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It's strange to read the comments here on Hacker News that people are glad and "relieved" that games in Google+ are gone.

Put it this way, if Google+ remains a nerdvana, then it has lost. Google wants Google+ to be a household name. Not a niche product. It may well die a slow and painful death if it doesn't gain widespread use and adoption. Either way a nerdvana or equivalent means Google+ will never have reached its potential or what it set out to be. That's a huge failure in the scheme of things. Remember, Google changed EVERYTHING to center around Google+.

Google wants to remain one of the biggest and most relevant brands in technology to EVERYONE. Not just people interested in Linus Torvalds post comments.

March at GDC 2012, Punit Soni, lead product manager for Google+ games and mobile: "Games are key to the success of Google+"

Hacker News comments can be so out of touch with what's at stake, what is reality and what they view as "great" for their own skewed opinions. Hacker News readers are meant to understand intended audiences and project goals. Not feel relieved that games are gone.

Link Quote: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/168726/Nine_months_later_...
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Thanks for the apology, though it's not really necessary.
In that case they should implement instant shared link creation, not via opening a web browser.
This is what I'm talking about.

Bit of advice, stick up some form of an 'about us' as it's not immediately evident what you are trying to achieve with the site. Had I not read your comment first I would have been a bit confused.
Well, now the "get link" drop-down menu item sends you to a webpage, where you can finally click "Download". It's a total waste of time. The fast workflow of the Public/ folder will be gone.
This is an outrage.

The sharing functionality is not the same at all since it gives every file an obfuscated name, making it impossible to link directly in an effective fashion.

This feature is the only thing that has kept me from switching to a competing provider (Sugarsync, GDrive).
Yes, however, the new way seems counter intuitive. It would be difficult to keep track of what is publicly shared, at least in an organized manner.
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Our RDS instance is in "failure" state after 8 hours of downtime. Have to restore from point in time backup which does not have actual data.

Amazon says:

Jun 15, 4:03 AM PDT The RDS service is now operating normally. All affected Multi-AZ RDS instances operated normally throughout the power event after failing over. We were able to recover many Single AZ instances successfully, but storage volumes attached to some Single-AZ instances could not be restored, resulting in those instances being placed in Storage failure mode. Customers with automated backups turned on for an affected database instance have the option of initiating a Point-in-Time Restore operation. This will launch a new database instance using a backup of the affected database instance from before the event. To do this, follow these steps: 1) Log into the AWS Management console 2) Access the RDS tab, and select DB Instances on the left-side navigation 3) Select the affected database instance 4) Click on the "Restore to Point in Time" button 5) Select "Use Latest Restorable Time 6) Select a DB instance class that is at least the same size as the original DB instance 7) Make sure No Preference is selected for Availability Zone 8) Launch DB Instance and connect your application We will be following up here with the root cause of this event.
What free softwares did you try before going for GrandStream?
You can get still get a link via right-click menu (at least on Mac OSX) for any file in your Dropbox folder (including the ones outside of the Dropbox > Public folder).
I went to an elementary school in the U.S. where you were not grouped by age. It was a pilot program, and I can't find a reference to the program being in place almost 20 years later.

The program at the school had 1 large building, which was divided into 4 classroom with some common space in between. For each class period, you went to the class taught at your level. So you could go to the 1st grade math, or you could go to the kindergarten math.

I lived there for 2 years, and basically took 1st grade as kindergarten aged, and 2nd grade as 1st grade aged.

The worst part was moving, and having to "re-integrate" with the system. I had to take the age appropriate 2nd grade. My parents wanted me to skip directly to 3rd grade, but the school rejected that.
Ah, indeed. On an unfamiliar and odd toilet like that it is possible, I've also had it happen to me.

However, considering how many more things I'd splash otherwise, I find it a worthwhile tradeoff.
Oh come on. AS3 isn't that bad.
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That seems the likely reason to me.
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You could organize all the files you want to share into a single folder. Maybe name it something like Share/ or Public/
Checking through 8ish games only one asked for my date of birth. The rest of them asked for my email, public profile id, and the people in my circles (generally to generate leaderboard with friends). Seems pretty reasonable though.
I'm not very familiar with how raising funds works so this is a genuine naive question and I'd appreciate if someone could explain this to me.

