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Humans are animals. What affects (kills them)animals affects humans(kill you).

We have one weapon way more powerful than DDT. It is called intelligence and knowledge, things like controlling pools of water is way more effective that DDTing everything.

People with lack of intelligence or knowledge wants a magic pill that solves all problems without having to think, but this has an enormous cost. When I eat fish from Ebro Delta I'm eating DDTs thanks to them(they are forbidden but some people continue using them).
Do those have VNC support, though?

Could you pay $14 and have a remote IE instance that the whole team can access no matter where they are, instead of using up your precious local memory on every machine?
I think the opposite will happen for (a). There are still a ton of users who are not very good at using search engines and only do one or two word queries. Suggestions-as-you-type will teach these users how to search more effectively, I think (esp. given your point (b)).
You know the claim that you need to keep founders around because they know how to take risks and rethink your basic corporate assumptions?

My opinion is that Larry and Sergei demonstrate that strength in spades at Google. Just look at the initiatives that they are pushing right now.
It's all ok with it — there are two successors — bluebream and repoze.bfg. I prefer the latter. ;-)
The speed of the template engine isn't really the problem (it's unlikely to be a major bottleneck anyway, compared to database operations).

It's the restrictiveness compared to e.g. Jinja2 or Mako. With those engines, I can just drop in a Python function and be done with it; with Django template engine you end up writing tons of template tags for the simplest things. It's designed for a particular work environment (designers work on templates, so should not be allowed to do anything dangerous) that I've found to be quite rare in most projects.
I think he qualifies as a startup more than many "startups" taking rounds of funding never achieving revenue
I use Git to archive blog posts and other documents. Likely the same for him
I don't think that argument is superficial. At scale, Amazon is actually quite pricey. Currently, Amazon makes most sense if your site does have large variability in usage and if it makes use of the ability to spin up/down instances on demand. If you're an event-related site where usage goes up by a factor of 10-100 for a few hours every week, for example, Amazon makes a whole lot of sense.

However, if your usage is way up there all week long, it seems to me there are significantly cheaper alternatives, e.g. Hetzner servers.
Scientists did the cost-benefit analysis and came down hard on the side of mosquito extinction.

I have described the immense harm caused by mosquitos. I have looked equally hard for mosquito benefits and found none that can't be provided by other species. To stand on the side of keeping mosquitos, you must find a benefit that outweighs trillions of dollars of lost economic output, millions of man-months of suffering, and several million deaths per year.

And the less likely your proposed benefit of mosquitos is, the better it must be to win in the expected value calculation.
I think topic-modeling (a la the Latent Dirichlet Allocation article posted about seomoz the other day) will make this difficult to do (at least without confusing the people you want to convert).
It doesn't seem to be up on the pricing page yet (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/). Are 32-bit and 64-bit the same price?
They support Remote Desktop, but since they're Server 2008 the only IE instance you could run on it is IE8.
Now take away the helmets and pads and imagine what a rugby camp is really like.
Sounds a lot like Etsy. It takes them years to implement simple feature requests (which are repeated by thousands of customers). Then, when they do, if ever, the implementation and design are botched.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing is where I see it now. I can't find anything that would indicate different prices for 32- or 64-bit.
Oh man, I always think about this scene in The Hudsucker Proxy when someone talks about what to charge... not sure how applicable it is, but boy is it entertaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLOAXDb6fps
I'm an idiot, thanks :)
It seems there is no local storage included in the price.

I did not try, but that probably means complicated settings, which is a pity, since while the price could probably appeal to people launching side projects at minimal costs, like me, being a side project also means that not much time can be devoted to sysadminery.
I'm not convinced that there is a bubble. A few weeks ago I was in a discussion with yummyfajitas about the cost of college education. The list of possibilities that I gave at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1615842 seems to me to offer food for thought about why costs may have been rising.

Well, thinking about it, there is a bubble. For-profit institutions like the University of Phoenix have been caught engaging in behavior that simply cannot be sustainable long term. There will be backlash. But I doubt that, say, Harvard has much to worry about.
If you book a reserved instance, the price for lnx get as low as $0.01 ($54/yr).
It's a bit premature but for spot instances, atm windows ones are around $0.0135 (linux history is not yet available). As for other instance-types it looks like that with spot instances you'll get the usual 60% off the original price.

EDIT: $54 upfront and then $0.01
Ah, yes. Thanks.
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Go to the AWS console and launch one. It's pretty much as simple as it can be. They automatically use EBS so they're persistent. No special configuration required.
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If you try to construct a standard VPS or dedicated server plan out of EC2, you're always going to find that the bandwidth makes EC2 more expensive -- but that ignores the fact that most people don't even come close to using all their allocated bandwidth. The fact that AWS only charges for actual bandwidth used makes a big difference.

(The same applies with Tarsnap's $0.30/GB storage cost vs. fixed-plan backup pricing -- $10 for 50 GB sounds cheaper, but if people only use 5 GB of that on average, it turns out to be far more expensive.)
http://mdlabs.se/sleepcycle/

Similar idea, except uses the accelerometer in the iPhone itself.
I believe it only had an effect on your personal view of Google. Otherwise, it would have been abused by competitors and 'SEO experts'.
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Making peace with the fact that I'm way too stupid to write bug free code.

This leads to a surprisingly large number of practical habits.

1. I welcome code reviews. Some people can't stand their code being criticized by other people. To me the fact that someone else spends time improving my code is a clear win. Ego is not bruised if you start with assumption of being stupid.

2. I seek out and use tools that help me find bugs automatically and understand my code better. Static code checkers like clang analyzer or cppcheck or pychecker or lint. Valgrind, good memory and cpu profilers, good debuggers. Source Insight (an editor).

3. I see enormous value in continuous build systems and automated testing (be it unit tests or more holistic tests).

4. I step through new code I write in the debugger just to verify that it behaves the way I expect.

5. I stay away from complexity, both self-inflicted (like trying to be too clever when implementing something) or inflicted by the tool (e.g. I avoid using advanced features of C++). I avoid multi-threading as long as I can.

6. I add diagnostics to my code. Logging, asserts in debug builds, built-in crash dump submission to my site for analyzing crashes that happen in the wild.

7. I know that despite doing all I can to prevent it, the bugs will happen and will have to read my own code to fix them long after I wrote that code. Therefore I try to make the code as readable as possible for my future self. Balanced comments (not too much, not too little). No cryptic names for variables or functions. No long functions with complex logic. I take the time to make my code look consistent.

8. It's better if other people sweat writing and fixing bugs in their code than me in mine. I look for high quality, reputable components instead of re-inventing the wheel. I would much rather use SQLite than write my own persistence layer.
I'm an AWS user, and I also use Rackspace some, so interesting to find this article indicating you're better off with a small Rackspace instance than a medium AWS instance.

http://www.thebitsource.com/featured-posts/rackspace-cloud-s...
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There is something strange:

I typed "This is cra" and I saw a lot of results.

Then I completed with "This is crazy" and suddenly the search result is empty (asking to hit enter, after which the results are displayed)

It seems like the search results are displayed as you type only if the search phrase is recognized by search suggestion.

The completion suggested "this is crack and this is what you smoke it in" when I wrote that (without hitting enter) google rendered a result immediately.

So it seems that google is not simply executing the partial search as you type (it would be too expensive even for them), but it precomputes the search results for each the search suggestion. Does it make sense?
It's incredible what you can control once you gain access to a cars ECU.

Locks, ignition, alarms and even the stereo are all operable via the ECU and this is the key point. I can appreciate that more cars are adopting wireless technology and keyless technology but gaining access to the ECU in that manner would be akin to cleaning the spark plugs via the sump.

Why would anyone want to hack my car?

This isn't the pertinent question, the question is 'When will we get to a point where someone can hack my car remotely?'
Rackspace Cloud Servers outperform Amazon EC2
Probably dcramer
I think we're all interpreting 'just start' differently. Cal might not have done this intentionally, but it's not really fair to compare 'just start' for skills vs. for start-ups.

Cal's advice, as he says in the article, is for a very specific audience. His whole spiel is to get so fanatically good at one specific, tightly niched skill or knowledge set that it starts returning exponential returns relative to how much time you put in.

This is pretty antithetical to the 'just start -> fail early, fail fast' mindset of startups. And that makes sense: If you're trying to develop a skill (say, being an awesome ruby programmer), then you're better off clearing a week and deepdiving into ruby; the criteria and the bounds on this process are clearly defined. However, if what you're trying to found a start-up from an idea, your scope is totally unknown; there's no way that you can clear off your week and decide to become really good at 'creating the next twitter', because no one knows what that skillset from the outset. The idea of 'just get started' in startups is to help you define that scope of what it is necessary, then give you a chance to see if it's reasonable to develop and execute on it (FEFF).
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This seems like an excellent opportunity for hosting Server Core, particularly as a front-end web server.
Gotta move to Europe. It's shopping paradise for tall skinny dudes.

Living in Spain, I could walk into a store and buy a suit off the rack. That's physically impossible for a tall man in America, where Large means Fat. There are no fat people in Spain, so Large means "long arms".

I have a shirt labeled XL that doesn't look like you draped a sheet over my head. I defy you to find an XL shirt in the states that puts the buttons within 12 inches of your torso.

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It's a nice sentiment, but expecting people to subscribe to your print magazine because they like reading your articles online is a recipe for a broken business model. People like good journalism and they're willing to support it, but such support needs to be requested in a logical manner. When non-profits request donations, that makes sense. When for-profit print publications ask for subscriptions, people are disinclined to follow through because they don't actually want what they're presumably paying for.
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Yeah, that's true. It's been a few years since the discussion but the 37signals blog was on Wordpress at some point (might still be) and pragmatism was cited. I agree with this and my own Ruby blog is on Wordpress too ;-) Ruby blog solutions mostly suck.
"So this is a program that has to run with reasonable performance on a 12MHz 80286 with 2MB of RAM. Are you sure you wouldn't consider having your UI read and write the disk directly?"

I wrote code for those machines, and no, I wouldn't write my UI code to read and write the disk directly.

"Separation of concerns is a modern luxury."

This is a myth. Merely an excuse for poor API design. Proper abstraction doesn't mean inefficiency.

Your last paragraph (the "Edit") is almost offensive. The cause of bloat is not separation of concerns. It's that people just don't care about writing efficient code (or they just don't know how). Did you ever write code in the era you speak of? Because your statement comes across as ill-informed conjecture.
This happens because the "instant" search results are basically precomputed search results of the "first suggestion".

When you type "F#" google search is actually suggesting you "f to c" and the results is displayed accordingly.

It seems that google is not simply executing the partial search as you type (it would be too expensive even for them)

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674707
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Interesting to see this surface again.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=918637

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474588

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674480

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495561

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=494066

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1003875
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and if it doesn't autocomplete in the plain old search suggestions feature, then it will not appear in the instant results, because these are precomputed results for queries that are generated by the suggestion engine.
The two sites look pretty different. May be it's my lack of design sense that can't tell the difference.
They thought about this. What happens is that there is no way the devaluation could become "gradual".

Imagine being Greek and having all your live savings in the bank, in euros, and tomorrow they become drachmas and in the process losing 25% purchasing power. What do you do? You sell all your drachmas and buy euros or dollars because you know drachmas are going to be even less tomorrow.

It doesn't matter you make it illegal, people is going to do it anyway. This is what happened in Argentina, nobody wanted pesos, they wanted USD. People stopped using banks(this way the government has less power over your money).

Also, people feel enormously betrayed when they realize their hard earned savings become nothing and politician heads roll down, so politicians try to delay it as much as possible. IMO it will happen sooner or later anyway, unfortunately because they were in fact betrayed.
Then it is really interesting. I have a few possible use cases in mind :

- we are hosting a little software load balancer for web services and it definitely does not need more than that

- thanks to the web service api of Amazon, it is relatively easy to set automated recovery plans, and the idea is very attractive, but until now I was detterred by the price.

- for small web applications with low bandwith, the price is good. For reserved instances, for one year, you pay 54$ up front, then 87.6$ for usage for the whole year, for a total of 141.6. That's a lot less than renting a server at linode.com for a year (~220$).
It hurts the government's creditors, as it should.
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Would love to hear/see DHH's setup.
Hmmmm.... The 1 MB limit in and out of the image service could be a problem.
That's actually the only thing that bothers me about tumblr, but not enough to switch
The headline is misleading. It should be something like "Why Tech Companies Love Having Manor, Texas As A Customer". As it is now, it implies that tech companies like being in Manor, which isn't the case.
This is a good overview: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/document.domain
The first habit I try to impress on junior programmers is not to be satisfied when you've fixed a problem: you aren't done until you understand what went wrong in the first place, and have a plausible explanation as to why the change you made fixed it. (Bonus points if you go looking for other instances of the same problem.)
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Oh man. The solution to the problem according to his last link http://intellectualventureslab.com/?page_id=563 is [scroll down...] LASERS.
Some big Django shop like Discus could create a team and sponsor the development. Something called Django2 Django-ng.

