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>I do admit to surprise that you find it more expensive to maintain old equipment than it is to purchase and maintain new equipment though. That's startling, and goes against the behaviours in the tech companies I've worked in.

Really, running off old kit is the sysadmin equivalent to the "technical debt" talked about here in the context of messy spaghetti code. It's cheaper now, but will have to pay later. Usually with usurious interest.

You should keep servers closer to 3-5 years Your SysAdmin will say 3, the IRS says 5. It's generally agreed that after 5 you should give it to your little sister or use it in the test lab. I mean, I know people who run old servers for fun; a good friend of mine runs his website off a .com era 10 CPU sun enterprise. but that's hobby work, and even so his co-lo provider is loosing money on the deal he's getting. If he was paying for his own power, he'd probably step down to a single-socked 12 core opteron which would have more compute power and more ram, and use approximately 1/10th the power.

At my company, I estimate a reboot to cost me about a thousand dollars, that is, if everything comes up cleanly afterwards. Right now, we're debating if we should extend the servers out to four years rather than throwing them out after three. But in this case, I own the whole thing, rather than one department, so I feel it on both ends; both the problems caused by old garbage and the cost of buying new stuff.

Network hardware, generally speaking, lasts longer than server hardware, but depending on the badness of downtime on that particular network, a 5 year cycle still isn't bad, and running 10 year old kit is kind of crazy. (and if we are talking 100Mbps stuff, you are starting to talk about 10 year old kit.)

I remember at another contract gig, I was getting paid around seventy five bucks an hour (this was really a full time job in all but name, so they paid closer to full time job rates than short-term contract rates)

A lot of my time was spent repairing or cleaning up after 10 year old servers. Most of the time when I touched something? for what they were paying me alone, not counting downtime costs, they could usually have bought new kit. And half the time, these were critical dev servers; one of the hard drives failed years ago, and now the second was returning read errors. It was absolutely crazy that they didn't just replace all of this garbage at once.

I mean, they eventually did, I was actually hired on to help virtualize all these tiny 10 year old servers on to much larger, newer servers. But the job would have been quite a lot easier if they had replaced these servers after 5 years rather than 10. I suspect that the downtime and cleanup ended up being more expensive than the capital cost of new servers would have been.
Yes, but fortunately, there is not much reason why anybody would use double when developing a banking system.
I guess I was the first to post but I think there is something to this if you can come up with something really unique about how people interact albeit anonymously. Like in Japan their social networks are 95% anonymous, their might be some ideas their with how they interact
Yes. Ask questions. Asking questions gets you rep (and quite quickly too, if your questions are voted up).
How does this compare to darwin's memory management?
You're already rewarding them by reading the pages and going to the trouble of using Readability on them.
[From other thread] I'm having a tough time believing the spokesperson got it right, because of the Rhapsody, Netflix, and Audible apps. Never mind every PDF viewer.

It just seems like a really, really bad idea that will bring government intervention. The Kindle app kicks over to Safari for purchases, but I really can't imagine them requiring Amazon to add an in app purchase through Apple. I can't imagine the circumstances that would make that acceptable.
He's not complaining that he can't get enough rep, he's complaining that he can't contribute without it.
He got downvoted because people downvoted without actually reading the attached article, assuming they knew what the article actually said. Maybe HN needs a "did you actually read the article?" confirmation before allowing a downvote.
So, I can purchase books thru Safari but not thru the Amazon Kindle App? How does this make sense?

Seems like a workaround might be to link to the Amazon mobile site from the Kindle App. But maybe that is too close to "selling" content thru the Kindle App.
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Well then why don't you provide the correct answer with the right assumptions?
dope! Was that introduced in Snow Leopard? My apologies.
Have you read the original claim? Google did a test with completely nonsense words and 100% unrelated search results with those terms. The results showed up on Bing. Whatever Bing is doing, it is using Google's search data.

http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-...
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and another question - is it possible to index embedded document fields?
When I query for a single embedded document, does mongoose return only this single document, or the whole parent document with all embedded documents is returned beforehand?
I don't want to seem like I'm overreacting or hating on Apple or anything like that, but this seems to be in a whole new realm of greedy/controlling for Apple. Or is it really reasonable to force apps to use your payment platform?

edit: It seems in other threads on the front page that this is likely Sony blowing things out of proportion. Most of the "news" is all speculation and discussion. I suppose we'll have to wait and see what policies or actions Apple actually takes.
Perhaps my own experience is atypical but I'll elaborate anyway.

SO had been out of beta for a 4-5 months before I really started answering questions. I had dipped my toe in the water a couple of times prior with varying results: one particularly successful answer, several unsuccessful answers.

