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While I am super happy that the cable industry is getting disrupted as it deserves to be(the wireless industry sucks too, maybe a tech company can buy TMobile or Sprint), I feel uneasy about the following two points:

1) Profitability: I wonder how profitable and sustainable this is for Google? They can subsidize it for only so long before deciding to discontinue it as has been happening to many of their services recently.

2) With Google as your ISP and TV channel provider, they will have the potential to know everything about you, probably even more than you know about yourself! Imagine you use all their services, they will know about your surfing habits(via ISP, Google searches and clicks, G+ buttons, Google ads, Google analytics etc.), your location(Android location services/GPS. Google Maps), TV channel viewing habits, Gmail, social network(Google+), phone calls(Google voice), etc. etc. It will also provide malicious and state actors with a one stop shop to steal/request information from.
I believe the motivation for the scorn is because you have no evidence for your speculation, and that speculation is tarnishing a person that we respect.
There has been a good discussion on the previous article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4293530

w1ntermute has a comment that has been highly up-voted:

"I don't know about you, but I'll take Google over Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, etc. any day of the week, regardless of their conflicts of interest."

Google may have an impressive business strategy, but they haven't done anything to lock out a competitor. Google has tough competition in every single area you have listed.
A phone is not a service, it's a good and a platform for serving more goods/content in the form of the Google Play store.

What about YouTube or Maps or Apps? YouTube produces it's own content, as does Google Maps.

Again, Google today is not Google c. 2002. They produce massive amounts of content and goods, and being able to control the full distribution pipeline for said content and goods could end up being a significant anti-trust issue.
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To my knowledge, ACID transactions and scale-out architectures are mutually exclusive, unless I missed a major breakthrough.
I guess living in Montreal means I'm not getting a piece of this action any time soon.

It had the merit of making me reconsider how I live my life though. When you think about moving to another country, even for just one quick second, for an internet service, it's probably way too central to your way of life to be healthy.
Here's the privacy policy: https://fiber.google.com/legal/privacy.html
The country of Australia is spending over $31 billion on a project called the National Broadband Network (NBN) to bring fiber directly to 97% of homes. That project is enormous in scale compared to the Kansas City experiment.
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> Metro and its app store are only "half" of Windows 8.

The parent said "going the same way". It seems pretty obvious to me that they are deprecating the desktop and Windows 8 is just step 1 of that.
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It's laying the fiber that's the expensive part, and there is a $300 fee to pay for that. In terms of marginal cost, it really doesn't cost them anything to serve another 5MB/1MB connection. They want to get you hooked so you'll want to upgrade later.
In downtown Seattle they already have competition in the form of CondoInternet.
That's merely administrative partitioning, though. On the wire there's one big reachable address space which predated his involvement, and the creators' names appear on RFCs.
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I've been using this app in beta for a while and it is so awesome. I really think this follows a new design pattern for mobile where the app is so smart it pings you when you should use it.
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It's not a matter of free markets, it a matter of corruption. Solyndra's business model as a company was provably unsound years before it emerged as scandal but it still received funding from the government because people believed in the idea of a solar company. The thing is that Solyndra ended up not actually contributing much to solar as a business or technology because their source of income was based on politics and not on making solar power workable. Seeing as Solyndra's founders were politically connected, it looks a lot like the real driving motivator here was political back-rubbing and not actual improvement to alternate energy technology.

If you want the government to fund scientific advancement so that alternate energies can become reality, that's one thing, but the government shouldn't be funding provably unsound companies just because they happen to be in a popular field. It's comparable to investing in Pets Dot Com because the Internet is the new thing.

At best government funding of industry won't actually improve the industry and will just be a colossal waste of money. At worse, it will be yet another avenue for politically connected connected millionaires to get free public money put into their private ventures.
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Anypic: an example of what you can build with Parse.

This isn't an Instagram clone.

1) The site doesn't mention that you have to sign in with your Facebook account to even use it.

2) One of the big reasons Instagram was "cool" or "fun" was because of the photo transformations. These aren't there either.

It's a photo sharing app. I wouldn't compare it to Instagram and I certainly wouldn't declare it as a "clone" of it.

I agree with another user commenting that the cool part about this is the tutorial [1] available to show how to make it. Why not just emphasize that instead of making this out to be something it's not?

