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Working from home is a popular topic for us engineers. Generally speaking there are two broad camps in this argument:

1. Those who want to work from home and argue largely from that position. They say they'll be just as productive, you can write code from anywhere, having a more flexible schedule will make them happier and more productive and so on; and

2. Those that think there is more to your job than the lines of code you write. In even small companies (maybe even especially small companies?) culture is important. Culture transmits largely by physical proximity. Osmosis if you will. There is value in team camaraderie, whiteboard sessions, going to lunch with colleagues, sometimes just sitting around and shooting the breeze about whatever.

I fall very firmly into camp (2). This also applies to splitting teams geographically (common within Google) and, all other things being equal, you're better off having your organization in N locations versus N+1 locations.

Raises and promotions are more a function of relationships than anything else. Not being there decreases visibility and diminishes relationships. Or perhaps it's just that those who basically just want to write code see no value in and/or spend no time on building relationships?

So I think if you found a group of likeminded people that just wanted to put their heads down and write code then they could probably work together as an effective distributed team but as soon as you're in the minority in that situation you're losing out and (IMHO) it's not what's best for a colocated team anyway.
True, but you still have to lift those big meaty legs of yours + the weight of that apparatus.
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That could have value. Did you take the time to study the matter and post a succinct explanation? I'd love to get a link to your post.
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#1 - Use cases can be chunked. The first iteration. There after it's all fit, wiggle, finish, adjustment. We have daily back and froths about "the other 90%" of effort. The PHBs want stickies for all the inevitable ancillary tasks that spawn from top level tasks. To me, it's just make work, the "process tax" that Yegge refers to.

#2 - I'd agree with you about "by sprint end" for unit tests and any other harnesses that devs can write. But real QA/test work? I just don't see it. When I've been in charge, the three areas (reqs, dev, test) are interleaved. Makes for nice feedback loops. If dev and test had their own sprints, with test trailing by a week or so, I could almost see that working.

#2b - I've never seen sprints finish nicely, where unfinished work (points) didn't carry over to the next sprint. Total fiction that anything gets "done".

With proper project management, imho, the scope of work is predetermined and things get dropped to meet a hard deadline, or the deadline is pushed. And the final acceptance testing (e.g. go/no-go process), without fail, takes two weeks. That's tacked on to the tail of when everyone has jointly decided that everything's "done". I've yet to see that kind of quality, rigor, professionalism using scrum.
Why not divide the background of the item and have one side play and the other add to queue?
Do you think they started out as straight-laced businesses with traditional project managers, and then arbitrarily decided to get rid of them after they became successful?

No, I think they each started out with one good idea that they executed well enough and I think each also had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time. They made great successes out of their respective founders' big ideas and their first funding rounds, but that was nearly a decade ago in Facebook's case and well over that for Google.

Today, these organisations have been considered among the most desirable employers for many of the best and brightest software developers of a generation. They have more money than they know what to do with because of those original successes, and they have thousands of very smart people working for them. No-one can credibly claim that they don't have vast and talented software development teams.

And yet, neither has produced an industry-shaking development in several years, never mind creating any new markets, and their original successes continue to bring in by far the lion's share of their revenues. I don't see how you can blame that on anything other than a lack of leadership and vision from the other parts of the organisation. The people who are supposed to be guiding and nurturing and co-ordinating just don't seem to be there, and it seems they're still trying to operate like that 30-person organisation, just scaled up by an order of magnitude or three.
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You're assuming that Apple definitely won't sue Samsung for S-Voice and other vendors' attempts.
It's how we deal with a non-native plant, but the interesting bit is the strange introduction frequency and odd spatial pattern of insects that kill and injure that particular plant.
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I like the colored navbar actually.

I did not know (do not believe) that the app store is a webview.
"giving a finite list of colours and unique names"

Exactly! I don't know why this isn't provided more often, at least as an option.
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Blackhat, greyhat, or whitehat?

The tactics are very different if you're trying to do a quick "pump-n-dump" compared to building a long-term company reputation. (With "greyhat" I guess being "play a bit loose with the rules until you've gained enough exposure that it's time to lower the risk of penalty…)

As always, the "right" answer is "great content + inbound links". If you can create a process to scalably generate both those things, you'll be on a winner.
Good question, and sorry I just saw this.

