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you could be a great programmer, just need a better teacher. The fact that you are here and asking this is reflective of some intelligence. You don't need to be an A++ programmer - I am not - not every employee at Google is a hacker.
Let me just caution those with highly scalable expectations. A large MongoDB instance is going to weight in at around 1-10TB. Here's an updated list of production MongoDB instances for reference: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Deployments

At both Splunk and Loggly I've seen customers sending in multi-tens-of-millions events a day from a handful of boxes without even breaking a sweat. It wouldn't take long to blow through several TB of storage in MongoDB if you were storing all that log data with a retention of a few months.

Log volumes vary from use-case to use-case though, and I absolutely love the GrayLog2 guys and the way they listen to their users. It's definitely a great tool for a job that is usually a real pain in the ass!
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Hmm - how do you stay sane with your spouse/boyfriend or girlfriend? There's always going to be problems... be willing to work through them, and work with someone who is willing to actively work through them with you. Compromise, and your co should as well, and you should increase your odds of success together (or, at least, "staying sane").
Armine Saidi did an awesome job presenting this at Superconf. There was a live feed, but I'm not sure if they will repost the event. If they do check it out. He was the first presenter.
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Exactly. Foursquare was hardly the first service of its kind. I think most would agree this is potentially a great idea, but it's never caught on.

Why not? I'd bet one major reason is that almost nobody has even heard of the previous efforts. You've got to get the specifics right, and you've got to establish it as a popular thing to do. Then lots of fun may ensue.
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you'll still need to send it. depending on the users you're supporting, and how, yodlee supports the long tail (some better, some worse), which would be difficult to support in a model like this.
Graph databases intrigue me too.

The thing is, it took me a little while to realize that the "the semantic web" is a very specific model where providers are be expected to explicitly provide the semantic decoration/meta-data for all their content. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

I basically don't believe that this particular approach will ever work (ie, the flood-gates won't open and content providers won't suddenly label all their data). I mean, this approach has been the failed-model of hypertext since ... project Xanadu, mid-sixties (a well-tended, fully meaningful store of data).

Instead, Google and other search engines and tools will just get smarter.

We'll find more ways to incidentally get semantic information from the raw data that's out there. But no will have enough incentive to manually provide that much deep-meaning for their data themselves (and anything whose semantic meaning can be automatically processed can be put on the web for someone else to automatically process). The semantic web approach is always going to be behind the curve compared to just putting raw, unstructured data out-there.

The more uses we find for information, the more ability we'll get to extract meaning from it without the data starting out labeled.

Look at what Watson could do.

-- And I am working on a tool that extract implicit information from the process of people interacting with data. Extracting implicit, inferred and deduced relations has much more promise even if it can't rely on explicit semantic labels. This is more or less what Google does also (it's true that so-far, Google's stuff is considered "semantically meaningless" and I know Google bought Metaweb. We'll see what they get from it...)
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It seems like the developer just gave up. I would have collected everyones email and told them that they will be notified when everything is fixed, or just have created the same service under a different name to challenge facebook to shut it down again.
Background on the current Libyan crisis -- now about that "Toyota war"...
Is this really worth doing? Seems like a large productivity sink... Did it make you happier enough at work to be able to rationalize it?
Yes, this is what they say about every new standard. And once you have thrown out all your working peripherals and bought all new ones, then LightningBlast is released, not compatible with Thunderbolt. This has been going on as long as I have been alive.

I know, I know: Thunderbolt is the last time people will have to throw out all their things and start over. This time really will be the last time because it is a new standard to rule over all, just like NuBus was.

And it's definitely not going to be dead on arrival like PCI-X, or not supported by drivers on the Mac for most peripherals like PCI-e. No, Thunderbolt is going to be truly universal and forever lasting world without end. If only you believe, amen.
Nit: the Apple ][ could be used as an appliance, more so than its 1977 competitors, but it was the opposite of a closed system. s/Apple/post-Wozniak Apple/
Well, I'd welcome an explanation of your opinion here.
I wish my school would use Gmail. Then we might be able to actually do things with our email :\
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A little ad I made. Pretty funny parody.
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I have to disagree that it's an awful process to get apps on an iOS device. I was up and running in under 30 minutes from the time I started the registration process to the time I had an app running on a device.

