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This isn't a powerful, influential person. From what it sounds like, this is a programmer who is engrained in the startup ecosystem, being blogged about by the founder of a startup because he was acquired by another, more noteworthy startup.

The term you're looking for is self-seeking.
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If you're not logged in, then it's a completely meaningless "like." It can be easily spammed, you can't find it again just by knowing you liked it, your Followers have no idea you liked it.

It's about as valuable as those old CGI "000000017 people have viewed this page!"

And there's a great way to share the item - use the URL. Google is really aggressive about making sure that its web pages, even though they feel like rich internet applications, still allow linking.
Airplay should indeed be available for you in the iPad app - see http://www.spotify.com/us/about/spotify-on-ipad/
Throw CloudFlare in front of it.
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Tried searching, but can't find a current list. Does anyone have a link?
For any other europeans, 169,000 sq ft = 15 700 m^2 (or slightly bigger than two football pitches joined up).

I don't know enough about retail space to say if this is ambitious or not? On the one hand, a ten year lease is a big commitment, on the other hand I guess AirBnB is thinking 'go big or go home', and in that case it might well get cramped sooner than that.
I like it. I think you've got one too many lines, though: you don't need both a confuse-o-meter and an understand-o-meter - they're reporting the same metric. I'd consider averaging them into one line for overall sentiment.
I don't want to make you feel like you've been called out. There are many startups with this vehicle for growth, and it seems to be the YC startup MO.

Twitch.tv is possibly the best example of this phenomenon.
As the great Jack Handey of Deep Thoughts once said, "It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."
What do you mean? @Font-face is completely adopted by browsers.
No one is declaring this information pointless, but it's certainly a lot less relevant to Every Programmer than it was when this was written in 2007. I've actually got an okay understanding of this stuff, but the number of times that I've split

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
j += i;
k += i;
l += i;
}

into

for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
j += i;
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
k += i;
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
l += i;

to reduce cache misses is very small because with today's hardware, it very often just doesn't matter. Obviously there are many programmers whose primary job is to do this, because they need every clock cycle they can squeeze out of the thing. They're just not representative of Every Programmer.
I also prefer C# and I think the .NET CLR is a solid platform.

However, I feel that Google did not make the "wrong choice" because they were likely trying to leverage two (interdependent) advantages: existing Java programmers and the overwhelming number of Java libraries.

I haven't made it through all the threads here, but I'm fully expecting to find a post containing "yeah, and we can just run the Java-to-C# translator on all those libraries", and then I'm hoping to find a reply that says that machine translation is not the same as porting a library.
How did you try to communicate that? I cannot find any indication one way or the other. Just showing it on a laptop and a phone is not good enough - maybe you have native apps on multiple platforms. Plus the phrase "there's an app for that" is almost always associated with native apps, not web apps.

I would specifically say something like "nothing to download or install!".
When I run across a problem like the above, surely it's worth a few hours of my time, at that time. If it becomes a habitual problem, I no longer have to spend a few hours of my time.

I think I did - 8 years ago. The problem isn't that I'm lazy, it's that if I have no reason to use something for a long enough period of time, I tend to forget it. Maybe you remember everything you read forever?

There's already a plethora of information that is worth a few hours of my time - the problem is there isn't enough hours in the day. I don't want to spend them on things I'll not use and soon forget.
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You're conflating HN with a single blog post.
Is it me, or is this post exceedingly whiny?
I don't see what's so wrong with what Facebook did. Go after college students. They probably wouldn't mind obsessively checking two social networks anyway.
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? This is the first time I ever heard of a German court involved. 90% cases have been in East-Texas so far.
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It doesn't seem to fix anything, unfortunately, as far as I can tell after a quick test.
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When I read his blog post I assumed he has a YouTube account that is not linked to his Google account. You can unlink them[1]. It's also possible to have an account with Google without being on G+.

My understanding of his complaint is that he was signed in to youtube, which is why it's billed as an 'upgrade.' He should be able to easily use YouTube with a YouTube account. I think that's where the complaint comes in, it's not just calling the account something different, it's making things more difficult for those who might want to keep some things separate.

That doesn't make your points any less true, but I at least think I understand the complaint.

edit: also no worries on the downvote ;)

[1]http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Absolutely, that's one of my favorites.
No, you're a moron. I'm not getting into a debate with someone online, but I think that a good apology would actually apologize. Then, if so inclined, the apologizer might go to lengths to prevent the egregious act from being committed again. Instead, this writer enables others by giving insider knowledge of how to commit unethical acts. Thanks for reading between the lines, though, asshole.
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Youtube used to be a demilitarized zone in the social wars. Every social network uses Youtube as their default video provider, every cell phone OS has a Youtube app as the default video app.

