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But it is transported in bulk. It's not as if we're sending along semi-trailers loaded with a single tube of toothpaste - those things are packed to the brim with what other people have ordered.

The way I look at it is this: with a brick and mortar store you only have the efficient, bulk transport all the way up until the retail endpoint. Everything after that is somewhere between ludicrously wasteful, and terrifyingly wasteful. Even then, we can fulfill entire cities from a single (or very few) warehouses in an online shopping context, but retail stores require many more locations, each carrying a smaller amount of stock (much of which will remain unsold to be returned elsewhere), and situated according to the whims of the consumer, not the efficiency of distribution.

You driving to the store for your toothpaste may seem like a negligible amount of pollution contribution - but multiply that by everyone in your entire city, and suddenly hauling a fleet of semi trailers would seem downright clean in comparison.

With online shopping the shipping process remains bulk from the supplier all the way to your door - there is no SUV with a single passenger hauling 3 bags of groceries - that UPS truck is packed to the brim and has a highly optimized route. Not to mention, with consolidated inventories, overstock (and thus more transportation and garbage waste) is greatly reduced and you don't have the added transportation layer of distribution center -> retail store.
If it's anything like APL you probably don't want to see it...
That is exactly what Oracle Coherence (nee Tangosol) does.
I agree with you generally, but you seem to imply query performance tuning hasn't been done properly with the major database vendors, but maybe I misinterpreted you?
Checkout the arduino. It's currently the most popular prototyping platform out there. It's pretty cheap and easy to use.
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This may have no additional value to any aforementioned discussion or analysis, but:

Hooray for grellas! He always makes me consider going back to uni and studying law.
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I disagree that this is the "general understanding".of the term No SQL.
> You see articles stating that something broke the
> laws of physics when really it just didn't fit our
> current model of understanding.

It 'broke the law' in so much as it proved that the law was a 'broken' law (aka incomplete). It wasn't an action that violated a law, but a law that was rendered 'broken' by an action.
The issue is primarily licensing, .NET is not ASP. It's actually a very good platform for development. The problem however is cost. Ballmer is very much not on crack because the same guys who buy Visual Studio will be willing to pay MS's price for cloud computing.

Yes, RoR and LAMP reign supreme on the cloud right now because most of the cloud toolsets and tool chains are geared towards RoR and LAMP. The cloud is very inaccessible to .NET developers of which there are a lot and they are employed by companies with large budgets who can afford such things.

When Ballmer gets the "Deploy to Windows Azure" button working in Visual Studio he will be on a gold mine. Especially since a lot of the people who will be clicking that button write horribly inefficient code. Instead of knowing their code is crap because the application is god awfully slow it will instead just ring in lots of CPU and IO cycles which result in big bills. The result will be "thats just how much an applications costs" instead of "write better code"
/. has had editing problems, but the comment quality has not, to my experience, dipped that low. It's not as high as HN, but it hasn't dipped that low, either.

HN and /. are on opposite ends of a spectrum--HN is what happens before the trolls arrive, given you seed the community well, and /. is what happens after the trolls leave.
I don't believe that there really are all of these developers around who
lack knowledge of SQL.

I'm not sure why you don't believe that, but as someone that has done development at a variety of companies: trust me, there are plenty of those. They may even be reasonable at PHP or Java, but they couldn't subquery their way out of a paper bag. At one place, the CTO, formerly main PHP/MySQL developer, didn't know what an index was. You can figure out the rest ;)
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It's a really, really, really nice device. Not so much a nice telephone.
Only ever looked at Digg a few times and only at Reddit because HN has linked there a bit, but I'm wondering if the Digg hate is more a dislike of the broader community than the owner himself?

I know in the times I visited in the early days, those commenting were mostly pretty hapless and predictable.

Other than that, any success attracts haters.
Yeah but that's part of the problem. They released it, it was slow and clunky, and that turned everyone off. OK so they made some improvements, but they probably should have done that before releasing it and turning people off :)
1. The core library is completely event-based and most of the third-party libraries are event-based. Not true for Python, Ruby, etc.

2. JavaScript has grown in an event-based environment (browsers). Any serious JS developer is already familiar with event-based programming because of it.

