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I disagree. I currently work at a startup with 10% time, and barring rare "the servers are on fire!" events, we're pretty religious about doing it. Even when we skip it, it's credited so we can take it later (arguably better since you get longer stretches of it).

Like most startups, we also operate at breakneck pace, we're not exactly sitting around twiddling our thumbs. This strikes me as the same as "I don't have time to..." excuses people make in their personal lives. If you value it enough, you will find a place for it.

It's all about how much you actually value the 10%-time, or if it's just a recruiting/PR gimmick. If the company approaches it from a "it would be nice if..." angle, it will always find a million things that are higher-priority than 10%-time. If you approach it from the "this is a critical part of company strategy" angle, you will find ways to keep it sacrosanct.
You are right - the website could be done better

I came up to this idea like two or three days ago and built this page. This is more like a test ballon to figure out if there is any potential.
Sorry, how is this relevant to HN?
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Born and raised in the US, SC specifically. Unfortunately my current employer isn't too keen on remote working. Additionally, a lack of a formal education seems to be quite limiting in finding international employment, regardless of actual skill and experience.
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Why isn't a submission of this URL auto-ignored?
I'd like to see this come to fruition.
> the idea is that increasing the porousness of the conspiracy’s information system will impede its functioning, that the conspiracy will turn against itself in self-defense, clamping down on its own information flows in ways that will then impede its own cognitive function.

Consider this in that light: "NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access" http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/09/us-usa-security-ns...
Oh look, a site about cats on the Internet!
No. Is describes the unintended consequences of it. That's not moaning or complaining, its pointing something out.
Open a YouTube video, type "1980", defend!
Which is why you should probably read this article, and not just the title.
I'm not sure you could back that up with case studies. Most companies are disrupted because they focus too narrowly. They also tend to think they're in the "tool" business when they grew successful as a solution business. E.G. Whip and Buggy company think they're in the buggy business, get disrupted by a company that thinks they're in the transportation business.
Shareholder primacy trumps all
This would make some sense if all vehicles had the same braking force. Though, even then, I think you'd want a kinetic energy limit. (A stopping distance limit would probably be the most direct.)
Which we are trying to eliminate with tail-call-optimized mutually recursive functions.
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And lots of boats have "bow thrusters", which is a propeller in a perpendicular tube mounted at the bow of the ship. If you're in a tight spot it's very helpful to have that control at the bow. I don't think the author knows much about boats.
I certainly like VIM, it's my default editor on non-Windows operating systems, but I really don't care one bit about the h,j,k,l keymapping; I can use my arrow keys, which I find to be lots easier. So I TOTALLY suck at this game because it doesn't support the arrow keys like VIM does! :P
If you are saying the size of your application could be reduced by rewriting it to using a framework (an existing one or one of your own creation), I think this is the point we are all trying to make here.

Assuming one uses all the features of a framework, the total complexity of my 24K line framework application (counting only code I've written) could be compared to that of a 321K line non-framework application (counting all the code in my project).

Thankfully I only have to write/maintain 8% of the codebase, as the remaining 92% is kept up-to-date by typing `composer update` on a weekly basis.
But weren't you "deeply involved in the business?"
I made http://www.BromBone.com to help with the googlebot problem.

I agree. The learning curve can be steep, but I've really enjoyed using Angular.
Its not a loophole, and I don't see making much death-resulting-from-corporate-malfeasance chargeable as murder as an undesirable effect.
It's human nature to stop "screwing around" in order to get "real" work done and make your boss happy. The only way to keep 20% time is to force everyone to take it. If others on your team stop doing it, then the competitive balance isn't fair anymore. If your boss can get away with unofficially taking it from you, then she will. Something like 20% time must be in the company policies with punishment for those that discourage it.
On the other hand, focusing on a small number of great products is what Apple always did under Jobs. The first thing Jobs did when he came back to Apple was jettison superfluous products and concentrate on what Apple was good at. Seems to me like he was giving genuine advice.
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Isn't the chargemaster price mostly unrelated to anything? http://runningahospital.blogspot.com/2013/05/useless-noise-f...
It's the same price as the low end Samsung android phones with comparable specs. If you're willing to roll the dice with no-name phones imported directly from China, you can get an unlocked smartphone for around $50
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Isn't their continued investment in things like Google X sort of the more scalable replacement to 20% time, now that not all of the engineers are brilliant and driven? Just kind of a natural result of scale - find the people that were actually using 20% time and give them 100% time.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/15/4622252/plague-of-game-dev-...
Yes. What point are you trying to make?
Maybe the story behind it ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223651 ) could help you. If not I can try to explain it differently
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On Firefox, It just goes right through the "food"
> I'm skipping felony murder for the sake of this post

