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Google doesn't have any engineering problems, that's for sure. They want Google+ to succeed (assuming that's what he'd be involved with), but I think it's fair to say the problems they're struggling with there are at the "idea/design" level as opposed to the actual codebase.

Say what you want about Kevin Rose in terms of things he's created, but he does have a very good eye for great ideas, see early investments in Fab, Path, Zynga, Square, Foursquare, Twitter for evidence of that.
I wasn't surprised when I red these news. He was constantly favouring or indirectly promoting Google's products/services/news via posts on Google+.
In college, I went through a Thomas Pynchon phase. I read everything of his I could get my hands on, and I tried to learn everything I could about him. Like Salinger and _why, he doesn't want you to do that. No photos, no interviews, etc. I tracked down stories he had written but banned from being reprinted (elusive photocopies that I still love), I read books written by his friends (?!), I wandered around the library in NYC where he wrote a lot of his first novel, I subscribed to a journal devoted solely to his writings (and struck up a friendship with the journal's editor), I even went so far as to phone his then publisher and try to get an interview (lying and claiming I wrote for a college paper).

Everything beyond "reading his books" was silly, and some of what I did was invasive (if not very inventively so). So what is my point? There's something powerfully magnetic about certain people - despite their telling us to stay away, and maybe even more so because they tell us to stay away. I'm not sure that I really disagree with what you're saying, but I think there's almost a degree of inevitability about people wanting to know more in such a case. It's how many of us are made.
None, but all of them apply to Mailgun or Sendgrid:)
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What could he possibly be bringing to the table with Google?

Actually, product people with experience about trendy consumerish topics is what Google needs. Too many engineers, not enough touchy-feely people there.

That being said, based on his recent changes in directions, it doesn't sound like a long-term fit just yet. Time will tell.
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Apparently Google thinks Kevin Rose is "The Fonz" and intends to have him jump a tank with a shark in it. At the last minute, Rose decides to found a new company called "Soda" instead. Leaves Google scratching head and previous investors still wondering where their money went. Crowd unhappy because they wanted to see their hero/villain successful/eaten.
Poor execution of the right strategy will most likely lead to failure

Example: Bill Gates and others tried to push tablet computing about a decade before Apple did. I have one, and it's phenomenal. However, it's not good enough for the mass market.

Poor execution of the right strategy gives away "the right strategy" while leaving an opening for someone else to do it right. So one of the questions you must first ask yourself is, "Can I execute -- on a world class level?"
You definitely should be trying to improve your kitchen algorithms if they are causing starvation issues!

Joking aside, I love that you were applying the modeling, design, and performance analysis ideas to a different domain like this. It's the classic case of cross disciplinary teams or cross discipline thinking yielding surprising benefits. I love that you used it to teach CS as well, which makes a powerful reciprocal relationship.

I used to wonder why the fast food places didn't have hefty pattern analysis going on to predict needs, e.g. "it's Tuesday at 4:30, we almost always need 28 chicken strips in the next 30 minutes so put them down" even to the point of balancing speed vs waste and other issues. Maybe they are doing that now, but it's got a lot of potential.
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Stability? with his investments I doubt that he needs the cash so there must be more to it. Possibly a case of "The grass is greener"

Either way I don't see this lasting very long.
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I like your choice of terms! :)

Hm....

Ice Giants would seem to suggest a fourth state, one of pure inactivity.

I would almost say that you could model these modes (as the paper does) by changing the damage value to be 0 (dormant, effectively, Ice Giants) for some chosen system conditions. Were you to assign a negative damage, you might be able to model jokers-as-cooperator.

The interesting (perhaps most interesting) thing about the Jokers is that they have no stake in the system. So, I wonder how to account/model that in a Jokers-can-become-Coopearators system. Hm.
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I've seen a similar test, and it did work. Search HN.
FWIW Diggnation could be considered a second, successful, project. I consider it fairly independent of Digg, as either of them could really have operated independently.
Usually I'm in to the "4 on the floor" music like Techno and House. However, when it comes to coding, I venture into Drum&Bass and classical.
The public gets a say, true, but the public is made up of individuals, and each individual has the ability and responsibility of deciding how to handle someone else.

We aren't talking so much about the public here as we are about one person -- Annie Lowrey -- who made the decision to publicize the contact information for someone who clearly wished to remain more private.
Best of luck!

A very good friend of mine traveled to all 31 NFL stadiums in a single year. He and two other guys started in an RV, but ended up in a Chevy Suburban after a "transmission incident". As he tells it, the weeks spent Suburban were extremely difficult. The importance of good sleep cannot be understated. If you find that you're not sleeping well, adjust your strategy. Otherwise you'll pay a stiff penalty for sleep deprivation.

