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This post doesn't really add anything to the original post from the MongoDB developers other than "replicate for durability".

However, the point about "you can only have a replica pair" forgets to mention some key aspects:

- MongoDB supports both master/slave and master/master replication in addition to replica pair. The difference is that the replica pair setup will do automatic failover in the sense that if there is a communication failure where A was the master and B was the slave, and now only B can be reached, B will assume the master status automatically. In contrast, the master/slave setup requires manual failover.

- In the event of a network partition (given as an example in the post that MongoDB does not handle), you are supposed to use an arbitrator server which will have the final say over which instance will assume the master status.

The documentation is clear on this - http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Replication
For one thing parents have been spying on their kids for time immemorial. Also you'll have practically no chance of enforcing a prohibition against parents spying on their own kids.
The big problem isn't Flash itself, but what people make in it. Most of the crap Flash movies out there are made by graphical designers who have no knowledge about programming, and typically only test their creations in isolation on their own machines. When that thing is then released, it is actually displayed on some webpage together with lots of other flash elements and other ads, and the whole thing slows to a crawl because none of it was optimised.

A good Flash programmer can make very good Flash movies that don't perform like crap, but good Flash programmers are very rare.

A lot of people hate flash because of all the low-quality crap that is made with it, and shoved down people's throats through websites, but if you replace Flash with something else, you can bet your life that there will still be a lot of low-quality crap, made by non-programmers, that will be shoved down your throat and slow down your browsing experience.
If the livelyhood of your entire business depends on the secrecy required (for marketing purposes) by companies from the UNITED STATES, then I think it is reasonable that you will take steps to stop people from standing outside and photographing into your company.

Indeed. I'd build opaque fences and windowless buildings. I might also situate my factory out of sight from the main road. I would not, however, commit assault.

In the U.S, guards routinely shoot 10.000 volts of current into people.

And when they do, we criticize them for it rather than make excuses for their bad acts. (Note that the top story on HN right now is criticism of the US government for spying.)

[edit: really curious why I'm being downmodded for suggesting I would not commit assault.]
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I'll be stuck serving up video in flash for a long time. It's unfortunately still the best option for UA's other than webkit.
Is it still relevant? As I can understand, this library is more of a programming exercise for the author, and it wasn't updated for over 2 years.

I am going to learn JavaScript and start with some simple drawing. I guess I have to learn a lot at once: JavaScript, CSS, some framework (i.e. jQuery, Dojo) I decided to try Dojo; it seems like a rich library with many extensions. It has graphics extension dojox.gfx which looks like a capable graphics library.

OTOH, jQuery doesnt't seem to offer graphics capabilities by itself. Versions of Tetris in jQuery that I saw [1] all use CSS manipulation to show bricks. I saw quite impressive reimplementation of classic game with jQuery [2] that seems to use CSS to implement tiles and goes from there. I can feel that code is clean and good, but there is too much for me at once.

[1] jQuery Tetris
http://nickolai.tumblr.com/post/363897937/jquery-tetris

[2] jQuery Video Game Remake: T&C Surf
http://nickolai.tumblr.com/post/363884217/jquery-video-game-...
Going through the names and clicking to the FB profiles, I found the female/male ratio much higher than the "old person"/young person ratio.

(for values of "old person" > 35)
> Oh, and re. the "programmer-friendly" comment in your article - I'm one and I don't find those sites at all friendly...

I think he means the "easy to program" kind of programmer-friendly, not the "easy to use" kind of programmer-friendly.
A trivial search finds that this has been submitted already:

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Has anyone here ever successfully uninstalled flash? Flash once decided to use my bluetooth headset instead of my speakers for audio, and I couldn't get it to reset. Figuring it would be an easy fix, I uninstalled it. Then I visited youtube and was slightly surprised to see the the video play just fine. I found and deleted several dozen other files and registry keys but never did manage to get rid of flash entirely. Eventually I reinstalled windows, that did the trick...
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No, it doesn't. What if I buy this game to play on my laptop. And then I am out of the country in a place where there is no internet connection. Will I be able to play this game? The fact is that I paid my hard earned money on this game, and I own the game. I don't want to jump through hoops to actually play the game.
I agree that it prevents piracy to some extent, but are they (Ubisoft) so naive to believe that this additional layer of security is hard to crack.
Seriously, Ubisoft needs to rethink it's strategy before it alienates its customers.
All true... except that the same flash app running on a non-windows machine will use more resources than one running on a non-windows machine. Full screen flash video takes up a ridiculous amount of resources on a mac, and an obscene amount on a Linux machine. Based on adobe's crappy track record with non-windows platforms, I have no trouble believing the reports that the version of flash they submitted to the app store drained the iPhone battery in under an hour, as rumors indicated.

