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Is there more to this than just a random anecdote? I feel like one of the nobodies that didn't seem to care.
I wonder how that compares to the cost of booking time on a system of similar class, assuming said systems can be booked?
Agreed. Personally, I really like SQL and whenever possible I'm going as much straight SQL skipping strange abstraction in ORM layers.

Performance wise too, nothing beats hand-optimizing queries rather than hoping that the ORM of your choice doesn't decide that the particular method of retrieving the total value of a specific order will need one query per line item plus manually calculating the total.
Yep. The headline is absolutely no surprise considering how much development and promotion effort is going into Azure.
Huh. I canvassed there during the 2008 election. I didn't even get funny looks, which has happened to me more than once when I went into the "wrong" neighborhood in Chicago.

In fact, I once pulled over into a gas station only to have the attendant tell me I needed to get into my car and drive off.

I've never once had an experience like that in SF.
It would be hedging if a team owner to bet against his own team.
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I read somewhere that sites like Gawker look to Reddit for 'cool' story-leads. I amy be over-reaching but Reddit can do syndication dwals/partnerships with Media compnaies for Daily 'Best of Reddit' placements.

Also, what happened to Reddit TV?
Was there really the need for all those exclamation marks throughout this article?

"...three of them!", "Android tablet!", "No rooting is involved!", "...no rooting is necessary!", "But does that really matter?!", "Where are you going to match that?!" (etc)

Seriously, this article would have sounded a lot more convincing without them.

Aside from this, it would be interesting to know what the user-experience would be. I can see that the specs aren't as high-end as the iPad, but that might be a first-phase thing.
Or maybe he's just shy and you're just jealous? Nah, it's probably the mafia boss thing.
It is, but scratch the surface and you're in a world of macro syntax ugliness. Conventional programming languages are better than that. "NO code" yeah right. And that's not even the "hard stuff" that can't be done in excel.
Wonder if Nagios notified them of this.

No? Damnit, go write me another check!
One year of car insurance? Christ. I thought £700 was bad enough (and I'm almost 30).
To display 60hz stereo images, you need a 120hz image and synchronized shutter glasses. Each frame is shown twice, once to the left eye and once to the right. These are interleaved in time and synchronized with the shutters on the glasses that alternately close the left and right eye. To display stereo images, you not only need a 120hz display device, you also need a way to synchronize the glasses with the image. There are some methods that patch into the video stream and use the vsync there, there are some that plug into the television itself and are triggered by actual frame changes. Note that progressive scan LCDs tend to be terrible for stereo, because not all of the image updates at once, and thus each eye sees some of the image meant for the other eye (and you get blurring and the stereo illusion breaks).
Yes it does, but it limits you to 100 per minute. (http://bdp.betfair.com/index.php?option=com_content&task...)

We (http://www.smarkets.com) are about to launch our own free RESTful trading API.
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> What Joel's point is, I believe, is that generic umbrella series/brands are bad for user/customer perception (such as his "For Dummies" example).

I'm not saying that there is no such thing as a bad umbrella brand, just that there is such a thing as a good umbrella brand (at least for me). Springer (which also covers a massive range of topics!), and possibly also O'Reilly, are examples of umbrella brands that I perceive as good. In fact, I can think of far more good umbrella brands than bad ones for books; as a bibliophile, I rely on my knowledge that I can trust certain publishers for quality, format, content, &c. to help me make my buying decisions quickly.

I can't think of many examples of good or bad brands for websites—except CPAN and its derivatives, which are (again, to me) a very good umbrella brand indeed. (I can think of CTAN and JSAN right off the top of my head; I'm sure that there are others.)
We're announcing/launching https://transloadit.com/ later on today. The service (not the website) is written entirely in node.js.

So far we have processed 55k internal jobs for our test users, where each job is usually tied to 3 or more command line scripts executing. Probably not as a big as GitHub, but afaik, we're the first SaaS/IaaS product build with node.js.
If you look at Technorati 100, most of them have multiple authors, posting 40+ posts/day. Can you do that?
The post is signed quite ambiguously "Jeff". Given that it's Amazon making a fairly large announcement here, they could do to include a last name there...
Does anyone else find it ironic that the way we usually visualize the cause of gravity (wells or dents or pockets formed in the fabric of spacetime) depends on gravity to cause things to fall into the wells? In the absence of gravity, it makes no sense to expect things to fall into the well.
I disagree that it is a "1.5 to 2 hour drive" to Silicon Valley. Except for peak times, it is under an hour to say Palo Alto.
Doesn't work under Python 2.2.1 as there is no module "curses". This isn't a complaint because the machine is so old, but I thought I'd give you a "heads up" in case you get that report from someone else.
Part of the attraction to ORMs is that you just define your classes and essentially freeze-dry and thaw objects with a couple of lines of code.

