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Exactly, other than to like each others inane posts, repost reddit/9gag-content and look at baby pictures, circle jerk around. Occasionaly ask whats up and setup meetups with friends. Sure thats exciting and fun for many users.

But thats a drop in the ocean of what you can do on the internet. I know many people who do only that and think thats what the internet is for and there is not much else to do, for them facebook is the internet. Sigh. Not much to do about that, since those users are the problem, some people just dont want to do anything else than circlejerk with their friends.
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I think it is a notable reference. It is a statement by ms bezos after all
It's not that easy to avoid Facebook. Many sites are switching to FB social plugin for talkbacks. I've stopped posting comments and questions on many news sites after they started requiring a Facebook identity. Or else I open an incognito window, use my alternative Facebook identity created just for talkbacks, but for some reason my comments don't appear in the stream.

I wish there were a better alternative (could this be an opportunity?).
That's also addressed in the paper - the pool does not need to declare that it is a pool, nor use the same IP address, wallet or similar to publish the block.
I got a VA from the Philippines earlier this year & it's changed my business. I spend less time doing basic research, and repeatable tasks that I can do - but is simply not a good use of my time.

I finally sat down, did a few of my tasks & documented each one, step by step, creating SOPs (standard operating procedures) for each one. It was a little tedious as first, but once my VA got after it - it freed up tons of time for me (but almost more importantly - head space & energy).

Most people who have bad experiences with VAs either don't have a good idea how to manage them or don't have a budget to get someone competent for the tasks they're requesting (paying people $2/hour & you'll get what you pay for).

Go in with reasonable expectations, good systems & processes in place & you'll have a great experience.
I agree with you. Just to be clear: I'm not making bold statements like "I don’t believe such a program could exist.".

But you do admit they are programs! That was all I was trying to do, refute his ridiculous claim - albeit with something marginally less ridiculous. How about a program calling a C library?

The driver thing doesn't automatically lead to the conclusion - but it's not a far stretch to picture it being so. A simple thought exercise does not make a water tight argument.

I can imagine writing certain parts of drivers being better under his metrics in C++ than C but I don't see it in black and white terms like he does. I can see the opposite being the case also.

All that needs to happen for Stroustrup to be wrong is for one program to exist that beats his metrics in C instead of C++.
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I meant as in the book, not Mackenzie's review content.
"If this were" is an example of the subjunctive mood in English. It expresses a counter-factual assertion.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjunctive_mood#English
It's worthwhile to an attacker to be well-connected. This might lead to a connectedness arms race.
It's not quite as simple as tense and agreement though. This example is the subjunctive mood (and it is correct).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_subjunctive

Unless I completely missed your point and you felt that the correct grammar clashed with your intuition, in which case I apologise, and I suppose it depends on your linguistic surroundings when you learn the language.
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Also I'd pay money for a very good OneNote (clone) for Linux!
OneNote just has no competition...
You may be selling yourself short, you might feel under qualified but with technology you're always in the fire meaning that things change at such a rapid pace the real qualification is that your competent to keep up with it.
Anyone who has endured more than one startup will tell you GSD is a bullshit line. The only people who ever mention this are those who usually have not been in a position of control to execute (usually because they worked at BigCo, Inc.) and are now free of those constraints. It's the occupational equivalent of moving out of Mom & Dad's house and getting your own place.

GSD, when first brought up, was about the fact that startups needed to not over-analyze and move to do things simply. And, if you moved quickly, simple solutions would follow. Or so the thinking went.

But the goal was lost in translation, and now GSD looks like something that should die along with other awesome concepts such as bro-gramming.
That's crazy that you didn't get the job. Considering AirBNB's growth rate, it seems they could have taken a risk that someone like yourself would grow into the position.
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Motorola, Honeywell, etc. Motorola was for long the largest employer in the state, perhaps still is. Arizona isn't heavy on RoR hipster startups, but for semiconductors, electronics, aerospace, and all the high-reliability serious software accompanying that, the Phoenix area can be considered a tech center. Same for Tucson.
If you liked Jonathan Blow's lectures make sure to check out Chris Crawford's. A number of them are on his channel on YouTube. Crawford was more or less the first game developer to combine practical work with academic study of game design (and he's wrote the first-ever book on it). Your might know him as the developer of Balance of the Planet and the founder of the GDC; the latter he then left after the famous "Dragon speech", which is probably the first thing of his you should look up.
Not necessarily.

