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When Brin took the lead, the design culture inside Google changed.

My facts may be slightly off, but Brin essentially gave a lot more freedom to designers. As part of the Google redesign (or +ifying), Brin gave all the design responsibilities to the same division that's been producing some Google's commercials. This is undoubtedly a division that appreciates design more, but arguably doesn't appreciate the data as much.

After this, we all saw the obvious redesigns across Google's products. With such a drastic redesign, I am doubtful they did any large scale a/b testing that they typically do (for individual features or otherwise).

Its pretty evident something changed, and I personally have no doubt it's due to changes in the way Google goes about design. They've swung from one end of the spectrum (data obsessed) to another side that's too focused on 'artsy' design.
But having 1 entity control such a large amount of supplies means that entity can control the market rate (they simply hold on to it or sell it as needed). National banks, like the Bank of Canada, already do this with their country's currency.
Well at least there's a giant red COMPOSE button, because every time I see a giant red button, I think COMPOSE!

I'm hoping that they'll do another revision soon to make it look more like the recently updated G+ design, which actually puts some visual separation between content and navigation (and also doesn't have giant red buttons).
Its too bad that nobody has figured out how to move onto a better version of Craigslist. Their real estate listings in particular are a major source of pain for New Yorkers, and they even charge for postings there. Craigslist's lack of any customer support opens a black hole for any account issues you may be having.
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Well, I thought the old design sucked, so I welcomed change.

Guess what? The new design sucks far more.
I had to follow your link. "Mandatory unlimited vacation" sounded like a euphemism for being laid off ;)
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You could also use Gmelius to use icons and text plus lots of other options like removing ads. I'm enjoying so far.

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I hear that some work on Apps/Docs and Chrome happens there. This morning's Google Drive SDK hangout featured at least one person in Boulder... he had a sweet view of the Flatirons behind him.
Diamonds would be a good example too, right? Platinum would be even better in this situation, I think, because it has more practical uses than diamonds.
eg, De Beers for diamonds.
would have been neat combination with twitter me thinks. I feel Instagram will be sidelined in the future to focus on the FB quarterly earnings machine.
I'm sorry but the text is tiny! It looks no bigger than 8px. Are you reading it on a mobile device perhaps?
Hosting Sysadmin here -- logs don't change that often unless you're developing an app that logs, and for that, I like logging to MySQL ("just add a column in a few places, an voila".)

You should use the best tool for the job. If your job is webpage stats for apache, there are literally hundreds of pre-existing tools to parse apache logs, and the name of the *nix game is plaintext.
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So you think the possibilities are that either google ignored the data or the data is wrong with no affordance to the possibility that you are wrong?
We are not affiliated in any way. We have come across them before and we feel the name and market is different enough to not be a problem. As for the logo, it's kinda difficult to make a fire (as in, blaze) look different.

Our name story is that, our original project name was just "stack" but stack.com was taken. After struggling for a new name, a historic chimney stack local to us caught fire and the newspaper headline was "Stack Blaze".
+1 for XML. It gets lots of hate, but if you're doing integrations or API work, it's almost everywhere.

Check out xmllint too, ESP the "shell" feature in it (basically a REPL for xpath and other useful XML spelunking.)
I hobble through that feature so often. You'd think a team that dogfoods this stuff would want to fix it.

That being said, I know the feeling the parent is talking about, but I never got that feeling with Gmail. It was something that worked and that's what I appreciated about it.
Click on the little arrow next to your folder/label. Under the 'In label list:' part, select 'Show'. Now your folders appear all the time. Also, you can click the "More" at the bottom to expand it.

Why is that so hard?

