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Not sure that I deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Ken Thompson.
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I am curious to know about his arguments. Do you remember them ?
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It's a little irresponsible, but how else do you expect them to debug live code?
I'm curious - what happens when an engineer wants to propose an idea? Do they need to get a PM on-board to lead the project? Who decides if the idea is good?

The PM/engineer divide feels uncomfortable to me, but I have limited experience with these roles, so it's likely simply for lack of knowledge. I hope someone can clarify this for me.
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After paying a good amount of money to the ticket brokers for any of the event tickets, a whole lot of people must have said to them self “Wow! They have done some good business today!
In Ireland, there isn't so much corruption. I won't say there's never any whatsoever, obviously, but there isn't anywhere near as much as people are describing here. I suppose it puts in perspective how lucky I should feel.
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It requires a twist in your thinking for sure. We are so used to events, but don't realize how user unfriendly they can be. Polling is quite usable, and its rather easy to modularize polling code without any callbacks or inverted control flow.
What I love about English-speaking communities is that articles like this one receive real comments from real people.
It might sound strange, but try to put this kind of article somewhere in Russian and you're guarantied to receive first 10 comments telling you that it's just America trying to destroy the Mighty Russia with this kind of falsehood. And those comments are rarely from common people, even though Cold War ideas are strong in their heads, mostly they are written by paid pro-Kremlin activists or just simple bots.
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Is it standard practice in other languages / libraries to have the function argument first and the data argument second, in e.g. map and filter?

In usual PHP fashion, array_map and array_filter take arguments in different orders. From all the jQuery i write it seems more natural to put the function argument last ($.get, $().bind, etc).
The fact that wired chose to link this to Google glass (which it only is in the way that they deal with video/pictures in a head-mounted-way) seems to confuse a lot of prople who CBA to read the article -.-
Well, we are 102. And not because of benevolence (even when we have a lot of soft judges lately, that seem to prefer to look after criminals instead of the population), but because our prisons are old and full of people, and there's no political intent to build more. (The government even destroyed some cuz they were too old, but didn't replaced them)

I bet that a lot of poor countries down there share the same reasons (and maybe, some lack the money to build more).
From the article at least, it seems like there aren't a whole lot of PMs at Facebook.

If an engineer has an idea, they seem to be more encouraged to just find some people to work with, build it, and then roll it out to a very small section of Facebook's users and see how they react to it. Good ideas might then be taken further, but bad ones (Or I guess, ones people just don't care about) won't be.

(I don't work there though, so I have no way of knowing if that's right or not, sorry!)
Note that it doesn't say whether they all have write access, or whether all the data they have access to is encrypted in some way.

And any of those statements should be interpreted as one response he got from talking to lots of different people, and be subject to some amount of skepticism.
Looking further back for potential sources of prior art, I seem to remember seeing a picture of and/or reading about a very early stereoscopic head-mounted display that used two ultracompact CRT displays. However, given the mixed bag of Apple's recent successes and failures, combined with the general ham-handedness of the patent system, anything is possible.
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You are surprised? Really? :) With Facebook???

I'm surprised they don't change the URL to point to purchasing credits for farmville :)
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Motorola, HTC and Samsung were all making smartphones long before Apple was. IIRC, they are all now being sued by Apple over, among other things, at least one feature that their smartphones had before the iPhone was even announced. So how's that previous history working out for them?

I'll also highlight my assumption: Apple's patent abuse continues unchecked. In other words, Apple's software patent assaults are delivering positive results without blowback. If that continues, why wouldn't they extend that to new areas? Wouldn't you expect them to attempt to maximize the return on their patents? If not, why not?

