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Rationality doesn't necessarily exclude "morals, culture, or feelings". That would imply that having a rational discussion about culture, e.g. anthropology, is impossible.

Gus Levy, a former senior Goldman partner, coined the firm's then philosophy of being "long-term greedy". Taking image, "headline risk" in finance parlance, impact on recruiting, etc. into account is part of rational decision making.

What makes a seemingly terrible decision rational is usually that the time-frame invoked is too short. If a decision looks rational in the long-term but conflicts with our value system it generally means that our value system needs to be re-evaluated.
I've been off Go for a while, weren't they thinking about getting rid of new at some point? I recall a long thread on the mailing list debating dropping it.
So, Goldman used to be honest? They rated their own chapter in 'The Great Crash, 1929': http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2010/10/in-goldman-sachs-we-tr...
And every place they touch, they break the in-page search shortcut. Why can't they leave my '/' key alone? The last service it hit was bitbucket.
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On philosophical theoretic grounds:

I believe that such "decay" processes are inevitable in the long run, following organizational growth as time goes by. Maybe in the advanced management theory someone has yet to formulate the laws/principles of corporate thermodynamics. (This is not my original thought, I've read it somewhere but can't remember the source).

On a more practical grounds, a few seeming counter examples:

- Virgin Group is a highly decentralized conglomerate of 300+ businesses all over the world and each of them is mostly autonomous (Though when you think of Virgin Group there is only one personality springing in mind - that of Richard Branson)

- Well, Apple, of course.. Though some say Apple of the 2000's after Steve Job's return is a different company entirely (in most of the aspects but those concerning mainly legal formalities around the corporate entity, its registration details, and logo design principles).

P.S.

So the point of a startup to a business is that of a birth and early childhood to a human.

Businesses (as functional organizations) and humans (as living beings) have ultimately the same fate in the end, though the time-scales differ.
Whether they could is debatable given that many of them are aggressively trying to raise capital, even if it means laying off workers to cut costs. But let's assume they can.

That doesn't mean they should. Most bankers I knew were much more upset about losing their week-end beer fridge or a $5 reduction in their daily meal allowance than they were about putting in a few more hours. You have to remember that most analysts see their 2 years as an apprenticeship or finance boot camp - they want all the experience they can get so they have a gilded resume at the end of it.

I still don't see a good argument for judging firms where highly compensated employees with plenty of options work long hours, particularly when, as in banking, their tangible skill-set is relatively low.
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>Im not advocating pure capitalism but businesses have to make some profit.

Agreed. Which is why health care shouldn't be a business. It leads to perverse profit incentives and it's an inelastic market in any case (you can't "opt out" of care for a heart attack).

>Would you want that in gov hands too?

Not in US government hands, no. But more competent governments could certainly handle this via grants (in fact, I think even the US does this to some degree), etc.
it's hard to sell common sense values and mores without dropping hints and lines about who you associate with and how awesome you are.

in all seriousness though, he probably saw this as a golden moment to build his personal brand, gain some media exposure, and leverage that exposure and brand building into another job offer, a writing gig, or a TV gig. consider it a golden parachute moment.
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Ok. Sorry my sarcasm hasn't come through. I read that. The point of what I'm saying is that I dont think that is possible.

As a back-of-the-fag-packet calculation: 1,000 beds, if you are extremely lucky and well prepared 80% paid occupancy (staff, as well as unoccupied rooms), at $1,600pcm (their website mentions this as an average). ~$15m a year gross income. Minus operating costs, of which there are many large ones listed above, salaries etc. you'd be extremely lucky to be making a couple of million a year. Considering the ship alone is going to cost you > $50m for anything servicable (let alone the fanciful designs on their website), I think you'd be lucky to pay it off in 20 years.
"they learn how every non-scientific "modality" of "treatment" which doesn't work gets started."

You do realize this process is the foundation of the scientific method, right? It's not like new drug ideas come from the science fairy.

And also you are wrong on your history. E.g. homeopathy was derived from a theory, not from patient experimentation.
Hi Patrick :-)

So you want to tackle the spam issue. The problem with your system as far I see it is:

1) it can be easily gamed (as other people have pointed out)

2) there's not enough incentive to use it

So what? You have emails and a second email-like communication system?

