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Many more eat out or over the sink. Even families have been eating out more since fast food became more prevalent (at least in the US). Has the trend reversed?

I'm not saying it won't work. It's something that people miss when they think of this idea. Perhaps it works best in countries with a strong home cooking tradition, rather than the US, like the ones listed on their homepage.
> a shrewd single-player gamer

;)

Still though, for popular multi-player games there are still many active servers/players.

Also, relevant XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/606/
Honestly, I think after reading this thread, I am set on offering free perks like this when I start a business just so that I can see who would engage in this type of behavior and fire them. I think the qualities that would lead you to blatantly steal something provided for free as a convenience by your employer would also lead a person to be the kind of callous, selfish team member that no one enjoys working with.
It is really well presented here as "Jobs moving in for the kill", but in a way, Apple's terms really didn't seem to be about "killing" but more about taking in the situation and finding a realistic set of numbers that were actually tenable in the long run.

Jobs and Apple didn't have Murdoch backed into a corner here. Reality (and eventually Amazon) did. Jobs was just leading him to realize that.
The cleanliness standards for guests is much higher. Plus, there are all sorts of dietary restrictions- this may not be more actual work, but putting a mental hurdle in front of users will reduce conversions.
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My question is how?

If its write once media, how are they going to implement this. Will you have to type in a DRM KEY and get it verified via a MS server (or hold the box up to the kinect camera to read it? (I should patent that....))

seems odd.
Very interesting, but I feel there is a difference of need here.

You're right...there a Ring buffer with an array is better, but for average programmers a linked-list makes a damn good (maintainable, easy, understandable, and pretty quick) queue.
work less? 60hs a week its too muc.

Creative work doesnt always has to be at work, you have guidelines, restrictions, etc to meet and usually you make something different when its free form creativity.

Hope it helps!
Agree. Although I think the titles are prejudicial "Jobs goes in for the kill" in terms of telling someone the conclusion they should be drawing like the Elton John song Candle in the Wind "all the press had to say is that Marilyn was found in the nude". The paragraph commentary of course is a version of this as well (color) but I don't see it as bad since there are more words there.
Do all the Live IDs on the same Xbox One get access to it? That is, if I'm signed in as user X, does user Y on the same box get access, when they are signed in?
Underground food sharing (trust).
Make it "karma points" (not cash) ... important to be unregulated, like the "volunteer" payments with SideCar.

Imagine tens of thousands of locations in each city, with most people's points netting to near-zero. In other words, you give as much as you take. Cooking vs eating - self-cancelling at nearly 50/50.

Open trade in points, reputation scores, and trust. People without time to cook may barter other reputations.

A vast cashless ecosystem.

Cuisine and location both, discovery via online maps.

Any home, any vehicle, anywhere that trust, reputation, and freedom may actually develop.

Personally, I believe "regulation" leads to the unsafe (thinks McDonalds) food ecosystem we have now.
The problem with this is funding. The state funds charter schools. Are we supposed to have separate schools for kids who's parents care more? Those schools would take funding away from other kids. I think the money should be spent on the schools serving the most kids so it has the biggest impact.
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As usual, Anand delivers a fact based impartial comparison unlike all the biased flamebait articles making the rounds targeted at fans.

Ironically it was the PS3 that advertised itself as a media center last time with bluray support. That didn't wok out well, but the 360 later pivoted to media very successfully and still continues to outsell other consoles.
Thanks, you're very kind :)
My two big takeaways from this are:

1. Amazon sells every Kindle ebook at a loss of $3 -- they pay $13 wholesale and sell it for $9.99. I thought this was a typo, but then Jobs repeated the figure (though he said $12.50). It was my impression that Amazon also sells the Kindle itself at near-cost, so does that mean that Amazon's entire ebook business has been running at a loss the whole time?

2. Jobs certainly did win this negotiation, but ultimately they were both wrong. As Jobs says, "Heck, Amazon is selling these books at $9.99, and who knows, maybe they are right and we will fail even at $12.99." Amazon's share of the ebook market in the US is 65%, with Barnes and Noble (who also charge $9.99 for most books) another 25%. iBooks has the remaining 10%, nothing like the success of iTunes in the music market.
hey look, yet another web developer/blogger who thinks he is a programmer!
To me the point was more that the higher-ups had no idea how precarious their hold on their engineers was, nor how important certain everyday things (like free drinks) become to their idea of the company they work for. Had they realized any of this, they likely would have kept the free drinks (or at least been less cavalier about discontinuing them).
If you don't set out to make a profit, you're probably going to have a loss. So, unless the true cost of a cup of coffee is below 25 cents (I don't think it makes much sense to charge in between, although I could be wrong), it's not necessarily unreasonable (ignoring all issues if that's a change from free coffee).
Good and bad, there was very little that was normal about Steve Jobs.
does increasing prices increases the number of customers also?
Developing over the YouTube API with JSON
The title wasn't link bait. The article said: never used linked lists ever. That's stupid advice.

