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IT people in enterprise are often being pressured to deal with more serious issues by higher ranking people than the issues of front-desk people using IE6 because they frankly don't need anything more. Even if they screamed, it wouldn't be counted as a priority. You can see this happen in local restaurant traffic. They tend to have higher amounts of IE6 traffic because office employees are scoping out their menus from their work machines. This is going away though too, but not because of upgrades. Instead, it is going away because those employees are more and more likely to carry a smartphone. The secretary upfront doesn't need to look at the menu in IE6 anymore, instead he will use his iPhone if it is more convenient / works better.
There isn't really a de facto Palestinian state to recognize, unfortunately. In the dying days of the Clinton administration Barak offered Arafat a recognized Palestinian state, but Arafat didn't agree to the terms. Maybe the terms were unreasonable, but most sources agree that Arafat didn't even bother with a counteroffer. Sharon made enough concessions to the Palestinians to alienate his own party. Even Netanyahu acknowledged the right of Palestinians to their own state in May, though I'm not optimistic on the chances of him successfully negotiating terms. Still, the two-state solution is agreed in principle. It would be a positive development for Israel to officially commit to that, though.
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The truth is Democracy is a bitter pill. It's not all sunshine and rainbows. Like it or not it seems this group represents some of the Greek people and it's their right to elect these people. If you want to "do something" about the Golden Dawn, donate money or volunteer for an opposition party. You can't suppress opinions you find inconvenient or even offensive. Even in the US, there's tons of things that happen every single day that I'm completely outraged about, but I don't try and silence people I disagree with. Instead, I donate money and time to people who I feel will work to change these things.
The problem with this is that at the time, to my knowledge, Facebook wasn't doing the "Social ads show an advertiser’s message alongside actions you have taken, such as liking a Page" kind of thing. Since they keep all of this data, anything you do today could be used to promote something in the future without your knowledge. Hell, even visiting a group/business may pop something up "jetti came and saw [insert business here]...shouldn't you?". If they are changing the rules but applying them retroactively, it becomes a situation where you either stop using facebook, log in and do nothing or get them to stop using past and current actions to promote ads.
> even on Android its capabilities are much more limited.

That's not true - in fact, Android has had functionality far beyond Siri's for ages - since FroYo at least if not Eclair or Donut - long before Siri came out. Even Engadget (of all sites!) did a comparison of the two and declared that Android's voice functionality was better.

On top of that, the new (ICS or JB) updates are really fantastic, particularly when you pair them with Google Now.
I agree and if polling was the only consideration then this would mitigate the issue. Admittedly I didn't cover this as much in my article but there's also a lot of other flexibility afforded by a good message queue around delivery strategies, consumption strategies, error handling, etc that you would have to do much more manually and painfully trying to shoehorn it into a database (even a good one). I am not saying PostgreSQL notify commands are not useful for certain tasks, just encouraging people to understand the tools available and pick the right one for the job.
Making an app and releasing for free it can be fun. When the customer support and feature requests start pouring in it becomes a lot less fun. Chances are more likely that a project will be abandoned for one reason or another (developer gets bored, gets busy with their 'real' job, etc.)

When people see an idea that's good, especially for potential business use (and especially on HN which as a community of entrepreneurs) they are letting the developer know that they have created something that is worth having around and would pay to see it maintained.

Linux is probably a bad comparison, because it has so much corporate support and is an entire ecosystem of business models for probably hundreds if not thousands of companies.
I'm certain that book is well known to the development team :D
You can also like a Page without getting messages from it: click the Liked button and uncheck "Show in News Feed".
Just staying on top of things ;)
Useful link. I didn't see any that folded up. I guess its rather difficult to make something that will fold up and not tip over. The goal would be to keep it in my car (think fold-up chair).
Is my worldview artificial or somehow contrived? If I REALLY don't like my phone's app store, I can switch phones. If I don't like my government's policies, I have to move to a new country.

Don't pay Apple and you don't get an iPhone. Don't pay the Govt and you go to jail. Jailbreak an iPhone, breaking Apple's terms and conditions and they won't service your phone. Break the Patriot Act's Gag Rules and you're squirreled away to PMITA prison.

If Apple makes stupid decision after stupid decision, they lose their dominance. If they are too reckless with their finances, they lose their business and possibly go to Jail. If Govt is reckless with its finances it just points at corporate scapegoats and raises taxes. No one goes to jail and this last election shows that no one will even be held accountable by the mostly ignorant voting public.

