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You mean it's a dictatorship run by the minority rich western white countries that force their imperialism on the majority of the world through the various arms of UN? That the US is able to impose sanctions on Iraq and now Iran even though the majority of the world is opposed to the sanctions? That the US is able to shield Israel from any sanctions despite its grave violations of human rights, its refusal to end the military occupation, its refusal to allow Palestinians to have their land back (whether 1967-occupied 22% or the 1948-occupied 78%), its refusal to allow the right of return to non-Jews who were kicked out in 1948 (under UN law the refugees forced out or those left voluntarily have the right to return) and its insistence to allow Jewish immigrants to settle in the land being stolen every day by demolishing homes and evicting non-Jewish owners?

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/07/state-dept-says-it-is-not-cons...

MS. NULAND: We have no reason to believe that it is not credible. It’s based on eyewitness accounts, and they’re reporting from a broad cross-section of human rights figures inside Syria.

QUESTION: So the next time Human Rights Watch comes out with a report that’s critical of Israel for its treatment of the Palestinians, I’ll assume that you’re going to be saying the same thing, correct; that you think that the report is credible, it’s based on eyewitness accounts?

MS. NULAND: As --

QUESTION: And you’re not going to say that it’s politically motivated and should be dismissed?

MS. NULAND: Matt, as you have made clear again and again in this room, we are not always consistent.

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Thought experiment. Imagine that we could send people to Mars, but we knew with 99%+ certainty they would die “prematurely” there, ahead of time. And those astronauts knew that.

Would that be ethical?

I sure think so. I know some people would disagree, but that doesn’t matter. As long as those involved know what they are getting into, it’s ethical enough to work.
Jefe: "It is possible, but the neurons are actually complex computing units that take a plethora of signals into account: subtle temporal behavior, complex chemistry in the cell as well as in the synaptic cleft, and many more less understood things. Secondly, as you can imagine, the connectivity is far from random. Like in larger nervous systems, these computing units take precise roles, part due to the developmental process, part due to later stage learning. "

El Guapo: "Would you say, senor, that I have a plethora of signals in each computing unit? And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora."

Jefe: "Forgive me, El Guapo. I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?"

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"But in the end, the machinery is precise, and simulating it requires understanding all of it."

Sorry to pick at you for this, but how can you be certain of the many claims you've made here? How do you know that intelligence cannot be implemented in a mechanism simpler than the biological hardware implementation or simulations thereof?
'If an organization has a strong vision, high trust in its people, and tight feedback loops, it would be very difficult for it to have a “bad culture”.'

Of these three, only "trust in its people" is relevant to the development of culture, in so far as culture means "a productive and fun environment that I/others would want to work at".

Organisational vision is important as it pertains to preventing myopia; tight feedback loops keep people on track - but a great culture is best achieved by hiring highly skilled people with a good sense of humour, tolerance towards the views of others, strong interpersonal skills, and perhaps a little bit of wackiness - and letting them do their jobs, whilst trusting that when they're goofing around having a laugh it will be positive for the energy of the company and not come at too great a cost to their work.

Edit: Removed emphasis on culture solely for attracting employees
You say that with such certainty. I may be thick, but I haven’t seen enough to be convinced whether or not they know what they are doing and what problems are solved or unsolved.

How do you know?
You can mitigate a lot of this with budget usability testing (show your mom :)).
Here's a good idea, why not "go through" with the project, then fake the entire media spectacle.

You could build up the exact same media hype and have less costs! Good thing they have a team member who has "...worked for over 20 years in the graphics industry".
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If riding a motorcycle is "suicidal", then driving a car is 1/35th as "suicidal".
This would never make the front of Reddit. What would the headline be... "TIL that some people speculate about terraforming Mars"?
"There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn."

I hope this doesn't become the epithet of Windows 8!
Please do not encourage developers to send push notifications that contain marketing messages, like a notification about a new version of the app. Rampant abuse of push notifications in this way is ruining the push notification mechanism for developers that use them appropriately, because users are growing tired of being blasted with unwanted push notifications, so they reflexively reject push notifications when any app asks for permission.

