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I think he's talking about the easy-to catch idea-disease that since he went to MIT he should be better off than the average person. This might be true in some scenarios, but not in the startup world where as he mentions he "started to meet people who were [his] equals". Personally I'm surprised he didn't already experience this when he got to MIT, like GuiA mentions.
I don't think it's fair to expect a customer service representative to understand the issue here. Maybe it might be better to go through Tesco's corporate arm? I just tried submitting something through the feedback form on the front page of Tesco.com, perhaps this has a better chance of reaching somebody in a position to actually do something about it.
I would invest the same way (focus on users in developed economies) if it were my startup - but Google isn't a startup. When you have two of the BRIC economies sewn up in a social network, AND you have cash to stay for the long game, I think you're doing your shareholders a disservice by not sticking it out.
This was possible in Microsoft's glory days before Google, Apple, Amazon became formidable forces - they've never seen smart and talented competitors like this where they're effectively rendered helpless - a distant competitor in each of these companys primary markets.

Not only can't they compete, but they can't even maintain their own lead in these markets - as they've lost their dominant lead with Windows Mobile (which still has 2x market share than WP7) and Internet Explorer has recently conceded the most popular browser spot to Chrome. This is even after making these markets primary objectives where they shell out $1B a year to Nokia to be an exclusive WP7 Carrier.

They've achieved their dominance in the PC world thanks partly to their open 3rd party hardware ecosystem. The problem is this model doesn't seem to translate well in the vertically integrated Smart Phone + Tablet market, and if they price Surface too aggressively it will effectively kill all incentives for their hardware partners to compete (and make any profit).

It also doesn't help that Microsoft isn't a consumer brand, (e.g. its logo is dwarfed behind the XBOX moniker). All Microsoft's strength is in the enterprise space where the 2 cash cows that have ever really made them any money is Windows(+Server tools) & Office, effectively every other market they've entered have had marginal profits or have been massive loss leaders.

They're stuck between the worlds most valuable company and a one of the worlds most loved brands giving away the mobile + tablet OS for free. I give them a small chance to be able to leverage Windows 8 to become the 2nd largest tablet provider (after iOS), but I'd say the best they can do with Windows Phone is #3.

I wouldn't rule them out until they've still got their cash cows to fund their massive efforts - but take those away and they're another footnote in history.
MRI is mathematical voodoo even when it's working - it's easy to fool yourself at any of several stages in the process. "New scanner gives 10x improvement in detail, shows amazing and unexpectedly simple result" is just screaming for verification.

But it needs it obviously enough and the claim is interesting enough that further verification (or falsification) should happen soonish, as research timescales go.
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What antennas do you use for connecting in each country? I'm a programmer working remotely primarily, but would like to start doing it while travelling around the world. Would love to chat with you more. Do most countries have stupid issues with multiple internet network types such as in the US, or can any 3G modem work in most places? And is 3G enough? I find I'm mostly comfortable with around 7 Mb/s down, 3Mb up
Well, I would think that allowing me to fix the issue would be nicer so that everyone can actually benefit from a potentially useful/inspiring article.

But hey, sorry you had to look at a popup.
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If you use your phone to search for the person (using a browser, not the app), you just get a connect option for everyone, regardless of the separation. The button just says "invite to connect", no warning about knowing them or not.

Slight issue is the invitation says you know them as a friend, but if you're going a abuse a system, do it properly.
An interesting sidebar (not mentioned in the NYMag piece) is that the $88 million loss is due to a write down of $194.7 for About.com [1]. About.com reportedly took a heavy traffic hit from the Google Panda/Penguin update.

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I use my iPhone 4S and tether it to my laptop. Most countries do have different frequency bands but an iPhone or newer Android will work just fine.

7Mb/s down and 3Mb up would be too much to expect off 3G. Even over Wifi in many countries, that would be too much. You could realistically expect about 2Mb/s down, but this really varies from country to country.

3G is enough for keeping track of things, pushing changes to github, uploading a few facebook pictures, etc. You can't really do much more than that without wifi. But thankfully that's available almost everywhere!
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I would be willing to either pay more for something completely ad-free or not pay at all. I probably would not pay considerably more. How much extra does a magazine get from advertising? I thought it would be like three or four dollars per issue.

Yes I also do not enjoy being advertised to when watching a movie or TV, so I seldom do it. I don't feel as bad on the bus, although I'm not sure why, since as you point out it is roughly the same thing.

I think it's the presentation of ads in the midst of content VS ads off to the side on the bus.

