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It's annoying when people with some degree of influence casually spew misinformed nonsense:

Google wanting iOS users to be able to sign in — if not be downright encouraged to sign in — to their Google account, that’s easy to understand. That’s how Google makes money, by selling ads that target us based on the information they collect as we use their services.

You agree to send anonymous data to Google for the location targeting and improved accuracy bit, you sign-in to sync bookmarks and search history. Also one wouldn't have needed to sign into every Google app separately if iOS allowed Google the same OS-wide account integration that Facebook and Twitter have.
Big part of it is if person is an expert but does things where he IS a noob. I am an expert in some things but I am a noob climber, very average runner

People who feel need to pick on noobs who actually trying to learn are scum. There are noobs that do not want to learn or absorb new things, yeah torture them if you want. but if someone is genuinely working on something and you put them down..

As a noob climber I can see the jerk types, not because they pick on me (I am so horrible that I am not worth the time) but because of how they get people react in two different ways. Some kiss their ass and other just exclude them (silence when they start talking to their peers working on a problem, people need to leave etc)
Watch out for the PICPC Mafia.
Here is an interesting infographic from the National Post:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/28/guns-ownership-aroun...

"In 2007, the U.S. had the highest gun ownership rate in the world - an average of 88 per 100 people. But the U.S. does not have the worst firearm murder rate - that prize belongs to Honduras, El Salvador and Jamaica. In fact, the U.S. is well down the list with a rate of 2.97 per 100,000 people. Below is a list of countries with available firearm data from 2007 starting with countries where firearms are most common."
The point I was trying to make was that when guns were banned in the UK people started using knives to commit crimes. Then they restricted access to knives too. Then they installed cctv cameras on every corner. This is not the type of world I would want to live in.
Check out the "customer images" for this book...
Any reason it can't be kept resident so you don't have to start it up all the time? Should be a fairly simple change to add a batch mode or similar...

Alternatively, best practices appear to be to use caching of the css files:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/#using

"If you wish to minify your files on the backend (also known as on-the-fly minification) instead of at build time, you will want to cache the minified files in memory for optimal performance (instead of minifying the same files over and over & minification is a time consuming process) Note that the YUI Compressor can easily be instantiated and used from a Java-based environment (Servlet). "
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I don't think Google would be too interested in providing that service, but I don't see why someone else couldn't do it. At some level though, a Google Docs that's restricted to the office or campus is strictly less useful than old-fashioned docs on your laptop's harddrive, edited by normal GUI editors. Would any user want to use that service?

In general, I think you have start mistrusting employees more, though. If an employee can't be trusted not to attach rightfully-secret data to email without heroic IT efforts to prevent that scenario, maybe that employee can't be entrusted with the data period. The old "firewall" method of implicitly trusting everyone on staff with pretty much everything is quite inappropriate for most business situations.
Google Throws Down the Gauntlet, Kills EAS Support
I could not agree with you more.

I think it is absolutely crucial that you have a real world project to work on - something that makes you actually write some code and solve some problems in a production environment. That being said, supplemental education that focuses on fundamentals can drastically speed up the learning process.

It's almost like practicing a sport. There are drills you need to run in order to improve specific skills, but without taking those skills and applying them in a real game situation you never actually connect all the dots that lead to self improvement. On the flip side, its not enough to just play games - sometimes it helps to go the batting cages and practice on a specific skill set. I treat my learning the same way.
I'm just the follow-on investor. The disputes are Maciej's problem.
When I say killings I meant mass killings. I actually don't believe the amount of murder will decrease in the US. In fact I think it will increase just because of the fact that people wont be deterred by the idea of their victim being armed.

edit: was just about to edit into my post when I realized that I had actually posted it correctly.
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So one thing that I want to point out, many, many tutorials and books for coding teach bad design practices or provide code that is overly verbose, to make instruction in a particular element clearer. Java is particularly troubled by this imho. So if you are going to use code you find, you should look at good code. I recommend code from a mature open source product.
The first money I made in programming was hacking at hairy piece of PHP called the Coppermine gallery back in '06.

Later, reading software design books made sense. I knew why you shouldn't do X or Y, because if you neglected using those techniques you'd end up being Coppermine---powerful, well loved by some, but barely maintainable and extendible only through immense effort and careful reading.

I like to think that I worked my way up the open source software ladder, learning techniques from each piece of software till I was able to make my own from scratch.
I think only humans can create IP, though IANAL.
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Unsaleable here was not supposed to mean illegal or literally impossible to sell. I meant it as "very/increasingly difficult to sell at a profit".

