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It seems many readers took this article too seriously. It isn't serious — if it were, it wouldn't benchmark connection establishment. As it is now, it establishes a new database connection for every request, which is wasteful.

I guess it does prove the point that the more letters you drop off ACID, the more performance you can get.
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One man who has fought long and well for this is the former Brazil Minister of Culture and Polar Prize winner Gilberto Gil (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilberto_Gil). I think all western governments would benefit from having a guy like him. I also recommend anyone who is interested to listen to his music, there are some gems in his portfolio!
Any pointers for people who live in Europe?
Yup. At a time when everyone else had given up on search, mainly because they thought that was as good as it could possibly get and thus the future was in other "value add" areas such as portals and directories, Google's founders saw a way to do it better. They married multiple revolutionary innovations (page rank, commodity PCs as servers, sharded computation / "datacenter as a system") and combined with a little bit of usability sense they provided higher quality search results which rendered faster and at lower per result costs.

What they did was enter an existing market with a lot of competition and do something that the competition was absolutely incapable of matching without going back to the drawing board (there are a few other companies who do this too, the list is left as an exercise for the reader). They followed it up with new ways of advertising online that made search a money maker.
I honestly believe that's the only reason task killers are as popular as they are. That and memory management is so complicated that most people don't really understand it. See also: NT6.
If you are having these problems, it means you have a misbehaving application. The task killer is a bandaid that hurts your battery life slightly less, but you'd be best off removing the offending app.
Yes, love the thing. Great for web surfing, surprisingly great for running iPhone apps (but BIGGER, great for older folks), fantastic for watching videos, mail is great.

Not so good for running IM type apps where you want them to background. Not so great for a lot of typing, since the keyboard is a step back from the iPhone, with keys moving around inconsistently, and various weird foibles (shift key coloring? WTH?).

The iPad was rushed out with 3.2 as a stopgap, and it shows. It's a great device, but it needs iOS 4 and a camera badly.
> Adwards came MUCH MUCH later

It's AdWords, not Adwards. And it launched in September of 2000, when Google absolutely did not "dominate the landscape."

Do you even bother to check your facts, or do you just make shit up?
If you saw that kind of improvement, you had a misbehaving app.
This statistic is a bit skewed. They obtained the data from the users of their plugin. Unity makes a 3D graphics plugin for browsers, sorta like flash but higher performance. However, their users are 100% gamers. Show me any modern 3D gaming machine that isn't beefed up. Hardly a representative sample.
True, I haven't actually used Outlook in years, last time I did I know the version I used didn't do this. RSS has existed in some form since 1999. Outlook seems to have just achieved the ability to consume the format with Office 2007 [1] [2]. And it's buried in the account settings [3]. Which I guess makes sense, but it really should be accessible from the folder pane/list.

[1] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/introduction-...

[2] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/view-rss-and-...

[3] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/add-an-rss-fe...
This is a big hole in existing maps / directions sites. In most big cities (where, as it turns out, many people reside) it's rather an academic exercise to be able to travel to the exact coordinates of your destination, what's important is finding the nearest reasonably priced parking spot. If you don't know the area (which is why you'd be using directions anyway) this can be a significant challenge given the commonplace difficulties of navigating downtown traffic (such as grid-lock, confusing layout, one way streets, etc.)

It's good to see someone at least tackling the problem.
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"So, why did you leave Great Company"?

A better option might be to take a higher position/pay at a lousy company. At least then he will have a savings cushion to fall back on. There is no sense in trying to "climb the ladder"; some positions are so low that you can't possibly climb out of them. Try to grow from testing into lead dev, if you don't believe me.
Also if you name it "SkyAgent" (or anything vaguely Terminator-y), you wear the hat of shame. To parties.
Is the position "lowly" in a relative sense or in an absolute sense?

The most important part of career development is making sure that you're being challenged and learning new things wherever you are. Sometimes that means taking a bottom-rung software engineering position at Google, and sometimes it might mean being CTO of a startup. The answer depends a lot on what you've already done before, what you want to do in the future, and what specific skillsets you've identified as needing practice.

I've found that in general, it's harder to blaze a trail than it is to follow in other really smart people's footsteps. OTOH, there's something intrinsically educational about that difficulty itself. A lot, too, depends on whether you find yourself stagnating because you can't identify areas where you could do better (a big problem for big-fish-in-a-small-pond) or whether you find yourself stagnating because you're too overcome with inertia to change your behavior (a big problem for small-fish-in-a-big-pond).