So we aren't including any bitcoin transaction fees by default. If you try to send a transaction below 0.01 it will never get confirmed without the fee, so we added this user interface improvement a few days ago which gives the option of including the fee if people want to:

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/26452774981/confirming-small-t...

Coinbase will make money more like an exchange down the road, 0.5% to convert money into our out of bitcoin, but once you have your money in bitcoin there are no transaction fees (it mentions this on the homepage, but admittedly it's still a bit confusing). I wish there was a better way to distinguish between an exchange fee and transaction fee (to the average consumer these may be the same thing, I'm not sure).

In general, I would like to abstract out the idea of btc fees to the average user (I think it's an unnecessary complication for someone new to bitcoin). It would be much easier to just say "no fees" - this is simple and shows a clear benefit of using bitcoin. If you have to explain to people that "sometimes there are fees, but they are a lot lower, etc" it loses some of it's punch. Right now we can do zero fees and transactions still get confirmed. In the future we may be able to do it by eating the cost and have this be a cost of doing business, but that is a decision for later.

Hope it helps.
The original intent of patents, long forgotten, was to limit the use of trade secrets. Trade secrets have the unfortunate property that the public state-of-the-art can be decades behind the private R&D. This was endemic during the times of guilds.

The reversion to a use of trade secrets, at least in software (because patents are largely unenforceable), is recreating some of the issues that patents were intended to avoid. In my own area of computer science, the private state-of-the-art is at least half a decade ahead of academia. This was the situation that patents were intended to avoid.
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It was clear which camp you fell into just by the way you defined the two.
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The disappointment is because of the minds that don't know of any EXPECTED discoveries.

But it's the unexpected that are the most exciting, no?
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No, they are a restraint on original creation. If your original creation is conceptually similar to something else filed with a bureaucrat, you lose your original work. If you are a small company, and someone claims that it's similar, then you probably loose your work regardless of whether it's similar.

Patents are neo-feudalism.
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> Your example of feeding in "sort=xyz" to produce the column name in the ORDER BY is also a pretty awful practice - I haven't seen that one in like a decade, but sure.

This still happens every day. Google how to do dynamic sorting and you'll find a hundred examples of it in PHP, and as unfortunate as it is, that's how a significant portion of code is authored.
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If there was anywhere near as much as is being discussed regarding some other countries, a cursory glance would suffice. Did you miss the bit where I said 'I won't say there's never any whatsoever, obviously'?
See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...

In particular:
"RLZ tracking when Chrome is downloaded as part of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships. This transmits information in encoded form to Google, e.g., when and from where Chrome has been downloaded. In June 2010, Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token is not present in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly or in any version of Chromium. The RLZ source code was also made open source at the same time so that developers can confirm what it is and how it works"

More details here: http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

Plus Chromium is open source, so you're free to check that it doesn't transmit to Google yourself.
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We have a tester who lives in another city from us, and I've managed to build camaraderie with him using nothing but skype IM, including breeze shooting and other non-work based activities. I have done the same in previous jobs, with people on the other side of the world. I don't think you need to be in the same room.
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How's your mobile capability? Are you tied into any Mobile specific exchanges? I'm guessing you're running your own ad server... is it performing well for Mobile devices?

Judging the by the screenshots, it looks like a pretty clean interface. It really surprises me how convoluted RTB UI's are when it's really not a complicated workflow.

Great job, very impressive! There's a lot of potential in this space...
Econtalk has some nice podcasts on IP issues, including patents:

Epstein on Property Rights and Drug Patents http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/02/richard_epstein.htm...

Boldrin on Intellectual Property
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The two parent comments from suresk and mechanical_fish are exactly right about the real, though unquantifiable benefits of being in close proximity to peers and bosses.

I work for a large organization with a big head office and dozens of smaller offices around the world.

I've received more than my fair share of promotions. However, of twenty two years in the same organization I've worked in eight different cities in three countries, eighteen years out of and four years in head office. Despite being consistently ambitious, every single one of my promotions was from my two stints in head office. And my organization prides itself in believing it has an uncompromisingly objective and merit based promotion process.

