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I like how you guys are arguing about A. vs B. when many of us went to schools that are in a tier so low that there aren't even enough letters to give the tier a letter-based rank. (Maybe that's why Unicode exists!)
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Most places are redefining tenure though, so the only people that still have any meaningful resources are those that have extramural funding. Anymore, tenure means you get a closet for an office and a phone. And for new hires, if you don't have grant support, even with tenure, you can still lose your job.
I asked how it changed lives, and you said "they saw it on TV". Nothing indicating what people now did once that event had passed.

As opposed to mapping, which doesn't wow you as much when you see it - it's not entertainment - but has made significant changes to the way people conduct their lives. People do things that they didn't do before because of maps. The moon shot, while an event in itself, yes, didn't in itself change the way people relate and interact.

Also, I was far more wowed when I first saw street view than when I first saw JFK's assassination. Prominent politicians have been assasssinated at least as far back as Julius Caesar, but showing me a picture of just about any street location in the developed world? That's something new, interesting, ambitious, and yes, even life-changing. I've seen people use it regularly to find out what their destination looks like before they set out, to make it easier to find where they are. JFK was just another head of state getting shot. Big event, sure, but hardly something new or original like you seem to be demanding here.
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Yes, you have captured the essence of the consultant who wrote Marissa's speech. That is exactly what this thread is complaining about. The corporatespeak BS. "Dynamic" is 1990s codeword for "good", before "rock star" took over as the tech buzzword.
A better test is described by Moss in the IT Crowd:

"Did she continue talking to you once you'd fixed her computer?"

Just rephrase this to "would you be around this person if you weren't paid to?"
Sony is probably thinking "Someone will hook this jack up their cassette deck and record our proprietary music and sound effects". Seriously.
> Dangerous, vindictive and controlling is not a sign of a lack of intelligence... in fact... it's probably the opposite I would imagine.

I am not sure I understand why you think this way.
Jill Schmoe doesn't read Yahoo press releases.
Let's say a couple of guys start a company to make it easy for people to send money back and forth to each other over email. They, like all startups, are desperate for talent so they recruit like mad. But it's important to them not only to get folks with engineering chops, but that they get folks who will fit in with their culture. In fact, one time they reject someone because he said that he liked to play hoops and they thought that was a funny way to say basketball.[1]

Fast forward to another tech boom. We've got another company, vaguely similar to the first, but this time they want to make it easier for websites to accept credit card based payments. They also recruit like mad and care a lot about culture. In fact they have something called a Sunday Test: "if this person were alone in the office on a Sunday would that make you more likely to come in and want to work with them?" It's a bit less clear what that means in this case, but it certainly sounds like they are optimizing for homogeneity.[2]

Those two stories are both about culture. They're both about companies working hard to define their own internal culture in a way that they think will make them more successful. Further I think that, in many ways, that they are right about this guess! Monocultures are very very useful in small early stage startups!

But aren't the effects of this kind of fucked up? Shouldn't we at least acknowledge the fact that not making a job offer to a guy because he used the word "hoops" is a little weird? And this doesn't even get into related issues of race or gender or class backgrounds.

Much of Shanley's post is about this sort of thing. She's not saying that meetings are great, or flat hierarchies are bad or that free lunches are bullshit. But she is saying that these things aren't 100% good. They come with some significant downsides that are rarely acknowledge inside of the "everything we do is awesome" startup bubble.

I don't think she is imputing ill will (well mostly, she is a bit). Rather she's just trying to throw some water in the face of a very self satisfied startup culture. She's saying "look around you guys! Some of these values that you think are 100% awesome have some big downsides!" And I think that is very laudable.

Apparently some of her rhetoric was a bit off the mark as some people are dismissing her post as bitter. That's too bad, because I think that she brings up some very real and very important issues.

1. http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-...

2. http://firstround.com/article/How-Stripe-built-one-of-Silico...
Couldn't agree more! I'm an economics Ph.D. dropout who focused primarily on microeconomics and game theory (because like you said, current macro theory [see: DSGE] is completely bogus) and I think your points about finding monopolies is a great one. I left my Ph.D. early because it was a losing game as I wanted to be learning more computer science since it was a necessary skill to obtain in addition to a microeconomic/econometric education to master the "data science"-esk skills I wanted to in order to ensure I properly aligned myself for the future.

Although I haven't made the move to industry yet, I did recently get myself a nice little research gig doing big data work in a lab at one of those universities in Cambridge.
This is an excellent book. Thanks for reminding me of it.
Has anyone else become hyper-specialized in their interests because of pervasive connectivity? I've gotten to the point where on some topics there are zero people I know personally that I could have a conversation with about these topics unless I did all of the talking.

