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>Because it would seem to me that your company _invented_ a tradition like that, it's just that you didn't like that it wasn't invented from the guy sitting next to you.

You don't seem to get it.

The whole thing about culture is that it must not be _invented_, it must be _organic_ (grassroots).

That "it wasn't invented from the guy sitting next to you" is the WHOLE bloody point which makes it not a culture but some lame pointy haired idea in the vein of "this culture thing sounds nice, build us one by Wednesday".
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It's like it triggers some primitive release of testosterone which results in developers competing to fit the most functionality in one regex filled line of craziness. Hilarious to watch. Hell to debug.
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It's weird because the iPhone 4 pioneered the "Retina" marketing and didn't need "Retina ready" websites.

But I'm not sure about "High DPI" either. I feel bad for future customers who have to decide between (crappy) HD and (good) High DPI displays. There simply is no good term for "devices where one CSS pixel maps to four physical pixels".

Then again, at least we don't need to worry about "High DPI" becoming obsolete in the same way as 16-bit "High Color" has. Or is there any conceivable scenario where we'd need higher-than-Retina DPI? Cyborg eyes?
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> Ironically, by doing rapid releases poorly, we just made Firefox look like an inferior version of Chrome. And by pushing a never-ending stream of updates on people who didn't want them, we drove a lot of those people to Chrome; exactly what we were trying to prevent.

To me, this is the most important. Usually, people prefer the original to the copy...

IMO, trying to catch up with (or just copy) Chrome all the times gives the messages to the users that they should use the original...
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Probably depends on your application. You may also see slower construction time if you are creating thousands of objects.

I think which to use depends on whether you believe private methods/variables are helpful or not. Some argue they are unnecessary and it's better to keep everything public. Some like to use a naming convention like an underscore prefix on private items, but declare them publicly.

You could also argue that private items are problematic if you start composing classes from other classes by extending. Then the new methods can't access the private state because they're in a different scope, whereas if they were on the prototype they could find it through `this`.

I've used both approaches but nowadays tend towards the prototype style as that seems to be the more accepted.
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OpenCV is not too difficult to setup, but is not as accurate w.r.t. face recognition -- it is not OpenCV's fault (in fact, it is an amazing project, thanks to folks who contribute to it!) -- the accuracy has lot to do with the size and breadth of the training data.
Don't think of big companies as a one, gigantic and monolithic culture. The fact is that inside big companies there are lots of departments, and they can be quite different one for the other...

I had this experience with different big corporations, where department A is a really nice place to work and department B is awful... There are some shared things, of course, but it could be different enough to make a huge difference...
This is balanced by the fact that Apple has an incredibly strong second-hand market.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of closed source with "Open APIs".
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We aren't talking about e-waste in general.

We are talking specifically about Apple. What evidence do you have that Apple is knowingly letting children be exposed to toxic materials. It's a HUGE claim to make.
Good point. I once thought I could get a cheap Mac second hand.

Boy was I wrong.
The problem with mobs is that within a mob a lot of subtlety is lost. So when weighing the relative advantages of one thing which has diffuse, gradual, hard-to-define benefits versus another thing which has concrete, blatant, and immediate benefits the mob will almost invariably pick the second one. And this is a big problem for companies because as a company gets larger and larger it stops being a single group of friends or acquaintances and becomes, essentially, a mob.

Elements of healthy corporate culture such as trust are easily traded off by the mob for the seemingly superior "accountability" of micro-management, for example.

And you see the same patterns in everything at a big company. Ever notice how internal tools in a big company are typically of very shoddy quality? That's because the pain of poor tooling is diffuse and spread out over time while the effort required to create better tools would be immediate and concrete (representing some opportunity cost to develop some shipped feature or such-like). And the same calculus applies to refactoring and re-engineering efforts.

The same dynamics play out in society as large as well. It can be difficult to stand up and fight for individual rights such as freedom of speech or the right to own firearms in the face of strong, highly focused criticism. And if such rights hadn't been enshrined in the US constitution they would be that much harder to retain. Drug use being a perfect example. It can be a serious uphill battle to argue for the right to, say, use heroin and that such a right will lead to a better society. The same thing applies to, say, "letting" employees come into work at noon and work a 4 hour day sometimes.
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It is not quasi, it is just branding.
It is not BS, just a clever name with specific meaning—which is more specific than "high DPI". Where exactly does high starts and middle ends?
DPI does not take into account viewing distance, because it is all about linear measurement. "Retina" is about angular. If is is smaller than average eyes ability to resolve then it is retina, what's BS about that?
The worst thing about Firefox updates is that... they didn't work for me. On my Debian box, I had to manually download and install each new version. That, and Firefox crashing several times a day without giving me a clue about what happened, what I could have done to fix the issue and the bug-report process always failing to submit reports, made me think that Firefox's days as a better browser had long passed. I'm a happy Opera user now. Opera's update system is integrated into Debian's.
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huh? Under heavy usage FireFox is better at memory management than Chrome. The memory problems were, what, three years ago or more?
> The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates.