I think email is unlikely to be killed any time soon. Its versatility makes its force. Still, it's used for many use cases, and the way to use less email is to have better alternatives for specific use cases (for example, file attachments - todo items - meeting arrangements).

Better solutions actually exist for each of the use cases but it's then a matter of getting enough velocity to have enough people using it (for e.g email attachments has probably decreased with dropbox and file sharing services).
You're not going to like this [1] source, but it's very well cited. To my knowledge, Chile is the only time true free market capitalism was ever tried anywhere in the world.

[1] http://www.spunk.org/texts/intro/faq/sp001547/secC11.html
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Well, perhaps if someone were able to get an offer in writing of what Fox would accept, then start the Kickstarter to raise the funds? Seems like it would work fine...
>"Copyright in America is calibrated terribly. It's mostly civil rather than criminal"

We get a distorted view based on things like the current extradition of a British man to the USA for having a listings site with links to copyright material. And the whole Kim Dotcom business operated at the international level by USA Government's agencies.
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You miss the point, which is that good intentions are not transitive. It it not enough that a series of acts be individually kind. The interfaces between the acts must provide end-to-end kindness, or the results may well be ghastly. In giant projects this is a hard problem to deal with.
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Most of the "debates" I've seen have been people desperately trying to explain that they do different things under the hood and thus removing the different keywords adds 'magic' that they don't want.
I'd have appreciated such a step and public online announcement of its motivations if done before Christmas. Not after the bonus payment.
I'll pass on communication-as-a-service to replace email. Any email replacement must be distributed. You cannot beat email with a rails app.
His Michael Lewis moment?
What system does Google have for collecting money other than Wallet? They're not forcing you to use it because they're trying to push a product -- Wallet is simply the UI for typing in your credit card information.
Facebook isn't winning advertising.

How many users do you think Google has? I'm not talking about Google+, I'm talking about Google products, in general, including search.
1.) 18 is legally an adult, I don't see why this is any different than when an 18 year old murders someone or deals drugs. Obviously the crimes are very different, but if/while what he did is illegal, why should the legal system treat it differently age-wise than anything else?

The point is that the extradition process is daunting enough in itself. In many respects it amounts to punishment before trial. You are separated from your loved ones, transported to a foreign land, locked up in a foreign jail and tried in a foreign court under foreign law.

This particular extradition case is made more objectionable by the fact that O'Dwyer is not a self-sufficient adult. He's a 23-year-old university student.

It is made more objectionable still by the fact that he is being charged with something that many do not believe should be a criminal offence, and to the best of my knowledge, is not a criminal offence in the United Kingdom.

If linking to copyrighted material is an offence, then surely every search engine should be indicted for facilitating copyright infringement on an unimaginable scale?

2.) He kept doing it for years, which indicates he didn't (or at least hadn't yet) regret it.

He stated just yesterday after the court hearing that he didn't regret it; that it had helped his university studies "to no end" given he is studying Computer Science.

Is he supposed to regret not breaking any laws in the country of which he is a citizen?
Thanks, I was confused by the strange mix of very clear specs and no specs while referencing the absent specs, too.

Bullet points 1 and 2, for instance:

1. Do not change the aspect ratio of the rounded box enclosure.
2. Do not change the border radius of the rounded box enclosure.

Neither of these properties were defined as far as I could see. Perhaps it's one of those cases where you're expected to "see" it from the graphics; I typically don't operate well that way. :)
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There are some examples such as:

https://www.openadaptor.org/

But obviously a lot of it remains behind closed doors, but there certainly some of that sort of thing going on.

Some of it also happens indirectly, for example a bank might design an improvement to the Linux kernel but because they want to remain covered by their support contract with say RedHat they might supply to the patch to RedHat and RedHat will then verify it and merge it into their core release and submit it back upstream, but it would have RedHat's name on it rather than the originating bank who might want to remain anonymous.
Even python which catches flak for forcing indentation as tabs let's you choose the indentation depth and character.

