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Well .. I think the writer has a few things wrong ... Everybody is not going to be successful . All fingers are not equal .

This is why if you have 50 students in a class who have been taught by the same lecturer using the same books . They dont all get A's

If everyone one in America is given $1 Million most would be broke in less than 3 years . Money will be pissed away on Alchohol, Drugs, Women, Gambling, Bad Biz choices, etc

There is never a time when 100% of the people will get it right 100% of the time .

So saying who will wash the dishes if everyone is a chef makes no sense because life is designed there to be winners and losers . A lot of people that bought the book wont even finish reading the book if they start at all .

Life is meant to be enjoyed . Your not meant to spend your life working hard till you drop dead .

Your meant to utilize you talents to get ahead and finishe early .
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Obviously, you'll need bandwidth if you are hosting media content, but that seems to be the only real limiting factor.

To me, this is a top down problem rather than a bottom up problem. My suggestion is that you should look at what you want as a product, how it works, what it needs to do, what it doesn't really need to do, essential how you want that product to exist in the marketplace and how the product will grow and scale, THEN figure out what tools your team is capable of using now or learning to use, then find the hosting solutions which match your needs.

And beware using the hammer: "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
San Jose, like any major US city, has its awesome points and its disgusting monstrosities (Santana Row, I'm talking to you). And come on, San Francisco has its share of fake and cliche (North Beach? Haight? The area around PacBell Park?).

Since the link focused on the negatives, I'll throw some positives out there (coming from a San Jose native who has lived in SF, LA, Chicago, and now Morgan Hill - mushroom capital of the world).

1. There are some cool little neighborhoods in the San Jose metropolitan area: Willow Glen, Rose Garden/Burbank, Campbell, Saratoga, Almaden Valley.

2. Good ethnic food, especially from Latin America, Vietnam, India, and China. Even some good fine dining opportunities (La Foret in New Almaden comes to mind).

3. A great Latino/Chicano cultural scene.

4. Decent transit that's been getting better (much, much better than LA, lagging a little behind SF and WAY behind Chicago/New York).

5. Retail tech stores all over (even SF lacks this).- Central Computer, any number of Fry's.

6. A developing downtown. If you'd been here ten years ago, this place was dead. If you'd been here 20 years ago...well, you wouldn't have been downtown. The fact that you can go there at night at all now is AMAZING considering what this place was like when I was a kid. It's fairly jumping now, with a decent selection of restaurants and good parking.

7. Cheaper than SF by a bunch.

San Jose is great, especially if you aren't into the trendy hipster scene and don't mind heading into "scary" (aka non-Anglo) parts of town like East San Jose, Little Saigon, etc.
It depends on which locals, I guess. Personally, I find the faux-cosmopolitans in San Francisco even more boring. The "Stuff White People Like" blog is not far off the mark. I'd rather hang out with a guy who mods classic cars and builds robots in his spare time than another webdesigner-DJ-foodie-proto-yuppie.
now i just have to say WTF, that makes no sense, either way you're in boston, have intelligent students, and you're a prof at one of the best schools in the world. Yes, ones a liberal arts college and the others a research university and there are fundamental differences in ones time allocation and day to day priorities as a consequence thereof, but that doesn't justify your remark at all!
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Definitely. The North Side/South Side fighting in Chicago was pretty crazy to see after coming from California, especially as the borders seem to be drawn on socio-economical/racial lines.
San Jose does indeed look like the most godforsaken sprawl. This town is more populous than San Francisco and yet people still refer to SF as "the city".

However, if you live here, you'll find that it's not quite that simple. There are creative and life-affirming things here, but the only architecture that's available is the strip-mall, so that's what people use. For my money, the best coffeehouse in the entire area (including places like Ritual in San Francisco) is located in an unassuming strip mall in Santa Clara, next to a big-box TV retailer. (http://barefootcoffeeroasters.com/).

