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"You are missing a HUGE opportunity to extend and control your brand."

Why? The article doesn't touch on this. Craigslist is already an extremely successful business. It's not a small startup looking to gain traction. An API has pros and cons, and Craigslist has a lot to lose. I would expect the author to show how the pros could outweigh the cons.
Why not just bake libflv support into Firefox / Chrome <video> tags?
Yes, the Youtube HTML5 player is bad, but the Safari plug in mentioned (I think it only works on Mac) is great. It's called youtube5 btw
I'm really skeptic, I can assume that unfortunately there was some sexual harassment but the stuff reported in the article/book seems too much. Where are the lawsuits?

This sounds very, very yellow. Probably just trying to score a lot of sales without much problem to exagerate/lie.
Seems like a case of muckraking to me. I have several friends at Facebook and they all say that Facebook takes abuse very seriously. You can be disciplined (up to and including termination) for calling something gay, and similar. Perhaps at one point it was like this, but I seriously discount this as anything reflecting present culture.

And no, I don't work for Facebook.
There is the downside to this, in that by forcing rapid adoption of web video via <video> they are going to force h.264 on everyone and if libavc ever gets attacked by mpeg open source video software is doomed. Why can't we just use ogv :(
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That is correct. This is primarily a bulk-load system. There are setups (as mentioned in the smilliken's comment above), where it can be used for real-time inserts, but requires more hands-on setup and configuration.
"At one point in the tell-all, Losse says female employees were instructed to wear T-shirts with Zuckerberg’s face on them in honor of their wonderboy boss’ birthday. Male employees were told to wear Adidas sandals, she said, a nod to the CEO’s favorite footwear.
To Losse, the order reeked of sexism and cult-like worship"

Is it just me or does this sound more like a funny prank than anything else?
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Except one thing that bugs me most on these "responsive" sites. The images are still loaded at their full resolution. Even when I reloaded after I resized the tab. Tried private tab to avoid cache - result still the same - 1600px wide image loaded.

It's working really nice and all but I think the point of responsive sites is to make them usable on small, mostly mobile, devices. And we still live in a age when the mobile bandwidth is something to worry about. I'd imagine the battery life would suffer a bit too.
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so only six more quarters to go

Given the current trends, taking into account that BB10 has been delayed yet again, and extrapolating that into even more obsolete phones which will sell even worse than they do now, it will be a miracle if RIM is not bankrupt within that timeframe.

Just look at the numbers. They can't afford to keep bleeding like they do now for that long. And they certainly can't afford the increased bleeding the lack of BB10 will cost them.

Six quarters is way too late. If noone has bought RIM within four, there will be no saving them.
I find the layout awful for a print version.
And the PDF document has chapter links that lead to the website, rather than the page in the PDF.

I can live with that if I generate a PDF from web content, but I'd expect a book to have a better print version and a better quality PDF version...
Sign = physically sign? Isn't hitting "I accept" legally binding?
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Probably because it is a rocket engine and not a jet engine?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_%28rocket_engine%29
RIM says they're going to launch next year, when the iPhone 5 launches, but I think it's a stalling tactic. They surely don't want BB10 going up against Apple's 5 and still looking inadaquate.

Unless someone buys RIM, it's dead man walking, and they know it.
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This just gives a different error message. It does not help to find the error source.

The programmer would probably just try to fix it via str(u"a")+"s" or u"a" + unicode("s").
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What's Adobe's long term strategy here? I'm happy to see it go, but this seems like it would just be hasten the demise of Flash on the internet. I haven't been following this, but assumed that Adobe benefited from the ubiquity Flash on the desktop. Have they just chosen to get out of this market altogether and concentrate their efforts elsewhere? Or is there a master plan I'm not seeing?
Python3 and Perl6 can both fuck off.

I look forward to the day PyPy is considered the real Python. Look at PyPy's homepage (http://pypy.org/), doesn't even mention Unicode as a significant feature. Instead it talks about speed, security, concurrency, and compatibility with the current real Python (2.7.2) - all the things real Python programmers care about and expect the Python developers to focus on.

PyPy may be some way off but I want to find the developers and hug them for setting the right vision and trying.

