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I'm a teenager in the UK and Facebook has most certainly not died. it seems to me that people do use it less now but that may just be due to growing up (no more farmville etc.). However, Facebook is still heavily used for setting up events, sharing photos, and messaging people. The reason why facebook is so good at all of these things? Because everyone has Facebook. If I need to ask a friend something, There are several ways to ask them:

- Text: Might not have their number, have to pay, it's only available on their phone, not on their computer

- WhatsApp (or similar): They may not have it, I may not be their contact, only available on their phones

- SnapChat: Hard to hold a conversation with someone

- Instagram: Great for sharing photos, not for communicating

- Facebook: Am Friends with everyone I will need to contact. Easy to use. They receive it on their phone and computer (more likely to see it sooner). Free.

Facebook may lose some interest from people but I'm sure it will be around for a long time, at least until the large majority of people have moved to another platform where they can communicate
Just wanted to recommend reading more Pratchett. :) I bought a couple more novels last week and couldn't help but finish one (Equal Rites) less than twenty four hours later.
Yeah, it's iOS+OSX only.
Anarchist community inspired by Ayn Rand? Fck me, revisionist history is seemingly having a renaissance with regards to former socialist concepts that is now apparently right-wing - libertarian and anarchist.
Most critics of JavaScript don't know the good parts[1]. Sure, JavaScript has problems, but convention and static analysis fixes a lot of it. In addition, you can use something like TypeScript if you don't prefer dynamic typing. And it must be said that JavaScript does some things better than C++/C#/Java, e.g. functions. These languages are only now starting to catch up.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
Isn't this more complicated than that? Declaring you've 'Seceeded' doesn't mean a new state is created/recongnized; there's a county in Iowa that 'seceeded' but it didn't change anything. Just sayin, how many people on the street know about anything but their hometown much less than the internal politics of Ireland.
Depends on the measurement company, but it's normally a mix between ISPs, browser toolbars and panels.
Thats well quite as expected. But I think out of those 493K, most is from the blogs posting their penalty news. This might go even lower !
They recruited bloggers and offered to tweet links to their posts in exchange for putting code linking to RG pages on their blog. It was on here a few days ago and Google quickly removed them from 1st page search results as punishment.
...for iOS only.
Woof! You got me there. I'm a dog, because then of course it makes perfect sense to you when I say I am a 37 year old male :)
The example you think was exaggeration was when someone told me to check a recent patch for the answer, and the patch was several thousand line of low level C. Worse case, sure, but an actually thing that did happen.

I have used the python django IRC channel when developing some sites, and "check the source" has been the most common answer when I run into walls. Usefully, the questions I make receives some basic "see if the documentation say something" which I had of course already done, and then after a few hours of silence, someone says "check the source". This was a 3-4 years ago so maybe it has been improved?

It is true that I don't go to an IRC channel except when documentation and extensive testing has failed to produce an answer. Maybe the smugness and lack of empathy is more a product of asking questions that are not easily answered?
Was about to write a similar response. In the end they will walk away with the penalty removed, and hundreds of links from bloggers talking about this story. While the links may not be the highest of quality in terms, they will still be links from sites like TechCrunch, The Verge, and many others with high PR scores. The story will die down over the next couple days and then I am sure we will see another influx of stories as their ranking increases again, providing more links to their domain again.
lol its too early...friends = threads :)
Google just proved all that when someone breaks their laws they punish him, even if it's a YC company.

Who knows maybe because they are a well funded YC company Google decided to make an example out of them and won't forgive them so quickly.
I believe they are meant to license the lyrics although accordingly to this article many don't: http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/11/rap-genius-and-other-l...
its way too early to be friends as well, lets wait a few days.
I have to agree - if anything there is a greater move away from JavaScript towards native platforms, although I think that C# via Unity and Xamarin.iOS/Xamarin.Android is gaining significant popularity. C++ does technically work on both iOS and Android, but I think its use outside of games is fairly small - Google has bold text on the NDK download page saying it won't be useful for many applications and Xcode's support isn't anywhere near as good as its support for Objective-C.
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No. This diagram is depicting the creation of a shared secret for symmetric communication. PGP is asymmetric.

I tell you what. Do you have a PGP keypair? Post your public key here (the one you would host on a public keyserver) and I'll show you a short script that can encrypt information that only you can read using your private key. It will use no other keypair besides your own public key.
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Yeah, you're right, missing this makes them incompetent.

