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Domestic animals give love freely to the least deserving, but their lives are short and their ends are often brutal. And it’s worth it. It is all worth it. Every day, even a sad day blurred by headaches and filled with business meetings, is magical and infinite.

I know this is hn, but thanks for the great thoughts.

This is the first time I have talked about this...

On October 8, 1991, we found a box on our front porch containing a kitten and a note, "Please take care of me." We named her Sarah.

Sarah was a cat who acted like a dog. Every time I came home, she came running to the car, screaming for me the whole way. She sat on my lap every single day as I wrote thousands of lines of code. She was my best friend and companion for years, longer than any human.

This past February, Sarah had started walking into walls. My vet thought she was going blind, a different reason for each eye. We started treatment immediately. She didn't sit with me when I worked anymore.

Then on March 8, 2010, I was in the middle of an intense piece of work and took my eye off her for 5 minutes. She walked off the balcony and fell to the driveway below. Her injuries were too much; she had to be put down.

I was surprised at how I reacted, inconsolable and unable to function for about a week. I sat at my terminal, but for the first time in my life, no code came out.

OP was right. Our companions can be magical and mystical. And no matter how much it hurt, it was definitely worth it.

The code is flowing again like it did for years with Sarah on my lap. Except now, it's her urn beside me, between my laptop and my monitor. Tonight was the first time I smiled about it. Thank you, OP.
It's like code. A good, experienced coder writes simple code that does the job.

A talented but inexperienced coder will write a meta-framework platform that will do the job, but be hard to use.

A good designer with lots of experience should be able to make a slick, but minimalistic, design.
i was surprised they didn't base it upon Apache Stdcxx, if they were just trying to avoid the GPL:
http://stdcxx.apache.org/
Thanks for the advice!
It's a service - like shopify - but definitely NOT shopify :)

I'm just starting out, in college, so lawyers aren't in the budget...
This reminds me of a YC funded startup that did the same thing, what were they called again?
I don't think the FDA is the real problem on this one. There is a known treatment whose patents have expired, however for now nobody is willing to manufacture it.
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Let's say you have a 4-core x86 running 20 processes. Imagine you can have, for a fraction of the operating cost, the same performance out of a 16-core ARM chip.

You get a lot more performance per thread on a Xeon/Opteron, but you could get about the same, if not more, aggregate performance from a different chip if you match your processor architecture to the workload. Another example: imagine doing lots of floating-point on x86s compared to doing it on GPUs. Even if GPUs require another processor to control them and keep them busy, the GFLOP per dollar is much more favorable to them.

Sun had some interesting numbers on Niagara-baser boxes serving lots of simultaneous requests. Too bad those machines never got the attention they deserved.
fyi the url in the article is wrong. should be http://www.yapperapps.com/
Very apt point. Twitter is much more of a "social news site lite" than a social network.
They are hard because there is always risk that an "obvious" decision will create civil or criminal liability. A lawyer can help you assess and mitigate that risk.
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I really like this.
They can grow up, test, evolve and promote their system in Harvard? No? So how will they get users?

It is impossible to repeat the success of facebook (in terms of number of users and popularity), same as it is impossible to repeat the success of microsoft (in terms of market share). It was not just an idea plus execution. It was mostly about being in right place in right time.
My first undeniable indication that HN has "jumped the shark." But I'm relatively new around here. Maybe I just didn't notice the rot before.
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I agree with all the other responses in her (delete it, tell the client, etc). But, the fact you mention this is based on PHP - maybe you were trying to hint at the system, but it sounds like you are blaming the language.

This has nothing to do with the language and could just have easily been accomplished in any other language.
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Interesting - I renamed iexplore.exe to foo.bar and created a directory called iexplore.exe instead - and promptly iTunes and Google Earth failed!
i don't need 8m ops/s, but the single server durability
http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-980
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mullr, Thanks for the comment. We definitely want to investigate such ideas.

So far we have been mostly focusing on the 'big picture' ideas, but will be working on improving such details as we get time.
shit was at 75% less than a week ago, of the 10k it was requesting. talk about a fast shift.
Yeah, if I had to guess, Verizon told Google that they were free to try to have their $529 device compete with the nearly-identical $200 device that's slightly better (though weirdly shaped and likely to get Android updates slower) and sold in stores, but Google made the obvious prediction that they wouldn't get the scale necessary to make producing it worthwhile.
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I've become fond of Yard (http://yardoc.org/), especially after speaking with Loren Segal at MountainWest RubyConf in March. I'm planning on moving ruby-doc.org over to yard when I can make sufficient time.

