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Except that Google's forums don't help when Google locked five figures from you on a spiky day, continues to accept money with no way to withdraw, provides no telephone support, and offers only an (apparently overloaded) email support. (Eventually I got my account unlocked and funds released... six months later.)

Coincidentally, I've never had such a problem with Paypal. (My gripes with them generally revolve around the glacially slow history search.)
Yeah, people defending this 'solution' made me go 8( , too. Felt like I was right back in 1997, doing 'version control' with carefully numbered directories because Sourcesafe 'is overkill'.
This made something click for me: I hear all the time about how a) technology makes people's lives better, but b) people's lives in the US seem to be sucking a lot lately. The sucking, this theory would predict, is due to people having their jobs obviated by technology, but then being screwed out of the good part of that technology, directly or indirectly, by phone companies with monopolies who conspire to charge by the gigabyte and therefore deny the wider economy the benefit of technological improvement.

(This is not to say that a 50-year-old who gets laid off would feel better if he had cheaper internet access. The effects of cheaper internet access overall, though, seem like they would end up producing cheaper food and other costs in the end, too.)
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This is the traditional way of serving coffee in south India: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3499/3281237995_091cdeac67.jp.... Basically, you get a cup and a bowl to pour it back and forth with.
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the thing with dropbox is that it does that automatically. No need to manually sync files all the time (which you tend to forget from time to time).
Just leave work and continue working on the same stuff at home. Easy and convenient.
I sometimes worry too about a substitute good for humans, but I believe that many entrepreneurs will exploit the abundance of unemployment to fuel their visions.

This reoccurring pattern of a labor market becoming liquid and transitioning has happened before. Hong Kong skyrocketed in unemployment when trade opened in China and most "algorithmic" jobs migrated across the border literally overnight. Education became a central part of the economy and the country moved forward.
If last.fm, etc. are providing so much value why are their margins so thin? Are they providing value less than 30% of the cost of the base product?
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Stealing UI ideas from movies is a really, really bad idea. Movie user interfaces generally have horrible usability. They're part of the reason that the early Web had so many 3D interfaces and flashy graphics, because managers thought they looked cool even though no one could use them.

More here:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/film-ui-bloopers.html
Someone needs to go down to their basement and reboot the mac mini that's running this thing ;)
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There are better alternatives to twitter > 140 chars but <= 140 chars none.
Ditto this - the idea of having the bare repo in Dropbox, but having my frequently-changing stuff (especially, as you point out, with branch changes) locally seems to me to be the sanest alternative.

I hacked together a quick script to facilitate this (http://github.com/agnoster/git-dropbox), since it seems like one of those things where less friction potentially leads to significant changes in behavior.
Their margins are so thin because in reality they all compete with The Pirate Bay. It's only when you take that competition into account that the 30% starts to sound unreasonable.
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eh, I have personally been diagnosed with ADD, and I don't perform all that well without medication. Psychiatrists and medication can help /a lot/ - but I still disagree with the advice. As a boss, you need to tell the employee what you need, and if he or she can't provide that, you need to let them go.

Telling someone "go see a psychiatrist- get medicated" /almost always/ leads to an even more negative reaction than just firing them outright. I mean, this is something that is /very difficult/ to tell someone who is a close friend without encountering a negative response.

on the other hand, if you /can/ provide health insurance that covers that sort of thing, by all means, do so. If you can encourage people to use the psychiatric portion of the company provided health insurance during the insurance orentation (not singling out one person) that's also great.

I'm just saying, you can't really say to a guy "hey you... you need to go get on some medication." I mean, it probably brings up all sorts of legal issues, too; I'm just saying on a social level, you are going to get a better reaction telling the guy to jump off a bridge, even if you have a good point.
I could be wrong, but I don't think the argument for virtualisation was that it would fix resource contention, except possibly under some fairly rarefied conditions.
I dunno. Empires have been built where it took months to communicate with the outer edges. Until pretty recently, it might have taken years for news of a scientific discovery to reach another country.

Instant communication is a nice luxury, but it's by no means essential.
Distance travelled can be a measure of many things (technology, wealth, ambition) but not intelligence.

