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I think this is more in reference to the common C error of:-

int* x, y;

when you meant to declare both x and y as int pointers, here only x will be a pointer and y will be a straight int.

Obviously the go designers could have chosen to simply make this mean that both x and y are pointers, however this would be somewhat confusing for those familiar with C.

As iand says, there is a rather good article on this which goes into a lot more detail - http://golang.org/doc/articles/gos_declaration_syntax.html
On the day of the transaction, the stock was trading around 32 with the day high at 33.57 -- how was he able to offload half of a trading days volume at such a premium?
I'm just waiting for Google to claim the API is copyrighted.
What disclosure do you want, exactly? Bank records? Travel history? Phone records?

Florian's hand was ultimately forced because it is impractical to keep consulting for multiple large companies a secret.

So far, no one has ever found any evidence that PJ is anything other than what she says she is -- a Linux user and former paralegal. Even when Maureen O'Gara thought it'd be a good idea to stalk her and publish everything to the world, no evidence of any kind came to light.

You are proposing a criminal (yes, criminal, perjury is a crime, and sworn statements as to PJ's lack of involvement with IBM were filed in the SCO case) conspiracy spanning at least multiple large public companies, a well-known law professor, and several prominent tech journalists.
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And where will it stop? Will it have a built in email client next?

While it may seem nice and convenient to have all these different features in one nice package, I'm struggling to see what that's such a good idea in the long run.

The thing with the separation of concerns means you use software that does one thing and does it well. Maybe this comes with a greater maintenance cost, I don't know, but I think I'd feel safer with that, because of the maintenance reasons you list.
Well, you have to win points (and got one from me) for coming up with the best analogy.

Though as I recently discovered, they do have phone support, and message boards, and google groups, and all that jazz.

I understand that I'm perhaps the outlier in thinking this, but Google is acting exactly as they said they would, and exactly as they always have. I don't see malice in that, and I certainly don't see 'evil'.
You're right. Thank you for the suggested reading.
Because Florian is all opinion, no material. I personally come to Groklaw for the exact and accurate coverage of original sources on these lawsuits, and its easy to ignore the commentary track.
People depend heavily on these services. Google does not discourage them. I would love it if the front page of gmail.com read like:

"EASY COME, EASY GO

Gmail is a quick and dirty email service for people who don't really need reliable access. Please do not bother signing up unless it does not matter whether you lose the address and all your email."

I think that would begin to resolve the problem being highlighted here for sure.
"When the clock hits 8, I sit. I plop back in my rolling chair, crack open the laptop on my desk, and spend the next nine hours with my butt glued firmly to seat. [...] When that clock hits 5, I bolt. I’m out the door in the blink of an eye, gunning my way through traffic to finally make it home. "

I take it he spends the night over at someone's.
IANAL. That said, don't be afraid. Do the same project at home on your own equipment and make money. The company is exploiting your fear.
Right...those with the most $ get the most votes in this system...
The source code would be more helpful, since a thousand companies would already be competing for the privilege to provide basic support to individual users.
Then why is the article and people here making such a big deal about Florian then?
Perhaps shubber is nonplussed after learning about MongoDB's query language design and the client's choice of database -- why would anyone actually want such a monstrosity?!
I would like to see Google create a marketplace for support. They allow people to buy some access to their internal systems, who then sell support service. There would need to be careful vetting and monitoring of the people who buy the access, but if that could be made to work, end users get access to support, and Google wouldn't have to staff it.

Of course, they would have to provide support to the support providers, but that would be a much smaller, more knowledgeable population.
What I take from it is say "I don't know" more often.

One can easily bullshit the first time through, but then there is no one to learn from, and you have to keep pretending you know something you don't.

Yes personal experience

A wise head on some young shoulders it seems is our Mr Shah.

Good luck at whatever comes after Yammer :-)
Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm not sure how much it matters though. You still have to maintain backwards compatibility of both behaviour and api. (in case of external projects it may be less effort, but at the same time more danger that they get broken by accident)
No. It may be unintentional, but the tone of stiff's comments is highly condescending.