EDIT: No really - why is it so hard? Better than 90% of the complaining on this page could be solved just by spending a few minutes going through settings, tweaking GMail to your liking. There's even a settings page where you can see all of your labels in one place, and set each folder to show/hide/show if unread. It's specifically designed for the parent's use case, and yet he pretends that it doesn't exist.
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>they provide a valuable price setting service to the market

[Citation Needed]

My thesis above is that there IS no value added. You're saying that they are being paid for value provided, but other than possibly causing the price to be updated more quickly (on the 100 millisecond scale mostly, but possibly as much as a few minutes sooner), I don't see how that provides any real value. And honestly I don't see how even helping the prices move a few minutes sooner adds any value.

In ALL the examples in the OA, if there were no HFTs and you simply WAITED a few minutes, then the people actually making trades would end up with better deals. Sure the market wouldn't be as volatile and instantaneous, but in what tangible way is that a bad thing?

So, again, how does moving prices a few seconds sooner provide value? The examples given all assume the market would be completely static without HFTs, which is obviously bogus. HFTs are only interested in stocks with minimum levels of volume, meaning there would likely already be a lot of liquidity, and they won't touch stocks with too little volume, where they'd actually be useful (OP or another HFT, correct me if I'm wrong).

I think extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. It certainly seems to me and a lot of other people like they're stealing money from valid transactions by taking advantage of a corner case in the system; claiming that "price setting" adds value when in the very examples given they don't seem to add any net value (except when the HFTs are doing it wrong and losing money!) seems like an extraordinary claim. So where's the proof that the market wouldn't actually be better off without them?
>And why is that, in your opinion?

The rules of sexual marketplace.

>Do you think it's equally as unimportant for ugly women? What about lesbians?

Both are a small minority. Ugly women still can't improve their attractiveness by having a job nearly as much as men can.
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There isn't on my GMail, because I figured out how to change the theme...
Personally, I love the new GMail interface and have been using it for months. I like that is less cluttered and that I can more easily configure what is displayed. I've changed the buttons to be text in the settings as I did find the icons hard to pick at a glance.
I also love the new themes.

It's interesting to me to see so many people grumble at interface changes whether it's Facebook or Gmail.
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the fundamental problem I have with the redesign is the fact that it introduced usability problems that weren't there before. I'll admit the redesign may have solved other ones, I admittedly didn't notice them at the time.

The three points the author pointed out are some glaring usability issues that can be a problem for a big chunk of people. Just because you or I can use it without a hitch doesn't mean its a great design.
I agree that it is sort of good-natured rivalry, but it sort of isn't. I went to Berkeley and know that it is true.
Cool, I have a text adventure idea I would like to try my hand at... however, the examples are in Russian. Hmm,..
They just had it the easy way! that's what it is :)
I look forward to being convinced that housing and car manufacturing are more stable and resilient than services.
GCC has a 'pure' attribute. I don't know if it's only used for optimization, but it also serves as a kind of comment for whoever looks at the function in the future.
Seems like a waste of time to go out of my way to do this. I would rather be spending that time building something or getting away from my computer.

However, I do sometimes have to look through code for the following situations.

I can't figure out how something works through the docs. Something I really need to use isn't working as expected. If I know something I'm new to could be done in a better way and I would probably save time by looking how someone else has done it. I need to add a feature to code someone else has provided.

There are plenty of opportunities to look through code other people have written in the normal course of my work without having to set aside special time for this.

Just spend your time coding and be proud of the crap code that you create at first. You will get better!
JIT compilation is swell, if you don't count time time it takes to kick in. And you're still at the mercy of the garbage collector.

If it doesn't matter because you can use C or C++ for critical parts... well you can do that from Objective-C too, and it's trivial. It's far simpler than working through a JNI bridge.

I'm still puzzled by the decision, given the horror of J2ME and the failure of Java on the desktop. Why not C++?
Yeah, it would. Modeling a demand curve is a really hard problem in economics; it's one of the holy grails in the field. That being said, I'm sure you can either take that into account and reduce the scope of the mission to more cheaply mine a smaller asteroid that won't flood the market.
This is pretty incredible. Really clever. Any plans for iCal integration?
A lot of ben bova books are about the earlier space exploration of asteriods, the moon, planets, etc.

