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Hey GM, your FB ads don't work because no one wants to buy your cars. $45k for an 'electric' car that goes 15 miles on electricity, nice product.
How are you communicating with each other now (when not in person, obviously)? SMS? Is there a 'broadcast' type mechanism you're [perhaps also] using for group messages, party invites etc?
I know. I went back to edit that but it was too late. I meant to say "raises the question" but fell into an all-too-common trap. This is easy to do in English if you are not on your toes because the word "question" has two meanings and "beg", in my opinion, makes it even more confusing. In other languages, for example, Spanish, the equivalent phrase is not ambiguous at all: petición de principio

I actually studied Logic in Spanish while my family was living abroad. Sometimes that does a number with my brain because I actually think about the fallacies in Spanish!

Thanks for pointing that out.
Maybe not if you're a very poor typist, I suppose, but most developers I've met are at least marginally competent typists.
It's fascinating to me that nobody has commented on the last few sentences of the article. To me this is where the real juice lies:

> A more likely outcome is that Facebook uses their assets – a vast number of extremely engaged users, it’s social graph, Facebook Connect –to monetize through another business model. If they do that, the company is probably worth a lot more than the expected $100B IPO valuation. If they don’t, it’s probably worth a lot less.

So long Facebook is a "nice-to-have" business models around paying for access or privacy are dead on arrival, users will just leave or go elsewhere. However if Facebook becomes a "must-have" in order to participate in society, then people will do whatever it takes. If Facebook is becoming an infrastructure provider then they have every incentive to encourage a rich ecosystem and businesses will pay for access, even consumers perhaps might. The comparison that comes back to me is the early phone system from 100 years ago. It was a "nice-to-have" to have a phone number. But phone companies invested in infrastructure and interoperability and lots of third party applications emerged that got deeply embedded into societal life. Thereby the telephone became a "must-have". Facebook today seems to have a similar opportunity in front of it. If they realize and leverage it, it could be huge.
Yeah, but off of overpriced ad revenue with relatively low profit to the purchasers. It's very likely because of how popular and new Facebook is that companies are trying to figure out whether they can use it effectively. But the novelty factor won't last forever.
NCSU has a currently-operating PULSTAR reactor on campus. I walk by the building multiple times per day when classes are in session. http://www.ne.ncsu.edu/nrp/index.html

One of these days, I need to see if I can get inside and take a look around.
We looked around at many hosting providers who are sponsoring companies from incubators like YC, TechStars, 500, etc.

Then we approached and connected with RackSpace and SoftLayer (through LinkedIn). We explained our concept and got sponsored from SoftLayer. We will approach RackSpace with details too.
I'd just ask someone who wants to become a programmer what they're going to do with all of the code they've learned since programming is a lot like playing with anti-gravity blocks. The possibilities are nearly endless and only limited by the programmer's imagination. Overall, whatever programs someone crafts will likely mirror their own personality.
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But buying a ticket on the band’s Web site has its own added cost: $12 to mail tickets by United Parcel Service, with no other delivery option offered. [snip] There was simply no way around that fee, Mr. Luba said.

That seems like a very high price for shipping a piece of paper. I'm certain USPS will do it for significantly less, with insurance and delivery confirmation. I wonder why that isn't a viable option in this case.
Even if it took 1 engineer 2 days to program rangeCheck, it doesn't mean Android would have been delayed by 2 days, since development of this magnitute is done in parallel.
Shout out to the dev teams who create buggy services that crash all the time. You keep the server teams employed.
Can I ask why this got downvoted?

I'd think there are some discussion-worthy points here. For instance, I'm not proud of it but at a former employer I talked them out of load testing an app, which then had serious scaling issues. I learned my lesson the hard way.
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It's odd to me too. They had a great deal of pre-order information, something that most other server teams that face crazy launches don't ever have. I would guess that they could at least estimate the load to an order of magnitude. The fact that single player can't even be accessed is absurd, something that your comment on sharding hits on. The server teams at Blizzard should also have had some experience with this in their WoW trials and errors.
You probably created your domain and application through the web interface. This is an issue we are working through now - sorry we haven't gotten to it yet - it will be fixed in the next couple of sprints. The problem is that your SSH env has not been set up to work with the RHC tools yet. They expect a configure file in the .ssh directory to specify which key talks to the *.rhcloud.com domain. This KB article may help you get started:
https://openshift.redhat.com/community/kb/kb-e1034-ssh-facts...
Again, my apologies and we are actively working on that story right now.
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C-Sound and Pure-data may also be able to do this if you spend enough time learning their ins and outs.
I think it's because they load Twiiter/Google Analytics/Flattr with HTTP instead of HTTPS.
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At one of the first computer conferences I went to(HAL2001) there was a talk on "wetware hacking". The guy giving the talk was a neuroscientist I believe and he was literally begging the programmers in attendance to give his field a try since they had so many programable tasks and no one able or willing to do them. Unfortunately he fell short of giving advice on paths into the field if you aren't already in academia.

