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Are you in SF already? If you want to get lunch or meet up sometime tomorrow, email me, my emails is in my profile. Same for anyone else who might read this and be interested.
One of the graves missing in this article is for the Google Finance API which was deprecated last year. (much to the chagrin of many people, including myself)
I bet that this library references a unique DRM key in the Chromebook's hardware.
Very cool. It would be super sweet if you were polling the API for live updates.
Good point. I guess I'm not in a position to judge if this is still evaluation or not.
IF YOU'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.

But Google is different. I swear. They don't even care about Wall Street. They said so.
Not everyone who's being hurt here was "parking money abroad". They're stealing 6.75% of ordinary people's savings. That's shockingly unfair and stupid.

Does anyone know why they didn't restrict this to accounts over the insured 100K limit? It makes no sense to me why they would take the political hit of doing something this evil. If it's about taxing Russian criminals' billions as we're hearing, why would they need to raid average citizens' accounts?
I don't disagree with you, but that's not really the terms of the license.
"If you are not paying for a service you are the product being sold".

Exactly.
If you're 25 years old and have no college debt and no responsibilities of any kind, $50K may be enough to live on in SF or in the Valley. (Although probably not without parental assistance, or some sweet group housing deal.)

If you're 35 or 45, $100K or even $200K is not going to pay the mortgage and support a family.

We clearly have seen some egregious examples of CEOs cashing out before their company succeeded. But the suggestion that paying yourself $150K is out of line - displays a lack of familiarity with the cost of living in the Bay Area today.
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Very few if any organizations buy servers on the scale of Facebook, Amazon, Rackspace.... Quanta are likely to face the "Walmart" problem where they get squeezed so hard on margins they might not be making much at all, yet they feel they can't afford to ignore buyers of that size because someone is going to sell all those servers to them.
Well said. In order to get something off the ground, you've got to be both a hacker and a hustler.
Where does this put the trust in banks?
What will the reaction be from people in other countries with money in the bank? They could start fearing that one day their money will be locked away from them and that the bank is going to take percentages off of their savings.
This is a decision that might push others over the edge.
I'm a student at the University of Michigan and I just used this in Ann Arbor. Students celebrated St. Patrick's Day today and Instahood did an amazing job collating everyone's pictures from the festivities.

I agree with jgh that the interface isn't the best, but that's something that can be fixed. The underlying concept of seeing everyone's Instagram pictures in your immediate vicinity is extremely appealing to me. Great work and I hope you keep refining this!
I was to lazy to scroll the entire page, so thank you for mentioning that there is a Sign up button at the end. To the op, please remove that block of text that definitely kills conversion, show an example instead and let me play with it.
I was referring to the "personal project" matt_m mentioned, but I'll take a closer look at this too.
Most of the ad supported feeds I'm subscribed to have one ad post per week. Most ad supported websites have many ads per article. Guess which medium makes Google more money?
Wow,nice!

Just saw their website. Impressed by the progressive values, saddened by the partisan politicking ('fight the right', WTF?
Yeah, I'm wondering why this is on Meteor. Is it real-time?
Gold can inflate quite easily, and does all the time, independent of its scarcity. It's possible for the price of anything and everything to go up, on an absolute scale. And if that happens accross the board then you've effectively inflated even some hypothetical absolute currency.

Money has no value, it is in fact nothing more than tradeable debt. It has as much value as the market is willing to allow. To imagine this in an extreme case imagine if the entire worldwid economy collapsed and food bacame very much rarer. Now you'd expect to have to pay vastly more gold for food. Inflation.

My point is that no part of the economy is static, all of it is dynamic. All of it. The value of everything, labor, goods, food, even money is dynamically dictated by the action of the economy.
I just wish i had a few thousand dollars to buy all the stuff from here :-)
Most of the feeds I read are HTML excerpts with a link to the full article, or notifications with a link to a page. It makes perfect sense to read them within a browser, as I do in Opera.
And completely missing in action: the Nexus Q.
This is nice! Congrats!

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Right. Just be careful of that word 'definitely'. Maybe it's more 'most likely'.
The answer to this riddle, is yes. Rhetorical articles titled as questions, are answered yes.
You mean with GObject there's a lot of boilerplate if you use it from C, but it's supposed to be pretty nice from Vala.
In present times without mandatory taxation. Right, where is this then?
Has Google ever gone back on a publicly promised shutdown date and shut something down early?
I backed on May 2 2012, estimated delivery in the initial backing email was September 2012. When did you back it?
Instahood doesn't seem to be real-time
Not going to work for free unless the code is open source
Thanks. Maybe it was in the transition from Google Video to YouTube I felt something went missing. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
From the article:
"After all, when evaluating a Redfin job applicant one of the big questions I’m trying to answer is “when did she do something hard?”

