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What a strange sentiment. We should all just not care about being successful?
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agree! this is one gigantic confused mess. I applaud the intention behind it but time to go back to the drawing board or at least do a small focus group and get feedback from real live people (excluding those who built this who are obviously too close to it to realize it doesn't accomplish its stated goal).

also, if the service isn't available, wouldn't it be a perfect time to not have the buttons and price points for purchase and instead use a video, prezi or some other form of succinct and lucid presentation to explain what problem you are trying to solve and HOW you're going about that?
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This article seems to moan the destruction of a job for life culture where employees value loyalty to their employer over their own free will.

I think most on this forum celebrate that change instead, as the alternative seems like slavery.
It boggles my mind, given the big money involved, why so many people continue to bet huge sums of cash on the proven short-term penny-wise/pound-foolish idiocy of MBA-think.

This is the con of being a public company: a lot of cynicism. Imagine that you have inside information that Blackberry will revolutionize the mobile market, you will put money in their stocks and may be move on fast once it increases significantly the price. Yes, value investing is very interesting but how many daily transactions are based on this thinking?

I think there was a lot of bias in favor of public companies and now we are realizing that staying private may be the best option if you think long term and don't want to deal with massive conflict of interest.
It's too soon to say game over, but the won the first few rounds. At a high level the terrorist goals are to strike fear in Americans and cause disruption to democracy. Most of the country seems to be okay with the gov abusing our rights and violating the constitution in order to protect against people trying to take it away. We live in a constant state of fear. You hear announcements of random search in the NYC subway, you can't fly without taking your shoes off or having a few ounces of liquid, and you can't go to a ball game without a pat down. Is this not what the terrorists game plan was?
The specs say 320x480 px screen, which is a bit disappointing.
>That's never the "right" thing to do. The right thing to do is to commit to Github because you want to.

The article presents doing your own projects as a thing you should do.

>Or Android app programming, even; most Java developers would still take months to get up to speed on Android, if they ever managed adapt to the Android way of thinking at all.

Are you suggesting that it would take an experienced Java programmer several hundred working hours to get up to speed on Android? And that you expect new hires to have worked several hundred hours on Android in their free time instead?
Funny story about that. When we were owned by Conde, the accounting was a little different (they took on some of the charges, like Akamai), and so we were actually told we were slightly profitable.

When that blog post went up I was as surprised as you to see it wasn't profitable when I was there.
My God, could you be any more complacent or condescending? Could you have comprehended the letter less? You are, in your own words, still being a jerk, just a self-righteous one. And no, you didn't understand a single thing he wrote.

Most people have no real choice in their work, except in the technical sense of one shitty job versus another. Most people don't "own their lives", their lives are dictated to them. To dismiss those lives as it being them having made a personal choice (the implication presumably being that they could have chosen to be a VC or a surgeon) is contemptible.
typically American response
What amazes me is that I read the whole article and only noticed this after reading your comment. Now I'm disturbed too.
You were lucky.

I had to install my first Debian hit (1.1 / buzz) via recycled floppies downloaded over a 33.6k dialup.

There is not a single time at my life since where I haven't had a Debian installation somewhere since (currently have 46 machines running it at my command).
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I don't think I made any indications one way or another, but yes, it would probably be difficult to move.
He probably meant Google Buzz, which was an unmitigated failure. Orkut, all things considered, is actually reasonably successful.
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I wrote this just above but I'll repeat it here:

Funny story about that. When we were owned by Conde, the accounting was a little different (they took on some of the charges, like Akamai), and so we were actually told we were slightly profitable.

When that blog post went up I was as surprised as you to see it wasn't profitable when I was there.
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I normally hate articles that try to frame culture neatly into generations when its frequently very chaotic in reality.

But despite depending on x/y for labeling the overall cultural change, covered in this article, away from jobs for life is very real.

Most likely starting with our grandparents and more recently accelerating along with increases in university educations (not needing to be dependent career wise).
Yes, but ask me again in a few months... :-)
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All I'm saying is that Obama is provably not in command of all the facts needed to prevent a blunder like this. Whether that means he had no idea about the scope of abuse or whether he was simply unaware that anyone would prove his lies wrong is yet to be determined.
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You may want to graduate to management or UML architect or be bogged down in valueless meetings, but that's not for me. I just want to make computers do magical things.