The problems these people are solving though are definitely things that myself and a lot of my friends would find interesting problemsets. I think its just a matter of making it accessible.
If we are to actually _read_ his comment, because of precedents like AOL.
I've noticed a huge drop within in my friends' activity on Facebook. I have exactly 100 "friends". The vast majority of which are college acquaintances who graduated in 2010

The bulk of my news feed is the same 4-5 people. I was shocked to find that when I checked in yesterday 6 "friends" had deactivated their account within the last 2 weeks. I have vastly scaled back my own activity to only checking in once a week. I have less than 5 status/stories in the last year. When I look on my friends' walls/timelines, I see the same amount of activity. This same group of friends would generate that amount of activity in a week. With the better privacy controls, most friends including myself don't share tagged photos anymore.

The only thing I still see Facebook being used for in my circle is chat with Google Chat just as popular.

Will Facebook continue to grow for the next few years? Yes, it will grow outside the U.S.
Will Facebook continue to grow in the U.S.? No, the "cool" factor is gone. I think it has already peaked.
Will Facebook stock go up after IPO? Yep
Is it the next AOL? I believe so.
I got this plan last November. As of last November, it required a SIM from either, get this, Walmart, or 1-800-TMobile. You can't use a SIM from a T-Mo retail store. You can't buy a SIM from Walmart, but you can buy a $20 T-Mo phone and use the SIM from that. But don't activate it, until it's in your smartphone. Or you can get the SIM for $5 from 1-800-TMobile.

Also, check out the plans details closely. They don't mention it, and the 1-800-T-Mobile CSRs won't tell you, or don't know, but you can't tether on this plan, at least, not if you're using the Samsung Galaxy SII and probably not with any/most Tmo phones (unless you decide to root the phone and disable/uninstall/freeze the TetheringManager app.)

Actually what I like is that my bills are even less than $30 per month. Because I am often, many weeks, almost entirely in a heavy wifi environment, I just don't prepay the next 30 days until I really know I need a GSM phone service. Most days I use either GrooveIP, or CSIP to make calls over wifi. If I am not in a wifi area for a few hours, calls go to google voice. AND if I know where I am driving to, I can even use Google Maps when I am not in a wifi zone by precaching the map data in Google Maps. (And even if I don't have prepaid GSM minutes, 911 will still work.)

If you don't pay for the phone number at least once every 90 days, they recycle the number.

For the past seven months, my T-Mobile charges have been $60.00. Not each month. Total.
The idea behind a liberal education isn't to get students to believe that they can understand a topic because they "went over the fundamentals for a few weeks in college". It's to get them to be able to rationally discuss the topic with someone who is an expert.

My wife tells a story about a business class she took in undergrad. It was about markets and investing for non-business majors. The professor started out very clearly by explaining that the class was not going to make them financial geniuses - that it would not make them all millionaires. But, that it would help them make better decision so they could understand what the recommendations of their financial planners.

In undergrad, I took a course on the "international political economy" (on of my favorites too - Thanks Dr. Katz). Now, I don't think that means I'd be equipped to negotiate a treaty, but it does help me follow international events with a bit more context.

Do you think we should get rid of Wikipedia, so people don't spend a few hours reading about topics, lest they start to think they are experts?
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The jury was not present for this exchange, since it was a motion. I think reduces the danger considerably, but I'm not a lawyer.
I haven't heard anyone with volume saying fb ads work.
I was using Cuban as an example because the book cover visible on the article is so jock-ish. In the above Cuban is supposed to represent that business-successful jock archetype.
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Small research reactors are not uncommon at large companies and universities. Even Reed college has one, which I visited last year when I was traveling through Portland. "Tested" recently visited it too

http://www.tested.com/videos/44278-will-and-norm-visit-the-r...