I find people to talk intelligently about these topics through online niche forums. It's so weird sometimes because I've got a small talk personae for "normal people" and then everything I talk about online which is highly specialized and takes a while to explain, even to an interested listener.
I'm a fan of what is marketed as "Grape Tomatoes"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape_tomato

They have a great flavor if you can get past the size
Looking at that growth, I can only imagine how many startups were launched because of HN. HN played a huge role in convincing me to quit my corporate job and join a startup, and then later start my own.
You don't see a difference between 79 and 34?

34 of those games were released after 2005. 79 were released in the 1995 / 2005 time frame. So those ten years averaged 7.9 per year; the seven years after averaged five per year. It's a nearly 60% increase per year.

In my opinion digital PC game sales would do nothing but tip the scale toward my point about the PC gaming market consolidating into just a few mega hit franchises that generate all the sales while the volume of games has significantly contracted. In PC gaming there are maybe ten titles that matter, such as WoW or Sims. In console gaming, there are over 100 titles a year that sell 1 million or more copies.

Free to play PC gaming is a very small market still. The Sims 2 alone made more money than the entire free-to-play market combined did in the previous four years. That may change in the next few years, but it doesn't change the facts that exist right now.

Four of the top five on that list are from 2004 or earlier. Meanwhile of course total console game sales have exploded to the moon during that time.

First of all, would you mind showing me the sales data from Steam? No? Then how do you intend to use that as part of your argument exactly?

Which game on steam has sold 11 million copies on the service, like Starcraft did at retail? 20 million like Sims 2? 9 million like Half-life 1? 12 million like Half-life 2? I'd wager it's not even remotely close.

It's my opinion that Steam is moving a mid number of high priced new releases, and a lot more lower priced discounted games (eg buying Shogun for $9.99 or Torchlight 2 for $9.99 during discounts). A quick look through their top 50 best selling reveals the strong majority are $20 or less, with many being $11.99 or less. Is Steam popular? Of course, but what does that have to do with whether the PC gaming market has consolidated into a few hit franchises with less total games produced per year?
She is trying to slowly step away from her "just be Google" strategy of 2012.
Both PC and consoles share the same market - high end gaming.

Your iPhone "argument" makes no sense, it's a red herring.
So, uh, no backwards compatibility with PS3 games?

This is going to put Sony out of business.
> I convert all the important ideas in my life into mental pictures and animations.

Ha! I thought I was pretty strange for doing that too. Unsurprisingly I always like to squiggle on pen and paper to visually organize things. I'd draw boxes and arrows. Or I like computer languages with pattern matching (like Erlang and Haskell). It might be related.

Also I speak 3 (human ;-) )languages and understand 4. 2 of those I learned in parallel while growing up. That has helped me form abstraction that are common between the two and not necessarily tied to either one.

While we are at it. I never knew what to answer when people say "so what language to do you dream in". I always think "huh, people I guess dream in languages?". Because in my dreams and experiences happen but they are mostly visual (with exceptions).
Being a middleman in the credit card network is an interesting problem?
Sure, maybe Apple is going to release a high-end gaming console. And maybe they are going to release a watch. And maybe they are going to release a TV. I don't have any inside information on these things, and a gaming console hasn't (to my knowledge) even been rumored at this point. I don't know if they want to make one. I don't know if it would be profitable enough for them. I... don't know. So I'm going to just go off of what I do know, which is the XBox 720, the PS4, a huge drop off, the Wii U, a huge dropoff and various ARM based consoles.
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Let's be careful about "values from cultures with longer histories". They may have had good values but that did not prevent them from slaughtering each other all the same. Some american indians were known to be very violent yet very much in harmony with nature. So, what good does it do in the end?
Ok. I'm pretty sure (and as mentioned in other comments), you also need to have a connection to the machine with the repo to do this with SVN.

My work desktop is Red Hat, so I'm (unfortunately) used to downloading old versions of software...
For the first time ever, I saw the "nytimes.com" URL and had a bad feeling.
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My personal favorite:

$array = array('z'=>12, 'o'=>43, 't'=>32, 'th'=>85, 'f'=>91, 'fi'=>42);

Take a minute look at that and tell me what the keys stand for. When you figure it out you'll realize why this is the worst piece of code you've ever seen.
The one they showed in the PS4 presentation looked exactly like the XBox one. I suppose it could be the same shape but be 3.5mm instead of 2.5mm.
Was that just in the early prototype? The bulk at the back of present design looks OK to me: http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/ (3rd image from the bottom). Just going by appearance, there are ordinary sunglasses with a similar bulk. And the compute unit will only get smaller year by year.