Anyway, thank you for that thought-provoking comment.
We missed the boat for the great gaming bubble of 1980s but maybe it’s time for our own bubble. The game budgets are so high now that you have to sell hundreds of millions of copies just to break even.

Not to mention the Zynga IPO.

And there will be no bailing out of the games industry.
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that's the worst possible answer the VP could have made. this comment alone would be enough reason to quit any job.

employees work for the company. every company has a goal. employees work (hard) to push the company to reach that goal. shareholders invest in that goal. it's the goal that matters, not the shareholders monetary desires.

said that, i dont know if Y! has any goals.
No it's not and I would fix that given the chance. I just wish people wouldn't flag this down. Infact, it should be fixed now.
If it was the weekend, it seems unlikely to me that the person running the Twitter account would have got in touch with someone with a technical understanding of how the site works. More likely they just consulted their list of talking points and picked the ones that looked most relevant to the situation.
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On the other hand, the sensible thing to do would be to say something like “Can you provide your contact details in a DM: we’ll get one of our tech guys to contact you on Monday”
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IMO this isn't doing much to advance the cause of women in technology.

Suggesting the highest ranking woman CEO in the tech sector should concentrate on serving women, is slightly sexist.

Both men and women use Yahoo. Demographic splits aren't necessarily as gender specific as the author assumes. We're not living in the 1950s.
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My thoughts exactly. Makes for nice headline and lot's of clicks though.
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Is the bus not the same as the magazine, where you can go "oh look an advert, I'll just ignore that and get back to my content"?

I'm not sure about the value of magazine adverts, I've never worked in print advertising,MIT even at a few dollars that would mean you have to pay double. If they raised prices to do that, the higher price could/would drive some people away, meaning you'd then have to pay more to cover those lost sales..
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I think it's safe to assume that they outsourced this aspect of their online service, given the quality of the copy in some of the pages.
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For my remote job, I need to have daily skype conferences with up 4 people.. have you found that you can use skype reliably over these 3G connections, or is that something that you haven't really done much?
You can also use this system to find the name of anyone whose LinkedIn profile says private instead of their name.

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It boggles my mind that this is STILL happening. How many leaked databases of plain text passwords, not to mention 'point and shoot' tools like firesheep, will it take before companies start taking security seriously?

Yes it's possible they two way encrypt their passwords, but that's still not as secure as salted hashes, not to mention all the other security blunders.
I discovered this a couple of years ago and emailed and got an unsatisfactory response:

http://pastebin.com/C745weQ2

Hopefully this new attention will have them change the policy.
Confirmed that this works on Win7/Firefox/Prince of Persia.
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I'd say it's now a 70% load of shit. Also, thanks for the epic comment, it's not often I actually laugh out loud on HN :D
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I disagree about the prediction for simplified Craigslist-style UIs. I don't think it will ever happen on Mobile.

Animations play a very important role in communicating to the user how to interact with the interface. Animations also give the illusion of a responsive app.

The best apps are likely built by great designers who know how to use animations effectively to communicate with the user.

Everyone else will simply try to copy the best apps along with their animations... thus, it's hard to see animations going away any time soon.

On another note, I find it surprising that yours was the only comment even mentioning design. For me, that was the most important part of the article with by far the biggest implications.

The author predicts that designers will be able to take on a portion of the client-side engineering role in the near future. If this happens, it will completely change how apps are made. It will change the workflow between designers and engineers.

The traditional model of mocking up a PSD and passing it off to an engineer will no longer be viable. Designers will just build clients and interact with APIs. This means that more and more designers will probably have to learn programming, which is a good thing for the future of mobile apps.
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Never gonna happen (regarding the SDKs).Sure...some things might be somehow similar (XAML) but some codebase won't run on all 3 type of devices. Different things for different hardware.
Only thinking at how inefficiently apps are build today make me shudder at running those things on a Xbox.
I hate misleading titles like these. The base is very small to begin with so any sort of jump in sales will seem "significant", even though it's not. The whole WP7 market share is even smaller than it was when it started 2 years ago, at under 2%.
This is a hilarious, albeit depressing, view of the state of cyber security as seen by the general public. People, even those who are generally considered computer literate, don't have any understanding of web security. Due to this, Tesco won't hit any negative publicity outside of a tight knit circle of programmers. In fact, saying that everything is "stored securely" according to "industry standards" would reassure most people.

There have been many calls in past exploit threads for a name and shame policy, but that won't do anything. Name and shame only works when people keep up with the list, and people won't. They're too busy with their lives to focus on a list, especially given the number of insecure websites around the world.

We need everyone to have a list of easy to remember rules about web security from a consumer perspective. This list of rules needs to reach everyone. Putting them in the browsers may lead to the exposure needed, but I don't see that happening.

