tensafefrogs

Fantastic. But I'm guessing the problem with this will be that that Google is Google and they won't give artists the extra support that they need like the labels do. Sure, the technology gets you the distribution, but you first need to have something to distribute.

Music artists need all kinds of support: Marketing help, design help, someone technical to upload and produce their stuff. If they can provide some of that support then maybe this will have a better chance.

Totally agree. While there are obviously some differences, I think blaming technology (i.e. Facebook) for horrible things that humans do is just silly. The problem is not that Facebook is making it easier for people to do bad things, the problem is that people do bad things.

The technology is here to stay. Information will be shared more easily in the coming years and it will only get easier to categorize people in the future based on their behaviors. So maybe instead of complaining about "bad companies" taking advantage of this, we should be encouraging people to be more accepting of differences. The problem isn't that a girl checked into a local bar. The problem is that someone wants to stalk/rape her. Scaring people into not checking in to somewhere (or not doing so publicly) is getting dangerously close to saying "well, she shouldn't have worn that short skirt if she didn't want to get hassled", which is a terribly flawed argument and ignores the actual problem.

There's an entire side of this that is overlooked whenever this debate pops up: All the freaks and geeks who thought they were alone because they were into different things can now find like minded people and know that don't have to feel alone. Look at the "it gets better" campaign. It's beautiful and has likely helped thousands of people. We should focus on the good stuff a little more often rather than focus on the potential bad stuff.

Haha I was about to post the same thing.

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That's nothing. I predicted the iPhone in 2005 and even built a prototype.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tensafefrogs/49199489/

Just more evidence that the DMCA is broken. This isn't YouTube's fault, it's a problem of Rumblefish harassing YouTube users.

The privacy implications are a bit worrisome. Perhaps it's time to write utilities to anonymize your writing style.

Maybe running your text through a round-trip translator could help? (although then you'd need to fix any errors introduced).

Dreamhost is having a "major network outage" right now. If you can't get to it, try again later.

I don't think Google is doing anything evil here at all. The purchase of On2 (where the domain came from) very clearly had nothing at all to do with duckduckgo.

That said, if they wanted to be more neighborly they could put up a landing page like this one instead: http://omnisio.com/ (also a company that was acquired by google/youtube).

Or just pull a Fox News™ and add a question mark to the end:

Hackpad: The best wiki ever?

I believe the point is that wedding photography is really hard work compared to taking casual photos (or a more part time photo-journalist style).

It sounds like the author already has a career doing something else, so perhaps even at $3k a pop, weddings are too much work to be very enjoyable. I've also shot a friend's wedding (partially as a favor, partially just to see what it was like) and I can safely say I don't ever want to give up software development for wedding photography.

Fantastic. If you use vim, you should have this in your .vimrc:

" Remove any trailing whitespace that is in the file

autocmd BufRead,BufWrite * if ! &bin | silent! %s/\s\+$//ge | endif

Looks nice. I'd like to see the vote count for posts if possible (mostly because I like to see how old/popular a post is)

I agree 100% with the last paragraph:

"The EFF’s Trevor Timm said he was overall happy with Google’s arguments in the hearing, but he thought the use of WikiLeaks as an example and the company’s focus on “following the money” revealed that it was more interested in its own search business than in freedom of speech.”They seemed to be endorsing the way that payment processors and advertisers should be censoring sites,” said Timm. ”I think it really shows why they should have had more of a representation of people at the hearing. Google is looking out for its interests, but we’re looking out for the interest of everyone on the Internet. Categorizing Wikileaks as a rogue site isn’t something we agree with.”"

I agree that Javascript isn't as mature as Actionscript 3 feels, but would you really choose to build a website or web application in Flash over Javascript even if it meant a poorer user experience for your users?

Your users don't care about your opinion of Javascript's syntax.

More focus on Javascript and the tools available will only help improve the language faster, and I believe Flash has already made a huge impact (good!) on the Javascript language.

Maybe Adobe will give us our next great Javascript editor?

Most of the arguments against Flash being dead seem to be one of these:

1) Games 2) Mobile apps 3) Video

#1 I agree that flash is better for making games, but how big of a market are games on the internet? It's a 'big' market, to be sure, but how big compared to the number of Flash websites a few years ago? Surely it's a low percentage (anyone have actual stats? I don't know of any). Is the amount of Flash games being made enough to keep Adobe interested in continuing to improve Flash? As the desktop market recedes and mobile devices become more popular with users (and I truly do believe that it will) what will happen to the Flash games?

