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This is too bad. Most of the other SEO-spam tactics (paid links, affiliate networks, etc) were pretty clearly destined to be spam traps and invite Google's wrath. Unfortunately, one of the things I thought was best about content marketing and guest blogging was that it encouraged founders and experts to find where the audience was that would appreciate their product, and create high quality content explaining why it mattered. Many have written about how founders can be tempted to stay in and wait for customers to come to them, but a guest blog could help bridge that gap, as they can stay in while still finding customers, and honing their message (plus the comments to these are often really valuable wells of feedback from people you may not have been able to reach before).

Here's hoping for a happy medium here.
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Do as the people who use Google want (I'll give you that they have a big influence on that). But come on, spammy guest post SEO hacks are not something in any Google user's interest.
Right. Same goes for VentureBeat, TechCrunch and every other major web publication out there that solicits guest posts. And not all of them are of great quality, either. Many come across as nothing more than thinly veiled advertisements that wouldn't look out of place on Ezinearticles or somewhere similar.

I understand what Matt's getting it with this decree but it's very hard to selectively enforce this in a way that doesn't come off as favoritism towards big brands.
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I was trying to build WRF from source a few years ago for a project in grad school, and the bulk of the program was one giant file that crashed gfortran when you tried to compile it. So compiling with a non-Intel compiler can present some problems.
Thank you for that — it's a shame someone belonging to the same professional group as you advised King to do something stupid and provocative. I really wish sanctions from Bar associations were stronger when it comes to empowering large clients to bully others in spite of common sense.
I totally agree. It's not that new tools need to be made for the existing brokers, but new companies need to completely redefine what a "real estate agent" looks like and does. Only then will then will regulation come close to catching up with most industries.
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Welcome to the world of Wired articles. They seem to have a formula of taking open source projects which are interesting in their own right and sensationalizing and overblowing them to ridiculous proportions.
Yep, but it isn't how the market for developer skills works. Seems like there's probably a reason companies do it the way they do.
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a typical person (does not)time travels (Fringe) or busts into high security research facilities (Sherlock). Of course the typical person does not drive Acura (Thor), so what is the point - Product placement is what it is. A company product trying to get eye-balls - for some reason if Microsoft does it - its a heinous crime. They are paying money for the shows - and you as a "freeware" consumer have to put up with it.
It's easier to go after authors. My (possibly naive) hope is that they are working really hard on evaluating content (Arguably G+'s social signals are the most important input for this), and they'll move towards that as they improve. High quality guest blogging is fantastic, and it would be sad to see it vanish because of this.
It's about solving problems
They only started caring about power consumption when
it was already obvious to everyone that ARM is going to
pose a threat to them eventually.

I'm being a bit pedantic, but it seems to me they refocused on power consumption beginning with the launch of the Pentium M (forerunner of the Core and Core 2 lines) which was released in 2003 and was surely in development several years before that.

Or do you think they were thinking ahead to ARM already in ~2001 or so? Maybe they were... although I think they were thinking about targeting laptop sales in general at that point, not ARM specifically.
His title should really be "The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO" because guest blogging is still relevant for traffic, awareness, thought leadership, reaching new audiences, etc.

So while it may no longer a worthwhile SEO strategy, guest blogging still has some other PR-related upsides to consider.
While Fezes, as (s)he said means faeces in Portugues, FEZ does not mean that. It actually means:

1. Did
2. Made
3. Built

From the verb FAZER (to build, to do, to make), third person (ele/he) of 'Preterito Perfeito do indicativo'
Well if you feel like you're bored with mundane stuff you could do what I do and take contract work. Most people think it's terrible and occasionally you get some bad companies but most of the time I am hired for a specific project and it's only 3-6 months so I can get everything in place, if I like them maybe clean up a bit of their technical debt, and then find another contract before the boredom sets in.

Other than that I take a ton of wellbutrin instead of adderall. It's ostensibly for depression but the side effect of the extended release tabs is it acts like a mild upper for about 12 hours.

I've never been able to get past the part where I feel like meditation is wasting my time. Other people I know who have this issue mostly beat themselves up at the gym 4-5 times a week. I've spent some time trying that in the past and it helped a little if I took care of it in the morning before work.
Bejeweled itself wasn't very original. Game industry has a whole category for those: “Match 3”. CC and Bjw were close within that group, but not enough not to argue that the minor differences where not par for the widespread :cough: ‘hommage’ standard of the industry.

