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> I don't know what would be the appropriate way to worship such a person, maybe a little altar or something?

Whats with the snarky condescending remark?

Why does someone needs to be either dead or have world shattering contribution to humanity for others to appreciate their contribution or even existence?

I didn't even know this guy until recently, but I just went through some of his writing and (to me) it showed a person with creativity who put a lot of effort in his work and some people really appreciates that. And this small group of people who liked his work wants to put aside one day to celebrate his contribution. So they had an option between selecting a random day or a day that this person stopped his online persona.

Let them celebrate, you don't have to be a dick about it.
I back up several times a day, automatically. I've run RAID arrays for years with no problems, but all drives eventually fail. An SSD is internally a RAID0 that can be up to 16 wide (that's how they get their performance). Used and managed properly (including proper backup and recovery), RAID0 works very well with good quality drives. If you have noise problems, then you likely have vibration issues that will shorten the life of your drives. I use anti-vibration mounts for all hard drives, and I hear my (quiet, anti-vibration mounted) fans more than I hear my drives. I also spin down the backup drives when they are not in use, so they add no additional noise.
Well, ELO has been proved useful in various domains (it's used to evaluate product quality in the agroalimentary industry for instance), and compared to various rating systems in different sports. So you can't actually say that "it has never really been demonstrated that Elo ratings are more accurate than other approaches would be."
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The freemium model pertinence depends indeed on the free user cost. A service for which the cost in minimal (i.e. no support, low bandwidth or storage needs,...) for free users, could benefit from it as a marketing tool.

The perceived added value for paying users should be significant, obvious and justify the fee.
This. People will jump on anything with the promise of "free" cash.
They solve the problem of saying something when you have nothing to say, and making it more socially acceptable (and easier) to brag about where you are going and what you are doing.
Except potentially all those photos will be crap and then you'll end up with a really mediocre photo selling website and business will scarred for life.
knowing where people are physically is a usefull info.

this is no game. it is big stuff, close to the localisation trend. very linked to mobile world obviously. google/twitter/facebook are all going in the localisation in order to get data closer to the user. They are more likely to be relevant to them.

possible usage scenarios

"where are my friends"

"i like this personn, oh this personn is going there, oh i dunno this place, maybe i will like this place"

"oh you went to this bar ? i like it too. ask bob the barman to give you one drink on the house, i know him"

obviously once the arch is setup, it is possible to push local store ads on this. It think local-store ads on the internet will be huge, once the arch is setup, so not soon, but in a few years.

The deployment of local ads is slow, because you need to get local stores to actually advertize... and they are not used to it. This is my understanding of it at least. aka "the market is not yet ready".
My university did exactly this. (Supposedly) spent anywhere between £5 mil and £50 mil on a new building; £80,000 on their opening ceremony with lots of local celebrities; and then left all the students with 4 year-old hardware for design/video courses.

I really appreciated the sterile white-washed building for creative courses while attempting to use After Effects on a G5 iMac :|
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A nice compromise would be:

transformations in CSS (display concerns), animations in JS (behavioral concerns)

WebKit went ahead and did both...
Starting and testing new ideas on a regular basis is all well and good until the quality starts to suffer. CompassionPit looked much better and the concept sounded less like it was conceived by the Onion
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I can sort of understand why you would say that in a fremium situation every person who signed up is a customer, but if you make money via ads, your customer is whomever pay you for the ad space - not your users.
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First, the two parts of your advice aren't identical. That is, "something people want" doesn't always mean "something that solves a problem."

Second, you're being overly demanding, I think, even about "solves a problem." We could do a whole song and dance about the human need for fun, but that would be beside the point. When you say "It's fun, but I can live without it," you changed the terms of the whole debate. We started with "solves a problem," but tons of things solve problems and yet you can live without them.

Finally, I'm pretty sure that there is a real category "invented needs" (or "invented desires", if you prefer), and that lots of webapps fall into that category. The existence of the product creates the need (desire) after the fact.
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I had considered this option, but it doesn't really fit with my current plan which is to focus on a specific niche which requires a certain level of quality.

I will be targeting flickr users though as there are some great guys on there, publishing awesome work just for the fun of it.
I agree with the opening sentence. There really are some amazing tech companies doing great things in Australia that don't get enough recognition.

