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> The CEO puts his office in the G+ building. I see that as Page being the driving force behind this.

No, that reads as Vic Gundotra being the driving force behind this and Page buying in fully. If Page was the driving force, Gundotra would have put his office by Page's.

> Page had to have bought into the idea independently (assuming he is independent).

I don't think Page was independent. He was a brand new (in some sense) CEO with a lot to prove to shareholders and he had to make a big splash. Although his leadership has improved and he clearly came back to power with a vision to unify Google's services, he still had a vibe of being a bit unsure.

My perception of the management at Google is that they mostly come from the engineering side and don't typically do things like overhype themselves or their projects—they generally call the importance of their projects as they see them.

So along came Gundotra, who had spent 15 years at Microsoft in the most political meat grinder on the planet and was wayy more politically savvy then the rest of the management—and sells Facebook as an existential threat and G+ as salvation with unflinching confidence, plus a little bit of brown-nosing that would go a long way with an insecure new CEO. Feeling this versus the even-keeled/mildly pessimistic reporting styles that the rest of his engineering management had, I think Page bought into it hard, and G+ was history.

Although it's circumstantial evidence, the conditions inside the G+ team were insanely political versus other Google orgs. I think this is a mirror of Gundotra's style.

> The G+ push/force was still in full-swing on the consumer side through 2014.

Really? Everyone knew it was dead. I perceived that as merely consolidating the unified logon/identity system they'd build in G+.
I had someone run some tests where ethash was accessing only 1KB rather than the whole 1GB of dag, and runtime fell by 40%. So that's roughly the fraction of time spent on memory latency in the single threaded cpu miner. That's less than the 67% measured for Cuckoo Cycle, but still rather high. So I should say that ethash is almost memory-bound, and certainly much more so than other memory oriented hash functions.
The definitive series on linkers is definitely Ian Lance Taylor's: https://wingolog.org/archives/2012/05/23/list-of-ian-lance-t...
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Sure, but the money Bill Gates spends on medical treatment takes resources away from other things. Even if supply is elastic enough to adjust, it's unlikely to adjust immediately, and the adjustment will still reduce resources that would have been consumed elsewhere.

Money is a claim on future productivity. Spending it causes people in the world to adjust what they're doing to satisfy what you're asking for. Most of our claims aren't very large though, so this isn't particularly noticeable except in aggregate.
Should emoji "represent" anyone at all though? I always considered them an abstract representation of an emotional state, not a person. I guess the advantage of the old school method (punctuation marks, like ":-)" ) is that they're so abstract that they obviously represent an idea rather than a group or a person.
The issue isn't just the money. It's putting the people that otherwise wouldn't make $70K/year because their skills just aren't worth that much in the marketplace, in a bad position.

Most people want to improve their lives when they get a bump in pay (better house, lifestyle, etc), which is a good thing. But when you start relying on it, you will most likely lose it all when you lose your job because your market rate is considerably less.

It will also make these employees slaves to the company. They won't really have a choice, but to work there.

But I don't think the above will even be an issue because the economics of it won't make it that long. The company will most likely be out of business before it happens.

It's a failed and broken idea. The sooner this CEO sees this, the better.
It would seem this article casts doubt on Roche's accusations.
It doesn't interact with anything. It's an existing feature.
> On the plus side, this is really great work. On the minus side I sometimes think people working on unicode, a system intended to allow for all the world's written languages to be represented by a single encoding, have lost their minds sometimes.

Why? It's a useful and convenient pictographic addition to text, and it brings attention to astral characters and combining characters whose handling is routinely screwed up by western developers (let alone anglo-centric ones) who don't routinely deal with them and don't care to test for these cases. I mean it took until 2010 for MySQL to start not destroying astral characters at all (with the introduction of "utf8mb4" in 5.5(.3)). And oddly enough, one of the big world-wide changes to text content between 2006 (MySQL 5.1) and 2010 was emoji spreading outside of japan starting around 2008. I'd like to say it's a coincidence, but that's not really likely.

> And then the argument is that this is just intended to encode Japanese carrier emoji. Great, let's spend brain cycles building into unicode icons used by phone carriers in one country.

That's an argument nobody is making because emoji escaped japan back in 2008 when people outside japan started unlocking the emoji iOS keyboard and using emoji elsewhere.

> I'm already bothered by the separate encodings I've seen from time to time for the exact same script, but in slightly different font variations. That's supposed to be handled by the font that's representing the script, not by the encoding.

That doesn't really work, because now you can't mix the two languages anymore, this is actually a big issue with han unification, mixing Chinese and Japanese in the same text becomes a pain in the ass because they can't look right without a bunch of font-based hackery, which expects the client to have all the right fonts in the first place.

