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When he started on about the key combinations at the end, I was convinced he was about to give us the origin of Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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How do you do it? Email? Telephone? I'm legitimately interested, my negotiation skills are weak.
I can confirm too. A few months ago when Facebook pushed to convert everybody's "likes & interests" into "Like <page>" things, I initially agreed to it, to see what happened. What started happening was that my News Feed began to fill up with spammy events/messages being pushed out from all the things I Like-d. Bands, movies, books, TV shows, etc. The problem was it became much harder to see "real" events/activities from the people I was connected to, friends and coworkers, etc. So I went in and de-Liked all of it.
See: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/huawei-to-unveil-new-google...
I will be interested in Appleseed when the protocol is codified - which is not yet, according their documentation.

The real problems with all this stuff is conceptualizing exactly how distributed social networking system should work is actually a really hard problem. I would like to see a description of what the best solution is. That is more important than some set of code that supposedly solves the problem according to someone's concept, which they don't or can't explain.

I mean, for Diaspora or Appleseed or any similar effort to work, they have to have a network effect. And this involves, besides having it work, telling people why they should use it, why they should run servers with it, and why it will work.
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In my opinion, Bundler deprecates the need--or at least the need in most cases--to use gemsets. They are still a great feature to give you great control over exactly which gems are installed for testing purposes, but once you switch your applications to using Bundler, there's rarely a need to keep each project in its own gemset.

What Bundler does is establish a container for all gems (and ONLY those gems) that your application needs to run. This is much like an automatic, application-specific gemset.

It also solves the difficult problem of resolving your applications dependencies, locking your gems to a particular set of dependencies to assure consistency across environments and deployments. This is a very critical feature and really showed its ugly head when Rails 2.3.8 was released. Users suddenly found their projects breaking because one gem would load the latest version of activesupport installed on their system (e.g. activesupport-2.3.8) while Rails would require exactly version 2.3.5. Bundler solves this problem by determining that 2.3.5 is the correct dependency and locks the application to only load that version.

It is exactly because of this feature that gemsets are now rarely needed. A large repository of gems will no longer cause you pain and hassle, as Bundler will pick and choose (or install) whichever gems you need to run the project. No more manual management of gemsets. Hooray!
My notes:

* Large number of startups

- Startups in general do better than any individual startups
* Nothing to Lose
* Desperate
- Makes you try crazy things
* Poor
- Makes you do things yourself
* Do many things
- More ideas produce more good ideas, even if each idea has no better chance of being good
* Don't need to prove something is a good idea before trying it
- All really good ideas seem stupid at first
- If they didn't, someone else would be doing it already
- Suggests giving "Get out of jail free" cards to let employees
* Get all the benefits of your work
- Otherwise, full downside but minimal upside
- Risk is proportionate to reward; keeping risks low also keeps rewards low
* Motivation, in increasing order of effectiveness
- Aiming for acquisition
- Fear of failure
- Play a practical joke on the world
I was being snarky, but, AdSense payouts are trending endlessly downward as far as I can tell, and that scares investors. At least it should.
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As a wise man once said, "Change your apps name. Not that big of a deal."
I'm wondering if Facebook will allow for an Instant Personalization partner to ask the user to opt-in before accessing the data. I love the idea of making things more fluid for those who want it, but I worry that this is the type of service that will alienate as many as it will endear.
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I had a related post on this a while back (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436719), but I have a Django app (http://www.trendero.com/home) that I'd like to move to a cloud hosting service. It's currently hosted with RackSpace, which is great but hundreds of dollars a month, and its traffic is such that I think it would be far cheaper (well under $100/month) on a cloud service.

I dig App Engine but am told that switching there would require a substantial rework of the Django models. I'm not a developer, so I'll need either (i) help (my offer of free legal work for help, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436719, still stands!) or (ii) another option.

Do you have a favorite cloud hosting service for Django apps? Any thoughts re: costs, switching, etc?

Thanks!
You can actually say `reversed(iterable)`, which returns another iterable yielding everything backwards. Now, this is not returning a string, which leads to some warts:

* list(reversed(a_list))
* "".join(reversed(a_str))

and the like.
From your description in another comment, it seems like you've used 'status feed' when the more appropriate term is 'news feed.' As far as I can tell you're not saying that the companies can post public statuses; you're saying they show up in your personal news feed. There's a big difference.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
This is one of those articles where any discussion thread about it will lead to the sharp knives coming out between the Pythonistas and the Rubyists. The languages are so close in so many ways, and yet so different, that it is bound to happen.
About sleep: I recently read that the typical American gets about 6.5 hours of sleep per night and that most people need about 8.

