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I couldn't agree more. I have friends at McKinsey London who are working 8AM-11PM every night, and I have friends at McKinsey Amsterdam who work 9AM-6PM.

Different places have different cultures. I'm not going to go so far as to say that Israel's work culture is more relaxed than the valley's, because people work their asses off here, too, but I think there's definitely a more "chilled" attitude here. As an example, most people go to the army for at least 2-3 years, then take 6-12 months off to explore the world before getting their bachelor's degree (which takes 4-5 years). How many people in the valley have this kind of lax attitude? In fact, most of the valley's prized examples can't even wait to finish their freshman year of college... see the difference?

I also think the fact that most people are a little older and have a little more perspective (having served a minimum of 3 years defending their country) changes the dynamic. Just my opinions.
Hopefully this price point and target audience is just the beginning (a la Tesla?).

I'd love for it to be simpler for me to arrange Hangouts in my living room, and for now I deal with doing it through an HTPC.... but I'm absolutely not interested in paying what they're charging here. So I hope eventually they introduce a cheaper consumer targeted device.

(edit: here's hoping the next Chromecast has a way to hook up a webcam...)
Really wish Hangouts would switch to WebRTC.
I thought the problem was them trying to _slow down_ electricity in graphene?
Let's go shopping, shall we?

I recognize that Camera as a Logitech ($90)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ATTIPZO?tag=thepartim-20&camp=0...

and that mic is a Jabra Speak 410 ($85)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ELA7TA?ie=UTF8&camp=213...

And that remote looks like the one that comes with a Google TV ($40).

We know the ASUS Box starts at under $200.

I'll cut you a deal and sell it to you for $500?
Just the way the corporate org chart is drawn up.

Some companies have every C level executive reporting to the CEO.

Some CEO's are big picture people and focus on external issues. This means that the company would usually have most functions reporting to the COO.

Sometimes it just makes sense to have a group report to an executive. Consider Groupon, its largest expense is marketing so it might make sense to have the Chief Marketing officer report to the CFO. It can also make sense for financial companies to have the Counsel report to the CFO as they would be doing primarily financial related duties, like compliance.

General Counsel is a special case as its a bit of an oddball case for companies where its not a core function and will often report to the COO.

IT can often be like the general counsel where it's not viewed as a core function or PnL center and thus report to another C level executive like the CFO or COO.
To elaborate on my point, speculation about Bitcoin's origin seems to produce many different hypotheses with no clear winner. It produces no actionable information and thus it's no more productive than watching House of Cards (but equally entertaining, at least to me). The whole point of Bitcoin is lack of trust, so we shouldn't believe anything Satoshi said even if we knew who he really was. Perhaps many Bitcoiners have already internalized this viewpoint; if they are comfortable using Bitcoin even with the assumption that it is a "black op"/"false flag"/"government trap" then the truth can hardly be worse. There is some precedent with Tor which is widely used by anti-government activists even though it is funded by the US military and developed by ex-NSA people.

Getting back to the mainstream takeover, perhaps many Bitcoiners are letting their greed overcome their principles and they won't complain as long as they get rich. Some others may be irrational fanboys who can't let it go because that would require admitting that their identity was built on a sham.
It's sort of not readable on my desktop, the lines extend off the browser. In Firefox I View/PageStyle/NoStyle. Is anything like that implemented on mobile browsers?
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Thanks for the info (and diydsp's below).

diydsp linked to https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded which covers Cortex-M and Cortex-R cores, but importantly doesn't mention ARM11 and Cortex-A cores used on the Raspberry Pi and BeagleBoard Black.

I suppose the latter aren't considered "embedded" in the sense that, hell, they run Linux, and so aren't covered by ARM's compiler support effort but by the community?
You haven't seen the videos describing the new mobile version of the game? If you like the old game, you'll LOVE the videos of the new one!

http://youtu.be/GpdoBwezFVA
Precisely.

$250/yr. isn't even pocket change - it's lint relative to the price of a Tandberg set up.
Nope - to reformat the video for different devices Hangouts have to be decrypted on the intermediary servers.
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It was my understanding that the licensing for windows on "cloud" workloads was actually pretty cheap and straightforward after the introduction of hyper-v -- isn't one licence per cpu socket -- run as many copies/vms as you want? Now for SQL server things can get more expensive...

Not to mention the difference in cost of having any licensing vs having no licensing.
There's really no good reasoning. Though many companies may do this, MOST (by far) companies do not.
This, more than anything else, is why every entrepreneur needs a great mentor.
So regular computers just can't cut the mustard at streaming video? I don't see the value in a custom hardware product for this and I can't quite justify the price tag. It's not often that Google creates a product where you say to yourself "Oh, I guess this just wasn't created for me" but I think this is one of those rare occasions.

