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Google has it easy in this respect. At many other companies it can be hard to know if people are slacking off or just not that smart.

I don't get what makes "startups" different from other businesses. Why is a "cloud social network" business different from a new innovative retailer. Why is Wal-mart (started in Alabama), less financially successful than Google (started in CA).

Companies like Google try to make their employees happy. If someone prefers Windows XP they are aloud to use it.

I will be moving from A-drive to google docs now. $.25 per GB a year is cheap.

From my experience it takes about 3-5 times longer to get a job now vs. 2004.

A lot of the same things are true for law school. I think a lot of people go into PhD programs/Law school because it sounds prestigious and assume with prestige comes money.

where is the linear algebra to combine it all into a single value? Some HR executive would pay big money for that.

Closing all the windows is dangerous because the pilots have no way of seeing the wings. If there was damage, gas leak, fire on the wing a passenger or flight attendant needs to see it and alert the pilots.

For example: http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123149266

It would be pretty easy to slip a gps antenna behind the shade before you closed it as well.

It is true that terrorists rarely attack planes in Israel. There they blow up coffee shops and restaurants and buses. A successful TSA just means that the threat will be targeted somewhere else.

The thing about NYC is that there are just so many people you can find someone to fit any stereotype so it is easy to reinforce preconceived notions. If you get on the subway with the attitude that there are a lot of people ready to fight if you look at them the wrong way you will be able to find one.

"The developers listed below are not Google employees." So they are really good, but not good enough to hire?

The problem is that the people in charge of deciding what to approve/buy for the Military are not qualified. They get the position of authority by being successful in the military not by proving they understand the technology of the things they are buying.

I can see how this happened. Say the military guy had two choices of what to buy for video feed products.

Product 1. Fully encrypted video 15 frames per second and a 5 second delay.

Product 2. No encryption video at 30 fps and 1 second delay.

At the demo he says "product 2 is much better lets get that". When product 2 is questioned about security they say something like "we have proprietary codecs". From the miliary guy's point a view a codec is just as good as encryption.

Facebook management is going in the complete wrong direction. They are trying to generate more revenue per user rather than trying to make the user happy. They are treating the advertisers like the customers. The users are the important customers. It is very short sighted.

Is the idea that it can be proven that you have a DV product but it cannot be proven that the unit has been recording?

1. If the hard drive is making a lot of noise it is probably recording video.

2. This is security through obscurity. The data is not being encrypted in a standard way. But the binaries on the computer that are used to decrypt the data can be decompiled to discover this obscure method. At that point you have no advantage over other encryption programs.

  If you want to be deniable get rid of the hard drive and require an internet connection.  Then when someone gets your "DV" unit and asks where the video is you can say it was set to live streaming mode and is never recorded.

How do you stop google maps or other databases from pulling all your data?

They should have a firewall rule up soon unless they want to bait some free loaders first.

I recently worked with a recruiter near Boston. I told her I liked one start-up position she sent me but I wanted to work on the Linux development not the Windows. She setup the interview then 1 hour before she called to tell me to focus on my Windows experience and not my Linux in the interview. That is when I realized she didn't care about what I wanted, all she wanted was for me to get the job so she could get her fee.

Traffic per user is decreasing that is why you are seeing moves like this to boost traffic. Their business model relies on traffic per user going up not down. They will continue to do immoral things like this until they go all out and change the terms of service and sell all your data to advertisers.

Yesterday's Dilbert was about how long approval processes take in corps.

This one is also about corporations as well. The 12 month schedule in Dilbert's company includes a lot of overhead that doesn't exist in startups

He might not have any, The same way people who work at sausage factories don't eat sausage. His searches could be anonymous, encrypted and routed through foreign gateways.

I would like an app that would scan my mp3s then generate a few Pandora stations from that. "Rap Music I listened to in High school" for example

Honesty is NOT an asset in a lot of corporate jobs. Someone who answers honestly in a way that makes them look bad, is more likely to be honest when around customers than those who avoid really answering the question.

Great first run. Keep working on it!

Even if you could get ALL the data in an open and transparent format and were able to scientifically prove that "Global warming is (100% real/fake)" it wouldn't matter because the political/corporate/celebrity forces on the other side would claim that you are "using bad science, corrupt, in the pocket of (liberal elites/big corporations)". Even if you proved that there isn't enough data to prove anything, both sides would say you are wrong.

Facebook's business model is busted. Costs are higher than revenue per user. The model has to change, become a search gateway, start selling products people want to buy, or cut costs features and charge high bandwidth users.

Here is the difference between what Google will know:

User A: Google DNS: search for dell, dns lookups; dell.com, chat1.us.dell.com, checkout.dell.com

User B: Non-Google DNS: search for dell

That isn't how DNS works. It is true that 90% of users go directly to google, but once there they click on Search results, news results, etc... The browser takes the link and the OS does a DNS lookup to get the ip address of the server hosting that url. Then the browser connects to that server, google is no longer in the picture.

Your fifth point is the most important one for me. Once they know your DNS data they can make make very educated guesses about the rest of your internet traffic. Google knows what is hosted at the servers you are looking up.

Recession == No travel, hardware/software, or party budgets and friends get fired.

No Recession == Travel, buy stuff whenever I need to, free food, friends leave on their own terms.

#27. There will always be people who think they are Right and anyone who disagrees with them is Wrong. These people will espouse their views through Religion, Politics, Lists of "What you can't say", etc...