Point taken about the untapped market of Flash developers. Honestly I hope RIM can turn it around. Like I said, they're the #1 supporter of my university and they support the local economy in a big way. The things I hear from friends who work there though don't give me a lot of hope. The impression I get is that the front line developers share a lot of same concerns that I do.
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Listened to this a while ago and thought it was pretty interesting. The Bourbaki story was particularly cool.

Any recommendations for similar podcasts? I know of Radiolab, what else?
Isn't that about half of what facebook brought in?
Why the scum comment? I haven't followed its evolution closely in past years, but from what I understand Orkut managed to attract a lot of users when it launched, but failed to retain them. Novelty worn off, everyone left. With an exception of Brazil, where it is still hugely popular.
great stuff theLi0nheart! I love your no quit attitude.

get knocked down 6 times...get back up 7.
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be aware that pretty much anything doing a remote code execution follows it up with local privilege escalation exploits - which are rather common and frequently don't get top priority for fixes.
Maybe, but if he redirected that traffic to a crush affiliate offer, he would be about $20,000 richer right now. Just saying.
> instructions

yeah, if those were available/not just plain wrong when the program started.
I'm excited for the pre3, I'll probably ditch my 3gs for it.
I assume that Places will be used for Foursquare-style or Facebook --uh, Places-- -style checkins.

It is patently absurd to grant a trademark for a common English word for use in an area of application that is the word's normal meaning.
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I know! Seems like they're doing a lot better right?
overall I like the idea

i think the word "crush" is bad because it limits it to a sort of juvenile romantic condition. granted, people could still use it to indicate a different kind or degree of interest, from "I think they're hot" to "I'd totally sleep with them", etc. that don't imply the kind of mental obsession or breathless/nervous/manic behavior that are associated with crushes.

minor criticism though. overall, i think it's a neat idea that will resonate with lots of folks.
Have your lawyer write a good, detailed DMCA complaint to Google and, possibly, cloner's hosting provider -- and make it quick, before they change the copy. If they modify the page later, use archive.org (hopefully it will pick up the current page) or google cache as a proof.

We once DMCAed a Romanian cloner who blatantly copied our top-selling shareware app and refused to take the clone down when I emailed him. His reply was along the lines of "suing is too expensive, you won't sue me".

We sent the DMCA complaint, and a result, he got kicked out of Google and all payment processing services (ShareIt, Regnow etc.) He later emailed me with peace offerings, but I just hit Del.
Just sticking to the BBC because it's what I know best, In Our Time is another great radio show (and podcast) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/

It's essentially a 40 minute discussion between the host and 3 leading academics related to a particular scientific, historical or cultural topic. A recent one was Pseudorandom and Random Numbers, for example (also featuring du Sautoy): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x9xjb .. others like Imaginary Numbers, Logic, Logical Positivism, and The Physics of Time were also illuminating.

I'm not sure how much of the BBC's stuff people outside of the UK can listen to, but there are torrents of the back catalog floating about and I don't believe they're being commercially sold anyway. They just go out on the radio each week.
On the other side of things, I've owned 3 X25-M's. A first gen that died in 9 months, a second gen (RMA replacement) that just started acting weird and corrupting things last month (was about 15 months old and was in a RAID 0 array with another X25M but I undid the array and began using the better of the two X25M's). Needless to say I use Dropbox, Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner very often.

related:
http://paulstamatiou.com/ssd-raid-performance-9-months-later
http://paulstamatiou.com/ssd-corrupt-failure-intel-x25m
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The question is: do they want to compete with Apple for developers? Given Apple's huge success, I can't see how the answer to that question could be anything but "yes".

If RIM's strategy doesn't have some component that involves trying to woo iOS developers to their platform, I predict they will fail.
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which itself is the same thing as goodcrush.com, which came out a few years ago...
Great post Brandon, I hate individual recruiters/hh and recruiting agencies and always mark them SPAM in my gmail and LinkedIn
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One annoying issue with the HR datastore is the appids have a 's~' prefix which can lead to strange behaviors when setting up domains via google apps and other jankiness.

