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Executive summary: Both are very good. Mercurial tends to be playing "catch up" to git in the more elaborate (but very useful) functionality. Git on Windows tends to be rougher but it is catching up, maybe caught up. If you cannot decide, flip a coin and Just Do It[tm], it will be a win either way.

When I last used Mercurial heavily (around a year ago), its branching was weak so the user model tended to be clone to create a new repo as a branch rather than branching within a repo. Logically, this is the same, but practically it is less convenient... it tends to create multiple directory pollution and then you forget what is in which directory (especially when you have CRS disease). I understand Mercurial branching is catching up or caught up with git.

Mercurial is pure Python (sorta), which makes it more portable (sorta) but slower (sorta). Git is written in C, which makes it faster (almost always), but assumes a "reasonable" POSIXish OS environment, making it hard to port to Windows (solved now).

TortoiseHg is great on Windows. I have played a little with TortoiseGit - it appears to be as good as TortoiseHg on Windows, but that is a recent development.

Git has some killer features, starting with its near magical merging. As Linus points out, branching is easy - it is the merging that is difficult. Hg is on par with merging, so that isn't a big discriminator.

A unique feature of git is the "index" staging mechanism. This is very handy to pick out certain changes (with the "interactive" mode, even down to the line-in-a-file level) and check just those changes into your repository without having to either update everything as a lump or jump hoops to separate wanted and unwanted changes.

Another really nice feature is git's "interactive" mode which allows major patch rework/rearrangement - you can split, merge (squash), and reorder patches. This allows you to be anal-retentive on checking in your changes frequently and then rationalizing the forest of changes before pushing it upstream. (From what I've read, while it looks like you are "changing" history, in the bowels of the git metadata, all the state and sequence information is preserved.)

Git's rebase is very nice and very useful if used with discretion. Again, it looks like Hg has a rebase plugin now.

Personally, I prefer git because it is the repository for the open source projects I'm involved in and because my perception is that it is more popular and growing faster. If your development is in the Python world, you probably will prefer Hg for the same reasons. ;-)

The really good news is that you can move from SVN to Hg or git easily and you can move between Hg and git bidirectionally with only the conversion time as a penalty without losing any information. This means that, even if you pick the "wrong" DVCS, you can "recover" easily.
Yeh they might not, but they need to. Android NDK 1.6 uses OpenGL 1.1 so you'd think with the iPhone 3GS being OpenGL ES 2.0 that the rumored Google Phone Nexus One would also be that and the next version of android would be as well. Guess we'll have to see. WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.o and Windows 7 mobile might even support it.

It is rumored to be so: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/guts-goo...
No. This is a common misconception. The patent system is there to give a temporary monopoly on an implementation in return for allowing it to be public domain later - and disclosing the knowledge now, not later, so that additional innovation can proceed. The only problem is that the term of the monopoly is selected to support mechanical engineering growth rates of the 19th century, and we're stupidly trying to apply it to entire industries that rise and disappear more quickly than that.

Read some patents from other fields - they typically protect and disclose stuff that really took some work to figure out. That's the point. One-click ordering, though? That's just plain bullshit. Anybody could implement that.
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don't let the fact that I work for Rackspace fog the air.

If you don't want us to recognize this as the cheap PR-piece it is then perhaps next time refrain from conclusions like the following (verbatim quote):

The tests show some significant performance benefits when running on the Rackspace Cloud Servers platform most likely due to (in my opinion) a more robust network infrastructure, lower hardware utilization, and better host server hardware.

And from unverified claims like (quote):

Even if different web server software is used, it is unlikely that the results and trends would differ.

Otherwise, if that truly was supposed to be a honest benchmark then please hand in your engineer-badge at the door...
Yes and No. In my opinion, it's more a reflection of the culture of the shop in which it is used than the specifics of a distribution.

A good admin should be able to get up to speed on any distro within a few days and should be able to wrangle BSDs and other more exotic flavours of unix derived OS's easily.

What really matters is the history of the shop and the systems and the culture which has grown up around them. Any distro can be badly managed. If you're logging in to the servers using a VNC session as root, you're doing it wrong, no matter what distro is supporting you.

Being an admin at an established shop does entail a certain amount of putting up with decisions that were implemented before you showed up. What matters is if you are going to have the authority that goes with the responsibility that your are being asked to take on. If the expectation is that you will keep a patched together system on the air it matters a lot whether you are expected to replace it and manage the transition to a new infrastructure with grace and aplomb; or if you're being asked to be the janitor in a lunatic asylum where all the devs have root on the production machines and you'll only find out about changes when the system breaks...