Push notifications compete for user attention at the same level as incoming text messages and phone calls. Using them to announce a new version of your app is inappropriate, unless you think it'd be appropriate to call or text every user of your app to let them know about a new version.

Also, using push notifications in this way is arguably a violation of the App Store review guidelines, in particular:

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"All software sucks. Users would be a lot happier if they had to use a lot less of it."

According the the author, Chrome isn't the solution.
You forgot uptime because none of that is worth anything if the system isn't running, and someone has to be available to make that happen 24/7.
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The simple math around this is the incredible asymmetry of the entire customer base of these companies, compared to the number of employees. It might seem obvious to us (or at least it does to me) that a multi-billion dollar company like google should have a set of operators prioritizing calls, particularly for the ones that really do need human attention - but, when you have billions of people using your service, if just 1 percent called you in a year, that's still 10 million+ calls you would have to triage.

An eye opener for me, was when I finished Diablo, and watched the credit - and saw the many, many, many pages of customer support staff for that application. It looked like they numbered in the hundreds - and, all to serve just 4 million customers that had each paid $60.

There is no way that Google/Facebook/Twitter/Linked in can handle incoming voice for all their free users.
It's an adversarial system, though. For every legal team trying to exploit the flaws in our system, there's another trying to stop them from doing so. They aren't all bad actors.

What I can't understand is why billing rates haven't plummeted due to the glut of law school grads they keep talking about. It's not as if the bar associations have kept that many off the market.
Makes sense for consumer based products, when you think of how much cisco phones cost. For enterprise solutions, obviously, not so much.

Phones makes people feel better - and if your clients are worth enough, and you can control the volume, it's a good idea. Heck, even Google offers to let you call them for $2.
Are you implying that someone actually "went through it all and checked the work"?
As grellas clarified, only the $4 million requested went to document production. Lawyers fees have not been disclosed but likely exceeded $100 million. That's the contentious figure. $1-$2 per document is probably not totally unreasonable, but then I don't really know what goes into these things.

Also, in my uneducated opinion, I think "millions" of documents is probably not really credible in terms of what a normal person thinks of as a document. This may include the entirety of Android's source code, which is thousands of files ("documents") by itself. I'd like to be corrected on this if there is actually a real amount of work for each of those "millions" of documents entered into the case. (If there were millions of unique and independent documents for review, I don't think anyone would believe a court could truly process these in a timeframe of 18-24 months.)
I believe the loser of a court case, especially if they are the initiator, should foot the legal bills for both sides. At least this will offer small parties who are attacked by predatory lawsuit from a large party a fighting chance (with obvious risks), especially when the case is not warranted. Why is this not implemented in US law?
The incremental changes to Chrome's UI have been subtle, resulting in very little, if any, friction for the user. The point I was making was a UI that is thought-through and well-designed withstands the test of time rather well. Details change but the fundamental interactions retain their familiarity.

As regards the Windows UI, Windows 7 and Vista were different from XP which was different from Win2k which was ... The introduction of Glass, in particular, caused a lot of frustration for users that were upgrading from XP. Drivers were broken, their applications were borked, etc. Windows 7 fixed all of those problems, but a number of companies have not upgraded from XP because they don't want to deal with re-training their users.

In many ways, like Vista is to the Windows brand what the Rapid Release Process is to the Firefox brand. Both ideas caused mass defections to the competition. The jury is still out on how users will react to Metro. The dual-desktop story has two problems: the switch between the Classic and Metro desktops is not very intuitive; people are going to miss the Start Button. I think click-based heat maps should be "a" factor in making UI decisions; not "the" factor in such decisions!

Here are my closing thoughts on why a UI change should be as non-intrusive as possible. In my experience, people hate software because it has a way of making them feel stupid. The reason to be careful with changing the UI and/or removing features is that there is a good chance that the changes will people will feel stupid all over again. This is an invitation for defection to the competition.
As most of these companies are Web-based and use automated systems for support, it makes little sense for them to implement call centers with live operators.