It isn't a free market however. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_Uni...
I find this sealed argument a bit strange.

In most cities there are shops that will replace cracked screens, do basic damage repair etc on iPads, iPods, iPhones etc. They seem to manage just fine with the units being glued.

I am guessing the issue is purely a cost one.
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It's not what you want, it's what you want them to be responsible for, that they can achieve success in:

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Basically - the Start; the Operations (customer facing, not dev obviously); the Intelligence (where the overlap is and the co-founders work closely together on sharing their perspectives).
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How hard would it be for the public to curate massive amounts of training data for an open features/descriptors project? Instead of an API, just download the nightlies and drop them into your project. I have a feeling such a tool would help audio/video applications significantly.
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I suspect that the vast majority of that is internal transactions, rather than real dollars entering or exiting the system.
Thank you. It is up for me now. Maybe you can direct me to the webapp/library/thingamajig that will put $100,000.00 into my account by the end of this week so I can pay off my debts and get off the street.
That is true but not because of the "lawyer monopoly" because of the bar requirement. Google has their own legal department and if required they could easily find a 50$/hour attorney to file everything they write in court...

In my opinion the real reason is that some areas of law like patent litigation require highly specialiced knowledge that is almost impossible to acquire outside of a few special firms. An unexperienced law school graduate trying to do patent litigation would be like a med school graduate trying to do brain surgery - it just isn't feasible without years of additional training by someone who is already an expert in the field. But while after medical school this is provided by the residency programs at hospitals, all that exists for lawyers is starting as an associate at specialized for-profit biglaw firms - who have no interest in "teaching" as many people as possible, but raher in maximizing their billing rates...
I have to remove and Android and an IOS because of the api shutdown. Kinda sucks.
When replacing a part the glue poses no issue. But recycling a part is different. The glue that is bonded to the glass etc can be difficult to remove, as is claimed above. Full removal is necessary to ensure the recycled product is not contaminated.

Moving beyond that, this raises the cost of recycling the glass, which in turn raises the cost of buying the recycled glass. This makes it a less attractive deal to manufacturers than new glass, thus giving companies less incentive to process the glass with glue.
This is entirely similar to my experience. I played when I was around 18 and created a hacky fix for skirts (they were an object attached to your body and when you sat down they would flow downwards still), this netted me a few hundred £ and started an enthusiasm for programming which has yet to stop. I still believe a 3D environment is one of the greatest ways to start learning object-orientated programming (due to the visual and tangible representation of your classes).
> the build and run was not working. I had to use the command line.

The latest Zeus beta includes support for the Go Build, Clean and Run commands via the Zeus workspace.

Here is a video that shows how it works: http://youtu.be/9MeyFdRe6xM

NOTE: Zeus is shareware, runs natively on the Windows and can run on Linux using Wine.

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I've heard it began when some shop assistants were, when selling an item, simply pocketing the payment for the goods themselves and never putting the money into the till. To counter this, the shop owners made it so that almost nobody would pay for an item with exact change, meaning that the transaction would have to be put into the till system in order to open the change drawer.

Interesting theory, no idea how accurate it is.
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Regardless, though, that means that the per user transaction rate is $700 per year on average - the incomes of people in a country also reflect multiple spends of the same dollar, which is why velocity of money is so critical to an economy and why free flowing credit is so important to make sure people and businesses keep spending even in the face of short term flow stop ups.

That's an incredible amount of spending per user, if true. Especially sine all of that money could be converted to real world cash with relatively little friction, unlike most in-game currencies.
The myth is the idea that you can fake corporate culture. That allowing and encouraging nerf battles, casual attire, and whatnot represents "corporate culture". Corporate culture is how people are treated, how work gets done, how communication happens, etc. You can pretend to have an open and "fun" corporate culture by faking it with bouncy castle parties every month, but at the end of the day if you still have a culture of scapegoating, blame, and problem avoidance then that's your true culture, not the fun and open facade.
We can feel the pain -- I know a lot of people who are using that API. I've won a few hackathons using it myself.

Thankfully, we're making an -- eventually open-source -- alternative to Face.com's REST API:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211271
This drive for any business to continually grow (and this isn't a Valley specific problem) is a topic I could rant about for hours. From my understanding growth is necessary in public companies so shareholders can make a profit (assuming the company isn't big enough to issue huge dividends). What perplexes me is why people cared about SecondLife growing if it never tried to go public (beyond the initial investors caring).
I really like the idea of "open source"-like project for training data. Such a concept would be applicable to almost any machine learning based project. Although there are academic datasets for most domains, they have their own limitations.

Often the secret sauce is not the algorithms themselves, but the availability of (massive/broad) training data.
>>This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade.

>But it hasn't been in other browsers and Opera has a very small percentage of marketshare. If you're BitTorrent and you want people using their client in the browser, this project makes a lot of sense.

