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They're innovating and making products we've never seen before. I don't understand the aim of this article. Is Apple doing something wrong? If the argument is that you cannot replace glass/batteries/etc.. yourself then I don't agree at all. My mom isn't gonna replace anything on her iPad. She'll take it to the store and have them do it. Sure, I could do it. Sure, there are lots of non-hackers out there who are capable of doing it, but if we look at the 80/20 rule here (which I feel applies) the vast majority of people wouldn't service their iPad even if it was a bit easier than it is now.
For me it's the fingerprinting that does it.

I once told an American acquaintance that US customs fingerprinted all my ten digits last time I was in the US. Her reaction: She refused to believe me. That her country would do that to visitors was unthinkable. And I'm from Norway, a reasonably US-friendly country (and ally, I guess).

The most appropriate reaction would be for all other countries to fingerprint all American visitors (like Brazil). But governments in small countries don't dare mess with the US.
>a larger software company (or open source project) just replicating their entire product.

Agreed for products that are specific service, but if your product is driven by a users(facebook and twitter for example), it's damn near impossible for other companies to push you out of the way and achieve the same results once you reach a large enough user base. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, especially between generations of software, but usually not concurrently. (google+ vs facebook?)
Until you compile your code, end up with 300 MB of object files and have no way to exclude them by file extension.
I honestly don't find this reasoning very convincing. Mostly because it seems to be mistakenly equating Github with Git. All of the issues presented on both sides (i.e. "why are we depending on this third party" and "I don't want to go back to <propriety whatever>") could be addressed with an in-house git repository. Sure that creates new problems, but if the concern is about using Github turning things into an argument about Git is just wasting time.

Also, statements like "Listen, Github is how software is done right now" are just screaming for unnecessary confrontation and useless sideline arguments. I agree that Git is more effective (for most use cases) than any centralized VCS I've seen, but turning that opinion into a bald assertion is just going to cause arguments you really shouldn't be having.
True, post-industrial society has forced everyone to act like traders and back in the day no one wanted to be a trader because you had to contend with guild monopolies, merchant princes, thieves making off with your goods, wolves in the brush, having your ship sink, having your horse go lame from beneath you, and ofcourse... the excessive taxes leveed against anyone not doing exactly what the extablishment wanted.

At least now adays, we don't have to worry about wolves.
If you are able to, you might be able to pull of a "dishevelled Tom Waits" look. Very hard to do without looking homeless or hungover though.
Also, contractions are written to replace the removed letters with an apostrophe, like this:

isn't

Not like this:

is'nt

To be honest, I'm wondering how it's possible that you've made it this far in life without knowing this. I'd understand if English isn't your first language, but the "bro" writing style suggests otherwise...

(Edit: "You" in this comment refers to the OP/post author, not to the author of the parent comment. Sorry about that.)
Most important part of the system the article describes: "We use the summer to decide if we want them full-time. So we give them real work. Hard work."

Too many summer internships (see big law, big finance, etc) fail to give employers the information they need to know if there's a fit, and, just as importantly, fail to give top students the information that THEY need to know if this is where they want to spend 70 hours a week for the next 1-3 years.
> You look like you're going to spend your life having one epiphany after another, always thinking you've finally figured out whats holding you back and how you can be productive and creative and finally turn your life around. But nothing will ever change. That cycle of mediocrity is'nt due to some obstacle.Its who you are.

This is precisely what I've realized about people and famous cliches like "you can do anything you set your mind to". The problem is that it's not true for most people. People's aspirations rarely match what their capabilities are. They do match in the case of the few who succeed, and that's who we hear these cliches from.

I wrote about this exact issue here http://andrewoneverything.com/life-is-exactly-what-you-make-... ("Life is exactly what you make of it - For most people, this is a bad thing"). There's a poem at the end of the post that exactly matches the sentiment I quote at the beginning of this post.
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Or you've been living in an apartment while in college.
I used to work at O'Reilly and this is a perfect description!
+1 don't worry I'm patting myself on the back right now.
What you can afford is relative to the value you perceive you will get.

If you want to see price early on, the value is already fixed in your head, which means that you believe that you can satisfy your need with any such product, without regard for really differentiating them. This would mean you view their product as a commodity. As a commodity shopper, you are not the ideal customer for me. Because you can't appreciate the true and unique value I offer. (or worse, you are too lazy to try and appreciate all the value you can get out of each option but would rather use price as your shortcut to differentiate, which again makes you a less than ideal prospect.)

Like the saying goes, "If you Have to Ask, You Can't afford it!"

