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I would think it's humor in the form of speculative fiction. The humor would be pointing at the fact that you can install Linux on mostly anything.
Never forget that you can install it on a Commodore 64. I think that's why the author made it.
Maybe some sort of ironic pat on the back for the Linux OS because it is so flexible and portable?
It is one of the oldest jokes on the internets. This September will never end.
Very close guess on the scale - each block is a cubic meter.
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I am the man and yes, it's a long post. I'm not actually against putting a large amount of content on a web page. It's the overloading to pieces of content that themselves lead off to individual pages that has me frustrated.
"Third party vendor support forums are swamped with questions like 'I put a GridView onto my CallBack control and now I get a ViewState is corrupt error'. The real answer to this question is not the one supplied: 'this is fixed in the next version'. The real answer is of course 'STOP USING SO MANY ILL-CONCEIVED ABSTRACTIONS AND LEARN FROM YOUR PEERS HOW THE #@$#@% WEB WORKS!'."

I've found this to be the case, too, to a surprising degree.
I wrote a little about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1120777
My buddy and I are starting a web project (a Q&A site for translations) and have chosen ASP.NET MVC. It doesn't abstract away the innards of the web like WebForms did. It has no more magic than RoR.

Why are we using .NET instead of something like RoR or (my framework of choice) Grails? Because my buddy knows it inside and out, the tools are great, and we'd like to minimize the number of unknowns in our project. We're pragmatic.

There's plenty of .NET open-source projects out there for things like dependency injection and ORM.
So I'd guess EBS is nothing more than ISCSI targets then. ZFS won't do anything to make those usable on multiple machines at once.

ZFS does make it easy to mirror multiple LUNs for redundancy though, so if you have a timeout or permanent disconnect from the device you remain operational. In addition detaching the device and moving it to another machine is trivial with zfs export/import commands.
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Ask HN: Is Indinero worth it?
I was all gungho about using indinero and having my accountant export info to their quickbooks, until I saw their pricing page. My paypal transactions alone will require me to sign up for their enterprise plan which is $99/month. Considering indinero doesn't have anywhere near the features of quickbooks online, is it worth paying 3x the price?

I guess I'm trying to find a reason not to fall for all the hype. Anyone here have any experiences with indinero vs quickbooks?
He just donated 100 million to schools in New Jersey...
RHEL6 is shipping btrfs as a 'tech preview' (like, say, SystemTap used to be). So yeah, maybe 2 years, maybe 18 months, but the point is: the time starts pretty close to now.
Yep. That's why I bailed back in '99. You needed an MSDN subscription just so your apps could tread water.

Phone rings "Hi, we upgraded our NT server and now your software is broken".

Many hours later "Oh MS changed the DB connection pooling to OFF"

Me: Hmm, this Personal Home Page things looks ok, I'll give that a try.

And as horrible as PHP is, it behaves itself.
The Mesh is here
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http://xkcd.com/796/
Google controls the internet, they're the gatekeepers of pretty much all traffic. Their algorithms determine who receives traffic and who doesn't. You can get your business attention by paying Google for the privilege. Facebook has no such ability yet. Search advertising just works much, much better than display ads.

That said, they do have a lot of users and a lot of explicit data about their users, and they could use that to bootstrap FB into something else. But until they figure that out, it's all just potential.
I went to a talk by one of Amazon's UX researcher guys, and Amazon's clutter boils down to a simple thing:

Cram a bunch of ways of finding products on to every page (except for the checkout flow), and people will find at least one thing that works for them.

It's completely offensive to our designer sensibilities, but what they've found is that users just tune out the parts of the page that don't work for them and go right to the parts they use (almost like muscle memory). It's the kind of thing you can only do on a site with a lot of repeat customers.
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"...they were early attempts at science..."

True. May I add that; as these attempts at science evolve into ideologies; mature sciences deteriorate into ideologies as well.

Instead of ideology; we may say; tradition. Tradition corrupts science from within. We can see this in modern physics in its insistence that all new discoveries must conform to the existing laws of physics.

"... Thor ... Indra ...Ra ..."

And Zeus; he is another representative of the tradition of thunder gods.
Yea but you don't have to friend her.
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In my view there is no doubt that Facebook will one day be worth more than Google.

Facebook is stickier, it's users spend multiples of more time on there than any Google site, their user base will undoubtedly break a billion at some point and the level of competitioin is too fragmented and scattered to mount a significant assault. In other words, the eco system they have created will sustain their lead for many, many years.

