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I remember back in the 90s time warner's news servers were only nntp://news-server/ and we could see our neighbor's computers via Windos 95/98's "Network Neighborhood".

Good times.
Berkeley/San Francisco.

Singularity Institute, hiring a Communications Director. http://singularity.org/communications-director/
I partially agree. Developers do the UX/UI design and it's very bad most of the time.
Alternate title: "rack-access-control-headers: Solving the Firefox cross domain font issue".
A revolution is not guaranteed to fix it. Unfortunately a revolution(of some sort) is the only thing that has any chance of fixing it.
I made a ticket for this:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/106
The world doesn't work like this. In addition to doing-whatever-they-want-24-7, people are also trying to get promoted. That means there is always an incentive to do some task that nobody else will do. This kind of causes talent to even out between high-profile new projects and not-as-fun legacy projects.
This look really neat. well done!
Why to just blow a trumpet which an irresponsible media house has created !! No one is stealing a thinder or anything !!
I think the order of arguments comes from the use of partial application. In Haskell you can write:

doubler :: Num a => [a] -> [a]
doubler = map (2 *)
Somewhat offtopic:

> off-site backups (which Amazon S3 counts as, since it's replicated to multiple datacenters)

I'm not sure if I read that right, but isn't that like saying RAID counts as backup since it's replicated multiple times? What happens if data (on S3) is corrupted as a result of a logical error?
Remember how Paul Graham wrote those articles about how good programmers should start companies because companies don't pay the absolute best programmers the order of magnitude more money that they may be worth?

Well, it seems the marketplace has updated somewhat more towards paying programmers what they are worth.
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Putting the data argument second is nice when combined with currying. For example:

var bigNumbers = Udon.curry(Udon.filter)(function (number) {
return number > 5;
});
bigNumbers([3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9]); // [9]
bigNumbers([2, 7, 1, 8, 2, 8]); // [7, 8, 8]
You finance and billing guys will never understand.

These are rockstars.

They work for facebook.

They would never ever type UPDATE users SET email = username || '@facebook.com'; WHERE username == 'john.smith';
Why, when you have the ear of the USPTO and just litigate it out of existence?
I adopted functional programming and got so laid
I wish articles like this wouldn't ruin it for everybody else.
They even mention the first rule! And then go on to ignore it.
What are you talking about ? I was talking about Apple going after Linux.
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From the article: 1/10 PM's to Engineers and 500 engineers = 50 PM's.

That's not an entirely small amount for Facebook since they don't have a zillion different products and features that need to be owned, like a company like Microsoft or Google.
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It doesn't work like this in places where shit being broken is something management cares about.

In places where the goal is to make engineers happy and to impress other engineers, there are incentives for behaviour that are perverse from the customer's point of view.
> Those examples don't prove much, they just demonstrate that any goal there could be is not aligned with the fate of those species.

And the simplest explanation is that there is no goal at all. Claiming otherwise is an extraordinary claim, and you know what they say about those.
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We (tinkercad) have actually ended up running once process per core and limiting the number of concurrent OS threads. This gives significantly faster task switching times and is more performant from a GC perspective. Given our system is highly distributed anyway shared memory would mostly be an optimization and not a primary facility.
>I build BIG financial software and we have certain audit requirements, access control requirements, data protection requirements etc and that is exactly how it should be.

Funny, I had the same argument with a colleague today. Since FB is listed and their business model is based on customer data they should follow the same legal requirements as customer finance companies.
>> A single organism reproducing once is a non-event, evolutionarily speaking.

True, but a single organism with a new trait failing to reproduce means that the trait cannot be passed on, and therefore does not exist in the population in an evolutionary sense. You absolutely can't ignore individuals in the evolutionary process.
As a simple user I sometimes find annoying all that continuous tweeking and changing stuff in facebook. Maybe there is a reason in user behaviour and adds conversions, but if doesn't please don't make all that uselss changes just for fun!.
The last timeline mayor update is specially dull, I find it hard to navigate with that splited view. Of course I am only a user, surely the cohort stats show how all the millions of people rave about each and every change...
In my opinion is far more important fixing bugs like the one at the Ipad app. When you visit some comments in a picture you have previously commented, facebook will open another random picture or comment page of the user who posted the picture. It 's the same on the older iphone app( I have the 3G and I am not updating it, so it's my own selfinflicted bug), but I just downloaded the ipad app two weeks ago, and there it is, safe and sound the same ol' bug. Sorry for the final rant, but maybe they must have some department curating the user experience beyond the engineer centered culture.
Maybe is better the google way, work on stablished problems, and then give people some time to work on side proyects and give them the oportunity to grow.
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Apple are currently using slide-to-unlock to block certain products from selling.