Granted, now is not a few months after launch. Questions tend to be more esoteric, there are more question snipers/campers and so on. But IMHO the same principles still apply: be quick and be concise. You can expand a concise answer with a longer answer but you can't usually ignore the concise answer.

Now some consider that a bad thing. Me? I think it trains people how to give good answers and not just for SO but in their work life in general: front load the information people ask for and then expand on it.

As for getting the initial rep: getting rep to vote to close and so on takes awhile but do you need that? The more annoying levels are when you can't comment or upvote. That you can get fairly quickly just by asking 1-2 questions if not answering them.

My own experience is that newbies who ask good questions or give good answers I (and others) will upvote them simply to get them past these points (to about 50 rep).

As for the barrier to entry and community aspects, there are issues here. In fact, I raised this very issue 1.5 years ago [1] and I still have mixed feelings about it.

Ultimately though, an abundance of answerers I don't consider to be a problem. With attrition, others will replace them. I'd only worry if no one is answering.

I don't see the value of SO is being in the community per se. Not in the same sense that the value in Quora (IMHO) is entirely in the community (which presents real long-term risks).

What SO did well, which obviously affected the community that grew around it (and Joel has spoken about this), is that it made bad behaviour hard, something people would actually complain about. Example: a common complaint is that SO makes discussion hard. Well, that's actually kinda the point. Discussions are 99% noise in the context of Q&A. SO allows good answers to float to the top with the voting mechanism.

Remember: rep isn't an end, it's a means to an end. It's also a way of solving problems that would otherwise require human intervention. For example, the minimum rep for editing answers. This isn't a de facto claim that a certain rep threshold means you know what you're talking about. It's simply a way of expressing the site's trust in you, as a contributor, rather than attesting to the accuracy of your technical knowledge.

Better that than Wikipedia-style revert wars that require constant mod attention.

SO is an excellent system for askers and answerers of programming questions. I'm simply unconvinced that this models translates well to other areas (as per the StackExchange model for other sites).

[1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/1483/are-power-users...
Bing CVP talks about Google copy claims & shares thoughts on search quality
"We do not copy Google's results."

Which does NOT answer the claims really. No one is saying they COPY them verbatim. They're saying that they SOMETIMES 'look at' the Google results as a ranking signal. And in SOME cases (it seems when it's a fairly obscure search phrase), Bing displays the same result as Google does - as the sting operation shown.

This naturally doesn't mean that Bing copy Google 100%, of course. But that's not what today's news is about.

A very weak 'reply' from Microsoft which again seems to pretty much confirm that they ARE 'looking at' certain Google results.
This is not correct. Think about a service which used PHP's json_decode function. PHP has fixed this bug, so there would be no issue.

The problem has nothing to do with JSON. It only affects JSON parsers that run on a JVM.
> "We do not copy Google's results (however, we do use them in 'creative' ways!)"

What's the difference to what Google does by e.g. using newspaper articles in a "creative" way (by not only showing them in the search results, but by combining them to a new type of newspaper at news.google.com)?
This opens up a huge can of worms and will push any company who has a subscription service out of the App Store. How does this work with freemium, for instance? And what if the app is not from the company but from a third-party that uses an API?

We looked at using In App purchase for a large collection of add-ons. Even if Amazon, Sony and B&N wanted to offer in app purchase as well as through their stores, Apple's system is a pain in the neck to do that. Their support structure just isn't designed for a large array of product options.
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> No, that's just pagerank.

This is my first thought as well. Google's pagerank analyzes the link structure of the web as one of the inputs to its search ranking. Apparently, Bing's toolbar analyzes page content coupled with user click behavior as one of the inputs to its search ranking.

These two things don't seem very different to me. Both of them are relying heavily on the value provided to them by tracking and analyzing the behavior of users on the web to drive search results.
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Tell HN: AWeber uses deceptive pricing
Just wanted to let everyone know that AWeber(email newsletters) counts your unsubscribes towards your total for billing purposes(Mailchimp apparently doesn't)...and not just the "subscribers" like they say on their pricing page.

And there is apparently no automated way to delete them...you have to delete them one at a time. Which I'm sure is intentional in order to make it harder to erase the unsubscribes.

True, it doesn't really make a lot of difference, I only ended up paying $50 instead of the $30 I expected this month(would have hit the $50 anyways next month), so it's peanuts...but I felt like letting people know since their pricing page is intentionally deceptive...and those of you with bigger email lists are probably overpaying by a large margin(especially if you are in the 10K range where it goes from $69/mo to $149/mo).
That is what Amazon does today. If this is correct then Apple is saying you can't do this anymore.
This is great. I've seen slight issues though. On my phone (iPhone 4) when I was clicking around the todo lists, they responded very slowly to my taps and I was able to highlight todo lists without actually going to them.