Exhibit A: Whatever you think about James's choices in this library, he has clearly thought a lot about OOP. It's just silly to start a comment with "You have to think a bit more about what OO really is about."
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I don't think anybody is calling PJ impartial - she clearly takes sides. When PJ summarizes things as "Oracle/SCO's case has no merit" and the trial results in a loss for Oracle/SCO, that is evidence that PJ is a good reporter and analyst. It is not evidence of anything fishy about PJ's motives.
Puppet Labs just released PuppetDB an optional (for-now) component of their configuration management software. The supported backends are HSQLDB and Postgres. When asked why MySQL wasn't supported, the developers' response was

"The short answer is performance. To effectively implement things we've got on our roadmap, we need things that (current) MySQL doesn't support: array types are critical for efficiently supporting things like parameter values, recursive query support is critical for fast graph traversal operations, things like INTERSECT are handy for query generation, and we rely on fast joins (MySQL's nested loop joins don't always cut it). It's much easier for us to support databases with these features than those that don't. For fairly divergent database targets, it becomes really hard to get the performance we want while simultaneously keeping our codebase manageable...

We certainly didn't make this decision cavalierly; it was made after around a month of benchmarking various solutions ranging from traditional databases like PostgreSQL to document stores like MongoDB to KV stores such as Riak to graph databases like Neo4J. For Puppet's particular type of workload, with Puppet's volume of data, with Puppet's required durability and safety requirements...I maintain this was the best choice. "

http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/th...
I wonder if SIPs are new or did eg the various Java OSes or the Burroughs ALGOL based system do something similar?
What concerns me more than public dissemination of analysis would be the instance of them only disseminating negative information to a select group of their own clients, while leaving their other mom and pop clients in the dark.

That would seem to be a clear violation of fiduciary duty, and if it turns out that's what they did, I hope they get the book thrown at them.
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Yes, it is absolutely prudent and a good way to handle things.

It is also not something which most people have heard they should do. It also requires you to be something of a power user to even understand. Many people are so far into this mistake that it would take time and even more technical expertise to dig out.
Google definitely benefits from free Gmail users, but that wouldn't be true if every free user got human attention when things went wrong, regardless of who was at fault.

I guess I see OP's problem stemming from the existence of bugs/quirks/spam attacks. As a developer, I know these things are simply impossible to prevent with 100% certainty. I don't feel that Google is morally culpable for bugs or spammers, unless they are somehow adding bugs to the point of negligence.

In fact, as a developer, the idea of being morally culpable for bugs scares me, since that kind of implies I am doomed to be immoral.
This means little for Oracle, it was always a long shot and certainly not anything they depend on for their future. The question is really why Oracle have bothered with this, mobile phones isn't a strategic area for them, Java ME wasn't going to rise from the legacy graveyard whatever the outcome was. Of course Oracle do love to be perceived as an assholish and not nice at all company. But one would have thought that they would pick their fights on battlegrounds that matter to them, not going for the uphill battle in something that is very tangential to their actual business.
It doesn't do two way, you have to go to 3rd party addons for that.
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>You need to grow thicker skin

I'm beginning to be convinced this is almost never an appropriate thing to say.
Something like this? From their terms.

OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THESE TERMS OR ADDITIONAL TERMS, NEITHER GOOGLE NOR ITS SUPPLIERS OR DISTRIBUTORS MAKE ANY SPECIFIC PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES “AS IS”.
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OK, then why shouldn't there be a special function to assess the cost of the beer in any specified currency at the time of the query?

Should there be special functions for querying the characteristics of JPEGs stored as BLOBs? How about PNGs?

Where does this end? Just because a couple of float values happen to represent latitude and longitude doesn't mean the DB engine should integrate geospatial logic.
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MongoDB gets points for including a query language (vs CouchDB), but loses a few for it being JSON/JavaScript.

I understand the choice, JSON and JavaScript being so popular in current web platforms, but the SQL developer in me wishes for something more "readable" (see Lua in Redis).
How do you do that when you are locked out of your Google account?
Thanks taylorbuley, this HN post made me a nice sum of money (only publicly traded company in the post http://www.google.com/finance?q=splk )
Last time I checked, MySQL isn't governed by fate. What happened three years ago (or a year ago etc) has absolutely nothing to do with what the MySQL team does tomorrow in regards to improving the software.

If things actually worked that way, Windows 7 would have been worse than Vista, and the quality of iTunes today would ensure Apple could not compete for the future of the music market.
PJ called it alright. No offense but Groklaw's behaviour against Florian has been nothing short of disgraceful and extremely immature.

Who cares if Florian is being paid by Microsoft et al ? It happens all the time amongst bloggers and doesn't mean jack to me. EVERYONE is biassed in some way. Whether through money, previous experiences or external pressures. As a reader you should always consult multiple sources.

