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I'm on 12.04, I think I tried that and ran into a use case where it failed but I can't recall the details. Thanks though, it might be worth another look.
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Hum.. Does WebGL stuff otherwise work for you? For instance, does this work? http://threejs.org/examples/webgl_buffergeometry_particles.h...
And what OS and browser are you using?
Though following that logic, these companies could have just not offered the right price. Assuming that people are unwilling to sell at any price because they haven't sold yet is a bit of a fallacy.
Well, their new Flickr page instantly crashes on Win8 on IE10.

Wow!
Assuming lifestyle businesses fail at similar rates as venture-backed companies

Why would you make such an assumption?

You can't argue with math.

I can when you get the math so wrong, like above.
And 100 HN points to you for spotting the fallacy! Well done, but you don't really believe the suggestion that after controlling for all else, closeness to Canada ends up being correlated with educational outcomes and crime rates, do you? It's obviously a joke.
Judging candidates based on their effort for an exercise that focuses on your existing product is a touchy subject. Many candidates (especially good ones) will view this as spec work - if you want their expertise for a limited time, you should pay their consultant fee. Otherwise, the effort they put in often shares more about process than free product ideas.

But that's speaking broadly. Anecdotally, I know a PM who put her heart into an exercise like this for a company she really wanted to work for, which chose not to hire her, and a few months later released a product update that matched her ideas. I don't know if they already had the product in the pipe or if it differed significantly in execution, but it did invite an easily-avoidable dispute. Even if not a legal issue, it could have been a PR one.

Of course you want to gauge candidates' understanding of and engagement with your real business, so don't throw all those conversations out the window. But when it comes to early vetting exercises, focusing on competitor products or similar products by companies in other categories can still tell you a lot about how the candidate approaches and understands real challenges/opportunities/constraints while skirting some gray areas.
Could you please explain how your one specific example invalidates my opinion?

I am not going to answer a strawman attack; the NHS is not what we're discussing and has little to do with the topic at hand. You can't just suggest one federal agency thats performing well as indicative of all money that goes to the government being well-spent.

Your position was that money given to the government is invariably good, my position is that your statement is a bit of a reach at best and ridiculous at worst. Your response is to cite one particular organization that has performed well which does nothing to validate or refute my argument.

In short, no straw men please.
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Well at this point I would much rather own a Tesla car than an Audi car so suck it Audi. Then again it's hard to envision making those kinds of purchasing decisions with the depressing state of my bank account.
best explanation of their pricing structure yet. What's stopping people from creating multiple accounts and use flickr as a cloud backup system for free?
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The original design, years in the making, was based on batteries that would never catch fire.

They have moved from never catch fire, in a period of a few months, to batteries they hope will not catch fire, with features to enable survivability should a battery catch fire.

If this new design is appropriate, that earlier design was engineering malpractice.

I doubt this design would be the outcome of the same Boeing design engineering effort without the get it to market time constraint. Just like when a web service goes down mysteriously and the engineers desire is to take it down and debug it and the required response is to patch it, and get her flying again. But I wouldn't term that "design" or "engineered".
Completely agree. I'm so disappointed in Google for having Checkout for years and not doing anything serious with it. I really wanted it to become a serious alternative to Paypal. But it's like they never even tried.

And it turned out to be huge mistake for them because they could've really used Checkout accounts from day one of Android, to get people to pay for Android apps. I still believe this has been one of the biggest obstacles on Android, because you need Google Wallet (which is brand new service, I guess) account to pay for apps, and obviously the vast majority of people didn't have one, and didn't bother to make one either, and they'd rather look for the free alternative of the app.

It's been getting a bit better since Android 4.0, since they are asking everyone to make an account at the set-up, but they are still behind, and it could've been much better early on if Checkout was popular.
International "free trade" agreements are the problem here, clearly. The free flow of capital for investment purposes in actual companies must not be restricted, but stashing money in offshore accounts should not be considered acceptable.

Of course, whoever is tasked with brokering and approving these agreements usually has a stake in that same game, either directly or indirectly (through revolving-door opportunities later on).

Note that this is not an American problem, it's a global problem. At the moment you either do it like China (you can't move any money out of the country) or you do it like US/Europe (your government gets shortchanged). This is clearly suboptimal.
Yeah! I've had a great affinity for LJ, and these days my private blog is on a fork, Dreamwidth.org.

