I like an open plan too. With the right people (who aren't loud, and who still know how to be polite about interruptions), and the right floor layout (minimize foot traffic near where you sit), it can be a great environment to work.

I worked at a company that moved from a one-big-space office to one with lots of individual offices. It drastically increased the siloing of various teams; I think we had much more camaraderie before the move.

I haven't yet seen any decent research which proves one way or another whether an open plan helps. What I have seen, is some pretty flimsy and inconclusive research that people often quote as "overwhelming" evidence against an open plan.

Did you read the article? The creator says basically the same thing that you just did. They aren't claiming to have invented new technology, they are resurrecting old technology and turning it into an easy to use product.

My psychology professor taught us all how to beat lie detectors, are they going to arrest him too? Sheesh, I'll just tell you what he told us:

1) The polygraph measures a stress response in your body. And the idea is, you are more stressed when you tell a lie.
2) But, everyone is different, so in order to tell what is stressful for you, they need to determine a baseline. So during the polygraph they will ask you some really easy questions, like what is your name.
3) For some physiological reason, if you curl your toes it produces a measurable stress response.
4) So whenever they ask an easy question, curl your toes. They won't be able to get an accurate baseline reading.

No guarantees on whether that will work. He mentioned that a good polygraph operator will be able to tell that you are messing with him, even if he can't tell which answers were lies.

Okay then, "you stole my code" is short for "you stole some of the potential future revenue that I was going to earn from that code".

have you looked at the site? Here is the master plan for monetization:

So you found IE to be unusable and Chrome is a much better option, but somehow Google is still the bad guy of the story.

Most new inventions are "geek-only" at first, so that's not saying much.

Ha, it's the Time Cube rant with random phrases pasted in. I knew there was something familiar about it.

They are different. Is it surprising for one company to spin out more than one language? For a company of their size and age, Google has actually not invented very many. Compare to Microsoft, Apple, Sun, and Adobe who have each created several.

Are you a time traveller from 2 years ago, or is this comment copy-pasted? Anyone (in the US) can try Onlive for free now, there's no more NDAs or closed demonstrations or whatever. Just shut up and go try it. It works fine for many people (including myself), it depends on your network connection of course.

You can have a centralized-server workflow when using a distributed tool. All you have to do is set up an extra server and say "Hey, this is the central server now".

Subversion has some advantages but that's not one of them.

Luckily, he wrote it in a programming language which was specifically designed to handle this exact piece of code.

A bit of nitpicking, but 2 billion (and change) is only the maximum value for 31 bits. So only apps which treat this number as a signed int are affected. Apps that treat it as an unsigned int won't be affected for another year or two (when the count passes 4 billion and change).