Does that word have any meaning at all anymore? It seems like everyone who isn't an amazing brilliant self-made billionaire is incompetent. Oh wait, I forgot, we were discussing the incompetence of a bunch of amazing brilliant self-made billionaires... So I guess it's everybody now.
I posted it more for the response on HN, not so much the email itself.
Ha, no.
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This is a pretty insightful (and funny and depressing) article. That said, using these approaches can be quite dangerous because you can end up annoying someone with clout. A simpler and safer way to be overrated is simply to do the following:

1) Attend all meetings, ideally be slightly early OR slightly late (and apologetic) but not on-time. One creates the impression you're punctual and eager, the other that you're super busy and important -- so mix it up. If you're always early then you clearly have nothing to do. If you're always late then you're simply disorganized.

2) Reply to all emails within 30-60 minutes (NOT immediately because that increases the probability of an immediate reply). 30 minutes is plenty of time for the sender to get bored and work on something else, e.g. updating Facebook. Ideally if you're being asked to do something you should either request more information or somehow hand it off to a colleague (or, if it's really easy, just do it -- unless you actually enjoy screwing with people). This will create the impression that you are totally on top of things and never the bottleneck.

3) There's no third thing. You're done. You can now rise to the top of virtually any organization. Obviously, it helps to have some clue as to what's going on (e.g. what project you're on and what your role is supposed to be -- your emails should at least make sense in context).

All the other stuff mentioned in the article is great if it works, but potentially lethal if you screw the wrong person. E.g. claiming credit may work great in the short term, but it will make you enemies. Remember, some people in the organization may give a damn or know something. Why take the risk? Just show up to meetings and answer emails. People will assign you credit for modesty if nothing else.

I might add that if you do this stuff, and -- if only to avoid boredom -- pay some attention during meetings, actually read the emails you respond to, and try to be reasonable when you say or write something, you'll actually be a way-above-average contributor to many bureaucracies.
I can, I can deal with overly verbose maps or shifting variables off @_ but Ruby provides some similar features to Perl 6 right now. That is an advantage on its part. It's just not compelling enough to make me switch as Perl can do most of the rest just fine.
Nonsense. For Android it is NDK (which is why it is possible to build nice apps, like FB client) which is C[++], for iOS it is ObjC. Other platforms cannot be considered seriously in 2014.
Could they simply pay Google $$$ to fix this issue?
I'm sorry, do we really think that Christmas is an accurate sample day? L2Math.
...and you get free health care. I wouldn't complain.
+1 on this comment. We have someone like this. Slight competency and unproductive. His political manipulation (good competency there) damages the team's overall productivity and cohesion. Thankfully the people on top seem to have woken up to this - we are not in the US though, so no easy way to get rid of him.
...and he said "no thanks" because he does not approve of RG's past behavior. They persisted. And then he said no again in verse form. That's pretty much the whole story.
Yep, you can already get a 39" 4k TV that can serve as a monitor for $499:

http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/d...

But it can only do 30Hz at 4K due to its limted inputs. You can game on it at 1080p@60Hz (hopefully without any scaling issues since 4K has exactly 4 pixels for every 1080p pixel).
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Criminal, sports, and academic concerns are all governed by bodies that impose those sanctions. When Google imposes a sanction they are the judge, jury, and executioner.

Since Google offers a public service and is owned by public shareholders, this poses somewhat of a problem....especially when you consider their marketshare and whether or not such sanctions offers them a competitive advantage.
BBC had a 20% visitor increase after adding responsive design to it's website
In one of the other threads, some stated that Google do not have monopoly status. The claim they used was that google only has 25% of the search market.

This topic is interesting because it shows how much in a monopoly status google really is in in controlling where traffic goes on the net.
Its example where trick of growth hacking went wrong!
Maybe this?

> Moscow voiced outrage over the arrest of a Russian national in the Dominican Republic and his swift transfer to a US jail without Russia’s consent or knowledge last month.
What's a legitimate site? Plenty of sites most people would call "legitimate" like high profile blogs or ecommerce sites engage in activity that's frowned upon by Google. The fact that some unwanted behaviour was no longer rewarded isn't exactly a penalty.

What RapGenius (also a legitimate site in the sense that they're not scammers and providing an useful service) did wasn't just unwanted behaviour but specifically forbidden. And yes, they're far from alone in what they did. Which is exactly why Google is making an example out of them.

I know, it sucks, all your competitors doing similar things forces you to choose between taking this risk and never making it in the first place. But that's exactly why it's a good thing Google is making a stand and setting an example.