It's debatable whether JS syntax is very event friendly, however (CoffeeScript has made an attempt at fixing it).
If the quality is excellent and the name isn't tacky (e.g. for Dummes), then I think a series is much more beneficial. There's no way I'd compare '..for Dummies!' books and StackExchange on anywhere near equal footing.
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The whole article was written for virality and news aggregators. Way too many interweb inside jokes, too many distracting links, way too much knowledge about flimsy websites, etc. I really felt tired reading it.
I doubt it was luck: I rather think it's a completely normal way of affairs. At the moment of discovery, the gas concentration was probably far too low for an explosion. If the house was decently ventilated, the gas concentration may never have reached a sufficient concentration for an explosion. If the house wasn't decently ventilated, someone probably would have woken up from the smell. Gas leaks have a pretty large window for discovery, which is why gas leaks rarely cause explosions. The fact that he was mucking around with the electricity right before it is a coincidence, but it's also something bound to have happened in one of the many gasleaks that happen.
Every day we win the inverted lottery. We just don't notice them all the time. There are an infinite number of ways to die at any given moment, and an infinite number of moments in any finite amount. So, living successfully through a finite period of time is effectively winning the inverted lottery an innumerable number of times.

This happens to us all daily. However, we tend to remember the times where, like in this story, the nearly-avoided death is more obvious.
from tfa : google should be concerned because fb serves bazillion likes clicks a day.

so what? the department of water should be concerned because coca cola sells a bazillion cans a day?

who will ever go to Facebook to search how to buy some power tool? I already have ppl from the office telling me all the brand stereotypes. I want to see tables of rpms and torque. and price on stores. screw my friends opnions. I already got them offline. Facebook will only replace email (if ever) or IM.

how to search case insensitive in less? have you ever seen one question like that on fb? I just got my answer on google. and I don't want to look nerd or newb on Facebook while doing that.

so, great article on the initial reasons. but tried to stretch too far.
Ask HN: what software or service have you used for product documentation?
Sub-question: do you think there is a room for improvement?
Rumor has it the Tevatron may have found the Higgs boson
And to me also (as someone who buys domains, does some SEO, etc), but I wonder if it's also true for the general public? Have they come to make that same association or is it just another domain to them?
From the perspective of an investor owning or considering GOOG, here's what I think about:

Over the next 5 years which is going to be more valuable: leading in social apps or mobile OS (with Android)?

I don't know the answer to that question, but it seems like Google is placing their bet on mobile OS.

Which do you think is more valuable...the OS or the social apps?
Am I wrong or is this only for Americans?

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>> What I really want is the industrial design and hardware of Apple

> Well, let's not be too kind to Apple. The new phone is already behind the greatest and latest.

I agree. I was talking about case/glass/build quality/materials "innovation"/etc. rather than the chip specs. Didn't make that clear.

Expandable memory is awesome and the Snapdragon et. al. seem good like it's pretty good albeit maybe power hungry.
I've had dropped calls on my iPhones (3G & 3GS).

Inside an elevator or while walking through a tunnel surrounded by 2 metres of concrete in an underground carpark...Never at any other time.

This is from using it in 3 different countries (none of which was the US).

I think I concur with your conclusion.
Well, it's all happening now. First step towards that which I noticed is Moneta (Ruby gem), that is giving you some abstraction over key value stores. I don't think that it's a whole lot of performance overhead and it does let you switch when you realize it's time to.

Overall, you may also want to use orm for sakes of interchangeability of your SQL as well, and it certainly gives you advantages.

Im working on a project that involves no orm and uses oracle as a primary data store. Though I don't want to install oracle On my machine but repository idea built-in to project doesn't let me use postgre for development. And yet schema creation involves varchar2 that's simply inaccessible in postgre. Its quite easy to fix but I'd expect to have some kind of a fallback....

In any case, it's a good point that key-value storages are not for every problem, but that's quite obvious. someone said that every time you say "nosql", a kitten dies. so, careful there.
On the one hand, gravity hasn't been 'real' since Einstein: it's a secondary effect due to the curvature of space. On the other hand, gravity has been real since long before Newton: we experience it rather directly. The editorialized title gives the impression that there are entirely new insights concerning the 'reality' of gravity and that is certainly not the case.
There is nothing wrong with being an employee at a large company. It all depends on your priorities. The important thing these days is to stay marketable in case circumstances change, and that large company decides not to be so accommodating any longer.
you gotta admire them they stuck behind Bing and its decent
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Excellent advice. Going into sales will make you understand why everybody is not buying Toyota cars.
Is this significantly better than using Lynx?
"the Droid still has a battery cover problem 8 months later"

Given the entire controversy over Apple's tendency to have non-removable batteries, this problem in particular amuses me.
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I am investigating the possibility of a tiny tablet the size of iPod Touch, with 3G and Android. Either touch-screen or a folding keyboard; all that matters is it has to be pocket sized.

Any ideas where to start investigating.
They reported the same 20 dB drop as Anandtech, a week later.

However, unlike Anandtech, CR failed to even mention how the phone holds calls given certain signal strengths or drops in signal strength.

Also, one wonders about their lab, since CR failed to find the drops from comparable smartphones that Anandtech found, reportedly around 9 - 14 dB, and failed to explain how each phone's drop affected call retention, sound quality, or data rates.

Not all radio tuners or antennas are created equal; just look at WiFi 802.11n data rates from different vendors given the same signal strength.

Reviewers need to stop focusing on signal strength, and test actual call handling.

Doing a real test (instead of "oh, now we see what you meant...") would have been great PR for Consumer Reports.
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Don't forget Berkeley: affordable, interesting, and very easy to get to SF. (Only a 25 min BART ride.)

I would never again live in Mountain View because it's too damn boring. Palo Alto might be tolerable.
Depending on the level of gadget, hackaday.com, makezine.com, instructables.com would all touch upon the sub-culture. Get familiar with C because that's the language you'll use.
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How 'little' a gadget? What's its connectivity? What's your imagined price point? Any thoughts on a business model? Sell devices outright? Razor + Blade model? Give away the device but sell a service?

HW startups have bit more front-loading, couple grand to produce an MVP, 10-20 grand for a small production run.
Exchange sites are part of a series.

The real question is not about some abstract branding truth: people trust/don't trust series.

They should be asking whether they want to accentuate or deaccentuate the grouping. Do they want good brand equity to flow between them. Do they want to avoid bad brand equity (brand liability?) to flowing? Do they want the sites to feel more independent?

Relying on 'series are bad' as justification is like when clients tell me that blue makes their clients feel like buying.
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Why so much hate for him?

Not so much hate for him as hate for how his website has de-evolved. Early on, it was much like Slashdot or HN. When he started introducing features that benefited power-users, your chances of getting your own stories dropped to 0 while the front page was filled with Cracked-like "top-10" lists.

They also have a whitelist of domains that can show up on the front page which turns digg into an rss feed of those sites and the occasional Reddit story that a poweruser feels like copying.

http://soshable.com/digg-whitelisted-sites/
This is where Fanvibe first started, in my living room:
http://flickr.com/gp/kinetic/Y2ceC3

Check out the photos! our first purchase was a foosball table ;) We also had one of our interns working with us in the "office"

We since moved off to Dogpatch Labs in San Francisco, which became a bit too distracting to code in everyday, so I usually just work from a small home office that has three walls of windows =)
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You can read all you want, but ultimately you have to do it. Get a job at a place where you're part of the backend team, and see how it grows over a few years. You learn a lot of little things that coalesce into a big picture: for example, until you've experienced the 3am phone call (or a week of them!) you never really appreciate the full meaning or importance of "site reliability".
Soma is "Most yuppie / soulless area to live in SF" ?

When I was there, that was the Marina / Cow Hollow. Funny how quickly things change. When I moved down there in 1999, a friend of a friend told me to avoid SOMA if I "didn't like getting stabbed", but I guess that's mostly been gentrified at this point. It was already starting to improve back then.
I think the big challenge for Google is they desperately need to be where the users are spending the most time online. Outside of search and YouTube Google just doesn't have anything that can generate Facebook/Twitter type traffic. I think maybe Google is starting to realize when traditional search becomes less relevant they're kind of in trouble. They don't have a whole lot to fallback on right now.
Would you say that the schemaless storage debate is then similar to static/dynamic typing, with the same kind of tradeoffs?
Ask HN: WHy no talk of Qooxdoo?
I have been researching the various JavaScript frameworks to build desktop like web apps and i noticed that sproutcore and cappuccino are getting all the attention, yet qooxdoo looks amazing, even their level of support, community activity and documentation, am i missing something here? If i go with all the hype, then i would be learning sproutcore or cappuccino, maybe its just the these two latter frameworks have a more promising future?

Any thoughts, thanks!
Here[1] is a piece specifically about the Great Lakes. It comes out of the 2009 Great Lakes Rip Current Conference.

[1] http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/coastal_communities/rip

[2] http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/newsletter/2004/06/rip_currents_...

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"Rip currents are formed when waves break near the shoreline, piling up water between the breaking waves and the beach. One of the ways that this water returns to sea is to form a rip current, a narrow jet of water moving swiftly offshore, roughly perpendicular to the shoreline. Rip currents can be found on many surf beaches every day. Rip currents most typically form at low spots or breaks in sandbars, and also near structures such as groins, jetties and piers. Rip currents can occur at any beach with breaking waves, including the Great Lakes."
I always though the biggest problem with slashdot was that the moderation somehow lead to an extremely insular community. There was a prevailing "slashdot" opinion and that was pretty much the only opinion expressed in highly moderated comments. I was a reader for years and that's pretty much why I left.

