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I think that a lot of westerners fail to realize the impact of the "otaku as superconsumer" effect on the Japanese media industry, in part due to the way that anime is priced in western territories. In Japan, anime blu-ray volumes are tremendously expensive; right now the latest volume of Madoka is selling for over ¥9,000 (>$100), and that's a fairly typical price for a single volume containing three 25-minute episodes. In the west, $300-400 will get you several hundred 45-minute episodes of Deep Space 9 on DVD. In Japan, $300-400 is the amount that a hardcore fan can be expected to spend on the blu-rays for a dozen 25-minute episodes. On top of this, there is merchandising galore; CDs for OP/ED, insert songs, character CDs, along with physical goods like figures.

On top of this, sometimes hardcore fans will buy multiple copies of their favorites to inflate sales numbers. For an extreme example, see this man who bought 5500 copies of a single AKB48 CD: http://blog.esuteru.com/archives/3347822.html

To put things into perspective, the Bakemonogatari blu-rays sold around 50,000 copies per volume during the release window, which catapulted it to the status of "most commercially-successful anime since Evangelion." Based on this, it's not hard to see how a base of several thousand really dedicated fans could be enough to justify an anime production.
If there's a decision I want to die: I send it to committee for a slow, painful death. Sometimes it will take years of doing nothing before anyone notices we solved the prob elm the way the opposition wanted.
How is anyone surprised that an old company that has run out of steam is trying alternative revenue models that are designed for the benefit of old out of steam companies?
Don't try to justify it, Apple has not ideals any more. I admired Jobs of what he did as a person, improving the state of the Technology for everyone. There wouldn't have been a real mobile world (including Android and WP7) like we have today.

I don't see any more what Apple's major goal is. if they would hold to their premise: "Create the best user experience" they wouldn't do stuff like that.
I can't help but think that at five years old I could have told anyone that I lived in Oxford, and therefore wouldn't need to remember what it looked like to find my way back there 25 years later.

Am I wrong about the ability of five year olds?
A content farm exists to take existing content and farm it out for people to find with no additional value. That's not at all what my site is. My site allows any youtube user to track their statistics and compare themselves with any other user on the site. Every user in the database (over 215k right now) gets updated at least once a day by querying youtube's api and ranks are updated, etc. There are tens if not hundreds of thousands of people who use the site daily to track said data. Very different then a content farm that just tricks people serving up recycled videos. :)
Google released hangouts (it's group video chat) in mid january. it might be a feature teens would really like and one that facebook would have hard time to copy.

So it's probably too early to tell if teens will use google+.
Yes, given the cynicism which seems to have developed there, it seems like only a matter of time before some GS employee decides to leak embarrassing information as part of an insider trading scheme.
Yep.
Luckily the sky is rising! :)
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120129/17272817580/sky-is...
I thought so too. But then why is it written that his older brother accompanied him on the train ride. Yes, I have OCD.
"The older brother who accompanied Mr Brierley on the train ride was found dead on railway tracks."
Reused paper tends to be crumpled and warped, especially if you try to feed it through a (laser) printer multiple times. It's more trouble than it's worth, unless they make printers that can handle less-than-perfect paper.
As mentioned in the paper, there are Khan Academy "coaching" tools for monitoring the students. The site allows you to monitor the relative progress of the students so if one started to slow down you could pick them up on that: http://www.khanacademy.org/images/class-report-medium.png
What are the jobs that the entertainment industry is hired to do?
HackerNews got me - moving to a tech firm
We're all well aware of the Usenet flamewar 20 years ago.

What has that to do with Minix now?
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OC should have said "GPLv3" instead of "GPL". Most companies are pretty comfortable with GPLv2.
What was your education before working as a trader?
But fluid design for packed pages is hard... Just see Facebook. Its a pretty good design IMO but its fixed.
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This echoes my feelings too.

For me FF's developer tool is better, and the add-on ecosystem is better. But it is so so slow.
They seem to be focusing 100% on making dom/css editing pretty but forgetting all about javascript and requests/headers etc. What gives? While this 3D dom stuff looks neat, doesn't make me want to switch from Chrome at all because it's not going to add anything to my day job which does involve DOM/CSS, but also heaps of javascript as well.
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I wonder why more people don't realize this. Fact is, there are those who have no other option at their day jobs then to deploy to "ancient" systems for one reason or another, developers often do not have a say in the matter. It's good that these useful frameworks are willing to support the real world for as long as they can.
The problem with blog posts like this one is that they're largely ignored for their content. Instead, those with an agenda or an axe to grind (on either side) come out of the woodwork.