Such reactors were typically fueled with HEU (Reed exchanged their HEU fuel for LEU only a few years ago).

And no reactor is secret -- all civilian reactors in the United States are registered with the NRC and you can look them up on the NRC website (and wikipedia).

Gizmodo may have degraded the story, but the original source (local paper) wasn't much better. I'm afraid it's just another hack story about fission by a hack journalist who couldn't be bothered to do the most basic web search on what he was reporting.
Ugh. The feature has no purpose besides notifying people you're ignoring or haven't yet gotten around to. Not to mention that it's way too close to OKCupid's design where you can see visitors; I'd like to browse with some semblance of privacy.
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Since you've been downvoted (not by me), I'll ask for a citation, for interest and so that you can redeem your post.
As long as they were clearly marked as Ads and small text-based ads, then yes.

I'd like to see sponsored pages.
Working on it myself, after having read what the code does and being committed to re-implementing it myself, it took me 3.5 minutes and there were 2 bugs. (I needed to look at the original code again to determine that to == length and to == from were both allowed -- those were the bugs.)

A set of tests took me about 6 minutes.
yes. you are correct. fair use is something else.
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> If by fad you mean it has made its creators richer than god

are you implying that 'fads' can't be extremely profitable?

maybe the term "fad" gives it a different connotation, but people get rich off of economic bubbles all the time, and I would assume those can be classified as 'fads' as well...
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What I expected was for Microsoft to react as quickly to the iPhone as they did to Netscape. They didn't. Google did that however, and today Android has a chance at getting the 80% market share that Ballmer talked about when he laughed about the iPhone and said that he was pretty happy with their efforts in the mobile industry (Windows Mobile).

Not seeing what they were up against with the iPhone was not "executing correcly", it was incompetence. The same kind of incompetence that is killing Nokia today.

In order to dominate the mobile space now, Microsoft has to not just make something comparable to iOS and Android, they have to out-innovate them.
They should make a stripped down, Windows-based feature phone. Something simple, like Nokia used to be famous for, solid and simple.

They could even partner with Nokia ...
Excel can be an amazing tool when automated. I am amazed that more companies don't train their employees on task automation (Excel or not).

A few years ago I had a situation while working on a circuit board design. The board used huge FPGA's with over a thousand pins each. Creating and managing the schematic and PCB symbols for these chips took days of agonizing work. I finally had enough and wrote a tool that used Excel for data entry and editing. After about a month of work we could take an FPGA from data sheet to EDA files inside of 30 minutes. The tool most-definitely paid for itself many times over as it saw use over several years.

That's the one thing that is outstanding about MS Office: The ability to automate across tools is fantastic.
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All I know is I went to the HN homepage and I found some linkbait article by Jeff Atwood that was contrary to the other article I saw on the front page. Typical Bullshit.
You're focused entirely on the consumer space, completely missing one of Dustin's big points. Where is Microsoft still doing big business? The Business Division, which is not only Office products like Word and Excel, but also SharePoint. They do huge business with SQL Server and Exchange, and products like Lync and Forefront are still growing. --Consumers could care less about those products, but obviously businesses have chosen to continue investing in them.

Comparing Microsoft and Apple is silly. Microsoft is still primarily a software and services company while Apple has always been a hardware company - the only reason they're in software at all is to help sell their hardware.
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Different syntax/symbols, different levels of power, yep, pretty much the same deal. Different levels of math are, in a practical sense, different degrees of the same thing. There are different kinds of math and there are different kinds of programming/automation, sure, but it mostly feels like "this is harder/easier/more intense".

"Automation" may well be a good bait word for luring in unsuspecting non-nerds, but it's still lightweight programming, a subset. I think at this point we're in agreement.
I also haven't found a way to turn it off.
This is a very slippery slope for FB, I feel. No real way to hide from those you want to ignore now.

Next up: Let you see who is searching for you / browsed your photo albums / etc.. ???

Very "badoo-esque" I think- Not that its a bad thing, it just feels out of place here. FB is not a dating site.
In Java, no. In other languages, yes.

sub rangeCheck {
my ($len, $from, $to) = @_;
if (($from > $to) || ($from < 0) || ($to > $len)) {
die "Illegal index $len ($from / $to)";
}
}

Java, as usual, makes a big hairy deal out of it. If the lack of types bothers you it's trivial in Haskell too. (Though trying to be idiomatic would lead you down a very different road. Perl is more similar to Java than Haskell, even as they are all very distant from each other.)