Google saying that Youtube is now, fundamentally, a G+ territory means that social video is no longer something we can take for granted; expect Facebook and Apple to jump ship, and Youtube is left with, what, only the loyal G+ users?

I miss the days when Google, Apple, and Facebook cooperated rather than squabbled. The internet has gotten crappier lately.
"While that helps explain why Google's social efforts are weak, it doesn't make the case that social is something Google needs."

Actually, my intent was just the opposite: to explain why Google "needs" social (but not so much to explain why its efforts have been weak). That said, I think it does offer explanation for their weakness in social to date: they didn't really see it as a threat until it became one. It's very easy to see why Facebook's ad platform can be a threat to Google's ad platform in hindsight (i.e., right now), but it wasn't back when Facebook was first taking off. It's hard to blame Google for not seeing Facebook as an existential threat before it turned into one.

"Say Google is approaching social as an information gathering problem, and Facebook is approaching social as a users-interacting problem, then who will always win social under those conditions?"

For Google, it's not about winning social, per se; it's about winning advertising. Facebook is trying to win social. Google is trying to prevent social from devastating its ad platform, and at the moment, it seems to think that putting up a valiant fight to carve out a piece of social is the best solution to that problem. That's why Google thinks it "needs" social. It may or may not actually need to win social, but it needs to defend and improve its ad platform, and social is a big threat to that platform. Accordingly, I'd argue that Google's approach to social has been defensive, and not offensive. (Ironically, that may also explain its not being able to "get" social so far).
> Google probably can't even trust Python anymore

Um, given that Guido works for Google now, I'm guessing they are pretty safe on that one. :-)
It's reads like a creative writing piece, and is taken from a book about living with the prayer of Saint Francis. I don't believe it's meant to have literally happened, so much as to convey a lesson.
It's funny, when I read that 42 floors offer, I thought Dan Shipper was a name they made up for a hypothetical developer who "Ships" (produces) code.

So I thought it was an open letter to all good developers that they wanted to hire them.

Granted, I only read the first half of the post...
>"It's a very engaging way to learn and I'm getting a lot out of it. The CV course, on the other hand, has so far just been videos of the professor talking & no supplementary material.
I suspect that Coursera provides the platform and leaves how the material is presented on it up to the professor."

It's probably this. I'm taking Model Thinking on Coursera and there are at least 2 pdf for each section (20 sections). Some of them from professor's book, some links on the web or some scientific articles.

I even stop reading it all because it's time consuming, but I'm happy it's been offered anyway.

About the style, well, it fits in the Content: programming stuff is better on Udacity; academical/theorical stuff, Coursera.
That's surprising because I moved away from the Wine version specifically because the ads used to get stuck over the interface, even when Spotify was not in focus. With the Linux preview I never faced those issues again.
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He didn't add in community college with for-profit fake college ("people who can be relied on not to know enough to perform"), he just said that students from Stanford and MIT are generally more capable.

You went to community college, like I did (for the entire first half of my university career - Oakton Community College represent!), so you can't think that's a completely unreasonable statement. OCC certainly wasn't MIT, but it was a place where you could learn a lot of your undergrad math.

Not to say that you won't find people that will dismiss you out of hand, but you'll find that if you're black, or from out of state, or went to Yale instead of Harvard or Harvard instead of Yale - depending on the person you're talking to. Some people have really horrible quality heuristics:) But he's not doing it.
Tedious, and expensive.

Between the pseudo-bubble valuations and all the IP challenges, in 25 years we're going to look back at this time with disgust at all the wasted resources.
I go to a small college where average class size is around 20 students. People hardly ever raise their hand.

Overwhelming majority of students are deathly afraid of looking like an idiot by raising their hand. It happens everywhere, not just large classrooms.

I think this is a great idea.
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That kind of caching architecture exists for graphics hardware already. GPUs have modes where the natural breakdown of memory is 2D (basically by interleaving the X and Y bits), and indeed that improves cache locality for 2D accesses. But not by a whole lot.

The reason caches come in "lines" that are bigger than the words size of the processor is not an optimization (i.e. they're not deliberately bringing in nearby memory in the hope that it will be useful). The reason is that the logic associated with maintaining the cache (index and tag bits) is expensive, and needs to be repeated for each "thing" you have in the cache. So by making the "things" bigger (e.g. the 512 bit cache line on modern CPUs) you reduce the overhead of the bookkeeping.
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Nobody is forced to join the MPEG LA, in fact their behavior is pretty much illegal. They are explicitly banned to claim, assume or declare that it is impossible to encode/decode videos without a license from them. Which is pretty much what they do.
I think the point is that they don't.