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"Not sure why one would want to do that, but as a math guy I feel it's my duty to chime in."

It's sort of like trying to explain why one would use a I IV V chord progression, or why a major triad sounds good. There are interesting ratios in there, though few people are explicitly calculating them in their heads.
I think he understands it all too well (and missed explaining a lot of things that a casual reader really needs to know)

The code execution is not the point of the story.
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interesting discussion of TRIM here: http://www.realworldtech.com/forums/index.cfm?action=detail&...

(read the thread segments which relate to TRIM)
Facebook had revenues of 1.86 billion in 2010 with an estimated valuation of 70 billion, while groupon had revenues of 760 million with an estimated valuation of 15 billion. That results in a Price-Earnings ratio of ~37 for Facebook and ~20 for groupon. PE is often difficult to interpret but basically it means groupon is undervalued compared to facebook and would be a better buy if it were traded on the open market.
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nor does it need to happen in real time in the browser :)
Poll: Would you trust developers with your code.
Long story short, we are creating a project for a startup weekend (mostly for fun) that allows project owners to place rewards for feature commits on GitHub. Obviously, the developers would need access to the codebase and would need to agree to a blanket NDA upon signup. The technicalities are no problem but we are trying to get a feel for people's trust barriers.

tl;dr Would you allow NDA signed developers access to your codebase to make micro feature commits through an online relationship.

(reasoning would be very helpful as well) Thanks for your help in advance!
Yes - I would allow access.
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Sure, my bank does it too. Finer-grained alerting could be useful, or possibly aggregate tracking ("You've spent more than $50 at Starbucks this month!"). Location awareness would be the most useful fraud prevention tool.
Facebook is probably going to bring in a lot more this year with Facebook Credit and Facebook Place.

Although the revenue is high, the expense for Groupon is probably high as well, after all it's not cheap to launch that many commercials during the Superbowl, and have ads at every other corner on mainstream websites.

At least they have income.
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why not just improve usb?! how many cables hsould I have to live?!!
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~4000 employees generating revenue of 760m, which vendors get a big chunk of, doesn't seem super impressive. I mean it's a nice amount of income, but it doesn't seem very 'whoa..'.
My favorite part was his note to the troops: "By this time next year, we will either be on our way to becoming one of the great technology brands that define our generation, or a cool idea by people who were out executed and out innovated by others that were smarter and harder working."

The original WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870340860457616...
Interesting, I finished watching the movie 10mins ago and, entrepreneurially pumped, came here. I thought Saverin came across as a total whiner in the movie. Yes, he was swiped off his shares but, in the movie, he worked to get funding in NY with no results, whereas Zuck and the bad boy team quickly secured funding in Palo Alto. I wonder what percentage of this is the truth, if there is such a thing.
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Only two free crushes and then they have to pay or give the developer the e-mail of their crush. Thus, the idea is marketed.
Well, I've yet to find a to do list app that actually works for me.
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The 's~' prefix as an internal detail isn't going to go away, but we're trying to smooth out any of the situations where you have to see/deal with it.
23x the prior year's earnings, more than a third coming from overseas, and founded in 2008? Sounds pretty impressive to me.
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Racket and Common Lisp seem way more difficult than Python. I learned Python in a very short amount of time, and it was very easy (it's just functions, classes, C-like syntax, and boom, you're writing programs in Python).

Tried learning Scheme and Lisp a couple times and just ran out of steam. (While I'm here: any advice on making it stick?)
Great story man, keep up the hustle!
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Does Groupon count the 50% that is owed to the vendors in their revenue? If so, it doesn't feel all that impressive. I'd be more curious to see how much profit was made.
I hope this letter causes RIM to WAKE UP! You are not the dominant force any more. Get with it.
I went through a phase where I just HAD to have a certain girl in my life to make my life complete. I endured sooo much pain because of it.

Anyway, I only say this because, in retrospect, I think it was all just biology. If, despite your emotional state, you can just manage to wrap your head around that for a second, then maybe it will help you.