[1] - https://parse.com/tutorials/anypic
Did anyone else catch the "2 year contract" bullet point? Despite that, of all the Telcos out there, I suppose I would be more willing to sign one with Google than any of them.
Yes they would. Its the same reason ftp servers, backup servers and NAS would exist no matter how fast the connection speed is.
Its about availability, backups and more holistic access control. It would be interesting to see how these services innovate with such high speed connection though.
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Be careful what you wish for. I'm dubious of getting any kind of service from a company known for not having any kind of customer service whatsoever.
Say what you want about Microsoft, and acknowledging the past decade has been a real disappointment, I wouldn't count them out just yet...

If I compare Microsoft's handling of the OEM PC industry of the 1990s to Google's handling of the Android ecosystem, the latter is utterly laughable in comparison cough Nexus 7 Screen issues cough. That alone is reason enough for me to think they could return. They just need the right leadership. And if you think such a transition is impossible, compare the Apple of today to the Apple before Steve Jobs returned...
"wanted strong local support to avoid regulatory problems."

Probably the most genius part of this whole thing. It may the reason we're not hearing about the lobbying backlash someone like Uber received.
on Point 2: How is this any different then today with Comcast/Verizon etc..?
Contrast this end-user experience with that of Steam's. These are essentially the exact same applications except that Steam has 1) carefully cultivated a huge, multi-platform ecosystem of apps and 2) has never willingly broken the application's environment.

Steam is arguably the only game distribution platform of significance (yes, yes, battle.net and its limited selection of widely played titles) and will continue to dominate because of the careful thought they've put into distribution.

Seems like Apple should take a lesson, no?
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The most important piece of information I see than the speeds is "No Data Caps". Will this mean the end of Fair Usage Policies? I am anxiously hoping that this is the start of the end of the evil FUP policies.
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Well, like the link states this already breaks compatibility with BSD grep. Combine that with breaking compatibility with previous version, breaking previous scripts, and breaking based on distro depending on the speed at which the package maintainers upgrade (if ever)... it's best IMO to just leave it the way it always was.

It's going to be hard enough switching between a machine that only gets critical updates and a machine with the same distro but getting all updates. Grep has been around since 1973, is there any serious Unix scripter who feels it still needs more features?
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They are encouraging people to pre-register to figure out where the demand is.
How is 'problem' or 'issue' really that different?

And 'may be' is technically accurate as well - Twitter has been working fine for me, so there was no 'problem' with my access.
That's a fine recommendation for machines that you solely work on, or have complete control over. However, it's good to be able to work with the standard toolset if you frequently work on a variety of remote machines (where it's quite common that you cannot install such things, due to permissions or policies, and want to get started working before attempting to download/install a bunch of custom binaries).

Edit: MattJ100 made a more clear point while I was responding.
Using the passive voice is a long tradition of almost everyone who's ever made a mistake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistakes_were_made

Often, I wish publicists would say things more tersely.
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Wait, so he's saying that he's moving from MSFT to AAPL because AAPL has better lock-in? Personally, I'm staying with MSFT because MSFT has already learned the follies of relying on lock-in and is moving on where AAPL is repeating MSFT of the 90's mistakes.
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i created this fb page yesterday to see how many people are interested in tearing down Craigslist's wall of lawyers protecting it's antiquated platform.

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The thing I miss most about my internet connection at GT was the incredibly low latency to most everything. Now, this was circa 2000 or so; but, I remember page loads seeming more like loading files locally the latency was so low.

Google today, for all it's speed an simplicity, is significantly slower to get to search results than Yahoo would load them for me in 2000 on a GT internet connection.
I don't see "issue" as a weasel word, although I can see why he does. To me, it's just a general term that captures "problem" and "fault" and "bug". I don't think a lot of people read it and think to themselves, "oh, I thought there was a fault here, but it turns out it's just an issue". "Issue" is equally negative.

Bug trackers become "issue trackers" in part because people started to use them to track more than bugs.
Was going to say the same thing - presumably your goal is that I will like the blog post and by extension you, and if so I'll be curious what you do, what your area of expertise is, etc.

I can only hope the irony isn't lost on him - maybe Owen (whoever he is) is purposefully giving us an example of how annoying it is to not explain what you do on your blog.
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Yes, this is just for Kansas City. Given that it takes a physical build-out, I imagine 'everywhere' getting it is not in the foreseeable future.
I guess the first result is calculated server-side and rounded, but now it's client-side without rounding.
I'm so sick of people taking issue with corporate communications doing their job.
> contemptible customer support

Because Google will be so much better? Look, I hate telcos just like the next guy, but the suckage is mostly due to the nature of the business. They form natural monopolies and that sort of thing doesn't lead to customer satisfaction. The only way that sector is going to get truly disrupted is through gigabit wireless internet. You can have multiple competitors in one space with comparatively limited infrastructure investment on their part.