In the last fortnight I've met a couple of these serial tech entrepreneurs including Julian Holman of OurDeal.com.au who have opened up my eyes to an industry I thought I was (mostly) across.
As soon as you stop treating your users as though they are your customers though you'll find out that the users view is a different one. Calling them (or their data) a 'product' as I've seen some people do is really not the proper way to treat people.

If people pay you for ad space then they're your customers too, and will need to be treated as such. But that does not change the other side much. And plenty of companies have a freemium product and ads at the same time.
My 2 cents: Oracle is going to drive Solaris into the ground (and OpenSolaris doubly so).
It's days were already numbered, like all proprietary Unixes, but while before I was betting on Solaris to be the last one standind, now I think it will probably be AIX.
If you are unsure of which to pick, perhaps it's indicative that you're going to have other problems ahead: maybe you should hire someone to advise you and help you out.
Your argument above intersperses merit with missing the mark.

Merit: While it is true that no test can avoid false negatives, it is also true that if the quantity measured by your test is uncorrelated with the phenomenon of interest then your test is neither sensitive nor specific and its PPV and NPV will be poor no matter where you set your decision threshold on the ROC curve.

Absolutely, and all strategies can be evaluated as strategies, on this basis.

Missing the mark: "If you advocate X you should expect to be criticized." How about, if I advocate X, my argument should be criticized? Criticizing me for my words is the ultimate example of making something personal. I can deal with it, but I suggest you ask yourself whether making it about me is also a way of making it about you, getting emotionally invested in it in a way that is not good for you. JM2C, I am not laden down with emotional intelligence, so I can hardly advise you on how to be happy.

Merit: "when you advocate a hiring practice publicly you are making an implicit claim that it has some validity" We agree.

Missing the mark: The implied claim that when I advocate that a strategy has some validity as a strategy, I am also advocating it is a metric. Strategies are not metrics.

Ultimate straw-man example: One strategy for hiring people on a small scale is to hire people you've worked with before in some capacity and have observed performing well. The ultimate reference check!

I suggest that if you don't have a huge requirement for scaling, this can be very effective as a strategy. However, it is trivially easy to demonstrate that this is a terrible metric for evaluating someone's competence.

And no, that isn't personal in any way, shape, or form.

UPDATE: This is a really fruitful line of discussion, so I'm upmodding you. One thing that occurred to me as an example of a strategy that is not a metric is a University Degree. It's a certain kind of evidence of the ability to follow through on something for a few years, it is allegedly evidence that you have been exposed to basic computer science, and so on. I think it's reasonable to value a degree when hiring as part of a larger strategy. However, I don't think it's reasonable to use a degree as a metric for measuring programmers.
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I think there's a serious bifurcation between "tech-savvy, smartphone-using, social (and generally single) twenty- and thirty-somethings with disposable income and time, living in urban centers" and ... everyone else. If you aren't in that first group (I'm not), location-aware apps and social services aren't going to have a lot of utility. But if you live in Brooklyn, work in Manhattan, go out to bars or restaurants with friends two or three times per week, a service like Foursquare could be really useful: "I'm heading to the subway station ... which stop has a higher concentration of my friends at bars? Do I get off in the Village or Chelsea? Oh? Everyone's at Shake Shack? Off I go!" (and so on)
the interest is lower than that, but you have to pay back a loan.

you don't need to pay back funding.
So people respecting someones work is related to cult worship to you? What about the millions of websites on the internet dedicated to some Hollywood actress or rapper? Are they also engaged in cult worship? At least _why gave some people some intellectual stimulation as opposed singing yet another overproduced silly song about how rich you are
Oracle is going to drive Solaris into the ground

On what do you base this? Larry is spending more on SPARC and Solaris than McNealy ever did! It's possible that Solaris will become less suited to (for example) HPC over time but for anything related to commercial data processing, including Java and web serving, expect for it to continue to occupy a leading position among the Unixes.
A UI designed by a sane person, instead of the current soup of ancient dialogs, web-like dialogs and shiny dialogs with oddly sized buttons in random places.
Whatever you choose, stay clear of Solaris. Especially OpenSolaris (that's a dead-end).

If you're unfamiliar with both, Linux systems are easier to get used to, in my experience.
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You can probably reuse some of the heat for the washing up. And perhaps even some of the water.

