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Native apps are dramatically better for many tasks than web apps are or will be in the foreseeable future. This is why we have the app store(s).

And the problems you mention really aren't "automatically" solved by web architecture, they are just easier to solve. However, there's nothing about native apps that make those problems particularly difficult, if you're willing to use a modern platform and ditch the legacy stuff.

Meanwhile, the web has already built its own substantial mountain of legacy junk.
Another thing to look for: I believe homeopathic remedies are not regulated the same way by the FDA as conventional drugs, so some medicines will even claim to be homeopathic when they "aren't" purely for regulatory (and possibly marketing) purposes. I think Cold-Eeze zinc lozenges fall into that category. There is nothing specifically homeopathic about them, but they say homeopathic on the label.
Apple should just change their official status from a company to a religion and be done with all this. They certainly have enough of a fanatical following and it worked for Scientology.
Cool service - but with one little bug: it seems that you cannot handle non-US letters like æøåÆØÅ.
You can also give Keyspace a try. In your use-case, you'd be running it in single mode, in which case it's basically a high-speed network wrapper around BerkeleyDB with a nice client library and docs.

http://scalien.com/keyspace
It would be interesting to be able to run your Disapora (http://www.joindiaspora.com) instance on it...
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" in acute cases of most diseases, people get recover. Even if we did nothing, most people would get better. "

I mentioned acute problems because results are more easily verifiable. Say you are having fever or allergy for last few hours and take a homoepathy medicine and get cured. Now you know that your disease runs its course in 3-7 days and has been obviously helped by homeopath.

Homeopathy is also good in chronic cases and I successfully help many people.
Marpa: parse anything you can describe with a BNF (Perl)
How does that whole "pipe entire objects back and forth" thing work? I mean it seems that there must be some huge machinery to facilitate that kind of thing. For example, if I pipe object from my program to another, how does the other program know what to expect? It must have some sort of type information available, which imposes some pre-planning.

Also, when I pipe an object to another program, can the receiver call methods on it and are the changes visible to the sender?
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A LOT of products in the drugstore are based on pseudoscience.

Products like Mederma (claims to reduce scars) sound scientific and are expensive ($30/tube), but Mederma is just a gel with some "botanical extract" that has been shown scientifically not to work. (They show before & after photos, but scars naturally look better on the same timescale.)

Other products like Airborne (to prevent colds on airplanes) are just dietary supplements which likely do not do as they say. This product even says it is "invented by a mom" -- why should that be a selling point for a medical product?

The list goes on and on.
It works alright for file sharing and it's nifty to be able to start torrents remotely.

I was hoping for it to become a Dropbox replacement, but unfortunately file transfers are pretty slow over WebDAV. I was thinking of hacking up something with rsync so it would work more like Dropbox (synced local copies). Has anyone tried anything like this before?

http://fak3r.com/2009/09/14/howto-build-your-own-open-source...
Regarding "for homeopathy to be effective...", this statement shows a very XIX century preconceived idea about the human body: We are just machines.

We have learned a great deal more since then. Biologic systems are complex by nature and show emergent properties that cannot be explained by the sum of its components.

By example, there is a strong bias in the comic against the effectiveness of placebos. It assumes that "letting the disease run its course" is roughly equivalent to taking a placebo. It has been shown far from truth in double blind test, at least in the case of mild conditions; placebos do work, that's why we have the "placebo effect" meme in the first place.

In that sense, homeopathy might be working just as advertised: Triggering the body's own natural healing capacity. The theory behind it may be convoluted and borderline magical... but this should not invalidate it on itself.

Of course alternative healing should not be used instead mainstream western medicine for severe problems like cancer or such. However, in a country with basically no public health system, people should have access to any option that would not put them one blink away from financial disaster.
Learning new stuff is cool. Relearning same old stuff in different clothing because someone decided to do something differently is not cool.
I am not arguing that it is possible (it also seems very unlikely to me), just arguing that one should stay scientific. Has it been proven that water can't have memory, or not? Physicists being stumped is no proof.