They could have been not profitable enough, for themselves or their investors, especially if they got a rich enough acqui-hire offer. Or however profitable their efforts, if they couldn't raise enough money to properly peruse them. They could be facing more work of a type they don't like or weren't good enough at (including hiring the necessary talent), e.g. marketing and sales, and preferred the maximum pivot possible.
Of course, he was also wrong about a lot of things. I recall in 20,000 Leagues they travel under the Antarctic ice all the way over the pole... because there was no land there in 1870, I guess.
I know it's not wrong, it's just that every time I see it, it feels wrong.
I believe they were asking how long until the incorrect facts in the book show up on wikipedia using the book as a notable reference to prop them up.

Basically, biography claims he is a Lizard Man. Wikipedia is updated "Jeff Bezos, noted reptilian[1] ..."

[1]This book

And then no one argues with it.
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The synchronization you mention is really rare, it only happens when you make a copy (not a move!) of a std::shared_ptr.

If you have a std::shared_ptr<X>, then most of the time you will be passing around "X &" or "std::shared_ptr<X> &" and no copies will happen.

Do you have an example of why a function would be returning a std::shared_ptr<X> by value that wasn't a move?
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For some time now, the growing practicality of smartphones and tablet computers has eased the legacy of cumbersome documentation for both pilots and airline operators alike. Indeed, the accession of mobile apps to business technologies has in no way bypassed civil aviation. A simple search will yield an abundance of different apps, each claiming to offer an enhanced solution or a streamlined approach to the workload of a broad scope of pilots. Clearly, individual mileage may vary, but we ask the question: what set of mobile apps can no airline pilot afford to do without?
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I'd suppose reduced rejection sensitivity.
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Outsourcing meals and cleaning is pretty common. Yet another economical article which discovers america.

BTW: when we had first baby, we hired doula for several weeks. Very good investment.
One caveat to this is with the closing of the IPO exit, one either has to be very successful or get acquired to exit. And your investors could be demanding some sort of exit, they're generally not in the game for your employees, vision or customers.

Arranging and exit for investors or founders can be extremely hard; I watched my father do that several times in the period when IPOs were still possible.
> This is a bad idea because a web browser should not become a chat or client as well.

Well, the browser already is a chat client for millions of people. It's called Facebook. So since the browser already is the only chat client tons of people use, why not make it a client for a Free/Open chat system instead of Facebooks chat system, that they control, censor, give access to to NSA, etc.

> Remove their like-buttons from your pages!

I agree we should do this. But that won't help people keep in contact with their friends. And so it won't change the thing I'm focusing on here.
if you want a more meaningful understanding of rejection, read toni morrison's the bluest eye
The demo site is here: http://stardrive.us/OpenNote/

you can use this to login/password: crap/password
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I read a book about Amazon a while back, and it was not all that good:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2RXH1XQAP8AAA/ref=cm_cr_rdp_pe...

This one appears to be better, but I think that until one of these guys manages to spend more time with Bezos, we won't really get the definitive story of the company's early years.

I would really like to see such a book, as Amazon, out of all the big tech companies, is probably the one I know the least about.
Thats right, its only facebook and google internally that take advantage of XMPP while keeping the rest out. Thats what federation does

Counter-example: email.
what does VA mean in this context?
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Seagate are going to ship SMR HDD in the next 6 months.
With BPM is still way off on any RoadMap.( Correct me if i am wrong )
The other alternative is HAMR.
But do HAMR works with Helium Filled HDD? My imagination is that the laser in HAMR would set off Rampant fire.

And to be Honest, even with that theoretical 50 - 60TB HDD from HAMR HDD isn't enough to fit our Cloud Platform needs. The amount of data we create everyday and Backups we need.

Do we have anything in research for an HDD that is capable of 100- 1000TB?
Cool. Sounds like we should talk sometime! I'm at PowerPoetry--world's first and largest mobile/online poetry community for youth. :)
It seems to me, as a curious non-medic, that at the root of heart disease is a state of persistent arousal, which is similar to stress -- high blood pressure, high blood sugars and fats, tachycardia, low immune, high inflammation, poor digestion, etc. All arguably useful if you are hunting prey or raiding the next village. But bad for the body in the long run. So I think we ought to ask why in this day and age do we seem to find this biological state desirable -- for example, does it paradoxically enable us, while still alive, to be more productive?
I've been using nValt + DropBox for about 18 months now. I haven't really missed Evernote. Plus all my stuff is available in any easy to search text document format, not locked into any applications.