We can't say that X achievement in distance shows intelligence higher than ours just because we haven't matched it yet.
You have written almost everything I would have written except another thing I need: decent fonts.

Rumor has it that the recent Ubuntu has some better fonts, but 5 years ago the Linux fonts were really bad compared to the OSX (or even Windows) fonts.

Given how much time I spend in the browser nowadays, if they could/would move Adium, Skype, NetBeans and a terminal in there, I would just switch to a Chrome OS device.
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What about using git and s3? Any thoughts on this? I've seen it done for both java and python (dulwich I believe) implementations of git (as well as hg)--but not cgit. Would one have to do this using webdav or fuse?
Have you benchmarked your bare-metal vs. VM systems? I think you may be surprised how much performance you're losing. If you're not losing any performance I'd be interested as to your setup.

Also, the article discusses VPS systems which are generally much different than installing a VM on hardware you own.

I'll admit that the last time I tried to run an IO intensive task on a VM it was about a year and a half ago. (VMWare ESXi)

I think the processors installed in that box didn't support IO virtualization.
The top 20 public groups topped out at about 250 users last night, add on a bit for the other public groups and a little for private groups. Maybe 400 concurrent users max so far?

Just my guess, but I'd be surprised if it's orders of magnitude different.
Not switching back until I see Linux on an equal priority to Windows (even XP !): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3/Firefox_Requirements#Platf...
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/01/16/0657240/Why-Linux-Lo...

P.S. Other browsers, supported by commercial entities, can be excused for doing this. Not Firefox.
I get to be in the position to observe the fragments of the 'larger parts' of the population during their interactions with the machine. They copy and paste for hours, editing files line by line replacing a character by another. Maybe it's just me and my background, but I immediately feel en prise by the waste of precious human minds.

And: If they these people have the endurance to stand countless hours of such repetitive tasks, they are more than able to take the challenges of steep learning curves.

That said: My approach always has been to try to teach people about some fundamentals instead of letting them walk calmly into their ui abysses. And usually, when people learn that you can do with a keystroke what took four clicks before, they want to know more.
It was a line from Tron. At least the sequel. Not sure if it was in the original too. Was wicked when said in the sequel though, imo.
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Fourteen relative changes of 5% will double your conversion rate. Or halve it. The cost of an A/B test is small enough that if it took, say, a sample size of 1000 then it would be well worth A/B testing changes that might make a 5% relative difference. On the other hand, if it takes a sample of 122k then indeed you might well decide not to bother -- e.g., because it might be impossible. Which is why "it takes 122k rather than 1k to tell with any confidence" is interesting.

(Rough numbers: suppose you get 1000 visitors per day and convert at 5%, and suppose each conversion is worth $10 to you. Then you're bringing in about $180k/year from them, and a relative change of 5% in that is about $9k. Seems worth doing a modestly-sized A/B test for, but if it takes 4 months then you might reasonably decide to spend your effort elsewhere. (Or, of course, not: the actual cost of doing the test is rather small. But a lot can change over 4 months.)
that's sad. they might make some money in the short term, but i think they'll bleed mindshare in the long term. of course, it might work out the other way, where developers flock to them the way they did to the apple store, because there's a chance they'll make more money that way.
Nimwegen's PhD thesis, The paradox of the guided user: assistance is later that the cited publications, and can be
counter-effective, is from later than the cited articles (2008) and is available online: http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/2008-0401-...

The experiment in the Ph.D. research did not tackle CLI vs. GUI, but rather gave two GUIs, one based on internal (i.e., figure out for yourself what you can do) vs. external (give accessible information on what you can do) GUIs. There is a little bit of discussion in chapters 1&2 of the interface styles of CLI vs. GUI.
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This does look useful - I'm pretty sure we'll start using in the next week as we're launching our own site (http://www.solvingtrafficcongestion.com) and will be needing to tweet on a regular basis. Buffer looks like it will become one of our marketing tools.
Summary: "some people give away free (others') movies, and then put some links to their private adsense-laden portals in a README file or somesuch. This accounts for a very large percentage of the downloads from the pirate bay."