I just donated $50 and if you hate Python3 you should too.
I've logged a bug with Mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769573
That's hardly the point - the original poster was complaining about the default browser on Windows 7.
Uhh, how would you make a linked list with a circle in it with the Haskell List type?
Kevlar is definitely not strong enough. Can't find the data on UHMW (Spectra) in the right units.

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Nice, some competition with Amazon should be good. Their previous cloud projects were too esoteric. In order to use them you had to program to their API, and how usage translated to billing was a little obscure.
No such thing on Craigslist. You can go straight to the RSS feed.
There is not really "a problem" here. It's just that there was a time where the consumer market offered a perfect sweet spot for my needs and it's not going to be there anymore. I haven't tried out the any dockable tablets but would you agree that it seems like a bit of a botch-up just to get what a netbook delivers at a much lower price tag?
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I'm more curious to see if Google, or users, will try to use the Chrome launch on iOS as a wedge into getting Apple to open up the OS to allow alternative defaults than Apple's own.
It's easy to dismiss Now as yet-another-notification-app. But as PG as said:

Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea.

http://paulgraham.com/organic.html

The problem that Google is focused on is reducing the number of clicks required to get you relevant information now... from one to zero. It's a problem that Google Now might not solve, but somebody eventually will.
Too much fluff, too less technical information :/

Also, do they contribute their improvements to OpenSSL back or at least have a public repository where others could take a look?
This.

If you have any interest in manufacturing, IMO the turbine blades in a jet engine are incredible.

Without going into loads of detail, 2 points that blow my mind:

1) Due to compression in the intake (and as per the ideal gas law D_Alex mentions above), the temperature of the air when it reaches the turbine is higher than the melting point of the turbine blades. The workaround for this is the blades are made with hollow channels through which cold air is blown, keeping them just cool enough.

2) You may be familiar with 'creep' - where materials under stress gradually relax to relieve that stress, even when the stress is lower than the yield stress of the material. Creep is made worse by (i) repeated stress cycles and (ii) high temperatures. In a typical jet turbine engine, you have blades spinning at 10000 rpm, at high tempratures, with a few microns clearance to the edge of the turbine housing. If they were to elongate and rake the edge of the housing at that speed ...
Be that as it may, I don't want to succeed and have my friends and family think of me as a hustler - an $80k job as a programmer beats that. Being CEO is, and ought to be, far more respectable. We should be happy that it's as "easy" as it is for the guy who only has $500 to his name and invests it in drugs to sell, gets customers and builds his capital until he's balling. I have some "respect" for that business. We're lucky ours doesn't depend on being illegal, or even ripping anyone off - we should try to hold on to that respect and build it. If nothing else, so that other people will consider this path more seriously, and so we can be taken more seriously as compared with other business people who didn't build up from scratch.
You know you can have as many Google accounts as you want, right? You could create a new gmail account just for this, to try it out.
my account got suspended for 24 hours. its very bad. no recourse is the biggest problem. I had 2 phase auth turned on, dont spam, etc, etc.

google = an algorithm stomping on a human face.. forever!
> If Google needs to have some of my money in order to ensure that the relationship is, well, sensible, so be it. Give me that option.

What makes you think these cloud servers are going to be free? They may have a free teir like amazon for messing around with stuff, but I assume they are going to charge money for any serious use.
The lack of an OmniBox is what disturbs me the most about Safari on iOS right now. The most common use case being entering one of the boxes, realizing I don't have the URL in my head and need to search (or vice versa). Also, Chrome's OmniBox let's you search your history at the same time as you search the web and enter URLs... priceless.
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I do agree with you : mono is a subset of .NET,
Cross platform compatibility is not the main reason for using Mono. I really like the C# and the .NET ecosystem.
I use a native UI for each platform, but the core code is the same. I'm not a big fan of those generic UI toolkit ...
Safari does that all the time as well.
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Or if you really like Python 3 (as I do!) you can donate those $50 to Python 3 support in PyPy: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html
Without real life performance benchmarks, price comparisons mean little. If a calculation that takes 8 hours pr data set on amazon, takes 5 hours on a similar Google instance, then Google will end up being is cheaper despite having similar pr hour prices.
Exactly. Every Apple, Samsung and HTC product is produced in China. It's not hard to get things done right there, as long as you cover your bases.
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> For example "a" + 1 is an error, why is u"a" + "s" not an error?

