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The main difference between is that Google Panda focuses on reducing low-quality websites in search engine results, while the recent Google Penguin concentrates on penalizing sites that implement black hat SEO tactics and spamming.
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So major FB source of revenue is collapsing, but FB shares go up? Too much coke on Wall St.
Take a look at the minimum amount of RAM a mac needs to play that.
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I'm thinking of something like http://www.amazon.com/112-Acting-Games-Comprehensive-Develop... It's not perfect coverage (I mostly encountered the exercises I recognized first-hand from teachers who had learned them from other teachers), but I think that book does describe some of the overlap. You could also look at the work of Keith Johnstone, especially his chapter in Impro on Mask and Trance.
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I was being flip before: there are real differences, primarily in the role of teachers (in theater they should never hold real power over you) and suppression vs. expression of emotion (theater exercises are often about how to feel more, whereas scientology is about brainwashing into feeling less). However, self-hypnosis, presences and detailed mental examinations are shared by both.
First, decide what kind of design you actually need. Write a really detailed design specification of what you're looking for. Don't worry about what programs the designer will use or the details of how they will accomplish the job. Just think about the end result and what you want the designer to actually deliver.

Remember that there are many kinds of design, so it's helpful to think about what core value you're looking for. Do you want something that's based on an existing corporate identity, or is this something built from scratch? Will you supply excellent copy, or will the designer have to write it (or bring in a writer)? Is this more about "how it works" or making some existing functionality pretty? These are just a few questions to think about; the more "thinking" work you do in advance, the better the results. (If you find a designer who can help you think through all these topics in detail, then you'll really be cooking with gas.)

Next, determine if you want to actually pay; or if you want to pay some pitifully small amount. For the latter, post your design spec on Craigslist. For the former, locate your local chapter of the AIGA and start networking.
Interesting. I apologize if the previous comment wasn taken as snarky as that wasn't my intention.
good talk, but I feel as if the audience might have had too many "web developers"
I wonder how they'd deal with crossing between the continental plates - the movement of the plates, the magma, etc.
I beg to differ. This is the thing that people misunderstand about Microsoft.

When you work at Microsoft you don't just "work at Microsoft". You work for a TEAM in Microsoft. For example, last year I was an intern on Word. The Word client team consists of maybe ~30 people. You don't feel like you're working with 40k people, but instead a small group of around 30. And you could see how it can become even more granular when you take dev/test/pm disciplines into account.

We have lunch together, we go out after work together, we play board games after work, we do all sorts of fun things together.

It may be fair to say that a giant company should not have a start up culture, though I would find it ludicrous to say that ~teams~ within big companies should not have a start up culture.

* Caveat: Because Microsoft is so big, you'll find that cultures can vary between teams. For example, Bing is rumored to have one of the worst cultures in the company. A culture of excessive work, excessive competition, and overall unpleasant times and people.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2323884

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I contacted the parents via the email on their blog and offered to do just this.
Exactly.

Speak for Yourself don't seem to be doing it only for the money (given their prices anyway).
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I eagerly await an analysis using roman numerals. Most listeners don't care what particular key the song is in. What are the RELATIONSHIPS involved in the chord progressions?
There'd be incredible pressures at the depths of the ocean floor. Look at that tiny submarine able to go down as far as the Titanic.
Ping was a concession to the labels who asked for an alternative to MySpace with a revenue model. It was never given much attention by Apple internally, nor was it a source of "pride" for anyone really.

I remember when it was first introduced, a good number of us at labels were thinking, "great, another marketing platform to update for a bit, then have go stale."

Plus it was supposed to have Facebook integration, which was pulled quickly after launch.
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Go ahead and apply online. My recruiter told me she actually literally reads every resume that gets submitted (..submitted to her schools, of course). She doesn't use any sort of software filter.
No, not at all. Let me go back and upvote it as a "thanks" for giving me the opportunity to expand on my point.
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> and that's easily done in a household that could afford lots of extracurricular books.

But that is already adjusted for.

IQ tests highly correlate to a number of factors. More likely to read, less likely to get divorced, more likely to go to university, more likely to eat healthily, etc. But at the end of the day, when you keep trying to control for each of these factors you end up at the null hypothesis simply because there is nothing left to measure.

