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Doesn't your 20% time project still require managerial approval? You can't just work on whatever you want, you need to get it approved by a manager? This is what I've read, I don't know if it's true or not.
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Do you always have the time/bandwidth to write these tests? I'm curious what you might do if an old codebase lands in your lap and someone says "here, fix these bugs by the impossible_length_of_time."

I appreciate the idea here, and I've done the same in certain circumstances, but typically that means writing tests for bits of functionality that I need to touch.
Fair point, but I'll note that Mr. Smith didn't manage $1T, rather he had clients who had an asset base at that level. That could mean "manage" but could also mean "I have spoken to people who manage."
Interesting. How do you deal with / save / manage permalinks and inbound links from other sites? Or is it a case of those are just not important enough to worry about? (Since Google has a record of all the content it believes is currently on the Web)
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"During 2011, we saw the latest Firefox release that year being up to 7 times faster than Firefox 3.6!"

"A lot of work went into this area, and there were improvements resulting in up to 50% less memory usage."

Source(https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/firefox-in-2011-firefox-pl...)

Personally I don't get the whole fast/slow argument it seems people bring up every time a web browser is mentioned. They all seem to perform comparably.
I use firefox only because it allows me to group and hide my ~80 tabs and only loads the ones i'm using.
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Is there a place in europe where you can have the same level of freedom and entrepreneurial atmosphere that is not choked by bureaucracy and regulation? Cause i 'd love to move there, even without VC money.
I am always a fan of the idea that in business, work with people you completely trust, and set things up as if you don't trust them at all. Part of it is that this way you avoid letting all sorts of things from honest data entry errors to actual dirty tricks. Anything that is important should be cross-checked.
It's those minor but intuitive things that we get used to when using firebug. For example:
1) The inspect tool is at the bottom on chrome dev tools. It would have been much more intuitive to keep it at the top of the bar.

2) You don't see a change of cursor when hovering over editable properties. People who never used firebug might have gotten used to this but for me it feels clunky.

3) No single click edit. On firebug you can start editing a property with a single click. Not so on chrome. This is even worse when editing styles. When single clicking a style you don't even see a visual indication that something happened... again feels clunky..

4)Too many tabs that are not bunched according to how often they are used.. I don't think people use Resources, Timeline, Profiles, Audits as often as they use the other tabs.

5) The information is presented in more readable way. When a break point is hit, chrome displays a bunch of tabs on right which are vertical (often empty - because they aren't relevant to this break point) and wasting precious vertical space..

6) Clutter, clutter and more clutter.. just too many sub windows cramped into one another affecting readability...

I know that most of these reasons are subjective and vary across developers but wanted make a list of my own reasons as I found my self trying to use chrome dev tools and always jumping back to firebug.
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Wasn't Google thinking about tightening up it's Android policies to discourage manufacturers from hacking on "improvements"?
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That's nice, but what's the alternative?

Putting the onus on contributors to back up what they publish would be a crap shot; even with backups there may not be a plan for recovery, and recovery may be impossible if the contributor is unable or unwilling to handle it themselves.

Commenters and other participants have it even harder, due to the variety of sites and platforms they participate in (Lazarus can help saving one's own comments now that CoComment is shutting down, wget can be used to rescue content with advance warning).

Maybe the best alternative would be a commitment from the platforms to keep a low-bandwidth, possibly throttled archive available; failing that, to outsource the work to an organisation like the internet archive. This would be a step up from the current standard, which is, at best, a period of warning (lets external participants make backups), or a commitment to data liberation, which unfortunately ends up with many contributors failing to republish their content.
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Doh! Thanks. :-)
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I'm also from 17y web developer, in almost same situation. If you are interested, can you leave me a contact?
Anecdotally, I've had the best luck on weekends. There seem to be less submissions so your stuff can make last on the front page a little bit longer.
As mentioned by DennisP (but I can't reply on his post for some reason), one of the design goals of Minix is to have drivers seamlessly restarted so the user can continue uninterrupted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_washing

I could see the laser maybe working on ballpoint ink, which AFAIK stays more on the surface due to its high viscosity, but I think like check washing techniques, it'd have trouble with the more liquid inks, since the paper absorbs them more readily.
I get that. Doesn't change a thing: It looks just like an arrow if you are not looking for the M. It’s cute, doesn’t help, though.
> It's all borrowed money anyway, not actual tax revenue.

Huh? How is forgiven taxes not tax revenue?

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/paulson-files-to-sell-500-m...

