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The $2,000/hour * 10 hours example shows flawed customer thinking. A guarantee involving cash payback puts too much responsibility on the hosting provider, and not enough on the customer.

A customer is responsible for establishing the appropriate redundancy for his business. If his business uptime is so incredibly vital, generating $2,000 an hour, then $1,000 in hosting a month is a ridiculously low investment.

Google's MSA offers credits in the form of days of additional hosting service for moments of service unreachability. This is a guarantee that puts the burden of service where it should be. Google is responsible for providing a service. If they don't, they'll do much more of the same work for the customer at Google's cost. And the service is what it is. Google doesn't want to have to give away services, so they try to make it work.

But the customer is responsible for choosing commercially appropriate levels of hosting and replication and redundancy. Only the customer can decide how bulletproof he wants it to be, at what cost.

Frankly, online hosting customers should operate as though there is no hosting guarantee at all, and plan their web business bulletproofing costs according to their appetite for dealing with the reality that the Internet breaks.
Problems with Firebug
If you're the sort who likes to skip comments

Unfortunately, I don't think your target audience for that sentence will read your comment :)
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That's part of the point--people irrationally care more about the marginal puppy than the marginal degree of killer asteroid/supervolcano/nuclear war prevention. If you're one of the few people who care about making a small contribution toward preventing nuclear war than a large contribution toward saving a single puppy, the websites look much saner.
heya. i would like to donate some like to spend some..
Almost, but I think nreece was separating out people who are on their way to their first million, and people who are not. Which makes sense really - it's stressful building something big.
Where I work this phenomenon has been spurred by the company using the recession as an excuse to cut benefits, low-ball employees on salary, and deny performance-based raises.
It was totally worth seeing in 3D and on big screen just for the effects. Story's lame though.
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Why doesn't the Times capitalize iPad correctly?
That would be for the initial release, but not for the service packs unfortunately. IE6 was still standard (and had some security enhancements) in XP SP2.
My personal opinion is that reading newspaper editorials daily and weekend reading of Economist (what the author calls pre-Internet habit) is more likely to offer analytical depth than browsing tens of blog sites and following up-to-the-minute trends on Twitter. IMHO, Internet has more breadth but less depth... I would want my young kid to follow the newspaper+Economist habit than bothering about hundreds of ever-changing news stories on Twitter and blogs.
Set time aside to watch it twice. It's only 77 minutes long, and I believe that's a plus. I saw this for the first time with a few friends and when it was over, nobody protested when I started it over immediately.

I've watched this movie several times and I pick up on new things almost every time.
Exactly. I'm surprised this link got upvoted this much. Everyone should have already seen this movie ;)
Ah. In which case the author didn't know how to use his own phone.
It's a great film and the way it was made is very inspiring. Makes me think about picking up that dusty hd cam sometimes. Either way, a must see.
The funniest thing is that people have actually tried to graph all the different timelines. Some examples:

* http://i.imgur.com/kqja1.jpg
* http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PrimerTimeline.gif
If Microsoft were serious about this they'd have released a ChromeFrame-style compatibility mode when IE8 came out which would allow admins to use group policy[1] to load the old rendering engine for poorly supported (i.e. all) enterprise webapps and use the modern engine everywhere else.

This is the same approach which will be necessary to address endemic security and reliability failures caused by bad architectural choices made for single-user desktops in the 90s. Since they finally shipped MED-V I suspect they'll probably use that approach and tell corporate customers that the only way to continue running IE6 is in an XP VM with some sort of on-demand launch scheme.

1. Setting an HTTP header would be easier but seems likely to allow phishers to opt-in to security holes and there's an argument that pushing the support cost off to app owners is better any way.
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Wow. this is interesting. Maybe its some payment gateway/credit card refund hack. I have been doing a lot of payment gateway programming and integration lately Looking forward to an explanation of a hack(if any).

By the way, could you tell us which payment gateway/solution you use?
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How is Tokio Cabinet used? I was trying to find code that uses Tokyo Tyrant to interface with Tokyo Cabinet but didn't find any. I did find a compiled tokyocabinet.o object file - does anyone know where/how it's used since it's not compiled into Node as an extension?
Canvas, for those who don't know and don't want to search for it.
The DVD commentary is incredibly interesting because of this - mostly explaining how they kept the cost so low
Financial advisers are great for people who currently are invested 90-100% in Gold or a stock they saw on Mad Money last night. But if have enough sense to be diversified and are interested in learning about managing your money you are better managing it on your own.
Yes. I think the author's perspective was limited to reading Indian dailies, which he says have more breath but less depth. But I remember that before Internet days, there were high-quality weeklies and monthlies, which offered more depth that Internet does today.
why would it be more or less important to be happy when you're rich? the simple things that you enjoy in a "regular" life can be just as important to your happiness as in a "rich" life.
You turned into a cat! A SMALL cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! (Chapter 2)