Trade mark has the benefit of addressing names, i.e. word search in the App store.
> Since then Intel settled the lawsuit by paying $10M and agreeing to add the following disclaimer to their compilers

Is it just me or does that not actually fix the problem?
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I would say it 'was' not it is. The amount of legacy java does not speak that its better right now. Only that it was better (or persived to be better) in the past. The argument for perseption vs actual 'goodness' is almost impossible to answer.

The intresting thing about java is that is was cleary worse then something and only became better because people used it so much. Java was adopted and developed around the same time that self was around as well. Now self at the time was owned by the same company, self was just as small to send over the wire, self allready very (very, very) performant (compared to java witch was grindingly slow) and had much better tooling.

The reason for all this seam that the people at sun just did not know understand what the technology they had laying around in some reasearch project.

Java was pushed and became what it is now, self was not and became what is now and thus proving that even with everything speaking for you at a point in time, you might not.

(PS, in the end it might have been a good thing that java was picked over self since self might actually have won over in the webspace and we would all be using propritary applets instead of the web we have today.)
Thanks! We're incredibly excited to be in full launch mode, and can't wait to have our beta platform and pilot projects available over the coming months.

We are a for-profit, and believe that building a strong, scalable financial model is what it takes to transform a sector and fix what we see as a market that is structurally underserved by credit markets (small and medium scale energy efficiency projects).

We will be disclosing Spark's take through the investor disclosure documents. Each project will include a detail prospectus for each project that will lay out credit risk decisions, upfront schedule of lease repayments and investor yield (the delta of which is Spark's revenue).
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I fail to see how Google could work around this kind of thing. I mean, you've got nothing flagging the "guest" post as illegitimate other than the fact that it links to an SEO-target, assuming the SEO emailer is telling the truth when he describes non-spammy unique content.

Likely, that's all they could go on - "Your blog has a dofollow link to this site that we know is super-sketchy and now you've been sullied by the link".
What if the pricing tiers for energy change, and reduce the savings (either by reducing the cost for the original configuration more than the new one, or increasing the cost for the new configuration more than the old one)?
Sorry, that wasn't directed specifically at you, just at the idea that Google owns the internet. They don't claim to, and if you find it unfair, there are other search networks that you can use.
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I'm pretty much done with Debian because of this. I have one last server to migrate and then I'll never have to deal with the personalities and preaching again.
Apple tried to prevent a supermarket chain here in Australia from using a logo which stylised their "W" as an apple, one that looked nothing like Apple's apple.
Something seems not quite right to me about how businesses are singled out and criticised for deploying the sort of labor optimizations you describe. What I mean is, why should a business abstain from optimizations just because they happen to employ manual labour? Why is it their resonsibility to keep their processes inefficient, rather than the responsibility of other businesses to introduce inefficencies that will create more manual roles? Why don't we make Google have all their printouts for code reviews manually typed up and spell checked by a legion of low payed workers? Or something equally arbitrary that will 'create' a job?

Note that I'm not coming down on either side of the automation vs job-preservation debate as a whole, I'm just asking what justification people have for only penalising businesses which recruit people for pre-existing menial tasks.
Wait, a kettle[1] that you put on the stove and whistles when it's boiling isn't the standard in the UK?

Nope, it's a hilarious anacronism. Like seeing a washboard to hand wash your clothes. :)
Thanks, this should be resolved (after GitHub’s cache clears). I was returning a limited # of results, and both R and Go ranked low enough not to appear.
Courts are to interpret the law. The legislature says "all horses are animals." The courts have to answer "what about baby horses? dead horses? are things that are not horses also animals or can only horses be animals? is a zebra a horse? what about a horse embryo? who can decide what is a horse or not? etc etc." The courts have to answer these questions in such a way as to make life as least shitty as possible. So yes, the validity of shitty patents is totally up for the courts, but of course the legislature can weigh in any time.
Does this law allow the government to break copyright owned by the paywalled distributors? Because many of them simply require submitters to transfer all copyrights of the articles to them.
Thanks!

We hope so too!
Next up made-for-social-media articles, or why we're fed several helpings a day of "Random Startup Anecdote" by companies just looking for backlinks and traffic.
If you read with show-dead, you frequently see people making similar statements, wondering if the reason no one responds to them is that no one sees their messages. By responding to your post, I was informing you that no, you are not currently banned, and your posts are visible.

