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>I've been on FB since the beginning. And I've never clicked on an ad. What makes you think I will to actually buy something?

FB has several billions of revenue from ads.

What makes you think you are not an insignificant outlier and that this move or any other doesn't concern you?

Just think people, if everybody did what I do on FB, would FB still exist? If the answer is no, then what you might or might not do, doesn't matter with regards to FB.
This is the fallacy that's driving this -- the assumption that people have two choices about how to spend their time and energy:

1. "Fun" SO / SE questions.
2. Serious SO /SE questions.

Given this, of course you want to encourage people to choose Option 2 as much as possible.

But there's also...

3. Do something else completely unrelated to SO / SE.
My VISA (chip + PIN) works without any problems for online purchases. Some sites even transfer me to my bank's payment gateway that sends me an SMS with a number in order to be able to pay.

I don't have a credit card. I know a lot of people who does but rarely uses them, debit cards feel more secure than credit cards against theft/fraud (and I'm not really sure if they are, I don't think so).
Why not buying RIM and make a serious move into the smartphone market. Last time I checked RIM's market capitalization is a bit over $5bn and Facebook has tons of money in their pockets after the IPO.
My bank limits me to 8 alphanumeric for online access. It's pretty pathetic.

On the plus side, it's shorter than any of my other common passwords, so I'm not tempted to reuse it. I can say with certainty that my banking password is not in any DB on the tubes save my bank's.
How do you backup and share your personal photos?
Aside from the obvious benefits, even just streaming certain responses can be useful when your app lives on the Heroku cedar stack and you want to keep connections alive for longer than the default 30 seconds. I put this to use (albeit with an older Rails technique) for processing credit cards. Long description of it here: http://icelab.com.au/articles/money-stress-and-the-cloud/
There are reasons for and against pursuing this particular niche, but I think Boris is really onto something. Selling ads is a safe bet, but FB really could wager a billion dollar fee to enter a new market. There must be markets where entering the field with a billion signed up users and a billion in capital will work, even if this isn't the perfect example.
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That's a snarky comment, but you're dodging: what I'm talking about is legal immigration. America has a much higher rate of legal immigration than pretty much all of Europe. Canada is one of the few first world nations with a higher immigration rate. When you legally immigrate to America, you're treated as a citizen. We've had a lot of illegal immigration over the last 20 years as well, but the odds strongly favor that those illegal immigrants will be naturalized into citizenship over time, it's very likely the Democrats will achieve that outcome.

And if you want to talk about shadow immigration, or people that fall through the cracks, Europe has plenty of that. You must know that. Take a look at the African immigration in France and Spain over the last 20 years, and then look at how many are under the radar. Europe also gets a massive amount of abuse from immigrants that leech off the social systems and never work and contribute properly, which is helping to make the looming EU bankruptcy even worse, which is amping up the rapidly rising xenophobia currently going on Europe, such that the Nazi Party is rising in Greece, and the extreme right is gaining in many nations.

The whoohoo on your fat comment certainly betrays to the flippant nature of it. 26% to 27% of people in the UK are obese, in America it's about 33%. Australia and New Zealand is around 24% to 25%. Chile is 25%. Ireland is 23% to 24%. Canada is 25% obese as well. Mexico is about the same as America on obesity. Clearly the problem is greatest in America, but it's hardly alone in the obesity problem.

If you've ever read the book, The China Study, you obviously understand why these countries have such obesity and higher cancer rates that, for example, China has traditionally avoided. However, now China is gradually switching to a killer western diet, particularly among the affluent, and they're seeing skyrocketing obesity and heart disease rates.

You're concerned about the police state aspects of America? So am I, I live here, and it's very disturbing. China is a police state almost by definition, but that doesn't seem to concern you at all. And the police state is rising all over the place, take a look at some of the police state actions and laws being passed in Britain where you practically can't step out your front door without showing up on a cctv.
The fact that you don't have to take actual cash out of your pocket to do it makes it a much simpler/less disruptive thing to do, but the outcome is the same: You commit to work for the employer for a set number of years, and forfeit a sum of money if you renege on the commitment.
I recently came across history.js https://github.com/balupton/History.js/ which will use pushState where supported and falls back to hashbangs otherwise. It was overkill for my project, (we were already relying on several other advanced html5 features so most users should have pushState) but it certainly seems useful.
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2. If you change the thing you're testing, you need to restart the test. Otherwise, you'll have a meaningless jumble of results from two separate things.
I solved my wrist pain by doing two things.

