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Here is one thing about Excel that drive me crazy - you can't have 2 files with the same name open at once. Why? Because of a "calculation ambiguity".
Prior to using Snapchat, I truly wondered what the big deal was. Why is the valuation so high, and what value proposition does it offer? I'm certainly not an expert in the matter, but perhaps my observations can relay some insight to others who just can't seem to grasp it.

Snapchat is a tool that primarily allows a user to become closer to (1) acquaintances, and (2) existing friends who may have drifted away over time. Let's rephrase this a few ways to unveil the value. Snapchat is a communication tool that's useful for overcoming shyness. Snapchat allows users to break the ice, facilitate conversation, and overcome awkwardness. Snapchat allows the user to converse with acquaintances and distant friends that would otherwise be too awkward via other methods like texting, email, Facebook, etc.

In fewer words, Snapchat makes communication trivial.

Just Snap a picture of something, add some silly text or a drawing on top, and push it out to everyone. After all, what's the harm? The picture goes away, and if no one Snaps back it doesn't really matter. There's no evidence of a failed attempted communication, e.g., an un-responded email, text without a reply, comment on a wall without a Like or a response. In this way, Snapchatting is a lot like fishing. Cast your snaps, see which old friends or acquaintances reply, and strike a conversation, hang out, hookup, etc. later on.

The disposable aspect of Snapchat provides a new medium for conversation starting. You know what conversation leads to? Deeper friendships. And who's really interested in knowing who your friends are? If you aren't making "new friends" on Facebook, but elsewhere, you can see why Facebook might be startled. But that fear starts to compound when you consider aging relationships are being nurtured on Snapchat as well.

After all, if you aren't reconnecting with your current friends on Facebook, what good is it? All that's left is the News Feed and what everyone is up to. Hm. Enter Snapchat's "My Story" feature, where you can essentially create a 24-hour lasting Snap, very similar to status updates on Facebook. Interesting.

I'm not sure Facebook being cool or uncool has much to do with it. I suggest the bigger factor is being able to communicate with peers, despite shyness. Overcoming awkwardness, facilitating conversation with a lack of confidence, or whatever you want to call it... Snapchat is a layer below Facebook. Said another way, turning acquaintances into friends (Snapchat) pre-empts the need for maintaining friendships (Facebook).
Unsettling sure, but it's not hard to understand for the majority of the populace only the very privileged few.
No, the valid question is, "What can we do as a society to reduce the amount of homeless in the city?"

Asking about why a given location is the correct place to put them is not a valid question. Unless of course you're a sociopath who doesn't actually care about the well being of anyone other than yourself...
Yup, that link is definitely not propaganda.
I wonder how hard it is to get a TN visa (NAFTA)...
I ever saw the option "Dissolve the government and just leave everyone to their own devices," on a ballot, I'd be pretty paranoid about it being a trap that would put anyone who voted for it on some sort of special list.
My guess is desktop/laptop between 9am and 5pm
The interesting thing about that, is I can order Homeroom (a restaurant in Oakland) delivery, but not to my house, 10 blocks down Broadway
Does anyone doubt that Facebook actually offered $3billion and google $4billion? Could that have been done as hype?

Snapchat Landed Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton As An Investor, Board Member.
http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-sony-entertainment-c...
Do not wait 'a few weeks' before trying to get a social security number. You do have to be in the country for 10 days before you can apply, but apply immediately after that.

You can't be paid without a social security number.
I found out that this varies quite a bit based on your monitor. For example, on my newer Thinkpad, the yellow background really stands out. But on my desktop monitor (a 5 - 6 year old Samsung), it isn't noticeable at all, even with tilting the monitor.
Maybe he is contributing. Maybe he's just burning though millions of his investors dollars and will have nothing to show for it when the music stops. Those investors ultimately being pension funds, university endowments, charity trusts...
For one thing it has a much better box model than CSS/HTML, layouts are much nicer. It allows you to have a scripted UI in C++ apps, but there is no reason someone couldn't write a codegen to spit out HTML/CSS. There is already one called qmlweb but not sure if its maintained.

It also has bits of reactive programming so that value changes in variables propagate to uses of that variable, making it really easy to have fluid layouts, or to recalculate labels or similar. I like to think of it as a better presentation layer than HTML/CSS. I made a game 2 years ago using QML + JS [1]

[1] https://github.com/nikhilm/solarwolf-qml
I have seen tech companies move into a grungy area, which they get a discount on taxes and then go on thinking they are going to help the area, but instead push the problem elsewhere. I am sure some intelligent people in SF are actually trying to figure out a way to helping these people that have gotten into ruts or bad situations. Mainly my point is that if you don't like the city as is with all the craziness then find another city. These people more than likely have been here longer than most of the young techie people.
As far as desktop clients go, what does Excel have that Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc don't? Not including inertia.
Not really. It's a known problem since the dawn of computing: How do you control multiple users accessing a binary file cleanly over the network?

