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If my mum starting using The Cloud in sentences she would mean "The Internet", she doesn't have the concept of a server, and doesn't really need to, she just knows it's "Out there somewhere".

I think it would be unlikely for one of my peers (mostly developers) to mention "The Cloud" unless they were trying to be intensionally buzzwordy for comedy effect. They would be more specific.

I/We would however say:

a cloud to mean clusters machines (probably split into VPSs)
xxxx's cloud to mean xxxx's server infrastructure/platform

I like The Cloud as a common term to mean "Stored/Processed out there in the internet somewhere", not as a well defined technical term.
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I worked in a McDonald's (UK) for 3 months during first year at university. It was the toughest job I ever had or have had since.

(Also, my experience of McDonald's is that it is the cleanest, most hygienic restaurant I have ever worked in (I worked in a bunch of restaurants while at uni) more so than people's homes even.)
Thia argument doesn't make any sense. Really, what are you asking them to do? What you seem to be saying is, if the money posts to your account, and the customer does a chargeback, Paypal should eat the charge.
Well, University was once selective and about refining a craft. As more people come we develop protocols which counteract the original intent, so we made grad school.

Grad school people earned more money, more people go to grad school, rinse & repeat.
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Close, lzw. I did actually have a really fast lens, but in fact it was the camera that mattered in this situation: most cameras max out around 1/2000 these days. 1/8000 is crazy fast.

On most camera systems, the shutter is on the camera and you modify the aperture (size of the hole!) on the lens. The reason Hasselblads are pricey is because 90% of the mechanical parts are in the lens; the body is really just a film holder.

Anyhow, two bits of advice/wisdom: first off, once you jump into SLR world and start your learning curve — and you should, it's a lot of fun! — don't be put off by the apparently complexity. I wish I'd understood early on that most of the terms and acronyms are just intentionally confusing stuff designed to keep "serious" photography in the realm of the elite. You'll notice that there are millions of beginners and a good number of "experts" but very few folks calling themselves intermediate photographers. That's because there's loads of info for getting started, but mysteriously nothing to help people really get past the first steps into Neo territory.

So yeah, don't spend a lot of time trying to memorize charts. With practice, you'll internalize it in a way that you can make pretty good judgement calls on exposure.

The second thing is that it all gets a lot easier when you figure out that artistically, aperture and shutter speed yield different end results. 95% of the time you should be shooting in aperture priority.

The reason for this is simple: shutter speed just decides how bright your shot will be, while aperture allows you to decide on the actual composition of your shot. Once you focus on an object, with aperture priority you get to decide how much of the shot is in focus. Many times the reason to use a low aperture is to blur out the rest of the image ("bokeh"). You rely on the camera to figure out the right exposure for the image you're looking for.

At the end of the day, it'd be really weird to make an artistic decision based on exposure speed. That means you'd have to adjust your aperture to suit a speed, which means you give up control of how much is in focus. The only time I can think you'd really want to do this is shooting waterfalls, propellers or on extremely bright days.

Can I strongly recommend that you pick up a Panasonic GF-1 and the 20mm pancake lens? It's an amazing gateway drug camera, before you plunge into getting SLRs.

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It's around 50, I think.
Wouldn't something like fail2ban be enough?
Ali,

I have some experience in the process of doing the filtering you are mentioning as I write a blog on compressed sensing (http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/), a field that spans a wide range of communities that are, often, not talking to each other nor have the same culture.

I don't think Mendeley or any RSS feed services help much as they both target the same dead tree people who are generally about two years behind on the good stuff. Arxiv is good but not all the communities use arxiv either and so it really is a mix of different tools that yield the most results.

I have a high interest in expanding and automating my current processes and would be very much willing to talk to somebody who would want to spend some time on this.