Just as Google has become the defacto search engine to the world, Facebook is rapidly becomming the defacto social network to the world. Alternatives will always come up, but we cant compare facebook to Myspace. On myspace, people used persona's but Facebook is real. People eventually grow out of their myspace profile but you dont grow out of your facebook profile because its you.
Hmm, I thought it was fitting to revisit the issue considering that Zuckerberg is 'worth' more than Steve Jobs.
More nonsense. I do believe such encounters happen. The conclusions these people jump to are unwarranted: ETs, threats, etc. I know the technology exists from various individuals, former military, who have seen it first-hand. They had no idea where it came from. I am convinced it is domestic, and derived from technology originally acquired during or following Project Paperclip. I am also fairly convinced that there were indeed aliens in the Roswell crash -- the human, non-US citizen type -- who had violated our airspace, and were shot down.
Oh also he revealed the secret formula for the "buy these products together and save" part:

Product A + Product B + Product C = Total
It wasn't my reply, I just thought it was an interesting one.

The original post lists a lot of samples, the reply adds some more information to those, the "reply" moves this into almost to an argumentum ad hominem.

I'm just saying that it would be nice if the OP would at least delete the stuff that is just plain wrong.
U.S. IPOs Raise Least in Decade Compared to Filings as LBO Firms Seek Cash
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The problem I see is that it was all spent on construction work, and in particular white elephant construction work, which just had a temporary input.

I would argue the result would be different if the investment had been in new fields if these fields went on to be useful/successful.

Particularly, I think it's a good idea for the US to invest in clean/green energy atm. This would hopefully increase the efficiency of the system as a whole as well as create jobs.
This is Linux Development Necromancy.
Go to options and change "difficulty" from "peaceful" to something else.
Shapeways (3D Printing Startup) Raises $5MM Series A from USV
Interesting. Any other recommendations on how to secure regex's that take in user input in Ruby/Rails?
I'll play devil's advocate and ask-- so if they just fired him on the 2nd day of work, it would have been kosher and everyone would go home happy? Where do you draw the line when there's no employment contract?
I've heard about btrfs being "just around the corner" for a good while now. ZFS on Nexenta and even FreeBSD is pretty robust. It's a great storage platform. I wouldn't let waiting on a stable btrfs make my SAN/NAS decisions for me.

The other concern in that realm is that when you're centralizing storage concerns to lower costs, boost performance and increase reliability you don't want software issues or corruption to take down your entire business.

ZFS can be a painful enough learning curve when it comes to that environment. I wouldn't trust btrfs until it's been stable for a couple years there. And outside of that environment, there are plenty of good stable alternatives for the DAS space. While ZFS is nice there, and I'm sure btrfs would be as well, that's not the bread and butter for these systems.
Pretend someone described email over HTTP as a hit new webapp. Email over HTTP is architecturally insecure. Architecturally, there is no way to tell that people are who they say they are. Architecturally, the message is readable by every server between the endpoints. There is no notion of trust baked into email, so you're going to pour gazillions down the drain to retrofit anti-spam mechanics over the insecure architecture.

In terms of micro-architecture, take a look at Wordpress. I love Wordpress, don't get me wrong, but it almost can't be made secured due to some design decisions that can't be reversed, such as "Wordpress templates contain executable code with direct unfiltered access to the database."
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The game is playable through Mobile Safari, it isn't an App Store App.

To play a user only needs to browse to the website. There is no need to download an App.
"We wanted closure"; left the mess for Lisp. Indeed, the explicit use of closures is closely associated with Lisp.
you can also make tradeoffs... e.g. the programmer who, say, has poor interpersonal skills, all other things being equal, will not be able to command the same wage as someone else who is just as good of a programmer with better interpersonal skills. If you can find a programmer who has a problem holding down their market value that you can deal with more easily than most employers, you can come away with a deal that is good for you and for the programmer in question.
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That is a valid question. I don't know if there is a better way. I was pointing out the flaws in what has proved to be an otherwise very good system.

In reality, privately held companies are very hard to gauge in raw worth. When (and if) Facebook has an IPO, we will get a better idea what the broad market values it at, instead of what individuals very close to the company value it at.
Minor correction, Scrub just rewrites all data. And since ZFS is copy-on-write and compares new blocks to old, you'll find corruption or bad blocks that way.

Also, since ZFS doesn't dedupe (just don't use it) or compress at rest, a scrub is the practical way to apply changes to those settings to the existing blocks already on disk.
Yes, but Fred Brooks also warned that the Second System would be even worse!
A blackhat social engineered me by posing as an early adopter of my startup
Why would it be illegal where you are?
And demand for doctors is kept artificially high via a small number of available med schools[1], incenting the profession to erect increasingly high barriers to becoming a doctor.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/education/15medschools.htm...
The reality is that any reasonably complex endeavour will suffer from this, OSS languages included.
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Personally, it's less the lack of community and more the lack of OSS adoption as a result of the lack of community that's a hindrance. .NET developers need to stop drinking Microsoft's Kool-Aid and explore what's out there. If nothing else, they ought to explore the major ports from the Java world (e.g. NHibernate, Spring.NET, etc.). .NET developers are effectively slaves to their tools; don't get me wrong, Visual Studio is an impressive IDE and development environment but it over-shields. It's shocking how out of their comfort zone most are with anything that does not start with the letter 'n' or end with the word 'dotnet'.

I agree with the points made about economics and marketability, but, at least for me, if you want to stand out from the .NET crowd (in turn making yourself more marketable), learn something, anything, as long as it's not a first class citizen on Microsoft's stack. Become familiar with a language other than C# or (gasp!) VB.NET. Try IronPython or F#; you're still on the CLR! Learn to appreciate and leverage patterns. The Java community embraces open source, and as a result, patterns become an integral part of their vocabulary. .NET developers need to become more proficient in this realm.
"To earn your wizard hat."

Above line makes it all worth it.
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The date on the article is 2004. That's more of a May the following the year.
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"Also, I think he likes to give the impression that he's too busy and important for things like style."

His blog post looked to me like he spent an awful lot of time messing around with fonts and embedding videos.

Not spending time on style, grammar or spelling looks sloppy, but intentionally making your writing look like horseshit comes across a lot worse.
Yeah-- I've been very paranoid about getting lost and had only died once before (but found it quickly somehow).

So I determined that I wasn't going to have that worry again. So I set off on a little quest after a lot of mining. I built a compass and was using it to dig tunnels and place markers all the way back to my spawn point.

About half-way there I got assailed by two spiders which I dispatched after they jump-kicked me down to 3 hearts. Of course, afterwards, a creeper had secretly locked onto me and dropped on my head, blowing me and my supplies and compass to smithereens.

So I respawned and my worst fears were realized... I was then hopelessly lost and couldn't find my way back to my town. I "found" some absolutely gorgeous rock formations and lavafalls in my travel.

Eventually I gave up, downloaded cartograph and drew a map of the level so I could get an idea of where my towers were. That worked out well and now I know the route back home. But I'm going tonight to finish the route markers.

tldr: I had a compass and a plan to mark my respawn route, but I got killed on the mission. I'll try again. :)
'JavaScript: The Definitive Guide' by David Flanagan is a great book.

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Definitive-Guide-David-Flan...
I believe that 10 super angels went to a bar, and Mike Arrington wasn't wanted there.
"Real open source isn’t submitting a patch and waiting/hoping that one day it might be accepted and merged into the main line."

So the Linux kernel isn't REAL open source then?
I believe btrfs comes with Ubuntu 10.10
I am sorry you have been downvotted, but that was indeed a deliberate word-mine, buried for your pleasure.

I do that frequently, but you're the first to point it out :-)
What do people here think of .Net as a choice of platform for startups?
I did not think it was very funny.

Then again, my parents never got me a Ti-86 so I could load Tetris on it. My hacker humor center is probably underdeveloped.
>> If a bug is found in the stack itself, it won't languish unsolved in bug trackers for years, like many OSS bugs do.

Oh, please...

Over the years, I've personally fixed bugs. And sent in fixes. (Stop complaining -- I promise to send tests too, next time!)

If I run into one that I am unable to grok in a reasonable time, there are always job boards and money.

Bugs -- not to be confused with full sized features -- are generally not that big a problem in even non-popular open source. You don't have to decompile the damn code!!

And you can get bugs fixed without waiting for a new release, next year... maybe.
First of all you should think hard before taking regexes from users. Even if you do it correctly you'll still (presumably) need to search over your entire dataset, instead of doing something more lightweight like rely on SQL indexes. Use it with care.

You should use a regex engine that's explicitly designed to take potentially hostile input. Like the Plan9 engine, or Google's re2 engine which powers Google Code Search.

You can also just use Ruby's dangerous PCRE engine if you do something like forking off another process with strict ulimits which executes the regex for you. Then you can just kill it if it starts running away with your resources. Look into how e.g. evaluation bots that work on the popular IRC channels on FreeNode are implemented. POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::Eval on the CPAN is a good example.
Except it takes 1 second to just switch to another Search Engine and I'm on my way again. So while they are one of the biggest 'gatekeepers' now, they still have to keep people happy or they'll leave in a hurry. Facebook? Not so much. People are stuck there and Facebook loves it.
Agreed! I think this is one of the worst things a company can do. They shouldn't be able to do it without harming their reputation.
Shapeways, “the Kinko’s of 3-D Printing,” Scores $5m From Union Square Ventures
I doubt that; jailbreaking is relatively trivial and that gets you your bot software on the phone. If I'm playing online poker with bots and approaching this as a money making venture, step two is buy 10 iPhones off Craigslist.

The portability of the iPhone means I can sit around different coffee shops and use their wifi for an afternoon, or better yet, pay someone else in coffee and doughnuts to watch my backpack for the afternoon.
Looks good.