However, I love that you guys are doing this. I'm excited to see the cinco framework as well. I have been looking for a mobile platform, I've used Sencha a bit, but find it difficult to learn and bloated.
I didn't deny that they are using Google's data. But it could be possible that they have some kind of generic approach not specifically targeting Google (or even search engines).
i'll preface this by saying that i up-voted peter because many of the points were totally valid.

at the same time, i think money creates a distraction.

i've been bootstrapping for almost 3.5 years. throughout the process, i've built a team of four that all shares equity, and we've recruited more than 25 interns from UGA to help us through the semesters.

you know what my burn rate is? $50/month! i have one expense: hosting.

no one has taken any pay because they believe in the mission & they're motivated by the vision we have.

loren - i hear you my man. i think many of these YC companies will never learn what it means to be SCRAPPY. they won't understand how you can creatively finance things.

oh, last thing...i'm currently the live-in advisor at my old fraternity house...i know how to get by on nothing. just imagine what i'll do on something...

-adam
What, really? You don't think that that's a significant part of why being a rock star counts as a really high-status job? Not all of them make a tremendous amount of money, but pretty much all of them can get laid on any given night.
If you have a huge dataset with complex validation rules, implement a server side validation engine, and do the same in client side and expose the rules to both parties, it's not hard at all.

jQuery is not only about the DOM, it's a tool, it doesn't force you to write code like this:

$('#foo').hide();$("#foo").css('color':'white');

You can write very clean structured code in JavaScript using jQuery.
MongooseJS is pretty cool. I have one question, though:

Why must you define models' schema when you're interacting with a schema-less database such as MongoDB?
There are a lot of social things to do on the web, and probably I should be doing less of them and more real work

For me, participating on SO is like the Weather Channel. I've got another other things I could be doing rather than waiting for "Weather on the 8s" to come around.
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This doesn't seem ridiculous to me as a user. I read this as saying is that if an app plays content I can purchase elsewhere, then Apple wants to be able to also sell the content in the app.

If I have it correct, I as a developer can make a maze application and sell mazes on my own web site, but I must also give users the option of buying them in the app and fork over 30% to Apple. If I do this, it's up to me to convince users that the experience of buying mazes on my web site is superior to the experience of buying them right in the app.

As long as Apple doesn't prohibit applications from "playing" content purchased elsewhere, as a user I have no problem with this, because it gives me another choice for purchasing new content that offers a smooth and easy purchasing experience.

Amazon, et. al. probably hate the idea, but that comes down to two lords arguing over which one gets to exploit the serfs.
Is it just me, or is this every bit as outrageously greedy as consumer ISP's (Comcast, etc) wanting to charge Netflix, Youtube, etc.?
1. Partially, they sell premium themes and some small virtual goods, I don't imagine they pull in much from those sales, though.

2. No.
I'm sorry to hear that, in most places it's just one line. Let's hope the Hibernate people fix this.
just after i read this i see an articel on this on the frontpage of financial times germany

http://www.ftd.de/it-medien/medien-internet/:suchmaschinen-k...

headline: googles trap for microsoft
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I did, you should have checked. I even made a public test-case to illustrate why naïve solutions don’t work: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/105727/web/print_textarea.html Edited to avoid sarcasm
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(the above is just my interpretation).

Is there a pattern here?
Perhaps the security links increased conversion by 45% alone but the email one dropped it down to what they saw. No way to know...
Did you buy a computer back in the 1960's?
> But not what you said.

That's exactly what I said. The prices referenced in the linked comment were based on Bell's numbers. I posted information about another ISP for comparison.

So, unless your contending that the original comment linked to was not about Bell, stop trying to cherry pick pointless arguments.
It's not just you, but it is far more reminiscent of being every bit as greedy as console manufacturers demanding licensing fees from cartridge manufacturers (or whatever we call sharecroppers).

Remember that if a developer makes an app and sells it for money, Apple gets 30% of their revenue, period, full stop. That's the App Store deal, if you don't like it, you don't develop an iOS app.

So what happens when a developer builds an app that does almost nothing. He givs it away for free. But to use the app, you go to the developer's site, pay money, and download a level or something, like my maze app example above. Presto! The developer has just done an end run around the App Store, and Apple doesn't like that.
Facebook notes doesn't have this functionality, so unfortunately no. I also didn't write the note, so I don't feel comfortable reproducing it.
You talk about what the article "looks like", but have you actually read it?

