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Actually this raises some interesting questions when you think about how the average person is going to think when they see something like this. First impressions to normal people are that they would be real-time given the instantaneous nature of the internet.

Regardless, it's almost certainly false advertising which as you mentioned is ethically questionable especially since this is supposed to be a 'leader' of citizens.
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Those reviews look fake.

In my experience, the onboarding experience sucked and it crashed every time I used it until I installed it.

"Very cool!! Tons of features. Very fluid. Definitely a step in the right direction by Yahoo!"

Sounds like someone from PR wrote that.
Stop working on side projects and freelancing.

Focus on the three things you are handling right now (don't forget your spouse). Don't learn the hard way about overextending yourself. Handle what's in front of you first. Make yourself acknowledge that now is not a good time for side projects and freelancing. A day job and two young children should take all your time.

New babies trigger a 'nesting' overdrive mode in parents. On top that you're facing turning 30. Take a step back and tell yourself that you are a good parent and provider. A good job and a healthy family is plenty to ask for.

Another good coping method is a notebook. Write down all the ideas and side projects just to get them out of your head. A good time for this is 30min before bed. It helps you stop the spinning gears and get to sleep.
There are 900+ ratings with a 4+ star average. You're saying those are all Yahoos?
I don't want a relationship - I just want a one-night... transaction. If I just want to download the file I'll use a disposable email address just for the principle of the thing, even if it's a company I normally wouldn't mind hearing from.
I actually started getting more done once my daughter was born (well, not at first, after about 8 months or so).

I only had an hour or two when she was asleep in the mornings or evenings when I wasn't, but I was really focused and productive during that time because I knew that was all the project time I would get.

And I totally agree with the other posters. Sleep is super important, you want the time you do have with them to be quality time not grumpy time.
I think you might need to update the "about:" field in your profile. This is the most valuable comment in this thread, despite being almost totally not what the OP was looking for. Frankly, some of the other comments are downright harmful (more carry out?? hire a babysitter?).

I don't even have kids, but thanks for this reminder.
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He's one of us? I wish. We should aspire to be a crowd of Elons.

That goes for the investors reading this too. This is what I tweeted a couple of days ago:

> All the other rich people in the world should be kidnapped and forced to attend a seminar by @ElonMusk on Advanced Zillionairing.

https://twitter.com/flipzagging/status/204847457782345728
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no, it looks for other separators around 'at', so it would only replace ' at ' or '_at_' or '[at]' for example. so matt@xyz.com would be safe.
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Probably not, but how many of those 900+ reviews are from Yahoo's 12,000 employees?
It's much closer to rbenv rather than Bundler. zc.buildout is what is close to bundler.
that's a really good idea.
working in the morning is good for the most people too.
900 is not _that_ big. If we assume that 400 outsiders gave it a 3.5, and 500 yahoos gave it 5 star rating, it adds up to 4.33 average.

And 500 is a tiny fraction of the total number of people at Yahoo.
>> You don't need to be a programmer to think logically.

That's true.

On the other hand, knowing the basics of coding makes it easier to do more even as an end user. Like writing a simple macro in Excel to do something it can't otherwise do.

I see coding as a useful life skill. I know how to do simple things like change a light switch, fix simple leaks, change a tire, hem a pair of pants, make a cheesecake, etc. but I'm not an expert in any of those things, nor do I want to be. Having said that, I also know when a problem is beyond my skill and to let a professional handle it.

There's nothing wrong with coding being one of those skills.
I didn't want to give more ammo to his elitist bullshit, but I wonder what happens if the same schools that make people hate math try teaching them to code.
You're kidding yourself if you think obfuscation is saving you from any spam at this point, and it's just making it harder for legitimate people to contact you. Use a real spam filter and you won't have to bother with fake addresses and obfuscation.

I've been using the same e-mail address since 1999, posting to public mailing lists, signing up for new websites, showing it as a real mailto: link everywhere on my website, and I only get 1 or 2 pieces of spam per day that make it past my spam filter (Postini).
So what? Much of a professional writer's time is spent wrangling with arcane grammatical and thematic constructs which 99% of the literate populace forgot about after high school...but it's still important to spend years teaching people how to read or write.

