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Thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the benefits.

It's true, some jobs are soul-crushing enough that you'd rather not be there. You might have family and/or financial responsibilities that make you have to keep such a job. You may be bootstrapping a business on the side so you can escape from such a job, but in the meantime, you still need your regular paycheck.

Not every job has you working with self-motivated co-workers and great bosses. Some jobs put you in a cube farm in a room where everyone fights over the thermostat. Sometimes you have to head a weekly meeting where you have to explain to other programmers why you get NullPointerExceptions on line 5 when line 4 initializes the variable to null. Some jobs still make you use CVS. The office talk at some jobs is never about learning anything, but it sure is loud and distracting.

If you were offered a chance to work from home and avoid a lot of that, I'm sure you'd also jump at the opportunity. Getting a promotion in such a job isn't worth it.
Sigh. Because men are totally free from being judged.
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She implies that she doesn't want to be harassed as a woman either.
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Looks like this has a a lot less to do with gender and a lot more to do with bad UI/UX coupled with a bit of ignorance on how G+ is set up.
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First reaction to the current site - There's too much copy.

It's good to know your strengths and to be willing to lean on the people that you trust. It's bad to be a pushover.

Do you think she got mad because your change made the product less compelling or because she felt it undermined her status?
Eh, IMO if that is the case, then no internet presence is best. Otherwise she needs to get off
Your third paragraph is also a pretty accurate summary of the discovery process in complex litigation.

Although much is made of the high-tech data mining services available to assist with discovery, having used some of them I sometimes wonder if it isn't cheaper and more effective to throw low-cost labour at the problem. Enter law students.
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Always useful advice. If you delegate, then you delegate. That said, when someone changes your work without telling you its always useful to go in trying to learn. Both of you come away with a better understanding that way.
Totally different order of magnitude. Sorry dude.
"... Today’s banks represent the incarnation of profit-seeking behavior taken to its logical limits, in which the only question asked by senior staff is not what is their duty or their responsibility, but what can they get away with. ..." Martin Wolf, FT.

No, as long as the money kept rolling in, a blind eye was turned to the kind of behaviour described. Hard times has changed what is acceptable practice.
It actually sounds like you are saying that drugs are NOT that expensive to develop. The high failure stage is cheap ("tiny fraction of the cost"), bringing it to market is expensive but this happens once efficacy and safety are more certain?

This would be quite a common misunderstanding, and imply that we should focus on reducing these latter-stage costs rather than treating drugs as a special case that really need patents. Can you elaborate?
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Bad UI/UX I'll go along with, but I'm not sure where the ignorance comes in. She pretty perfectly stated the way privacy settings work in G+ and why they're a problem.
Good post. The problem is that the privacy needs of the users of social networking sites are at odds with the commercial interests of the social networking sites. Google is desperately trying to show that Google+ is competing with Facebook so the more public the data is by default, the better. Also, they see from Facebook that most people don't care about privacy.

The problem for Google+ is that people already have Facebook for their non-geeky friends so it has become primary for tech people who care more about these things. They could just try leverage that and stay more specialized, but that's unlikely to happen.
It works for things like clothes or vegetables. If you want people to pay more for electronics it would be better to have a "made in Japan" tag. Or make it in China and put a big Sony logo on it.
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i would think the answer is fairly obvious. 4chan needs an official API that allows for http connects to remain open. this way extension and 3rd party application developers have something to write software around that doesn't impede the ability to serve standard page GET requests to web users.
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The second paragraph nails it pretty well. I think the more powerful features of G+ will eventually even that out, e.g. Hangouts being one of the best options around for conference video chat, automatic photo uploading, etc.
Looks like you've broken the server. Do you have a mirror of any kind?
Oh great! Another "Look at me, I'm a woman" post. I'm going to call her a "stuck up bitch" in her wordpress comments and see if wordpress has some magical powers to stop me from judging her in public.

Edit: Also, the reason I (and most others) use Google+ is that we get to know a lot more people who share our interests on a global scale. The whole point of the platform is to socialise. Sharing photos with just your friends (which is primarily what FB is used for) isn't "socialising", it's "sharing photos with your friends".
I agree with your larger point 100%.

