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Cassandra is hugely biased towards making writes fast [1] and there's no indication in either Digg article that they (somehow) changed that fact in their deployment by tuning. Digg loads the complexity during the write by denormalizing but that load is on the application server not the data store.

[1] http://spyced.blogspot.com/2010/01/cassandra-05.html
You can use many themes, this is one of them http://www.coders.es/
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Miguel de Icaza is the foremost expert in the CLR that doesn't work for Microsoft. If he wanted to work for Microsoft in any capacity, I would bet anything that they would roll out the red carpet for him. You're either projecting or you don't know what you're talking about.
My browser (Firefox 3.5 on Fedora 12) doesn't appear to be interpreting the mathematical symbols correctly; e.g., \Gamma doesn't appear as a gamma symbol, but instead as a grey box containing the characters (without quotes) "\Gamma", and when the pointer floats over the box, I get a popup caption repeating "\Gamma". Any quick fixes?
That's a good point. Even if you think you're only making license plates, someone will catch on to how good you are if you do it really well. And who knows, maybe your license plates are just what the world desperately wants right now.
We seem to be processing checkout fine. I understand your concerns with the http, I thought it would be fine since we are using Wufoo iframe, but I guess that's not cool for the general public. I really appreciate you pointing that out.

If you still can't process or feel uncomfortable, email me your paypal address and I will send you a PayPal request.

My email: jason at tinycomb.com
Responding to both apowell and underdesign:

Yes, I've surveyed the competitive landscape pretty extensively. I agree with your analyses of potential weaknesses.

Two possible differentiators I see are:

(1) the "open source" nature of the contract clauses themselves, which eventually could result in the compendium becoming a de facto standard; combined with ...

(2) ease of configuration (checkboxes) and ease of editing.

But those two points might not be enough to motivate people to pay anything.

Thanks for the input.
Underdesign, please see my resopnse to apowell.
Hey guys, we are going to have version 2 ready soon, which will alleviate any problems with majorly textured walls or brick walls. Currently, this version works on textured walls. It gets the job done. You can follow us on twitter.com/whiteyboards to stay updated. I'll be sure to have the team get on it.
I prefer cscope & vim, but yes, I often have no idea what file I'm in.
this will be on version 2. Coming soon. Follow us on Twitter.com/whiteyboards for those updates. DM us for any other requests, I like the feedback from HN.
So that I can do things I like, and make money from it
This has nothing to do with them. Have a separate patent in the US.
A pretty, re-invented, better Emacs would nice.

Till one exists use the current emacs.
If you came up with the same ideas on your own and built your product based on them, you'd end up in the same situation. You might not even know about it. If you're small enough, they won't care. If you're big enough, someone will sue you whether they have a reason or not. You cannot possibly avoid all patents and are not protected from patents which don't exist yet, but will in the future (you'll be killed by the lawsuit costs anyways).

If you have a problem to solve, there are only so many ways to solve it. If it's an interesting problem you can assume there's a patent covering it already.

What exactly do you gain by evading MS's patents? Is there a reason to worry about patents at all?
IdeaPaint is very expensive. If you don't want to paint and just want something up that is functional, this is perfect.
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The co-founder is Australian. I couldn't sway him on the name. I agree, it is questionable and apologies if anyone is offended. Our team is multi-national and they all voted to move forward with the name.
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Obviously it would be a lot easier for MS to pursue patent litigation on technology invented entirely in-house at MS (like .NET) than it would be for them to try to argue that Linux itself infringes on their patents. Surely you can see the difference.
I'm actually in San Francisco finishing up Y Combinator for my primary business. The other guys are in Los Angeles near Loyola Marymount University.
Sorry to be so harsh but, the introduction of themes signals to me that the developers have thrown their hands up in defeat. The alternative is to improve the look and feel of the core design.

You guys have managed to rip off / borrow stackoverflow's look and feel ( which is good ) and moved the all text a few pixels off center, shade icons that were unshaded, resize GUI elements. If you going to take so many GUI elements, why not take everything?
Hah. I'm writing my own Stackoverflow derivative using the same technology stack - Rails, MM, and Mongodb (mostly as an excuse to learn MongoDB!). Sorta wish I'd seen this first now, though it's been a great learning experience. :)

(My project is at http://wowqu.com - it's quite a bit more domain-specific, but it's been a lot of fun anyhow. :)
Uh..have you never heard of IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse? Or RubyMine? Or Netbeans even...

