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I believe that they stopped using them because of all the spam. The interesting conclusion seems to be that tagging is useless in general (keywords are just tagging of a web site, after all).

Still, spam evolves, maybe keywords evolve, too. I wouldn't be a 100% sure that they won't make a comeback. I don't know if Google's ranking algorithm is entirely tuned by hand - what if the machine decides that keywords are useful, after all?

Also, they have other uses. For example some bookmarking services use them as default tags if you bookmark a site. (Then again, apparently tags are useless).
The amount of sheer silliness in the comments on the original blog post astounds me.

The SEO industry is being silly all the way to the bank.
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There might be other uses than impressing the Google bot. For example I have seen bookmarking services that use them as default tags. And there are other search engines besides Google.
I think often-times those types of acquisitions are just to get the talent, or the IP from the product, moreso than to launch a new product outright.

Where I see problems of course is that so often startups are acquired by bigger competitors who probably have the best of intentions, but can't help but stifle the newly acquired employees into doing things 'their way'... Their way of course being the way that allowed the startup to eat up so much of their market share with minimal funding, yadda yadda.
I don't think those are on the list of fixes in 3.1; sounds like a carrier issue. Try removing and reinserting the SIM while the iPhone is on.
> Torvalds answered. "Acceptable and avoidable are two different things. It's unacceptable but it's also probably unavoidable."

I think that's more or less where things are right now. You can't have tons of features without paying a price. They do a pretty good job of balancing things, but maybe someone will come along and improve things in the future.
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I don't see keywords as a SEO thing. They seemed like a very plausible invention, in the early days of the web. It is just that spam has apparently destroyed them for the time being.

But I don't know why it should be assumed that they contain no useful information? For example, it seems easy to check automatically if the keywords actually match the site, thereby influencing the site's spam ranking (which would be information). If Google does not use that information, perhaps other services will.
I couldn't find a good tech event calendar, maybe that's a good monetizable thing:

http://calendars.techvenue.com/cgi-bin/techvenue.pl?Calendar...

There's never a shortage of things. Thursday is baypiggies and erlounge, for examp

http://www.baypiggies.net/

http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-programming/browse_thr...
This is a great way to keep working even when your body forces you to sleep.
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Peers are almost always a stronger impact on people than their parents are. Read Judith Harris's "The Nurture Assumption". The single strongest influence is genetic, roughly 50%, next is peer group, third is general cultural environment, further down is parental influence (note that this assumes fairly normal family life, abuse or serious neglect increases impact of parents). The best way parents can influence their children for the better is by careful selection of neighborhood for their children's peers.
Holloway book is excellent, and only $22 from a monstrously large online seller!

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even am a noob here. But this is good resource http://www.erlang.org/course/course.html.
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Welcome. Most of the event activity is based in SF. There are fewer events on the peninsula. Mtn. View is kind of boring by itself (not much to do after 10pm even on the weekends) and the social scene is based around established friends networks, dinners, and movies. SF has a mix of real startup folks and some 'tech hipsters' (tech folk trying desperately to think they're no longer the high-school geeks they really are). You'll find it easier to network and attend events in SF.

So, try landing in SF first. When you're actually ready to start something, I might suggest revisiting the south bay. The lack of social events is actually a huge plus for getting work done. Plus the engineers you find in the south bay tend to love their work more (not as interested in the 6pm happy hr).

Feel free to ping me when you get settled in (I'll leave an email hint in my profile).
A link to the official Google statement on this might be more appropriate: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-do...
"Mismeasure of Man" was propaganda written by a Communist paleontologist who knew next to nothing of psychometrics.

EDIT: Yes I'm a bit bitter about it, I read it and believed it for years, before learning better. I don't like wasting my time and I HATE being lied to (and even more being taken in).
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There is no doubt that I am a geek, but I was really surprised I had done as much of this list as I had.

Seems to me this is a list of stuff that if you are a geek you have probably done most of.
I've understood that Yahoo/Ask still use keywords in that meta-tag (don't know about Baidu &c.). Also I find it useful to list in the keywords field the [genuine] keywords for a page/article. Local search can use this info, you presumably know if you're spamming your own search results (!) and I can use it if I'm trying to target advertising or am working on link building.