The solutions that are generally accepted as the right solutions are:

1. Version control systems. So in this case, SVN or Sharepoint (yes it is a version control system for documents).

2. Collaborative editing.

3. Synchronisation.

In favour of point 1 which I always suggest using, history is possible to tie to a user always, centrally controlled, archivable on your own site, actually really easy to manage and allows people to work entirely offline. It scales to mega-sized documents as well. Imagine our typical formal specs (sorry we're too finicky about quality to do agile) which are 200-280 pages long in Google Docs?

Point 2 can lead to odd corruption. If you've ever actually done any collaborative editing with 2 or more people on Google docs or dealt with the crock of shit that is Numbers or Pages and iCloud on the Mac you'll know where I'm coming from.

Point 3 is just the transport layer for 2 and 1. OneNote does this, very well.

So the point is moot. Just because it complains at you that you're doing it wrong, doesn't mean the technical solution doesn't require some work on your part.
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That's interesting data. Incognito ["portrait quilts"] and it doesn't rank on the first two pages for me, which is why I felt safe putting in my comment in the first place.

Maybe it's a quibble, but most humans don't put quotes in their search terms.
Dev here. Moved from OSX to Ubuntu a year ago. Love not having to agree-click ULAs all the time. Setting up dev stacks is very often so much easier and better documented. Working with open source software to develop open source projects is very enjoyable and very often I feel this is just the beginning of something very profound.

With proprietary OSes I constantly have the feeling of banging against elaborately engineered limitations. This feels so counter-productive. Instead of producing something great why not spend incredible amounts of work-years on creating artificial limitations for the users, right. No thanks.

In other words I like my computers to be general:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
because if someone said, hey go to this site "trycilantro" to help find jobs - I would immediately have an aversion to it and the likelihood of me going there would be lower. I would also have an aversion to try helping out on that site.

You've lost ~10% of your client base right there.
or you know $22 a month for office365.
Java SE. Scala. Kotlin. Groovy. Clojure. If it's on the JVM, it works. (If you are expecting to use it for application-server development, there's no problem in expecting enterprisey-you to pay the man.)
I thought that was exactly the point of the name? Some people would really enjoy working at company x, some wouldn't. Just like cilantro..
Interesting. I thought it was the opposite direction. Since the nature of a snap is short term, people are more likely to pay attention because it will be gone. Thoughts?
The actions of Snowden are far more likely to cause war than stop it. Some of Francis' actions are more cause to stop "holy war" than anything else.
Aerial photography using kites
Chameleons Use Colorful Language To Communicate
Which JSON-based email standard would that be, exactly?
Might get better response here: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues
(link at bottom of page)
We have past/current employees who have agreed to help out on the site for now. We imagine that we will expose some cred/job status later to indicate what type of background they have. But the anonymous aspect is something we'd like to keep since people tend to be more honest. Any feedback about that would be great!
You just made me a Snapchat user. Installing it now.
That homeless person, or welfare mom, or drug addict is a human being. Why don't you try looking at them that way for a change?
Exactly. It's very rare that they take all the money off the table, but it's enough to easily pay the bills, while still leaving them with enough of a stake to shoot for the moon.
We Found a 20-Year-Old T-Shirt In Kenya. The Internet Found The Original Owner
Actually this is a hang back from the COM interface. There is a Name property which is used to uniquely identify the document.

To be fair, I don't think I've ever had a problem with this unless I was being thrown Sheets/Docs via email which is a really bad thing to do to start with. Email is not a suitable document archival system!

Right tool for the job, or it's: http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm
Man this kind of attitude pisses me off to no end. This privileged way of thinking that anyone who is less well off must have a flaw in their character or their morality.

If you took the time to talk to "those people" you would likely find that more often than not they are victims of circumstance out of their control, plain and simple.

Just as much as the supposed "wizards" of new tech startups are in reality about 90% lucky and 10% self determined.
If there is a lesson to be learnt, it is that one should be humble about the notion of being the first to invent anything. I'm pretty sure the many of the concepts expressed in these texts go further back in time without any record. Everything is an addition or evolution of the past, regardless of whether it is explicitly or wittingly so.
Well, so it is.

It doesn't make it less bullshitty. It changes that fact that it wasn't only a zealous fan driving up some excitement, they are doing it themselves. Well,I don't like it. I don't like when tech companies selling to developers mislead them or make over-inflated statements. Let 2am infomercials do that. MongoDB was (is?) in the same category, and I don't trust them and don't like their product.