They pretty much do everything you're talking about.
Follow us on Twitter.com/whiteyboards to stay up on international shipments. We will start accepting them next week sometime.
It seems to work as described in the article:

require 'rubygems'
require 'statistics2'

def ci_lower_bound(pos, n, power)
if n == 0
return 0
end
z = Statistics2.pnormaldist(1-power/2)
phat = 1.0*pos/n
(phat + z*z/(2*n) - z * Math.sqrt((phat*(1-phat)+z*z/(4*n))/n))/(1+z*z/n)
end

puts ci_lower_bound(60, 100, 0.10) # => 0.517809505446319
puts ci_lower_bound(500, 1000, 0.10) # => 0.474027691168875
puts ci_lower_bound(50, 100, 0.10) # => 0.418847795168265

The top ranked result has 60 positives out of 100, and beats 500 out of 1000 - almost 10 times as many positive votes.
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Thanks Jon. I've never tried making one myself. Took us 6 months to make a mass-market version of this to help out startups.
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I've learned that nobody and nothing should use /tmp, on account of it being 777. The idea is that Mallory can set up a symlink from an anticipated filename ("things" in your example) to an important file or dir. So writing to /tmp/things destroys the symlinked file/dir.
I think you could easily write a function that defers a handler that will swallow any errors or send them on a channel and calls the supplied function.

Instead of "go foo()", you would "go dontPanic(foo)" or "go panicToChan(foo, errChan)".

I'm fairly certain this would work, and similar things are discussed in the replies to the linked post, but I haven't written much Go at all, so I can make no guarantees.
Sure in an ideal world every URL that was ever valid in the last 10 years would still work. Even the ones about a contest that ended in 2002 and the download page for your ActiveX-based Push application.

In the real world, those tend to break somewhere around the second or third CMS upgrade.
One of them gives Tim an aneurysm. CAN YOU GUESS WHICH?
I feel like being an entrepreneur, even at the small single-developer scale that I'm going for right now, is the most honest way I can attempt to contribute to the world.

Employment is essentially the use of my skills as a kind of organizational machinery: sometimes this can be very valuable - more monetarily valuable than things I might do solo - and the work problems can be interesting, but it's not as personally fulfilling, because it's the company that gets to be influential to the world, not me personally, and the work done is usually a "right now" problem that in the very long term has an automated solution. That bugs me to no end.

So while I want some of the "lifestyle" business aspects, I also want some kind of ideological power in the long term to help others live a good and productive life. And I want my work to feel intimate, and to be made with artisan craftsmanship. This has led me pretty strongly towards making independent games; they're a great medium of expression and of teaching, and they have a lot of room for aesthetics. The work has essentially no upper limit on challenge and variation, and building with the market in mind is actually a helpful constraint on the "art" side of things.

I haven't gotten too far towards specific expression yet, but I think that is really going to come as a cumulation of everything else.
The OP complains that:

> For most programming tasks, editing involves opening several files at once and switching between them (e.g. HTML/JavaScript/CSS).

His idea of a solution is for better file navigation.

My claim is that often the real problem is a bloated set of files and directories in a project.

I find when the set of files is small, opening and switching between them is much faster and more productive.

This applies particularly to the beginning of a project. As classes/files mature, then I recommend splitting them up into more files.

For example, when starting a new MVC project I'll create one models file. All the models go in there at first because the project will be heavily edited.

Once it's become more stable, I'll split it into a file for each model/class.

This way when you make small changes you'll have the VCS history benefit you mention, but often you don't really need that at the beginning of a project.
A AAA rating from US based agencies. Moody's talked about downgrading the US and Geithner said "That will never happen in this country."
Only if the resource actually moved and you know its new location. I hate it when people 301 /oldpages/* to the homepage.
I think it's too funny to be offensive.
When I got my game company funded by VC's in 1993 it was an exception. Sounds like its still true today. The rationale was that VC's don't fund "hits-based" businesses. The feeling was that the game business had additional risk than just a software product. Not only would they be betting whether your startup could actually make and deliver the game, they were betting whether it would be a "hit" like movies, books, and other entertainment. VC's recognized that they had no "gut instinct" for cultural fads. In fact, VC's partnership agreements restricted them from funding real estate, etc. and they felt that games fell into that same hits-based category.
It was from reading hginit that I really "got" DVCS. I'd used git a bit before that, but it'd never really clicked before (tried to store everything in one huge repository, the same mistake Joel describes at the start of hginit.) Now I'm pretty much committed to mercurial, largely as a result of that tutorial.
Huh? They're serving their 404 page (and caching it on the CDN). That is a page view. You can have ads on that page.
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It's also fair to point out that while the way that Amazon removed Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm was maladroit, they didn't have any choice in the matter. In some parts of the Anglosphere, but not the US, their copyrights has lapsed. The company who's copies they pulled didn't have the right to sell them in the US.