What's strange is that slashdot moderation isn't that different from any other site, but for whatever reason, I think it hurt slashdot far more than any other site. Maybe, it's just that by default not that many comments are displayed as opposed to reddit or hn, so it's all the more noticeable when the top 20 or so comments all are basically the same.
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The reason pure SQL people and ORM proponents don't always get along is that ORMs make it very easy to write really crappy queries. I'm fully in the ORM camp, but it is true that I can't turn on SQL statement logging without being terribly embarassed. And tuning and optimizing these queries isn't always as trivial as some make it sound. For fetching some data, it's not terribly hard, but try explaining to Hibernate that you want to bulk delete a bunch of objects (with inheritance) without screwing up your session...
What is the most ghetto part of SF? Like if you had absolutely no fear of getting stabbed by a crackhead girlfriend and your kidneys being harvested if you roll down your windows, where would you live?

Also, does one need to show some type of credit report or can one just come in with a bunch of cash and wave it around and get a place?
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How the hell does one learn how to make them? I just want to be able to understand what to call all these purty UI elements so I can ask for them.

Any resources to recommend?
It's not a name everyone in the field is happy with, IIRC.
Once a site gets huge like Digg then the trolls and monkeys of the Internet come in and ruin everything. At least that is why I stop reading digg in late 2007.
The OP seems to be very fond of SQLs ability to answer questions about your data: ORMs are very good for quickly and easily putting your apps data in a RDBMS, so you can answer questions about its data using SQL.
That would be NOSQL, not NoSQL
"the department of water should be concerned because coca cola sells a bazillion cans a day?"

That is exactly the point, Google is not a public utility service, it is for profit. Google should be concerned in the same way Coca Cola is concerned about Pepsi, they dominate a certain market, but a moment of hesitation, and oops, you just lost the young demographic.

When Google appeared, Yahoo ware an empire, Alta vista ruled certain searches, where are they now?
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Far enough to be far more successful, it would seem.
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The Tenderloin I guess, and yeah, most places will probably need a credit check, even the hippie coops.
I love the "Most yuppie / soulless area to live in SF" aka SoMA. It's also the most practical.
So they simply bet on sports results after thoroughly researching the odds? Where is the hedging in that?
That one seems to have been lost, this is the new one http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38865
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"Scientist has hypothesized that gravity's origin may be somewhat different from previously considered, with no effect whatsoever on the real world" doesn't make for a very sensatinal headline.
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So how do foreigners get places to stay at?
You may find these maps helpful:

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime...

http://www.sfgate.com/maps/sfhomicides/
This site is blocked in China. Anyone want to help with a synopsis? Maybe just a list of the questions.

Mine would be:
1. Is there healthcare? Which provider? Plan?
2. If you wanted to change something at the company, how would you go about it? Is there an established process? How are decisions made?
That is one of the reasons I like my Sony Touch ebook reader. It basically is only good for reading, so I don't end up interrupting my reading to do something else on it.
Oh. I already get a fair amount of amazon email to my gmail and I've already got filters set up, so if they send more I'll be prepared!
> The relational model is a comprehensive, complete way of representing any form of data.

Yea, but it's not the best or the easiest to represent all forms of data. Just because a problem can be solved with the relational model doesn't mean it should be; there are many ways to skin a cat and sometimes non relational solutions work better for the problem at hand.
Here's a fun visualization: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2010/06/05/if-san-francisco-crime...
But StackExchange sites will work only if they inspire a community of domain experts around each site. And the whole Stack Exchange idea is about separate communities, not about community around Stack Exchange brand.

I bet that garden aficionados around the world would enjoy more to be part of the LiliesAndRoses.com community than StackExchange.com/Flowers community.
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Pretty cool map.

One note: I discourage Millbrae. I grew up there and it was on the boring side of things, while still being a tad pricey. My life is (somewhat) more exciting living in northeastern Sunnyvale (near Hacker Dojo), and rent is dirt cheap (as low as $450/person). Also, for the carless, biking is much better in Sunnyvale/Mountain View than Millbrae.
On the Mac side, people haven't really learned the benefits of standard look and feel to the degree they have on Windows. Not to say there's no standardization, but in general, Mac apps are a chance for developers to strut their stuff and display cute widgets. MS has spent many multiples of what Apple has spent on UX design, so you get a slightly less flashy, but overall more usable, set of applications on Windows, because of the way the APIs are structured.

Where this style of UI really shines is for the iPhone. I don't think anybody still seriously thinks that Mac is preeminent on the desktop. That hasn't been true since .NET, let alone WPF. But on the iOS...Apple's dominance is clear.
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