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Good news! Crashing hourly is better than a more erratic schedule; it means you can observe the crash nearly on demand.

I would disable the auto-restart for a couple cycles to get a closer look at the unresponsive condition: total threads, any swapping, any busy threads. It means a few more minutes downtime but more information for you.

It sounds like some connections are hanging indefinitely, eventually using up 'all' of some capped resource (threads, RAM, etc.).

Make sure you have a 'Timeout' setting in the applicable apache conf, and make it really small (10-20) to see if that helps. (You may get complaints that other long-running-requests that used to finish now fail -- but at least service will remain available for usual requests, and you can adjust the value back up later.)

Check the end of the error_log just after a crash/freeze for hints. Consider adjusting the conf value MaxClients up, as long as there was no swapping evident. Consider adjusting the conf value MaxRequestsPerChild down, but nonzero, so that children are recycled sooner before they grow problematic from memory leaks.
Yes. I told him the following in person earlier tonight, at the last YCS10 dinner, and I think it's the consensus among the other founders I've talked to from our batch.

For the first month of Y Combinator, Paul Graham will tear you and your startup apart on a weekly basis (when you meet with him during office hours). If you're doing your job as a founder, though, you are the world expert in your particular field. So there should be times when you are right, and he's wrong, and you know that this is the case because of specific domain knowledge. There may even be times when you try to explain this to him and are unable to communicate it successfully.

However! There are also times when you think you have a problem specific to your startup that is actually a problem most startups have. In this case, PG is the domain expert, and you should probably listen to him.

The hard thing to do, obviously, is to distinguish the two cases. I have some thoughts on that, too, but they basically boil down to "you should appropriately mix cautious thought with bullheaded stubbornness", and you already knew that if you read anything anyone wrote about startups ever.

Edit: Didn't mean to speak for the rest of the founders. Feel free to disagree.
> are they getting any equity? Do they make more (meaningfully more) money if they do a good job?

No, I understand this can be a problem but at the same time I don't see a good reason to give them equity. I might give them equity and then get the bad performance again then I'll be a total idiot.

> Are you sure of the reasons why their performance is bad?

No I'm not but I've tried hard to figure out and so far couldn't pin point.

> because they don't want to anger you and risk getting fired?

I don't think so as I openly discussed the matter and tried to change how we work to fix this problem by their suggestions. So they know if they think something will work better I'll go with that. For example with one of them we were doing daily reviews then he wanted to weekly and thought it'd be better. I agreed and didn't bother him for a week. Result same.
Iron is one such browser built off the Chromium source.

For a list of some of differences between Chrome and Iron see: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...
it's old. pre Digg 4.
Tell me about it, IT industry (I know from myself) is so spoiled because generally it's rather easy to find jobs.
You'd reject the names of many very successful companies on those grounds.

I didn't think it was a winner when it was first suggested. We used it as a working title, and it stuck. It taught me that a company can grow into its name and make it feel very right.

Had someone told me 4 years ago we'd still be using it, and frequently being complimented on it by investors and users, I'd have been amazed too.
On that note can you make it do the right thing with /4 instead of /?4 with a re-write rule or something?

Cool URIs and all that. Preemptive thanks!
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Snow Crash also has a startup - Hiro helped write the metaverse... as a startup, if I recall correctly, but I might not.

He is also, as his business card says, "Last of the freelance hackers."
What if they hook everyone on things like free calls on gmail and then make the plugin only work with they version of "crome"?

I know lots of ppl who would not see any problem.

Although it would be very non-google... but lately...
Internal releases all automated so daily, hourly whatever in every commit and it's almost forbidden to keep your code more than a day at home! even if it's broken I force people to commit to keep it alive. If one code takes more than a day there is generally something with (design, task splitting etc.) unless we are introducing a big feature.

However based on comments I think focusing on important couple of features and try to deliver them in weekly of 2 weekly periods makes a lot of sense and should motivate people better.
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> It means that Jobs would like to avoid the fiasco he faced last time when every journalist in the room was attempting to live stream the broadcast via WIFI.

Or it's just that they believe to have found a way to stream to half the interwebs in real time. A few years ago Apple used to have life QuickTime feeds of their conference after all.
Wow, things have changed a lot in the last six months. That's a pretty respectable gaming lineup.
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One of the Chrome devs posted an IRC transcript of when an Iron dev dropped by...

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...