Energy? I'd rather call it a violation of conservation of mass.
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1. Every person who made a lot of money on the web around here has been dealing with him for around 10 years and has been extremely satisfied

2. He works for a large bank

3. He has just a few large portfolio clients

4. I can see what I own at any time through the bank's web interface

5. He calls me whenever he wants to make a move

6. Average time between when I send him an email and my phone rings: 3 minutes

7. He's strategic. He always keeps some of my money in cash in the event of a significant pullback (which I still think will happen sooner or later; this recovery is not sustainable)

Hope it helps!
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A year or two ago this startup was all the rage. Does anyone know how it's doing?
David Maister at http://davidmaister.com/

I find him more practical than Drucker, Harvey-Jones and Robert Heller.
Yes, Ritz difficult but by no melanie impossible if you are willing to investoren some time an thought.

As far as I know the best organisation focusing on the effectiveness of charities is www.givewell.net. Might be a good startinpoint, even if you are only donating small amounts (all their research is available online for free).
I have to agree with this. If a company has 6-12 month projects using common tools, then the short-term stuff on a resume might be an advantage - come in, do the work and then (possibly) leave. Almost a consultant hire. However, if the environment has a steep learning curve or it's a multi-year project then yeah, it's a sign that the training costs might/will not be recouped. Different strokes for different folks - and I assume people choose their companies with more diligence that companies filter resumes?
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what is uploadd? how does it work, what problem does it solve and how is it different?

Was facing timeouts and general slowness, in file upload in my app and found uploadd. Although i am still debugging and it i am sure it is a network issue.
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For Windows: On FF, this looks somewhat jerky as you mentioned, and very smooth in Chrome. Opera surprised me negatively: On some of the animations, the horizontal/vertical movement didn't happen at all (on e.g. Nervous Horizontal and Vertical Wobbling). Safari amazed me: Worked just as good as Chrome. Internet Explorer 9 worked amazingly well too: the movement worked okay from what I saw, the only error I could see this time was no round edges.

And for the loading times: Chrome and Opera fastest, then Safari, Firefox and last: Internet Explorer. Nothing surprising here.
"length of stay doesn't correlate accurately with technical skill at all"

They're not looking for technical skill - at least, not as a primary factor. They're looking for people who will stick around even when things get crappy, will put up with internal political maneuverings, people who will grit their teeth and deal with annoying coworkers and will tend to stay even when there's better short term offers.

For the company this is a win on a number of levels. Less cost of retraining new hires and the lost productivity that comes with new people entering a shop. Less need to get institutional knowledge out of people and in to documented systems. Freedom to experiment with new directions, because if things go south, they'll have a 'loyal' team who will stick around anyway.

These aren't necessarily good or bad, just how it is.

So, keep that in mind. Companies often are not looking for top-notch software skills, but a 'whole package', and they'll way often settle for 'good enough' on the whole package, even if it means average software skills.
Clearly the answer is "1", the sequence being defined as the numbers 1,4,9 and 16 repeated.
While I wouldn't say it sucks more than IE6, it is very true that Firebug changes frequently and has plenty of bugs. All the web developers I know gripe about it (but still use it). The stage is ripe for a better tool.
I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen this movie yet, I must order the DVD this weekend, (now that I've been reminded for the umpteenth time).

On a side note, my biggest annoyance with Wikipedia is manifest in articles about movies. For some reason, they allow an editorial policy of essentially writing out a scene by scene account of a movie.
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Then came ‘‘iPhone shock,’’ which sent Japan’s cellphone companies — long used to scoffing at the clunky offerings from their overseas peers — scrambling to develop similar smartphones.

Really? I have yet to see any Japanese concerted effort from Japanese carriers to create an iPhone like device. Since the iPhone, it has been more or less status quo in Japan, with the Japanese devices focusing more on new gimmicky features like solar powered recharging or a "3D display", rather than focusing on improving overall usability.

Sure, Japanese TV covered the launch this morning, showing people lining up to buy the iPhone. But that's just because Japanese TV likes to show people lining up for things, be it the opening of the hottest new fashion store, or some ramen shop. Furthermore, because the line between advertisement and actual programming is so thin in Japan, I would not be surprised if Apple or SoftBank (the official carrier of iPhone and iPad) had something to do with this.