I've heard that glass bottles are more convenient to wash, because you can use hotter water. (That's from a reliable source --- a visit to a beverage bottler on their open day.)
Of course.

The point isn't that the market somehow "creates" wealth. The point is that it efficiently allocates it to business. The latter is what creates wealth.
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Sure I can live without most things that solve a problem, but that's not the point. I want to understand if there's some added value for the users, why would they start (and continue) using it in the first place. Jerome_etienne gave a good answer, but you also made a good point with the "invented needs". On the other hand, I'm not sure that can last for more than a couple of years on its own. Users flock to the next hot thing all the time.
If someone erases their total contribution to the web in response to a bunch of stalking and closes all doors and avenues through which you can reach him that counts as a very powerful signal to me that he would like the whole thing to go away.

I could be wrong in that, maybe that's not his intention but it certainly feels that way to me.
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This brings new meaning to the expression "don't sell yourself short".
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None of your requirements, at least when they're as unqualified as they are, can help you to pick an OS.

Ask yourself where your bottleneck will be, then ask yourself if the OS is going to make any difference there. The answer is very likely no.

No modern OS is going to give you any significant performance/cost advantage over another in serving regular web apps. Most of your trouble will be in setting it up and maintaining it, so go ahead and pick whatever you're most comfortable, or, if you're not comfortable, ask someone who are (and that you trust).

Also, don't pick CentOS, unless you need RH compatibility.
This rings true. Sadly.
What you say here makes sense, but I'm not the one who brought up "living without" things; you did, in your original question. I agree that the real focus should be on why people flock to these things, but in that case, you answered your own question: it's fun (you said). The value is the fun.

As for not lasting or people flocking to the next hot thing, that sounds about right to me for many faddish things that you find and play with on the internet, no?
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> Whats with the snarky condescending remark?

It's only snarky and condescending because you pull it out of context.

> Why does someone needs to be either dead or have world shattering contribution to humanity for others to appreciate their contribution or even existence?

There are 365 days in a year, and this particular person has at least in my opinion clearly indicated that he no longer wants to be part of the whole thing and would like it all to stop.

Continuing the _why saga appears to be in direct opposition of what the prime entity in this whole thing wants, so how could that be celebrating it?
Why not CentOS? what would you recommend then?

I saw that oracle are really emphasizing how their OS has much higher performance than linux I wondered if its correct or if their benchmarks are good:
http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/b...
http://jp.sun.com/solutions/infra/eda/pdf/solaris-linux.pdf

So I wondered if i'm missing some tens of percents in performance by not choosing Sun Solaris...
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Would you trust Facebook's algorithms for this? Facebook still tries to suggest I care about distant friends' Farmville updates.
You can't compare Martin Luther King day and whyday -- whyday is clearly meant to be a more localised celebration (local to ruby community, or programming community).
This is a poorly conceived article.

Yes, the market has some of the properties of a zero-sum game. But it deviates from this in so many different ways that are obvious (and not addressed in the paper) that you can only conclude the writer is trying to push a biased viewpoint.
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Wow, what a great, comprehensive overview of what can be done with a netbook. I may have to look into utilising mine more.

I mainly use mine for web surfing when I can't be bothered using my main machine (duh) and also to download large files overnight. Sometimes I leave it on for a week at a time. Tip: put your netbook on top of a radiator, which draws the excess heat away from the underside of the netbook. (Obviously the radiator has to be turned off.) My Dell Mini 10V tends to get really hot if I don't.

Here's a great list of classic old PC games you can play on a netbook:

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Google "netbook games" for further inspiration.
So how come many "big" companies are using solaris with much success?
I think there is this huge gap between which startups are covered all the time in the tech-savy press and which ones actually (will) matter for most 'regular' people medium-to-long term. Being a 'media-darling' and getting lots of buzz IMHO doesn't correlate with serious adoption beyond SF bay and Boston/NYC. Generally speaking, I think solving regular peoples' problems could be more worthwhile than pandering to early-adopters. I don't think they necessarily have the same problems.
A year later, I'm still bitter about this.

There are very few people I've ever admired as much as this guy. He had a fantastic attitude towards programming, absolutely one of a kind.

