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First, I was sort of annoyed that I had to "sign in" in order to read public statements from former employees about the "20% time" being dead at Google. Beyond that, I think few companies exists that just want to make great products and know that eventually the money will come. In the meantime, most companies are there to make money and if the numbers show that people are more productive working 100% of their time on responsibilities rather than innovation, then who can blame them - they want to make money. However, this is Google, a mega company making tons! of money, so I expect them to encourage innovation. In fact, someone I know recently interviewed there and the "20% time" for side projects is something they seem proud to promote, so can it really be dead? I think the issue may be in the managers/company EXPECTING results out of this time investment, rather than seeing it as a way to encouraging innovation that won't necessary lead to a Gmail or Talk.
> The point is the runtime dependencies are small.

Is that the point? Because that makes absolutely no sense to me at all in a world of modern linkers, shared libraries, etc.

My assumption is that the OP was concerned about reducing the user's dependency list. And on that score, yes: I could have added a compiler to my list.
I'm sorry to hear that.

The people who attacked you are morons, and unfortunately we have a share of those too. :(
erm...chrome speech API?!? What exactly are you doing? and how can I do it too?
Oh I see. Gotcha. Thx.
I think what many people actually need is mentoring that forces them to break these big tasks down into tasks they either know how to do, can learn how to do or delegate.
Awesome . .even I was close to 150 million but never the exact number anyway .. thanks for this
I shyed away from Debian initially, as I had a bad experience with Knoppix on my hardware (though it did pique my interest.) However I do remember that Fedora Core 3 came on 4 CDs though. That was the very early 2000s.

I still remember when Fedora moved to DVDs. I was quite frustrated because I didn't have a DVD burner at the time. Almost 13 years later and my distro of choice fits on a single CD-R; I guess I've come full circle.
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Yahoo has been, on the whole, an astonishingly successful company; they may not have been as sexy as those we cover here, but they've kept plodding along. Stuff like this is why I think Yahoo will outlast Google in the long run.
I think potato was six CDs.
Yes that is how extensions work
I think it's not unreasonable for senior management at a company to say, "Geez, you know, we have our fingers in too many pies". Sometimes their logic is sound - they're distractions, they're consuming resources that could be used on core business ideas, we can shift innovation to a focused group of our core innovators. And sometimes it's not sound - it's purely about the dollars and sense.

But to argue that the board of directors is what's soul crushing about an organization seems odd to me.
>Capitalism is a recent invention. Societies in the past were not capitalistic, I challenge you to find one.

They all were. Not in social sense, but in the economic one. The challenge makes no sense. What is capitalism? As long as you let the markets work and don't interfere with people decisions on the market on a permanent basis this is capitalism. As you let the capital flow and accumulate. Once you impose restrictions to it based on ideology based in distrust to free economy or marktes, you don't have true capitalism. I.e. in communism private property is banned. Actually in some instances communists were propagating the idea of moneyless society. You haven't had such an assault on the idea of making money before socialism was invented. The first person who traded results of their labor for results of labor of someone else was a capitalist. And that's how it has always worked. Actually, even imposing penalties on people for doing trade, owning property, etc. as was common in communistic states, didn't change people's behavior who still wanted to enrich themselves. Meaning we are capitalists by design, it's as natural as eating meat. Might be inconvenient morally, but the facts are facts. Smith merely discovered/noticed the phenomenon and gave it a name. So not soon later it could have been and was attacked, but as long as our DNA doesn't change we are and will be capitalistic beings.
>Employee-employer loyalty in situations like these is often substituted or at least augmented by patriotism, the moral obligation to serve some conceptual ideal that is presumably exhibited by the motherland.

This statement seems ambiguous. In the context of Snowden, are you claiming he is motived by patriotism to go against the wishes of his employer or would be motivated to stay within the constraints of his employer both due to patriotism?
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Do you have the exact number for the 8th iteration ?
On the contrary, money motivates people. How can you get it? Through working, but in the end they will enjoy. I hope.
This story was originally published on Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:44 PM EDT

To be fair, the article is from 3 days ago. More likely someone just posted the link on HN. Also, it's not the guys fault is NBC News are a little slow in reporting a story...
You do understand that just saying "that's a lie" over and over doesn't do anything right? You have absolutely no credibility, you have no evidence to support your claims, and you have an obvious emotional investment in trashing the project. If you want to convince other people to hate soylent with you, start using evidence.
We're sorry, but something went wrong.

If you are the application owner check the logs for more information.
Rent a textbook on Amazon? Can't leave the state.
You should be writing with proper capitalization.
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"When people have a big task to do they usually tend to start working on lots of other smaller things."

