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The speed of pushing to the Play Store can't be overrated for startups. If you release an app that has a critical bug this is what happens:

iOS:
Fix it, wait days-weeks for approval, push the update

Android:
Fix it, wait 30 seconds, update pushed to everyone

If the bug is big enough, this can be the difference between losing all of your initial users and gaining critical mass.
I like how marketing people try to come up with explanation of BS things they do...
Until today, I believed Marrisa Mayer was all hype... she is a lady of attention to details - yahoo needs no other person her at this moment..

About the Logo, it seems so 90s.. normal people will be bored and you cannot explain the hyperbole's and the geometrical symmetry of the logo.. Yahoo needed a story that common man could understand - they have missed the train by designing a very technical logo.. I may be wrong, yahoo needs to attract technical people.. or I may be right with all the business happening at the consumer side.. they needed to balance - but they failed to do it..
Is it just me or her tumblr is timing out frequently with packet drops.
Work from home jobs... truly a reality?
Dark Souls is a bigger, less polished version of Demon's Souls. It has a problem with hidden information that can only be discovered through trial-and-error. Demon's Souls was like this too, but the scope was small enough that it didn't cause big problems. Not sure what there is to praise about the character builds. In both games there's an easy and obvious way to get a bulletproof character: plow everything you have into vitality and endurance. The difficulty of Dark Souls (which is harder than Demon's Souls) should be applauded, but it's really quite disorganized, and there seems to be a lot of misplaced praise out there for the trial-and-error, but this part of the game really just sloppiness. It needs better clues - dialogue, books, inscriptions on walls, etc. The soapstone sign system is just pure laziness. Trying to play it off as some genius design choice is degenerate. There's a reason both titles give the wiki URL on the PS3 cases..
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About the bevel... I hate it too.

The only thing I can come up with is that someone, probably Mayer, thinks it's a hipster cool throwback to the late '90s when everyone was using Photoshop's default bevel and emboss filters like there was no tomorrow.
It's great that she's actually using tumblr. It shows that she's likes her product enough to use it herself.
"Namely that, no matter the initial allocation of property rights"

Under the assumption that property rights can and have been allocated and can be and are enforced.

This is more a point about how the Coase theorem gets interpreted rather than about a flaw in it.
The world of consistency is rich: not all systems require serializability, linearizability, or any one write winning. It might be interesting to skim http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/adya-phd.pdf, http://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-95-51.pdf, and pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Marc.Shapiro/papers/RR-6956.pdf‎ for a taste.
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All I keep seeing is the negative space between the Y and the A. Not in a good way.
That Yahoo! brand, as represented by their logo must be quite an asset given how it is all over their CEO's blog as well as their corporate blog[1].

Ironically their corporate blog isn't loading at the moment because http://ajax.googleapis.com isn't responding. (Edit: - seems ok now)

[1] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/
I couldn't disagree more. To me, the new logo screams "design by committee". Its only virtue is that it addresses the worst flaws of the old logo. If we are to believe that how a company treats its logo is a reflection how it acts in all other regards (dubious at best), this would signal to a potential employee that Yahoo is an overly-cautious company that rejects big-picture rethinking and will only take on incremental adjustments to the status quo. A place where you cannot do your best work because you need to get buy in from 15 stakeholders for any significant change, and mediocre work that doesn't step on anyone's toes is the path to success.

Me, I think that a logo is just a logo, and that a logo (and even a logo design process) is almost completely orthogonal to a company's ability to recruit and retain talent.
Here's the link to all the logos: http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo
Pictures: Dropbox

Videos: External Hard Drive
Watching this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agRxG-X_TEQ

The pure typeface design is truely amazing and beautiful. The bevel and depth completely ruin the entire logo though. Yahoo should have gone with a flat design and a solid fill of their trademark purple color and called it quits.
GUNNA MAKE SWEET SWEET Love WITH GRANDMA & GRANDPA? (yea or nay on the idea)
Staring a new medication reminder service for the elderly. Yea or nay on the idea. Taking it to the streets to get feedback-

Cheers

Dude thats lookin for additional wisdom from the interwebs-
What is evil about a high opening bid? Especially when it has been the standard official royalty rate of Motorola for years..
if that were considered a likely scenario

When timestamps are selected by the Cassandra nodes, I can replicate this failure in 2% to 5% of writes. When timestamps collide, I can replicate this failure in 99.9% of writes. Given that the whole point of isolation is to provide invariants during concurrent modification, it doesn't make any sense to claim that a write is transactionally isolated only insofar as it is not concurrent with other writes.
I feel like, if Meyer had been at this ten years ago, Yahoo would have just finished purchasing MySpace--Tumblr is just the modern-day equivalent. It's that kind of aesthetic, and that kind of audience, that they're reaching for here. (Meyer's own blog theme is a great example!)
You can justify almost anything in design, it's so subjective and the person who gets paid the most always has the final say on what's "right" (except for a few unicorns that allow they're designers ultimte freedom)
My first reaction is I don't like it.