Hands down, I've never seen a better longform & community site design.
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Probably just didn't get all the edits in from the old FAQs. No reason for the accusations.
Not being able to upload 10GB in months is a pretty slow residential cable connection. So presumably find somewhere with a faster one (like an internet cafe, library, etc). It shouldn't be hard to find a place with a free connection that'll let you send 0.5MB/sec, which means you can clear 10GB in about 5.5 hours (if my quick math is right) - not a terribly long time. Of course, in most urban areas, at least in the US, it's not hard to get a connection with more like 2-3MB/s, on which you could upload 10GB in about 1hr.
> Suddenly they'll speak convincingly about the benefits of centralized markets, price controls and protectionist trade policies with no sense of irony.

Well, maybe a farmer. This Idahoan doesn't hold with the farm subsidy system currently going.
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Agreed that this is why Yahoo is pricing it this way -- but I imagine it won't stop the pricing feeling "wrong" to many people. "Why should I pay $500 a year for just a little bit more than I what I was getting for free?"

I would imagine, at that price point, it would drive people to use multiple accounts despite the irritation -- and that ultimately, because of that irritation, they might leave the service. Not a good situation for anyone.
Definitely a third party service. Then place the bumper sticker "No Bitcoins on our servers" somewhere :)

I integrated MtGox and BitPay. Compared to Google Checkout (XML mania) and PayPal (documentation drama) they take about 5 seconds to implement (test is another thing entirely).

I went with MtGox in the end since it was cheaper. I was then happy to offer a 3% discount to make up for the fees users got stung with purchasing BTC. However MtGox has a number of bugs that make it a show stopper for some customers.

If you ask the right questions they will acknowledge the bugs and tell you they are working on it and need plenty of time. I would probably not use MtGox if I had known about the bugs prior to integrating.
Every OS I've run has had application menus except maybe for GEOS (I think it was called) on the Commodore 64 so that's what I'm used to. Well, that and the fact that all previous versions of Ubuntu had application menus then all of a sudden they are global and the close, menu icons are on the left. I guess it was like Ubuntu's user interface was hijacked by an alternative personality of Ubuntu.
This is what the selection boxes are useful for - you can make it ignore changes to irrelevant areas of the page (though obviously that doesn't apply so well to imnosy).
Lol, your comment was the first thing I thought about when I saw the title of this article over on reddit.
He says at the end:

> Note: I wrote this in 2005 when I was at JotSpot. Google acquired JotSpot in 2006. Since then, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some marvelous PMs and have performed 200+ PM interviews. I’m sure that my opinions have evolved, but the intervening years have only further reinforced the characteristics of great PMs. I occasionally set out to update this essay but I always decide to leave it as is. (—Ken, February 2013)
As of today, the first point in this post is already invalid.

If Marissa Mayer keeps going like how she is, I suspect that this post will be fully invalid in 5 years.

We would very well be witnessing the 2nd greatest tech turnaround after Apple - with Mayer.
OK, maybe I'm shallow and elitist, but at least I'm honest. I always liked seeing my little "pro" badge there...
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I believe David is ok with advertising. He just doesn't want it to be the main focus of his effort. The fact that Tumblr has huge growth and Yahoo has one of the largest Ad Sales teams in the world, means that this merger will in-my-opinion be v.successful.

My bet/hope is that with more resources from Yahoo, David will pick and influence more parts of Yahoo than just Tumblr.
The big thing is I can't right click and edit the properties and change the path from a binary to a wrapper script I've written.
> Could you please explain how your one specific example invalidates my opinion?

> the NHS is not what we're discussing and has little to do with the topic at hand. You can't just suggest one federal agency thats performing well as indicative of all money that goes to the government being well-spent

So I can't point out a historic success story to bolster my point, but you can point out historic failures to bolster yours? It seems like you're stacking the deck in your favour there.

> Your position was that money given to the government is invariably good, my position is that your statement is a bit of a reach at best and ridiculous at worst

That was not my position. In the US or the UK, the government is the ideal means to reduce suffering as they already have programs doing just this that are short on funding.

On Mars, or in Africa, or in the 1840s this perhaps would not be true. It is however true now.
looks good. stoked to see what else you guys build! :D
Not everyone does such things, and I'm sure among those that do, you'll find many who don't care to waste hours with used car slimesmen to save a few pennies.
I already said it works perfectly for me - I don't care about IE (the feeling is mutual I think) and I don't request from other domains. The error message is useless/dumb, sure, but then again I didn't say you should use this, I said I use this. I'll improve it when I have actual need to do so, how's that for an idea.
It says "send to any debit card". That's different than "send to any checking account". You can't ACH to a debit card.
Yahoo is looking fresh again!

