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I have a lot on the go so unless you're getting married in the distant future, I wouldn't bank on me having it all ready for you. Otherwise, thanks for the offer - hopefully one day I'll have it ready to show to the HN crowd and get some feedback on the concept.
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I would take an opportunity to disagree with your definition of software engineering. It is not easy to write a quick prototype for many, many things out there. Nor there is an accepted engineering practice following which allows us to build arbitrary, robust (in say, civil engineering sense of "robust") products.
"Note that I didn't state that there would be MORE abstraction, only that it
would be DIFFERENT abstractions."

That doesn't makes sense. What should be a different abstraction of C? If
you've an other syntax for the C pointer arithmetic it's still the same
abstraction.

If you can do still the same things, then it's still the same abstraction.
You can only combine multiple abstractions in one language, but I think
that's not a good idea.

"You can have different abstractions compared to what C has and still retain
the granularity of control you want."

I don't think so, because you would add the complexity of both, the higher
abstraction parts and the C parts. You would generate a language which is
harder to master than their component parts.
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Just think how much better it would be to hear "Rhapsody in Blue" along with a BSOD. Or perhaps just Joni Mitchell's "Blue". :)
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I have a website that runs on 2 boxes, 1 for mysql and 1 for html. My problem is during peak hours, my mysql load is too high and the site takes forever to load. We are no experts with NIX/Server Management and its a small operation we are running here (revenue wise) so we can't afford to buy expensive hardware nor are we really technical when it comes to scaling, we are student-hackers who are decent at coding and I guess that is about it. The current system was set up by our webhost, but we could have set it up if we really needed to.

My question is, how do I add more mysql boxes to scale this thing out, I have already applied the simple tweaks of memcache, splitting up tables, etc.

Any simple ways or tutorials anyone can point us out to for scaling without spending too much would be great or tips on what to do next or who to approach would be helpful.
That's very melodramatic of you. Just don't visit as often, get some discipline to work on your own things and thoughts and you'll be fine. No account deletion necessary.
I came to the some conclusion after the Collateral Murder video - WikiLeaks is a news organization, which gathers, curate, and sometimes editorialize their content. The only difference is that Internet allows them to be outside the jurisdiction of any concrete state. But they have their own bias and their own agenda, just like any other media.

As you said, they provide valuable service to society, but we still need to watch them closely like any other organization. Anyway, what they do I think is positive and it blazes a trail for others. I am now looking forward for WikiLeaks competitor. ;-)
I consider working in Canada to be $20k/year preferable to working in silicon valley.

I consider working in Vancouver to be $15k/year preferable to working elsewhere in Canada.

I consider working from home to be $40k/year preferable to working from an office.
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I can see how it could put the drinker in a vulnerable position. Though what's interesting is when I am around drunk people, my own inhibition naturally drops even without drinking.
> Herein lies my criticism of Node’s primary stated goal: “to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs”. I fundamentally do not believe that there is an easy way to build scalable anything. What’s happening is that people are confusing easy problems for easy solutions.

Even though I disagree with much of his technical argument, this is an extraordinarily important point that I find myself agreeing with more and more upon rereading. Nothing is scalable out of the box, anything can be fucked up, and there's no silver bullet.
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Damn, how do you disrupt the diamond industry. That would be awesome.
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are you adding indexes?

you can skype me for some tips @agentbleu
Is this different to http://code.google.com/p/cogen/ ?
"daily journaling software" - that sounds interesting. Is it available?
Canada to the valley is interesting and unexpected (I've obviously never been to Canada :] ) but I am quite surprised at your willingness to take a 40k hit to work at home. Thanks for the input!
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When: 7pm
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It's under my name, Pierre, but you shouldn't really need that.

See you there!
No it's based on the number of informations you're able to verify from the article, and the number of those which are false. Also this very piece of information is not irrelevant, it is at the core of the subject at hand.