At best, rigorous reward systems will dampen the natural human bias toward the people you see every day. Humans are wired to be tribal and to coalese into groups. Plus, as the parent comments illustrate, there are actual benefits to being in close proximity that can't be replicated remotely. Were it not so, urban real estate would be no more expensive than rural and there would be no cities.

This is not necessarily a bug that needs to be fixed. Rather, it is a feature of the system to understand and use.

If ambition/money is high on your list of priorities, then work in close physical proximity to your peers and bosses.

If other things in life are higher on your list of priorities, accept that you are making a trade-off that is right for you. Work remotely and don't be surprised that the physical rewards fall disproportionately on those who work in court around the king. You have chosen different rewards.
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The two reasons I've cooked up for why an audio amplifier is on the unit:

1. The device is meant to grow a whole house audio network. Your main A/V system can run the main room, but your Nexus Q devices in your bathroom, your den, and your kitchen ought not all need full AV setups as well.

2. One of the main use cases is to offer a digital welcoming mat at your site to anyone who comes by. I'm not sure what the system capabilities are for the Nexus Q, but plenty of tablets and mobile devices have pretty respectable displays: what they lack is speakers, because speakers by their nature are bulky and weighty devices. Nexus Q solves the most problematic part of nomadic computing, adequate sound: the only part of media consumption that is by it's nature required to be a part of the room infrastructure.

There's a freebie reason as well: it's cost is close enough to free. The audio chip, TAS5713, is listed as $2.15 in 1k units. They probably had to spend that again to upgrade the power supply, for which 25 of it's available 35 watts are dedicated to audio, and most of that cost gets sunk in larger passive components. The binding posts are probably nearly a dollar. There's a tiny bit more board real estate, a couple more passive components, but those are pennies. The overall cost is, I maintain, slight.

Adding more power would've been problematic: bigger power supply, perhaps bigger PCB traces, and the unvented passive-cooling-cum-metal-casing would have needed to be revamped to handle the significant heat-load. After 25 watts, audio goes from being a single chip IC to requiring discrete components, namely cooled and dedicated power switching transistors. 25 watts was as most as could be squeezed in easily.

You mention amplifier speakers in your post, ot, but M-Audio AV40's would be my goto compare, and at 20 watts/channel they're A) are not much of an upgrade and b) no slouch in their class, having more watts than many many AirPlay devices. Amplified speakers also create a much more complex wiring scenario: instead of being free to wire speakers wherever, one speaker now wants wall power, and the other speaker has to chain off the first. With an integrated amplifier, speakers are free to be moved into whatever satellite position is desired.

12.5 watts is quite a lot of power. It sounds meek compared to the hundred watts of an AV amplifier, and indeed, it won't get ragingly loud on most speaker sensitivities, but it will be loud (buy a Sonic Impact T-Amp and find out for yourself! $35 awesome-sauce battery-powerable mini amp, highly recommended!).

I for one think the ability to easily throw up cloud powered bookshelf speakers wherever is really cool.
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This is a bummer for those who use Keynote as a wireframing tool. By sharing a Keynote file to iWork.com, clients could see and comment on the frames online and download the file in various formats.

After years of trying various options, I find Keynote by far the fastest option for creating wireframes. But if I want to keep using it after iWork.com shuts down, I have to export all pages as .pngs and then share them online with a service like Invision or Notable, which takes a lot more time and is less convenient for the client.
This concept of "on-the-ground transhumanists" interests me. Are there actually transhumanists who actually work on building transhuman stuff?
The GPL is the reason it's easy to replace the firmware on a consumer router. If the GNU userspace tools were BSD licensed then DDWRT, OpenWRT and Tomato would not exist. It's actually one of the best examples of the GPL's power to allow people to do use their devices to their fullest potential.
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> ads on every night telling people to talk to their doctor

One wonders how many doctor-hours per year are spent
by the consumers/patients initiating such conversations.
Hence the "stupidly embarrassing" bit. All the more mad at myself because I knew better -- the old "hands on the steering wheel" rule (although in that case I wasn't driving). Not sure if preemptively rolling the window down would make them nervous; I'd tend not to do that. I'd think leaving the engine on would make them nervous, too.
CISSP is worthless and the people who boast about having one are even more so. It's the epitome of achievement without accomplishment.
It's very difficult to weigh each point on its 'own merit'; for example, if someone is writing an article on diet, it's relatively easy for them to construct a very impressive looking article, each citation of which is genuine and does indeed match the description, and which is logical - but also completely wrong because they cherrypicked the few dozen results which supported the thesis and ignored all the other studies and meta-analyses which reveal the thesis is complete bullshit.