It's a move towards a level playing field where nobody is making the internet a worse place by engaging in tricks like link farming rather than a level playing field where everyone is doing it and the end user suffers the consequences.
Ministry of Truth.
God, that Braun website is terrible... I'd love to have a crack at making it an amazing piece of design - there is sooooo much you could do with it!
What about writing cross-platform UIs using HTML/JS for those parts that must display content (not necessary from web)?
Seriously. Using even a relatively crummy PHP framework like CodeIgniter feels like heaven compared to the burdensomeness and complexity of spring/hibernate. Need a new controller, a few new models, and a couple new views? You can get that done in a snap in any reasonable MVC framework but with spring you'll be pulling teeth and it'll feel like a good day's work if you can get the skeleton working.
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Can anyone with knowledge of both countries compare and contrast this with India? It seems like there are quite a few similarities.
Very nice. You should either open-source it or do a write up on how you made it. As a newbie to web development, I'd love to read it.
Save your cuss words to your dictionary with the "Tap again to save option". That's what I do with swift key and it just works. Sorry you can cuss in your text messages.
I understand wanting to also track popular SBT plugins, but the title of the post says its about "Libraries" yet includes things like sbt-idea.
Same here. I am in no way affiliated with Fluther other than being a user and Panda completely screwed them. I think they got screwed because Mahalo scraped their RSS feed to steal their content while providing links to the original content. So there was a thousand links going to Fluther from a shithole of a site.
The most recent retina macbook pros have serious driver problems with 4k monitors. Yes, after the December update too.

Here's my Amazon review of a Seiki 4k display: http://www.amazon.com/review/R4OJ5D5RPILCH
This is the best PR stunt ever.
Oscar Bluth, anyone?
Hah - what a joke. Stopped reading when I got to the second line: “[Javascript's] ability to render rich results from lightweight, simple-to-learn languages has made it a natural fit for mobile’s speed of development,” according to Appcelerator." I take it the developers polled for this article are the ones on Appcelerator's mailing list...
I had a similar experience in a startup founded by ex-googlers.
I am guessing you are not as popular with fans as Iron Maiden. I saw them numerous times as a teenager, and they certainly seemed to enjoy the response they got from the crowds.

(Go on surprise me and prove me wrong - let me know you are in a band that is well known).
Many of them just make it up:

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...
You're forgetting VAT (20% in GB) is included in the price in GB/EU.
I think this is exactly it.

Their affect is another example of cultural appropriation of "urban" culture by three very affluent guys (Stanford & Yale grads), which I think turns a lot of people off, including myself. As someone who genuinely grew up in that culture, it is painfully cringe worthy and just sad to see people who have no background in it adopt it. Their Disrupt interview was a genuine display of the generally awkward douchebaggery that comes from that appropriation.

So when I see folks like this do poorly because of arrogance, it is indeed schadenfreude.
#3 definitely is why there is so much enthusiasm running around regarding their punishment
They reached number one in the UK a number of times from what I remember in the early 90's. As such they would have been played on the charts radios shows.
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Ok, It's good that you are working in an opt out, but how about of an opt in?, many developers don't have a public profile to scrape their abilities..
While I think as a concept it's absolutely great, I'm still not that happy with their actual results and performance. Things have certainly improved over the last years, with iOS moving closer towards Android by using flat design.

If you're targeting high end devices (which is easier when targeting iOS than Android) it's probably pretty good for UI stuff. The problem usually lies with the lower end Android handsets. That said, most of these pure HTML/JS apps are pure junk when comparing them to a well developed native app. Depends what the business objectives of the app are, I guess.
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You're putting Mother Teresa into other people's mouths.

If there is large unemployment, and lots of people need work, is it morally better to spend $1,000 hiring one person or $500 each for 2 people, or $100 each for 10 people?
Worse happened to Quickmeme when they were banned from reddit for bot-voting.
Maybe after that they'll read about Rand's actual life.
Funnily, that gives idea that how much traffic bing contribute.
As an additional question: Are there any Macs with support for two such monitors?
I kinda like this idea. But I wonder if it overly penalizes people who are bad at or fearful of public speaking.

Have you heard of any organizations that implement something like this?
Doesn't work in Chrome on a tablet. Start drawing zoomed to some a flipped view of the backside and there is no space bar to tap without a text field.

Hacks for desktop only is understandable but increasingly a niche area to target first.
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It's largely a UK/US-ism I think. It's inappropriate in not-America to say you're male. "Male" just means you're an animal with dangly bits.

US doctor: "A 24 year old male presents with..."

UK doctor: "A 24 year old man presents with..."
Then it doesn't matter since they will clearly burn in non-techie hell.
Has RapGenius been getting away with cloaking?
This is a type of URL that RapGenius ranked very well for before the assassination: http://rapgenius.com/35640/The-notorious-big-suicidal-thoughts/I-like-black-timbs-and-black-hoodies

That page, along with many others for every song, 301s back to the full song for a user with an anchor for the specific line/note.