It's not like I'm making up the basis of this worldview out of thin air. Have you seen what's happening in Southern Europe? Turn on world news (from networks outside of the USA), open a browser, wake up...
Wow, I thought when I opted out of having my names next to ads that I wouldn't show up in the sponsored stories of people, either, but apparently that's completely different, and I can't turn it off. (see: http://www.facebook.com/help/173332702723681/)

Is there an easy way to "un-like" everything? Facebook automatically made me "like" everything that I had on my interests a long time back, and now that's turning me into an advertising icon for those brands to my friends? No thanks. So do I have to go through each one individually, or is there some way I can get rid of all these "likes" at once?
Yeah. Go strayed far enough (compared to say, Java. It is absurd how close they toe the line...) that I can enjoy it, but further still would be nice. Rehashed declaration syntax and multiple return values are welcome changes. The rest? Eh, I would still prefer s-exps. Oh well.
When you connect to that game, one of the options on that very first screen Facebook shows you to authorize the future accesses is "who do you want to show stuff related to this app to"; I always choose "Just Me". If you don't want to spam your friends with "I milked a cow!", then don't tell Facebook you want your friends to see that content: problem solved, and much easier than using a dummy account.
Yes beanstalkd has solid persistence support now in later versions. You can use the “-b” option, and beanstalkd will write all jobs to a binlog. If the power goes out, you can restart beanstalkd with the same option and it will recover the contents of the log.
Thank you - great idea! We explored the idea of closed groups a little while ago but hadn't thought of the 'push' angle.. could be a very interesting addition. Really appreciate the input :)
Strangely, I think this is progress.

The system of independent reporters going to partisan press conferences really muddles the independence of reporters and gives a false air of legitimacy to the claims of spokesmen.

Things should be claimed publicly and then reporters should report, fact check, and reveal inconsistencies.

But next we need a global forum that no politician could credibly not see so we can force questions and make it politically damaging not to answer.

Then they will want their old media arraignments back. :)
I'm sorry, as pan69 pointed out, I meant what's left for career progression (without going into management). When a truly senior developer comes along he will be stuck at the same level as the "good enough" (in a bad sense) guy, maybe even at the same pay.
I started to see this slippery slope about a year ago, saw my name (and face!) appearing in advertisements on friends feeds, saw messages from me appearing in my friends feeds without me being (totally) aware I was about to spam them, saw timelines of my entire life with pictures that other people had taken and I was only vaguely aware I had noted I was in them.

I just deleted my facebook account.

With the exception of technical friends who have children, and are trying to find an easy way to share pictures with the grand-parents/inlaws/family, the majority of my colleagues in the valley have just stopped using, and in many cases, have deleted their facebook account.

End of problem. No more intrusions of this kind.

Not the solution for everyone, but it's a pretty straightforward mechanism to eliminate this problem, and, in my case, really cost me nothing.

Now, if I had to delete my Amazon account to avoid those tracking ads, that would be a whole new level of pain. I don't know if I'm ready to do that, yet.
How do we know whether or not a technology is a "future technology" if it is unprofitable without tax credits? Would car companies have spent millions of engineering hours on hydrogen vehicles if the government didn't pay them to do so in the 00's? Maybe it would have been better for mankind if they didn't.

Broad incentives are better than targeted incentives. The government is bad at picking future technologies. See ethanol.
That is not true. I think subscribing only works for people accounts, not pages. Or at least, you are in a special A/B test that has that ability. Currently, I have no way of subscribing to a page to get updates. I can only "Like" the page.

Example of a page I have "Liked": http://bluetide.pro/me1r
Example of the same page if I "UnLike" it: http://bluetide.pro/878h

There is no way to subscribe and get updates without "Liking" it.
I think it's more that Israel and Hamas have no idea how to handle the Gaza Conflict. Using "official" Twitter accounts to announce invasions? These are meant for small status updates of 140 characters or less, not full-scale assaults.
One time I got dinged for using a library to calculate standard deviation (as a part of larger solution) rather than doing the math by hand. I guess I assumed they were more interested in codecraft than in arithmetic and I was wrong.
I'm not overly familiar with the Greek Golden Dawn, other than what I've read on Wikipedia or bits in the news.

I realize they are a neo-nazi organization, and even seem to embrace Nazism, but what is their significance currently? Are they seeing widespread support? Is their support growing at startling levels or what? What is their significance that led to this interesting posting?
Interesting, thanks for sharing the links. I think building your own message queue is sometimes the only way to get things working exactly as you might want. For people looking for a highly configurable framework for building a tailored MQ, be sure to check out http://www.zeromq.org/ as a basis.
If you want to compute a lot, the cloud is always more expensive than your own hardware.

