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Agreed, execution matters.

But it's hard to miss the pattern - we have yet to see well run communist (not socialist) state. Every country that tried communism failed, and either are poor backwater countries (Kuba, North Korea), reverted to capitalism (Central and Eastern Europe), or kept communism on banners only, changing most of economy to capitalism under the hood (China).

We even have a few case studies, where one country is divided into 2 parts, and one half is made communist. Both in East/West Germany, and North/South Korea the differences are quite obvious.

Maybe it has sth to do with the system itself, after all?
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Lots of sales organisations do this but clearly for them, the volume of sales and customer churn are quantifiable. Quite how you rank 10 engineers in a non-emotional way is a bit of a puzzle.
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But Facebook is not a financial institution, and I would put the responsability in the user if financial data is on the news feed.

One size (of engineering practices) fit all mentality is not the correct approach either.
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Don't get me wrong a developer-led company in theory sounds like an awesome idea because the developers know the product better than any product manager ever could, but that isn't a good thing. I've worked with companies that have ultra-strict testing of features, where many eyes see and use the code before being pushed out and while that process works it can get in the way of progress when the politics come out to play.

The whole move fast, make mistakes mantra is a bad approach when you're a high-trafficked site like Facebook that risks jeopardising your revenue. A second of down time can be very costly. Knowingly pushing out half or completely untested features might be acceptable if you have a small user base, you're a new Internet startup or your logo says alpha or beta, but certainly not an established brand and company it's stupid.

This is all my own opinion, of course.
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Maybe what Apple really is doing is secretly undermining patent law. Perhaps there is a master plan behind it, and one day, bang, Apple will revolutionize the patent industry and make it user friendly.
> Our goal is to put in the hard work so that new languages will be able to have proper GC without having to roll a custom code generator or target the JVM or CLR.

As someone who has ambitions of writing a fun little language this is exactly what I want out of LLVM. Can't wait for your patches to hopefully get to mainline.
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This is poor from Wired, there's nothing in this patent that would seem to represent a threat to Google Glass. After all, this is not in any way a patent on Head-Mounted Displays as a concept, as those have been in use in militaries since the 1980s, which Apple's patent references.

The patent actually refers to an apparently novel method of handling peripheral vision in stereoscopic HMDs, in order to remove the 'tunnel' or 'box' effect and increase the comfort of wearing HMDs for a long period of time. At present this is something which no existing stereoscopic HMD (or indeed, Google Glass) handles to my knowledge.

It's also worth noting that existing stereoscopic HMDs, while impressive, have been known to cause discomfort such as headaches in some people when worn for more than a few hours.

So there doesn't appear to be any link to Project Glass which, it should be noted, has also been patented by Google. This is just linkbait.
Are there any open-source alternative similar to these products?
A system I work on has grown a lot over the last few years (data for 2000 users is now data for 50,000, rules have been added, etc).

Example story: We had an issue that was only coming up on production. I could not reproduce it in a dev environment. Worse, we didn't even notice it for a long time because it was a nightly job, and people were not reporting an absence of their notifications. (nightly job to email reports).

Finally got a dump of live data to dev system (it's a lot of data, so I don't pull it all the time). Someone had updated their email address to something invalid, and the system threw an uncaught exception in the middle of the loop (yay java). So... half the people were getting their stuff, the second half didn't - guilty record was a user with last name starting with L.

Yes, we should have prevented a bad email from going in with validation, but it slipped my testing (and the client's). It's just shocking to me today that professional people whose job it is to send and receive email can mistype their email. "john smith @yaho" is not valid, yes I should catch that, but someone typed that in. Adding on top of that was my own dynamic language background not mapping well to the JVM - one bad address in the middle of a loop doesn't just get skipped and logged, but the entire process now stops.