Non-optimized flash apps are indeed a problem that Adobe can't really fix. But the problem is multiplied by Adobe's god-awful implementation of flash on non-windows machines.
>and wouldn't leave the internet a barren wasteland.

Yes! The unruly, unregulated, unprivileged-data, low-barrier-to-entry nature of the internet is precisely what allowed the exponential adoption rate that produced the internet's enormous positive network effect.
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acquihire would have been a better neologism
There's also a nifty iPhone App for that:
GlobeTrotter

http://itunes.apple.com/app/globetrotter-timezone-calculator...

Using it all the time because I've had similar problems. And it allows to calculate the differences for more than 2 cities.
I agree. And I don't believe that this whole be online to play tactic is hard to hack. It will only add another obstacle for the crackers to overcome, but cause real pain to customers who actually buy their game.
Monodevelop is, certainly, the fastest way to write a Mono desktop app on Linux.

But what if you don't want to make a Mono app?
This takes things one giant leap further, but my cousin in high school already has his personal email and home web browsing read by a team of school monitors, thanks to the provision of a laptop by his public high school.

Of course, his parents are unlikely to buy him his own laptop since he's already got one, so what does he need another one for?
The underlying issue here, at least in the U.S., is that as a parent, I'm responsible for anything that happens to my children. Kid misses school, I get in trouble. Kid deals drugs, I can go to jail. Kid has a mental disorder that causes them to be violent and I let them roam free? I am responsible for the consequences. Kid keeps contraband in my car or house? I could lose my car or house to the authorities.

It's highly contextual, sure. I can't beat a kid with a stick because he eats his cereal wrong. But I am expected to restrain my children from hurting themselves, even if that means by using force. I am responsible to control what goes on in my house, even if that conflicts with the idea of increasing freedoms.

In practice, parents give way over time -- the entire idea of parenting is that the child becomes ready to be responsible for these things themselves. But there are lots of edge cases. You can't make blanket statements and have them hold up. That's one of the reasons we have a juvenile court system -- to handle the mixed rights of parents and the children they live with. In general, however, the GP is more correct than not: children do not have rights in the same way an adult does. Just like everybody else with diminished mental capacity, somebody else is responsible for taking care of them, and no matter how you do that, it's going to infringe on what they might of had if they were an adult.
Nice work. For visual dressing up, show the wikimedia timezone map and visually highlight the two zones.
That's an interesting mentality, but I think it tries to paint a nice picture of a not-so-nice reality.

The flaw in your argument is your assumption that justice is about forcing people to fight each other even more. Ideally, justice should be about more than mere retribution. In practice, justice often falls short of that ideal.

I find it difficult to imagine that there can be harmony in a society where injustice is left alone so as to avoid disturbing the peace. Sooner or later, injustice breeds violence, out of bitterness and resentment.
totally, if were to get a position, I don't I'd rush into anything.And as I build, I would definitely have a place where I could show it and gather feedback.
Everyone should go to google and search for "time zone converter", than go to the bottom and choose "Add a result", and paste in the url for this page :-) It couldn't hurt.
Could you update your comment with a link to the HN article where we called it cute when Google couldn't figure out how to manage its WiFi network and rickrolled its users? I can't find it at the moment.

Pointing out where anyone called Microsoft evil or a monopoly on this page would be helpful as well.
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It is very sad to hear that someone in his status says things like that.

I wonder how the employees at Kaspersky feel about his statement.
From the suit:

This continuing surveillance of Plaintiffs' and the Class members' home use of the laptop issued by the School District, including the indiscriminant remote activation of the webcams incorporated into each laptop, was accomplished without the knowledge or consent of the Plaintiffs or members of the Class.
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Can't but wait for go interpreter in lisp :)
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To clarify, as the original post I replied to has been deleted. Premptively I'd like to say thanks to stdcredzero because his experiences with an HP tc1100 were very interesting.

a) If I want to surf the web seriously or do some real work, I'm sitting down somewhere. At this point I want a decent keyboard, something that stands up by itself so I can use the keyboard and the ability to use more than one application at once.

b) If I'm out then I care about portability. can put an iPhone in my pocket without ruining the line of my suit. I can make calls, listen to music, watch video, read books, play games, surf the web and more. It weighs ~130gm. I'm going to have to carry a phone anyway because there's no way I'm whipping out at 10" tablet to make calls.