His examples aren't bad. But they're focused on traversal. Of course use an array when you're mostly traversing linearly. But linked lists are very versatile. Deep down in your OS, the kernel is probably not representing IO buffers as linked lists. But, it's almost certainly storing free IO buffers in a linked list, or using lists to track threads waiting on a lock, etc.

Also, the implication you should ignore algorithmic complexity is questionable. I'd rather be slower by a constant factor than sometimes suffer catastrophic performance when a workload causes the asymptotic complexity to dominate the constant factors. I remember debugging an algorithm that worked fine on some developer's test machine with a few nodes, but exploded on a load with many nodes. It had factorial complexity...
Definitely agree that networking is one of the best parts.

I was at the same Startup Weekend the author of the post started Party With a Local at (swAMS '12) and one of the people I met there is now my co-founder!

(and I recently had a reunion with my team)
> isn't it better that we give the kids with more involved parents a fighting chance by letting them opt into a more rigorous school?

Not if the funding for the more rigorous school is coming from the same pool of funds that could have gone to the public school.
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Finding an exact line is tricky, but I can confidently say that renting on a per-day basis has been accepted for decades. I don't forsee any showstopping problems along that route from enforcing first-sale doctrine on digital goods.
If you're using C++ you don't need to roll your own because the standard library provides it. It is called deque.
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I know, we need to get more hosts and we are working on it.
Thanks for the feedback !
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Just use linked lists. If it turns out to be a performance problem (my guess: it won't) you can change the data structure later.
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5736678
I think you're reading a little too far into what the parent post said. I can't speak for him, but I'm fairly sure he's not saying that the state of the breakroom is a valid, tested, and factually accurate rule for determing company state. I'm pretty sure that he's saying it's more of a rule of thumb.
Good idea, questionable execution:

* Should have had a female in the group

* The first guy isn't "learning to code", he's a programmer learning a new language/framework
My open source API client was taken down by a phony DMCA complaint
I've heard stories of long internal flamewars over this. Apparently loading a case of free bottled water into the trunk of your car is not very "Googly".
If you use a List in .NET, you get a wrapper for an array that will expand as needed (doubling in size every so often). The reasoning is quite similar to the reasons given in this article.
Why is it that people who come up with these thought experiments can never resist talking about their beliefs?

Do you have a plan of implementation? A seed network to beat the cold start problem? An actual, non-exploitable prototype for aiding discovery? A way to demonstrate trustworthiness? Survey results to show enough people willing to cook in order to provide sufficient supply to meet demand?

Or is this just a pipe dream?
>I wonder what the fraction of such people is, in an average company

As all things, it depends on the type of position. In a hospital, it's probably not common for surgeons to be hauling Pepsi out to their car every day. In a call center, you'll probably get close to 80% of people that would abuse such a privilege based on my first-hand experience.

>Is the best solution to the "soda problem" just to fire those people and be done with it? I'm sure they take liberties with more than just sodas.

I think this is an excellent point. I think that personality defects like abusing privileges is one of many variables to consider in hiring, promoting and firing. As you said, if someone is spending their time scheming on saving a few dollars per week then they have serious moral as well as priorities issues.
Actually, as soon as possible !
We still have a lot of work to do, especially to convert foodies into hosts and travelers into guests but we are working on it !
These rough times are automatic reminders to ask this question... what can be even more dangerous is when things are going really well according to external measurements and an entrepreneur doesn't feel like they can ask that question.
I had several related data structures, and the details varied.

But for the most part 5-1000 nodes per tree, with a node size of 12-32 bytes. And in my use case I'd be walking through a vector with thousands to hundreds of thousands of things, having to do operations involving lookups into 2-3 of these trees at a time.

The trick would not make sense for large trees. But it worked out very well for me.
unbelievably pathetic compared to resources directed at android, youtube, social network du jour, chrome etc.

especially when the mission is supposed to be - organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

what the mission seems to have degenerated to is, enable people to generate shit loads of photos, videos and messages that no one looks at more than a day after it is produced.
I'm not sure market norms vs. social norms apply here (as long as money isn't explicitly mentioned) but it's definitely a shift in the relationship. The "free" stuff is a signal that the company cares about you and when it's taken away you feel like they no longer care.

