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And when, at some point in the future, iOS gains the ability to do downloads while the phone is in your pocket, Gruber will salute this as yet another crushing evidence of Apple's innovative spirit, forgetting that Android has been able to do this since 1.0.
the satire is apt, in the sense that folks have been known to talk like this.

what intrigues me is why anyone who was lukewarm on technology would hang out in software circles. this shit is hard. really hard and it just gets harder the more you learn. there must be easier money lying around for that crowd.
The issue is simple..google uses all its heavy resources to rank that startup as #1. (good or bad).But bing just uses their toolbar to capture that information and rank them. They call this "cost cutting".Doesn't this sound cheap?
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I hope that was sarcasm because as such it would be great and insightful, and very symbolic of Western civilication throughout the centuries. If not, I disagree pretty much with everything you said.

Myself, I think Shaw grokked it perfectly with his "Don't do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same".
> Stacked up money for himself? For the company? For the company for a few quarters?

I was thinking in an entrepreneurial/self-employed/self-directed/sales context... funny, I didn't even think about someone who did it on a corporate level.

No information is perfect for decisionmaking, but the closer the past success is to what you're looking to do, the better. That said, I've found some people just have a knack for getting money, and it's good to work with those people.

As a side note, I was just reading this earlier - I'd recommend it, there's a whole education in here on having a knack for getting money if you read it slowly and think through it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent#Non-musical_projects
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Heh, this is pretty much exactly what I've been toying with in my spare time lately at http://illustrend.com - only with Erlang instead of Scala.
Who brags about making everyone's lives suck just a little bit more?
Who doesn't love spending other people's money?
Thanks for the tip. I just found Feedly.com (with associated chrome extension) and it's the closest thing I've found to perfect. It's a bit bland, though. I think there could be something better out there.
Sure, just like I'm sure you'd forget seeing a literal flying saucer, glowy lights and everything. Just like all the alien-visitation advocates forget it, and don't try to tell others.
How do you know that they live a miserable life or that they suffer? Do you think they remain uncontacted because they do not have the means to contact? They have remained uncontacted because of their choice. They live close to nature and there is nothing wrong with that. They have their own society and their own culture. Their life is as complicated and as rich as your life is.

How do you measure how civilized a culture is? If it is their choice to remain un-contacted, they should be free to live that way. You cannot make an assumption that they would die young. Their bodies would have developed systems to counter most of the natural viruses and other health aspects there. Their upbringing would have taught them the skills to live in harmony with the forest. Their brains would not have developed the adequate techniques to survive in our society. Getting them out of there is the worst possible thing that you can do to them. They have got their technology and we have ours.

What is comfort to you is only a conditioned response? Car is a great comfort only if you want to travel long distances. They have crafted their lifestyle in such a manner that they do not need such comforts. Most of their building materials and techniques would take care of air conditioning and cooling. They consume so few resources that their carbon foot print is probably negative.

As far as education is concerned, we use this education to survive in this society, to earn, to create and transact with goods and so on. Their society is not built on such structures and transactions. They would have different structures and transactions. One is not necessarily superior or inferior. They are merely different.
I don't think either example can be held above the other as the better example. Both were ultimately born out of superstition. Both were used as a form of control by one group over another (more so witch hunting & inquisition).

They shouldn't have done it...

..at least by our standards today. It is always difficult to judge historical people because we are, even from an early age, in possession of more facts than they were.
I think this is a great start, but there doesn't appear to be enough detail in some of the classes/libraries for sale. For example, there is an interesting scaffolding class but the details provided are very limited. There's no compatibility list regarding what databases it works with, or how customizable the output is via the object's functions. I understand not exposing the source code of a for sale library, but there should definitely be auto-generated API docs for each class, in this way I have a better understanding rather than just a limited demo, clearly in this case $29 isn't a big deal, but it does add an unnecessary layer of doubt.
A very interesting read, until "... my 5k friends ...".

Dude, it's Twitter you are looking for. And you should call those people "followers" and not friends (half of them are fake profiles for SEO purposes anyway).
Here in Austria, I've heard some people call it the "Psychosemmel" (a Semmel being an Austrian kind of bread roll... do a GIS and you'll see the resemblance).
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thanks, we spent a lot of time figuring out ways to prevent users doing trials-and-error to find out who adored them.
What.... am I missing with this project?