You can debate whether a doc tool is too clunky or has too many options or too many @tags, but in practice the biggest issue with docs is the lack of them. I don't really see Yet Another Doc Format changing that.

Yard is nicely done, in active use, and works nicely with Disqus for user comments. I feel comfortable poking around the code, and know I can get support form the developers and community. This may also be true for Tomdoc, but I'm more reluctant to go for a newer format and code base.

(Side rant: One thing that would really get my attention in a doc tool would be parsing usage of attr_* and documenting the results as the methods the are, and not as Java-ish virtual attributes. )
I was thinking about that.

On the one hand, it's not an easy stunt to reproduce. These are great games at a massive discount in a well-publicized event. Not surprising you can make money at that.

On the other hand, none of these games are very new. Games are usually like movies: a lot of sales in the opening weeks followed by a quick convergence to zero as they fall off the radar. A million dollars is not a lot of money split seven ways and then split again among developers. But I'm sure it's great for games headed for the bargain bin.

Certainly there are a lot of games out there great enough in their day to be worth playing even now that technology has moved on. HOTU is evidence enough of that. A service that sold only hand-picked classics, polished for modern platforms, at cheap prices? Yeah. I'd buy that.
I click ads of organizations I don't like, just to make them pay. Does that make me a bad person now?
Actually, that's exactly true. Without regulation there _would_ be chaos. It's not hard to look back a hundred years[1], before there was an FDA. Instead of real, effective cures the market was dominated by patent medicine, most of which was harmless (aside from not curing you) but much of which was actually dangerous. The FDA was set up not as a silly, unnecessary regulatory layer but to solve a very real problem that was actually killing and sickening people.

It's easy to decry regulation today, when we have never personally seen the world before that regulation. But if you read your history, you would realize today's world is much more pleasant to live in.

[1] OK, technically 104 years
Better yet I found Noah Webster's 1828 dictionary online.

http://www.1828-dictionary.com/d/search/word,siphon

A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.

It seems the error traces back to Noah (but he correctly points out the receiving side must be at a lower elevation). Johnson's definition is simply "a pipe to convey liquors through".
Is it just me or does it seem cruel to keep this dog alive. If it is having seizures on a fairly routine basis that cause shrieks that "testify to his terror and pain." The more humane thing at this point would be to let this dog go. It's way harder for you then it will be for the animal and at some point is just being selfish.
I think you need to tell this to your client in written. I believe that will help in future that you did inform them and your intentions were noble.

Also, then if I were you, I would try to keep my dev and personal computer more secure. I know that I am a freak that way. :)
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You could look at Web Sockets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Sockets). I know Chrome supports it, not sure about other browsers. A friend made a very cool interactive multi-user app using this and was quite impressed at the responsiveness.
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to add my own creepy connection story I discovered today that FB will suggest that I add the friends of anybody who invites me to become their friend, whether or not I am connected with any of the other people
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it's a manipulative technique but homelessness and mental health problems are so hard to face up to, so it's also evocative.
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Going by rumours I've heard from snake fanciers, Australian doctors don't like anti-venom as much as they used to. Besides being expensive, it's quite dangerous. They've gotten so good at keeping people alive that it's often safer to let the victim recover naturally.

The large distances don't matter as much as you'd think, because first aid management of snakebite is very effective. If you're bitten by a snake, and there are country people or bushwalkers around, you can spend many hours getting to hospital, or even days.
people like to show things off. i just don't think this is the way to go about it. show off isn't a line of text from my credit card statement. it's my work setup or my car's customizations or the rare tshirt i found.

daily booth (minus the daily part) for my stuff would rock. id love to share all the stuff i own, especially in pictures. the stuff i own is my greatest form of self expression.

girls would also eat it up with shoes + clothing.
For some arenas of music, such as jazz combo-oriented groups, a very basic melody lead sheet with chords and song structure elements (section a, section b, repeat, etc.) is plenty.