Keep going the way you're going as long as you're enjoying the ride. On the other hand, don't wait for forever until you find the time to commit to a relationship. They can be very rewarding, and you should definitely try to have that experience at some point in your life.
With nearly $1 billion in funding, it'd be very disappointing to not be generating revenue at a very high level.
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We were pretty set to buy a RAV4 this month, now my wife will have none of it. Based on previous discussions on HN, I thought the Toyota acceleration issue was just due to dumb (older?) drivers and dealers installing wrong mats. Maybe not.
No time wasted. And you're a good writer to boot. I thoroughly enjoyed the article.
"Such rapid and direct application of biomedical advances to humans is now inconceivable, not only in the US, but virtually anywhere in the world."

This is true, but for one very simple reason: at the time of these inventions, there was no other option. If someone needed a heart operation that required stopping the heart, they would die. If someone needed dialysis after kidney failure, they died. Rapid applications come in the face of dire consequences. In these cases, almost anything was better than death.
I wish I could find the time, and when the time is right I could find a girl whom I can share my life with.

Having these two events happening at the same time takes a bit of luck, I afraid.
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I showed Love to my kids over the school holidays, it was a nice sweet package. Single exe, runs on Windows, and there were enough tutorials to get one started. The only thing I had a problem with was with the names of some of the libraries, which had overt sexual overtones.
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My dad said this to me at a particular low point in my life, perhaps its relevant: "This hard time you're going through right now is just the way life is for you right now at this moment. For better or for worse, life is always changing, and things WILL NOT be the same tomorrow as they are today." ... I always drew encouragement from that when the chips were down.

Take care.
Things I'd like to know:

1. Is Spaces still there, or has it been replaced by the unified Mission Control?

2. Do standard third party apps get the new crazy scrollbars by default when running on Lion?

3. What versions of Python are installed by default?

4. What versions of Ruby are installed by default?
No, but I'm a few steps removed from candidates initial contact. Honestly, I usually don't read resumes either because I don't think they're very valuable in assessing technical skill.

That said, if you're doing initial screens, it's probably worthwhile to read both.
True, but the hardware still needs to scale linearly with the number of concurrent connections, and it leaves them pretty susceptible to high traffic related problems, like at peak times when games are first released. What if someone decides to launch a DDoS? Virtualization also limits the type of games they can run - you can't run a dozen PS3 games without a dozen PS3s.

On top of that, they shoulder the cost of upgrading the hardware, along with the risk - another Dreamcast (high initial sales followed by a severe dropoff) would be disastrous. I'm not sure how they can pass those costs on to their customers at a price point that's attractive to anyone who doesn't play lots of games per month (also making it possibly a net loss), or that's competitive with the more scalable, more performant, and lower risk model of running the games on the client, whether it's a console or a PC.
Wait...this sounded fantastic, but this isn't like a normal games console or even Steam. If OnLive folds or stops supporting older games, your console is worthless, right?
I'm really surprised at how many people are jumping to discredit the poster's legitimate need for more than 10k contacts. This is toxic thinking for a technical entrepreneur, to assume that any use case outside your original design is either pathological or caused by user error.

Smart developers crave this kind of feedback, so that they can figure out where their assumptions about user behavior are wrong and work to correct them.
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Isn't okular available for windows, although you probably have to install a decent amount of kde libraries.
The guy who wrote this post used to be president of Alcor (http://alcor.org), one of the two cryonics organizations in the US. Cryonics is in fact certainly a procedure where people will definitely die if they don't get it, particularly because it can only be done after 'legal death'.

Its efficacy can't be established conclusively right now, but it's certainly more likely you'll be revived if you undergo cryopreservation than if you are cremated or buried underground.

But because of various mostly psychosocial factors, practically nobody gets cryopreserved. I think this is the specific example he was trying to point out.
Assuming the rumors were true, they could have been bought for $6bn in November by Google on ~$750mm 2010 revenue after three rounds totaling $171mm -- an outstanding return.

However, they chose to turn down the offer, and take on fourth round of nearly $1bn in Dec/Jan and (presumably) grow internationally. It's a bet by the board that they can grab land faster than anyone else.
my hopes for the future are in RBX but why would the ugliness of MRI (I assume you include yarv in it) make it untenable in the long term?

There is a massive amount of bad code on the intertubes that has been around for decades, and I kind of hope we will not be programming in ruby when it's 40 years old.
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