It could be something you put yourself through for fun like running a marathon or far more serious like fighting in a war. It could be the grinding repetition of preparing for a piano recital or the grit required to dig ditches or paint houses for a living. It could be raising a child all by yourself."

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I completely agree with this part. I have hired a 100+ people and the most impressive ones in the long run are usually people who have achieved something notable - published in a poetry book, achieved something in a competitive sport, etc. - it doesn't seem to matter what it is, as long as they have done something hard, and that they know they achieved something. It seems to give them the confidence to get through more challenging problems in the workplace. Even a person who has run a small 2 person business has achieved something that most of the population never will, and they tend to have more 'grit' or whatever you wish to call it.
Some thing are hard no matter how you try to explain them. There's lots of stuff that seems to require working through it yourself to understand.
The problem of habeas corpus isn't to protect Al Awalki, it is to prevent the government from torturing Al Avalki for ten years and then saying, oops, we got the wrong guy.
It may have begun as a 'flight of fancy', but I think a lot of the public outcry comes down to the the fact that a lot of users, as individuals, became quite invested in the product.
Your understand is wrong in practice. In fact a recent example in the US is the MF Global fraud. That is why there is the SIPC http://www.sipc.org/How/Brochure.aspx it's like the FDIC except for losses related to fraud surrounding the failure of a brokerage firm.
Cyprus makes the key decision.

"Cyprus's parliament will decide on Sunday whether savers must pay a levy on bank deposits under terms for an international bailout to avert bankruptcy - with approval far from certain... Cyprus's parliament was due to convene at 4 p.m. (1400 GMT) in an emergency session"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-eurozone-cyprus...

Only then will other Eurozone parliaments rubber-stamp the bail-out funds. If for some unlikely reason the bail-out is not approved, I imagine the Cypriot government would have to swiftly return the money or face a very angry mob.

"Hours after euro zone ministers approved 10 billion euros ($13 billion) for Cyprus to stave off bankruptcy, Wolfgang Schaeuble briefed parliament's budget committee and said he would ask the lower house - which has a say on all euro zone rescues - to support the deal.

The Bundestag will likely have to vote on the outline of the deal this week, which is the last before the Easter break. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has a majority in the lower parliamentary house.

Schaeuble said the house would then likely debate the full Cyprus program in the second half of April before giving its final go-ahead."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/16/us-eurozone-cyprus...

"If the finance ministers reach a deal at Friday's meeting, it's likely to be a broad political decision, with technical details left for next week. The bailout would still have to be approved by parliaments in several eurozone nations, though EU officials say everything should be done by the end of the month."

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-bu...
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I can't think of too many things that would make me happier than the Post Office shutting down service. Dumping piles of junk in my mailbox 6 days/week? No thanks.

Oh how I loath going through piles of coupons and other physical spam to make sure I haven't missed some vital bill. Which, as an added benefit, would be delivered to me by a much more manageable method if the post office quit offering their service.

Note: The Pony Express was pretty cool, though.
I think it's more accurate to say that the free market currently does not think that Internet surveillance is a problem. Consumers in general have decided that for Internet services and Internet access devices, factors such as cheapness, ease of use, and trendiness are more important than privacy.

Governments are able to reach more definitive consensus than free markets - a market would be not easily be able to make everyone use an anonymizing proxy, for example, but a government could legislate that. Governments can also move costs around, such as by funding a national proxy service with tax money.

But on one level, free markets and democratic governments are both just methods that societies use to enforce their collective wills. There are limits to how much their decisions can differ. There's a reason Schneier calls a situation created by Internet companies a surveillance state.
I'm not sure if we disagree - this aspect of the tech industry's folks bothers me, but I see it as sociopathy - or more specifically, a notable lack of empathy for others.

It's not even rationalization most of the time (e.g., "this sucks but it's for the best"), as we see in this post it's outright hostility (i.e., "entitlement", "oh well", "commodity workers", etc).

Technology, and startup money, give people an awful lot of influence and power - I'm bothered by the fact that a large portion of our community strut about with a lack of empathy and respect for the inhabitants of this world. I see many members of this community as miniature would-be robber barons.