Maybe rather than focusing on building a full music notation system for the web, focusing on making something for lead sheets / rhythm charts / etc would be a better path. I really don't like breaking out Finale to do jazz rhythm charts, but right now it's just about the best option. Make something better, and I for one would pay for it.
How come they didn't put the anti-venom in the ambulance and drive it to him?
Thats not a very constructive comment, but taking the trollbait - there are examples of other countries around the world (my own for example) that have public option health cares who's economies aren't in the tank.
No computer, but 36... Qd8 37. Kxh5 Rc6 and then:

38. f6 Rxf6 39. Rxf6 Qxf6 looks totally hopeless for White, can't defend both h6 and g6

38. g5 Rh6+ 39. gxh6 Rh4+ 40. Kg6 Qf6++

Don't see any other plausible options to prevent 38... Rh6++.
Only the code is being open sourced. I presume this means that the graphics, sounds and other resources will stay closed. Thus, if you want the games, you will need to buy them.
A concept like this was funded? I am curious as to know who it was.
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so you could twitpic the cooltshirt and never bother with this site..anything that ascends above mundane is already being mentioned in existing channels

i found it fascinating the screenshots on gigaom were being used essentially like facebook - a baby announcement and general chitchat. is someone envious of another site?

i doubt it will make a significant dent in high signal-to-noise thorough-review sources on domain-specific forums, or the broader amazon/newegg customer reviews
Very nice idea! Do you plan to send out some special seeds (like okra, etc.) as well?
Dumb flash video on the funding page. If they can't get that right ... No $$$
You should do a secure deletion. Generally, deleting a file just removes the pointer to it within the file system--it isn't overwritten immediately, and is still recoverable.

There are free utilities out there that delete securely. If you already deleted the file, which I think you posted is the case, there are also utilities that will overwrite the slack space on your drive, which will also make the file unrecoverable.
I couldn't disagree more. A federated network of world facing webservers goes far beyond what anyone is presently offering. This idea is older than facebook. I would love for someone to pull it off.
so you want a reddit for materialism?
I agree with your statement - and I am blaming PHP a bit, it's gotten better over the years but I have some resentment toward it still.

I'll shift my blame to the developer for not completing their due diligence before writing software.
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Is it normal for people to run Cassandra on only 3 nodes in production environments? I realize that one of the selling points is starting small and then scaling out without any headaches, but 3 nodes seems extreme in that regard.
You can see the prices here:

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Why are these things always so hard? Why bring a lawyer (who will charge money fo his services) in own it?

This is an awfully embarrassing situation for the company he's working for. They could decide to cut their losses and turn him into the police, betting that public outrage will focus on the malevolent thief instead of on their innocent security mistakes.

Or, if they're more worried about their liability (possibly including liability for theft already committed by less scrupulous employees or consultants,) then one way to sweep it under the rug would be:

1. Produce a serious and viable legal threat against the poster.

2. Use the threat to make him sign an agreement never to speak another word about their credit card problem.

3. End his contract.

4. Go on with whatever they want to do (fix the problem, or not) with much greater confidence that this will never publicly surface and bite them in the ass.

That wouldn't be a catastrophic outcome for the poster, but even in that situation I'd rather have a lawyer advising me.
I've always been fascinated by this phenomenon.

Many accounts of ball lightning leave behind physical evidence, though. Dead rabbits, dead priests, damaged buildings, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
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Thanks, but it's back again.
"A service that sold only hand-picked classics, polished for modern platforms, at cheap prices? Yeah. I'd buy that."

http://www.gog.com/
Me too. I am really looking forward to Carlson challenging him. His training with Kasparov must have really helped.
No, I never tried. This was years ago. I don't even remember the songs. Perhaps I can ask them to check their records. Thanks for the idea.
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Non-bitly:
http://google.com/patents/about?id=nrxzAAAAEBAJ
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I'd like to make this an opportunity, but definitely want things done right first. Since this software isn't mine or my client's software, but a service company's, I'm a bit leery to just call them up and tell them, "Hey I have all the CC#'s for every transaction ever run through your system". So that's why I'm here asking for advice :)
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It's just not profitable to manufacture the currently known solutions.

If someone discovers a new, better antivenin you would still have to spend millions of dollars and wait years to pass the FDA guidelines. That alone probably destroys the profitability margins of most discoverable solutions due to the small demand.
Put the work on something like github, let everyone fork to their hearts content, only accept back what you think is useful. Projects way bigger than this one use this workflow to great effect.

