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> I don't really follow your logic. The point isn't to 'earn money' now. It is to build the economies of scale, over time, so that no one else can hope to compete with them on price in the future. That is when the money will really be earned.

Amazon has had this mythical idiom of "when the market want us to give them profits, we will turn on the spigots". In other words, they can just scale back their future investments, and the money will start rolling in.

However, they have been running losses in general for 20 years. For a few quarters in their history, they made some small profits, but in general, even with all the dramatic scaling and efficiencies, they still regularly run losses. Investors have stuck with them for this long, but unless they really can start raking in the profits, I don't see how their stock can sustain such a high price.

If you look at the financials and business model, Amazon is basically the Walmart of the internet. They are in a low margin business, with high capital costs. However, their stock is still priced as if they are a software company with high gross margins (ie software costs zero to produce each additional copy). Walmart understands the model and is able to produce nice profits, and Amazon either has to follow or hopefully the market will finally figure them out and price them accordingly.
I'm not sure a redesign of aircraft is necessary - simply allowing both back to front and front to back entry should make boarding times much faster. It will require that airports are redesigned to support this though.
I think a lot of their value comes in the data the collect about users and how they use it to sell ads to vendors. That source code would be worth a lot. I'm not speaking about replicating a Facebook on your own servers, I agree there it would be futile. But how they run their business can probably be derived from their source code.
Never that I can recall. Common problem for others?
I think a lot of their value comes in the data the collect about users and how they use it to sell ads to vendors. That source code would be worth a lot. I'm not speaking about replicating a Facebook on your own servers, I agree there it would be futile. But how they run their business can probably be derived from their source code.
I do like the idea of ProAmBook though... :)
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Saw the live demo for this today at GopherCon; really impressive! The Go code was surprisingly simple and intuitive, yet low-level enough to have tight control.
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> In the end, the conclusion is that there’s no real way to us fix this that would stop “attacks” against small consumer grade sites without also significantly degrading the overall functionality.

Why not just limit the number of request per site and per user? Ie. John Smith can only make X request (let say 1000) to www.google.com.

Doesn't seem too hard.
Nokia was really good at competing in big markets. Back when everyone was using their various pre-Android stacks with similar levels of software prowess, Nokia was the biggest phone maker. Because they were competing in the biggest market and doing it well.

Then the market changed to "[Android] phones that are like the iPhone" and Nokia refused to compete in that market, going for the "[Windows] phones that are not like the iPhone"-market instead. And totally dominated it with a 90%+ market share.

But that market was tiny. And Nokia was size-wise geared to compete with Samsung and Apple. Cue massive collapse of business when expenses overtook sales.
I'm surprised they aren't going to give him a bounty for this. I also assume they realize that most reporters will post their rejected findings soon after they get denied.

If enough people start using technique they will have no choice but to create a fix for this.
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I would agree with you... However you need to look at it from the recruiters perspective too..

The perm fee is typically paid w/ guarantees. Usually that the candidate stays for 6 months to a year. So you see the recruiter is looking for someone that has dealt with the politics of a large organization, and can be diplomatic and not get himself fired before the refundable portion of the perm fee seasons.

Code, that's the company's problem... The recruiter doesn't care if the guy can actually do the job, they are only matching experience to requirements, and then coaching the CEO on who historically sticks around to take more of the investors $$$..

The problem is not with the recruiters... its with CEO/Founders etc that have no experience hiring people and who aren't good managers to begin with. The best coder may not be the best VP's of engineering.

If you're trying to get a VP job without VP experience well what makes you ready for such a position? What have you done to be entrusted with the heart of a company? You have to show someone that... or make it easy for them to say yes... (that means lower your salary requirements, take more on the backend).. any who

Hope that helps..
Sounds like Betable before they pivoted to be a straight up casino gambling platform:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/09/betable-platform/
They state that 400-800 mbit/s == consumer grade sites? really?
Same here. Def. the way to go.

It's hard to wait long enough though. They start with "final, final, final boarding calls" prematurely and you still end up waiting in line for 5-10 minutes in the gateway even if you're the very last person to check in. I'd still prefer to stand for a few minutes than spend extra time crammed into that awful seat.
If memory serves me, it's more of this generation that doesn't like women in tech. The one before us, or perhaps two before us, was very female-friendly. In fact, some famous photographs of computers and people working on them, display women in them, actively working. The modern perspective is that the lady is the equivalent of a Booth Woman, just there for eye candy; but a historical account from the woman herself was that she as an active participant and it wasn't strange for her at all to be on the team. I don't remember exactly what article it was, so if anyone could bring it up. A quick glance at Wikipedia suggests it was in the 40's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing#Timeline_of... )
I think you could still do columns -- just allow people to go out of order if they are going with someone that's going in order.
Why don't people use multiple git repos for multiple internal projects? It seems totally nonsensical and undesirable.
Unless they have a public price, I'd be wary. When you have to ask for cost, it's usually about 5-6 figures for year of access.

