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I have to agree. The social network business is quite harsh. The new networks that have emerged in the post facebook era do not really offer something in addition to what facebook does. They just recycle some of the "features" of Facebook in its early stages. So...Ello is ads free. Who will pay for it? Donations? That could work. Is that a stable income when it comes to scaling out (should it become successful)? I honestly doubt it.
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I agree, competition would be nice, and I also do care about privacy and not being the product.

However, being a pragmatist, I also see that FB has won a particular war: it managed to get everyone and their mom on it, and privacy issues are not enough to persuade 'the masses' to move to another platform. Proof being that almost no-one has left FB and that other social networks like App.Net, with all their marketing might, have failed to capture any relevant share.

For a competitor to succeed, it would have to offer something vastly more tangible to the masses to persuade them to swith. Google tried and failed, Microsoft tried and failed, countless others tried an failed.

FB had it relatively easy compared to anyone entering the market now: there was no real social network when FB started. Of course, there was MySpace, and a few smaller competitors, but almost no-one was on social apart from a few early adopters. Now, outside of China and probably Iran, practically everyone with a phone or a computer is on FB.

Offering just another FB-clone with a nicer design is not going to make people switch. Unless there is a killer feature, practically no-one apart from a few of us in technology are going to quit FB.
People have their lives invested in FB: it's where they announced their weddings, their first child, where they shared tons of pictures with friends and family. It would take a lot for them to move en masse somewhere else.

All I'm saying is that instead of attacking FB frontally, these new social networks should target smaller, more focused, markets, if only because there is a need for better experiences for people who are passionate about something.

That analogy with milk is a bit weak if I may say. A slightly better one would be to compare social networks to newspapers and magazines. FB is like your local newspaper, full of a bit of everything. Now if I want to get science news, I'd rather pick-up Scientific American or Nature.

There shouldn't be just one social network, that's my whole point. I don't want another FB, I want others networks where I can share and exchange with other people who share a similar driving interest.
Because they would become monstrous behemoths that did everything at a lower quality. For instance - Mixcloud and Soundcloud each serve a real purpose, separate from one another. It may seem like they do the same thing (connecting people over music) but really they have refined their respective systems around what they are built for - focus on single tracks and the other on music sets. Now if google started doing that, it would not be anywhere near as refined because their platform would have to serve other purposes; if facebook started hosting repositories it would be diluted with everything else they do.
Not that I doubt the efficacy of Apple's marketing in any way, but it's perfectly possible to be attached to a brand for fairly rational reasons. If you have a good history with the company and have had consistently positive experiences/interactions, buying regularly from the same brand can make perfect sense.
Does this include Googles CDN servers? Fonts, JS files, etc.?
I feel like you're dismissing the article without responding to its arguments. E.g., why don't we (often) see bedsheet ads in the same style as corona or coke ads? Why don't brands dilute themselves to appeal to more sections of the market?

I also feel like you're using the word "rational" differently to the author. It seems like he's using it to mean roughly "sensible", and you're using it to mean something more like "well-reasoned". We don't spend a lot of time on our decisions, but that doesn't mean we're making bad decisions. If system one is causing us to make good decisions without thinking about it, that seems like it falls under the author's idea of "rational", but not yours.
Good practical, suggestion thanks! Any other suggestions from the homepage?
A friend who likes shiny new things made our group of friends and myself install Telegram a few months ago. We still use WhatsApp or iMessage.
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With daytime TV you can only reach consumers that are watching TV during the daytime though. That's a lot of potential customers that will never, ever see any of your ads.
I was thinking of a pg-as-a-service (got pgaas.com/pgsafe.com) solution not too different along these lines. Does the idea have any merit? Would people be interested?
We need OpenGL as an alternative. What would Direct3D have been today without competition? But at the same time, GL is such a PITA to use directly that I don't bother without some middleware abstracting it away.
Expertise? He just blatantly failed at using it.
The Economist is one of my favourite magazines. Their rhetoric never waffles or glosses over issues. A good example from this article:

"Management literature is full of guff about how entrepreneurs should embrace failure as a “learning experience”. But being punched in the face is also a learning experience."
I chose Mad Level Manager (https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/10070)

It's capable of a lot more than I used but I wanted to get this done and go on to the next set of physics ideas.

I am also playing with the Beta of Unity 4.6 which has a lot of the same ideas as NGUI built in. These will make it much easier to make "non-ugly" UIs with very modest effort.
Yes, those things might be true. But I don't know anything about the pens and sticky fixit pads of the different toothpaste companies, and I have no reason to expect it correlates (in either direction) with toothpaste quality, so knowing this shouldn't change my decision. It should make me less confident in my decision, but not change it.

