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If you know me, I could really care less about the traffic one article brings. Here's what I do care about: the comment I would have gotten - "Give us examples please" So I gave everyone examples of what we did.
ESX Server does not have community support, but it has commercial support.

If you are tenacious and patient enough to make it past the first tier of support, you will get your crashed server fixed, possibly faster than it would take to wait for an answer on a mailing list.
Microsoft needs to spin off sub-brands like Toyota has done with Scion. There's a lot of cool stuff that Microsoft would have better luck selling under a more hip brand name.
I agree with you. You saw a question that should have been asked but wasn't. You phased the question in a specific way to give a specific answer.

It does not make sense to bury this information in tons of other posts that would not come up in a google search when searching for this problem.

I don't get the nontrivial argument. Is everything in the documentation nontrivial? Where is the ideal place for a user looking for the answer to this question?
Matsano!
Perhaps you could develop your argument a bit more before trying to tear down a substantial post on someone's experience?

I think that would be a more valuable contribution to the discussion.
Sorry, I wasn't precise. I cannot hear the audio. It's not that it's bad, it's that I have no way of hearing it. =)

Having video is fine. It's awesome. Just replicate in other ways. Screenshots and use cases would be great.

=)
Your computer as an earthquake sensor
~/projects/client-name/client-project.com/

I also have a ~/projects/dev/ folder for administrative-related stuff (contract templates, accounting, etc.)

Finally I have a soft link to ~/projects/ in ~/Dropbox/ so that whenever I make a change to any file it's instantly backed up in my Dropbox.
I disagree. I think much of the weaknesses of Windows - especially its security woes - are due to trying to be too backward compatible with previous versions, which has meant that long standing problems have either not been addressed, or only inadequately patched over.

Making a clean break with the past and moving to a new system where network security is fundamentally designed into the product from the very beginning, even if it's not based on a Unix clone, would be move in the right direction.
Your Customers Do not Mean What They Say
You just blew my mind. Thanks!
You also have the 6502 to thank for the design of ARM

Interview with Sophie Wilson, chief architect of ARM, October, 2001

Primarily the 6502. I learned about pipelines from it (by comparison with the 6800) and its designers were clear believers in the KISS principle. Plus the syntax of its assembler and general accessibility of it from the machine code perspective. I can still write in hex for it - things like A9 (LDA #) are tattoed on the inside of my skull. The assembly language syntax (but obviously not the mnemonics or the way you write code) and general feel of things are inspirations for ARM's assembly language and also for FirePath's. I'd hesitate to say that the actual design of the 6502 inspired anything in particular - both ARM and FirePath come from that mysterious ideas pool which we can't really define (its hard to believe that ARM was designed just from using the 6502, 16032 and reading the original Berkeley RISC I paper - ARM seems to have not much in common with any of them!).
VMware Is in Talks to Acquire Novell's Linux Software Unit
Not enough instruction on the landing page. The two login fields are unlabeled, and when I tried to 'register' with my email and a password, it failed. Username cannot be an email, and it should.

Why collect usernames anyway? As if you'd address them as such... It's a worthless bit of info you don't need for user authorization.

Also, any way to display the full sub-lists on the main list page?
Be sure that you can transfer the number back out again if that is important to you. I think all of the major US carriers have to support number portability, but I am not sure non-carrier services are required to.
It hurts to hear that lots of people thought it was stupid. Fine. But that doesn't excuse the public bad mouthing I received.

The really sad thing is that I was a very active Digg user; I was on the site every day reading stories and submitting. Here's a screenshot of the Digg front page for July 21, 2006 (five days before my prank and the closest I can find to that day): http://i.imgur.com/UE09Z.png (actual page from archive.org is http://web.archive.org/web/20060721035713/www.digg.com/).

The second link down on the front page was submitted by me. I was looking for cool stories and submitting them to Digg every day during that period and then whammo I'm banned and bad mouthed.
People who are blaming the coffee shop owner are missing why this incident is bad for Groupon.

First of all, she acknowledges that it was her fault for not doing the math.

However, what she learned from the experience (besides losing $8,000) is that Groupon customers are worthless. They are cheap (duh) and they don't come back -- probably off to the next Groupon deal. [1]

These are not people you want in your restaurant. You want people who will pay full price and come back. Especially at a coffee shop, where there is not a lot of room to upsell someone who has $13 worth of store credit!

This is going to make it clear to small restaurants that Groupon works for places with fixed costs that can use price discrimination to get people in the door, but not well for them.

In fact, it gives me a startup idea: the OPPOSITE of Groupon. People pay extra for a limited number of guaranteed spots at exclusive establishments. Want dinner on Friday night at the hottest restaurant in town? We've got it, but it's going to cost you 25% more.

[1] I attended an event where 4 people bought $30 Groupons to a local bar for $10. They invited everyone they knew for Sunday Happy Hour and bought 120 $1 mimosas and bloody marys. We all ordered food, but those $1 drinks were already loss leaders. Assuming a 50% Groupon cut, the bar made $0.15 on each one. Did the food orders make up for that? http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukefrancl/4897720841/
I'm looking to do this currently. Did you use gwtonrails or write your own code to handle the communication between client and server?
Wow, that's harsh man. Back earlier in the year I switched to them for my blog for a site I run on the side. Long story, but in a fit of infrastructure floundering I misconfigured my DNS settings and ended up sending them ALL my traffic. Gary went above and beyond by 'fixing' the issue with some internal routing trickery, and then kindly letting me know what I did that next morning.

I felt pretty sheepish about it, but I never got the impression those guys were any of the things you say here. To each his own!
Well that was not my intent.

Lisp, which happens to be one of the languages that total newbies don't fall into in the first place

Wrong! They hear from their cool but slightly wacky friend that Lisp is the new old hot sh*t. Or, maybe they read Paul Graham, or Joel Spolsky.

They go to try it ...
Reach out to ClojureCLR too!
"My students need iPads to assist them in English, Social Studies and Creative Writing!" ($10,648 to go)

I bet they do.

(Of course, a lot of the requests are reasonable, but I'd like to see the donations go to students a bit more impoverished... Room to Read comes to mind.)
Maybe they are planning on entering the cloud hosting market with an OS, with some nice SaS included, that can either be hosted on their cloud or an internally hosted cloud? Their purchases of Zimbra, SpringSource, Gemstone, Dunes, TriCipher, Itegrien and hiring of the main Redis developer seem to indicate they are concocting something interesting.
Giant Collection of Add-To-Cart Buttons
Firstly, everything I'm talking about sits in my Dropbox folder, so for all intents and purposes Dropbox is my root. I highly recommend doing this - it makes backups automatic, and you don't have to worry about the backup problem ever again.

Inside Dropbox, I have several folders relating to various things (Pictures, Music, Documents, etc.) The most interesting are:

Resources - A folder where I keep all my resources. This basically means my KeePass database, various fonts and web templates I've bought or collected over the years, my .emacs and vimrc files, and various other software resources.

Software - Here I keep all my portable software, the stuff I have to have on me to use a computer without pulling my hair out in frustration.

Projects - All my software projects (I have a separate "Graphical Projects" folder for graphical stuff, etc.).

Inside Projects, I have several folders by project name. These are arranged like so:

ProjectName/ <- Root, holds any subfolder with anything related to the project.

ProjectName/db <- Hold the sqlite database, which I usually use on my personal computer (most projects are Python/Django).

ProjectName/site_media <- Holds my static and dynamic media for Django projects. Static Media holds symlinks to the actual project folders.

ProjectName/repos <- Holds all the repos.

ProjectName/repos/main <- The main source code repo. Mercurial is used for SCM.

ProjectName/repos/design <- All my design-related documents.

ProjectName/repos/* <- Any other copies of my main for fixing small bugs and trying new things. I use Mercurial, so this is a standard practice.

And this is how the actual project folder looks:

ProjectName/repos/main/* <- All the files related to environment, for example, my Sublime Text project file, .bat files to automatically start the Django server, .hgtags and .hgignore, etc. Basically, things that are "meta" to the project, and not actual source code. Makes for good separation.

ProjectName/repos/main/.hg <- Mercurial folder

ProjectName/repos/main/project_name <- The actual source code

Hope that helps.
For a puzzled second there I thought you referred SO to significant other. I thought I was reading some obscure head-in-the-code-24/7 programmer joke.
I never said they were unassailable.

Expecting small companies with very little capital to throw money at developers because big companies are being "bad guys" about something and "good guys win" is... not very realistic.

If these allegations are true the big companies involved are effectively controlling the rate in the entire market (this would include rates in startups and other smaller companies). Why would smaller companies (with less money) start throwing more money at workers than companies that could actually afford to do so but choose not to unless someone twists their arm?
If you listen to the irrational speech that comes out of the mouths of teabaggers on a daily basis via all forms of media, you'll find that the phenomenon of ignorance is real.
I think a lot of startups get that mentality that what they are building is good enough that people will just come. Also many startups don't want to have to pay for traffic and are banking on launch publicity to kickstart things.

I think though if you have the money, or you can at least break even on the users you are paying for it is going to give you a much better start than just hoping people learn about the site from press/ word of mouth.
Rampant where? Please expand on your claim.
The developer experience on their OS is directly related to their core business.
Oh sorry - didn't get it. We are thinking about how to solve this - we are exploring the subtitling options. Thanks a lot.
you really think 60 hrs/wk is hard?
I was surprisingly impressed by meeting Brad Templeton in Silicon Valley in ~2006, not because he was a board member at the EFF, nor that he founded Clarinet, but because he wrote PAL, an assembler for the C64 that I used back in the day.
How do either of them make money?

Eyeballs are good, but revenue is better.
I've answered my own questions many times on SO site's... but I don't think that you should ask a question you know the answer to when you ask.

I do not think SO is a wiki for programming question. I feel it's a place for people to go for help when they have a problem.

Given I occasionally ask questions I could have looked up, so it helps other people, and occasionally I end up answering my own question (by looking it up), after I've given others a chance to provide an answer.

It just feels like abusing the system by asking a question you know the answer to. That will stay unanswered for 2 days (since that's how long it takes before you can accept your own answer). At the very least he should have given other people a chance to answer, instead of rep whoring.

(unix.stackexchange mod here)
There is. But these two URLs differ, even though they point to the same content.
Case holds no "unauthorized access" crime for stealing source code from employer
> My memory of the exact details are a bit fuzzy at this remove (I might be e.g. confounding versions 2 and 3), but its fatal flaw was no memory protection.

You are correct, Netware 3 ran everything in Ring 0, which also made it so fast. Memory protection was added in Netware 4, but you can still opt for running applications in non-protected address space all the way up to Netware 6.5 (latest, and almost certainly the last version).
Make more of the text for the image on the landing page visible. You have one shot to show people what your product does.
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Thats why you get to choose who you want to donate to. Someone else may find this project important.
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I must be getting old, but there was an accessibility in those systems that is hard to replicate today.

I have fond memories many hours spent typing in game listing from a magazine ... and learning that you should always type 'save' before 'run' in case it crashed. And that was before we ever had a disk drive. I can still recall the tape noisy perfectly!

My son has expressed an interest in wanting to write a game rather than just play them, but it always seems to stumble on the fact that he is used for 50fps full 3D and the learning curve to produce anything like that is huge. 25 years ago you could type something in an afternoon that was comparable to something you could buy off the shelf.
Is there any information available about this project, I mean hardware, codebase etc.
I don't think it does - it is just the SuSE venture that is being sold to VMware. I would imagine that the copyrights are held by the "rest of Novell".
Details missing the point. Yes it's possible to use .NET, but Microsoft development tools aren't automatically the best choice anymore, and often even the worst choice.
I really like this post.

The one thing I feel it's missing is the major step of vetting an idea. Is it WORTH doing? I literally get cold emails every day from entrepreneurs who say, "I've spent a big chunk of my life building this thing and none of the ways I've found to acquire customers is working in a scalable way" (they generally don't word it that way, but you get the gist). It's gut-wrenching.

Maybe that's a different post, but if you're building a startup for growth, you could be running that company for years (remember, avg. time to liquidity for a venture-backed startup is 8.7 years!). You should be careful to chase ideas that aren't merely viable but GREAT market opportunities (or at least products/markets that you LOVE). It's easier to swim downstream.
I think even if you thought the question should have been asked... you should have waited a day (or longer) and given someone else a chance to answer the question. Then you could have accepted their answer, or written your own if it wasn't good enough.

It does very much look like badge/rep whoring.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/blog-into-book/
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Clojure-conj speaker abstracts posted
Great list, but I don't think you need the detailed spec. Same problem as usual in developoment: the spec will be outdated by the time you're even half done, when you're finished with the first version of the product your detailed spec will be so woefully out of date (or a huge time sink to keep updated) that you'll end up rewriting it.

What you do need is a defined documentation of your internal/public API's. If the developers don't know how modules talk to one another that's a recipe for fail. Then just to keep everything coherent, a rough skeleton to keep everyone on track. Basically a mix between your step 2 and step 5.
1. I've used Ubuntu on my desktop for the last 1.5 years. We switched most of our Windows servers to Linux over the last year as well. It would be great to have a free base Windows OS release, with zero bells and whistles, but a fully functional networking stack, and no connection limits. Provide the rest as a paid monthly service. The corporations that are going to pay for it, will pay for bells and whistles. Most of them are currently migrating to Linux, btw; the only thing that stops them if anything is the lack of paid support for the middleware.

2. Price your software according to purchasing power parity. If a book in a B&N store in SFO costs $US49, the same book costs about $USD10 in book stores in Bangalore. Do the same for Windows and MS Office. (Require that its paid for by a country specific credit card if you must).

3. Open an office somewhere more exciting than Seattle. Remember that most of the crew pulling all nighters and doing the death march are < 30 y/o, think about what they want from life.

4. Send me money, and I'll tell explain in detail how to turn around the online business.
I'm working on the vetting an idea post for OnStartups. It's a huge topic and a very important one. A lot of entrepreneurs seem to vet their idea like VCs. The criteria is somewhat similar, but it's not the best way to go about it. We're talking vetting an idea internally before even going after simple MVP/customer validation, correct?
books/ (all longer pdfs/ebooks),

code/ (all code),

docs/ (most docs, mostly notes on various things),

Dropbox/ (all local folders are symlinked here),

<mycompanyname>/ (shared Dropbox folder with everything in),

qqq/ (misc that I wouldn't cry about losing, heavy files),

tmp/ (downloads, random put-some-place for now),

uni/ (everything related to university),

vis/ (visual stuff, ie pictures and images).
In terms of strategy, if you're the dominant player in the market, it simply isn't wise to make the experience for customers switching to other OSs more comfortable.
Security researchers 'destroy' Microsoft ASP.NET security
The comments on the original article are scary. It looks like the Spectator is the sort of place where you can say women shouldn't be allowed to vote, and have people agree with you. If these people are the alternative, thank goodness they aren't well represented in our politics.
If you're doing a developer heavy app that requires an API, the API documentation is insanely critical. I don't think I emphasized this enough. I've been a complete lunatic (in a good way) about the API docs, response calls, etc. You can have things ghetto at first I guess, but having detailed responses is very important.
...which seems to have gone down as soon as I submitted it.
Not a bad idea, I'll check it out.
... at what?

Page rendering? Javascript? Download speeds? What?

I'm sure folks struggling with dial up modems will LOVE to hear web pages will now load 60x faster. </sarcasm>
I like the Spolsky thesis: there are plenty of good developers. For cultural and practical reasons, they will spend very little if any time on the public hiring market. Accordingly, almost all hiring processes identify bad developers, or good developers in very extraordinary and rare circumstances.

I am not a 95% developer, but I get some stuff done. I think I was available for hire four days of my adult life. That number will never increase.
I can see that, but doesn't that point out an interesting flaw in this social site achievement model?

Specifically:

1) There is a question that is trivial to some, but non-trivial to others.

2) I have a carefully-crafted answer to that question (trivial though it may be to some).

3) I need to wait to provide my careful answer, because if I do it too soon, I'll be seen as self-serving.

This is inefficient!

Storage is cheap, so what does it matter to anyone if there is a concise, correct answer that they find trivial? If something is not useful to me, but useful to others, it doesn't harm me ...

... unless it adds noise to the signal, i.e. corrupts search terms.

However, I explicitly chose to improve the search terms w.r.t. this topic.

This is very interesting for me...
I don't know how Apple does it, but both my iMac and MacBook wake up in a second. I guess they keep the ram powered up and only save it to disk (hibernate) when running out of battery (or after certain amount of hours?). Anyway, they are totally silent and consume very little energy when sleeping. That's how it should be.

I love how the difference between sleep and hibernate is abstracted away in Apple's implementation.
The OP specifically mentioned saving RAM to disk. I don't trust the battery in this work laptop to hold the state in RAM overnight.
The pros on this list really resonate with me. Whenever the "women in computing" discussion comes up my biggest input is that women are missing out on a job that can pay exceptionally well right out of college, offer flexibility down the road and that it's FUN to create stuff.
We're saying the same thing, just disagreeing on whether it constitutes similarity.
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I first* learned programming on a 6502-based machine with 1K of RAM and no assembler or basic (Microtan 65, in case anyone remembers that.)

Luckily the 6502's instruction set is pretty easy to memorize, used to know it back to front. Only 56 base instructions and once you understand the way the addressing modes affect the opcode for LDA it's easy to work it out for the others.

Glad I don't have to do that anymore, but it was a great grounding for all the high-level stuff that came later.

(*Well, unless you count my dad's 31-step programmable TI calculator.)
Yeah this is kind of an inside joke that should be taken back inside.

Edit: It has been taken down.
Posterous was a year later than Tumblr but first to market doesn't count for as much as some people make out.

For social sites (Twitter, Facebook etc.) it's important because of the network effects but to read and interact with a blog on a particular site you don't need to have a blog on that site yourself (else we'd all still have LiveJournals). That means age or growth doesn't mean too much.

Of course that counts for Tumblr too which means that you've got to look at more standard factors for growth - functionality, cost, brand awareness and so on - and in these areas Tumblr seems to have an advantage which I suspect is why it's growing faster.
Cloud development platform.

The acquisition of SpringSource was the the first step towards this. They catered towards the Java/Spring/hibernate enterprise developers. The SuSE branding and kernel will be used to bolster cloud development (internal & external clouds) for the LAMP crowd.
Sigh, it's just the standard divisive politics masquerading as non-divisive politics. There's a reason these liptons are prone to doing and believing crazy things and it's the same reason Bush protesters acted crazy - the government is utterly out of control, and it's hitting all of these specific protesters' pain points. It's unfortunate that it takes political groups such a short amount of time to flip from expressing viewpoints to mocking others, otherwise we might actually have a productive dialog.