> This really needs to be a separate encoding that's not unicode.

And so you couldn't mix emoji and text, now that would be convenient and absolutely wouldn't lead to proprietary emoji implementations in private unicode fields at all.

Well it would actually because that's how emoji were first integrated in unicode in the first place.
When your body breaks apart at 80 years old, that does not make you unhealthy, you are just old.

Or we could get our shit together and classify aging as a treatable disease and spend an adequate amount of research dollars on finding a cure.
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Swapping the boring facade for nice glass seems easy compared to updating the interiors to reasonable standard (for example proper kitchen fans need ventilation ducts, which are often missing in old towers like this). I think for a lot of these buildings the economics of refactoring is worse than for rebuilding. When you make large enough changes to existing buildings I suppose you also risk having to bring it up to (current) building code in terms of ventilation, heating, fire safety, ...
This was my scenario recently - and quitting was the best thing I ever did. They replaced me a few weeks later and the company is doing a-ok. I didn't burn bridges and am very close friends with the people that work there

Leave professionally, don't bad-mouth anyone, and go on with your life. Chances are you'll find a better job now you know what to look out for.
Emoji are like letters, they have a basic meaning but the exact representation depends on the font. So there are "different sets" in the sense that U+1F46E "POLICE OFFICER" may not look the same across all systems, in the same way "A" will not always look the same unless you specify the font to use.
There's no complexity to combining characters

Except that all of it needs to be translated to code, it involves operations with color (or multiplying the number of certain icons by 5), it needs to have a slightly different behavior (i.e. more code) on black-and-white screens, and so on. And just because there is already high level of complexity involved in something does not mean you should gleefully add to it.
It made it all the way across Canada, and around Germany, but before it even leaves the US east coast it's been destroyed.
The main reasons for the LifeStrategy: 1) simple but solid diversification in stocks, bonds and international, 2) transitions over time to more conservative portfolio as you would want when you're nearing retirement and the biggest 3) low fees of just %0.16.

For pretty much every retail investor, this is a very prudent approach for a core holding.
Came here to provide the same answer. From the sounds of it, the company is already broken, so quitting is not going to make matters any worse. If you are unhappy, not getting paid, and constantly worried about how your performance is viewed or handled, it is time to run to the door.
"The puush update system on Windows doesn’t verify the authenticity of the downloaded updates."

Wow.
G+'s timing was very good. It was the time were people still wanted to use social media but grew tired of facebook.
Now there's a social media fatigue, people can't be arsed to sign up for something new. They'll log in to facebook once every few weeks and for the daily conversation they'll use WhatsApp.
Of the 95k odd people who have read the article on Medium, nobody has ever before mentioned a dislike of the word content. As much as I'd love to, it's hardly practical to cater to the tastes of each 0.001053%
Google did manage to strike the worst possible balance of size and network effects. Facebook was good because everyone was on Facebook - Google+ was bad because everything else was on Google.

The positive network effect of social media is that it helps you find everyone you want to talk to. The negative effect is that it denies you the ability to compartmentalize your behavior - to talk about indie bands on Pitchfork, and then secretly enjoy Nirvana on Youtube.

Google+ didn't have any active users, so it lost the positive network effect, but it was incredibly aggressive about forcing you to use it in every place possible (and with more sharing than you wanted). The result was that they only got a loss of compartmentalization, without any actual social benefit.
I learned to type on a mechanical typewriter in the 90s, and if my memory doesn't fail me could type at up to 80wpm, much faster than this simulation allows.
I see many people here (somewhat surprisingly) didn't know about that yet, so here's the thread about how the whole thing started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8558022
I'm far from an expert on Unicode, but I definitely have the feeling that they've had trouble sticking to their original mission. A few months ago we had a discussion here on HN about some people still not being able to write their names in their native script -- Burmese? maybe, I forget -- but now we have skin tone modifiers for emoji.

That said, I guess I agree, if you're going to have emoji at all, you have to at least think about this issue. My inclination would have been to make them all green from the beginning, so there's no question of ethnic favoritism, but I guess it didn't happen that way.
Combining characters and ligatures have existed since Unicode 1.0 in 1991, skin colors aren't a different mechanism and if they require more code because you've hardcoded either I'm sorry to report you're a moron.

The only thing which may have required more code is multi-color font glyphs and that's not a new things of emoji skin colors that was at best a new optional thing back when emoji were first introduced.

> it needs to have a slightly different behavior (i.e. more code) on black-and-white screens

No?
Thanks for doing this!