For example the asteroid wars v1 - v4 are more first persony.
Probably the closest match to Snap (based on the OP's description) in Python is Pyramid:

http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/docs/pyramid.html

The routing system in particular looks quite similar.
In between what the law bans and what the law permits, there's all the "you're allowed to do it because nobody said you can't" stuff. If you happen to be doing that stuff, it's comforting to have it explicitly called out as legal. If you want that stuff to be illegal, you obviously don't want it getting promoted to "more" legal, because it's harder to get your ban passed.

Imagine a new bill is introduced. "Eating apples is legal." The Apple Pickers Union would love to see this bill passed. The Orange Pickers Union would probably oppose it. They'd both spend millions on a blogocampaign to convince you they are right. But passing (or not passing) the bill changes nothing; it's already legal to eat apples.
As much as a I dislike the new Gmail design, I'm fine with it, why? I almost never use the Gmail site. I'm either getting my mail with Thunderbird or my tablet or phone. I almost never have a reason to do otherwise.
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Go to Settings > Labels, then pick the ones that you want to show. Pity your "months of USE" didn't take you that far...
So these seem to be low stress situations for him, unlike public speaking. YC interviews are obviously high-stress for the founders though.
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How do they know what's under the surface of these asteroids?
>Lets just say HFT firms did net to zero

Sorry, crazy premise. If a particular HFT netted less than $100k/year, I'd be surprised if they kept doing it, and I've certainly heard of HFTs who made in excess of $400k/year.

>There are a vast number of market participants who do loose money.

Irrelevant. It's not about whether people ever lose money, but about whether HFTs add any real value to the market. If no one can give me real evidence that they do, then I say that the rules should be changed to make such trading unprofitable; if it went away, then the people who are actually buying stocks as a medium to long-term investment would make MORE money (on average), or at least lose less.
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"Space Inc" is a collection of short stories about work in space. It's a loose fit for your description.

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I'm in the same boat, and think the usability of the new interface is terrible. And the pretentiousness of the "form over function" design still makes me gag. But Chrome plugins like "Minimalist for Everything" make it almost bearable.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bmihblnpomgpjkfdde...

This and similar tools let hide and modify GMail with custom CSS and Javascript. Instead of trying to convince Google to behave rationally, it's easier to try to warp the new interface into something usable. I think about half the things in the article are already covered.

If only I could figure out a way to get the "stars" on the same side in the message view as on the overview...
Not sure about Python and Ruby but much of the Clojure web ecosystem takes the 'library, not framework' approach.
> I've heard one joke on Cal's campus - "Stanford creates companies, Cal creates industries".

The Stanford equivalent is "Stanford produces CEOs, Berkeley produces VP-Engr".

Which one would trade places with the other?
If we can't have a thing, they can't have a thing either? Weak argument. So very weak.
It is a joke because the behaviors portrayed are fictional performances.
"Live Free or Die" by John Ringo, and the rest of the "Troy Rising" series.
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"I don't know what your beef is with groklaw ... fabricating sophistry ... bash groklaw"

Let's be absolutely clear: I love Groklaw and have valued them and visited regularly for just about a decade now.
That doesn't mean Groklaw is above criticism or without faults, a jump emotionally invested commenters seem to want to take. Please take the time to read through things before you jump to hurl invective.