Toothident is more likely to be recommended by 4/5 dentists in a world where it is better than other toothpastes, than in a world where it is worse.

So by Bayes theorem, if we see that 4/5 dentists recommend toothident, this is evidence that toothident is better than other brands of toothpaste.

It's not necessarily strong evidence, but it is definitely evidence. (And I do actually think it's fairly strong, if you can get 4/5 dentists to specifically recommend that one without priming them.)
Now they just have to create ONE single API, instead of forcing everyone to write multiple code paths to target the various flavours, extensions and drivers workarounds.

Specific graphics APIs only matters when graphics middleware is not an option.

Which OpenGL always requires. Since the standard leaves out how image/shader/texture/fonts/GUI/math are handled.

I think the commoditization of engines will be the second coming of the OpenGL 2.0 - 3.0 stagnation, if they don't improve on these areas.
At the same level as the game console APIs.

You don't get OpenGL on those.
> In each chirp, there is one fundamental frequency at about 100 kHz, then another one at about 50 kHz, and two more above it at 150 kHz and 182 kHz.

Or a 50kHz fundamental frequency with overtones at 100, 150 and 200 (which looks like 384-200=184 because of aliasing, notice how the shape is reflected).
... take a holiday. Rest your brain. Spend a day in bed without Internet. Go out for a walk. Buy a second-hand paper book and read it in the park.

Do everything that isn't work.
I currently use racket-mode when doing Racket in Emacs. The main reason for doing so was simply that it was the easiest one to install.

It's no SLIME, but it doesn't try to be, just provide some basic niceties and font-locking.
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I'd switch if there is an import. Would be even better if it imports photos too.
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Thanks :-) I'm actually quite happy. The pay is decent, the colleagues are great, smart and they have a good deal of experience. Plus the office is not far away from home. From what I know from my college partners, such a combination is quite difficult to achieve.

I enjoy what I do and I am learning a lot. I see many things I like and many other I would do on a very different way, such as:

- There is no automated testing at all,

- No separation of duties either,

- The version control system is ridiculously outdated, misused and underused,

- The deployment strategy is practically non-existent,

- The upper management constantly tries to push technical decisions that sell great to the client but make little to no sense on the project context, adding many man hours to achieve the same results.

Fortunately everybody identifies this issues and they do what they can to fix them (except for the automated testing, it seems like they all think it's worthless), but the company is growing and external image is all they can care about for most of the time...
It's not a fair comparison at all. The internet is infrastructure for all globalized network applications. DRM is just software implemented by individual applications that you can take or leave. Whether it exists in a standard is utterly irrelevant to the copyright holders who are DRM's raison d'etre, and keeping it out of standards is an idealogical stance that has no practical benefit. All that would do is make sure that Netflix et al continue to use Flash/Silverlight or whatever proprietary plugin meets the Studios ever-more-stringent DRM requirements. If you think standards bodies can do anything that places even the slightest bit of pressure on content rights holders to abandon DRM you are comically delusional. Studios have the content, they dictate the terms (why do you think Netflix got into the production business?).
I'm pretty sure what the article says isn't incompatible with Cialdini's Influence at all. IIRC he also says that the more publicly an individual takes a position, the more they feel the need to remain congruent with that position in future. When people decide they want to be seen as a certain kind of person, they want to remain consistent with that. That's why if you want to reach a goal, you should tell as many of your friends and family about it as possible so you risk "losing face" if you fail.

I see this article as basically working the same way. Brands advertise "hey, if you're a chilled out guy drink this beer". Someone decides they want to be seen as a chilled out guy, so they go and buy that beer to reinforce the image they want to convey.

> First off, advertisements definitely do work via simple association... A warmth appeal like a Coke ad with smiling faces will reliably create an association between Coke and positive emotions just because that's how humans are wired.

That sounds like if I was bombarded of pictures of people smiling drinking coke I might forget that it tastes like crap and want to drink it.

So perhaps the social experience someone has when they turn up as the "chilled beer guy" is more valuable to them than the other fuzzy associations the advertiser tries to convey - because the advertiser is making associations that don't have much impact compared to the impact of a real life, human interaction. That's what the guy is talking about when he basically says that the flaw of the 'association' argument is that there's insufficient feedback, only visual cues rather than, say, receiving a massage.