[tangent] That's part of the attraction to NoSQL as well. You just serialize your objects to JSON or something else (probably already being done if you target the web). It's simple.

Back to ORMs, you can't avoid SQL wrappers at least to help w/ injections, and you probably want a layer that serializes/deserializes your objects as well. Once you've written that a few times it's boring so you abstract it. ORMs are pretty much inevitable when writing the common web app.

ORMs should borrow good things from SQL, like LINQ. Mainstream languages are better now than when SQL was created. I mean, it's not the exact syntax you like right? I prefer writing code rather than preparing and parsing strings. Plus if you ever decide to swap out the backend it's far easier when things are loosely coupled.

SQL is akin to JS in the browser in that you need a library to abstract away the implementation differences or you'll be tightly coupled to a specific one. Maybe you don't need to run on all backends simultaneously but options are always nice.

It all depends what the task is anyway though.
>As opposed to Facebook, which hates whales because whales distract the lobsters from the traps.

I agree with the article but I would never forward it on because it's so goddamn thick with unnecessary and absurd analogies and allusions.
Each Cluster Compute Instance consists of a pair of quad-core Intel "Nehalem" X5570 processors with a total of 33.5 ECU (EC2 Compute Units)

Aha, we finally have another EC2 Compute Unit comparison than the vague "1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor."

The X5570 is basically a server grade 2.93GHz Core i7 and it equates to 16.75 ECU (since the "pair" is 33.5 ECU). You can then do very vague and imprecise extrapolation and assume a regular 2.66-2.8GHz i7 is in the 12-15 ECU area (which makes most EC2 instances look rather anemic and probably explains why the Redis benchmarks on EC2 seem so poor.)
I'm uncertain about how this article ranked so highly on HN. It is such a woeful, tasteless soup of mixed metaphors and trite aphorisms that it becomes almost impossible for any well meaning person to tolerate it, read it and extract new insights, if any, from it.
Considering all the old slashdot fans had to have gone somewhere, I wonder why...
This is a very startup centric map. The Marina is still the most yuppie neighborhood, but when professional = "works at a startup," then SOMA makes sense.

There are lots of startups around South Park and down into Potrero, even. There are like 10-20 startups working out of Pier 38 alone.
+1 for the mission. moved to a studio here 2 months ago (from Atlanta) and love the area. Amazing restaurants everywhere. tons of great coffee shops to work out of. Mission Beach Cafe, Four Barrel Coffee, Ritual Coffee Roasters. Bi-Rite market has amazing sandwiches (and the creamery has great ice cream). Delfina Pizzeria is fantastic. Frjtz has great fries (get the thai chili ketchup!). Limon has some nice bbq chicken appetizers and they know how to make a capirinha. Luna Park has holy-shit-amazing warm goat cheese fondue (and some great smores). Random mediterranean place on 16th & mission does great shwarma for a few bucks. A short walk up to hayes valley has Patxi's pizza, La Boulange and Samovar Tea Lounge, where you'll often find Kevin Rose.

However -

I'm in a good part of the mission (near dolores) and every other day there is new graffiti on my building, trash everywhere on the streets and broken glass here and there.

related: my moving to SF post http://paulstamatiou.com/atlanta-to-san-francisco-moving-cro...
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I got my job in Japan through the DISCO Career Forum while I was still in grad school in the US:
http://www.careerforum.net/event/?lang=E

It's primarily oriented towards current Japanese students who are trying to return to Japan after they graduate, but there's also large numbers of foreigners who attend (with Japanese abilities of varying levels). You'll get a cross section of big companies from all industries; the investment banks are the most willing to hire developers with poor Japanese skills, but there's non-finance-sector companies who may also hire you (e.g. in my year, General Electric was one of the big sources of job offers for foreigners).
This is my conclusion, too.

Accidents are almost always something very silly, stupid, and something that could just happen to anyone. It only takes a single rock in a slightly wrong position, then your ankle will slip and you fall directly against a lamp post, hit your head, and you're dead.

It is interesting that people don't so much wonder "why did it not happen to me?"—until something happens, and it is then when they're much into wondering "why did it happen to me?".

Basically you need a breath a few times a minute and getting one is largely out of your own hands. And the countless possibilities to get involved in accidents just makes it very easy to build trust in the universe, if you think about it. Nervous about your startup? You'll be just fine, because there are countless of "smaller" things in your life that could fall down before that. And mostly even they don't.