Still, it's a start.
> In the end, the conclusion is that there’s no real way to us fix this that would stop “attacks” against small consumer grade sites without also significantly degrading the overall functionality.

Nonsense. Every web crawler should have some form of rate limiting. That's just good etiquette. I can control the number of requests that the Google search indexer sends to my site via webmaster tools. I don't see a good reason why Facebook can't be a good net citizen and do the same.
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How do you run power into the door?
The NSA for sure has dirt on Bill.
>But as we would say 'more clients, more profits' but in the end, you start losing customers, when you charge even pennies more, and you become a victim of your own.

Huh? The whole point is that they won't have to raise prices, the future will yield infrastructure cost savings. Competitors will have higher costs vs Amazon. So, they can charge LESS and make MORE than their competitors. Seems like a pretty simple strategy; foregoing profit now for increased competitiveness later.

>This is the misconception, they are not being competitive at all. :) they are only being arsehole :)

How so? If their business practices make you upset, I suppose that is understandable. But your comment just sounds like sour grapes...
The guy is a real douchebag. Aside from this incident, he also had his entire HOA apparently sue him in the past for multiple offenses.

In person, I have came across him about 3 times, he's always acted holier than thou and thinks he's above everyone else.

Public perception of his interviews and how he has been painted in a few media outlet doesn't represent who is truly is.
"and revenue does not exceed $10m per year."

... would that mean Mojang isn't a startup?
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I work in Indianapolis at a software company in the higher ed. and municipal operations management sectors.
What if you prefer the type of food that comes with more nutrition and simple pleasures than high-cultural ritual and middle-class aesthetic subtleties? I feel like I should be able to eat out and be happy about it without creating such fine distinctions between meals that the lack of an artists touch could potentially induce an unbearable discomfort.

If a chef tells me to leave because I'm putting ketchup on something, though, I'm likely to hit him with the bottle.
> #2 is actually a really big deal with developing software to interact with anything USB. Well, I should say anything based on the FTDI chipset. I don't have any experience with anything else. Which is increasingly the case, given the modern proliferation of hobbyest hardware projects. There are no connection status events.

This is more of a Virtual Serial Port driver issue than an USB issue, right? USB itself always seems pretty good about connect/disconnect events (at least on Linux). However, the FTDI drivers which detect this don't have any way to pass it back to devices reading the COM port (because of RS-232 legacy, as you said).

However, for real USB devices (not FTDI/VCOM), connection event notifications shouldn't really be an issue. Yes, annoying to deal with, but at least you can detect it, unlike with serial...
I agree with you. I just would have understood faster if you just wrote:

buying a physical copy of media != buying a license to play for legitimate digital media with DRM where they can take that license away for any reason
Imagine trying to implement the Steffen proposal. Everyone has to be in exactly the right position in line for their seat. You'd essentially need to number the seats in the preflight lounge and loosely enforce seat numbers at that point.
Where is this "Amazon is unprofitable" thing coming from? I went onto google finance, and it looks like they've had profits for 3 out of the 4 years of data that they have. Maybe not enough to justify the stock price, but they're making money.
12% according to this reference from reddit.

http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/343275
Investments get booked as assets, so they have no impact on profits. This mistake gets made frequently with respect to Amazon.
Yer still waiting for someone to allow me to use these frameworks without ball chaining them to another device in order to use them :(
I preordered a kevo as soon as it was announced. I liked the look of it more than the comparable devices at the time and I liked that it was supported by an established lock manufacturer.

I eventually cancelled my preorder because, after the initial batch, eKeys are $1.99 each. That feels like a traditional company attempting to retain an existing form of monetization (physically making duplicate keys) in a new area where the cost no longer applies.
I'm a frequent flyer, mostly within Europe, and this is true. The exception is boarding a bigger plane like the 747. But iirc the ordering is then more coarse grained (based on aisles instead of seats).

And I guess I'm not the only European who immediately thinks of low fares, blue and yellow plastic, non-reclining seats and lottery ticket sales, when reading about that damned random method.
The lower end of that is perfectly in line with what you'd be paying other providers for commercial services.
If you only have one bag that fits under the seat. That would be the best policy. Otherwise, getting there earlier to avoid the people that refuse to pay for a checked bag is better. [Overhead space is quickly taken]
A link to the actual paper (full text):

http://www.cmajopen.ca/content/2/2/E69.full
Just a few weeks ago, I was walking home from work and witnessed one homeless man suckerpunch another in the face, knocking him off balance on ice and causing him to fall straight back and crack his head open on the ice. There was an instant pool of blood that started spreading quickly, with other homeless people scattering instantly. A cop arrived on the scene almost immediately.