Over the last year-and-a-half, I've averaged 7.5 hours of sleep although I do best with 8. On weeks where I average 7 hours of sleep per night, I notice a decrease in thinking speed.
That should be rule number one, actually.
The author misspelled MacBook :(
If your concept of "politics" extends to corporate soap operas and "which tech industry company do we like right now", I'm with you.
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Virtualenvwrapper gives you per-VENV postactivate hooks that do the same thing.
I think this is a kind of mythical man-month moment.

Some things can be put together with enough all nighters.

But my hunch is a working distributed social networking system isn't one of them. And the reason is that, like operating systems, databases or sophisticated languages, you can't iteratively improve a badly designed complex system (and working with similar things, I've tried...).

You especially can't do it at 3:00am.

(And unless you've first debugged your design, the chances are your design is bad. Unlike, operating systems, databases or sophisticated languages, there aren't well known patterns for constructed distributed social networking sites... but the problems involved seem at least as hard)
I totally did not notice it was a serif font, and I didn't turn on Readability, either (which I do for most things, especially if some designer tried to make it look cool)
I own it. I still lag on Folklore.
Damn, look at this: "... including a simple UI for selecting applications and 'Switcher Documents' for remembering sets of related applications."

I wish the concept of switcher documents had survived in the greater ecology - that would have been sweet.
This is correct, my mistake. Constantine de-criminalized Christianity, Theodosius made it the official religion of Rome at the Council of Nicea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_I#Nicene_Christianit...
They don't. They both cost 5¢/hr per process. The only difference is, you get 1 'foreground' worker for free (per application), but not any 'background' workers.
so there's this thing called money...
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I will resist the urge to say that your criticism was "relentlessly built".
This is a nice little hack that I'll stick into my toolbox. The comment on the post about turning the workers on and off when needed is interesting as well. The commenter uses less than an hour on average per month using the method. I wonder if it's time consuming to do this though?
Background workers only cost you money (5¢/hour) when they're running. It's prorated to the second. You can avoid running one constantly by using pedro's "autoscaling" branch, meaning you can run a few hours of background processing--which should equate to hundreds or thousands of jobs--every month for a few nickels.

http://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling

Pedro is a Heroku employee, so this use is totally fine by them, although the branch is not officially supported software.

[I'm friends with a few guys there, but I don't work there.]
I wouldn't call it a logo as much as a placeholder for one.
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I doubt it, but, regardless, AOT burns AC power once, on some development PC. JIT/interpretation burns power forever from a tiny LiPoly cell that barely lasts 10 hrs for many people. And with 160k new devices per day, I wonder how many unnecessary tons of CO2 it produces each year?
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Which project are you most interested in, then? Because of all the projects, none really have codified protocols for social networking.

Except possibly OneSocialWeb, which extends XMPP. Is that the project you find most intriguing?
AdMob/Google likely have better targeting algorithms due to amazing amount of data that they posses. Also Google employs army of Machine Learning/Recommendation System engineers, while Apple is just getting in to this field.
What a total dick this article is. Why would fat people be denied going in bikini? Since when we have to all be thin?
Exactly. I'm amazed that people think that Diaspora can accomplish in a few months what Elgg, Appleseed, Onesocialweb, etc. etc. have all been working on for YEARS.

Especially when considering that these are being developed by professionals with industry experience, and Diaspora is four college kids.

We all want to hear the story of the intrepid engineers working in their parents garage and changing the world, but let's be realistic here.
This discussion really makes me appreciate clojure.
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Are you actually passing around methods in Ruby and, if so, why? As I've pointing out in the past (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141245), passing around methods is very rare in Ruby due to the flexibility of Procs.
Isn't this flawed in that it ignores Bayes' theorem? The "object was a UFO" conclusion from the video is a good example of this. As compelling as the evidence is for that hypothesis, it's still virtually certain to be untrue.
It's free?
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Also look at the Nipple-mouse. (The IBM Track Point thing on Thinkpads). It's placed so your fingers don't have to leave the home row.
Is there any one-time $1 cost that companies advertise? I can't think of one.

