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Depending on how much it ends up changing, old employees might not be forced to get a new badge. In that case, it'll eventually be a funny way to differentiate employees from before/after the "Reorg/Satya Epoch" haha.

1. I have in the past counted as a unique monthly user by Googling something (restaraunt, hotel, ??) and then looking at the "Google Reviews" which would take you to a plus.google.com page. It seems Google changed the UI on this now: "Google reviews" brings up a popup thing and the hours and everything else is on a card on the right of search results.

Good on them for changing it, but do I still count as a user by having consumed content which I assume come from G+ APIs? Wouldn't be surprised.

2. I bet many of those 41 million smartphone users are just auto-uploading pictures to Google+ without really knowing what Google+ is. They just like that they can auto-upload their pictures.

Google+ isn't doing "just fine".

edit: I'd like to know the unique monthly ACTIVE users. Where "active user" is defined as having posted something on Google+ (I'd concede to defining an active user as someone who has done an action to someone else's post, e.g. Like or Comment)

Eventually computers began being able to turn themselves off.

Does anyone know what prevented older computers from doing this? And if it was possible, why the design decision was made to make the users turn the computers off themselves? Was it some sort of "feel in control of this new thing in your house" thing?

I think he meant "people that don't even know how to program".

In this article bill gates says in the first line that he no longer writes code. But clearly he would not classify as a "non-programmer".

Today's managers can still provide valuable input (e.g. algorithm design - like Gates did when this article was written) even if they don't code day to day.

I'm a program manager at Microsoft so I don't actually write code. That said, I majored in CS and know my stuff pretty well. I don't consider myself a "non-programmer". That said, I try and increase my credibility among "my" devs by doing projects outside of work. This also helps me keep up with the times.

I watch a bunch of TV shows with the CIA or FBI in them. I don't for a second think that they depict anything realistically.

It's a tv show. Not a reality show.

When you share to a feed you'e sending it out for everyone to see. You want to know that people saw it and with services like Instagram and Facebook this is done via commenting and Liking/Favoriting.

With Snapchat you fire and forget. No one needs to like the picture in order for you to feel any sort of satisfaction. The only indicator you get is that it was viewed at all - and with the sort of content that gets sent over Snapchat, that's really all the information you need anyways.

TL;DR: I think the "choose indiciduals to send to" model is more important than the "they get erased" aspect. Of course, the vanishing part of it is what got Snapchat to become popular in the first place so it would be wrong to say they would have seen the same amount of success without that feature. However, at this point, I don't think that is what makes users keep using the service.

1. SV startup: Python, Ruby are best bets. Java will make people squirm. C# will make people tilt their heads. You'll probably get bonus points for Go

2. Google/Microsoft/Amazon: If you know C or C++ you'll be fine.

3. Facebook: They really let you interview in anything but you might as well be awesome in PHP. That said, they definitely use other languages internally.

4. Other: Java. If the company uses C#, they'll still probably be OK with you only knowing Java.

At a certain point, companies shouldn't be hiring for languages you know since a language can be learned relatively easily compared to the Larger Broader Concepts that they should really be trying to probe for. Which is generally true - any company who doesn't give you an offer because you didn't memorize language syntax for whiteboarding is crazy. It's not about that.

What it is about (I think) is trying to figure out who are you?. As an example, if you only know Java many people will think "oh this is your run of the mill CS student who doesn't do side projects" - whether true or not (of course it's possible to do side projects in Java). But it just makes people think you have less initiative than the applicant next to you that knows Java (because he has to) but also knows Python (because he wants to)

All you're saying is people hate change. Conversely, imagine if Office has always had the ribbon and then they switched to the toolbar menu UI.

Do you honestly think people would like it better? The obvious answer is that, no, of course they wouldn't because the ribbon UI is actually a better UI as it improves discoverability of features (and Office has hundreds if not thousands of features).

I for one make better documents with the ribbon. I think even my dad at this point has learned to be as efficient with the ribbon as he was in the old world. Realistically speaking though it didn't actually take him 7 years.

The world isn't going to improve if we optimize for older generations of people who are used to a certain way of doing things and dislike change. And that statement goes beyond software.

Yeah it's not very clear to me either. Not sure if the relevant Target part is in the second IM transcript where ree4 seems to try and sell a special version of his product that CAN work with Verifones for 2000 USD?

Unfortunately, I find option #1 to be more likely.

I was disappointed to see just now that the latest entry is from April 2011 :\

The Louve: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=3d67aa96-ac60-43ee-9644-...

Underneath Eiffel Tower: http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=f0f50007-42cb-4236-83a9-... (look up!!)

They're very fun to take and the apps they have make it super easy to do. Curious to try these new versions (though they seem sort of more cumbersome..)

A few examples (all quotes paraphrased):

1. "we only listen to conversations of non americans"

-----Ok, so what happens when an American has a conversation with a non American? Do you tap it at all? Do you get both sides of conversation? Only one side?

2. "you can only look at a protected phone number if you have access"

----Awesome, but this is sort of a non-answer. How many people have access? How long does it take to get access? How easy is it to request access? Do you need access per phone number or if you get access for one protected number do you now get access to all of them?

3. "PRISM only lets us target US persons with probable cause under court order"

-----What is a US person? US Citizen? Person living in the US? This also contradicts so much of what I thought I knew about PRISM that I'm baffled that no clarification was asked for.

Is the mistake that they made here that they used the flight level change mode for final approach where they shouldn't have done that to begin with? Or what is the mistake they made they caused them to turn off autopilot?

My second question is the one I originally had when reading the article:

The pilot flying responded by disconnecting the autopilot and manually retarding the throttles to idle. In this configuration, the autopilot was not commanding the airplane, although the system made inputs to the flight directors because it was still in flight level change mode.

I don't understand this. What does it mean to turn off autopilot but still have the plane give input due to the AP mode? Is what the article saying that the pilot simply turned off the AP voice warnings but left the AP input on? - if so, I don't understand why that should even be possible.

What are the scenarios where you would want to leave the AP inputs on but switch off the audio warnings other than the pilot "finding them annoying" (!!) ?

2013 has been a bore - but partly because the past few seasons have been spectacular.

...seriously?

What Android screenshot are you looking at that makes you think it shows missed calls? I see two icons: a sort of bolt and a facebook "f". I think that the bolt means the user is using "Messenger" (i.e. fb on mobile) whereas the fb "f" means facebook.com.

Don't get me wrong - I agree with you. But this is not a special case and in general I feel the same way everytime someone gets interviewed by him. But then I stop feeling bad because I know that they knew what they were getting themselves into :)

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