"a" + b"s" is an error in Python 3.
Every country is not the US. There are still a lot of countries where the people have some say in what goes on and fight against such laws getting created in the first place.
That's a poor comparison, though. Engelbart, in his genius, was pushing the boundries of technology itself. If he was socially inept, it's irrelevant.

Google, in this example, is pushing the boundries of the application of technology. (Look! You can Skype as you skydive!)

As technological progress continues, we're going to find wonderful uses for new technology that we've never thought of before -- and we're going to find horrible uses as well. We'll say to ourselves later, "What were we thinking?" Certainly our instinct is to be shy of new uses of technology, but that doesn't mean such an instinct is always wrong.
Thanks for the feedback, that's been one of the most requested features and it's on our list...
Although the fonts in Chrome render very poorly on my machine whereas in IE9 they look great...
Once you have a few hundred users I assume you'll get the same support level my employer gets.
Nostalgia aside, the most important part of the (scarce) article is

> “The Minitel was innovative for about 20 minutes, and died due to where it failed: by its centralization that never allowed it to evolve technologically: because it was under the control of France Telecom, for whom that control translated into huge profits.”

> “It is true that the Minitel taught French people how to use a keyboard and how to connect to online services,” he added. “But it taught them the opposite of what is the most important lesson about the Internet: its universality, and the decentralized character of its architecture.”

> Zimmerman now worries that legislative efforts to restrict the Internet will be similar to a “return to the Minitel”—in other words, a walled garden where many Internet users don’t stray beyond sites like Google or Facebook.
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I think there's a key point that hasn't been mentioned yet, that there may just be no need to deliver JavaScript to IE 6-8 at all. A lot of smart devs are already taking a similar approach with CSS, serving up a minimal 'print' stylesheet for oldIE [1] [2].

- If you're using JS for progressive enhancement on an otherwise static site, e.g. form validation, pjax, image carousels, tabs, animations... simply drop that JS for 6-8. Form validation should just round-trip to the server as it has to do anyway, pages should just link normally, other visual enhancements can be dropped. That's the progressive enhancement way after all.

- If you're trying to build a single-page web app for IE 6-8 and this is your reason for wanting jQuery to work, then you're going to find those browsers have JS engines that are incredibly slow and a JS-heavy web app for oldIE is not going to deliver a good user experience even if you get it to 'work'. I think frankly this is an unrealistic goal from the get-go. The pitiful speed of JS on these browsers is something that does seem to be often overlooked.

If you absolutely have to push a single-page web app to a corporate customer stuck on oldIE, Chrome Frame is a very sensible option. This has served us well and we've yet to encounter a customer who complains, as long as you give them plenty of forewarning and explanation. It can be tied down to only trigger on your site, so sysadmins really have nothing to gripe about with respect to FUD about attack vectors etc.

Anyway I'm not saying 'you definitely shouldn't be serving JS to oldIE' I'm just putting it out there as something to consider, as usual in this business there's no single answer.

[1] http://css-tricks.com/ (serves a print stylesheet for oldIE - possibly just IE6 I forget)

[2] http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/about/universal_inter...
Why would they? I would be afraid of some service taking away parts of my offerings. I have no idea how the API would still direct to craigslist but imagine:

E.g. service A puts up a nice website for nicheB using the API. ServiceA gets super successful and becomes the #1 go-to site for nicheB. ServiceA lives on without the API. Craigslist lost nicheB.
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In other words, Engelbart was "inventive", while Google is "innovative".
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That's right. You could go to any post office, and they would give you a Minitel, for free. The main use of the Minitel was as a digital phonebook, that's why PTT (Poste, Téléphone et Télécommunications) was made responsible for distributing them. My dad still has one.
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Nice argument for building products for leads users - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_user
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Thanks for the comments and don't get us wrong, we fully agree that everyone's privacy should be respected. This is why we started this endeavor by consulting a crack team of lawyers and by surveying a lot of users to understand where the line is drawn by both.
We went for the less invasive option, and when all was said and done - almost all we did that exposed any 3rd party details was to show you the name of the person that is calling you. After all, if they are calling you they either want to share their name with you anyway or they are shady to begin with.
Again no problem with having clear directions and following them. Huge problem with arbitrary, terminal decisions that come without dialogue or an opportunity to understand what is deemed wrong.
makeCircle rst = rst ++ makeCircle rst