BTW, I've also noticed that many people who think they're overqualified for great companies when they get their offer find that they're not overqualified at all once they get in. The public face of any great company is a tiny fraction of everything that goes on inside of them...that's how they got to be great, after all.
So you're suggesting utilizing connection pooling and running the tests again?
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I think you may be missing some aspects.

First, this is just a trial, they'll get a lot of information about how useful it is and tweak it accordingly.

Second, consider the data generated. A little bit of number crunching will generate a lot of highly useful information that can be used independently. Such as a map of all parking areas in the city along with other metadata such as how often there are spaces available, etc. Think about how this can be used. It can be used to provide better driving directions so that you are directed to nearby parking structures instead of the destination itself, when there isn't parking at the destination. It can also be used to figure out where it's best to park based on factors like general location, time of day, day of week, etc.
Sophie's world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophies_World

It's a great book that takes you on a whirlwind tour of the most famous philosophers and their thoughts. What's more, it's woven into a suspense novel, so it keeps you reading!
In September 2000, Google was already the most important search engine out there. It was already successful, and adwords had nothing to do with its success. It had 20million in the bank already.

Please avoid the personal attacks, it's not good form.
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hey paul! why don't you write an answer there, instead of commenting here? the quoran community could benefit too :)
I've lived in Northern Ontario (St. Josephs Island), and owned a gas station. We employed the one black person in the region in a gas station we'd invested in and saw a noticeable drop in sales.

Xenophobia is doing fine in rural Ontario. Needless to say we stood by our employee.
If any company had realtime satellite data over even a handful of major metropolitan areas there would be a lot better uses for that data than finding open parking spaces.
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While I like the book (and Russel in general) it really is a history rather than a philosophical book.
I would also like to point out that he has been a member of Hacker News today for exactly: 1234 days =)
BTW, do you know Philip Guenther from sendmail? :)
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And almost all of the population is of foreign descent. It's quite funny to have your application denied by a Chinese first generation immigrant.

I've spent 5 years getting 'landed immigrant' status in Canada and finally gave up, to anybody that is planning to try to emigrate to Canada, make sure that you get your paperwork done before you move, no matter what they promise you.

The Canadian government will routinely break their promises to immigrants, also be aware that there is a whole crowd of people who feed of those that arrive in Canada and that do not yet know how the game is played (immigration lawyers especially), and that even though Canada at face value seems to be a healthy and equal society in practice it is much less so, there is a lot of resentment between ethnic groups.

On top of that you lose between 4 and 6 months per year (depending on where you live) to the winter.
Read it some years ago, definitively a good book to get some background in the history of philosophy.
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That's what makes me believe the "leftover debugger" explanation... If they were doing it maliciously, they probably would have hidden it a little better. One would think. Either that or they're malicious and incompetent.
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surprised nobody mentioned "The Story of Philosophy" by Will Durant, which not only talks about philosophy, but the lives of the philosophers and the historical backgrounds.
philosophy is gradually becoming more literature-like, which is hard to appreciate without the context.
ps. it is also a 1930s best sellers.
I read it cover to cover and loved it. But Russel, although a humanist, is firmly an occidental man. He rushes through Oriental philosophy like it's a bad neighborhood (he really didn't hide his distaste for mysticism and metaphysics at all.)

A better read might be Will Durant's "The Story of Philosophy". And Durant's masterpiece, The Story of Civilization is unparalleled in its scope and lucidity, though not philosophy. I have such a huge attachment to the Durants, they kept me company on many a long night. I read about seven or eight of their dozen volumes.
I second that recommendation. You won't get a lot of philosophy out of it, but you'll get thousands of pointers of where to look for the interesting stuff, put it context.
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I had the opposite reaction. I almost never finish books, this book is the first one bigger than a 100 pages that i finished front to cover. I'm currently re-reading it.

Here are a few reasons why i liked it:

-It was the first book on philosophy i actually read. The closest book on philosophy i ever had contact with before was a high school textbook and it was more than horrible.

-I read it with a deliberate reason, i was interested specifically in why some people are bad with tech, actually not just bad but horrible with it. Where does this gap come from?