For example, take dual n-back. Just with the materials in http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ I could construct a case that dual n-back is a fantastic intervention which will boost children's grades, help cure ADHD, help addicts kick drugs, increase your IQ, etc - or I could construct a case that it's a statistical artifact contributed to by financially compromised researchers which has failed replication and ought to be kicked to the trashheap of history.

Both would be true if you 'evaluate of my points on their own merit'.

When someone says that him believing in pseudoscience X reduces their confidence in any of the articles on topics Y or Z, they are quite correct. They have learned reasons to think that he left evidence out, or twisted it, or didn't look for counter-evidence, or engaged in any of the myriads of sins of omission or commission that lead a reader to falsehood.
> Windows-using web designers, if such people still exist: I’m sure there’s something you can do to enable high-DPI mode on Windows

Is the snark really necessary here? Why so mean?
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This article is ridiculous. The author essentially suggests that we pander to his demographic (see footnote 1, "Windows-using web designers, if such people still exist") for a non-existent reason, namely, that "you may not realize quite how bad it looks when any graphical assets show at 1X.". This is the type of irresponsible FUD that I would not expect to find here. Show me a website that looks worse on a Retina display, and I'll show you a crappy rendering system.
It's a bit difficult. I was lucky to have a friend who worked at Cheezburger who clued me into their remote worker policy. We've got people all across the country and fly to Seattle every quarter for a week long team building.

Message me if it sounds interesting as I believe we are hiring right now.
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Definitely a pretext. NYC would not expend all those resources just to convict someone of disorderly conduct (which is only a misdemeanor offense).

And believe it or not, there are real crimes happening in NYC which the DA might want to spend a bit more time on, instead of going after protesters. As a taxpayer, I'd be very curious to know why my money is being spent on this.
As is often the case, the best solution is a compromise. A policy of allowing 2 or 3 days/week of working from home would allow for "real" work to get done from home (not to mention the gas and time savings) while also having the advantages of physical proximity.
But retina display is the future. (At least I hope so.)
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If the thing would ship. I ordered this thing weeks ago, and the Apple store ever since then has said "ships in 3-4 weeks." Every week I go to check on my order for the retina MBP and it says this.

They either really dropped the ball on manufacturing this laptop or it's the best selling Mac ever, because they just cannot ship any.
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It may be, but no website I've looked at on the iPad 2 looks better or worse than it already looks like on a non-retina desktop/laptop.

EDIT: Gah, I meant the iPad 3. Slip of the finger or slip of the mind, make of it what you will.
> No respectable developer would ever ship an app that wasn’t extensively tested on real devices.

I find this offensive. You are knowingly mixing facts up to support your argument.

Testing on a real device is entirely different thing than testing on a real device with Retina.

Your whole article is about testing on Retina devices, and suddenly an argument about something completely different. (Testing on real devices.)

What's up, do you think your readers are stupid?
Between the Mac, Cinema Display, iPad, iPhone/Touch and now a Retina Display/Mac -- being a web designer is pretty hard on the wallet these days me thinks.

And that's just Apple.
I don't know how to get a decent link from Amazon but "FiiO D3 Digital to Analog Audio Converter" works pretty well. $30.

There's a bug in some AppleTV where it has to be connected to a TV on boot or there's random noise from the digital audio out, but the easy solution is just keep it on (it only draws like 1 watt idle anyway). Hook up to a dedicated amplified speakers and you have wireless audio whenever.
> I'm pretty sure that everyone who decides to work from home did so for quality of life reasons rather than climbing the corporate ladder reasons.

Which alone might cause the observed penalty: by opting for telecommuting, you are indicating you are a slacker and disloyal.