Your comment is a case in point. Anyone familiar with your story (at Google and, as you know, there are many of us who are) knows how totally skewed your perception is.

Many people (including me) tried to offer you constructive advice. Without getting into specifics I think it's fair to say that any problems you had were pretty much entirely of your own making.

Regarding a few specifics:

- You mischaracterize the slotting process, which is now largely gone anyway (and you should know this so I'm not sure why you're bring it up as if it were a present problem);

- I can't speak for how much time managers spend on Perf but managing their people and the careers of those people is kinda their job. As for engineers, it depends on how much feedback you need to do. One engineer I know how to do >20 feedbacks and this took him a couple of days. Generally speaking, the more you have to do it, the quicker you are (at each one);

The fact that performance is peer-driven is overall a good thing. It means your relationship with your peers matters and this isn't just an arbitrary managerial decision. I see you still don't get that.

Google isn't perfect. Then again, nothing is. But it's pretty great. Or, rather, it can be. You get as much out of it as you put in. See something that needs fixing? Then fix it. It's certainly not a place for those that simply like to sit back and complain.
I for one think it totally makes sense to visualize in three dimensions that which really does work in three dimension but shows only the top level.
Other writeup of the story has the same mistake. First "he is separated from his brother and boards a train", later "the brother was accompanying him on the train ride".

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/from-beggar-to-oz-business...
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I am missing the purpose of this library. When I use Flask, I use Flask-SQLAlchemy for Data Access and ORM, Flask-WTForm for forms and Jinja2 for templates. I don't see what I gain by using the web2py components in Flask.
> There was a qualitative change after the banks went public.

Many investment bankers knew they were selling crap at insane valuations during the internet bubble. Hell, the first time I saw IB's taking advantage of mass mania was the junk bonds era and Michael Milken.

Those guys have had the culture of taking advantage of clients for a very long time. It might be argued that the author of the OP article is just a slow learner... But I give him major props on teaching what he learned.
I thought this was going to be over-the-top, but after watching the video, there are cases where the 3D could actually be useful. Granted, I use Chrome's Developer tools and don't see myself switching back to FF anytime soon, but I still laud their innovation.
The analogous argument is that because crime still happens, we should abolish the police force.
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Not at all. When I went to school at age 6, I knew which busses to take, knew the names of the stops that were relevant to me (and after a few weeks the name of all the bust stops in between), and my parent's address and phone number. And I grew up rather sheltered, in comparison to Indian slum inhabitants.

Granted, one year can make quite a difference at that age, I'm sure I at least know the name of the town and which quarter I lived in.
If something is very successful, it doesn't mean it is very good and nothing can replace it. The world is currently divided into many school of thoughts, and only time will tell which kernel design is going to win the war. Also, there has been growing hatred towards Linux with its bloated kernel and eating all the RAM!
Granting that startups frequently change direction quickly and radically... I would still evaluate someone who is moving in a direction differently than one who is not. Choice of a direction (including an active decision and specific concrete work on a project) is also a reflection of character (a personal characteristic - not merely ideas).
I really think being publicly-traded companies is the root of the problem here. When a company goes public, it adopts one (and only one) goal: Maximize shareholder value. When that's the priority, it naturally follows that the sharks take over the waters. This is not a tough leap of logic, and it's repeated in corporate culture constantly. We need a famous person to quote it succinctly so that it is enshrined as a colloquial law.
To be fair, I think many of the people who were employed at Goldman Sachs three generations ago are no longer with the firm, so it's hard to judge GS based on that.
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My daughter knew her City and street address at 2.75 years, but then, that's just because we taught it to her as a fun game, not something she picked up organically. Whether should would recall when in a scary environment separated from her family is another thing entirely.
>"Google Research is alive and kicking:"

Alive, yes. Kicking?

I figured out what was bothering me about the comparison between Google Research and MS Research in light of the shutdown of Google Labs. The Google Research site is essentially a bibliography for academics, Microsoft Research site has papers, blogs, and downloads -- in true Microsoft tradition, it is a BLOB not an RDBMS table.

