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> Apropos, everyone should read the Isaacson biography. Regardless of how you feel about the topic, it's a terrific book.

Despite never having met or worked with the guy, I gotta side with Gruber's take on this one: Isaacson totally missed the boat. He was granted unprecedented (and now, unfortunately, impossible) access to a fiercely interesting person's life, and either his lack of contextual understanding or lack of domain knowledge led to a book that is, at best, underwhelming. His questions, his analysis, it all seemed so pedestrian and boring.

Maybe the lack of hard questions or deep insights is why Jobs chose him in particular to be granted such access, but I personally expected a whole fuck of a lot more from something that had so much promise to begin with. I feel like Mossberg or maybe even someone who doesn't write as their profession (Ive? Kottke? Kawasaki?) might have done a vastly better job.

Maybe I just wish I'd had a chance to know the guy, deeply flawed character and all, and no text will ultimately be sufficient - but Isaacson's effort left me with so many more basic questions than it even began to attempt to ask, much less answer.

And now, all that potential wisdom to be gleaned from this specific instance falls into the realm of the unlearnable. Perhaps that was the plan. Who are we to assume his legacy was any less meticulously crafted than anything else he unleashed upon the world?
Sexual harassment has NOTHING to do with romance.

I don't think anyone has a complete picture of what really happened at GitHub. But even assuming the worst, it's an anecdote, just as valuable as any of the relationships we have seen flourish in our workplaces, which don't make headlines because they are simply, boringly successful and wonderful.
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> Two, the number of wildly successful people who were said to have Asperger's, including Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, and Bill Gates, which means if Asperger's is real, then wealth and fame are reliable diagnostic indicators for the condition. That would give "mental illness" a whole new meaning.

Why could "wealth and fame" not be a diagnostic indicator for not being "normal"? I think that's the point the people who argued that "hacker mindset" and Asperger's are more-less the same thing were really trying to make. Do we have a label for "uncommon mental traits that have positive impact on cognition"? As a society we do seem to automatically treat everything that is not average to be a bad thing.
Reader mode for desktop is coming (no specific version targeted though). Here is the bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558882

And here are the mock-ups: http://people.mozilla.org/~mmaslaney/readermode/index.html
The apparent size of the structure in the sky, is on the order of three magnitudes smaller compared to the size of the moon.
From the wikipedia page.

> During Elop's tenure, Nokia annual revenues fell 40% from 41.7 Billion Euros per year to 25.3 Billion Euros per year. Nokia profits fell 92% from 2.4 Billion Euros per year to 188 Million Euros per year. Nokia handset sales fell 40% from 456 million units per year to 274 million units per year. Nokia share price which was at 7.12 Euros on the day Elop was hired, had fallen to 81% to a bottom level of 1.44 Euros two years later, after which it began trading at 4.14 Euros, up 36% on the day. Elop's success in negotiating the sale of Nokia's struggling mobile device business to Microsoft has been described by many securities analysts as a significant victory for NOK shareholders, particularly when viewed in context of failed efforts by Blackberry or HP to secure value for handset business owned by those companies.

I had to reread it 5 times. I am still not convinced. Yes, that last sentence gives me the impression it has the words "significant victory" and "success", but my brain is simply unwilling to accept that as a valid conclusion.

Maybe I should start working in business ...
She didn't do the install, she just encountered a pre-configured system that wasn't working properly. The documentation for vim and tmux is extensive. If you sit down to "RTFM", you're going to disappear for a week or two, and you probably won't even realise it when you read (and then forget) the bit that you actually needed.

Honestly, if you are not impressed by this piece of bug hunting, you are either an absolute genius, or someone without enough experience to appreciate just how difficult what she accomplished actually was (note the elegance of the solution - simply applying a symbolic link). I'm going to go with option 2, because I would already know who you are if it was option 1, but I don't, you're an anonymous internet 'nym.
They mention future version of 2013. So its gone to their bug reports database, to be prioritized rather than is fixed.
Do you have any app owned by them or a partner that could be providing usage data?
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People on the post's comments are suggesting that RSS only has technical followers.

Really we should be talking about feeds and subscriptions. Wording needs to be friendlier: add my friend's feed or follow Kate Bush. It doesn't matter what the technology is so much underneath. RSS and Atom are meaningless to the general public and only confuse matters. But I think they'd grok the idea of following an interest or person, or giving feedback to a post, a thing, or a happening.
For those who are interested in some large companies that use RadiumOne. Would be very interesting to see their stance on this:

https://twitter.com/PhilippvH/status/459348305991204864

Porsche, Verizon, United, UMG, & Conde Nast are all mentioned. I'm sure there are countless others.
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When you come in as a secondary competitor, especially with something like a social network that is utterly dependent on network effect, you have to avoid making even small mistakes and you need several big advantages over the competition. G+ failed on both accounts. Mostly it was just another facebooky thing, and the few missteps they made turned out to actually be rather big ones.