Umm, the fact that you haven't seen it yet?
They cannot just print infinite number of notes

Actually, they could. Printing say 1 note for every 9 notes in existence would lead to an inflation of around 11% and is equivalent to a uniform property tax of 10%.

The reasons we don't do things that way I can think of are:

- it would make inflation huge (government spending typically is over 30% of GDP; that would give over 50% inflation)

- it was not possible under the gold standard.

- people would feel it as unjust that one's cash and bank accounts are 'taxed', but e.g. houses one owns are not.

- because of the former, it would tax the poor way more than the rich.

It would be a really good way to stimulate consumer spending, though.
"Ignoring a text or phone call sends a message."

No it doesn't.

At least no for me. If I ignore a call or text, I was busy. If its important, s/he'll call again. If I forget to call back later, I forgot it. No drama.

Or maybe its just this kind of acting that makes the drama people stop contacting me. Sort of natural selection. Works pretty well.
As far as datastores go, cassandra is write-optimized. Writes are faster than reads. So for this use case (heavy denormalization) it is a good fit.

Also, Cassandra reduces the operational complexity of having a logical store which spans multiple hosts. Your memcache example does not get persistence for free, and sharding mysql is something you have to do manually. The interface to a Cassandra cluster is the same regardless of how many nodes you are running.

Scaling writes is "hard". Incrementing counters is obviously write heavy, and cassandra aims to make it easier.
>. Yes, it is. Would you trade places with them? Would you want your children to?

Honestly, I don't know how did you get so many upvotes. I mean, we have this huge imbalance problem of equality between different peoples right now, which could be easily solved if only the "superior" whites in Europe and the United States would vote down the anti-immigration rules.

The situation of poor sub-saharan people, whose way of life was irremediably "improved" by superior European colonialism, would very much be improved if they were allowed to travel and work freely in all over of Western Europe. The same goes for the United States and its hinterland in Latin America.

And let me tell you what would happen were we to contact these tribes. Half of them will die from a disease like normal influenza, while the rest will be either lost to cronic alcoholism or to the Brazilian favellas. We've seen all this happen before.
you should really read the book "Fooled by Randomness". There's a particular chapter: "If you're so rich, why aren't you smart?" It points out how difficult it is to look at empirical evidence, esp. if you don't know the size of a given cohort. He makes his point with stock markets. Given the huge number of people who trade in a given year, it's basically inevitable that someone will pick nothing but winners. But if you don't see the huge pool of failures, you don't realize that someone's "stock picking skillz" are no better than what you might expect, given the size of the trading population.

E.g., you're looking at a rich MBA. Say 100,000 MBAs graduate a year in the US. You still don't have enough information to know if he was any good.

Worse, say you use a pedigree: You're looking at a rich MBA from Harvard. Say they only graduate 1,000, but, because any damn headhunter will put a harvard MBA into a C-level job, 90% of the harvard MBAs stack up a ton of money. Now, knowing that he's a rich MBA tells you even less. All you really know is that richness & a harvard MBA seem to correlate, which is kind of exactly where you started :) (on the other hand, if you had a poor harvard MBA in front of you, then you'd really have something!)

Anyway, yeah. it's a really hard problem -- just as hard as finding a good programmer, imho
The day half your memcached data center loses power will be a sad sad day indeed, and the story of 750k QPS on InnoDB was about read traffic, not writes.
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Lawrence of Arabia is a historical figure and I did a college paper on him. He accomplished amazing things in the real world in terms of helping the Arabs achieve their independence. The Arabs were a relatively "primitive" (tribal) people compared to the English who sought to rule them. The film is based on real events. Like most such films, it is part documentary, part fiction/drama. He was famous enough during his life to have been followed around by a journalist. The journalist provided both actual documentation of Lawrence's activities (through film and photos) but also hyped it, so not all of that information is really accurate. Some themes in the movie are relevant to the discussion here:

The Arabs keep wanting British artillery as The Answer. The British don't want to give it to them because they want to keep the Arabs under their thumb. (Note: Like with American Natives, they apparently saw "guns" as a source of power and wanted them completely out of context -- unable to manufacture them themselves and so on.)

Lawrence tells the Arabs that he thinks their traditional ways are their source of power -- that riding camels through the desert like they did historically is the way to have power equivalent to British power. At the time, Britain was a Naval power and he compares the camels to ships and the desert to the ocean.

I cannot verify whether or not Lawrence ever said that but it is historical fact that he rode with Arab irregulars and that such troops traveled by camel. It is also historical fact that he took Aqaba, a key port city, with a force of only 40 men.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._E._Lawrence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)

Here is an actual quote of the man which agrees with the gist of what I am saying and from a reputable source:

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.

http://telawrence.info/telawrenceinfo/life/biog_quotes.shtml
"It takes you several minutes to go and buy a physical newspaper" - this is not an argument. The dynamics of a mobile app is so different than real life's. Imagine you play one of Zynga's games and wait 2 physical years for the animal to grow up. There's no doubt any mobile app showing you instant and hot content should start blazing fast, so that it serves your impulses. We are reading news out of our impulse; although we may alocate specific times of the day for it, it's not a programed action like reading a thousand pages fanatsy novel; therefore if a news app fails to satisfy that impulse (quickly, efficiently, in critical time and dimensions) then you may say the app is not serving you well enough.
In my opinion, it doesn't matter the name of the author, he's got a point.
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Yeah, but I found it a bit disappointing that those girls actually don't fly the jetlev. Maybe it requires an enormous amount of muscle power?
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You may find this post interesting. Git means never having to say "you should have".

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How do you know they are uncivilized? I think you are making assumptions.

If they are civilized... I know of at least one old-fashioned civilized culture relatively estranged from Western influence that seems to be doing well, at least in some regards: http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/longevity/page/2
I find it extremely disgusting. There's nothing wrong with contacting others. Everyday I'm contacted by lots of people: colleagues, marketers, head hunters etc. They give me choice. Let members of the tribe enjoy the same freedoms. Stop treating them like animals in a ZOO.
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I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, though I don't understand it.

It'd be awfully dull if everything had to be optimized for maximum utility, the better to mechanize us.
What is so bad is you making the decision for them -- one way or the other. It's that kind of pompous paternalistic attitude that caused all kinds of pain and misery.

On the other hand, can they even make an informed decision?

I mean, heck, we let the FDA make decisions for us every day. 99.9% of us are not chemist or biologist enough to make a real decision on many consumables and drugs, so we let the more informed make that call

It's true, there's a whole mess of slippery ground around this subject, but is it actually ethical to allow someone to make a choice if they cannot fully comprehend the ramifications etc? (honest question)
No this is what happens when you have a culture that is socially oblivious, isolated, and self absorbed. All things that would be lessoned if Al Jazeera (or Frontline like bits of PBS, non-us version of BBC, etc) were widely watched.
Did I read that right? Did he really win a lawsuit against Taco Bell for them selling food for using his name?

One would think that selling "50 cent tacos" wouldn't cause undue confusion, but....
It is, but I don't have an account yet. Do you?
I found this very strange... Did Bing increase clickstream data usage in their algorithm when Google saw Bing results get more Google-like in October of 2010 or not?

Shrum:

Not so, Bing told me. In October, Bing says it rolled out a new
ranking algorithm plus a new experimental system called “Aether”
that allows them to test changes in their ranking methodology.
That’s what caused the bump that Google saw, not some sudden use
of the surfstream, Bing said.

Web (during October 2010):

http://www.google.com/search?q=Bing+new+ranking+algorithm...
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> I don't think you're going to find too many adults who are really all that interested in embracing their inner 12-year-old girl

If you look at Ze Frank's many past efforts you will see that is exactly what he's adept at finding.
This question has come up repeatedly here recently. Here is a link to where I gathered links to a few previous discussions. This is the third time I have posted this in a, say, the past week. So if search the site, you might get lots more info:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2126209
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Microsoft has a similar project for .NET http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/contracts/ . Based on a quick look I think Microsoft's project is a bit more mature (already has VS-intergration for example).
Making use of EdgeRank gives me more control than just hiding people.