Very interesting findings, but it doesn't really answer the question of how important these people are to the pirate ecosystem. Are they just taking releases from more-private "underground" seeders and putting them on the pirate bay (in which case they are, effectively, just spammers and their elimination wouldn't really hurt the pirates) or do they actually provide the content themselves?
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1. You'll always pay more renting than buying in the long run. The difference is a factor of how efficient the market is, I guess. A high memory quad XL instance on Amazon has near enough 64GB of RAM, which you can have for $2.00 per hour, or $5300 for a reserved instance for a year. If you wanted to buy that much outright, you'd be paying a couple of thousand just for the DIMMs. Then you've got to buy and maintain the box to put them in, knowing that it'll have depreciated significantly over the year. I guess it depends on what you're actually planning to do with the RAM once you've got it, but it doesn't look like too bad a deal to me.

2. That depends on your VPS host, really.
not necessarily deep - It directly challenges a very widespread thesis, explicitly laid out in the UI manuals of Apple and Sun, of how to present information in GUIs. The work shows how following this advice can suggest non-optimal problem-solving strategies.

The recommendations in the papers aren't, contrary to what the blog post says, about CLI vs. GUI, but about what kind of information should be presented to the user.
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To be fair, those are both downsides to the current VPS providors business models, rather than flaws in virtual private servers themselves.

And if the traditional leased-machine colocation businesses I've used in the past are anything to judge by, much of the hardware in commercial use today is probably old enough that todays ram prices are not even close to indicative of the actual ram costs when the hardware was purchased... (Not that that should really matter, if the 3 or 4 year old machines my hosting company are currently offering as low or medium end colos aren't fully paid off several times over by now, they're definitely "doin it wrong"!)
The fact that you don't know how to make your tools easy to use doesn't justify making them complex nightmares.

UNIX (and open source software in general, with a few notable exceptions) is difficult because it's built by thousands of hackers with no user experience goals in sight. The goal is solving a problem for that particular person, as fast as possible. It's rarely getting more people to use the product.
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If you want to curl a hashbang URL (or access its content in some other non-Javascript-requiring way), there's a pretty easy way to do it. Just do the same thing Google does and remove the hashbang. It's like getting mad because you can't parse the XML you find at a JSON endpoint.
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Thanks, you're quite right. Having now skimmed the paper "Does an interface with less assistance provoke more thoughtful behavior?", I would say that the measures of how many moves were made or remade, and how long was taken before the first move, are basically irrelevant, as the only quantities of genuine interest are how long the solution takes, and how well the subjects did on the questions afterwards. As you say, there was no significant difference in average solution time -- even though the low-NFC group did on average 19s better on the externalised version. Nor was there a statistically significant difference in either of the question types (although one type was close to favouring the internalised approach at p = 0.06). Maybe the other papers are more persuasive.
That makes me wonder if there is a (hidden) bandwidth limit on browser usage too. Using the Web browser is currently free on the Kindle: While it only works if you register with a US address, it works worldwide. So I guess that there's a significant amount of money Amazon has to be if someone really uses the browser for daily browsing.
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And it's done by the #develop team. Great work guys.
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Same issues with s3 with sync updates. Might be easier to work around as you have etags but wont work out of the box.
Yes. Arguing that immutability is possible in Java, is a bit like arguing for good code in PHP. It's possible and advisable.

But Java naturally tends towards mutability. And you will have to work harder to make it immutable. Java also does not give you as many tools for this kind of style as functional languages usually give you.

First class functions, a rich type system and a library full of immutable data types come to my mind.
discussion on slashdot

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/02/16/1342236/How-Do-Seeder...
I am shocked, shocked that piracy is not driven by music connoisseurs and film buffs eager to bring the artistic and cinematic masterworks of our times like Baby and Salt to poor wretches who can barely afford their $60 a month broadband and $500 computers to say nothing of their $0.99 music downloads.
My preference: using author-date referencing with a reflist rather than footnotes makes it easier to see what the aside is about, and allows you to include such relevant information as the title of the paper and where it was published together at the end of the page in the reflist. Bundling all this information inline is distracting if it happens more than once or twice. There's no reason why the hyperlinks shouldn't be to the papers themselves if you follow this system.

