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It seems that the design elements were built progressively, while adding new features, by getting user feedback on what works and what did not. That was partly the reason why "Google Labs" existed in the first place.

I think there was a clear line drawn at least with the G+ integration, since they started consolidating the appearance of all services under the same UI and same color codes. There is a now a clear "design vision" in Google (even if it clearly sucks bad) and it's clearly not as Engineers-driven/Fonctionality-driven as before. Having Icons without text next to it is not just a style issue: it's a well known flaw in terms of usability. Everyone knows icons+text are superior to icons only. Especially when your icons are dark grey on light grey background. No differentiation whatsoever. I can't believe someone was actually paid to do this.
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> I don't want to bother with hosting a dynamic website that I would have to manage.

Out of curiosity, after once deploying it, what're some responsibilities that entail from hosting a dynamic website vs. a static one? Isn't it basically a matter of writing (/copying a good one and retrofitting) a fabric script, perhaps doing just a few things with some Apache/nginx config files, and just putting it up? What exactly makes it more hands-on post-launch?

I had been under the impression that this process would not take more than a few hours by itself.
Can you really just bring back the whole Asteroid? I mean without even knowing what exactly is inside and extraterrestrial hazard?
But As somebody pointed out the operation cost does not yet make this feasible. The RAW materials inside are priced by supply and demand. While the cost of mining is pretty much fixed for a long period of time.
From experience, people like Dan often don't make "well engineered software that is maintainable for awhile." I know Dan personally and he's a great guy, but what makes Dan valuable is his intelligence, intuition, and ability to Get Things Done. Sure, he can code, but lots of people can do that just fine.
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/plug
Actually, from talking to Dan and his co-founder Patrick, Airtime for Email is doing quite well, and I believe they've hired interns for the summer.

I agree with the sentiment, but in this case it's misplaced.
> It doesn't say that anywhere. The Privacy Policy covers "What information we collect and why we collect it.". In other words, the PP is about information they collect about you using the service, not stuff you upload to Drive. Think IP addresses, cookies, log-on times etc.

I'm not so sure about that:

We collect information in two ways:

- Information you give us. [...]
- Information we get from your use of our services. [...]

[...]

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> So your saying that TOS don't matter and we shouldn't read or analyse them because we trust Google wont do anything untoward?

Of course we should. And when we've read them, we should realize that if we want to use such services, we need to assign the provider certain rights to the content. Otherwise, the services couldn't exist. I'm just saying that I think the social contract is actually stronger, so the fallout from bad behavior would be worse punishment than the slaps on the wrist the US government would give. Of course, you don't have to agree with that, it's my belief.

> So we are we even having this discussion in the first place then?

Why indeed. Perhaps because more people have read lazy analyses such as the one linked, than honest analyses such as the one by The Verge (or even, gasp, read the whole actual TOS and made their on analysis), which several people has linked to in the comments. I suggest you read it.

Edit: Formatting, more nuanced language.
I don't like it, but you can do

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if you really want L-to-R whilst avoiding the redundant cat and its overhead. That doesn't allow grep to do its speed-ups though, because it's still reading stdin, not a filename.
Congratulations, this looks like a good effort on pg's thought on email being ripe for disruption.

My 2 cents: I think it will be hard to build traction if all tusulog subscribers have to convince friends and associates to register for a tusulog account. Perhaps one way around it would be to allow registered users to accept and send email from/to non-tusulog accounts, with support for handling non-tusulog accounts with pipes. That way you get to enjoy the features of tusulog, without imposing it on others, and avoid the chicken and egg, first fax/telephone conundrums, etc.
Out of curiosity, what happens if a second company (say, Anglo Platinum) goes out there and blows up the facilities of these guys? Maybe even murders their miners (if there are to be any humans out there). What would the legal protection be?
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It's coincidental this post is popular because less than a week ago I decided to relive the past and install StarCraft: Brood War to play over LAN. It's still just as fun, but I forgot how easily the game consumes your time.
This app looks to be a must-have for those paranoid about EM radiation causing cancer.

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Um...

why is moving the stuff from Earth to orbit so expensive? Because it takes an absurd amount of energy.

What does it take to move stuff from the asteroid belt to near-Earth orbit? An even more absurd amount of energy.

Absent of some breakthrough in technology that would make orbital factories seem child's play, it's not crazily ambitious, just unrealistic.
Thanks for that. I've been meaning to retry the Nouveau drivers... ISTR there was some other thing that they didn't support which is why I don't use them. Guess I'll have to try to re-enable them again to learn what that is.