I can access from mobile via different applications, too.
TL;DR he ripped off Infiniminer.
How much do you pay then?
Given they're no longer secret, that would seem safer than typing my e-mail address into an untrusted site to see if it has been compromised.
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Yes, thanks for pointing the calling conventions out, I didn't really know what you were getting at.

The hardware calling convention does dictate certainly what code the compiler can put out.

If the compiler does not support NVRO and emits code that causes multiple copy/constructions it doesn't matter if the hardware supports more efficient behaviour.

I edited my earlier comment with your correction, thanks.
There is a fungus "out west that occupies some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) of soil in Oregon's Blue Mountains."
I think she streisanded the book, this "controversy" is the first I had heard of it myself. But now I've seen her review mentioned in three different online news sources in the last 24 hours.
Actually, they are! We host many document types on RG, not just song lyrics, so the “lyrics” field of a song is just a specific case of the general “body” field of a text. And texts can definitely have rich formatting via HTML markup.
Okay. As I said in my comment further down, I suppose this depends on your linguistic surroundings when you learned to speak.

To me using 'were' in the incorrect mood feels wrong. I'm not a strict grammarian (I had to look that reference up to double-check before posting), and my feel for grammar is intuitive rather than learned from verb tables. Obviously the verb-tables (or fragments of them) are encoded in that haze of language in some latent form, but it's entirely down to the environment in which I learned to speak.

Acquisition of grammar is a fascinating topic. Can anyone can recommend any books on the subject?
This is the route I go, I used RespohNotes on a Windows box and nvAlt on OSX. Global hot-key and I'm typing, either searching for an existing note, or creating a new one.
I wonder if minecraft's financial success (after the initial stage where Persson couldn't have done it another way as the article argues) was because of the pricing model that bucked trends in the gaming world, signalling "this game is different", or if it was despite the difference?
"If Google Docs, Word or Github just takes the idea then your basically done for"

That is a very non-trivial task for any of those companies. Google could get closest fastest, but they're by no means going to churn something out in a month even if the good idea fairy hits one of their product managers. Microsoft, heck it'd take 3 years to see it.
I don't know ... that sounds like a pretty rare edge case.

Photos you usually want to share are JPGs and 'raring' them doesn't do much good in terms of space saving.

The only image files you'd like to compress are those that are taking too much space (tiffs, raw images, etc). And if you take the extra effort to put them into an archive it's likely that they are taking up really a lot of space.

Thus it's very very likely that even one of those images is too big to upload it to the internet (tens of megabytes if not more) with today's common end user internet connections.
Yeah. I want to learn Racket and my Haskell is very slowly advancing so I’m definitely down with Lisps etc.
A file-based wiki like dokuwiki wouldn't suffice the requirements, I suppose.
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Hrm.... It could just be me, but that color scheme really doesn't do it for me. Maybe use a different or at least lighter green?

I'm not a visual design kind of guy, but having white and black close to each other on the green background doesn't invite my eyes to read. It seems to make it so that I have to focus more on the text/images to get the content, more than I would with a more natural color choice.

For me, it certainly puts the infographic at a significant disadvantage. I may very well be a negligible subset of readers.
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Latvian and Marshallese is slightly more confusing, because Latvian commas are already called cedillas in the unicode names, despite not actually being cedillas.

Sure, they'll just extend by adding something like "MARSHALLESE CEDILLA" to refer to actual cedillas. But it still must be frustrating to discover areas where traditional orthographic names are ambiguous or even misleading.
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This was one of the first PC "open world" GTA style games where I spent more time trying to drive my monster truck up impossible obstacles and exploiting the game physics than I did ever racing.
I'm not sure it's related to work ethic or religious roots but it's certainly true that there was never a particular culture in the US of service whereby even people of fairly middle-class backgrounds had servants. And this has probably carried over to modern culture whereby people probably outsource fewer tasks like grass cutting, housecleaning, and so forth than they arguably should (whatever that word means in this context).

That said, a lot of people do outsource tasks like cooking--but they do so in different ways (like going to restaurants) rather than by explicitly hiring help.
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Eeeenteresting - I very much want to hear how this turns out.
In the credits he calls Evernote "slightly evil", anyone know why?
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Sorry to hear that Keith, I was rooting for you.

I too think you shouldn't give up. Just because there may be other competitors doing something similar -- even giants you feel you could never tackle -- doesn't mean you don't have something unique to offer that the competition doesn't.