It's not an issue of scalability IMHO (although it's harder to scale telephony than text), but a matter of cost: human phone operators are much more expensive.

They could create better automated voice replies, though - in fact, I believe that will be the case soon, what with voice recognition and TTS getting a lot better every day...
If you go to the last sentence of the post, you can probably tell I meant to write a follow-up post about the competitive landscape and do some sort of SWOT analysis. I ended up just moving on to another topic, but that would have been a good sequel to this post.
Isn't the problem that it is so asymmetrical? They could still bleed the money out of your large fund.
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No, that's not "it" for Thunderbird...
Are you implying that Google spent three million dollars sending an intern down to Kinko's with a truck full of file boxes?
The thing I've wanted is a way to post a per-message "non-nuisance bond" on incoming communications.

Basically, a recipient can define multiple channels (mailboxes, call, physical mail, fax) to contact, and set a price for unsolicited communications on each. Maybe I'd say $1000 to take an unsolicited phonecall at night, and $1 for an unsolicited email during the day.

If the message was of value to me, I wouldn't collect the bond. If it was a waste of my time, I'd collect, which should be high enough to compensate me, as well as high enough to deter future communications. Pricing could adjust over time.

This would also serve to push users to contact me in the most convenient for me way, or at least to expose my priorities and preferences to the senders. When I'm driving, my phone call price drops below my email/text (instant response) price, but for $100k, I'd probably be willing to pull over and read an email once notified.

(There are lots of sender-bond systems, but they are all designed around spam, not nuisance email or even just unwanted email. Plus, they're per-sender, not per message. Mail from someone you like could be inconvenient at certain times, so with a sender-bond system, you'd be forced to choose either no-op or a lasting ban, which is lame.)
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Lawyers may have Joe Ordinary "by the balls" in his divorce case, but I'm quite sure that no one has Google by the oo's. When it comes to law, scale makes a quantitative difference. A case this size is 100% politics and its manipulating the precedents for an entire country. Its damn near diplomacy.

"Big Law" is suffering these days. Law firms lined up for this one by the trainload, Google picked the best of the best and paid what they thought it was worth to them.
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What a hypocritical remark. Someone with decency and proprietary does not call into question an entire profession of people. The law profession attracts a lot of extremely intelligent and honorable people. Unfortunately like any profession the bad ones tend to make the most noise.

I sure as hell can't imagine many people with the intellectual rigor capable of turning the staggering volume of documents into a single, compelling argument.
One reason it is not implemented is that it would stop most poor people from suing insurance companies. They have very deep pockets and the bill would be excessive, so the cost of trying to right a wrong would scare off most attorneys that would take the case. Polluters is another class of case that generally fits into this.

Tort reform is needed, but automatic loser pay works to the advantage of big companies.
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Yay! You are unbanned now. The spam filtering algorithms are not open source, but I believe they are a bit trigger-happy when it comes to brand new accounts that post a lot of comments at once. My uninformed guess is that you were caught by an overzealous filter.
It hasn't, though. Larry Ellison has shown time and time again that Oracle is just about the bottom dollar. SCO was just a patent troll, but in Ellison's Oracle, patent trolling/litigation is just another "wing" of the business of making big bucks. Oracle did the math and thought it would be worth the risk/investment of taking this all the way in anticipation of a possible payout on the scale of billions of dollars, and it didn't pan out. That's what makes this all the more annoying: this isn't their core business model, they're not SCO, but they choose to pursue this anyway.
For the record, I'm a photographer, not a graphic artist. Sure, I doodled a bit as a kid and have tried my hand at drawing from time to time (who hasn't?) but tens of thousands of hours is at least an order of magnitude off as an estimate, and the time I did put in wasn't consistent or contiguous.
> then they wouldn't be junior engineers, by definition

I don't think so. My impression is that junior/senior is defined by years of experience more than technical skills. Having been out of university for one year now, I know I sure as hell won't get a job as a "senior engineer" anywhere, even if I could easily implement both these structures.
Yeah, I'll bet $100 that there will be a global AWS outage (out to the extent of the April 2011 or June 2012 outages) in the next 3 years, affecting at least two regions for at least one hour of simultaneity.