I think this a well-thought idea to -- get more social.

Also with this move, it might push Google users to consider syncing and sharing their photos to Flickr now. Google gives 5GB for high-resolution, i.e original quality photos, Yahoo is giving 1TB, but think yahoo ads.

Any such kind of service is a lock-in ( platform level, so more control) and maybe they integrate tumblr strongly with photos? ( again a deeper lock-in to yahoo only core-products).

All this means -- they are back into Internet business.

From the past 2 days, there were enormous analysis around Yahoo, its principles were questioned, so did this all reach the board and the top management? :)
How long before someone starts creating a photo cloud backup solution using flickr?
Heck, we can create multiple accounts to extend the size to 4,5,6 TB and have a simple interface to treat the array of independent accounts as one storage unit.
Well on Google+ it's unlimited now for photos (I'm not sure if for every resolution or just up to 8MP, though).
Google+ is already the next thing described in the article, a place to hang out with cool strangers.
Anyone have any idea if this effectively terminates any existing recurring Google Checkout subscription payments (on November 20)? If so, that's kind of a big deal. Cutting off merchants from their revenue stream is a great way to get people really angry and could easily destroy a business.
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While the failure rate is certainly not zero (Hudson miracle, Qantas A380 engine explosion) jet engines are so extremely reliable that I doubt such statistics can even be found.

There are additional safeguards when it comes to a jetliners powerplants. For example: The oil is never exchanged at the same time in all engines on a plane.

I fail to see, however, what this has to do with burning batteries on a plane.

A fire on a plane in flight is one of the worst imaginable scenarios, while the chances to land a plane without engine power are actually quite good. Unless you're in the middle of an ocean, that is.
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What a great demo! We're currently building a critical service on MongoDB and feel a bit leery about some of the issues others have expressed at scale. Would be interested in testing FoundationDB for our purpose in the near future.
CodeIgniter is basically dead now. It was great especially the documentation, I built many websites with it. Laravel seems to be the best choice for PHP frameworks, or just use Slim Framework. As for EE, never used it, the price tag was just too high, WordPress won out by being open source, free, and easy for end-users.
I agree 100% with this when your user is your customer. And I especially agree there are lot of people who confuse products and businesses.

But there are companies where the user is the product. In that case, early monetization can substantially harm your goal of creating a valuable asset. All of the companies I listed are good examples of that.

Unfortunately, their popularity makes entrepreneurs think their products can also be businesses. The obvious failure is people who just don't think about revenue.

The subtle failure is people who say, "Oh, we'll run ads!" without every understanding what that means. I know people who have built ad-supported businesses, and at this point it's an extremely challenging space.
Not that I disagree with your basic premise but I wonder why some companies get away with this type of thing and others don't. Your example of Apple is an obvious one but they have plenty of "failures" on their hands as well. Whether it is something that is dead on arrival like Ping or the company letting one of its old marquee products die a slow death like the MacPro or iPod classic, Apple seems to be able to brush off these issues like no one else.
Actually you can process a "refund" (actually just a credit) without an existing authorization code. I've done it.
Something like Trovebox[0] might be a solution to your needs. You can use it as the web frontend to photos stored on dropbox/s3/box/etc

[0] https://trovebox.com/
Other than the frustrating lack of a linux client, how is drive inferior to dropbox?
> Local communities, associations, congregations, and yes, even businesses have important roles to play and can respond far more effectively to local conditions than an administrative state.

Potentially yes, nobody (at least, not me) is denying this, but when you're looking at how to do the greatest good for the greatest number, paying taxes goes a long way towards that. It builds roads, it cleans water, it provides healthcare, it protects the helpless.

These are real things the government does everyday, and while private charities do help, they are a stopgap.
> Reality: Doing 20 things mediocrely is not as profitable of doing 2 things very very well.

Reality also is that there is often a declining marginal value in additional investments in the same area once you are already doing very well in that area, and that the marginal profit from doing something else mediocre may be greater than the marginal profit from doing the existing thing a tiny bit better.

And lots of Google's experiments that are outside of what are understood to be its core strengths when they are introduced end up as things that are at the top of their field: Gmail and Chrome, for instance, weren't at the center of what Google did when they were introduced.
and that's just to create the object! compare to:
$.ajax();

So you're comparing the body of one function to the signature of another? I know I posted some really shitty code, but you managed to shoot yourself in the foot even in that scenario, grats.