If you're able to verify a small number of "facts" presented in the article, and a big proportion of those are false, the probability the entire article is bull went from 'unknown' to 'very high', relative to your personal knowledge.

Eventually you could be wrong, but there is enough sources of information on the internet to allow me to choose not to read those i think are bogus.

Even worse, the mistake i pointed out is a very simple one. It's almost impossible to think, from the information you find on the web that openCL is ATI's equivalent to nvidia's proprietary CUDA technology. The mistake serves the article well though, by antagonizing the two technologies, and making the whole thing more sensational than it needs be. So this isn't a simple "irrelevant" mistake like you said. It's bad journalism, plain and pure.
Startup countries are a great idea. Old governments are patched and repatched to meet each new wave of lobbyists.

Th key is not starting over but establishing mechanisms that require governments to compete and that enable customers to walk away if they aren't happy.

The US started out with 50 competitive states whose overall security was protected by a tiny federal government that did little more than manage the border and the currency. The states did everything else.

If you dislike your state, you just move to another one. WE need MORE of that. We need SMALLER states with more intense competition.

The naysayers will tell you its a crazy patchwork quilt. They want one set of rules, presumably for all human beings ultimately with no innovation or competition. The dream of all statists. They trumpet diversity in biology, but scorn it in human life.
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What if you adjust that for inflation? And what percentage is that of revenue over the same period?
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For best results on Linux, usually the latest anything is best avoided, while issues are worked out. It depends though, and things are improving a lot.
It looks like a cool project, but my experience with it wasn't really nice. I tried it on my iPad, after reading this post, and I still wasn't sure where/that I could drag to scroll the content, and that was after knowing it was made specifically for the iPad. It also had some problems with registering the touches, with the picture slide view at the top stopping responding halfway through. When viewing the posts themselves, everything was slow and the text rendered with glitches. Perhaps you're overdoing the effects? I think I'd prefer the normal website for now.
I would start off by seeing if you can't optimise that db server that you're running, that would be the low hanging fruit.

A tuned mysql server versus an out-of-the-box configured one will make a world of a difference.

It would be nice if you provided some more information about what you consider to be 'peak hours', how many queries per second you are processing, how the division between static and dynamic content on your site is and whether you have done things like enabling and analysing the 'slow query log'.

Have you used 'explain' on all your queries to make sure that you are not accidentally hitting all or a large number of rows in some of your queries ?
I would challenge that you can group people into those three categories. I'm interested in everything from quantum physics to category theory to python, but I have zero interest in basket-weaving techniques of the 18th century.
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Did anyone else initially think this was related to functional programming?
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I wonder what ever happened with that Wikileaks "insider" writing to Cryptome about how they were planning on shutting the place down?

Am I wrong, or does this give us every reason to disbelieve the guy, given that they've been working on this huge leak for quite a while now?
It is your innate ability to learn that takes over automatically there. You probably couldn't stop such assimilation of things done around you even if you wanted to, it's how our brains are wired.

If you had to consciously decide to learn something you'd be a baby forever stuck in a 'dead-lock' of not having the reasoning ability to start learning-by-imitation, so it's 'on' by default.

So given extended exposure to some behaviour it is very hard to resist imitating it to some extent, even if you know better.
I had no idea there were so many Scots around here. I guess all this talk of weather brings us out.
Does the thread being slower movement have anything to do with the rise of Python which doesn't have good support for thread due to GIL?
Agreed. I tried implementing a parser for an island grammar (Django template syntax) using lex/yacc-type tools. It was hard to find any examples of such using these tools. In the end, I wrote it by hand (I'm sure there were better ways to go about this).
Thanks for the info. I don't have the experience yet, so I can't comment. Erlang definitely sounds good, too. My impression was that the hype had subsided recently, but maybe it is still going strong.
Oh yes, please?
You're making a critical logical mistake - assuming a data anomaly when you don't know anything about the field, but you take a 5-second check with your own intuition, and can't find an explanation.