>> $1,200/month or less gets you your own private room in a shared apartment in NYC, Boston

In much of the US, $1,200/mo will buy you a house (or rent one). $1,200/mo is a fairly high rent for a 1-bedroom in much of the US; a private room in a shared apartment would obviously be correspondingly less.
Actually, no. Marketing this as a game console at this moment makes no sense. Because there are no games.

No game console maker has ever made real money on the hardware. If Google is just breaking even on the Nexus Tablet, even when it's sold from their own webstore, they can't be making much on this more powerful hardware.

The Google Play media sales, including games, is where the money is.

Without marketing as a game console, games will be available soon enough. Here's the plan:

1) Existing Android game developers will adapt their games to work with the Nexus Q. Because it is EASY.

2) Friends will have fun at parties queuing up music and videos and playing games. Games that can (for the moment) only be played on the Nexus Q. Some of said friends will buy the Nexus Q. Google hopes it spreads virally.

3) Google cleans up selling the media. If you have a Nexus Q and Android phone, you are going go to Google Play first to buy all your media.

I'm not saying it's a genius business plan. But it's the only business case I've seen that makes sense of this strange device.

It only takes a small percentage of people weaned away from the existing Steam/Amazon/iTunes ecosystems and over to the nascent Google Play to make this a very profitable venture.

I only realized just how powerful iTunes is when I tried to convince my girlfriend over to switch to Linux many moons ago. I failed. Because she is wedded to Apple for life. All her content works seamlessly with Apple products. The price to move away from Apple has simply become too great, for her and countless other Apple users. You simply cannot compete for those users anymore. The big boys need to lockdown the remaining users to survive. And fast.
It probably wasn't a good idea to edit the copy without consulting others, but I've dealt with situations where I've had to decide what to do with copy that's long and rambling to the point of being unreadable. Something needs to be done in those situations. When a website reads like a novel, it's time to have a discussion, figure out what your users are there for, and determine whether you might be failing to promptly fulfill those needs. There's nothing wrong with providing ample information on a website, but it needs to be organized in a way that delivers the right amount of the right information to the right people. If you can't do that, you're probably delivering a mess of an experience for the majority.
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I'd argue that the two are pretty intrinsically linked. A dude can have whatever job he wants, from no-account bus-boy, to middle-management, to executive; and then publicly post whatever he feels like in the mean-time. Hell it's even encouraged to a degree. Gives you "character".

The female equivalent of that is "uppity" or "headstrong"
I'd like to set the record straight about the nature of Chez JJ, which I feel, was very strongly misrepresented in the NYT article. What sets Chez JJ (and other community houses) apart from hostels and dorms is our family-like atmosphere. By welcoming guests into our home we are welcoming them into our family. They have become our friends and our co-founders. Startup life is an emotional roller coaster. As a community, we support each other through the trials and tests of life in Silicon Valley.

More than half of Chez JJ residents who have applied to YC have been accepted. Maybe it helps that we grill each other. Or maybe it helps that we help each other relax in order to see the big picture. Or because our residents don't have to waste as much time on the minutiae of living because of what we provide. Maybe it's a form of self selection. It is a relevant point that living in group communities is more cost effective than living alone. When we all pitch in towards basic needs we are able to have a higher standard of living.

We have weekly professional cleaners and subscribe to Farm Fresh, an organic vegetable delivery service. We provide coffee, tea, pancake mix, cereal, soymilk, and all the fresh fruits and vegetables you can find in our garden. We have regular dinner parties, and breakfast brunches. We have movie nights and hackathons and play board games. And we work closely with the owners of each of our houses know exactly what we are doing and are completely supportive.

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Thats exactly the point, if the drug is covered under patent there is no generic. So if the doctor prescribes the newer yet not better drug, there will be no generic alternative.
>Women are faced with a type of black and white judgement that categorizes us in many ways as ‘nice’ or ‘bitchy’, ‘stupid’ or ‘nerdy’, ‘virgin’ or ‘whore’, with little gray area between. Each of these labels is dehumanizing in its own way. This is particularly overt online, and is a phenomenon that has been well documented. [http://feministing.com/2011/11/08/mencallmethings-reveals-wh...]
In a similar vein, I feel what's needed is a patent evaluation committee supported by an industrywide organization and possessing some legal standing. It could set down principles by which its members would abide, mediate or arbitrate between them in cases of disputes over patents (according to sane pre-established rules), and defend against non-members seeking to attack members via patents (your idea).

Even better if it could seek out bullshit patents to take them down and send a signal. Or volunteer resources to the USPTO to help evaluate patent applications (with a layer of neutrality/anonymity of course). What's needed is (fair) industry input in patent granting, so there isn't a disconnect between what's obvious to USPTO reviewers and to industry members. Better yet, the organization would be much better positioned to throw up prior art for the USPTO, which would go a long way towards throwing out spurious patents.

Pipe dream, I know. Maybe the EFF needs a new branch.
Yeah it's called moderation tools. Have you met internet?
Excellent point. This blog post basically played the gender card in the title, but never fully explained itself. False advertising.
I think a more apt title would be "Why I don't need online presence"

with gist: I'm a woman and will be targeted for it. and my job doesn't require me to, and is better avoided
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it blows my mind that this got downvoted.
> Treat others the way you want to be treated

> It’s a saying I learned in Quaker school, but it applies to almost every situation.

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I lol'd. Well put my friend.
What are my options if I'm not in US? GoCardless is great but not instantaneous afaik. Paypal is so easy from the user perspective (and has low upfront cost for the developer) that most just accept the risk. But they are evil, very evil.
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You can delete comments and close comment threads on your own posts on Google+, just like you can on wordpress.
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I agree. The copy needs trimming.

However, the article is right. If you delegate something to someone, you should discuss with them before (or occasionally after) overriding their decisions. If you do that too often, they may not be compatible with your vision for that position, in which case you should find someone who is.
Laws aren't god given. They are to be interpreted or even ignored by anyone who finds themselves in the legal system. Thats why jury nullification exists, and thats why judges have jobs. At the end of the day it's just humans making decisions about other humans and if your firm belief is not in line with the law you have the opportunity to express that.
"... It’s a saying I learned in Quaker school, but it applies to almost every situation. I don’t want to be undermined, so I shouldn’t undermine anyone else—consciously or unconsciously. ..."

It's all about the goal. Be flexible. To get there someone has have responsibility to make a final call. If it's technical, a right or wrong answer can be made on merit.

For non-technical or subjective decision defer to founder(s) experience, training or gut feel and back this decision up with measurement and make adjustments if needed.
Also, they see from Facebook that most people don't care about privacy.

I think it is more accurate to say "most people don't think about privacy". That is, most people just don't consider the implications of what's going to happen with all the unprivate things they do online. It's not that people have thought about what privacy online would be like and don't care about not having it.
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There have been plenty of men fired for saying idiotic or non-pc things on Facebook or Twitter.
Can't use a pseudonym on Google+, hence this not being posted on Google+
"Patent troll" is generally considered to mean a company that does not make or sell anything. They can't be boycotted or countersued for infringement.
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So she didn't understand that she was commenting publicly? The universal comment setting doesn't even make sense as the conversation would look completely different based on who's in whose circles.

I don't understand how this is related to Google+. You can make comments on Facebook that are more public than your wall, so I fail to understand what this is G+ specific.

edit: posting in all bold text is about one degree of separation from posting in all caps.
I disagree. If you're going to work as a team no-one can 'own' something entirely. What if you spotted a typo? Would it be OK to change the copy then? Everyone needs to be mature enough to trust that the other person wasn't being malicious, and be prepared to talk about things that they don't disagree with. And iterate. The words weren't carved onto a stone tablet and then launched into space. They're on the internet and can be changed in a heartbeat.
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You're quite right. If you actually read the Shang et al 2006 paper you'll discover that homeopathy was discovered to be better than placebo but less good than the best conventional treatment. The PR and media coverage around the paper missed this entirely. The Ernst paper mentioned by the article also could not determine if homeopathy was entirely due to placebo. Its worth noting that this is the current state of scientific knowledge regarding homeopathy. It appears to be somewhat better than placebo judging from meta analysis.