You aren't really. You refer to malice. The four forms of malice in common law murder are:
1. Intent to kill,
2. Intent to cause grievous bodily harm,
3. Acting with reckless indifference to human life,
4. Commission of a felony
I was often encouraged to just take the 10% time - and perhaps it is an excuse on my part, but at the same time I valued my work and took pride in accomplishing certain tasks that I felt that that work was far more important. In the end, I did spend some time on personal projects that ended up getting implemented, but in the year and a half I was there, it was definitely not an often used perk (on my part).
or sudo ESC-. which inserts the last word from the last command.
I've had a speculation for a while that this is why Google, Apple, and many other tech giants like to keep their stock float small and thus their stock price per share very high. I wonder if it's a way of trying to select for longer-term investors. ???
This is an interesting point, but I don't see how it relates to Google doing away with 20% time.
This should get you comfortable with using the h,j,k,l mapping then. I actually turn arrow keys off in my vimrc, I can definitively say it is one of the things that has made me faster.
The Straight Talk plans on AT&T's network have a hidden 100MB/day limit, after which your data gets effectively shut off (you still get miniscule bandwidth, but it's unusable) and their policy for how long you get shut off is completely opaque. Customer "service" switches you to a recording if you ask about it. VERY not recommended. T-mo doesn't have daily limits as far as I know.
> a) Bukowski's fiance probably hurt Bukowski (by stating that she cheats on him) more than he did by kicking her.

Why would that be relevant whatsoever to why someone kicks their partner? You said you don't agree with abuse as a preface and then immediately put physical abuse on the level with having your feelings hurt by something someone said.

I don't know if you yourself has been in an abuse relationship or know anyone that has been, but these kinds of statements happen all the time as a way to create a justification for the abuse inflicted on someone. It's not only abusers that do this, but people that are friends and acquaintances of both the abuser and abused.
That's what insert mode is for.
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What works best for you?
I'm assuming us = United States and CA = California. If so, why the distinction?

nl -> uk -> nl -> us -> nl myself. I guess nl is a pretty good place then :)
In agreement with you on this one. Exceptions to the rule don't make it the norm. In fact, people like Snowden and Manning are making it more difficult for Gen Y's to work in environments such as theirs because they are viewed cautiously by the people in power (Boomers).
So many people are saying they moved to a new country (or countries). Is there a trick I don't know of that you can just up and move? Or are the majority here rich or specialize in something in particular?
I am assuming that people work when they get to the new country, which means a visa.

I could understand if it was to a country on the same continent but there are a lot of US > UK; UK > US. From what I've read it isn't as easy as saying: "Well, guess I'll go live there now."
How many successes you had matters. How many failures you had in addition is basically irrelevant.
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I am a Googler. I will only speak to my personal experience, and the experience of people around me: 20% time still exists, and is encouraged as a mechanism to explore exciting new ideas without the complexity and cost of a real product.

My last three years were spent turning my 20% project into a product, and my job now is spent turning another 20% project into a product. There was never any management pressure from any of my managers to not work on 20% projects; my performance reviews were consistent with a productive Googler.

Calling 20% time 120% time is fair. Realistically it's hard to do your day job productively and also build a new project from scratch. You have to be willing to put in hours outside of your normal job to be successful.

What 20% time really means is that you- as a Google eng- have access to, and can use, Google's compute infrastructure to experiment and build new systems. The infrastructure, and the associated software tools, can be leveraged in 20% time to make an eng far more productive than they normally would be. Certainly I, and many other Googlers, are simply super-motivated and willing to use our free time to work on projects that use our infrstructure because we're intrinsically interested in using these things to make new products.
>I don't understand why engineers who don't want to be managers give a shit about corporate promotions or corporate ladders.