1) I switched from a mouse to a trackpad. On my PC I have an old Fingerworks trackpad I got off eBay, and on my Mac I have a Magic Trackpad from Apple. The trackpad allows me to completely relax my hand between my use of the pointer--which is most of the time. When I do move the pointer, and click, I can do it with a single semi-relaxed finger. Whereas a mouse, or even a trackball, required me to hold most of my hand in tension to move or click. On the trackpad I exclusively use tap-to-click...mechanical buttons are bad for fingers and wrists because they require a lot more force.

2) I go kayaking regularly. Gripping and manipulating the paddle gives my wrist and fingers a low-impact workout through a wide range of motion. It helps keep the muscles and tendons healthy. Plus being healthy in general helps improve almost any physical ailment.

Edit to add: With the trackpads I have had to train myself to let my right hand completely relax when I'm not pointing the mouse. When I started trying to pay close attention to my right hand, I realized that I was holding it in tension most of the time even when sitting back--sort of anticipating the next mouse usage. I've had to consciously focus on completely relaxing it whenever I'm not mousing or typing.
Todays codecheckers would complain, that this class (sic) has far too many methods. Please break it up into smaller units ;o).
Since an iStream factory would be two-thirds smaller, it would consume about 60 percent less energy.

This is either a journalist misrepresenting the actual claims, or else the actual claims have no grounding in rigorous analysis.

In a nutshell-- he plas to revolutionize auto manufacturing by making the body in two steps rather than five, using composite materials instead of stamped and welded steel, but the basis of his energy estimates is the size of the building that houses the work? A little hard to take seriously.
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Google failed at implementing Facebook too.
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Well that's not real time in any sense then is it?

"a non-real-time system is one that cannot guarantee a response time in any situation, even if a fast response is the usual result"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing
For the record - Polish PM backed off after few weeks of mass protests in Poland, and said he was wrong, and Poland won't ratificate ACTA.

I still don't like him for his other decisions, and the lies he told about ACTA before he changed his mind, but at least he can say he was wrong.
I think the point being made is that simply having a strong brand and bright engineers does not mean you can solve any problem you try to tackle.
Was not aware of this. Learn something new everyday. Thanks!
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There were also files put out by independent software developers, phone modders, etc. that were distributed only via Megaupload. Tons of digital history went down with MU, not just pirated streams of The Sopranos.
Realy if you want to work for realy smart peopel you go and work at some where like CERN, NASA JPL and other tier 1 RnD organisations - of course for a devloper the pay sucks
Bucardo - multimaster postgres replication under BSD license

http://bucardo.org/wiki/Bucardo
> I’d come out with new versions that I thought dramatically improved the product, only to find my forums filled with complaints from power users who wanted the return of some obscure option, or were upset that I wasn't adding the geeky features they wanted.

Is that the effect of Joel's 80/20 rule?
It's worked well for Walmart (well, okay, aside from the whole "bribing people in Mexico" thing.) But people seem willing, and even eager, to bank with companies they know and trust.

The real problem is regulation. It is so, so much easier to sell ads than to navigate the international financial markets.
That's a nice response to the frustrating "good programmers can create working software in any language/technology - stop complaining about WPF/VB6/Delphi7/CVS" statement.
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Nobody here has mentioned stress.

I suffered from a lot of wrist pain (RSI) for a number of years, tried everything including alternative keyboards and trackball mice.
The only physical 'device' that improved things was getting a proper chair with actual armrests (which I assumed would make things worse by constricting arm movement).

When I read an article mentioning a book called 'The Mind Body Problem' (I didn't actually read the book), the penny dropped.

My mental state of agitation, of needing to 'get shit done' was translating into increased tension in my wrists. Just recognizing this has pretty much solved my RSI problems (going strong for over a year). This explains why some people can work on laptops etc. in the most contorted positions without ever having any adverse physical effects - they are not under any mental stress.

[1] http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Mind-Body-Problem-Rebecca-Go...
You can see why working in the USA and similar devloped economys with more "liberal" employment laws is so popular.
Sporting chiseled side panels that swoosh back from the front wheels like air currents, they exude quickness and agility.

Honestly, "quickness" and "agility" are the last adjectives that come to mind when I look at that picture. Not to mention I don't even think I would fit in that thing. Though I am impressed by the car's supposed 100MPH top speed.

OT: if any businessweek.com web developers read this, giant position:fixed headers are even more annoying than 1990s frames. Especially with the trend toward widescreen displays (not that I actually maximize my browser), taking away vertical space is just... wrong.
You're stance is utterly insane. A person said something people find offensive, so he had to go to jail. What happens when speaking out against corruption in government becomes "offensive"?

