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Keyboards are pretty flimsy nowadays (literally - with flexible circuit sheets, etc.), and depending on the type might take a bit of work to tear down to clean the parts, and my be a toss up on usability. That said, Google is your friend, search for "keyboard cleaning" with the model of your laptop you will probably get a hit or three on some tips for disassembly and cleaning, etc.

Before you do that, have you checked to see if there's a good price on a replacement keyboard? - I've found some on Amazon as low as $15 for Dell laptops and such, eBay is good too but you need to look at the seller's track record and such to make sure things are jake.
Applications are broadly vulnerable to this problem. It's true that your app server and your web server will share the blame, but that's going to be cold comfort.

(This comment sounds more disagreeable than I mean it to; sorry, it's tricky for me to comment about this stuff).
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> And even that's pretty hand-wavy. What makes a "professional company" and why would such a thing have a "responsibility to the public" above and beyond any other company?

I suspect he's using the word "professional" here in the more traditional form. He's roughly referring to careers like doctor, lawyer, banker, where there is usually formal licensing based on public interest.

That's e.g. why there is a lot more paperwork to file when you start a hospital or a bank than a widget shop.
> In the real world, I have a few friends that don't make recommendations really often. But when they do, I jump. Their recommendations are always solid gold.

Can't we solve this by allowing users to internally rate their friends? Just like you, I only care about the recommendation of some of my friends. So if can somehow rate my friend's recommendation from 1 to 5, then the algorithm could just to only recommend me stuff from the friends I value the most.

You can even use machine learning to do this automatically. Instead of bothering users to rate friends, if I often like the recommendations you give to me, I should get more recommendations from you. If I often ignore your recommendations, I should get less of it.

G+ circles could even be used for further context. I might like your recommendation for food, but not for tech. So the engine could could separate each content with a context (this is a tech blog, or that is a food blog) and relate that to my circles. So I would get tech recommendation from people on my tech circle, but not from people on my food circle.

I think the big picture problem here, is that social networks usually put all 'friends' in the same bucket of equal value. When in the real world we have different values for different friends, and for different contexts. So a solution would be to simply have additional variables for friend rating, then use machine learning to try to automatically match them to each context.
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I don't get your last point though, I think publication date & author are pretty obviously at the top.
Well said, it reminds slightly of how Perelman, the mathematician was treated by the press. Even if the article is quite good otherwise.
GPU within it went from dual to quad-core. Maybe it also upgraded from SGX543 to SGX544 or SGX554. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerVR#Series_5XT Hard to teardown a SoC.
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I've worked with Ceridian before, and their people are pretty good as well. And hey, if you ever need a workforce performance system, InView/Dayforce is right there too :)
That's a good point. In his current role he is essentially the top technical person in the company.

I wonder if the reason alot of acquired entrepreneurs leave is that they are used to having so much authority and latitude that getting a middle manager role at google just feels like wearing a straight jacket.
Maybe you've never heard the famous expression "Ideas are like *, everybody's got one".
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This is remarkable, but is going to Mars really our most challenging goal, our raison d'etre as humanity? Given the choice between being either the First human on mars or the First machine-augmented-human what would you choose?
b/c if 99% of us were placed in that situation, we'd take the money
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> DYNAMIC LOADING
> Cons: Although the jury is still out on this, we have concerns that this approach may not scale to very large sites. As an application becomes larger and more templates become required, its easy to see how the main page load may take more time and increases the amount of load on your servers.

By main page load don't you mean first page load? Ideally the browser will cache them as an asset package and that first page load will be a little slower. But how would that put more load on the servers?
Yeah, this reminds me of the sort of thing you'd find on DHTML gallery sites in the mid-90s.
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So, this is the 'best practice' for the week then?
If you were worth getting $1.7MM to piss away you would have had $1.7MM to piss away.

If you were the inventors of the facebook, you would've invented the facebook.

For some reason, I really like this type of argument. There's really no comeback to it. It's so, matter-of-fact.

"If you were [x], then you'd be [x]"
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Yup, I already tried that script and I believe it's out of date. Open pull request at https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/pull/477

edit: I've just realised I don't need the code to be merged into jekyll in order to use it (facepalm).

edit2: ok, maybe not as straightforward as I thought. I'm not really a coder so it takes me longer to understand what scripts are doing (and then tweak them so they work for me).
I have to imagine that 50% of the RAM and processing usage on any system running this will be dedicated to running a botnet service....
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Why don't we focus on the shit here first?