I also agree with one of the posters, how much do you think people would be willing to pay for this service ?
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Capitalism doesn't have a purpose any more than, say, evolution. Capitalism is, perhaps, best thought of as a description of how the world works, in particular, how wealth is created. It has nothing to say about why wealth is created any more than evolution has something to say about our purpose for being here. Attributing purposes to properties of the universe is the domain of religion. Thus, I think it would be safe to say that everybody is a capitalist; some are also beggars or thieves. To call Thiel a "capitalist/investor" says more about you than him. You seem to be pushing your particular religion and are accusing him of being an atheist who could see the truth, but for the mote in his eye.
Have you tried Google Scholar Alerts? Works well for me.
If that doesn't suit, consider it as a baseline for functionality.
Mark, I'm pretty impressed with genevine and just want to encourage you to continue with it. The fact that you allow users to get started now and sign up later is really something that I love to see. Personally, I can't stand having to register for something that without seeing an online demo. I hope down the line this leads to more conversions and more success for you.
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Universities have a real problem: what they teach you has almost ZERO application outside of their ivy-covered walls. For most degrees (non-engineering, IMO), you don't learn how to add value to the economy--you just learn to jump through academic hoops.

I know too many people who have used almost nothing from their undergraduate degrees, and are now contemplating career changes because of it.
Heroku's definitely easier to setup and use - it's usually the right choice when you're first starting out and/or you don't have any advanced needs.

I don't use it much anymore - I stick to Moonshine and the Rackspace Cloud. The setup and management of a private slice is super easy and, IMHO, it's worth the small amount of extra work to setup.
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You've seen three ways of hardening SSH access to your machine: modification of sshd configuration parameters, selecting which users can log in by means of PAM, and use of port-knocking sequences to hide the existence of SSH access. Although I mentioned that there is no way to secure fully any machine, adding these three layers will make your server more than just a little safer.
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In regards to equity, you're probably not going to make significant money as an employee at any company unless you're one of the first 5. Facebook and Google may be different, but they're long past the point of making their employees rich (or potentially rich, if you're at facebook).

Look at the equity as a nice bonus, not a way to make it big.
"what they teach you has almost ZERO application outside of their ivy-covered walls"

I am of the opinion that the problem is they don't focus enough on theory. CS Theory classes at my university are 4000 level courses. Until then, you're just learning 'good' OOP design with Java.

"For most degrees (non-engineering, IMO), you don't learn how to add value to the economy--you just learn to jump through academic hoops."

Yeah, I think you've absolutely nailed it.
Clearly the free offerings out there need refinement and the point you make about interaction is just one area. But my point is we should only care about the knowledge when certifying someone with a degree. So open it up to any business out there to educate people and just standardize what students have to learn to get a degree.

I guarantee if you submit the task of educating people to the world of startups you’ll get thousands of systems that are better than the current system and all of them will cost way less than $100,000.
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He didn't imply that. In fact it sounds like he's in favor of less college education. At least in the traditional sense.
I think the original point of college was to pass on information we as a society felt people needed for life and I think EVERYONE should have access to that information. Whether they choose to take advantage or not.

The point is it shouldn't be locked away from anyone not wanting to go into major debt to obtain it.
> many people say they are in "the Cloud" where they define the cloud as a server on the internet.

To me, cloud would mean that the service has very good reliability, which your run of the mill "server on the internet" does not necessarily have.
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I'm open to languages, platforms because at this stage it really doesn't matter. Typical web stacks are a good starting point. More, and deeper experience is always appreciated.

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I agree with you, I'm on a Mac too but I don't use Papers; I use Zotero/Citeulike, that somewhat solve this. But I would like to see something better than these solutions and/or Mendeley, which is ultimately very bad.
Include engineering in this.
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I don't think anyone argues that obscurity is worthless. The argument is more that when it fails, it fails unpredictably and completely, so it's not something to be relied on. In a situation where you need every advantage you can get, go ahead and hide whatever will help.

If you're just opening up SSH on your personal computer, you don't need every advantage you can get. Just make sure that your authentication is strong, and you'll be fine.
I could write a similarly disingenuous how-to on using linux and vi to write c vs writing visual basic on my HP desktop from costco.