Selling labor at a profit is becoming a problem, since it has those irritating built-in costs of food, shelter and health-care.
Self-driving cars can navigate the road, but can they navigate the law?
No it's the bullets. But in order to get the bullets out of the guns, a human is required.
It's stuck on "loading" for me when I select anyone's name. Using Chrome on Windows 8.
Looks really interesting, but I don't want to send all my emails through you.

I'd love to see something similar as a Python Library, though- It is unlikely to be competitive to your business, since the overlap between marketing guys who are going to pay you, and IT guys who would do it in Python are small ;)

I'd be happy to pay for a solution if you had one.
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Here's another trick that's helped me a lot over the years:

open up your favorite library on Github, go back to the very first commit and start reading, commit by commit. If you don't understand something, just copy the difficult section, line by line, on a repl, inspecting variables and/or function results.
This is the value the winners get:
"What else will I get?

I will feature the six successful applicants on the Pinboard blog, and give them whatever additional help I can in making contacts in computerland and attracting an initial pool of customers."

His point is that a lot of money isn't needed, but publicity is (and a cool service of course).
>if you want due consideration from people more busy than you, you should give your idea due consideration yourself.

I am keeping this quote and will give you proper attribution.
This is one reason why I skipped Java and went right to learning Python and Ruby (after background in C). As a beginner, there was no context, no way for my n00b self getting into OO programming to sort the good Java from the cruft.
I legitimately think I've misunderstood your comment, because I'm not following. As I understand it, the anonymous data collection allows Google to improve the maps, gather aggregate user data, etc., but is "anonymous." If you sign into a Google account, then they can track individual usage and better target ads. There's nothing particularly nefarious about this; Google does this with all their services, that's their business. Right?
TBH, client details really should belong to both the firm and the traders, since at the end of the day those clients most likely will continue to execute trades with that trader regardless of what firm they work at. Back when I worked in finance, many traders I knew were hired based on the clients with whom they had a solid professional relationship.

The value of a trader to a firm is essentially their professional relationships with clients combined with the efficiencies and information provided by the firm itself. The trader needs information from the firm and his co-workers to effectively monetize his client relationships, but those relationships really are his/hers at the end of the day. It's not like a trader can leave a firm and some other trader can pick up those relationships right where the other trader left them off. They can try of course, but the relationships are likely to move from firm to firm with that trader.

The spreadsheet is also dubious grey area. Yes, it may be proprietary information created by the trader while at that firm, but it is just as likely to have been created by that trader before he joined the firm that he brought with him when he joined. The only thing that changes when a trader joins a firm is that he ceases to use inputs from the economists and analysts at his previous firm and now begins using the figures from the economists and analysts at his new firm. Proprietary models often are created by a trader and intelligible to that trader and only that trader, unless they happen to have trained a junior trader to understand the ins and outs of their own model.

I was one of the analysts myself and every single model created by any senior analyst was reused by their junior analysts, but was often scrapped anytime a new senior analyst who joined the firm to replace the previous senior analyst. When you have your name and reputation on the model and the investment advice, the tendency is to do a big rewrite.
I was a bit surprised by that comment, but figured that I was mis-parsing it. I really can't claim to have made "huge code contributions", though: I'm responsible for portsnap and freebsd-update, but those are only a few thousand lines, and aside from those my contributions have been mostly limited to the occasional bug stomping. There are dozens of FreeBSD src developers who have made much larger contributions than I have.
>If you have access to those you probably have $37. I get that he is trying to say technical costs can be negligible for startups. I fail to see how Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud helps anyone in anyway.

You've managed to recapitulate his point while simultaneously missing it.

As you say, costs are negligible. Time to build something is hard to find, but nobody can help you find it.

Attention is what's really valuable and really hard to get, as a startup. Maciej is highlighting this by making an offer to startups that puts what's really valuable for building a sustainable business (I'll drive attention your way) front-and-center, while mocking the valley's mentality of take-huge-wads-of-funding-cash-and-bet-it-all-on-winning-the-growth-lottery approach to business creation with his "I'll throw in $37" offer.
The tech consultant position is more of a "business technology" consultant, which really means consulting on the business side of giant enterprise software installs, like Oracle. Deep technical skills are helpful, but not really necessary.

Not to mention the technical skills needed to get a website up and running are totally different than those required to build an enterprise software solution.
The workers don't own the means of production in a firm. It's not communist; it's Soviet. Show trials; pointless dig-and-fill exercises; five year plans; Potemkin villages; lunatic dictates from unaccountable leaders; and shadow economies.