I am guilty of this as well, and as a consumer I completely agree with your desire to shop around and get the best deal... but, as a business owner, I would be hurting myself by publishing prices.
Nope, the TL;DR version is "turn G+ users into a better crawler/algorithm"
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Does it play Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Video? And can you subscribe to other premium content like MLB.tv, NHL Gamecenter or NBA GameTime?

If not, it's not in the same class, but if it does, I'll have to look into it.
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Suggestion: I hate the scrollbar-within-a-scrollbar thing. Either lock the window height so I don't get two scrollbars, or don't limit the height of the scrolling div.
>What you could do if you were Google and had their databases?

Try to predict election results and then try to influence them. Not exactly "Do no evil" I'll admit. Imagine what Google PR could do for politicians with access to what people are talking about, watching, browsing and chatting about in their social network. With their Ad technology they're already half way there.
"They don't give up and go into plumbing. They apply for another job."
That's an unfortunate choice of words ;-)
>The real problem is in understanding how to match the ambitiousness of your ideas to the level at which you are able to execute.

Start small, build bigger and more ambitious over time. If you wanted to become a runner, you wouldn't start with trying to run a marathon the first time your feet hit the pavement.
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Isn't this pretty hard?

Most assets depreciate. Here's a non-exhaustive list: furniture, kitchen supplies, food, electronics, and vehicles.

It seems like it'd be hard if you're poor to avoid having a large chunk of your income go towards things that depreciate immediately you touch them.
I just cited the commondreams article because it was where I read the snippet (linked from Wikipedia) about Travelers and that's what Glass-Steagall would have clearly had an effect on (regardless of whether it mattered in the long run). As I said, the FDIC ruling in 1982 seemed to open the door to commercial banking being able to hold subsidiaries that deal in securities. Perhaps by the time the sections were repealed in 1999, it had little effect, but there were two decades of financial shenanigans leading up to that point.

If the repeals in 1999 had no effect, why did they need to be repealed?

MF Global is just an example of a firm not following rules about trading accounts.

I think the rules in glass-steagall at the least had a chilling effect, which once removed made the banks suddenly see high returns from high risk. The run into CDO's and new derivatives in 2000-2008 timeframe would still have happened, but I highly doubt the list of endangered banks would be quite as high as it is today. I check the list of newly closed banks every Friday at calculatedriskblog.com.

Greenspan's devotion to market efficiencies also made the Fed unwilling or unable to enforce or implement new regulations, or push congress for power to regulate new financial instruments.

I don't do this stuff for a living, so I'm not going to go find all the regulations and ruling over the last 30 years, but I occasionally listen to guests on The Daily Show that seem to know quite a bit about how financial markets work and read here and there, and my conclusion is that de-regulation up to and even beyond Glass-Steagall repeals in 1999 at the very least amplified the recent financial bombs in the US and around the world. I don't think there is a single "Aha!" moment, it has been a growing problem for 30 years. Quite possibly one of the worst items was a regulation...of de-regulation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity_Futures_Modernization...

Your points on GS seem to line up with the original point about GS being jerks to their clients..."They profited on both ends of the deal, but they couldn't care less which side won". That's the point of the guy that quit, right? GS is screwing their clients, they don't care if the client wins or loses as long as GS wins.

Maybe I'll be less enthusiastic about the rules of Glass-Steagall, but my overall opinion that banking fraud is more rampant after de-regulation and that if I came into a sum of millions the last place I'd trust with my investments is GS, is not changed.
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Gotcha. Will fix that ASAP
So Milk had one product that A) was so useless it was mistaken for a parody app (http://goo.gl/p8eEP); and B) ended up getting shuttered after 3 months. Whatever. I guess Google has been getting exceedingly good at failing fast lately. Maybe Rose's team will be a good fit.

Too bad they can't pick up Ryan from The Office...

http://mashable.com/2010/11/19/the-office-startup/
It is constructive to have social pressure against failure. These people have no shame about their situation, because it's socially acceptable to blame their problems on others. Referring to this group as "Generation Stuck" is indicative of this coddling culture.
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I'd say it's to emphasis the actual output. Ideally, everything should be possible to do in the left window.

If you go see someone building a house, the main object of interest is the house. Sure, reality makes it necessary to step outside and focus on sketches and electric circuits and concrete mixers, but ideally the focus should be on the house itself.

Or, to use a closer analogy: If you're making a website, what do you care about the most - the code or the website itself? If you could change the colour and form of a div box from the browser, why would you even bother with the code?
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I do very often. I am a spatial learner so I have a much better time understanding things when I can interact with it physically. If I am going to restructure something or insert a new function in existing code I will commonly print it out so I can scan through and physically note how changes will affect the rest of the code.

