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I don't think I've ever stored a binary file in my source-code control system. (Hint: your VCS is not your backup server.)

I do small-scale game development (Flash and iPhone) with a team of 2-3. We've always committed image, audio and animation binary files to source control (currently Subversion) so we can track changes, just as we do for code. To be honest, I can't imagine what other approach we should be taking.
It may be a side effect of scaling. That's just an assumption.

The algorithm used to determine what will be displayed and to ensure that names will not overlap may also not be deterministic, or not completely.

Meta-balls kind of computations can typically generate a different output based on where you start to aggregate stuff.

Given the need to handle this at a very large scale, one could imagine that different machines are doing their map/reduce thingy on their own, and that the first responding would be taken into account first, etc.
Yeah it's a whole other world. If I was in the US, I probably wouldn't watch TV either. But I'd also quickly go insane.
Empirically, Giant Eagle (the crap chain supermarket in PA) beef tastes like crap, and local butcher beef tastes really good. Locality is a good proxy for people caring about food tasting good, and for not going through enormous horrible disease-ridden meat-packing plants. The latter tends to produce meat that tastes bad and periodically makes you sick.
The problem I see with Bandcamp is that there's no discovery portion of it. If you already know of an artist, it's great, but you can't stumble across some new artist like you can on MySpace.
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In regards to the first point, I felt like he was making a distinction between what he's calling "nerd engineers" (perhaps poorly chosen) -- with no design sense or care for UI -- and other engineers, who carefully think out their interfaces.
I like the juxtaposition of "You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch" and "Recruit college kids. They're young, hungry and don't need of a living wage."
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A script to do /whois the first time, and rename the nick to the shown username would work.

Here's one:
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Yes I know about that strategy ... but Google's means are different.

When they release a freebie (like Chrome or Android), they force their new competitors in that market to follow their lead.

The browser's speed, instability and lack of proper standards implementations hurts them? ... so they release a super optimized browser with a clear design and with tabs running in their own process. Now Firefox, Opera and Safari (at least) will follow.

The mobile-market is too closed and becoming more so? So they release Android, a pseudo-open OS with an online-store that has more relaxed rules. And I'm pretty sure they don't need an Android-monopoly (as Microsoft is trying with everything they release) to achieve their goals.

Their strategy is not (directly) for increased lock-in (as Microsoft does) ... it's more for eliminating distribution channels / middle-men that might get in their way on reaching customers.
Right, marbling is what really makes a difference (just look at kobe beef, what is its key characteristic?).
Btw, the linked article presents nothing new, over salting+removing is an approach already seen in many other places(even cooking show). As the advice of drying it, essential.
@ecuzillo, the salt crust method is perfect for fish, salt encrusted seabass is pretty popular here.
Haha this dude is so awesome :)

We are better cause... we are just better! Everybody knows that! And we gonna have these useless features from git soon too!
AFAIK, there are only 4 cattle slaughterhouses in PA: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/downloads/slaughter_...

Only one of the 4 is not owned by Cargill or JBS.

Unless your beef vendor is taking delivery on whole carcasses and then packing it themselves, the beef is probably packed at the slaughterhouse, as well.
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Caveat on the "hire college students":

You need at least someone on the engineering team that's experienced and has seen all the ways that large systems can go terribly, horribly wrong. Ideally that'll be one of the founders, because you'll have a tough time convincing someone experienced to join otherwise. But occasionally someone loves the product idea enough to commit.

Otherwise, a team of inexperienced college students is very likely to build a large system that goes terribly, horribly wrong. They know enough to write code, but not enough to avoid writing code, and certainly not enough to know when to trade off the quick hack for the elegant system.

I know because I was once that undergrad making a mess of things. I'm lucky; I've been able to work with some people who are very, very accomplished. But the time I spent floundering around on my own in college could probably have been easily avoided had I been working with someone who's been there and done that.
I don't think I've ever stored a binary file in my source-code control system. (Hint: your VCS is not your backup server.)

Backup is not the point. The point is that you should be able to get onto a new machine, and execute your build process, and it should work. If some of the application files are missing, it wont.

I have a favicon.ico in some of my repositories.