Putting digressions, rather than just sources, in footnotes is what annoys me. It's just lazy: "I wanted to say this as well, so I'll slap it into a footnote instead or figuring out how to say it in a readable way. So footnote 1, Incidentally it is amusing to note, blah, blah...", leaving the reader with the choice of following the footnote and spoiling the flow of the main post, or not following it and missing whatever the writer had thought was worth writing down. They make distractions, they don't avoid them.
A tourist visa is not designed for extended stays, so yes, going in and out of the country not only goes against the visa's purpose, but also, if you do it enough times, it'll probably raise some flags.

The tricky part that I see with your situation is that you want to live in one country, but work remotely for a company outside of that country. If your company has a base of operations in Thailand, you can get a business visa, which most countries will offer.

Some countries have self-employed visas which allow you to stay there with the only requirement being that you show proof that you can sustain yourself financially.

Some countries have entrepreneur visas that require proof of capital and an intent to establish a business in said country.

Some countries have visas for people who want to stay there for a long time, with no other requirement.

Since you're saying the company might hire Thai citizens, some countries also offer visas for people just evaluating a country for a potential place to start (or extend) a company.

I'm sure you've already done your research, but I suggest, if you haven't already, that you contact an immigration lawyer in that country to see what your options are; it's a worthwhile investment, and if it results in you getting the appropriate type of visa, then it saves you money from the plane rides and inconvenience of leaving the country every 30-60 days.

In these situations, especially if it can result in the company you're working for to get involved if things go south, it's best to err on the side of caution.
You have a point - there was a large minority in the country ~30% that would always vote Fianna Fail, no matter how corrupt they were revealed to be.
That's changed in the past year or two, so they are down to ~12% now and expected to get wiped out in the forthcoming election. Ireland may have learnt that it can't continue to elect corrupt representatives.
People have been putting those little files in for years, the only thing that's changed is that now the destination sites are bittorrent trackers with adverts and the txt files are poorly spelled and ugly, whereas back in the day they'd have awesome ASCII art advertising the various scene dumpsites the release had been FXP'd through.
How often do you expect to replace an item like an iPad? I'd expect one to last at least 2 years.
I guess the grand-parent commentator meant moving GC?
I have indirectly heard of someone writing a Javascript client for git using the http transport. It should be doable though a fair amount of work.
And for just $31.5 I could be reading that PDF. Flagged.
2. Show me a VPS host that has cheap bandwidth.

For example, lets say we need 10TB of transfer.

Slicehost: $3,000 (0.30/GB !!! WTF are they smoking)
Amazon: $1,250 (Assume 5TB in, 5TB out, in US)
Linode: $1,000 (0.10/GB Good for VPS, but still crazy)

Typical dedicated server: $99 with 10TB included.

Amazon is ridiculously expensive. I know it's really "hip" to use it, but it's throwing money away. I guess if it's VC's money then who cares if you get to say "We're cloud hosted!!!".

Bandwidth pricing on VPS hosts is just crazily expensive.
Darn it!!! It was only a few days ago that I came across a very helpful post somewhere, made by a startup where they gave a reasonably detailed account of all the third-party tools/services they're using; and I'm pretty sure CRM was one of those.

I also think either the startup, or the CRM company, or both are funded by YC so I guess I must have found that post through YC/HN only.

The problem is, I can't locate it now :-( Sorry, pal, I'll keep looking and post it here if/when I find it, unless someone else beats me to it.
I always felt the tablets of today were inspired by devices used on such shows as star trek TNG.
Most of the content on tpb comes from the scene which does not condone p2p sharing. These people just have access to scene releases early and want to profit from it.

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-slice-the-top-o...

http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-releasers-are-the-new-kid...

Sadly, the report does not list any of the usernames of those that they studied. However, if you just go to a category, pick a frequent submitter, and look at their uploads most of the time there tags from many different groups. Some even try to claim other's releases as their own.
Looking at their Analytics screenshot for that traffic, I see that "new visits" was just 5.42%, compared to a site average of 43.58%.

Given how unspecific the search term is, I can only assume that's because 94.58% of that traffic wasn't actually organic traffic, but was SEOmoz staff + people they talked to clicking on it.
Like at Futarchy for an alterative model. (Though you could classify it as democracy.)