Lastly Google (Cutts) intimates the possibility it could be used in the future. They did a turnaround on nofollow, so why not on this. They'd need to have a very restrictive policy for sure. I could see them using something like "words must appear from the top 10 words used by density in the article"* - then they could spot check the keywords meet the standard and provide something like increased crawl frequency on websites meeting the policy. Continued failure could have your PR zeroed; then the keywords would simply be a way for Google to reduce processing (* or whatever algo is useful, they could even provide a tool to pre-process pages and give a keyword relevancy rank).
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there are other search engines besides Google

In the UK? Not really. Fair point on the bookmarking services though, not heard that before.
SF is definitely where the social scene in, through there are lots of hackathons etc in the Peninsula. Check out the Hacker Dojo in Mountain view, for example. I personally settled in San Mateo just to be in between SF and Mountain View / Palo Alto, trade-off between location, rent, quality of life, etc. Feel free to ping when you settle.
The exo-kernel guys tried to go a route that radically eases evolution. Normally an operating system tries to abstract and protect/multiplex.

They were writing a sort of microkernel, that only multiplexes/protects users from each other, but exported the raw hardware interface to userland. The abstracting part of the OS would be implemented as (possibly shared) shared libraries.
Is it just me or are too many of these things entirely too easy? There are surely people who have done most of these things before they were twenty years old. (I'm not one of them, but then again many of these things weren't invented by the time I was twenty.)

Aspire to something that can't be done by following an Instructable.

(That's probably why this list is such weak beer: Every entry is an excuse to link to the equivalent of an Instructable. The goal that can be outlined in one page is not the true goal.)
The only important factor on code quality is the quality of the people working on it. Open source or proprietary doesn't change anything.
I think the Date class is an unfortunate example to use, its too prone to being confused with the idea of a timeline of mutable state. Maybe a better example to use would be the concept of a document, and that parts of it don't change while you're reading it. On the other hand, his audience will always be familiar with the Date class...

I've been following Rich's work for a while and I felt myself almost slip into confusion.
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IQ is roughly 50% genetic; school success is probably roughly 50% IQ (personal guesstimate). So my rough guess is about ONE-QUARTER of the DIFFERENCE in school success BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS is genetic. Hard work, and consistent work even more, make a big difference in practical success - in school or business. EDIT: I meant the differences between fairly normal levels of school success above - the difference between low achievers and the very best is probably more than 50% influenced by IQ
According to this article, Bing/Yahoo have 10 to 20% of the search market atm. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/5504735/Micr...

In China, Baidu is more popular than Google.
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1) logical, perhaps a little conservative; 2) empirical, but always remember correlation != causation; 3) sounds like baloney.

I'm an SEO. SEO/SEM is primarily a scientific process - if I do A will B happen, if I do A and C will B happen more/less/same, etc..
If it's UI-based, I'd use ExtJS. Otherwise, MooTools. Both of these are very performant and give you a lot to work with in a neat package. jQuery UI, MochaUI, etc. are all miles behind ExtJS when it comes to behaving (reliably and efficiently) as a real tookit (with widgets and layouts).

In my opinion, jQuery is suitable for progressive enhancement but not for dedicated apps.
Whilst libata and the unifying of the WLAN may make the code easier to maintain, it will only save a tiny amount of memory and in the short term, just like any new code, is going to increase the number of bugs.

It sounds like the problem is that everyone is writing new features that probably not many people actually need (since they did fine with out it before - I'm not talking about drivers here) but it's slowing the whole kernel down and people need to go back and optimise that stuff.
Took me a while to figure out that I was still dreaming. Then I woke up properly.
Or not.

EDIT: Having read through a lot of the book now, it's very interesting to consider what's going on and the metaphysical implications are intriguing. I digress, what I'd like to know is how do you know that you have not simply dreamt that your dream was lucid. How can you really know you have control as opposed to having dreamt you have control; this question finds an analogue in the question of freewill in [wakeful] life.
I'm using gandi hosting for my hobby projects.