It's something I've been thinking about - I don't generally see this trait in people I know from other fields like science or math, not at this incidence rate anyways. Either there are many more empathy-less people (to avoid the s-word) in other fields than I can see, or there is indeed a higher concentration of them in our field. Neither option sits very well.
Exactly, lol.

Of course they want engineers to be desperate, it's a lot cheaper that way. This idea that the best ideas come from desperation isn't necessarily accurate anyway, builders want to build, its in their blood. It's why I hack on the weekends and played with breadboards and legos as a kid.

Having enough money allows me to focus on doing what I love best: building stuff. I want to be a part of building the Holodeck, paying me less won't make me want it more.
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Interesting connection you made there. Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on Flash" was about moving away from proprietary tech towards open web standards. What Google is doing with RSS is the complete opposite.
I think he means a WSDE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guSdjsctrUQ There are plenty of outlets for describing this (Wolff's initial idealistic assertions are sometimes fantastical, but his later analysis is pretty spot on). This psuedo-marxist commune idea has taken hold in the north of Spain (100k people +) and in smaller parts of the US already.
Very cool, reminds me of the interactive widget used in the Khan Academy CS program [1]. I believe John Resig [2] developed it.

[1]: http://khanacademy.org/cs

[2]: https://github.com/Khan/canvas-editor
One of the things that hurt the Segway's early adoption was that it was legislated against its intended use as a walking replacement -- they were legislated against (or rather, considered powered vehicles) by many nations and local governments. They are still illegal to drive on sidewalks in the UK.

If enough people block the use of Glass, it could have an adverse effect on its sales and growth.
If foreigners can't submit to our responsibilities, then they can't have our rights. The US doesn't rule the whole world, and the world doesn't want US to. Therefore, conflicts will arise, and there is no fair play among warring nations.
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As a former PhantomJS user, I certainly would have used you guys. I went through a lot of shit trying to set it up (this is phantomjs v1.3 i am talking about - mainly xvfb - which kept sending shitty screenshots). I am pretty sure you have a good market out there.

My suggestions:
1. Change your name - since you are doing a hosted phantomjs browser as a service, try to have either the word phantom or browser in your name.
2. Change your design - Go with bootstrap-based template for SaaS apps.
3. Too much content on your page. Cut them down.
4. Spin off couple of specialized tasks as separate services - screenshot capture and web scraping.
5. Quite a bunch of phantomjs and casper.js user groups/mailing lists. Actively participate in them.

Good luck!
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They don't have anything to be asked, since they're bankrupt.
No, as another comment pointed out better than I could, it's the exact opposite - centralized services.
It seems they make the same mistake as the Khan Academy computer science editor [1] does. Bret says something about it in his learnable programming [2] post:

> The programming environment exhibits the same ruthless abbreviation as this hypothetical cooking show. We see code on the left and a result on the right, but it's the steps in between which matter most. The computer traces a path through the code, looping around loops and calling into functions, updating variables and incrementally building up the output. We see none of this.

I mean, this is a nice start, but we still have lots of work to do before we really understand what we are doing in this area.

[1] http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/

[2] http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/
All true but there is a price to pay for unwarranted hype you don't mention. If you have a good product that's hyped to be a world-changing product you may end up becoming the media's whipping boy (or girl) and just generally lose out in terms of reputation (which equals users which equals money) in the long run. Minus the hype one may have a product that could be quite successful. Too much hype and it goes the opposite direction.
Well, part of that is that authors are not as a rule gifted with assets, so it's a fruitless task to recover money from them. The other part is that it looks bad. And the third leg is that that is how commercially successful authors subsidize the unsuccessful.
Right off the bat.

I'm kind of buzzed so take my advice as twice as important related to usability

No pictures = not interested (for 'scripts' this is okay.. but if its something that you expect users to sign up to it must have imagery).

If its a script that you put into your own app, then make a video to show how it works.

You need a much better summary at the top of exactly what it does and why i should sign up.

You use ALL your prime real estate explaining what a headless browser is. I already know what it is, and lose interest immediately.

just my .02, now I will go back for real and look a second time in detail but I wanted to give you my raw first impressions.

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At second glance, your call to actions are terrible (raw but honest, I want you to succeed).