Project Euler people, there's no shame in unbundling your problem set and your web app. Actually, those are two different projects, so unbundling them would be technically sweet. Release your problems on GitHub or wherever. Do the webapp as a related project.

keenerd, any chance you saved the HTML for the problems as well? If so could you release it? As nice as it is to have text versions of the problems, I'm suspicious some things were lost in the transition, e.g. if they used italics anywhere.
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Does Unicode only accept characters which are in an already standardized or widespread character set?

Company logos are widespread on the web and in icon fonts.
145 of the 585 glyphs in Font Awesome 4.0.0 are brand icons This is one quarter. Of the 2000 icons in the Ultimate Icons Pack 354 are "social logos". Other fonts are similar.

I don't want to see them included in Unicode but I see more arguments for logos in Unicode than for emojis.
Irrelevant and historically dubious.

Without a strong common culture that solves the prisoners dilemma of social safety-nets, they will collapse. If you want Switzerland, you need Swiss.
> It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen

> It seems to outperform every other language in every speed benchmark I've seen

I like D. A lot. But please don't do this. It a) does not help D's popularity (if that is what you are trying to do , b) it makes you look like a troll or makes you look stupid (sorry)
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I recently watched Lego's "Brickumentary" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3214286/)... according to the movie, Lego's major invention was putting cylinders inside the bricks, which allow them to be stacked in all kinds of ways. I think that qualifies for a patent.
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People will put up with a lot of technical annoyances, but Google+ went far beyond annoyances.

I had a boss who's Google Plus page was owned by one of his other employees - they were on so many of the same emails that Google guessed who was who wrong. The two of them, working together, couldn't figure out how to hand the profile to its real owner. Similar experiences with identity issues and unusable bugs abounded.

It's one thing to have a hard-to-use website, or one that crashes sporadically. It's another to have errors so severe that they make the site permanently unusable for some people.
It doesn't matter if Mars One is a scam, the article makes a good point: Our sense of optimism, of pioneering spirit, of looking to the stars, has suffered greatly in recent decades.

If all it does is nudge people from looking forward to a now ubiquitous (in fiction) dystopic future, to again staring at the sky with wonder and possibility, it will be a resounding success. I wonder if that wasn't a large part of the point of the whole undertaking.

Also, regardless of whether the mission is ever launched or not, the article is interesting for being a science fiction story that isn't. I grew up with authors looking for the small human stories in spaceflight and star colonization, and now here's a true personal one, for real... Someone is actually thinking deeply on what it will be like for their own spouse to leave them for MARS. That this can happen now, even if this particular mission ultimately leads nowhere, is incredible.
I never gave G+ a chance in retaliation of the closing of greader. I'm a pissed off user, and since Google has 0 notion of user satisfaction, I'm glad G+ is a failure."Free services" providers should not underestimate the fact that pissing off users will have a negative effects on potential new "free services". Who trusts Google with any service lasting on the long run ? I certainly don't. Why should I invest in something that will be gone soon? because I know in my guts G+ WILL be retired.
Thanks for sane commentary throughout this story.

It's a bit tiresome how people are so quick to tar orderly additions to technical things as "complexity".
The integration of all google products was a big problem as well.

I didn't want to be logged into google search when checking my email or having a youtube-account when signing up for g+.
We don't have school nurses in, i believe, all of europe. Are children here dying in school? I didn't think so.
My experience of Paris is completely at odds with this. I've travelled extensively by train and Metro and have had no problems at all. I would never drive or cycle in Paris.

I'm not going to touch the arguments about poverty, the homeless, or criminality, except to say that the only time I've really been concerned about the things I've seen have been in New York. I guess YMMV.
"Roma criminality"... "they have no self-love"... Sorry, but this is xenophobia, and Europeans are better than Americans at it. The systematic exclusion of groups from the mainstream creates extra-legal behaviors (or "culture", as you say) to make ends meet. Plus, Europeans love a scapegoat; it's part of a long, illiberal tradition on the continent.
Not the best article. The Blackrock portion is irrelevant. Regarding piecing together your own Vanguard portfolios, you might be able to save a few basis points. You'd also have to do the rebalancing yourself and I'm not sure the tax implications of rebalancing.
Facebook did great at bringing people together online, but once we were online together, we had no clue what to do. Meetup is the opposite, encouraging you to meet offline and I think that's the future of social networking.
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Yes, run! Do not keep satisfied with a toxic situation, that's a fast-lane to burnout.

edit: alternatively, consider some time off, might be you're already overworked and would see things from a different perspective after some rest.
Probably what made them such an attractive target in the first place.
I wish Unixstickers offered framing, otherwise I would have gotten my print here!