It seems that all you're really saying is that your applications aren't media-intensive (binary files limited to an icon), and you don't want to think about ones that are.
The bakeries here usually blend their cheesecakes (which are sold by weight) with flour to boost their margins. This sounds like exactly the same sort of process. I wonder how frequent this is in the food industry.
I was just going to post saying I didn't think they invaded privacy because they don't post anything by default, so if you don't do anything with it it just sits there, but then I remembered that they _do_ link Picasa and Reader by default, so that's pretty bad, yeah. I know that it autofollowed and auto-subscribed some workmates with whom I don't want to share anything which wasn't explicitly intended for them.

So, Buzz would be fine if it just left everything alone, but I would be pissed if I actually used Picasa or Reader and my activity got published without my explicit approval.

I also want to control who can follow me -- if that option exists right now, I haven't found it. I don't want casual acquaintances or workmates to see things I post, even if they've subscribed to me.
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Heh. The local butcher whose very happy meat I ate actually was in the Ferry Plaza in SF.

But really, I don't know if the goodness in non-Giant-Eagle meat has anything to do with the meat packing industry. I just was trying to convince ars that food people aren't being totally dumb when they say that local is often better than GEagle equivalents.
Thanks for all the comments, yet. I just want to clarify that i do not want to walk on ebay's feet with this. They would just throw a Cease & Desist if i go ahead by issuing "certifications" for their vendors. I am sure about this. What do you think ?
Why not on fish? Around here (SW of Europe) it's customary to salt mackerel and sardines the morning before cooking. Even the whole day before, if they're going to be boiled.
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It's done with bacon, too. This is why you'll find that cheap bacon, when fried, will expel a lot of water, whereas the more expensive stuff won't. This is probably more noticeable on back bacon ("Canadian" bacon) - I can't imagine the fatty parts hold the water for long enough.
Product Manager Todd Jackson who presented Buzz seemed really smart and enthusiastic, and that's a really good start for Buzz. There is a need for this type of stream-based social networking.

I think the biggest factors in Buzz's success will be:

- can Google monetize it: they should do the things that Twitter won't in this respect.

- will the API be easy enough and presented simply enough for novices to use (eg like Twitter) - but also be complex enough for advanced usage: eg, easy location based stuff

- can they fully break it out of the Gmail Silo and make it a standalone service. Why not create a new product with independent name, Microsoft Live became Bing. Google Buzz becomes _____

- can they integrate it with Google Apps email interfaces rather than just GMail

most importantly

- will they keep engineers and many resources on it, taking in feedback and iterating
IANAL, but I think that a similar case appeared when microsoft "copied" the macintosh ui. You know the rest of the story.
As PG said in his interview on Mixergy, it's not so much about the amount of funding, but the community, for mentoring, advices etc.

It's not obvious that route 128 was left in the dust of silicon valley because of less funding rather than the ecosystem of founders/angels/VC.

Also Richard Florida discusses the fact that CMU has a lot of R&D and VC but no big tech companies because these are moving where the best people are for engineering but also design, marketing, sales. One could argue that design marketing and sales are more important than technology in the web industry.
Until the whole "USDA Organic" program came along, 'organic' was a reasonable (if inane) proxy for decent-tasting produce. The lack of pesticides never had much to do with the quality, except that it attracted people with graduate degrees to farmwork.

The 'local' thing has been a reasonably successful attempt at taking the place of 'organic' as a proxy marker for non-crap. It has the nice property of still mostly working after being coopted by the big supermarket chains.

It's just as bullshit, if not moreso, but it's useful bullshit.
I think you could use less total sodium when doing this if you substituted some MSG for salt.
I swear I read this as "Geek Debt Crisis:..."

I'll get some coffee.
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This is good advice. I once worked under a kid just out of college -- he had connections to the big bosses -- and while he was smart and good for the amount of experience he'd had, the system got really, really messed up under his naive direction. I quit out of frustration.

It's important to respect experience and ascribe proper placement to it in your organization. You want someone seasoned calling the shots, not a relative "newbie". People from college have a lot of theory and homework pumped into their heads, and that's fine for what it is, but your systems are much better directed with the pragmatism and practicality incident of significant real-world experience.
Really? Why do you think this doesn't happen on Facebook for you and your friends?

Being open is an advantage in the long run, but I simply cannot see a compelling reason to use Buzz over Facebook or Twitter now.