...and it was less than flattering.
Take the class, it's fine. The only argument that I have against java is that it requires too much just to get started with and people get easily tripped up with it.

class Hello {
public static void main(String args[]) { System.out.println("Hello");
}
}

Is pretty horrendous to explain to students vs.

print("hello")

You have to tell them to just print the magic words to get started, and they all want to know what the hell it means. And then you have to use the very slow, large, and irritating java SDK install process and some heavy IDE because you can't just print python and test stuff out. Or python pyscript.py. It would even be more horrendous to start out teaching with by how to use the relatively estoric command line compiler, and then packaging a jar and then running that somehow. A lot of java just gets in the way of just learning programming.

But it's popular, and it's used by a very large majority of employers, and there are employers that want co-op students after 2 semesters so they do that.
This sounds like a simple mis-configuration of Apache and the maxrequestsperchild.

If Apache is spawning 200 processes, each of which have PHP within that, then you can easily run out of memory and then kill apache and the system.

It looks like, from your hardware specs, that you've had this problem for a while and chose to solve it by throwing hardware at the problem... gradually increasing the RAM of the VM until you have a 4GB web server.

My bet is that this 4GB isn't needed, and that if you had got someone with some understanding of apache to look at it sooner that they could've configured apache to have fewer child processes and this would avoid the heavy memory requirements.

Go check serverfault.com, possibly hire someone to look at the problem for you if you don't understand what you're doing here. You will need to provide real information such as your apache2.conf and php.ini files, as well as info on whether you're using things like XCache, Memcache (if so, where is this installed?), Varnish, etc.

For your traffic and hardware, the numbers look low. You're most likely just running a badly configured apache.
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Likewise, though I haven't "got away with it", because I haven't succeeded yet. But I'll show him, oh yes. And then he'll have to amend his advice to "no single founders unless they're really awesome".
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I think it's a tough one. If it works it's flippin' awesome, if it doesn't it can be a despairing experience.

I guess the safe bet is to have a fall back option for those that want it.

Personally, with travel bookings I'd happily never look at a 3-part date drop-down again, even if the price is the odd clarification/re-phrasing.
Debugging offers a most excellent opportunity to practice science - Observe, Hypothesize, Test, Repeat. And just like regular science, bugs span the entire range of trivial to the head-explodingly-elusive.

Observation is in particular quite a hard practice. On several occasions I've realized that the evidence was staring at me in the face from day one, but my eyes were too clouded to see it. Sometimes, it helps if you know the system inside-out, but at other times that itself happens to be a blinding disadvantage.
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I can recommend the book "Moving On", which discusses a participatory economy, which was quite interesting to me personally. although it does (as you would expect) bog down with committees!

By the way, the shortest and most succinct laymen's description of anarchism came from a crimethinc flier i saw, possibly this one [low res PDF] http://thecloud.crimethinc.com/pdfs/fighting_for_our_lives_l...
I have actually done that in a test environment (never production). The only difference was my cron job was every 15 minutes. Doing that fixed an authentication issue with Apache and Microsoft Active Directory well enough for Devs to authenticate without getting errors.
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Looks like the Gates to Hell. Scary.
He's naive perhaps, but otherwise I don't see much wrong with his message. You shouldn't trust google, they're a big cooperation.
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I think what you're describing is a more general class of people. Hackers are the subgroup of such people, who are dealing mostly with computers and writing code.
If you don't want/need investment money, you're ignoring him in a passive way. It's a side effect of another decision/fact. Everyone can list examples of not caring about something pg wrote/said, because it doesn't apply to him. This post is asking for instances where people actively move counter to his advice.
ah, that smells of a first step in the direction of the diamond age ai books. way to go, but one has to start somewhere.
Also - learn martial arts. I took Krav Maga, there were plenty of women in the class, and the techniques translate well to self defense even if you're not as big or strong as your assailant. They teach you to attack vulnerable areas - eyes and groin in particular - and how to break chokes, deal with someone trying to pick you up off the ground, things like that. Everyone who travels or otherwise has a not 100% safe routine should take 10-20 martial arts classes. Might save your life.

Edit: Can't resist an anecdote. There was a huge Russian instructor in one of our classes, and the class that day was about half women. He said, "Ok, man tries to rape you? Rip his eyes, like this. See? Rip! He can't see now for rest of life? Tough shit! Should not have tried rape you."

(Despite the machismo of how this might look in text, it was well received in person - a good community, good people, good training, very welcoming to everyone at any level of age or fitness. Definitely recommended, almost any studio will give you a free class so just google for your area and go take one. Really, it's awesome.)
good luck in debugging mpm_worker with all loaded modules and their dependencies. btw, who will pay for hours and hours of such 'practicing'?

Is that never crossed your mind that the solution I recommended were battle-tested one?
Because "programmer" or "developer" can include people from other programming subcultures, like VB programmers and other types of coders who view coding as just another profession for getting a salary, and/or tend to be merely "consumers" of what Big Companies produce.
Learning to program is hard enough without having to grapple with the incidental complexities that Java presents.

Hope your instructor is providing good handouts to get you started. If not, have a look at BlueJ. It has been developed to ease you into Java programming without the stumbling blocks that JDK throws at novices.
Apple provided WiFi for FREE to ANYONE at the keynote speech announcing iPhone 4 in June. It worked great until the keynote. The MiFis fucked it up.
point taken. we didn't want to spam people's email until we were ready, but it seems that folks have gotten used to that flow
The short version:

1. User decided to not automatically renew payment.

2. Google sent email telling user to renew manually.

3. User ignored renewal email and Google cut him off.

4. User complains that Google mistreated him.
Snow Crash came long before Cryptonomicon, and the former dealt more with virtual reality than the latter (IIRC).

However, Neuromancer and the other Gibson Cyberpunk novels came well before Snow Crash.

Also, Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings.
If you want good advice from the previous generation, get it for general direction as opposed to something specific like "I want to hold my wedding at the south pole". Good mentors and teachers know the inner scenery rather well and can help greatly with that. They may not be very familiar with the outer scenery that we encounter daily, so that is what probably makes the specific stuff not so good.
Could you share with us what tools you use to produce Hacker Monthly? I would like to create an ebook but have no idea what tools to use.
Why haven't π±e, 2^e, π^e, or π^(√2) been shown to be irrational?
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If you think it's uncomfortable now, wait until you get hemorrhoid surgery to undo the damage you're doing with this.
first real flush toilets were probably from 26th century BC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet
The Knossos palace on Crete (1700BC) had flush toilets (and 3 separate systems for managing water)
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http://mumble.net/~campbell/scheme/style.txt

The reader of the code should not be forced to stumble over a
semantic identity because it is expressed by a syntactic distinction.
The reader's focus should not be directed toward the lexical tokens;
it should be directed toward the structure, but using square brackets
draws the reader's attention unnecessarily to the lexical tokens.

But it is not only about a style. When [x y] means a different thing than (x y) it is a different language construction, with different behavior.
I love Stephenson's novels but this project does not sound appealing. It comes off a bit like a bunch of Internet entrepreneurs got hold of him and said, "Hey, on the web, we have links and embedded images and stuff. It's called 'Hyper-Text' and is the latest craze. Can we use your name? What's your price?"
I'm curious, can you provide some examples?
Adobe InDesign CS4 (still haven't move to CS5 but I heard it's great).
You're right, I stand corrected. I was thinking of Google Groups which is related but not the same thing.
I love it. I think it's even better than consolas and I've been using consolas for years.

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I write a fair amount of Scheme code. I don't like the one closing paren per line thing for a reason similar to why python and haskell choose indentation for grouping (try adding braces to them). Code written like that looks bigger than it really is and is quite tiring on my eyes.
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The destination web
The destination web is not dying. It's evolving.

Unless your business is actually providing an online service/web app, the role of the modern web site has changed.

For example, say you're a lawyer. If you want to publish articles you've written in the bar association's publication on your site, you use a blog.

If you want to schedule time with your clients and have them pay you, you use a scheduling app that ties into PayPal. If you want to show videos of speeches you've given, there's Youtube. You can sell professionally prepared legal contracts using Shopify or another online store. Your bio is on LinkedIn or even Facebook.

So the only remaining use of web sites for business professionals and companies is to provide a highly brandable face for the company that ties the company's collective online identity across different sites together.

The traditional approach for small businesses is to register a very long domain name and put up a site with a page builder/template solution, or maybe hire a web developer.

The problem is, small businesses end up with very long domain names like www.bergenelectricalcontractingnyc.com

I've seen these site URLs on commercials vehicles and it's not pretty and certainly not memorable.

Could one build a universal site that "glues" together these different social/commerce/media components in a way that is highly brandable by the business?

And at the same time, could this solve the long URLs problem the same way trademarks/Doing BusessAs does? I.e., a certain site URL like tasteydiner.whatever goes to a specific business based on the locality of the visitor?

Suggestions (and especially) criticism is appreciated. :-)
You can always break the rules, but beware of breaking all the rules. If you are going against the popular advice (or normal business practices), you better have a reason for doing that.

If you understand the popular advice and if they are on back of your mind while you are breaking the rules you should be good.
could this be what you really want?
Python is just fine. O'Reilly have a great book "Python for Unix and Linux System Administration" if you'd like some great suggestions and ideas.
I code in Calibri (variable-width, comes with Vista). I changed a few years ago and never looked back.
With proper anti-aliasing and syntax highlighting, it's the perfect font for coding!
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Is there going to be any point to Linux Mint with Ubuntu 10.10?
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Destination Web
The destination web is not dying. It's evolving.

Unless your business is actually providing an online service/web app, the role of the modern web site has changed.

For example, say you're a lawyer. If you want to publish articles you've written in the bar association's publication on your site, you use a blog.

If you want to schedule time with your clients and have them pay you, you use a scheduling app that ties into PayPal. If you want to show videos of speeches you've given, there's Youtube. You can sell professionally prepared legal contracts using Shopify or another online store. Your bio is on LinkedIn or even Facebook.

So the only remaining use of web sites for business professionals and companies is to provide a highly brandable face for the company that ties the company's collective online identity across different sites together.

The traditional approach for small businesses is to register a very long domain name and put up a site with a page builder/template solution, or maybe hire a web developer.

The problem is, small businesses end up with very long domain names like www.bergenelectricalcontractingnyc.com

I've seen these site URLs on commercials vehicles and it's not pretty and certainly not memorable.

Could one build a universal site that "glues" together these different social/commerce/media components in a way that is highly brandable by the business?

And at the same time, could this solve the long URLs problem the same way trademarks/Doing BusessAs does? I.e., a certain site URL like tasteydiner.whatever goes to a specific business based on the locality of the visitor?
Pouring a bucket of water also works with western toilets. Try it one day. You'll probably have to do a few buckets but it works.
Agree. You may never be required to understand the lower-level stuff behind it all, but you'll become a better programmer if you take the time to do so (e.g. why is one data structure more efficient for this problem, etc.) I re-started CS in a high-level language many years ago and ended-up doing mostly C++ b/c I need low-level, native code for what I do and that made me understand everything about the higher-level language even better.

Good luck, it will be fun I'm sure.
I love that MagCloud is advertising in this issue. That says quite something about the quality of the work done on Hacker Monthly, about the target audience of the magazine, and MagCloud.

Can you tell us if you made some kind of (special) deal with them and if so what it boils down to?
The music industry lost 10 years believing that DRM works and it may never recover.

I think it's fair to say that they still believe it - or rather, they haven't moved on to the only valid business model in this day and age: music as a service.

To wit, pg's advice to wannabe music startups: "Don't do it, and if you do, be prepared for a long and bloody fight".
Sun has more patents than pretty much any company not called IBM. Oracle probably paid way too little for what they got.
This sounds vaguely similar to one of my favourite phrases:

"Argue like you're right; listen like you're wrong."
I recently discovered 100tb.com, which runs servers on the softlayer network with.. well, 100tb of bandwidth a month. Pretty good deal if you need to move a lot of data.

For shared hosting, I like to work with a smaller company called hawkhost (no affiliation). They have pretty good offerings for shared hosting, and I've experience no downtime thus far.
Yeah, I like sitting down with one of his books and immersing myself in it, not reading it on a computer. I really like his stuff, so I suppose I'll give this a go when I get a kindle later this year, but I'm skeptical.
I wish the guys good luck, but personally I find Kayak Explore a more than efficient and accurate tool for this type of search.

I found it returned rather erroneous results, "London to Asia next month" returned flights for mainly Eastern European destinations, I started to try different variables... "southampton to edinburgh next month" and it returned results for London Gatwick to Edinburgh.

Flight search is a very competitive online service, accuracy of results is key. The everyday user who receives poor results just simply wont bother returning.
I don't see much ethically wrong with it. I do have my doubts about your potential earnings. Music itself will earn you peanuts(cents). Though if they click through your affiliate link and end up buying a bunch of other items, you can make 4-5 bucks/order. With couple hundred downloads a month, I just don't see the math adding up to much significant revenue.

But hey, can't hurt to try!
Goes to show - I think that's quite a nice name and easy to spell.
Could you sit down with one of his books and read it on an iPad or kindle?