I was incredibly surprised reading this that 87% had TBI before becoming homeless. I wonder what the numbers are for repeated TBI after becoming homeless among those that had their first instance pre-homelessness.
I've been on a few airlines that make people line up in roughly some order according to a number on a boarding pass. I'm sure a couple people are out of order on every flight, but if the airline is already going through the effort of lining people up in some order, why not make it the best order?
Absolutely! BF4 with the expansion packs is > 40GB as a compiled binary and compressed assets. The source (with no history) must be gigantic.
At my company, I wrote our own build system, because "make", "waf", "shake" and various others do not give any useful guarantee, and we've debugged cryptic under-specified dependencies way too many times. Make clean on a large repo and lack of automatic work sharing hurt too.

Also, auto detecting inputs rather than being forced to specify them is nice. Especially as virtually all input specs in Makefiles are wrong or incomplete.

Writing a build system is not such a big deal -- and outdoing the existing work is not very hard.
>Go uses the stack

Only insofar as all programming languages with stack frames tend to use the stack. Many of Go's core language features require the presence of a heap.

> And evidently the soft real-time support is good enough to fly drones and control robots.

I could probably control a drone with Javascript. It doesn't mean that I should, nor that I can guarantee that it will work all the time.

>had Sleep calls in it because otherwise it would operate too fast for comprehension and would make the robots/drones hard to control.

This means nothing. Just because the language happens to be more than fast enough for a certain thing doesn't mean it will be more than fast enough for all things.
I've seen that happen at Google. At some point it's easier to write a new (differently named) library. Monolithic codebase + renames = poor man's versioning.

BUT this allows you to pay the prices of versioning (downstream burdened with rewriting => they never do => old code lives indefinitely) only in the worst cases.
If done right (lots of tests, great CI infrastructure), fixing everything downstream is practical in many cases, and can be a win.

A subtler question is how this interplays with branching.
You can't be expected to update downstream on every random/abandoned branch out there, only the head. Which deters people from branching because then it's their responsibility to keep up...
"The" repo. As if they had no choice but to put everything for every aspect of the business into ONE giant repo.

Hopefully they actually have some separate sites, separate tools and separate libraries. Or could understand how to use submodules or something rather than literally putting everything in one huge repository.

Whether to put images and other assets into git repos is a separate decision.
It's a recent trend to board front-to-back. This way, the first class cabin/priority sections get first dibs on the overhead bins while the people in the cheap sets get play Tetris meets Sword of Damocles.
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I don't see revenue taking part in the discussion other than showing you have a true business model. Having a stable, profitable business model means you're a small business and not a startup.

I also tend to start calling a company with 30+ employees a small business rather than a startup. You can't support that many employees without being a stable profitable company (ideally I suppose).
It's misleading because if anyone associates certain properties or beliefs to "startup people" vs. "big company" then they'd almost certainly draw the wrong conclusions about me from that answer. In other words, they would be misled. Likewise, any statistical correlation with other properties or beliefs would be skewed by people like me who were habitually one group but just happened to be in the other at the precise moment of asking. When gathering any sample, it can be useful to know about confounding factors or exceptions.
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You dont say people with window seats board first. Based on the seat passengers have a zone number on their boarding pass, and you call by zones.
Having empathy doesn't mean we should fall into the politician's fallacy. Unless you can demonstrate how would stopping the collaboration actually help the Crimeans, it's nothing but demagogy.
They don't. They want to get the plane loaded and out of the way. The quicker they get the plane loaded and fully ready to go the quicker the FAs get paided. Less "wasted time."

Quick boarding: This is a perk for those who fly quite a bit. [You can't make silver status, butt on the seat method, by just flying on 4 domestic flights a year]
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Even if we just start with the assumption that n% of people will misunderstand, it still strikes me as unlikely that the best algorithm will be the current one.

I think we have the next round of tests though. See how many people you need to randomly swap before Steffen is worse than back-to-front.
Especially, Facebook is not supposed to intelligently crawl websites but to just proxy images. That's an easy one.
It could use git-annex[1]?

[1] https://git-annex.branchable.com/
I would definitely say that Mojang is no longer a startup. It's 5 years old and has a healthy revenue stream and a proven business model.
> Walmart understands the model and is able to produce nice profits, and Amazon either has to follow or hopefully the market will finally figure them out and price them accordingly.