If Hank paid the taxes anyway, I can't imagine that scumbag would have done so without major PR and fanfare.
I don't think so, this would really restrict the manufacturers and make them less likely to use Android.

What Google has done is for ICS+ phones they must contain Android's stock themes so applications developed against said theme will look consistent on every device. The manufacturer can still have their own themes, and developers can detect if they exist and use them, but the stock theme must be available.
I write web apps and I don't do any testing at all. I am also a unit testing newbi. I just run the app and make sure what change I made works. No automated testing what so ever. it just works and I believe it will be an unnecessary over head Is this bad? If yes, how can I unit test my JavaScript?. Plus i always thought UT is for code that compiles, right?
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I think we have missed the un-mentioned point...

What does this say about Twitter that they have to buy product staff? What does that say about the value of their IPO?

The Thiel proposition would be, long-term, we should be betting against every one who IPO'd thus far.
There are many people who believe that CEO compensation has skyrocketed not because CEO value has skyrocketed, but because of a lack of downward pressure on their compensation packages.

CEO compensation has to get approved by a board made up of other executives. As such, these board members have every incentive to lean towards granting generous raises, and virtually no incentive towards toeing a hard line.

This problem is exacerbated by the universal belief that every CEO is above average. As such, every CEO can say "we all agree I'm in the top quartile of CEOs, right?", and everyone will agree, and then he'll get a pay package that's top 10-25%.

And then, because CEO tenures are shrinking, this cycle will repeat, often, in a cycle that has absolutely nothing to do with the value created for shareholders, and absolutely everything to do with executive compensation schemes having gone off the rails.
It depends what you're working on. If you've got a project that has to grow fast, adding more features than fixing bugs, not even knowing what you're going to keep in a few months, the time spent fixing regression bugs due to lack of tests I think is relatively little.

You may say "I'll thank myself later", but in this sort of business there won't be a later if we're not fast enough. It's a lesser of evils thing.

It would be nice if testing were a faster thing to do. The faster you can do it, the lower the threshold would be for this sort of a judgement call.
And let's not forget that recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education where Wikipedians were obstinately refusing to allow an authority on the subject to fix some errors in an article on the Haymarket Affair, or even to take his input on how the article should be fixed.

Their official position on the subject was, as I remember, to point out that Wikipedia articles aren't meant to represent the facts; they're meant to represent popular conceptions. (Perhaps that's why their articles on health topics tend to be so bad about parroting pseudoscientific hogwash?)
No. My premise is that I do no think that many people would have thought it likely that the hobby project by that "kid on c.o.minix" would bring about a software development tool that Minix would one day use...
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I stopped looking at Infographic as they've become cheesy these days. The purpose of an Infographic is to simply data consumption and allow a consumer to get as much data with just a glance or a cursory browse.

Many seem to have taken to the Infographic craze with bizarre and meaningless meandering, that makes things lot more complex than the data being conveyed. Well, there are Infographics where a simple bulleted list would have done a much better justice.
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Aside from the strong note of Android OEM apologist emanating from this piece, the fact that this idea isn't /entirely/ preposterous speaks volumes about the sad state of the platform. What Google releases and what most buyers eventually experience are as different as day and night.

As a long time devotee and early-adopting "evangelist" (especially Maps, Gmail/Apps, Picasa, and eventually Android) it seems we are witnessing Google's decent into terminal failure to grasp the concept, and value, of "customer"...
The scary thing is, is that was precisely the state of affairs with cheap desktops in the heyday of win95. My understanding is that the hardware got cheaper to match the software, then there was no motivation to improve the software, because the hardware would've crashed the machine anyhow.
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Hey, I'm a class of '10 high school student hopefully not too far away. Wouldn't mind talking about sometime (email is on my profile).
I used to get code back from developers EACH AND EVERY TIME with massive bugs like: unable to register, unable to login, unable to add content. I wrongly assumed that they at least ran through and checked for any bugs they introduced before sending me the new code. So each and every time I got code back I had to go through manually and check it, sign in, log out, register, add content, delete content, edit content, add category, etc...

I wish someone could make a simple service that allows me to set up my web app, set up test parameters that it tests each and every time, and tell me if it failed or not. I want to automate my babysitting.
http://phantomjs.org and http://casperjs.org/ are amazing (and open source).
even if he was executive director, still not senior, more midlevel.

hierarchy is - management committee > partner managing director > managing director > executive director > vice president > associate > analyst

managing director is where you would be running a business, sort of like making general in the army, there are about 1700 of them. And the partners are the true senior managers and where real authority in the firm starts. Title inflation FTW.