Maybe because I don't have buzz in my account yet, the experience might be somehow better, but this is what counts initially, not openness.
Google could integrate it in the gmail gchat implementation the same way they do AIM -- just log into multiple accounts instead of federating.
how can the customer trust you are correct. also how can you be sure if a product is fake or not 100% of the time? even if you are 5% incorrect you are going to get negetive things said about your service.
I don't agree with the statement "... there’s probably no two groups of people who understand each other less than designers and developers". I never had problems with the designers working with me. All it takes for both parties is patience, mutual respect, communication and accepting that they're professionals at what they do and I'm a professional at what I do. It's simple as that.
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The full interview can be seen here, and is worth watching:

http://hungrybeast.abc.net.au/stories/stephen-conroy-extende...

Conroy wasn't talking about YouTube specifically, but about Google and high-volume websites in general that currently aren't possible to filter through software. I'd be surprised if YouTube did contain material that the OFLC would consider Refused Classification.
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But at whose cost? Google already owns a significant chunk of their own infrastructure, so their costs are cheaper than most ISPs.

Google could profit at rates that would be "below cost" for other ISPs.
Plus Apple has a tendency to capitalize on better battery technology by just using smaller+lighter batteries in later generations and preserving the same runtime.

You do get a nice boost when buying a replacement battery for your 2-3 year-old device...
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Unfortunately, posting on openly public sites doesn't force more careful consideration - only the poster can do that.

I've heard too many people opine that they don't care who sees their posts yet share really private information.
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I agree. I'll go even further: hire only experienced people at the beginning, so that they can mentor college kids when you hire them (fresh new blood is always a nice addition).

If you can't convince experienced people to come on board, something is wrong with your project.
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It contains nerves, blood and lymph vessels. This part is where the tooth receives nourishment and transmits signals to the brain. The fourth part is called the cementum. This covers the root of the tooth. It attaches the teeth to the bones in your jaw.
I think that is a false dichotomy - it's not a case of either you use the cloud or you build a data center. There are a lot of options where your kit is in someone elses data center - from part of a rack, through to cages with a few racks right up to pretty big rooms.

You pay your money, get your own private space in a DC, they provide the power, cooling and physical security and you supply the kit and buy connectivity from one of the ISPs/telcos that infest these places.
That theory is so simplistic. It is based on a very selfish and static vision of a relationship : "the other must think like me", "people never change". Arguing, debating, ... with people about your respective points of view do not prevent you to like/love them.
If you always hang out with the same boring people who always are on your side, how will you learn new interesting things outside of your usual points of interest ?

".. while this approach [randomness] has actually been proven to be a disappointment .. "

I did not see any reference linking randomness and divorce rates, even as being merely correlated. Where is the "proof" ?

I would not rely on that theory in practice, because it abstracts too much of the existing complexity between people, and do not solve the real problems in relationships.

As a filtering algorithm for dating sites, it may give many false positives (you do not like that person, who still shares many of your interests), and may prevent you to meet a "perfect" girlfriend, only because she is/seems/looks radically different than you.
Then you are one of those developers I refer to in the end of the essay :)
zsh and rc provide primitives for this, this is rc

diff <{ps} <{sleep 3; ps}
You get mostly both with

xargs foo < file | grep bar | sort | wc -l
it's not about the % YC or any venture capital. it's about your judgment of what's added to your startups value. of all the startups applying, being select etc a few become hits. the question is how much of it was do to the founders and the work they put in, how much with the idea and how much with SPECIFIC things that YC brings in. Not the hype. Also can it be brought in otherwise and would it have become a sucess without YC. I would ask the same thing about veture capital. sure it feels good when someone hands you lots of $$$$ and say here work on your idea but I wouldn't take it if it's not going to be usefull or need. if you think about its kind of ironic because YC understands this and so gives only few dollars to start. it realy isn't needed at that stage but then neither is YC.

by the way if I had even 1% of google I'd be so rich :)
There's also the argument about debugging, one can insert a tee in any stage of

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Me and my co-founders have couple of solution in b2b2 and b2c space. But we don't which one we should pick and start working on it.
Have you guys been in such kind of position, if yes then how you do your a/b testing.
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Well, it is the same story on the ebay forums.. people is asking to other people, mostly watch sellers, they've got some credit because they sell watches so it is obvious they must have some kind of expertise. Why shouldn't this work for a company that focuses on this? being 100% perfect is impossible. Nobody can achieve that. Thanks a lot for your point of view. Let me know what you think. Alberto
They do outsource it. The costs are cheaper, and most data centers I've talked to can still grant you the same control over access and security of your data.