"It is against the laws of physics" sounds a bit like "most authorities agree that...", which doesn't cut it.

Nature seems to do a lot of weird information storage, btw (quantum entanglements? I am not a physicists myself...). I don't think we should be on the lookout for little flash drives embedded in the water molecules.
I've always seen terms like alternative, complementary, or integrative medicine as akin to the terms creation science and intelligent design. Basically, designed to present a false dichotomy of equals with the legitimate paradigms.
Gmail is not.
Thanks - we are considering SVB. Why do you think it's too early to work with them?
Redis supports full disk persistence by adding the following values to your redis.conf:

appendonly yes
appendfsync always

Yes, fsyncing after every operation will be slower than fsyncing every second or so.
The solution is not to operate the site IN China, as long as it's not too popular or doesn't allow people to express their opinions or communicate with each other(think bbs) it'll be ok.
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The question of who rules China is pretty interesting. It turns out that the whole operation is run by a group of 9 scientists and engineers.

They are called the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_Standing_Committee_of...
Well, R&D is certainly extremely important but extremely difficult to justify with the short focus of the modern corporate world (e.g. "What, you want me to spend billions and in the end it may not even produce anything? How is that increasing share holder value?").

I also don't think you realize just how badly you're addicted to this cheap junk.
It's called DNS.
I believe you are mistaken. Gmail came out much earlier than GWT.
(I could not reply directly to the comment, probably due to bleeding karma)

"How do you explain that the supposed effects of homeopathy evaporate like the morning dew once they're placed in the setting of a double-blind scientific experiment with proper (well, in this case more) placebo controls?"

To me, one thing is sure for me. It works. Proved many many times for the last 10 years.

Now I am not really interested into running such tests mostly because I am not motivated enough (I am a programmer) and also because for myself I don't need any further proof for my own use.
I'm pretty sure that it is not GWT since:

1. It was released several years before GWT.

2. It has no GWT CSS class names on anything.

3. It does have some weird IFRAME structures that are unlike what GWT uses.

4. It doesn't have any of the long hexadecimal identifier files that GWT uses to compile to different targets.

5. On the wire, it doesn't look at all like GWT AJAX requests.

6. Isaac Truett <itru...@gmail.com> says it isn't at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thr... This was in 2007, but I don't believe they threw away a working product to do a rewrite in GWT, which was still not fully mature and is still hard to get just right. And if they did, they'd also have had to make it look like it is not written in that framework in every way I can think to check easily.

(EDIT) 7. Since nothing significant is written in GWT, they'd be trumpeting it from the rooftops if GMail was.
sorry... I didn't mean to suggest any conclusions, but rather highlight the part of the article that struck my interest.

I had a less sensationalist version, which was unfortunately >80 chars.
Just setup htaccess on your original server to redirect to the new URLs. If you care so much about google juice, then you can spend a day doing this, instead of requiring posterous to solve the problem for you.
You seem to be making the rather large assumption that people who aren't intelligent are thus due to genetics. In my experience it's usually their ideology that makes them "stupid". No gene therapy is going to fix that, you'll just be putting an F1 engine in a car that spends all it's time idling.
The following paragraph is incredibly stupid. The telling comparison tells nothing at all; the impact of abu graihb pictures vs. american-gunship-massacre-video was not controlled by those who released them.