(I'll assume it will be a routing problem or a software problem.)
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From the filing: "Google delivered to its document vendor over 97 million documents for electronic processing and review. ... Google’s document vendor filtered custodial documents for production by running agreed-upon key-term searches, and converted documents to TIFF images for production. Over the course of this litigation, Oracle served nine separate Requests for Production of Documents, with 204 individual document requests. Google electronically produced over 3.3 million documents in response to Oracle’s requests, and Google’s 60 separate document productions span over 20 million pages."

I suppose you can debate the exact figures if you like, but they did spend $2,900,349 on this, and I'm betting they got a good deal.
No one does believe that a court would review every document ever read by anyone associated with the case.

That is the job of the law firm who would distill the thousands/millions of documents into a single argument for the court. Some documents maybe relevant. Some may not. The point is that it takes someone with skill a great deal of time to review them.
I don't understand how all the recommendation engine stuff really needs to be in the critical path; 99% of the time, netflix behavior I observe (admittedly, sample size of 2) is "watch next episode of same series." And new series are discovered via referral from someone else, or googling e.g. "post apocalyptic sci fi movies", then figuring out what Netflix has, downloading if unavailable, or Amazoning as absolute worst case. The Netflix recommender doesn't really fit in, so all they need is authentication and authorization, a static URL distributor, and CDN.
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I know it was dumb, but I was half expecting to see something like cars from the Fifth Element after clicking the link.
I get that you're trying to make a larger point, but this isn't a very good example with which to do it. Used cars are nearly always a better value than new cars.
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Here's a viewpoint that's even more scary than a bunch of villainous lawyers out to take advantage of the poor sheeple: The lawyers, the accountants, the CEO's, even judges and juries are just out working hard, trying the best they can to get along in life. None of them are particularly scummy. The rottenness is just an emergent property.

Lawyers just happen to live on the fault-lines of the tectonic plates of greed and self interest.
>> As soon as someone points out an issue they almost immediately switch to "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!".

I don't think I have to comment that any further ...
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> A caller into the station complained that it would eat up the moon, to which the scientist speaking chuckled and said it would only take a hair off the surface of the moon given how massive it is.

Well, if each of them would replicate on average into two or more new robots, then yes, they probably could eat Moon very quickly. Exponential growth is a pain :).
This is a lot of analysis when the answer seems very simple and is hidden in the article: Firefox Updates weren't done as well as Chrome Updates, which is why they weren't popular.

I've been using Chrome for years (after using FF for years). With Chrome, I never realize there are updates. The idea of updating Chrome just doesn't enter into my consciousness. So the fact that they update all-the-friggin'-time doesn't matter to me - it never registers in my mind.

With FF, every update I would realize it. So even if the updates were just a popup "hey, we've updated", doing it once every two months will cause me to acknowledge their updating once every 2 months. Which I don't want to do, because I don't care, at all about Firefox updating. I just want to browse the web.
The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates. We pay them too. Cheap lawyers are not a bargain.

Decency and propriety? What do you even mean by that? That you think the proper rate for legal work should be lower than the current market rate? What basis do you have for such a claim?
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Isn't Zimbra basically what you're describing -- a holistic server + client replacement for Exchange? That has actually been reasonably successful.
It isn't just an emergent property. When you undermine contract law and private property rights the whole system turns to shit.

Libertarians complain loudly about things like guns and drugs, but the erosion of the backbone of an economy is a much more insidious problem.
Dart isn't relevant, since google isn't pushing it nearly hard enough.
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I don't know that this accomplishes the same thing. It's not a question of getting this file/data out of the cache so much as it is about not replacing existing cache contents with this one.

Removing a file from the cache after the fact doesn't address the problem that it kicked some other data out of the cache to take its place in the first place.
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