Compare with Seattle, by the way, which just has a Sound Transit stop right on the Microsoft campus, easily accessible from Belltown and Cap Hill. If there's one thing that frustrated me moving from Microsoft to Google, it's the sudden decrease in the quality of inter-city public transit.
Moreover, if public transit to/from SF weren't such a fucking joke, more young techies would choose to live outside the city, knowing they could go in whenever they wanted to.
This annoys me greatly. Whether or not the book itself was bad, an open platform shouldn't have to apologize for not immediately censoring its users on public outrage. To the contrary, I would have expected an apology if, given the first blush or public outcry, they suspended the account without a proper investigation into it.
I care exactly zero about who Edward Snowden is. As far as I'm concerned, he could be a dick who loves kicking puppies and taking candy from children. What I do care about is, you know, the NSA spying on my phone calls and emails.
Yes. Standards should be designed by committee, ensuring as many cooks are helping the broth as possible. Much like UNIX and C came out of large standards consortia composed of many industry leaders, and like the HTML5 standards evolved incredibly quickly until those darn browser manufacturers slowed them down by going off and implementing things. A single engineer or group of engineers trying to solve a real world problem have never done anything good for the world.
(DISCLAIMER: I work for Google. All of my opinions are my own and not Google's.)
That's what he's saying. If this is the NSA telling us what the s-boxes for DSA are, what's the equivalent to the DSA understanding differential cryptanalysis when designing the s-boxes?
I don't get why people like rebasing as an alternative to merging. It works kind of OK for small histories, but if you do something slightly complex or your history is not meticulous, rebasing becomes extremly tedious. The worse example is a conflict in a reverted commit. A merge will flatten the diff and skip the reverted commit entirely, while a rebase will require you to fix the conflict twice. And while a merge is tedious to revert, it is possible. Good luck saving a branch ravaged by a bad rebase.
I fundamentally disagree with the idea that consuming cultural artifacts that happen to correlate with liking engineering has anything to do with liking engineering. If you think liking Star Wars is necessary for being an engineer, you're probably missing some pretty good people who just aren't that into Star Wars.
I think overall the big difference I see between interesting startups and boring ones is that interesting startups try to expand into a wider platform rather than just solve the small problem they were designated to solve.
I might, actually. A huge part of the reason I own a VPS is precisely because I don't own a desktop, and having a persistent networked machine comes in handy often.
IMO neither of these is true. Vine can't replace YouTube in any meaningful capacity, but it will change the way we think about video on the internet on a very fundamental level.
Not that the FB privacy disclaimer deals specifically with the copyright on deleted content. Specifically, you do rescind your license to FB by deleting content, but only if no references to it exist (i.e. it has not been reshared or all reshares of it have been deleted).
I have a buddy who has an international Galaxy Note II, and for what it's worth, I think the screen looks magnificent compared to the screen of the Nexus 7, which isn't half bad (my phone is a Nexus S 4G, so the comparison is moot).
IIRC, wasn't this leak made by the group AntiSec? IIRC, they consider themselves separate from Anonymous and have their own very odd manifesto having to do with exploit disclosure.
Using five technical searches I might actually make on a day by day basis, I chose Google 4 times and a draw once, though the results were close almost every time (once I chose Google because I searched for an organization name and wanted their homepage first rather than relevant news, and twice because the relevant result was from MDN rather than MSDN or W3C since I found that MDN tends to be the best site for actual technical reference, so YMMV).
IIRC I looked that up, and Google's revenue is about half of MS's for 1/3 the employees, making it about 3/2 the revenue per employee. Not sure about Apple/Samsung.
The discussion on the pull request is interesting, and illustrates the trouble with DNT being "default" -- ignore it, and users who opted into actual DNT are now harmed.
Honestly, the whole mantra of "differentiation" is a bit tired. Most android "differentiation" is terrible, and I'd rather have vanilla Android over "differentiated" bullshit any day.