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This whole Facebook IPO has got to be the worst I have ever seen traders whine and the market be irrational. 90+ P/E is okay, but new projections scare you?? Really?? They are projections!! I project I will make 10 billion dollars next year, buy stock in me!

This IPO was perfect from Facebook and intial investors perspective, it shows they priced the IPO to extract maximum value (they didn't lose any value to market traders via a "healthy POP").

Traders obviously placed the wrong bet, boo hoo, suck it up. You can't win on every trade. You think they'd know that by now.

This whole "I bought a sure thing that wasn't and someone else must pick up the tab" mentality is crap and must be stopped. I hope they lose this suit, or at the very most get pennies on the dollar.
While I see the appeal of not having a mobile phone, I'd say that if you never had a smart-phone, you could give it a try before you say it's a bloated cost. It can actually improve your life in many ways and on my side it's definitely worth the cost even if I don't call anyone that often. I'd be even glad to own a smart-... thing. It doesn't have to have a phone function.

I do appreciate having a map with me, being able to transfer money wherever I am, take a photo without carrying a full camera, read a book on a plane without adding the weight to the luggage, have some music available when I'm bored, not having to print tickets when possible, having all my notes/calendar without carrying an actual notebook, and a number of other things that simply improve my life without any downsides.
See also: http://altjs.org/
This project has an interesting approach for fostering entrepreneurship. I'm looking forward to seeing the result!
A month or so ago, I shopped on Craigslist for a used 42"-ish TV. As the article states, people wanted way too much for them and didn't state specific model numbers. I ended up buying a low-end new TV with some stacked-up promotions as suggested by a Slickdeals.net commenter.
Do pilots think about crashing?
To setup 2 factor auth, you have to give them a phone number that you can receive a call or sms on, I believe.
For a comment in a community that encourages discussion, information sharing and constructive criticism, yours is an astoundingly bad comment. Why is it bad? How would they make it better? "X sucks" comments are not useful, and you can't expect everyone to know what you're thinking of.
True - s/RDBMS/DBMS/g
Jury: Google did not infringe Oracle patents with Android
I disagree. The amount of people they'd have to hire to support that 1% of their users could make the service untenable as free to the rest of us.

In my opinion, the thing done wrong was offering support through unofficial channels. It sets the wrong expectations and perpetuates the notion that if you know the right people, you'll get the support that others can't, and honestly don't deserve.

If I give rakes out to 100 people, should I have to hire staff to fix the ones that break? No. I gave them something for free. If they don't like it, they can go somewhere else. If they buy a rake, then they'll get a warranty, and be entitled to speak to a human about it.

To your point directly though, it IS an excuse to provide shitty service, if they did that. As you said, it's beautiful and perfect for more than 99% of their customers.
NB: there are for-profit companies who have a corporate charter to create a net social benefit. They're called benefit corporations:
http://www.bcorporation.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation

Non-profits also frequently serve this role.

There's a bit of confounding of this given the rise in popularity of what's called "Cause Marketing". Socially beneficial activities undertaken by (generally) traditional for-profits. Often seen as a marketing benefit. Not bad of itself, but it's helpful to remind companies that token measures don't absolve other actions.

It's fair to say that many traditional for-profits don't. Inclusive of social networking for-profits.
Okay, so the starting point is the biggest issue, making a value that should be 43.75% of another look like 25%. I would also question use of a bar chart with labelling such that only one of the three values can be read out easily. Perhaps astounding is a bit strong but between the misrepresentation and having to read two of the three values from the text following it doesn't add a whole lot.
Can you even pay for gmail?

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Logging-In-en/brow...
Douglas Crockford said in one of his talk on Javascript (www.yuiblog.com/crockford/) that the syntax came from Fortran. And indeed it's because assembly did the fall through thing...
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It's not unprecedented for tax liabilities to be waived in extreme circumstances, but just not understanding what was going on isn't an extreme circumstance.

A lot of people got screwed badly by this during the dot-com boom/bust, and it did lead to changes in how startups grant ordinary employees equity.

If you're ever in the situation of being given stock or options and you're not 100% sure of the implications, TALK TO AN ACCOUNTANT IMMEDIATELY.
Disclaimer: My company also does web performance analytics.

I did a talk a couple of years ago on the statistics of web performance where I cover things like median, arithmetic mean, geometric mean, margin of error and sample sizes to carry out proper data analysis. Slides available here: http://www.slideshare.net/bluesmoon/index-3441823

To zashapiro's point about Geometric Mean... while it tends to be superior in the ideal case where the distribution is perfectly Log-normal, on average, most distributions tend to sway from a perfect log-normal. The median gives you a slightly better measure of central tendency in this case.