The terminal catalog is cool: https://www.unixstickers.com/terminal
All of those funds are composed of funds available as ETFs.
Boy, that list looks pretty similar to the principles of Unitarian Universalism (full disclosure, born and raised). The suggestions are good but if we look at the history of the Unitarian Universalism it was heralded by various scholars as the secular religion for the coming enlightened future. None of that has happened and the fastest growing religious communities these days are fundamentalist, evangelical Christians. I agree with the sentiment of the author, but reality suggests that we secular minded folk are missing something in the implementation.
That didn't connect at all with me.
How does this differ from the 'fmt' utility included in the GNU textutils set?
I'd also recommend "Linkers and Loaders". It's a bit dated, but it's a classic and most of the core underlying ideas are still relevant today:

http://www.iecc.com/linker/
Why not? But you certainly don't have to trust me on that: it's what actually happened. Apple added support for Softbank (unicode-based) emoji when they started working on japan, and non-japanese started using that even though it only worked between iOS devices[0] (didn't even work on OSX IIRC). Hell iOS has its own proprietary messaging system and people use that.

[0] it actually required "unlocking" the relevant keyboard by starting an application which used those characters or something like that, shit was crazy, it took several ios versions for apple to make the emoji keyboard available to any and all OOTB
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> The problem - Anger management, blames people for things when they go wrong. Unreasonable work expectations for product features and expectations that a person would be available anytime/any day weekends including to do work and support. Does not pay properly or on time. Does not communicate properly on what is happening at the high level. In short, someone for whom you will find it hard to work for even if you like the problem the company is trying to solve and doing your best for its success.

Have you raised this to him/her? My two cents: raise all the points along with one or two advices, this way she/he won't feel attacked but rather helped.

You may end up quitting if you're not satisfied with the reaction but at least you will have tried to fix it.
Good article, even though most of these points have been discussed for a long time by other people already.

Sunday Assembly in London looks interesting, I just might join. Everyone needs a prophet.
It seems some cultures are angry at homosexuality being first class lifestyle. Northern African cultures will forget what one does with another same-sex person as long as they play the accepted citizen/family roles, aka get married traditionally with the according gender, make babies, don't talk about what things you may or may have not done.

I'm really curious how pre antique cultures, tribes for instance, dealt with this.
It's just math.

My in-laws, who lived 2/3rds of their lives under communism, have already retired simply because they spent less than they made (of their paltry incomes) and invested it conservatively. Meanwhile, my own parents who have had solid upper middle incomes in the US, always lived above their means, have an oversized new house and financed cars, don't even have $10k in the bank.
It would be interesting if a similar approach might be applied to flush out latent Chickenpox virus (VZV) from people whom experienced active disease because of the massive risk of Shingles' long-lasting, debilitating symptoms later in life.

Interestingly, a similar approach has been tried to flush out the related HSV-1 http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/07/02/us-herpes-treatmen...
I'm kind of surprised to hear that CUPS gives some people so much trouble. I've been using OS X and Linux since around 2001 and neither have given me any mentionable trouble with printing. It's always been install drivers -> flawless printing. In the case of my newest printer, I didn't even need to install drivers since it's AirPrint compliant. CUPS has been great for me.
I spent a summer in Sumatra a decade ago. Western ex-pats warned me that after a while a native male friend would hold my hand, but that it was merely a sign that we were now friends. (I am male.) It indeed happened and I was happy to have had the prior explanation or it could have been quite confusing!
This is dead on. Anybody who looks at the failure of G+ without looking at Gundotra is missing a huge part of the plot.
So now you only print from Windows? Certainly not OS X as it also uses CUPS...
Have a look at Google+ and you'll understand why people say that they are an ad company and not a tech company anymore.
I thought that fmt only separated text by columns not by characters or words?
I wonder if an "organized secularism" would only copy some the problems found in organized religion. Do people become less religious only because of a rejection of the supernatural, or for other reasons as well? I think some people become less religious for two additional reasons as well: "shared values" and "rituals."

A set of shared values is nice until it fails to change in response to changes in the values of individuals. For example, the Catholic Church has been slow to accept the rights of gender and sexual minorities, even as many individual Catholics become more accepting of these rights. The result is a split in the church, between those who want an updated set of values and those who prefer the old set.

Individuals may also dislike some of rituals associated with religions, perhaps because they take time or have some other cost that the individual doesn't want to pay (fasting, reduction of pleasure, etc.).

A secular community that adopts a shared set of values and rituals may only take on some of the problems leading to less religiosity, rather than solving them.