An iPad is much less portable. The line between "something I can put in my pocket" and "something I can't put in my pocket" is much larger than the line between "something I can't put in my pocket" and "something larger that I can't put in my pocket" because now I have to carry a bag around with me to hold the thing and keep track my bag while I'm out. Yes, I get a larger screen but that's only really good for more web browsing. If I'm out, and not sitting at a cafe by myself or something I don't care to browse beyond looking up answers to quick questions ("how do I get to the cafe?")

So basically all I'm seeing is a large, kludgy iPhone that is a hassle to tote around. The big screen doesn't make up for the fact that I now have a 10" device with me at all times when I'm out and something that's less efficient than a laptop when I'm sitting down somewhere.
All this proves is that the several countries (USA, UK, others) have legal systems that are inconsistent, at least in the formal systems sense. Starting with "laws" as axioms, and some set of rules of deduction, you can get anywhere: Person X is a pedophile, Student Z behaves improperly on Mars, etc etc.
Actually, many people already had a public Google profile, either on purpose or because they tested a Google product in the past (I had a public profile, and I don't ever remember doing anything to create one). For all people who already had a Google profile, the list of people they were "following" (that is, an auto-generated list based on e-mail contacts) was automatically added to their public profile with no warning whatsoever.

But even for the people who didn't have one, there was no indication that if you tried out the feature, a list of people that you e-mailed frequently would be published to the public.
Dustin Curtis was definitely inspiration for this project. As well as the Big Noob's take on craigslist, and of course, "You're Killing Me Zappos" by Metaladdesign.

Not my idea, not even close. Inspired by designers who are much better than me,
FWIW: All Desktop/Server versions of Windows since Windows 2000 (except WinMe) support arbitrary directory-based mount points.
That's actually more insightful than I first realized. You have to be oblivious to the vendor lock-in that results from Apple's control and the resulting costs. The 'no usb, no SD slot' complaint about the iPad? Thats because to get the 32 gigbyte iPad vs. the 16 gigabyte iPad is another $100.

But I already have a 16 gigabyte USB stick, or a 16 gigabyte SD card I bought from Frys, on sale, for $40. Apple's going to charge me $100 for something I already have, and they're gonna charge me two times the price? If there was an SD slot, I could buy the 16 gigabyte iPad and use the SD card I already have, instead of buying the $600, 32-gigabyte iPad vs. the $500, 16-gigabyte version. It's a nickel-and-dime to the tune of 99-cents an app, and I don't like it. Nor can I really argue against the current success of the iPhone. If it costs me extra to get something that actually works, I'll actually get it, because it'll actually work.

(edit: clarified '...charge me $100...')
I see a lot of "eight-ness" in there. Some other powers of two as well. I didn't notice any "prime-ness" though.
Is the law that different? I know that in Germany it's quite hard to demonstrate that you have claims against the parents if their child damages something. You basically have to demonstrate that the parents really screwed up. If not, you are on your own. In Germany parents are most definitly not responsible for everything their child does.

And I never said that children have or should have the same rights as grown-ups. The law should only reflect that parents do not violate the child's rights without it being necessary and justified. And it does in Germany. I don't know about the US.

(Just one example about parent's responsibilities I remember: If, say, nine year old children damage a parking car on their way home from the playground it's imposible to make them responsible but it's also practically imposible to make their parents responsible. Going alone to and from the playground is, as long as it's not too far from home, a normal activity for nine year olds, their parents did nothing wrong.)
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I've been waiting for these, but I was utterly disappointed that the only provider right now is LinkedIn (apart from Sharepoint, shipped with Office 2010) only supports 32-bit Office installations.

If they want this to fly, they need to get providers out there and make them accessible to everyone.

I really like Outlook 2010 so if they can get this right it would definitely defend the role (thus far) of the desktop-application.
Power hungry bureaucrats who have an end justifies the means philosophy -- who don't understand that their job is to serve and not to control.
...which means that all assets you’ve developed for the Internet that work in Flash are worthless for this device

There is an excess final prepositional phrase here.
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What's stopping him from buying his own laptop?
No, the lawsuit clearly claims that the cameras were activated. Read comment #2 under "Nature of the action" which makes the claim.

Also, while Section 23-24 is not a direct allegation, it clearly implies that Lindy Matsko was involved in capturing a photo from the embedded webcam. It states that she showed the Plaintiff a photo that came from the camera, and when asked how she obtained it, she explained that the cameras can be remotely activated. I don't see what other conclusion could be drawn from that.
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Apple's going to charge me $100 for something I already have, and they're gonna charge me two times the price?

