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I'm pretty sure the accountants and engineers at Google got together and figured out that "unlimited data" plans are going to go bye-bye. For everyone. All providers.

As people use more and more data, it just won't make economic sense to offer your customers unlimited data.

If Google had offered unlimited data, and then later canceled it, everyone would be bitching about them killing the competition, anti-competitive behavior, etc.
> As a general comparison, when it comes to building
> server-side web apps Rails is preferable to Clojure.

Do you generally prefer a Rails-style framework over microframeworks?

I went from full-time Rails to full-time Clojure, and I would use Clojure over Rails these days for the same reason I'd use Express/Koa (Node) or Flask (Python) over Rails.
It's Google, they have plenty of cash, do they really need to invest the float of a $20 data plan?
I dunno, I'd rather have "bad support" over "support that literally doesn't exist".
I don't even know how.
The answer is that there's a lot of passive capital in the world in pension funds for teachers and police officers. Much of that passive capital is invested in bonds and equities, but some of it gets invested into private equity, of which VC is a subset.

Now, what happens is that a large proportion of the passive capital ends up in Northern California. It has to be invested somewhere. In VC, it has to chase ideas. The problem is: most ideas are lame, and most people don't have the ability to tell which ones are lame (and lame ideas can succeed in the short term: see Pets.com and Snapchat).

The passive capitalists are people like retired teachers in Ohio. If they voted, they wouldn't want all of that passive capital (and the job-creating power of it) going to a small geographic area. They'd rather have it spread out more: this would mean a greater number of jobs in Ohio, and it would take the rent/housing pressure off of the Valley. Of course, what passive capitalists care the most about is returns on investment. If VC were a successful investment vehicle, then passive capitalists would favor the California concentration, and what is happening would be the right thing. The problem, of course, is that it's not a successful investment vehicle. VC works for the careers of the venture capitalists, and the cronies they can place in high positions, but the passive capitalists whose funds are being invested in it get utterly screwed.

This may answer your question and, yes, many of the startups being funded right now are bogus. However, there are some that aren't. It's not all bullshit. I'd say that it's right to be skeptical, but there are companies with genuine products and strong cultures and plausible futures. It takes a lot of time to get a sense of which are which, though.
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I don't see how having inspectors driving from pub to pub could have saved millions.
Wayne here. I hear your loud and clear. Working on it.. :-)
Unfortunately I think I'll need to stick with buying my phones for half the cost and sticking with a 2 year contract with a company like Verizon.

I can't justify switching and needing to buy a $650 phone.
I was a little jarred when I first noticed ads following me around the internet, but quickly accepted some of them as they were innocuous, unobtrusive, and for a company I like. So I think there is potential there (but unfortunately a ton of potential for abuse too)
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Not quite. Per the FAQ[0]

> Project Fi will first alert you if you're getting close to
> your data budget. If you go over, you'll still get full-speed
> data and data is charged at the same $10 per GB rate. For
> example, if you go over your data budget by 350MB, $3.50 will
> be added to your next bill.

[0]: https://fi.google.com/about/faq/#plan-and-pricing-4
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That's not the difference between proselytizing and not proselytizing, that's a difference in how you go about it.

If you want to make the case that your daughter is a really nice proselytizer for healthy eating, and that vegetarians are really awful, we can just compare anecdata.

You went out of your way to quote second-hand sources for "filthy murderer" vegans, suggesting it hasn't been your experience. How many people who've called vegetarians pansies do you personally know?
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it's not explicitly spelled out that I can see, but data used over wifi doesn't count towards the cellular network data usage at $10/gb right?
> This is a typical biased perspective from someone whose job is to deal with the worst of humanity every day.

And this is giving too much credence for people that were already caught abusing their powers.

No, evidence is that those people are not biased. They have a clear view of their goals, and they are trying to keep the population terrorized enabling them to gather more of government's power. They are terrorists themselves, using terror to enable a coup.
The page is still up, and AWS is obviously still running the service (and will as long as customers keep using it), but it's not linked from anywhere. Here's a list of all the AWS services (https://aws.amazon.com/products/) and it's not listed. If you look at the developer guide, it hasn't been updated in three years.

It may not be officially deprecated, but a service tat hasn't been touched in three years, which AWS will only tell you about if asked very specifically, makes me not want to use it as a foundation for any new services.
Their personal preferences don't matter. Guide dogs, or rather, visually impaired people who use guide dogs, are a protected class under US law. UK law too, from the quote "In the UK .. taxi and private hire drivers have to carry guide dogs and assistance dogs at no extra cost to the passenger."