And there are vibrant immigrant populations here, particularly Vietnamese, and they bring their cuisine with them. San Francisco itself is so expensive that it's getting older, richer, and more ethnically homogenous all the time. Pretty soon it's going to be just twentysomething white trustafarians and fortysomething white management consultants.

But that just barely modifies jwz's critique. For now, if you want to feel like your soul is enriched just by walking down the street, you have to live in SF. If you want a place to put your bed and TV, live in San Jose.
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Social Security # are security through obscurity. We need a national ID system that provided security by design. And, don't bother arguing that we shouldn't have a national ID system because Social Security #s are already a national ID system. If we're going to have a national ID system, it might as well be a good one.
I guess it all depends on what you're looking for in an airport, but if your metric is "time taken to get from the expressway exit to wheels-up in your plane", I'd rank the Bay Area OAK, SJC, then SFO.

I'm not really looking for amenities; if I needed them, I'd probably just pay for the Amex Platinum and get into the airline lounges.
Yeah ..Our founders didnt do the work .. They outsourced it to slaves .
For loops require that you allow reassignment of named variables or mutability of the underlying objects, neither of which is allowed in Erlang. Erlang variable assignment follows a pattern matching semantic, so locals cannot be reassigned. And all values are immutable in Erlang, meaning that you can't change the value of something "Below" the covers.

Therefore, for loops are pretty much impossible unless under the covers you map to function calls. And at that point, if you have tail recursion, why not just write it that way yourself? It's almost always less code to write a tail-recursive iteration vs. an explicit iteration in a language with pattern matching.
Indeed. The phrase "hater in the house!" kept running through my head. If you live in a place you hate, shut up and move. If you don't, just shut up.
I wonder if you could make an AI research project where instead of making computers smart like people, you tried to get computer users to act like machines, entirely predictable. I bet there would be something to learn there too.

I also wonder if you could create a basic set of antlike behaviors for some MMRPG games and some set of rules for mutation, and evolutionarily grow some bot thats perfect at the game.
Anyone know of a good open-source forum script in Python?
I'm looking to add a forum (or even something structured more like Hacker News) to my web application. I would prefer to use an open source script and simply integrate it with my existing authentication scheme. Is anyone aware of a forum or forum-like script written in Python?
"Or maybe you just..don't notice it?"

Well, you could argue that about the discrimination I've faced in my work. Or maybe I was just working with assholes, I don't know. Or maybe it's a cultural thing, comparing the US or India to the UK (where I live). I honestly don't know, but I can say that I have not once been aware of discrimination, at least in the immediate workplace. I can't speak about rates of pay or promotion prospects, or whatever, but that's my experience.
bashing on the alternatives allows people to feel better about the choices they've made.
I always get a kick out of Patri's work, but it raises the question, why are countries so reluctant to sell or trade territory? Even if it's universally considered short-sighted, well, governments do a lot of short-sighted things. What incentives are missing?
> I feel sorry for the animals.

I have that with any zoo. They may be treated well, but wild animals shouldn't be locked up for entertainment and profit.
strange, as most of my friends are actually foreign or asian (SF is about 30% asian).
Yes, I agree the prototypical-in-your-face know it all hipster can be annoying, but the beauty of SF is you can find people of any predesposition, upbringing and nationality.

Most of my friends tend to be foreign, or born from first generation immigrants, as they are probably more similiar to me, German, French, Half Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Turkish, Australian, Nigerian, so basically a lot of very different cultures, which came to the US for varios reason, and ambition seems to be a common trait.

SJ you are judged by the car you drive. And, yes, my SJ co-workers talk about cars that want to buy, that are expensive enough they probably couldn't afford, if they didn't live with their parents, to impress the ladies.