I usually don't work on anything, even if the big task is actually small. If you have be a procrastinator you might as well go all the way.
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There is certainly a niche for this and the others, but they're probably best served by direct documentaries, like BBS or Get Lamp. They're entertaining and informative and every bit as watchable as a fictionalized biopic.

Although having Douglas Englebart arriving at the mother of all demos on the back of a triceratops would be worth paying to see.
>Embarrassing attempts at social networks (wave, err, that other one I'm forgetting)

You mean Orkut. That was weird: it got wildly popular in Brazil, India, Turkey and other places, but never really took off in "the West" (weird name, bad quality when first released, boring UI...). I guess most of its members (it's still going!) will become G+ users, so it wasn't a complete failure in the end (in fact, a large userbase in developing countries is an insurance policy for the future, if you can keep it going).
IS even the question of leading a meaningful fulfilling life uniquely modern?

How many cavemen or Egyptians or middle age serfs were running around saying "Boy I need more experiences to give my life meaning"?

Maybe we have amazing lives and because we are human beings we are always looking for more.
Here is my hypothesis of the meaning of this story.

What the government wanted was to trojan the code (collect passwords because the encryption was based on them), and do so invisibly to the users.

Levison prevented this by shutting down the service - that is the real offence. The technicality on which he could be arrested is that he indicated the reason for the shutdown in the message to users on the front page - albeit only by implication.

The importance of this, which I think that even many techies may be missing, is that service owners no longer have a choice of what code to run on their own servers. If you run a service that enables secure communications, you can be forced to subvert the code to the detriment of users and effeectively lie about it and deceive the users. You can refuse to participate by quitting the job (unless the 13th Amendment is also being trampled) - but according to the new, defacto US policy, you have to allow the service to continue in trojaned form, otherwise you're subject to prosecution for revealing the government wiretapping to the targets.
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>I honestly don't understand it.

You don't need to understand it. The people who decide which movies to make need to understand it.
Yup, has been a while since I've had to fire up IE to view something that doesn't work in chrome :P

While the page does load, it has a long running script that dies :P
I dont believe it backfires. People are fickle, you get lots of chances to make a first impression.

I think the key is clarity in your communication, doing a lot of polish on top of unstable software and advertising it as stable causes people to waste time using it, advertising as beta / for early adopters lets the early adopters pick it up and the people who just want it to 'just work' can wait. If you lose a few people who dont understand the benefits still far outweight the negatives.

This is mostly just a disclaimer for people who are waiting to open source their software until 'its ready', its never ready, do it now.
My post in fewer words: Page and Brin have wandered from their roots.

That's not "anti-Google propaganda". That's honest criticism from an old geek.
That's the one. The latest stable dd-wrt is from 2009 - if you're running dd-wrt and haven't updated dropbear, you're vulnerable.

The original Cisco firmware for the E3000 also has vulnerabilities, which were never fixed.
I'm not sure I agree. All the frameworks just mentioned do more or less the same thing and have comparable lines of code counts.

- Django - 215,000 LOC (.py)

- Ruby - 232,000 LOC (.rb)

- CakePHP - 240,000 LOC (.php)
Interesting idea. Btw, the default placeholders for Contact name and email address made me realize immediately that this site is using foundation for css (even without looking at the source) :). I have been playing with the same.

Your landing page though is a little confusing. Ok so we can do more by procrastinating and then immediately you have the pricing table. I have no clue what it means. Yes you have a "how it works" section below but the pricing table needs to be somewhere else in my opinion.

"When people have a big task to do they usually tend to start working on lots of other smaller things."

Not sure if this can be generalized. When I procrastinate, i don't even do the small tasks. Heck, I will keep looking at that little light bulb that needs to be changed but I won't.
Been using Colemak for about 5 months now, already reaching my old typing speed of 90 WPM with QWERTY, we'll see how it goes in the next 5 months.

It takes a lot of effort and discipline to switch, if you do it I would advice you to make the switch while you're on vacations or something... work makes the switch even harder, because typing at 15 WPM at the beginning is just crazy slow, and you need to get things done.
> I'm convinced its pure cronyism and ass-covering.

I'm convinced it's not.

Betting on the long term at the expense of the short term is incredibly hard. Even the smartest people in the world will panic (and in some cases pivot) when doubts start to creep into their mind. I am sure all of us have been in a similar situation. It's always easy to judge from the outside but on the inside those decisions are tough, lonely, scary and rarely to do with just covering your own ass.
I was hoping more people would leak/whistle blow, so I created http://valleyanon.com/ which gives anonymous features to bloggers.

Unfortunately, it is now riddled with spam. all the spam on the internet.
So how would I go about using this phone to call someone or text someone, I'd have to get a plan through AT&T first? Would they even support my phone? Or am I understanding this wrong.
I don't see how your first sentence relates to your second. Whether the BBC accurately reported on the study doesn't have any bearing on whether the study is newsworthy in the first place.
Unfortunately, no.

