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by dschobel 17y ago
That was't he point of his metaphor, the point was about a massive step forward in technology. The full quote makes it clearer: "Subversion = Leeches. Mercurial and Git = Antibiotics. We have better technology now. " (emphasis his).
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by dschobel 17y ago
I think this affects version control systems specifically because the nature of the beast is to create a format to track changes over a long period of time. Changing that format is a huge pain in the ass and rarely worth it. In VCSes more t
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by dschobel 17y ago
Why? They have substantial differences. Beyond the fundamental data model (DAG for git vs change-sets for hg) they have significant usability differences. The most obvious of those is the git concept of manually staging commits. That's a co
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by dschobel 17y ago
I disagree with your disagreement. Rebasing/squashing can really help clean up the development history and actually make it a ton more useful as a historical reference. Like all things in programming, discretion is key and obviously it can
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by dschobel 17y ago
The best description of how to react to a decline I ever read was from Yegge talking about Google interviews (and the large amount of false negatives built into their process). His conclusion was that while it's fine to feel bad, you should
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by dschobel 17y ago
My only experience has been with the java frameworks coming out of Google and those are top-notch. In particular google-collections ( http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ ) and guice ( http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ ) are, i
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by dschobel 17y ago
The $647m figure was stock grants and he did indeed make $1 in base in 2006. http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/03/ceo-executive-compensation-... Again, outside the finance world, 7 figure base salaries are quite rare.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Practically speaking though, I doubt that another 200 or 300k in base salary would make a dent in these guys' tax liabilities. You also have to concede that it is conceptually appealing that their compensation is directly tied to the perfor
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Noam Chomsky answers questions from the users at Reddit(reddit.com)
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by dschobel 17y ago
the actual source: http://bigthink.com/noamchomsky (with more of his videos)
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by dschobel 17y ago
That's the route I would have gone, just write some tiny local web app which authenticates against AD and then redirects to the external service. I don't know why they wanted to go ip-based or even bother with cookies since AD queries are p
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by dschobel 17y ago
Sure, but borrowing so liberally usually merits at least a credit to the original artists. That's just common decency in the artistic world.
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by dschobel 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research MSR regularly does amazing stuff, of which a lot gets patented: http://www.google.com/search?q=MS+Research+patents I'd say hiring lots of bright guys and girls and investing heavily in R&#
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by dschobel 17y ago
It was a direct answer to your question which was explicitly about fb + twitter. What's not to get?
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by dschobel 17y ago
When they go public and we can see the balance sheets and not just press releases.
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by dschobel 17y ago
dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1178723
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by dschobel 17y ago
You're conflating Google's caring about the alleged practice and the public's perception of the practice. If people are qualitatively unhappy with search results, Google will care. These posts serve to highlight that displeasure.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Companies like Google care about and have responded to populist uprisings like this in the past (especially as it relates to search quality). I imagine that's the actual goal here.
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by dschobel 17y ago
I don't particularly care about Calacanis (sorry Jason) but I'd say gaming Google this thoroughly is pretty newsworthy. Or at least it was the first three times we read about it.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Well since the audience here probably hasn't changed just for this story may I suggest that the lack of coherent commentary reflects the unfocussed and meandering style of the source article. It does have some interesting snapshots of Japan
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by dschobel 17y ago
A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. --General George S. Patton
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by dschobel 17y ago
So Ars Technica has the same fundamental problem as every publisher on earth-- how do you allow your content to reach the most eyes across the most channels and platforms while still maintaing full control (only showing your content with yo
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by dschobel 17y ago
But doesn't that reflect a broken model then? If you really and truly never click on ads, what value does the advertiser get from the view (vs a click)?
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by dschobel 17y ago
It's really unnerving how the woman can grin through her teeth while telling Dawkins to go fuck himself. It really is unpleasant to watch.
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by dschobel 17y ago
Very cool. I wonder if they continuously update the correlative research and its implications for existing customers. That seems like the portion which needs the most work and I would hope you wouldn't have to pay $500 every few years to se
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by dschobel 17y ago
The most honest technical assessment of the two I've seen yet came from the GoogleCode team when choosing which system to support: http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
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by dschobel 17y ago
That may all be true but in the absence of a compelling antagonistic narrative it makes for a poor online rant. Your position is way too nuanced. Try to reframe it as nerds vs the world or even better, nerds vs the normals and then mayb
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by dschobel 17y ago
In what way does this analysis of a caricature (based on sitcom character!) resemble reality? Is this really the most sophisticated thing we can say? that "nerds" don't like society because it's illogical? Color me underwhelmed.
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by dschobel 17y ago
The Economist ran a cover story on precisely this phenomenon a few weeks back: http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
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by dschobel 17y ago
and facebook quitting: http://www.seppukoo.com/ I wonder if the twitter guys are concerned about the logical next step in this reversal of over-exposure.

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