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The rise of the bureaucratic corporation and the rise of a white collar managerial class during the industrial revolution was a natural pre technology evolution of the corporation because lots of people we required to carry out all the necessary communication and managerial roles. With the information revolution that is no longer true, but old ways of thinking die hard and it will take a while for new organizations to develop and establish themselves. This will be a long a period of creative destruction.
No, policies aren't inherently bad, but wide-sweeping policy changes for perceived problems or in response to relatively few bad actors are company killers. You might not see it right away, but your people who have options will leave you eventually.
Point 1 is interesting as some people like more bulk and context, others are just yeah, yeah, yeah, get on with it. Broadly I think the mail is too long and this was the paragraph that stood out, but I accept that different people might see it differently.

Point 2 I still disagree on. I don't think it depends on the company at all - saying you'll put something in your diary isn't the same as being asked to account for your time. One is voluntary, the other isn't. You know the CEO is only doing it to try and put himself in the same position but you also know he's not the one who isn't trusted.

CEOs aren't the same as the rest of us. They're answerable in completely different ways, for different things. Yes they need to limit their "special treatment" but it's a mistake for them to pretend that the same rules apply to them because everyone knows it isn't true (and so long as they're doing their jobs and treating us OK, that's fine).
Agreed.

Spending time generating aliases for commonly used commands and scripting commands together to form new (possibly more comfortable) command-wording are both fine once you use the product enough to learn which aliases and scripts would be productive.

Providing a set of these alternatives as a wrapper is a dangerous alternative to newcomers, and has the potential to simply add confusion.

I think these efforts must come after foundational product knowledge is achieved, not before. This effort seems to target those who do not yet have said knowledge.
Sorry to hear about that daughter's experience.

My sons attended a well-funded high school with a splendid chemistry lab, did many fine experiments and wrote lab reports. All chose science and engineering in college.

I'm a little tired of some snooty British guy claiming their bad inner-city experience is typically American, then holding up their Public School (which in Britain means Private School here) experience as proof of the superiority of something or other.

My British friend in Computer Science at Iowa got his degree, then went on to study at Manchester (England) because nobody in England would respect his American degree. Once he got there the profs shook their heads, poor guy got an American degree, he'll have to repeat almost everything. They wrote a study plan for him (without his being consulted at all).

Long story short, he didn't attend any class, do any homework, ever really attend anything except his exams. He was top student that year, of course. Of course he was! He'd already been well educated and had work experience.

So, there's my counter-story. And to avoid hypocrisy, I won't claim its typical of anybody, except maybe good Iowa students going to study at Manchester.
This may be surprising, but you don't actually need to rinse off dish soap. Hell, at home we don't even dry thing up, just leave them to drain and evaporate. Never noticed any kind of residue or flavour.
The Metro look is supposed to be ported to the desktop experience (see: office 13, github for windows). Their intention is for normal desktop applications to adopt his theme.

The classic desktop environment is windows 8 style. Apps that are not developed for it, certainly are not Windows 8 style.
One thing I can't understand with this "real name" stuff - why can't sites like quora charge a one time fee, like Metafilter? When people pay real money, you know who they are, they are less likely to troll, no? This has been successful with Metafilter, why can't other sites copy this? It'll also be another (small) source of revenue
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The methodologies don't, "suck," and the author points out in eir conclusion that not having any methodology is bad.

It's the organization part that's important. Methodologies will work differently depending on the make up of the team. The important part is discussing what works and eliminating what doesn't. Only then can you flush out the gremlins of the mind and focus on the work.

That being said -- too much methodology is a gremlin of another kind. There needs to be enough process and practice to ensure everyone understands what needs to be done and how to consistently go about it. My favorite motivator is responsibility. Let the team members in the trenches make the decisions and make them own the consequences of their decisions. Winning feels so much better that way compared to being led by a dogmatic agile-XP-scrum-master.
In the context, Marx isn't about politics. Marx is about economics.

Talking about economics without referring Marx at all seems disingenuous.

The article is a post from the Valve's economies blog.
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Huh? I'm really not the one to pull in the generic argument but - there's a place for both and much more.

It's great not needing write hundreds of lines of boilerplate code to get a 2D physics game prototype running, and conversely, it is nice to get awesome graphical support using directx sdk, much of it handled in there by sane API.