I know, it is a small sample, guys in their 20s, but they fit the car obsesed stereotype pretty well.
With 500 developers, I'd guess you have some serious infrastructure in place. Why do you want to switch? Do you have real pain or are you kicking tires? What version(s) are you using? Do you currently have your SCM and issue tracking tools integrated? If so, are you looking for another integrated SCM and issue (defect) tracking system?
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What makes you think it is irrelevant? It's true that I didn't conduct and publish a study for this though.

But if the article says "girls just do what they like", I feel my argument is relevant, because it could explain why they can do what they like.
Exactly, thanks!

Why don't you buy their arguments? I think it makes a lot of sense to think about just how much value you get from additional members of a network. Some things, like eBay, are very much dependent on those effects. Other sites and systems, less so.

> The fundamental flaw underlying both Metcalfe's and Reed's laws is in the assignment of equal value to all connections or all groups.

So the more each additional node is equal in value to the others, the closer you are to ^2. If you have a network where it's really important to be able to contact some nodes, but others are far less important, then ^2 seems exaggerated.
What does "wanting girl bits out" mean?

Obviously there also girls picking maths and so on, so your one example doesn't really prove anything (statistics). Sorry for your plight with the hormones. Hint: if you don't sleep with men, you could actually stop taking the contraceptives.

Also, what is preposterous about having kids and staying at home to take care of them?

The income issue is easily solved by trying to marry a man with more income, or making him work more.
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Palo Alto has taxis, cpk, cheesecake factory, that wraps place. All nice enough. Not to mention the creamery.
Also it has a borders and Apple store.

Out of all the towns in the area I'd choose Palo Alto every time.
In other words, the numbers are almost entirely meaningless--it's fluff, probably pushed out by the Apple PR people. As you've noted the numbers leave out huge swaths of sales, via the majority of channels.

But, I suppose it is interesting that Apple stores are an effective vehicle for selling expensive computers. It seems kinda like a Mercedes dealership in that sense...make the process of buying the computer (or car) an experience rather than just handing over the credit card and walking out with a box filled with more crap to put in your house.
both Metcalfe's and Reed's laws are approximations. With Metcalfe's Law you should bear in mind that a technology or infrastructure that gives you the option of connecting with one of N people creates N^2 of value, I think you are actually arguing for a value above N^2 only because you are working from close friends to more distant stakeholders (e.g. members of your community, members of your profession, potential customers, ...). Clay Shirky makes a great point in "Here Comes Everybody" that once you can rely on everyone having access to a technology (e.g. telephone, e-mail, web browser) it is a quantum change from "everyone you currently know." I think Metcalfe's Law has actually held up pretty well. This is worth a much longer discussion if you are interested, I will contact you directly.
You can't beat summers in Boston. But ericb is right, winter's in Boston are terrible. Not going outside for more than an hour for 5 months is no fun.
They may say "please." But should you touch the wetpaint?
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Even more amazing: Apple now holds a market share of 100% of Apple computers. That other number pales in comparison to that. Clearly 100% are more than 66%.
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"In large U.S. cities, for the first time ever, young women are out-earning men." -- interesting! citation?
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If priced the food such that there were no lines, only the rich would afford it, and the rest would just starve.

Queuing doesn't solve the problem; it just means that the people at the front of the line survive instead of the rich. (Of course, the rich tend to be so well-connected that they can just bribe the officials for food.)

When food is scarce, the equilibrium price rises. If the government imposes a price ceiling, one effect is queueing. Another effect is a catastrophic undermining of incentives. If food is expensive, sellers will transport it even at great cost in order to reap the profits. The result is that supplies will rise over time, alleviating the shortage and lowering the price. A price ceiling undermines this incentive, guaranteeing that the 'shortage' will persist.

Rationing is intuitively appealing, but it doesn't work. The surest way to avoid starvation in times of great shortage is to let the price system do its work. Conveniently, that's also the right answer when there are no shortages. 'Do nothing' is often politically untenable, though, and as a result harmful market interventions lamentably persist.
sj is nowhere near on-par with sf, but it's not dead. changes are coming, but that takes time. i live in the downtown area and enjoy one of the safest environment in a big city. last time i was in the city, a walk in broad daylight through some parts was scary.
Have you figured out what your storage and bandwidth needs are going to be and how they will grow as your user base grows and how price fits in as a factor? Can you afford a lot now, only a little bit? Have you checked out the web for hosting forums?
Problems with Wild West Domains API?
I've been using Wild West Domains Web Service SOAP API for about a year. I have never had trouble until today. Do any other Hacker News readers use WWD's SOAP API and if so, are you having any trouble with it or know what is going on?

Unfortunately WWD's tech support is virtually non-existent and have not responded to my emails.
ahem This is not saying anything about boys or girls in general. Let's be clear as to what we see evidence of - that boys raised in this society at this time are more interested in things while girls raised in this society at this time are more interested in relationships and people.

Don't be constrained to the fashions of your times. Less than a century ago, would you could have said "boys are generally interested in making money, while girls are generally interested in cooking"?
If thats what he thought in 1996, I wonder what the 2008 version would say?
I agree, San Jose is too spread out for my taste: it's like a giant suburb. I lived in San Jose for about a year (Glenview neighborhood) and for pretty much everything I had to take the car.

I find the East Bay much more livable, in particular the nice parts of Oakland and Berkeley. Streets seem to be designed for pedestrians (or bicyclists) instead of cars. Plus the weather rarely gets in the 90s, which is invaluable for me.
San Jose is heaven compared to anywhere in NJ. That place reeks, ancient infrastructure, tolls everywhere, dirt everywhere and not to mention awful weather for the better part of the year. I'd rather live in the Bay Area with more expenses on the same pay than anywhere else in the east coast. Although, I concur Austin, Vegas and Phoenix are fantastic places to live.
Devil's advocate: What's wrong with them not wanting to?

I think the reason people are uncomfortable with the gender imbalance in IT is because of earlier studies showing that women tended to get paid less in jobs where they are doing the same work as men. Now whenever we hear of a gender inequality, we assume -- perhaps incorrectly, in this case -- that the inequality is due to a hidden, unfair bias.

So there is nothing wrong with women preferring non-IT jobs, per se. But I think we are right to feel cautious about conclusions in this area: Someone could take this general result and erroneously apply it to specific women, thereby assuming that female IT employees are less interested in their jobs than men and thus less deserving of raises or promotions... which creates a new source of gender bias.
Now if they could just bring back http://www.suck.com we'd be rockin'
"music labels argue that they should be paid more for an over-the-air download than a standard track bought over the internet, where the wholesale price is about 70 cents."

Hunh?

Dear Mr. Jobs:

Would you be so kind as to provide an "add to my wishlist" feature for the iTunes Music Store, so that when I select a track in iTMS and it tells me it is $2.99 for a mobile download (plus exorbitant data transfer charges), I can wait until I am sipping a latte at my neighborhood coffee shop with free WiFi and pay 99 cents for the same track.

Thank you very much.
The guy's older article is just as interesting for the confusion. (http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/08/09/timothy-ferriss-r...)

He takes the example of one person who has ruined his life. Ruined how? The guy is no longer a customer. He hides from the people he is working with. Therefore, he disvalues building lasting relationship.

Unfortunately, he assumes that a professional life necessarily encompasses a personal life. He seems to be implying that if your professional life tanks, then you no longer have a personal life ... whereas the main thing I get out of Tim Ferris's book is giving priority to your personal life. Since the blog post author only knows his example by through his professional life, he has no way of knowing if his former client has ruined his personal life.

I keep seeing so much hate in those comments. I saw the hate in the reviews on Amazon. Particularly, people keep coming back to the idea that if everyone follows Ferris's strategy, no one would be left to do the work. Why are people waving that around as if they were waving a flag to make a last stand against a charging horde of barbarians?

It seems to me that this blog author reacts violently to the idea that a person can benefit from someone else's "hard honest work", to the point that he may be taking it personally: reacting unconsciously to the idea of "Tim Ferris is taking advantage of MY hard honest work." It is as if Ferris's ideas threatens all those years of struggle with putting in long hours to put food on the table. These are responsibilities as an adult, that one had to give up personal things as a child to become an adult ... and here comes Ferris who seems to advocate extending your childhood ... So he tells himself, "If everyone follows Ferris's ideas, who is actually going to do the work" While this is mathematically true, it serves more as an emotional security blanket validating that all the "sacrifices" he had made was not for naught.

In his book, Ferris himself claimed to have worked extremely hard in his early days, before dropping everything to go to Europe. There, with nothing to do, and no "hard work" to validate himself as a person, he had to either fill it up with something (usually hard work) or come to some sort of a realization about himself. Ferris by no means the first person who has espoused this idea. In my studies of Lao Tzu's ancient text, Tao Te Ching, these very same ideas are already there. In fact, Ferris does not really escape the whole Protestant Work Ethic -- he's turning his entire drive and passions towards doing the things he wants to do (whatever those "wants" are), whereas Taoists of Lao Tzu's ilk tame those fires and retire into a contemplative life away from the material world. Ferris still works hard, he just doesn't work hard in what the mainstream American society considers "productive".
Places that grow really fast are going to have trouble building a gracious old downtown with lots of character. I moved here from New York State 25 years ago, having grown up and gone to school in little towns and small cities with tons of character and no jobs. When I got here, it was obvious that outside of SF and legacy downtowns, most of the rest of the peninsula and south bay had been built in a continuous pour from about 1950 to today.

Relax. LA looks like that. Phoenix looks like that in spades. Suburban Seattle looks like that. Kansas City. Atlanta. Urban Texas. It's what places look like when people are moving there as fast as they can to get jobs and raise families (and spend money and pay taxes, I might add). It's an uptown problem. As the south bay ages, and infill and redesign happen here and there, the area will develop [more] character and idiosyncracies. But for now it's pretty sweet living in one of the most dynamic places in human history.

By the way, there are very nearby places where you can live in the country or in the city, and still commute fairly easily to your job, but I'm not going to spoil them. Look around.
OK -- I'll jump in here.

My first personal computer was a TRS-80 with a tape drive, so I'm not new. I've owned and used just about every type of personal computer since then. In 1984 I got my first Mac -- the first Mac -- and didn't use Windows again until I went to college in 1991.

Flash forward to today. I haven't owned a Mac in about 10 years, and I've been listening to a lot of people rave about them, so I picked up a 15" MacBook Pro.

It was OK, but I wasn't exactly blown away. In fact, I spend most of my time on my desktop, and old Dell Precision 360 running XP, which I have set up perfectly for my needs. Mostly pictures and videos of the kids, web, personal finance, but I"m also radiologist and all of the software I use to read studies remotely is PC only. I also do some 'light' programming, mostly Python and Django (I'm the guy behind instantdjango.com).

I also have an old laptop running Ubuntu, which I ssh into from work so I can tunnel around the web filter.

Long story short (too late), I ended up getting rid of the MacBook. I traded it to a friend for an equally priced Dell Inspiron 1720, which has a 17" high-def 1920x1200 screen and a bluray burner. I'm even running Vista on it, which is suprisingly fast and stable.

Anyway, Windows can do everything I need to do, and it does it very, very well. I'm experienced enough that security hasn't been a problem. I can't really see any benefit to switching to Mac at this point. In reality, anytime someone starts talking about being more productive with a Mac, I wonder what the hell they're talking about. As near as I can see there are a few Mac-only things like iLife, textmate, etc...but I'm pretty happy with Office, Notepad++, and Picasa. Actually, I think Picasa is better than iPhoto, but that's just me.

So, in summary, I switched back to Windows.
Thanks for the support mate. It's amazing how people get pissy for the simplest things.