On their "About Us" page, they say that they've raised $142M in venture funding. How much equity VCs typically get for such an investment? 20%? In that case, the exit of the VC would be around $240M which in not even a 2x profit. Is it possible that the equity owned by the VCs is much larger than that? It seems to me that VCs would have to own a very large percentage of their equity to make this acquisition worthwhile for them, in which case the original founders wouldn't get anything nearly close to the $1.2B purchase price.
What are you on about? Why would it cut down bandwidth? You can still share files, in exactly the same way, just on an individual basis.
> Its a online resume building site, that lets developers plug in to GitHub, stackoverflow, etc, to demonstrate their projects and experiences

sth like https://masterbranch.com/ ? except the latter lets you connect other repos than github.
I think your example of an Enterprise Finance app and TONS of Java programmers is over generalizing things a bit, of who can benefit from things like GWT.

I would contest, GWT is used by some people who sort of already grokked some of the points made by this article, some years back. For example, coding in JS giving a feel of coding in assembly, particularly without the help of any good editors.

Another example to break the Enterprise only narrative: 'Google Flights' is done in GWT. And you and me can guess, there won't be 200 avg developers coding that product.

I came from an Enterprise background before our Internet Startup. Few of us coded up our app, in 3 months flat out using mainly Java and GWT.

One of the reasons we chose GWT was that, when we started out IE 6 still had a considerable share, and GWT generated JS which ran on it very well (although slowly).
However if doing all this means that they sell more laptops then they get better economies of scale and lower per item prices, which drives down the cost.
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For the sake of Pete, someone remove the parens from this man's keyboard.
I can't remember the figures, but at my Apple store interview, they claimed to be one of the top grossing stores in the world (in terms of gross per square foot).
"had an unofficial yet extremely active rule where if the applicant had more vowels in their surname than consonants, their CV was instantly dismissed"

could somebody tell me who is it discriminating against? it sounds ridiculous, or I'm not getting the reference.
I don't know about electronics specifically and different country issues (I live in Ukraine), but in general store if you would accidentally* break anything then, regardless of store rules, the store can't require customer to pay for it.

*I don't exactly remember about "accidental" part. I suppose that store would be required to prove that action was intentional in court.
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If only Dropbox had a folder, perhaps already called Public, that you could organize your shared crap into...
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I went to GDC this year and saw a talk by a PHD Economist who does work on video game economies and releases reports about them. It was one of the coolest talks I attended, and I spoke with him afterwards. In his talk he mentioned Habbo Hotel a lot and spoke about a few other economies and how they came to settle on some sort of currency. I just had to bring up how I first noticed a form of virtual currency in Diablo 2 as he didn't seem to mention it. I do recall that SOJ's were like the defacto unit of pricing other items. Apparently he had actually never heard about that, which surprised me greatly (perhaps because Diablo 2 was so huge, and because it was one of the only examples I personally had). Here's hoping he looks into it and writes a report about it!
True, also probably only to a certain extent.

I have not really studied Apple, but last few years I have been checking out their laptop lines, I could only see cost increase of whatever is the current line.
Nice list ... here's the top ten in order ...

- Programmers who don't code in their spare time for fun will never become as good as those that do.

- The only "best practice" you should be using all the time is "Use Your Brain".

- "Googling it" is okay!

- Most comments in code are in fact a pernicious form of code duplication.

- XML is highly overrated.

- Not all programmers are created equal.

- I fail to understand why people think that Java is absolutely the best "first" programming language to be taught in universities.

- If you only know one language, no matter how well you know it, you're not a great programmer.

- Performance does matter.

- Print statements are a valid way to debug code.
The problem is that you could share a link and it'd be seamlessly downloaded by a receiver of the link....you could even use them to handle images in web pages for example.

Now? The person who is receiving the link has to go to a web page, then click download. It's an unnecessary extra step and a downgrade in the user experience.

Even worse, it's now harder to keep track of what you have shared and what you don't.