I also frequently hit print when learning someone else's code or going back to something I haven't touched in a while. Being able to physically page through the code to trace function calls is much easier for me than a bunch of clicking and scrolling.
Accurate sensing, the ability to accurately distinguish between combatants[1] and non-combatants, seems to be an almost impossible task. While there are robots in active service today they all have a human involved somewhere, especially if there's lethal force going to be used.

It's pretty scary to think that humans could be removed from that loop. I can't work out why I'm happy to see totally autonomous cars but I'm wary about autonomous weapons.

(http://rusi.org/downloads/assets/23sharkey.pdf)

(http://andrewgibsondefence.wordpress.com/2010/10/17/should-k...)

[1] And even if you can identify an enemy combatant you've got to then distinguish active combatants from those who have surrendered or are injured or are mentally ill.
> a number of guide users were followed closely

No. No following people around on the Internet to make search results "better".
Second that. I lived for a year in Manhattan (East Village) while working on my start-up - I had roommates, but I made well under 75k and was just fine. Was still able to do all the things a 25 yr old guy wanted to do. The idea that it takes $75k+ to make it work in Manhattan is a farce perpetuated by big banks selling shitty jobs to naive grads and people who don't know how to budget/ be thrifty on message boards.
It would be awesome if they doubled the resolution on the new generation macbooks. But, given the fact that the new iPads are just eating up all the hi-res panels made, it is very unlikely that there will be a largely available macbook that has the new panel. The gen after the coming one is more likely to get the resolution doubling.

Anyway, meet me here if the MBPs do get the double resolution. I will happily eat my words :-)
Given that the +1's are tied to an (active) user identity tied to multiple Google products, it should not be difficult to filter out the spammers.
These hyperbolic articles about places that are "the best place in the world for a startup" need to stop. For a creative and smart founder, any place in the world will be a fine spot to start up, and might even be better than silicon valley. But if you're going to make a generalization like that, then the bay area is the best place to be. Any article arguing otherwise is doing so purely for the sake of defying conventional wisdom.
My sister-in-law was re-entering the US from Canada with her husband. She looks very different from her awful passport photo, and the border agent spent some time quizzing her about facts on her passport, even asking leading questions with incorrect information: "And you were born in July 1975" "Yes... no! 1976!"
I was amazed watching the video of Bret V. using a tool like this, but even given those expectations I'm impressed with how cool this is to use. Thank you very, very much for showing us this.

(Only such a beautiful specimen deserves such nitpicking, but: it's not a _genius_ talk, it's an _ingenious_ talk. _Ingenious_ is the adjective form of the noun _genius_.)
Wouldn't the dirty water clog the pipe? Via mineral deposits etc?
Hundreds of dollars spending on drinking glasses, and we need a safety net?
Ignoring mathematical properties, the timing wouldn't make sense. Barely anyone used ECDSA/ECDH until very recently, and still it's rare. It wouldn't make sense that the NSA has been pushing suite B for gov agencies since this "breakthrough".
>it is a lot easier to be accidentally killed by a hand gun than a plastic supermarket bag.

How many accidental gunshots vs. how many accidental incidents of accidental suffocation caused by supermarket bags?

Bags killed over 2000 infants btwn 1980 and 1997.

Accidental firearm deaths about 1000/year. So, you are right. But it's not as though accidental bag suffocation is insignificant and brushed aside as minimal.
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How do you include the online Standford courses on your CV?
I am thinking of starting two courses that Standford provides online. The coursera courses.

Has anyone included these on their CV before? If I was sending off job applications right now, should I have something like:

Education
NameOfCourse - University - Graduation Year

NameOfSubject - Standford Online Course - Currently Ongoing

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
What I've learned from the valley is that there are three tests:

1. Do you embrace failure and those who fail? And are there local investors who think this way?

2. Can nerds bump into each other in a random manner in a central location on a regular basis?

3. Are nerds willing to travel there? So is a nerd from Scotland or Turkey thinking "I have to get to Ireland"

I'm not sure that Ireland has those three things yet. Although to be honest I'm in NYC and I'm not sure we have that yet either (or have it 100%).
Haha, true. Although not a problem I've got at the moment. Couldn't you just compile into a directory, and exclude that directory?

