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I just grabbed the first driver and it worked although it feels really awkward to me (especially coming from years of parameterized queries / sprocs).

It looks interesting though. Have you used both?
I'm running the MS stack for my free online dating start up http://diveintothepool.com

I've loved using C# for the site but if I had built it in Ruby or Python I might have gotten more free traffic. Maybe the buzzness behind using X programming language that is current, hip and or new might be an easy marketing tool leading to you hearing more about them.
There is a large pool of MS engineers in Israel as the IDF is run on MS. Startups tend to be influenced by this talent pool. I'd avoid an MS based startup myself, an open source startup seems to me, more likely to have more innovation potential.

If anyone believes that Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Salesforce, or any other big internet company that has become prominent over the past few years was developed using .NET they have another thing coming.

http://thewadi.com/start-down-israeli-start-ups-in-crisis/
sorry, duck, downvoted you by mistake below (fat fingers)

just wanted to reply that ferrari.com is very slow, may be it is related to using MS stack
Open source bargain
What Are the Most Common Mistakes Startups Make Dealing with VC's?
More information on Great-circle distance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance
Why this is different is that they have 500 million users from day one!

Quora is all about the bay area (at least now). Facebook is about the world.

My opinion is Stack overflow will survive but not a general Q&A site like Quora.
I think without the statements about the iPhone as a fashion item, your comment is insightful.
> POSIX mandates a 32-bit int - UNIX hasn't ever run on a 16-bit machine (yes, I know there are some abominations.)

That's afaik absolutely not true, Unix was actually developed on 16 bit machines, back in the stone age of computing, roughly 1969 (that's why the unix 'epoch' starts in 1970).

After a while 32 bit machine became available and Unix was ported to them.

Unless you wish to call the earliest versions of Unix 'abominations, but I'm thinking you have Xenix and such in mind when you write that.
I'm glad they're here, but I'm not sure about this whole "RTP is the entrepreneurial and VC hub of the southeast" bit. I've been here a long time, and the thing I hear constantly is that this area is notorious for lacking available funding. When you look at the well educated workforce, the presence of UNC, Duke, NCSU, etc., and the presence of all those IBM, Cisco, EMC, etc. employees, you would think this area would be more of a startup hub than it is. And when you ask people why it isn't funding is always one of the first answers you here.

That said, the emergence of the lean startup model may just be the best thing for this area. When people can routinely launch startups without needing a large infusion of cash, the availability - or not - of VC money will be less important.

And I think we're already starting to see progress in that regard. The RTP New Tech meeting was VERY well attended last night, and there were a lot of people there who were involved in startups, or interested in startups, etc. Same of for the Lean Startup Circle RTP meetings, and (so far) the RTP Hackers & Founders group. The new flexible leasing space that the American Tobacco Campus guys are rolling out should be a big boon as well.
I definitely cannot say enough good things about Weebly.

It is so nice to see technology that allows users that have no knowledge of Content Management, CSS, HTML, and other web technologies to create clean standards compliant web sites. I have recommended Weebly to almost everyone who comes to me with the statement "I have a great idea for a website!" (Note: almost all of these were not startup, money-making sites.)

Some of the sites that I've seen built with Weebly can easily compare with professional custom developed sites that cost people thousands of dollars.
First time I hear about Enso, anyone already bought something from them?
Let us not forget about the great skill our minds have at making connections between things which many not actually be true.

Just as startuprules points out that while many in the US are thinking that they have big brother looking over them, when they are compared to China they realize that it is mostly just their imagination.

What I find most interesting is how many of us would say we are part of the problem? So if it affects everybody, but we're not a part of it, does it really affect everybody.

Also, lets not forget about the drop in things like tv ratings, where a big show in the 80's was 10s of millions of people, and a big show today has a much smaller viewership.

We still think everybody is watching American Idol (or whatever) because it's everwhere, but in reality, it seems very few are actually watching or even taking an interest.
Why can’t Europe get to a billion?
I have better automation facilities on Unix-like servers than I can have on Windows. Configuration replication is rather easy. My colleagues here manage 1000+ Linux servers with a homemade solution based on Puppet and Fabric and can deploy a server from power-up to ready-to-go in a couple minutes.

If you can read Portuguese, they did a very good presentation at FISL in Brazil a couple days back.

http://ignofisl.ig.com.br/2010/07/22/material-da-palestra-so...
Maybe you don't see them because the Android's battery is dead, so the phone is still in their pocket.
It's a test. see if you can find the secret raid board!
You have 3 years to get ramen profitable with BizSpark without spending a penny. Yes, it's a ticking time bomb in one regard, but if just getting to ramen profitable is your first goal the cost of the MS platform is not your obstacle.
I'm guessing (hoping) it wouldn't be sustainable otherwise.

