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> As for the meat of the argument, things like judging Deleuze by its adequate usage of mathematical concepts is rather stupid. It is like judging Erdos on his peculiar usage of English. I find interesting that Dawkins (and other) blame those intellectuals for not understanding the concepts they are using while he himself does not try to understand much of where they are coming from either.

I'll admit I'm biased here. Latan, Irigaray and co. sound like a bunch of charlatans to me. However, you're suggesting that I should try "understanding where they are coming from". So please explain to me where Irigaray is coming from when she suggests that fluid mechanics is neglected because "the problem of turbulent flow cannot be solved because the conceptions of fluids (and of women) have been formulated so as necessarily to leave unarticulated remainders."
Hey.. Sorry about the loss. But, what advise would you give a person trying to get a startup working, in terms of certain hazard zones to watch out for?
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Nope, it's a 20% project of on of our engineers. Google has no intention that I know of going further.
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Everything I take out I consider profit. My day time job pays the mortgage and all the bills.

Each month I look at the revenue and determine an arbitrary amount to pull out for myself.
The main two reasons that CouchDB doesn't use multiple files per database are system limits and increased complexity.

CouchDB has a bit of an alternative design in that it accepts that people might be running a large number of databases on a single node. I don't remember the exact numbers but I think we've heard of deploys using 10-100K (small) db's on a single node.

As to complexity, with a single file, there's no magical fsync dance to coordinate when committing data to disk. Its not unpossible, its just more complex.

Its not out of the question that CouchDB will move to using multiple files per database, but as its open source, the biggest road block so far is that no one's needed it badly enough to implement it.
You might want to additionally split this by:

- Free v paid/iAPS

- How expensive the app is

No doubt there's other ways to split it (e.g. "controversy level", "complexity") but those are potentially a bit tricky to quantify.
I am hearing a lot of vitriol against the use of the hash uri (or hash-bang uri) pattern. While I agree that it does make a slightly different set of assumptions about the browser model, I don't think that application developers are employing it just because it is a " cool new thing".

In many cases, the hash-uri enables a new class of applications and system architectures that were not previously possible on the web. Naked (hash less) uri's require that all state transitions round-trip to the server. This isn't at all desirable if you want to support offline, or high latency (mobile) clients.

I am in agreement that we want to retain the link structure of the web. But we also do want to not freeze the application architecture of the web to 1997. I think this post had some great recommendations about implementing a hash-bang based site, and still "playing nice" with a diversity of client assumptions.
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Not at all. http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html

As I said, insults are not ad hominem in and of themselves.
Well, at least they didn't name it Django.
>They mistakenly believe that skilled immigrants take American jobs away. The opposite is true: skilled immigrants start the majority of Silicon Valley startups; they create jobs.

This is relevant only if you assume that no native would have started a competing startup.
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Of the 100+ comments so far, relatively little has been said about the benefit to one's career of knowing upper class (or even just upper middle class) social rules. I'm not referring to the obvious ones like which fork to use at a restaurant but rather to the more subtle ones like what constitutes appropriate small talk. A 23 year-old from any socio-economic background might not have sufficient knowledge to contribute in a particular high-level meeting with a client. However, the kid from the upper class background is more likely to have proven in subtle ways that he is unlikely to be an embarrassment. So, the upper SES kid gets to attend the meeting as a learning experience. That the kid might be able to relate socially to the client (I went to Ivy XYZ with your neighbor's son, etc.) is icing on the cake.
I don't think I've read anything by this author before -- does anyone else find the post pretty incomprehensible, or is it just me?
Cool idea. How accurate do you expect the figures to be? Might people whose apps are reviewed particularly slowly be more inclined to report review times, thereby skewing results?
>That has to be the funniest thing I've read all day. If only poor King Darius III had a Twitter account.

So you think that if the whole world would have been aware of what was happening they would have just sat back and watched? I think they would have all banded together to fight him at once rather than be picked off one at a time.
The US definitely has parallels. You can take almost any brand, and trace it back to a handful of large corporations. The Japanese are just more open about it, whereas US companies have subsidiaries that falsely suggest competition.
Are you ready to roll to kittens at a moment's notice, in case Sheen kills someone (possibly himself)?
A few key things to keep in mind:

1) It was not a blind review. The editors knew Sokal was the author and knew he was an important scientist.