For the same reason, a driver cannot refuse to drive on basis of race, religion, sex, and several other protected classes - even if the driver doesn't like people because of one of those characteristics.
If you want to call one guy's Excel plugin-in talking to Globex from London HFT, that's fine; I'm just saying: that's what were talking about here. If HFT includes things you could run on a WinXP-era laptop with WinXP-era software --- again, fine --- then we're in a weird place w/r/t/ the idea that HFT is something further segmenting the market into haves/insiders and have-nots/outsiders.

The "2.5 billion in orders" is just a number; in fact, the unreality of that number is the problem.
It's worth pointing out that with Fi you only pay for the data you _actually use_, so if you only use 1G you end up saving a bunch, and if you need more you can still get it when it's required.
Everything you said is correct, I just want to make two tiny clarifications:

- It is unlimited talk (domestic) and unlimited text (domestic and international). International talk costs extra.

What was said in your post was accurate, but the way it was worded could confuse people into believing that it is unlimited international talk.

The pricing is a little more nuanced than you said.

- It is $20 (talk/text) and then $10 per gig of data. However they refund you all unused data at the end of the month. So if you buy 1 gig of data for $10 and only use 0.5 gig, they credit back $5.

Which is an important distinction as that is their USP: cost savings by refunding unused data.
What I don't get is, what's in this for Sprint and T-Mobile? Currently a user of their network is a customer they "own" -- they deal with that customer directly. Now they have Google sitting between them and the user, which effectively commoditizes their service; Google could switch them out for another network down the road without the user ever knowing or caring. That's great for Google, and probably also great for the user, but not so great for the individual cell providers.

Presumably Google is paying them something to compensate for that, but it still seems dumb -- accepting a little money today at the cost of cutting your own throat in the long term. But then there aren't many providers in the US that aren't dumb, so maybe the long-term threat has just been completely missed by them? Who knows...
How do you feel about services that require $650 phones?

Also, discounts when network utilization is low?
See Framingham Massachusetts. Same victim listed 3 times.
Yes, there should be no roaming charges so people can freely travel in Europe and be online always and everywhere. That would be good.
However, the latest plan is to NOT abolish them... Just a discount for a while or some free data for one week or something :-(
Not really helpful in creating 'one market'...
Hey guys found this neat little library

http://vanilla-js.com/

I get 12+ million operation (a true master race class) vs advertised 800,000 and peasantry of jQuery's 300,000.

Not sure if I want to sacrifice performance for aesthetically better looking (debatable ofc) syntax and bother investing time learning how to do something slower.
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To isolate closed-source programs containers are very helpful. I don't like to run steam within my normal debian system.
Normally I'm in favor of the "don't use it, then" approach. But it doesn't work with Facebook, because you're on it whether you want to be or not. Even if you've studiously avoided using it, you most likely have friends who use it and have given Facebook enough knowledge to identify and track you.
> There is of course caution needed when structuring incentives

Absolutely! For instance paying cash for blood donations is an obviously bad idea. You don't want blood from the kinds of people who would donate for money. Moreover, some people would donating excessively, thereby harming their health or even losing their lives.
I wonder if also equipping containers with dummy latches would help -- some mechanism with moving parts that messing with gives the sensation of making progress, but ultimately opens nothing. A honeypot handle, if you will.
They're at least passively tracking, if not actively tracking. Your browser visits those pages and requests files from their server that contain the relevant code. And your browser sends along certain information in order to make that request. And this includes widgets like the list of a user's Pins or Tweets or whatever, not just sharing buttons.
About "ok". You're right. I probably used a loaded word without context. I too use whatever default package repo, followed by "extras" or whatever is available. You described a sane and nice process. I guess my point is, at some point we are are assuming "many eyes" (the binaries might be built with the previously mentioned make;configure steps) unless you are auditing all sources which is unlikely. Especially unlikely on dev machines. Even after that it seems like there is an infinite continuum of paranoia.

I find it interesting that binary packages have existed for decades and yet `rpm etc` knowledge is rare. Why did curl sh become popular? Why doesn't every project have rpm|deb download links for every distro version? Why don't github projects have binary auto-builds hosted by github? I'd argue that it's too difficult. Binary packaging didn't succeed universally. For deployment, containers are (in the end) easier.