The second half was a not-to-funny joke inverting the usual advice about "you should write to PG and ask him to un-ban you". Since you weren't banned, but seemed to think you should be, I was suggesting you write him and request that he punish you for whatever transgression you thought you had made.
Your mention of RDRAND is a great point and made me think about just how many differences there are between different models of CPUs from the same vendor. I assume the differences between different Intel CPUs vastly outweigh the differences between similar Intel and AMD CPUs.
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Why only half?
When Jobs designs things, sometimes you get an extreme focus on simplicity ("Why can't this CD burner have just one button that says 'burn CD'?") and sometimes you get skeuomorphic atrocities like Game Center.

I don't think Jobs was a designer per se. He set ambitious goals for other designers to accomplish, maybe.

Jobs was great at recognizing talent, motivating talent, browbeating talent until it quit, and then taking credit for whatever that talent accomplished.
This is just one of the worst things I've ever read on Cutt's blog. Because they can't really distinguish good guest posting from 'passable' guest posting, it's all done?

Got news for you: guest blogging is relevant for many more reasons than Google. In fact, that's probably one of the least important reasons to guest post or guest blog these days. Referral traffic that is more qualified than organic search, audience building, reaching new channels that organic search cannot quite tap, and many more non-SEO oriented reasons are why guest blogging will never really die out in the way that other types of linkbuilding have died out.

You have to love the world's biggest scraper and source of 'duplicate content' (all the scraped info from weather, wikipedia, etc in their sidebar these days) making up the rules of what is and isn't allowed. Extremely hypocritical, but the good news is that relying on Google never was necessary, and is becoming less and less so as time goes on.
After playing a number of King games recently, they are all 'reimaginings' of old classics. Candy Crush is a little more original in terms of additional difficulties, but some of them are basically lifted wholesale. The originality from King is the polish and the art, not the gameplay.
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Not only can they see the spike, they have to plan for it. I've heard for some popular programmes/events (like a sports event or popular episode), they'll employ someone to watch the TV show and press a button the second the adverts come on, to turn on the power generators that can spin up quickly. There's a power generator that can come fully into operation in 12 seconds[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_power_station
This is why we don't need "smart" appliances. We need, by and large, appliances that are as dumb as a post, unless there is some compelling reason for them to be smart. Especially televisions. I want my TV to be "smart" like I want my Internet pipe to be smart, which is to say, not at all.
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Software patents: taking very broad, simple, and obvious ideas, expressing those ideas in technical language to impress the patent examiners, suing everybody who independently discovers and uses the idea.
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What value do publishers provide? Why don't new companies disrupt the space seeing that physical mediums are long gone?
To make an obligatory car analogy, imagine if Ford opened up gas stations that sold really good gas, but this gas was somehow made to run much less efficiently in non-Ford cars. And further that they didn't tell anyone this, and just left you to assume that if you filled up your Prius with Ford gas and subsequently got 20MPG, the car was to blame.
That would be awesome!

I'll definitely have the more legalese fluent members of our team check it out.
I'm curious - do you ever use genius to 'rediscover' music from your old collection, or is it just plain better to have a broader range available?

I personally do a little of both - using either my own collection, or pandora and now iTunes Radio. I find myself using iTunes Radio more and more vs my own collection.
well guess what, every tactic that can be used to create
good SEO can be used in the wrong hands for 'bad' SEO

I would suggest that if you're coming up with 'tactics' for SEO you're already on the road to bad SEO.

optimise your search engine placement by, huh, here's a novel idea - having original, good quality content. everything else is secondary. gaming the system is an arms race and not a long-term win.
Probably due to their popularity, eletric kettles can be gotten for very cheap in the UK (<£5).
Interesting (and slightly terrifying) short story that was posted here a while back, positing that computer vision and speech would make middle management obsolete first. It makes for quite different consequences to the usual vision, that the workers are in trouble but the managers are safe.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Should be good now: http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-correlation/#stackoverfl... (may need to clear cache)
How involved is spark in the spending of the funds?

Do you just give the businesses the money and say buy efficient products or are you all more hands on?
I didn't miss it, and it's completely beside my point (N.B. I'm a VAX owner myself, playing with OpenBSD and NetBSD on it now and then, so I appreciate their efforts). I'm talking about the majority of people. Pretty much everyone uses OpenSSH, because it's the de-facto standard in SSH implementations, so that's the part of the OpenBSD project that's interesting for everyone. Vintage computing on the other side - not really interesting for most people. People just don't care about old hardware platforms, even when Theo claims that supporting them all has an overall benefit on OpenBSD as a whole.
Indeed. Also an apology for being overly defensive ;)
I thought he had less than 100K MMC. Once all coins are mined he will only have 1% of all coins, if that. Besides he can be outplaced as a CEO via voting. I looked at all coins, and I really like the setup for this one. I don't understand all the drama and politics around the pre-mine however. So while I'm diversified, I decided to dedicate some resources to MMC mining for fun. Am I missing something here? Is this really as big of a concern as you describe it? I've seen FreeTrade reward devs with 5000MMC here and there (that was equivalent to about $2K at the time). I haven't heard of the voting manipulation with the charity money, can you provide more info or links to the data in the block chain? I'd be curious to see that.
"He's a good marketer, but one of the worst people I've read about."