2) The editors asked for some revisions, and Sokal refused. http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html

"Having established an interest in Sokal's article, we did ask him informally
to revise the piece. We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philo-
sophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes. Sokal seemed
resistant to any revisions, and indeed insisted on retaining almost all of his
footnotes and bibliographic apparatus on the grounds that his peers, in sci-
ence, expected extensive documentation of this sort. Judging from his response,
it was clear that his article would appear as is, or not at all. At this point,
Sokal was designated as a "difficult, uncooperative author," a category well
known to journal editors. We judged his article too much trouble to publish,
not yet on the reject pile, perhaps of sufficient interest to readers if pub-
lished in the company of related articles."

3) It sat in the offices of the journal until they published a "science wars" edition, and included the article because it was from a scientist. In this sense, the hoax reveals almost nothing about the humanities, but does possibly say interesting things about the role authority plays.
Hrm... with N "nosql" things, there's great potential for writing. Redis vs Riak. Cassandra to CouchDB. Why I gave up on Mongo and moved to Mnesia. And so on and so forth;-)
This suits PleasantVille perfectly. http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3542457911/1/tumbl...
> I think "human nature" is a bit of a red herring. We don't currently have any scientific way to separate how much of how people behave is social/environment programming and how much is "human nature".

That's not really true. The problem is that the "blank slate" view had a complete victory in the political class but the research hasn't been backing it up.

Larry Summers and James Watson were both run out of their jobs for publicly asking the wrong questions.

With that background "libertarian socialism driven by a scientific approach" sounds like a bit of a lie.
One of the reasons people get rich is to provide for their kids. That's a more realistic motive than providing for society as a whole, and a more noble motive than funding hedonism.

I wouldn't want to live in a society where rich kids don't have an advantage, because that's a society with either debased rich people or no rich people.
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Isn't the full block chain required? When your by client connects to peers, I thought it needed the full chain for verification?
From my experience it matters a lot. When you grow up in an entrepreneurial environment you see ups and downs and realize and are less concerned with job security, bureaucracy, and more prone to innovate, or at least for opportunities to spin something off yourself. This article was written was the last century in mind, so I am not sure what you are getting at.
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The coffee-making analogy is roughly correct when you're talking about green-field work (starting a project from scratch). However, all projects very quickly turn into debugging exercises and yak-shaving adventures to solve problems associated with whatever framework one is using.

I'd say programming is something like:

10% coffee-making (like the OP described-- blank sheet creation)
30% Yak-shaving (crazy yet related sub-tasks)
30% Detective work (debugging)
30% other.
Does anyone have info on exactly what was done to make these? Is it just taking frames and stretching them vertically?
What does mobile health mean? The level of disrepair of mobile devices? Getting health information from a mobile device? Staying healthy by moving around?
Congrats on raising money, AdGrok is a great product that solves a very real problem for businesses looking to advertise online: they really don't have the time or desire to learn how to do it right. The campaign improvement suggestions are especially useful, because scaling and optimizing campaigns is so hard. Campaign improvement recommendations are something Google frequently tries and fails at. I'm beginning to think their failure to give good suggestions is intentional, because they're optimizing for getting you to spend as much money as possible without giving up completely. That's why having third party tools in the space are so critical.
Haha, can't say I expected this to make HN. It was a fun Sunday hack. I'm a little surprised at how much traffic I'm getting.
Stormpulse here - from HN to PyCon in 1,356 days! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29516)
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I've posted my demo of something similar about a month back.

http://wiki.pageforest.com/#mckoss-3535
Presumably the testimonial is part of solving the chicken-and-egg problem.
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Where does user generated content end and video journalism begin?
Feature and Review branches are a great idea. It just makes it so easy to work in parallel on different things, and to context-switch when you get blocked. Honestly, I can't remember how we used to solve these problems with SVN. If you're in the middle of developing a feature and need to wait for someone to get back to you, the options for switching to a different feature with SVN are pretty limited.
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Why add dropbox into the mix? You're essentially editing files directly on the server, since every change gets propagated live whether you want it to or now. If that's what you want to do (and remember, you never should), why not just do it directly?
I don't think they get it - no one watches commericals. Most television commercials (with some exceptions, such as during the super bowl) are ignored, skipped, or fast forwarded by viewers as soon as they appear on screen. In fact, most cable companies, Cablevision included, readily dispense DVR's that enable viewers to fast forward through commercials and anything else that is recorded onto them...
[OT] While I can see the the usefulness of gathering data from tweets keyed by hashtag, I don't quite get the point here. I would expect a web page to have a more direct means of entering data.