I'm actually kinda amazed they've managed to make it that small - OTOH, I see the key point of the project is a way to make hardware smaller yet still be usable (because we don't need a large screen).
Podcasts are popular not because they're better, but because they take less time to produce. Say you want to get an idea out. Turn on your microphone and rant for 30 minutes. Done. Now imagine you want to write an essay on the same topic. It's going to take a lot longer than 30 minutes. (People listen to podcasts for the same reason they buy People magazine. It's easy and "social".)
pg, do you have browser version stats?
This must be related to using -webkit-filter:drop-shadow()... ?
I had to deal with this last night so I could play a lego game locally with my son. I've never been particularly happy about having to have a live subscription for streaming video services and this was even more annoying. As it stands now I've just about had it with consoles.
It hasn't sailed. People are still buying those games; in fact those games are still breaking sales records. Casual games may become more popular, I don't know, but it's not zero-sum when the gaming market is growing overall.
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I guess it's been about a decade (crazy!) but there were quite a few legit and really knowledgeable phreaks doing interesting things on the binary revolution forums (looks like binrev.com's still around!). Back when I would lurk, there were a lot of novel things going on, e.g. with VOIP. spoofing caller ID and calling yourself to extract the telco's caller ID data was one I remember. War-dialing and collecting interesting numbers was also big.

Obviously there is a nostalgia for the blue-boxing days, which most of us have only ever read about. And of course that was never really about free calls (you can place a free call with a $2 headset and pair of bed-of-nails clips on any block in america), and I think the classic esquire piece communicates that pretty well.
But his point, which I do want to reiterate, is that the vast majority of software engineers don't have that kind of saving/investing power. Sure, you might earn $80k/year out of college, but then you pay 1/3 of your income in taxes and another 20% in rent on a one-bedroom apartment and pretty soon you find you've got about $3300/month to pay all your bills, buy food, make student-loan payments, and basically live your life. In my experience, it came to a total saving power of a little less than half what you described.

Now admittedly, $20k/year is a hell of a lot to be able to save for normal Americans! But at the end of five years it leaves you with $100k of savings, not $250k. In the Boston area where I was, you couldn't even put a down-payment on a house with that little money. It was basically just lots and lots of beer money.

On the other hand, if you know a magical company in a magical land, perhaps adorned with pastel ponies, at which I can make enough money with a low enough cost of living to retire after five or ten years to become a self-funded gentleman scientist, I'll certainly take that over graduate school. I just don't think it actually exists, as you can probably tell by the sarcasm.
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I think -webkit-filter is to blame here. Webkit must not support different pixel densities with these yet :(
A more cynical person might suggest the tone of this article was related to recent events elsewhere in the NYT. The real meat of the article is buried halfway down:

"(Update: The Tesla spokeswoman Shanna Hendriks later said the company had 1,500 cancellations in the fourth quarter). Many customers were in line but pulled out when it became time to make a substantial down payment in cash."

I'd imagine this is fairly standard for reservations of any product that don't require purchase, it only remains to ask whether this is more than one might expect, and if so, whether it's related to the "cold weather" debacle. That certainly seems to be the implication here.
Yes, this will be very, very big.
Hey, thank you for the feedback. Just to be sure, are you referring to the Messages and Callout UI elements? If so, I totally see your point, that may be something we'll want to change.
Because cellular networks are complex fragile things and you don't want random joe schmos to go around putting up what are basically tiny cell towers in the midst of your carefully architected network.

The interference standards do not eliminate the problem of interference, and interference is extremely difficult to debug.
My obsession with phone phreaking in the 90s was because it was the medium by which we accessed the world. There was a wire that ran into my house whereby I could speak to anyone or dial into anywhere. It was attached to a phone that itself could be taken apart and investigated.

Couple these facts with what was then the only resource for people wanting to know more for free: text files. The community surrounding 2600, Phrack, and countless other zines lost to the ages. It created a sense of ability to access all points along this route of communication.

I was young and stupid, and I wanted to know more about the technology behind what I was using. The presentation of text files help me consume that information easily, because they were in essence written by people like me for me.

When dial up faded out, and I grew older, technology was just a utility to make a paycheck. I shifted more focus on development, because phreaking/hacking didn't pay my bills. I think that generation just grew up and got cellphones. Then there was a cellphone phreaking period. It's still there but I feel the scene has gone far more underground, or concentrated its efforts on jail breaking.

I think we'll see a resurgence of hacking/phreaking soon, since devices are becoming cheaper and more accessible to children.
This is ridiculous. The foxit plugin is fully sandboxed and I have not seen any exploits via any of the netsec lists I subscribe to.
No they don't. Console games serve the "Console game market".