"A telling comparison can be made between WikiLeaks’ publication of the Iraq Apache helicopter attack video last April and The New Yorker’s publication of the Abu Ghraib abuse photographs in an article by Seymour Hersh in May 2004. Both disclosures involved extremely graphic and disturbing images. Both involved unreleased or classified government records. And both generated a public sensation. But there the similarity ends. The Abu Ghraib photos prompted lawsuits, congressional hearings, courts martial, prison sentences, declassification initiatives, and at least indirectly a revision of U.S. policy on torture and interrogation. By contrast, the WikiLeaks video tendentiously packaged under the title “Collateral Murder” produced none of that– no investigation (other than a leak investigation), no congressional hearings, no lawsuits, no tightening of the rules of engagement. Just a mild scolding from the Secretary of Defense, and an avalanche of publicity for WikiLeaks"
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Which might well have been the point from the communist dictatorship.

Google obeying their directive, if only formally, is a face-saving act for CPC. The redirect from the landing page can easily be censored, Google can have their Internet license, and the Party can pretend to domestic public that they have won. Everyone is happy.
A lot of folks map jj for ESC and uu for underscore.
However, what this means is that on typing j or u, vim waits for the next keystroke before displaying or doing anything.

I can't remember where this used to hit me. Perhaps some abbreviation with u ?? I notice I've commented off "uu" but still have "jj".

I still go up and slam the ESC key after 20 years of vimming. How do i get into the habit of C-[ ?
Not really the case. There all sorts of optimizations in place (row caching, Bloom filters) that give adequate read performance.

Is the read performance suitable for the OP, given his workload, his hardware (i.e., the amount of RAM he can give to Cassandra, the speed of his disks)? I don't know, but the only way to find out is experimentally.
Yes, it is diluted enough (if it is a homeopathy medicine) that it won't harm you even if it is incorrectly selected remedy.

Selecting the correct medicine for your allergy (or any other problem) is much more difficult in homeopathy. You need to take into account many factors. So selling off-the-shelf homeopathy medicines is probably going to make some money for the manufacturer but not cure you (from the point of view of a homeopath of course)
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The biggest factor in favor of Microsoft is (and will be for some years at least) the bulk of orders from BigCos that are placed for hundreds of HP or Dell machines with Windows preinstalled. Apple's (or Linux's) share in the corporate segment is still tiny.
If one will inspect a blip in the google wave, one cannot think how many Wikipedia's articles could those bytes feed.

I suspect it has allot to do with the GWT.

a .NET DataGrid or whatever it is called these days would looks just the same comparing to a simple HTML table structure.
Please go to the catonmat site. It has cheat sheets for vim, emacs and a bunch of other useful things.

There's also a ruby gem named "cheat" which has cheatsheets for 100's of commands and programs. you can access them on your command-line.
If you're interested in this blog post I suggest reading Ben Goldacre's book Bad Science - http://www.badscience.net/

It covers the problems with homoeopathy in great depth and includes other similar alternative medicines, along with flaws in scientific studies promoting them and quackery in general. I highly recommend reading it. Not just to learn about the problems with these kind of treatments, but also the difficulties in creating unbiased scientific tests.
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I am staying scientific. Science doesn't mean, "everything is possible until you rule it out"; science means, "observe something, come up with a hypothesis, test your hypothesis, consider it true if it passes rigorous enough experiment, until disproven later by other experiment." Demanding proof that water doesn't have "memory" is not at all unlike demanding proof that gravity doesn't work because of trillions of very tiny fairies that fly around pushing on things. This is one of the central differences between faith and science; faith demands proof of impossibility (e.g., "prove to me that homeopathy doesn't work"), and science demands proof of possibility (e.g., "prove to me that homeopathy works").

Ignorance is not a shield that protects you. Being open-minded to the point of incuriousity doesn't make you wise, it just means that you've stopped seeking the answers to questions.

Now, all that said: "spooky effects" like quantum entanglements are indeed very cool, and I'm looking forward to seeing some testable hypotheses on the mechanisms for that. However, experiments so far have only been able to make quantum effects at a distance work under very controlled conditions, and I'm pretty sure none of those conditions involved "shaking it back and forth 10 times". So, no, I'm not willing to buy that as a possible explanation for a mechanism for homeopathy -- even if homeopathy worked, which it doesn't.
To me, one thing is sure for me. It works. Proved many many times for the last 10 years.