Cloud only pays off if you're doing something major short-term (your load is spikes and then drops off for a while), or you're just plain lazy.
I take it that Google's page for this stuff is incomplete? http://www.google.com/mobile/voice-actions/

Is there a place with a more complete listing of what it can do?
Yeah, what FB does with information you give it is subject to change at any time. I "like" some things that I never clicked a Like button for because at some point between 2005 and now they converted the plain text lists of "favorite movies" and such into "Likes" for pages for those movies and all. I'd never bothered to go unlike them, but now I'm concerned that they may be spamming my friends... though, from what I see in my own feed, it's really only brands/politicians/stores that do more aggressive to-friends-of-fans advertising (a 10 year old movie has less to gain from doing that, I guess).
That's nice and simple. I like it. "Message passing" means too many different things (though not as many as "object-oriented"). Distinctions are helpful.

One thing people usually understand as part of "message passing" is "no shared state". How/where do you fit that in?
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I see. I still don't think white flight is a valid comparison to military operations and bulldozing settlements.
Social media companies do not have the tools or the responsibility to "handle the Gaza conflict," particularly not by some unprincipled decision to selectively censor one party to the conflict. This isn't just a matter of Israel. Propaganda is inherent to war, and is nothing new on these websites.
Who's Michael Arrington? Didn't know he was an element. And who or what is Ravikantium?
Why are you afraid of open discussion about pricing?

(Millions of dollars have been invested in Linux development by commercial interests, even if most distros are free-as-in-beer.)
Definitely, thanks for your feedback. Will be bringing up redis in the next post. Redis has some messaging functionality baked right in and can be a good solution as seen with https://github.com/defunkt/resque in Ruby as well. ZeroMQ is also an important technology to understand in the context of this discussion.
That defeats the purpose of what I'm saying, though. I'm saying to get any sort of updates from a page, you have to "Like" it. There is no way around it, currently. There is plenty of brands I do want updates from, so I have to "Like" their page to get those updates.
You can disable this functionality: they allow you to explicitly set whether your actions are allowed to be used together with advertisements to your friends; they call this "social ads".

To control this, go to "Account Settings", "Facebook Ads", "Ads and friends"/"Edit social ads setting", and tell it to "Pair my social actions with ads for" "No one" and click "Save Changes".

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social
Ask HN: Do you have a CS degree?
https://twitter.com/RecodingBlog/status/269167842505662464

If you're a full-time programmer, do you have a degree in CS? If you've got one, how was it? Did it help? If not, how did you convince your employers to give you work?
No, it's definitely not a curse.

I get it, it's just idle carping in an HN post but really, it's not a curse.
Completely agree - the blog has to offer value on it's own. I As a reference, the Kissmetrics blog is probably one of the best examples I've found of a blog done 'right' - I get a small rush of excitement every time a new post arrives in my inbox because I know that their content is also so insanely useful :) Far too many bloggers now write just for the sake of writing, and I wonder who exactly they're trying to help, other than themselves. Your advice is duly noted, thanks :)
You ever spray a hose away from you and get hit with the splatter? Imagine spraying the hose up to clean the underside of a gutter. Can you imagine getting hit with splatter? Can you imagine the hose getting hit with splatter? Can you imagine the rim of the nozzle getting hit with splatter?
Most financials do have relatively good security; unfortunately, that's "good" relative to the baseline of "incredibly terrible". It's hard to think of any large organization connected to the Internet that has a security program you could objectively call "credible".
I was uber pissed off when I got that email today. I've been eagerly waiting since day one and was expecting it tomorrow or Monday.
Ah, progress. I want a funny fake English word that is a calque from Latin and means "make something go under a bus" just like "defenestrate" means "make something go out of a window". It has to be easy to say so it stands a chance of catching on. Will pay five bucks.
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What a great comment. I didn't know that most of these use cases worked. Thanks!
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That was in the article. This shouldn't have to be disabled, this should have to be enabled. If you are going to enable it by default, how is it ok to show history? There is no possible way you couldn't opted out to a feature that didn't exist when something was liked 3 years ago.
btw, hitta.se used the same(similar?) technology many years ago, but it required java or maybe even some proprietary plugin to be used. Don't know why it's gone now as it worked pretty good, and it had 3d coverage of cities that neither apple nor nokia has now :/

Do you know if apple and nokia bought exclusive rights, or why would hitta suddenly drop the feature?
Depends on the product. For coke that's probably true. But cocoa beans are getting more expensive since demand is up, and supply isn't changing much.
I was actually not responding to you: I was expanding on what aw3c2 said to mention that the opposite was also explicitly true (and to show how to set it), as this information also helps the person you responded to (who specifically was bothered that they were getting spammed).

That said, unlike with the direction I was indicating, it does seem like what aw3c2 is only of limited applicability: while Facebook supports subscriptions to Pages, it seems like it might be something that Pages have to activate (not 100% certain about what causes it to appear).