Secondly, there's the problem with user perception of geometric standard deviation (and consequently margin of error). Unlike arithmetic standard deviation which is +-, the geometric standard deviation is */, which means it's not visually symmetric... humans have an easier time visualizing additive symmetry than they do with multiplicative symmetry.

At LogNormal.com, we track the median, arithmetic mean, geometric mean a whole bunch of percentiles and margins of error and a complete distribution curve.
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Complete Google win on patent infringement claims by Oracle. No infringement
Court on Oracle vs. Google: No patent infringement
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The "Ubiquitous Language" is the label I've seen applied to the idea you're describing. For example: http://martinfowler.com/bliki/UbiquitousLanguage.html

This idea of having an ubiquitous domain language and keeping applications and APIs RESTful have been two of the most beneficial ideas I've incorporated into my development in recent years.
It amazes me how many people will list something for sale on Craigslist without publishing obvious facts like model numbers. There's an upside if you a buyer who compares your price for the used item with the price for a new-but-superior item. However, the downside risk of wasting your time with people who walk away once learning the details of the item seems to outweigh this benefit.

Perhaps the greatest downside is that people like me will determine that the person selling the item is an idiot and apply a discount factor for the risk of even dealing with them.
Verdict for Google in Oracle's patent infringement case
That's part of it, but people also used to make a lot less stuff. The half life of a dresser made in 1850 might be ~50 years, but they did not make a lot of them.

PS: It's hard to know, but I have heard it suggested that something like 10% of all dressers made in 1850 are probably still around somewhere.
The Facebook IPO: Shareholders Weren't Invited to the Real Party
I think we've all been there. I did the same thing a couple of years ago when I first graduated. I took the first job I could (which was terrible and I ended up leaving after 6 months).

I personally would never work anywhere that did this. I have a ton of personal side projects that I don't want to give up.

I can't wait until this sort of practice is gone for good (requiring that all of the employee's work is the property of the employer..even if it's outside of work).

I would find another job. But, don't quit and then look. Find one while you are working. I find I have much more confidence when I'm in this position. Probably because I'm not desperate.
I'm not sure what you mean by "The check cannot be made at compile time, only at run time". Are you talking about a language other than Go? Go is statically typed.

edit: I've been talking about compile time errors that prevent potentially dangerous implicit casts from happening. I think you're talking about something else.
No, Idan's point was incredibly valid and I'm glad that the creator cared enough to make efforts to fix it.
I am very interested to see what students can do together while they are surrounded by the Silicon Valley environment.
Any thought? Do you think they will really live the SV experience?
That would generally be some variety of fraud. You can sue for damages, and there are tax laws and regulations dealing with losses due to bad acts like that.
Start looking for a new job discreetly. If you need extra money and they're not willing to give you a raise or let you work on a side project, it's definitely time to move on. It's understandable if they don't want you to take contract work, but banning side projects is a bit extreme. I'm not familiar with the job market in London, but companies are definitely hiring PHP developers.

Not sure if you're familiar, but there's a "Who is Hiring?" post at the beginning of every month[1] which you should definitely take a look at. Keep an eye out for remote jobs, too.

How experienced are you?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
Point taken.

As I spend most of my time in SQL, and have come to find a comfortable language to use, I can still understand why fixed schemas give developers headaches - especially when schema migrations in MySQL can result in extra work to minimize downtime.

I mention MySQL specifically, because most of the RDBMS -> NoSQL cases I see came from MySQL users. Coming from MSSQL, and now PostreSQL, it seems as though NoSQL is partially a NoMySQL sentiment.
Or just write your code so you don't need to convert types. I think that's entirely doable, with the possible exception of API boundaries, and removes the need to have complicated and confusing rules about allowed conversions.

And yes, as far as different unit types, you just pointed out exactly what I was getting at. It's relatively rare that you want implicit type conversions.
No, it's not administrator by default. The first user created is an administrator, but that user normally runs in a standard user security context. The prompt provides a temporary elevation to administrator level by use of an administrative security token associated with the account. The prompt also runs in a separate desktop to prevent malicious code from interfering with it.

If you try creating a new user through the control panel, you'll notice that the default selection is to create a standard user.
American tax dollars benefit Israel so I suppose it evens out. (meant as a joke and not flamebait)
Doesn't Amazon already have a marketplace for used items? I've used it in fact, works pretty great.
And for all things not Google, check out http://www.duosecurity.com/. Completely painless to set up on my box at home.
Out of curiosity, is it enough to make the account unusable? Do you have to set up strong filters?
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Would bulk be a factor here?