It looks dated. The bevel looks like Word Art or something I would have thought was cool when I first started playing around with Photoshop.

Its too complex. I was expecting them to embrace the current trend of flatness, and simplicity is a timeless aesthetic. The cutaways from the tops of the lines add to the complexity along with the many different angles, letter heights, and "O" bowl-size.

It is similar to the Google logo with the bevel, rather than say Apple or Microsoft. Considering Marissa's work on the Google homepage, the familiarity with the Google logo might have made her more confident in this variation.

Losing that distinctive "Y"

I prefer the old logo.

I can see it growing on me though. I would remove the bevel and the caps on the "YAH" letters.

If it were me I probably would have tweaked the original logo and made the font look more mature and symmetrical.
Finally, an excuse to relate an Acxiom anecdote!

As a budding CS major I had a job with Acxiom. Most of it involved running phone books through sheet fed scanners, collating a truly massive amount of publicly available information. A lot of work was done on a custom OCR engine to parse all of this data.
45 days seems exceedingly slow to me as well, based on my experience with another large tech company. Though I can't say for sure the end-to-end time of the whole process, we can generally get from an onsite interview loop to a hiring decision within 24 hours, and HR takes another day or two to generate the first verbal offer. So that's what, three days? As I recall it didn't take anywhere near 42 days to go from resume submission to onsite interview, either.

How on earth does any company take 45 days!?
Years of inaccurate predictions aside, does the company have bigger problems than new hit hardware can't solve?

Who knows, it's all pure speculation.

Can they hang on for years in a lul? Well that's pretty obvious.
Well, I like the bevel. It may not be flat but it does an excellent job in the context it's supposed to be used in - go check out yahoo.com.

That favicon could definitely be reworked though.
Considering it starts and ends in the same place, goes through the same places, and the UK isn't known for tectonic activity, I'm reasonably sure the track hasn't straightened enough that it would be visible at that magnitude.

Which is a long way round of saying "I think it's lens distortion and placement".
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Please tell me you guys do capacity planning with more than just vague numbers you pull out of your ass, a whiteboard, and some guy staring at you making subjective judgments of the number you come up with.
I noticed it keys off of address and name for purchases. Created two accounts, one is home address which i never ship to and the other is my girlfriends house which had most my purchases except high value items which i ship to work. First account was completely empty on data. Second account had information filled out, seems to use purchases to determine interests. The vendor in question was one of the largest party supply e-commerce stores.
Rows are not isolated. You might see (X1, Y1), (X1, Y2), (X2, Y1), or (X2, Y2) if timestamps happen to conflict. https://gist.github.com/aphyr/6402464
All big companies are the same, little companies are evil in their own way.
Anytime now some of you will be contacted by recruiters looking for people with 10 years AngularJs experience.
I've been in the recruitment pipeline at Google 3 times over the last ten years. Each of the latter two times they had no record of the previous recruitment. In the one case where I got to onsite interviews the first set of interviewers had somebody else's resume with my name on the top. It took me most of the morning (because its an all day process) to convince them that I was not actually the piece of paper they were waving at me.
My wife and I did not exchange rings. However, we can't claim to be the first; through most of human history in most places in the world, rings have not been exchanged. It's the time we're living through now that's the oddity.
I hate the bevel but looking at it on the Yahoo website when the logo is crushed into the top right corner the bevel makes it pop out a little more and be more noticable when it is that small the bevel pretty much disappears.
The http://threeriversvillageschool.org/ is based upon these principles. A Free(not as in beer) school that is now in it's first few days of classes that got help starting with successful crowdfunding campaign and a lot of hard work by dedicated smart people.
Couldn't she get her full name as a Tumblr username?
Boo hoo. The people paying $80 for todo list management don't need upgrade pricing. If they do, maybe charging a less insane price would make the App Store issue moot.

Building stuff for Apple products is like dating and being madly in love with someone who doesn't love you. Everything is great until they don't need you anymore.

Remember the independent resellers of Apple products, who operated actual physical stores selling Macs before they were cool again? You may not, because Apple basically shot them in the head when try opened Apple Retail stores. Remember the Mac OEMs?

Apple is building two sales channels, one that makes them 30%, one that makes them 0%. They've told you that they make many more dollars with walled garden products built on iOS, and are porting key iOS features to Mac OS -- features that also require that sales channel that makes them richer.