You've never heard "Thursday's the new Friday"? College kids and young employeds party hearty on Thursdays now. It started in the early 2000's.

Uncle Google shows that even the NYT knows about it: http://www.google.com/search?q=thursdays%20the%20new%20frida...

Remember: just because you can't figure out the reason intuitively, and immediately, doesn't mean there isn't one.
I need a software that detects countable and uncountable words.
Wanted to buy Google when they went public.
Did not have enough money. Argh.
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The sad thing about this is that I kind of understand why someone would make something like that. The first Windows DLL I ever made was nothing more than an attempt to make a function that would play notes on the PC speaker in both Win 98 & 2K.

I actually had a little music player written in VBS that used it. For those who know enough about VBS to wonder how on earth you could access a DLL from it, someone else made an OCX marked 'safe for scripting' that did that by writing out assembly code and then calling it via some hack. And you could even store the OCX inside the script by abusing more crazy bugs that let you open a file in binary mode (though you had to store the OCX as a horrible "string" constant).

Oh, and we're not done with the Rube Goldberg contraption yet. It was actually executed not by Windows itself, but via some proprietary company testing tool that used VBS to script itself. I blame severe boredom for causing me to do things in such an absurd way. I didn't think of using it for an alarm, though.

Incidentally, the only piece I ever wrote for it was one of Chopin's Etudes. I don't think I can find that piece any more, but it would be something like this (but the piece had only one note at a time):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tude_Op._10,_No._4_%28Cho...
How about a greasemonkey script ?
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I remember that...

I had a copy on a 5.25" floppy, copied it to the both the school librarie's XT machines and made it part of the boot batch file. Apparently I was the only one who found it amusing :(
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More advanced users tend to dislike being forced to move away from the home row. TrackPad forces the slow hand movement while TrackPoint doesn't; and this is why I can't imagine using an Apple computer again (except maybe with this - http://www.google.com/products/catalog?&cid=102343875510... ).

All IBM TrackPoints come with three different caps. The old default was "classic dome", the new default is "soft dome", but the one you want for featherlight touch is "soft rim" -- http://i27.tinypic.com/sfl6dk.jpg . Set sensitivity to the highest value and now you get a pointing device that's perfect for advanced users. :)
I'm getting married in a little over a month and my thoughts resonate a lot with your statement on not spending a lot on the cards. I'm designing the cards on my own (using Gimp, Lightroom and Sketchbook app on iPad - never done this before) and getting it printed locally. I don't think it's worth spending a ton of cash on fancy cards and pricey printing costs.
I think that ATi is going in the right direction with their Linux drivers: the newest version has support for 2.6.34 and Xorg 1.8 out of the box, whereas with past versions hacks were necessary.
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Node does support two models for concurrency: Non-blocking I/O and worker processes.

Non-blocking I/O is no magic pony, so if you need access to more CPU cores, you start creating worker processes that communicate via unix sockets. I would argue that this is a superior scaling path than threads, because if you can already manage the coordination between shared-nothing processes, moving to multiple machines comes natural.

Otherwise I agree with the post. Nothing will allow you to scale a huge system "easily".
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In the video he says it's svg I think.
Actually, didn't it start with 13 states?
I would say in the long run you should give out the PDF for free and charge for sending out the prints on proper card/paper. Most people are going to pay for something will want it printed properly. Also, I imagine the main advantage would be time saving not cost saving.
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There was no comment and you used for instead of foreach, but that's just a nit. I did lose track of which person I was replying to :)

You're right that the overall pattern is VERY useful.
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People don't want a quote for wedding invites, they want to know all the prices / price-breaks upfront and do it all online, if that's not already happening there is room for disruption.
If this is true (and I have no reason to doubt you), then the extension is so inaccurate as to be useless. In Firefox at least, there are hooks to do everything you need to do a real implementation.
I read his rant, and I love him, but that was a terribly written, poorly thought out and even more poorly researched "rant." That is not writing about it at length, which implies serious and long-term study... just writing lengthy, which implies volume.