I think that's a massive understatement. As I understand it half the population is starving.
Be very careful though that you don't misinterpret what I said to mean that there is no value whatsoever in your English major. While over the course of a career you may draw on that experience - the same way, for example I draw on my military experience - more than anything else, what got you employed in this field was your CS minor, and what keeps you employed is your wealth of experience.

Being a good communicator is a bonus, but - sadly perhaps - I've never seen anyone get hired for their communications skills alone.
Without knowing anything about Facebook's Q&A plans, beyond your screenshot, let me put these two thoughts out:

* First, the screenshot makes me believe these Q&A questions would be posted to your wall, rather than a dedicated Q&A environment. I could easily be wrong, but if this is the case then their Q&A would be no different from just posting a question to your own wall, since most people have their privacy settings limited to only show wall posts to friends. This limits the amount of input on any given question.

* If the above is incorrect, then I still have certain qualms about associating my personal identity (in the form of a Facebook profile) with certain content I might put online, and Q&A sites can ask questions on which I may not want my opinion to be associated with my personal identity. For instance, if I were to come from a family who enjoys hunting for sport, I may not want to come out swinging too hard against it if that content were to be easily associated with my by my family. My family may know my stance on the issue, but to make it a public on Facebook could have certain liabilities (let's say my father and I have a mutual friend who is a hunting buddy of his). I think that without a certain amount of anonymity, broad spectrum Q&A is limited by certain predispositions and security concerns.

Pre-emptive rebuttals:

* Yes, I use my own name on Hacker News, but I imagine I'm not the only Tom Stratton in the world and you can't necessarily correlate my identity here with my personal identity like you could with Facebook. Also, if I have something particularly sensitive I want to say, I can make a second account to express those opinions.

* I realize that sites like StackOverflow have a lot of users that use their real names as their username, and have a lot of personally identifiable information associated with their accounts, even listed on their profiles. To that I say that sites like StackOverflow are narrow range topics, and (at least some of) the users there are in it at least partially to show off their skills, and most information they put on that site is positive (helping answer a question) rather than incendiary. Even the incendiary topics are typically just semi-trivial religious wars about things like "vi vs. emacs."
Wikileaks To Leak 5000 Open Source Java Projects
(the other author here)

In addition to what Steve said, this particular "feature" is really just the very beginning for us. Our ideas about what query-able version control mean go way beyond the ability to select arbitrary sets of commits based on commit meta data. We want to be able to do higher order queries. For instance:

For each line of code written by Johnny what is the average life span of a line of code.

Basically how lasting on average are lines of code written by a particular developer. You could combine this query to be only on a particular subgraph forest of the repository (for instance a branch, or commits this quarter). These types of queries are aggregation queries, however there are other classes of queries we would like to support as well. See some of the papers we wrote on scribd for more details. We will be writing a another post soon covering our vision for version control query.
I'm sorry, but this isn't completely true. (The part about burglars not using lock picks).

I am an amatuer locksmith, and I can open Masterlock No. 3 or No. 5 (which are used everywhere) incredibly quickly (less than 10 seconds, typically [especially on No. 5, which are horrible).

A half diamond pick and a torsion wrench are tiny, I can keep them in my pocket and nobody will ever notice... I can't do this with a huge bolt cutter.

Now, do I steal things? Absolutely not. Has getting into picking caused me to be much much more careful about what I lock up, where, and with what? definitely.

I'm all for locksports, I think the fact that people are getting into picking is awesome, but the idea that using a bolt cutter against a padlock is faster and more conveinient than using a pick is just plain wrong.
There is no mandatory unscheduled downtime. Pure FUD. I install updates when I want and if I wanted, without downtime with some basic load balancing.
Like the name =)
No matter what the quality of your VM, if you're going to have several IO hits versus only the one where the VM (even a crappy one) pages the data in or out just once you will always be faster in a scenario like phk describes.

Doubling or even quadrupling your IO operations is very expensive.

In a situation such as the one for which this article is meant you set things up in advance to never get in to a situation where you start trashing your disk, programs are allocated a fixed amount of memory and if a program does not abide by that it is considered faulty.

The trashing situation you describe can happen on machines that are run with less rigid setups, but on a production server that you count on serving up a few billion files every day you can't afford the luxury of random scripts firing off CRON and other niceties like that.

Custom kernel, very limited set of processes that you know are 'well behaved', as predictable as possible.
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"Haskell on Horseback" would have more of a ring to it.
Interesting.

and all the tracking features

What do they track? The kids' progress through the grades?
Twiddla is built on the MS stack, as is everything else we do here at Expat.