From DB's perspective this is most likely to force additional eyeballs onto their product by forcing them to hit a webpage before download, but it's a lousy user experience for all involved. To the receiver of the link DB just looks like an old fashioned file-sharing site a la megaupload and not something special.
Yes, I've had wonderful experience with Samsung store, they've even let me go 'backstage'.
I have been thinking that this is an area ready for disruption for a while (a post Mavis Beacon era). Have you thought about experimenting with Adwords...?
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I think that this angle is set so that person standing near the table would look at the display at 90 degree angle, just like with general monitor setup advice (monitor perpendicular to the line of sight, line of sight ends at the top border of the display). Since people are standing, not sitting, then notebook display should be a bit tilted backwards.
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I'm trying to load the demo on my Macbook Pro with Chrome, but its not working for some reason. Is this broken for anyone else?
Why do people seem to think the two different links are the same? One is direct, one is a splash page :(
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It wasn't intended as a compromise but as a way for the council to use the situation to their advantage. If the selection of food is as they claim then they could use the massive coverage the blog had to show that perhaps the photos were being economical with the truth. Instead by claiming that this is the deranged rantings of a 9 year old and her dad they just made the situation infinitely worse.

Thanks for the info about the Exec appearing on Radio 4, should be entertaining indeed.
I'm on a Mac mostly and use Chrome(because of speed and security) and really miss that Reader functionality. I used to have the Readability plugin, but I suppose that will not work much longer.

Any idea of what to replace it with?
Wish the topic of this thread was renamed to not cause hysteria. You can still share publicly, it just doesn't need to be a in a magic folder first. Although the magic folder was a great way of remembering what you had shared, I'm sure the Dropbox folks will come up with some other way of reminding me about my publicly shared files.
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This is a move absolutely in the wrong direction. I'm sure the idea is to push more eyeballs across the DB logo and grow the userbase. But to those users, DB will look like yet another fileshare a la megaupload/filefront/whatever and not something particularly special.

Here's some better ideas:

- harden up the way users want to use the public folder and make it more like a CDN

- Add another price tier if they must to ensure it works!

- Let users host web sites out of their public folder! Hand craft HTML still has a place among basic users who just want to put up a web page about their dog!

- put media specific folders in the public folder (maybe at different price tiers) and turn it into a flickr/soundcloud/youtube competitor!
Congratulations! Glad to see more people attempting this type of thing. The demo content design is pretty nice.

Some good things in Easel, but I have lots of problems with all the tiny little controls. Also it's an interesting decision to use a canvas element instead of the DOM. Without solving the overall page layout issue, this is a nice drawing tool like others have mentioned, and kudos to the technical and design effort, but in the end if you're not using the DOM, you're making pictures of web sites...

Therefore, it's my responsibility to let you all know about Edit Room, my project as an independent developer, http://www.edit-room.com/

Edit Room is also a 'web design in the browser' app, but it uses the real DOM, not a canvas, so whatever you can build with Edit Room is what is truly able to be built with HTML and CSS. It's only a slight limitation due to the unique way I've handled absolute/relative layouts. Edit Room still gives you incredible design and layout freedom, without floats.

Edit Room doesn't do fixed widths at all. Documents created with Edit Room flex naturally. Everything you layout and design with my app is based on a flexible grid, and it has a built-in width preview, so you can design at any screen width.

Edit Room exports the full HTML and CSS for your entire layout, or you can copy individual elements' CSS, it's adaptable to your workflow.

Edit Room also supports linking Typekit and Fontdeck accounts, so you can use Web Fonts in your exported designs.

You can try out the demo here: http://www.edit-room.com/screens/13/edit

Oh, and one more thing: You can animate your layers with visual keyframes and Edit Room generates CSS3 Animations.
This whole problem has become a cliché. I've been married for over a year now and never once has this been an issue. Maybe it's because I pee in the sink..
It was a general attempt to eliminate a lot of African candidates. Probably should have clarified that. Remember, this company does not employ clever people.
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We're repressed? Generalize much?
But why launch even an MVP that is essentially no different to the vast majority of other portals (HN, stackoverflow careers, gumtree) etc? Would it not be more useful to launch with at least some of the innovative features you've hinted at? What value are you adding to direct employers or job seekers?
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9910153/20111022_131203.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3wlvb7h36o5uvb/20111022_131203.jp...

There are your two links. One is a public folder the other is not.

One takes you to a web browser before you can even get the link. One does not.

Guess which one I would rather have. And now guess which one they are removing :(
Well, there is no accounting for taste I suppose. I rather suspect you would not like Neuromancer.
All true. Unfortunately the blame game is moot- its still true that linux isn't ready for prime time.
The hysteria, if any, would be about the fact that all shared links would direct you to a splash page on the web on which you'd have to click on another link to download the shared object, as opposed to the current public folder serving up direct links (w/o the added step).
The 'multiple times' annotates occurrence of desire, not the subject of desire. He doesn't "want to kill him many times", but many times a day he "wants to kill him".
Recruitment agents work particularly well for contract developers, the ethics notwithstanding. Permanent is a whole different ball game that I'm not going to touch on.