Microsoft Research is clearly reflects a hacker culture, Google's reflects a culture where the idea that labs are not necessary to research holds sway. Google Research reflects an approach more akin to the social science of sociology, than physics.
An entrepreneur works full time at an idea. He gave up, managed a meager sell of the domain out of pure luck.
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Honest question: is the title of this article sarcastic?
The saving of style sheet changes seems useful, but thats it from my point of view.
"Something happens to companies as they get larger, where the culture of a company starts dying from a death-by-a-thousand-cuts, ..."

Goldman (or Google) is no where near death. But Goldman is still in crisis mode. The primary focus now is profit margin. making money for you and your clients isn't the point any longer. It's your position that matters. But Goldman, used to award your bonus not just based on your position. They used to survey your clients. And their opinion mattered. Not sure if they still do this. I haven't worked in Wall Street since 1996.

And Goldman isn't the only firm in this position, by the way.

And Google is sort of in the same place. FB scares the hell out of them. And instead of innovating (and taking risks) they copy.

Google and Goldman are blinded now. They can't see beyond their own models.
To all the `insightful` comments that again talk about browser speed on a story about Mozilla, lets just remember that different teams under the same organization work on different aspects of the same product. So if the effort is good, lets praise its goodness before criticizing other aspects of the product that may be worse compared to competitors.

It is lovely to see a good effort in the developer tools that were quite abandoned and that other products on the same space were evolving at good speed, like the chrome dev tools, which I find a great tool to work with day after day.

Lets see what Mozilla can do with the javascript part, they should be able to create at least the same good experience as the chrome dev tools do. At least I hope so...
in my eyes, these fan sub groups aren't classified as pirate (nor are the peopel downloading them), because as far as i m concerned, the anime is recorded off free to air tv, and thus is meant to be freely available to watch

Most legal systems come to a different decision from you about whether or not this is copyright infringement.
Historical reasons mostly.

Virtualenv is now on the ascendancy but it wasn't always like this and there were many people who had workflows based on different tools including zc.buildout (for example). Virtualenv has gone from an up-and-comer to a top-dog over the last 4.5 years.

Django core devs have tried to be hands-off on dev-op issues perhaps to a fault.
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For all the times I've seen people on HN say "ideas are worthless", you would think HN would love this. I myself think it's a great experiment.
In one part of the program you call functions and pass values around. In another part, you count references and keep an eye on the size of the cache. When it is too full, you throw away the items that aren’t referenced.

How is this not garbage collection?
Let me try to deconstruct your points:

1. I believe that by law an H-1B professional's salaries have to be competitive so that they don't undercut the market. In fact, I recall in my previous company that they posted salaries drawn for each H1B position.

2. Re: The networking point. This happens everywhere. Immigrants don't have some sort of magical cultural bond that non-immigrants don't. There are huge networks formed by ex-frat house members, club members and family friends that go on to take over the upper rings of society. (The US political society anyone?)

3. The homeless situation in SF is complex and ascribing it to one factor: The fact that a lot of money is pouring to the bay area is not a very convincing factor. Some competing "reasons" are that SF has nicer weather (thereby attracting people from other parts of the country), is generally more hospitable to homeless people (This might be off base but I believe benefits are better).
Check out the source: http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/os-linux/all/all

Specifically, Mark fails to mention that Centos is listed separately from RHEL in the survey, and when added together they come to 41%, more than twice that of Ubuntu.

I'm a Canonical fan, I'm typing this on 12.04 right now, but that seems a bit misleading.
not everyone is aware:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3683984
No, it's not. May be you don't know MINIX 3 very well ;)
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Could you link to a resource that describes Go's dependency resolution scheme? Specifically, I'm curious if this means that all libraries are dynamically linked, and if so, if this inhibits Go's ability to inline function calls between libraries.
That's because many people have no idea how to even read the memory usage stats in Linux.
Toshiba is releasing a technology for removing the printer up to 5 times from printed paper, but it uses a special toner

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Many software engineers strive for modularity and component decoupling, sacrificing some things (e.g. performance, to a varying degree) and gaining others. I agree with this line of thinking, and I see no reason not to apply it to OS kernels as well. The MMU is a really good friend to have, and I think most systems in this world should appreciate reliability more than performance, especially when it comes to the kernel. I always get a bit sad as I think of the general state of things, remembering that a decade ago I thought today everything would be properly divided and sandboxed with a minimum of necessary privileges. I guess user experience trumps it in many cases.
Goldman has a kind of hilarious understated response, in which they note that this guy was a VP (there are thousands of VPs at Goldman) and that the group he managed consisted of him and him alone. Plus, this was a bad year for bonuses. Nothing like a slow career and a dwindling bank account to make you aware of how morally imperative it is that you switch careers!

