Auto complete (suggestions) - I tend to type a lot of things wrong, integrated image search and unfortunately some times quality of the results too..

I'm not saying every one has to stick with google.. just saying DDG isn't a viable alternative for most people used to google search (but its a lot better than bing)...
Cannabis is not some terrible thing that turns people into thieves and low-lives. Plenty of the people you interact with every day (and likely have pleasant interactions with) use these substances. Perhaps some of this is location based, as I know on the west coast the general consensus is that people don't give a damn. Every single person I know has a friend or family member that smokes, often times successful and happy people, and it's not a big deal if they do or they don't. Public sentiment is changing every day and I truly believe that in the next 20-40 years cannabis prohibition will be a thing of the past just like alcohol prohibition.

One question for you - which do you think causes more health and addiction problems for people in the US ? Cannabis ? Or alcohol and prescription medications ?
Hey szany, thanks for the feedback, I can totally understand where you are coming from.

That's interesting and I totally agree, talking as if you know all about the subject can certainly do more harm than good. What I tried to focus on with this post, is to see everything you do somewhat like an MVP. The key is to keep getting feedback on everything you do and shipping stuff as soon as you have a slight grasp of the situation. I didn't mean to pretend you are an expert but to be content with the amount you have learnt and sharing it immediately to learn more faster. Does that make sense?
Python's greenlet libraries such as Gevent & eventlet makes websocket type of applications possible. It is not difficult to add in websocket support into WSGI frameworks such as Pyramid/Flask. One example http://blog.abourget.net/2011/3/17/new-and-hot-part-4-pyrami.... You can have both WSGI and websocket in the same stack.
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Personally I found results from DDG to be inferior to Google results most of the time, so I had to switch back after a week or so.

The functionality being described here is something that I actually use Alfred for these days.
And in Firefox, you can either set it up in the search bar's menu (by going to its preferences), or, if there is no search plugin for a site, go to that site, right click in the search box, and choose "Add Keyword Search". This'll create a bookmark with the same effect.

I've done this for every single site I search regularly, and have used up almost all 26 letters at this point. It's amazingly useful.
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I stuck with it for nearly a month and it made me fall in love with google all over again, both for its speed and the quality of the results.

I think I would have been able to stick with DDG through the speed issues as painful as it was, but too often I found myself going to google anyway after failing to even find what I was looking for on DDG.
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It's Apple's fault that developers took advantage of an API to abuse their users' trust and privacy?

No. It's Apple's fault for failing to protect their customers that buy into their walled garden, but even then, there isn't exactly a hugely black and white list of things that Apple considers to be "fair use" and "evil" in privacy contexts.

The app developers CHOSE to use, upload, store and reuse this data, not Apple. Shifting the blame to Apple is making extreme excuses for app developers.

>Until then, lets leave the app developers alone.

I can't begin to wrap my head around this viewpoint. At all. Let's give them a free pass. Despite them violating my implicit privacy, they can't be blamed. If they can, they should be able to, that's what you're saying...
> She talks about my business. She talks about an upcoming venture financing event. Etc.

"Hi, Ms. Psychic. I'm Mrs. Dregs, we've talked before; remember, I live in the purple house and have two dogs and called to ask about my parents? … I knew you'd remember! I'd like to set up an appointment for my husband, Mr. Dregs. He's been so busy working on his startup, CoffeeCo; I was hoping you could help guide his way. … No, Feb 17th won't work, he'll be busy preparing for his presentation at Y Combinator then. … Oh, yes, the 12th would work great, I'm so glad you could squeeze him in then, thank you!"
Perhaps its a bad analogy? The "single task" you're working on also has sends signals to you.
I never said the subreddit is illegal because it's titled "jailbait" or "teen girls". I said it's illegal because of the content it hosts and promotes.

>Also, if you believe that the stolen facebook/photobucket photos are illegal, should facebook/photobucket be held liable for hosting it?

No.
I switched to DDG, and a couple days later, I find myself running searches while at Google headquarters, feeling... a bit awkward.

Seriously though... I switched back a week later. Speed was one thing, but I'd rather take the latency hit and support DDG. The biggest issue I had was relevancy. I would find exactly what I needed using Google, while I'd have to scroll down quite a bit to find what I needed in DDG. Also... the format of search results in DDG is a bit too big for me (seems like too much centering and spacing)... I'd like a lot tighter layout.

I'd really like to use DDG. Until some of my qualms are fixed, I'll stick to Google. That said, I'll definitely be revisiting and retrying DDG every few months.
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