Whenever I'd like to see more of somebody, I go to their page, make a couple of comments, and pronto, their posts enter my stream, squeezing out posts of people I didn't interact with. Problem solved.
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From the article: "Rossi and Focardi’s paper on the nuclear reactor has been rejected by peer-reviewed journals, but the scientists aren’t discouraged. They published their paper in the Journal of Nuclear Physics, an online journal founded and run by themselves, which is obviously cause for a great deal of skepticism."

I think that paragraph says it all.
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In my experience the best way to tackle those problems isn't to wrestle with execution plan hints, instead break the query into 2 and use a temp table or table variable(s) for the inbetween data. This has the additional benefit of helping you debug the cause of the slowness. And there's no way for the planner to stab you in the back.
Here's the tl/dr version for lazy/busy people:

- Wireframes can be a useful tool for people who can’t design and can’t code.

- Getting attached to them is a surefire recipe for wasted time and energy.

- Wireframes are guidelines, not blueprints.

- Ask yourself if your time wouldn’t be put to better use actually coding or designing.
I'm pretty sure SQL Server's query hints are just placebos!
Why don't you just run the whole site under SSL? That and add the STS header as an easy fix for people messing with the HTTP redirect to SSL. Might be a minuscule amount of extra load for your servers, but it has not degraded my Facebook experience noticeably (I have SSL enabled).
Fair enough. I suppose that portion of my argument was a bit short-sighted. Consider it retracted.
These postings are real. I can confirm that I've seen some of these emails in person from Penn.
What would be really interesting in light of what you say is repeat performance. Also, it is not inconceivable that even random success may _cause_ repeated success as successful people tend to get more opportunities and are more confident.
Also, people would eventually stop using the government's currency, the bank notes it printed would then be worthless, and the government would have to start explicitly taxing again. Only now it would have an economy denominated in a foreign currency.
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Because he sees himself as right-wing, so anyone disagreeing must be a socialist; therefore he's falling in the very trap he warned his opponent of. Funnily recursive indeed.
Getting the termination fees raised to break-even does not make everyone's life suck more. The alternative is to have that $150 increment added to the handset purchase price, which is closer to making everyone's life suck more.

There's no free lunch. Somehow you're going to pay the full price for your iPhone. The higher monthly bill and higher early termination fee you're willing to pay, the lower the upfront cost can be, which some would argue is making people's lives better, not worse.

I would personally prefer to buy an unsubsidized phone (and have correspondingly lower monthly bills, and a tiny or zero early-term fee), but that's not how the US mobile market works, at least not for the device I prefer, and choice of device is more important to me than choice of contract terms.
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Their incidence rate is at or near zero in just about every category, including diabetes, vascular disease, and colorectal cancer. Age seems to have no effect on them, either: The Tarahumara runner who won the 1993 Leadville ultramarathon was 55 years old. Plus, their supernatural invulnerability isn't just limited to their bodies; the Tarahumara have mastered the secret of happiness as well, living as benignly as bodhisattvas in a world free of theft, murder, suicide, and cruelty.

Great article. Thanks so much for sharing. Very relevant for me, I mean to my life (as I get well when doctors say it cannot be done -- and I live without a car and walk a lot).
I don't have much to say about the functionality, but I did notice that while the site is in English, the default view for the "Terms of Service" is in French, and there seems to be no way to display them in English.

Unless I can understand the ToS, there's no way I'd use such a site.
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I wrote the article. I wasn't thinking at all about "user engagement." I was thinking "Look, there's another article on this same thing, and that one takes issue with this method." And then I thought, "I don't see any issue at all."
I wonder if any country would have something to gain from a Market shutdown? Most major countries/continents now have one of their own stock exchanges, but what country can gain from this one going down? I could only assume China, but they are so reliant on the US dollar, they truly wouldn't want to see if fall. Maybe rogue hackers, but then again, most likely if they are a group, they are looking for something in the future.
I don't think 400 USD is expensive to a majority of this non-passport-owning 70% of the US population.

I mean, it's not something you spend just any day of the week, but to never in your lifetime visit Europe?
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