Just because something is politically incorrect doesn't mean it is wrong.
Apple doesn't own the product; they sold it to her, and shouldn't obstruct her from using it as she sees fit. Your sentiment seems to imply that no one actually buys anything from Apple, they merely rent, and Apple rightly has the final say over how the renter uses the product. I don't see how the idea that she can simply choose to use another product really makes sense unless she's renting it.
double submissions are unnecessary. just a heads up.
Both me and my father have had "sleep" incidents with our macbooks where the computer ran at full blast with the lid closed in our bags until they were too hot to touch. I'm on Lion now and I still occasionally have this problem. Apples are not immune, but I agree that they are the best at sleep and wake I've had so far.
Thanks for the answer!

A sponsor, financially speaking? Or can I pay for the expenses, and only ask for the job offer?
I want to punch whoever said that and also the paragraph above it (where someone claims that the competition is going to die out or whatever).

Makes all the interns look like fools.
It varies depending on where you go within the company.

In particular, you don't have to go that far up (say, the aiming for SDE3 end of SDE2?) before there are pretty good odds that you'll either be a client of lots of other teams or have lots of clients.
Why is McDonalds ripping off European customers? In my somewhat limited experience (3 years in Belgium and 2 in Sweden), the only good that has anything to do with the exchange rate is the dollar itself. For everything else, $1 ~= 1 euro ~= 10 SEK ~= 1 pound. Look at the cost of a cheese burger at McDonalds.
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Would be great to see a working demo of some kind, or screenshots!
Another good resource for soccer, less in-depth but a good survey of the history of soccer tactics, is "Inverting the Pyramid" by Jonathan Wilson.
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Fair. I've got an EC2 instance booting up right now.
It sounds like we agree that long-lived branches are not continuous integration at least. We probably differ in that I think short-lived branches and pull requests are more overhead than most teams require. Keep in mind that CI does expect daily check-ins to master. That's how short those branches can live to satisfy that requirement. Anything else is not CI... which is not the end of the world either, but I don't see the point of using a CI server at all anymore. Just build/test your stuff locally.
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That's definitely false. You might be able to patent a new delivery mechanism or something, turn a generic into a gel capsule and patent that maybe, but the important thing is that once the generic drug passes out from under its patents anyone can create it.

To use an analogy with razors: I might not be able to make a razor with 4 blades and a cushioning lotion pad above and below because Gillette will sue me, but I can make a razor with three blades set in plastic because it's been so long since that innovation came along. It might not be as snazzy and hence less profitable, but it gets the job done.
>“We tried Ping, and I think the customer voted and said ‘This isn’t something that I want to put a lot of energy into,’” Cook said.

Good. That is exactly the kind of decision they should be making. Thank you, Cook, for rather quickly killing something that deserved to die.
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Isn't there also another argument that could be made?

Suppose Y is only weakly correlated to X, Y might still be used to show that Z and X correlated if we can show that Y and Z are not otherwise correlated.

If only some smart people score high on SAT and most who score high on SAT are more easily are easily fooled by certain questions, it might indicate most smart people are easily fooled by these question but you would want to engage in further investigation to be sure...
Yes please, it is hard to judge whether this is a good option without screenshots or demo.
I have two brand new 16GB iPads sitting on my desk at work right now that are completely useless because we can't accommodate them.

Our line of business applications are just plain too tied to Windows for it to even begin to be an option; and I'm talking about software packages with costs in the five to six figure range.
i probably should have invested in this one when i had the chance.
One disadvantage is that with multiple, short-lived branches, manually creating CI to confirm that all tests continue to pass becomes far too much overhead. It must be automated for this model to work and be trusted. "Jenkins Build Per Branch" is the answer to that problem.

We use something close to this model, but there's no need to create separate Jenkins jobs for each branch.

We have a single job that takes the git branch as a parameter and can run all of the automated tests (and other jobs for builds, etc.). There is a script that watches for new pull requests and automatically triggers the Jenkins job to run all the tests on that pull request to verify that they pass before the reviewer merges in to master.
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Excellent article. I recognize in myself almost all these sources of grumpiness and callousness towards them to different degrees at the places I have worked. Never have they been so well laid out though.
> He knew the value of children

Haha! Unless their name was Lisa!

Steve Jobs initiated the corporate culture that continues to this day at Apple. He would not have changed anything in this situation.
Really? I chose my iPad because it was the only tablet with good office software.
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This really struck a chord with me. I always feel really awkward billing for an hour or two - either because it was no sweat to help them out because I wasn't doing anything anyway, and it was barely any work (a phone discussion and changing a couple of lines of code), OR because dropping everything to put out their fire pretty much hosed most of my day.