If he had to sacrifice that for the sake of his real life, I could accept that. But if he really wanted privacy, he could have just stopped participating and let himself fade into obscurity.

Instead, he threw a tantrum and nuked all his sites. He didn't want privacy, he wanted to drop a big drama bomb on everyone. He's not the first person I've known to pull the disappearing act and it's not something I admire or want to celebrate, it's just jeuvenile and petty.
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How do you know that is the reason he erased his presence on the internet? As far as I know that is pure speculation.
This was covered pretty extensively a week ago, although no one commented on it then:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1599523 : USA Today

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595995 : Hack Education

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1595526 : Philly.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1592416 : Huffington Post
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> Greek shipbuilding was probably on its way to China anyways (just like US steel making, and uncounted other

It doesn't have to be that way. Japan has some of the highest labour rates and expensive electricity. It has to import both iron ore and coal. Yet it is home to the very profitable steel mill: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Steel
oh ffs, take your scary boogy man bullshit elsewhere. Unless of course you'd like to cite some proof of this army of scary "terrorists" (stupid word btw) that is so large they have time to probe every possible vulnerability. And while you're looking that up, please bring with you research on why they haven't managed to do anything with the countless holes we have everywhere [1].

[1] One glaring example is the ocean ports. Did you know something like 1 out of every 100 containers is actually checked? I believe that was at the request of Walmart, among others. They must be working with the "terrorists"!!!
I'd define a "well-behaved dog" as "a dog that doesn't bother me all the time", in which case most cats are well-behaved.
"A leading position among the Unixes" is sort of like "a leading horse-buggy manufacturer" isn't it?

I don't see it "running into the ground" - people will be using it for many years in the future. However, the supply of people picking it for new projects probably just dried up quite a bit. People will 'grow up' knowing how to work with Linux, because that's what they tried at home, at school, what they learned on the job, and what their friends know. Those network effects mean that it'll mostly be sensible to keep switching to Linux over time, gradually, unless Solaris suddenly sprouts something that makes it a must-have, which I don't see.
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"a leading position among the Unixes": that's the position that it already occupied: the biggest fish in a rapidly drying pond.
The killer combo of free Unixes on commodity (read x86) hardware cannibalized the proprietary Unix market. Where that trajectory will lead has been obvious for quite some time now.
Sun's measures to try to make Solaris survive that were a) port to x86 architecture and b) open source the OS. Jump out to a bigger pond, in other words.

Oracle's strategy with Solaris is going to be to squeeze every last penny from it, and when it dies it dies. Killing OpenSolaris and making it clear that open source releases of the code base will be done only "at some point" after the commercial release are just the beginning of that.

They will push Solaris in the same places where they currently push Oracle DB. Those places tend to be of very little interest to 99% of the HN croud. Java and web serving are not the kinds of things that justify stratospherically overpriced software licenses...

As for SPARC, I seriously doubt they will pour significant money into it. Trying to compete with x86 is akin to setting $100 bills on fire at this point. They will no doubt keep the Sun brand alive and use it to sell x86 based machines (which is the strategy Sun itself started of course).
With the persona he had created I think it would've been sadder to watch it fade into obscurity rather than go out with a bang.
We punish him for disappearing the way he did by celebrating his impact and work.
Brief statement by Pollenizer on this;

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Oh, so everyone has to be registered in the system?
This would be a lot better if it was some sort of gift app. You pay someone to call your friend and the caller tells your friend that <name of the person who paid for this> thinks you're a really great friend and an awesome person.

This has its downsides as well but, in my opinion, it's a lot better than some kind of self help service which might make people feel even worse.
They provide entertainment. They don't solve any problem, unless you consider the search for entertainment to be a problem.
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In general, when you are single there is a very low cost and high desire to go to where your friends are when living in an urban area, but as you move on to getting married and having kids (and in a lot cases moving away from dense urban areas) the cost keeps increasing and the desire decreases.
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Considering that Microsoft just announced they're going to be licensing ARM cores, maybe they're realizing Intel isn't going to work for future mobile devices.
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The Momentus XT seems to be a good compromise (4GB SSD that caches frequently used parts of a normal HD).

I know a couple of friends with them, and they say that applications load vastly faster, and their machines also boot faster.

It doesn't help with sustained throughput, but that's not normally a problem.
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