Since contrary to most other opera innovations it was not copied as an extension for firefox, this is probably not something people really want or need.
Massive perl scripts that still lurk in our memories of the 90s were not the result of testosterone fueled one-up-manship brogrammer culture. They are the result of needing-to-get-the-report-generated-yesterday one-man-in-the-"computers"-department every-programmer-was-a-sysadmin and-every-sysadmin-knew-perl4-because-that's-all-that-shipped-with-HP-UX/Solaris/AIX (and you had to pay extra for the compiler to build something more modern) culture -- if a single person working in isolation can define a "culture", that is.

It's scripts like these that spawned the meme of replacing people with scripts; because that's what these massive scripts did: automated away entire departments, or negated the need to hire for a department all together. Which is important when you're a two man company and all of a sudden you've discovered you need to process $100k of credit card transactions from yesterday, and you better get started on it because there's already another $300k in transactions generated today. It's only one script, so there's no need for revision control. Damn, there's only one guy working on it, it can run out of his home directory. And of course, it was so successful, successfully a blackbox, he's asked to automate some other task, which is only related because there's some slight dependency, and, well, it's a dependency, so let's just put it in the same script we already run. Rinse, repeat.

Were these scripts terrible? Of course. But they were the work horses of the Internet and any company with two CPUs to rub together in the 90s. There's a reason that "perl is the duct tape of the Internet" was a saying in the mid- to late- 90s: because it was.

These scripts work perfectly fine if the person who wrote them and fully understand them runs them, yet inexplicably fall apart when someone who didn't write them run them (similar to [0]). These scripts can smell the fear of the new guy put in charge to maintain them. This is where heisenbugs roost and schroedinbugs become the stuff nightmares are made of, despite that they had most likely been running without issue for months or years since the guy who wrote them left.

[0] "Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine" http://catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141171
The top three reasons I switched to Chrome:

1. Memory bloat on Firefox. It's ridiculous that I have to restart the browser every day or more often just to get back more memory.
2. Plugin breakage. I'm sure it's better now but too little too late?
3. Separate processes for each tab and speed. Chrome FEELS faster even if it might not be, but it's amazing that if one tab crashes the whole browser doesn't.

#2 appears to be much better, but if Mozilla implements #3, then #1 won't see so bad and I would definitely consider using it again more often.
Yes, it is. David Smith is a great blogger (and wrote the original ESS and a first draft of an Introduction to R), but he's somewhat hamstrung by the nature of his job. That being said, the Task views are not a friendly interface unless you're familiar with the material already (i.e. by having used psychometrics or something before).
That means nothing. That just means that Apple will dispose of your stuff for you and give you that warm fuzzy feeling knowing that you "did the right thing". But is there any guarantee that your item doesn't just end up in a landfill?
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I can think of one problem with that. Not everyone likes to work on projects with their boss.

It can lead to important team members becoming subservient and afraid of speaking up. It can make other members change what they say to try and win points. And it can engender a culture of distrust.
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Wee! Time to work in an open solution.
I just bought "face-alt.org" (launchrock ready soon)

My idea is start with a similar API for face detection using Viola-Jones OpenCV algorithm fork (available in GitHub) and reduce the false positive/negative rate.

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"Nature makes its way"
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Of course, within the current justice system it will often make sense to hire an expensive lawyer. You are in a spending arms race with your opponent. The problem is this is a fault of the system.

We want a system that produces the fairest outcomes possible, and there's more than one way unfair outcomes can be produced. Under the current system, if I had a patent and Oracle infringed upon it, I would be denied justice because I don't have $100M of cash to pay to litigate.

If we had a German-style fixed fee system where any patent dispute could be resolved for a flat fee of (say) $20,000 I would not be denied justice. The rich would not have an advantage over the poor in court. On the other hand, this would deny Google and Oracle the opportunity to spend 5,000 times as much to get the dispute analyzed in (what was presumably) a great deal of detail. Is that a bigger injustice than the fact I couldn't receive justice at all?

Personally I see this Oracle/Google dispute as like Bastiat's parable of the broken window - this case represents a net loss to society of $100,000,000+ as surely as if Oracle and Google had broken one another's office windows to the value of a hundred million dollars.
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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation_City
I had the same experience. socket.io was too flaky. Also I didn't need Flash support etc. In the end when I started to fix socket.io code to suit my needs and to handle the weird errors, I simply hacked together something in Go that pulls messages from Redis and writes them to Websocket or as HTTP GET response. It has only Websocket and HTTP POST/GET support but who cares. The simpler the code for handling these things, the better. Maybe socket.io got too complicated or something.

In my experience, Websocket is not something to depend on. But it's really nice to have and should be used as an upgrade if available.
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I know a lot of people who will be shocked by the announcement that Face.com will be closing their API. If anything, it was amazingly easy to hack a project together with face.com, not to mention it's academic state-of-the-art recognition.

We've been working on this alternative internally for some time. While it's still a private beta, we hope one day to provide the same level of service that Face.com did.
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