Many women - and lots of men, too - do this thing where they attempt to control the world by being gentle, sweet and pathetic (in the sense of evoking emotions). By trying to be appealing so things come to them.

It's a nicer way of control, but it is still about control. It's emotionally dishonest.

And when it doesn't work, they go boo-hoo. So do the men who do the same thing.

Whenever you see a "nice guy" who refuses to ask the object of his affections out, and instead plays friend and hopes she'll wake up one day, that's this behavior at work.

I don't think women are socialized to be this way any more than men are -- but men are better at ignoring socialization and doing extreme things (both good and bad) in the pursuit of their goals.
Worse - you might have false confidence that it will work, but you find out at the worst possible moment that it won't.
This started in the City as far back as the 80s - everyone wanted to leave work early on Friday and go away for the weekend with their partners/families/whatever. So Thursday was the night for getting drunk with your cow-orkers. Casual Fridays comes from this time too.
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If you really wanted to be disruptive you'd invite everyone via. Facebook with a stylised HTML style invite and it would be all be free and you'd make money on lead-gen.

The world is probably not ready for that yet though.
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As long as you don't need 3D acceleration, they are the best choice.

That is a pretty big thing to be missing.
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If your content is amenable, have you set up a front-end HTTP cache (aka 'reverse proxy') yet? The fastest database operation is one that doesn't happen at all.

Make sure the machine(s) are really CPU/IO loaded, and that you're not just witnessing exhaustion of some artificially-capped pool of connections (at any tier).

Make absolutely certain no swapping is occurring, and that the things you've tried so far (such as memcache'ing some things) haven't backfired by introducing swapping or more process contention.

Making sure you have relevant indexes and key bottleneck queries are being handled in an efficient manner should come before anything that might be called 'splitting tables'.
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True, although intel have been very good about this in the past, and to some extent still are - there are often drivers in the kernel and in X.org for IGPs which haven't even been released yet.
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Most of the Canada->SV difference is nuisance costs of adjusting to a different country. Immigration. A driver's license. Banks. Income taxes. Insurance. All the little things which we know how to do because we've done them all our lives but which are never really documented.

If I spent 5 years living in the bay area, that $20k/year would drop significantly, since I would no longer need to learn those quotidian details.

Perhaps I should have said that I consider Canada to be $5k/year preferable to silicon valley, plus $15k/year as a frictional cost of changing countries.
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That social institution is already here, it's called the comment section on just about every blog.

BP has a problem with their well at a mile under water ? Let's send divers there! And so on.

Outsiders will very rarely have a 'great idea' for some other field, but the cost of processing all the junk probably far outweighs the benefits.

A more likely course is that someone is able to take an idea from a non-related field and apply it to their own.

For instance, I have an 'idea' (more of a sketch of an implementation) about a solar powered Stirling engine coupled with a Stirling engine driven in reverse to provide air conditioning driven by renewables. I probably have the gear required to make a proto type and I might just be able to find the time to do it.

But heating and cooling is not 'my field' (not by a long shot), so instead of sitting on the idea or trying to mint it (very very hard, for just an idea) I've thrown it out often enough that it would be fairly hard for someone else to come along and patent an implementation. So even if I won't derive direct value from the idea I may one day be able to buy the device.

And I even doubt that my 'idea' is an original one, it's a pretty obvious combination of elements.
What a neat little product idea. Your biggest worry will be SEO savvy tricksters that will order one of your DVDs and start selling copies, as well as ripped copies showing up as torrents.

You'll be siding with the mpaa soon ;)
A homeprinted card will still have to be decorated and perfectioned beyond death by your soon to be wife.

You might save a buck. We made all our card by hand. I still hate myself for doing that. But I still don't really see what you're providing here? A design for the cards? Suggestion of text?

I have openoffice and the interweb full of fonts, and I googled much of the text.
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