As the size of the consumable increases so does it's shipping cost and difficulty. Which in turn might imply that fewer people would buy a TV online, than say a piece of clothing or a DVD. This is turn would force consumers to overpay for their TVs, not many high street shops can compete on price. This inflated price is in turn passed on to the 2nd hand buyer when the original purcahser experiences regret for the high price they paid.

Then again, I could be completely wrong.
Well, you can have bad things happen even more easily in Smalltalk, but enough of the library is well behaved that it's workable in development, especially since you can save the image periodically and you have a transactional log for even what you do after your last save.

To make Light Table work, you don't need 100% perfect semantics. You just need 99% good semantics, plus some way of turning off automatic refresh and refreshing manually.
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I think a lot of the noise around the FB IPO is just a bunch of drama. People just love seeing others fail, especially juggernauts like Facebook.

If you own the stock, root for it to climb high.
If you're shorting, root for it to go down.
Otherwise, focus on yourself, your dreams, your salvation, etc.
If int64 is the default type for int, then any int will be able to contain values not representable as a float64 (you'd need a float80 or float128 to make it work). To safely convert, a run-time check will be needed.
This is not object-oriented at all, unless you learned about object-orientation from Java and its monster frameworks, this is basically a form of data-flow programming. OO is about message passing, here the "objects" do not pass any messages at all, the supposed "objects" _are_ the messages, and the routing of those messages takes place in the configuration in routes.rb, so the objects do almost no message-passing between themselves at all! It is ironic to see this advertised as "better OOP practices for rails apps".

Having said this, I respect the attempt, the problem it tries to solve certainly does exist to some extent, and the solution cannot be completely dismissed very easily.

But please, please, do learn both A) basic history and B) basic theory of the field you are working in. If you try to reinvent everything you decrease your chances of contributing something new manyfold.
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html

Also, I don't know anything about this, since I've never used it, but in looking at my account options on the 'Help' page, they have a "Prioritized Phone Support" that it seems you can pay for: http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
> You can treat it as a black box, of course: even to this day, for lots of people, Java on the web just plain doesn't work. But I think you're asking why it doesn't work, and that's much more subtle. You know who would be an interesting person to ask? An advertiser. You see flash ads, you see JS ads, you see flat image ads -- but you never see Java ads.

Well, to begin with, a typical Java applet take around 30 seconds to one minute just to load and start execution, usually suspending the whole page. There's nothing more annoying on the Internet for me than encountering an unexpected embedded Java applet. Hitting "back" and killing the Java process is almost subconscious reaction to me now. Java Web Start was actually something nice and I used it to launch programs and play games written in Java. It at least asks before hunging your browser up.

And then again, Java applets are consistently ugly. Maybe it has something to do with default GUI libraries, which look bad and break UI conventions. Only today I had to deal with a Java program that reinvented tree view, so that you couldn't rename elements without killing and reinserting them.

So yeah. Execution sucked then and still does now.
Heh, this is a $20 dumbphone from AT&T (Huawei U2800A). It is probably a hardware feature, PC RTC wakeup style. Not sure if the various appphones can wake up at a time, though there ought to be apps or settings to shut down at a time.
Correct, but that's not true for many elements of {int8,uint8,int16,uint16,int32,uint32} * {float32,float64}
"The Human Mind Cannot Comprehend How Quickly Prices Fall"

heh, i thought this immediately after reading the intro.

the problem stems from the fact that the LCD market is still not at an equilibrium despite the apparent proliferation of large, flat displays. once it becomes a commodity, the prices will level off for each screen size and there will be much less variance and fluctuation in prices over time and much more predictable depreciation rates.
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Neither, for that matter, do publicly held corporations. Any caring about the end-user is a side effect of the primary mission of maximizing shareholder value.

Note that it's easy to come up with examples where unions, too, will fight for the end user. See, for instance, teachers' unions fighting for increased educational funding and smaller class sizes, or nurses' unions pushing for universal health care.
Get real! ;)

I can just imagine promotional tweets gone wrong, e.g.:

"Get your tickets to Blind Guardian concert! Only 500 left!"
Is a flat panel HDTV worth $300 more than an "old" TV? Sensible people can answer "no" to that.
I've heard this speech being referred to as the "I have a nightmare" speech of tech.
It's interesting - on the Dutch eBay site (Marktplaats, has a craiglist type model), there actually really is a price point /alternate economy for most types of goods. The great deals are when people don't know what they're selling, but most sellers will either have a idea of what they think it's worth (too high) or will look at other listings and come to a similar price. It especially works on items like phones which have a relatively high supply.
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Here's the David Foster Wallace speech he recommends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8 .
I think the popularity of CoffeeScript is a datapoint against your idea. I bet a lot of pythonistas use it because it's less of a shift than Javascript. Also, in such a system, if people are curious enough, they will learn the native implementation language as a result of the system being so constructed.
"10gen do not provide official benchmarks because they tend to be irrelevant to real world usage."