Is there a learning curve to mastering these things? Of course. But there is a huge reward in learning them. Otherwise, woe be unto you the first time you want to do something heroku does not allow (or gets acquired, or folds up, etc etc etc).
Ideally college should teach you how to learn, to set a foundation for the rest of your life. At least in the U.S. though, inadequate high schools and overpopulated junior-level classes mean that you spend the first 2-3 years of college being pumped through a mind-numbingly mechanical process. If you're lucky in your fourth year you'll start to really be challenged to think for yourself.

The kind of teaching you really want to encounter in college requires close, direct interaction with a mentor. In practice you don't actually get that much of this.
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I'm not sure how true that is. Take a look at recent companies like Zappos and Amazon or older ones like WalMart and FedEx. Operation and logistics are their bread and butter. It was practically Dells entire reason for existence (until they fell into the abyss).
Came here to say pretty much the same thing. I've never seen a good Objective-C programmer give any other response to this question than the Hillegass book. You should have a knowledge of C, or at least programming in general, but the whole book is a lot of excellently-written tutorials, expanding on each app bit by bit. An excellent resource.
Maybe. You might also just get a lot of companies that learn to game the system and crank out students that test well but that haven't really learned much. Commercial enterprises optimize for commercial goals. Look at the University of Phoenix, for example.
What prior programming experience have you had?
It's possible that somebody higher up with an enterprisey mindset just signed a deal with Zend. Including paid support and whatnot.
I'd like to remind people too to use DenyHosts: http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/

It's awesome, gets rid of a bunch of brute forcing ips that you see in your secure.log.
Haven't seen a lot of discussion of what a bursting "education bubble" will mean. Anybody have some good links that talk about what will happen? Will universities go out of business? Will people stop going to college? The implications are not clear to me.
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Microsoft makes a kind of neat kid-oriented environment called Small Basic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/ff384126.aspx

Worth a shot. If you check out the blog, there are a number of tutorials available as well that can help kids get started.
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Everyone detects bubbles these days.

Noteworthy:

> They aren't taught the basics of literature, history or science. ACTA reports that most schools don't require a foreign language, hardly any require economics, American history and government "are badly neglected" and schools "have much to do" on math and science.

If anyone's interested, here in Russia, we do have history of science, philosophy and other non-technical mandatory courses even for technical specialists. The main drawback is that student out of the university is a "Jack of all trades, master of none" kind, you got to teach him all the specifics in the workplace.
FWIW, Carnegie Mellon starts you on CS theory in Freshman or Sophomore year (depending on just how new to programming you are) and never really stops.
Computers I can't see and don't own. Suspiciously similar to a botnet.

Actually I'm less paranoid about it than that, but only slightly.
Most people in the US still have to learn the specifics in the workplace as well.
I think it feels "buzzwordy" because too many people abuse it. It is a legitimate term but it is being stretched to the point where it is no longer useful. To me a cloud is a system where I can dynamically change my resource usage without having to really understand the underlying structure supporting it. I don't install an OS, I don't monitor specific servers for failure, I never upgrade anything; that level of minutiae is abstracted away.
I've used both Engine Yard Cloud and Heroku. They're both great and have their pros and cons. Both are also powered by Amazon EC2.

The only major downside with Heroku is if there is any downtime within their infrastructure, your app will also go down. This has happened a couple of times in the last 3-4 months, and it took a lot of big sites down.

Engine Yard Cloud setups are self-contained and can be locked down to whatever setup, cloud version you're happy with. If they update their cloud setup, you don't have to update your instance anymore.

It also seems like you can get more "bang for your buck" with EY once you start needing more computing/db power
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No one really thought facebook would be around forever, did they? Anyone remember excite? Lycos? friendster? orkut?
I don't think of the cloud as just a server elsewhere on the internet, but more of a group of servers, like EC2, or Windows Azure, where the data is shared between them, and backed up in various places.