Did you ever expect that to stand? I think we should be assume the worst now..
I agree. Once you've gone nailgun you never go back. I haven't used a hammer on my woodworking in years.

And what about cross dowels! Don't get me started!
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I think a lot of people would disagree with your view that non-local exits, of which exceptions are a type, is the right way to go.

Here is a good detailed analysis why exceptions might be a worse choice:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/35294...
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> That's boring, and there are no incentives for fixing bugs in obscure features because only launching successful new features gains visibility from higher-ups.

Companies really should find a way to incentivize this. Rewrites are about as silly. "Write the next generation xyz." Translates to "No one here has any idea how xyz was written, so it's being rewritten instead of modified. We look forward to rediscovering the same problems we did the first time."
According to Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...:

> The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world. As of 2009, the incarceration rate was 743 per 100,000 of national population (0.743%).[2] In comparison, Russia had the second highest, at 577 per 100,000,
Funny, I've always thought that definition of intelligence meant to be able to solve a huge array of various problems. Which should imply evolutionary success in theory. OTOH I can see how it can cripple you (e.g. a 'dumb' car salesman can sell cars for more because he doesn't know if the car is worth less than his offer).
This article only makes sense if you think that Google did violated Apple's and Oracle patents. Otherwise, it's just trying to shift the blame.
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Thou who uses unit tests, UI tests, precondition, postcondition checks, heavy logging, knows the language and toolchain and knows arse from elbow NEVER debugs in production out of necessity or desire.

It just works.

In the last 5 years, we've never hooked a debugger to production instance or given access to a developer.

In that time, we've pushed approximately 912 billion SQL transactions through the system and 24 billion page hits (most of our stuff is backend non OLTP).

That's how it's done.
This "article" is completely incoherent gibberish. Who is voting this up?
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Before the change, YouTube would track the length of views up to 30 seconds, primarily to make sure each click led to an actual view. Now it's tracking across longer timeframes to see if viewers watched two or three minutes of content.
Ahem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Haughey#Retirement.2C_t...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Burke_(Irish_politician)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lowry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern#Controversy

At least 2 former Irish PMs (Taoiseach) were up to their eyes in it.
I think Facebook is successful in spite of their engineering culture, not because of it. They started with the densest social graph of any social network and that made the difference in the long run.
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Either way, it simply doesn't matter.
I'm not arguing for unrealistic quality levels, and I will acknowledge immediately that my experience could be atypical.

However, in fairness, if I look at all of the software that I use regularly in a professional capacity today, then it is clearly Google products that are the most buggy, and by a very wide margin.

For example, I have a client who uses Google Docs/Drive. We have rarely managed to hold a meeting without one of our small team struggling to see either a word processor document or a spreadsheet properly, and that's just the minor cosmetic or browser incompatibility bugs that keep appearing along with all those minor UI changes. We have also experienced some much more serious problems, including corruption/data loss and seeing the entire change history for some files become inaccessible for no apparent reason. In other words, it's not just minor UI errors that crept in as the product evolved, there are evidently fundamental flaws in the underlying architecture that don't store the data robustly.

Another example: I spent a couple of days last week trying to figure out why a site that had been working fine for users until recently and had not been changed at all on our side was suddenly generating bug reports. It turned out that recent Chrome builds have broken some HTML5 features in multiple ways. There have been related bug reports in some cases, but they have been closed as the specific example given no longer seemed to be a problem. Again, the nature of the problems makes it obvious that these are not just one-liner issues but fundamental flaws, typically where Chrome is so aggressive with its cache usage and/or trigging redrawing/relayout that it just plain doesn't work. And even though the bugs had been reported, obviously the correct root cause was never identified and fixed.