Whatever floats your boat.
I feel the same, and most of the people I know (ie young graduates related to tech/marketing) do too. I would argue that's also the case in the general population because in the last presidential election nearly 18 percent voted for the far right wing. Which nowadays is essentially a xenophobic socialist party.

I think it has to do with the poor handling of economics by French politicians. The economy has become the center of everything in political life, but the people handling it seem to have little knowledge of it or to be constantly restrained by old dogmas (mid-20th socialism for the left wing and extreme liberalism for the right wing).

For instance Sarkozy kept talking about creating a startup ecosystem in France similar to the one in SV (we have the engineers, the legacy and the ambition, so why not ?) but nothing effective was really done : when the real issues lied in financing and legal problems, he launched a program to build a gigantic technological campus somewhere in the south of Paris for 2030.

Hollande kept talking about entrepreneurs and creation, but has yet to act on it. Plus, how can you foster an entrepreneurial environment when you consider earning more than minimum wage is evil (unless of course you are paid by the State) ?

So I guess you could say France is very poorly handled, and the end of it seems nowhere close. The only glimmer of hope I can see right now is the crisis forcing us into a federal and democratic european union - maybe with the help of British and German politicians will we finally be able to run our country properly !
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This may help clear up something that has puzzled me about a site I use and often search via Google.

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off...

(In this case, I specifically put in "For Sale" to highlight the spammy drug ads, but they come up even without this).

Puzzle: I scan through looking for pages with "XYZ For Sale" in the title and then check out Google's cached version of the page. Sometimes, I see the spam in the cache, but often enough I don't.

So: how is it that the search result is different than google's own cache for that page?
The gameplay screens look a lot like Space Hulk.

Though I'm not sure I agree with banning such clones, after all game mechanics can be neither copyrighted nor patented.
Programming is about more than the Syntax of programming languages.
Hmm... what I find interesting is that a lot of people complain about the "modern" platforms - lack of support from Google (first Adsense, now this), Apple charging too much or dictating terms, Twitter making it tough for third parties or Facebook trying to kill the competition by acquiring them. There seems to be only ONE platform which has stood by the people - both developers and users - and that is Microsoft Windows. Starting from backwards compatibility to manic devotion to a good experience for the users, Microsoft is the only platform which has been fair. I hope they don't change it with Windows 8.
> In fact, Google wants even more such results. See First Click Free: http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&....

Google wants to index as much content as possible. It's providing incentive to content owners to let Google index it. As pointed out by another commenter, clicking on the search result summary shows that document in full. It's only the subsequent clicks that can be paywalled.

> Oh and here are 240 million login-walled pages: https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:groups.google.com/grou....

Is it asking to sign in? I tried in incognito mode and I could read the groups just fine.
If they get the marketing right then reliable product and customer service take care of themselves. Now wouldn't you like to sign this two year contract with early termination fee to get your subsidized shiny new iPhone ;)
I think it has something to do with tits?
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Anyone using an app to edit photo info such as date/time when a photo was taken?
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It's exactly stories like these that have me seriously considering going back to vanilla web dev again after a year as an indie in the App Store. I'm just not comfortable putting all my eggs in a basket that can be yanked away at any time for any reason in an environment where I'm guilty until proven innocent.

The relative safety and convenience of the app store is not justification enough to give up these fundamental freedoms to unaccountable corporate bureaucracies.
>"I think it's really important that we stop sending college and graduate students back to their home countries. If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion. There's certain special skills, especially in advanced engineering, that are the limiting factor in creating new companies; we send these people home after training them in our graduate schools.

One of the toughest things I've found is to recruit top-notch manufacturing talent. That's where I've had to go overseas. For a few decades, it just wasn't where the smartest kids in the class in America went. We had far too many smart people in the U.S. go into finance and law!"

Interesting. I thought only U.S. citizens were allowed to work for SpaceX, but Elon actually had to go overseas to recruit top-notch manufacturing talent.

With the introduction of multiple bills recently to retain foreign talent such as the STEM Jobs Act, Startup Act 2.0, STARS Act, The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, it's good to see some progress made to solve this problem.
Making the parallelism of firms as federations (not sure if is a correct assumption), this can surely relate with Proudhon's ideas about federations and confederations: http://www.ditext.com/proudhon/federation/federation.html#7
Does more rendering than necessary and is still not perfect, as it won't preserve DOM state on model state changes. For example, consider <details> state (rolled up or not) - setElement won't keep it.