It's been really disappointing watching the great work that Groklaw do be sullied by all these personal attacks.
Why, exactly is it OK for you to make up a pseudonym and libel Ms. Jones?

I demand disclosure. Your full name, your address, your phone, bank, and tax records for the past year, social security statement, and a sworn affidavit that you have never been paid by, had any financial interest in, or were related to anyone with an interest in, IBM, SCO, Oracle, Google, Novell, and any media outlet that has ever given critical or favorable coverage to any of these companies.

If you don't comply within 24 hours, I'll assume you're simply a troll and paid shill.

Edit: Downvoters may want to consult "cooldeal"'s other comments on this very page for context. I'm simply demanding of him what he demands of others.
MixRank cofounder here. We're fully compliant with all legal regulations- we only crawl publicly available data, like the ads on the page.
Just as Google can index any page without violating terms, we index only a part of the page(the ads).
I like to use a wildcard @mydomain.com so I can create a new one on the spot and individually track who sends what. If one ever acts up I can just start forwarding that address to the ether. Works well with 1and1's basic hosting plan.
Maybe they just have a Mechanical Turk that pays people pennies to just put a name into a box.
I shouldn't need emergency technical help. If they want to provide a reliable service which I can use to convince them that I should be allowed to access my own data, that would be really swell and should not require full blown tech support nonsense.
Massive amount of diablo 3 battle.net accounts getting hacked
"There is no way for the common person do that"

Perhaps not, but I'm pretty sure that the firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner should have been able to find some evidence by now, since this is the second trial where PJ has documented their loss in exquisite detail.
That is one of the greatest things about the internet: it makes finding your tribe pretty trivial, no matter your location or circumstances. Even if you grow up in the middle of nowhere in a homogenous social context, you can find a culture that intrigues you, learn about it from afar and then you have a direction in life when you leave home.

Of course it makes it easy to then isolate yourself inside that tribe as well.
It's good to have as a repository of people you've met over the years and may need to contact again, but for nothing more.
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The problem with Facebook is not that it is a company. It IS with their privacy record. The problem IS corporate misbehavior, not the existence of capitalism.
I don't know if PJ is paid by any of the parties involved, but I do know that PJ has actual legal experience as a paralegal, which is the main reason I think that her analysis carries weight when compared to those with no professional legal experience.

Also with no evidence of PJ being paid by Google, it would seem to be an unfair assumption to make.
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And you can't be both ?

Or does that mean that I should ignore anyone who is being paid by a company. Because that would be almost everyone, right ?
I personally believe the future of social networks is to niche, with disparate social networks connected via a Distributed Social Networking Protocol.

This sounds a lot like the subreddit system.
Well, that is certainly the story that the TV manufacturers are telling, but I don't really see it getting traction with most people. I don't know many people who have upgraded their TVs lately, besides replacing CRTs.

Also seems like size is the primary motivation for people to buy a new TV, because their room is larger or they can now afford the size they really wanted to buy originally.
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Fortunately, this wouldn't be a problem since there are more than two words
I've never seen an LCD at Goodwill, but they do have plenty of CRTs, especially after XMas.
Same happens with me. I never liked facebook and still don't like.
Yes, and after you become this much of an expert on where to find all these settings, remember to keep checking your settings because Facebook has a history of opting you into things you already refused behind your back.
It's easier to parse. You don't have to do the lexer hack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lexer_hack), for example.
Gotta love statistician logic! The increase in certainty is probably due to additional information gleaned from actually listening to the song.
The outcome for and against would have meant absolutely nothing for programmers and companies.

It was all about Oracle extracting licensing fees from Google.
I agree with you that Google is not evil. All I am saying is that Google is a Dick.
Almost as memorable as the verdict will be the outright shame and absurdity that was the "rangeCheck defense." It made a mockery of the system and was insulting to the judge and jury. "Check upper bound, check lower bound, throw exception. You can't explain that!"
Are you this guy?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
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So, any chance we'll see Android using Go anytime soon?
Were you actually confused and thought he meant "loose"?
The knowledge gap is how much industry knowledge there is about how MySQL preforms in large scale applications, and the amount of people who can help you tune it. Because MySQL has such a large deployment base there is a whole industry around performance tuning and its easyt to find an engineer who has experience using it. Even if they were technically equal which they aren't that one aspect alone would tip the scales to MySQL
Not really.