This primitive level of education needs to start breaking through as it's only going to get worse as computing and security advance further. We haven't even finished explaining to people that plain text passwords almost always indicate impending disaster, yet we already need a way to explain MD5 is never enough and SHA256 isn't enough without a salt...
Always a nice moment when that happens. Though I believe your talking more about "under promise - over deliver" rather than applying a sort of progress to a certain goal. Always use "under promise - over deliver" when possible, your customers will love you for life :) (exception: DMV)
...This is news? You've got a tight loop with a branch, and depending on which way the branch goes, you're going to touch completely different locations in memory.

The solution (at least for some problems) is just to lay your data out in memory better - optimal is a binary search tree in an array, like the way heaps are implemented.

That's what I did for bcache: http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/tree/drivers/m...
OAuth 2 does a job, it works - it's not broken. It's widely implemented by the major players in the web space (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo). It's being used by those companies (and many, many others) without their systems being compromised because of it. It's business as usual.

As engineers of the world wide web (and it's future), it's our responsibility to avoid the toys being thrown out of other's prams (strollers) from time to time.
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I've used skype over 3G. Infact, I've used skype with video over 3G as well. However, a 4-way Skype over 3G is probably very difficult in most countries (but hey, choose Japan and South Korea and you should be able to 16-way skype on their mobile internet ;)).

What I'm trying to say is that you could move to Brazil, rent an apartment with a 10 Meg line, and carry on with your work. I know a day trader (he calls himself the wandering trader..) who did exactly that.
It's true. Honestly, Objective-C in its current state is far easier to pick up than JavaScript, which only gained popularity due to the market effects of browsers.
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There's more than one person named Alice, and there's more than one person named Bob.

Like others, I'm allergic to DNS for identity. Yes, the UX is atrocious (see: OpenID).

But, what about getting away from a global namespace?

Let people refer to their friends however they want! Use marked up links to reference the underlying feeds.
I don't get it. The keyboard looks like a cheapo plastic thing that offers nothing different from other cheapo plastic keyboards, and the mouse looks dreadful. Why would people choose this over a normal bluetooth keyboard/mouse?
As I said previously – solving bigger/hard problems is one path to long-term success.

IMHO, this is one of the more clear cases where VC interests are directly at odds with the interests of post-IPO investors – particularly the ones more likely to be interested in long-term gains (people investing for retirement/retirement funds among others)
What's the evolutionary advantage to run slower when the goal is distant, in humans and rats?

Hacking yourself to run at maximum might be maladaptive (like coffee), unless you are aware of and manage the downsides.
"he was telling you how to match colors and hold a brush"

You have no cause to complain here in this analogy. Either quit or happily let him tell you how to match colors and hold a brush, and if he tells you to paint like the sloppy kids across the street, that's now your job.

You're not painting for the City while having a superior, or for "shareholders" or to "build a good house" or "build a good company" (that this is a metaphor for) - you're painting for him. If you don't want to do it like he says, you would leave (or quote more money for putting up with his childishness.)
I totally agree, which of course is why they shouldn't be commenting on it! But regardless of the Customer Care's Twitter account, their messaging is consistent with the misunderstandings demonstrated throughout the website.
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Why does Tavis Ormandy (http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jul/375) keep putting fully usable proof of concept exploits out for widely deployed software without giving a vendor time to prepare a patch, or in this case, even notifying them? Off the top of my head, I remember he did this for the windows help center exploit and the java web start exploit. I can't understand why you would do this. You could at least give the vendor a couple weeks, and then if you're super worried, release the details as soon as an exploit is found in the wild.

As-is, he just seems like a raging hacker who loves attention and doesn't care if thousands of unsuspecting users get their credit card details stolen by malware authors. I must be misunderstanding something, yeah?
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I'll just leave this here... It's rather indicative of their general idea of "Security". Stumbled across this a number of years ago, told them about it, it's still wide open.

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Yes, definitely. Having customer service respond to security complaints on Twitter really isn't very smart.
That'd really sucks if you're relying on them as a business owner, but it's also a lesson to avoid relying on products still in development.

I'd be interested to know what this policy change is though. I believe Visa didn't work on iZettle in the UK since launch.
I asked a question. If you're going to downvote me for having a wrong opinion, you should at least respond and tell me me the answer to my question, like 'this is proper behavior for a security researcher because X'.
"Very simple. Don't choose the type of startup that has a 3 in 10 chance of succeeding on the off chance that you are the lucky one that hit's the lottery."

That doesn't sound simple at all. What types of startups have higher success rates than 30%?
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