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Facebook will struggle to make the next leap (IMHO, of course) because there's a disconnect between how users want to use it, and how Facebook wants/needs you to use it.

Outside of the sub-group of individuals who thrive on sharing every aspect of their life, most people want Facebook to be a fancy email. There's all your friends; you can talk with them and literally see what they're up to . And to be honest, the platform is great for that.

Facebook, on the other hand, needs you to be an information sharing and data providing machine, talking about brands and products, all while doing whatever they can to entice (or trick) you into putting your information in the public domain. They want to you be connected with everyone. People are learning that's a lot of work.

The problem is that the more Facebook pushes the latter, the worse the former -- the user experience -- has to get. Nobody wants to stare at ads and feel like they're being "watched" (by both Facebook and other connections) while they "engage" with friends. As the author discovered...it's odd.
Does this mean Flash is being executed in the native client sandbox as well? If so, hooray! (and can we enable this on other platforms)?
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You're free to argue that patents are a net positive to society, but to argue a priori that $29B of wealth transfer = $29B of wealth creation, almost by definition, is completely broken thinking.

By your standard, Bernie Madoff created $18B in value.

HN as a group may have many contradictions and blind spots in its general wisdom, but you haven't identified one of them.
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I don't know why you have so much hate for the comment you made but I couldn't agree more. Facebook is a tool, all tools need to be guided by yourself, they never just work. Equally one tool will not work for everyone so sometimes you have to adapt that tool.

People commenting it's just a money making machine, where do they make money off me? I don't click on anything I don't want to and I'm not forced to buy stuff.

I log into Facebook, see a picture of my friends baby, I comment, we have a laugh then I arrange to go round and see them. I don't interact any more or any less than I would over the phone etc

I see updates from the people I want to see updates from, if someone writes a load of crap all the time, I just filter them out.

I never understand all the hate people have for Facebook, constant jibes about privacy. If you as a person are putting information on Facebook that is that private then you are the idiot, not Facebook. If you don't want people to see private pictures of your children, simple, don't upload them!

Everything needs a revenue stream of some sort, does everyone think Apple do what they do because they want to make everyone happy??

Back shortly, just going to check out my friends wedding pics that everyone else uploaded and tagged them in.
Maybe this is why my Chrome browser on Ubuntu has suddenly started being completely unresponsive whenever it loads Flash.
There's so much C code in so many critical environments that this language is going to be around for much longer than anyone would like...

It'll be the Latin of computing. There will be some poor soul studying and using C in a thousand years.
I'd heard that groovy 2 would be respecting public/protected/private, as they could be bypassed with metaclass programming in groovy 1, but haven't kept up with that in a bit. For example, adding a new method to 'String', in the example given, looks a bit more work than it used to be, and doesn't reference the metaclass.

I've got a vested interest in seeing continual uptake of Groovy, but am wondering what's holding back adoption from those of you who do Java work but haven't integrated Groovy in to your toolset.
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I love the hilarious youtube's subtitles. For instance (3:34):
"without a student to conduct a kidney advocate"
or (3:19): "registers configure troop went upstairs don't just goes up"

But you should disable them by default, they are confusing!

Edit: Why the downvote(s)?
Glad to see more and more tools for the shortest feedback loop while you code.
I'm a little surprised to see the label of luddism applied to an argument that we should be encouraging more people to learn to program computers.

I can understand what you're saying here, but I'm not making an argument for the "good old days" of command line interfaces and arcane commands. What I'm arguing for is what you expressed in this comment:

"Of course if she wears socks or a sweater she will know knitting, or at least how to manage a sewing machine (everybody should know just the basics)."

I don't know how to knit but my wife does, and I can sew well enough to make a Hallowe'en costume, fix a button or hem a pair of pants.

All the time I see people manually, painstakingly processing data as a necessary part of their jobs - repetitive, time-consuming stuff that could easily be automated with a fairly simple script. If we made basic computer programming, like basic literacy and math, a part of core education curricula, we would empower many more people to write amateur code that's good enough for the task at hand, just as most amateur writing is good enough to communicate meaning without being slick and professional.

I'm not saying everyone should work as a software developer, any more than I'm saying everyone should work as a writer. However, the general ability to read and write is absolutely invaluable no matter the career, to the extent that people who are functionally illiterate are barely employable and can scarcely function in our society.

Similarly, I believe a general ability to write computer programs - to express a set of steps that execute some data processing task - can become invaluable as well and unlock a huge boost in general productivity.
What's the current state of Groovy? Has it seen much adoption, compared to something like Jython or JRuby? Does it have any commonly-acknowledged flaws?