Wonderful read: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-d...
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That's nice, but we can't morally (or, in the end, economically, see: Great Depression, Great Recession) allow people's ability to eat food, drink clean water, stay out of the elements, and otherwise remain in the world of the living become "dynamic and ever-changing".

Viewing the economy as an always-shifting game whose total score almost always rises is a grand view to take. Problem is, it's a view from the top, a view that you can only take when you've got a sufficient number of points to keep yourself in the game indefinitely.

There's also the problem that "new jobs" are not made-to-fit. There is no guarantee we will always need 40-60 hours/week of work from everyone. In actual fact, simply reducing the total amount of work that constitutes "one full-time job" has always been one of the simplest ways out of an overproduction crisis (such as our present one).
One of the first screens you get to after installing the Google Maps app on iOS is the login for your Google account. Gruber's description doesn't seem that far off, considering that.
I guess this is the physical manifestation of the "million monkeys on a typewriter" thought experiment.
Spinning up more dyno's. Sorry!
This is certainly the case with schools too. At my high school, we are provided a username and password to access the school's computers, as well as our own personal storage space on the network. However, students (and teachers) want ways to work on files they have on the school network­ — it used to be that we would have to email the files to ourselves, but the network administrators have just recently unblocked access to Dropbox. People are realizing that there are websites like Google Drive that will let them access their work from anywhere and migrating away from the school-provided storage.

Last year, someone was able to find a vulnerability in the network in order to install Google Chrome and Firefox. Supposedly, the IT guys were furious — not just at being hacked, but that students were using software that wasn't approved by them. Students and teachers are wising up to what good software is for them, and those choices don't always align with what IT says we need.
Your comment reminded me of this book:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Plagiarist-ebook/dp/B004ZUZT5W
How does it determine the price? By the pound? Amazon should clearly mark these as computer generated. I'll bet most of the purchases are from people who didn't know what they were even getting.
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In NYC area, I know that a good iOS contractor can make $90-100/hr.
An unofficial Google+ Api (and why the delay for a real one?)
> I’d say neither company was being a "jerk" here. Apple and Google were both acting in their own interests.

If this wasn't blindingly obvious to you from the very moment this whole business showed up in public, then you should take some time to reconsider how you analyze the world.
cool! plain curiosity: why gmail-only instead of imap?
OAuth authentication for IMAP (via SASL): https://developers.google.com/google-apps/gmail/oauth_overvi...

I don't know if there are many clients that support it yet, though.
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This argument is silly. The only reason why the US has trouble against small guerrilla forces is because the world is watching. The US has the military power to literally take over the world if it could get away with it (barring nukes). War is hard in modern times because of moral outrage, not because of some intrinsic power of a firearm against an oppressive government
Maps absolutely are core to mobile devices. Besides communication, mapping is the other primary use case of my mobile device and I know I'm not alone on this one.

Communication, mapping and calendaring are also the three primary "intents" built into the device since day one. For example, every "maps.google.com" link from any application is captured by the OS and routed to the native maps app instead of Safari.
You're really fighting two mantras - 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' vs 'we must build against worst case everything'. The arguments generally come from IT support and legal, respectively.

Realistically things are in the middle. This isn't a surprise. IT shops have to balance current real risks, potential risks, future risks, etc. It's the overly used 'black swan' event in IT that causes problems. It costs $200k per potential problem, and we've got 40, but the business only provides $1M in budget. So the black swan will happen, the business will demand a solution, so now you've got 41 problems - because 2 surfaced while fixing the 1.

To take a step back, it's simply because consumer IT has innovated quicker than both enterprise IT and enterprise security to prevent the takeover. Trying to understand that is a more interesting question, which probably finds its roots in the blossoming technology adoption of a younger generation more willing to consume high tech goods. Eventually enterprises adopt consumer technology, or build really good walls.
besides "Google Juice" what's the point of Google+? neither my wife nor I can figure it out.
That's a really, really OS-ignorant title.
This video needs more attention.
Yup, as a teacher I have a huge amount of autonomy. I can work at home (I actually do log into an rdp session, but I don't have to) and schedule the between class work when I wish to. We tend to use mobile phones for personal calls in the UK, just a fashion I suppose.

The funny thing is that I end up doing a lot of work on my own time...
I believe that for many programmers who knew what they was doing in 90's the problem that we now call "SQL Injection" was about functionality ("Why can't my article contain an apostrophe?") and not security. It's similar to many buffer overflow vulnerabilities and so on: often it is not only security issue but also functionality issue.
Great idea :)

From Webpop we'll offer a free project and a startup template (http://app.webpop.com/themes/startup) for anybody accepted into the program.