So if you develop software for Mac, you shouldn't be surprised when Apple abuses you -- Apple doesn't need you.
Being Dutch, I associate the bevel with "American bad taste". Design is sacred here, logo design doubly so. This would be ridiculed.
you'd be able to write them atomically

To clarify, this is only the case if you use Cassandra 2.0 transactions; normal batched writes are not atomic in the sense you're probably thinking.
Sorry, I don't want to "login" to my browser. That's bloat. I don't need to synch my browser's state across all devices (and if ever wanted to I'd use a known trusted sync source like my OS-device sync or a independent cloud service).

Other cruft - built-in password manager, built-in pdf render, flash runtime… a bit more and it's a standalone OS (say, like ChromeOS).

If all this were a plugin, I'd be fine with that … but it keeps prompting me and I can't disable it.

It's really just an OS posing as a browser. Kinda like iTunes for Windows - lots of cruft and some features and many bugs.

Eventually it'll all be part of Google+.
I was momentarily very excited because I thought this was the source of the music video
I would posit that you don't "go to" Second Life and look for something to do, any more than you "go to" a city with no plans and no friends and look for something to do there. Second Life is a place to meet up with people, and do things with those people that you would just as well do in reality, but can't (presumably because they're spread out all over the globe.) It's a place, not an activity.
Or people understand how fleeting digital creations in someone else's sandbox are. Or people just create in the real world and are looking for something else.

As a software developer I wouldn't play SL because I create all day. I don't want to play a game that requires the creativity I am out of for the day. Sometimes it's fine to paint by numbers.
I use the homegit alias trick to manage my top level home directory stuff in a Git repo that doesn't reside at ~/: http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2013/01/a-grab-bag-of-g...
Yes, TestFlight is absolutely great for beta testing.

However, in the startup sense, it's not exactly beta testing, it's testing the market, so beta testing would be fine to test something you've built works, but by no means will show what people will think of the app/product.
They say that, but is it possible that they are undervaluing what they learnt in those few years?

I left my job to start a company. On reflection, the two periods during which I've learnt the most have been the last couple of years in my job, and the first 6 months of starting a company. I don't think the second period of learning would've been nearly as fruitful without the first period of learning, though.

Perhaps it depends on the circumstances of the corporate job. I had the good fortune of having an excellent manager and an interesting role. Most corporate jobs mightn't be like that.
The easiness with which you can break an iPhone depends on the firmware it has installed on it and the precise moment in time you want to do it - if there's an easy jailbreak solution available or not. If it happens for an iPhone to be updated to the latest version for which there's no known vulnerability, you either have to wait some time for a jailbreak to be available or you have to go through hoops to downgrade it.

For me jailbreaking the phone just to be able to do development on it does not make sense. Why go through so much trouble, when clearly this hostility towards tinkering coming from Apple will likely get worse in the future.

You see, I believe in voting with your wallet (or time, or eyeballs, or whatever). If enough people complained to Apple that the current process sucks, then Apple might do something about it. But if the ones affected simply jailbreak their phones, taking the status-quo as a given and working around it, then Apple simply has no reason to change their policies.

We (developers) tend to have preferences and these preferences end up clouding our judgement. I love Android for example, but I hate it that I can't be a Google merchant on Google Play because of the country I live in. When something sucks, it sucks in spite of all the other things we love, and we really shouldn't let our preferences cloud our judgement.
Good to see how inaccurate, sparse, and almost completely useless to marketers my record is. Being an immigrant on a work visa has its advantages!
I had a couple as well, back in '08 or so.
Before reading this I felt the logo resembled the Google logo quite a bit in terms of the complexity of the font and the use of bevels, and felt like Marissa was involved and wanted to go for a familiar feel to that of Google. I feel its more likely after reading this considering who level in input.
It also screams 'micromanagement.'

> So, one weekend this summer, I rolled up my sleeves and dove into the trenches with our logo design team: Bob Stohrer, Marc DeBartolomeis, Russ Khaydarov, and our intern Max Ma. We spent the majority of Saturday and Sunday designing the logo from start to finish, and we had a ton of fun weighing every minute detail.

The Yahoo! logotype was important enough to involve the CEO of a $25B company, and frivolous enough to knock out in a weekend.
> The bevel immediately made me think of some brands you'd find on sale at Macy's, which mainstream America associates with quality, but which my artisanal-y brainwashed brain thinks of as mass produced junk.

Sounds like Yahoo's market positioning to me.
Its even odder: she did get her full name (http://marissamayer.tumblr.com/). However, it includes a comment that points to http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/ (it says Please see marissamayr.tumblr.com for my blog.). No autoredirect, no link nothing. Quite odd.
When you're trying to build services for hundreds of millions of people, optimizing gets pretty key, and it's often the harder part than building a MVP or "getting shit done". Ask Twitter.
Microsoft cast the first stone in October 2010, and made its FRAND allegations in November 2010 [1]. Google announced its acquisition of Motorola in August 2011 [2] and completed it in May 2012 [3]. This decision comes more than a year after the close.