TLDR: The model isn't broken, it could use some optimization.

Everyone likes to bash a recruiter. And, some guy who takes 80 quid a day out of your pocket for months should be an object of derision, no?

Look at the flip side: agents act as stimulus for the market, pushing through deals quickly and raising the ceiling on rates.

Sales is dirty and hard work (I've done it). Agents need to be like bulldogs as roles go fast, within days or hours. Without an agent in the mix contracts take longer to get signed.

They are far from the best judges of quality candidates. The closest they get is keyword matching and telephone screening if you're able to string a sentence together. But often this is a good 'low bar'.

Agent fees are expensive. As a contractor it's never good to find out what the client is actually paying for you vs. what you get. That said, the rates here in London are good compared to what I found in Vancouver and elsewhere in the UK. The difference I observed was the aggressive and competitive agencies here, where if they can squeeze more money out of a client they'll pocket a good chunk of it.

London's well-established and healthy contracting market is due in part to the agencies that have grown up around the candidates and companies here.
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Is this venting, or a bug report?
I'm going to make a point of trying to search out some of these other manufacturers stores. I've never seen any in the flesh in the cities I've lived in (Midwest, Midsouth). I think there might be a Sony store somewhere nearby. Thanks for the reminder of these other stores.
That, or lose a coin every now and then down the drain...thus extending the problem into house finances
I "forced" my mother to try out a few online type trainers, but she never sticked to them... and back then I didn't find a decent app for the mac that seemed worth spending money on.

Once you have the german version ready, I'd suggest it to her. Screenshots look good.

I'd maybe increase the contrast on some parts of the website (e.g. support / buy on top are rather hard to read).
I agree .. this is probably the reason. However I think the fact that dropbox could be utilized in unexpected ways, provided the company with a great deal of goodwill and singled them out as innovators in an otherwise stale market.

Sorry, tried to upvote you but hit down by accident as my fingers are too fat.
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The point still stays. Why having to write even integration test for something that can be easily checked by compiler. Better focus on writing tests that cover functionality instead of making sure return types are correct.
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With nearly 200 tabs open, my Firefox is only using 1.5GB, which I find very impressive. This is on linux though, and there are so many conditions that could effect usage, especially across operating systems. The only real problem is it starts to act quite slow with this many tabs. Chrome doesn't have this behaviour, but has a lot more memory usage due to multiple processes.
The most elegant way to "fix" a market is to change the incentives. There is a contract between employer and recruiter. The employer does not want to be pestered all day about useless candidates. Just subtract some percentage from the recruiters fee for each wasted call.

Let's say the employer gets on average 20 calls until a candidate qualifies and the third of those gets the job. This means 60 wasted calls for 3 candidates. If you subtract 1% per wasted call from the recruiters fee, he should make sure to reduce the number of wasted calls. Of course, the original fee must be a little bit larger than the mentioned £5k-£15k, since some waste is expected. Start with £18k, reduce wasted calls to 20, which results in a £14k fee and more time for the employer.
between this (now 8 hour!?!?) stretch and the 2 hour outage last week, June uptime is down in the mid 98's
I don't think they're running in a browser on the open web.
Everyone likes to bash a recruiter. And, some guy who takes 80 quid a day out of your pocket for months should be an object of derision, no?

People don't hate recruiters because they take money, but because they are rubbish at their job.
But why launch even an MVP that is essentially no different...

In the short few months we've been up, we've had confirmation from a large number of companies having successfully filled vacancies via our site. That alone is justification to get it up and live. Also it's the best way of testing what works and what doesn't and more importantly, getting feedback on what users like and what they don't.

Would it not be more useful to launch with at least some of the innovative features you've hinted at?

If they were complete, they'd be live! The process we follow is to launch an MVP and iterate often. As we get a feature to a usable level, we'll update.

What value are you adding to direct employers or job seekers?

At the moment there are few publicly known job sites in the UK that contain zero recruiter vacancies. As a minimum, we provide that alternative right now with the promise of a lot more to come.
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In a way yes, the companies should not behave like this. But that doesn't absolve the recruitment companies. They are still breaking the law and behaving immorally. Shame on them.