The script actually calculates strings, then counts the bangbangs. The 7th iteration took about 4 GiB RAM (temporarily, and 2 GiB in the end). Using this approach, I don't think there's enough RAM for the 8th iteration on this planet.

The algorithm would have to be optimized quite a lot before it could calculate the exact 8th value.
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If you have to crunch a lot, your manager has poor time management skills.
My reply to this: anytime I see 50 year old bold fat guy in a Porsche 911 it's depressing.

EDIT: should really be pathetic and sad and not depressing, but I think you get my point. Youth and health are so precious that no amount of money compensates ever.
At the time, Google was a search engine, period.

Expecting Google to build a webmail system would have been like expecting Twitter to release an accounting package.
Uh oh. That's me.
It is certainly a phone.
I really want to make an app for this platform. I just don't know what it will be yet. But I believe in Mozilla and I want them to have a place at the table.
> made package management easier

That is quite the understatement. I can remember the shock and amazement that came over me the first time I used apt. It was one of those computing moments that I will always remember.

Unfortunately I also remember being frightened whenever I had to read the XFree86 README and saw the section about video cards setting on fire.
I'd better stop working on my 20% project. I just wish I didn't have to hear this from Quartz!
I refuse to focus on the man. He is not the story, what he told us is the story.
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For many procedures, that's true so long as they're competently executed, which we should expect so long as the doctor is licensed to practice.

To really make buying decisions for your own health care procedures, you would want user reviews in addition to prices, just like you see on every online storefront.
Rails is about 110,000 LOC, last I checked right before the 4.0.0 release, where'd you get that number?
Whenever you see theoretically smart people acting in stupid ways you should consider incentives before deeming them idiots.

The prioritization of short term benefits is an obvious consequence of reward schemes that judge you based on yearly performance. There is little reason to invest in things that help the company long term if your pay depends on short-to-medium term results, unless you think your company might be going down and are fighting for job security.
US scientists ‘spied’ on phone users
Funny, I'm a Googler. I just went to the internal 20%-time page. It's still there. Still looks about the same as last year, and the year before that.

Despite the rumors, I don't think 20%-time is dead.
Indeedy. The squeaky wheel does not get greased, it gets replaced.
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Academic CS research has practically nothing to do with professional programming. Professional programmers constantly learn new tools and technologies... for the most part these aren't academically novel. (Much to the field's detriment)
> Six months after he took the reins, Page announced that Google would adopt a “more wood behind fewer arrows” strategy that would put more of Google’s resources and employees behind a smaller number of projects. This meant killing off Google Labs, which had previously been Google’s showcase for its experimental projects—many of them products of employees’ 20% time.

Guess who advised Larry Page to focus on a small number of projects? Steve Jobs.[1] It seems like Larry's acceptance of Jobs' advice has sabotaged Google. I'm no conspiracy theorist, but one does wonder if this was Jobs' secret intention.

[1] See the second quote in: http://www.edibleapple.com/2011/10/22/steve-jobs-advice-to-l...
I just realized that what I wrote sounds like it has been written by a particularly slow-witted toddler. What I was trying to say is that I found very distracting and annoying the whole "Johnny messaged you" blinking thing while I'm reading something. Isn't it obvious that if I wanted to read someone's messages I would be ON Facebook instead of reading another tab?
I'm pretty sure he burns the money in The Dark Knight, not Batman Begins.
They can't force in the gun-to-the-head sense, but they can "force" a startup to sell with the threat of throwing a billion dollars at the problem themselves.
Exactly. Take Snowden for example. He has given up a hell of a lot and provided proof of serious government wrongdoing and the government has done nothing to remedy it, very few people in government have spoke out against it, and although the general public is aware and cares about it to a certain degree they are doing nothing about it.
That's what's interesting to me - the emergency scenario where the oxygen situation is (uncomfortable but) survivable. How long would it take for the exposure to kill you?
I'd believe you if the folks I'm recalling had a good track record of having built successful businesses, or if their thinking struck me as... well... thinking, rather than cargo cultism. I know what it looks like when a person is thinking -- even fallaciously or sloppily, but still rubbing neurons together -- and I know what it looks like when a person is bullshitting to give the appearance of thought when they really have nothing at all going on upstairs. Buzzwords divorced from meaning and used without proper context are a dead giveaway for cargo-cult thinking.

Now granted, I know far more about programming than business. I can spot a cargo cult programmer after three sentences. In business it takes me a lot longer, maybe 6-12 months of working with someone. But by then if I've watched the cargo cultism long enough I can be pretty sure that's what I'm seeing, and I stop giving the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes when someone repeatedly seems like an intellectual impostor, it's because they are.