Disclaimer: I'm not a megacorp with millions to spend.
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It definitely looks like this is "enterprise pricing" at the moment (there's a "contact sales" instead of a "buy" button and all), and for that it seems pretty cheap.
My current personal use laptop is less than a year old. I'm hoping by the time I need to replace it things will have settled down a bit with the Surface... or some other device that fits the description comes along.
Does that range apply when cruising at 120mph? The website you link indicates 240miles at 70mph (which is not Autobahn speed).

Obviously you can go faster on the derestricted sections of Autobahn but you REALLY need to concentrate and plan well ahead at >150mph and that drinks fossil fuels too not just batteries.

Edit: A bit of extrapolation from the ranges on seems to show at a first aproximation you could do a little less than 110 miles at 120mph. Based on the datapoints in the parent's link a drop of 5mph gains you a range of about 8%.
Did you hire her back after she finished her jail term?
For companies covered by Sarbanes-Oxley there are circumstances where the General Counsel is legally required to escalate an issue to the board of directors, or a subcommittee of it. That's going to be difficult and awkward if he normally reports to the CEO. So while there are pros and cons to a plural versus unitary executive, at least for public companies, it makes a lot of sense to have the GC report to the board or a specific committee.
I agree. I don't get what "support and maintenance" means. I currently have a set-top box (Apple TV), webcam, HD camera and speakers, and don't pay a yearly "maintenance" for any of them. Why would running a teleconferencing software on such a setup cost $250/year?

The only motivation I can see is: "well the competition charges a hefty recurring fee, so why shouldn't we", but then the competition isn't doing all that well for this reason. I see a lot of resemblance to Cisco's "Umi" product, which had a $25/mo fee as well, and was a total flop.
Thanks! Music and sound were all made with Logic and a software synths. Would love to get into procedural music eventually though. The process for the sound was grabbing some video of the game, throw that in Logic, and hunt for sounds that match by tweaking the synth. The process for the music sometimes start by drawing semi randomly on the piano roll and listen to find for good bits, or sometimes by playing around with the midi keyboard, then tweak it to taste. One trick I often use is to stick to the white keys, it makes it easier when you don't know solfege like me. :) (But it does restrict you a lot harmonically.) Once I have a good riff then I move to a riff to add on top, and so on. This process can take me days to finish one song, but time seems to move very fast (faster than during a focused coding session).
For a lot of tech companies the primary area of responsibility of the general counsel is compliance reporting management (which is very closely aligned with CFO office). Outside of tech, there's often a lot more public policy work and critical incident management (which is why I often see them reporting through CEO outside of tech).
that rationale is that obeying the law is a financial decision rather than a moral decision. if the (money) price of breaking the law is less than the profit made by breaking the law, then the CFO will decide to do it.

this is THE classic example of corporate sociopathy. unfortunately its still the way a lot of companies do business.
HN isn't reddit, and jokes/puns generally aren't well tolerated here. The comments are supposed to be reserved for more serious discussion about the article and providing supplemental information.
Webex and GoToMeeting handle all-hands type meetings by making it only a 1-way presentation (view-only as you said). Participants can only ask questions via a chat dialog. The nice thing is, it prevent stupid feedback loops you always get when someone forgets to mute themselves.

Though, I believe both Webex and GoToMeeting charge extra to have this ability.
Not the Asus Chromebox that uses Intel Core i7.
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I pretty adamantly disagree. A CEO is a specialized role just like any other. I wouldn't expect a developer to know the ins and outs of financial compliance, and the same holds for a CEO and specific compliance rules.
The i7 version will be more than $200, too.
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By such a definition, any form of expression is encoding, isn't it?
Maybe it will once enough people have web browsers that support WebRTC.
> but I think if Google were to get behind an initiative to create a better TCP, it would actually have a chance at working.

I don't think Google has much interest in a decentralized web. Google, along with Facebook, are two of the prime examples of a centralized web.
> Why in the world would bot 2 offer the book for $11?

Dan's explanation:

"The price-setting robot sets its price far enough above that of the other vendor that if someone buys, the robot-owner can buy the book from the other vendor, send it to the customer, and still make money."

To make money - out of nothing except a listing - only requires a buyer, either misguided, malicious or unfortunate. This might even work in large numbers by pure chance. Or it might not, but someone is trying.

> consumers buying used books almost always buy the lowest-priced

There it is, a bet on the complement of "almost always", at an insignificant cost.
> I'd really like a free Windows XP in virtual environments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC#Windows_XP_M...