So all in all, unlike these stories we've been seeing in the West, I don't believe Apple products have had much of an effect on the Japanese market. And that's unfortunate, as Japanese companies could learn something from them.
I watched this movie several years ago, and thinking about it still messes with my brain. Even though I wouldn't watch it again, I still recommend you go and see it if you haven't already!
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this is an interesting concept, but from my own experience I'd say partnering up on a project with someone technically more proficient than you is the way to go. It'd be incredibly hard, I imagine, for an "external" individual to be the sounding board you feel you need simply because unless they're involved in the every-day nitty gritty they're simply not going to have the perspective required.

For more general issues, there are plenty of good online resources - e.g stackoverflow.

As an aside, one thing we've had no luck with is finding a business / strategy mentor....
It was a very, very dense cat.
This is wonderful. Every chapter, I find myself exclaiming, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh, basking in how awesome this is. Chapter 17 alone would have made the first 16 chapters worth it, if they were not all already worth it.
I look forward to "The Meta Object Protocol for Dummies" and "CLOS in 21 Days".

(Actually, I find reading AMOP a bit humbling, which is why I keep it lying around my desk at home).
I think that may have been true in the earlier days of the net. The information was there, you just had to take the initiative to look for it.

Nowadays, aggregators (like HN) and websites like Wikipedia have insane amounts of varying knowledge on many topics which are packed tightly together. We often click on that stray link which may lead us to future immersion into a topic or, more commonly, a quick skim of an article.

The result is knowing little about a lot of different things. While the latter graph may still Internet users, the large gaps should be filled instead by many little bars.
> finding cures to the diseases of aging

I'll be also be old and sick someday, and I think that accepting the fact that you're going to die eventually will make you happier.

I also have a cynical view on ... increasing the life span of people can only be harmful to anybody.

> Or is this just the way our cognitive biases steer us, pulling at our heart strings against our best interest?

Again, what makes you so sure it's in our best interest?
I have been using Safari for web development because of its great developer features. It has a DOM inspector, a resource tracker for tracking slow requests, even AJAX requests loaded after the page completes, a script debugger and a profiler and local database inspector. And best of all, no bugs that I have found yet.

I have heard that IE8s developer tools are also very good compared with Firebug.

It will also be interesting to see how Chrome shapes up as far as developer tools go.

Unless you just don't want to leave Firefox, or are using a strictly linux system, you might get better results doing your development in a different browser. At least that is what has worked for me.
Chrome / Webkit's Dev Tools are so far and away better than Firebug, if you're not giving it a try you're doing yourself a disservice (especially since Chrome is officially stable on Mac and Linux now). The only thing missing is the ability to plug in extensions (like YSlow) but otherwise I never pull up Firefox anymore.
To entertain your reasoning: Adobe certainly could have intentionally created a "sucky native app" to contrast their "awesome Adobe iPhone OS compiler" but they mostly left out features and released a bloated (size) app. If they truly made a native app with HTML-based text and image optimization, or use their compiler, they could have equally reduced the size of this app and increased the functionality beyond what they have done here. Thus, the current implementation does NOT do a good job of proving that their compiler could have been better than a native Objective-C app.

Even so, if Adobe did want to throw a laughing cog at Apple via their clients, they're doing Wired a disservice, and frankly, that's terribly insane. They just couldn't throw a high profile partner/client under the bridge just to amuse some tantric executive war between Adobe and Apple.

Lastly, although hard to believe a company fairly technology agnostic as Wired would use their financial line (their money making product) as a way to experiment with dissing a technology giant, let's pretend Wired and Adobe both wanted to stick it to Apple for the 3.1.3 clause. They would be simply shooting themselves in the foot, as their customer is who really loses out here, not Apple.

It just make any sense at all, although I will give you that it's a romantic idea. More likely, they rushed a replacement implementation, since they couldn't use Adobe's compiler. Conde Naste clearly upholds Wired to the same deadlines as their other high end properties, and want to see a ROI for all the R&D they've had, perhaps. Becausethis certainly looks like a rushed implementation, or at a minimum, one done by amateurs.
I work with invertebrate sensory neurons (neuroscientist here). For a starter, check out the pick pocket neurons in Dan Tracey's paper ("nociceptive" means pain receptors): http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(07)0...
I fail to see how the consequences could be any more ugly than a guy armed with a RFID tag outside his body?
It is pretty good so far :) (not that I'm a picky reader)...