"Even the smartest people in the world will panic (and in some cases pivot) when doubts start to creep into their mind."

I think that's a lame excuse. Maybe my expectations are irrational, but I expect the kind of people who get millions or tens of millions of dollars to experiment with to be fighter pilots, not bus drivers. And if you wreck the ten million dollar plane, you don't get to fly another right away. Someone else gets a turn.

I also expect them to be smarter than me. When I talk to them I should have the feeling I've talked to an intellectual superior, not an impostoring dumbass.

It downright offends me to see the American middle class collapsing and people with no jobs while this shit goes on. If you're an entrepreneur, you're a working stiff too. Your job is to create value, and probably jobs, by building new businesses. When ordinary working stiffs screw up they get passed over or fired. When these guys screw up they get promoted -- or at least endless second chances.

I think what it boils down to is credentialism and cronyism rather than performance-based investing. If I were an investor I would split my odds between two areas: taking a chance on newbies, and investing in people with proven track records. But I would not repeatedly invest in people with poor track records just because their resume says "MIT Sloan School of Business."

Yeah, it's a rant. You're talking to a war veteran here. I also earned these war stories in the Boston metro area, and have heard a fair number from a friend in New York. I've been told that this problem is worse on the East Coast due to the absolute worship of ivy league degrees and in-group connections there. The West Coast is more meritocratically-focused. Never lived or worked there, but the culture I've seen in the West supports that notion.
I used to use a password that ended in !! before I knew about the command, before I even seriously used Linux. It caused problems setting up MySQL and even caused issues for a domain host while transferring a domain of mine. I don't use that password anymore :)
the thought political correctness police is coming, sure that helps!
no, it's confirmed now that he's just crazy. Dude, get an objective bone in your body, otherwise you're just a crusader.

Not everyone cares about whatever is going on in antitrust, but if you're not objective, you have no argument.
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Just recently switched to Debian for a server distro. Early in my linux learning, I had been messing around with Gentoo, Fedora, and even Ubuntu. It's taken me so long to understand what Debian is and how important good package management is, but now I'm grateful. Thanks Debian!
Is this a genuine smug lisp weenie post or is it satire?
Those are one shot successes

Maybe so; can you point out those cases where the average payment for a pay-what-you-want sale was no higher than the absolute minimum?

hardly a model to follow for anyone that needs a steady source of income to pay things like mortgage, employees and such.

That's a very different claim from what I was contesting.

But in any case, it may work in when you have modest needs; Joey Hess just got his second year of development of Git-Annex funded[1]. Of course, not everyone is willing to work for $15k/year, even if it comes with few strings attached, particularly obviously talented and experienced developers like him.

[1] https://campaign.joeyh.name/
I have a feeling AngularJS is the type of framework the will be used often for inside-the-firewall type of corporate apps than public facing consumer web stuff. But this is just my hunch right now and is influenced by my past building these style apps with Adobe Flex.
Who says this has anything to do with money? I thing the decision is more about a new strategy - focus instead of experimentation.

Personally I think this makes sense. 20% time was great when you're a small company trying to see what works. When you're a big company, you usually get disrupted because you lost focus.
Because you don't think as clearly anymore, you can't have as much fun anymore, your sense aren't as good anymore. Shit, you can't go to a club and flirt with 20-something hot chicks, ok? Weed and alcohol aren't much fun anymore. Your idea of fun is actually borin*g and you don't even know it because you have difficulty grasping half the stuff that's going around you. You are just old. In pain. Slow. Afraid. SUCKS!
I'm on the same page; I never said it was Scheme -- only that in terms of features it's finally starting to catch up with features that Schemes/Lispy-like languages have had for a long, long time.
>>It would be 2-10 times less lines of code on Django (and also on Rails) [Compared to CakePHP].

Interesting claim. Do you have references?

(An account with a couple of hundreds of Karma making extreme claims? Please surprise me by not being a troll. :-) )
"And get hours paid for it,"

I don't work there, but I feel pretty safe in saying 3M researchers are not hourly employees.
I think there may be some truth to this. With a company as large as Google, it may no longer be as beneficial to give everyone 20% time. Instead it's better to take the best engineers (and probably most innovative) and give them 100% time in Google X.
I came across this problem, too.

The problem is when there is no penalty for not doing the task there is no incentive to do it at all.

The idea is that the big task could be done in some crazy last minute rush to save the money - with having done a lot of other things before.
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These sorts of stunts also damage the company's and ecosystem's reputation. Its hard enough to get big customers to give startups a chance anyway (and I remember reading that big company buy in is one of the biggest issues in the U.K. startup scene, which I'm sure is not unique).
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