IHMO, somehow better (but more verbose) approach is to consider view as a FSM. Each state may render view's complete representation (using the template), while each transform (an edge of view's Moore machine) may transform DOM tree as necessary (i.e. just update necessary elements instead of re-rendering a whole subtree, if possible).

I belive, this could be automated (as DOM is, essentially, a tree, differences between states could be found algorithmically), but haven't really tried it that way.
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Don't forget his love interest, played by Ashley Judd, who also resisted the game: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Game_%28episode%29
Yeah, with FMLA I could have taken more time, unpaid. I just wasn't in a place where I could do that and still feel comfortable about our savings. [1]

And to be clear: I felt guilty for being away from my wife and daughter. I didn't spare a moment of concern for my employer or colleagues -- they're pretty good people and all, but they can take care of themselves.

And while I know my wife can handle things, I still felt guilty because going to work is so much easier. At least, as a first time parent, the parenting side feels far more stressful/intensive/important.

[1] After the dot-com blow-out I became pretty paranoid about how much was reasonable to hold in reserve. And seeing how long unemployment stretches are going these days only convinced me to pad out that number. Particularly now that I have to factor in a higher burn rate.
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Maybe science just isn't the thing his daughter wants to do. I hope that the problem isn't really him forcing his daugher to be someone she isn't (like the stereotypical "you can be any kind of doctor you want" parents...).
The author explicitly calls out his school was a comprehensive (i.e. a state run school) - no public school experience in sight. Why the flight to class warfare when this is a discussion about the merits of approaches to education?
No one really pays sticker price for college. I had some grants, financial aid, and (like someone else mentioned), the co-op program helped pay for some of my tuition.

I did work, at Target, making minimum wage. One full-time paycheck was about 300 bucks, give or take. Since I supported myself, that money was used on car/food/gas. So, 300 bucks was the most I'd ever seen.
The part that's bad in email 2 is "we've decided". No one likes being a slave to anothers will or reminded of the fact.

If I ever send out a bs policy update without discussing informally with staff or managers beforehand I expect everyone here to walk.

We spend a lot of money hiring talent. They do whatever the fuck they want so long as they get the job done. If they're not getting the job done, then we talk. We don't punish everone for one guys non performance.

Bad policy emails are a sign of weak management.
The education bubble is in fact caused by the opposite of the free market. On one end you have government subsidies and no corresponding price controls which inflate demand and drive up prices. On the other end you have no negative feedback mechanism in terms of shedding the debt in bankruptcy for degrees that turn out to be worthless.

There is no downside for institutions to continually inflate prices, so they do. Incentives run the world.
I learnt to program with GW-BASIC when I was 13 and, as you say, it had all these high level built in functions that made easy getting results.

Most of the stuff I programmed when I was 13 was crap, but it was amazingly funny!

Today I would recommend Python to start tinkering, but to be honest I think it was easier back then. My PC had 512KB of RAM (it doesn't matter, GW-BASIC allowed only 64KB for both your code and your data), CGA graphic card (4 colors), 8MHz CPU and no HDD disk; and even with all these limitations, I think it was easier than Python + PyGame.
> The notion that update frequency is the trigger for ending up on Google's hit list is just speculation.

... and so they really don't know anything... o_0
What I really want to do is get about 10 of them, and build a web server cluster, and see how much traffic I can serve. It would be great experience building a complex site with many servers, on the cheap.

You could also weatherproof one, set it up to run on solar power, put it outside with a web cam attached. Or build a remote weather station.
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This is bad, bad juju on Quora's part. The Facebookisation of Quora is something that makes my Spidey sense go off as well. Forcing "real" names. Forcing reads into the public without warning. Lots of "hey, we're the coolest social startup on the block."

Quora is overrated. They need to get it together, dial down the hype, and show some freaking humility. To do that they'll need to stop abusing the users they have.
Interesting. I wonder why LinkedIn ranks so much higher than some of the other profiles, and why about.me ranks so poorly.
This is bad, bad juju on Quora's part. The Facebookisation of Quora is something that makes my Spidey sense go off as well. Forcing "real" names. Forcing reads into the public without warning. Lots of "hey, we're the coolest social startup on the block."