I looked at it years ago, around when it first came out, and it gave me a negative impression as being sloppily done and a bit amateurish, so I went with Jython. My impression is that they cleaned up their act and saw decent adoption, but I don't know any more than that. It seems eclipsed these days in favor of Clojure and Scala.
Absolutely not. Managing the Google+ event(s) becomes just one more service you can provide. People who would downsize from a professional wedding organizer to Google+ event(s) weren't your bread-and-butter anyway.
Thanks for the response. This is a throwaway account because I'm trying to be somewhat discreet about this approach. I don't want my business to be publicly attached to my personal appeal; I'm trying not to directly prostitute it. I thought that might seem kind of desperate and/or tacky. As far as the "why do you deserve this funding" part of your question, I did attempt to answer that in my post, illustrating that I'm willing to work to the bone to be successful. In addition to that, I do have a live and working product to show for myself, I just didn't want to seem cheap and post it here as a link.

Thanks again for your thoughts.
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You bunch of commie terrorists, stop trying to break the one mechanism fostering innovation that we have!
The average person doesn't need to be able to cook a fancy souffle - but how about an omelet? Most chefs I know wish more people had basic cooking skills.
I think that in order to be proficient in C++, you also need to understand what separates C++ from C and how C++'s features (classes, overloaded functions, templates) map to C.
> I want us to talk. I want a personal email. I want to find a way to share photos in a way that encourages us to talk about them with each other.

Surely you can do this with or without Facebook.

Maybe I'm a unique snowflake but Facebook to me is exactly the opposite of that: it's a way to give a quick (often meaningless) insight into my life, what I'm thinking or what I'm doing. It's a way to share something that maybe someone will be interested in, but probably not. If I share something to Facebook it's not because I want all my friends to see it, it's because I think those that might see it might find value in it and it represents what I'm doing/thinking/enjoying. If I want someone to see something or engage with me in conversation I send them a message.

Facebook isn't a replacement for "normal" communication between friends, it's an extension. The only reason anyone would want to see complaints about someone's life falling apart is the same reason people watch train wrecks of car crashes. They don't care about the individual, they care about the spectacle. Using any one->many communication platform for complaints about life seems misguided.

Maybe https://everyme.com/ would fill the void he has in his life.
The device was smouldering in the video. http://www.twitvid.com/UBBWC

The cheap charger may have sparked it, but it was the lack of current limiters or heat cutoffs in the device that appears to be the actual problem. Electrical inputs should be treated much like form inputs on a web page. Never trust them to be what you designed for.
Because if you don't know C, you don't know what's actually happening when you write software.

Because if you don't know C, you've only seen the map, not the territory.

Because if you don't know C, you're looking at the finger, not the moon.

Because if you don't know C, everything you think about computers is a leaky abstraction.

The counterpoint is that flawed models are often good enough. Newton's theory of gravitation comes to mind.

But if you like knowing what's going on, either for personal satisfaction, or because what you're working on is not fully encapsulated by a different language (inevitably, originally, written in C), then C is both interesting and useful.
Out of curiosity, where do you get an 1T-box for 12K?

Spec'ing those out at Dell I arrive at >40k. I know channel-partner or own build can trim that significantly, but your price sounds pretty amazing.
Or if people outside your circles invite you it goes "somewhere else". This would be a perfect use for the (now gone?) Incoming.
Isn't the fact we add too many contacts the core issue ?
And then it turns out that it's easier to look at funny stuff posted by anyone than diving emotionnaly into the life turmoils of our real close friends ? I firmly believe the simple solution is to have more than one account.
"Built on C" seems like the wrong phrase to me. "Extension of C" is a better fit.
Oh boy another internet "experiment" when someone gives up $technology and ends up saying absolutely nothing in their post. I sure do love reading these pretentious pieces of "intellectual" prose.

In fact I shall start an "experiment" myself to see if replacing every instance of "experiment" in these kind of articles with "controversial decision" to see if they read better. I mean it's as if people use the word "experiment" to justify being avant-garde.

Except in this case it's not even a controversial thing. People are leaving facebook for tonnes of reasons (fad has died, not finding its uses any more, don't want to be tied with a system that hoards personal data and sells them off to companies etc). Leaving Facebook isn't an edgy thing to do; not before and not now. Anyone I knew that announced that they're "leaving facebook" end up being rather smugly obnoxious when tech news headlines say "facebook did some things that people don't like. boooo facebook!" saying they "knew all along" and they were obviously smarter and more superior than the regular "tech weenie" still on their facebook.

