Our office has about 60 people in it across 2 floors and everyone uses a shared open space, and I really do mean everyone. Our founders and ceo are right out in the middle of the open floor along with everyone else. We have plenty of space for people to conduct meetings or shut themselves away with their laptop and phone to do personal work. There are plenty of couches you can sit on to get your back to the wall if you want to take a break and have some privacy.

The amount of ideas that flow around our office on a daily basis is amazing, and if nothing else I hope they work to preserve this arrangement. Sure there are people who don't like it, and you know what, when they leave we're BETTER for it. This company more then any other has taught me that it's important to foster a workplace culture even if it means leaving people behind.

Data mining players on blizzard isn't nearly as meaningful as you're making it out to be. Blizzard employees have stated on previous occasions that the amount of data they generate is monumental and trying to mine it is so impractical they just throw it all away. This is the reason they can't even catch people cheating by rewinding battlegrounds sessions. Data mining a place like facebook is far more valuable because the connections between people are easily confined and contain stable links. Data mining the complex interactions that take place in a gaming system are impossible on a system wide scale, the best you could do is pick a handful of players and try to make sense of the avalanche of data they generate.

Please tell us more about all the pointless guesstimates you've derived this week. You basically tried to refute facebooks numbers with nothing more then "if i do x a certain way, so does everyone else". And then just piled on assumption after assumption to arrive at nothing.

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I don't know if it a cop out though. I also would say time doesn't exist, what does exist is CHANGE. Time is the ruler we use against the frequency of change. We say that one second is the duration that has passed after a specified amount of change occurs within a cescium atom. As a measurement it never actually slows down or speeds up. When you get close to the speed of light, one second is still the exact same amount of change in that cescium atom. But as we all know, the frequency of that change slows down dramatically.

Can you put something back to the original state that it changed from? Of course, but that's not going back in time. No different then stopping change means you've jumped into the future.

I completely agree. For millenia humans have operated under the axiom that "it takes a village to raise a child" and many of our institutions grew from this idea, school being the primary example. It's really only within the past 50 years that we've turned this around and now say "keep the village away from my child" and the consequences of this are playing out in most western societies now.

You're the first person to report a faster framerate in the HTML5 test? What are the details of your config?

"Flash has its strengths, but not when it comes to creating insanely great mobile experiences" Nothing really creates insanely great mobile experiences, mobile is far more about functionality then experience because it is such a limiting platform. Most of our clients looking for iphone apps are trying to scale down the full experience to a limited set of core functionality that supports a sometimes connected, highly relevant, supplement to the richer web desktop/laptop experiences. As much as people want to say that HTML5 richness can keep up with Flash, I've already tried to start some benchmarks to see where the performance gaps are. http://craftymind.com/factory/guimark2/HTML5ChartingTest.html http://craftymind.com/factory/guimark2/FlashChartingTest.html To give some perspective, the iphone renders the HTML5 test at about 0.5 fps.

Open sourcing the flash player opens it up to design by committee politics which Adobe doesn't want. They can't sell a new version of CS7 if they can't get all the Flash players to implement the new features. Sun actually got caught by this problem as they've been trying to push JavaFX. JavaFX works great with features introduced in Java 6, but since Apple controls java on the mac, they've been crippled with Java 5 compatibility on Leopard.

They will probably apply some constraints to the contest similar to what the original author did. Maybe require contestants to use a credit cards twice a week, or book a flight at least once during the period or use an ATM once a week maybe.

Yes if you want access to DirectX 10 and later. Plus, going forward you're going to want an SSD if you mainly play games (the load times are enormously different) and Windows 7 has alot of benefits for SSD users.

What I don't understand is that if they're going to make a RAID SSD in a 3.5 enclosure, why don't they give it 2 SATA links in so they can saturate 2 buses? In fact, how many SATA links could you support in a single 3.5 enclosure?

I'm still not exactly clear on the vulnerability itself, all I'm reading is "If I get a swf on your server, when it's executed in the browser it will have originated form that server" What exactly is the vulnerability there? Isn't this how it's supposed to work? Don't you want scripts executing on the domain they load from? From the article "If I can get a Flash object onto your server, I can execute scripts in the context of your domain. This is a frighteningly Bad Thing." Is he suggesting Flash should execute in a black hole or something like that? That would make no sense.

Which is why you should start investing in nuclear now, we might not be able to scale up solar fast enough in 20 years to meet the drought, but we can scale up nuclear energy that fast. Nuclear may also not last forever, but if we could get to 50/50 split nuclear/solar, we'd be in good shape.

"Do you have any idea what it does for the US to have so many people only capable of filling basic manufacturing jobs?" Create self sustainability? Seriously, the only way countries who hand out free university educations get by is through massive immigration to grease the wheels of their economy, do you think that's a good solution?