skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 11. Do you discourage the use of IDEs?

Surely it would more beneficial to mandate a build platform that is IDE agnostic and leave the choice of IDE to the individual developer preference.
I am just curious... Do these "take as much vacation as you want" policies work out well in practice? Or do the policies unintentionally create a competition to vacation less? Can anyone who works at a company with one of these policies share their perspective? How much is the approximate median vacation time taken?
Will _definitely_ be in touch.
I suspect my total is way above 100. But you don't actually need to remember anything really. The @mydomain.com stays static and the email is basically the name of the site.
I'm afraid this is not reinventing email. It's more of capturing one particular use pattern. You quote pg saying it's a Todo list, which it is, but then you outline a solution that doesn't really work for my version of that Todo paradigm. And then you move on to irrelevant details like pixel perfection and retina support. I strongly suspect this is not what pg's RFP was about.
Air Force scraps massive ERP project after racking up $1 billion in costs
Now curious - can you post a screenshot of how the Royal Ontario Museum 'crystal' building looks like in Apple Maps? It's at 100 Queens Park, Toronto, ON. This is Here's view looking approximately west-south-west: http://i.imgur.com/psWne.jpg
When did you create your facebook account?
A todo list is one function of email. It's also an information sharing and socialization service. The right solution will contain specialized functions for these various uses. Note that a single email can fall into multiple categories. "Prep for 12/3 meeting" might contain information which should be added to a searchable library for future reference and create a to-do entry to ensure that the documents are read before the meeting.

The bigger challenge is that e-mail as a to-do list differs from a calendar in that the time and place of the to-do's is a bit more nebulous. For example, if you send someone an email with a link to your page and request feedback, you have a certain but inexact timeframe in mind. The secret to making this work is providing a heuristic ordering based on the sender's desires and the recipients priorities. The former can likely be specified with a few request classes or duration options. The latter would likely have to be learned from usage history, possibly with a VIP list used as a starting point.
>Pixel perfect + Retina + Cloud
The trifecta of the mobile apps. Sync all your email and tasks with our cloud based mobile app.

The trifecta of buzzwords perhaps.
Our unlimited vacation time comes with a (not enforced, but strongly recommended) mandatory minimum per quarter. Thus, we don't have everyone taking four weeks off in December, but I help remind the developers to take time to recharge. So far, just me going "you haven't taken a vacation in a while" is enough of a nudge to remind people to go.
I kind of like this idea. Anything to change up how email is done. Outlook sort of has the right idea now, showing me conversations easily with lots of visual queues, but I rather like that demo from AOL that came along a few weeks ago.

What was it called? AOL built some sort of new email based client system? If anybody can share a link I'd be very grateful.

Edit: Found it, it's called Alto.

Check it out: http://www.highsnobiety.com/2012/10/21/aol-reinvents-email-u...
If they aren't your (potential) customers and/or those of your advertisers, do you really care?

All the countries in North America, Europe and South America ex-Chile and and Venezuela are at less than 1% IE 6 usage.[1]

7 & 8, which are better but still not great developer-wise, unfortunately still have a ways to go before passing that threshold. But at a minimum you should think long and hard before pouring time into IE 6 compatibility.

[1] http://www.ie6countdown.com/#list
It isn't just a scale-ability issue, though. Well, it kinda-sorta is, but not in the strictly technical sense.

Every interaction I've had with buying physical goods from Play was far more painful than my average online buying experience, even when buying items that are readily available. Once you place a Play order for hardware it basically goes into a black hole where you're never quite sure if the order was actually processed or not and you usually get no indication from Google of the actual status until after the device arrives at your doorstop. Attempts to get information about the order results in robo-emails that manage to appear even stupider than your average "reading from a script" custom service drone. If you keep replying to these robo-emails, sometimes a real person will email you like 2 days later, but not always. Using the phone is nearly as bad, the whole system is clearly designed to stop your from ever talking to a real human, and while I understand the cost reasons for doing this, as a customer it totally sucks, especially compared to companies like Amazon and Newegg who totally nail this stuff (IME).

Play customer service is just busted from top to bottom and woe unto anyone for whom the default process doesn't operate as expected the first time. I love Google for many things but I hate buying hardware from them.
Backbone is a great framework and moved the industry forward a lot in terms of code quality. But there are definitely couple things broken, like Zombie/Ghost views - everyone(!) is making their own workaround.

View part is too much DIY. Seriously, _.template is okay for views with no input and simple updates, but if you have heavy IO views become bloated. Check the wiki, there are 7 "yet another binding plugins". Make default one, and make it an option (view binding can be slow and not needed sometimes).