Two major red flags for me:

1. Money up front to a team of unknowns

2. Secluding your work for a big unveiling down the road

I wish them all the best but I think they were the surprise beneficiaries of a strong anti-FB sentiment, nothing more.
One thing that really surprised me after moving to Japan was how many people talk about ball lighting (specifically seeing small balls of light). This is especially true in the countryside. I'd never even heard of it before that.
Fascinating essay, but I'm not quite sure whether it's a problem that sufficiently advanced spam is indistinguishable from content.

After all, Demand Media does produce real, editorially vetted content from real human writers. The payment system encourages what I'll call extreme efficiency of research and writing, but that simply optimizes it for the handy-reference domain of search results (e.g. How to fillet a smallmouth bass), which may not be "high quality" as such but does provide direct, clearly written and reasonably valid responses to the search queries that elicit them.
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less like reddit and more like an imageboard / personal collection. But yeah, people love to show things off. I'm not even talking about "look how much i spent" showing off, im talking about: this stuff is me and i want to show it to you.
And when people finally quit looking at medication as a cure-all, because we've had the FDA around to "prove" things are safe?

Of course, they've never made mistakes, oh no, not them. Approved medications aren't dangerous in the least degree. And no "medications" are sold which aren't FDA approved. Not supplements, not energy drinks, nothing. McD's approves their fries, so does your corner diner.

I think the solution may be to have multiple standards bodies, the FDA being one of them. If bodies A, B, and Q approve a drug, and they have a good track record, people can choose. If a drug is experimental, bodies X and Y agree with research Z and not Q because someone ate a peanut, so take your pick based on your circumstances. At least then there would be other options.
Folks, if you'd like to try out a 64-bit, Intel-only optimized build of Aquamacs 2.0, please e-mail me at david.reitter@gmail. At least on my system this build is noticeably faster.
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Arguably, that is the crux of the 1st Amendment issue -- government regulation of speech - including that of "evil" or "unpopular" drug companies -- is a slippery slope.
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Maybe it's time people in your country start looking at other search engines :-)

Why is Google only number 3? And what does it matter if another search engine is more popular? Just use the best one. Of course maybe others are better optimized for your country, but somehow I doubt it.
Maybe it's time people in your country start looking at other search engines :-)

Why is Google only number 3? And what does it matter if another search engine is more popular? Just use the best one. Of course maybe others are better optimized for your country, but somehow I doubt it. Also, how many searches are country specific anyway?
Honestly, this comment boggles my mind. Diaspora is a perfectly normal word describing what they are trying to do perfectly ; I doubt many people would have trouble spelling it or looking it up on Google.
Wuala could go into the right direction, with their cryptographic approach.
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Couldn't agree more.
Just to clarify: all of the industrialized world (except for the US) has universal health care.

As for the troll, a couple of points:

1. Britain has government-controlled health care, not just government-funded health care. In Canada, where I live, the government is the single payer but health care itself is provided by a wide variety of small and large businesses, including doctors' offices, walk-in clinics, testing labs, and so on.

2. Among industrialized countries, Britain is at the very low end of the spectrum for health care expenditures, either per capita or as a percent of GDP. Government-funded and -controlled health care in Britain has done a phenomenal job of containing costs.
Indeed. US government debt is approaching something like 80% of GDP. Canada is ~30%. Australia is 6.1%.
What's so awesome about non-profits? They have their very own perverse incentive structures.

I wonder the same thing. And it's not like the people in the non-profit agencies aren't paid, and can't accept bribes.

Not that anyone bribes the FDA, of course. They're non-profit, what possible gain could there be?
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I could not get past the initial self-promotion. Talk about overplaying your hand.
From what I can find it looks like it was launched back in 2006. Found this from the wikipedia entry for Y Combinator, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator. See reference 9 at the bottom.
and yet countries have gone on the gold standard before and maintained it for hundreds of years.

many countries have also accepted having the value of their currency set to a standard beyond their control. China's was pegged to the dollar for a long time, despite its long term debasement by the US, which has lost a lot of its value since it became the reserve currency at Bretton Woods.

It turns out that gold doesn't screw you over as much as relying upon the US dollar.
While this is embarrassing for my client, they're only using the software as a service. So I'm more worried that my client may inform the service company, which is even more embarrassing for that organization. I know my client won't be upset, after all they're having me make their new CMS, but the software as a service company might not be so kind.
We already have one. The `real' social graph is already distributed and embedded in your daily interactions.
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The same could be said for people in similar states.