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The portable crib that I got is the best! It’s so easy to pack along with the rest of our stuff. It’s just like the crib we have at home so our baby can sleep comfortably wherever we go. This crib is just perfect for traveling!
Yup. Google did a lot of eye tracking studies to get the timing & UI right.

But it means that if Yahoo invested in it, they might have had a shot at getting it right.
Some sound advice for tech users, not so useful for corporates and the non-tech savvy.

I always recommend that friends and family use something like sumatra or if they have to, foxit. A large amount of PDF vulnerabilities exist in functionality most people never use. I like the chrome sandbox option but haven't tried it out to see if it's effective.

Most companies can't upload PDFs to Google Docs or use Chrome, and have to use Adobe Reader (as an internally supported but usually unmanaged app). For that reason we normally recommend turning off Javascript, but disabling the plugin in the browser is new to me. Nice.
4chan-lite == reddit??
I thought it was really cool that he did it 5 years ago.
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I am not sure if I want to use coercion to achieve said goal of encouraging small business and entrepreneurship.

I prefer the method of cutting down regulations and coercions put out by government then see if it help small business stack their advantages against big business' disadvantages.

I also dislike favoring anybody, even the little guys.
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YMMV but you need to weight up your current and near term needs versus long term payoff, including the likelihood of exit within your preferred timeframe.

If you genuinely believe that you will exit within a reasonable timeframe because of the company's value and ability to sell at the time, consider the equity.

If you need the cash for day to day, or you have any doubts about whether or not you're going to exit on time (or indeed if at all) then take the cash.

Personally in your situation given it's half a percent and a 10k a year difference, unless that half percent gives you a substantial change in shareholder status (e.g. 50 vs 50.5%) I'd take the cash. It's unlikely that half a percent is going to make more than 10k a year's worth of difference over your company's lifetime, compared to that extra 10k early on.
One nice thing is that if you do get around to some sot of registration it seems to last a really long time. (Downside: You might post links not realizing you are only seeing something because you're signed in with some bogus account).

But otherwise I count on bugmenot to get me in.
This was big news back then... for interface developers. Its popularity influenced a lot of further development (including spurring Google's AJAX Search API, I believe) and established it as a popular paradigm.

But I remember the version of it on Yahoo's then-beta search site, not this more extensive version on AllTheWeb. Here's an example: http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/12/distracting-o...

I guess this was a more limited version of it, but it made a lot of sense to just pop up the most relevant result immediately.
Why do you read the comments on such articles if you know they enrage you?
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I love that I can take a quick glimpse at the comments on an article before deciding whether it's worth spending the time reading.
Does this vary by region? I get no registration wall when I click through, and I haven't registered on nytimes.com. Just tried in another browser I never use, and in Chrome's incognito mode, to make sure I didn't accidentally have a login cookie saved. I'm in the US, fwiw.
Digg's trouble illustrates how the size of a site's audience isn't as important to the bottom line as their quality. (From a marketeer's point-of-view) Digg, reddit, even Facebook have trouble turning a profit despite receiving a huge number of visitors. It's a very significant change from the size-uber-alles orientation of the traditional media.
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Ok, fine, let's assume the data is great.

My original point was that if you want better teachers, you need to pay them commensurate with the value they create. The private sector will generally reward professionals if their service is needed and valuable. If you grant that education is a public good, then it makes sense to pay for good workers. That means taking care of your people while disempowering the union. If you're hostile to the workers they're going to rally around that union, no matter what. You can accomplish more with effective management than with a blanket opposition to teachers being taken care of.
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ooShirts appears to be a fairly direct rip-off of a company I used to work for, CustomInk.com.

Compare: http://www.ooshirts.com/ vs http://www.customink.com/.

Maybe it doesn't take too much money to start up a company that is more or less ripping off another company.

This isn't to say that competition in providing tshirts is a bad thing. But a profile of a company that lavishes praise on the cleverness of starting up an ultralight, while discreetly ignoring that his web application is a page-for-page knockoff of a larger company is fairly disingenuous.

It's possible that the reporter didn't know about CustomInk. But that doesn't excuse Raymond Lei's profiting by stealing the inventiveness of another company.
It looks to me like digg has essentially collapsed. Have you ever seen a front page there with so few comments per post? Each is <50.
In the UK there are two main sources of income for company directors and shareholders: Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Dividends.