Go and read about Albert Fish. Might moderate your claims about this guy a bit...
If the difference between dofollow and nofollow links is outcome determinative over whether or not some article would be written or posted, then it is SEO crap and it should be ignored at best by search engines.

And if it's not outcome determinative, just put nofollow on the links and you don't have anything to worry about.
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In regards to your specific question about how to cleanly resolve the two AI problem, I can think of two ways to deal with that situation.

1) Lock-based "update the world state" kind of solution. Whichever thread manages to grab the lock for being able to pick up an item is the winner, and actually gets the item. The world is modified so that the item no longer exists. When the other AI gets the lock and tries to pick up the item, it will get some kind of error letting it know that the item no longer exists. Or it can double-check for the existence of the item, and abort the pick up attempt before an error can be generated.

2) The other resolution I can think of is to have a queue of state updates. Basically, both AI broadcast to a queue that they wish to pick up an item. Whichever AI queues first, gets the item. Some logic runs to give the item to that AI, (thus removing it from the world) and then sees that the second attempt to get the item is no longer valid and aborts the attempt.

I think those two ideas make sense at a high level. (I'm sure the nitty gritty is complicated) Also they don't deal with having to roll back state to a previous point in time. (I think) Any thoughts?
An application of lazy evaluation
Not to mention work places. If someone doesn't own a kettle at home, but there is a kettle at work that they use to drink tea, then they essentially are part of the UK kettle-culture.
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> REPL is poking at the problem through a tiny keyhole and Light Table is opening the door and shining the light on the full behavior of the code.

I thought there were quite a lot of problems in the algorithms of data structures where you poke around with a hair-pin.
When is the taxpayer going to be given the right to use inventions funded with their own money?

It's pretty terrible that some academic can take public money to fund his research, then take out a patent on the result and prevent his financiers from using an 'invention'.

Actually, the most stupid part about the whole thing it is that the government gets some rights to use these publicly-funded patented inventions. (As if the government, not the taxpayer funded it)
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'ios' already existed as an operating system waaay before the iphone was a glint in Jobs' eye. Cisco network equipment runs ios.
Cool. I fully expect that their response will be "haha that a-priori dude is an idiot".
It fixes the legal problem. Intel isn't required to provide an optimized compiler for competitors' chips, but it is required to note that its compiler that is compatible with those chips doesn't optimize code for them.

I don't agree either, but it's a perfectly valid solution (and probably the best for Intel's bottom line).
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>"One single unitary basic income system from which all benefit to the same degree, whether you are now poor, rich, lazy or driven should be our goal."

I have to disagree, as my goal is simply for everyone's life to be constantly (but not necessarily monotonically) improving. I am not too choosy about the means by which this is achieved (excepting immoral means such as slavery).

>"It is, but then again why compromise? Actual basic income schemes proposed by various economists are better than either propping up the minimum wage or using "public money" to pay workers enough to live."

This is a great point, as one problem with the minimum wage (MW) is that it is not a transparent policy, as no one knows its true costs. If a basic income or other system were a line item on the governmental budget, the voters might understand its (direct) costs, and weigh the benefits against those. Democracy requires transparency, as citizens must be able to learn what their votes have done, and will do.

Yet another problem of MWs is that their opaqueness makes it easy for firms with low labor costs to lobby for increases in the MW to destroy their competition; while high labor cost companies lobby to keep the MW constant, and increase the money supply (to deflate the MW).
It sure did. Though, there is a lot of code, so its always fun :)
I'd say two things:

One is that you're correct, it has been happening for years within the industry, so it's kind of weird to see an article almost in the style of an "expose" on the practice.

Two is that it really isn't getting huge market traction. Or it wasn't at the time when I was working more closely with it. It was considered more like a value-add or diversification strategy alongside other media buys and not a primary strategy.
If it makes you feel better I only got 12 imaginary internet points. I've also been quite consistent in my rallying against Dotcom. It's taking time but most people are coming around to realizing that Dotcom is a sleazy scumbag not worth of praise or support.