The other thing that happens here is loss aversion. Losing that "free" coffee or soda is painful.
Unless the income or size of Xbox's audience increases, I would not expect this to be a great boon for developers.
Not true, Braid guy (Sorry, forgot his name) felt Microsoft tried to fuck him over intentionally.

Some people spoke openly about the shitty treatment and Microsoft fucked them over as well.
Who used linked lists in practice anyway?
Very good point. But considering how little attention the console got from large third party publishers, I think they at least have the incentive to make it work.
This is a good reference. It is basically an encyclopedia, so some sections are better than others. I'm not a big fan of Gowers' intro, it is very heavy and could have done much more in the way of explaining how to navigate the volume itself. It is generally assumed that you know integral and differential calculus.

If you are daunted by mathematical formulas and don't have a solid basis in math generally, I would recommend Pickover's "The Math Book"[1]. Very engaging; good short, non-technical descriptions of many of the same topics in Princeton; lots of pretty pictures.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Math-Book-Pythagoras-Milestones-Mathem...
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Jobs most certainly sent the emails but we don't know who else was involved in drafting, wording, the tone, or strategy.
Apple pays around $6 billion per year in US income tax, which is more than any other company pays.
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To be fair, Apple didn't have much to lose if the deal didn't go through. So I can see why the "take it or leave it" strategy works in this case.

It would be interesting to see how Jobs negotiated in a case where the other party had the upper hand.
Even with a relatively decent broadband connection it takes about an hour or so to download a reasonably large new movie^W game from Steam.

My bottle of beer will be already empty by the time the game's ready to launch. And it was meant for cutscenes and various single-hand-playable parts, not for the download progress bar.
How about everyone reads the entire article before commenting? I am a little surprised that anything else is even an option.
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I am very impressed actually, some are crazy smart guesses IMHO.
Why do you then think that Google and NASA have invested in a D-Wave computer[1]?
From what I read, D-Wave computers seem to perform better as the difficulty of a problem rises.
I'm asking a genuine question here; I'm not much aware about the whole D-Wave and Quantum computer thing.

[1]http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/google-dwave/
cool, but I want the peak, the keons too small
It sounds to me like you're suggesting that this sign went up because somebody took a single Diet Mountain Dew home. I strongly suspect that some joker took a case of Diet Mountain Dew home and said "what!? they're free!" when he or she was caught. And I don't think you're suggesting that it's okay to take a case of soda from work.

It's a software company, after all, not a grocery store.
That's because asking forgiveness rather than permission is a good way of actually getting things done, rather than having everything blocked by permission-givers.

As long as you're not being a dick, forgiveness beats permission any day.
You need to understands that we don't share a single opinion. Personally I care about physical distribution. I have nearly 400 dvd/bluray and often I share them with my friends/family.

I prefer physical products because you "own" it. You can share it, you can watch it when/where/how you want and you can resale it. The day Microsoft will decide that theirs servers for the Xbox One are too expansive (like all the old Halo multiplayer server), you will lose all your right on theses games.

I only use digital distribution when they are cheap enough (Steam and Netflix).
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We don't spend a lot in infrastructure.

Thanks and let me know if you use it ! My twitter handle and my email are in my HN profile.
Certainly seems like. My reaction to someone loading boxes of company soda into his car is not to take away free soda, but rather fire the malefactor (perhaps after giving him a warning for the first incident). Maybe a bit harsh, but on the other hand, the guy is stealing company property.
Exposure doesn't necessarily mean conversion. If your product isn't good enough, getting it into the front page will only serve to get you panned faster.
Grab adblock and flashblock. And noscript if you're feeling hardcore. The web gets way better.
It's interesting to see how people interpret the intent of 'complimentary drinks in the office kitchen'.

Would you take home a bunch of sodas if you were going to have a party that weekend?

What if your party guests were exclusively other employees?

What if your party guests were partially other employees, their families, and some unrelated families?

Would you drink an employer-provided soda at home if you weren't thinking about work?

What if you were at the office and not thinking about work?
Thank you for the feed back, I'll tell our UI/UX guy !
The article links to another article that gives a ton of numbers and examples:
http://kjellkod.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/why-you-should-neve...
It looks like the Sony machine will be more expensive (or its profit margins will be a lot lower). The PS4 seems to have a lot more hardware under the hood than the One.