Another example: I recently spent some time looking into how the Closure Tools are coming along. Have you tried the examples/demonstrations for the Closure Library recently? Many of them simply don't work in Gecko-based browsers, and that would be obvious if anyone working on the project had made even a cursory attempt to test them for five minutes.

I will finish by once again acknowledging that my experiences here may be atypical, and that the particular projects I've mentioned that I happen to be using may not reflect the wider Google culture. But on the evidence before me, I see an organisation that keeps breaking things in its rush to push new features out and that demonstrably lacks robust architectures that keep data safe, effective testing processes before pushing code into production, and proper issue resolution processes when defects do get reported.
> the only real and true control we can ever have over intelligence through genetics/biology is via eugenics.

For now. In future I do hope there are ways to allow for artificial increase of intelligence via drugs/nano-machines.
Eugenics is like the last resort for increasing intelligence (the dirtiest hack imaginable). Mainly because it only works on population and not individual level and it's not immediate. Not to mention breeding for intelligence has other problems as well.
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Of course not. Much faster to type

UPDATE users SET email = username || '@facebook.com';

Then let the users sort out the exceptions.
You're right.

Now that I think about it, I doubt Facebook is that careful, considering how often they break things.
Pattern not product? I agree.

I do believe that many nouvelle programmers in their rush to absorb and contribute to the art integrate too many things too quickly and try to fabricate the magic recipe they just learned about into a hammer they can pound on everything regardless of whether the particular problem is a nail or not.
No please tell me, how did you learn to write unit test which cover all the crazy data configurations users are able to come with.
Hey Ron!

Congrats on reaching 1 million.

Could you tell me how you managed to get approval for including songs from artists like Justin Bieber and LMFAO in the app?
There aren't many 'English' words!

wikipedia:
The word "crony" first appeared in 18th century London, according to the Oxford English Dictionary to be derived from the Greek word χρόνιος (chronios), meaning "long-term".[2]
This sounds to me exactly how Valve and other organizations operate (http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...).

I think that if you get buy-in from the engineers working on the project it can induce ownership and a willingness to watch it succeed and work towards it's success. The issue occurs when there isn't adequate a/b testing (or something similar), which could create the fiasco such as facebook's switching of email addresses.

Companies such as Google allow 20% time to work on projects that might not make it to production, or get killed after acquisitions. I think that policies such as those work better than code being committed on the fly.
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The example game keeps crashing for me after playing a bit in Firefox.

if you want to code html5 flash, I hear another alternative is jangaroo
How do you do that, if issue is caused by some corner case with user data you did not foresee and hence not covered?
> Companies really should find a way to incentivize this.

It can't be done from the top. You need to start with engineers who care about quality over the long term. It has to come from within each engineer.

When Zuckerberg talked about younger programmers being "better", he probably meant "more like me". But old farts are just young farts with expensively-acquired scar tissue.

Most of our most treasured software development lore comes from the lesson that "move fast, break things" just devolves into "fuck, everything is broken, fix it fast".
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I've never used it, but jangaroo seems promising

http://www.jangaroo.net/home/

Example:

http://www.jangaroo.net/files/examples/flash/open-flash-char...
This is the real Facebook secret sauce in convenient flowchart form:

What's the most evil thing we can think of doing?
V
Candidate <-----<------- Think of the next-most evil thing we can do
V ^
Can we code that? (no) ------->------->^
V (yes) ^
Is it legal? ^
V (yes/no) ^
Can we get away with it? (abs. not)--->^
V (yes/maybe/prob. not) ^
Keep shipping! ^
V ^
Did we get in trouble for it? (no) ^
V (yes) V ^
Claim it was a mistake! V ^
V V ^
Still in trouble? (no)-> Keep feature->^
V (kind of) ^
Being sued for it? (no) --->--->^
V (yes) ^
Throw money at lawsuit ^
V ^
Did we lose? (yes/no) ----->--->^
Let's see a couple of plausible use cases for a home router with a remote config capability:

* Husband calls wife who is at work: "Joey is visiting for a day, but he says our network is locked. Can you let him on? I don't know how to use this thing."