I'm sorry, but I just get frustrate with all these wondrous predictions that always seem to be about 30-50 years in the future. Short enough away to be enticing, but long enough away where no one making these predictions will really he held accountable for their ridiculousness.

It just seems that every single generation a) has some "new threat" for "how the world will end" and b) has some technological vision that ends up being way overestimated.
Looks like your post is getting a mixed reaction. I think you're both right and wrong.

You can outsource to a lot of cheap, technically talented developers (you can also very easily end up with awful developers, though). But they won't think on their feet or be able to make independent decisions- they are contractors, and they will make exactly what you tell them to.

If you're technically minded yourself that might be fine- you can give very specific, down to the pixel instructions. But if you're an "ideas guy" you're not going to have any answer when feature X is not technically possible, and the contractors aren't going to help you.
First, you miss attributed this. It was Philip Sheridan; a Union General assigned to occupy Texas and oversee reconstruction after the Civil War. He was less than popular and removed from his post by president Andrew Johnson for his harsh application of the Military Reconstruction Acts.

Which leads me to a much better quote.

"Fuck You! I'm from Texas."

The guy wasn't even arrested in Texas. He was arrested by the Feds... who Texans usually have no love for. Succeed is on bumper stickers here. But yeah, I admit... Texas enforcement and sentencing can be BS. So don't break our laws and we wont break you.
Yep, you'll have to upgrade your 12-year-old operating system. Positively absurd isn't it?

Editted to elaborate:

It's not upgrading for the sake of upgrading. 12 years may as well be 100 years in the tech sector. Windows XP is end-of-life'd in 2014. Why on Earth would Microsoft release a brand new browser on a dead OS? They're not going to spend another 5 years of time and money on that dinosaur patching security issues for something they haven't even sold in God knows how long. Expecting them to is completely unreasonable. The fact that they've supported us XP users for even this long shows how committed they are.

It's also not upgrading simply because the OS is old. Lots of old things still run fine. Windows XP is not in that class of things. It will continue to have security issues for as long as people are on the platform.

Also, if you're worried about whether you'll be able to eat tomorrow or pay your rent then upgrading your computer and upgrading to IE9 are both very irrelevant to your life right now.

@politician: Because Chrome and FireFox strive for platform independence while Microsoft does not, which allows them to take advantage of Windows-only features and APIs; Some of which may actually be quite useful (like some kind of native DirectX rendering of pages, for example). It does come down to money though. As I said before, they don't have a good reason to support a new browser and its various security fixes on an operating system they're about to stop updating forever.
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I'm a little confused on how it is sold.

Is it the box with air in it, only? Which is ridiculous for a game which is only playable with a net connection.

And the battle.net site suggests you can buy a digital copy. If so, why can'y you buy the digital copy? What prevents you from?
"Vic's" ego is getting bigger. That usually spells failure.
Good for him! I've been a fan since tech TV days. I think this board is suffering from an overdose of hateraid. Yeah Digg blew up and then sunk, but to be involved in so many sucessful businesses this guy is talented.
To answer the question, if there has to be a Joker to stop Defectors, who is the Joker?

Joker does not need to be a person; it could be anything that destroys benefits with some good success. You get where I am going with this; Joker is any disaster that causes loss. For living things, death does the job pretty well. However, in real life, people are not the only entities which gather benefits, there are organizations that live beyond the lifetime of an individual. In that case, the Joker could be paradigm shifts, weariness, anti-trust cases, scientific theory, or the occasional market crash (you get 1 point for finding each entity these destroy).
you get the scale of it better when you start with humanity http://www.chronozoomproject.org/#/t55/t174/t66/t46/t161
This is not true. Google does not sell personal information; no advertiser ever learns anything about you. Google learns about you and it learns about the advertiser, and then uses that information to match ads and users. Yes, we make money from that. But it's a huge leap from that to "selling your personal information".

The privacy policy says: "We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy," and selling your information is not listed there. Read it for yourself, it's pretty short!
The allthingsd article specifically says Google is NOT acquiring Milk. They have hired Kevin Rose and a few key members of the Milk team. The techcrunch article says Milk is being acqui-hired, for $15-$30 million. I wonder which is correct.

It's nice to see the investors taken care of, if that's what happened. But it doesn't sound like Milk or Oink will survive past today.