People who build things with upcoming tech tend to mention it because it's novel. And unfortunately a few of those upcoming technologies don't handle load particularly well so you get to hear a lot about them as a result of them falling down.

So yeah, you don't hear about Microsoft stuff for the same reason you don't hear people talking about PHP or Java. It just plain works and always has, so there's no story.
I have an EVO. I read tech books on it with Kindle for Android. If my screen were any smaller, the code samples (which are images and don't scale like the text) would be too small to read.

So for me, screen size is a feature. It opens up possibilities and has definitely increased my productivity on the device and my satisfaction with it.
A linked list is hard to compress in memory as the overhead is the metadata: pointers, malloc overhead, ... but when written on disk can be represented as prefixed length strings.

With VM the live representation and serialization format are the same.
I've only tried NoRM and I liked it. I liked that they were working on full LINQ support, but I'm not sure where that ended up since Conery no longer contributes to the project and that was his thing.
Thanks for putting this together, you're definitely qualified, and i like what i've read. In case I end up jumping ship, do you prefer light or dark beer? (Also would you consider discounts for students with .edu email ?)

I've been very careful to not use any of the book's code in any of my presentations. I only use the book as exercises for the students, and to server as a content template for what order to teach materials.

They donated free pdf books to all .edu students in the class, so i don't think they would sue me...hopefully...
Agreed but it was probably the 9/10 part, as that makes it a personal dig at many here. The reality is that it is a fashion item for many people. I think if you're in the tech community you may think everybody has one but they don't and many that do have it to show off. Even if everyone around you does have one, that doesn't mean it can't be a fashion item; no different than "keeping up with the Jones'".
It's just names and URLs. You're overreacting.
Sponsored as in just the site hosting per the press release, or actually paying Rich and gang full time to work on it?
Well, I came to HN through pg's writing, and part of my enjoyment was the confirmation of my distrust/dislike of MS. So I'm guessing that self-selection plays a large role here. That said, I think open source has great benefits for a startup, but you've got to weigh that for yourself.
Most M.A.s in humanities disciplines take two years, although many students stretch it to three; PhDs take somewhere between five and ten. Ten is the median for English PhDs and many others these days, according to Louis Menand in The Marketplace of Ideas (http://www.amazon.com/Marketplace-Ideas-Resistance-American-...):

"People who received their PhDs in English between 1982 and 1985 had a median time to degree of ten years. A third of them took more than eleven years to finish, and the median age at the time of completion [BREAK] was thirty-five. By 1995, 53 percent of those with PhDs that had been awarded ten to fifteen years earlier had tenure; another 5 percent were in tenure-track positions. This means that about two fifths of English PhDs were effectively out of the profession as it is usually understood (146).

He goes on:

"It was plain that [by the 1980s] the supply curve had completely lost touch with the demand curve in American academic life" (147), at least as far as PhDs are concerned.

The point about careers in "humanities" are well taken.

I think the OP's sister has taken a really unusual route.
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I'd say 50% of the shops in Israel are Microsoft based (.NET, VS C++).

The remaining 40% are Java.

Python has a sizable, but still small community.

Tiny Ruby-on-Rails community.

And Erlang ... I think I'm the only full-time Erlang developer in Israel (oops I moved temporary to Sweden).
>I know it's hard to believe, but there are people who legitimately enjoy finding the exact right word.

Absolutely. There is an appropriate time and a place for such an exercise, however, and having the cognizance of when and where is useful.

>This is like trashing someone for working on an open source project - they're just doing something they love the best they know how.

I don't think it's anything like that. The submission is about a person who had purportedly been sending out thousands of resumes with nary a bite. Their angle is not "Clearly I'm doing it wrong", but they instead resort to the tried and true "everyone but me is stupid" angle. I don't patronize that thought process because it's the hubris of failure.
Your first point jumped out at me too. A Rosary is a natural gift for Confirmation, First Communion, Baptism, Wedding... It's also not a bad gift as a Mother's Day present or an anniversary present. The SEO opportunities are pretty substantial. I feel the gift angle is not to be overlooked. I have a collection of them in my night table and never purchased a single one for myself.
While medications can help, they are short term solutions. Psychotherapy is a longer term solution and can help resolve the issue in a few years time.
Hey mhartl...love that this is finally done.

One suggestion I have though, is I feel like you are giving away too much on the site.

One point of interest is that I can just simply press 'view all as single page' and then do a Print to PDF and have everything in one nice PDF.

Granted, I am sure the official version looks MUCH nicer, but there isn't THAT much difference between the crude version and your version - in terms of content.