Regex have long been tarnished with the bad readability stain. But that shouldn't always be the case, for eg. the Clojure example:

(def datestamp-re
(let [d {\0 \9}]
(regex [d d d d :as :year] \- [d d :as :month] \- [d d :as :day])))

Could be written in Perl like so:

sub datestamp_re {
qr/ (?<year> \d \d \d \d) - (?<month> \d \d) - (?<day> \d \d ) /x;
}

Perl has had named captures since 2007. The captures are stored %+ variable (ie. $+{year}, $+{month} & $+{date}).

The /x (on the end of the regex object qr) allows whitespace & newlines in the regex composition making it much easier to read. Anyone doing a longer than a few chars regex should always have this :)

And composing your regex in bites is definitely a good idea:

sub datestamp_re {
my $year = qr/(?<year>\d{4})/; # defined with named capture
my $dom = qr/\d{2}/; # day or month (2 digit)

qr/ $year - (?<month>$dom) - (?<day>$dom) /x;
}

sub re_match {
my ($re, $text) = @_;
if ($text =~ $re) { return { %+ } }
return;
}

re.pl> re_match datestamp_re, '2007-10-23';
{
day => 23,
month => 10,
year => 2007
}

re.pl> re_match datestamp_re, '20X7-10-23';

re.pl>
If you have an Oracle to hand, have a look at TNSNAMES.ORA and LISTENER.ORA. Greenspun's law applies...
I totally agree with your analysis of how the UK got into the current mess. That doesn't really say anything about the best way out of it.
This is the proverbial signal vs. noise ratio with a twist that Nsignal + Nnoise is ridiculously high.

You're not crazy.

We all want clean sites and easily accessed information. I'd pay good money for a site that presented me with nigh-perfectly organized personalized "information" (be it news, sports, articles, tech articles, etc.), but nobody can do it.

So in lieu of the impossible they use the shotgun method, and it works.

Purists hate it. $ > purists.
Don't understand the down votes - look at what other people are writing about this story on their blogs and in the comments. My sentiment seems to be adopted widely.

God forbid someone on HN evaluates TechCrunch.
People tend to think of Microsoft as much more backward than they actually are. Yes, Microsoft isn't the brighest when it comes to open-source, but they do at least try. And yes, if you're going to live in the Enterprise world, things are a little old fashioned, but that's a reflection of the market, not the vendor. Microsoft makes tonnes of neat stuff that never gains traction because people seem to have convinced themselves that MS is an enterprise-only shop...

Some examples:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/efdesign/archive/2010/06/01/conventi...

http://microsoft.com/web/webmatrix

http://ironruby.codeplex.com/ | http://ironpython.codeplex.com/

http://visitmix.com/ | http://edge.technet.com

http://officelabs.com | http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch

http://microsoft.com/express | http://microsoft.com/dreamspark | http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/default.asp...
Will Paul Buchheit ever get to just be Paul Buchheit instead of always being the "Gmail Creator" in every article?
So countless hours of tutorials and books later, I ended up using InDesign. It's the best tool you can use.

Out of curiosity, have you checked out Quark XPress at all? I very much prefer Quark to InDesign, given the choice. Its UI feels better laid out and was easier for me to get started in. However, Quark is worse than Adobe when it comes to pricing products, so a single license of XPress will run a large chunk of change. So its not normally an option, unfortunately.
This is also Gary Vaynernchuk's mantra on building a successful business. I truly subscribe to this ideal. This article furthers my belief that caring may indeed be the secret to leading a successful life.
I think the real potential FB has is not in ads at all, but in credits. If they can evolve that into a real alternative to PayPal that works on- and offline, it will be huge.
Can you provide a source for that? Sounds exciting.
Whatever you choose... do it fully. Don't open a bit and then dither and change your mind and close it up. Be transparent or do not, there is no try.
It is risky to pay an unknown person $100 an hour, regardless of job. So employers either give the job to someone they know, or contract from a large firm with the expectation that the firm deals with whatever might come up frequently enough that it reduces their risk. The exceptions to this tend to be when the project is doomed, and the employer is just desperate to get anyone to work on it, which you don't want.

So looking at those two cases, your best plans of action are to either subcontract for a larger firm in order to get fed more jobs, or do more networking to lead to those jobs. Sometimes the networking is in the form of doing odd jobs and low value jobs until something larger comes up, and sometimes just a matter of letting friends know you are looking for work.

It would be nice if there were an easier method to go about it, but the bottom line is that $100/hr is a fairly valuable wage, and you need to earn trust before someone is going to fork it over.
Interesting, I'd say it almost HAS to be something else. A number of times I've selected the 'bundle' then realized it was more expensive than adding each item to my cart individually.
I suppose if you average Dungeon Keepers graphics with Dwarf Fortress's stock ASCII set, you'd get something close to 8-bit styling.