He might have trouble eating lunch in this town without changing his name LOL. Best bet might be to write and try to be the next Michael Lewis (Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, contributes to Bloomberg and Vanity Fair, didn't turn out too bad for him.)

[edited Peter -> Michael]
Yeah, this has happened a number of times, enough that I'm wary of investing time and energy into using a service that appears to not have any means of making money. Last fall, I evaluated Posterous for my personal blog, but one of the reasons I ended up going with Squarespace instead is because it's a paid service:

http://kylecronin.me/blog/2012/3/13/my-thoughts-on-posterous...
The inside of an otaku's apartment is anything but typical: http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E3%82%AA%E3%82%BF%E3%82%AF...

Here's a nice example: http://www.wolfheinrich.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/dsc00...
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Sure it does.

Since the 1950s, both the atmospheric CO2 level and obesity levels have increased sharply.

Hence, atmospheric CO2 causes obesity.
I have trouble trusting this. Years ago everyone pissed and moaned about how terrible Vista was, only to have 7 be received as The Messiah, even though it was basically the same as Vista. I feel as though a narrative is being set up where 8 will be the terrible horrible worst thing ever ever, and 8.1 will be incredible genius by golly MS has done it again.
This. I basically do this because it's quick and does not need any extra code, esp because I write web apps and testing it is just a ctrl+S away. No compilation, just F5.
If it's impossible, then the diligent engineer says so. Projects are often doomed by people with "can-do" attitudes attempting to achieve the impossible.
> Parker v. Flook was a clear decision prohibiting software patents

Supreme Court jurisprudence about software patents has never been very clear. In any case, Diamond v. Diehr came out just a few years after Flook and made such a cut-and-dried reading untenable. And then there was the whole Bilski mess of an opinion...

This is what I mean when I say it'd have to come from Congress, and it'd have to be clear. If you want to prohibit software patents, you don't want 80 pages of Supreme Court justices all writing their own opinions concurring in part and dissenting in part. You want a statute no more than, say, a third of a page long, clearly defining what's meant by "software" (and maybe also "business method") and prohibiting patents on it. That would be damn hard to argue about. Supreme Court decisions are notoriously easy to argue about.

> No, you misread. Intentionally, I imagine. I said: how often do you refuse to pursue a patent you're confident will issue, just because you don't believe it is morally worthy? I got my answer, between the lines.

Ah, I did misread. It was not intentional. But the answer you read between the lines was correct--I have never done that. Maybe when I'm the head of a law firm I can make decisions about turning away money because of a moral objection... but for now, that's a little above my pay grade.
I suppose, but what is the value of untested code? This sounds like an excuse for coding without testing.
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Really like that first line. I think it's very true. You should try to pick people you can trust, but design systems to reduce the incentive for breach of trust. You won't always eliminate the risk of the latter, but assuming the risk will never materialize -- and thus, doesn't need to be accounted for -- is a dicey proposition.
I think that Reginald is talking about social media platforms' APIs and other infrastructure that 3rd parties can connect to for whatever business they are in.

It is valid concern that, for example, Facebook may decide that providing their graph APIs is suddenly not in their interest and cut off the service.

Same thing happened with some Google APIs like the Buzz feed. I only briefly used the Buzz feed for a small customer task one time, and the termination of Buzz and the feed does not hurt me, but it could have.

I find the user experience using G+ to be good, but the APIs are not in anywhere near a form where I would build part of a business on them.

The situation is different with other infrastructure like AWS, Heroku, and AppEngine: I understand the long term business model of the providers and trust that these services will likely be available for a long time.
I cannot supply individual test cases for everything that could possibly be found in the source data.

Perhaps not, but you can supply test cases for known problems you might encounter, as well as ones you've solved after they've been encountered.
I probably brought a car with me. I'm happy to see that people-only prices are reasonable.
It's strange to see that now, inasmuch as years ago, when I worked at VA Linux Systems, the general attitude was of philosophical affinity with Open Source pragmatism. It wasn't dogmatic religion. I still think that's sensible and it always seemed to me like many also felt this way...and the GPL was not necessarily a hindrance to that. It was simply one tool among several in the licensing toolbox.
You're allowed to fetch data that users allow, with few exceptions.
I'll just leave this here. http://saucelabs.com/
pay for an update? no. ics is already available for many phones through the cyanogenmod team and there are other teams out there that develop their own mods for ics, and I'd rather donate $100 than pay the carriers $10 because I know whatever update cm develops would be 10 times better than that of whatever update the carriers provide.

Although it would be nice if the updates were made available, and it should be happening faster than what it is now, but I don't see that happening as long as cm and the rest of the rom developing community keeps doing what they do best.
I think you could use something like like selenium? Should be fairly easy to test the basic things you would normally do manually.
Hi all,

We've just opened up a large fraction of the tools we've developed as part of the Rigel project[1] at UIUC. The goal of the project is to investigate several aspects of efficient many-core processors, including microarchitecture, architecture, compiler optimization, and programming models. To this end, we've built an execution-driven simulator, LLVM-based cross-compiler toolchain, libraries, and parallel applications all targeting a common baseline architecture, Rigel.

With these tools, you should be able to simulate cross-compiled parallel programs running on 1024 cores by the end of the quick start guide. We are working hard to release the rest of what we have internally, including more benchmarks and an RTL model of the core.

When we started the project in 2007, there really wasn't much tooling available to do the kind of cross-cutting studies we wanted to do. While many existing projects have improved since then, and many new interesting tools have come about, we've found it very useful to have an integrated set of tools targeting an ISA we define. It has allowed us to easily evaluate, for example, the effect of instruction set extensions on hardware efficiency, performance, compiler optimizations, and the application programming experience.

I'll stick around and answer any questions folks might have; we're excited to work with people to improve these tools, and are actively looking for users and contributors.

[1] https://rigel.crhc.illinois.edu/
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I love the initiative. But man, what an amazing amount of effort to hack around america's broken visa situation. This should be embarrassing to every representative, senator and the president.

Worse, I'm half afraid if they build it, the US will just unilaterally declare that its borders extend out 20 or 50 miles into the sea. (they've done this with fishing rights in the past, I believe.) Or if they can't extend the borders, I don't expect the DHS to be very friendly to these people. ITs very obviously a hack around US's sovereignty and therefore will be perceived as a threat. Britain barely tolerates sealand mainly because of the genteel culture that appreciates eccentrics. IF Sealand was big enough to grow and be a real economy, it wouldn't be tolerated for very long. The US has less of a tradition of tolerance for these kinds of experiments.

I do think starting with a cruise ship is probably a good idea-- there are a lot of used cruise ships and they depreciate quite a bit over their working career. You could get a really nice ship really pretty cheap because there isn't much else of a market for them outside the cruise industry (and scrap doesn't pay that much.) I say this with some confidence because I've priced out cruise ships in the past for another idea (that was just an idea, not a project.) Eventually a lot of the ships become nearly free, and sell for the cost of a couple months moorage. Though of course on the older ships, renovations become expensive. TANSTAAFL. But old ships approach scrap value.

The sad thing is, if Peter Theil wanted to create a startup incubator City, and was willing to do it in Chile, the Chilean government would probably loan him all the money necessary to buy the land (say an hour or 2 out of santiago) and let him go to town. He could likely import as many startups as he wanted. A chilean residency visa for a year isn't that hard (costs about $1,000) and can be renewed each year and eventually you can just get a permanent residency visa if you want.

It just seems wrong to see people trying to bring startups to a country that clearly doesn't give a damn about them... when there are other countries that truly do give a damn.

Silicon Valley is a result of a historical confluence- the WWII industry, schools and all that. It won't be replicated and the government of California and the USA generally seems to take it for granted. (I read yesterday that tax receipts in california dropped %22 last year because of businesses leaving the state.)

I think the silicon valley of the next 50 years won't be in california... I think it would be better spending the effort building it somewhere that has a chance (notice how the tolerant regulatory environment of blue seed was one of its big attractions.) Whatever you build won't be just like silicon valley... but if it has a good visa policy, it will start attracting the best and the brightest from all over the world, because, frankly, most governments are hostile to business one way or another (even when they don't intend to be.)
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Honest question: Do you believe that test == automated test?
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I think https://stillalive.com/ will do what you want.

Their landing page is a little weak but I dig their UI for setting up tests.
Currently working a webapp with a legacy(2002ish) java code base with a fair amount of testing but it's not even close to full coverage. JMockit has gone a long ways to towards making it easier to expand the test coverage but it's difficult to find time to make significant impact.
Another interesting question: how often do your tests run? Most folks probably run unit tests with continuous integration but what about functional and performance driven tests?
We don't test code where I work, but I'm strongly for testing.