Everyone (in middle America) gets through at least hih school algebra...but why is mathematical and logical thinking, common to programmers, so rare? Even in the sciences it's considered a specialty to be able to aggregate data and external information, or to delimit one's own data output in a way that's useful beyond a narrative paper.

I think it may just be the case that it's nigh impossible to gain these logical/abstract insights without the practical experience of simple coding. I've tried teaching many people the difference between "8" and (the literal value) 8...it never seems to stick until you write and run a simple piece of code to test it out.
Intelligence/coding go hand in hand.

No matter how smart their arguments are, some coders in this "debate" unintentionally display the subtle insecurity that their special skill is coming to the masses and that fact will ultimately decrease their uniqueness, salary, and apparently...their self esteem.

If one does feel that twinge of jealousy or defensiveness, then perhaps the most progressive solution internally is to grow an identity beyond being just smart and unique and slamming less intelligent people when they try to get a nut in this World.

(Caveat: I'm as guilty as they come)
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During the last bubble, the hot scam was for "private vocational schools" to advertise to recent grads (i.e., fine arts and social sciences majors) to develop tech skills to help them get a job.

The company I was at was looking for cheap labour and hired several of these people who paid a small fortune for a six month "intensive" course. Needless to say, they were all duds looking to cash in on a hot job market.
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"When searching online I find it vaguely insulting that my presumed default state is one of not already knowing what I'm looking for, and furthermore the question I'm asking is the same question everybody else is asking."

Often when I search, I have a keyword in mind, but not necessarily the wording. The autocomplete is great for helping me refine my query. I'm not really sure why Google suggesting common searches would be insulting?
>> I get out of it is the impression that we "hackers" sure think highly of ourselves.

Is it that, or do we take ourselves (and our work) too seriously?
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The earliest days of orbital rocketry were filled with the same kind of spectacular failures, embarrassment of very gifted engineers, and perseverance.
Why does it not make it right? What exactly is wrong with what Apple is doing? Apple can do as it wishes, its the consumers that are voting with their feet/wallets.
You can be an entrepreneur at any point, you can only be a father to these young children once. Relax and enjoy your children, especially whilst they are very young. My kids are 6 & 8 and with school, sport, general tiredness that they get, I now have the time to do side projects and the like. I tried when they were younger but at the cost of some quality time with them - and with my wife.

If you really do have to do something then I found getting up at 5 and having 2 hours before the rest of the house was too awake (my kids sleep in) worked pretty well, but you have to remember to go to bed at a decent time.
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If this is a hobbyist thing, as the letter says, then why not act like hobbyists? ICANN is primarily focused on domain names for profit. It's a business.

Here's how to set up your hobbyist .js TLD. First, run your own mirror copy of the internic root and add an entry for your authoritative .js server. Second, run a recursive server and prime it with your enhanced copy of the internic root. Finally, tell .js fans the IP of your recursive server. Voila, a new TLD for anyone that wants to use it. .js fans that want to use the TLD simply need to change their DNS settings to use your recursive server. The .js fans still get all the same TLD's everyone accepts as "ICANN-approved", plus they get the .js TLD. For those who don't want anything to do with this TLD (and prefer to endorse the ICANN protection racket approach to new gTLD's), this affects nothing. Unless they change their own DNS settings to use your recursive server, they will never see the .js domain. All clean. Zero pollution.
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I have a question. Why is giving up your right to sue even legal? It should (almost) be a human right (or at-least an 'absolute' legal right) simply because giving up a right to sue seems like it opens up companies to do whatever they want without worry of consumer recourse.
That's just not fully true and you know it. You can't drop in a full replacement browser like on Android in iOS. All web rendering still has to be done using the native webkit.
Jeff wants a world where we programmers can make computers perfectly usable without understanding how they work. I don't think this will ever be the case. The abstraction will always leak a little, and people will benefit from having at least some idea of how computers and the programs that run on them work under the hood.

Regardless, in the mean time I would prefer everyone to have as much technical competence as possible, for both our sakes.
At least the companies now will save the small fortune, they'll just point the duds to Codecademy/Udacity/Coursera.

People like the ones you mention will always exist, but they are not Codecademy's responsibility. It's even likely they would find a place where you get a relatively respected diploma instead of a certificate in PDF.
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In this [your] case, it should be just a matter of personal taste.