Ah yes... think I remember now... they didn't like connecting one of my monitors with DisplayPort. Or didn't seem to.
Yeah, this was the first beta I've tried that didn't have one major hiccup. Maybe because it's the LTS edition?
Well, may be the USS Enterprise will become a reality.
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Is it possible to use Phantom JS or Ghost.py to access a web site that is using Facebook Connect? Just wonder if anyone has tried it yet.
It never ceases to amaze me that Scoble is famous.
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This strikes me more as billionaires wanting to play big adventure games with their cash then as a real business opportunity. But I can't blame them, if I had the cash I would want big toys too. Or maybe I'd go the Bill Gates route. On the other hand, it really feels like we are living in another guilded age with Robber Barons gracing us with the equivalent of Carnegie's libraries or Rockerfeller's universities.
I have nothing ill to think of Mr. Shipman either, he's probably both a nice guy and a smart guy. But I do agree with you that there's a recent trend going on over the last year or so with people (especially younger people, and especially web programmers) who create a few different small websites and then present themselves as having started/built/run/sold businesses. Lots of CEOs of, well, simple Rails apps. "I'm the CEO of a WordPress blog!" There are things we can say which can be strictly true, but which waters down and muddles the meaning and importance of what the words originally meant. Which makes it hard to separate signal from noise. Which is bad.
I loved Star Castle.

Man, this development effort was pretty impressive.
The Cnet article has actual references to the rumor origins: http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57422061-75/is-microsofts-...

-------

Edit: The rumors seem to be the confluence of a few data points:

1. Microsoft just sold 750 AOL patents to Facebook.

2. Microsoft execs contacted Facebook last year about buying Bing.

3. Yahoo is rumored to be negotiating a switch from Bing to Google. [1]

[1] http://blog.ineedhits.com/search-news/rumours-surface-that-y...
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So... $50m for a metric ton of platin.

The problem: how much does it cost to get a metric ton from that asteroid's orbit to Earth? More than $50m. Probably more than $50b.

Failing to mention that little fact makes the article a fluff piece, and unless the company has some very convincing proposals on how to deal with it, it's little more than a scam.
Intentionally, I think:

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Shows a great attention to detail!
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There is absolutely no way they tested their design on anything smaller than a 15" laptop. I don't need to see their test data to figure that out; loading Reader or Gmail on my 10" netbook is good enough.
thank gawd - someone needed to say that . we're all helpless with google's arm-twisting us to accept the new email-look, or going back, forcing youtube users to start using a gmail id ..
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I read the judge's reaction to the argument, which is more important than what either party has to say. Oracle has tried to have this issue both ways.

And that precedent probably won't do them much good, because the copying here isn't the same as copying whole articles, however much Oracle's lawyers have tried to say otherwise.
I'm not certain what you disagree with. XML has a big ecosystem, but presumably you felt it wasn't suitable for use as a styling syntax, otherwise you wouldn't have used HSS?

XML is clear and precise and extensible, but it's not exactly known for having a simple syntax, right? So aren't you choosing XML primarily because of the ecosystem and tooling?
Oh yes, this brings back memories. Killing the sandworm with Atreides' sonic cannon.
That I remembered - the major upgrade and concept it was over the previous dune 1.

Then the warcraft series, followed by Command and conquer and then Starcraft, which set the gold standard. AoE came next - after that it just becomes a blur of different RTS types which were competing for top billing.
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Putting millions of tonnes of material into orbit is an absolutely trivial problem compared to actually making that massive spacecraft travel anywhere meaningful.
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This is my major gripe as well ...
Also, the infrastructure already exists for serious reasons, eg Googling for "suicide" will give you a hotline number to call.

So it's not like they added the extra complexity for a laugh!
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Since others can't view the amount of upvotes on your entries, this is basically a worthless semi-poll. But a great karma farming attempt at least!
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Wow! This is exactly what we have been playing around with. The tool looks really good.

Is this something you are looking to take further?

What has been the feedback in terms of usefulness? Do users this this type of mock interview works?

Have you done any research or analysis on the effectiveness?
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I don't quite understand...how exactly do you intend to use an asteroid to clean up space junk?
I always thought StarcraftJokeExplainer is actually Day9. at least that's what I've heard...
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While $6M in not large by percentage, there is no reason to want to give that up.

On the other hand, imagine a world of only portfolio managers and no HFT. That is, trades happen only between portfolio managers with no middle man.

Then yes, on one day you as a portfolio manager would have to give up $6M. But where do those $6M go? Logically, they must go to another portfolio manager. By symmetry of portfolio managers, it follows that on other days, you will be the one who gains $6M. That should net out to zero on average, at least assuming that all portfolio managers are equally sophisticated.

On the other hand, the HFTs earn money, otherwise they wouldn't be in the business. Where does that money come from, if not from the portfolio managers?

So it seems that as long as you're looking at a narrow micro perspective, the story makes sense. But once you add up everything to a macro perspective, the argument vanishes.

