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Re:Why Google's hiring process is broken
on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @06:36PM (#2558226)
It matches you with interviewers that know the languages you say you know well.
Re:Who is accessing your Gmail account?
on Tuesday June 15, 2010 @11:46AM (#1433054)
the Facebook give-us-your-login-temporarily style stuff is unacceptable
Agreed. IMO, asking for your password when there are API's readily available is alone enough to disqualify a company from being "trustworthy". Just the idea of keeping a bunch of GMail passwords in some decryptable database is quite a bit scary.
Re:Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi Service
on Monday June 14, 2010 @04:33PM (#1430884)
I'm a big fan of Subtle Tea on Madison and 30th: http://subtleteastore.com/
But there are a ton of them around I don't know by name. Usually smaller places frown on non-customers using it, or using it on busy nights (Friday/Saturday after 9pm or so), but I haven't had an issue readily finding wifi to work during the day.
Re:Adobe Responds to Jobs
on Thursday April 29, 2010 @10:30PM (#1306962)
The topic was Flash running in a mobile browser. Like Android, which Adobe originally said would ship Flash for over a year ago. I think Adobe's utter engineering incompetence is one of the obvious points everyone seems too polite to make.
Re:Adobe Responds to Jobs
on Thursday April 29, 2010 @10:27PM (#1306956)
Let's keep in mind, however, that there is not really one monolithic "market". Just as McDonalds co-exists with Jean Georges, the legions of Android clones running Flash, etc. will peacefully coexist with iPhones, except without the responsive UX, battery life, or even a fundamental sense of taste. (edit: would the downvoters like to justify themselves? have they seen a Android device with a responsive UI? I haven't...)
Re:Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Believe In Privacy
on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @06:42PM (#1302988)
Err, he didn't admit it. An anonymous employee of Facebook alleged it, "off the record". Most people I know treat Facebook as if it were a public-facing website, anyway, and should be more upset that Facebook isn't making people's information readily available to the public.
Re:Why I'm Angry About the iPhone Leak
on Thursday April 22, 2010 @01:06PM (#1285664)
> I think the key here is how Apple deals with it now that everyone is watching.
Andrey predicts [1] that the new iPhone launch will be canceled (or delayed?), and that Gizmodo will pay dearly for the leak.
1. http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/540380259/two-points-about-th...
Re:Is Hacker News Slow for You?
on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @05:29PM (#1283274)
http://ycombinator.com is down, and it looks like Paul is hosting the static content of the site there...
iPad bug interfering with Princeton's network
Re:Will Apple’s history repeat itself and make Android the winner?
on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @10:23PM (#1263957)
>> When people start realizing how to easily pirate their Android apps, I predict Apple will be the clear winner here.
> You could've said the same thing about Windows apps.
Precisely! Except the easier it is to pirate Windows software, the more valuable Windows becomes (at no loss to Microsoft). Handset manufacturers, on the other hand, are trying to make a profit by taking a cut of the app sales. The more iPhone apps are sold, the more money Apple makes. Their bottom line is negatively affected every time someone opts to pirate instead of buying. Not so with Microsoft.
Re:Top Motivators For Developers (Hint: not money)
on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @10:17PM (#1263948)
I don't think you have dueling anecdotes, just observation of the existence of red weasels and blue weasels. Until someone starts claiming that most weasels are some color, or that certain colored weasels tend to occur in certain kinds of environments, there's no need to fund extensive studies ;)
Re:Google to Open-source VP8 for HTML5 Video
on Monday April 12, 2010 @07:52PM (#1260734)
They chose the path that would lead to the fastest adoption of the technology which lowers their bandwidth costs. Keeping the technology Chrome-only is against their financial interests.
Apple and MS pay yearly licensing fees for H.264. As soon as they adopt VP8, they can stop.
Re:Apple Slaps Developers In The Face
on Monday April 12, 2010 @09:51AM (#1259103)
I think what he was looking for was the link between the rules Apple uses to accept/reject things from the store and the SDK agreement... but yeah, it seems to be a moot point.
Re:Apple Slaps Developers In The Face
on Friday April 09, 2010 @06:25PM (#1254069)
I think Gruber's interpretation is one that any person reading the document will have.