As for #2 - mobile apps. This could be the answer to the above, but why use AIR when you can get better performance writing native code for whatever platform you are working on? I'm sure it will work out for companies that want to save a few dollars and be able to launch a simple game on many platforms while writing it once, but that kind of development has rarely succeeded in the world. Look at Java apps on windows/osx - they often feel klunky and look ugly and don't support the native UI elements of the host OS (does AIR do this on mobile phones? I'm admittedly not that familiar with it). Because of the history of this area of technology, I'm highly skeptical.

#3 I agree with, and covered this in a comment below. I believe Flash will be useful for desktop video delivery for a few years to come, but will eventually lose to native support.

I'm curious what you think about the issue of mobile apps and scalability (in terms of having a distinct app for everything you do on your phone).

The argument is that users won't want to install a separate app for all the various things they do on their phones (especially not the things that they don't do often) and would perhaps favor a mobile website instead.

I agree that Flash will remain a major player in online video for a few more years (I also worked at YouTube on the video player team for 4 years). But for everything else it has fallen very much out of favor, hence the strong post title.

Even non-Flash online video has made huge strides in the past year, so I expect that to eventually erode away Flash's grip on that as well. The only real question there is how long it will take to sort out all of the codec issues that are holding it back at the moment.

Yes, it is. They just increased their pay scales by 10% across the board forever.

I've noticed this new iPhone app "The Eatery" doing this. It's fairly annoying, but as long as I keep my facebook friends list trimmed to "actual friends" then I don't mind so much.

I'm unable to log in. Being redirected to a 404 page and it's not logging me in, so I can't sign it.

I'm gonna go with Gimme coffe. But stumptown is decent as well. La Colombe is a little too bitter for my taste ;)

I always see a bunch of people w/ laptops at the Bar at Cocoa bar: http://www.yelp.com/biz/cocoa-bar-new-york

Also there's usually a couple laptops out at Coyi Cafe up the streeet on Ave B.

Though I do agree that there's a shortage of good spots to hang out w/ a laptop for a few hours during the week daytime.

(not that this has any effect in my mind as to whether NY is better than SF for startups, but whatever)

In google if you are really good you could maybe get promoted every 1.5 years, but realistically this is probably more like every 2-3 years.

Your pay then gets bumped to the next grade (or whatever grade you move in to in cases where you transfer laterally) and from what I can tell the increase can be 20-30% increase.

You also will get regular stock option/unit refreshes each year based on performance, so those will start to add up over the years and can be a substantial part of your income assuming the stock is doing ok (and historically it has).

NEVER EVER send a password as clear text.

EVER.

If that was a requirement, then the submitter should have said something.

That's a good question. I suspect it does, as v2 has been out a long time.

They may just look at file names, like swfobject.js, or look for "swfobject" in the file path.

I saw an interesting stat the other day:

According to this "built with" site, use of SWFObject (which is pretty much what 99% of flash devs use to detect + embed their swfs) is starting to decline among the "top sites":

http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/SWFObject

I'm the original creator of SWFObject, so I've looked at that chart a bit, and I've never seen the usage go down in the few years since that site's been tracking js usage.

Yeah I wouldn't call that 20% time at all, it's just a quarterly hack day, which I think is also a cool way to get employees excited about working on cool things and ideas.

Speaking as an ex-googler, the 20% time is much more about encouraging side-projects. Time management is completely up to the employee - there is no set day for 20% projects (which leads to the internal joke that it's really 120% time).

Some people choose to make time for their side projects, and some don't. The real benefit to 20% time is fostering the environment where employees are encouraged to help other areas of the company or to step outside of their day to day responsibilities.

This also promotes teamwork across teams, which is really important when you have so many different products that need to feel cohesive.

I really wish more companies would be publicly shamed for having poor password practices.

Just the other day I tried to change my twitter password to a password that contained a space, and it was denied. Their site doesn't allow passwords with spaces.

Wow. To add some other interesting info to this, Jay Maisel is the owner of (and lives in) a large building in lower manhattan 190 Bowery. If you've ever walked past this building you'd recognize it as it's covered in street art all the time, and is constantly changing as more art is added and falls apart.

I always though Jay was a good guy for letting artists use that space (even if it was a silent agreement), but maybe that's not the case...

Not that it directly involves this case of fair use, but that building is worth millions of dollars, so Jay was doing this for the sake of "artistic purity" or whatever you want to call it, not because he's a starving photographer...

An article about his building a few years back: http://nymag.com/realestate/vu/2008/09/50481/