I found it to be a well-written, well-researched introduction to some of the problems in color theory. If that's what you mean by "a mashup", then I guess all secondary literature is.

As for the site, asmartbear is no stranger to these parts, and Jason's posts are well-regarded.
Do you have anything to back that claim? Even with Adblock Plus disabled, I don't see anything that could be descriped as "SEO spam".
If you think about it economically they only have a tiny fraction of my money. Sure they have the $60 I just spend on a new side table, but they don't have the countless thousands I'll be spending on a new bed, bookshelf, kitchen, dining room table etc. etc. over the next decade. Why on earth wouldn't they want to try to grab that money as well.
Is there any reason why you would want to use exec or eval? In any language? I have never seen the need for it, but have seen plenty of very poor uses of eval in PHP and JavaScript. Are there any legitimate ones, aside from writing a debugger of some kind?
Well, what this means is that they expect the bump they get from being listed in the app store over using web apps to be pretty significant (which I believe it will be too).
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I wish I could upvote this twice. I hadn't realized that our actual perception of color was so filtered from the physical spectrum.

I find it incredibly fascinating, from a philosophical perspective, that there are literally color combinations (i.e, greenish-red) that, despite lying within the physical spectrum to which our eyes are sensitive, we cannot see, cannot even imagine.
The checkerboard illusion at the end amazes me every time I see it.
The only thing unreasonable is that lack of consistency. A 3rd party enters the app market under certain rules, some quite core to their business model. Then Apple changes those rules.

Apple of course is smart enough to reserve the right to make such changes, but apparently not smart enough to not exercise it in idiotic fashion. These actions concern me personally as the line between mobile embedded systems and computers running a traditional OS become blurred, primarily as a software developer.
All engineering positions are senior level. Unlike most companies in the valley, Netflix doesn't hire junior or mid level engineers.
Dbindexer looks quite interesting, and I can't wait to play around with it a bit.

But I'd just like to say I love you guys at ABP. Django-mediagenerator is an absolute must-have for anyone developing a site in Django, I don't know how I lived without it.
What the experiment shows is that where no other data is available Bing will use what it has and that Google can successfully seed Bing on the long tail. What it doesn't show is that in typical circumstances Bing is relying on data gathered from Google searches.

Microsoft is collecting the same sort of information on Google queries that it collects on Bing queries and that Google collects on Google queries. All this is happening at the long tail where both companies are most likely using something other than webcrawling to tailor search results - afterall the whole experiment is only possible because Google can seed page rankings at will to link arbitrary terms to specific search results.
"Apple also allegedly told Sony that the app couldn't access content purchased on other Sony Reader devices, which is where most of the outrage was focused" - I think this is a big problem. If I have bought the book from amazon I should be able to read it everywhere isn't it?
I think he means that bartending is easy in that it doesn't consume your life (unless you're an alcoholic).

I mean no disrespect to bartenders in any way, but it appears to be a "clock in and check out" job. Clock in, do your n hours by rote, and clock out.
What Apple actually said (emphasis mine):

"We are now requiring that if an app offers customers the ability to purchase books outside of the app, that the same option is also available to customers from within the app with in-app purchase."

What ars interprets that to mean (emphasis mine):

"If an app lets users access content that they purchased via Amazon's website, for example, then that same app must also let users buy the same book via Apple's own in-app purchase system"

That's not at all what Apple said. Apple said if the app lets you buy books outside of the app, i.e. you click the buy button inside the app and are then sent to the webpage to purchase the book, then the app must also let you purchase the book without leaving the app by using in-app purchases. Apple says nothing about not letting users access content they paid for from other sources.
Mars allows you to create mobile friendly sites without any coding knowledge.
It's getting blurbed as "Bing's results are a copy of Google's". The nuances you detail are buried halfway through Danny Sullivan's article and are not reflected in his takeaway in the conclusion.
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See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166728
I think you may be right. But that would be unfortunate, as I don't think the FTC should meddle in Apple's business. I think Apple's management should have the right to set any policy it considers relevant - after all, this is their platform. So, I hope the FTC takes no action.
The consistent, simple user experience is the key to the platform. I think it's reasonable to require it. I know as a customer I don't want to be hassling with multiple payment accounts.

Presumably it is permissible for Sony to bump the price up on in app purchases to cover the 30% "shipping and handling" charge from Apple. I wonder if they can show it as "Apple™ brand Shipping and Handling" on the screen.
i think most (non-computer) people would consider that the reason for achieving status in the first place.