My eyes move around the page like a dead rat rolling around in the wind.

look at examples of places that do it well:

https://stripe.com/

https://bundlescout.com/

http://www.discourse.org/

Your signup button is literally -100/10. I can't rate it worse. I looked around how to sign up (I actually tried and still couldnt see it)
From your list of positions one might occupy, I find none appealing to me. Since I own the business I work at, does that automatically qualify me to be a sociopath?

Having nice work conditions works for the boss too. Who wants to own a crappy business? I want to go work somewhere nice, and if I am in charge of the place, I think it is then up to me to make it happen.
Probably because it's hard to distill years of work connecting the dots (which at first don't appear to be connected in an obvious way) in a way that is easily digestable by somebody new to the field.

In any case, I imagine there's more glory in digging further into intellectual stuff than spending time making it palatable for newbies. :)
"How to scrape an ImageBam gallery for images with 50,000,000 lines of Assembly" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I highly doubt the battery not being removable is designed to aid in tracking. It's a vital part of making the iPhone smaller. Open one up and look inside if you don't believe me.
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Did your calculation involve cost of customer acquisition? What's your marketing strategy? If it involves any form of advertising, you have to figure out how much it's going to cost you to acquire a single user. Your calculation should also involve things like churn, cost of customer support (even if it's your own time to begin with) etc.

I'm pretty sure you will find it hard to scale with 1 USD per user when most companies will gladly play much more for something that solves their problem.
My wife works on statistical problems with large data sets. You can imagine her dislike of me the day I accidentally tripped a breaker and shut off her PC which had been running a large model for a couple of days. Would it be possible to use this software and cluster a bunch of old PCs I have from work into my own little Google-esque cloud? Perhaps that could keep me out of the doghouse next time if her models could converge quicker with more computing power.
That's because it's thousands of miles away and freaking in the middle of NOWHERE. Why, rationally, should it cost the same as sending a letter across town?

That was the point of it; to socialize the cost of mail delivery. Now why would we want to be doing that in this day and age? I don't know...
I could be wrong and I was thinking exactly the same thing. Why not just tell people what it does and how in the screencast.But then I realized author may not be native English speaker or may not speak English properly and hence the typing.
And the closing message is quite clear about this, there's no hidden agenda there, they've just never planned to implement this (and rightly so in my opinion since it would have bloated the browser for something that can easily be an extension).
perhaps. perhaps not. for all we know, writing this package may be the author's way of evaluating the extensibility of the editor.

while we're at it, sublime text is far from the most popular python development tool. only the author knows which one was used. hell, they may even have paid for the one they used to develop this package.

why should a purchasing a license be a prerequisite to developing a sublime text package at all?
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Same way as every game console: PCs and Macs have always been excluded from "game console" markets, despite the fact that multi-million dollar games are PC-exclusive (ie: SimCity, Starcraft).

I can't even think of a single multi-million dollar title for handhelds, outside of Bejeweled (which existed long before the smartphone era). Tablets / Phones need games on them for sure, and the market is there... but I'm not really seeing anyone get to the revenue levels of Nintendo games.
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Google talk is going away this summer and users would be migrated to use hangouts
I didn't see any references to "only affects residents living in Cyprus". From the articles I've read, it appears to be a tax on all deposits, regardless of foreign or domestic, personal or business.
Good idea, but the UI doesn't work.

See the iOS app Teleportd for one that does.
Were laws really the reason why the Segway didn't take off?

I figure it didn't take off for the same reason non-overly obese people don't use Rascal carts. People were worried about being perceived as lazy. They're also really expensive, so you'd be perceived as snobbish as well.

Just look at Gob's character in Arrested Development. They didn't stick him on a Segway because he's a prudent person that needs to get to places in a hurry.
Well perhaps all of the BRIC countries wouldn't make sense, but if money is stored on a bank in Brazil or China I would expect it to be reasonably safe. The point I tried to make was that I wouldn't like to store money in countries too closely linked to the Euro and (perhaps) US Dollar.
At least they put it in the mailbox. I wish the people that drop crappy "newspapers" on my doorstep would stop.
They're stealing 6.75% of ordinary people's savings. That's shockingly unfair and shockingly stupid.

Who is stealing? Certainly not EU. It sucks for the people involved but the country has no money. So instead of having an extra tax on real estate or income they added a tax on this and they can collect it in a minute. Others would have complained about an extra tax on their income, electricity, property etc as well. At least here outsiders pay too, otherwise the Cypriots would have paid a larger share.
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