But the original article is conflating container concepts and user behavior (not wrongly). If docker hub does end up hosting malware-laden images, it would be interesting emergent behavior but it would be orthogonal to containers. Like toolbars. Toolbars probably aren't evil. A vector for evil maybe?
Google could do that, but at the same time would likely lose a lot of users to Firefox the very same day.
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I just use uBlock because a filter is more compute overhead... These days web browsers are seriously heavyweight software that my older, weaker machines can barely manage in the first place.
I'd defer to those who currently have Google Fiber. Is support any good?
I wasn't referring to the format (episodic) but the content. Shows like Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad are not only addictive because they're episodic, but because they're well written and have something to take with after watching. The characters are extremely elaborate. Those shows feature stories that don't rely on exhausted tropes or even deconstruct existing tropes. I think TV shows are better produced and their bigger budget is a plus which makes it more accessible to a broad audience. But when I read how avant-garde and never-seen-before the next hot TV show is, I can probably name an anime that did it before. Lately though, I'd say I probably like TV shows more and it almost seems as if animes are in a generational change, which is for the worse.

I may be a tad harsh about Pixar, but I think they're merely "good" for adults. There are some exceptions to this rule (Wall-E and Up for instance) but overall they are more or less Lion King or Ariel with a different setting e.g.: you know what will happen. Ghibli movies have this sense of mystery and uncertainty that'll keep an adult watcher hooked. I also like that they are a bit more merciless, even though that makes them unsuitable for a very young audience. Pixar movies can be watched 6+ with certainty whereas you'd better check if the Ghibli movie is suitable for your child.
I've been using this one; pretty basic and straightforward: https://github.com/cferdinandi/social-sharing
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Well, there's the rub. But if we take "benevolent" for granted, well....
How do you feel about services that require $650 phones?

Broadly speaking, few do. There are a lot of cheap Android phones out there.
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They are probably getting excess capacity bought by Google, it's not a bad idea to take easy guaranteed revenue.

My other theory is that they are giving Google a taste of the business that will later lead to Google buying T-Mobile or Sprint outright.
Agreed! I've not chuckled this much since reading Steve Yegge articles.
I think the reason they used it is that it starts with "B" as does "Baidu" and thus it adds a bit of Dr. Seuss like whimsy to the headline. Boffin has a very positive connotation in British English. It's connotation is an eccentric, extremely smart, almost wizardly scientist. Think "Doc" in Back to the Future.

"Boffin continued, in this immediate postwar period, to carry its wartime connotations: a modern-day wizard who labours in secret to create incomprehensible devices of great power."[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boffin
They already do that (allow a 3rd party to resell over their infrastructure) with Ting. They are in a commodity biz.
Are you on a single plan with 9 other people? If so, that really isn't a fair comparison. A single line on T-Mobile is a fair comparison.
> Go gets us better performance

Than Java? At best, GO performs on par with Java, but is often measured 10-20% slower.[1][2][3]

This is usually attributed to the far more mature optimizing compiler in the JVM, which ultimately compiles bytecode down to native machine code, especially for hot paths. Java performance for long running applications is on par with C (one of the reasons it's a primary choice for very high performing applications such as HFT, Stock Exchanges, Banking, etc).

> concurrency out of the box.

Java absolutely supports concurrency "out of the box"...[4]

[1] http://zhen.org/blog/go-vs-java-decoding-billions-of-integer...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20875341/why-golang-is-sl...

[3] http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/2r1ybd/speed_of_go_c...

[4] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurren...
don't think there was room for a downvote really... I'm used to python 2 syntax and would argue more than 50% of python enthusiasts prefer it.
You're right, I missed this on the first pass:

> There are lots of Wi-Fi hotspots out there but not all of them are high-quality. Project Fi automatically connects you to more than a million free, open Wi-Fi hotspots we've verified as fast and reliable. This technology helps keep your speed high and your data bill low.

For low bandwidth users a ~$25 / mo, intl coverage, no contract plan can be really attractive. I'm not sure how wifi coverage or handoff will perform in real life testing, but it's appealing to have Google pressure US telecom companies the same way they did with Google Fiber.
If you have a somewhat older version of nodejs or a somewhat older version of sshd which was compiled against a somewhat older version of openssl then your box was quite possibly (actually quite definitely) pwned via heartbleed or poodle. No need to know any passwords, just a matter of pointing a tool checking and abusing heartbleed or poodle at your box and a few minutes later: access to a fresh rootshell and pwned box.

Anyway, before reinstalling you should definitely quarantine your box and figure out how they got in before reinstalling. Because if and when you don't know, and the specific vulnerability is inside the current version of your Linux distro the chance is almost 100% they will discover a fresh target once they scan for vulnerable servers and they will hack your box again.
This service requires a $650 phone.
A long time ago, jwz used to use Justin.tv for the DNA Lounge webcast, and I used to use his rants as evidence that someone out there cared about a given bug and we should prioritize fixing it.

If anything I think it helped that his rants were rude, since that made it clear how much he cared about the problems.