Now I am not really interested into running such tests mostly because I am not motivated enough (I am a programmer) and also because for myself I don't need any further proof for my own use.
The author also points out that WikiLeaks has published things that are not in the public interest to publish (e.g. the sorority ceremony), not theirs to publish (e.g. the copyrighted book), or that, the article argues, could have been handled much more effectively (the killcam video).

I admit that the last point is not argued very persuasively, but there is more content in the article.
Like he mentioned, his situation was favorised by the fact he lived in the S. Valley and the fact that he already knew CEOs and top notch people.

But I like his main advice. Instead of paying $XXXXX in theoretical education, try to find ways to spend it in actual learning experiences.

I didn't realize he was involved in so many startups (I knew about RescueTime and DailyBurn).
If you don't need sophisticated distribution, you can consider Redis or TokyoCabinet as alternatives.
For the purposes of linking, you could just redirect appropriately from <yourdomain> to www.<yourdomain> or the other way round...
Ask HN: How to pick a great name for your product?
Its no undoubtedly important to have a good name for a product to to be popular. What makes a name great ? Is it that important ? Had Backrub been as successful as Google is ?

Please suggest things that should be taken into account while choosing a name for a product.
Like a lot of Tim Ferriss' advice, this is superb - with a pinch of salt.

The core message is inspirational and, I think, a good one. But it's up to the reader to decide how best to apply it to their own life.

That said, I look forward to the day when I can apply the tips from this post in a literal way! ;)
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>"If we assume the latter, for simplicity's sake, then we next have to determine where the energy for this "memory" is stored, how it's encoded, and what form it might take. Let's propose the simplest possible explanation -- which violates everything we know about cellular biology -- and say that this "memory" is basically some theoretical "frequency" that the "medicine" resonates with. All we have to do then is propose that atoms of hydrogen and/or oxygen can somehow store a frequency ..."

Good post overall, but this kind of stance always gives me pause. The reason we know that Homeopathy doesn't work is because it can't be made to work beyond a normal placebo in testing.

As far as "does water have any kind of memory", it doesn't seem to in any way that affects us but in general? To me, excluding the possibility because we can't come up with a way to detect such a thing is going to far [1]. It wasn't so long ago that we couldn't see what was in cells. Any theories we built on that ignored cells based on the fact that they were opaque to us could only coincidentally end up correct.

[1] Note this doesn't mean I think we should be spending time or money trying to find such a thing. Just that saying anything more than "at present, we've seen no evidence to suggest such a thing" is going to far.
Much more like Gattaca, in my opinion. Minority Report was about fate and crime, whereas Gattaca was about potential (and the implications for fate and crime).
How is Cyanogen any different from any other Android 2.1 image?
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I remember they sometimes set "open results in a new window" option by default for new users (those without Google's cookies). But not always, so it seems like they're split testing it.
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> So no, it's not bloat. It's just presentation.

The overly complex and messy generation of crappy HTML is bloat.
how?

DNS will resolve to posterous' servers. It's out of your old server's control by that point.

Unless you're talking about different domains, e.g. moving from

mycoolblog.com self hosted -> myawesomeblog.com on posterous

in that case you could do what you said, but I don't think that's what the OP is talking about. the issue is when you use the same domain on both.
>fractional reserves doesn't mean that banks "loan out more money than they have on-hand".

That's exactly what it means. When you go to the bank and ask for e.g. $100k to buy a house they make an account entry to first create this money (assuming doing so wouldn't put them past their reserve threshold) and then give it to you. The money only exists because you've promised to pay it back.