Apples and oranges. Check AMZN revenue growth in the past 5 years vs. WMT. WMT is (somewhat) mature, AMZN doubles revenue roughly every 2.5 years.

Why show a profit if you don't have to? Management is obviously finding pretty good, revenue-growing investments.
I don't think most educated people care about a speech impediment, as least I've never heard anyone comment to me about a colleague's disability or affliction. I certainly never have.

In fact I remember them.. they stood out to me.

My boss at a big telecom co (CEO) had a terrible tick, and talked very slowly. I noticed that I listened to him more intently.

He used to call his "tick" and his Bugatti his sex appeal.... but thats a story for another time..
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=AMZN+Income+Statement&annual

Year Revenue Net Profit %
---------------------------------
2013 $74B $275MM 0.3%
2012 $61B $-39MM -0.6%
2011 $48B $631MM 1.3%

Their best return was a 1.3% profit, back in 2011.
This can be done in Linux using

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Unemployed/Self employed. Freelance.
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What shocked me when I used to do the soup van run in my local city was how age didn't discriminate when it came to homelessnes. I saw men (and boys) across the whole age range living in unnacceptable situations. Some of them could have been my friends for all I know as they did their best to hide their homelessness.

Furthermore, I was always perplexed as to why there were far more homeless males than females. While my local government provides a number of shelters for men and women, there was never enough room for men. We would frequently scout the local homeless haunts (under bridgers, besides powerstations or in church car parks) looking for people who might need some supper.

In this day and age It's pretty disagraceful in my view. I've always thought it would be nice if someone could come up with a kickstarer/kiva like hybrid where you could sponsor local homeless people with enough money to find accomodation and medical/psychological assistance.
As a current employee... its not really a bonus since they're pretty consistent about the value of RSUs you get each year. Otherwise, yep thats pretty accurate.

They have a number in mind that they wish to pay you. A portion of that will be in salary, and a portion of that will be in RSU's. At the time of the grant, they'll give a number of RSUs that have a cash value for the remainder that isn't covered by your salary.
It is supposed to justify the engineering effort they put into switching to Mercurial, then trying to make it "scale." (Rather than just using separate repositories to begin with, according to the design of the tool and best practices)
How was this reposted so many times? I was sure when I posted it that someone would have beaten me to it and I would be up voting their post.
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He is right. This just launches the default player. I just got excited about the selecta utility. It is a great tool for replacing graphical user interfaces, since many GUIs can be boiled down to fuzzy finding. I live in the terminal, and I think I am actually going to use this script to launch my music from now on.
>infrastructure

To run an ecommerce business, you need IT, Warehousing, Logistics, (funding obviously just like any other biz) If you can generate tons of turnovers, vendors will lay down before you. What sort of infrastructure you were referring to., which other can not save on?
https://www.facebook.com/whitehat

Exclusions
The following bugs are not eligible for a bounty (and we do not recommend testing for these):
...
Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
...

That said, they do appear to be quite hypocritical when it comes to enforcing this, as at least one user on the /r/netsec thread claimed that Facebook paid them for a mail bombing vulnerability.

I guess you have to use this to attack high-profile targets (or Facebook themselves) until they notice.
After talking with a couple of the commenters in question, it sounds like some people are using "plagiarism" not to mean that he specifically stole words from her post verbatim, but to mean that he "rewrote" what she wrote without giving her credit. It's not how I'd use the term, but I think that's what people are getting at with it.

It's gotten a little weirder now, since Atwood is communicating with people about it but appears to be justifying not crediting Shanley by saying she was too negative, which is a little appalling: https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/459796782164103168

EDIT: Also, I just read this, which addresses a lot of the things I didn't like in Jeff Atwood's post better than I can: http://jacobian.org/writing/what-can-men-do/
> Yet, how do you tell when Amazon are about to do that?

Amazon will never do that, because it can't. It's in retail. Retail is and always will be a low margin business.

Is there an example of a large retailer that doesn't manufacture its own goods that has profits in the double digits?
Micro-USB has been terrible, reliability wise. The ports survive pretty well, but cables wear out at an unacceptable pace.

I buy stocks upon stocks of micro USB cables, and I've switched to wireless charging, because I simply keep running out of them.

It's not simply me being reckless, my wife's cables wear out, as do my brother's and various friends.

Also, none of us had any of these issues back with mini-USB (though admittedly we used those cables much less than we use micro today).
They were probably aware of the issue, as this kind of bug has been already published for Google [1] (by the same author, it seems) a month ago. Also, Google did not give him a bounty reward for his discovery.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371176