HR/MBA types value titles, buzzwords and other nonsense because most of them are incapable of actually parsing a technical resume. So, if you're going to look for a job, filling in your title as "developer" over a period of multiple years is a losing strategy.

By the same accord, without titles, buzzwords, etc as an engineer I won't be able to differentiate between resumes of a regular graduate level physics educator and one who is capable of nobel prize level research.
It isn't a slippery slope, because presenting statements and actions (note that it wasn't just the tweets, but driving record as well) that show intent has been routine evidence of mental state for as long as mental state has been an element of crimes.

If it was a slippery slope, we'd have slid the whole way down it long ago.
You have to be in INSERT mode (press i) to eat the food. That catch is that you can't change direction in INSERT mode. Press 'esc' to get out of INSERT mode.
"Let them eat iPad"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2011/03/11/ny-feds...
I started out with... Rex I think. Or maybe Buzz? I kept the CD's out of nostalgia for a while, but may have finally got rid of them. I liked it so much that, despite not having a lot of skills, I signed up to help, and packaged up a few things. Debian was an awesome learning experience, and a great "escalator" in that I came in with not a lot of knowledge, and by the time I left, knew a whole lot more about a variety of things. I know I'm not the only one for whom it was such a formative experience.

My first Linux experience was downloading Slackware over a slow modem line (I want to say 14.4, but it was a while ago) onto floppies.
The government is not a monolithic entity. The evils of intrusive surveillance doesn't make, say, social programs, or economic regulation, evil just because they're other large government programs. Libertarianism is great if you're already wealthy; it's... problematic... if you're starting off from a position of relatively little power.

> I prefer my sci-fi writers to be dedicated libertarians. So maybe, if you aren't, don't publicize it.

This is astonishingly condescending of you.
As a Googler, I can confirm that this article is... completely wrong.

I don't have to get approval to take 20% time, and I work with a number of people on their 20% projects.

I can also confirm that many people don't take their 20% time. Whether it's culture change due to new hiring, lack of imagination, pressure to excel on their primary project, I'm not sure, but it is disappointing. Still, in engineering No permission is needed.
That strikes me as very reasonable. 20% (15%, whatever) time is largely self indulgent plus self education. I have no problems with being expected to supply that initiative. I've done it before, and invented products that the company ended up selling (until I realized the only payoff in this case was a "we'll compensate you for this later, trust us" - I'm not talking about any company discussed here, btw).

This way it is not goof-off time as it will not attract anyone except self-starters and thinkers, but the company is providing intellectual and material resources. You get to have fun, rejuvenate yourself on the job, the company contributes some, and maybe, just maybe, you hit the jackpot at some point. If not, well, you learned some stuff and had fun.
Just because reddit has a lot of anticorporate types doesn't mean they don't also have a lot of pro-corporate types, too.

For example, I wouldn't be surprised if the Internet's largest right-wing community turned out to be one of the subreddits.
> Thank god this kid will be spending many years behind bars. How else would he ever realize the mistake he's made?

Moral education of the offender isn't the only purpose of criminal punishment.
I find my car easier in forward. It's easier in forward, even though it's a front wheel drive.
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I think the mantra from the startup community is often:

1. Make money doing whatever it takes. eg come up with some crappy website, sell it to google, then shut it down.
2. The money problem is solved!
3. Spend money solving world hunger, diseases, philanthropy.

Which IMHO is pretentious BS.
There's only one way to fix things: voting and participating in a political process. You solve nothing by calling government a sadistic monster. The fact that each new politician elected turns out to be a scumbag and nothing really changes, doesn't mean there's a better way to run society than a democracy. The fact that they use everyone's tax money to kill and detain innocent people all over the world and spy on everyone doesn't really mean it's a bad system. You know, the world is not all black and white, you radical.
Men turns 60, commits suicide and leave a website as suicide note
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. " A .Einstein

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." M.L King

"So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. "

In Soviet Russia first they went after people at night, without shoes so no noise was heard. It only became easier after that.
Just wanted to say, nice work and thanks for keeping focus on security (there can never be enough...) Maybe allow the option of 2 factor auth (google auth, Authy etc.) which would be entered in on any balance-affecting transaction? (The only issue with 2 factor auth is that now limits you to smartphones pretty much, and the promise of a text message interface seems ideal for dumbphones...)
Good point about using this to get me comfortable with the keymapping. I dunno if I'll get too depressed from dying over and over before I get the hang of it though! ;)
Sentiment analysis is an amazing idea. Monitoring what people say about specific brand/product while doing something else provides incredible value.
seriously, are we going to get a HN submission every time github gets DDOS'd?