I would say that one-time $1 products are in almost all cases unadvertisable. It's an economically inefficient use of advertising space. The best case scenario when someone sees his ad is a payoff of $0.70. That's the ceiling for the value of the an ad impression, and in reality it's pretty much guaranteed to be far, far lower.

Compare that to, say, advertising a car, where the payoff of a conversion may be several thousand (in profit). Sure, the conversion rate won't be as high because it's so expensive, but the potential pay-off is so much higher that it doesn't matter.

The only ads I can see for products that cheap are consumables (like gum). There's a reason for that. Unless the ad space is seen by a niche that's incredibly likely to buy your product (yet for some reason not already own it), there are other companies that can get much more value out of that ad space, which means that there are companies willing to pay more for it than the revenue it will get you.
Both Jobs and Gates tried to snare him with the same fallacy. It was easy for him to do because he was very good/had insider knowledge so he shouldn't be paid that much for it. Wrong.

What really mattered was how much it was worth to Microsoft or Apple and especially that it was worth a good bit to both. Picture Scotty asking if that's worth somthin' t'ye or shd'aye just punch up clear?
Whoever owns that better keep an eye out behind them. I wouldn't touch a startup or project that had any hint of a social media platform and included the name face and/or book until that whole TeachBook thing gets sorted out.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/upstart-attacks-fac...

Maybe I'm just a wuss.
Now all I want is a Radiolab or Astronomy Cast style podcast that covers a single topic and a Savage Lovecast style Q&A podcast and my listening is sorted for years :-)
Show them you are ol'school and go with a fax.
> In my limited experience negotiating on fees for programming or selling software I've heard this line a few times. "You seem like a really good programmer, that program probably would have only taken you say 2 days, times that by an average hourly rate and thats the rate I'm willing to pay for the program and all source code".

Bzzt - "really good programmers" aren't paid an "average hourly rate" - they're paid an absurdly high hourly rate.

You've got to be willing to walk away, to call their bluff to find another programmer to do what you did for less.

And when they come back, the price is higher because you both know that they don't have as many options as they thought that they had before. (Alternatively, they've admitted that the options that they were using to beat you down don't exist.)
"facebook" being a generic term was created as so after Facebook existed. Which is a reason you aren't going to find it in Websters.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/facebook
That isn't the assertion though. The assertion is that he shouldn't be able to charge whatever he wants.
This is very frightening news. Even if I did want this feature at all (I don't), I would still be extremely concerned that some site that I might wind up on will capture any personally identifiable about me when I really don't want them too.

Hopefully this link is lacking in some critical details in regards to seurity and privacy. It's one thing if I put info into a particular site, but very not cool if other sites can basically ask about me and get information back.
If you mean Mark, I don't think he is.
If you build on any platform that you don't control (which every software developer does), you can be cut off. The question is whether or not Facebook has a history of doing this. I'm not aware of one.

A platform becoming your competitor is fair game, and doesn't imply they will do anything sneaky like making their platform any less accessible to you. Microsoft is in the Operating System business, but MS Office is a fair competitor to other office suites that run on Windows.

I understand the concern about Facebook though, because they aren't (yet) a platform like Windows is. Microsoft started out making the platform, and then built some nice user facing applications to go on top of it. MS Office uses the same OS system calls that are available to every Windows developer.

Facebook started out as a user facing product (facebook.com) and then pushed down into the stack. The issue with that is that facebook.com and other Facebook products are based on leaky abstractions. They don't just sit on top of the Facebook platform. They can do things with the social graph that no 3rd party application can do. This is where Facebook can have an unfair advantage, and why people are worried about building on top of them.

The good thing is that Facebook is working on sealing off the abstraction barrier between their platform and their products. Look at the evolution of their API's. MUCH better social applications are going to pop up once we can all build the same user-facing products that Facebook can build. The great thing is that it's in their best interest. Facebook is much more powerful as Windows than as MS Office.
A lot of it is fundamentals, stuff that would still apply if every search engine were wiped out in a plague and were replaced with clean-room substitutes. Stuff like using semantic html as much as possible, using sensible text for urls and hyperlink text, ensuring the most useful content shows up with javascript/images/css turned off, ensuring important links can be reached other than through search, etc.
I still choose to be optimistic. Not getting my hopes up, but I'm still excited to see what they come up with.
How much money have they lost on MSN?

http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/10/ho...