As it happens I've recently written somewhat similar code in Perl where I want to explicitly deal with out-of-range accesses (in a way other than silently receiving undefs) in a particular case, so this isn't even that odd.
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Isn't the messaging xmpp based? Does my xmpp client tell fb that I read a message? I understand this can work on the web where fb has full control.
Before AOL there was Compuserve and Delphi. They were all eventually forced to open up their walled gardens.

Facebook is trying to be the middleman in its user's online experience, and we all know what the internet does to middlemen.
Orkut used to list the people who checked out your profile. Even they scrapped it long ago.
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A realistic game plan would be for Microsoft to immediately recognize iPhone as a threat and immediately start improving or rewriting WM6, just like Google did with Android.

Remember, Android looked more or less like WM6 and Symbian before the iPhone was introduced, and you can hardly call Android a failure today. Basically, Android is exactly where Microsoft would have loved to be with WP7, but it's pretty much not going to happen now unless they pull a bunny out of a hat with WP8.
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If you're roaming around on Facebook's turf, you should probably keep your privacy expectations low.
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IMO, this isn't a big deal? Don't most mobile messaging apps do this, like BBM, Kik, etc etc.?
I guess it depends whether the oft-cited Dunning Kruger is linear. i.e. does a little knowledge of a subject allow you to understand how incomplete your knowledge is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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There's the email hack where you can insert an image and check the server logs later to see if (and how many times) it was viewed. Its a hack, and not a feature, for a reason. :\
Yes, FB messaging is XMPP, and whether your client tells fb or not obviously depends on your client, specifically whether it implements XEP-0184 (still in draft) or not:

http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0184.html
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The question then becomes, how big a chunk of the general public cares about a phone "now messed with by your carrier, no bloatware, no extra skins" etc.?

I think that most people who understand what that means would want it, but how many are really savvy enough understand?
Admittedly, and I avoid it as much as possible. But while pretty much everyone assumes that anything they do online will be public, they don't assume that anywhere they go will be public too. Passive browsing has a very strong expectation of privacy and if you dismantle that without strong warnings ahead of time, some people are going to get burned badly.
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I have been doing paid advertising with a few million dollars budget, with a strong conversion focus mostly on google, social web sites and content web sites. Social web sites have low relevance, low CTR for most purposes. However they are an ocean of impressions. Facebook has a chance to replace the advertorial parts of cheap TV non-prime time. If you use it properly you may get conversions though a bit lower quality than search and content.

So Facebook has the following positive attributes; huge number of impressions or minutes spent, good demographic targeting. And finally yes, if they launched a search engine that made sense, they may increase their value to advertizers. But I don't know how.
If you have it all on your website, all you need to do is to get the right person to view it. Instead of sending traditional resume through the website / board, I would suggest to do some research about the company, find the right person and email them directly with a link.

Here's an idea for getting their attention (worked for me) - I found the right person's name, bought an AdWords campaign with his name as the keywords. And then emailed him just one sentence "when was the last time you googled your name"? with a link to google search his name.

A. No one can resist something like that.
B. The ad linked to the unique cover letter (unindexed, so they won't see the other ones:) and that linked to the resume.
C. Total cost was like 5 bucks because he showed it to ~10 people - def. worth it.

The bottom line is - anything that will get the right person's attention would do :)
Here's a way to get around letting Facebook know you've read someone's message:

I'm one of those people who likes the little red notifications showing when I've received a FB message. I don't check FB's messages often, so without that notification, I forget to follow up on FB messages.

My work-around is to have FB send me an email notification whenever someone writes me a message via FB. Then I read that message in my email reader instead of through the FB UI.

I also have all email images turned off for performance and privacy reasons.

It seems to me you could do this too, and avoid having FB inform the sender that you've read their message.
How to differentiate normal tech company and hacker friendly company?

Each of your questions requires a pretty lengthy discussion that can rarely be covered in a forum but I've addressed the above question at length in an old blog post of mine:
http://voltsteve.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/how-to-find-job-for-...

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GBot has been executing Javascript and hitting URLs the Javascript generates, for quite some time. And very likely it also evaluates the page layout as it is influences by Javascript, to detect keyword stuffing hidden by Javascript.
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