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We're not worrying, it's just an advice. I think others should learn to code for their own good, not mine. It's the same reason I think they should learn science, politics... And how to cross the road without getting hit by cars. I strongly believe you should learn this things because it would make your own life much better.

If you don't wanna listen to the advice, then don't. We don't really care. If you rather not learn how to cross the road because it's not something you enjoy doing, it's you who is gonna get run over, not me.
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The team goes into the demo fairly stoked. They've worked hard and they're looking forward to showing off their wares.

Unfortunately things go off the rails. People start to rhyme-off all of the what-ifs and what-if-it-could-also-do's. Moderating the ensuing discussion can be difficult. The team gets deflated, feeling like the work they did wasn't as valued as these shiny what ifs, and there's a sense that it's too late in the project to incorporate those anyway.

We're considering going "dark" except to a select few, and widening the audience for "launch", but I'm not sure how successful that will be.

Any suggestions?
There is much nicer discussion of this at acm-queue here: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2209336
I know some mobile app companies will have a few of their own people write reviews. But if someone from the Yahoo Axis team really sent out a mass company-wide email asking for fake reviews like this, someone is bound to cry foul (and forward the email to ATD).
We're way beyond that point. ICANN already allows effectively unlimited TLDs as long as they're three letters or longer. So far, thousands of new TLDs have been applied for.
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You're right. We already have started sliding down the slippery slope. So I guess the question is... Should we dig in our heels, or just ride it and see where it takes us?

It's certainly an interesting question. One I'm not qualified to answer.
There are a lot of aerospace veterans at SpaceX.

I know one senior JPL (Jet Propulsion Lab -- NASA) engineer who went there early on, and another one who went later to work on docking. Making reliable space launches is a practical skill, and there are a lot of procedures that have been learned over decades that are definitely not textbook material. It has to be picked up in apprenticeship fashion.

In their promotional materials on their www site, they used to say that they were located in Southern CA to take advantage of the large pool of aerospace talent here.
Still, it's a feature you can disable. I'd love to be able to disable everything the Like buttons of the world do to unsuspecting visitors, but how?
Ya, your comment sound a lot like what my kid might be saying to me 20 years down the road, if I don't do thing right. I really don't want to sacrifice those precious moment of reading together, playing, etc etc with him.

That is why I try really hard to squeeze out time that wouldn't impact our relationship to work. It is hard but it is something I strive to do.
If the Paranoids or PR found out you're commenting publicly about this and portraying yourself as an official representative, they'd have your ass. Be careful.
"Never attribute to X what can be explained by simple incompetence." :)
It doesn't help that the Axis review page on the app store is the only Google hit for "Garrettt92"[0], especially considering that was one of the first reviews of the app. I'm not sure why an "early adopter" would have such a scant web presence. I would try Axis before writing the review off as fake, but unfortunately "Yahoo! Axis is not available for your operating system".

[0]: https://google.com/webhp?q=Garrettt92
Sure,

it ends up for our application there are a lot of rule based permissions(not every application needs this). and pyramids traversal/acl mechanism works great for this in keeping the rules for permissions separate from your view code. Without it, I would guess that 90% of every view would be asserting permissions under different conditions(repeated and prone to error), but instead with traversal we have a good separation of concerns in this area.

The reason I suggested that we move away from web2py at the time was because we were set on using appengine, and it was very aggravating for me(the only employed dev at the time) to try to do things the "appengine way" through an abstraction layer I didnt understand and it never seemed to be caught up with appengines monthly sdk releases.

We tried the django non-rel and again, you read the appengine docs(which are mostly awesome btw), they say "do it like this" and then you are diving into source code trying to figure out how to trick the abstraction layer into doing what appengines docs would suggest. I also found it annoying that so many supposedly reusable pieces I ended up having to fork and hack in order to get them to do what I wanted. So no value there either.

In the end, to me, the abstraction had no value. And we decided to accept appengine as our platform and use it as it was intended rather than use some layer that promises that if by remote chance we might want to switch to something else, we could(in theory).