The first is a professional challenge, the latter is a path to madness.
Just saw the movie, and it was great! I'm not sure the interconnectedness was intended as information transfer, though. They had to communicate with the other tribes by actually going there. It seemed like the network was more like the brain of a planetary organism (eywa). Each individual could access and add to the memories, but was not a communication network. An interesting approach--they truly are "one with the world" in a way other sci-fi (Babylon 5, for example) does inelegantly.
The Tarsnap client only talks to the Tarsnap server, but I do cache that lookup in order to avoid problems with glitchy DNS resolution.

I could have the Tarsnap server cache DNS lookups if I was only worried about working around DNS outages -- but as I said, that wasn't something I was considering at all when I made the decision to eschew DNS.
I didn't say if people do it it must be anti-nature, only that it usually is. We generally alter our environment to suite our needs, not to improve it. I can't think of many instances where our presence has benefited most of the plants and animals and left them better off then before we arrived; can you?
Too noisy. The circle-with-slash is tacky, as are all the logos.

JMHO, however, as I am not in this sort of market.
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Thanks, I'm pretty sure I know who you mean now, actually. I ran into a couple posts on a freelance site where and Indian company said 'We designed a clone of Etsy.com, check out _____.com'. Not exactly the way I'd go about creating a site, personally.
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Certainly. As an aside, if you are interested in this topic and get a chance to catch a Jamison lecture, do it! She is a tremendous lecturer.
Which is why I said it's a trade-off.

If you go the git route, then you only look in one place for the code and it's easy to just point at it no matter what's currently active. But the downside is that (so far as I know) no tool other than git can show you what's in not-currently-active branches.

If you go the hg route it's easy to see lots of things side-by-side, but of course you don't have the "it's all in one directory, and you do have to point at different locations to work on different branches.

Personally, I prefer hg's approach here.
You can learn a given Linux distro, or you can learn Unix. There is a difference.

The fast (but painful) way to learn is to work on porting.
Nor should patents on programs be, since they're all just math anyway; mostly sloppy not well thought out math, but math none the less.
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Only if you buy that hypothesis, but I saw it in this universe, so that's the one it applies to. :) Very creative way to reboot the series without being constrained by the original though.
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In our space, logos drive credibility... and you need credibility if you're dealing with people's sales emails.
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Your homepage tells me I can "access my sales conversations anywhere" but doesn't tell me what you're selling.
To be honest I would leave very quickly because I can't see what you want me to buy. (In other words you need to tell people what you are selling them, even if it is just a bulleted list).
While you could send him The Reasoned Schemer (I already sold my copy), IMHO _The Art of Prolog_ is a far better book for learning the same material (logic programming, declarative programming, DSLs). Whatever you think about Prolog, it's as deep a book as SICP. Seriously wonderful. (O'Keefe's _The Craft of Prolog_ is a good follow-up.)

It's nice to have a hardbound copy of the newest edition, but the previous edition is available for comparatively cheap (US$6), and torrents of both seem to get around. FYI.
I'm not trying to be harsh generic SAAS salesforce clones are a dime a dozen these days.

It's not about the software, it's your customers/network + your ability to sell it that will make or break this type of product.
yeah, uh, if you are smart, you have a secondary DNS provider. But that really requires you managing it yourself. the problem was that many people outsource, which usually means going with only one provider. (now, ultradns does have a good setup, they probably aren't a bad choice for a provider, but having only one is just plain stupid.)
Maybe I'm dense, but what is it? A service, a product, a what? Does it replace Salesforce?
Hey ashishk, sorry for using HN to contact you, but I can't seem to find your contact info anywhere.

Our company provides very affordable and accurate photo approval services. Photos are manually approved and we can handle anywhere from 10-1,000,000 photos per day. If you're interested, feel free to email me (email address is in my profile).
we're not actually competitive with salesforce - most of our business comes from our email integration products with existing CRM systems; in other words, we're not exactly a CRM.

search for "email" on appexchange.com (Salesforce's app store)
> Apple if your [sic] listening, why not just open source PastryKit?

Perhaps they already intend to, but they don't want half the world using some half-baked prerelease version and then asking them for support?