For some people this might be enough to completely skip the Linode and buy one more beer.
It has been on my todo list, but nothing yet. A few operational notes I can share:

Riak is incredibly awesome for scaling. The only flaw i've found is there is a tipping point where load on the cluster is too high to be able to add a new node and have partitions hand off to it in a reasonable amount of time. You might also run into the same issue if you lose more than one node at time and try to bring up new instances to replace them (every add or remove event results in a rebalance).

JavaScript MapReduce is a joke. I could never find the right combination of incantations to make the VMs perform in a halfway decent manner. We didn't bother trying to implement in Erlang because we didn't have the expertise in house, but supposedly it is a bit better.

If you need multi-site replication, you'll need to build it yourself, or find some other way to work around it. The price tag for paid Riak is well beyond anything I'd consider reasonable. Think more expensive than the hardware you are running it on.

SSDs and 10g ethernet are a must. SoftLayer is probably a better route if you want to be in "the cloud," but definitely consider your own hardware that you can poke with a stick if something seems odd.
Sorry, but why is this on HN?
Guns are the problem. Yes a gun is a tool, one that is specifically created to multiply the efficiency of killing. It's purpose is inherently one of magnifying violence. The technology itself deserves condemnation.

Note that I am not advocating getting rid of all guns. But we need to have an honest discussion about them, and that starts with being truthful with ourselves about their very nature.
It's all in how you think about the problem.

Brains are vary good at fuzzy highly parallel tasks and bad at sequential ones. Computers suck at those fuzzy parallel tasks, but are rather good at accurate sequential ones. People are easy to train individually, computers take a lot of up front effort but after that it's easy.
That's interesting, I'm using games at Work to help build up networks because it's something that draws in people from different departments (developers, product managers, customer support) and makes it easier for people to approach each other outside of the lunch hour games.
Location data is anonymous regardless if you login afterward or not: http://support.google.com/gmm/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&top...
Heads rolled?! I remember the neutrino story being handled with complete professionalism at the time. I wasn't aware there'd been any new developments. Do you have a link?
I'd use it if they
a) removed the real name policy, and
b) unlinked it from gmail, so a ban in g+ keeps gmail working.
Is there where we reap upvotes with strident comments about how terrible curation is? No, wait for the Apple articles? Hookay.
Totally agree (also a successful English major / developer from the first boom).

A lot of what fascinated me was the underlying grammar and syntax of language and how, if you knew how to manipulate those symbols ("words") through the use of an appropriate tool (diagrams, but not the ones you remember from when you were a kid learning to write sentences) you could manipulate sentences almost like they were tree-structures - without changing the meaning.

That said, to _succeed_ as a developer, I felt compelled to go out and get a Master's in Information Systems ... but that was about career success (nobody wanted an English Major to be their IT Project Manager, for some reason).
You're not alone. I left Seattle for SF because the insular unfriendly people literally made me feel depressed so much of the time. I just visited for Thanksgiving and I was amazed how much unhappier Seattlites seem compared to SF people. It felt so good to come back to the bay. I'm from Bellingham and Seattle is the pretty much the only place in Washington that is that unfriendly. Everett, Bham, Olympia, you name it, they're friendlier.

I still cringe a bit at how unhappy I was there.
"people from both sides are guilty of acting as if there's conflict."

Angsty atheists claiming there are no "true" Christians who believe in evolution or who are evolutionary biologists by trade are obnoxious, but more harmless than those who wedge religion into science classes.
Then we hit the "Four Futures" problem, in which we must decide whether to institute draconian intellectual-property regimes to keep capitalism standing, or abolish capitalism in acknowledgement of the absurdity of trying to extract surplus-value from Replicators.

http://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/
Very Inception-ish. "We've got to go 3 funding rounds deep."
But an article about antique dimensional analysis is just not on the same level in difficultly or interest as how someone observed a natural phenomenon and explained it with empirical evidence.
> Buddy, you have not experienced pain on my level.

Now does that excuse you for seeking out drama in this thread or not? I'm confused.
> (some never stop, stealing to support the habit)

Wow. I wonder if anyone's done a study on the societal effects of WOW as compared to "real" drugs.
Pretty certain I'm going to drink too much Angry Orchard tonight and try to do this with the Camera app and Picplum on Android.
Being an expert in any language means knowing what not to do, more than knowing what you should do.
Does anyone know if the Magazine has become profitable yet?
Roboticist here. This is actually a huge problem in robotics and causes all sorts of problems for real robots. For example, my current project is to teach robots how levers work.
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Every year I donate at least 50$ to Mozilla, I've just added FreeBSD to my yearly donations as well.