Multiple lessons learned from that one certainly (logging, validation, exception handling, etc) but... it would have been a lot longer for me to even consider putting in an invalid email address (it worked in dev - it was working for end users, etc) - pulling live data was the only thing that made it apparent.
If you read the actual patent, the references to CRTs are in the parts where Apple describes existing Head/Helmet-Mounted Displays, of which some do use CRT displays. All of Apple's drawings show LEDs or OLEDs being used.

And as I said before, I see nothing in this patent that applies to Google Glass.
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That's one way to view it, but realistically the typical Tarsnap client has not put all his/her eggs in one basket.
This does not patent HMDs, it only patents a way to deal with peripheral vision in stereoscopic HMDs. In fact Apple's patent explicitly describes existing HMDs, which have actually been around for decades.
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Just what we need, a way for Flash developers to be even more lazy.
It's required by the standard. Firefox complies with the standard, the other browsers don't, so there is nothing for Firefox to "fix".

http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#same-origin-restriction

Some related discussion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604421
Not so, the patent describes various options for dealing with peripheral vision, including projecting blurred shapes corresponding with the environment, 'frames' and solid colours.
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who is John Galt?)

It's Bydlostan, stupid.
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This was done as a lightning talk the night before the Web Rebels conference in Oslo in May. I was there, and Magnar completely killed it. Awesome stuff.
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On a touch screen, you only have two primitive gestures from which all gestures are composed: Taps and swipes. Composition may be chronological or simultaneous (multi-touch).

This space of gestures is so narrow, that any idea within it can be explored in minutes, therefore any method that just combines these primitive gestures would be obvious.

Additionally, taps can accidentally happen (also obvious), and multi-touch is cumbersome, therefore swiping is the obvious gesture to use for unlocking.
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I agree, especially sad.

The most productive and efficient mean for discussions is now pretty much just a binary deposit for porn and copyrighted material.

I still can't believe everyone got away with non-threaded forums vs. newsgroups when the Internets became mainstream.

Also, Google had its own share when they acquired Dejanews and broke the search.
This may be my favorite quote...

"Engineers handle entire feature themselves — front end javascript, backend database code, and everything in between. If they want help from a Designer (there are a limited staff of dedicated designers available), they need to get a Designer interested enough in their project to take it on. Same for Architect help. But in general, expectation is that engineers will handle everything they need themselves."

I actually like this idea. Building my own website as well as working as the senior engineer during my day job forces me to be involved in all facets of web developing. The jobs are not abstracted. You are expected to know what you're doing from the front end to the back end. If not, nothing get done in a timely manner. I like this method because the front end is tightly woven in with the business logic of the module that you're working on. In other words, you know what the code is doing inside and out.
I have the same problem and haven't found a solution that works and is easy to set up and manage. This looks promising, too bad I'm using Django and not RoR.

The combination heroku + S3 is awesome, but throw in fonts and firefox and it turns into an ugly mess.
Well the whoishiring account runs a monthly thread[1] where you can post your ads. I think this month's thread is still active. In any case come August and you have not found your designer, consider posting there. It works.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4184755
Yes, please! How do we make this happen?

Are you on GitHub? Can we move this conversation there?

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/109
Why post an article from 2010 that is significantly out of date?
NTP sends a special message to the kernel (using adjtimex), that boils down to: today you will insert a leap second. This isn't the same as clock drift, which gets smoothed out, it means a minute with a 60th second (in UTC) or with the 59th second happening twice (in POSIX). NTP servers need a leap second table ( http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Secti.... ), but most other systems only need to know the current delta between POSIX and TAI, and manage without a leap table.
>If apple not patenting things, someone other does...

No, not at all. Patents are only granted if there's no prior art and as such if apple uses anything (such as slide to unlock) in one of their devices without patenting it that also removes the possibility for anyone else to patent it.

>If Samsung or Google would lead the mobile Race...

There are already more android devices than iOS devices. Google also leads in various other internet spaces and isn't nearly as aggressive patent-wise as Apple.