I have no idea if that's the case, but it's at least as plausible as your theory that they're terrified of web apps competing with native apps. And it's supported by exactly the same amount of evidence, which is to say none.
the mistake was outsourcing to only one provider. it's easy enough to setup a BIND slave elsewhere that automatically transfers the zone from your primary provider.
it basically records relevant sales emails into salesforce leads and contact records so you know exactly who's been contacted and who hasn't.
Regarding the home page:

Good: (i) Sign up for a free trial button obvious; (ii) Your logo at the top looks good; (iii) the one-minute tour is a good idea (but I couldn't get it working in Safari, so I couldn't watch it).

Needs improvement: (i) there is too much going on, (ii) it looks cluttered, so I'm not sure where to focus my attention; (ii) you might have your 4-picture header scroll automatically (I like 2 and 3, 1 looks way too busy, and 4 looks way too sparse); (iii) under "Customer Testimonials" (plural) you have only one testimonial - rather than announcing that there are testimonials, reduce cognitive load by having a bit quotation mark or something instead; (iv) I like the "the world best sell with CRM", but perhaps have it closer to the bottom; (v) perhaps have one "download now" button instead of several links (for the sake of appearing cleaner); (vi) I really don't like the "supports mobile e-mail" banner at the bottom: I know it's the sun, but it looks like a nuclear explosion, and apart from my own personal feelings about it, the colour scheme looks misplaced compared to the rest of the page.

If I had to sum up: make it simpler. A few (2 or 3) bullet points, a download button, a big "sign up" button. A testimonial.
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Someone competent with linux ( More than "Oh I run a vps all by myself") should easily be able to learn how to do the same administration tasks on another.

It may end up taking longer to do certain tasks and they may have to refer to documentation more often than someone competent in that distro thinks they should but linux is relatively universal and once you get past initial setup maintenance becomes rather similar.
Open Office. It gives you everything you may need while writing and also option for exporting file to Pdf format.
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yeah, the status quo is a bit overly optimized for SEO - that will change soon. good feedback.
"Start for free" neon green on light yellow/orange is bad, even with the text shadow. I'd dark it up for more contrast.

The 1->2->3->4 thingy should move a little bit faster.

The sidebar under the Learn More section bolds the text when you hover over it. This pushes the subsequent items down a pixel or two, causing the whole thing to wiggle when you hover over it. Not an easy fix, but it's the kind of thing that bugs me :)

The video pop up should play immediately when I click on it. I should have to pop it up and then hit play again. I bet you'll get more views on that video that way. Actually, it shouldn't even pop up at all. It should just be set to play right in place. That way I don't have to feel like I'm navigating away from the content to this other place to watch a video. That way if the video bores me at any point, I can still see the rest of the site and be sold to.

On a larger scale, the landing page needs some work. I would have something that points out that you can access the system via your existing email clients or via your web interface. That seems to be the power in it, so make it super-clear.
You shouldn't have to be telling people what it is in the comments is probably where he was headed with his "what is it" comment.
here's a direct link to the video: http://screenr.com/Kg2 - please feel free to provide feedback on it.

regarding vi: this is a very common complaint from all of the designers i've chatted with.
Also humorous, on these search results:

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I think the innovation lies solely in being able to implement this on iPhone's limited hardware. I didn't mean to de-emphasize that achievement. I just wanted to point out that being able to shoot your friends without them actually dying is something already achieved.

I also think that with customized equipment using GPS and image recognition instead of sensors could improve current laser-tagging offerings. Digital zoom for scoped snipers, gps for king of the hill/domination type games, etc.
right - i think i've addressed this one in one of the other comments... good point.
T-Mobile phones in the US are almost entirely 850/1900.

Being that 850/1900 are AT&T's 3G bands, I think you might be confused. I just looked at T-Mobile's and HTC's websites; all of the 3G phones I could find operated on either 2100 or 1700/2100.

Also, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UMTS_networks#Americas
It's not luck that interest rates and inflation are both low. Inflation is a key factor that influences interest rates
I'm wondering why most of the larger browser makers don't get together to agree on something. The W3C can clean it up later.

I just don't think it would be too hard for Moz/Webkit team/IE team to agree to support 'border-radius' and other things. Any smaller browsers would catch on soon enough anyway.

Well, getting the IE team to get it to work may be a challenge.
I'm not sure that "setup a BIND slave" is quite that easy for someone with as much traffic as Amazon.com.
what do you think about swapping "2" with "1" in the top carousel?
I'd be looking for an admin that is aware of the major distros and knows the strengths and weaknesses of each. Learning the differences in a new one is straightforward, but being the kind of person to actively investigate the bigger picture is far more valuable.
'rockstar sysadmin' - Seems like a bit of a contradiction to me. A sysadmin is supposed to be the cool head in a crisis who set things up so that even in extreme circumstances the systems are still functional. And yet able to improvise effectively when the circumstances require it. If you're looking for cultural icons, sysadmins are more like Scotty or McGyver than they are like Mick jagger or Gwen Stefani.
is there some deadline for investments or something? Seems like this week we've had one big investment after another
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it's surprisingly useful interacting with you guys - i may actually use my "what it is" comment on the site.
just because they announced now, doesn't mean they raised money recently
Newsflash: nations are not going to set aside their interests for each other. End of story.