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/ajax.js

Here, now it's apples to apples.
Give it time. That is the archetypical reaction of a user being confronted by change (angry is else hard to explain).

Flickr's job isn't that easy to be defined. It serves many purposes: Being able to upload and store images there, to organize them, but also to view them of course. Having a new UI putting the images first seems quite reasonable given that definition of flickr.

Besides, the old interface was neither simple nor useable if one wasn't used to it. No one outside of Flickr had time yet to find out whether the new Interface works.

More general remark: We had a good impression what it was likde for the Flickr-Team inside Yahoo. No ressources, no ability to change or improve the service, blocked by bureaucracy and unwilling management. That they are able now to deliver such an upgrade is downright impressive. 1 TB alone is massive and would never have been possible with the old situation, given the description. There really is change in that place.
All Einstein did was apply the Pythagoras theorem properly to the problem, changing it a bit to properly fit the problem. He found that the correct formula was actually quite simple, differing only by a sign from Pythagoras' theorem.

And so Plato was right. "God geometrizes continually"
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>So I can't point out a historic success story to bolster my point, but you can point out historic failures to bolster yours? It seems like you're stacking the deck in your favour there.

Once again, not what I said sir. I said you can't pick out one specific agency to validate your catch-all theory. You didn't say "Giving money to the government is sometimes good", you said "The greatest good for the greatest number is achieved through the state. Witholding taxes for the purposes of greed is immoral and unpatriotic." That's wrong if I can find a single counter example. The same isn't true of my position.

Your supposition that the government is ideal is only true in places where corruption and bureaucracy don't reign supreme. This is not the world we live in.

I am not arguing that Government cannot do good, I am arguing that government does not invariably do good, as your quote would suggest. Do you understand that you are attacking a position I did not carve out? I didn't say all government is bad, I said some government can be bad. YOU said government is invariably good which I can prove is false with a single example. The converse argument is not true.

Does that make sense?

Edit: To be specific, it is the dogmatic way in which you state your position that makes it difficult to accept. If you would back off just slightly and say that Government MAY be the best allocation of money, I could agree, but there's no way that the government is invariably the best distribution method for the public good. One need only look to Zimbabwe or even China to understand the error of this logic.
Question. Do you actually use Dropbox ? Because for me it is one of the most overrated services I use. They haven't actually done anything new to the product since the beginning and the CPU load when syncing is still ridiculously high.

IMHO The only reason Dropbox is successful because the alternatives e.g. SkyDrive, Google Drive are so much worse.
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Well, "10GB in months" was probably at least a bit hyperbole.

And slow internet connections come from infrastructure problems - the local internet cafe or library's internet isn't likely to be much better.
Formal auditing strikes me as a completely unhelpful layer of bureaucracy.

What is needed is a culture of sharing code and data (unless that is impossible due to restrictions on the data that was used), and the tools to allow this to happen.

This is already happening, we just need more of the same.

One issue is the incentive structure in many fields means that you only get rewarded for both collecting data, and analyzing it. Therefore there is a big incentive not to share data, since you get little or no credit when someone else uses your data.
I wonder if there's any company taking the "bandwidth of a station wagon" as a business model, by charging for uploading the contents of flash drives shipped to them.
One might suggest other names, let's see...

How about "the proletariat" and "the bourgeois?"

(I will point out that while the position of Marx in his time was simply this, you only have to advance as far as Lenin to see that it's a bit more complex than that.)
I think taking 1 data point of 1 experience from Mayer when she was an exec at Google to extrapolate it over her entire strategy at Yahoo! is an over-reach.

I can't speak to why the meeting played out the way it did....but I could see myself doing the same thing. Google just spent $80M (or w/e the purchase price was) on an acquisition.

They didn't block other blogs (or platforms) from the SERP results or anything like that. They just used their reach to improve the value of the asset they just acquired.

To ask them to do otherwise is really selfish, imho.

Then to take that one action and extrapolate it over her entire decision-making apparatus at a new company and entirely different type of acquisition.....
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The spacing between the cells minimizes the chance of a multi-cell cascading fire. I think they also changed the charging controller to better monitor the battery status and charge/discharge current. Changing the controller was part of the "fix".

I'm guessing at some point, they'll make a change to the Lithium cell chemistry for enhanced safety. Changing the chemistry of the battery, and controller software updates is the real fix. The rest is just failure mitigation.