You're right that patent reform is the real solution, but I don't think it's us who "dont [sic] get the reality of the whole patent thing" but you.
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I'm following that thread hoping that some day they will listen to their customers. I'm pretty close to switching to another CDN because of that. Do you happen to have any recommendations?
Startups want to make stuff, not patents
What's lazy about Flash development?
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See this question on Quora for some clarifications from people who are or have been Facebook employees (including myself). The article (particularly the original version) has a lot of inaccuracies, and is now around 18 months out of date.

http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-accurate-is-th...
And what about "one"? Quite archaic but gender neutral :)

And there is name "Maria" in Polish which is feminine name but I personally know guys bearing this name so maybe there is woman with name "Steven" - are you sure?
I dunno. "Does it have any basis in reality" sounds somewhat bizarre. Think of points in the board game Settlers of Catan (or choose your favourite): do they have any "basis in reality"? In some ways yes, in most ways no; and in any case there is something seriously wrong with the person who sees the points in the game as belonging to the material world, rather than belonging to a social field of interactions. Religions are about authentic living, meaningfulness, mindfulness, and reminding yourself with ritual of that which is most important. They are about experience for its own sake, especially experience which invokes the Other. I understand the temptation to reify Otherness in the supernatural and/or look for it in the material; in that sense I agree that some religions strive to have a basis in reality. I would not characterize it as a universal trend or a universally applicable question: just to take the three Abrahamic religions, it applies extremely well to Christianity, only imperfectly to Islam, and extremely poorly to modern Judaism.

If I knew a way to help people feel whole which was not religious, I would pursue that instead. The world does not need a new religion; it needs more authentic interaction, more Real People if you like. But questions of meaning and completeness and fulfilment seem to be deeply religious, which is why I sit down every night to meditate and/or write for an hour.
"they should follow the same legal requirements"

Perhaps. But they certainly do not have the restrictions of financial audit requirements and things like Dodd Frank etc. which is overwhelming all the major banks right now and is a big way to earn money for consultants if they know ABC of audit/compliance in 2012. Anyway, the point is that fb even though not ideal in how they store/use user data (which I personally am not a fan of as well), it does not matter as much as it matters to a bank/financial institution. I say this while I work for clients that are major banks.
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So was I. You're asserting that vendors selling "nice Linux machines" (or at least nice machines that run Linux well once you install it) aren't among Apple's competitors? Since when?

To take just one example: the ultrabooks that Apple could easily try to go after with their "wedge" design patent, can run Linux, too, not just Windows. And that's clearly a form factor many people consider nice. Granted, this is a different area of competition than smartphones, but I specifically talked about Apple extending their patent assaults to new areas if their patent abuse remained unchecked.

Do you think Apple extending their legal strategy like that wouldn't have an impact on the availability of nice hardware to run Linux on? It seems obvious to me that it would. After all, there's more than one way to go after Linux.
Definitely agreed about the lack of evidence for teleology among evolution, but I don't think false starts, extinct species, etc... are counter evidence to teleology really. They'd just be evidence of an imperfect process attempting to reach that goal.

Having a destination in mind doesn't mean you know exactly how to get there, right?
Yes, they do have a patent. U.S. Patent No. 8,095,879:
Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image
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Nope, it comes down to the generally agreed definition of the universe: the universe contains everything. If you want a border, there's the observable universe (everything in our past light cone).
Sounds like a fork. :-)
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All philosophical arguments are meaningless.

Five happy Moon's sang the Macarena. Truth is beauty. There is nothing grammatically wrong with those sentences, there is no way to philosophically disprove them, and they have nothing to do with the physical world around us.

PS: I am not saying philosophy is useless, just it's a search for something other than meaning... perhaps truth. ;)
At least they should allow it for root domain to access subdomain's. I put all static files in a subdomain to make them free of cookies, but such restriction makes things difficult.
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Or maybe low level stats are falsified in each prison/police station to show better "effectiveness" of cops. Only when it's aggregated it's stuppidly big number.

