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The main difference in my mind is that innovation in software is relatively cheap compared to innovation in material goods. With material goods, the only way to know if your innovation works is to make a bunch of it and hope it sells. Software just wastes a little employee time and maybe a bit of server space/bandwidth. Plus, with software even if the whole project fails you can often recover parts of it to use elsewhere.
If you have gaps in your algo knowledge check out this book (http://www.algorist.com/), it's a dense read but comprehensive. Why be a broad thinker when you can be an everything thinker?
Glad I wasn't the only one having trouble reading that. Which is a shame, because it's an interesting analogy.
My previous employer had a 10% time in place - which while in theory was a great idea, I found myself always too busy to take advantage of the time. This is in no fault to my employer, or my direct management - but lets face it - at a startup, there is little room to not be working. When you already are coding long hours, trying to make quick changes, implementing new features constantly - there just isn't enough time to do it.
Brilliantly written - thank, you.
I'm not ad-libbing, you're arbitrarily deciding to ignore the GPL, with no justification. It's not a distraction, it's the whole point.
Businesses don't live and grow forever. They have a lifecycle, and when they get big enough and their business model becomes mature enough, they divert resources away from risky innovation and toward defending the fortune they've amassed, defending their primary cash cow products against competition through anticompetitive practices like patent litigation, and promising steady returns to shareholders. The problem is, this swing toward conservatism tends to fossilize both the product and the organization.

If you fully de-risk your company, it will stagnate. No risk, no reward either. And in Google's quest to kill Microsoft, they are becoming Microsoft.
This always happens when large companies assert more control in the form of analytic analysis on the productivity of virtually everything. When you are building a pipeline which must be efficient, analytic analysis / statistical analysis plays a huge role in improving efficiency, but it's also a stifling factor when it pertains to the creativity of new solutions.

Google previously focused more on the creativity of new better solutions to an array of different verticals. Now they are focusing on the creativity of their own "super-man-team" instead of the "our peoples make crazy stuff, we hire amazing people" and let them go at it in their spare time and build innovative projects.

Maybe this time marks a period in Google's future where they stop innovating in a disruptive fashion.
It's never too early. Develop in the open. Make an official release when it's ready. The site makes it perfectly clear that it's in a Beta state.
Doesn't work on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S3, Android Stock Browser).
Since you're binging your own phone and its 3G limited, your best bets for cheap plans is an ATT PAYG plan [0] and I would forgo the data plan or StraightTalk [1]. If you want data, you can probably get away with ATT's 'basic' phone unlimited data plan (Honestly, I would consider a FfOS a feature phone and not a smartphone) for $35 a month. Or a StraightTalk ~$44 a month unlimited plan that doesn't care about feature phone / smartphone.

I personally I have a Tmo sim that I have preloaded with ~100min call time and 100MB of data for emergency use + an ATT sim with similar (I have an actual ATT contract as well). You'll have to buy a sim, or if you get lucky, both Tmo and ATT have 'sales' where you can get the SIM for free

[0]: http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans/prepaidplans.html

[1] http://www.straighttalk.com
I wonder how they'd feel about powering the thing with solar power.
The gold "price" prior to 1971 was a pegging set by central banks, only adjusted slightly every couple of years. A "free price-fluctuating world market for gold" as we today know it only exists since the 70s. (Some argue we're still under central bank-managed price pegging, just "smarter" but let's not go there...) Rendering your point pretty useless.
To appreciate whether callbacks are Goto and what to do about them, it is probably good to read a good perspective on Goto from back in the day: http://cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/KnuthStructuredProgrammingGoT...

When skimming it, I noticed the appeal to events and the precursors to literate programming (Knuth eventually came up with literate programming a few years after this paper was written).
I watched the press conference too and that's how he always talks. You can't read much into that.
I don't think the decision had anything to do with money. It's part of the whole "more wood behind fewer arrows" initiative. Essentially, a defrag. 20% time was seen as having created too much fragmentation with little benefit. Gmail was the only major success to come from the program. Also, Google has a separate team for working on skunk works style projects.
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> choice quotes from long texts have been used for Google bashing before, some earlier this week even

Somebody on the Internet is wrong and said something bad about Google? How dare they! At what time did this serious offence occur?
It's a bit of a bizarre analogy - I don't think it fits.

The reason why the rudder is at the back rather than the front of a ship is the same as why a pendulum rests straight down, but a pencil won't balance straight up - stability. I can't really see any links between that situation and the one being described in the article.

Not to say there aren't some good points being made - I think though the analogy being used distracts from, rather than adds to, these points.