Anybody else thing this sentence is silly? I definitely do not base my judgement on a tool off its artificial benchmarks but I do check them to see if an upgrade is worth it or not. Irrelevant or not, please publish them.

I'm a mongo user(for offline analytics) so any improvement in performance will be good.
Which is why I provide my Google Voice number for this purpose. Works perfectly!
So it's not broken, only broken by default. Because having to add three lines of command line flags to get sane behavior doesn't seem like a good default to me.
Can you actually explain what Zuckerburg did? I'm quite interested.
It seems to depend on where you live; I am used to Goodwills that sell most everything for a few dollars. I moved, and I went to the nearby Goodwill for a lamp. I couldn't find one for less than $20, and they were mostly broken too.
With Gmail, j.s.m.i.t.h@gmail.com is the same address as jsmith@gmail.com as j.smith+nospam@gmail.com - it's likely that someone's mistyping their own email address all over the Internet (this happens to me all the time, having a common first name/last name combo. I get bills and newsletters and etc. Never got an underwear pic, though, alas!).

Good thing to remember this when writing a system that compares email addresses--always normalize Gmail addresses on the backend before processing--but woe betide you if you normalize on the frontend, people love their dots!
Thank you - I don't disagree with you, honestly though, the overhead of trying to manage those separate entities will quickly outstrip the time and ability the volunteers who are evaluating and managing this process have.

If a given company feels it is lacking in any single area, I encourage them to include other specialists in that area as part of their bid - for example, if they're awesome back end designers, but can not do front-end design, I would expect them to find a trusted designer to work with them as part of the bid.

Even though this effort is funded, the management of it, the evaluation of the designs/etc is all volunteer based. We can not chase multiple contractors :(

That said, the design people/firms I spoke to about this seemed to understand this and stated they would do as I outlined above.
Taken in the aggregate, the findings are probably true. However, some particular models can command a high resale value because they have particularly unique features. My Samsung TV, for example, is one of the few models made that has an antiglare screen.

To my knowledge Samsung no longer manufactures flat-panel HD sets with antiglare screens, so I would expect to sell it at a premium.
While your last two paragraphs are true, it's not clear they apply to this case. What is clear is that some folks have some very wishful thinking with regard to Facebook, the company. Ask yourself why.

No matter what you may think of FB, it is going to come down to the actions of the FB execs. If they knowingly tried to mislead common investors, then common investors are certainly not to blame.

Meanwhile, the FB stock is becoming a pariah.

So even if they have some valid reason for changing their estimates days before the IPO, and they can explain why the insiders were the only ones who seemed to get the message, it may be a moot point. Because they have spooked investors.

And it's a stretch to try to blame investors for being spooked.

The victim here is actually FB.

The end of FB, and its replacement with a private and optimised means of sharing that _you_ control, is the beginning of a better web.

It may not be Diaspora. There is still lots of time for this to play out.
Sphinx is a project of it's own.
disabling the use of #get as a hashtag is still better than disabling its use as an english word
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Kudos to the jury. They put a lot of effort into understanding the issue at hand. Based on courtroom reporting, the jury paid attention and they asked clarifying questions while deliberating to make sure they understood. Software patents are a mess. Oracle's arguments were terrible from a CS standpoint (and their expert should be embarrassed).

I believe the only issue still on the table is API copyrightability which Judge Aslup will rule on as a matter of law. The jury found for Oracle in that instance because the jury instructions essentially mandated it. I expect Aslup will rule for Google on that claim as well.

Oracle's current claim for money is literally for 9 lines of code called rangeCheck (which anyone in a high school intro to java class could write), and 8 test files copied by a subcontractor and never distributed to end users.

A certain Oracle paid blogger will still manage to post how Oracle basically got everything it wanted.
You attach yourself to acquaintances, close and distant friends, and family members. You end up lumping together people who you do truly value with the noise of people who don't truly matter to you. Does that mean the latter aren't important enough to warrant the friend request or their status updates? Of course not, but now you have this mush of information where no one stands out. You can go through the tedious process of creating groups, but you have to continue to maintain it throughout the life of your account. G+'s circles are truly no better, despite their efforts to try to sell it as such.

The dumbing-down part is in relation to the rampant spread of misinformation/fear-mongering at the click of a button (KONY, et al) and the he-said she-said drama that goes on and is exaggerated by outside commenters who wouldn't have otherwise been a part of the dirty laundry.
Go read the tax code. The magic section you're looking for is Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT).