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Food for thought:

I work for a large company. I have an entry level job. The big thing consuming all my time, energy and money the past few years has been "getting well when doctors say it can't be done". I am a lot more functional here lately and there are hopeful signs that I will soon be able to focus a lot more on something else (for example: I have had the energy to a do a great deal more overtime this year than in previous years). The entire time I have worked at this company, I have basically been extremely torn between wanting to get a promotion or better paying job within the company and not really wanting that. I have been in basically desperate need of money the entire time and, for that reason, would have taken a promotion if offered one. Yet I also was concerned that getting one or more promotions would make it harder and harder to leave and someday go do my own thing -- in part because it would mean walking away from more money but also in part because I would be more psychologically enmeshed in the company and have more of a feeling of belonging and also would need to give more of myself to the job, thus leaving less for other things I am working on.

My health issues have been a big factor in why I didn't qualify for promotion. This year, I am very happy to have the energy to work more overtime because it gives me additional income without making me feel more a part of the company and without really taking up more of my mental space. I do have to focus on the job while I am there, but the low level of responsibility involved in my job means I can still leave it at work and no one is calling me at home or anything like that, which does happen with some of the really important people at the company. (EDIT: If you haven't seen it already, you might want to check out Paul Graham's article about "the top idea in your mind" to understand the importance to me of not having my job mentally intrude on my life after hours. http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html)

I have so far not been offered any promotions so did not have to specifically make a decision. But I was really happy when I recently realized that working more overtime is the perfect solution for me right now because it avoids the things I don't want that would come with a promotion while getting me the one thing I really do want from a promotion: more money.

Good luck with your decision.
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I've this happen a few times, seemingly minor actions snowball into life changing events.

However it is always important to realise that these things aren't coincidence or luck. They are the cumulative result of many years of action. Take the sysadmin Aaron, he obviously is a talented engineer who has worked hard to become so. Aaron is also diligent and takes the initiative above and beyond what is required of him. All these things lead up to the opportunity of talking direct to a senior engineer who had recently been impressed with Aaron's skill. And, this is the crux folks, Aaron saw the opportunity and took it.

So lay the foundations, create opportunities and always be on the look out for these moments so that you can take them when they happen.

I got both my partner and job in this manner btw.
Looks interesting, but the homepage and the video don't provide enough information.

* It should show a few reference apps / examples

* The 12 minute video is horrible -- way too long just to show one demo app on 5 different devices. The text spoken in the background makes it even more boring. All this should be shown in 2 to 3 minutes!

* What I'd really like to see is a video of maybe 5 minutes, where they develop a simple app from scratch! Could even copy and paste parts of the code, but it would show the whole workflow. That could just make the difference for people to give it a try!

I think for the author, persistence is the key. If he keeps working on it and gets a few people to contribute, this could become a very nice mobile HTML5 app library!
Anyone going for Kubuntu?
Talking about my country: Brazil. Most people that know english well probably have fast internet, but no way its everywhere. Lan houses are pretty common here, and many lower income people still use those as they only access to computers and internet.
The other possible point is that your employees shouldn't be allowed to report problems to companies that might actually hire them :)

Congrats to Aaron. I agree with hartor. Aaron worked to be the best sysadmin that he could be and when the opportunity presented itself to work at google, he was qualified to do so; both in motivation and skill.
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DRM, practically speaking, isn't about prohibiting piracy as much as postponing the point at which a game is pirated until after it has made the bulk of its sales.
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I was just wondering if anybody knows of a good resource for learning to develop Apache 2.2 modules? Just thought it'd be an interesting way to spend my Sunday afternoon.
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I've used the concierge service for some awesome things:

1. I knew I was going to propose to my GF in St. Augustine on a long weekend but I'd never been there. So I asked for a complete scouting report. Lists of good restaurants (plus reservations), good places to ask her, etc. They came through in awesome style.

2. We were shopping in Chicago and she fell in love with, but didn't buy, a Coach purse. Her birthday was a month later so, back home, a thousand miles away, I went to buy that purse. Sold out. They checked near by stores: Sold Out. I check websites: Sold Out.

I called my Concierge. They contacted Coach for me. They verified that every single Coach store was sold out of this purse, when the next shipment was coming in, which stores would get the purses from that very next shippment, and how much shipping would cost if I ordered from the closest one and had it delivered.

3. When a Generic prescription drug became suddenly unavailable, I asked about "why". They refused to help because of the questions Medical nature. Even when I told them it was just personal FYI and I wasn't actually taking the medicine (a lie, but i thought it might work)
I believe that Google agrees with you: http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/
The link is here the image download page, which doesn't provide much context.