This does not necessarily apply against algorithmic trading in general. Algorithmic trading may well serve to always have some orders in the order book even on low volume markets, since humans just cannot trade on as many markets simultaneously as a computer can. But the arms race to ever lower latencies just seems useless from the point of view of society.
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Loggly supports this, and they provided a good interface for querying the data as well. We used it for a while as a way to unify a couple GB of daily log data from our Rails app running on multiple instances. I even wrote a library that allows you to quickly add arbitrary keys to the request log entry anywhere in the app.

Unfortunately we had to disable it temporarily as the Ruby client did not cope well when latency increased to the Loggly service. It was fine for a while since we are both on AWS, but one day our site started getting super slow. It took a while to track down the problem because the Loggly client has threaded delivery, so a given request would not be delayed. But the problem was that the next request couldn't be started until the delivery thread terminated.

Okay I realize this is not the best architecture. There should be a completely isolated process that's pushing the queued logs to Loggly so that the app never deals with anything but a local logging service. Loggly supports syslogng, but that would be standard logging not JSON, so I think if we want to go this route we need to come up with something on our own...
Interesting.

I'm pretty sure your claim about the 45,000 IOPs being the most of any SATA SSDs is no longer true.

The (consumer grade) Intel 520 SSDs claim 80,000 random write IOPs, and I think I remember seeing the cheaper SATA SSDs on the Dell R720s doing 100K+ (obviously the SAS SSDs do more as do FusionIOs and PCI based express flash)

But to bring it back to Ubuntu - do you use the Ubuntu OpenStack distribution or what?
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That's a great idea but I tried and it gave me nothing.

Oh well, time to leave.
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As to APM:
"Actions per minute is the number of actions (such as selecting units or issuing an order) completed within a minute of gameplay in real time strategy games, most notably in Starcraft. High APM is often associated with skill, as it can indicate that a player both knows what to do in the game and has the manual dexterity to carry it out. Software has been developed to analyze players' APM in these games. Beginners often have low APM counts, typically below 50. Professional e-athletes in South Korea usually have average APM scores around 300, but often exceed the 400 mark during intense battle sequences. Notable gamers with over 400 average APM include Lee Young-Ho and Lee Jae-Dong. Park Sung-Joon is noted for the record APM of 818."
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Hah, yes, I'm very familiar with that problem - my first ever commercial site got all its reasonably tight copy replaced by rambling lists of features and buzzwords from my boss's "marketing guy who really knows what he's doing"... :P
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APM counter is a nice touch as well :).

(APM stands for Actions Per Minute, where Actions in StarCraft are input events that do something, like selecting an unit or ordering it to attack. Professional players tend to have >200 APM).
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"Really impressive. Especially the in-cartridge LED's"??

It is a cool idea, but I think that is the part I could have done. Programming this on the 2600 is a different story.

[Aside: I think those white LEDs are out of date; in those days, LEDs were red]
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Ah Dune 2 and Command and Conquer. I remember there was a easter egg in the first expansion of Command and Conquer that allowed you to do a series of missions agains giant ants.
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Just referring back to this from the comments on the second part, and just wanted to mention I meant "annoying little problem" in the sense that it seems a shame there can't be other solutions, like how Arrow's Impossibility Theorem prevents achieving a perfect voting system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem). I definitely see what you mean about this being the most optimal solution from the point of view of actual pricing and risk. The downside though is there is profit to be made in slicing time every quicker which can't be prevented without breaking something else, but the money spent on this time-slicing is broadly wasted because it is just an arms race.

So I don't think the current solution is necessarily wrong; just annoying we can't get all the benefits and also avoid the arms race.

No problem, I very much like the Talmud article and how simple the explanation works out to being.
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Yup plus you don't need the precursor of knowing the English language.
Dune II was definitely influenced by Herzog Zwei, but not everyone had a Genesis, and I don't think Herzog Zwei really had a concept of base management or resource gathering, which have obviously become integral to the RTS games today.
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That is true, but you have to keep in mind that you have to get the flexipack if you want to run more than 3 virtual machines with their own ip on it. And honestly - if my server had 64gb ram I would want to do that. "back in the days" I got my own subnet for free, now they are charging for it pretty heftily.
I can't count on one hand the number of commits with >500 changes that did not introduce a single bug or regression due to the compiler catching a huge amount of little typoes and mistakes that would have slid by in a dynamic language.

Its like how most vehicle accidents involving impact speeds of over 300 MPH involve planes and not cars or boats. Its not that cars and boats are safer..
"This forces Google to adjust all of its strategies to counter this threat. In so doing, Google must take its eye off the Android ball, allowing the Microsoft's Windows Phone and tablet initiative to catch up to Android."

It seems like the author believes Google is a two person company which cannot compete on several fronts.