"Windows XP Mode is available free of charge to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate"
In the case of disadvantage #1: s = sdscat(s,"Some more data");

You could fix that by adding a "remote pointer" header field. Inside of sdscat, you would allocate a new sds struct, and set the remote pointer header field in `s` to the new sds structs location. You could also try to do a realloc and maybe youll get the same starting pointer back again.
1. Backdating stock options per se is not what's the legal problem -- it's that failing to account correctly for the resulting compensation charges ("comp charges") can result in materially-false filings with the SEC.

2. It's a different problem as far as the internal politics are concerned. When a company properly records such comp charges in its financial statements, can depress a company's financial results and with it the stock price. Hence, there's an incentive to avoid recording such charges if at all possible.

3. Now consider the interest groups / constituencies and their incentives:

+ Employees, sometimes vociferously, want the lowest strike prices they can get for their stock options -- that can be especially true for executives who have big grants -- and they want the stock price to be as high as possible (hence they're not wild about recording comp charges).

+ Board members would like to keep employees happy, especially executives, and of course themselves and their fellow board members, if they can. Issuing options with an in-the-money strike price can often appear to be a cost-free way of promoting general happiness.

+ On the other hand, the constituencies that have a strong interest in strict legal compliance -- mainly the law and finance departments -- are often weaker politically than the ones who want the low strike price and the high stock price.

As a result, there can be a lot of subtle pressure on a CFO. Employees and even senior executives can say, "look, doing this in-the-money option grant, without recording a comp charge, is OK with our audit firm and with our outside counsel --- what's your problem? Why shouldn't we rely on them?"

(The unstated subtext being, they're the experts, not you, and we like their answer better than yours.)

Finally, let's not forget that outside accounting- and law firms are motivated to keep their clients happy, to be perceived as team players, and ultimately to get hired for repeat business. They definitely have incentives to tell clients what they want to hear if they can possibly do so. Stir in the fact that when these professionals can come up with "creative" ways to make their clients happy, they gain in reputation with other potential clients and with their professional peers.

All this means that the company's senior executives and its compensation and audit committees need to be willing and able to stand up to the pressures the other way. That's been made easier by the news reports of people going to jail and being permanently barred from serving as officers or directors of public companies.
Adobe did not release CS2 as a free product.
If you're using callbacks at all, then you're not blocking. The main advantage threads (and lightweight threads) have is that they can block.

What you can't do is this:

(defn foo [ch]
(go
(bar ch)))

(defn bar [ch]
(<! ch))

foo starts a go block which calls bar, which then blocks on the channel. For threads that's ok:

(defn foo [ch]
(thread ; not sure about syntax here
(bar ch)))

(defn bar [ch]
(<!! ch))

So a function running in a thread can call another function that blocks. A go block can't, that's why go blocks aren't lightweight threads.

BTW, in Pulsar's implementation of core.async, the first example is ok, too.
Chromebox for meetings.. have Google hired Microsoft's marketing department from 2005?
You don't pay a yearly maintenance for any of them because if they break, you're going to have to fix them yourself.

Most companies prefer to actually have a support plan, because if they don't, the alternative is to pay their own people to fix them, and it's usually cheaper to not pay someone full-time to have expertise in that area.

This is a business-focused product offering.
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I use a variation of this technique. I spend X minutes doing Y. Where X is 5 minutes. The 25 minutes of the Pomodoro is too long to focus on one thing. I have a very very short attention span and I found 5 minutes to be the optimal timebox for me. Anything longer and I get bored. Now I have clock which doesn't increment in minutes but 5minute units. It's the only way I can make sense of the passage of time.

At the end of the timebox I do a 30sec review where I assess how I executed the task. Did I spend most of the time searching for information and organising material or did I spend it purely executing. I find with highly skilled people they spend most of they're time executing. If I spent most of it searching for stuff, I'd mark it as a delay due to organisation, if I was searching on how to do the task I would mark it is 'upskill', then I'd move onto the next thing. After a few hours patterns start to emerge around similar tasks. If a lot of related items were marked 'org' I'd then exploit them for automation or create them as templates for resuse. All the 'upskill' marked tasks would be condensed into a learning task at a more convenient task. The idea around all of this was to progressively become more organised and more skilled so that when performing a task, I would purely be executing and not faffing about.

It's a bit convoluted but it is a system that has worked terribly well since late last year and it's made me twice as productive at work, and smarter at what I do. There are times though where I wish I could be like people around me who are able to focus on thing for half an hour or more but we all have to play the hand we've been dealt and mine is a chronic lack of focus.
As a remote worker, I could see getting something like this for our central office. I need an almost frictionless solution and this sounds pretty close "walk into the room, click the remote once and you’re instantly in the meeting." My coworkers aren't interested in walking into a conference room with their laptop and sending a hangout. It would be useful if it supported multiple cameras somehow - which might break the hangout model. I want one pointed to the table and one pointed to the whiteboard.
Perfect timing, I just released a tool that enabled a more decentralized web. It used BitTorrent Sync to distribute files and I plan on implementing namecoin or colored coins for name resolution. As soon as an open source, stable btsync clone is released I plan on swapping it in.