It reminds me of an alternate Harry Potter that was available around the Internet about the time book 5 was about to be released... it was pretty cool (I think I actually liked it more than the original). I realized that it was not the original a bit into it, but I still kept on reading. I'll look it up (don't have it here), but I'm not sure who was the author (of if it could be discovered).

I guess what I can take from it is that I don't demand too much quality from my fanfiction :P (and I'm amazed at what can fans do :) )
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The problem with canvas, as correctly identified on the IE blog, is that no-one has yet worked out what to do with it from an accessibility perspective. Other browsers just report it to screen-readers (and other similar technologies) as a graphical block, whereas it obviously contains a lot more crucial information than that, and there's no standard for how that should be represented.
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Those languages merely aspire to true awfulness - for truly mind warping horror you need to see some in-house designed languages that I have seen that use XML as their starting point.
I think you misjudge what people are willing to buy and how much money can be made from a niche.

Some of these had potential to make a lot of money, like Net-Herald (charged way too little by the sound of it, should have offered massive commission to vendors), R10Clean (if he didn't he should have targeted consulting companies that supply sharepoint or inhouse enterprise solutions, this is a constant pain point for them), Clean Chief and DRAMA.

And there are ones like Highlighter and PC Desktop Cleaner that had a massive potential market. After all RedGate are a famous start up and they sell simple programming utilities (simple in that they do one thing).

Think if you hadn't heard of reflector, and they'd failed to gain traction, their story would sound exactly the same as Highlighter's.

There's not a product on that list that I think had zero opportunity to start with, maybe chimsoft but he even managed to sell some copies for $2k each, so there was a demand.

And as for interesting, for me the self-assessments was the interesting part as some people got it spot on and some people blamed totally random things for failure.
Define... "conscious".
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I think we're going to see FireFox go the way of Opera in the next few years.

They had a great start, and forced Microsoft to release IE7, but since then they've just sort of coasted along. MS came out with IE8, which turned out to be a pretty good browser. Then Google came out with Chrome, which redefined what a browser is supposed to be like.

So now we have FireFox still taking 30 seconds to fire up and basically functioning like a poor version of IE8 (but with plugins), while IE9 is coming out looking exactly like a Chrome clone and Chrome is sprinting off into the distance (yet still firing up in 3 seconds).

FF just seems to lose a bit more relevance every year.
Agreed. TRIANGLE was a pleasant surprise --far better than the average for that genre-- but not 'hard' sci-fi.

Another surprisingly good lower-budget/-attention sci-fi film is PANDORUM.
This article is not wort reading strictly by the title alone. If Europe is not a desert, how can the UK be an oasis? Pretty much by definition the UK being the oasis extends and strengthens the desert metaphor.
Good data points. I wonder if it's more than just a JS engine issue and more to do with the rendering. Don't have time to dig into it more...
I specifically did not purchase the Wired app because:

1) It's freakin' 500MB! Even though I have a 32GB iPad, I want that space for music and videos, not a magazine that I'll probably read once or twice for each issue.

2) It was super unclear how much future issues would cost, how they would be delivered, and how much space subsequent issues would use.

I've been very unimpressed with what the media has been able to create with the iPad. I think Apple needs to host a traveling "Developer Days" focused purely on the media, helping them to create really killer shit.

After all, these failures only lend ammo to the anti-iPad Kindle worshippers, when the problem is really the ability for media to innovate.
Live Mesh does this.
I'm watching it now and it busting my brains.
Update - Thanks to the many people who contacted me via email. I have a handful of conversations lined up for today and will report back to HN on my progress.
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Imagine what the average not-too-technical person sees when they hear about this, they see a man walking into stores and the computer systems shutting down/exploding because he has a 'virus', one of those magical,evil things that makes their computers slow. . . not the adware crap they install.
.node files are "addons". See the following:

http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js/blob/master/lib/Ver...

http://github.com/stevedekorte/vertex.js/tree/master/lib/Ver...

http://github.com/edvakf/node-tokyocabinet

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I've switched to Chrome on my Mac because of its speed and quality of dev tools as well. It's a shame though since Firefox and Firebug were both revolutionary and "raised the bar".
Chrome uses Safari/WebKit's developer tools which are unhorrible, but has a couple of issues. (If you can simply paste to insert a new css attribute or DOM element, it would be amazing. Right now there's only hacky ways to do that.) What's interesting about it is that in the land of Google's minimal UI, is something that clearly belongs to Apple:

http://imgur.com/tVHCX.png
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I really love the IE8 and IE9 developer tools. Chrome's aren't as good, but still better than Firebug.
Sounds interesting, got a link?
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