Also, even if you don't topple the competition, who cares? If you have a product that others are interested in, your product has the ability to be much less successful and still yield you more of an income, just because you have much less overhead than the giants.

Worst case, you'll come out of it having gained a lot of experience -- you'll know the technology better, and will have learned some good life lessons. Then you'll be better prepared for the next YC app!
HP is making a pretty big push recently on their cloud service. Check out their contributions to fog, a popular ruby cloud-abstraction library: https://github.com/fog/fog/blob/master/changelog.txt

Anyone tried them? Experiences?
The browser already is a chat client for millions of people. It's called Facebook. So since the browser already is the only chat client tons of people use, why not make it a client for a Free/Open chat system instead of Facebooks chat system, that they control, censor, give access to to NSA, etc.
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I worked at Yum Brands when that version of the site was first created. It's much older than 2006 though.
>One alternative might be to have a security framework that offered the UAC prompt when a program actually attempted to do something that required elevation. I had thought that was the way UAC actually worked.

This is how it works in most cases, but it's different with access to directories inside "Program Files" folder: because it was a common behaviour in the past, there is a such feature as UAC virtualisation:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756960.aspx

>Prior to Windows Vista, many applications were typically run by administrators. As a result, applications could freely read and write system files and registry keys. If standard users ran these applications, they would fail due to insufficient access. Windows Vista improves application compatibility for standard users by redirecting writes (and subsequent file or registry operations) to a per-user location within the user’s profile. For example, if an application attempts to write to C:\Program Files\Contoso\Settings.ini, and the user does not have permissions to write to that directory, the write will get redirected to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\contoso\settings.ini. For the registry, if an application attempts to write to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Contoso\ it will automatically get redirected to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\VirtualStore\MACHINE\Software\Contoso or HKEY_USERS\UserSID_Classes\VirtualStore\Machine\Software\Contoso.
What do you think? Just because companies are raising hundreds of millions of dollars, doesn't mean we're in a bubble.
Check this out please :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2Gasb6QTg
You sure it is not just good quirks mode support?
Two Android apps I made on weekends. $50/mo ad revenue with just admob.
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For some definition of "buy" I suppose ... somehow I'm not picturing her Amazon account being suspended when her credit card expiration date passes.
While I certainly appreciate the attempt to create more competition in this market, as well as adding an open-source competitor, it has a ways to go before it will actually be a competitor. And it doesn't have a few features that I find incredibly invaluable as an Evernote user:

* Native UI and sync to every device under the sun. I have a Windows gaming desktop, a Macbook Air, iPad, and Windows Phone. Being able to access everything in Evernote across all devices is highly valuable to me.

* Indexing of documents and text in images. I'm the kind of person who still keeps a paper journal and pen with him at almost all times, which is finally starting to be replaced because of Evernote. They have an app for writing on the iPad which syncs with their service, and they later index all of my handwriting so I can search it. That is one of the most valuable things to me, and any competitor would have to do as well or better for me to want to switch.

* Hooks in with different types of apps. Such as Evernote Food. I love to cook and collect recipes, and I would need to be able to do something similar, easily, in any competitor. This also hooks in with the image text indexing, where I can take photos of recipes from my iPad and eventually I'll be able to search for the text in the recipe.

* Web clipper. I cannot even begin to express how valuable this is. There have been multiple times where I was able to find something I clipped from a couple years ago that I desperately needed. Or a recipe that I clipped, which I now can't find via search engine but is comfortably nestled in Evernote.

Don't take this as a downer comment. I love it when there is more competition, because it makes everyone step their game up. Meaning I get better quality of service, as well as everyone else who uses any of those services. It's a hard field you entered into, with a couple of great competitors. But keep up the hard work, and keep improving.
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Around that time I had a 17" display with 1024x768 resolution and it was considered quite good. This site is probably designed for 800x600.

edit: Did some math, DPI rose by about 30% since then, which is surprisingly not much.
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Better explain before the shitstorm: I find it a neat idea, but is is something like this possibly dangerous?
You do not need the full text for search. You can hash every word and search hashes.
I don't want it free. I will buy ST3.

Please open source it though.
Notch described what later became Minecraft in a 2009 youtube, calling it an 'Infiniminer clone' he was working on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9t3FREAZ-k
Blather. The Russian's are going to cyber-attack Obamacare with info from Snowden? What a bunch of fear-monger spew. Ollie, you have a ridiculously paranoid world view --which is probably why it was so easy for them to make you the fall guy for committing treason. By the way, remind me again why you and you compadres weren't hanged for that?