That free tier? That is outright illegal and its sole purpose is to eradicate all competition. It' a good thing for Google that sort of thing isn't really enforced anymore. They'll still get sued though. Look up price bashing.

Once Google is the only player in town, you still think they'll shit lilacs and spread rainbows and unicorns? That's just not how monopolies work.
The regular timeago is on Github: https://github.com/rmm5t/jquery-timeago.

I don't see the need for a new project for something like a tweak like this. Seems like a reasonable pull request for the timeago folks???
It seems like Google TV now done right.
Great interview and it makes me respect Schwartz even more. It takes balls to admit to mistakes at the level he was at, too.
One small point: at the income level where the 39.6% bracket applies, you are almost certainly itemizing deductions (especially if you live in a state with an income tax). In that case, every dollar of state tax paid is deductible for federal purposes, measurably lowering the effective combined rate.
Not to mention the ridiculous cost of digging up something like NYC.
Great. I've been looking for something simple like this to implement in my SaaS product. I'll give it a spin tonight.
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Well, GHC is still slower than C, C++, Ada and Fortran, so the link doesn't really refute his point.

And, looking at the code, a lot of the Haskell is subverting purity and laziness by using things like Data.ByteString.Internal and Data.ByteString.Unsafe, so I think that actually makes the case even stronger.
But if you have fiber connecting all of these modern desktop CPUs, people could sell excess computing time to applications that need it.
I suppose Google is not an exception, and we will eventually start to hate Google too.

I hope that doesn't happen of course.
I'm in the "insider trading should be legal" camp.
Is it dedicated fiber, or are you sharing with neighbors? If shared, just how many of your neighbors can shoving blu-ray rips around before your VOIP suffers?

(Of course, even with dedicated, you still are meeting other people's bits somewhere.)
I would guess more like 2015+ for most metros
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Just FYI, "Yea" and "Yay" are not synonymous.
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Let me stop you right there.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484
is $120/mo good? That's more than any other bill I pay except rent.
I think you've missed the point on multiple fronts...

> and you don't see Android phones being compromised remotely within fifteen minutes of being connected to a network.

Again, why do you (and others) keep comparing today's Linux/Android/OS X OS with a 10-15 year old Windows OS.

Windows security has been at its core since after XP, and by all knowledgeable accounts is just as good as Linux's ... as long as you know how to use it / deal with it. Today 95% of the problem is clueless Windows admins, and bad user decisions.

As far as my own experience goes, I've ran Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, and all the rest never having been compromised. So it is possible at least.

What you're doing is the same when people complain about IE 6 vs. the latest version of Chrome...

IE6 came out in 2001, and at that time was the most standards-compliant and feature full of all the browsers on the market (well, except for IE 5.5 for MacOS).

> They didn't have to have everyone running as root by default in all versions of Windows before Vista (AFAIK in XP Home you can't actually set up restricted users). They didn't have to have lots of open ports offering things like RPC to the world. They didn't have to have all files executable by default, based solely off the hidden part of the filename in AnnaKournikova.jpg.exe.

Of course they had to do all that. The Windows users back then were generally not very savvy and anything that got in their way was a disaster waiting to happen. Also it was a different time. Even today most Windows home users don't even understand the file-system with it's drives, devices, directories, subs, and files. And you wanted them to understand user security and how it plays with applications that they ran? No.

> but those opportunities wouldn't have been there if they hadn't ignored security for so long.

I guess they should have gotten a time machine to the future to pull all that work and knowledge back to the past. Windows XP should have been based off Windows 7.

My point is that what is possible today, was not possible 10, 15, or 20 years ago both from a tech and user point of view... Just because someone can do OS security good today, dosn't mean you can blame someone else for not doing it good decades ago.
I don't understand...in the demo on the site, those pics don't seem to have any effects/filters that are near what instagram has?
Oh yeah! Think: a harddrive writes at what an average of 75MB/s [1], and 1Gbit internet is 125MB/s [2]. (Note, Google currently advertises 'up to 1Gbit up and down').

This means that dropbox no longer "syncs". It's just another harddrive in terms of how it works. Copies to and from just as quickly as your harddrive.