Another challenge you'll face is the fact that vagrancy is illegal in most places. In a great twist of irony, it can be easier to be vagrant without a car than it is with. Cars are large, so they get noticed. Parking overnight in just about any commercial parking lot could result in the police being called. Interestingly enough, Walmart is tolerant of overnight parkers. Although, most people are in RVs. I'm not sure if it's a policy discussed out in the open, but you can park an RV in a Walmart parking lot overnight without getting hassled in most places. You might try your luck rotating between a handful of Walmarts in the area. I'd try to avoid parking in the same location many nights in a row as not to get picked up.
Why can't they use SSL to transmit oauth tokens to their server?
<translation>Code me an app. What do you mean I have to call you and discuss design? No way I'm calling a developer and dealing with all the geeky stuff. Just list me a flat price and timeline per app. </translation>

Even if you feel that payroll is a solved problem, you still need to deal with people. Anytime something is important you want a specific person in charge of it's execution. Imagine that you have a business of 50 employees and one day the payroll doesn't get processed correctly. You now have 50 angry employees on your doorstep. How much do you think they will care that you've filled out a form on a website asking for resolution? Or that you're on continuous hold with some call center op that is paid $2 a day regardless of if he solves your problem.

You pay an account rep commission so you have an individual person who's direct personal livelihood depends on a well executed service.
I've looked into this issue. It is in fact illegal in all Bay Area cities except Palo Alto. So that's where I'm planning to park.
The other thing he's done well is engage his audience. If he can help Google+ become more engaging, more 'sticky', then he'll have done great. That's assuming he'll be working on that product.
"Doing the same to a person because she did someone good is essentially punishing good deeds."

I'm not sure a journalist trying to get in touch with you amounts to a punishment. The hypocritical politician probably doesn't find it much fun, but they're being given a chance to present their side of the story.

Note that, for example, in Australia the very first point of the Code of Ethics that Journalists sign up to says:

"1. Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts. Do not suppress relevant available facts, or give distorting emphasis. Do your utmost to give a fair opportunity for reply."

Doing your utmost means not leaving one voicemail and hoping for the best. What if _why did have something to say, but his phone number had changed? I imagine that a reputable publication like Salon would have stopped trying to get in touch if he'd given a simple 'no comment' to any of their approaches.

(Also, define 'good'. Did a protestor who stopped the logging company from cutting down some trees do good for saving the environment, or was it bad he cost some jobs?)
Milk is going to have fun filling that Senior Engineer position.
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I have lived in three countries and traveled extensively.

I would comment that England has one of the most difficult housing dilemmas of all the first world countries (a close second to Switzerland/Germany).

The affordability of housing has moved more of my mates overseas than any other issue. If you are tired of the lies, look abroad.
Obviously you forgot Kevin Rose's background..are you aware that in fact he is a developer?

Look up his CS degree dude..

At least know about the effing subject before you open your effing mouth
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You're right; I stand corrected.
Shouldn't the title be the other way around? "Be Prisoner Of Your Destiny - Not Captain Of Wishful Thinking".

It might sound a bit less appealing, but by definition you can't control your destiny. You could at least make a case for that you can control your thoughts.
Until you learn one day that...

Goldman guy meets up buddies working M&A, figures a way to flip his stupid-co to Big Corp for millions.

This stuff happens every single day. Those crazy M&A deals you see of crappy startups? They are not typically done by nerd_programmer_dude.

I am all for extreme precaution when picking cofounders, especially nontech ones, but it also helps to know what the best non-tech cofounders are able to achieve.
This is true but Google has always been an engineering-led organization as opposed to a product-led one. Social networking is less of an engineering problem than it is a product problem. This is true for other social products as well.

Fundamentally, Google is taking the wrong approach. Listen to how Vic Gundotra talks about Google+ as opposed to how Zuckerberg talks about Facebook.

This may be a step in the right direction but it will mean more than just hiring idea people. Those people need to have real power in the org if they are going to make a difference.

