Great presentation and something that programmers in general (not just infosec) need to have a personal decision model for. Everyone should be able to make their own decision to these questions as they see fit, but the more we talk about issues like this the more we see where other people like us (who maybe were put into this position in the context of "work") have decided on a stance (and the repercussions of said stance) the better off we all are. We who work on machines and not man don't have an oath that we are taught to follow and/or live by, and I don't necessarily think we should. That being said, the Jr. programmer working for a small firm can encounter decisions of ethical importance as much as a black/white/grey/green/mauve hat infosec can. To me, this is the core value of what a site like HN provides and probably the main reason I read the comments on HN more than I do the articles.
When I originally saw this I posted it with the title as it was on the article. The article itself has been updated with a lot more information than was originally on there and also the title has changed.
"I've never seen a major conference center that didn't have a place to drink coffee and read for 2 hours without being killed. "
Both the perfectness and absurdity of this sentence is awesome.
New Orleans may be bad, but it isn't _that_ bad, especially an area that MS (or any big firm) chooses for a company sponsored gathering. If MS was bright had any respect for their speakers they would have dynamically made room available for this speaker's wife in some area inside the conference center. They are idiots for not bending rules doing it. But to also think they shoved her out a door and steel barred the entrance and left her there by herself in the middle of Voodoo Shantytown New Orleans where the creole shamans and werewolves circled her is just as crazy.
I get where the author is coming from and totally understand his stance, but I honestly do not believe that MS intentionally put his (non-invited?) wife in harms way. From his description MS treated him awfully and I hope they realize this and attempt to correct it in the future and see where being human in some instances is indirectly worth more than the price of admission to TechEd, but lets be honest - they didn't make his wife walk the plank to circling sharks.
I have to think that the patent in Spolsky's example cost at least a couple grand to produce/submit. I also would love to see the cost per rejected patent produced by the USPTO that comes from US tax payer dollars.
While I agree it is an interesting idea as someone who uses Google+ a decent amount I would not have wanted non-user contexts mixed in anymore than what is already there (these are already present for a lot of brands etc). I am already starting to get annoyed with the "What's Hot" elements and such inside Google+ I would rather have more subscribed human content that algo picked or rss generated.
I think that moving that into its own interface _within_ Google+ would have been a great idea though.
I'm not stating they did it well, just saying that for those 4 different platforms (excluding xbox one until release) they already have stuff "in production". The ship has sailed, and they put the farm on it.
I think it is amazing a company as big as MS has converged work station, tablet, phone and Xbox One UIs in such a short amount of time. Not saying I like all the changes, just amazed at the short amount of time it has taken.
Very cool. What % of the platform (if any) would you say is tailored to London? (ie how easy is it to implement other cities - assuming the mapping/traffic data is present)
Great read, I love the look and care of the writer in which medium has taken. I expect even better things from them on the long form writing platform in the future.
I think the question you have to ask yourself when posting a project to HN is are you ready to receive blunt and sometimes uncivilized responses to your work(?). I think as long as you submit with that filter in full view that even when your work is chided relentlessly for some already obvious gap you can still sort through and determine legitimate criticisms. Say what you will about HN and its strong convictions and shallow snide callouts, but there are not a lot of avenues like it on the internet today for getting actionable feedback.
So I have seen these done multiple times for different MMOs, so what seems to be so special about this one from GTA4? I have played GTA4 and I enjoyed it, just trying to get a gauge about why this seems to be so amazing to some? (I admit, certainly could legitimately be just something I am missing, is there something about the game that makes this complicated?).
As a pretty big console and PC gamer, the best thing that came out of this presentation was that Steven Spielberg will be working on a live action Halo TV series.
I am just confused as to why taking off your Glass will not be similar to other common social bathroom courtesies like putting away your cell phone, or utilizing family bathrooms, etc. Once a stigma is in place at the social level, it will work itself out. If not, there is always the direct approach of just asking someone to put it away.
"HBO’s figure dates to the end of 2012, but it’s unlikely to have grown much in the first three months of 2013, owing as much to the cable TV industry’s stagnation as its own trouble signing up new subscribers."
I wonder how many people are like me and only pay for the months in which Game of Thrones is on (Q2 so far)?
Whats the harm in shipping both? I love that Google is doing this, and I hope all the best for people that benefit from it, but the term "Google" is not synonymous with _charity_ for me personally. Get your app out there with some official branding from respectable charities ("certified by the red cross etc") and I would DL yours just as quick as I would DL something similar from Google.
As a very longtime Flickr user, I much welcome a quality Flickr replacement for those of us that want off site storage coupled with the ability to share with specific others in an easy manner.
I would love to see prepay/caps implemented in a similar way. I give you $50 for the equivalent number of users, you stop serving me after that is exhausted. I can then chose to replenish today, tomorrow, next week or never.
Scary thinking about the fact that if there is a billing dispute or anything to that nature, for connected cars in the near future, someone could just turn a car off at whim for a driver. I would hope there is a high regulatory wall formed in the years to come if you want to disable a person's car remotely.
I haven't decided if I agree with you. I was able to convert 2 Trello boards to it in under 10 min (smaller boards). Pretty much the circles equated to the columns the way I was using in Trello (todo, waiting on, in process, done) however I liked the idea that I could break out todo into multiple circles based on the channels the tasks came through. I then was able to color code all the circles for easy visibility. I am not saying I am by any means a convert from Trello at this point, but the fact I could get all this up in a rather quick manner and have a quick visual representation to look at quickly was nice and gives me enough faith to test it out for a week or two.
Note: Trello has this color representation also with editable labels, of course. For some reason I dig the circles though.
As soon as I heard their recant the first thing I thought of was some smug marketing high up grinning at their office that 'his/her plan had worked'. That being said it doesn't sound like that is the popular opinion (esp from this article). More that they were actually going to do this for business reasons.
I agree, very ballsy art. I don't believe I have ever explicitly seen a law here in the US (I know this is UK, just comparing) forbidding cameras within a package, but I would think there would be some law on the books somewhere they could apply (not saying that is a good thing, esp in light of recent events).
" It's functional at speeds between 20 and 124 mph, but don't plan on double-fisting your iPhone and venti latte on the way to work — the system detects when the driver's hands have been removed from the wheel and automatically shuts down. Lame"
Isn't this kind of the opposite approach VW/Audi is taking?
I don't believe it was anything crazy and that I believe that there is probably a common answer for what this was, but I am amazed at the HN comments so far that take this post for certification of an idea.
> Ironic, in that what he was trying to communicate was some concepts regarding recognizing the moral reality of those around him, when, in fact, he was one of those clueless types who likely hadn't considered the possibility that his whacking-away at his keyboard was really annoying others.