It is a great idea for gathering data from tweet followers, however.
It would be awesome to know the exact details on how these are made. Is it a histogram basis with thresholds to choose which colour is shown, or simply the entire frame compressed to a couple of pixels thick, and then just include some percentage (like 1%) of frames. These are great, you really can tell a lot about a movie, like how long mostly unchanging scenes last, and the overall colour palettes used. Great stuff!
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I mainly built it because I wanted to exist so monetization wasn't a top priority for me. That being said, I've thought of a few possibilities:

- clearly can't charge for downloading the app as its success is so network effect driven and you don't want to limit the number of users. However, you could charge for usage after some free quota. I.e. your first 10 matches are free but you pay after that per match

- provide lead generation for black cars and taxi cab associations

- targeted advertising (you know where and when someone will be, targeted local deals, etc). This seems like the least likely to work, you would need serious adoption, sales force, high CPM's, etc.

Love to hear other ideas though.
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Now that top tier drive maker has acquired the 2nd or 3rd tier maker expect storage prices to go up. Seagate isn't the competition it used to be.
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I'm currently building a site generator for photoblogs hosting directly on S3. Seems like good performance, cheap hosting and no more worries about Wordpress
Chris DiBona replied below that it is just a 20% project.
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You can tell because it doesn't have the Google label.
I have to say, most of my reasons for using Chrome went away with Firefox 4.
That makes sense, but why don't you just say that you make "[your cateogry] simple" instead of saying "we are the [successful, unrelated product] for [your category]"? The benefit being that you won't have to write two paragraphs to explain it to people.
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LinkedIn uses a premium model, wherein you get communication privileges (for contacting prospective hirees or employers I suppose) by paying for them.
Depending on the venue, moonlighting clauses range from almost completely enforceable (MA) to almost (but not entirely) nonenforceable (CA). Overshadowing all legal issues specific to moonlighting is "at-will employment", the standard in practically the whole of the US, which allows a company to fire you without cause.

So, if you're moonlighting at an unrelated tech company in California, you're probably fine. But if you take an off-hours job in the same industry as your employer in New York, you can probably be fired.

Generally, a prospective employer who says "we have a four day work week, but we only want team members who are going to work this one job" seems to me to be offering a fair trade. If you find those terms unconscionable, you shouldn't accept a job there.
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If I was to do it I would take every digital frame and then take each pixel from top left to bottom right and make one long chain. Either that or average x neighboring pixels to fit the size vertically. I have no idea how they did this specifically though.
I'm working on http://www.snapplans.com and am looking for a marketing-focused co-founder. I'm at bglenn09@gmail.com. The first release of the site is just about finished and I need help with user acquisition among other things.
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The last time I checked, AdGrok had no API.
Are they planning on changing this any time soon?

It would be useful to many sites if AdGrok made it dead simple for other web applications to help you advertise online.
A fun addition to this would be tagging memorable scenes from the movie.
This could be managed as an exercise in expectation management. Perhaps GobiCab could do a some sort of beta at a particular airport for a particular conference? This could actually be presented as an exclusive perk for conference goers. This exercise could generate testimonials.
This seems a bit silly. The employer's objective is to spend capital on keeping employees extra- rested and extra- content, in order to maximize productivity and minimize turnover. If you try to nerd your way out of their plan, they'll meet the objective some other way; for instance, they can simply demand that everyone show up to the office on day 5.