We all know what the result of this "experiment" is going to be. "My life was significantly improved thanks to not using facebook. Just as I thought! Aren't I clever?". There's no point denying it because that's what they're going to say. Just like I said I'll replace "experiment" with "controversial decision". I already know that I'm going to say "Nope. The posts were not better at all. Told ya!" because I know that when it's something I dislike in the first place I'm going to have a visceral reaction to hate it rather than say doing an ACTUAL experiment which doesn't have this cognitive bias.

And I'm right, am I? I mean I'm not WRONG or something? Please someone validate my beliefs which I portray on the internet. I desperately need this!!!
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my screen is 1080p and this still happens.
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Nice work :) I hope to see more tools like this soon!
Well done guys, faster feedback makes your more efficient!
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There is no inconsistency here, you're again falling for the broken window fallacy. Busy work does not create value; eliminating it does.

The simplest way to demonstrate it is to look at the industrial revolution. Vast amounts of people were put out of work because automation made the economy more efficient. $1bn industries, as you say, were permanently shrunk to $100m industries, left right and center.

All those workers displaced eventually found employment elsewhere, and it turned out to be one of the largest economic booms in history.

Would you rather we still weave our sheets by hand employing 100 times as many workers as the modern textile industry, each one costing $1000?

Because that's exactly the consequence of your line of argument.
My friends is doing his masters on homomorphic encryption, it's a fascinating subject. But like the article said, the current demand for information storage/manipulation is directly proportional to current demand for information.
Know what? I'm most interested in events near me. Apparently that can't be done with the current interface.
Because it's a bad way of living your life.

And the non-judgmental, you're all special snowflakes, do whatever, is also.
People that write tools that are interacted with via a command line interface are only hurting themselves. I just can't comprehend why this trend is on the rise. It is 2012.
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Firstly, you can't have something that's "very unique" - either it's unique, or it isn't.[1]

Secondly, it's not made "unique from any other subway station" - it's made different from any other subway station.

Thirdly, I wonder if he really has checked them all.

Finally, it's not the case that "EVERYONE trips on it." I counted at least 14 who didn't, and that's in a film specifically intended to show that "everyone" does.

========

[1] Yes, I know that some claim you can't be "more wrong" because "wrong" can't be compared, and that others claim you can compare "wrong" - "Of course it is; it's a little wrong to say a tomato is a vegetable, it's very wrong to say it's a suspension bridge."[2] Still, I claim that something can't be "very unique".

[2] Big Bang theory, Series 2, episode 20.[3]

[3] Also from BBT (Pilot, 2007 (and relevant)):

Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs?
Leonard: Not really.
Sheldon: If the height of a single step is off by as little
as two millimetres, most people will trip.
Leonard: I don’t care. Two millimetres? That doesn’t seem right.
Sheldon: No, it’s true, I did a series of experiments when I was
twelve, my father broke his clavicle.
Leonard: Is that why they sent you to boarding school?
Sheldon: No, that was the result of my work with lasers.
Apple ask everyone to turn of wifi at WWDC to make their iPad work and that is awesome.

Live, two-way audio/video-streaming from AR computer glasses during a freakin' parashoot jump over regular cellular networks however, that is not really that much of a big thing?

Excuse me. What standards are you applying to whom where?
The flash video seems to overlay itself on the event popup - Chrome 21/Linux
Actually, they delivered two - it shipped with iOS 3.2 and has been supported with iOS 4 and 5. But I agree it's annoying that it's not supported with iOS 6, especially given that the 3GS has a slower processor and the same RAM and will be getting it.
Yes, sure, but why design a language that way? Who is it helping? No language implementer WOULD do that to an int. My development group avoids bool like the plague, using int instead - it has well-defined size, behavior and sensible warnings.
Now that Intel has announced Xeon Phi, I dare to hope that "gpu programming" will become an artifact of the past, so "open-source drivers" will become a moot point anyway. (Xeon Phi runs linux as a local OS.)
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Project Glass is interesting ... but this demo didn’t show anything new.

But when Apple copies Android's notification center (which has now been massively bumped in JB) that is a huge thing and everyone is up in arms about what sort of geniuses the people at Apple are.

Sure.
Well, actually, it feels like Nvidia deliberately refused to participate in this, as the price, which they requested for porting the driver sounds ridiculous.