The data providers aren't idiots. They know what issues corporations are going to have with outsourcing. And they have provided solutions to those issues.
None. It's the Greek government (and governments, generally) that perform those swaps/loans.
Sorry i missed one of your points :
I do live here in China since years, very near to biggest markets and production centers of most counterfeit items. I have some expertise on this. I can tell an item is not genuine by cross-looking at some details in the pictures, language of the seller, etc..
Possibly. I wonder if a video game playthrough (say fallout 3) is RC? The US version of the game is, but is a video of said game (esp. as there's an R rating for video). Also - the crime instruction issue, might be something like that on youtube
What you said is true, but children are not responsible fot themselves until they reach a certain age, the parent is responsible for them.
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The touch pods are pretty annoying, because they're flat raised discs -- they only work when flat against the glass, and noticeably poke into your fingers whenever you wear them.
> - can Google monetize it: they should do the things that Twitter won't in this respect.

What they really want is data, so they are already monetizing it
Interesting comp structure ("iPhone Payment Plan").
What happens when they get old enough to make such a decision for themselves and find themselves unprepared?

Education > protection.

(and this is from someone who was given extremely limited web access till the age of about 16 - and then promptly did some very silly things.... so take it from experience :))
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If it's applicable, you may want to setup a few adwords campaign and see which product sells.

Put a buy now button and see how many people are willing to spend their money. Of course on the buy now page you show a message telling them that the product is currently unavailable, and you can ask for their data if you want.

Don't simply ask people around if they would be interested in your product tough, because one thing is saying you would, another is to actually show the money.
"Google has copied stuff that people do on Facebook and Twitter and added them to Gmail"

That's a pretty concise summary.
There is only one worldwide version of Fallout 3; the Australian version is identical to the US copy. The item Morphine was renamed Med-X to pass through the Australian Classfication Board. The name change was also applied to all other international versions of the game.

A better example would be a game like L4D2. However that should be perfectly fine. Although video games lack an R18+ rating in Australia, such a rating exists for television and film. Therefore, a video of a RC computer game should be fine (as long as it is within the constraints of the R18+ rating for film).

I think it's unlikely that YouTube would a host a video on crime instruction that would be severe enough to be considered RC. I may be wrong. Perhaps someone could try uploading a euthanasia how-to video on YouTube describing explicitly the steps involved in performing euthanasia - the drugs required, how to obtain and smuggle such drugs through Australian customs, and the dosage required. I suspect that YouTube would probably take it down.
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c) e-Readers/Tablets don't make the barrier to entry much higher. (You can publish stuff on the Kindle for free, for instance: https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin). Hence it's hard to see how he can compete in the tablet/e-Reader space any better than he could compete online.

-- e-readers and Tablets may not make the barrier to entry tougher. But it might get them more subscriptions if apple implements subscription through itunes.
Data is not fungible, but storage capacity is. Go ask Google if you don't believe me.

Also, your A/B argument works about as well against commoditized electric power as it does against commoditized data storage. Why is it a no-brainer for company A to give up its generating infrastructure but not its server infrastructure?

Yes, there will be a few exceptions like hospitals, which keep generators on site and have very strict confidentiality rules to observe. But in the main, if a factory can risk a temporary loss of power to all its machines and still come out ahead by dealing with a utility, why can't an office supply company also come out ahead by risking temporary loss of access to its CRM data?
I was a co-founder for a major ISP in the 90's, but got treated like the Engineering-Bitch instead of as an equal, so I left .. within a year, the guy I started the company with was worth millions, and I was still churning through startup after startup .. okay, I escaped with my own integrity intact (avoided having to deal with a later Federal investigation into the investors of the company) but there is a lesson to be learned: If you're a tech guy, always get the ducks in a row when you have to do business with an entrepreneur whose primary purpose is to make themselves rich at the expense of others ..
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