It's more likely that Kevin Rose will end up like Dennis Crowley. He'll try his hand at Google, will realize that he can't make much of a difference given his position and leave in a few years to scratch that itch at another startup.
Guess we won't be able to get Google support from Matt on HN this month. :)
The thing that I love about these teardowns, and which really stands out to me, is how well designed Apple's products are internally as well as externally. If you compare the teardowns between the iPad and the HP Touchpad ( http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/cracking-open-the-hp-touc... ), it's pretty clear why Apple has such a lead in tablet manufacturing efficiency and cost.
Not only does testing help with managing large codebases by being able to make actual assertions about certain parts of the code (to be able to prove correctness) but it also improves the quality of your code. If you're writing code that must pass certain tests, you inherently start to think about making that code more modular and de-coupled, ie injecting dependencies rather than creating them for a start.
Thanks for pointing it out. I link directly https://github.com/iafonov/domain_info in Gemfile. But anyway just pushed it to rubygems - https://rubygems.org/gems/domain_info, so you can link it as `gem "domain_info", "~> 0.0.1"`
Well they would still need to have seen the returns they expected (or were happy with) since the money did not come out of the funds just to get "Put back" without any upside. Speculation: 3-4 million payoff Google "we don't need the company just shut it down and come to work"
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I guess your post is sarcasm, intended to make me look this up?

He then attended the University of Nevada Las Vegas, majoring in computer science but dropped out in 1998.
I think they mean the model number, LTN097QL01-A02, is a samsung model number. The 1024x768 lcd in the linked document has model number LTN097XL01-A01.
_why did nothing but good things for the public internet. It is beyond the pale to print his real name, city, and current employer.
Anybody remember when google tried to acq-hire Path for 100 million? Hopefully this offer was not as ridiculous.
I wonder if they are bringing him in, to setup an internal incubator of sorts, now that labs is shut down, perhaps they think its time to do it in some structured form. I know that there was talk of it, sometime back inside the company.
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Don't forget though, she is a professional journalist writing a story for a professional publication. She didn't setup some 'whyisfoobarbaz.wordpress.com' blog with the sole purpose of outing him. That's already happened.
The point is not whether you have sufficient information to infer the usage. Do you have to infer the idiom at all? Usage is homomorphic with declaration in C, so this step is unnecessary.
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He was the CEO when Digg v4 was released and was one of the driving forces behind it.

Digg v4 was the dagger that killed Digg.
My one hope here is that he uses his 20% time to bring back The Broken."
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iOS has the option in the Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars section. It is set to load remote images by default.
Thanks! This is a great walk-through for those using a solution with only 1 or a few IP addresses associated with little chance of that IP changing. Do you have any experience for those using services such as Amazon SES or Google Apps?

Setting up the PTR records for reverse DNS lookups are very tricky since Amazon and Google are always rotating the IP addresses for their mail servers. We've been fighting with this in our application for a little while now (using Python, not Ruby).

We're getting about 90% of our emails through, but some are getting denied for no reason whatsoever. The worst part is, they are server-side denials, so the emails aren't even going into the spam folders of the users.

Also, I second adding the DMARC section. DMARC is extremely simple, and it's very easy to implement gradually.
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Another place where 2PC isn't used is in bank accounts, even though the "bank account transfer" example is the stereotypical example introducing transactions. Networked credit banking was basically worked out in 4th century BC Egypt.
This feels like a stunt on the part of Google. They have the money to throw around at ideas at the moment; KR seems to be a beneficiary of this. They get to hire a trendy name and hope that they can turn around G+ and other services.
I listen to a lot of dubstep while coding, anything that's got a strong beat (usually 4/4) that's got a positive mood. It's very important to stay sunny, I get so much more done when I'm in a good mood.
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Not exactly. Some function expecting a c-string could actually read too short. What happens is some attacker sends a message using a channel/format that specifies a length and a buffer. But, the buffer contains a "\0". For example, (10, "wtf\0extra") is passed as a 10 char string. But, some c function might only see it as (3,"wtf"). The (usually) simply solution is to fail validation when a string of N bytes contains a NULL char before the N+1 byte.
As with most tech, wading through crap is a teething problem. Compare researching online 10 years ago with today, for example: Wikipedia is an excellent first place to start, instead of having to employ google fu until you get what you want.
In my experience very low. But you should really configure your mailserver to have the advertised hostname match the reverse hostname for the IP ("PTR record")[0].
The chance of getting your mail rejected if those don't match is a lot higher.

[0]: "PTR record" is the wrong terminology for this. The *.in-addr.arpa is a special PTR record to implement a reverse host lookup. The PTR record in DNS has some other functions as well, e.g. service discovery.
I'm with Carl Sagan.

Visit? Yes. Settle? Not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

Not that there's anything wrong with wanting to go to Mars as a hobby, as a tourist-- if that's how you want to spend your billions, fine. But I worry that too many impatient sci-fi lovers see space travel as some way to escape from the problems of Earth, which it will never be. If we can't figure out how to live sustainably on Earth, humanity will perish long before we have any realistic possibility of emigrating.
> Once they have that reputation as being awesome it will stick around no matter how badly they perform after their initial success.