This is very different from Apple's [whatever you want to call it] approach to what you can do with a stock i[whatever].
Which domain name sucks - TATECompendium.com, or OnTechnologyContracts.com? (Or both?)
Nice: also prompts when using the -rf options.
Are there any opengl bindings for Android in Moby-Scheme?
Ah, the Rubyists are here.
Also useful:

BEGIN;^M<potentially dangerous query>;^M<look at results>[COMMIT|ROLLBACK];^M
> From this one ill-behaved goroutine could take down your program.

That's already possible so no change there. The child routine need only call panic or crash and it will destroy your program.
What happens when I copy and paste?

Do I copy the code points, or the encoded characters--the bytes--along with what encoding is used? Similarly, when I paste, is it the code points I paste which are instantaneously encoded using the application's encoding scheme?
Yeah, why was the OP upvoted? Are there seriously that many people on Hacker News who have never used a real ide?
Testosterone, nay, I would say herd mentality.
That's the "I am loosing money if I don't get in" type of mentality.
I was thinking exactly that, a memory game using websockets of course and node js.
I'm not sure that's significantly more violent than MK2 which was on the SNES back in 1993.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBGKcD78iY
What is the website for your startup?
Pandora By The Numbers - hypebot
Django can reverse-engineer models from your database schema extremely easily. Once that is done it is 30 minutes (perhaps 4 hours for a novice) configuration and you have a working django admin site against your Rails DB.

This is how I started with Django, I migrated from hand-coded SQL to Django in one day (followed tutorial, found how to reverse engineer models and off I went).

See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/legacy-databases/ for the reverse engineering bit. Tutorial starts here : http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/intro/

Give it a shot!
ive been showing this quora post to everyone i know at startup event past few days. glad jason made it public.
I like starting companies in general because I like:
* seeing direct effects from what I do (it's like a game!)
* freedom and responsibility to make important decisions, not filling in TPS reports all day
* Expressing opinions about what technologies are useful (because they solve problems efficiently), and solving important problems with those technologies
* working with people who feel the same way (employees + customers)

I am starting my next company (#3) (full-time this summer) because I'd like to see cloud computing/virtualized infrastructure made (more) secure, and applied to hard problems. I'd rather live in a world with this technology.

I'm willing to give up fairly comfortable 200-400k/yr. I believe the expected value per year at the startup exceeds that, but that isn't really a factor in my decision. I'd do it for free and wait tables to pay the rent.

Doing a startup only because you want the end result (exit) seems like a way to be miserable for most of your life.
Mouse interaction is quite easy with SVG; you can attach event listeners to individual SVG elements in the DOM.
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> Humans don't follow a 24 hour feeding schedule, as it happens.

Regardless, I would think that instability of results under seemingly minor variations in conditions for rats suggests we should drastically reduce our confidence in any generalization of even the seemingly more relevant result.
that's what I thought too.
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Offer some preprinted with browser chrome for web developers. I'd buy that. Or underlines (for to-do lists).
A bunch of good wireframe ux stencils
Drugs might work for the very short term but in the long term
not so. Try Toastmasters. Not only will you learn how to speak in public but meet everyone else who is in the same boat.
Disambiguation:

* http://dustincurtis.com/

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Curtis
Another small, self-indulgent note:

I'm looking for more translators for hgtip.com. So far Yuja Nishihara has done fantastic work translating the site to Japanese.

If you're a native speaker of something other than English and want to help out let me know! I'm sjl on BitBucket/GitHub, or you can email me at steve@stevelosh.com

I'm also looking for advice on how to translate the screencast-format tips like this: http://ja.hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2010-02-11-merging-mq-patc...

One idea I had was to create a display:none-by-default "transcription" div element below the embedded video which would contain the transcription of the screencast. There could be a "view transcription" link that would show that div. This would make it searchable and translators could translate that content into their languages.

This doesn't really solve the problem of translating the actual voice in the screencast though. Screenr (the site I used to make the screencast) doesn't support subtitles, but YouTube does. Is it possible to "fork" videos on YouTube and add different subtitles? I haven't found a way, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right place.

I'd really like to make the "screencast" format of tips work. Personally I'm very much a visual learner, so seeing a quick screencast of something helps me a lot. However, if it's going to be impossible to create a decent translation without a lot of work I'll abandon the idea (for now).
We're not charging anything yet. When it's launched it'll be super polished and I think it's already quite polished :). Note that the CSS is 100% customizable, eg: http://www.coder.es
My concern would be accidentally wiping some of the pen/texta/marker onto surrounding walls.
This article is an attempt to win support for Theora over H.264 not by refuting the basic facts of the case, but by making us feel angry about those facts.

Gruber in fact does not appear to be wrong: there are indeed two classes of patents that Theora is exposed to (general but poorly known patents covering modern codecs, and the patents MPEG LA owns). There clearly are codec patents that MPEG LA doesn't own. There clearly are codec patents that they do own. MPEG LA clearly isn't going to sue, in the immediacy, over their own patents.