Not necessarily. See: http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/508678742/stop-interpreting-l...
Re:Apple Slaps Developers In The Face
on Friday April 09, 2010 @05:28PM (#1253923)
We have something official, more official than any press release: the developer contract
We have Gruber's interpretation of a complex legal document, taken completely out of the context in which "Application" is defined. Lawyers don't get paid big bucks to interpret this stuff for nothing.
Re:Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show
on Friday April 02, 2010 @10:10PM (#1238024)
Showing that there are those among us who will gas women and children, and many more who will not do anything about it as long as it doesn't affect them personally is a repeated lesson of history, not some psychology study.
Re:Wikipedia over DNS
on Thursday April 01, 2010 @02:42AM (#1234024)
Explain or link, please?
Re:Wikipedia over DNS
on Thursday April 01, 2010 @12:48AM (#1233890)
DNS is basically a huge associative array [which] gets cached at nameservers
Uhoh. This might be a dangerous meme.
Re:David Pogue’s Review of the iPad from 2 Angles
on Thursday April 01, 2010 @12:27AM (#1233864)
I think the idea is that the individuals in your family already own iPod Touches or iPhones (we do), so as soon as someone has a iPad, you're set.
Re:David Pogue’s Review of the iPad from 2 Angles
on Thursday April 01, 2010 @12:23AM (#1233857)
Yes. Apple completely changed battery designs between the removable and the non-removable versions. The latter will last significantly longer.
Re:Good code needs few unit tests
on Friday March 19, 2010 @10:03PM (#1205798)
From what I know, Andrey (the poster) is pretty neutral on TD, maybe even a proponent. He's saying you should have an interface in mind when you start to write unit tests. Sometimes you can do that before writing code. Other times, exploring with a REPL first is better.
Re:Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @09:33PM (#1203072)
For all we know, these are the kinds of people who, when approached on the street, said "sure, I'll go on The Death Show". They're the same kids who stomp on worms after it rains - a small minority of the complete population.
Re:Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @09:26PM (#1203056)
The good news is that once you start to understand where our biases are we can compensate to a degree, or at least include them in our mental models.
Isn't it backwards to realize the logical models of our actions are only justifications for unconscious drives, and then try to categorize those drives through the very same logical models we just agreed are only good at hindsight justification? What is the point? To justify your self-image of being part of some "rational elite"?
Re:Milgram experiment redone: crowd "tortures" man on fake TV show
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @09:08PM (#1203030)
I think what he is trying to say is that the experiment conducted for the documentary was not a robust peer reviewed phenomenon, but rather a for-pop-consumption "backyard demonstration". Real science takes a lot of effort (avoiding the before mentioned sample bias being one), effort which was most likely skipped in the creation of this "pop sociology" for-mass-consumption show.
Ironically, the fake violence of reality shows they decry is precisely what they are demonstrating - an unreviewed, unpublished study which concludes "4/5 of everyone around you is a potential murderer".
Re:Dear Mozilla, Please Don't Kill HTML5 Video
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @05:47AM (#1200870)
they refuse to see this
Nah, just hadn't read up/thought about the issue enough, thanks for explaining. I'm actually a bit of a supporter of software patents, as they give business reason to invest boatloads of money in things like H.264 to begin with.
Re:Dear Mozilla, Please Don't Kill HTML5 Video
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:39AM (#1200797)
Ugh. Please, read the other side of the "argument", I was going to say "research", but seriously, the information is 5 seconds of google-fu away: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codec...
Re:Garmin Connect team asked to relocate - this is how they declined
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:38AM (#1200792)
Right - you don't maximize shareholder returns by being generous with handing out stock. IMHO, being generous handing out stock is just stupid.
Re:Dear Mozilla, Please Don't Kill HTML5 Video
on Thursday March 18, 2010 @04:18AM (#1200775)
Because you need to pay licensing fees measured in "millions of USD per year" if you're going to distribute software which decodes H.264.
Re:PEG.js - parser generator for JavaScript
on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @10:33PM (#1200300)
I'm really interested in human-readable grammars. Thanks for your work.