Another DIY are models relations & nesting. These two additions wouldn't be big for the core, but they could really improve the ecosystem. Now you have to take in mind those third-party plugins people are using for these covering basic gaps.
I have been amassing stuff for a long time. My friends call me a hoarder, but I shrug it off. Every time I move I have boxes and boxes of stuff to bring with me. It's a pain.

But, I am getting ever so close to the day when I wake up in the morning with a good idea, and before I go to bed at night I have a functional prototype. Talk about momentum, if you can go from nothing to functional (for something somewhat complicated) in a single day. It's easy to do with software, all the parts are there, there are zero expenses to getting a prototype working, but oh so much harder with all the things you could need in the real world.

There's nothing that puts out creative fire like waiting for parts. When you first think of something, your mind is most easily changed. I like thinking of thoughts as crystallizing idea space. The more you think about something, the more real that idea becomes. When you need to wait a week, and you have only your thoughts to throw at your project, you'll start to put the fire out. Your mind will be less able to change because it's creating a thought structure based on only your first ideas and how you will implement the parts that are on the way. Experience fuels the fire, thoughts put it out.
I have no problem subscribing to Pages without Liking them. (Little drop down to the right of Like and Message buttons on a page; click on Add to Interest Lists...)

As per the grandparent post of this thread, I don't "Like" anything on twitter, and follow things in interested with Interest Lists.
Thanks for contributing to the conversation with this dismissive, regurgitated comment. What have YOU done lately? Why dismiss something someone has worked hard on?
Yeah - I couldn't find the "Add track" button. I guess I didn't initially get the concept that you had to search for a video before you could annotate it, but now it makes perfect sense...
Looks great. Definitely needs a copy/paste functionality. I tried to tab "blitzkrieg bop" (for the obvious reasons), and without copy/paste it's not so fun.

But great site overall!
If you're in Maryland, have you considered looking in the Dulles Corridor? There are more than a few places there that need someone who knows what a pointer is. A lot of military contracting stuff with embedded systems and whatnot. I used to work at a company that does military wireless technology that has several job openings for embedded guys (http://www.sharedspectrum.com/careers). I also know Motorola has an office that has a lot of people doing embedded software work. Maybe think along those lines...
I am reminded of The Economist's "Big Mac Index", comparing currencies' purchasing power to buy a Big Mac in different countries. The index "seeks to make exchange-rate theory a bit more digestible". ;)

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/07/daily-c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
You raise an interesting point. That technique was developed in response to a difficult part of the migration. I had stories coming in for subsequent pages of an rss feed, but I didn't want to re-render the story view until I had a chance to work with the un-rendered story views.

I realize this can be a bit complicated, but at some point you'll be wishing you could just turn off an event from firing because it's interfering with a juggling act. This is what that technique is used for.

But any project that reaches a certain scale will tend towards having some unfortunate ties between models that makes a more-than-ordinary transition hard to accomplish. It can be done, but I'm not quite there, and I suspect many other developers aren't either. This one's a stopgap.
People who find it wrong usually don't have to sustain a company.
Google has some of the world's smartest software engineers.

Whether or not they have world-class supply chain, fulfillment, and retailing people is far from sure - in fact evidence suggests they do not.

Heck, up until not so long ago, Google didn't even have a very good design team.

Google's competencies are surprisingly narrow.

Having worked at Amazon before I'll say this: retailing is really, really hard, and it takes a lot more than being smart. It takes years of experience. People who try to go toe to toe with Amazon don't often realize this.
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This is just the new Outlook.com with a different font.

Which, isn't a bad thing, but not exactly bringing anything new to the table...
That was much less offensive than I had hoped.
Feud Among Samsung Descendants Heats Up
technical dude here: this is true. I don't need an idea, I don't even need somebody who can talk to audiences. usually I work with non-technical people and I rip their idea to bits, iterate it and generate entirely new fields of opportunity. I am often amazed at how these people completely pass up these ideas because they think they are the idea people and they are just looking for a tech-gorilla. we have an inbuilt aversion to people who are just looking for an implementor. somebody who thinks they have the ideas and they just need somebody to flesh it out.

I need somebody who is eternally optimistic and understands how to lead us and care for us as we go through the challenges of meetings and presentations. somebody who can help keep the team focused. somebody who understands hard work and what some of the team is going through.