So to summarise I think you're overly confident regarding the power of association by ignoring the social proof aspects and consistency of self image that come with knowing that other people have the same brand associations. I think it's entirely plausible that someone would use those associations as a short cut to convey the self image they want to.
That's what makes Google Now so cool. It's not super advanced (yet?), but in many circumstances it's quite good at automatically giving you the information you need.
On Linux you could in principle use the lower level hardware specific command issuing APIs as well. Mesa is not a privileged library.
Yeah. Yeah we are.

How do you know? The "science of persuasion" sounds like something I will read about tomorrow in an article about problems with replicating its results.

Not to mention that not spending enough time on making a decision can be rational, as in rational ignorance.
I see there's a few downvotes, no worries. What private company is going to be here in 200 years? in 300? I know the NSA-hate is strong here but it's not like you'd have to add the most personal information. Perhaps someone like the Library of Congress could handle it. I've seen far too many private companies delete data with little notice to trust them.

I'm not suggesting you treat it as a private diary of intimate details, more like a time capsule for future generations to read. How you viewed the world around you, how you viewed world events. Maybe allow people to put time locks on their posted info, so it wouldn't be public for X number of years.
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Great article, thank you! Any news as to when we will get a WebGLNext?
Audio Technica ATH-M50X, best headphones out there.

Very comfortable, Have neutral frequency curve. And have enough bass, just the right amount of base.
Good advice, indeed. I don't think I'd have any problems getting a new job right know, because everybody wants junior developers, and practically none of them are as experienced as I am.

A few years from now it might be very different, so if I intend to switch I should better do it ASAP.

The only problem is: What do I do to avoid ending up in the same situation? I did my research on this company before and during the interview, and it's almost impossible to know what happens inside the office beforehand (Even people you might know already working there usually won't tell you anything about what's going wrong, because it can damage the company image...)

That's why I want to know if that's something every company has to deal with, and what are the chances of finding one where it doesn't happen.
"What I want from NYT is an article which really examines the situation, and not just sensationalizing numbers."

Steven Brill, in Time, wrote an excellent article on just that topic. The subscriber access is at http://time.com/198/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killin... while a no cost version is at http://www.uta.edu/faculty/story/2311/Misc/2013,2,26,Medical... .

See also an interview with him at http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/health-jan-june13-healthcare_... .

Brill's thesis is that with most medical care it is impossible to do the comparison shopping that you emphasize should be possible "even in an emergency."

You hypothesize that "private insurers are hugely subsidizing Medicare by paying 100x the price." As http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/521175_2 comments, "U.S. hospitals now receive abut [sic] 31 percent of their net revenues from Medicare." Moreover, if you start to read about the US system you would realize that Medicare is prevented, by US law, from negotiating drug prices. Private insurers, on the other hand, can do so. The Brill piece covers that detail. Since your hypothesis doesn't match reality, it must be incorrect.

I am not well informed of this topic, and my knowledge is mostly limited to the popular press. I cannot therefore point to any critical research. There was a recent posting here on HN, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304019 , concerning "The Cost of My Mother’s Cardiac Care in the United States and India."

The actual article is at http://www.annfammed.org/content/12/5/470.long , which starts "When my mother fell ill while visiting me in the United States, I had the opportunity to compare costs of surgical cardiac care in the United States and India. I faced challenges in making well-informed decisions in the United States due to the lack of cost transparency and the minimal flexibility offered in choice of care, whereas in India costs are readily available and allow most people to freely choose their preferred type of care."

It sounds like you are saying that NYT should, in every piece about a topic, give the full details to justify its arguments. That's not how newspapers work. They often give many different pieces; some of which examine the situation, and others which help flesh out details. This is one of the latter. You are supposed to read the newspaper over time to get a better sense of the whole.

Otherwise, you need to look towards the specialist literature, like review papers on the economics of the US health system, to get the answers you're looking for.

BTW, you like the word "should" - you used it three times. The many observations show that the US health care system isn't the way you think it should be. There is no legal framework like what you asserted. This suggests you are basing your opinions more on wishful thinking, rather than trying to understand what is actually a quite complex and well-discussed issue. I hope those links I gave help provide a beginning for you.
I guess we're using different definitions. By "good envy" I meant wishing you were in the envy-ee's shoes, or at least wanting to live a similar life. I agree that such sentiment can drive people to accomplish more than they otherwise would.
I've watched the one on lighting twice, just cause it blew my mind so much. I finally (think I) understand light.
A prediction is about what people will do, not what they should do. Taking that into account, is your objection relevant?
Hah, I just noticed something amusing:

Oracle headquarters buildings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Corporation#mediaviewer/...

