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Yeah, nobody here makes suits in 36L or 38L, and most of them bundle the pants with waists that are way huge, though at least they usually come unhemmed. Sleeves are always a problem, especially with the ridiculous way they often measure from the neck or mid-back instead of where the goddamn sleeve starts at the shoulder seam. Then the trend for shrunken suits goes and kicks my ass!

Dress shirts are even worse, sized from the neck of all things, and even the smallest ones are maternity-sized tents. "Slim fit" is generally only enough to make it possible to tuck in to my pants without giving me a diaper made of shirttails.

I've had some success importing stuff from South Korea from fashion sellers I found via eBay. Since they're aping the high end (often in unfortunate polyester), even the tiniest pants usually come with 34" or 35" inseams. Sleeves are still a problem though.
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"Moquitoes don't kill people, Malaria does"

Something feels very wrong here. I can imagine a creature that promotes small amounts of blood sharing between different humans or creatures has positive as well as negative effects - and by definition we don't know what unknown benefits it has.

So let's kill malaria instead. How can we do that?
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One of the biggest advantages to using EC2 is its scaling capabilities. EC2 offers 10 different instance sizes from m1.small to cc.4xlarge (with 10 Gbps clustering capabilities), 4 different regions, auto-scaling, load balancing, high availability via off-instance storage, durability via copying, GigE uplinks, and much more. You can't get that level of features from in any other IaaS cloud I am aware of. Yes, you might pay more than co-locating yourself or leasing some dedicated servers... but that isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison to EC2.
I was not thinking of Oracle here. PostgreSQL is free software and offers almost everything you expect from a real database.

So I guess the main reason people pay for Oracle is because they only know about MySQL and not about PostgreSQL.
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How else will a core developer let it be known that this feature/issue won't be fixed? The "wontfix" tag/state is there for this very reason. And the core developers are there for this very reason -- to make decisions.

I'm curious though. Why not just fork the project and be more open in terms of getting patches in?
If you're interested in stuff like this, check out 'How we decide' by Jonah Lehrer : http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Decide-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/06186201...

I'm reading it now, and it's an amazingly insightful book, in that it manages to at once explain the workings of the brain on a psychological and physiological level, for a whole different slew of "decisions" we humans make.
I see your point, but the fact remains that the underlying technique is just the same. The difference on whether intermediate files are used further down the build process seems somewhat irrelevant.
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IMHO it's Flask.
Where does the 5% figure come from of people being able to understand the author's bullet points?
> Almost no-one will give this advice

Which makes it quite difficult to find good equipment which is 90% there. What about speakers/home cinema. Any recommendations?
Yes, and welcome to planet Earth. HN is moderated manually and automatically. Paypal is ruthlessly policed. Both have resulting unpleasant stories. Security is vigilance and striking a balance between many things. On HN, what interests me are Top Comments, how about you?
The default (or potential) to be open shouldn't simply be equal to closed.
It also has the advantage of not having anything attached to your body while you sleep, for those or us that dislike that.
I have no privileged access to Microsoft's stratrgy. I can only say what they can do, not what they will.
Lower total score (higher fp, lower everything else) if your instance has an older Opteron 2218HE (us-east-1b) http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view?id=287900
Care to explain what Oracle can do against OpenJDK?
Probably what you said.

Or someone is trying to frame you.
> Tax evasion does not hurt the real economy.

You sound like someone from Greece trying to justify tax evasion - are you Greek?

What is the "real economy"?
Have you tried the Posterous bookmarklet? I think it's way better and super easy to use.

I had a couple issues with Tumblr bookmarklet, like not opening at all (even crashing my Chrome tab) or not formatting properly my post.
A good strategy I've used with EC2 for the past 6 months is to always purchase spot instances using a bid price that is just slightly above the on-demand price. Generally spot pricing stays around the much lower reserve pricing but will occasionally spike. By doing this, you basically get reserve pricing without having to pay the upfront reserve fee, and can keep your spot instance online long term. This site provides some useful historical data on spot pricing: http://cloudexchange.org
Why not buy a unlocked phone? Won’t HTC or Samsung sell them to you?
Seconded. Flask is really awesome. The guy behind it (Armin Ronacher) is a beast of a programmer.
To my knowledge (I've spun up many EC2 m1.small instances in all 4 regions), Opteron 2218s are only in use in us-east. The other 3 regions use E5430s.
Same here. I even own a Macbook Pro but just can't use it as my main because of all the awful UI quirks. Maybe it's the 15 years of Windows conditioning, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar but come on, if I have a window in the far right of my display I'm supposed to go all the way to the top left to click on a menu item? Why doesn't maximizing actually maximize? Do I need function, control, alt, option, and command keys? Where are the Page Up, Page Down, Home, or End keys? Why is Alt-Tab retarded?

Argh! I could go on but I'll just go move files around my sanely organized file browser for a little while to calm down.
If you examine the empirical evidence this is patently false. Milliseconds, on average, on the whole, in the long run, at scale, however you want to phrase it, do matter.
That CPU performance is consistent with what they give as the burst performance: up to 2 EC2 Compute Units, which should be 2x as much as the small instances' 1 ECU. Would be interesting to know how often/long you can burst, and what the non-burst baseline is, though.
Thought provoking article but I'm not too sure that it is this simple. The heuristics outlined are inherently helpful and going through the process would be enlightening, but getting the answers to any of the questions in (a) - (h) are hard (some harder than most).

For example "(a) Ask ourselves what we’re trying to achieve" I find that this is a problem with most people (including myself), they do not know what they want to achieve, nor how to even start on the process of discovering what they want to achieve. Given this, then the first order question then becomes - How do I find out what I want to achieve?. Answering this question probably involves gaining more perspective and this is probably why "many people go through long training programs to make money" (college). So it seems that if you dig a little more, seemingly unoptimal actions make more sense.

Regardless, this article is a great start and I would love to see more in depth discussions on this.
PDF link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/277867/37113340-Why-Django-Sucks-and...
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How to be successful:

possible_actions.max_by(&:utility).execute while !successful

Meanwhile, all platitudes and generalizations should be obeyed, except when they shouldn't
It's like you didn't even read what I wrote.

1. The relevant question is not "startup versus nothing", it's "startup versus lifestyle business". How do you know that choosing a startup in that context is a good decision?

2. I wasn't claiming that startups and lottery tickets are at all the same sort of thing. I was making a point about saying "X, Y and Z founded startups and it worked really well for them": that just isn't good evidence that startups are good in general, or even for any particular (however rare) sort of person, unless you can say what's special about X, Y and Z other than that their startups happened to succeed.
Google search for "custom t-shirts":
1. customink
..
6. ooshirts

Obviously, ooshirts is not doing anything revolutionary, but that 6th ranking must have come somehow, not by just ripping off customink.

Would be interesting to see, how Lei did it.
Whoosh. X% of people who want to be entrepreneurs will never be, and X% of them won't be because they did nothing but prepare, never noticing or overcoming fear of failure. Subjectively, those proportions are huge - they're the targets of the "just start" advice.
You can become an even better programmer by re-writing your programs.

Refactoring your code, or possibly coming up with an entirely different approach to solving the problem is what I consider one the most important parts of becoming a better programmer.
I am white and like none of those things other than guitar and software. I suspect the case is similar for most of the HN readership.

This should be called "what the lowest common denominator like"
Thanks I really appricate your advice. Being familier with Archer and obviously the B2B Infosec / Risk market - if you were a buyer price would you pay for a SaaS security risk assessment software that is lot simpler to setup and use than Archer?
a commenter on there made a good point about the "soul food" term, where that's also the name of a movie, book and tv series so it ends up being 3 (probably black) data points all counting towards 1.
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I particularly liked their version of Image Search, with "infinitely scrolling" results. It took a while, but Google eventually copied it.

That's what I love about competition: we users are the ones who win!
I think a better question is, what intelligent, tech-savvy person still gets their phone from their carrier?
Seems like an inefficient way of framing me - going to one user at a time with an obviously spammy account, so I doubt it's that.
I'm not saying it's going to be the next google. I'm not even saying it'll be a success. But the arguments in the article simply don't support the conclusion.

The claims made in the article are:

1) Diaspora will fail because facebook's really big.

2) Diaspora will fail because Zuck's invested in it.

3) Diaspora will fail because there's a lot of competition.

4) Diaspora will fail because facebook's well funded.

5) Diaspora will fail because it hasn't launched yet.

6) Diaspora will fail because privacy doesn't matter to users.

Apart from the last one, I don't think any of those have any force at all. Lots of successful companies have launched against strong, well funded competitors in a crowded marketplace and been massively sucessful. And sure, lots have failed too. But the arguments are way too broad to have any meaning for the specific Diaspora/Facebook debate. You can apply them just as well to any startup you care to mention.

The only thing of any substance in the article is claim 6, the rest is too generic to matter.

What's even worse, is that a year down the line when Diaspora does fail, this hack'll say "Yeah I predicted that". No, you just pointed out some general reasons why startups have a tough time.

Diaspora will probably fail. But not for any of the reasons given in the article. Number 6 will possibly have an impact. The author only devotes 6 lines of text to that, the rest you could literally copy and paste for every startup and just change the names and numbers.
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I was not implying that the concept of recursion is at all advanced. I was implying that the problems to be solved in the template layer are very simple.

I won't be able to come back to you because it would be too inefficient doing something more advanced than that in the template layer. Because rather than write the python to write template syntax to be interpreted back into python, I simply wrote the logic in one-pass python in the view function. It's more direct, runs faster, and your templates are clearer to designers if you're working in a group project.
Ask HN: Help with updating development hardware
I currently have a Pentium4 630 with 3 gigs of ram that I bought for 150 bucks a year ago that has acted as my main dev machine. I run Windows 7 64 as the host OS and a few different linux flavored VM's for development. I like having a separate VM setup for each development environment that I work in, ie dev1 for Java, Dev2 for Python, dev3 for PHP. This allows me to change the OS environmental variables and permissions without changing things for other projects. The biggest drag on this setup is that I quickly run out of RAM between W7, 1 Linux VM, and Eclipse causing me to suspend one VM to open another.

Question:
I would like to build a machine that can handle multiple open VM's each with an open eclipse instance as well as db, and java vm's running on each instance.

Paravirtualization would be nice but that seems like a pipe dream at this point, at least from a client perspective, I want to interact with the desktop as normal so Type 2 (VMWare) seems to continue to be the answer.

here is a list of my initial criteria:
RAM: 8-12 gigs
CPU: ??
MOTHERBOARD: ??
PRICE: <500$

An overstock server seems like a possible option although the server spec components tend to be more pain than its worth for desktop use. I'm not looking to run the latest and greatest hardware, just something that wont get memory bound and can handle 3-4 VM's running computations at once without dogging. Not too much to ask right? ^_^
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Huh? Besides the Nexus One developer phone there's no other option except maybe craigslist and ebay.
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I was thinking more of the debt rather than the currency. My point of view wasn't so much the Greeks but the european banks with exposure to Greek government debt. I was thinking along the lines of an ECB fund that assumed responsibility for the debt, froze trading in it and gradually reduced the value somehow.

But as you say, once the Euro is dumped whatever replaces it is going to be very unstable.

All in all, it's a good warning against the evils of excessive government spending and endless deficits.
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Examples: visualwebsiteoptimizer, optimizely
I use blogger because I'm a bit of a google fanboy. It is a bit old fashioned but solid as a rock. Simple to add in whatever I want via html/java gadget.

Still though I was thinking of moving my blog (http://www.rakkhis.com) to Tumblr or Posterous.

Has anyone done this? How hard is it? I have moved my comments to Disqus to make this process easier. Now just my articles... Still this post makes me think maybe Tumblr is not the way to go?
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Keep notes - I use blogger.com

Write documentation - writing man pages has forced me to fix corner cases

Having projects with real users - they are annoyingly good at finding errors

Turn on -wall, keep coding until you get none

Often the best place to solve the problem is AFK.

Healthy body, healthy mind - combined with the above I like to bicycle, an hour in the pedals pays you back. Cooking proper food yourself from real ingredients feeds your brain.

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Zope seemed to have great people behind it, and was very solidly built, but it seemed a lot more monolithic, which ended up polarizing people.

Django really benefits from the ability to swap out everything. People who hate the default libraries just find something better to use.

No migration? Use South. Some people run Django on Twisted or Tornado. There are different template libraries that people use. I'm not sure if the model layer can be swapped out so easily (without messing around with custom user authorization), but there's nothing to stop people using django models for authorization, and a separate database interface (even a no-sql one) for other data.
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I love the concept of having an image be my GUID. In fact, I like the concept of cute little square images being aliases for something else, and that there exists a way to decode them. This is such a high level and useful idea that it's bound to succeed for somebody.

The value I see here is the platform, not the "social networking bla bla bla" service. In other words, I would aim to become the platform for QR-to-URL mapping. As of now, you are a QR-to-very-specific-URL mapping service, and the specialization you are taking (a page of my aggregated social networks) is nice, but IMO isn't the most interesting aspect of this. It's more of a demonstration of the usefulness of the idea as a whole.

I'm imagining a world where I see Quirks on product packaging, on product advertisements, on business cards, coupons, promotions, and just about any other surface where I'd otherwise encounter a cumbersome URL. The convenience? I just point an internet-equipped digital eye at it, and I can view the website. By cramming a URL into a Quirk, and printing that Quirk on something, one includes a seamless path from a physical item to it's digital representation. Of course, that pathway needs to be thoroughly tread in order for it to be popular. I see two main obstacles. First, iPhones and other similarly functional devices aren't quite as widespread as they will be. This works in your favor: pretty soon everybody will have these devices and you're service will be more valuable.

The second, where you should aim to come in, is that there needs to be one place that these QRs are registered. This is the type of idea, like Twitter, Facebook, and the ".com" TLD, the has a feedback look of pervasiveness and usefulness. If you became the place to create QR-to-URL mapping, you'd have a stake in whatever QR (actually, just image-to-URL) evolves into down the road and whatever it is used for.

That's my take on this idea. It seems extremely likely that there is already a QR-to-URL mapping service available... and if there isn't there more definitely should be. We're talking paradigm here. Those quirks you see on product packaging? Well, it's a given there to be used with "getaquirk" (or whichever company does this and gets lucky), just as @whatever means twitter.

If I were you, I'd put all my effort into getting your idea validated (and vetted) and branded. Realize your biggest obstacle is not that you must become ubiquitous for this idea to succeed , but that you must seem like you're the service that is going to be ubiquitous. Realize that anybody using your service is investing their time and energy into the platform. Why buy a .info domain when .com is available? You need to be the .com. You need to get traction before all else. Get big names using this, make the "getaquirk" viewer app on all major platforms; stake your claim.

Here's a really quick win for you: Quirks should contain some sort of inerit branding in them. Perhaps a digitized "Q" in the upper right, or something. This would be your "@".
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Which implies to me that Don found a minister in the lower quartile of Catholics, if not by training then by understanding. The feast is not about calendars but about commemoration, for all the winter-time staff that has accrued over the years.
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Where, how?
Even top comments are often just appealing to lowest common denominator, current fashion, etc

Democracy, and 1 vote per person is just a flawed system. Thankfully there is a fair bit of dictatorship on HN which keeps things fairly sane.
1) Punitive taxation will result in layoffs and makes no sense if you're trying to revive the economy
2) Many small businesses want to be big someday. Whatever threshold you set at which "good" small business/startup morphs into evil megacorp, it will be arbitrary and result in a piling up of businesses near that line, staying at 199 employees (or whatever) to avoid the fist of the state. In other words, putting the brakes on the rapidly growing startup
3) Finally, any big biz worth it's salt can afford platoons of tax lawyers to set up LLCs and shell corps which each have 199 employees.
Just as a note to people wanting to buy an unlocked Android phone: I'm not entirely sure, but AFAIK you still can't put a custom rom on those machines without going through some hoops. You'll have to root your HTC Desire first (even though you bought it unlocked). That differs from e.g. the Nexus One, which you are able to setup with a custom bootrom without having to hack your phone.
"XHTML provided no actual benefit"

Yes it did provide great benefits that are now being destroyed. The benefit was that we actually had working, up-to-date XHTML parsers in each and every programming language. Message to web designers: Some people have to parse the crap you put in those pages and it's not just the browser makers! I know HTML parsing was never an exact science even with XHTML, but at least we were moving in the right direction.
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Thought it was well written. Would like to see a bit more focus on risk i.e. liklihood and impact explored a bit more.

On specific vulnerabilities like this I like the CVE format: e.g. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38615/info

information / background, exploit, solution, then some discussion on risk
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Test, test, test, test, test, test, test! Then automate as many tests as possible so that when you go and make a cup of tea you know you haven't broken anything :)
Basecamp is written in Ruby, so the choice is really a hash or a list. Either way, it's not likely to be your bottleneck in a web app.
That phone only has 3G on the 900 and 2100 bands, meaning that it will not be compatible with either AT&T's or T-Mobile 3G networks in the US. While HTC Desires with AT&T compatible 3G exist, you would have to drive to Canada to buy one: http://www.telusmobility.com/en/ON/htc_desire/index.shtml
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That's a self-deceptive way of looking at evolution. Every species currently in existence is equally good at adaptation.