Granted, regulatory concerns did not allow it to affect the lawsuit until the acquisition closed (other than maybe the extreme measure of abandoning the acquisition itself)... But a year is a long time -- and many, many settlement opportunities -- to pursue a lawsuit to its bitter end, especially with all the disapproving judgements they were getting [1]. I think "evil" is a stupid term used too readily around these parts, but I also think a year is more than enough time for Google to bear responsibility for this.

Essentially, Google decided to bear the negative publicity (if any) of being convicted of pursuing unfair business practices rather than settle with Microsoft.

Judgements of "evilness" aside, given that Google is pretty savvy about its public perception, this probably has a few significant implications.

1. http://www.patentprogress.org/cases/microsoft-v-motorola-inc...

2. http://investor.google.com/releases/2011/0815.html

3. http://investor.google.com/releases/2012/0522.html
I've come to be skeptical of what everyone believes and no one questions, that schools are failing kids. So much hand-wringing has gone into this issue for so long, so many things have been tried and failed; the simplest explanation to me is that the problem simply lies elsewhere. We can try to force-feed kids more and better education, but we can't guarantee them the kind of jobs they want after they graduate. I suspect the problem is economic, but regardless of precisely where it lies, I don't think it can be fixed through changes to education. It's like pushing a rope.

A lot of people are in agreement that the problem begins and ends with teachers, but this sounds suspiciously like scapegoating.
Do keep in mind (and please respect) Riseup's policy [1]. Riseup does not respect:

* Support for capitalism, domination, or hierarchy.

From what I've seen here at Hacker News, many contributors are quite outspoken neo liberals that are more interested in venture capital than hacking and actively "support capitalism".

[1] https://user.riseup.net/forms/new_user/policy
Having played both Demon and Dark souls, I think Demon souls was only better in that it flushed out the Maiden and the monumentals in a way which was deliberate and set the tone of the game. Dark Souls could have used something along these lines, but in every other respect it's the better game. From the improved enemy AI, to balance in the weapons and crafting, to the variety of locations and enemies, and don't forget the subtle lore in the item descriptions and placement of unique enemies and items. Dark Souls is just plain better.

That said, they both rank as my favorite games of the last ten years.

Edit: Also, if this has convinced you to pick this game up for the PC (it's often on sale on Steam for under $10), don't forget to get DSFix for the graphics and DSMFix fix for mouse and keyboard support. It wasn't a very good port, but the community has made it great.

DSFix: http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?tag=dsfix
DSMFix: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~petska/
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The code doesn't return just any boolean. No, it returns the boolean it was passed. And the calling code checks the result, what, against the boolean it passed in, I wonder? I'd worry about unintended side-effects depending on the language...
I don't think the writer's point is well made by his gushing style (and this is also a page that could badly benefit from some nicer fonts and pictures to break up the wall of text). However I am a huge fan of Demon's Souls and will probably get around to Dark Souls eventually too. It's the closest thing that I've come across so far to an immersive version of Nethack.
This is an awesome initiative. :)Good work, guys! :D
It's not really slow if the "time to hire" is the time from an inbound resume, to an outbound written offer (or even longer, an accepted offer). (A verbal offer is great, but nobody generally accepts a verbal offer, they have to sign some kind of agreement to formally accept the job.)

The screening process takes a week or two (14 days) and then you have to schedule an on-site interview loop, which can often take a week or two lead time (since many interviewers have to travel to SF, and you have to schedule the interviewers as well) and that only leaves a week or two at best to issue a formal written offer. I've seen it take a lot longer than in total at many good companies.
I use the thoughtbot/dotfiles setup. https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles

Pretty good customizations by default with an elegant approach for adding local settings. The install.sh script automatically symlinks appropriate files as well as downloads vim bundles.
On the other hand, for Android it's far easier to get your app running on the device itself. The only thing you have to do is to connect the device to your computer and click Run in the IDE. Beginners can get something up and running within minutes, which includes the time to download the IDE and create a Hello World. The whole workflow runs well, as you get the logs in your IDE or whatever and you can do debugging and so on and it's really not that bad, given that no simulator can match an actual device - there's something to be said about keeping the phone in your hand, rotating it at will and touching it to see how the app feels.

Apple's provisioning process on the other hand is the most painful thing I ever experienced.
What did he do that is worthy of 100 years in jail?
What if I designed Windows 8
Funny you linked that. I was going to say that I was just looking into permanent residence in Australia.
lol, I was thinking that too -- "but indexOf is faster..."
I bet the reason is unawareness of poor reaction times. I have found sluggish video game vehicles pretty easy to drive.
I disagree that a high vit + end build is bulletproof. I'm absolutely certain that most anybody could destroy that build easily in PvP.

One of the great things about the build system in Dark Souls is a build that is great for PvE may not be a great build for PvP.