The thing is that a circular list is actually an infinite list in Haskell. ;)
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It's a mindset that may (or may not) be prevelant in Canada, and it looks like a heckuva interesting book, so I see lots of value in his comment.
No, I'm talking about ad-hoc reports over large datasets.

For example, find the original source of all users who bought more than 6 different items over any 6 week period during the last 5 years, then find every web page loaded by IPs form the same subnet as those users in the same time periods.
I think it should be dot com - dot con sounds fishy !
Perhaps reading the RSS feed doesn't give them permission to reuse and republish the feeds information. PadMapper didn't seem to have trouble getting the data, the problem was that CraigsList filed a cease & desist.
I feel the article comments are a bit unfair. It demonstrated Google+ (& Hangouts) very well.

Simple concept of real-time video streaming using a web enabled Glasses looks easy, but its hard to do.

And, a good PR is always a big win.
"It's just a vast array of disorganised links, or more precisely, a whole bunch of vast arrays of disorganised links, with no sign of any rational information architecture or even basic scannability."

What a ridiculous statement. Of course it's organised. Want to download something to extend a Microsoft product line? Click "Downloads" and choose the product line. Need Support? Click "Support". Want to buy a Microsoft product? Click "Store".

Which use cases exactly are you imagining are not supported by this "vast array of disorganised links"?
I'm still on the fence as to which is more correct, though I do find that tau eliminates a lot of the silly brainfarts I used to make at school.

But I do think this is actually quite important. Mathematics has a few 'special' values including; 0, 1, i, pi/tau and e, special because they turn up everywhere, so it'd be nice to know which of pi and tau is the 'correct' special number.
Unconvinced.
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Excellent story. I think people in general overestimate the time they have available to do things and underestimate the time it takes to actually do it; which inevitibly leads to situations where you think you can make up for "lost" time by sprinting forward, tomorrow. The most valuable lesson I learned about productivity is that small actions, done now, can lead to huge productivity gains tomorrow. The hard part of course is to subconsciously justify to yourself that those small actions are actually making significant progress towards your end goal. It's important not to get discouraged and keep charging ahead.

What's more insidious are those "busy working" tasks that can consume your day where you actually feel productive, but haven't made any real progress towards where you want to be.

There's an excellent TED talk by Daniel Goldstein about the present and future self; highly recommended: http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_goldstein_the_battle_between...
I think the Design is good on first sight but doesn't carry over with time. It is the excitement in graphics but little in design philosophy. Compare to Android 4.0 and Apple.
Why should I have to mess with something like that? This is an authoring issue, not a reading one.

Like someone else said, a company's attention to detail shows up pretty much everywhere.
Yes, it's from Snow Crash. I don't remember the whole description, because the Gargoyle included various additional modules/gadgets and one of the points was that it was odd-looking from outside.
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> a long-term loss of ability to communicate with others who weren't taught that way.

I'm not sure that the difference between pi and tau is severe enough to cause a communication problem. Conversion is trivial and anyone familiar with one can learn to convert to the other in about ten seconds.

Existing problems with conversion from older systems into metric make a pi<->tau conversion insignificant - and even then people manage to deal with it just fine.
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Wondering if Blitz Agency designed this, they're known for doing design/web work for Microsoft.

http://www.blitzagency.com/
Off topic, but can you add the ability to check off completed videos instead of having to watch them within the website? I usually play KA videos at 1.5x or 2.0x on youtube, but then I don't receive any points :(

Thanks for everything by the way.
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You know, that's exactly the kind of response you'd expect from a cluster of reps fronted as "Jeff Barr" ;))) (jk, jk)
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