Just billing a full day once I determine what they need isn't trivial would have a nice effect on both my guilt and bitterness in these situations.
> Ubuntu anyone?

Good one.
You scared me there for a minute. I thought they'd dropped their free plan. Turns out it still exists: https://go.urbanairship.com/accounts/register/
This is my second internship at Microsoft. I worked on Office last year and now I'm working on Windows Live (though it gets kind of hairy since WL is getting killed off and really my team interfaces directly with Win8 so I think of it as just building Windows services).

This is why I like Microsoft:

* You get to impact the lives of millions and millions of people. I find this really cool. I can't wait for Office 15 to come out and be able to see people in my class or on the bus or whatever using features I made. You feel a big (and mixed) sense of responsibility and pride. What we are doing really does matter. If you fuck up, millions of people are going to be affected. If you do an amazing job, the same thing happens but in a positive way. Just think about that for a second.

* Microsoft is virtually involved in every market. Want to make an OS? Go work on Windows. Now you're working on a product with ~85% marketshare. That's pretty cool right? Want a change? Want to see what it's like to work on a product that is the underdog? Go have some fun in Windows Phone. After that, if you want to give search engines a try go ahead and work at Bing. If that doesn't work out, you literally have so many other options (Xbox, Azure, Surface, Visual Studio, Office, IE, etc.)

* You can really feel that you're in an atmosphere of extremely bright and intelligent people (for the most part). This keeps you extremely motivated in case for whatever reason the above things aren't enough.

* While this may seem silly and very minor compared to the above points, it's pretty fracking (sorry been watching BSG) cool to use software before it gets revealed or released to the masses. Knowing secrets is fun :)
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There is no moral justification for patents. Period. There can be no actually moral argument that says "you are not allowed to think of the same thing this other fellow did and then trade it with someone."

Patents are a form of feudalism. The very word "patent" is rooted in feudalism, where it used to be "land patents" that were granted to the landholders in the middle ages.
I quit watching the NBA entirely when the Sonics left, and I won't watch again until the Sonics are back.

To me, the Thunder have no right to exist and no right to win anything. Any success for them is nothing but an insult to Sonics fans.
Thats an interesting approach. If a branch is broken, which causes the job to fail, how do you communicate that and monitor when it's actually fixed (rather than another branch getting run which "fixes" it)?
This is just incorrect

Gambling is legal throughout the country to varying degrees in various forms. Black Hawk, Colorado has legalized gambling up to $100 per bet, for example.
Because they don't ask enough questions.
An important takeaway regarding tablets ...

" Apple's scale affords discount prices on bulk components, while its deft management of its largely Chinese supply chain keeps operational costs to a minimum. Lacking these advantages, Microsoft's partners seem unable to match Apple in terms of price and quality — foregoing one fundamental for the other. In this way, Microsoft's breadth of OEMs are a disadvantage, as they compete against each other for razor-thin profit margins."
It's telling that the author hasn't received an offer for a free copy of PRC's product.

Think about it: the author writes touching human interest story that pulls at readers' heartstrings by genuinely presenting the dilemma he is faced with. The story resonates with the combined holy trinity of geek social news: "Apple is a soulless and evil," "The patent system is a parasite on the world," and "Indie game/software developers are sacrosanct." Outrage ensues.

What could make this all go away for PRC? Apologizing and offering the author a free copy of their product before he decides to launch a crusade and a PR nightmare. Instead, no such offer came through.

The question I want answered is, Why? Are these companies so clueless that they don't see the PR catastrophe brewing? Do they know and don't care?

I propose a teaching about the nature of social news in the form of an admittedly unlikely third explanation: The company performed a cost-benefit analysis and realized that the intersection of this blog's audience and the company's customer base is so small they can get away with ignoring them.

Your outrage is impotent. You can rage about this on the internet all you want, but it's not going to cause an inch of motion in any direction. If you want to do something other than express frustration, send letters to newspapers, don't post comments. These companies are going to have to lead marketing campaigns. Get the jump on them and make the first impression on their potential customers.