Now, this doesn't mean its real (or fake), it just means we need more research. Its also worth noting that the trials of homeopathy in the Shang 2006 article were rated as higher quality than those of conventional treatment (but there were less of them).
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The core of my micro startup revolves around a OSS library and I'm worried that my clients can easily implement it on their own or someone else might do it.

Has any other startup or businesses been in the same situation? Thanks in advance!
>> we should crack down on trivial patents.

I think everyone is in agreement on this, but the definition of "trivial" is the sticking point.
Switch to social networks which respect users' privacy. For example to Diaspora. Facebook and Google+ can't be "fixed" in that regard. Just avoid using them if you care.
While it's encouraging that there's a growing awareness among enlightened individuals like Judge Posner that patents restrict innovation, the problem is due to get worse before it gets better, because the Patent Office itself believes that the key problem is that patents are not being issued quickly enough:

http://www.sfgate.com/business/bottomline/article/Effort-to-...

I'd like to see some organized demonstration and resistance from Silicon Valley to this new Silicon Valley Patent Office. Patents are a toxic waste polluting our tech economy, and the feds have decided to increase the flow of pollution.
One big problem I have with software patents is that they rarely contain any actual implementation. The whole point of a patent is that society grants you a temporary monopoly and you give society the intricate details of your invention.

Many patents these days get the best of both worlds. We give them that monopoly and they give not a thing back. I say if we're to have software patents, they need to all include working code. If the code doesn't produce your patentable idea, no patent.
Does anybody know of a good site to find roommates/room for rent with other tech-minded people?

If there isn't one, somebody should make it! Would be cool to live in a house with 3,4,5 others all working on startups - but how to find them if you don't all work in the same place?
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Sure, but the OP's main problem was that he didn't communicate his opinions back to the person who'd worked so long on the copy.
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More than you might guess. There's a lot of participation within the do-it-yourself biohacking scene. Also, RepRap and other open source hardware projects tend to attract transhumanist talent. I don't mean to sound too biased but you should check out that IRC channel I mentioned.
I disagree with that nostrum -- I wrote about it in nauseating detail here: http://chester.id.au/2012/04/09/review-drift-into-failure/
That's why normal social network should not have profit goals which exploit users' privacy. It should serve the purpose of social interactions, and not the goal of profiting on users' profiles sold to third parties.
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The main problem seems to be revenue. With 4chan, you could probably do a unique form of advertising -- companies pay ~$100/cpm to NOT have their products or brand featured on any 4chan pages. :)
She completely understood that she was commenting publicly. She stated quite clearly that she has never posted a public comment on Google+, because she knew the implications.

There are some nontrivial UI concerns in trying to merge non-public commenters with public posts, I'll grant you that. However, it still doesn't change the fact that the tool doesn't match up to the needs of a pretty broad demographic (no pun intended).
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19 lines of comments.

Nope, nope, nope. I would never touch this library.

Good amount of tests, but the moment this library doesn't work as expected and you need to jump into the code, you're completely screwed.

Not usable.
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Does anyone use comments any more?
Maybe it's just me. I am old school. I also have to come back to projects months, and in a few cases, over a year after having written the code. I was taught to comment and comment profusely. And that's what I do.

Every function, method, variable or property has a comment. Even within methods, clear explanations of everything that goes on is everywhere in my code. The logic of a loop, the reasoning behind a conditional, the setting of flags and some variables. In some cases the commenting is a mini-story of how the program flows and why certain things have to be done. An easy-to-follow plain-text explanation of the code.

Yes, this takes time and work but it has always proven to be well worth the effort.

I've cloned a few GitHub projects and, I have to say, I am absolutely amazed when I look at the source files. Project after project without comments. Not one. Just a pile of code. Not only does this require more work to understand what the author was thinking or why he or she took a specific approach, but I would imagine that the code is also harder to maintain and evolve as the author and others loose touch with it for months or more.

Is this what they are teaching in school these days? Damn the documentation, just write code and make it work?

I, for one, will not accept anyone working for me taking this approach. Code is expensive to produce and it must be well documented for others to maintain, support and evolve.