The typical symbolic representation of a database in a diagram: https://openclipart.org/detail/181674/database-symbol-by-ete...
This seems related to Chuck
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That Amsterdam scores poor on the isolation metric doesn't mean much. The Netherlands don't have many big cities in the first place. But the area around Amsterdam is filled with lots of small towns (though I could say that about the entire country) and train connections to other big cities like Utrecht and Rotterdam are very good.
So basically, "OpenGL in 2015" will be great!
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> We believe there is a better way. We believe in audacity. We believe in beauty, simplicity and transparency. We believe that the people who make things and the people who use them should be in partnership.

Cool, where is the (open)-source ?
Is there an updated list?
Im my group of friends I am that guy who likes shiny new things and nothing has beaten mail/sms/phone (and facebook messages for vague acquaintances as a last resort) yet.
There are definite flaws in the criteria developed but I acknowledge no system is going to be perfect. I don't necessarily agree with the effect of sprawl on overall quality of life and ranking of a city. I like cities less densely populated.
Actually, it should be written more like this:

template<typename T>
std::pair<T, std::vector<std::string_view>>
tokenize_string(T &&str);

So then it uses `std::forward` to conditionally move the string for rvalues, and `T` will be a reference to the original string for lvalues.
Maybe, think of the excitement you get from anticipating a holiday or new phone, the difficult bit would be tricking yourself in to believing it without going ahead with the purchase.
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From the article: "Its syntax [Bash] is insane, incredibly error prone, its defaults are awful, and it’s not a real big person programming language."

A "real big person programming language"? Wow, that guy's got some issues :D Seems like his definitions seems to be a functional programming language? I'd assume that there is way more "real world big importance" stuff written in Bash than there is in Haskell.
Given a sufficiently complex decision algorithm (a superintelligence) the effect of a given policy is unpredictable. For example, your car decides killing all the other humans increases safety for you.
Atlanta gets to be artificially high on the list, next to actual nice cities like Boston and NYC, because it gets a 1 in connectivity.

I guess that's because of our famous busiest airport in the world! Too bad if you want to go anywhere in the city, though.

The public transit system only goes every 20 minutes in a + shape, makes everyone coming from the airport buy an NFC card, and the speakers and upcoming train monitors in every station are unusable and broken. People in Atlanta like driving so much they force everyone else to do it along with them.
I was wondering about your comment on quartz composer, before I noticed that "cisual" is a typo ...
I started out on Visual Basic, it certainly helped to lower the barrier to entry a little bit. In the end it was all source text, with helpful library component selection (the timer function had an image of a clock) and ui layout editing.
Theoretically postgres already has a robust layer of security and validation; although it may not be used for the typical web app. It seems questionable to have additional API level checks when the database already implements the same security features in a more tested manner. I don't want to set two levels of permissions for exactly the same thing that may behave differently.

Why not expose something similar to a prepared statement with the HTTP API? That lets you define input data types, and only queries that have been explicitly enabled could be run.
It's not a rule though. Total rewrites are often not a good idea, but sometimes they are.
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A developer social network? Coderwall or even Github to some extent.
A designer social network? Dribble.
A photographers social network? 500px.

The problem with social networks is that there are thousands. For every possible thing. And some are already very good at what they do. People should try to find new ideas. New business models. Things that actually solve a problem we have. A new Facebook is useless IMO.

Let's talk about privacy. Having nothing to hide is not a good reason to just ignore our right to privacy. The day you have something to hide, you won't be able to hide it any more. Also, this gives the government ways to pressure you should they want to because they have everything they need. For instance, imagine you want to create a political party someday? Well, forget it, if the government knows every single thing about you: they'll probably pressure you or disclose things to break you.

But sadly, few people think about privacy this way and prefer to use Google to DuckDuckGo, Gmail to Fastmail, YouTube to Vimeo, Facebook to Diaspora, etc.
Whoever doesn't force me to use C/C++ or JavaScript.
What if their development team found other jobs, giving the standard 2 weeks notice. Who will maintain the servers and code for those few months?

Sure, the code allowing for the export of data might seem trivial but you still need someone to maintain the system. It's almost guaranteed to need some kind of attention over a couple of months in use. Especially if the export feature was written quickly after the announcement was made.

Now, we've decided to maintain a couple of employees for 2 months to support user exports, where will those 2 people work? Will they work from home? Do you have infrastructure in place to allow them full access from home? No? That means they'll need to come into the office. Will it just be the two of them in the office all day on their own? Do they need some kind of HR? What if they find other jobs during this 2 month export process?

What about customer service? People will have questions about how to export the data or what to do with it. Does anyone answer those questions over the next few months? What if those people found other jobs. Do you hire and train someone new just for those 2 months?