Congrats to Kevin and all who were hired. I still stand by my position that it kinda sucks that they abandoned their customers at the drop of the hat. But at least now it makes some sense.
That's funny. I'm working on a project where we're specifically using Backbone in order to be able to scale.

We're compiling all our Backbone templates and pushing them to Akamai so that user's around the world can get the JS templates from a local CDN and only need to get JSON data from our main server. It's far easier than trying to modify the app to be able to deploy across multiple datacenters.
Another Item: The "Official" anonymous Twitter mouthpiece claims this is fake.

https://twitter.com/#!/anonops/status/180092538395443201
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TechCrunch is reporting that Google paid $15-30m for it.
He didn't start promoting it on air at techtv, he started promoting it on TWiT, Leo Laporte's podcast that was started after the screen savers was more-or-less cancelled.
Nice. Yeah, I don't know enough about GC and how it does detecting cycles, but I can see how that would fix the problem. As We haven't addressed local caching of data yet, we're still just holding everything in memory. Therefore, for us many of our models never get thrown away. Definitely Something to watch out for.
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It's possible, yes, but highly unlikely as he uses all the US terms. What is possible was that he was a contractor rather than employee, and then your compensation has nothing to do with your Google managers, it's up to your contracting company.
Some Kevin fan did this? What's wrong in it? Data sells!
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Your argument assumes that that "caché" will translate into instant/increased earnings. That is far from a given.
Most people from any profession would dislike anybody who thinks they are "dime a dozen" or "replaceable by ten people from India or China". Won't you? But disliking someone (like you) because they don't appreciate the profession is different from hating successful people.

As a developer who also has an MBA (and who's originally from India), I never understand why most MBA students at my school undermined developers so much ("Just hire ten people from India"). On the other hand, I also don't understand why many developers undermine domain experts and businessmen as "MBA types" or "ideas people".

It should be very easy to understand (for anybody who is smart enough to be a developer or to get an MBA) that the level of expertise you need from a software developer or a sales person or a finance person or a product person depends on your specific case. Not every business can be built by outsourcing all development to India. And not every business can be built (or be successful) without the help of a great domain expert / sales person / product person.
Clearly the team is awesome, so the question is: with a talent shortage apparently driving the market crazy, are the premiums justified? Is it really that bad out there?
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Is that just a fancy rhetorical flourish, or do you actually expect "living unsustainably" to potentially cause our extinction? If so, I would be interested in hearing a mechanism.
Nice work, Dave. This has come a long way since last summer.
Great points! Wish I had time to respond.

Edit: Meeting got out early so I have a minute.

You're right. Surgery is the only option in some cases. The question to the surgeon was about heart disease in general, or hardening of the arteries.

The doctor and I had a chat about it after the patient left. He said, "There are some researchers whose studies show that you can reverse heart disease with lifestyle changes, but when you look more closely at their data you can't tell which interventions actually help. The bottom line is that most people need the drugs and surgery to help them."

To me, it seemed like the doctor had a bias against non-drug or non-surgery options, and he didn't want to explore it with an open mind. Makes sense for him. His entire practice was based on surgery and drugs. If I were in his shoes I'd want to believe that drugs and surgery were the best option.
I don't know, this has not been my experience with Haskell at all. Not only do plenty of people work on all sorts of libraries (there are some really great web frameworks, for example), but they also work on all sorts of "less interesting" stuff. For example, there are some people working to improve Hackage, which is the site that contains Haskell's libraries and their documentation, and Haskell has really good support in Emacs (which is much better than good IDE support!).
That makes sense to me now, but I didn't understand that from 'good bye to localhost'.
The acquiring company has to give the employees incentives to stay. Otherwise they are under no obligation (barring a contract with the first company) to stay.
Really, downvoted? The survey seems predisposed to result in the conclusion that testing is a waste of time.

My company finds it worthwhile enough that we are never happy with what we have. We could always write better tests, but we need more engineers than we can find to hire. So we are unhappy with the current situation, but are working to improve.
The scenario that comes to mind is a massive asteroid impact, but your final sentence sums up the objection nicely: identifying and redirecting a space rock seems at least an order of magnitude less difficult & technologically distant than building a self-sustaining colony on Mars.
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The causal mechanism is that there is a correlation between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease? That makes no sense.

There is also a correlation between the frequency a male shaves their face and cardiovascular disease.
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A specific culture is not only the "Secret Sauce" of Goldman Sachs, but of our Western society at large, especially of the Northern European society (and its derivatives, all those formed by the ideas of the Enlightenment and with our Generalized Reciprocity, as R. Putnam [Book: "Bowling Alone"] calls it). Our current economic system, starting in the late senventies, is rapidly destroying that very basis of our societies' Secret Sauce. Sucks.
Whether I consider it bad or not is irrelevant. It's the (US) law.
Personal attacks and a sorry attitude

How come? Your interpretation of what I said amuses me, sir. And the way you do it, quoting single sentence without context, seriously?
Two team-centric acquisitions that Google has made in recent years: Aardvark and Slide. Both were cases of products that were mostly ahead of their time or just-off re: product-market fit, and had genius teams. As far as I know, the majority of both teams are still at Google.
Obsession is a dangerous thing. It clouds your judgment and ability to think rationally. Sure, it provides the energy to work all day on Saturday and Sunday, but it also causes you to quit a high paying job to work on a webpage with a play button and a link to share on Facebook.
Just Divide your social networking accounts into a Work account and a personal account. Simple really.
Any idea what makes up collectors edition to have it double the price?

http://www.game.co.uk/en/diablo-iii-collectors-edition-16712...
That's passively preventing. (YouTube lets you share to Facebook and Twitter, so the lack of this ability from G+ is a lack of a feature, not one of Google's design goals. Code takes a long time to write and everyone wants a different feature. Eventually we will have them all, but right now, not enough code has been written :)
Ideas yes.

GREAT ideas? rare.

Great ideas + execution? rarer.
You do realize that all of those companies grew immensely after their Series A/B rounds of funding, right?

Regardless of what I think of the guy, there is a lot of hate on here, and it's easy to look back and say "well of course Twitter did well, he's so lucky he got to invest in it in '08" as if it was common knowledge that it would be this big.
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speaking as an American engineer who has had to deal with a lot of code produced by "cheap" Indian and Chinese programmers, I can't help but laugh at the naivete of this perspective. You tend to get what you pay for in a global market where the price is efficient.

Also in my experience ideas and idea people are a dime a dozen. I have notebooks full of hundred ideas I don't have the time, energy or money to execute on. Talent (and availability and interest, etc) is hard to find. That's the bottleneck.
Meanwhile in the smartphone world, people are complaining that Android apps don't advantage of newer APIs in order to support OSes that are only a few years old.
Great job -- it really takes dedication to do this. I've been teaching python for several years to large roomfuls of google employees and I know this will make a huge difference. I'm often asked for python book recommendations and have started recommending LPTHW.

Another huge problem seems to be making the connection from files in the terminal to files in finder/explorer. Neither OSX or windows makes this intuitive.
Does it run on mac/linux?
All employees should bring in more than they cost. Even the fry guy at McDonalds. Otherwise why would you employ them?
What about virulent plague? Chemical warfare? Disasters don't have to come from far away.
And anyone who has ever been concerned about online privacy has been operating under the assumption that it doesn't exist. Your point?
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I can appreciate how some would benefit from that.
Remember, buy low, sell high. Buying at $365 over thanksgiving weekend would be buying low. Buying here is pretty risky, since all the indicators are pegged. (e.g.: high RSI, etc.)

It would be nice to think that the market has woken up and realized that Apple, growing at %100 a year is worth a 20X PE -- that would be a stock price of $960 on a forward estimated PE basis...(it's something like 16X right now) but the multi-year trend is lower PEs on Apple, and I don't think things have fundamentally changed on that. Everyone thinks "Law of large numbers" will eventually keep Apple from growing fast.

I prefer to buy when its getting no respect.

Also, I think that the media reporting the stock when its at $600 which is a pure momentum story (while being quiet about the fact that it was a great buy at $365 on a purely valuation basis) is a big part of the reason people think that index funds are the way to go. And they are if you're emotions have you thinking "I'd better buy now before the train leaves the station!!!!"

If you bought yesterday at $580, well, keeping your shares for 5 years is the only reason to buy (unless you're a trader) and your best bet is probably to just not look at the stock price for 5 years. Unless you're the kind of person who can buy at $580, and watch it go back to $360 over the next 6 months, hitting, in order $520, $580, $480, $550, $450, $600, $500, $400, $360 in the process! If it does that, when it hits $360 will you be thinking "Damn, this is the screaming buy of a life time! Back up the truck!", or will you have gone all in at $550 & $600 on the way down?

(Sorry for the stock talk, but the the stock price is the news.)
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