And yes, the lack of capitalization does make it harder to read.
Hmm, there's another investigation to do.
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This leads to an interesting thought. If IP were free and we had the concept of a Jubilee (all debts forgiven at certain points in time), I think global human suffering would go down a lot.
$ git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git && cd rails

$ find . -name '*.rb' | xargs wc -l | tail -1

232424 total

Maybe I should have said LOCC (lines of commented code)?
The combination of Firebase, Angular, and Node.js is the most powerful development platform that exists today. I wouldn't build any web application without these three.
FWIW "objects" destructuring is just about as old as "tuple" destructuring: ML had both in the 70s, which it called "tuple patterns" and "record patterns".
Does that matter as long as you get a multi-billion dollar business out of it every now and then?
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Come on, if this wasn't a bold-faced lie, it follows that the President is either incompetent/derelict, or not in control of the NSA; in which case the President is a dupe/stooge, and the NSA is acting of its own accord outside the defined bounds of its authority. Let's hope the President is merely lying.
I don't understand how the publication date of this article correlates to the subject of the article lacks credibility.

Do you care to cite specific examples of how Lavabit's founder should not be trusted?
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Sure about that? His family clearly loved him and miss him, and so do a lot of the colleagues that spent the most time with him, like Tim Cook and Jony Ive.
Thank you. That's an uphill battle you're facing, I wish you the very best of luck in overcoming that challenge.
That's nothing. I made a webserver with just two keystrokes: control-C, control-V. You do have to have Apache installed though.
That's because medicine is much more of a science than software. Software changes like fad diets, not like surgery.
Seems like Google is splitting into Google-Page and Google-Brin (X Labs). I'd much rather join the latter, but perhaps it wouldn't exist without the former.
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Also, if newer generations are more independently minded, i.e. less influenced by patriotism and the like, then I guess they are likely to support a David over a Goliath. Pressuring people like Assange and Snowden is just making them into historic figureheads.
No doubt at all that Snowden is patriotic in nature. But that won't stop a lot of well meaning people from doing the opposite in the name of patriotism either.
I don't see the fundamental difference: both run on a virtual machine, and in both cases it is likely that the isolation will be broken by exploits. And just because it's hardware doesn't mean it's less likely to contain bugs...
Exactly. If Yahoo was such a failure, we wouldn't be talking about them. There were many other very similar companies that were founded about the same time as Yahoo. Some got acquired (including some by Google or Yahoo) and more just died, but all essentially lost the race and even those of us who were around at the time barely remember them any more.

Yahoo has survived, and made a lot of money for a lot of stakeholders over the years. I would also say that they have a better record than Google when it comes to privacy, legal entanglements, and general good open-source citizenship. Yahoo is a success story. Anyone who presents it otherwise is just putting their own lack of perspective and/or business sense on display.
The bit about Ashton still being in character when distorting Wozniaks actions is interesting. The review is so pithy I'm wondering if Woz can just jot something like that down or if he has to work on boiling down his sentences to such density. Woz is the man.
nl -> us, and specifically vt.

Moved here because my wife is a Vermonter. I've lived in Vermont for almost two decades now and unless I really start disliking snow I'll probably stay here for the rest of my life. Not exactly a hotbed of technology though.
Many cars are front wheel drive.

What's wrong with capitals?
I'm amazed at the breakdown. Over 3/8 are internationalists - what a Cosmopolitan group!
This looks interesting and could potentially be very useful for understanding how a Backbone application runs behind the scenes. I will give it a go once GitHub is back up again as it seems to be playing up.
FAN for the win.
the only thing i can think that you're referring to is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6199050

if that's what you remember then i think you misunderstood that thread. what i took from there was:

- there is no good, clean, technical solution for encrypted webmail (and people have been saying this for ages)

- the final security guarantees for encrypted webmail depend on the operator

- lavabit's operator held up their side of the bargain and refused to cooperate when they felt it was wrong to do so.

so lavabit's operator's conscience was all that stood between the users and the nsa. that's how it has to be from a technical viewpoint. and people with technical smarts understood that (unfortunately, not everyone did). so it's to the credit of this guy that he took the stand he did.

when he was the last line of defense, he held his ground. respect. much respect.

(and i upvoted you just because i find it frustrating that downvoted comments get greyed out so no-one can see what is being discussed)
Added to firewall ruleset. Thank you! :)
Space Suit Testing - The instantaneous effects on a human when exposed to near-vacuum conditions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO8L9tKR4CY
Google Wave failed quite horribly. However the resulting technology developed has been rolled into Docs, revolutionizing how Docs is used for collaboration.

There was a good image I saw on reddit awhile back that I can't find off hand. On the left was titled what most people view success and failure as, and it had a single branch, you fail or you succeed. Then it had what successful people view it as, and it was a chain of failure after failure finally leading to a success.