Tell me any of the sites you visit in which this knowledge would be critical to deploying whatever service/product they're offering? I would imagine it would be pretty close to 0.
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S/he means font-feature-settings.

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-feature-settings-pr...

http://caniuse.com/#feat=font-feature
I certainly don't remember things forever. But I generally find that the hard concepts stick around vestigially. Having read this (admittedly weighty) paper once, you'll find that going back in 4 years to check something isn't nearly so bad.

Really, read it. It's good for you. Like vegetables.
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The user, however, doesn't know the consequences of subverting the form.
The only reason that I have a Gmail address is that it is not blocked by spambots and it is a bit of a defacto standard. I had a Facebook account in 2006, but deleted it after they let you sign up with a non .edu address. Back in the day the point of Facebook at college was to organize activities and share pictures with people I personally knew. Strangely enough most students did not want people (or employers) seeing drunken party pictures of them, but Facebook wanted to expand and the coolness of college was the PERFECT way to leach out to everyone else.

TL;DR I am a facebook hipster. Facebook isn't cool anymore.
Is this based on actual facts or did you just make that up?
Sociopaths drive people into cynicism.
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I imagine that AirBnb needs a very large customer service team, for one.
European privacy police say Google "duped" them over Street View
What could they possibly need this much space for, and who is paying for it?

Bubblelicious.
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If you're having problems with page faulting, you really just need to use less memory, not necessarily use it more intelligently. If you're programming so poorly that you're blowing through all the available system memory, the problem is likely a little more simple than you not knowing how paging, TLB, etc. work.

Either way, since the disk is so slow, virtual memory and paging are handled by the OS, not the hardware; so there's a lot less that the programmer can specifically control once you get that far down the memory hierarchy, as opposed to (say) avoiding cache misses.
I liked Udacity best at first, but after a while found myself spending a lot more time with Coursera. Mainly for two reasons:

- Udacity sometimes belabors some really basic points. Coursera never gives me that "dumbed-down" feeling. It's more like a real, and challenging, college course.

- Coursera lets me speed up the lecture, as much as 2x, and every time I go to a new lecture it remembers that speed. I managed to speed up Udacity lectures by going to html5 in youtube, but I had to reset it every time I started a new 2-minute segment.
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A lot of news sites allow voting without being logged in, as well as in the comment sections.

Business Insider, the largest business site, allows it (Quantcast #235).

It's premised on the notion that for 99.999% of people, they're not going to bother going through any amount of hassle to bolster votes artificially. It works, it's not worth the time or effort to game content and comments that are modest in traffic and throw-away in nature. The only way it's worth gaming, is on front pages like Reddit where there's a massive simultaneous concentration of traffic.
I mentioned "Understoodit runs on devices that you and your students already own: smartphones, tablets, netbooks and notebooks." But I agree I think saying 'nothing to download or install' is a great idea, thanks!
I am going to give Bing a try, as I noticed that loading a Google page puts an extra ~10% CPU usage on Firefox ever since they integrated that Google+ crap.
EDx is clearly planning to compete on quality. I expect them to be pretty resistant to watering down their course challenge level.

Coursera is likely to head mostly the same way.

Udacity, though, looks like they might lean more towards reducing the challenge to increase the audience. That feels a little dangerous as they're then open to considerably more competition from other schools. The floodgates are about to open.

What Udacity has in the short run to mitigate that possibility is a start-up agility mindset. But they'll calcify in the long run, everyone does, and then what?

What will interest me most is to see how many people can take on the challenge level of EDx. I suspect it will be many more than anyone would have thought.

The people in real trouble are those offering mediocre education for high prices. 5-10 years from now those people will be in a new line of work.
Even if they get the rights to more music from more labels (and maybe even as a result of that), there will still be a decent amount of independent artists who simply won't put their music on Spotify for multiple good reasons.

I'm not going to demonize Spotify for doing these things, but if their business practices mean that I can't listen to the music that I want, then I have no reason to use their service.

[1]: http://www.stevelawson.net/2011/12/why-ive-taken-my-music-of...

[2]: (warning: will autoplay video; important bit is the linked comment) http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=nDvhKYygZTshP0TGDq8ZjxVo0M...