So one suggestion might be disabling that function. Allow users to be able to see all the chapters and everything, and even if they want to print it all out, they could still do it chapter by chapter, but that is a huge hassle.

Also, if you did that, I would love to know what impact it had on sales (if any) :)

Hope that helps.
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http://nonoba.com as well, which is where http://player.io came from.
I think there is no denying that (on top of being a very useful gadget) the iPhone is a status symbol for many; regardless of how many have it.
I must be looking at the wrong list, where was Apple Computer, Inc.?
Varnish tries to limit the filesystem overhead as much as it can.

By only having the one file so the number of system calls for a read or a write is '1', no need to juggle file descriptors (which you really really need for your sockets, not for the file system in most varnish setups).

Having 'small' objects clustered together is a good idea anyway, but you can do that in a big file just as easily as you could do it in multiple smaller files.
My public speaking skills were awful

As are everyone's first time they lecture. At least from my experience, second time is a ton easier/better.
Everyone has one, there isn't much status to that

I don't think scarcity is a prerequisite to fashion. See those big sun glasses. Many people had them but I would consider that a "fashion statement".

I do agree with having the phone out. I feel a bit pretentious when I have my phone out on a table/bar, but with the ability to check email/text/wiki/web and the fragility of the devices there is little reason not to.
I think he's focusing on all the hardships instead of why he's doing it in the first place. Working at a startup is a choice.
"Smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during a hydrogen bomb blast." --Ronald Reagan
One of the more striking points of this article (for me) was not so much about lockpicking. It was this statement:

"Some lockpickers observe a code of responsible disclosure
by providing manufacturers information on weaknesses they
discover in locks they defeat -- just like responsible computer
hackers do when they detect security flaws in software."

I'm thrilled to see a statement like this coming from the mainstream media.
I'm not sure what the pricing is yet, but I put in an inquiry.
Enso has spent the last few months continually claiming to be shipping their products despite a disheartening lack of actual customers claiming to have received their preordered products. Their products are precariously balanced between scam and vaporware status. A quick search for "enso zenpad scam" and "zenpad review" will show what I mean.
They also put considerable resources into PR considering all the puff pieces out there on them.

And, right, let's look at a sample size of one to find out if trolling pays! Brilliant!
It's Not 'Word of Mouth' If You Have to Pay People to Promote Your Movies
Better late than never.

The course I used was this one:

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I'm sure there are many like it, but this one was well done and taught me the basics of this type of meditation.
Thanks for the feedback, and I appreciate your concern. I'll consider removing the link you mention, but I'm not too worried about the scenario you describe. The PDF resulting from "Save as PDF" is total crap; for instance, there is no source code syntax highlighting, and none of the cross-reference links work—it's not even remotely as nice as the PDF available for purchase. Plus, most people don't even notice the "view as single page" link you mention. ;-) Finally, I personally love that link, and I want other people to have the convenience of a single-page view, too. Among other things, it makes searching the book a breeze, rendering an index unnecessary, even if you don't buy the PDF.
I want to see this on the Clojure website. Also, what kind of sponsorship are they providing ? 2 servers ?
Ahhh... That was the sigh of vindication after reading this post and confirming my opinion of Steve Yegge.
Christ, this guy never ceases to amaze. His talk at I/O a couple years ago was absolutely fantastic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BttI-y9VzXQ
I've found "Inside the Machine" by Jon Stokes to be quite a good read, though it's a bit dated by now (published 2006)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1593271042/
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"bumping or other destructive technique"

Bumping is non-destructive.
Having been in a couple of startups, I can say the powerful emotional connections are certainly there. But with a burn rate and competition, there is an urgency that can drive the team.

And as a long-time programmer, I can testify to the fact that there are tasks that often have a very long restart cost--thus, it is compelling to keep working long into the night.

But then again, I grew up on a wheat farm, and in the summer, particularly during harvest, you worked until the grain was damp from the evening, and started in again as soon as the sun evaporated the dew. 100 hour weeks were the norm. This schedule was necessary, because your income comes in during a 21-day to four week period, and if that september storm is early, you lose a significant fraction of your crop and thus your yearly income. For a time, my dad also had irrigated land. This required resetting the flow, and the best he could do for sleep was to set up a four-hour flow, max.

I have an uncle, now retired, who raised cows. During February, he pretty much slept in the barn, as there was not much you could control about when the calves would drop. Pretty demanding when the temperature was 20 or 30 below.

These childhood experiences have probably damaged my ability to sync with this modern non-agricultural perspective. To me, the artificial idea of a "job" is still kind of amusing.

But from a team-building perspective, useful for non-solo startups, I think this can be useful and often productive.