I was just talking with somebody earlier about the tendency for programmers to be a bit pessimistic. its a good trait because we can see problems and threats/failures very easily. that's very useful.

also we can see through bullshit very quickly and in a way financing and business is about Building a Really Good Bullshit.

the positive side to pessimism is mentioned in this classic book:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/06/28/learned-op...
Stanford Updates Its Logo
I have two accounts also, share a folder between them to sync. You have to pay double if you have a lot of data but with the new cheaper 100GB plans it doesn't burn a hole through your pocket.
From Wikipedia:

"In May 2009, Golden Dawn took part in the European elections, receiving 23,564 votes corresponding to 0.46 percent of the total votes ... In the Greek parliamentary elections of May 2012, the party received 6.97% of the popular vote. In the rerun of the elections in June 2012, their share of the vote was 6.92%. A survey in September 2012 showed that 22% of respondents expressed "positive opinions" about Golden Dawn, up from 12% in May."
Looks cool, but I couldn't get the page to load. I was once worked on a demo of a similar kind of game to help teach physics.
As the OP has demonstrated, "Contact the library's authors and negotiate usage of the code under another license" is EXTREMELY difficult for a project maintainer and would thus be near impossible for anyone else.
The newer versions use features that didn't exist in older Windows. Features which are core components to how the new browsers work, both in terms of rendering and security. Someone made the decision that having these features was more important than backwards compatibility; it wasn't a marketing decision made after-the-fact. If there were no marketing department, IE10 still would not be able to run in Windows XP.
I wish there were a way to see only completed annotations instead of all of them.

(It looks like the "latest by others" section is almost entirely incomplete ones)
The best start-ups are companies you've never heard of
Also, I'm constantly clicking to add multiple notes in one section, but clicking just moves the time in the editor, until magically i convince it that i want to add another note in the tab... I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.
Microsoft Has Failed
Considering the price of an SMS (which also differs from place to place), why does the temporary password have to arrive by SMS? Why not by email, since user's already online, obviously?

But given the novelty of this approach (although I'm pretty sure I read about it somewhere already, I don't know of any real-world implementation), it should definitely be used alongside optional passwords, for those who want that. At least until the rest of the web catches on...
If you would consider using NoSQL, then MongoDB might be a good fit. It has a messaging queue. It's called capped collections with tailable cursors (http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Tailable+Cursors ). It's persistent, you don't need polling, and you don't need to remove processed messages.
I'ts not just "not strictly true," it's not true at all. Nothing in the GPL prohibits GPL'd code from being used in commercial products. What is prohibited is using it in proprietary, closed-source products. You can have a product which is both F/OSS and commercial. Ask Red Hat, for example.
This time last year, our interview email came just after the rejections went out.
Can someone with physics knowledge tell me the difference between quantum entanglement and the following example:

2 pens spinning in exact opposition, one clockwise the other anticlockwise, are hurled from a space ship in opposite directions. You do not look at them when you are doing this. When a pen is found light years away, that person instantly knows how the pen on the other side of the universe is spinning and in what phase.

No teleportation has actually taken place. Information has not been transferred faster than the speed of light. This assumes that pens travel through empty space and do not interact with things that would affect their rotation or movement.
There is a developer tier at $250k+ and higher. It's on Wall Street, and really does need rock stars because they make their money by their rock stars being smarter than the other guys' rock stars.

From the perspective of maximizing compensation, you don't necessarily want to find the jobs that create the most value. You want to find the jobs that create enough value to sustain big salaries, but also where there is a real or perceived incremental advantage to having smarter developers than other people, and where that advantage is perceived and appreciated at the management level.
> These limitations aren’t exactly by design; on the iPhone, Apple’s restrictions in third-party apps make it technically difficult for Google to do everything Siri does.

That explanation is just lazy journalism. Sure, some of Siri's OS integration might rely on private APIs, but a lot of this stuff is exposed publicly [1].

It also obscures the real reason that Google Voice doesn't do this stuff, which is that it's trying to solve a different problem to Siri. Google are (unsurprisingly, when you think about it) making a voice interface to a search engine[2]. Apple are making a voice interface to a phone. The difference in capabilities reflects their different purposes.

The problem with Siri is that it isn't clear enough about what it's there for. The skeuomorphic 'personal assistant' thing really doesn't help either. Maybe Siri would have been better received if it had just presented itself as a new way of setting appointments, etc.

1. For example: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/EventK...

2. If it did this stuff, I bet it'd take you to your google calendar whether or not the iOS APIs are public.
I think it looks worse :(
It even has a name: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dime_bag
Wow, that looks so bad ... old one was much better
Something you gold fetishists might like to keep in mind is that for the first century of the US (and arguably quite a bit longer), the country was benefitting from massive amounts of virtually free capital, if you discount the fairly minor cost of driving Native American tribes off the land. When the US government needed to raise money in earlier times, it just sold off vast tracts of land for cheap. Obviously, this strategy couldn't go on forever, and by the time the west coast was properly settled the country needed to switch to a more conventional form of public financing, ie a central bank.

Seriously, if you have an entire continent at your disposal, running an economy is easy. Likewise, after WW2 most of the the rest of the developed world was in a shambles, and the US was the only industrial economy that hadn't been bombed heavily. Unsurprisingly, a long period of great economic growth followed, in time with the Bretton Woods system but not necessarily because of it.