-I read it at a point in my life when i was trying to figure out a lot of stuff, and one of them was how to not be an arrogant asshole, i found that it was way too easy to be one towards people who i perceived as less intelligent than me. I approached this book searching for ways to enhance my reasons to be arrogant, but left it with a sort of humility and understanding towards others that i didn't know i was capable of.

-Because of my obsessiveness and extreme rationalism, it was easy for me to connect with the character of Phaedrus.

-It was a novel, not a philosophy book, it was light to read, and at the same time intellectually stimulating.

Maybe you should ask yourself why is it that you don't like it? I'm curious for the reasons, it certainly has its flaws, and i still have difficulty with some of the ideas after the second re-read, but i never found it not entertaining.
Take a look at factor. The main designer is a mathematician (amongst other things) and the language comes with an extensive math library. The number tower is one of the best in my opinion, up there with the most advanced Scheme implementations.

http://factorcode.org
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It's because they don't know shit about advertising. Take a look at their "sponsored link" system. It's impossible for an advertiser to predict what impressions or click-throughs they will get for their ad spend.
Good ones. Just make sure these aren't the only ones you study or you'll end up being a worse amateur philosopher than you were before.
But someone like OP would benefit from a broad introduction to the corpus of thought out there. They can then choose which lines to follow.
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Given that philosophy as practiced in academia is as much about creating arguments as about the ideas themselves, I suggest "The Philosopher's Toolkit" as a useful reference.

For what I'll call "hard philosophy" I put my votes for books by Hilary Putnam and John Dewey. As a rationalist seeking a solid basis for ethics in the physical world, I've found both authors quite instructive. Perhaps "Objectivity" by Nicholas Rescher belongs here as well.

There's a whole other class of what I call "idea books" and I've seen a few of them listed in the comments, too. Given the reading examples you mentioned, I'm assuming you're looking more at "hard philosophy" so I'll skip the other kind of suggestions unless you ask for them.
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Grrr. Their first point is "Make It a Form", because "e-mail is too hard".

I can appreciate that it's nice to have a web-form, as a back-up for people who haven't got their e-mail set up, or who are genuinely so inexperienced that e-mail is beyond them. But for the rest of us, e-mail is the normal way to communicate on-line.

Contact Us pages with nothing but a web form annoy the hell out of me. It especially infuriates me when they call it "e-mail", but don't actually provide an e-mail address. That's just insulting.
Interesting. I hadn't seen that explanation before. Upboated :-) Now I just hope that the UK is one of those English speaking jurisdictions or I'll be resorting to the tried and tested "pay someone in the US to run the ad for me" technique.
A couple by Stanley Cavell:

Must We Mean What We Say? (1969)
The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy (1979) New York: Oxford University Press.

I would also second Russell's A Brief History of Western Philosophy. It's biased and weirdly shallow in some places, but written by a philosopher, so not a toothless compilation.

Obscure but made an impression on me: Ways of Worldmaking by Nelson Goodman.

If you can get through it: John Rawls's A Theory of Justice...an important book with a few very important ideas.

Stuff by Amartya Sen.

On philosophy of science, the historical narratives do the job I think, like The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler (a great read once you get through the Greeks). You could read Thomas Kuhn, Feyerabend's autobiography "Killing Time" which is great, and if you're really serious read Peter Galison's stuff.

Finally, again, more history that pure philosophy but I really liked Wittgenstein's Vienna by Toulmin.
You really nailed it. Yes, yes and yes!

This is the sort of stupid batch task that can be done with a shell-script using all the machines in the office after hours. Cut out the middle ware, cut down the threads and fancy IPC, and hunker down with good ole minimal number of processes on a bunch of machines.

Heck, they might even see a big win if they use a different "server" memory management algorithm that's more tailored to batch, not-so-responsive applications.
That's useful information; thanks for answering!
I agree, thats why I like using language like Perl because it doesn't force me into any rigid pattern(s).

But when it comes to OO i (nearly) always use Moose.
I think many readers will be surprised at how accessible "Gödel, Escher, Bach" actually is. I'm not an expert at anything: I have no work experience and maybe two serious computer science courses under my belt, but GEB really satisfies an intellectual curiosity I've had for years. I'm 550 pages in (out of about 750 pages) and with the exception of the two chapters discussing the anatomy of the human brain (a subject I'm just not that interested in), I've torn through this book—I only started reading about three months ago, which means I've been reading GEB much faster than any other book I've ever opened. I highly recommend "Gödel, Escher, Bach" even to those who have seen other people recommend it yet have been reluctant to try it out.
I do not know a single editor which does syntax highlighting by actually parsing (including semantic analysis) the code. Most of them use regular expressions at most.
Yep! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1501063 :)
Naming and Necessity, by Saul A. Kripke

It's a series of Kripke's lectures from 1970 if I'm not mistaken, republished, but without significant changes/corrections. Note Kripke's age of 29 at that point. In them, he develops his theory of direct reference in a highly interesting and controversial way. He didn't leave the philosophers of that time indifferent, and neither will you. Enjoy.
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Why would anyone make a venture investment in some guys who just admitted that they can't think of how to make money on 280M uniques?