There is some danger in letting stupid people say stupid things but the alternative is vastly more dangerous.
Half of your points here are completely crap, and the other half are just outdated or inaccurate. I think you need to take the blinders off your eyes are wake up. Its a fact that China has lifted about 400 million of its own people out of poverty (a fact that even the EU says is probably one of the most remarkable things of the last 30 years)

The life expectancy of the average Chinese citizen has increased by about 3 years since 1990 to 71.4 which is 5 years (or there about)above the world average and 6-7years above the average level in developing countries. The US health care system is a joke in many other countries so you cant say that it comes anywhere as close.

I can say that having friends/family that have lived/worked Europe/UK, China and the US and I would say that the US is probably the very worst place out of the lot when it comes to basic freedoms. When I think of propaganda, no one does it better than the good old US of A.
This is amazingly bad advice, based on all the Greek people I've talked to. The best thing to do as a young, entrepreneurial Greek is to do a startup in another country. Berlin is nearly as inexpensive as Greece, still in the EU, and a viable place for an actual business. Or, Silicon Valley and raising more money more cheaply if that is what you want to do.

Greece is all risk and downside, zero startup culture, no professional services, expensive capital, and not actually terribly cheap.
Its not possible to solve for everyone, the whole of web-communities !

Nerds and Geeks never trust facebook, but their moms and sisters do !
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There is no way facebook has a billion active users. Official numbers are always very optimistic.

For example, a lot of brands and agencies register many,many pages on facebook, and even post content there. And Britney Spears is not really on Facebook, she just has someone have post stuff for her.

I'm sure Facebook is huge. But if they say a billion, it is probably closer to 500m.
You do know the circumstances around the "accusation" right? I mean, it seems to me some people here are willfully ignorant. I despise willful ignorance. Assange hasn't been charged with any crime. If you looked at the actual circumstances, you would find the comparison to Polanski who indeed raped a 13 year old girl, is highly unfair, if not for a lack of word, stupid. Oh, and the sex was consensual according to the women... though because of Swedish legal definitions, it can still technically be called rape.

The tweets of the two women in question expressed ulterior motives for going to the police. They also made tweets that contradict the "rape". Not only that, but the Swedish prosecutor named Assange publicly before having stood trial (and if you're not aware of it, the accused of rape cases is to be anonymous until he has been found guilty... if not, defamation becomes all too easy).

It all smells so fishy, and I have no idea why people on HN don't think highly of him. That they would fall for such an obvious smear campaign, well.. I'm disappointed. WikiLeaks is probably one of the very few journalistic entities that fulfill the important role journalism was intended to have in a democracy. The majority of other news are regurgitated and preprocessed opinions on unimportant events. The bread an circus for the masses, if you will.

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Now that said, the thing I don't understand is why he doesn't willingly go to Sweden to get rid of the bullshit trials (note that it was already called such by the Swedish prosecutor who threw away the case). Perhaps it is based on principle? That the whole extradition is based on no real reason? That the reason provided for the extradition (questioning regarding the case), does not engender confidence, since alternative ways of doing an interview (webcam, etc) were suggested and rejected by the Swedish authorities.
Nice victim blaming, chap.
Credit cards suck for many reasons other than just convenience of use. Credit card companies are big cartels with hefty fees to retailers, slow and unpredictable turnaround between when a payment is made, and when it gets to retailers bank, and infrastructure that's not well suited for micro payments, or peer to peer payments.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_futureofmoney/all/1
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allow your purchases to be automatically shared with your friends.

This is one of the creepiest feature one can get. I already hate these social readers which automatically share what you read (I've stop reading stuff on FB because of that, even if many of them are of my interest). However I'm hoping they would provide some reasonable privacy options with that.
Thanks for answering! Very interesting information.
But this is a NoNoSQL product...
How do you get scam from this paragraph?

"With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding, and cost beneﬁts so far available only in “NoSQL” systems with the usability, familiarity, and transactional guarantees expected from an RDBMS."

If you don't like NoSQL solutions, or they don't fit your project's needs, don't use them. There's no "scam" here.
I agree with most of this article, except, if I was Facebook I would bill via the mobile networks.

Not really viable on the desktop, but certainly on phones.

There's no reason that I can think of why I can't be identified by my own mobile network and either charged at the end of the month or via my airtime.
They don't need to charge him. They can just extradite to USA for questioning at which point on USA soil they can do what they want with him even if it's not questioning.
I read that article after reading your one about the NewRelic trouble. It's a nice technique and it's great to see someone else actually writing about this in regards to Rails (your NewRelic post saved me a load of agony) :)
Dominic Connor says the same thing http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2012/05/28/channel_techy/

A good employee wants to drive down costs and drive up revenue at his company. A consultant can only drive up revenue for his company by driving up costs at his clients. This is seems very obvious, but the existence of the consulting industry versus in-house employees suggests that it actually is not...
The entirety of MacPaint's Pascal code is smaller than one of the dozens of "business logic" classes in a project I worked on recently.
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Do you have a wife and kids?
Most of the companies I've talked with said they had a preferred time that you come in (typically 9am), but if you wanted some other arrangement, they'd take it into consideration or try it out. The company I'm currently at has people come in as early as 7am to as late as 11am.