Quora is overrated and needs to get it together and stop abusing the users it has.
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Talented people like Carmack have the potential to make things less crap, if they took an interest. If they don't take an interest, things will remain the way they are for a lot longer. John Carmack should join the Chrome team.
I was contacted by Quora 2 days after creating an account. They thought "Ring" was a joke.

OT: my favorite "delete your account" is at buy dot com. At least couple months ago, there was no option to do so, so I called them and someone told me: just add "DELETE" in front of your account; this way you wont be able to login to it anymore.
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Apparently this school has an emphasis on sports and the arts. Couldn't he have chosen a different school? (I know next to nothing about the U.S. system, and Wikipedia doesn't help me.)
This is pre information revolution thinking combined with ideas generated by the fears of an age when socialism/communism was really was competing with democracy as a form of social organization. This muddled thinking makes no sense presently, especially given Corporations are purely creations of the government monopoly of power and should be anathema to any free thinker. For those not fighting the last war led by generals like Hayek, all coordination costs follow the technological cost curve as there is no longer a difference between internal and external actors.
Right? And if I had to make the decision now, I wouldn't do it. But when you're 18, your parents opinion carries alot of weight- and I had parents that were telling me- STEVE you absolutely cannot be successful without a degree. A degree is everything. It's everything!

And as an ignorant 18 year old, I had no idea what a $175,000 loan really meant. Everyone does it, right? So it must not be that bad.
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I don't get it. Either quantum waves correctly describe particle physics, or they don't. If the waves behave correctly in all observable ways, how can we judge whether they are "actually" what's going on, rather than some mathematically different – but observably identical – process?

Is it that quantum waves were thought to overfit the observations which led to QM, and now these folk have made a prediction using waves of something hereforeto unobserved, and have in fact observed the predicted behavior? In that case I would say that the refinement of QM involving quantum waves has been further shown to be consistent and in fact necessary to describe quantum theory, not that quantum waves have been shown to be "real".
As it stands right now, society doesn't value certain kinds of output from people. In a scenario where scarcity is no longer a problem for basic human needs, the idea of having valuable kinds of output isn't so important any more. Valve still exists in a world where it needs to accumulate money in order to keep operating and producing software, so it does have a need to filter its hires based on certain metrics.
You're an idiot if you take a completely reasonable assessment of various economic theories as "politics". This article is an exploration of where Valve's corporate structure and soul fit into the spectrum of ways to interact in a market.

Don't let the names of leading thinkers in a field scare you off because of some bullshit brainwashing.
I do think that the majority of people using git probably don't have more than a single remote

Strong disagree. Nowadays the majority of git-users probably interacts with github.
Just count the number of "Fork me on github"-ribbons that you come across on any given day.

The github workflow for forking a repository[1] involves two remotes (origin and upstream).

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
I still don't know what the problem was

I would guess that it's that your logo is an obvious derivative of Instagram's logo, as is your app name. There is a very real possibility that users in a rush could install your app when they intended to install Instagram proper.

If Google really starts cracking down, anyone with a trademark infringing logo is going to have a rough time -- you can't take someone else's logo and just modify it without their express consent. Maybe Instagram grants it, but this does seem to be actionable.
>It means trusting that they won't leak that data intentionally, for political or personal gain, or by incompetence, under attack by hackers all over the world.

This! No communication is as secure as it could be if gives access to someone that is not an intended recipient.

It's not a matter of trust, it is a matter of design and common sense. I trust plenty of people, but I don't email them the passwords to all my accounts. Doing so would be an unnecessary risk with zero benefit even if they are 100% trustworthy (possible) and even if they are never compromised (extremely unlikely) because other people's systems are beyond my knowledge and my control. How can someone analyze risk under such circumstances?

* Do you think a secretive intelligence agency is going to announce that they were compromised?

* Even if they do, how much data are they going to provide on what exactly was stolen?
RFS3 is clearly "Things built on Twitter", and just that. Read RFS3.
Valve has moved quite far beyond "hit business". Consider how much commerce happens on Steam, and what their cut of that action is. They're really more of a distribution service with a sideline in game development to keep honest.

Also, re: BigCo--that also doesn't mean that it is the most efficient business model.
Why have an m2m table? Just have a table with two columns: post_id (or whatever is being tagged) and tag (varchar). If you want to present a list of possible tags just query for uniques. I may be missing something, so please correct me if there is a better way or I am misunderstanding your point.
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the arguments here will cause innovation.