Reddit was (perhaps not intentionally) built to flip. Mission accomplished.
It not just "using cloud features of Google Accounts". On Android, you _don't sync_. You just add new contact to your phone and in few seconds, it is in the cloud. Or add contact through web interface and in few seconds, it is in your phone.

When you start using it, you stop worrying about where did you put your contact and whether you synced it. It is just everywhere applicable, automatically.
I'm the author and i did write some parsers. However i'm more in the write-parser-by-hand camp and context-free is not so hard here. ANTLR needs strange hacks to parse Python with its whitespace indentation. A handwritten parser just needs some context within the lexer.

In my eyes a parser generator is the solution, if you want to trade efficiency for cross-language-portability. ANTLR is probably the best solution at this point, though the C backend is quite wierd.
Philosophy is not always wisdom. Of reading many books there is no end. But if it's wisdom, you can read it in an hour and spend a life-time understanding and applying it. Read Solomon's Proverbs (http://bit.ly/aJpmva) and Ecclesiastes.
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I don't think it's the best place to get started. I've read it cover to cover and it's great background for further reading in philosophy, but it's a dry start. Russell's Unpopular Essays is a good deal more fun to read.

Other things I'd recommend for wading into the waters of philosophy would be Utopia by Sir Thomas More, or Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes.
Weird, those pages looked really different before... I think.
For the first ~25 page or so the book is nothing but this guy who goes to biking with his friends and son.

Maybe my expectation was too high, maybe I was hoping to be blown away by some deep philosophical understanding. Or maybe its the writing style, I felt like I was reading someone's diary, reading his mundane everyday thoughts.

Absolutely nothing. Just a guy riding his bike for ~25 pages.

I stopped reading where he was yelling at his kid for some stupid reason during camping. Maybe after that he talks about something interesting.

I will probably give it another shot, most likely not anytime soon.
Ah, but you're talking about short-term luck ("I sat down at a table full of sharks", "I sat down and was too tired to play my best"). On any given day, you can win or lose, and the best player in the world can't guarantee a win across a short period of time. That's the strong gravity of short-term luck in poker.

But sit down and play 5 or 10 million hands online (that's under a decade of regular play, well within a human lifespan), or even considerably less than that, and luck becomes a rounding error. Mathematically. Incontrovertibly. Your long-term results in poker will reflect your skill level closely. And of course the rake plays a part as well, by turning poker into a negative-sum game instead of a zero-sum game, and dragging everybody's results slightly south of where they would have been otherwise.

But rake or no rake, there's very little "luck" in poker at depths of millions of hands, as you get in today's online games.

And even in the live game, where hand throughput is lower, luck is a small enough factor over the years that the same skilled players win consistently, and you can only win consistently by learning those skills.
Your "benchmarks" are flawed.

Perhaps look at pgbench, sql-bench and tpc for standarized benchmarks that have been tuned over years (some of them over decades) to provide meaningful results.

Whatever it is you are measuring there (with apachebench, seriously?), it's not the database.
I have to agree with you about the general reddit.com, but some of the subreddits are still good or even great.

However I doubt HN will follow, because unlike digg, slashdot and reddit, PG has shown no interest in gaining traffic at the expense of quality (indeed, he has called for the front page to be splashed with Erlang links, precisely so as to get those who wouldn't fit with the site to go elsewhere).
Some of the best philosophy books I've found for free online:

Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. Even though you may not agree with his conclusions, it is still a remarkable piece of work.
http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/FP.html

David Stove does a good job debunking Hume's problem of induction, which underlies what I consider wrong in most modern philosophy
http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/davidstove.html

Liberty or Equality outlines the potential for tyranny inherent in democracy
http://blog.mises.org/6326/liberty-or-equality/
I didn't mean about books, I meant about philosophy.