That's not what promotions are at Google. If you want to become a manager, that's called a ladder transfer, not a promotion. Promotions are basically for paying you more for making computers do more magical things. You are never asked to do anything other than software engineering, unless you want to do something other than software engineering.

(Note that software engineering is more than opening up an editor and typing in code, though.)
This doesn't seem all that surprising. You get what you measure. If Google has been placing a greater weight on direct short-term contributions than on blue-sky projects, and then putting employees in competition with one another, then of course employees are going to feel under pressure to reallocate that 20% of the time toward the stuff that makes them money. Some persist anyway, because of personal satisfaction or (much less often) sincere belief that what they're working on in their 20% time will eventually win big for both themselves and Google, but employees take those risks and make those deals at every company. The middle managers have no reason to support it as the general case, and most employees don't have the backbone to force the issue. Ultimately it's a bit like working from home. Some do it even at companies that don't have a policy for it, and some companies that do have such a policy don't really make it possible.
Re: productive people. We have this notion of the 10x producer, but the real problem is high variability within the same person's work.

I know productivity superstars, but if you catch them on the wrong day or at the wrong time, they look like lazy bums. Over a year, they're extremely productive. On any given day, they may look like they're wasting time.

This property of conceptual work is at the core of a lot of culture clash with people who have more predictable work-comes-in, work-product-goes-out flows.
It's the double-edged nature of imaginary threats: you can invoke them to justify pretty much anything (invasive airport searches? Al Qaeda! invasive net censorship? Paedophiles!), but the number of people actually believing the bogeymen exist gets lower and lower every time you use them.
There is a third way: stop conspiring, then there's nothing to leak.

In other words, Assange is conceiving an environment that asymmetrically favors transparent power over clandestine. Which probably also means good, or at least normative power. (Bad things can be normative eg: segregation, but most bad things are not.)
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I wouldn't blame this on MBA-think. The folks doing it at Google aren't MBAs

An MBA is neither necessary nor sufficient to suffer from MBA-think.
That's why cars are easier to manouever in reverse. Also why parallel parking is done in reverse: so that the steering is done from the "rear".
Why does everything think reactions should be immediate and overwhelming? These things take time for people to digest, discuss, rationalize, prioritize, and finally internalize their stance on. History has shown repeatedly what people will eventually do, all those on the internet calling everyone a coward or ignorant should get off the internet and go start talking to their neighbors about it.
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> Most people are to busy trying to catch up on their TV shows on their DVR.

Bread and circus.

I think you're right, there will be no revolution. But there's a good chance the US Empire will gradually dissolve and collapse in on itself. For example, Congress seems intent on making the governement non-functioning.

Perhaps the NSA has a sense of history, and are trying to delay our eventual collapse, thinking that the institution and empire itself is rotten and calcified. But I'm often charitable that way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire

> The first two centuries of the Empire were a period of unprecedented stability and prosperity known as the Pax Romana ("Roman Peace").[6] It reached its greatest expanse during the reign of Trajan (98–117 AD). In the 3rd century, the Empire underwent a crisis that threatened its existence, but was reunified and stabilized under the emperors Aurelian and Diocletian. Christians rose to power in the 4th century, during which time a system of dual rule was developed in the Latin West and Greek East. After the collapse of central government in the West in the 5th century, the eastern half of the Roman Empire continued as what would later be known as the Byzantine Empire.
Why? What does it really matter?
Not a surprise since Github is down, right? :)
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This guy is keeping the story on the news agenda loud and clear.

I was referring to this part of the comment, nothing else.
To my mind, it's exactly the other way around.

When you're small, you need a source of revenue quickly, or you'll die. You don't have a luxury to experiment too much, you have to build one thing that works.

When you're a huge company and have untold millions in cash, you can afford experimentation. In fact, you have to, because your revenue source is probably finite and you have to find another before the current source dries up.