You have different tax thresholds so most self-owned directors I know tend to take an amount that leaves a minimum in terms of tax liabilities combined with a healthy fund for tax deductable expenses and so on. The company itself also pays tax, so in some cases it may be preferable to go PAYE as it moves the director's renumeration from profit to operating cost.

Most of the directors I know take between £41k (although I think the combined income/dividend efficient limits are higher this year) and around £60k, and spend anywhere from another 10 to 50k through the company.

Directors I know who are brought in to run companies they don't own tend to get paid over £100k with a bonus.
If by "hacking the traditional value chain and business model", you mean cloning another company's site and calling it his own.
I think there is plenty of other opinionated* people/groups in the Python web developer community to keep the Django community on their toes. For example, Flask which was mentioned in the slides we are currently discussing. Flask is from the same person/group that did Jinja, Werkzeug, and a couple other cool things. Pylons has a good user base and plenty of steam. There is also mavericks like Ian Bicking who wrote Webob and Paste (which Pylons is build on) who prefer the sans-framework approach because it is simple in Python to glue together the various libraries needed for a "framework".

Plus the addition of AppEngine with doesn't play nicely with Django due to BigTable means people look at other solutions.

Also, the Django community, especially some of the core developers do seem to respect the opinions of these other people and groups. I have seen in mailing lists and IRC where core devs agree that Django to a wrong turn here or there, but correcting that turn is a slow process. Overall, I think the philosophy of "Do it right, not right now" is a great one, and it needs to be considered with correcting mistakes.

Opinionated may not be the best term, but it is close. I really mean people that are vocal, that are respected in the community, and groups or projects that great support and communities.

*There are ways to use Django with AppEngine but all have issues. Also, AppEngine now has some sort of SQL support, but I haven't looked into it.
Translation: no fanciful math and CS. Only boring CRUD apps.
Anyone else find the constantly refreshing search results annoying? If so, do you know of any cognitive psychology literature to explain why? I personally find this instant search infuriating and just want my standard old Google search back, where things do NOT change unless I'm mentally prepared for them to change.
Some of my finest code used to be written whilst drunk. I wrote scanners, exploits, all kinds of stuff at company kick-offs and in hotel rooms after nights out.

When you write code for other people to use though, it's best not to get drunk. I think drunk coding is great for hacking, not so good for production code. I'm with hcarmichel, keep it to one or two beers tops.
A nice side benefit for Amazon is that their customers will see the drab packaging only after buying the product. In contrast, customers browsing in the b&m stores of Amazon's competitors will take the less appealing packaging into account before buying.
I find the destruction of written history very disturbing. While the examples given (Library of Alexandria, Yo La Long Dia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq) were dreadful, the worst was the destruction of the written Mayan records by Diego de Landa.

During the mid 1500's, Landa conducted an organized campaign to destroy every single written text in the Mayan language. He was mostly successful - only 3 complete text survive: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_codices
Not really. Personalization, location, etc. affect a lot. I can't find the page I was reading, but it appears that in just running through all the first letters and seeing what is suggested (a is for...) some users are seeing personalized results. And if personalizations are showing up right from character 1, caching results can't really play a big role. Not at the user level anyways; results can certainly be cached further back, but multiple computers will be used just to decide if you deserve personalizations.
This is pretty mentally jaring, I realized how much searching is a process that I had practiced in certain way for long time. In a couple minutes playing with it , I found myself figuring out how to search for something again. I know there are objections to the UI, or whether it actually improves the search results, or whether the speed increase is worth it but just from a mental perspective it has made me realize how the act of searching is wired into my thought process.
The templating engine is around 10 times slower than similar competitors.

The ORM has quite a few failings. Granted I like the API, though the backend code is nothing short of a cluster-fuck.
Two Digg engineers have said on Quora that Cassandra in particular is not the problem (http://www.quora.com/Is-Cassandra-to-blame-for-Digg-v4s-tech...)

"The whole 'Cassandra to blame' thing is 100% a result of folks clinging on to the NoSQL vs SQL thing. It's a red herring.

"The new version of Digg has a whole new architecture with a bunch of technologies involved. Problem is, over the last few month or so the only technological change we mentioned (blogged about etc) was Cassandra. That made it pretty easy for folks to cling on to it as the 'problem.'
If we exterminate the plague, how will we know when the end times are upon us?
If we kill the mosquitoes, and it leads to our downfall, then something will just evolve to fill our place since clearly we weren't well adapted enough...
My son has a iPod touch 8G, and I have an iPhone 3G (also 8G). The iPod touch is by far the more performant of the two - it's almost like a different device. I don't know what goes on in the guts of my iPhone, but I find it surprising on how much computing power it takes to run the cell-phone side of things.
Being a tech driven outfit, we have people that like Macs, like *BSD, like Windows (except Vista, we all hated Vista) and even tinkerers with fringe OSes.