The thing about the Internet and anonymity is that an anonymous web of trust really can tell you who someone is better than some single professional achievement. Both Florian and pj have a "trail" because if you work with people you can't avoid a trail. Pj's trail will tell you basically who she is just as Florian's will. Florian may have a blog titled "open source patents" but his trail of activity as corporate consultant tells a different story. Further, Mueller's efforts to spin information using his supposed open source credentials required that his identity be known and touted. As far as I know pj has always let her research speak for itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Jones
You were not harsh. It really was a boiler plate article. The title of the post did not match what I thought the article would contain (a unique personal story).

It is good feedback for the author. Don't be afraid to be honest.
>libel Ms. Jones?

See, this is the exact attitude I am talking about. Anyone even questioning PJ's funding sources is immediately vilified, hated on and modded down to death. While the same about Florian are modded up to the sky and it's totally okay to do that since he's not batting on your side, even if he's the one that has disclosed his interests.
I thought I saw that too. It turns out that it falls back to Flash if your browser doesn't support HTML 5's "audio" tag.

If anything, maybe this will prompt Apple and Mozilla to get on the ball and support it.
I don't know. I was kinda hoping Google will license Java for Andorid, and we'll have one Java instead of two.
Well, maybe I got carried away a bit with the tone in general in the last paragraphs of both comments, but I think I substantiated the particular sentence you cited quite a bit. On the other hand, I also took half an hour to clearly explain to you why this is somewhat misguided and tried hard to be polite, while someone below just said "this is fucking ridiculous". It's hard, at least for me, to give constructive criticism, without the other person being offeneded.
I remember from childhood that a 'big screen TV' was one of the stereotypical status symbols. Same with nice cars. But back then, TVs didn't innovate that much, so people treated their TVs like they did cars. They kept them on decade long schedules and repaired them instead of replaced them.
Don't fret. Your status symbol is having an ancient TV. That's why you posted about it on a public forum...
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You have got to be kidding me ? Mentioning tobacco companies (who literally kill people) in the same vein as Oracle is pretty offensive.

I mean what exactly has Oracle done wrong other than sue Google to try and make them pay royalties for their use of Java. No different to every other IT company that is suing right now.
Of course this is standard CYA legal boilerplate and from the perspective of most users, it might as well be posted behind the refrigerator.

If they put that right on the front page in big letters, replacing the current brags about how awesome it is and how it makes your life easier, then that would filter out most of the users who are clueless enough to get in serious trouble this way.

Like big nasty warning messages on cigarettes.

Of course that's not helpful to Google, but if Google can't be expected to look out for public interests at all then it isn't anyone else's business to look out for Google's either.
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I too did not understand why they were using a finite grid, the article seemed somewhat naive w.r.t. life, more a cute exercise for Hadoop...

As a side note, the links to a java applet to run through the patterns they found was a non starter for me, so I used http://secretgeek.net/gameoflife_.asp
However this frustration does entitle us to accurately
describe a 99% working service.

There are terms for something that works 99 days but on
the 100th day makes you feel like gotterdammerung.

They are a crappy service, fails QA 101,
never trust google and
i'm switching my email to something else
Yeah Larry came out pretty good in that interview. But it was a different time for sure. (Mid 90s right?) I think in the end greed surpass his ability to implement his vision.
His writing style tends to conflate facts and opinions moreso than PJ's does. He also sounds like a troll. The "we don't like this person" heuristic has been activated, and the fact that he's paid by Oracle is irrelevant.
There's hardly ever any market where you can get perfect information. If the retail investors weren't so bought up by the hype of Facebook, they wouldn't be screwed over. Greedy retailers got screwed.
And now we can re-tweet at the Florian Mueller dick (the bastard at FOSS patents) how wrong he was. Check that dick's article:

http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/05/jury-doesnt-find-google-t...
I used to work for a bunch of astronomers. Here's some of the software I remember them using a lot. Not sure about the licenses though most of them provide sourcecode:

* http://root.cern.ch/drupal/

* http://geant4.web.cern.ch/geant4/

* http://www.sron.nl/~richardh/SciaDC/index.html

* http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/

* http://hea-www.harvard.edu/RD/ds9/

* http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/

And of course: FTOOLS:

* http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/ftools_men...

Here's one method to contribute: packaging and testing them on different distros.

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"There is no way for the common person do that"

Eh? Of course there is. It is called investigatory journalism and it is a lot of work.

Also, I think you may have the moral of the story wrong.
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