Could you explain what you mean by this? I don't understand how Apple fits in to your previous purchases.
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Got it. SQLite also explicitly notes that its locking does not work properly with many broken implementations of NFS (http://sqlite.org/faq.html#q5), so that's not an option.
Flash exists because there is a gap in technological advancement between "standards" / open source and commercial software. This gap will exist forever. Because of this, Flash will also live forever.

HTML5+JS can render many Flash examples, yes. A streamlined IDE and a JS engine within the browser that runs AS FAST as a compiled SWF is yet to be seen.

Flash will continue to add features to keep it above the bare-minimum "standards" that so many web developers are used to developing on. Let's face it. We all clap for HTML5+JS, but who's actually using it with their clients; who fear nothing more than a visitor not being able to view a product or service?

Let's get real about Flash and agree it isn't A Good Thing for advancement and innovation if an idea farm (which receives millions and millions of dollars in R&D) like Flash is abandoned. Come on guys. Really?
Should set some interesting precedent. If this isn't child pornography, spying, unlawful wiretapping, etc... then I don't know what is.
If you need a court system to determine whether it's necessary or justified you are doing something wrong. There is a large prejudice to leaving kids and parents to work out their own problems. Therefore in practice it's all up to parent to determine how everybody's rights are to be balanced. And that's the way it should be -- parents are supposed to be training their children to uphold their values, culture, and lifestyle. This is one of the reasons we have children. The state should only interfere if harm is coming to the child, and having your folks scan your emails or search your room is not harming you at all. (Not that I approve or disapprove of any specific practices. Like I said, it's all very subjective between the kid and parent)
"... but I'll show a trivial example, because methods of orders processing and querying could take a whole blog post."

The key to such query is using the correct data representation, and the query itself is no different to the previous one: condition and condition and [...] You can solve the date + payment being processed by first getting a list of orders satisfying those conditions and then checking which of them have the widget you need. That's still only 2 queries (if the db can handle multi-key get). It's not slow/complicated/whatever and it's more or less what your typical RDBMS will do. How often do you write complicated new queries IRL?

Stopping document stores from clobbering each other? Reader/writer locks if you're working on a local store. Or setting up an arbitrating db access manager if you're working on a remote one. Exactly the same as SQL servers (SQLite and any RDBMS respectively)
So because the technology may change at some point in the future, there's no reason to learn it now? Nobody should have bothered learning how to use a fountain pen, because they should have known ballpoints would be around eventually?

If you want to use the Internet, you should at least know a little bit about how information is addressed. Would you consider it acceptable to spend a couple hours in the library every day but still not know what the Dewey Decimal System is? This facebook login thing is like you went to the library every day for the same book, but instead of learning its location in the shelf, you ask the librarian and blindly grab the book he points at--in this case, he pointed to the book next to yours. Hey, this book used to be about Tom Sawyer--why did they change it to be about a jumping frog?
I remember that. Curiously, did she ever get a job with them in the end?
Fair enough.

For comparison, it's interesting to see that there's a new "browser war" concerned with optimizing the javascript performance, and the results of that are pretty impressive and to the benefit of all. If Flash had been a more open standard and there would have been competing Flash players, we could have seen something similar there, a race to improve the Flash player performance to in turn make the browsing experience better.

But it's proprietary, so the only thing that motivates Adobe is the fear of being marginalized.
I think Microsoft's interfaces have been improving gradually since the Zune came out. I know no one likes to admit it, but Vista, from a UI standpoint, was worlds better than XP, and Windows 7 even more so. The fact that Windows Phone 7 is clean and elegant is not a surprise to me.

What's interesting is that UI has finally broken down to its simplest aspects. Anyone who owns a Zune will verify this for you. The menus are just text, yet they're still beautiful. It's like navigating a work of art. The only direction now is for interfaces to become simple past the point of understandability. Basically, we'll have the exact opposite problem.
I was looking for a site this simple just yesterday. Thanks for building it!

One suggestion would be to have the colon automatically inserted at the third position from the right. I'd like to be able to type 930 or 1425 without having to take my hand off of the number pad.
Cost?
He's saying that Apple has a large markup on the flash storage options for the iPad, and if it supported USB or SD like most computers then they wouldn't be able to have such a price differential between models. (Or maybe they would; Apple has previously charged 2-3x market prices for RAM upgrades in build-to-order Macs, when users could save hundreds of dollars by buying their RAM elsewhere.)
Basically, the jvm.