Nevertheless, I think the biggest problem google made with g+ is thinking that it was necessary at all. Social can be important but not every major tech company needs their own brand of facebook, it's just not necessary from any perspective, even a business one. Microsoft made the same mistake when they tried to out-google google. That sort of thing is dumb, and indicative of excess vanity. Let google be google, let facebook be facebook. If you think you actually have a better product offering that overlaps with some other company, great, put it out there. But don't set it as your google to stand toe to toe product wise with all the other tech giants. Concentrate on your own strengths, don't try to be something you're not.
He continues to "maintain [his] innocence" and wonders "how stupid the internet is"...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/ceo-who-pled-guilty-to-domestic-...

https://twitter.com/gchahal
> Why could "wealth and fame" not be a diagnostic indicator for not being "normal"?

Fair enough, but I find that a bit of a stretch for a mental illness diagnosis.

> As a society we do seem to automatically treat everything that is not average to be a bad thing.

Yes, and that's one of the commonly heard criticisms of the field of psychology -- over time it seems to be narrowing the definition of normal in a self-serving way.

On that topic, when tested, clinically depressed people turn out to have a more accurate perception of reality than their more "normal" peers. That means we're treating people with accurate perceptions, trying to turn them into people who are less rational but more happy. :)
Having signed up, it appears to be promising a debit card to get people to sign up to what is essentially an affiliate-scheme feeding website.

1) I signed up with only Email, First, Last and a 4-digit PIN for a password. An email address and a 4 digit password on something storing my money? Scary.

2) The site wanted to spam my gmail contacts to "earn more bitcoins".

3) There are loads of survey offers to earn more bitcoin.

4) Preording the card felt like a worthless act with no substance behind it. I did so without providing any extra details, they didn't even ask for my country of residence.

I suspect they'll eventually turn round and say "oops, looks like we can't do the debit card".
"Did anyone else find the line "Security footage from his bedroom" a bit creepy?"

That was actually my first thought when I saw this. It's kind of fitting that his kinky-cam setup almost landed him a very stiff prison sentence.
If what you say is true, then no one should be upset at the impending Comcast/Time Warner merger.
If Netflix are right an Comcast are providing insufficient connectivity through to all of the major transit networks (rather than just Cogent) it feels to me as if Comcast are not providing the internet connection speeds that they are selling. It would be interesting to see what would happen if Netflix bought from all the many transit providers and spread the load across them, would all of Comcasts general service grind to a halt.
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I just installed it on my iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4. Already had an account, I knew what was all the fuss about and I went my way and create a new receipe using my device delicious new "this" or "then" !

So it goes : "if any new photo taken with front camera then add file from URL to marcelftw's Dropbox".

I took several photos, but the receipe has never been triggered :( I'm a bit confused. So I went and edit the dropbox actions. So it saves photos in "selfies" with file name has "selfie-{{TakenDate}}". And the "Check Now" says everything is alright.
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It's "build something people want", right?

Let's do this from first principles.

Twitter was successful early on because they never discouraged multiple, independent, throwaway accounts. Why doesn't Google let you manage an unlimited number of independent and unlinked first-class-citizen profiles under one Google Account, under any name you choose? They can still mine all the data because they know (and keep secret!) that it's all one person. Facebook and Twitter do this too, just with cookies instead of login credentials.

People want to share lots of personal details on their social network. Facebook is wildly successful because they make it easy for people to do so - perhaps to the point of oversharing. Google could have dispensed with the whole "following"/"circles" nonsense and gone with the undirected, two-way-confirmed model (with group support) that doesn't confuse people not familiar with graph theory, or the twitter model of basically casual, unconfirmed, directed-graph subscription, independent of the underlying personal relationship. Either would have been fine - instead, the egghead googlers tried to solve both and ended up solving neither.

Last but not least, pretending that I want Google+ (no, don't "ask me again later" you fucking cunt of a website) to infect all the other important basic utilities of the web that Google's huge pile of cash has bought their way into (YouTube of course first comes to mind, but Maps and Gmail and Search too) is blatantly disrespectful to their only true asset: their users. Even Zuckerberg doesn't pretend like he's doing us that much of a favor when Facebook once-again revises its default privacy controls downward...

It's pretty simple, really. It's super tragic that Google has turned into such a monolith of a Big Company that it can't even execute on a simple vision without tons of management getting involved and figuring out, through endless meetings, how to make every single step of the experience as user-hostile as possible.

It's not like they're incapable of making user-centric experiences anymore. Look at how great Maps is these days, or how Gmail's webmail has become completely untouchable the way Outlook/Exchange or Blackberries were in their heyday - both cases because they did exactly what their customers wanted.

(Aside: Interestingly enough, Apple was doing this for a long time, and now with things like iAds and IAPs and carrier override of my ability to tether my phone, it seems like they are slowly beginning to fail to consider exactly why and how they got to their position as market leader. (The argument could also be made that they are serving multiple masters - carriers/developers versus end-users.) If they continue, as Google has, eventually their customers will be right to leave.)

I imagine it will take a lot of smart Googlers leaving in utter frustration before Google-the-entity finally changes course.
Relational databases don't scale horizontally. That's still as true today as it was a decade ago. Therefor engineers who need to cope with Big Data and Web Scale will continue to migrate away from relational database solutions towards persistence technology centered around distributed systems. It's as simple as that.

If you build your app around a relational database and you need to scale up big then at some point you're going to hit a brick wall in terms of scaling out storage and/or writes. You either have to build sharding logic into your relational db app from the beginning(which is a pain that NoSQL saves you from), or else you have to re-architect your entire app when the time comes that you need to deal with scale. Many shops end up borrowing VC money to build out a team to re-architect their systems to handle web scale, but this can be avoided by thinking about data access patterns from the beginning and choosing a technology that can handle your future needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability#Horizontal_and_ver...
Fortunately we already have many decades of detailed legal answers to the latter question.
>> NoSQL is nothing more than a storm in a teacup

There's been a difference with this "technology cycle" though, there have been some prominent, well grounded voices from the start of this cycle.

That's a good thing.

That wasn't the case for other cycles - the thin vs fat client cycle, the DAS vs NAS cycle etc. etc.

EDIT: i'm not saying NoSQL has no application. I earn a paycheck working with a huge graph db (and it's nothing to do with "social", yay!), and have previously been a heavy user of Cassandra.
I wondered whether it was the B2B vs B2C thing.

Mozilla and Github, both have consumers who will take action.

This is a far worse case, he provable beat the hell out of her, but a justice system screw-up has let him largely off the hook. Yet consumers (who make the most noise, push the strongest demands on companies, and can affect the bottom line when they are the customers) are not aware of Radium or able to directly affect the bottom line.

I remain uncertain (expressed on Twitter) whether hounding existing investors is the way forward, but certainly pressuring board members (which will include some but not all existing investors) and customers is probably the way.

Whereas my thoughts on Twitter mobs remain to the negative, this guy beat the hell out of his girl and clearly has issues with violence. He shouldn't be running a company, he isn't fit to.

The court got it wrong (from a moral/ethical perspective as the guy did it, but perhaps right on a technical perspective I'll concede)... and I loathe mobs, but if the court failed to do their job then I come down on the side of the mob (even though that doesn't sit well with me).
Almost certainly. Supply, demand, and so on.
> A publicly-traded company is likely not the appropriate structure if you want to create free software.

Fixed. Non-public companies can sometimes be an appropriate structure. E.g. the Mozilla Corporation: as a for-profit entity it can do a lot of things that the non-profit Mozilla Foundation can't, but it's 100% owned and completely controlled by the Foundation, and reinvests all profits back into the Mozilla project.
Someone has been desperately trying to edit his Wikipedia entry many times, trying to remove the Domestic violence conviction section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gurbaksh_Chahal&of...
The moral of this story is that conspiracy is very profitable. Save ~$3bn in costs for a $300MM settlement. Sad.
I do not know much of how it is now. My dad went to Aastra Technologies 5+ years ago. I did enjoy being one of the first boys in school to get a phone, even though everyone followed up with getting a Nokia 3310 and I was left with the "unpopular" phone.
I don't see why that's so hard to believe at all. The federal government, at least in theory, is accountable to its citizens since the citizens vote for their government. The Board of Directors of Comcast, however, is something that no citizen anywhere has any power over whatsoever. Why would you choose the latter scenario, in which you have zero power in principle and in practice, versus the former scenario where you have some power both in theory and in practice?
+1 I don't see something wrong with a well-actually for correcting someone's incorrect statement.
Out of interest, which misogynistic behaviour is it that you're talking about?

I'm not disagreeing just asking for clarification as I've found it hard to determine facts in the matter.

The only misogynistic behaviour that I've really been able to glean from the situation is the staff watching some of the female employees hula hoop (which I do agree could make people uncomfortable and am not condoning).