If you eliminate failure, you eliminate the success you gain from learning from failures.
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I don't think this has anything to do with Gen Y or whatever you want to call non-old people. Every generation begins with a desire to change what the previous generation did. Some of us don't lose that desire, many do as life's responsibility requires less desire to force change. Branding this as something new is what every generation thinks it is.
Wave was just bizarre. I called it "4chan enterprise" almost instantly upon checking it out.

I did get the impression it had some interesting innovation under the hood though that made it into Plus and Docs.
That depends on the person. Some will go against their government out of patriotism, others (the vast majority) will likely support it due to the same.

Whose reasons are better is subject of much discussion, I merely note that patriotism can be used to push people into a more conforming role than a mere employer employee relationship would. I can't imagine those that start out to be against their current form of government to either apply for or to be able to easily pass attitude screening, which I would assume to be sop for such positions.

Of course any screen is imperfect and I would think that right now a lot of people are trying to figure out how they missed Snowden. Which effectively increases internal paranoia in the various agencies.
Reviews affect salaries even without promotions, and salary ranges are often tied to titles. If you're at the top of the range for your grade, even a good review might get you nothing. Anything that affects reviews - such as stack ranking - is therefore going to affect salaries, and I hardly think it's unreasonable to "give a shit" about salaries.
Doesnt render well on Opera mobile.
First, I'm a big fan... but:

I'm struggling with why you don't open arms embrace the Gen-X / Gen Y's actual attitude towards a government that can grab any of them and shame them into compliance is the moral voting decision.

There is an actual synthesis available, the state collects all kinds of data, but it cannot be used against its citizens.

Using any that data to help solve ANY domestic crime becomes the greater crime - it is traitorous for any public employee to do so. We have a long legal history or fruit of the poisoned tree, Gen X / Gen Y can simply ensure PRISM and its ilk - we save and extend that, and harshly punish a few civil servants.

Lesson taught.

Its similar to the militarization of the police. Why not expect and cheer Gen Y / Gen X to say out loud, "we don't care if more cops die because they have only a vest"?

Why not expect and cheer, the total destruction of the bureaucracy your work pillories?

Why valorize the near criminal firm behavior the 40 year s and a watch created?

I'm Gen X and I'm totally comfy with the idea of a state that has to rebuild itself around 1M Snowdens ready to heroically crush state malfeasance for $, fame, or patriotism.

It dawns on me you aren't a fan of Nassim Taleb.

I prefer my sci-fi writers to be dedicated libertarians. So maybe, if you aren't, don't publicize it.
Here in Uruguay, we have lots of "cooperatives" (our country has a long socialist story), most work out well, but they come across many of the same problems that faced the old Soviet Union, and you do get "fat cats" at the top regardless of the supposed equality system.

http://uruguayeduca.edu.uy/Userfiles/P0001/File/Cooperativis...

We have:

- Transport cooperatives

- Dairy products cooperative (Conaprole)

- Healthcare cooperatives, which serve most of the population ("Mutualistas", based on Mutualism)

- An Insurance cooperative

- Credit Union cooperatives

- Housing cooperatives (those are the ones that worked out for the worst)

In many cases, they compete with non-cooperatives.

Edit: while they should be equal, even if they get same or slightly better pay, cooperative directors have lots of actual power, which can be turned to money if they so desire (kickbacks, etc...)
I think more and more Gen Y people in advanced European countries see owning a car as a failure - you are a fool for wasting money, when transportation can be done cheaply and also often for free. You are basically penalized for owning a car by high taxes, and for those few occassions in a year when you need a car (moving stuff) it's easy enough to rent. Spending your life in traffic jams is just a plain fail.

Having to wear a nice suit is also a failure. I would never consider working anywhere where I have to wear a suit.

Edit: My overarching point being that attitudes are changing. The 'American dream' doesn't really apply anymore, and especially not everywhere.
I offered 20% time to my team and only about 5% of them ever wanted to take advantage of it. I wanted a higher percentage of time spent thinking outside the box so I ended up creating a formal "innovation" group, through which individuals are cycled based on ideas, needs, and desires.
From a management perspective, you're forgetting about the obvious: the less than productive people. The benefit of giving employees no- or few-strings attached time to work on whatever is clear. Things like GMail, Apple 1, etc. The "cost" is that people are doing things that don't necessarily contribute to the bottom line -- for every GMail, there are 1,000 low-impact ideas.

When your ability to make money hand over fist starts to get challenged, it is difficult to continue giving people free reign, especially when your competitors focus on cost, cost, cost. HP was a great place that made oodles of money selling tank-like PCs (among many other things) that cost $3k. But then Dell came along, invested $0 in R&D and started cleaning HP's PC clock. Bell Labs was engineer/scientist nirvana, then the AT&T monopoly went away.