The biggest drawback is that you can only serve static content, although I think many websites today would be fine with this restriction.

You can read more on my website:
http://jack.minardi.org/software/syncnet-a-decentralized-web...

Follow along with the development on github here:
https://github.com/jminardi/syncnet
Just exactly what purpose would the government be serving by DDoS'ing freenode? I would think if they wanted to spy on us they would want the servers up and running and everyone able to connect so they can monitor. Killing the servers just disconnects everyone and if they continue to do it people will find other places, likely more than 1.
Except they can't, which is why other people are hired to fulfill those roles. I can extend your argument and say that the CEO should be involved in every detail of the company because, after all, "if the CEO doesn't have time to make sure the company [is doing X properly], hey don't have time to be the CEO."
> prevent overflow type attacks by using signed integers instead of size_t, and then checking whether the result is negative after arithmetic

Whoa!

As if checking for overflow with unsigned is impossible...
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This is very much a business-focused product.

(Also, really? You think AdWords and AdSense are created for the average consumer?)
The channels used are just like BlockingQueue. They're a queue with a synchronized condition variable.

If user-mode threading is adopted, Quasar could work without instrumentation, but instrumentation is a very small part of the Quasar code base.

Quasar gives you the scheduler, channels, actors, etc.

The 10x performance boost comes from the fact that there can be non-negligible latency from the time you unpark a thread to the time it starts running, while for fibers that latency is much shorter.
This looks one of those cases that could have gone like this:

"Someone proposed an idea that was perhaps technically legal, but obviously failed the sniff test of ethics and spirit of the law. I reminded her of what I repeatedly tell our staff at welcome/training meetings: At this company, we do what is right, for our employees, our customers, our investors, and the public. We don't mislead one to help another. We don't waste time splitting hairs about whether something smells bad or is totally rotten. If we're not proud enough of an action to want to see it on the cover of the New York Times, we just don't do it."
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Designer's first impressions from here (my post).
Nice site, thanks for the link. I really think there is an underserved blogging market for curation of apps and games, especially with a specific theme such as this site does.
I don't mind not knowing what it is. It's mysterious, and it conveys enough information that tells me that it'll be fun to discover it on my own.
Turtles all the way down -- how do you know if a mentor is a great one?
I never said anything about the average consumer, I said "me" as in, well, me.
I used to be quite okay with command line help for small tools, but ever since I discovered http://explainshell.com/ I have a new found appreciation for man pages.
if this is google hangouts implementation, I sure hope they have fixed the problem with autogain.when we used hangouts volume always crept up until feedback loop appeared, there is no way to turn it off in the settings. we switched to skype that handles this sort of thing well.
A few years ago I was approached by a headhunter for a publicly-traded software company about coming on as their general counsel. We had lunch to talk about it; my prior experience in that role was a good match for what they needed.

The search for a general counsel, though, had been commissioned by the CFO, who was politically powerful within the company, and who wanted the GC to report to him. I told the headhunter that, especially because this was a public company, in my view the job would have to report either directly to the board, or to the CEO with a dotted line to the board; I explained why.

The headhunter said he thought that would be a problem but would check. He later let me know that what I'd said had killed the CFO's interest in me. I later saw in the paper that they'd hired someone else, who was reporting to the CFO. Best of luck to them.
This is just a convenience for not having to setup a computer for a group meeting with a group mic. Where did it say anything about regular computers not being enough?

You can already do up to 15 people in hangouts http://www.webpronews.com/google-ups-the-hangout-limit-to-15...

This would go great in our office conference room if the price is right vs setting up someones MBP every time
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You're right, I wasn't saying that it's the only way to write allocation/assignment.
I was saying that in that case sdscat() matches with sdsnew() style.
The problem I see is reddit isn't an aggregator in the strict sense. Look at the front page, it's riddled with imgur links. How many of them (advice animals, original content, etc) were posted there just for reddit? I'll just say unscientifically, a lot. (After all, that's why imgur was born.)

So you're a site with a major feature that (a) drives publishers to another site, and (b) drives viewers to the same site, even though (c) the content was created for your site. And now (d) that site is adding some of your core features. I guess I can't see how that isn't a blindingly obvious concern if you're running reddit.
As someone who uses GVC (Google's internal version of this system), it's not an issue.
I don't think that asking for feedback is highly immoral, but that's just imo.