Without hype and stimulation individual developers are passive.
(When you post about Google articles I think you guys should remind people that (AFAIK) that you work there.)
The fact that you see location and personalization affects the search result doesn't actually mean that they perform a real search using the query that you are actually writing in your search bar.

One possible way (I'm not sure exactly how it works at google, but I can guess) is that the search result is computed in many steps, one of which searches the indices and generates a list of relevant results, which then are passed to a personalization layer which modifies (reorders, merges, trims) the index results and finally it's passed to a presentation layer which renders the html page (perhaps there are other layers too, irrelevant for this discussion).

So, the "instant" search would basically replace first layer, the actual search in the big indices with a precomputed search list for each phrase generated by search suggestions (or a cache of these, which is filled by actual searches if the element is not present). The personalization layer would be free to do things to that precomputed search results, incurring into smaller load because of several reasons: a) fewer users have personalization and on fewer b) personalization has to access less data, and the whole search retrieve functionality is more IO bound than cpu bound.

As for location, there could be one of these 'caches' per location.

I'm sure that they don't do any query "as you type" because the 'instant' page result is always the result of the first "search suggestion". Try to type "F#" (as user 'singular' suggested), the first suggestion is "f to c", and the search results are about temperature conversion.
Anyone got any ideas why the strangely specific 613MB of RAM?
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Trendy ones, at least:-)
Thats why you get a good business side cofounder ;)
I would prefer it if, when Google is in "instant" mode, the search bar is automatically on the top. Either that, or perhaps the search could just be shown at the bottom.

That said, the "jump" to the top is enough for me to disable the instant search. I've wanted to go back to it because it seems like a great idea, but that teleport to the top keeps confusing me, and those seconds of re-orientation negate the enhancements they intended to provide. This is my opinion based on my experience with it so far, of course.
Duplicate news, see discussion over at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1674575
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From the article:
"Unlike all the ideology surrounding XML that never came to fruition, Microdata is already being adopted by Google as part of their rich snippets to aid in providing richer search results"

O RLY:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
That reminds me of my worst habit as a programmer: I want to solve every problem myself, instead of asking for help.

I certainly don't recommend quitting every time you have a problem you can't solve in half a hour, but there's a happy medium between that and wasting days (while you're getting paid, or at least wasting your project's time) working on something that the guy in the next room could sweep away in ten minutes.
It won't make me click on more ads because I run adblock (on FF) and adthwart (on Chrome), and also because I already disabled it.

(Why do most posts these days feel the need to address the reader directly? "What you need to do", "What you don't know", "What you'll need"... I know what I know and don't know. Tell me what YOU know.)
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No. What you suggest is socially destructive, buying an expensive car is socially neutral. Why such an aversion to expensive cars? I'd rather live in a studio apartment with a Ferrari, than a 4 bedroom house (which I don't need - as it's just me) with a "normal" car.

Besides - why the heck should a private guy have to do anything of social value with his money? What, you want him to fund your startup with his hard-earned cash? Why should he?

There is nothing that says an entrepreneur has to spend their wealth investing in startups. Tom Perkins commissioned the Maltese Falcon, Larry Ellison (co)owns The Rising Sun, Elon Musk founded a freaking space-ship company because he wanted to.

This: "Instead, he's blowing his money on expensive thrills."
Why shouldn't he? It's his money, he's not harming anyone by doing it, is he? Owning an expensive car doesn't mean you do anything illegal or immoral with it.
>>I've never used such a rigorous process. I'm just curious why it has become so popular, There's got to be a reason, right?

I think the feature is the speed and standardization of the screening process -- the code writing on line probably clears out a lot of incompetents. (Trivial parallels with CPU instruction queues etc inserted here.)

>>how the candidates' previous code contributions and experiences do not matter.

They'll look at open source contributions in a later phase, or they are idiots.

>>my bad attitude

There is nothing wrong with your attitude -- that was way out of line. Don't work for people who doesn't like if you ask questions. (And don't judge the GP as an idiot either, he made some good points but might have had to explain some simple things once too often. :-)

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert or even a good amateur at the hiring process.