Of course, but Clojure didn't exist in 2006. I wonder what Steve Yegge would say today.

He wrote the foreword to The Joy of Clojure:

"... It’s an astoundingly high-quality language, sure—in fact, I’m beginning to think it’s the best I’ve ever seen..."

Not sure what he thinks now.

Here is what he said then re Arc: "My prediction: someone will get tired of waiting, and they'll Torvalds Arc into obsolescence before it's ever released. (If you don't get the reference, it's what Linux did to GNU Hurd)."

There was a whole "yes language" kerfuffle a while back. Quite frankly, I'm glad Clojure doesn't fit in to Yegge's world view.

"It goes without saying that all pages shown to logged-in users should be served over HTTPS"

You're not logged on to that page, it's a blog. There's nothing to gain by serving it over https.

"nothing to gain" has interesting intersections with domain-wide cookies when mistakes are made.

"But that isn't quite enough"..."HTTPS is easy to do and servers are plenty fast these days so there's really no excuse not to use it on all your pages, so that's exactly what we do!"

Does seem a bit ironic.

These are good points. However, as a user of Dropbox I just don't care if they encrypt my data or not. If I back up anything sensitive, I encrypt it myself. For stuff that's not that private (e.g. pictures that I've shared) I assume that anyone at Dropbox could look at them.

It's more than just your data. The other service similar to tidy.io that recently launched managed to leak people's private AWS keys.

If I were the rental car lobby, I would be putting pressure on regulators to make things as hard as possible for these companies. They are startups, so it's hard for them to put up much of a fight.

It would be very different if Google was behind ride sharing. It took someone the size of Apple to work with the music industry to sell mainstream music legally to the masses.

>It took someone the size of Apple to work with the music industry to sell mainstream music legally to the masses.

This is historically inaccurate; Apple was merely the first to do so at such scale. UMG/Sony/WMG all had the 99cents/10dollar albums by 2000, the iTMS wasn't available until 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_music_store#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_version_history

Moderators, could you please edit the title to reflect what the article is actually about? The original title is extremely misleading, to put it mildly.

I'm glad I saw the original link, the title piqued my interest and I clicked through, I would glaze right over the current title. It's not the end of the world if people don't confuse HN for a list of term paper topics.

Comments like this just leave me curious as to what the original title said. :)

It was the title of the article, "The Only Earthling With a Facebook 'Dislike' Button"

Sounds like the button isn't part of the core product, just part of the release infrastructure.

New title is much better.

The problem is that you're relying on interviews to hire someone who will hopefully work with you for years to come. Would you interview and pick your wife or husband in one day? Would a table like the above help?

This answer totally made my day. Excellent analogy.

A link is not enough, you'd have to show causation. If not, you might as well be banning the sale of umbrellas because they are linked to rain.

That's the main weakness in the study, btw. It could well be that kids who are prone to violence are more attracted to violent games.

That hypothesis, that violent kids are drawn to violent video games, was the hypothesis that the study was testing against! Read the abstract.

It's not that complicated, especially if you have been following Diaspora here. Too much spotlight, not enough traction, a suicide, no more money.

I don't understand how this article talks about the future of Google+ in the enterprise, yet it makes no mention of LinkedIn.

That's because LinkedIn is not used by employees within companies to communicate like Facebook is used by students within a university to communicate. He's saying that there's a gap there that Google+ can fill.

Maybe I'll write another post about how LinkedIn is going to crush Twitter.

Because linkedin is spamming itself into oblivion?

Betteridge's Law of Headlines applies to this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines