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Wasn't there a keynote at Django-con a year or two ago with the same title even?:)
Well that was interesting. I started migrating my blog from TypePad to WordPress last week and it's been "down" or intermittent since then. What's amazing is that Google has erased 5 years of really highly ranked search results.

For example I had the #1 or #2 result for "liquidation preference" and now it's nowhere to be seen. I wonder if the "real time" will turn Google into Twitter...sad if true.
I read that as "Geeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Geeks" and was subsequently rather surprised when the photo of that chap came up.
I think this is the sad reality of the world we live in today. The job market sucks. Salaries are consistently dropping. People are being squeezed from every direction. And there's no such thing as a long term job anymore. The market is basically telling every highly skilled worker to start their own business or get in line at the welfare office.
If we don't track them, we wont develop better technology to track more of them. The more we track, the more information we have about what's out there. The more information we have, the better decisions we can make about the risks and how to reduce them.

What's the alternative. Ignore the issue until the inevitable happens?
Or was called SearchWiki. It turned out that nobody liked or used it, so it was removed.
You don't necessarily need to raise money or hire people. Accounting can be as simple as you'll let it be -- there are some dials you can twiddle in terms of complexity, especially very early.
"I don't need search results that update live as I type. I need to find what I'm looking for."

You need to find what you're looking for faster. For you, that only means more relevant results, since (this is a guess) you're a quick typist. For slower typists, this kind of instant search could save a lot more than 500ms. It can save them 30 seconds, maybe even a minute.

It might also help teach people how to search. There's obviously some "art" to choosing the right search phrase, and this kind of "search as you type" can help people learn by doing in a way that's much better than before.
You obviously want to track known objects as well as discover new ones. That has happened at a pretty quick pace in the last few years, thanks to increased professional effort (while amateur astronomers discovered most asteroids only a few years ago nowadays most are discovered by professionals).

Asteroid impacts are one of the few natural disasters (the other probably being floods) that we could actually be able to prevent from happening. It’s a good idea to be on the lookout. Oh, and even if we can’t prevent the rock from falling we can still evacuate in a timely manner (e.g. in case of an asteroid hitting the Pacific and causing a Tsunami).

Sure, if we discover the asteroid a week before it hits we can’t do much. But if we know a few years in advance that an asteroid will cross paths with Earth we can actually do something about it (since relatively minuscule changes in the asteroid’s trajectory can move it out of the way). One way would be to simply park a spacecraft next to it. The gravitational pull of the spacecraft which keeps its distance with thrusters can move the asteroid ever so slightly. It might also possible to hit the asteroid just right with a kinetic impacter (i.e. a big hunk of heavy metal) and slightly whack it.

It’s not expensive. People are actually working on this. And they better be, ask the dinosaurs. (If you can.)
I'm not a freelancer (anymore), but this applies to agencies as well. Unfortunately it's not my call at this point, but there have been several instances where we should have put our foot down and told the client that we're the experts and we're giving them something that will produce results. This can be hard though for some people to grasp. In several industries the customer is always right, but in ones like this, the professionals are generally always right.
Is that the median starting salary for NYU students who stay in NYC? Or is that including people who move to New Hampshire?
You can't link to a talk?
I've never had a problem with it. I wear 31x34. Then again, I only ever buy Levi's, so obviously I don't experience any brand variance. I'd be interested to see where they stack up on the chart.
It's apparently due to the fact that Direct2D includes its own font antialiasing independent of ClearType, or something of that nature. There are cases where it dramatically changes the feel of the font, though. In particular, arial bold gets exceptionally bold in some places without any change in kerning, resulting in a jumble of color all smushed together.
Experiments have shown that 100 Ms is the threshold.
"The poor are not getting poorer, the rich are just getting richer faster."

Guess what? That's still an increase in inequality.
Fair enough. Although the data is presented in a non-rigorous, light-hearted manner, I guess a more accurate title would be "Stuff single, web savvy white people like"
One could also develop heuristics that maximize inspiration. "Following your bliss" may indeed be the ultimate heuristic for creating beyond one's self.
Actually, it's not only about making programmers happier. That's a large part of it, but private offices also make programmers more productive, because they have less interruptions.

The way Joel figures it, programmers are your most important asset, not to mention a huge expense (salary-wise). Paying extra to make them more effective is usually a winning strategy.
Close. It was "Why I Hate Django" by Cal Henderson in 2008. He is way funnier than I am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Fr65PFqfk
Your comment enrages me but I don't want to censor it.

BTW, just because you're a woman doesn't give you authority to speak for all 150 million of them. Or to make up statistics about MEN.
Euro sizing has been pretty reliable in my experience (except with gloves, but my hands are very slender and my knuckles rather broad). You could try translating the US size to Euro sizing based on Adidas' chart, and then converting Euro sizing to Nike using Nike's chart.
"I don't see that supported by any evidence whatsoever. If a particular quintile has a smaller share of total income and yet are able to buy exactly the same products, exactly the same services, and exactly the same housing with their income then how is their purchasing power diminished?"

Except, they can't, on any objective basis. You're overlooking inflation when it's inconvenient to your argument, and using it as a bludgeon when it is. Price declines in consumer electronics are meaningless when the cost of energy and food and housing and education goes up steadily over time, often at rates higher than inflation.

Following your logic to it's end, it'll be fine and dandy if the richest 1% accumulates 99.99% of the wealth and the poor can't afford buy vegetables or homes, just as long as the last .01% of wealth lets them buy televisions (or whatever mass-produced gee-gaw is cheaply produced in 2050).
I tried to play with it, but was told:

Macintosh users require a perscription.

So screw you.
> We'll know it when it happens, trust me on that one.

But wouldn't it be nice to know it before a giant tsunami wipes out the whole pacific coastline?

How costly is it compared to what damage it could generate? How costly would be to avert such a disaster compared to the cost of digging a mile-wide crater in central Europe?

If we knew of a mountain-sized rock headed towards Earth we would be able to prevent a disaster, provided we had an early warning system in place. IIRC, a Delta IV heavy can carry a Tsar-bomba-sized device, plus a booster to put in the correct trajectory. It wouldn't take long to assemble a couple devices like this and try a couple approaches, from deflection to blasting it to small pieces (yes, I would prefer a couple hundred airblasts over a single mountain hitting the surface).

I think the politics of putting a gigaton device on top of a rocket are much more complicated than the engineering.
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It also remembers when you were looking at search results for more than three seconds (it will even distinguish between normal searches and those three-second things). Unless you can be done in less than three seconds you cannot trick Web History.
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"You have to wonder if the designers of the "speed bump of the future" considered that drivers might become conditioned to disregard Pavement Patty and her imaginary cohorts, creating something similar to a "boy who cried wolf" effect. Couldn't such conditioning reduce drivers' caution if a real child should cross their path?"

That's all there is to this. Drivers get used to the illusion, a real child gets hit soon enough.
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IIRC, Microsoft's eulas forbade you from producing competitors with their software at one point.
Love tumblr, love the community, love the design, but god it feels like it's tied together with string.

About two years ago I made the simple request of allowing me to not auto tweet content when posted with bookmarklet (it. would. just. be. a. checkbox.) but it never happened, i think they replied and said they didn't plan it.

there's no importer for wordpress or any other content.

the way you repost stuff is atrocious. i love the concept, but it has no concept of who originally posted it when you quote something, leading to the worlds most horrendous spaghetti of html for you to deal with (eg: http://grab.by/6iqJ)

Tumblr has got all the hard stuff right, and is seemingly failing at the easy technical stuff :(
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I'm so glad this presentation is getting attention. The presentation really nails it, and I can only imagine the well-deserved awkward moments it caused a few people.

All the issues are big, but those that touch on the nature of the closed nature of the Django community are, I feel the most important criticisms. A project like Django cannot scale effectively (in terms of pace of innovation, willingness of people to contribute, mindshare, etc) unless they address the community issues they have.
Because it's boring. And no browser implements it. You're not doing anybody any favors by implementing it. That google rich data thing? It's done with html classes too, that works equally well, and we've had them for a while now.

Seriously, I like microdata, I think it's useful, but this kind of utopian, far-away 'we should use this because it might be better in the future' never got us anywhere. That is the lesson we should learn from XHTML2, not 'adding more attributes is cool'.
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I guess a lot of the initial slides are in terms of reusable django apps out there. While what Eric is saying is not wrong, I just think that its hard to enforce certain programming style on these app developers. Some of the apps are coded to be generic enough and can be plugged in easily, others not so much.

None the less, I dont see how / why this is django's fault ?
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The just decouple the Java and the JVM. You can push changes on the JVM pretty easy. The Language implementers then can use that stuff if they like.

The Language Java needs its own release cycle.
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I'm enjoying "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", by the same.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/
Based on the presentation - and the evidence is pretty compelling - it seems the manpower is there; it's just that the core developers don't want it.
What's wrong with ebay?
I still don't understand how this is a free speech issue. The particulars of this case aside, I'm not exactly concerned that the government may be censoring people advertising illegal services. Would it still be censoring if Craigslist had a "hit men" section, and that was taken down?

Put aside your views on the legality of prostitution for a moment, and remember that it is currently illegal.
I like the concept of "ultralight startups" but there have to be better examples out there that are, yanno ... actually startups.

This is just someone middlemaning an affiliate program - something that's really old hat in the ecommerce world.
Oh come on!

there is no space for another network between Facebook and LinkedIn

15 years ago this guy'd have been saying

there is no space for another search engine between Yahoo! and AskJeeves

Diaspora has the potential to be disruptive in a massive way, it can do to social networks what google did to search. Phrases like:

it's come too late in the evolution of social networking

make me think the author really doesn't understand how quickly trends and allegiances change on the net. For instance, I spent a year on reddit, accumulated 1000 link karma and 8000 comment karma, and then discovered HN and my reddit usage has gone right down.

It's never too late for users to be attracted to shinier products.
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I totally disagree with this article.

I always think of a web designer's site like the clothes seen on the catwalk of fashion, they show the trends but no-one in their right mind would wear them.

The clothes for the normal people copy the patterns and embellishments but are still functional clothes.

Client websites actually have an obvious menu system, clear messages of what their business actually does and sells, instead of a pretty bird flying around the screen that takes you 20 seconds to figure out it's actually the menu (exaggeration, but you know what I mean).

And that explains the difference, not that the designers have no balls.
Oh, I see.

I thought you were talking about some functional similarities, not the mathematical similarities.
Here's a good example: http://i.imgur.com/zpjPl.png

I added the white lines in Photoshop - with acceleration on, the "Reports in September 2010" gets both narrower AND bolder, resulting in a very squished, very ugly presentation. The calendar headers are likewise far less clear.

http://i.imgur.com/gVFYk.png is from Basecamp - note the vast difference in navigation width, and the width of the "Comment" in the blue box.

http://i.imgur.com/LgGOJ.png is the Basecamp nav item blown up - the box on top is accelerated. It's thicker, more narrow, and it's got all those crazy colored artifacts.
I dumped django for rails after a brief foray, and even participated in the Pinax group at Pycon in Atlanta. This presentation hits all the major issues, and is particularly strong regarding community. Incetuous communities support personal interest over quality, and that's reflected in the mess of django core.

That said, the framework is not a terrible choice, just not mine.
Interesting post.

The way I see it, what this post is saying is that "Just starting" isn't good enough, since you have to stick with it, sometimes for a long time, before reaching any measure of success. I completely agree with this idea. But I think you'll find that most of the people saying "just get started" are already following it up with "you have to stick to it for a long time to succeed".

In fact, the origin of the common "just start" lesson is the fact that many successful people look at their achievements and think (rightly or not) that they're something anyone can do. The most common reason other people don't do it is because they don't believe they can, hence the "just get started and stick to it, you can succeed too" advice.
Currently extracting myself from the 9 to 5 because I am thoroughly soul crushed. I would rather halve the money and be happy that I am not wasting my life.
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Yep, it is a technical corporation. Mostly dealing with aerospace software.
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He hired programmers in India to code for him. Albeit, there is nothing wrong with that, but if he ever tries to update the code himself, he is going to be in for a rude awakening.

I too think this article isn't HN type material.
"President" used to be the standard for smaller firms. (Used to be the standard for all firms, actually, until "CEO" was invented.)
The no. 1 reason tumbler sucks: 1 original content site for every 1000 reposting shitheaps.

Also, people using it for posting info that would be much better presented in some other way. I'm looking at you safariextensions.tumblr.com, your site is pretty much worthless thanks to the decision to use tumblr.
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I wish HN have good habit - when downvoting, explain why.
I think you overestimate the effect current technology can have on a meteor large enough to significantly dent the human population. Some of the objects mentioned in the article are on the order of hundreds of kilometers. Mountains aren't even on the same scale as that. It's beyond our ability to even scratch.
I love it how Cloudant is giving CouchDB a big boost. First they introduced Big Couch as open source and now a Java based map-reducer. I am excited to see what's coming next. These guys are geniuses.
I don't think the dispute is whether there should be open ads for illegal activity. The proper course is to settle that between law enforcement and the offending party, not law enforcement and the medium, especially when doing the latter means stepping on the free speech of some people posting legal ads.

Some people choose to drive while intoxicated, but nobody's demanding we take down the roads, or calling local governments accomplices to illegal activity (nor car or alcohol manufacturers).

There are plenty of sites on the Internet where one can engage in illegal activities. The question is why this one? And why this activity?
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I think it should actually give you better results. It's monotonic in kl divergence, and does a much better job of taking into account how common the feature is rather than just how different it is. You no longer need to do things like throwing out phrases that appear less than x times if you use it.
GAE (can) serve images out of the blobstore, so you can monitor statistics when you tell it to get the image out. Docs are here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/images/overview.h...

(I expect you'd probably want to use memcache to cache images rather than the blobstore everytime, though)

(Note that you pretty much have to keep the images in the blobstore because you don't have filesystem access. You might be able to keep them in the datastore if you wanted, but those are the only two AppEngine options)
I don't think it's that cut and dry - especially talking to all of the core people (and near-core) here at DjangoCon, and even Django core is well aware and willing to change, it's just not as easy as adding commit bits.
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If you post from a Windows PC, your data is trapped until they deign to create an export app (WTF!) to pull out the data. Ridiculous! I can pull my stuff out of WordPress by doing Export XML. That they require an app is just plain screwy.
I also need to point out: Even core committers here admit there are issues which need to be fixed.
Well, if you have a blog, without some kind of promotion the only reader you will have is you. Maybe your mother, too. Of course, original content (and good original content) is what it should be... Writing for the sake of writing (i.e. blogging about blogging just to make money off bloggers) is like some perverted pyramidal scheme.

I wrote this as a guest post from my own experience for sharing my posts, where I write (except maybe in some case, I can be sure after more than 700 posts) only original content. But before I started actively promoting my content, I had mostly readers coming from Google to a few selected places (very few). After good promotion, my posts started finding readers, and when they were interested, they delved deeper in my blog, finding my old posts. My subscribers grew (I've tripled since I started my blog seriously), and so did my interactions.

But as you say, there are zillions of repetitions among the blogosphere (I've seen it also, all over the place) and this is completely sick. But as it stands, it is and endless run: if I create good original content without promotion, the repetition people will just fill the place and no-one will read what I have to say. And I enjoy too much blogging (blogging with readers... if I want to write for myself, I'll do journaling) to be forced to give up.
Why it matters:
Dumb eBooks Must Die, Smart eBooks Must Live
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Why Publishers Fear Metadata
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I pine for the days of the Great Depression. Our grandparents were dirt poor but at least they collectively had a bigger pie of the GDP. Those were the good times.
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Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Wealth distribution is one of the longest-running political arguments there is. The current trend goes back to 1979. Not Hacker News.