PCs serve the "PC market" (A subset of that is the High end gaming market that enjoy keyboards and mice).

Show me a Street Fighter tournament being played on PC?

Or a Starcraft game being played on Consoles?

...

The reason you can't find those things, is they are different markets.
Industrial America was brought into existence in 1901? I mean, you've been telling me that Google doesn't really count because they had predecessors, and here you are saying that Industrial America essentially sprang into existence in 1901 at the behest of US Steel. Again and again you refuse to play on a level field.

Also, in common parlance, a catalyst is also something that speeds things along. A catalyst for change' doesn't mean that change would never have happened, just that it was significantly facilitated.
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Dutch auction over a long period. You know this is equivalent to a sealed first bid right?

Interesting nonetheless.
Can you provide a citation or an example link for me to test? My understanding is that Chrome has the foxit plugin in a fully sandboxed environment. The PDF format nor the foxit system has any kind of DRM and shouldn't support this behavior.
That's smart of them. Anyone remembers 2007-2008? Even blue chip companies had to beg and give their proverbial first born to refinance their debt.

A billion is not what it used to be, was my first thought but who can blame Pinterest.
it’s a win for everyone if the comments praising my writing are alongside
those pointing out where it could me, um, “even better.”

That should be "where it could be*" :)
All of those features require constant data streams except one.

In a country like Australia where we have data caps, pretty much the ONLY feature above that will actually benefit us, is the feature that involves us turning the console off.

Ironic.
This is just one data point, but my mom and I run a cooking blog that makes a decent amount of money from the Amazon affiliate program, and people from Pinterest definitely come to her site with an intent to buy. Given how much money we making from Pinterest visitors, it doesn't seem crazy to think that they could figure out a way to monetize their user base.
I appreciate and respect your opinion on this, but can you explain what about these semantic class names you find is causing you nausea? I've considered having them be chained (i.e. .two-thirds) instead of seperated, but find myself thinking that "<aside class="one mobile third"></aside>" and "<article class="two mobile thirds"></article>" is more natural for me to type
Ehh.. don't worry about it. I don't think my grad school is in a tier either. What matters is what you do with yourself!
Great idea. We humans were named after many characteristics. Jobs, what we see when the child is born, what kinds of personality we want our children to have, etc.
> So, what good does it do in the end?

Adopt the good ideas of the past and avoid (and learn from) the mistakes of the past so we do not repeat them. One can respect the environment and animals without smashing heads. Pretty much every culture has had a violent past at some point, even cultures like the Romans and the Greeks were rather barbaric by modern standards (especially the Romans). Our descendants will probably think the same about us to a point as well in a couple hundred years.
If it's not already supported, it shouldn't be difficult to make a Django process respond to the HUP signal by reloading it's settings. That's how Postgres does it.
You can easily alter the overrides in the _responsive.scss to accomplish this :)
A friend's grandmother told the story of doing laundry in Malta as a young girl, and dreaming with her friends, wishing that there was some sort of 'magic box' you could throw the clothes in, press a button, and have them come out clean.

When the washing machine came out where she was - even though it's an utterly boring item to all of us - it massively changed how she lived her life.
Because he doesn't equate "intelligence" with "good".
I've been using Foxit reader for years without knowing that it was Chinese. Its a great product - fast as hell - beats the pants off Adobe.
They hinted at "Gaming in the cloud" that would support PSX, PS2, PS3, PSP... etc

Likely using the same tech they use for playing a PS3/4 on a PSP/PSVita (respectively)
I remember in the 80's the only "phreaking" that I knew how to do with our local bell system was to go to a pay phone and dial 258 and the last 4 digits of the pay phones phone number, and hanging up 3 times would make the switch call you back. I remember being fascinated by this and wanting to learn more. The trick stopped working shortly after and I never did learn anything else.
You do not have to go back very far to find barbary even in our civilization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens) and this happened in the same century as the human rights philosophers. That was just a few generations ago.
Because history (esp. European history I guess) will show you that brilliant techies have done really cruel things.
Any supporting evidence ?
saw this a while back:

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Think of Glass as a new sense instead of a machine. The sense of information. The phone was just a clumsy prosthesis that was a pain to use. Most of what we sense is also "useless". We filter. If sight required us to pull a weird little periscope out of our pocket every time we wanted to do it, it would look like a strange addiction as well.

Surely there's a case to be made for sensory overload for this new sense, especially as people become accustomed to it. "Why do my eyes hurt? -- You've never used them before."
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After reading the argument transcripts for the Monsanto case, i'm not optimistic.
I'm a supreme court bar member, so my plan was to listen to Myriad in person.
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The wikipedia article on them says that divers can create them too, with the aid of scuba gear.