Having said that, as I pointed out elsewhere, it's now how many things your device does, but how well it does the thing that'll define its function. If it's an entertainment system, it's how well it entertains people. If it's a videogame, it's how fun the games it plays are.
There's a new company in SF planning to do something similar called Bigtable. Planning to launch soon http://bigtable.co
It's still going. We know them pretty well :)
That's precisely where the airbnb analogy breaks down. One of the most powerful aspects of airbnb is the ability for a host to earn good money with little time/effort. Too many companies forget to copy that feature when building an "airbnb for X".
If they had 30 days to exercise their options they may have been able to buy their options in time. hopefully.
Now build a USB-powered mousepad to make her ring glow all day at work!
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Thanks for the tips. I will follow them :)
The employee who is carting out cases of free drinks is also the employee who will sue you for wrongful termination because the drinks were free and there were no guidelines to the contrary.

The right thing to do is either to have a quiet, informal chat with the employee in question (if you know who they are) or to send a broader message with the appropriate chagrin ("We wish we didn't have to send this email, but...").
Or buy a GA144, with 144 incredibly tightly networked 700 MHz computers, for $20.
Only an extreme level of soda-stealing would be an actual financial problem, but I agree that the office culture would be the real issue.

It's the same with any perk. Flexible schedules are nice, but not if people don't work at all. An equipment budget is nice, but not if people use it to buy stuff for their friends.

If my teammates were dishonest like this, I'd feel uncomfortable working with them. But in any case, I much prefer that those individuals be confronted than that the perk be taken away from everyone.
A) It depends on the JVM and B) on HotSpot at least, I believe that it is smart enough to figure out that all virtual methods are of the same type and optimize them as if they were non virtual.
Thanks for explaining the process. I like Google's evolutionary approach, but it sounds chaotic to someone like me from a Microsoft background. The top down command hierarchical structures appear to be losing all over to the networked evolutionary approaches, so I have no complaints. But I wonder, does that mean someone inside Google could use TypeScript? This might be a blind spot.

Also, I meant it will be interesting if no team chooses to use Dart on the client, but it gains interest on the server. Presumably teams go with what makes sense and that will be interesting to watch.

> I think people need to chill out and stop aggressing against anything that threatens Javascript hegemony

They have over the last 6 months as more and more people are realizing that pure JavaScript is not entirely suitable for large scale applications that are becoming more common. As someone said, the efforts to make it so are 'heroic,' but obviously the hard way to do things, like choosing to write a large application in assembly language. Having done that once, I would never do it again, and would take someone who said this was best less seriously.
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Not just selection bias. Look up how some of them are selected, through lottery. Involved parents sign up kids for the lottery and they end up going to either school randomly. The kids getting into charter schools show more improvement than those going to public schools. Both groups probably outperform their peers in their individual schools.

You could argue that charters have a selection bias for more passionate teachers and staff, but that's kind of proving the point of the charter schools.
It's impressive how dramatically wrong Steve Jobs was about the iPad when it came to the ebooks market. He missed by a mile in understanding exactly how customers wanted to consume ebooks.

So here we are, Apple has sold a bazillion iPads, and yet Amazon dominates ebooks. And there's absolutely no threat on the horizon coming from Apple in the ebooks market.
So they should have fired that bad egg _and told people why_.

Maybe the company is afraid of a lawsuit?
HC was already at a disadvantage since their rivals were already signed with Apple. I liked how Jobs positioned himself as if he were Amazon and compared the short-term long-term advantages for HC. I think that insight was really the big part of the negotiation.

On the softer side of things, the language choice really shows the positions of power, the yielding tone of HC, contrasted with the very unyielding Apple position.
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Today Apple redesigned the homepage of the online Apple Store. I was having a look at their code and I found out some interesting code smells that apparently even the most skilled developers will commit.
It'd be nice if queries starting with "go to..." would automatically go to the first result, ala I'm Feeling Lucky.
No.

I could, but I wouldn't. Too much work, and I'm paid well enough that it's easier just to buy soda.

No.

Yes, I do it all the time.

Yes, I do it all the time.
Yes, [1]

[1] http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-one-what-we-do-a...
The link to the article about "Starcraft crashes because it uses linked lists" seems underhanded. That article talks about intrusive lists and why they are useful, and what the down sides are. The actual crash seems to be related not to the use of a linked list at all, but just lack of shared data synchonisation which can happen with many other data structures.
"Like X but Y" might be the worst elevator pitch ever. Or the best. I can't decide.
Eh, not really. Think about it, when the soda is free:

You drink a can in the morning, because if you're a soda drinker you're probably not a coffee drinker, so this is your morning caffeine hit. Then you'll have one at lunch, because you're eating. Sooner or later you'll get thirsty again, so you'll have one in the afternoon. Maybe two (since the afternoon is about twice as long as the morning). So, 3-4 cans of soda per day, multiplied by 20 working days in a month gives you 70 cans per month. Assume this is near the high end of a spectrum of soda-drinking behavior, and you'll get an average of around 37 per month.