You bring up an interesting point though, I wonder if there's any kind of hack you could do to the dropbox config files to alter that?
Mr. Gosling attributes many strengths of Java to the fact that while designing it he and his team were working with technical writers, so that language, platform, and documentation were developed in parallel. Additionally, he attributes the need to explain stuff to writers as an important mechanism to influence the quality of the design itself. I wonder if this positive learning was taken benefit of with regards to Scala. Community-driven is great in principle, but after-the-fact, afterthought appearance that this approach creates is unfortunate.
The web's flaws propagate to Google. They can only fix so much. There's a lot of room to improve on content publishing and sharing.
I may be overstretching the example, but a cheerleader with a rocket launcher has a non-trivial probability of unintentionally firing it in an unsafe direction.
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Have you actually seen an actual display of Galaxy Nexus? There's absolutely no problem that you are describing in the "horrible PenTile OLEDs" link. I've seen an iPhone 4 display, and I can tell you it is worse than the one on Galaxy Nexus.
If I ever sell anything on eBay, I always do it through the mobile app because I've found the mobile app - even with the slower text entry - is so much faster to use. The regular web interface is utterly terrible.

Just a thought, btw (not sure if you're already doing this, haven't tried to sell anything with you) - have you considered using a webcam plugin so people can add pictures for items via webcam?

Both eBay and PayPal have such horrible, slow websites which are begging to be innovated against. I hope you do well :-)
The point is not who is more dangerous _in battle_. The point is who is more dangerous _to me_, who poses no threat. An untrained operator is far more dangerous _to me_, as compared to a trained operator who will be aware that I do not need shooting, and who will be capable of hitting other targets, if necessary, without accidentally hitting me.
Very true, search for "server inlet temperature" if you want to learn more.
I'm married with four kids and currently in the process of moving from Nebraska to San Francisco. We're selling almost everything we own except for family heirlooms and other things like that, with the goal of replacing them here after we're moved. I mean, I like the stuff we own or I wouldn't have bought it in the first place, but they'll make more.

We have a nice couch, but they sell nice couches in CA. I can pick up Ikea dressers off Craigslist for the cost of renting a pickup truck for an hour. I'm ditching clothes that don't fit or are outdated - I didn't wear them anyway. While my family is preparing to come join me, I'm living in a rented room for dirt cheap and loving it.

You are so right about your things owning you. Right now, I'm owned by my laptop, a Nook, and a closet sparsely filled with a few clothes I actually like to wear. I think I'd enjoy a chair so that I don't have to sit on my bed or the floor to work, but there's no rush.
I wonder, did citizens immediately prior to the existence of the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany sit around in bars and have the exact same rational discussion that we're having here?

Surely it can't get that bad, but it did before.
Thanks; I guess I see that as the same thing (guessing that Google sees social search as an improvement).
I don't think that's true. Take France for example. We have an amazing safety net, and yet people here are far less entrepreneurial than in the US.
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I respect you for the fact that you never fudged your profile. I have seen many fellow Indians who do it and "somehow" make it. Sorry, I personally don't have any useful experience to offer though.
I presume this gives me access to all of their servers too. In which case I would mine the remaining Bitcoin. Mainly because I think Bitcoin is a stupid idea and this would help highlight that sentiment.
As an Irish CS student I wish this were true. I'd love to go into a startup.
The things in there adress what you're advocating there. You're basically advocating to live what the article calls a "vagabond" Not having anything at all, just a bed, clothes and a laptop. That's not a lot more than what some people consider a "homeless" person to have. Of course that being said, there are going to be times where you've really got to go do that kind of thing. I'm actually looking at doing almost that myself I've just been trying to figure out what area to do it in. I've had some interviews local and some prospects across the country but so far nothing that has managed to come close to panning out. My advice would be to also cut way back on expenses and consider doing what I'm doing right now. I'm living with a relative for $250/mo and doing contract work for about $14/hr. Doesn't pay well, isn't satisfying but it pays the bills and what debt I have and is flexible enough that I'm able to travel as long as I can plan a week ahead for an interview so that I can travel on the weekend/at night and make sure I'll be able to work from wherever I'm staying at.
> people that relied on links will now rely on your search engine reducing the value of links between sites

Is this really a given? I've never heard this before, not sure what it is that it means. Is the number of links generated by non-SEO sources falling (or not rising proportionally with SEO links)?
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How is this preventing mail fraud if the OP says he inadvertently placed two order himself, not due to any fault of O'Reilly?
But think about the long run: Roommates are great until you hit age 30 or so and settle down and get married and maybe have kids (no pressure here Sean!). At that point Manhattan becomes painful unless you are married into money. Now you could move out to Brooklyn or your startup can avoid older employees (which is illegal), but if you grow your company to over ten people you can hit those issues pretty quickly. Also it's a spectrum -- Manhattan on $60 can work while being in NYC on $25k is a nightmare.