The other issue in big companies is that as people with direct connections to the business start losing control, the bureaucrats (well intentioned as they are) start moving in, and they worry about things that the engineers/etc didn't really care about. They are passionate about you using the appropriate powerpoint template, and will speak to your supervisor if you don't comply!
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Analogies are awful. I wasn't sure what their trying to get at. Anyone can translate this story in no-nonsense clean speak?
Sigh. Sorry to be rude, but I'm not sure if you properly read my post - it really wasn't a "diatribe[s] about a shadowy conspiracy of a 1% elite spanning centuries".

I wasn't referring to you when I indicated that some conclude that the system is "as good as uncorrupted and can't be improved", nor was I suggesting that you subscribe to "the idea that any kind of social improvement inevitably leads to some kind of totalitarianism". In both cases I was speaking about the opinions I encounter in this debate more generally.

As to the point you make in your second paragraph; it strikes me that the improvement in living standards is more to do with improvements in technology and political freedom than it is to do with the way our economy is organised. The idea that we owe these improvements to the economic structure is, however, prevalent; sometimes the idea is modified to say that the technological advancement we have enjoyed would have been impossible without the economic system we have.

Both forms of this idea fail to recognise that there have been numerous burst of technological and social advancement that haven't relied upon capitalism (e.g. the Romans, but also basically every civilisation in history), unless of course you broaden the definition of capitalism so much to include almost any commercial system, and both fail to offer evidence that capitalism was causal of, rather than merely temporally correlated with, the improvements in living standards. The negative evidence available, about systems which have historically been anti-correlated with progress (like the ones you mentioned), only covers a narrow range of possibilities, and are difficult to generalise from.

I should note that I'm strongly inclined to believe that there was a causal link between capitalism and the success of the industrial revolution and the things that followed (i.e. it was sufficient), but I am far less convinced that the form of capitalism used, which strongly concentrated power, was necessary, and I think that it is deleterious to broader society.

I, like you, "prefer the gradual, consensual move to socialism we have in Western Europe". This is a sentiment I agree with wholeheartedly, and I find these ideas of conspiracy very boring, but I'm still wary of the notion that we should pretend that no one has an interest in concentrating power and wealth, and maintain the status quo. My reading of history, and the present, is that people do have such interests, and that they use both their power and their wealth to secure their positions. I fail to see why this is particularly controversial, except that it suggests moral culpability for actions that have, for a long time, been lauded.

I can see that you are not arguing to maintain the status quo, but I hope you recognise that the greater social justice in modern capitalism, which is constantly under attack from the right, was fought for over long periods. The rights we enjoy today were not given to us by the benevolence of our leaders.

Sorry for the long post! ;-)
I'm using dotdeb for easier compatibility between Debian and Ubuntu guests (dotdeb is used to get a newer, backported version of PHP 5.4) which works absolutely fine.

Please elaborate about libvirt and kickstart, would love to hear more!
I wouldn't blame this on MBA-think. The folks doing it at Google aren't MBAs, and the 3M/Google/HP approach is treated as a positive case study.

It's an issue of central control versus decentralized organization, and where the company thinks innovation will come from. One could also argue you get a short term price bump too.
Eh, from my perspective 20% time is both implicit and unwanted.

It's implicit because I'm not coding to a spec. I've got an area of responsibility and some general goals the people above me would like to see accomplished. If I have an idea, I try it out. I could see someone in a more spec-based, feature-driven role wanting to have time to work on their own features off the spec.

On the other hand, I personally don't want conventional 20% time. I don't really like working on two projects at once. One fills my head and all of my ideas relate to it and a second one gets in the way. I once again understand that some people can work on two things at once and enjoy it, but hey, I'm not one of them.

So I'm not sure there's an actual problem. If most of your engineers are like me, and are working with a great deal of independence on a project they find interesting, why would they want 20% time?
If even that were true! I really don't see my 40s and 50s being better than now. Personally, my biggest weakness is that I am passionate about the technology and getting my hands dirty. If I start getting practice in management, crafting bold powerpoints, dressing up, etc. I think I'd go far in tech in my later days. But I won't because I love getting my hands on code. sigh
The following might not help:

- insanely long response time/application error

- not on a secure server

- hidden registration, so no way to check who backs this (it could be a honeypot).
> What killed 20% time? Stack ranking.

This is just a "They did WHAT?" moment for me. Like, wow. Stack ranking >_< Seriously?
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The article makes sweeping generalizations about Gen X/Y based on just two annecdotes (Snowden, Manning).

The author is eager to blame deregulation for the rise in leaks. But last I checked, people still leaked documents before the 1970s.

Nice story. Simple, and reassuring. But complete BS.
I'm sure I've seen an example of using /dev/tcp - a bash builtin.
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