I think they named the sum knowing that chinese will refuse to pay.
As an anecdotal comment, i visited The Gambia in West Africa a few years ago and was surprised to discover that one area of town is officially called "Traffic Lights". They were the first set installed in the country in 2001.
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This is great. The more governments, companies, and other organizations demand open-source drivers from their hardware vendors, the greater the benefit will be to society. Virtually everyone benefits from more hardware devices being more compatible and easier to integrate with each other.
I was impressed a while ago when a CEO actually named himself the "janitor" Check out:

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The arguments are valid here, not one more 'Zuck I HATE YOU, remove timeline' when actually timeline does not make any difference unless you are stalking some one every day :))

I like the idea of the news feed filter algorithm. Just implementation is not the best. The only way to 'fix' it is just to change friend status (acquaintance, friend, close friend, etc). But... I am not sure if the algorithm can be improved actually. It determines whether to show or not by how much do you interact with some one on facebook (more or less). And it's the only way to determine whether you might be interested or not. Because believe me, you wouldn't be happy if you could see what everyone is posting if you have 200+ friends.
That's a really cool story. He saw something needed to be done, so he did it. That's the kind of person I want to work with.
It's fairly common in financial circles and it means "million", ie 10^6. In the same vein, MMM can mean 10^9.
You have been seen as a "mafia state" like that for at least a century -- American multinationals (with government support) have left behind a wide swath of destruction in the South and Central America. The only thing that's new is American influence and control extending that far outside the new world.
I love it. I love how it warns me that to make the meeting on other side of town I need to be going in 10 minutes.

Because without asking it used my calendar, the GPS, Google Maps and calculated how long it would take for me to get to my next meeting.

This is pretty sweet tech. This is above anyone else on the market right now.
Yeah, the adoption is pretty good, definitely compared to Jython / JRuby. Multiple conferences dedicated primarily to groovy / grails (gr8conf US coming up on Minneapolis on 30-31).

I think Grails is driving a lot of adoption, but I also see it popping up in vendor products that need a scripting language or DSL that integrates with Java easily. Neo4J and Cloudify (Gigaspaces product) come to mind as recent examples.
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This is what many people use facebook group for. To keep in close contact with a group of like-minded individuals.
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It just goes to show that openness is more agile - if your code is open source then it can be repurposed quickly, by the people that need it _now_, to provide the results they want.

Whereas if your code is a massive blob then your developers are the bottleneck to any new functionality or usage.

If your code is your product, then that's manageable. But when your product is the hardware, and the code is there purely to make it functional, then retaining that level of control is counterproductive.
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On-page interaction does not require a templating language with logic. You can just as easily calculate the required values in your javascript and then pass the objects on to Mustache. That's a tangential point.

I fully agree with you that having some logic in a template language has its appeal. At first glance it sounds like a good idea (oh, I don't have to go back to the code to calculate that value, nice!) However, as I said, it's a slippery slope and depending on where you and your project end up, you may pay a dire price for that. In the end, inevitable, some part of your logic ends up in the template. (Been there, done that, been burnt)

Mustache/Handlebars allows for most of what you want - reuse things, split things into parts (templates can include other template) without including logic and thus creates a barrier that you cannot cross. It forces you to adhere to best practices.
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So the punishment for murder is...public shaming?
Where/When can I get it ?
You can license the NVIDIA driver source. I've worked at two companies that have done so.

Sounds more like NVIDIA didn't agree to China's terms but it's hard to tell through this layer of irrelevant open source drama.
> And I'm right, am I? I mean I'm not WRONG or something? Please someone validate my beliefs which I portray on the internet. I desperately need this!!!

I think that was supposed to be ironic. I think. Regardless, that's how it came off to me too. I still have no Facebook account, and I'm not getting one. If you're unhappy just leave, no need to make a big fuss out of it.
Is there any updates on the ifttt api? When is the ETA?
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Considering that the foundation of our realities is information, it seems foolish not to educate the masses on how to manipulate it efficiently. Here we have a cheap, general purpose information transforming machine and yet we have dimwits arguing that it's not so important to learn how to use them. The only other things which have transformed society as much as these useless machines are writing and the printing press. But we don't ask anyone to learn how to write, now do we?

To put it another way, knowledge is power. Having the ability to use a machine which provides access to, for all intents and purposes, unlimited knowledge is of paramount importance to society in the long term. It's just as important as literacy.
Banner, the software quite a few universities use for student record management and other things, has migrated from PL/SQL to a Groovy on Grails system in their next version so that will push a bunch of people to learn Groovy.