I'm hardly the only one here expressing the same sentiments about Groklaw's pro-open source bias, which again PJ freely admits.
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smaller

readable, esp. with `column -t <log`

works with awk/cut/join/grep/sort/column/etc./etc./etc.

if you have complicated enough logs that you can't maintain the shell scripts that parse them, you probably also have enough log data that json's going to blow up your space and you probably want indexes anyway, so throw it in a real database (oh hi I work for one of these, log analysis is actually one of our strong suits)

but others have already commented to this effect
Um...Page took the lead, not Brin.
What's wrong with the first answer?
Even assuming that your uncited brain chemistry claim is true, I'm sure you'd agree that the balance is a very long way from 50/50 right now, and that it would be great if it could be improved :)
Thanks, changing the labels to text is a big help. I didn't even notice it there in General settings. It still doesn't change the tiny "..." link to a text label (the thing you click on in a message to show previous messages in the conversation). See my other comment here about Fitts' Law.
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As did I, but the defaults shouldn't be awful.
Yes, I see the small text now. :) Looks like firefox remembered the text-zoom setting i must have set for some other subdomain of wordpress.com.

To be fair to the blogger, he probably is also a victim here: he's probably reusing a theme (edit: yep, scroll to the bottom) whose designer committed the tiny-text idiocy.

At least he didn't do low contrast and tiny text like most other sites do (e.g., posterous). :)
Design and UX may be a science or "science". But, it heavily involves taste (in the Steve Jobs sense, not "likes" or "preferences". And peoples tastes vary widely from "good" to "doesn't have any". It is ludicrous to believe any design / UX will leave large percentage satisfied. Also, many create valid, correct design / UX and yet are devoid of taste.

To further elaborate on taste; Engineers often refer to this as "elegance". Two bits of code can meet all specifications and requirements. Engineers with taste will feel the one which has elegance to be superior.
Apologies I didn't add any format markup, it must have been code on groklaw.
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They would still be constrained to degrees by their marginal costs (the price floor) v what the market will bear. Who knows what the actual costs will be the day they have a giant rock in orbit, although I expect they will fall rapidly with advancing privatization. I am sure they will take very conservative actions, but imagine the potential liabilities–might be a lot more than the value of the rock.
Why would we resent this when it's already so easy for us to get into programming?
As a nation with an army, they could do something like this.

As a private company--especially if this mineral becomes very necessary and expensive--would be a very big target for some sort of 'congressional oversight' to 'protect national interests' and prevent a harmful monopoly.
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Click the square/arrow to the right of any label, there are a plethora of options, including when and why a label should be shown at all costs. Frankly, the label functionality that exists now, in the redesign, is amazing.
You can get HR paperwork from a third-party web startup for like $30/head or whatever, just like every other little productivity tool startups are all buying from each other in the Silicon Valley bubble.
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Just please consider that XPath needs to store the items in a tree structure first (XML needs to be parsed and loaded into memry) before it can be useful. Running that on a large log file would be an interesting performance experiment.
I'm not sure how you got the idea that I was trying to argue about what copyright LAW says. I was simply making the case that, just as with quantum mechanics, nothing about copyright is based on common sense, so people need to be careful to be aware of this bias when they think about these issues, especially when a lot of people discussing this have moral / philosophical positions that confuse their view of the legal standing of the plaintiffs. "That doesn't seem right" is a question of legislation policy, not of interpreting existing law.
Having a compiler that will tell you all the places that you need to change things is an amazing productivity booster.

Agree with this 100%. I think dynamically typed languages are a transitional technology we'll mostly leave behind as the kinks get worked out of modern type systems.
Has effing tabs so you can have a "compose" tab open and reach your email for info to copy-paste in your message.

Something as basic as this is missing in gmail's default interface. Having to save and go back to drafts is cumbersome, as are other work-arounds.
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Sample size of one, but I love the new Gmail UI, personally.
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>> I encountered a striking tendency in myself to want to neutralise colors. If I didn't know what color to make something, my default choice would be to desaturate it until it no longer offended my eye. On a fine level it works and you can solve a lot of individual UI "problems" this way. The problem is that as you accumulate these decisions you end up with a design that says nothing, has no motivation, fails to speak anything to the user.

Interesting observation... this is something I struggled with as well coming from a coding background and trying to do design -- at the individual element level the colors seemed great, but pulling back to the larger picture everything looked washed out. Did you ever come up with a solution for this?
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