That is how you get things done.
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I highly recommend reading "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely if you thought this article was interesting. It covers exactly this subject and makes for fascinating reading. I picked up the book about a week ago via some other post linked here on HN and I'm loving it.

http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...
Yes Apple is in the wrong but (and possibly I'm giving them too much credit in terms of their corporate unity) maybe their actions are an effort to not weaken the veracity of their own patent claims. Whereby any leniency shown by Apple in the case of other entities patent claims could be used in court against Apple when they are defending their own.
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Good for them, glad they're happy. I've read and heard too much to ever go there myself, I think. All I can say is, holler at those people in five years and see how they feel then.
This. This is why I love games. There's so much passion and humanity in every little pixel.
Velocity is imperceptible, since it depends on a frame of reference. For example, I'm traveling at about 700mph around the center of the Earth because of the Earth's rotation.

Acceleration is perceptible, because it is felt as a force. So it really depends on how quickly people are accelerated to 2500mph. If you accelerate at 22mph per second, this is equivalent to 1G, which could be relatively comfortable. It would take 2 minutes to reach 2500mph.
The Sonics don't have any beloved players still in the league, but Gary Payton outspokenly refused to have his number retired by the Thunder.
that's an easy problem to solve. you could either

a. move your home closer to work
b. move work closer to your home
c. move both

you're traveling 4 miles, across a river, into one of the most densely populated cities in the world. there's bound to be some friction. that said, you could probably live 4 miles away in brooklyn or queens and be at work in 15-20 minutes.
We have email notifications on test failures, so the creator and reviewer of the pull request can see it fails. Haven't done it yet, but would like to extend it to report back the result as a comment directly on the pull request.
Maybe this can explain WTC 7.
Dunno bout you but a twitter account does not quite scream "real power" to me.
Rolling iTunes Originals into Ping somehow could've partially solved that problem. Using Ping (?) would give users exclusive access to original content.

Honestly, a Last.fm acquisition would've been their best bet.
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Other than the fact that a load balancer is generally a monolithic piece of hardware. The failure modes are well defined, but most of them result in catastrophic outages.

I'm going to assume their routing mesh has many points of ingress and a larger number of exit paths (the dyno manifold), but that the nodes they've got participating in the mesh are actually in some sort of mesh topology (or form a connected graph).

This has the upside that if you lose several nodes in the mesh you probably haven't lost a path to any dynos. If you lose a whole AZ you can spin up new dynos in one of the existing ones and reconfigure the mesh quickly. My experience with loadbalancers, especially big load balancers is that updating a large swath of VIPs is NOT a fast operation (although you would start failing health checks on the missing nodes pretty quickly, adding new capacity to replace them is hard).

The mesh has the downside that the failure modes are a lot more complicated. Oh, and nobody knows what the hell you're talking about.

Of course, I could be wrong. They could just be using NetScalers (or ELB) and calling it a "routing mesh".
signed up too, looking forward to reading the book :)
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Is there something like this for SVN?
Great feedback, thanks. The conversation wandered a bit, and while I don't think of my style as trollish I can certainly see how my emotion on rail interferes with my communication.

My initial point is a prima facie argument, the proposal is impractical by inspection. I certainly stand by that assertion, but as part of the supporting argument we've been discussing land based construction with the implicit, albeit not as well supported, stipulation that sea based construction would always be more expensive than land based.

An interesting way to approach the problem would be to outline the design space in terms of operation cost, development cost, and rate of return and see what sort of solutions, if any, might fit inside that box.
I'm using Redmine in a similar setup. Have you seen any performance impact of rake tasks to pull imap mails ? I'm a little wary of the rake task loading the entire ruby (in my case Rails) environment, everytime it starts up.

any thoughts ?
> Re: Statistics

I do believe it. We have governors that publicly don't accept global warming as well.

> Re: Education

It's not the education but the market that creates "the most vibrant culture and economy". That's why some of those contributing to our culture and economy came to do so from abroad.

> Re: Tuition

My point is still that it is quite a large burden, whether or not one manages to delay or share the burden.
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I'd argue that any "invention" that falls into the "wouldn't it be neat if..." domain is obvious, and under existing law should be rejected outright as the basis for a patent.

In this particular instance, was you sister "skilled in the art" of developing treadmills or software? If not, and it's obvious her her, chances are it's blindingly obvious to someone who is skilled in those arts, and presumably works in those fields.
Paraphrasing: "Justice in the U.S. costs too much".
That doesn't sound very just, and is a larger problem than patents even.

Here in Uruguay, lawyers are much cheaper but justice is extremely slow (also not good).
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