As one of Helidor's other posts mentioned, it needs to be mentioned that a flexible schedule/later "clock-in" time is acceptable as long as you get your work done if that's what an individual truly cares about. This all comes back to the position that I and most others I know hold, and that being that you pick your values that you won't budge on, make them known, and poke around until you find something that fits.

To your point of being forced to do something you don't want to do, having been in a company that "forced" me to work 60+ weeks on a regular basis and having almost no time to spend with my family drove me up the wall. I bounced out as soon as I found something better. That presented a very big challenge for all three of us in my family to the point where my kid wondered if I was going to be home in time to put her to bed some days. Hearing those kinds of statements from your kid really puts things into perspective and makes you see if what you are doing is really worth it.
I'm intrigued. What bank does that?
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Ambien (zolpidem) is a sedative, also called a hypnotic. It affects chemicals in your brain that may become unbalanced and cause sleep problems (insomnia).Ambien is used to treat insomnia. The immediate-release Ambien is used to help you fall asleep. The extended-release form, Ambien CR, has a first layer that dissolves quickly to help you fall asleep, and a second layer that dissolves slowly to help you stay asleep.
I was aware of that. But parent did raise an interesting point. Google Wallet isn't doing too great. Why?
You mean i-mode, ezWeb, etc? They aren't as dominant as they used to be though, right? A mobile site has to support both an i-mode and a mobile web version now, so i-mode is in a sort of IE6 situation? Not as far along yet of course, but getting there.
Another option which has worked wonders for me is the RollerMouse.

You just use your thumbs to move the bar around without ever taking your hands off the keyboard. It's a bit awkward at first, but you get used to it quite fast.

[see http://ergo.contour-design.com/]
Depends on how the links are created. If they traverse combinations as they become available then it could be nice. Right now they may be just adding one random lowercase letter, then when those are all used up they switch to one uppercase letter. Then two character combinations until those are used up, etc., etc. Nice idea...
A broad stock index fund is a great inflation hedge, but a lot of people don't like the volatility. The most conservative hedge against inflation is probably TIPS.

http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips_glanc...

You're guaranteed not to lose any money to inflation. But, you probably won't make any money either.
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Actually, they remind me of BMW Isettas[1].

[1] http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/isetta-3wheel-special.html
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This thread is interesting in that some people are arguing they wouldn't trust Facebook with their cc. To me this makes no sense as the likelihood of fb doing anything funky with your cc details once obtained seems highly unlikely.

If something does go wrong cc have very good insurance on them. The problem does seem to be a general resentment and paranoia of large companies. I dont think fb are going to cook up a half baked solution for anything like this, there's every likelihood they will do it as securely as the next especially with the strict laws and regulations around implementing such systems.

Everyone with a cc has probably used it in far less secure environments than fb could ever be, for example pubs, bars, resteraunts, independent shops etc.

If fb did a payment system it would annoy me briefly as another payment system I'd inevitably have to register with at some point but that's realistically as far as the problems would go.
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I stongly urge you to look into Ataluren (also referred to as PTC124, in the literature). It has a number of advantages over gentamicin and may be a better long term solution. It is currently in clinical trials for a number of premature termination codon (PTC) diseases. Check out this paper: http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/content/182/10/1262.long
couldnt agree more on point 1,
on point 2:
people with bsc degrees are treated as second class citizens of these BigCos, they even have separate policies for these employees.(Beleive me i was one of them).
I don't like your tone.

Wow, I love it when people make an accusation and it's better leveled at them. It's your tone that I don't like.

The original posted was expressing a well-formed opinion, one that is backed up by a lifetime of experience, his and mine.

I can't claim to have an exotic or serious disease, but I do have a lot of chronic medical issues. I cannot tell you how many years I've wasted dealing with Dr's that 1) thought they knew what they were doing (YES, behaving God like!), and 2) had no clue.

The problem with Dr's is they are taught to project confidence, at the expense of their patients.
I agree with you, but you can see that this test only had a moderate correlation with successful hiring. In the same way that screening for free-throw percentage doesn't provide the best catch-all way of hiring basketball players, an IQ test isn't going to be a perfect (or even nearly perfect!) way of hiring employees. The point was that it is one of the best ways we currently know how.