Now I'll admit I don't think it is likely that Apple's abuse will continue unchecked. I expect Apple's competitors to build their patent arsenal (e.g. notifications) and successfully hit back and eventually create a stalemate. But if they can't or don't, I'd expect Apple to see how far they can push things (just like any other corporation).
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So why was this patent granted in the first place? Is there no filter whatsoever. Big companies can just get their patents automatically approved? Because it sure looks like that's how it goes.
"Usenet is a wonderful service for finding and downloading digital media"

This sentence alone makes me feel old and sad.
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Previously on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2594083

↪ How Facebook _actually_ pushes updates to the site

I came across this originally on the Etsy dev blog, rather than HN, and that particular post had some good other stuff about Flickr and Etsy:

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2011/06/01/pushing-facebook-flic...
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You don't. Reproduce the issue on a development instance.
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It's just one patent in a field that has been producing patents for a long time. Take the example of Microvision that is on the top 20 of patent receivers in America and has been doing HUD for the military for a long time.
They also have done research for projection directly on the eye retina, i guess that's hard to top.
Doesn't the illegal use of monopoly powers seem new here, because it was in a newer field?

(Thanks for reminding me of Spyglass, shudder.)
Am I the only person who thinks this whole approach is broken?

We have seen the rise of "devops" recently, and big name web companies like Facebook and Google seem to be very proud of how engineer-led they are, how empowered their developers are, how their product managers don't have much real authority, how they push code to production ten minutes before it's even written, and so on.

From the outside, I see systems that are always changing, so users can never rely on anything working the same way from one visit to the next. I see organisations with access to sensitive personal data being cavalier at best about how they handle it. I see a major blunder every few weeks that at best causes serious irritation to users and at worst risks significant loss of business and/or legal/regulatory consequences.

And I see huge brands whose egotistical staff don't realise that they are successful despite evidently not bothering with either real product management or robust testing, not because of these things, and who don't seem to notice that they are still relying almost entirely on momentum from one or two really big successes from early on to maintain their user base and revenues.
I first took TazeTSchnitzel's comment to be sarcasm, but now I'm not so sure.

(Poe's Law says hi.)
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Makes me appreciate living in Scandinavia (Denmark). Corruption here is barely measurable.

Found this: http://blog.transparency.org/2011/12/07/what-makes-new-zeala...
> Complaining about command line's usability being difficult is same as complaining about an Airplane's cockpit.

The cockpit is an interface (a GUI even) tailored for flying. The command line is an interface tailored mainly for administration and automation with a focus on text and files. A broom is tailored for cleaning the office and I use it when I have to. But what does this all have to do with what a programmer generally should be able to do?

I know the stereotype of the dumb Java/Eclipse programmer that apparently upsets you, and they certainly don't embrace the command line. But please, that does not imply that hating the command line turns one into a worse programmer.

> You are taking it personally.

(Not me, but:) You jump from not being comfortable with the command to getting dumber by the day, then eventually being obsolete. It's not really hard to read some elitism into that. Same for:

> A tool like git is not designed to be a toy or recreation software.

> Therefore it is designed to cover features in that direction, for programmers. Not for your ordinary user ...
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> It's an awesome concept; no-one can justifiably be bored with their projects if they chose them.

Eventually people lose interest. It's only human. But The System has been written, it is in production, and it has accrued a healthy stock of user data.

One day, The System breaks. "Only" tens of millions of users -- less than a percent of all Facebook users -- rely on the The System. But they rely on it utterly.

Who will fix The System?

Of the five engineers who wrote it:

* Jack and Mandeep left to launch myfornaxisnatrr.com

* Wei Li has moved to a different group

* John doesn't want to touch it, he only came on board to help Jack

* Michael was an intern but has since taken a job with Google.

Uh oh! There's nobody around to voluntarily fix an existing system. 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.

Guess we'll need some mean old managers to round up a posse.

If they care enough.

Meanwhile, The System has acquired millions of users, cost millions of dollars to develop and operate and will now abruptly cause tens of millions of customers to become incredibly frustrated. And at no point has anybody stopped and asked:

"Was this the Right System to build?"
I think all these semantic contradictions reveal a much more important truth: what -ism your government operates under or claims to operate under is about 1/1000th as significant as whether it aims to serve the people and respect the law. A corrupt communist state has much more in common with a corrupt capitalist state than with a respectable and well-run communist system, and vice versa. We should really focus a lot less on ideology in our politics and a lot more on basic ethics and accountability. Once we start getting those figured out, we can worry about the -isms.
Life is boring in Scandinavia? I don't recognize that at all, I'll even go as far as to say it's the exact opposite.

