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"He knows what he's talking about; it's 2000 years people doing his job use a nickname"

It wouldn't surprise me if they bring a 500MB cap to the data plans in 2012 and also began charging for tethering, much like how providers such as Orange have done in the UK...

Wow, that's very plausible. They could be hoping to get all the anti-AT&T folks onboard with the soon-to-be-dead iPhone4, into a 2 year contract. Then before that contract ends, they throw in the cap. Terms in the US can be changed randomly, and I'm no smartphone user, but /. has been an indication that VZ loves nickel&diming people for even *viewing* "basic" GPS data that the phone collects by law anyway (to enable emergency 911-tracking services)

A juicy thought from Bloomberg TV I haven't seen here yet:
VZ iPhone 4 is out in Feb 2010 ... the usual AT&T iPhone 5 comes out shortly after... will version 5 be an AT&T exclusive?

(Repeat of similar post above, where you made this misinterpretation too.)

http://gawker.com/5392947/googles-broken-hiring-process

And I quote Peter Norvig

One of the interesting things we've found, when trying to predict how well somebody we've hired is going to perform when we evaluate them a year or two later, is one of the best indicators of success within the company was getting the worst possible score on one of your interviews. We rank people from one to four, and if you got a one on one of your interviews, that was a really good indicator of success.

I'll quote the original source of that claim, Peter Norvig, and his refuting of that interpretation:

What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...

(emphasis mine)

Eivind.

What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do... - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

http://friendfeed.com/peternorvig/7a110005/google-broken-hiring-process-gawker?embed=1

IQ is highly overrated

In practice, it's almost useless...

Google tests are (way) better than IQ, but guess what Google found out: the best performers are the ones who have the lowest scores on their interviews.

I'll quote the original source of that claim, Peter Norvig, and his refuting of that interpretation:

What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...

(emphasis mine)

Eivind.

I agree, Wave shouldn't even be involved in this discussion.

And this product already exists. Actually, from a number of companies, because this is just social media aggregator, right?

Stuff like this...
* http://friendfeed.com/
* http://www.feedalizr.com/

I have SongBird installed, but it's just too slow !

iTunes runs pretty slowly on this MBP - it's a July 2006 model - but for the moment it seems better than the competition.

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http://friendfeed.com/wstewart

Last night, after it had been announced that Barack was President-Elect, Jesse Jackson was bawling his eyes out. I don't think it was because Jackson was thinking "That should have been me!", I think it was because Jackson was thinking "I used to think I would never live to see a day with a black president".

There were a lot of people in the US who still refused to vote for a black man. But now that it's happened and that Obama, who is a lot more mainstream than the Republicans painted him out to be, will show that most of those fears were as much utter rubbish as the Iraqi WMD, those kinds of attacks will be a lot harder to make stick on the next go round. When you repeatedly lie and are shown to have lied, your credibility takes a dive, even with the notoriously easily-distracted US electorate.

Obama would never have made it if Bush/Cheney incompetency and malevolence hadn't been so rampant that it so badly damaged the Republican brand. If you believe in an interventionist god, there were a lot of unusual circumstances (like the credit crisis and stock market crash) that were very timely in helping put him over the top. If fundamentalist Christians actually believe what they claim, they should be doing some heavy soul-searching today about whether the unlikelihood of the timing of those events isn't miraculous.

Not that I believe in some kind of supernatural intervention; the deregulation & supply side economics house of cards was bound to tumble down at some point in time. But I can't hold any respect for people who can't even stay consistent in the fantasies they expound to everyone else.

Lots of real-time info available on the solar car race here: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/nasc-2008