I think their virtual servers are XEN based, having access to the actual console via ssh is nice if you like to do your own OS install on your slice. (They also have easier web interfaces for those users who don't want to do spend as much time sysadminning, but I have no experience with that).

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(it's a french company btw, so especially useful if you and your target audience is in europe :)
In particular, the "X-Windows Disaster" chapter of the Unix Hater's Handbook should be required reading for anyone considering GUI work on a UNIX-derived platform--and is also absolutely hilarious.

An HTML version of the chapter is here: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disast...
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I don't understand why he mentioned this.

I understand software bloat to describe the situation that arises when unnecessary features added to a program increases it's size and/or decreases performance, without providing significant user benefits.

In the article, Linus says "Acceptable and avoidable are two different things. It's unacceptable but it's also probably unavoidable."

If it's unavoidable, then the features that were added aren't really bloat, because it implies that these features are necessary, and that they provide significant benefits. Necessary additions that provide significant benefits could be anything from security features to IO.

IMO, Linus should either state what he thinks should be removed from the kernel, or he shouldn't even bother mentioning it at all.

If on the other hand he's lamenting the fact that there's a cost associated with adding features (necessary or unnecessary), well then I think most people understand that you can't have your cake and eat it, so even from that perspective his point seems redundant.
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If you go back to http://learnyousomeerlang.com/starting-out-for-real :

In the Erlang shell, expressions have to be terminated with a period followed by whitespace (line break, a space etc.)

Maybe I should try to make it even more apparent (or add a picture). I can remember being stumped by the same thing when I first got to try the shell.
More likely just a difference in workplace culture.
Simply getting links in is no longer good enough for Google you need links from authority sites. Links from farms can act negatively as can poor outward links and paid for links in either direction (which G doesn't like unless it gets a cut). On-site optimisations really do work, it's not magic though, link-building with a good keyword+synonmy spread is still key.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors might interest you. It's not all hard science but devs that are driving millions of visitors tend to have an idea what's working and what isn't without having to do fully scientific tests.
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Slime does the same thing in emacs.
Hey, I hope you guys enjoy these chapters as much as you enjoyed the first ones (the reviews were pretty good!)

I'm still accepting criticism and fixes if you see any mistake or whatever. Have a nice read :)
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I figured. I'm just often looking for a justification of why I'm using a sometimes crippled language, but it always turns out my productivity and the quality of my code is higher when using Eclipse/Java.
Her industry is one of the most regulated in Australia. Distributing adult DVD’s is illegal in most states, but a blind eye is normally turned to it by authorities. This causes a massive headache...

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Thanks appreciate the input
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We have more stuff than 40 years ago, but less than 20. What also changed is that many single income households are double incomes now. Or that people are working 60-80 hours a week.

15 years ago you also could buy a second hand car for cheap, but since then the gas price quadrupled. You can have a DVD player for the same price as a VCR 20 years ago, but does it really mean the quality of life has improved? Over time we also lost quite a few things, like real food or personal service.

But still you are looking at now, and more specifically to your personal situation at the moment, and not on what's happening and what the future will bring.

If cheap labor disappears a part of that group will become competitors in an already overcrowded market. And as I mentioned before, the global marktplace and internet is going to work against us. We will end up fighting over breadcrumbs, and only a very few, those with a truly unique skillset, will manage to have a somewhat decent lifestyle.

What you also forget, a big part of our current wealth is based on air. On big loans we used to pay for cheap labor in far away countries. And one day those loans will have to be paid back.

But try to imagine what would happen to your life when the dollar would become complete worthless overnight. Do you have enough goods to buy your way around, or do you still have the right skills to make a decent earning?
A lot of this is IT "stuff". Am I the only geek in the world who doesn't like this crap? I love programming and I'm really into geek culture and tech, but I absolutely hate installing or fixing operating systems, hardware and utilities software. These are painful time sinks you have to undergo to set up a productive work environment, but I don't derive any fun from messing around with configuration files or formatting disks. Sorry.