The people I know at Goldman are generally bright and hard-working. The ones who perform agency work seem to serve the interests of their clients; the ones who are closer to proprietary traders tend to advance the interests of Goldman. There are some products for which it's very hard to have a pure agency relationship, though; the best way to keep them liquid is to trade with someone who is taking the other side of your trade.

I'd keep that kind of thing in mind when reading a story like this. It's asymmetric warfare: he has nothing to lose by talking about how bad Goldman is, but if Goldman talks back, they're a) dignifying a silly story, and b) creating an opportunity for irresponsible folk like Taibbi to willfully misinterpret them.

This article is the table tennis bronze medal of moral outrage.
I understand your intention. But you are using the word differently from most people understand it. If you are convinced that something is not true, most people would say that you doubt that thing a lot. I'm not trying to stir up an argument, just explain why people seem to be having problems with your statement.
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> My bigger concern is how involved GS is with our government.

I agree: This deserves a great deal more attention.

Hell, just the Henry Paulson tax giveaway should have caused civil unrest.
there wasn't even an agreed upon spec for WSGI on python 3 until last year IIRC. That needed to happen first.
I can't help but wonder if the same ultra-short pulses of laser light can be used to vaporize dark pen ink, giving users the ability to erase or alter things like signatures.
I noticed that - the fork list isn't a good representation either. It would be interesting to get a sample across github, bitbucket, google code and whatever that site is called that .NET developer use.

I don't think a survey of all of those site s combined would fall far from the 90-95% BSD/MIT license rate you see in the GitHub sample (again, talking about web related open source software).

Anecdotally, I have also noticed that many Android/iOS/mobile libraries are also MIT/Apache/BSD.
The increased test scores of 6.4% in contrast to 5.2% in the control group sounds like it could be purely noise, especially since I couldn't find the value for the standard deviations of these numbers.

The difference is so small that even if it's not noise, it could be very well caused by other factors (teachers more motivated in the test group, for example).
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Last week, my brother (also a dev) said, "Hacker School sounds amazing. I wish there was something like that in SF."

Why not?

Let's do it:

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Interested?
I don't know it at all. Minix to me has a reputation as the punch line of a joke about how to design kernels for the real world. (I don't claim that it's true, just that that's what I associate it with.)

Can you sell me on why I should be interested?
> always doing right by our clients

... and interestingly, not "for" our clients.
No "kernel design is going to win the war." Just like you will never find a "one size fits all" shoe. Different problems require different solutions.
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Exactly. Logos, wordmarks, etc. come with strict standards for appropriate and inappropriate use.
Yesterday me and my girlfriend were looking for a car related service, and we found a site which supplied that service. It was obvious that it was using some kind of generic design template, so both of us got a bit suspicious, and not until we had researched the company for quite a while were we OK with doing business with them. It just didn't feel serious.

On the other hand you can find plenty of services/sites that looks graphically really professional and legit and that are instead plain scam (think about fake ecommerce sites)
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What else would a laser unprinter be used for besides sensitive documents? Paper is cheap, wouldn't it be easier to just use a new piece of paper and recycle the old one.
Why didn't they just buy Facebook?
Keep up!

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I don't understand what information this proposed "search-referer" header contains that the referer header does not.
I worked at Goldman briefly in the 90s, and I remember being pleasantly surprised at how little cynicism, and how much genuine enthusiasm for helping others I found there. It was a bank, sure, in the business of making money, but there was always this sense -- emanating from the top -- that money was not its sole purpose. I can see where this writer was coming from, and I agree with him that if this bank has lost its unique culture, then it has lost touch with what made it successful in the first place.
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Good point. This does imply that the teacher is watching the monitor rather than helping another student and then actively intervenes. So it is likely a different dynamic than a classroom where a teacher is observing the whole class at once and can take a somewhat more subtle action (i.e. speak louder in a direction of a student who is falling asleep). Khan academy may well be much more effective. It would be great to see studies that make clear comparisons of where it is most effective.