This is why Google dived into mobile phones, self-driving cars, home entertainment, renewable energy, Internet providing, consumer cloud computing, goods delivery, etc. Some of the experiments became huge successes (see Android), some failed (see the long list of closed projects), some are too immature to judge (e.g. self-driving cars).

It just looks that experimentation is now locked at a thinner top exec level, while 'simple engineers' are not expected to do too much of it. Which is, of course, a pity.
socat version; no loop, as it forks a separate process for each connection:

socat TCP-LISTEN:8080,fork,crnl SYSTEM:'printf \"HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\n\\n\"\; cat test.html'

The extra quoting you need to do the the SYSTEM argument makes this rather cumbersome. socat is a powerful tool, but can sometimes be a pain to use.

Here's one use I found for it recently, when I wanted to do some experimentation with multicast:

socat - UDP-DATAGRAM:239.255.1.1:4242,ip-add-membership=239.255.1.1:10.0.0.10,ip-multicast-loop=0,bind=:4242

This causes socat to bind to the multicast group 239.255.1.1 on the interface that has the unicast IP 10.0.0.10, sending and receiving on port 4242 over UDP, reading from stdin and writing to stdout. It basically gives you a simple chat service over the local network.
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"Project management" (I'd probably argue "People management", too) is kind of like playing with cornstarch in water. If you work with a gentle touch, you can get it to do what you want. If you apply too much pressure the whole thing seizes up - turning to stone.

Crises don't happen often but when they do, it's good to remind yourself if the project/team/thing you're working on is cornstarch and not to over-control.

In general, this phenomenon is why I think the "Project Manager" as commonly defined isn't implemented correctly. PM (in large companies) isn't about control (PMs have no real ability to control anything) but about communication and coordination.

In smaller teams/companies, the role is usually distributed amongst others, or centralized in the CTO etc.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RmamKIkpxs - Non-Newtonian fluids are fun!)
Pretty sure this is false. My brother is a google engineer and he was demoing a project for me that he and some other guy had been doing in their 20% time over the last week.

This was yesterday.
The annoying thing to me is that the text itself is all lowercase, while they could have done the same thing, reversibly, in CSS, with text-transform: lowercase.
Yes because for innovation they have a separate unit namely GOOGLE VENTURES.
I think this used to be much more common in the past. My grandfather, a farmer, also worked till about 6 months before passing, when his heart started weakening, at age 92. He would pull 12 hour days, and that's what kept him alive and happy. He would get depressed when he came to visit us in the city with nothing to do. Going from working 40 hours a week when you're 64 to idling all day as you turn 65 is just not healthy.
just bought one. looking forward to developing for firefox os.
Fair enough! I always thought of Buzz as a twitter clone more than a real attempt at a social network though (which Orkut undeniably was).
Or maybe they'd just prefer instant clear text access rather than waiting however long it takes to break an encrypted text.
Thanks. Even just the website gives a nice outline of some of the different problems and how to solve them.

Gaps in my algo knowledge are there on purpose since to me they are a solved problem and easily found online.
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> I prefer spending my free time having great interactions with my friends and my girlfriend, enjoying traveling and getting new experiences and just making the most of this one life that I have.

For me, software development and picking up new technologies and abstractions IS "making the most of this one life that I have." If you truly love what you do, then there shouldn't be some dividing line between what you do for fun, and what you do for money.

You shouldn't program on your spare time in order to pick up new high-demand skills, indeed that's just a pleasant side effect. You should program because it is fucking radical.
You talk about the verb when we're talking about the noun. I call cherry-picking. And yet the point still stands. You can accidentally misuse something. How many people have accidentally misused C pointers?
I know a few people who have worked there over the years and they confirmed the same thing - albeit with a huge caveat.

The two people I know said the 20% was a way for their brains to take a break and think creatively. Nothing was too crazy or far fetched not to try out. They said it helped combat the crazy hours and working from dusk till dawn. In short, it helped prevent burnout. I would be willing to bet the turnover rate will start increase as their employees start to work more hours, without any breaks, and nothing to give them something to look forward to and burnout starts to settle in much faster.