Maybe he should try living in Copenhagen or Stockholm.
The actual problem that the patent is intended to solve, for those who'd rather comment than RTFA:

"A problem with HMDs, primarily HMDs that are not of the see-through kind, is that the image on the display in front of each eye fills the central but not the peripheral field of view of the user. Consequently, the visual experience is similar to looking into a box or tunnel having a small screen at a distance. Peripheral vision is good at detecting motion and as a result, occluded peripheral vision in HMDs can cause a user to experience motion sickness symptoms after some time. Thus, whereas existing HMDs may work well for their intended purposes for short periods of time, there is a continuing need for improved HMDs that provide enhanced long-time visual experience for the user."
>In Ireland, there isn't so much corruption.

Really? How hard are you looking?
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This indicates it is actually a theorem (proven in the area of machine learning):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem
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I just hope that someone in a high enough position would roar "STOP THE MADNESS!". These kind of patent trials are only harming the end consumer. What kind of legislation even makes it possible to patent things like "Method of swinging on a swing"
( http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227 )?
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It is worth emailing them if it takes longer than a few days. There is a process where after a couple of days, it should go into extended review, and they will email you.
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As a non-native English speaker, I'd say, that those aspiring developers need to learn English.

In all other technical fields English is a priority. It shouldn't and indeed isn't any different in the realms of programming.
"how else do you expect them to debug live code"

I've actually spent quite a long time writing code where, for various legal reasons, you are never going to get direct access to the production data. (And indeed some cases where accessing the data in question would be a serious criminal offence).

Makes you really keen on defensive programming and comprehensive logging - although you do then have to be careful about what you log.

I actally found it kind of fun to try and debug complex systems based only on a log file and QA with production operations folks.

[NB Of course, none of this would be applicable to Facebook]
However, that is not the purpose of the patents.

You can't patent an idea, you can only patent an implementation of it. E.g., I can't patent a flying carpet until I actually know how to make it and prove that I can (by making it or being very specific in technical instructions on how to make it).

An patent is obvious if you can explain the idea, i.e. what you want the machine to do, to a graduate engineer/scientist, and have him implement it. As for the famous doubly-linked list patent: if I tell a programmer: "I have a number of items {A, B, C, D, E}, and sometimes I need to access them in the [A -> B -> C -> D -> E] sequence, and othertimes I need to access them in the [B -> C -> E -> A -> D] sequence. Make an efficient/working implementation of it!", then any programmer could come up with the doubly-linked list implementation. Ergo, it is obvious.
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That's a cool idea, but how would you prove you came up with an invention independently if the patented device/software is already out there?
Not sarcasm. Of course you should reproduce in a development environment, but for some issues, looking at live DB is the only way to see what is wrong.
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I thought this is an excellent review.
Much better than the Technology Review article that was posted here recently [1].
It did answer most of my questions [2].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4170446
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4175723
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It was a typo and I really think you should avoid correcting people's grammar on this forum. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.
Nobody ever said logic isn't valid. We're talking about consistency.
I wouldn't lump Google in there with Facebook. We have very strict controls on access to user data (we can't even see email addresses in logs), and we have not adopted the motto "move fast and break things". We do extensive automated testing and have release processes that are designed to minimize problems in the event of a bad push. Yes, bugs happen from time to time, but it's software -- there is no known practical technique to produce bug-free software, so we have to settle for mostly-bug-free software instead. This isn't being amateurish or egotistical, it's being realistic.
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> Am I the only person who thinks this whole approach is broken?

Broken? Depends on your perspective.

If you care first and foremost about your users' data, it sure is broken. But FB is not a hosting company.

If you care the most most about correctness of your code and getting everything right the first time (VMS style rather than UNIX `worse is better' style), then again, it will seem broken. But FB is not an academic excercise.

If, on the other hand, you felt like a stakeholder in the company and cared most about developing the business, then no, `moving fast and breaking things' is means to that end.

If, alternatively, you enjoy experimentation and pushing frontiers, then again, no, `moving fast and breaking things' is about the only modus operandi that can accomodate that.

Emphasis on product management and testing is for serving your customers -- but users aren't FB's customers. I cannot assure you, but I would bet a lot FB does indeed heavily test and manage projects related to serving ads -- which is what their customers pay for.
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