Release Announcement:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2010-Octob...

Release Notes:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1010

Upgrade Info:

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

Desktop Overview:

http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop

Server Overview:

http://www.ubuntu.com/server

Netbook Overview:

http://www.ubuntu.com/netbook
For something along the same lines, I'd like to shamelessly plug http://www.wescheme.org/

The heart of WeScheme is moby-scheme a self-hosting compiler http://github.com/dyoo/moby-scheme . The server runs on AppEngine.
If you're trying to extract the maximum value out of a resource you own, why would you not preserve it?
>>> p = 1.2e6/7e9 # Probability of dying in any one year
>>> scipy.exp(log(1-p)*70) # Probability of NOT dying 70 years in a row
0.98807069644395429
>>> 1-_
0.011929303556045712

There might be some roundoff error in the exponentiation. I am too lazy to check.
For a simple site, this maybe overkill.

Yet running a development setup on a VM and having live setups. ( A little bit like that the deviant guys wrote about

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1769637 )

I can see sqlite data being very handy.

You could give each their own respective id and then just pull out all the records for them.
I am talking about Surat (my hometown) and not Bangalore. Also, I am assuming that you would not eat at a high end restaurant. Heck, I was in Mangalore for a year and I think I can eat out every day for 50 bucks a day which will include breakfast/lunch/dinner.
I have a Lenovo Ideapad S10 which has been running 10.04 since April and I've been pretty happy with it. I imagine that I will install 10.10 on it tomorrow.
55 minutes... you better have a pretty good idea of what you want to try before the clock starts ticking.

The options are:

* Base Install

* Wordpress

* MoinMoin

The announcement "pre-configured applications to choose from (such as Wordpress and MoinMoin)" implied there were more options. Sorry, no.
> The credibility of the author is relevant to the author's argument/results/conclusions to the extent that the argument depends on points whose plausibility requires faith in the author's honesty and ability.

Unless you personally have invested the time and effort needed to evaluate his research, you're stuck listening to the people who have. And unless they're all saying the same thing, you have to look at credentials, reputation, and motivation to decide who to believe. While these factors don't affect the quality of his thesis, they do affect it's believability to the rest of us.

In the real world.
Bloomberg have somewhat offered this service.

One lucky enough to have a Bloomberg terminal (providing financial news and information services) have access to a helpdesk built into the software via the messaging system (to query data, news, etc). This helpdesk has had huge appeal in other areas - booking restaurants, book recommendations, ideas for things to do on holiday - for many many years.

When paying at least $15k/year for such a terminal (often much more), and a client often having hundreds installed, if not thousands, it is a beautiful example of going a little extra for a lot of goodwill.
I tried on #3 the most inefficient algorithm I could come up with - blindly going through all possible combinations and checking if their biggest member is equal to the sum of the rest. Time of the execution: 0.6s

I am not sure if this step of allowing the "shortcuts" was part of the game or not. All that would had to be done is to give 128 elements of the array to exclude at least the most blatant brute-forcing.
And I still will refuse to ever use Maven. A major 3.0 release only gets a list of bug tracker entries as the changelog? These guys really don't care one lick about documentation do they?
http://github.com/sviperll/ghcjs

It's another attempt by "vir" to create haskell-to-javascript compiler. Now it uses "GHC as a library" (ghc package) and should be more amenable to hacking.
Including cell phones, satellite television, etc. in short, you ignore your fico at your own peril
. the middle class does indeed collapse

. the collapse of the middle class will have easy to reduce the size of the professional class, in particular doctors and professors as noone will be able to afford their services

. everyone will continue to confuse having an smartphone and a flat screen with being rich

. cars and houses will become luxury items, we become a renters society (serfdom)

. the loneliness and islotation of the previous two decades will only accelerate and increase with the advent of more mobile powerful devices

. the quality of human relationships will continue to suffer

. this will effect politics in a profoundly bad way

. also, the birthrate will drop precipitously

. the gap between what we know we don't know, and what we don't know we don't know will grow even larger - more because of arrogance that we everything than humans actually learn more despite increased cheapness of information (inability to separate signal from noise)

. the principals of the enlightment will be essentially dead for the majority of the world

. something smarter than human will arise

. the power of transhumanity or AI will be restricted to a solitary few - noone will see why this is initially an incredibly bad development for all of the human race (well, maybe nobody outside this forum)

. a new dark age will arise as orwell's visions come to fruition

. the new dark age will be nice and short due to the effects exponential evolution
It looks more scientific that way
Right, the registration thrown in your face has got to be a conversion killer. I know I left instantly.
It's not surprising that they've sold so many. The Galaxy S seems to be the first Android device that the maker hasn't gone the exclusive route. In the US, yes, they did rename it and make minute changes for different carriers, but its substantially the same phone released at mostly the same time.

It's about time that my choice in phone didn't dictate the carrier I'm tied to. Samsung gives me that choice in a way that Motorola makes me tied to Verizon, Apple makes me tied to AT&T and HTC ties me to a various carrier depending on which model of their's I want.

I was really hoping he Galaxy S line would succeed even if just to prove that you can have a non-exclusive phone that's a big seller.
Couldn't you just set an appropriate umask and then make a copy of chmod?
I thought it sounded high too, but it's correct.
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I suppose the next question will be "But Zed, why sqlite3?".

Good luck. :-)
Not really - they blog post specifically said they would only look at the visible changes, so there aren't going to be that many changes.

And the concept of paid apps are pretty damn nice, seeing as this a great way for canonical to make money and might make money for a few developers too.
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Will USCYBERCOM and its service components provide more business to new/existing technology companies and contractors than there would probably have been without them?

And is there a better chance that products developed for them would be more likely to have counterpart consumer products (i.e. the networking/computing equivalent of the Hummer, like EMP shields for business equipment)?
I actually switched from Kubuntu to Ubuntu just for the sake of change. Only thing I miss is split view in Nautilus, although it seems there are patches available.
It seems to me that, as Twitter goes the monetization route, these kind of changes only make more sense. They could have taken the option to charge developers for accessing their API's. But that would slow innovation.

So, it was only natural that they would look to create a larger piece of the pie for themselves while also trying to make it possible for developers to continue to be successful. Yes, that means that we, the developers, are now being forced to compete with them which seems like a non-starter. However, they are still providing an API for us to use which allows us to continue to compete.

In the end, dare I say it, they become Microsoftian in their API evolution; they use the API without releasing it to us and develop such a headstart that it is impossible for us to compete when the API is made public. If that happens, oh well. It was free and fun while it lasted.
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Ask a publisher - I'm just someone who reads the occasional publisher's blog - but the answer is "yes". Browsers will pick up a book and scan the cover, the preface, the first chapter, etc. to decide whether your book is worth reading, and therefore worth buying.

And, yes, even literate people who know nothing about a field will pick up books and try them to see if they are inspired to learn more. People who aren't linguists try The Language Instinct; people who aren't physicists pick up Hawking or the popular lectures of Richard Feynman; lots and lots of non-historians read popular histories (think: Stephen Ambrose); and I wouldn't be where I am today if it weren't for writers like Martin Gardner who labored to translate mathematics for young, unspecialist audiences.

And then we have programming. Friends and relatives of mine who have never programmed ask me for a book that will tell them what programming is about so that they can see if they are interested, and I never know what to say. The best preface I know is in SICP, but that's like handing The Feynman Lectures on Physics to someone who wants to know how their car works. The first few pages are great but then it gets scary hard.

This stuff is important. I read a lot of books on BASIC and Pascal and assembly programming when I was a kid, but I never really found anything that put programming into perspective. Math and science had a grand, sweeping narrative that was apparent even to a kid, but programming seemed to be about making boxes blink. And this is still how it is in the popular imagination, even for adults. Tell people you're a mathematician or a physicist and they'll think you're a genius; tell them you're a programmer and they'll ask how worried you are that your job will be outsourced to faraway countries.
Confirmed by Glyn:

http://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/26934516909
I'm not debating that RAM is faster than disk. I'm debating that you need to have the entire DB in RAM to get good performance.

Most of the time, less than 10% of your DB represents the active working-set of your data and a good database-system should be able to analyse what is being used, gather statistics about the data, use those statistics to intelligently optimize your queries and minimize the need for disk IO.

For any decent RDBMS, having to match total memory with the database size, is wasting money on RAM for very little extra gain in performance and this doesn't really make much business sense.

A concrete example would be a server I manage. It has 16GBs of RAM and handles around 5000 GBs worth of DBs. Due to a good RDBMS and intelligent caching and use of statistics, that server has a cache-hit ratio of 98%. That means that only 2% of queries entering the system results in actual disk IO.

In order to get the last 2% of queries to get into RAM, I would have to increase the system memory by a factor of 30. At that point just getting another server and setting up replication would be much cheaper and also allow a theoretical doubling of troughput.