Other than that as far as I've understood it she had a spat with the founders wife, who was (possibly unintentionally) pressuring her into doing work outside of her responsibilities, had a spat with a coworker (who may have been an ex) who (might've) acted inappropriately and she may have spread a rumour about tom preston warner. That's all I've been able to glean from what I've read and only one thing seems misogynistic (the hula-hooping, which really depends on the situation, though all seem inappropriate), so I'd be interested for someone elses summary of events to see how well I've understood the situation/what I might've missed.
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We switched from SQL to Mongo on http://versus.com one year ago and are quite happy—we couldn't imagine to go back.

But I think it heavily depends on the specific use case what DB to use.
> His questions, his analysis, it all seemed so pedestrian and boring.

I agree to some extent, but I also think this is a commonly heard complaint about books about an insider in a field or art, written by an outsider -- other insiders inevitably see the shortcomings of a generalist's way of describing a specialist.

I like the book precisely because it's the view of an outsider, who didn't necessarily understand all the minutiae of his subject or the field, but to some degree that circumstance can confer a kind of universality and accessibility to the end result.

There's also the handicap of writing a biography of a living person who has granted special access -- the writer must feel tremendous pressure to avoid saying anything that might end his access. That's always lurking between the lines when reading the biography of a person who was living when the book was written -- it can't compare to the more classic tell-all, "Mommy Dearest" kind of biographies of people no longer among the living. But the latter have their own problems.

In the final analysis, good writing is defined by what you leave out, not what you put in. I think Isaacson passes this test.
Already posted half a dozen times in the past day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7638904
Putting users back into conversion funnel, automatically.
It's like you missed the memo that notified everyone that huge corporations that directly or indirectly fund all of the government decision-makers have carte blanche in America!
Yeah, pretty terrible outcome. Lawyers get a huge chunk of money for relatively little effort, the actual plaintiffs get like a couple of thousand each, and the companies pay out an amount that is likely far less than the amount they saved by the illegal collusion and is also not sufficiently punitive to impact their future decisions to do similar things.
I think the opposite argument can be made -- Red Hat makes this business model work, and they're doing pretty well.

Also, if in the future open source becomes the norm, not the exception, then this will become moot -- the fact that a company is based on open-source will be considered typical, not an outlier.
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Who sends traffic is just easier to measure, the person receiving it may want it more and in the Netflix case they are requesting the traffic.

In any case all Comcast's traffic is for their customers, when peering needs to be balanced to be free is when to parties are offering transit to other networks beyond themselves.
Very simple request for the developer, you couldn't put up screenshots/examples of text that has been extracted along with a (cached) link so that people can see how it looks without downloading and testing it?
AdWords was run on MySQL up until two years ago. The vast majority of developers working on "web-scale" projects won't get to handle projects with larger requirements than AdWords. In that perspective the whole NoSQL trend makes very little sense, especially given the fact that e.g. PostgreSQL and MySQL have a lot of needed features that many NoSQL databases don't, and that the most "hip" NoSQL database a couple of years ago was a database that doesn't even scale that well (MongoDB).
Are there any public docs on the details of how you've implemented the equal preference cipher suites at the server end? Is this simply an extension to the server's cipher selection, or do you use NPN/ALPN for this?
As usual, the next-big-thing-to-replace-the-old-crappy-thing has become nothing more than a useful addition to our toolbox.

Which is not a bad thing, but I wish we could do it without the overhyped nonsense. It really is time for this business to grow the fuck up.

The "web generation" has brought us lots of great changes, I would have quit IT back in the 90's if the internet hadn't happened. But this immature attitude towards everything from technology stacks to how to run a company is really starting to grate.
That's a fair point. I really just drawing a distinction between accounts and users. G+ had hundreds of millions of accounts but relatively few users, certainly a single digit percentage of total accounts. That's a strong indicator that people aren't coming back after their initial experience or that they're signing up to something they don't want in the first place. Neither is a sign of a good product.
> Aside: Interestingly enough, Apple was doing this for a long time,

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, I'm not sure I agree with this.

Apple have had some pretty famous "We know what's best for you" stances in their history - one button mouse, original Mac keyboard with no cursor keys, original iPod only working with Macs, very limited array of products configurations, no licencing of MacOS to non-Apple computers, iPhone apps only available through their app store etc etc. Some of those have eventually changed, but (apart from maybe the iPods being Mac-only) they haven't typically restricted the success of those products.

If anything, the darkest days of their history were probably at the point when they were offering a vast array of products and configurations in an attempt to give users exactly what they thought they wanted.
Just scanned to the bottom actually...
Sorry, that makes no sense. Mentally ill people aren't expected to become famous billionaires -- it's just not part of the social expectation. The fact that there are similarly successful people without a mental illness diagnosis only adds to the perception that the diagnosis has no meaning.
"doesn't require installing an external program"

I had to install a .deb to use it in Firefox on Linux.
tldr - it's so that images of him show him in a position of assumed intellectual power at all times.