It is not a property of every Page, however. If you do a search, though, on Google, for 'subscribe to a page without liking it' you will get numerous hits talking about such users, with screenshots of the buttons on some Pages, and discussing the rollout and announcement of the new feature.
It seems like Play credit would be an easy way to make this a less sour PR blip. (Not to say it's the same, I just found out my Nexus 10 order is stucked pending, needless to say I'd prefer it over Play credit right now).
I got the same email 10 minutes ago.

Will Google return money for 2 day shipping? :)
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I'm with you. So what should we call these exceptional developers?
Glad you grew out of it. Moving from "hurtful" to "aware of how that bothered people, and willing to avoid that" is the halmark of personal growth and a sign struggle to be better.
He said, "less naggy a-la chrome". Firefox nags, chrome doesn't.
Yep, the email says "[they] will credit the shipping charges."
This is a really really valid point. This is a HUGE problem, believe me.
In fact, here's what happened to me - I got notified in my feed that a friend of mine kept liking her ex-boyfriend's music page, and I got this continuously, consistently for several weeks in my feed. After a while, I got pissed off, sent her a long E-mail , advising her to forget the past and move on. At that time, I didn't know Facebook was the culprit. She naturally was shocked+agitated and defended herself after which I thought she was lying and deleted her from my list. Today, we both are no longer friends. All thanks to Facebook. So, atleast in my case, it did more harm than good.
Pardon my ignorance as I have never used a smart phone ... you are saying Bob publishes his location to you, and you can check it at any time? I must be getting old because that sounds terrible.
What it's useful for is web applications that don't want to deal with user and file management.

We don't want to have to do a UI to manage files for every cloud storage provider. This is something Google Drive is well in the lead with currently.
Maybe they are using metric units like 500ml?

A (UK Imperial) pint is 568ml. I don't know what a US Customary pint is. (Fun fact: UK and US customary/imperial units aren't the same! Every country used to have it's own system. That's why the metric system was invented)
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This is very cool and creative and will hopefully push the envelope for mobile alternate reality!
<i>We’ll send you a notification when your order has shipped and will credit the shipping charges.</i>

Does that mean that we're getting free shipping for our backordered phones?
That means it won't be available again for ordering until all those orders are shipped (> 3wks).

I guess they still have enough to sell for $500 through T-mobile... And enough to supply the scalpers on eBay. I'm still upset from the errors during the order window but maybe it's all for the best.

Google is still not making any visible effort to communicate what's happening to the customers. Very disappointing. Do no evil?
Did Facebook change something related to the use of Likes recently? They just managed to tick me off this morning. My nephew's like of a product showed up as an advert for me - and I'm sure he didn't know this was happening.

Between this and their social plugin (I've tried disabling this many times), I am a hair away from disabling my account.
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Anyone know how they're doing the data transfer? Magnetic? Capacitive?
attack the more relevant problem

You know, one way to attack this problem is to make IE10 a more compelling upgrade.
Agreed. The social ads, creepy frictionless sharing, the history of privacy issues, the "hidden options" UX, the lack of anonymity, and the lack of support for multiple facets to our identities -- these issues all combined together made me deactivate my account.

I'm still trying it out to see if I can live without it for a year. But I'm hoping to delete it altogether.
I got the email. It's a disappointment, but such is life. I'm in no rush and now I'll get to enjoy the installation of CM 10 I installed last night a litte bit longer.
>The challenge here I see is that every employer is looking for 'rockstars'

I think there should be a developer tier at 250kish (valley prices)

If you can justify that, we'll call you a rockstar.

Then we'll give you status to go with it in the company (as you're making more than your boss), sort of how external consultants often get that and get to recommend TONS more stuff than line engineers do.

If a position says rockstar, and doesn't pay a quarter mil, we pan you on the web as lying about needing a really highly paid, super highly skilled position.
Really like the look of the landing page btw... nice job.
I figured they were modulating the charge on the case and the screen picked it up as "touches".
Got my order in a solid 4 hours after the actual release so I'm not that surprised.

You'd think a company like Google would have a better system for 1. Preordering and 2. Giving a better estimate for when you'll actually receive your product.
Exceptional developers.
If you look at the email sent, they're crediting the shipping charges, which were $13.99. I think that's a pretty good gesture on their part.

That being said, mine shipped out today and should get here Monday. I don't know why they didn't give the option for overnight shipping or ground service. Or they should have planned better than having 2 day shipping with a weekend included, so it's really 4-day shipping.
They're giving us free shipping, but the optics probably would have been better if they had given us free stuff rather than free shipping, since free shipping is so commonplace.
THIS.

My current work involves managing a range of different concurrency and multi-process systems. Focusing on clean, forgiving message channels as the foundation of the system has been a win in the last three very different problem spaces. Only thing missing is perhaps a nod to Communicating Sequential Processes.
How is the email not a visible effort to communicate what's happening to the customers?
This was covered in the podcast, if you'd listened to it. They didn't.