* Grandma calls her son the Dad who's away on a business trip: "I know you've blocked Facebook from your daughter's machine, but it's also blocked on my laptop. Can you unblock it for me? I'm trying to make plans!"

Sure, one could try to walk someone through the steps over the phone, or even remote desktop into a box to make the changes... or just tell them "wait til I get home, too bad!". But theoretically, both of these scenarios could be fixed with a cloud oriented mgt system.

Look, Cisco made a total clusterF out of how they handled this, but it's also easy to see what they were trying to solve for. They just hamhanded it, in a huge way. Also, these scenarios are potentially rare, so they made people change everything about the router just to solve these edge cases, agreed.

But I suspect many more products will have cloud/external management before long, whether they should or not. When something is hot, it becomes solutions looking for problems beyond the few they may actually solve.
Their solution also only involves projecting a solid colour into the peripheral view. Actual peripheral view for our eyes can make out details and shapes, so it is not to emulate vision but to "reduce fatigue."
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Yes, I started reading into the literature on failures recently because of that exact essay. It's been a great supplement to my reading on systems thinking.
This is actually quite common and appears to resolve itself within a few hours after the update goes live on the app store.
I recently set up an email system for a small company using cPanel, hMailserver and Thunderbird. I actually looked at Zimbra but decided to go with a Windows-based solution. I also considered Google Apps, but was afraid it wouldn't allow for fine-grained control over access permissions (i.e. managers seeing subordinates' accounts and restricted shared folders) and also unrestricted creation email aliases/accounts.

Should I have taken a closer look at GA? Thunderbird isn't the easiest to use, but I like how it's easy to work with shared IMAP folders.
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You're stuck if you're on Amazon S3, since Access-Control-Allow-Origin isn't supported.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=34281
Can someone from Russian, please confirm the 3million number? It seems so unbelievable.
It's a classic tragedy of the commons.

The normal response in this situation is to do away with the commons; a floating price for control plane requests, for example.

I don't think that would be very popular, though.

Like it or not, people designing for AWS must now assume that the control plane will simply be unavailable during partial outages.
Good point, thank you. I guess my thought is that the slide to unlock implementation and idea is being copied. Calling it obvious (legal definition notwithstanding) is something I do not agree with, there are many ways that one could think to unlock such a device.
Does anyone still uses Usenet for discussions?
I guess I was too late with creating website for reading Usenet (just text, no binaries), something like Thunderbird Usenet reader in your browser.
http://www.newswebreader.com
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It would also be nice if Firefox would solve this. If we can load an image from another domain we should be able to load a font from another domain by default.

Though I do see how a font has more potential for malware than an image, the other browser makers apparently don’t see any qualms with cross-domain font loading. Anyone know Firefox’s rationale for doing this differently from the other vendors?
Posting a link to 3 lines of insults and rants is, in my humble opinion, not only stupid in itself, but also an insult to the community: you think that we love to lose our time reading expletives.
Well, we don't.
You, sir, should have your account canceled. You really have no idea what HN is about.
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> but not good enough because it couldn't run general purpose applications like the other OS options could.

I remember wrestling with BTreive settings on a client's NW 3.1.1 server to make Solomon (their accounting software) play nicely with ArcServe (the backup software). There's something I'm glad to not have thought of in years.
There are two possible reasons for this. This most probably is a small patch. just disabling a feature and not removing it completely from the phone; as such, it would not affect drivers and such like other Android updates. The second reason is that it may be just an app update for Search if they have that well separated from the OS, which would mean that it would not change any of the bloatware carries and hardware makers put in.
The link isn't bad.

(the comment oddly doesn't follow my comment??)
The preference for the simplest explanation is just a heuristic, there is no compelling philosophical argument why it should hold. Philosophers of science are still debating whether it is a valid heuristic; meanwhile, scientists don't invoke it all that much, I believe. They care about whether an explanation is right, not simple.
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Do you have a pointer to some data? I am especially interested in the minimal latency even when serving from memory a response under light usage (100 concurrent users).

This would be at first to provide "backend" services to currently running applications, so the latency overhead is important.
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