We tried Ubuntu in the workplace for admin staff at the same time as Vista. They preferred Ubuntu to Vista, but really wanted XP.

Because of the mixed environment (and the problems with running mixed Office 2003/7) we moved to OpenOffice. Most people are comfortable with it to a lesser or greater degree, generally those not running Windows do better, but it allows us to do things that we could never do in a sole Windows environment. We keep an Office 2007 licence around in case anyone needs to use .docx etc.

Having said that we're looking at Office 2010 as the split office environment compatibility issues no longer apply and it does look light years ahead of Go-OO.

Google docs is fine for real time collaboration, but Google Talk is essential.

I'd also take business Gmail over Exchange any day. Calendars, Gtalk, Docs, everything. It's just so much better. For us, privacy can be addressed through policy, although that might not apply for everyone.
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Anyone over in Singapore interested? I am keen to start one! :P
>I'm not clear on what what ironic

Brilliant.

(The irony is that you're missing a word in the sentence blurry quoted. And you did it again.)
While I think you're right in that VPN setups make a lot of things smoother,
SSH actually compares pretty well with the first two of your examples.

"Yeah, there is. First, doing it with SSH+keys requires either multi-step (which is annoying, esp. for copying files), or exposing each servers SSH to the net (which might be unfeasible if you don't have public IPs for everything)."

You can work around much of the annoying stuff in multi-step setups by using SSH's ProxyCommand configuration variable. For example, you could have something like this in your local .ssh/config:

Host prod-db
ProxyCommand ssh bastion nc -w1 %h %p

After which 'ssh prod-db' and 'scp prod-db:...' work as if the bastion host wasn't between you and prod-db.

"Second, getting a dump of a table from your MySQL DB with SSH+keys:"

If you can access prod-db with SSH, you can dump the database with a single command:

$ ssh prod-db mysqldump what-i-need > file.sql
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I suspect some people think it's more problematic to force web apps into a MVC pattern that was meant to describe conventional desktop apps.
Seems to me the author is conflating "just get started" with being flighty and unfocused. If there is an attempt at real insight here it's that once you get started you need to avoid distractions. But that is orthogonal to "getting started".

In fact, now that I think about it, what does "getting started" mean? The author seems to think that you can prepare before "getting started", but in my mind, once you have set your goal and are actively working towards it—whether that be research, coding, networking or whatever—you have started.
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It was great to hear a story about responsible disclosure working perfectly. Usually all you hear about is when the shit hits the fan and the guilty company is left with their pants down after having months to pull them up.
Sent to the email posted on your site! And I should add now that I've looked back at the email that they did respond within 24hrs, but the response was as I described.
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thanks, Hopefully it's not truly outrageous :) I'm concerned that some of what I'm doing could be out of scope with what's covered in the templates online.

Part of my website includes functionality that allows the user to play mp3s that have been posted by popular music blogs ( and collected/categorized on my end ). I know there are similar applications like 'hype machine' and 'we are hunted' that offer a similar service and appear to be operating w/o much risk; I'm just unclear of whether or not I can get by with tastefully re-using some of the relevant elements listed within their legal forms, or if I should just pay an attorney.
Thanks for the comment. I'm just saying that its not just about accessing Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, NetFlix etc. Those are just marketing tactics that remind me of telecom tactics back in the early days of the iPhone. Clearly the iPhone/Android has shown that its all about the apps, not the phone. I think that "war" will start to move on to TVs where someone like GoogleTV and maybe AppleTV (at some point) will have apps for your TV, while others like Samsung will boast about Twitter, Facebook, and NetFlix.

I'd put my money on the guys behind your own personalized apps for your tv.
the most interesting aspect of the article (to me at least) was the discrepancy about the perceived ease of locks and the actual rate of error while using them.

wonder if something similar would / could be observed while using message-passing (a la go / erlang) vs implicit or explicit locking...
The template engine isn't that slow anymore, and it's easy to swap in Jinja2.