Microsoft has $36 billion in cash. They could loose 1/2 billion on Windows Phone 7 for 72 year and still not run out of cash.

That's why they could buy a company (Danger), have a ton of developers work for quite a long time on Kin and then throw the whole project away and shrug it off.
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This was 1955, 10 years after the second world war. A lot of GI's with shell-shock and PTSD had come home and started families. Most of this reads as a pop guide to treating PTSD. Speaking in a low voice, avoiding clutter and stress is exactly the right thing to do.
FWIW, it has been months since facebook's privacy settings made headlines. I think anyone that cares should have and likely has adjusted their privacy settings to keep unwanted information out. That, or taken the smarter path of keeping things they don't want others to see off of facebook
Wow, just wow. I am amazed by two things 1) How much a jerk both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are and 2) How young the engineers were that started all this...
Mmmmm, smells like MediaMolecule.
We know and so what?

Not only is it in a language that many hackers dislike, but it's a supposedly decentralized social app in a centralized (and, in this context, archaic) SVN repo.
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The models don't enter into it.

You just need to observe the relative carbon isotope levels in the CO2 of the atmosphere. If the CO2 is natural, there'll be a large proportion of C-14 (it's created by interactions with cosmic rays in the upper atmosphere). If it's man made, there'll be a lot of C-12 and 13, since that comes from oil, which has been nowhere near the upper atmosphere for millions of years.

Oh, and there's now enough man-made CO2 in the air that carbon dating is inaccurate for recent things (it tests as really old).
It's weird. We haven't sold any of those in months. Today, I had two orders for rounded rectangles at work.

I'm 99.99% sure it's coincidence and confirmation bias, but some part of me wonders if this story played any part. But, if anyone in the southwest bought a window or glass table in that shape today, I might have played a part in doing the CAD.
True. The other side should always be gracious when it's time for them to give in.
I was thinking command-option-escape (force quit on Mac).
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Oh, There's a Windows Phone 7 now?

For a minute there, I thought the WordPerfect antitrust case had taken a strange turn, given that WP7 shipped in 1996 or so.
I'd consider myself pretty tech-savvy, and I'm still unsure how exactly to do that. The last I heard, I had to individually block each site that I didn't want my data shared with, and the only three I've seen mentioned are Yelp, Pandora, and Microsoft Docs. Is there some place I can monitor for new additions? Or is there a way I can just say, "block all apps by default unless I explicitly enable them?"
I was about to ask if you work for Twitter, but then I read your bio. I like Shopify, all the shops built with it look real slick.
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That has to be the most ridiculous criticism I've ever heard of any project ever.
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The only difference is, you get 1 'foreground' worker for free

That's the differentiation.
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I don't speak the Engrish, sorry. It is whatever you call the big freaking div where Aunt Sally discovered a FarmVille cow and wants to share.
At MWRC 2010 I wandered just outside the auditorium and ran into Wayne. I don't think we'd formerly met before, but we got to chatting and I told him I had played around a bit with RVM, but had some questions/issues.

Holy shit. I got the world's greatest crash course on, not just RVM, but bash scripting as well.

Wayne is not only a really nice guy and fun to hang with, but freakin' smart.

Super congrats on reaching 1.0.0.
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They're not going to block someone they are partnering with

Facebook is a business. They'll do whatever is in their business interests. If it is "block and copy such and such app" and they can do it without significant reputational damage (which is really the only protection YC startups will have), they will do it.
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I strongly and completely disagree. For a supposed next-generation, distributed open source application, language and version control choices are important. There are arguably valid reasons for using PHP, none of which you provided in either of your comments, but there is no excuse for using SVN. SVN has its place, and that place isn't in a project like this.
Sadly, up-and-comer Blekko has other problems with this query, with the top 6 results for [dr laura n-word /news] being the exact same syndicated opinion piece at different newspapers' nearly identically-themed sites.
Lua is a great little language... I only really 'discovered' it a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed what I've seen so far. I don't think it will replace Ruby for me, but I like it's minimal feel for comparison...
I think he's totally right about how to call methods. They just don't feel as first class as they do in JS or Lisp. I don't agree with his criticism of dynamic strings, however. The only time you want immutable strings is when you're not using them as strings. Ruby has symbols for when you need a hash key.
Well, true. But I think that's still a ridiculous assertion though.
Dmitry Chestnykh is the guy who wrote "I Write Like":

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