Can you imagine Linus writing the new kernel version announcement like that -- "This kernel release will run anywhere. It will radically change how you look at the world. It might bring about peace too". What over-inflated claims do is break trust. If they are marketing for non-technical people, yes general statements work. Marketing to other technical people using claims like that is patronizing and disappointing.
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Exactly how I see it, Google sheets is adequate for my useage and if I need more then I can download a .xlsx or .csv and do more but so far, for my use case, that's unnecessary.
I've had to slow down the polling so i don't overload the blockchain.info api. Bids should be showing up though. Email me at jon@jonb.org if it isn't
I take it you have never been to SF. I have no problem helping any child, no matter the circumstances, and there are a lot of homeless with mental illness, but there is also a large cadre of professional vagabonds. Guiliani should run for mayor of SF.
You might want to color calibrate.
Completely missing the problem.

The problem i'm talking about is more in the case of some company distributing a large phonebook for the city, which includes all stores and people, information they gathered by downloading public city records.

So people start using this phonebook all the time, and for most citizens, it's the only way they can find your business.

But on day the phonebook company, decides for an uknown reason to delist a business.

When the store then contacts the phone company, they are reached with a voicemail, every time they try to contact.
The store knows some friends who know the owner of the phonebook company, but the guy they know refuse to comment on it.

What the hell is the store supposed to do? The entire city is so hooked on the phonebook company, because they give them free phone lines, and all sorts of seemingly free stuff, which is really just feeding drugs to the addict.

How does this not stink far away of antitrust?
The phonebook is actively working to keep its users with free stuff, so that they keep using them, and enables them to extort the phone store to have to pay the phonebook company for getting them listed again.
What do you mean by "never need the Inquisition"? The CIA/DIA/NSA Inquisition has been happening 24x7 for years now; we just haven't been privy to it.
Presumably a joke originally, but suddenly relevant: http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-is-spider-pooping-a...
We have many non technical users doing just fine with TortoiseSVN on windows...

If it's a command line app they'd be lost so that might be the basis of your argument.
Thanks! We definitely want to be able to have more relevant matches in the future as we scale and grow.
I wonder if they tried to resubmit their site to the index?
Oh, to be clear, I am one of the folks that didn't finish it. :) While at work I need a passive experience more than an active one.

I just happen to think it is probably a smarter idea than a video.
Spent a few minutes looking at the site. Looks to me like it was hit by Google's Penguin 2.0 update [1] that targeted sites that had low quality links pointing in to their domain (in particular inner pages).

Probably not the sisters fault, but the site has done a lot of reciprocal linking in the past which Google really frowns upon nowadays. There's prominent page on her site featuring some of those links: http://www.portraitquilts.com/info/links

She also has some links from pages that are selling or exchange links to spam/escort sites:

http://www.iwr.com/gifts/crafts.html http://www.livebusinessradio.com/trade/recip.cgi

Again, probably not her fault. Google is doing their job but with so much misinformation about SEO and link building out there it is easy for people to accidentally get themselves in trouble.

If anybody is curious, I used ahrefs to pull in the backlinks to the site: https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/refdomains/subdomains/www.p...

There are some other examples of link spam in there. Penguin would be my guess after a quick check.

[1]http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2279845/Googles-Penguin...
Have you used Google Docs collaboratively with another person? While I type, I see what you're typing.

If you instead use Excel files stored on the network, and you and I want to "collaborate" on a document, at best we're ping-ponging the file back and forth to each other. Sometimes we collide, and have to Merge - which is very painful if we've made any kind of extensive changes.

Suggesting Sharepoint / SVN is a reasonable solution to how to collaborate is like suggesting one telegraph system over another. It's not remotely the same thing, at all.

Office 365 is much better, granted. But the SkyDrive interface is no better (and in many ways worse) than Google Docs.
That's not true - the price you set is the max price you're willing to pay. If your price is higher than the current spot price, you pay the current spot price. The blog post author must be mistaken somehow.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Valve: First version of SteamOS to be released to the masses on Friday
SteamOS will be downloadable December 13th
i have no problem admitting this to my friends, snapchat is currently my favorite app on my phone. most people i tell that to dont understand and think im a creep, and they are the ones who have never used it.

however with that being said: the app is free and has no ads.... they must have some crazy ideas in stock.
Or its just primarily used for sexting.
I don't think anybody's worried about making rent:

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/12/snapchat_cofounder_jus...
The last data I had seen (when I'd voted), had Miley Cyrus ahead by millions of votes. When did Snowden jump ahead? Was that 4chan "to the rescue"?
Oh, sorry, no, everything you said made sense. I'm hazarding a guess that we read the same Thomas Pornin Stack Exchange comment. :)
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I so wish karma was a real thing when I see comments like this from people who, when it really comes down to it, contribute nothing of meaningful or lasting value to society and blithely ignore all the blind luck that got them where they are.