Meanwhile, it is indeed entirely in MPEG LA's own hands whether or not they will sue over use of Theora. They sure are a bunch of evil jerks. But that changes the facts of the case not one whit. Being upset about MPEG LA's IP position doesn't change what that position is.
The connection never even entered my mind to be honest,
and I'd be ahem well acquainted with the term.
Drat, they stole my idea. Once the "like" button is in place
Facebook has to do only two thing to start raking in the money. First step is to collect profiles of Facebookers comings and goings to each button, then secondly place ads on the "like" button sites based upon the profiles. End result: Ad placement based upon user profiles. Deal done.
I agree about the initial risks - they are probably equivilant for a startup making a webapp versus a startup making a game - what I'm saying is that the position you find yourself in as a game developer after getting traction for your first product is much worse.

With a webapp you can build a company around that traction and potentially get acquired without developing another product. With a game studio, you then have to make the next game, and past success isn't nearly a guarantee of future performance. You can do sequels, but even this isn't bullet proof.

As other commenters pointed out, there are exceptions within the marketplace. And if you're doing a gaming startup that's where you want to be.
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cat --vet

The gnu cat comes with it's own vet ;-)

I actually use this feature and am grateful for it's existence.
On Godwin's Law from Wikipedia: "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."

Now I'm really interested to know what he said. I'm guessing he made some comparison between Nintendo, Apple, and, of all things, the Third Reich?
I'm not sure how to interpret the rather strange reviews for this at the App Store, but the "2 lines, 1 phone" official tagline, while making me chuckle, does not inspire confidence.
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Agreed. It's hard to beat an editor where you can run find, grep or whatever shell command you like, and the output becomes a clickable menu.
The article refutes the assertion that Theora is infringing on patents held in the MPEG LA patent pool. The MPEG LA has been shaking a stick over Theora's head, but has yet to point out which specific patent(s) Theora is indeed infringing.

In fact, noone has come forward with a specific patent that has been shown to infringe after scrutiny and noone has yet sued Firefox for shipping this so-called infringing codec.

The tone of the article is basically a "put up or shut up" directed at the MPEG LA members. When someone is trying to spread FUD about your product, there's not much else you can do except ask that they stop talking and start showing evidence. Since they've been unwilling to do so for some time, it's natural to conclude that this is nothing more than sabre-rattling to try and drum up some extra MPEG LA licensees.
At first I thought you were right, but reading the article more closely I think it's OK. It's talking about the relationship between the ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode. There's more information available about that in the Unicode standard here:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.0.0/appC.pdf

See section C.3 for the differences between the UTF-8 encodings. The key paragraph is:

"The definition of UTF-8 in Annex D of ISO/IEC 10646:2003 also allows for the use of five- and six-byte sequences to encode characters that are outside the range of the Unicode character set; those five- and six-byte sequences are illegal for the use of UTF-8 as an encoding form of Unicode characters. ISO/IEC 10646 does not allow mapping of surrogate code positions, known as RC-elements in that standard; that restriction is identical to the restriction for the Unicode definition of UTF-8."

That's where the extra characters come from, as the UTF-8 encoding used by twitter is apparently not checking to see if the characters are valid Unicode characters, as required by Unicode UTF-8. This is the extra restriction referred to in the passage above that is imposed by the Unicode version of UTF-8 but not the ISO version. As quoted in the article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description says that the ISO version of UTF-8 can encode 31 bits. I couldn't find a source for the encoding of ISO UTF-8.

The other part I wasn't sure about at first was where the 1,112,064 possible characters figure came from. It turns out that's the 17 Unicode planes of 65,536 characters each, less the range from 0xD000 to 0xDFFF reserved for surrogate pairs.

In other words:

1+0x10ffff-(0xdfff-0xd800+1) = 1 112 064
Big games are shipping with both theora and vorbis. Nobody sued them. Also Youtube used VP6 and VP7 for a while which were just slight modifications of VP3, just like Theora. And nobody sued Youtube. So why would they wait for theora to become used if they could have just sued google? Doesn't make sense.
Simple. It's an emotional one. The one thing I doubt a computer could truly achieve.

Consider from Star Trek, Data's quest to understand laughter. He could replicate it. He could understand it. But he could never feel it.
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The story revolves around three New York police officers over one week. Eddie is a patrolman played by Richard Gere who only has 7 days left before he can pull the pin and retire.Eddie has seen it all, and he has become so disenchanted with life that he must find some reason each day not to blow his own brains out. Undercover cop Tango played by Don Cheadle has been on the streets too long, causing him to protect Caz (Wesley Snipes) the drug kingpin target he is out to catch