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I think it is because there are so many idiosyncratic differences in international cultures and the US, that it may not be worth the risk for a startup to expand abroad. For example, I wouldn't know the first thing about how to start doing business in The Netherlands from a marketing standpoint. I could read all of the books I could stomach, and interview every Dutch-speaking individual available, but that wouldn't be the best use of my time or, ultimately my dollars. I'd probably end up having to pump cash into hiring a US/NL or US/EU relations team to get it going; all the while I probably don't actually have that money.
I find picasa significantly faster and easier to go through huge swaths of photographs than iPhoto, and it uses a simple directory method of organization, so it's easy to move around and send pictures to others.
That would probably not help much here; you'd then end up caching pretty much the same stuff on node 0 and 1, so it would be like having two 32 GB nodes instead of one big 64 GB node. They would both be maximally fast, within the 32 GB memory constraint, but they would both have to swap if you wanted to exceed 32 GB of cached information.

Real sharding - storing totally different stuff on the two shards - would probably give a really good performance improvement. But real sharding is much more of a pain than just starting two copies of mysqld.
The sketches look nice but the photos look really depressing.
I recently signed up for http://tweetstreamapp.com. $5 for a year of weekly backups, and they do some neat data visualizations, too. Well worth the fiver.
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Why isn't the cop getting sued or under any investigation? As far as I can see, he was plain clothed, in an unmarked car, no walkie talkie, no gear, a gun, and did not identify himself until after the third yell of "get off the bike".

I am not even sure that an off duty officer should be able to make a traffic stop. That creates a situation where people are expectant of it, which gives much more leverage to criminals who want to pretend to be police.

Now anyone can pull someone over and say they are a cop and most are going to take their word for it? This could prove to be the most calm and non violent form of car jacking I have heard of...

1) Approach person at a stoplight while out of breath
2) Ma'am, I need your car for official police business, get out, leave your belongings and the keys as they are. Contact the XXPD in 4 hours to retrieve your car.
3) Oh... Yes sir, thank you!

A great yet small win for possibly getting a chance to re-visit the original wire tapping laws that are being abused. However, there are other more superficial issues that are related directly to law enforcement that are seemingly going overlooked.

I can understand, as the guy is probably relieved to know he is not going to jail for 7 years, but hope that over time he will at least smell the cash he could possibly make; or more ideally, do it for the sake of doing the right thing for society.
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Here are my paraphrased notes as I was watching the video:

In brief:

Presenter - Addy Osmani

1) jQuery Mobile

2) jQuery 1.4.3

3) Future of jQuery

Details:

1) jQuery Mobile: Create customized app that will work on almost all smartphones. Less work for all developers, short learning curve. Write once, work everywhere - same idea that prompted Resig to design jQuery. Write webapps that aren't tied down to particular devices. Improved touch-optimized UI/layout - almost native widgets. Current solution everyone uses is self-written custom CSS/png files to make their apps look like iOS widgets. Having jQuery team behind such a UI will ensure your application will always look good on all devices. Team will ensure support for international platforms, not just US-centric. jQuery Mobile will be rolled into jQuery Core - ONE file for use on desktop AND mobile devices (only 1kb increase in size). Expected release date: Oct 16, 2010 at jQuery Conference in Boston.

2) jQuery 1.4.3: Will include jQuery Mobile, expected released Oct 16. Lots of bug fixes. Improved .css() performance across all browsers. Feature allowing plugins to delay execution of the DOM ready event. Better support for easing in shorthand effects (hide, show etc.). Data can be bound to Flash objects, presenter unsure how useful this feature will be. Improved type Support, fixes to noConflict.

3a) Future of jQuery I: Lots of community improvement ideas - jQuery team will make their core roadmap more concrete and publicly available in the future. More information will be available for those who wish to contribute with the bug fixing and performance optimization efforts. If you are the JS/jQuery developer with a few years of experience, please try to help with the bug fixing and other project tasks. Even reviewing others' code and writing test will be appreciated by the team. Voting and commenting on what bugs will take priority are also in pipeline.

3b) Future of jQuery II: Modular version of jQuery - people who are used to jQuery UI are aware that it is possible to break down a library into chunks. Modular jQuery would be slightly different - you may be able to load the core of jQuery first and then load the rest of the code later on, as you need. If you want to use animate features and don't require other jQuery features, you may be able to load the base jQuery, then animation code, then if another plugin on same page needs other part of jQuery, the plugin can use it's own set of jQuery features. It would be a complex feature to create but would help page-load times. Still an idea in the pipeline at this time. Will decrease the amount of jQuery core code you need to load in a page.

My personal thoughts:

Can't wait for the jQuery Mobile. I am working on the perfect webapp to utilize jQuery Mobile thoroughly. Love the single .js file, even if it was 20-30kb larger, I wouldn't care personally - hopefully it won't have 200kb of assorted CSS/png files like the jQuery UI. Improved speed in 1.4.3 sounds cool too.
I modified it so it was MORE accurate. Before it gave the impression that it was 90% all over, which is not the claim they make.
Renaissance over Citadel. If I'm not mistaken, Renaissance is purely automated trading. No traders or trading floor in the conventional sense. Plus they weathered the fallout of 08 much better than Citadel.

What's sad is that these smart people, including ones I've met while working as a SysAdmin for a Prop Trading firm often don't have access to the capital to start their own shops. This is due to the incestuous nature of the Finance world, where it's a lot more about who you know than what you know.

Sadly, they're often in the employ of third-rate CEOs, who always get a cut off the top, and pay the producers a mere fraction of what they made for the firm and their clients.
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Also, salary greatly depends on which city you're located in.
I post them up because, I think its good content and people here seem to appreciate it. I think its because hackers also appreciate art, and looking at these pics for 5 mins, simply just rests your eyes for bit.

Same reason why I post up slides, kinda changing the format a bit.
I came here to post the exact same complaint. I used to have DDG as my default search on all browsers, but eventually I got annoyed by the slow speed of loading and switched back to Google.

Once the guy fixes this issue, I'll be the first one to go back to DDG, because I liked being able to search privately and anonymously.
granted rentech probably has desco beat (at least in terms of recruiting toughness - the only metric I'm really in a position to judge by). But I don't think anyone would deny that desco is part of that top tier too.

FWIW, in my experience the handful of citadel programmers I've interacted with aren't quite in the same league as shaw/rentech/getco/jane st/etc. I have no idea how that reflects on their returns though ;-)
As we all know by now, the launch system has its flaws (segmented solids and loosely insulated liquid tanks). The economics of Shuttle was grotesquely oversold, and satellites were limited to LEO because that was the service ceiling for the platform. NASA never should have relied on Shuttle to do all its lifting; the back-breaker for the US Air Force was the launch delay during the Challenger investigation. Shouldn't have been using a man-rated vehicle to tow satellites into orbit to begin with.

But the orbiter itself is a work of art, a dazzlingly complex system, finely tuned to operate on the hairy edge of materials science and meticulously maintained. For all its expense, it was done right, and I rather wish there was the money to do it again with 21st century tech.
This is a great article to demonstrate that testing automatically doesn't guarantee boost in conversions.

On the homepage, you optimized for conversions to signup page, so you got that! If on signup page, you optimize for signups, you will get that (hopefully). The only thing testing does is to substitute blind flying with a set of gauges. The act of coming up with test objectives and good variations is much more vital for increasing sales and conversions.
Unless of course you follow that argument to its logical conclusion...
Interesting story, but the poster here substituted an inaccurate, flamebait title for the original.
Does anyone know what UNIX even is anymore? Does UNIX=BSD? So does that mean Microsoft could sell Linux, since Linux!=BSD?
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I'll summarise... it starts off with happy European users wanting local-to-them photo printing. Because they are so happy! By the end of their fruitless begging, they are directing each other to a competing service.

So I completely understand what you are saying. The fact is that the US market is so large and lucrative, that many start-ups seem content to focus exclusively on it. The problem is that they create a fragmentation of their future market by allowing national competitors to provide a local service catering to the same niche. Like you said great for those localised start-ups, but not so great for interoperability and convergence.

That said, I totally give a break to media outfits like Pandora and Netflix that have horrendously complicated licensing issues to deal with.
They are having a hard enough time conquering the US market, that's why.
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It partly depends on just how legit he's been about the move. My guess is that the amount of time he's spent in CA since he "moved" to WA a few months ago will turn out to be suspiciously high for a non-California resident. Bin 38, if I recall, is not located in WA, and he seems to have just happened to be in that area a few weeks ago, several months after he "moved" to WA. Perhaps he flew out specifically for the occasion and really is not usually around. But I wouldn't be surprised if he still lives/works primarily in California, and has a sham WA residency.
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There is a regular marked police car and uniformed officer behind the bike so that should have made it clear that the guy with the gun was also police, or perhaps a very stupid criminal.
Most of the ML books I've worked with so far seem a bit overly formal. Steven Marsland's book seems to strike the best balance between theory and implementation I've seen, even if the Python code is a little clumsy.
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That's been my experience so far as well. The algorithms are surprisingly straightforward. Understanding the underlying theory well enough to get good results is the hard part.
My advice is to just have reasonable deadlines and milestones, and let him work as often as it takes to hit those goals. If that means crunch-time occasionally, so be it.
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You spread mistruths about Debian with your various "business" comments. That in and of itself merits an apology. You can't just go making stuff up about people because they irritate you.

Also, from everything I can tell about your original post, you had a (well known) problem with Ruby gems on Debian, not with something you wrote. I can understand being irritated about that (Debian is not blameless, obviously), but there are jerks everywhere, and also an awfully lot of nice people in Debian too. Your lynch-mob mentality (seo tricks, in-person confrontations, etc...) reflects very poorly on you and is extremely unlikely to produce anything approaching positive changes.

If you don't like the freedom others have with open source licenses, why not just go back to making proprietary software where you won't have the problem. Freedom means that people sometimes do things you disagree with (even vehemently so), and if you can't handle it, then perhaps it is simply not worth it.
A regional Finnish newspaper is very likely to keep it's audience in one form or another for a long time

That's the gist I think. TechCrunch is making $10M revenue in a year (http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-is-close-to-buying-techcr...). It's hard to say how much of that remains as a profit, but I would expect that with AOL helping with ad sales and infrastructure, they can bring costs down considerably. Let's say $5M in profits.

It's a competitive market and there is not yet enough experience how long web properties can retain their audience, thus valuation of future revenues drop quickly.

Now, it seems that if AOL doesn't expect significant growth for TechCrunch, $25-50M is in a right ballpark.

However, I still think that $180M for a regional Finnish newspaper with 300K audience is a risky bet. Time to read their financials to understand this.
#newtwitter has a "hidden" way of muting people actually: http://praxx.is/post/1207623920/muting-users-in-newtwitter
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This is good news. I recently moved to the East Bay from Brooklyn, and before that was going to school in Philly. Philly always had that low-key feel that I enjoyed, and was less than 100 miles from NYC. Public transit sucks though.

What's sad is that a majority of the local economy is outside of Center City Philadelphia, and Philadelphia proper mostly due to the city wage tax which takes out almost 4% on top all other deductions in your paycheck. And young people want to live in the city, so it's a tough sell.

It reminds of pg's essay on Cities and Ambition. This kind of thing will give people more options on where to set-up shop, in an area they're comfortable with. It will also help prevent groupthink, and promote a diverse startup ecosystem.

I moved to the Bay area to feel the pulse, and get a feel for the startup scene. Hopefully, I'll have the chance to attend startup school next month.
And men are more likely to get knifed. It's not about competing to see who can be the biggest victim and win the most stuff out of sympathy.
Okay, sure. :)

A new protip for the paranoid: the author could phish the snot out of you with an overlay that made it look like Facebook needed a re-login, too!
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> The deficit only appeared to be going down because GDP was distorted by a massive asset bubble

The deficit is defined as the difference between tax revenues and govt spending. Are you suggesting that tax revenues were inflated?

> Right, because demand and thus growth are well known for immediately returning to their previous levels following a recession.

A recession is defined as two or more consecutive quarters of 0 growth or contraction. The end of a recession is, by definition, a quarter of growth. We haven't had any contraction in the last year.

However, growth after a recession is usually fairly vigorous and the growth after this recession has been pretty anemic.

> And as I have observed elsewhere, doing absolutely nothing to trim its own spending.

That's too kind - spending increased significantly under W. By previous standards, those increases were obscene. By current/Obama standards, the increases were modest. (FWIW, military spending as a fraction of govt spending continues to drop. We're way lower now than after vietnam, let alone during.)

Much, but not all, of the W deficit came from Iraq and Afghanistan, which were/are winding down. However, W's deficits started dropping before then. They didn't explode again until the dems took congress. (Congressional repubs were a lame brake on W's spending tendencies. Congressional Dems were no brake at all - their complaint about the prescription drug benefit monstrosity was that it wasn't big enough.)

I note that you think that W's spending is unreasonable but are happy with Obama spending far more. Curious.

But I'll bite - what spending, other than Iraq and Afghanistan, would you have cut from W's term?

I've mentioned one possible answer, the prescription drug plan.

Or, is your only real complaint that W didn't collect enough tax revenue?

The "outsource" story is cute, but irrelevant because increased tax rates don't decrease off-shoring.

You forgot the other part - rich people are (potential) job creators. The middle class,not so much. The poor, almost not at all.

Money goes to where it's welcome. I'd like that to be the US because there's a big benefit to having money around.

You seem hung up on relative levels. I'm not. I don't care what you have. I care what I have. I'd much rather be poor in the US than in the middle almost anywhere else. How about you?
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That license would not be "BSD", and what it was likely wouldn't be blessed by FSF/OSI/etc. (it doesn't meet the Open Source Definition, http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd and it’s probably not GPL-compatible), instantly making it suspect to lots of people.... Crockford got flak for adding a “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil” clause, after all.[1] That would make it impossible for your code to be used by many open source projects.

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> Debian does more to further the cause of software patents and non-free licensing than any other organization.

Wow. Really?

> They choose to demonstrate how idiotic such ideas about IP are by implementing them to their fullest — by being idiots.

From the guidelines:

> Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation.

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

I for one do not care at all for your rude name calling.

For what it's worth, I'm not particularly fond of debian-legal either, but it's entirely possible to express that disagreement without calling everyone who does not see the world as you do "idiots".
Coincidentally, I just happened to see a link on Reddit leading to a post by the same Ersek: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c/msg/22e3473f80eec...

Like his message to Zed, it's clear, concise, and seemingly accurate. It also includes a wonderful and well commented example program in expert idiomatic C showing signal handling. I hadn't even known comp.lang.c was a going concern!

It's exactly the sort of quality code I'd expect from someone who writes such good prose. While I'm sure there are some examples of good prose writers who can't code, are there any definitive examples of good C programmers who can't write? Or is this just a "true Scotsman" problem?
Yeh, to be clear I actually enjoy the art in some of the posts you've made, but I share the same wonder as the original commenter as to what "artsy hack" means, really.

Not a big deal, though, of course. :)
LiquidWeb was down for 40 minutes and all I got was this tiny stinking update
"A subset of customers were affected by an apparent power surge which took a UPS system offline and tripped the breaker protecting that system. Power has been restored to those affected. We are working to completely restore all services. We will provide regular updates via this support page. As always please feel free to contact us via ticket or by calling our toll-free support number."

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During the outage, their phone support was down, and they did not respond to a helpdesk ticket, and their live chat was unavailable. Heroic support this is decidedly not.

The closest thing to an update was a reply to my tweet (sent at the start of the downtime, thanks to Pingdom) 15 minutes into the downtime. The decided lack of an apology on their part leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Ugh.
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That's exactly what companies like GE and Intel do.

I personally think it's terrible management practice, but it seems to work for them, and there's always fresh young blood coming in at the bottom.
Most startups need to accept two things: white labeling and licensing.

Dunno why they can't get this through their heads. I have proposed to tens of startups in their nascent days, asking them if I can take their platform, localize it and offer their services in the middle-east. NONE of them took my offer. It's almost cheaper to clone than to ask for a license or partnership.

Folks, you don't need to have shrink-wrapped software to license. I will happily launch a localized service off of your CVS trunk. So stop being irrationally greedy and license your work to others, or sit and watch a thousand clones bloom.

White-labeling is another thing that nobody seems to get, sadly.

I wish startups would learn a thing or two about affiliate marking.
Rich is very mutch pro tail calls. Look at his talk at the JVM Language http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/What_the_JVM_needs (the video is not online jet).

As soon as the JVM supports it Clojure will support it. For me recur and trampoline are quite ok. I would want to miss on clojure because of TCO but I don't know what would be possible with TCO. I hope I can learn that in one of the books I have here :)
You can learn to write well without learning it in school, though, and you can learn to write well in school without studying English.

Getting into arguments on the internet, for instance, is a usable way to improve your writing ability. If you don't get your points across clearly, people will misunderstand you and flame you, which is both more immediate and more incentivizing than writing class papers and having them graded. Then you learn to anticipate how people will respond to how you write things and how to get your points across better.

But even in school, if you take something you're interested in that requires a lot of writing, like philosophy or history, then you get practice writing about something you care about, often in a certain style which is useful later. History, supposedly, is great for learning how to pull together different facts into a coherent picture while philosophy, in my experience, is good for learning how to write about tricky subjects clearly and logically.

If you enjoy writing about whatever people in English classes are assigned to write about, it may be worthwhile. Your school was probably better than mine--I've known more than one English major who was a terrible writer.