[3]: http://gigaom.com/2011/12/11/why-spotify-can-never-be-profit...
A few companies do actually, including DuckDuckGo and Tarsnap.

http://fosstithe.org/

http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-...
Other things like cache coherency, number and type of cores, other things running on the system, compression or reduction based on properties of the data all have an effect on what is possible. Not to mention weird things like some specialised FPGA, GPU, network card, or even SSD that might have DMA'd the memory. Various bus types depending on the cpus can also have a massive effect - not to mention memory access patterns your code might use. What about the OS level abilities that you're allowed to use? Is ring 0, or setting the affinity of processes, or enabling Turbo mode allowed? Maybe you don't give a shit about the data structure at all, and are just searching for a word with hyper-optimised grep will win. Then taking advantage of that, you can cheat and get something even faster. As you can see, even getting into the level of detail you mention, there is still a shit-load of extra details that might be needed to take full advantage of the hardware.

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I would bet they are bumping up against a developer bandwidth issue. Don't forget, they have about 6 commercial products, plus their own language now (and IDE, natch).

The good news is that the community edition of IJ is Open Source (Apache licensed, IIRC) and there are quite a few existing language editors built on top of it. It isn't a rich client platform à la Eclipse or NetBeans, but I doubt such a thing would be required to win the affections of those who are unhappy using MonoDevelop.
Who's compler I've been contributing to :-)
Infomation technology means that cost are falling, old business models are getting over turned and innovation is happening in established and new markets.

Bubbles can occur in equity markets independently of this.

Due to easy credit over the past 20 years a lot of debt has built up which is retarding real growth now via the financial crisis.

In summary money introduces a layer of indirection into the system which can mean that growth is slow even when technological conditions promote in some sectors.
Then you'd have to explain the 2 year gap...
He doesn't have enough karma to do that.
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> The free market left to itself will sometimes converge into a monopoly.
Flag the post and move on. I don't see any Microsoft hating here, most of the posts are about Microsoft being in their right to take down a project that uses their copyrighted binaries and is distributing them wholesale after adding some extra code...
I thought we were talking about a college sophomore who wrote something cool and gained recognition for his skills. Who's the powerful, influential person that Mr. Farmer is flattering?

I believe the term for flattering people like Dan Shipper is "paying a compliment."

EDIT: You're right, I didn't get the sarcasm. In the context of a comment that described the OP as "hero-worship," it doesn't come across as sarcasm. If we acknowledge that the guy is neither powerful nor influential, it seems pretty obvious that the OP's "flattery" is merely paying a compliment to somebody he respects. I think we could use more of that and less "So-and-so is full of shit" articles.
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People like to argue against the golden rule, saying that if you are deranged, it gives you license to hurt others. First, this is an edge case. Second, it is out of context.

The golden rule was given by Jesus secondary to the command "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."

If you follow both those commands, you'll only do good to your fellow man.
You can't thumb up on Youtube without a Google Account (which is not exactly the same as a Google+ account).

And, I already get the +1s (or thumbs up, or whatever it's called) of the people I follow on Youtube, in my Youtube stream. And I do like things there. On the other hand, sharing ? I'd think twice before doing it.
Maybe then you're not "supposed" to do it?

For example, there is no reverse engineered libraries for Facetime and iOS API. If you use Apple's libraries, they can come after you for copyright infringement.
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Not only is this article is outdated, it makes broad sweeping generalizations that make little sense for usage patterns that differ from the author's.

Reserved instances make perfect sense if your server on EC2 is running 24/7 for months on end. In fact, with now that Amazon has different rates for medium/light/heavy utilization, it makes perfect sense for even more situations.

We've taken advantage of RI's at my startup and the benefits are pretty clear. Our app servers are micro instances running PHP, Python and Java (SOLR). We scale by adding more instances not by renting bigger servers, so our RI's are always in use. It's also worth noting that the reserved instances for RDS are a great way to reduce costs as well (if you choose to use RDS).
Google. Amazon. Bing. Twitter. Facebook.

When you start hitting massive amounts of traffic, these kinds of optimizations can save you a TON of money in equipment and bandwidth.
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All the great new features of ASP.NET and C# aren't exactly new, but Microsoft have created a genuinely fun platform that a lot of people are starting to use outside of the famed "stuffy, corporate environments".

We use it at a digital agency and it's been fantastic. I'm a big fan of what both Python and ASP.NET are doing at the moment, and although I have tried Ruby and Node.js I really couldn't see myself wanting to use them for a real project.
To get a bit meta, I'm curious what the HN conversion rate is for blog posts about previous HN conversion rates.