Startups are different though. What you wrote is probably a lot more true of a company the size of Facebook.
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It brings the costs of on-boarding, support and sales to 0. At least, from the customer facing perspective. Presumably, they also believe this will bring them a net increase in 'paying users', with larger customer defections coming from the big players (Verizon and AT&T) rather than their own customer base.

I could see how it could be an attractive revenue stream.
> The only time I've ever seen it become difficult is when either the conditional or result expressions get hairy or depend on undescriptive variable names.

It's definitely possibly to write obfuscated ridiculous code without the ternary operator -- but I think that's part of the whole "go-lang mentality".

Would I leave unused declarations in production code? No.

Do I have a problem with a compiler that doesn't let me test code with a function call commented out without also commenting out all the other variables/functions that are now unused as a result? Yes.

> I'm at the point where I suspect complaints about the ternary operator are a cargo cult repetition thing, and the developers who are scared of it are scared because they were either taught by someone else to be scared, or they're suffering from a confirmation bias problem where they notice confusing conditionals more when they're associated with the operator.

I definitely don't think Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are getting confused -- it's more like they took a utilitarian view of the situation and decided - if the average code-base is made better or easier to read by this change, then it's worth it.

The over-all result is a language that appears to be easy to pick up and productive at least for those who use it - but it's hardly exciting or fun to code in.
This will be awesome once Google makes a nexus that can actually fit in my pocket. I've only switched from nexus to iPhone a few months ago when I lost my nexus 5 and found that nexus 6 is gigantic. The iPhone is pretty but I miss the nexus.
On the first point, you're right. It will require more farmers. But if you increase the productivity of the land and don't grow an intermediate feed it might not be as bad. And because there are multiple things going on (cows, meat chickens, egg chickens, etc) that does help from a productivity standpoint.

On the second point, I think it'a s business that's decidedly unfriendly to scale which means that it's protected (to an extent) from being over financialized or otherwise exploited. Wealthy folks may buy land, but in this farming model it's not the land that's the limiting factor; it's farmers. And there are plenty of young people who can't get real jobs these days that are getting pretty fed up with their traditional prospects. If you could earn a real living farming that doesn't require you to sell your soul that might look very attractive to a lot of people.

Now the wealthy folks bidding up the price of land such that "normal" people can't afford enough land to make a go of it, well, that's a real risk. But since the land is so much more productive it's easier to make it happen. You don't need to farm 1000 acres to make a living if you spend little/nothing on inputs and sell fairly pricey outputs. 50 acres might be enough to earn a low middle class income that you can slowly grow to upper middle class as your herd grows and you buy more land.
Only a more suitable whipped topping is needed for the cake: how about "destructivist deconstructivism" instead of "destructive destruction".
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@skywhopper "it's a failure of the company or organization or of his own communication skills" <~ Oh man, ever had a rant from The Management like "we pay you to do what we say"?
No one usually cares about communication skills of sysadmin. Yes, its a failure of organisation. Sad truth is - most organisations are failed.
Sysadmin today is a marginal job at a small company, where people respect you, or a job in the medium or large company where he or she are just peons.
> Just say "Yes", Google. Just say fucking "Yes". It's not that fucking hard to say fucking "Yes".

Do you really need a "yes" there? I think it is pretty normal to have a stupid PR response there -- of course the answer is "yes". There is no other way.
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Just as a point of reference, this is about on par with AT&T family share plans - I pay $145 a month for 3 iphones, unlimited text and talk with 10 gigs shared data. With taxes and fees it comes out to right around $160 (which would be the same here if I used all 10 gigs). The down side is that I'm not refunded for any unused data, so I pay that every month. But we use a good chunk of it every month, so this wouldn't be a big savings for me.
Seems they changed their mind about open source, according to the comments section[1] "We’ll release the usable parts of the code as free software with the most free license we can. It belongs to the community (and the community paid for it)."

[1] http://blog.brokep.com/2015/04/22/update-on-heml-is/#comment...
and virgin mobile and boost (both of which they own) plus a dozen other MVNO cell companies.
Ok, you are saying market makers are there to handle single whale orders, and not floods of one-sided orders during rumor panics etc. And you are saying that market makers should be obligated to take on a single whale order, but if the same whale-order-placer instead splits his whale it into chunks and simultaneously places them, maybe to hit multiple exchanges at once, the market maker obligation goes away as long as the first chunk is small enough not to blow away the book.

Yep, the order type is only for market-makers. That's pedantic too; I only ever talked about it in the context of market-makers, as an example of place-cancel not being the same as spoofing. I'm not sure if you are pointing this out to say I am conflating them. Maybe I should have picked a more noble non-spoofing example?