Hopefully whoever reads this can understand, I am judging these frameworks based on the criteria of the application I was hired to build. I'm not saying they have no value, they just didn't have any value for us, and when you are trying to get a company off the ground and funded, you don't have the luxury of time or patience. Decisions had to be made quickly, and 24 months later, I'm pretty happy with those decisions. My decisions aren't necessarily the right ones for anyone else.
Exactly. Just because forgotusername values clean non-suggestive UIs doesn't mean everyone else does. If Google is to cater to the majority of their clients which they should, based on just how my non-technical friends and family enjoy Google Instant and auto-completion I'd say they've successfully solved their users' problem.

Not to say all of them. I personally don't make use of either features whatever but at least I can disable both!
Yes, you do modify the code to make the computer run better, and to do things it originally couldn't do.

I do agree that the analogy is not a good one.
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I'm hoping to use Go on a Raspberry Pi (and am currently waiting patiently for it to arrive)... but this bug worries me:
http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=909

Anyone know if it's a dealbreaker? I'm planning on running a webserver on it, so I imagine a GC bug would likely manifest after running long enough.
This whole weird saga has led me to this thought: why are people so concerned with what /other/ people should learn? Why do you care?

It seems like the subtext is that if they know the things we know, they'll think the things we think. If we can just get people to be programmers, they'll see the world the way we see it. Or so the thought goes.
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Only if parties with majority control are willing to sell. (Which can be a lot less than majority ownership --- see Facebook for an example[].) And there have certainly been hints that when (if?) SpaceX actually does an IPO, Elon will try to have similar measures in place, to keep shareholder activists from putting the kibosh on his private Mars program...

[] Facebook has a dual-class share structure, in which class B shares have ten times the voting rights of publicly traded class A. Zuck owns a lot of class B personally, and has proxies on much of the rest, giving him personally majority control. (If the other class B owners sell, the proxies probably go away --- but so does the voting power of the shares, which convert to class A.) The upshot is that Zuck retains personal control pretty much regardless of what anyone else does with their stock.
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>> It's a telltale sign of a bad developer

I'm just guessing, but the site was probably not developed by a technical team, probably some web shop that specializes more on the design/layout/content side and not on the JS side.

So it's likely it's the work of a non-developer than a bad developer. The net result is the same (bad code) but the distinction is that the code was possibly written by someone who wouldn't even be considered a developer.
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If you've ever seen a 2 year old or, worse, a baby boomer playing with an iPad you'd realize we're basically there. At this point Jeff's car analogy is about right. Is it useful to know how your car and computer work under the hood? Yes. Is it necessary? Increasingly less so.
True, that's why we must assume good faith when reading what others write. One will be right more than one is wrong and learn more than one would ever otherwise.

http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/AssumeGoodFaith
I think the point was to be impressed with the example.
Image-based CAPTCHAs are already getting to the point where I can barely make out the letters. I'm guessing half the time and get annoyed when my guess was incorrect. The computers will only get better at solving them; what happens when there's no easy way for a computer to verify that it's talking to a person?
I'm with you.

It still baffles me how anyone could think that this IPO was about anything but making vulgar amounts of money for Facebook.

I guess the label is now more accurate than ever: "...dumb fucks."
And if it went any way towards discouraging even one company from robodialling random numbers, I'm all for it.
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-"Cutting salaries in half => cutting purchasing power in half" - politically unacceptable.

-"Printing money => doubling prices => cutting purchasing power in half" - that's actually OK.

Fuck logic!

What Greece must do is cut "bad" spending and encourage "good" spending. Let me define bad spending: Things like early retirement for dangerous professions like hairdressers, masseurs and trombone players.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/2010-05-18-europeretire1...

"They have to decide for themselves what to do, but they cannot have Swedish expenses and American taxes, that doesn't add up," Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told reporters in 2010.
My point with that last line was that it can just distract from what we should all be working on. For small clients of mine, it's not a successful pitch (spend hours writing a blog, it might help with Google) and can often favour directories and so on.
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Hmmm. How does one automate CSS testing? I guess Javascript may be able to peek into the DOM and check whether things have the correct color, radius of the corners on the boxes, etc., but how can one automatically determine whether layout is correct?
Axis iPad app was mostly well received by the tech media. HN is one of the notable exception. You do realize you sound silly sprouting this conspiracy theory right? If you don't like, don't use it. But that doesn't make whoever disagrees with you a Yahoo employee.