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The key differentiator for Google Drive would be online interfaces. I love Dropbox to death, but the fact that when I am on a strange computer I have to download a spreadsheet to make a minor edit and then upload again is completely annoying. And it is mostly useless for media playing. If Google gives me a box to store/sync stuff offline and makes Google Docs/Music/Picasa seamlessly work with that box, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Yes, those could go as attachment, but I would strongly advise a workflow system that keeps track of changes and other stuff. Email is very troublesome for that. One changes something, another one sends an old version and that change is lost...I am working in the print industrie for a decade now and have moved a few companies from email workflows to a decent workflow web based system. It is way better. Trust me :) .

But most of the stuff I get is normal text that could easily fit into the email itself. Some people sent 1-sentence doc attachements regularly :( .
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except it's in python. :)
I was afraid you'd say that.

Opting for Path B would actually make life a lot easier than you realize. An endless list of very time-consuming tasks disappear if I finally get off Path A, and a huge weight would be lifted from my shoulders.

Of course Path B seems the obvious choice. But previous attempts on that path have several times ground to a halt, admittedly because I get in my own way. I can't help but wonder: why am I not pysched? Shouldn't my desire be enough to push me forward? If I knew I wanted it badly enough, would I even need to have this conversation with you?

Btw, you and I are acquainted - we went to Berklee together. It'll be something if this exchange ends up being the turning point. Thanks again for taking the time!
I would love to reboot it, but I can't come up with anything that isn't delicious (as it was) and reddit on one end, and BoingBoing on the other.
HN has officially become reddit.
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That has to be a mistake. You already can upload more than 7 GB using Google Docs. It would be more in line with Google to offer 100 GB or 1 TB free and really blow away the competition. I wonder if they have considered what it would cost to offer 1 TB of storage vs. buying Dropbox. Most people would not use anything close to the maximum and of course the storage costs will get cheaper over time.

Google needs to give people a compelling reason to try out the service. Remember when GMail launched in 2004 and 1 GB of storage space for e-mail seemed crazy? I think Hotmail offered 4 MB of space at the time. You had to constantly delete old e-mails to keep below the quota. Storing files in the cloud is reaching a tipping point where it becomes mainstream. Google needs to get a foothold now if they want to be the leader in this product category.
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Hmm... that could get too expensive fast. You have to find a place where unlimited texting packages are standard :)
I think the main point of this commandment is that people in higher positions are being encouraged to open their minds to those in lower positions who have more relevant knowledge. Wise team leads and managers do not point to their job title and inveigh "Respect mah authority!"

Of course, if you are the person with greater knowledge but a lesser position, and you have bosses that are not as wise as you would prefer, then there is an art to deploying that knowledge and ensuring that the right thing gets done while allowing others to save face. This sort of diplomacy isn't the kind of skill that most developers typically have -- or even have the slightest interest in learning -- but it's an awfully useful skill to cultivate, whether you're dealing with corporate bureaucracy or cranky customers.
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Relevant: interesting HNsearch: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=gdrive&...

I like that the first one is Drew's YC app from 5 years ago.
And then: GDrive is here! in august 2007

This is an interesting story of why it was killed originally:
http://allthingsd.com/20110425/how-google-killed-gdrive-and-...
It's a double edged sword. It may suck if you want to implement it yourself but it benefits society by creating a constraint. That constraint will force people to work around it to possibly create new and better implementations of the refresh behavior.

Also, I wasn't aware that the patent expires in 20 years. That does seem like a long time but compared to the perpetual copyright we have it's not as bad. I'll agree that the term patents are given is too long but I'm one of the few around here that is in favor of them. Not absolutely but to a reasonable degree. The patent system has flaws (major ones) but the idea of patents is something I support. I truly believe that it really does foster innovation. It's an incentive to innovate.

If Twitter let's others use it and collects royalties then it's not like Twitter alone is able to implement it and when the patent expires others can for free. Facebook on iOS has had this behavior for a while now.

I think people much like yourself are thinking of patents in absolute terms like they're all good or all bad. It's more complicated than that. They're a good thing that can be abused like prescription medication or guns. If we could just be sane about what gets to be patented, how long, and just generally use patents sanely we'd have no problem. So let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.
The worst corporate environments bring you -- persistently; repeatedly; seemingly as a matter of policy, no matter what the "propaganda" of internal communications -- to doubt yourself.

When that's the case, get the h-ll out!

When it's not that bad, evaluation the pro's and con's and make sure you have a plan forward -- your plan forward, not theirs.

It may -- perhaps even likely won't -- work out just the way you plan. But, you'll be making progress and trying to get somewhere.

If you don't have a lot of personal responsibilities to others (e.g. family) and want to learn more, a different environment is very likely a better bet.

Sometimes one can end up on a... "blessed" -- or ignored -- team in a larger corporation, where corresponding autonomy combined with a good manager leads to a good, productive, educational experience.

(In my experience, this is when the team members are so valuable and rare that Management has realized/decide that they can't afford to do without them, and maybe is even respectful of or afraid of disrupting the environment, balance, or "magic" that makes the team work.)

But that seems to be somewhat the exception. And from cycle to cycle, year to year, you don't know when a critical person is going to move on, or Management is going to "notice you all" and make things crap.
That makes no sense, I'm sure in the US we've had many more race riots and such (The Rodney King riots and the riots when MLK was assassinated come to mind), but we still offer freedom of speech to idiots.

Besides, from my cursory reading of the Brixton riots, the protestors were mad at police inaction, not hate speech.
The right to free speech is a negative right under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Why incitement to racial hatred might be an issue in the UK?

The usual figure given is 1 in 10 people living in the UK is an immigrant. This does NOT count descendants of immigrants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton_riots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nationalist_Party
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Not necessarily rats - just whatever is his worst fear, and it'll start on the 2nd day, over on the 55th. Ignorance is Strength.
I'm interested in this - do you have any insights into why this might be happening?
This blog post by the author explains the project:

http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/27/compiling-clojure-to-javascr...
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Even in the US, you can be sued civilly for hateful comments and jailed for comments that could be construed as inviting or inciting violence.

I don't know the full story, the tweets are gone and the BBC didn't reproduce them.
This was the first book I read (an older edition) when I was learning to program for iOS. It is very accessible, but occasionally they gloss over the details of some key things (like memory management). I would recommend supplementing a book like this with the literature that Apple provides.
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Yes, and if I upload 50 dresses and they are requested and I now have 5000 buttons, what do I do with them? The point here is just that the button system essentially shuts itself off from say 45 of my dresses because I have no reason to upload them and sit around with so many buttons.
and they can't pull things like this anymore

Uhmm... they can and did. It's hardly traumatizing users. It's a good time to do it since the masses unfortunately love Angry Birds... They click the link and realize "Oh look, it's like Google iTunes".

Why should they not leverage the crazy traffic they have?
>It is in Sony's interest's to keep pirated content off of their devices.

This isn't about piracy. This is about control and ego.

Look at the DS. Hell, look at the GBA.

Flashcards for every single Nintendo portable system ever released are being commercially sold, piracy is as easy as downloading a rom and sticking it on an SD card.. yet they outsell Sony like crazy on hardware and software. Could it be that, like the MPAA, instead of concentrating on their content, they prefer to childishly blame their flagging sales on a third party?

SCE continues to validate my decision to boycott them made back after the Geohot fiasco. If I ever end up with a Vita, it will be used, and running unofficial software. I refuse to give a single penny to this cavalcade of assholes.

And I cheer the hackers every single time. For two reasons, because it opens up closed hardware (which is always a Good Thing), and because some SCE exec somewhere just got a little bit more annoyed.
Oh, this is awesome. I still have been typing in the url from time to time. Now if only Jorn Barger would drop the bad google products and continue the old-school robotwisdom...
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I'm genuinely curious as to how it is a possible competitive disadvantage to tell how many times your app has been downloaded. This sounds like you are trying to cover up something.
Except hate speech is not covered under that amendment, neither is incitement of violence. These restrictions come from Supreme Court rulings interpreting the Constitution.
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Any change to a badly written application can break some obscure functionality or integration. I repeat, any change. Assuming that you're still working on the codebase in question (and why else someone would care to rewrite it?) there is a constant threat of breaking changes. Heck, with certain types of code regular issues after updates are nearly inevitable.

If you rewrite something, you will at least have understanding of how things work right now, which allows you to quickly and reliably deal with surfacing compatibility issues. On the other hand, updating legacy code to deal with those issue is a) much slower b) likely to introduce other issues.

And no, you cannot always slowly refactor old code. That is, in many cases it will take several orders of magnitude more time that a complete rewrite with new features plus all the rewrite issue mitigation.

Been there, seen that. Many times. So far I haven't regretted a single rewrite I've done in my professional life. If your experience is different, than maybe, just maybe, you should look at how you approach rewrites, rather than dismissing the whole concept as "wrong".
I don't get it. Markdown was supposed to liberate us from WYSIWYG and let us work in our text editors.
creativity is frowned upon - see Commandment 4

I don't think #4 is about creativity, but about communication and humility. It's about looking at what others did and discussing with them the possibility of changing it because 1) they built it and are probably more intimately familiar with its subtleties 2) it's a good idea to communicate your plans to your team (and especially the stakeholders in the code you're planning to change)
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But with how Dropbox stores files (de-duped), there can really much fewer GBs than what you seem to pay for. I'd say that it more than evens out, especially since large binaries are much more likely to be already stored and not versioned.
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I stand corrected. I didn't know that, and indeed assumed the impact would be signifcant.
> If you want to connect to multiple remote servers for high availability purposes, you insert something like HAProxy in the middle.

On our PaaS[1] we are running ZMQ everywhere and you do not need HAProxy in the middle to get high availability, you do it directly with the right ZMQ devices depending on your requirements. HAProxy is another piece of infrastructure to maintain where you can get HA with the majordomo pattern using several brokers and retrying the requests etc. Check the ZMQ Guide[2], you have nearly everything nicely explained there. So this comment just ring a "warning" for me, the system looks really interesting, but are the ZMQ primitives well enough understood?

[1]: http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/
[2]: http://zguide.zeromq.org/page:all

Update: Missing some parts of the comment, stupid me.
I think you give your own creation too little credit. I would have never found Peanuts by Bukowski without you, and that was worth all my internets. I never saw it on reddit, never saw it on slashdot, never saw it on digg.

Anyway, thank you for running memepool as long as you did and keeping it up for others to enjoy. I used to love Lowbrow around when you were actively posting and I'd be curious to re-read through their archives archives, but they're gone from what I can tell.
I wouldn't be surprised if Google did finally release the GDrive. This would follow the company's current trend of cloning successful businesses far after a competitor has established market dominance. Google+ is actually rather well built, but nobody is going to flock to it when there are numerous other social networks that have the same (or more) features. Dropbox already solves the problem that GDrive would tackle. Is GDrive going to have some killer feature that will entice people to make the switch? Probably not. Also, I'll bet GDrive won't have the platform coverage that Dropbox does, at least initially.
Orwellian aspects of UK:

1. Extradition of their citizen to US, for creating link aggregator [1][2]

2. Jail for downloading a file [3]

3. Politicaly correct brainwashing in schools [4][5]

4. Sites blocking [6]

5. Jail for posting dumb messages on twitter [7]

These're few things I did remember. When I hear about new case, I don't bookmark it, that's why this list is short.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/copyright-wa...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/jan/13/piracy-student-los...

[3] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/02/police-downl...

[4] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223738/Nursery-chil...

[5] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103175/Boy-7-brande...

[6] http://www.freshtechweb.com/after-uk-high-court-ruling-the-p...

[7] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992
Here: http://chirpstory.com/li/5261
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Well, I'm sure no one following this thread believes you or your team members are individually evil. It's the public actions of the company you work for that many object to.

To employ a bit of basic systems thinking, "the purpose of a system is what it does." When it comes to the actions of this system named Zynga, intentions don't matter. Only actions and effects.

In this context, the purpose of Zynga is to clone other developers' games. To create addictive positive feedback loops that exploit players lacking in self control. To ignore/break my iOS notification settings (OK, a mere personal gripe). ETC. Is that the whole story? Of course not. But a system that does these things was put in place by humans, and a lot of other humans think it's a nasty way of business.
"Prime Obsession" and "Unknown Quantity", both by John Derbyshire, contain significant sections on her (more so in "Unknown Quantity", as it is a popular history of algebra). Both are excellent books, though I'd have to give "Prime Obsession" the edge.
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Thanks for that link. Did not know the blog went down last night until this morning. Had not planned on an enormous traffic spike like that :)
That's why we have judges. Just reporting someone doesn't automatically put them in jail.
Its a 20 minute game, dont get too excited. Awesome display of technology but its not what you typically think of when you hear MMO.

The potential is awesome and Im sure some hackers out there will do something amazing with the source code.
Interesting. I'll look into this this afternoon. I'm seeing it consistently handle 2500+ req/sec on my setup, but that's with less than 50 concurrent requests (about 10 concurrent requests via EC2 micro instances...easy to change my testing scripts to 200 I think)
>Why incitement to racial hatred might be an issue in the UK?

I don't particularly understand the utility of such hate crime laws. For instance (and this is a bit out of scope of this article), how is:

"Let's go roam around and beat up some old people, clockwork orange style!"

any different from

"Let's go roam around and beat up some old black people, clockwork orange style!"

Both are conspiracy to commit a crime, both are likely to involve someone being injured to the point of near death, yet one is somehow worse and will lead to harsher sentencing because it's motivated by a different kind of hatred?

I am legitimately ignorant on this matter, could someone enlighten me?
> If you HAVE to figure out how to make your site do some kind of function because you have people complaining to you that it's not, then you'll go figure out how to do it [...]

That's very similar to advice from Patio11 that I just read over on Askolo¹:

> Rate of learning increases by an absolutely stupid amount by launching a product and having users [...]

1. http://askolo.com/patio11
This is awesome! This saves craploads of trouble in terms of actually parsing messages and interpreting them as functions. Instead I can have an implicitly rigid and safe server / client hop. This makes it way easier to set up a set of daemons talking to eachother in the backend of a web app.
I had an idea for a universal MUD a long while back (probably in junior high school, when I was a huge MUD nerd). A single game world with interfaces for IM, SMS, and the web. No matter where you were or what interfaces you had available, you could continue to be immersed in the world. I got the communication code working well for IM and the web, but never went beyond that; with Twilio, it'd probably be pretty straightforward...
Kind of a fun weekend hack, learned a ton doing it. Feedback welcome.
Do you have a source for your comments on civil law? As far as I know you can be sued for defamation and harassment, but neither of those are simply "hateful comments."

Also, "fighting words" is not simply inviting or inciting violence, it's "those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace."
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If the opinion in question is a technical quibble that does nothing to further the discussion at hand, then we're in agreement.
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Hi Derek, I looked up your post when it first came out in 2009 and along with a bunch of other things, it pushed me to learn how to play guitar. Fast forward to 3+ years later, I'm now trying to move from simply drilling the different scale/modal patterns to really knowing how to improvise and solo. Was wondering what's your take on this? I've always been a very systematic person but I don't think drilling patterns are helping me very much. Let me know what you think.
To me it is not bike-shedding, but being rightfully indignant with decisions being made not by merit but from a position of "authority", completely ignoring the opinion of the majority of people presenting pretty logical arguments in favour of the change. I do not understand how you can defend returning a method call result completely meaningless from the caller point of view by saying that returning an actually meaningful one would suddenly make everyone think that the xyz? methods have to return true/false everywhere. This is the kind of reaction you get from people when you refuse to admit you were wrong after it is already clear to everyone you were.
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I could not agree more.

One should always have a "fools rush in" attitude when contemplating rewriting a piece of code he did not write himself.

Always.