I'm very interested in monetary theory, but a lot of gold fans seem to attribute stability or growth to the use of gold rather than extremely favorable economic conditions. If you back and read the the Wealth of Nations, there's a very worthwhile (if long-winded) explanation by Smith of how hard currency can act as a limit upon economic growth, as well as being corruptible in its own right.
Star Trek: TOS did it. Except after identifying which people were killed in the virtual attacks, those individuals were contacted and ordered to report to the collateralization center for the official results of the attacks to be consummated. Not particularly surprisingly, Capt. Kirk and the Jolly Enterprise Crew yet again violated the Prime Directive to set those silly savages' back on the True Path of All that is Right and Proper.
gorgeous UI. could you share the PSD? we'd love to use some of those UI elements on the next version of TaskUp. we're working on an email parsing feature at TaskUp (taskup.com) to extract those usage patterns of email into todo lists and already provide a mechanism of transforming emails into todos by just CCing track@taskup.com on any email. would that be something that you would use? how could we make it better?
I use Google Latitude to share my location with my girlfriend. As another poster points out, it's really handy when we're meeting somewhere and trying to figure out how long until the other arrives.
On Chrome 25.0.1323.1 dev on OSX the Youtube video is completely broken, just slightly off horizontal stripes of colour.

I doubt anyone else is getting that, but you might get bug reports about it.
So... what does it do?

It seems to somehow organize my emails as tasks, but how does that work in practice?

What happens when I get an email? Does it turn it into a task? Can other people still interact as usual with me by email without using this software? What about emails that really are not todo items?
Here is a FULL LIST OF SIRI COMMANDS I learned a few tricks from:

https://gist.github.com/4081758

(Though it looks like this list was missing Find Friends related options.)
I remember a talk by collegues ten years ago when they suggested we have to have "grand vizier" or "padishah" titles.
Six Ways Big Data Is Helping Reinvent Enterprise Security
This article describes six new security tools that use new techniques for storing, collecting and analyzing data.
Ok, if there's a concern about still having to use some password for the email account, maybe the right way to go would be to build apps for all platforms. It would be like the Google's two-way authentication, only simpler? Am I missing something? I'm missing something crucial, aren't I? ;)
Why are men using the women's restroom? Doesn't that make the women (assuming any work there) uncomfortable?
Yeah, it boggles my mind that people use it and expect it to work right away 100% of the time. It's almost as if they have no experience with computers or technology in general.
Don't hesitate to contact us (me) if you need to discuss.
It would be an extremely bad idea to match that with the open riff to Gangnam Style :-)
Microsoft Hosts Free App Labs For Windows 8 Devs In 30 Cities Around The World
WordPress.com accepts Bitcoin
A blog post I wrote back in 2007 (on Noah's blog) comparing Google and Daemon: http://okdork.com/2007/06/18/is-google-the-daemon/
In the rounding error of GNULinux desktop OSes defence, Windows is the default on 99% of the hardware consumers are buying too.

Defaults are a big deal.
We did have KKK members in congress http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._Byrd
and somehow we managed to survive.
Joules (or watts) is a measure of capacity. Electricity generating capacity, especially with intermittent sources like wind is almost meaningless. Who cares about capacity if the actual generation is zero.

Watt-hours, Megawatt-hours, and terawatt-hours are used because that's the descriptive term of energy actually produced.
It means they can tell UPS/whoever to not deliver the package or to return to sender.
http://www.ups.com/content/us/en/resources/service/delivery/...

Note that they probably cannot use the intercept to deliver to a new address if they are requesting signature authorization/etc
You cover only 3 new "features": Tasks + Quick Reply + Sync... how are these reinventive? Tools like rapportive, followupthen and even something simple like find big mail are actually reinventive. To be able to type in an email and get the users social information that I can check and follow up on while writing the email is powerful. To be able to get notifications X days/weeks/months creates the persona you are ON TOP of your game.

Just my 0.02 - I do like ur UI stuff btw :)
I'm sure this isn't what Graeham had in mind with this post, but I'll comment anyway: Steven Spear identifies rapid experimentation as one of Toyota's strengths, not necessarily in product development, but developing how they build the product. An example given in his book was checking to see if adjusting the height of a source of parts. Rather than welding it a new position, bolting it, or even using duct tape, the fastest way to check is to just hold it there. It's cheaper and faster. When you lower the costs (both money and time) of experimentation, learning happens more quickly. Or as this post puts it: "the more you can build quickly, the faster you can find what you don’t know"

Rapid prototyping/experimentation leads to rapid feedback, which in turn can lead to rapid learning.
I'm surprised that no one thus far has mentioned that message passing is just a special case of multiple dispatch. In that light, it seems less expressive. Any thoughts?