Put another way, the loan money they're giving you is like they went into the future, took all the money you paid into the loan account, deducted their fees, etc. came back to today and gave you what was left over.
3 things for me that help clear the fog:
1. Nutrition, diet. Cut bad sugars and fats, increase protein (necessary for 2.), keep balanced meals, take vitamins and minerals if necessary.
2. Exercise. Aerobic (running, swimming, cycling) and anaerobic (weightlifting, pushups, squats).
3. Relaxation and rejuvenation. Meditation, massage, chillout/lounge music, fiction reading.

For more information there are plenty of books on amazon.com on these topics.
There's many reasons to criticize C++. None of them have to do with whether it's "managed" or not. Whether to use a "managed" (i.e., garbage collected and unable to perform unsafe memory access) language is an orthogonal issue; applicability of either approaches depends on the problem at hand. Some problems can't be solved without raw memory access, other problems can be solved but only at great performance and reliability cost, others don't benefit significantly from either approach yet others are dangerous or difficult to solve without memory management.

The real criticism of C++ is that it's an accidentally complex language (1) built by multiple warring tribes: one that wanted object orientation, the other that wanted static typing, yet another that wanted generic programming. What happened is that all of them won. Nonetheless, there is likely more than just a social reason no other language emerged for (relatively) high-level systems (2) programming (not that it hasn't been tried e.g., Modula-3 and most recently -- and promisingly -- Go). The only real alternative seems to be "C with objects" (e.g., glib or VFS layer in the Linux kernel).

That, however, still has nothing to do with what the article is about: is it me, or are the Windows C++ APIs just horribly designed? Qt, while far from perfect, is a just a lot easier to program to.

(1) It's fine for a language to be complex for a reason. Haskell is complex, yet that's because it's based on a very different paradigm which brings many advantages to the table. C is necessarily more complex than Python because it's meant to make systems programming possible.

(2) Nonetheless the domain of systems programming (which I'm going to ad-hoc define as something that requires dealing with memory addresses, the OS kernel and physical hardware) is shrinking. It's now possible (in terms of getting great performance) to write a database or a distributed lock manager in Java or a web server in Python or Ruby. So I am going to use "systems programming" here to mean operating system, driver, embedded, etc... development.
Is this an US-only announcment?
>> I am still making around $500/week. Which, in the beginning was great.

No it is not. You are underpaid - exploited.

I am making $400/week (4 hours/day for 5 days/week) on my freelance and I am living in the Philippines. You are in the US and supposed to earn 4 - 5 times as much.
A slight complication to this solution is that the length of a year is not exactly divisible to seconds, or even of constant length. So counting seconds is fundamentally different from, though pretty close to, counting years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

As a simple experiment, could you put your most used homoeopathic remedy into a jar, and put pure water into another jar? They must be indistinguishable. Then, give them to someone you trust (and has no opinion either way on homoeopathy) to label A and B. They should record which of A and B is the real treatment, but not tell you.

Then, when you get sick, roll a dice. If it's 1 or 2, use A. 3 or 4, use B. 5 or 6, use the homoeopathic remedy. Record how effective they are after each use. Ideally, generate a new pair of A and B after each treatment. Also, assume that if you get A or B, it won't work since it's been messed around with.

After ten trials of each remedy, do the following. It'd be better if you didn't read this before doing it, but I want to commit to it, so I've ROT13'd it.

Zngpu hc gur rssrpgvirarff bs rnpu gerngzrag jvgu jurgure vg jnf ubzrbcnguvp be abg. Sebz urer jr'er tbvat gb nffhzr N jnf nyjnlf cynva jngre naq O jnf ubzrbcnguvp (nf jnf P boivbhfyl). Abj sbe n gehgu gnoyr bs rssrpgvirarff (0 sbe abg rssrpgvir, 1 sbe rssrpgvir):

N O P
0 1 1 Ubzrbcngul jbexf ba lbh
1 1 1 Lbh whfg trg orggre naq nffhzr gur zrqvpvar jbexf, be vg'f n cynprob
0 0 1 Vg'f n cynprob, naq lbh unir gb xabj lbh ner gnxvat vg