Really. Having the DB all in RAM is not something which makes marginal sense at all when you compare it to the costs it involves. No amount of internet-argument can convince me that this goal is anything besides a pure waste of money.
Using the sqlite db as the canonical configuration is a nice idea, but reminds me of the fun of bind, editing one file to re-generate another. It is as if he is ignoring the advice in his older post about making software usable.

Instead of having a simple text format that is the configuration, he encourages everyone to write their own. I can imagine the fun now on a mailing list - debugging n+1 languages to start a webserver.

When you deploy, do you deploy the sqlite database file or the script that generates it? Does the daemon check if the db is out of date on startup? Does the script clear the existing db when it runs? Does it have merge logic? How do you keep them in sync?

'But it's powerful' I hear you cry, but my retort is simply 'it is effort to maintain, deploy and configure'. It smacks of: here is a bus port, go build yourself a keyboard. This sort of toolsmithery is what brings us delights like autoconf.

A simple change would improve things a lot, whilst maintaining the flexibility he craves:

instead of 'generate a config file' with your tool and hand it off to mongrel, the tool you write is part of mongrel.

You write a script called /etc/mongrel/makeconfig, that takes one argument, the name of the mongrel settings database. When mongrel starts, it invokes makeconfig to build the database.

You can provide a bunch of trivial makeconfig scripts as defaults, including a shell script that just runs a bunch of sqlite statements.
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Why doesn't the apt-get man page mention this? It is getting rather difficult keeping track of what the current recommended way is.
You'll be pleased to find that Nautilus in 10.10 has a split pane view. Just hit View > Extra Pane (or F3). :-)
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Is it me, or Zed is starting to get annoyed at the Python community now?. I wonder when he'll write "Python is a Ghetto".
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I already run Ubuntu server, so I'd rather not charge Canonical.
Two issues I've had - cosmetic ones really (both on a Fujitu Amilo and Acer Aspire One):

1. Upgrade to Qt4 broke Spotify Linux. This is a Spotify, not Ubuntu issue, but just FYI.

2. Compiz Wallpaper is broken. That is, if you had Compiz to show different wallpaper for each workspace, it now just has a blank screen.

Otherwise working OK, nice new fonts and icons, but not amazing. If in doubt probably worth waiting a while for the fixes.
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That wasn't what I meant.

What I was saying was that you want to inspire your employees with your vision, so that they feel a sense of purpose in your startup. When your startup is making meaning not just money, the satisfaction they get from doing work is more than any money or equity you can pay. They are committed.

And I'm not against giving employees equity at all. But inspiration is a higher level, and arguably the right kind of, motivation.
I forget where I read it, but apparently for most big budget games, a significant percentage of sales happen within the first 7 days of release. So as long as they can make the DRM good enough to keep the game from being cracked for a week they've scored a pretty big win.
Blow. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0221027/

It looks more into the underlying psychology behind why we pursue things, though.

The movie does look into these topics, albeit not directly on the surface, I am extrapolating from my own experience from viewing it:

- How partnerships are formed and broken

- Why we pursue money, and the costs associated with it (depending on the path we take)

- The fact that there are no set rules when it comes to business, you create your path

- It's not only what you know, but who you know

- What happens when the haters be hatin' (Feds and Colombians in this case) ... on a more serious note, I'm saying that you will always have opposition when you start creating ripples

- All business is arbitrage

- Don't keep all your eggs in one basket

- Your organization may take shape like a house of cards: if one card (an employee, a certain contact, an investor, a certain code, etc) is not taken care of, it could topple the whole operation

- If the house of cards does topple, you can pick up some cards for your next venture

I can go on and on. It's a great movie, and it's on Netflix Instant. Watch it.
The real value of 'co-founders' is not that they're wheels in a machine, the real value is that they will tell you when you are wrong about something.

I have had co-founders disagree with me and guess what: one of us may have been right. The problem is, we never really never which. Half the time a co-founder told me I was wrong, I considered their feedback and stuck with my gut anyway.

Make no mistake about it, a good give and take between co-founders is essential, but it doesn't matter which of you is right or wrong, what really matters is what your customers think.

Replace "co-founder" with "customer" in the quoted sentence and then you have something there.

This reminds me of the old joke about 3 baseball umpires:

Good umpire: I call them as I see them.

Better umpire: I call them as they are.

Best umpire: They aren't anything until I call them.

A single founder is the good umpire. Co-founders are the better umpire. Your customers are the best umpire.