A 32 hour work week is such a huge benefit that I can't imagine anyone actually working on such a team trying to subvert it. It's totally reasonable to have side projects and even to work a second job. I think a reasonable person stuck in the situation of wanting a second job while working for the 4-day company would simply leave the team.
Google should have a similar service specifically for GAE users. WWWizer seems neat, but it's a risk to use because it can just go away without warning (or worse--you could have your site redirected somewhere else).
Is investing in Kik really that good of an idea after RIM basically kicked them where it counts? If the rumors about a cross-platform BBM from RIM are in the works and coming soon, I think Kik would pretty much be irrelevant. The only reason I tried Kik for the brief time I did was that most of my friends at the time still had BlackBerrys, but they are switching to Android as time goes by.
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On a related note:
Does anyone know what caused the fuckyeahX meme to take off?
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Erin wasn't ejected from Switzerland; the most recent ejection instance happened to an acquaintance living in London.
awful name, at least for the german market. kik is a very cheap textil-discount-chain in germany thats notorious for low-income areas and as a business has many critics because of their employee treatment (esp wages, paid overtime and mobbing) and the producers of their cheap clothes (bad working conditions etc).
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We've had some interesting chats with third-party developers already, and we'll have an API to drive Grok-o-matic within the month. If you have other ideas, hit us up on chat through our website! I'd be more than happy to talk with you.
Its a good point - regardless of wealth class, someone with relatively less social capital may feel compelled to focus on building his social capital instead of focusing solely on the merit of contribution.
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I just got the email about it this morning. I have been playing with it during my snow day. I have not been able to tag my friends in the videos I have made though.

Great job on the android app, I really enjoy it so far.
Try reading some of his other articles on development management. You may find yourself acclimatizing to his style, which will make it much easier to extract value from his writing.

He has a lot of practical experience, and his writing has been fairly well received in the past, so I suggest it's worth taking an open mind to his stuff if you are interested in managing or leading development teams.
alooP, a perfect way to crack the chicken/egg problem would be to offer a "beta" of this service at particular conferences as an exclusive conference perk. This provides you with a high population of people arriving in the same time period, all going to the same place. The fact that it's a beta can be used to manage the expectations. It could also be used to generate a lot of testimonials.

I have been talking to a startup which is targeting such conferences. Send my username email at gmail dot com.

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I've tried it out with my Nexus One and while it works great (http://socialcam.com/v/XANxOwfD) I don't think I'll switch to it (I'm part of their audience I guess, I often record short videos with my N1 of stuff I see to share with my friends) as I can't see what advantages it offers over Youtube?
I'm not a fan of the names most times I don't know what I am using, even now I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 whatever animal it is.

It's much easier to remember 10.10 (released 2010 October) than whatever year Monkey, Bat, Cow or Hedgehog came out.
I'm not sure I totally agree with this, but I'll go with it, and expand upon it even more.

Those climbers who primarily boulder, that's climbing without a rope, fairly close to the ground, are better still. Because they work on insanely difficult problems and fall all the time.
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Describing Bigcouch as a bit of hack while admitting you've not used it seems a little unfair. That said, it's very valuable to hear how other people see our product.

Without doing a full-on sales pitch (I am not a salesman and do not portray one on TV), I should say that Bigcouch adds a lot of desired features to CouchDB, notably scaling beyond a single machine and sharding (which supports very large databases). We run several clusters of Bigcouch nodes in production and have done for some time, it's a thrill for me personally to see a distributed database take a real pounding and keep on trucking.

I've been meaning to try Riak myself, so you've inspired me to finally pull down the code and give it a proper examination.
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What about using github pages? http://pages.github.com/

I am thinking of moving my blog there (statically generated jekyll site). Can anyone comment on whether it's practical or not?

(For some history on Jekyll, read this article: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-hac... )
Just wanted to call folks' attention to this, because I don't think it's well known. If you launch the mysql utility and connect to your database, you'd probably expect these three queries to do nothing:

START TRANSACTION;
UPDATE clients SET important_field = NULL;
ROLLBACK;

But if the connection is lost between the first and second queries, the mysql client will "auto-reconnect" and send the second query—even though it's no longer in a transaction.

You can disable this behavior using the --disable-reconnect flag.
I'd like to see a movie like Sin City and House of the Flying Daggers :). Really neat idea, but tumblr might not be the best way to display the information.
Apple used to show the current average review time on their developer portal. Are they not doing that anymore?
Yes yes, we know how wonderful capitalism is at producing gadgets and it gives us a great show, but how much is it helping people really? Does union busting and making people work for the bare minimum they need to live make you feel as warm and fuzzy inside inside?
Completely predictable but still fascinating:

http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3514313860/the-matrix-19...
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He did not claim the author was an idiot and dismiss his writing because of it. That would be ad hominem. He read and ingested the article and then (rightfully) drew the conclusion that the author is an idiot.