The ORM also works quite well for what it does. It doesn't allow you to construct real SQL queries and non-existant objects, but that's it.
If I have to mail it back, I've already wasted more time than I would have just going to a specialty store within 45 minutes of me.

Soon I'll be more like 4 hours from the nearest retailer of any sort, so that may change. But I'm somewhat unique in that regard.
How amusing. Absolutely not an issue in any grown-up database that implements row versioning/MVCC a la Postgres or Oracle. The sad thing is he (and most MySQL users) probably believe this is inherent to all RDBMSs.
IANASEOE, YMMV, HBD, ETC. but for us, yes. the site of my company was balls slow yet managed amazing feats of capitalism, mostly due to a faithful userbase in the face of faster and cheaper alternative sites. value won out.

an example: Steam, the game delivery system, takes longer to deliver and properly execute games than it takes to buy one from the store, install it and run it. but you get more value from steam so people sit through hours or nights/days worth of downloading to run its games.
My wife is a fashion designer and she's told me that although every woman wants to be a size six the average American woman is now a size 14. For all the stick fashion houses get about skinny models you'd be hard pressed to find clothes that even fit them at your local mall. Thanks to my high metabolism (I'm the most unfit fit looking person ever) I have a 32" waist yet if I buy 32" pants I'm absolutely swimming in them. Shirts are even worse it's impossible to get a 16" collar to someone my height (6'2"). I've thought many time of starting-up a clothing company for 'skinny & tall' guys. As others have mentioned the best bests are the European brands like H&M or Zara. The only real American choices are Calvin Klein or teen focused brands like Hollister.
The story of Digg is yet another cautionary tale about the "get big fast" approach.

+ Digg has 500 servers in two private datacenters. Reddit has dozens on EC2.

+ Digg has ~100 employees. Reddit has a half dozen.

+ Digg took $40M. Reddit took less than $1M.

Everything we're seeing now the result of the decision to take this path. Half-hearted attempts to resurrect the dying beast are predictable, as is the drama and finger pointing.

It's very unlikely anyone could have saved Digg. Kevin just walked in a situation in which he was setup for failure. Even if he had picked the perfect strategy there's no way he would have the time and support to prove it.
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Thanks for the link. That's a great presentation.

Distilling Quirk into something simple has been a challenge since the start, especially overcoming the novelty (for most people) of QR codes, and emphasizing its use in connecting businesses and customers, without disregarding connections between individuals. That's not to say it can't be done - it's just something we need to focus on.

I'll be giving alot of thought to the 'why' instead of the 'what,' as I go forward. That's a great approach.
Reddit took less than $100k.
HBO's Hard Knocks is about as candid a look that you can get about the experience the writer describes. This season with the Jets was particularly interesting - management dealing with a holdout of possibly the best defensive player in the NFL, what to do about a veteran who inspires and mentors the younger player who will replace him...very soon, if not this season, and the glimpse of everything the writer experienced. You see week after week players on that bubble - will they make it, do they ever have a chance, can they prove themselves. As reality television goes (granted a damn low standard) it is impressive.
I think that is politeness.
Exactly. I can imagine that they thought they were being very clever using ORM + MySQL instead of writing SQL to run on a more mature RDBMS. Well, decisions like that often result in you painting yourself into a corner. There's a reason that MySQL is free yet people still pay for Oracle...
The comments and user nodes are moved with the parent. It's like moving a folder with subfolders in the filesystem.
It's surprising how much technique is emphasized. I had no idea these guys actually spend more time with a projector reviewing technique than they do training.

Aside from perhaps the boot-camp aspects, the rest seemed vaguely familiar to how other ambitious, high-performance groups work--constantly pushing to improve, an emphasis on getting it right to the expense of protecting anyone's pride, and often very long hours of very hard work.
Well, as Cray mentioned, there are a variety of places where someone might be tempted to make a json or xml based API, and we can start implementing that as plain HTML5, and writing Python and Ruby libraries to make it as easy to work with as json or xml. That's easy, it can be done today, and it will lay the groundwork for browsers to actually implement.

Someday, it would be nice if every single street address on the web was marked up in such a way that just from looking at the markup, a computer can unambiguously figure out the location you're looking for. Or a way for browsers to unambiguously know that something is a phone number and not a zip code (Android does a horrible job of this. Try texting your current location from the maps app.)

I guess, the semantic web remains a dream, but that's no reason to avoid adding semantic data, especially if you want computers to interact with your data directly.