The same luck that, flipped the other way, probably accounts for a great many of the homeless people that they bitch about.
Mr. Cringely might start helping his sister by removing the completely unrelated link to his sister's site from his own, or at least mark it "nofollow".

It's really interesting reading the rantings of the grossly misinformed, especially when they are able to dismiss the entire industry of search engine optimization as "bullshit". I bet if the tone of his article was different, he would have dozens of SEOs willing to diagnose the problem and giving tips on how to fix the issues. Oh well, maybe he should get in tighter with Eric Schmidt, so he can personally take a look at the writer's wife's photo pillow website.

The entitlement is so rich.
It's interesting, if you consider the wealth disparity of SF to something like Cape Town I imagine it's something similar. As such it's hardly surprising that they've both got a problem with beggars and such. I can imagine it'd be vastly more profitable to be a beggar in a relatively rich city than a poor city. It's a similar case for drug dealing

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cape-cbd-is-honey-pot...
No net neutrality in the air at least...
World Leaders meeting to sign off on international pact to censure the internet
Such as firing the methane clathrate gun.
seriously... this?

#define RSTRING_EMBED_LEN_MAX ((int)((sizeof(VALUE)*3)/sizeof(char)-1))

explain "3" in terms of your comp sci 101 divine computer law... Ok I get itttt "len/ptr/capa/shared". I've never written an interpreter so I can't rewrite the implementation myself, but I've worked with Rails enough to know that Ruby's is terribly inefficient, and these are problems created in it's abstraction from C, not inherent to C. Maybe this RString case is a minor issue, but it seems to me to lack some rigorousness, to be a performance leak. It's one of those things that makes you wonder "What Would Linus Do?". Although I do understand the points about including it AT ALL to be "free gain, little loss" and the language can't be C, but sometimes I don't know....

Just admit that maybe something is wrong here. Please. you'll be the first Rubyist ever, the dawn of a golden era. I've been intrigued more and more by the Lisp community because many of those devs seem to have a philosophical unwillingness to compromise performance and proper engineering, whereas in Ruby people get mad at you for not embracing the compromises!! Geez.

Hint: writing "Hint:" and then saying something really obvious that you learned from the article we all just read makes you sound craaaaaazy obnoxious

(Incidentally, it's issues like this that make me thank my lucky stars I do my web work on the JVM now.)
Speaking of irrationality of fears, people are so obsessively frightened with the idea of "mad scientists" doing weird genetical experiment that goes wrong, and in the same time completely ignore the far more realistic horror stories that are almost imminent, like bacterias becoming widely immune to all known antibiotics...
AWS is adding an upper limit to spot price bids of 4X the on-demand cost, as of December 20:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spo...

This may be in response to some of the crazy bids we've seen on the spot market since people started using it for mining.
That you would put single mothers on welfare in a group with drug dealers and muggers, and claim that what this guy does is a lot of work, merits appreciation, and makes him better, is disgusting. I'm going to stop there because I don't want to regret what I'd say if I didn't.
Here is who is investing in Europe & doing it well
If I recall correctly, the latest change Google made to PageRank penalizes her for using meta tags the way she does.

edit: Also just realized she doesn't have a robots.txt.

edit2: Gauthier's comment (December 11, 2013 at 7:24 am) on that article sums up the problems pretty well.
Serious question: Why would you sign up for the delivery with all of your information but not for the loyalty card?
According to this[1], you can use PCRE in gmail search, but I'm having mixed results.

1: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/2433/wildcard-sea...
Could iPhone 6 be CURVED? Apple granted patent for convex screen
based on how misinformed the author was in general on the subject, I think its more likely the site dropped off the first few pages of results. Since it still came up when you search for the domain, it can't be deindexed.
Thanks, I'll add some of these notes later. I was also pinged about UWaterloo's unofficial guide earlier today and it's listed in links, overall good stuff about living and practicalities.

I know that J1 process is relatively simple compared to other visa types but it still takes a lot of time. I originally wrote this guide as I couldn't find a good resource and I was the first student from my school to get the J1 for a startup internship.
I don't quite get how "working class" got into the mix. I see that there must have been some cohesion to his original rant since it was linked to income disparity, but what does that have to do with homeless beggars exactly?

To me a discussion about the homeless doesn't entail a discussion about the "working class" or vice versa.

Just a little confused here...
Linode, DigitalOcean, etc
DST/Milner
People will pay attention to it, but there isn't as high of a pressure to respond, in contrast to a Facebook wall post or message.
This is trivializing to the point of absurdity. When it comes to doing business on the Internet in the English-speaking world, Google is the basket. It's the only basket. I wish it weren't, but it is.

And so, yes, pretty much everyone is reliant on them to be good stewards of the power they possess. (Whether they are or not is orthogonal to that the quilter in question has a pretty good reason to feel like they aren't.)
It isn't available in Santa Clara, so it's certainly not the whole peninsula.