Related: I'd rather sweep the streets than work as sysadmin.
It's a weird feeling when you recognize what it is, and horribly frightening when you don't know about it and think you've been visited by aliens, ghosts, or demons. This is made even worse by thinking you're going nuts and being afraid to tell anyone about it; people spend a lifetime with their secret trauma, when they could have just told someone and found out that it was nothing more than a fairly common effect of waking up at the wrong part of the sleep cycle.
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I'm dubious. A recent trip to the U.S. (SF) felt like utter chaos on the roads and this was reinforced by most cars having at least minor damage.

Contrast with Australia where any intersection of even mild traffic (say within a suburb) has a roundabout to control traffic flow, and all decent traffic intersections have lights etc. Speed and red light cameras are everywhere, everyone uses indicators all the time for everything etc. It sounds overbureaucratic but it means that you can drive around and know what each other driver is likely to do. In contrast, the (apparent) unpredictability and what seems like an attitude of almost deliberate rebellion on U.S. roads seems designed for chaos.
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There aren't really life "things to do" but just sys admin tasks that you should probably do if you wanted cred within that circle.
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That's the problem though isn't it, you start off light weight and you continue working, adding more and more new and useful features until you have it all but now have a giant slow bloated system.
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Depressing but accurate reading.

Even the standard "pairing sucks" advocates in the comments agree that these things are what is stopping the average IT shop from being productive and professional.

And, while as I say it's depressing, it also kind of makes me feel better to know that most everybody else is in the same boat.
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Have you ever found yourself rock climbing for real and suddenly uncertain about whether or not you're dreaming and what might happen if you let go?

I would think that if you spend enough time lucid dreaming, you might start to confuse the two states because you're so used to both of them. With the rock climbing scenario, I think even a moment of uncertainty would make my heart skip a few beats.
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You need to be interested in the research you do. Other than that, I agree the specific research you do is not the most important variable. But, it's not just research-related lessons that you learn. What you learn about your area when you do in-depth research can't be learned from taking a course.
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How the kernel is organized has no meaning on how bloated it is

Software organization can cause bloat if the feature can be implemented in another way. For example, there may be multiple ways to establish the same network connection.

I'm not defending microkernels, but some kernel functions in userspace is not bad. Dismissing microkernel concepts immediately is just as bad as questioning whether Linus was wrong in not selecting that architecture.
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You notice the inconsistency, even if you can't quite recall what the pattern was before. I've only had a few lucid dreams and I don't have great dream recall, but when I wake up at the right moment I can remember my dreams vividly, and think through the dream events with my fully conscious mind. I don't notice patterns changing that much, but I do know that text changes. For example, I've had dreams where I fell asleep while reading, then continued to read in my dream making up the story as I went. But then it gets confusing so I back up to reread a page, and the story changes.

Another common event is that people and things in my dreams can be indistinct until I pay close attention to them. Just recently I was with a woman in my dream who appeared as just a silhouette in a shadow until I really wanted to know who she was and focused on her, at which point she became perfectly clear and vibrant. That can happen to the entire setting of my dream too, and people and settings can also change as I pay attention to different parts of them.
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But it helps if you're visited by aliens, ghosts, or demons, because you can mistake that for sleep paralysis, making it not very frightening.
Grow your own vegetables? Bake bread? That takes HOURS. But with a replicator/food printer/reprap, it's a push-button process. No work involved. Makes a difference, eh?

Ever lived in the third world? You don't have washing machines, you get your clothes washed down the street. In the first world, you just chuck them in your washer/dryer, push a few buttons, wait an hour.

See the difference we're talking here?

One way requires someone to swoosh clothes around with a stick all day. The other requires a designer, a few supervisors at the factory, an assembly line, and a washing machine repairman, all of whom ADDED TOGETHER still don't work as many hours per washed knicker as the laundry people do in the third world.

Of course we'll still be dependent on others. Do you think the average schlub will be designing his own printer templates? Nah, he'll download them from the Internet like everyone else.
Hmm, interesting. That jars with my personal experience: I know no-one, whether technical or not using anything but Google (with the exception of my grandparents who have some horrendous BT/Yahoo branded browser).

In China and other territories, then sure, Baidu, Yandex etc have much more pull.