Proof of ability trumps everything else.
There's a distinction to be made between "idea guys" and "product people". You're criticizing "idea guys", while it seems that Kevin Rose might be more of a product person.

The "idea guy" is the guy who comes to a developer and start with "I've got this great idea for an app…", thinks it's genius but never dives down to all the details of said-app.

A product person might or might not know how to code but s/he will(/should) be able to articulate exactly what the product should do or not, how things should work together, etc. It's common for developers to think they don't need anybody to make a good product but a great product person will make a difference.

It doesn't matter if they understand how to code or not.

Indeed. That's not their role. Understanding how to code does not a good product make. There are tons of examples of that.

However, you have a point about the industry giving a pass to people with previous successful project(s). But probably with good reason: overall there aren't that many very successful projects, so if you had one, it's still much better than a lot of people.
Thanks so much for the advice, Ben. You make so good points. And yes, I expect to catch some negativity towards my situation. But I'll deal with that as it happens.

Let's for sure meet up. I'll shoot you an email next week.
I was looking at one of the professional math toolbenches the other day, and pricing ran like this:

Base Product, $X.
Addon A, $a
Addon B, $b
etc.

I have a hard time believing that these solutions can't be architected in such a way that each plugin is a discrete charge that can be listed.
> lavish dreams such as what Musk has but that is what separates the watchers from the doers.

?? Not sure of your meaning: Dreams are usually the domain of the watchers, expertise and hard work are usually the domain of the doers. Musk has demonstrated expertise and hard work, but in a different area; here he is a dreamer. Is that what you meant?
This is interesting news...I wonder if he will explain it.

In other news, does Kevin really own a piece of the Packers?
http://twitter.com/#!/kevinrose/status/173532999881732096

Was that a joke or is that legit? Never knew his angel/digg/rev3 money was that large.

What did I miss?
It makes sense the more that I think about it. Rose has said on his podcast and in other interviews that he regrets that Digg raised so much money. They had to focus on revenue instead of building the product. I'm sure he's a little disappointed at Milk's success thus far too.

I guess he's possibly thinking that this will give him the opportunity build a huge product that he's always wanted without having to focus on the business side. If google is funding it, he doesn't have to work on raising money or increasing revenue. He'll also have hundreds of employees that can be thrown at his project.

I'll be interested to see what he's up to.
I did, I never pretend to know better than the developers. Question was dictated more by curiosity.
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I'm not sure why the author would say that metaprogramming is "absent" from Python.

Do decorators and metaclasses not count as metaprogramming features? I'm sure that languages in the Lisp family might be better suited for metaprogramming than Python but the author's claim seems straightforwardly false.
To quote pg: "A hacker who has learned what to make, and not just how to make, is extraordinarily powerful."

As a developer, it is frustrating to see fellow developers place too much importance on being able to code as a necessary ingredient for startup success.

As a hacker, I'd say that most hackers know how to make, but don't know what to make. That is to say, most startups from these type of hackers with the "if I build they will come"[1] mentality end up basically degenerating into non-profits or open-source (when their intent was to become the next big for-profit company).

To my fellow hardcore hackers. Please get over yourself and learn some non-technical skills: sales, marketing, design, product UI/UX, biz dev, getting distribution, negotiation skills, heck - some people skills! (this comment not withstanding since I'm frustrated with the comment above).

If you're going to look down on people who can't code, you should get out of your own comfort zone and do all those non-technical things I've just listed above first. Kevin Rose has a rolodex, which I'm sure has benefits to whatever his entrepreneurial venture is. You don't? Why not? Learn how to hustle.

Just because you can't code, doesn't mean you can't build a business - and vice versa - just because you can code, doesn't mean you can build a business.

/ end rant

[1] exception, not the rule
Smart automated testing sounds amazing, until you realize that it's not smart at all. The dumb computer that you're ordering to do your bidding is the same dumb computer that is going to be running your tests, and chances are the programmer is invariant as well. In short, good programmers need unit tests less and bad programmers will write bad tests. You can't fix a personnel problem with technology.
A web developer does not outsource his pet project to someone else to code. He did not do any development on his projects. I've heard him talk about coding and he openly admits that he's been out of it for so long that he is no longer qualified on the subject.

About Digg's original code: http://blog.mixergy.com/pr-lies-destroy-your-understanding-o...
Your complaints are not really a huge problems with this statistical population model. In the end, you took goods out of a system and/or you put goods back into it - everyone falls somewhere along this scale in their lifetimes. All the reasons behind their choices are largely irrelevant, and you can simulate the model based on it.