Heck, it seems like if you installed an application to your dropbox, and ran your computer off of an SSD, it seems like you could enjoy BETTER performance than if you had that program installed on a 7200rpm drive and ran it locally...

Can't wait to see what we end doing with 1GBit ubiquity!

[1] http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/3.5-hard-drive-charts-200...

[2] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1Gbit+in+MB%2Fs
While this would normally be a concern, I don't think many people trust Comcast or Time Warner any more than Google.
Yes, although there are rumblings about other locations. I can tell you that if it does 'decimate' the entrenched carriers they will go thermonuclear as well (so Google ends up opening another front in the legal wars) You can already see some of the tactics where cable companies have convinced legislatures to make it illegal to allow either public funds to be spent on infrastructure or to allow non-contracted third parties into a region.
This might just make Kansas City the tech center scene for colocation startups. Run this out of your bedroom. Amazon watch out!

Note to self: Cross KC off my list of colo locations if an offer appears with outrageously low pricing.
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A little funny to see him say that, since I think Oracle's inability to come up with a mobile platform beyond feature phones and the Google/Oracle lawsuit are both related to Sun's attempt to protect its J2ME licensing fees while he was the CEO.
I'm not sure a physicist is the right term, but there is a difference between your usual carpenter and someone who wants to study hammers and come up with new ways of building them and using them.
I think you just clearly stated a problem and a solution in the same comment.
I am not convinced that requiring users to become near-experts in their given compiler (and by extension their chosen platform) is a bad practice.

I think it is a fine balance when writing code to find a way to express algorithms such that they a) are understandable to other developers and b) maximize the opportunity for the compiler to optimize the code into machine instructions.

That does not mean that compiler writers can stop after creating an assembler, since its just turtles all the way up from there; but it does mean that compiler writers should be thinking about how to maximize the machine/developer interface.

Given this view, you certainly cannot extract language creators from language compilers, which either leads us to a world where all work is done creating new languages or one where we all develop in lisp ;)
Too awkward? He wrote explicitly about why he was leaving: Simple has challenging problems, but they are not the challenging problems that light Alex up. Alex is interested in programming languages and dev tools, not tracking and routing money.

I don't have to speculate about that or wonder if there's "awkwardness" behind it. Alex said so. Just read the post.

You wonder whether people write posts like this because they anticipate speculation about why they're leaving or how the company is doing. Of course, there's no win to be had in being honest and direct, because people are just going to invent their own stories. The narrative that eventually sticks is the one that is most fun to bounce around, or has the most resonance to people, or is most congenial to people's ideology.
Both have the same value proposition. Flock has far clearer messaging.
No way to know. This is a pilot program. Running fiber to the home cost effectively is as much a political challenge as anything else. They're hoping to blow the doors of in KC to then help make things go more smoothly in other cities.
I'm running Windows 8, and I'm running steam. I've had no problems with Steam or with Steam games.
It's different because Comcast/Verizon don't have your email and your calendar and your web surfing habits and your voicemail and your text messages and your contacts and did I mention your email?
Very interesting. All the packages sound great but it's really the free internet that's going to prove to be disruptive.
I, as many other I'm guessing, have moved away from traditional television, watching a lot of stuff on my laptop and iPad. There are a couple of TV shows I enjoy but I'm not bound to them and don't mind purchasing the episodes at a later time. And you have to imagine that Apple and Google will strike their own deals with content creators at some point.
> There is not a single other industry I can say that about, certainly not one that comes to mind so quickly.

Airlines?

> contemptible customer support

IMHO better than Google's dogmatic avoidance of any kind of customer support.
re: #2

have you been following this story at all?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nsa+whistleblower+william+binney

(lmgtfy used not because I'm trying to be a dick, but rather because the direct google search gives a url that contains all kinds of extra parameters)
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Nah, he just wants to buy up more MSFT and he's trying to set a trend to drop the price short term so he can get a better deal.
I presume it's dedicated. "No data caps" is a huge bonus in the world of FUPs.
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Once you have used a quality package manager everything in the osx ecosystem is painful to use.
Sun's CDDL license for the Solaris code was another big mistake. Notice how the linux dtrace port has to step around licensing issues here, https://github.com/ShepBook/dtrace-for-linux

Linux still does not have a good implementation of Dtrace, and other awesome Solaris tools.
And two of the four were the result of direct action by the federal government, so they deserve more than a little credit.