All the carbon will be burnt -- count on it. Plan accordingly.
If one has offspring, and they have offspring and so on, the gain from moving is indefinitely large and overwhelms any activation barrier. This suggests a new alternative: the poster is either barren or doesn't care about the standard of living of his offspring.
it must be possible to have interest rates below the inflation rate

(economics neophyte question) Why is that?
I can put the Google logo on my site too. How does that make me credible?
I would agree that you should be more clear about what your service does. Not trying to rip on you or anything. Just trying to help. It's not easy to get your concept across quickly, and it takes a lot of time to nail it concisely, but you should be able to sum it up in a few sentences and maybe with a super-short demo video.
maintenance becomes rather similar

In that any task can be completed in an unbounded amount of time. If you want to do things quickly, though, all Linuxes are not the same.
That's not actually true, economists are willing to measure things in non monetary terms because economists study people not money. EX: If you turn down job X that pays 20% more than job Y then clearly you are getting something of value out of that choice.
For those who don't want to be charged a 3.5% transaction fee and are willing to work with a lot less features, there's always http://billshare.org/

Me and my roommates use it and it has suited our needs fine for years
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I've noticed an increase in the number of replies I get like this on HN now.

I've noticed an increase in the number of replies I get like this on HN now...
It gets worse: taxes like the USA's AMT (designed originally to affect only 155 high income households) are not always inflation-adjusted, or the inflation measures are inaccurate or corrupted for political purposes.

Thus incomes taxes other than a flat rate income tax, have a "ratchet" effect over time, snaring more and more people with higher tax rates when in real terms they are not earning any more.

BTW I know a few people who are heavily into gold and silver, they are in a way, boycotting the central bank of the country they live in.
I'm sure they could hire the muscle to do it.

I'm just saying, relying on just one company is usually a bad idea.
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One "egg" of a hack, you mean.
Mercurial isn't pure Python - a few hotspots (particularly diffing) are done in C. It seems to be easier to port, though. (Git has a thicker "Unix accent".)
The problem with central banks isn't the 2 percent inflation they typically target. The problem is that when government needs to spend inordinately on anything, such as a war, it has three revenue sources:

1. Taxation.

2. Going into debt.

3. Printing money.

(And plunder, actually, which is more of an ancient practice.)

The USA finances itself mainly with #1 and #2, with our creditors being sovereign funds, banks, and individuals. Foreign countries are dropping out lately, and individuals and banks are sure to follow. Would you loan the government money for a sweet 0.4 percent yield? It can't be maintained. The yield will rise, and the government either pays more for credit, cuts back expenses, or raises taxes. All painful. But if there's a central bank, well, that third option comes up. All the big wars of the 20th century were paid for in part this way. Inflation is not like a normal tax, but is a wealth levy, and while nobody would approve of the government taking 50 percent of their total possessions, almost everyone is fooled by the printing press...

Some other people suggest that "not holding dollars" is the solution. Doesn't work. In mass inflation, your income typically doesn't index correctly, and you have to sell assets to survive. People were selling pianos for bags of potatoes in the Weimer republic.
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Amazon IS a large ISP though...
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You're right, letting people drown is a much better solution.
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oh no I know that, I just mean that there's been a ton of announcements these past couple of days.
Indeed. If the show has 2.6 million viewers, and they didn't even have a link to click, I am surprised that the traffic was heavy.
The images load on your site pretty slow for me on a fast connection. If this is systemic you can seriously influence the bounce rate by upgrading your bandwidth or using cdn's. I don't have the study in front of me but I recall reading the average amount of time a person will wait for a page to load before hitting the back button incredibly short. Think about offloading that to s3 or a cdn.
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Yeah. Nobody wants a Shane MacGowan sysadmin.
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>is it possible that the Na'vi are a metaphor for the internet, and its more democratic culture?

The Na'vi culture didn't seem particularly democratic.
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I suspect that this is going to be the Pong of the augmented reality game: the simplest thing that'll be fun forever in endless variations, and something upon which amazing things can be built.