You can use any indentation depth in Go too. But in Python you can't get rid of indentation because its lexer expects it, just like you can't get rid of the "forced" brace style in Go, because its lexer expects it.
but this patent was not filled in 2012, it was submitted when most of us barely understood email or instant messaging. You looking at it from a wrong perspective. Please go back in time and then revise it.

I think patenting a lock slider by Apple is more ridiculous than patenting apparatus to change IM into email.
Go also has blessed flow control mechanisms, because you need flow control.
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Hi,

Within 2 months I need to decide what I'm going to study for the next 3.5 years and probably be doing the rest of my life.
I want to choose programming, but it gives me that overwhelming feeling of never be able to understand it or keep up with the speed it's going.
How do I know, if I am able to be a good programmer?

I already did a "programming" education but it was so easy, that afterwards, I didn't had the feeling I learned something or was ready to work as a programmer.
The education I did is a lower education than the one I'm going to do, but I don't want the feeling afterwards that I'm not a programmer again ,because where I live this is normal the last education which you have before you start working.

So, what should I do, to find out if I'm cut out for being a programmer? And maybe other tips or things I should know before trying to start a career as a programmer?

And what about this: http://www.halfsigma.com/2007/03/why_a_career_in.html
I got a bit scared reading it, but how true is it?

Kind regards,

Gup

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We have a full test suite that checks all functionality
We have a test suite that checks a few things and guarantees critical functionality
We don't really do much testing
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We'd like to do more testing but we can't afford the time
Tests? We don't need no stinking tests
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We would pay up to $20 / month for painless, reliable testing
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Impressive - how many people have concrete enough memories from that age? I have maybe one I could use to locate somewhere, but otherwise that age is lost to me.
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> The gentleman era of investment banking is largely mythical.

There was a qualitative change after the banks went public. The old partnerships were inherently more prudent. And that's where the old culture came from. The new corporate structure rewards any risk-taking where losses lag gains by a year or more. So the culture changes.
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If you read the errata of that post you'll see that the author could have got to 390 requests a second by turning off debug mode. No ugly optimisations necessary.
Most likely his memories are so vivid because he got lost. Our brain remembers that kind of situations way better.
Do you have any actual stats to back that up?

Software doesn't need to be printed in 32 large, luxurious volumes and sold by a cadre of door-to-door salesmen.
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I'm with stephen on that. You say each of you working in the GWT team, as a person, didn't have enough time to do review of submissions. To you there was not enough bandwidth.

I say your employer didn't allocate enough bandwidth. It prioritized internal needs so far over the free software approach that the free software aspect died off completely.

You are right in saying none of the developers was an elitist; you are not right in saying that Google in itself wasn't elitist. Your manager's manager's manager knew exactly what he was doing when he allocated this many people to your team, and not more; when he didn't allocate people to do full-time community submission review when there was obviously enough work for multiple such positions.

That's one issue with "sponsored but free" projects: they never are really free because the work gets prioritized that benefits the sponsor, not the work that benefits the project as a whole. Projects are forcibly steered to keep their center of gravity and biggest source of submission inhouse, under the control of the sponsor. It's a very simple strategy of making a "free" project non-free; you can immediately pull the plug on a project which misbehaves: first you make sure the developers not under your control get stalled and discouraged, and that their work becomes harder; they cannot keep up. They couldn't continue the work being done on their own. Then, you make sure the others are so engrossed in work you, the sponsor, assign to them that they cannot keep a project healthy through intellectual exchange with externals. You build a glass wall around the project. You make internal documentation that does not need to be redistributed with your "free software" because it is not a part of it according to the law. The (complicated) build system isn't, either. Finally you have complete control of the direction, progress, and life of the project. You, the sponsor, can submit the project to your neurotic desires, which we, developers, all know. The typical corporate bullshit-o-rama that never fails to make a good project go to hell.

Open source is not a salvation.

The only way to prevent really good projects which have received huge amounts of contribution from skilled developers from becoming useless wastes of talent is to make sure that external requests, contributions, and requirements are taken at face value and are given a chance to be evaluated with the same attention as internal problems. This cannot happen in a corporation where the management performance is counted as a function of successfully resolved projects coming from internal clients. This cannot happen at all if there are internal clients, because "internal client" is a term made exactly with the point of being able to work better with "internal" clients than "external" clients. Sponsored software is not free software unless it is something akin to a donation, where the sponsor is not given creative or otherwise rule over the project.
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I still have my grandfather's 1911 set, which I am trying to still cherish after recently discovering that the whole thing is now on the internet.

My affection for physical objects like books and CDs (and I have acquired a LOT of them) has become increasingly anachronistic, even just over the last five years.
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They do not claim 65536 characters, but 65536 code points. That range contains room for 2K surrogate pairs, 6k or so of private use area, some control characters, and I think there still are some small unassigned regions (http://unicode.org/roadmaps/bmp/).

Another font with (I think) more or less equal character support is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code2000
I find it somewhat ironic that a 12-year finance veteran is preaching about integrity and resigning through an op-ed piece in the Times.

While it feels good to recognize the eroding integrity of the industry (assuming it existed in the first place); I don't think this messenger is praiseworthy. Reeks of self-righteousness to me... and somehow I'm certain he'll be starting his own fund in the coming months.
The "practicality" argument doesn't hold water with me: none of it matters without freedom. If you care about code, the GPL gives you freedom by requiring that people give back in the manner they take: with code. It is only necessary because people weren't giving back.

I can understand that someone might want to shirk the quid-pro-quo responsibilities of the GPL, but I won't be paying for that kind of anti-social product.
Fox would want to know the final amount raised before setting a price. They don't know what its worth until you tell them... then they'll want 108% of the amount you raise in advance.

I suspect its far better for an exec at a company like Fox to simply prevent anyone from ever using a property again than to be seen as even a tiny bit giving it away when more could have been charged.
This is an unfortunate pan of GPL and a clearly business-sided discussion of licensing. Developers use GPL to keep their work in the open and encourages everyone working on a project to share their work. On the other hand, "permissive" licenses are well received by businesses because the work produced under BSD-like licenses are perceived as "free labor".

So here's the rub. Businesses want free labor, but they want to be paid by their customers. Is that capitalism or socialism?
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I genuinely thought this piece was a satire of the ex-Google MSFTer.
> Something happens to companies as they get larger...

I think promotion happens. When you're a fresh grad right out-of-college and the Managing Director says "client is our #1 priority", you take it to heart. That's your new mantra now. Nine years later, when the same Director, now promoted to the Board says the same line, you groan inside because you know exactly how often he calls his clients muppets. Slowly you begin to feel that the company is no longer the same wonderful, inspirational place of work that you signed up for.

Positions of power at any company, non-profit, government, or political organizations are not filled with do-gooders who want to give everyone a hug. They are filled with thick-skinned, ambitious, practical people who have learnt to say the right things at the right time. So if you're a junior exec., you will hear inspirational BS. As you join their ranks, you will hear their real thoughts. If the latter disgust you, it clearly means you aren't fit to join their ranks, not because of any lack of skills on your part but rather the difference in how you view the world.

To me all these execs leaving companies and saying "it's so different now" just means they all grew up and realized they didn't like what they signed up for. It's no different than couples splitting because "we grew apart." I highly recommend people quitting if things aren't working out ( http://chir.ag/200804242130 ) but I do not recommend airing out the dirty laundry, especially when no laws were broken because you're just scaring off the next company you intend to work for.

None of my above comments were in reference to anything at GS/Google/MS specifically. Facebook will start charging for integration some day too and some Dropbox exec will joke in company meetings about all the stupid people who save personal photos on their servers. People are people and companies are companies.
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> I see nothing but a cold, miserable twilight in its future

GOOG profits are still growing, and they still control online search which I think will remain a huge cash cow for a long time.
Exactly what I came over here to say. If there's been a change, it has to be something like the cynicism at GS having grown so overt that they can't pay some of their institutional drones enough to ignore it.
Gee, how does Linux ever make it! All of it is contributed! Oh: Torvalds just sits down and comes through on looking at the submissions.
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