I think we all know there's a problem now, and if github is acting up, we'll check the status page. Not sure we need a submission every time...
So they will see that threats work. Will surely give mixed feelings to a lot of fans...
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Or the US Government is just like any other large organization, and when low level employees screw up, or a report looks bad, everyone at every level on the way up tries like hell to bury, burn or spin it, so that it doesn't reflect poorly on them.

Which does imply a troubling level of ignorance and/or misplaced trust, but is not necessarily on par with the NSA gone rogue or the President being a dupe or stooge.
Just to state some support for this: I have used vim for over a decade and I haven't used hjkl on a good day once. Arrow keys are fine.

Occasionally I use hjkl if the terminal is set up wrongly or it's a broken vi implementation but that's it.
Google is expanding quite a bit in Pittsburgh, New York, and a few other locations. I wonder if this is why?

I also wonder though if the real estate hyperinflation of the valley is a factor. It negatively impacts the ability to attract out of town talent when a "starter home" is one million dollars and a decent apartment is over $3000/month. It also impacts retention. I meet a lot of folks from the Valley and SF who loved it but "left cause they wanted to start a family" or "left cause they got tired of spending >50% of their income on real estate." You have either pay exorbitantly high salaries or expand elsewhere.
And then consider that Google's hiring standards seem to have decreased as they need a lot of people and not just the best. Thus 20% of more average people's time is going to be a lot less valuable on average.
Surgeons, sure you need relevant education. But pilots, do you require them to have a degree in flying, or aeronautics? Sure they have to be licensed, but that's different from having a degree in the subject - which is what the original question was.

As for being a member of a relevant organisation, I think that comes down to what you are working on. If I had a mission critical* piece of software (used in military, medical, lift mechanism etc) then I would specify that all employees need to have certain minimal credentials. Am I going to be better at my job coding up some websites which just provide some info, probably not.

Anyway, IMO titles are meaningless in this industry, the ability to do the job is far more important.

*subjective, I know.
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You know, I don't see the career ascent about forgetting my own life. I see it as a way I can do good for this world. If I have people under my span of control, I can impart what I believe to be good in this world as a part of my leadership and management style.

I also want to be a motivational speaker when I 'grow up'. I came from humble beginnings. Some people's talks have really changed my life. In order to give those talks and be invited to speak, yes you have to ascend the established social order.

Am I wasting my life by working a lot? No. The things I work so hard for have real effects in this world. My mom has been working for over 40 years of her life. If I do things right, she'll be able to retire eventually. Do I work harder than other people do for the same, or less, compensation? I'm sure I do. But you know what, you have to make the best of the situation you're in.

I was recently invited to give my first talk. Here is the abridged executive summary:
http://www.evernote.com/shard/s34/sh/9a92bf45-27e1-4470-be7e...
Is this Dada?
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You are sooooo right on with this.

The top-10 MBA cult is awful. These are usually those people you knew in high school/college who were excellent at studying for and passing tests. Excellent at getting great grades on projects. Excellent at everything except building ANYTHING.

I think that the people who are best at building things that people want don't want to get an MBA. They instead choose to spend their time building a business, a piece of software, a piece of hardware, whatever. People are good at what they love to do. MBA people love to go to school and get pieces of paper that say "pay me I'm smart."

As a data guy, I have to go in and deal with these assholes all the time. I have hard numbers, they have hand-wavey MBA speak bullshit. It is probably the hardest thing we data people have to deal with: criticism from the "trusted advisors" who, due to the cognitive dissonance suffered by the executives who pay them loads of cash, are deemed to be intelligent when they really aren't. After all, what executive wants to admit that the man or woman he has been paying high 6 figures to advise him for months is actually a talented actor/mimic at best and an idiot at worst??
At my last job, I had to wait two weeks to get a VM created and assigned to me.

At my current job, I can't get a port opened to make an OUTBOUND connection to Amazon Web Services.

Yeah, working at Google, it's definitely easier to use big tools to try new things, huh?
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