However, Google keeps the URL that redirects as a top search result and keeps a text only cache that looks like this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://rapgenius.com/35640/The-notorious-big-suicidal-thoughts/I-like-black-timbs-and-black-hoodies&strip=1

If this isn't cloaking, why is Google keeping a URL that 301s in their SERPs, giving it top ranking, and keeping a separate cache?
That is as much as anything likely to be a marketing / damage limitation exercise as anything (Look shiny new pin pads with "Super Secure" written on them)

But I am still confused as to who stored encrypted PIN numbers and why.
What surprises me is that there _are_ 10,000 Scala projects on GitHub, to start with. https://github.com/search?q=scala&ref=cmdform shows 12,757, of which 9,062 for the language.

I won't nitpick about that 10%, but even 9,000? GitHub definitely has changed the meaning of 'project'. I think there must be quite a few almost clones in there or very small projects. For comparison, the BSD ports tree (http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html) claims 24,330 ports. I don't believe there's a third of that amount of Scala code available (corrections welcome)
Some people should read what you wrote there, this is very important.

Thanks
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> Criminal, sports, and academic concerns are all governed by bodies that impose those sanctions. When Google imposes a sanction they are the judge, jury, and executioner.

Actually, in all of those cases, the judge and executioner (and, usually, the legislature making the rules) are all employees of the same organization. In some cases there is a separate jury as a finder of fact (e.g., in criminal cases in the US and countries similar legal systems), though in sports and academic cases there may well not be, depending on the particular rules of the particular organization.
It's actually kind of bullshit too. It's in a similar vein to the joy people have in many of the 'Facebook is no longer popular among 14-16 year old' posts. These sites provide a valuable service, just because you don't like them doesn't justify being (in the parlance of the youth) a hater.
Is there any hope for less softonic results now?
Perhaps I'm nerdly enough to go to the Terry Pratchett part of the story first.

This really reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Igor clan. I discovered this amiable race in The Fifth Elephant. Igors are a people inspired from the typical hunchbacked Igor archetype, but in Discworld, they are also self-modifiers. Their bodies consist of mixed and matched and patched and swapped body parts among other members of their clan, of scars and self-adjustements. They are infinitely self-improving, self-experimenting. They might end up with a botched job and have to hobble around for a few days, but in the end it’s always fixable.

And they lisp.

Pratchett litters his books with lots of unexpected gems - I view it like Easter Eggs for books. Could he have possibly added the lisp on purpose???
Why do people think that they will have access to the Internet and there will be massive amounts of excess computing power to waste if the world economy collapses? Computers and the Internet are luxuries that exist because basic physical needs are met. As soon as the Internet fails for any length of time for a given person, that person will refuse to rely on the Internet for anything until the world economy is back together, if it gets back together. In the event of collapse, it will be necessary to rely on local, physical things rather than the complex, interconnected global system we have now.
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Funny article, but don't people see through this very quickly? Folks that don't play well with others get found out very quickly.
Like nobody posting to Facebook in the morning, combined with completely crashing Steam in the afternoon.
Thats a huge drop. How accurate is Quantcast?
Agreed. Most people don't realize that is was Gavin, along with the other early devs (including Satoshi), who took what was a brilliant prototype and turned it into a very solid, multiplatform piece of software.

For example, Bitcoin didn't even run on Linux at first -- it was developed by Satoshi on Windows and had a lot of Windows-specific code despite the use of wxwidgets for UI.
Some people [1] [2], have coined "Citation Nazi" , analogous to Grammar Nazi.

[1] http://www.bigbible.org/blog/2008/05/citation-nazis-get-u2_0...

[2] http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=2998
Yeah, that interview is like the definition of the word 'tool'.
accidental one!
And it's actually sold for around 1100 €: http://geizhals.de/dell-ultrasharp-up2414q-a1039346.html
Why exactly is that bad? Decompiling is a common tool, not only on Android. And however, Android notices that the app is signed differently, so it's still secure.
I really hope that this is true, but I'll believe it when I see some more IPOs. I'm a very big cultural fan of Japan, but they seem to struggle with technology entrepreneurship. There is a tradition of small business owners and apprenticeships, but relative to their size, they have very few breakout enterprise software firms. Perhaps it's because the large firms prefer to deal in their own networks?
Production isn't regulated, only its sale, in small amounts. It's better than nothing, but it's still screwed up. If you want to run a coffee shop, you can safely sell weed without fear of getting in trouble (as long as you don't sell to minors and don't sell large amounts). However, you still need to buy what you sell. Growing it is illegal (and prosecuted), buying it is illegal (and prosecuted). Worse, if you decide not to grow it yourself (and that surely is the safest option), the only place you can buy it from is organised criminals.

The sad part here is that the majority of current big parties appear to lean towards criminalizing drugs entirely again, rather than follow Uruguay's lead and regulate or nationalize marihuana production.
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>Ireland has come through its bail-out and cuts with exemplary fortitude and calm

That's not quite "resilient example to us all." I know that the Economist supports the kind of destruction that's been visited on the Irish economy, but they're not mentioning it here.