And then again, most people go long stretches without anything happening. I feel that thinking about what will keep them without accidents and what will keep others cracking their heads inevitably leads, and narrows down, to the question of what is your theology.
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I often see advice about domain names and how choosing the correct domain name is one of the most important things to have a successfull concept, but in my opinion it's not about domain names, it's about branding/accounts in general.

If you don't have the twitter account, facebook page, linkedin, ... to go with your (domain) name, it's pretty useless to register the domain. People expect a package, not only a domain.

That is why tools that do it all (like for ex. http://www.namechecklist.com/ ) are in my eyes far more important then any domain checking tool, you don't want a domain, you want the whole package. It makes finding the correct name harder, but in general it's that name that has to be as unique as possible. It's always better to think about things like this is advance, it's harder to change afterwards...
In contrast to client-side JS in case of SQL, there are at least some cases where limiting oneself to a single target can make sense. Not every application needs to run on a pletora of different databases.

In addition, over time, the official SQL standard got better and better (quite unlike EcmaScript which took a 10 year break and then returned with minimal improvements) and the databases began following the standard more and more as being standards compliant became a selling feature (which is also quite unlike the ecmascript case where not even the innovative browsers support all of the new features from ES5)

Hence, I would claim that the need for an SQL abstraction layer is way smaller than it is for client-side JS
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Thanks for the correction. How do you plan to compete with Betfair?
Wave today is nothing like it was supposed to be from their presentations last year.

But it is an extremely important productivity tool, and makes collaboration really easy. http://maxkle.in/on-how-google-wave-surprisingly-changed-my-...
the danger in the tenderloin is definitely overrated. People who think the tenderloin is dangerous has obviously never lived in places like NYC, Atlanta, or St. Louis. You could get mugged in broad daylight in Atlanta and the cops won't even blink. I've seen it happen.
> In fact, I once pulled over into a gas station only to have the attendant tell me I needed to get into my car and drive off.

How exactly does this prove it's a decent neighborhood again?
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> In 2007-2008 I believe the area around Jackson Square Park wad THE most dangerous place in SF.

>This is juxtaposed with Hayes Valley immediately to the south, which is filled with lots of 20-something professionals.

Accurate? Orly.

Let me tell you, 20-something professionals are a dangerous f'in lot. Stab ya fer yer VC soon as lookit ya.
Don't underestimate the gobloads of legacy apps based on microsoft tech that are still running in the enterprise. There are a lot of developers out there with a massive investment in MSFT tools & knowledge. Giving enterprises a chance to run those legacy apps in the cloud is a viable strategy. Sure, it's nothing for the 'cool kids', but why should MSFT care if money can be made? But yeah, 'largest cloud computing provider' they will never be.
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I came close to signing a lease for a place across the street from the Glen Park BART station before choosing Berkeley. The Glen Park area seems underrated.
This maps excludes lots of livable areas in SF like Hayes Valley, Lower Haight, and the Duboce Triangle (where Justin.tv was, many moons ago).

If you don't care about access to public transit then I think its totally reasonable to expand that to places like Nob Hill or North Beach.

It also excludes all of College Terrace in Palo Alto.
Maybe you got lucky? Went there on a "good" day? No idea. Either way, I like to learn from others' mistakes :)
"I am very lucky"

Might not look like a great competitive advantage, but looking back, is a major advantage of many a successful startup. Might as well put it in...
In Chicago, not SF. Nothing like that has ever happened to me in SF, even as a white guy going door to door in Bayview.

Also, I wouldn't call it a "decent neighborhood," I just don't want to make it seem like you'll get shot for setting foot there, is all. I wouldn't live there.
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Do you know if it is still possible to contact inactive users?
Not even a mention of where YouTube grew up? Downtown San Mateo is pretty nice. Thread is there as are a bunch of other smallish startups.

Foodwise, there are plenty of options though in my estimation there is one great hot pot place "Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot", a shabu-shabu place, what seem to be three(?) izakaya places and several ramen shops, too.
I watched a 3d movie on a lcd screen that's not 120 hz (it's less but i'm not sure what hz it was). I saw the 3d image, but it was horrible. It was not pleasing to watch at all. I'm guessing this was due to the "each eye sees some of the image meant for the other eye" idea you pointed out. So this is what 3d tv's are meant to do...improve 3d viewing capabilities, not necessarily create it?
Never trust a person in skinny jeans, I say.
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The MacBook Air is a brilliant bit of engineering. As you point out, it is a constrained device. It's not for everyone, it's for those who value weight and size over everything else. But remarkably, for actual use in front of the screen and keyboard, it doesn't feel like a laptop which has been squished to fit certain dimensions.

I tried using a netbook, but was such a horrendous experience that I found myself finding excuses not to use it. The MBA has no such problem.
It sounds like you might be taking the 'bumpy surface' space-time metaphor too literally - I think it's only meant as an easy way to visualise the idea of curvature in more than three dimensions using our three-dimensional brains, rather than suggesting that there is actually a force acting perpendicular to the 'surface' the pulls objects into gravity wells.

Were that not the case, then, as you say, the external force required to make gravity work would be gravity itself, which is a bit like the homunculus theory of consciousness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus).
I can get from SOMA to Sand Hill in 40 minutes. I can't imagine Berkeley to Dumbarton Bridge to Palo Alto is much longer.
They're questions about the people you'll be working with and for - can you learn from them, can you work with them, can you trust them, is the team focussed on 'creating value' (instead of just marking time or playing politics), are they going to take an interest in your growth and development?
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Added. This is a great option.
But where does the bot obtains current live score? Or will the bot "watch" only the odds movements? I started recently to trade tennis on betfair, but not sure how it could be automated without the bot knowing the current score.
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Technically, yes, but it would also be highly illegal!
I'm not a physics major, but it appears superficial, non conclusive and light on math. At this point it's not a theory, but an (interesting as it may be) speculation.
I find it interesting that so many swimming articles have been making the homepage lately. Sports is an unlikely topic for HN, given the nerd factor and all, but there are many topics in sports / training theory that are certainly 'gratifying my intellectual curiosity'. Would more articles about sports tech / physiology be appropriate? Discuss!
I just logged in, it still lags behind as I type.
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I think he meant that happened in Chicago or elsewhere, not SF.
What motivates you to say that? The term "cloud" itself is not that old. I understand some of the tech underlying was already here 10 years ago, but the combination of these to what we call the cloud wasn't - it's even still being built.
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I found Cal Henderson's book "Building Scalable Websites" (which describes pretty much everything he learnt while scaling Flickr) incredibly useful.
Part of the attraction to ORMs is that you just define your classes and essentially freeze-dry and thaw objects with a couple of lines of code.

That's not unique to ORM. We don't use an ORM at Expat, yet all our objects still have .Load() and .Save() methods. I hope you didn't read my post to mean I advocate hand-writing your CRUD!

I think LINQ is a great example of needlessly re-inventing something that wasn't very hard in the first place. Especially since its syntax is so close to SQL. Why not simply write your ad-hoc reports in SQL itself and save a lot of trouble?
I think Joel misses the point about brands; whilst still getting the decision right :)

Stack Overflow is a brand - in it's visuals and how it works.

The name is where it gets interesting; because often products are "branded" using their name - but not always. And this is one case where there is absolutely no need to brand the sites using the Stack Overflow name - doing so would be like branding it the same way as the supermarket own brand of a top class store. i.e. the store is quality, the goods are quality, but the brand name makes it look cheap :)
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Considering how much you would have to pay for the power alone, that doesn't seem unfair.
It works like this: for example, you bet before the football match that the result will NOT be a draw. Then, when favourite scores a goal, you can place a second bet, this time you bet that it WILL be a draw. But after the favourite scored a goal, the odds for draw moved up (since it is now less likely that the game ends in a draw). So no matter what will be the result, you win (it's exactly the same principle as with stock trading or forex, where you sell when the price is high or buy when the price is low).

Of course, it might happen that as the match going on, the draw is more and more likely, so the odds for a draw is getting lower. Then at some time, the trader can still bet on a draw (like in the first example), but this time he will have a loss, but a lot lower loss as if he would place just only one bet and lost. And that's I think is called hedging, you bet on all outcomes in different time points.
Same here; when you can literally get books arrive at 9am the next day, well, it is dangerous :)
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£13bn? Are these people nuts? That's more than 10% of the total NHS budget.
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Wave is noise IMHO.

The very fact that you can go back in history and replay, have multiple people talk together and the way that it's built up is not what I would consider cutting out the noise.

But that might just be me.
If it's a one-off computation then a few thousand for a relatively hassle-free setup is bearable for many use cases. I've seen many clusters running idle just because customers initially bought more metal than they could handle. Peak load != continuous load.
One the other hand, they are looking for members of one community to seed the next. They are looking for people to understand some of the concepts by recognising it as an exchange site. They are looking for communities to learn from eachother.

I'm not saying it's the wrong choice. I don't know much about it.

Just saying that as an argument 'Americans don't trust series,' doesn't cut it. I also think it isn't true. I absolutely do pic 'Lonely Planet.'