The same happened with recent elections to Duma (over 100% people voted in many regions of Russia).
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Incidentally, a new law was just passed here in Italy to reduce the maximum amount a transaction can legally be made in cash. That is mostly to contrast tax evasion, but the same logic applies to corruption, I guess.
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With all that brainpower they could almost certainly crack the Facebook monetization problem, because all that data has got to be worth something. Theoretical Physics? Well that will never break him into the 11 figures no matter how many bosons they discover.
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I call BS on the article.
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The preference for the simplest explanation is just a heuristic. ... They care about whether an explanation is right, not simple.

I disagree entirely. Given two explanations that are "right" in that they explain the observations, and one is very simple, and the other involves vast mysterious unknowns, I would say that there is a strong philosophical argument in favour of the simple explanation.

Especially when complex suppositions like a "goal" of evolution have the characteristics that people are drawn to them for emotional reasons, they raise more questions than they answer.
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This it true. Humans are optimised to live in environment in which modern humans won't want to live.

We want to live in big cities with high tech, medical care, abundant food. Let's make a genome optimized for that!
I agree. The title of the patent, at least how it's being picked up in the press, makes it sound threatening to the Google Glass, but I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass. I think Google already has a bunch of patents like these:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57434403-76/google-patents...

I remember reading a few posts like these about Google's new patents for Google Glass.
FYI it worked for me on Chrome 20.0.1132.47 m but not on Firefox 13.0.1. The slide show advance is one slide behind the slide I click (so I can't see the last one) and the video doesn't play.
I haven't seen any other apps using push notifications in this way - Tom Insam came up with the idea based on our iOS app's extensive internal use of URLs.

The implementation is pretty simple - when a user enables push notifications in their install of the Lanyrd iOS app we pass that token back to our server (we actually pass the token back with every future API request as a custom HTTP header, over SSL). The server records both the push token, the logged in user and the user agent string sent by the app.

When a logged in user views an event page on http://lanyrd.com/ (e.g. http://lanyrd.com/2012/oscon/ ) we check to see if they have any push tokens associated with their account. If they do, we show them a "Push to your iPhone" button - but we vary the copy and the icon depending on their user agent string, so if they're running an iPad the button says "Push to your iPad" instead, with a wider icon.

When they push the button, we send a custom URL to our app in a standard push notification, along with a command to store the corresponding event in our app's offline cache.

If the user has the Lanyrd app open, the event page is displayed instantly - which is a pretty cool effect (click a button on a web page on your laptop, watch the app on your phone instantly update). If they don't have the app open they get a standard notification prompt which, when activated, will launch the app and send it to the corresponding event page.
I like the idea of encouraging a high-performance culture, but I don't think the 'perform or die' atmosphere would be healthy for many engineers. I know, idolizing 'rockstar programmers' is a sort of new hotness and I understand that a company like Facebook wants to have super-talented developers, but developers grow and learn new tricks as they mature, and they might take more than six months to do so.
This was submitted and discussed twice yesterday

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4199745
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198064
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I am starting to think the same thing about HN. :( Maybe it is time time of day I am posting things too?
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It's not very clear, but he's quoting from the article.
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Maybe I'm just shy/lazy, but the part about the author issuing 1100 compliments in a week also strains belief.
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Which means its in development now. Im excited.
Agree 100%. I'm saying this all the time. Please, writer, just get to the point! I don't want to learn a zillion details about everything you saw.
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(as an aside, what you were doing on HN is lurking, not trolling -- lurking is reading without posting, trolling is making posts that purposely disrupt the conversation)
True, but taking that aside and focusing on practicality, both underscorejs and Preludejs together provide one heck of a toolbox. I really enjoy functional programming a great deal and have been using it every which place I can the last several years. I totally understand that this is your take on the subject matter and so far so good, though the docs and usage for me are strange. If you have the goal of mass adoption you'll need to convince people like me why it needs adding to the toolbox.