I have heard many people refer to the internet in general as 'the cloud', which I can understand, but I don't think of that as it's primary definition.
People can use just about any reason to set themselves off - everyone from every religion, race, nationality and ideology eventually has a crazy branch. That's not a reason to avoid religions or ideologies.
You're missing the fact that when you remove the camo paint off of a tank you haven't made the armor any weaker, just as putting SSH on a different port doesn't mean you remove authentication.
My external graphics tablet works with it, although I haven't seen any pen or touch specific features yet. I'm sure there are touchscreen drivers for X, but aside from giving you some nice large home screen icons you don't get very far.
I think of it, at least this week, as:

resilient Internet services with persistence
In this space ads may actually be able to make money since the audience is very targeted. You even know what field everyone is in by looking at what papers they click on and such. It seems easy to have a free+ads plan and an $10/mo no ads plan.
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I think the argument is that security only by obscurity is not security. Obscure and good is a better alternative. The example for this topic would be a non standard port, but no password - nice and convenient, and it's unlikely anyone would find the port, but when it's found there's no security left.
Why do you think I'm missing that? Was it the part where I said that you should go ahead and obscure things in situations where you need every advantage you can get? (i.e. where I explicitly acknowledged that)

It costs something to use a port knocker. It costs something to use a nonstandard port. If you have strong authentication (say, using 2048-bit ssh certificates), it's probably not worth paying those costs. Maybe it is if you're a bank, but probably not if it's the server that hosts your blog. If you don't have that strength of authentication, it would be better to pay for the better authentication than for the port knocker and nonstandard port.
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They froze it randomly. They said I was automatically flagged but couldn't tell me why. When I pushed the issue with someone higher up, they didn't care. I couldn't find anyone who cared. They bullied me and sent me around in circles until I gave up. How was I supposed to fix a problem if they cuoldn't tell me what it was? You can read a lot of stories like my own on www.paypalsucks.com - a lot of the stories are similar to mine, where the customer is left in the dark or bullied around until they give up.
Don't worry, that's normal. Low, in fact, because this is a weekend.

There are already such solutions, and those are what killed most of these submissions. But I'm happy to have humans helping out too.
>In case anyone is wondering what happened to this guy, he's writing for Microsoft now.

Perhaps he was writing for Microsoft then too??

Between the shills and those just after page hits, there sure are a lot of articles not worth the paper they could have been written on. It's funny seeing the guy cite himself though.

Pity the iPhone is so hard to use and lacking that keyboard. People with the urge to hit control-alt-F7 obviously weren't consulted. And his point about multiple functions... Perhaps he figures there's still a market for dedicated word processors or something.

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Your right about high school and that is probably where we really need the revolution. High School has become the babysitters for a group of Americans that are neither children or adults. We treat them as whichever one is convenient (prosecute as adults, rights as children). I really believe it does no good to "fix" college if the input is broken.

It is a shame the area is locked from most innovation due to lack of funding for anybody but the rich. It would be interesting to try so real alternatives to the current High School system.
Apl looks pretty tough, though I would love to learn it.

I know how to read persian/farsi, which I studied one course in at the university, I did not find it hard to learn to read that at all. Arabic is a little bit harder because there's more guesswork involved, but I don't know arabic. It's not the script, it's the way it's encoded imho, very few wovels are written down.
I did something very similar a while back (redis_wrap): http://amix.dk/blog/post/19508
Definitely go with Heroku for two reasons: time savings (no sysadmin is huge!) and flexibility (you can always migrate later, which is easy since almost all of their stack is open-source).
To me, the cloud means trusting the base performance and uptime of my application to someone else.
Good idea.

Suggestions: Send not only card, but also envelope to put this card in and preferably address printed on envelope.

Just btw, you could think about sms or e-mail service. So instead of getting card, I will get e-mail or sms, so I could forward it to right person with slight modification in wording.