Sure, it's not going to make them go bankrupt, but it will have a real world cost to their bottom line.
Problems Angular doesn't solve for you:

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The socat version I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6224060 fixes this problem, but is a bit more cumbersome.
The copy is confusing. I still don't understand what the product does.
> Businesses that make material goods like 3M and Corning _have_ to innovate

No, they don't "have to". But then they die, or just keep doing what they do. It's an option.

There are boundaries that sometimes protect business: geography, client base, product specifics, etc.
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Being before or after the company was founded, being 10 years ago or today, has absolutely no bearing on whether what was said is right or not. Experience != truth, just having experience doesn't mean what you say is more likely to be right. The theoretical can be right or wrong. You haven't proven your argument at all.
I would give credit to the internet to making issues more readily available from a wide range of sources. Perhaps all generations now will get a full understanding of how invasive government is in their lives and just how far it has drifted from its intent.

It would be a great disservice to focus just on intelligence agencies, all agencies of the government with their access to vast amounts of data should be subject to extra scrutiny. Not only does the NSA and FBI combined with the FISA courts pose a threat to the privacy if not freedom of Americans and others, the IRS has elements within it that show a disregard for expression of free speech. Combined with a Congress looking for more avenues to circumvent the Bill of Rights and Administrations who selectively apply the law and everyone is threatened.

So perhaps with so much information at hand people will finally realize that big government may be too big to protect freedom.
That wouldn't address the lack of a sustainable business model.

Being a forum where low wage/students/anti-corporate/anti-advertising types go and share memes is the elephant in the room problem.
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I think the reason he hasn't been arrested is that the bureaucracy works slowly. I'm sure they're going through their decision processes and evidence gathering processes.
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I'm not an expert, but £59.99 is a very competitive price for an unlocked smartphone.
We had cake at the office today in honor of Debians 20th birthday. Of course I had to keep reminding everyone why and what Debian was but it was still nice. :)
20% time helps bring in the "entrepreneurial" types of engineers that Google seeks to hire and as it starts to disappear, they might see fewer of those hires and more of those engineers leaving. Perhaps it's simply because Google has grown to the size where it can take on really big innovative projects (Google X) instead of the respectively smaller projects that were created under 20% time. They've found that they can't have both without hurting their bottom line, so they've decided to go after the big projects. It's a significant shift, but in the end, it could be good for all of us because many have the resources to go after the small and medium wins, but only a few can go after the really big wins.
Well that ruined the end of "Total Recall"
Quite a lot has been accomplished by just that, opening an editor and typing in code. It's what it all comes down to, and it's why startups can take the lunch from big corps who lose competency in opening an editor and typing in good code.
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In what way? The article doesn't specify the details of either the Tweets or the driving record that justified the decision to charge it as murder, so are you arguing:

1. It is per se ridiculous to consider driving at 40mph above (or double) the speed limit as an act involving reckless indifference to human life, regardless of the evidence supporting that, or
2. Evidence in the form of driving records and pre-offense statements by the driver could never suffice to support the consideration of such driving as involving reckless indifference to human life, or
3. That you have additional information about the specifics that is not in the article, and that information leads you to to conclusion that in this specific case, reckless indifference in unsupportable, or
4. It is per se ridiculous to consider reckless indifference sufficient mental state for murder, or
5. Something else.

Simply asserting that it is ridiculous is not an argument, and its the kind of contention that really needs an argument.
they would need to be so high in the chain of command as to have even a modicum of protection from those who would come after them. The mindset of the America public as a whole has not reached the point where most individuals are not willing to risk their freedom
makes me feel worse about them too
Apple would be a good counter-example to your:

This should make a lot of entrepreneurs happy, as there will continue to be a lot of top-down management-driven products that, if history shows, will continue to be market failures.

There's no rule to success.
The worst programmers also work for small companies, because it's easy be a big fish in a small pond, etc.

Or maybe there are varied workers at various levels in various organizations. No simple rule satisfies.
May be he was lucky and it worked for him. I am not sure that would work well all the times. It is not
necessary that the skills you acquire working harder would make you still relevant (as tech lead or manager) when you are in your forties and fifties. At the same time it is no guarantee that you would still be employed in the same organization where you worked hard during your twenties and thirties.
I think not burning out, being healthy, staying fit and to never stop learning would work better.
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