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When I said PEAR I referred to the pear.php.net packages being PHP4 style and dependent on PEAR_Error and all. I am aware of the fact that Symfony and a couple of other large projects are available via PEAR distribution servers.

Haven't seen pear2.php.net before though but after a quick look just now - with just a couple of libs and hardly any updates in 2011, it doesn't look like it's doing very well. And again it seems to have dependencies and wants you to use custom error libraries.

And I am not sure what you mean to say regarding most code being jailed and this being a 'misconception'. If you aren't on PHP 5.3, you can't even find a lightweight (means not Doctrine) working standalone implementation of ActiveRecord, although lots of frameworks provide similar functionality. Just one example. And looking at the other comments here I don't seem to be the only one who noticed this.

And it's not that I am not seeing what's going on. I see that Symfony2 is making an effort but haven't worked with it yet. But I also see that I am watching 50+ repos of 'promising' more or less under-the-radar PHP 5.3 projects on github to prevent 'missing out' on something I could use in an upcoming project.

Just saying that it'd be great if someone steps up and manages to establish something like rubygems in the PHP world, most likely for PHP 5.3 and up, maybe based on phar but with emphasis on loose coupling, reusability and keeping things 'compact'. I don't have the perfect solution either, all up for discussion.
Thanks for the feedback. We debated quite a bit on the design/colors/name. We tried to optimize for what will best communicate 1) We are trustworthy 2) we'll be around forever and 3) this is going to be easy to do. Once we get some more use of the site we'll do some real testing on the design.
I would:

* Change the landing page you have up there. Focus on the product (not your current predicament). A few screeshots. Make people want to comeback later today or tomorrow.

* Eliminate any non-essential database calls. Convert php files to static html (or copy and paste the output of the page and just echo it).

* Check your slow query logs in mysql and index. Definitely make sure you have any primary keys set and foreign keys (used in joins) indexed. Then look at your queries and add index on your slowest queries.

If you aren't sure it's MySql, copy all of your images onto Rackspace cloud files/amazon s3. This will lower traffic through your machine/disk access.
I enjoyed the last one, will be there on Tuesday again!
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> Frankly, I'm amazed they still offer a 13 inch MBP (which is not to say that it isn't a good little machine, but that Apple likes to segment their market clearly)

While true, it is their best selling laptop, I can imagine it happening in a few years once the air gets a few spec bumps and lowers in price.
Yep, those CPUs only support 8GB max.

See the Intel Core i7 2620M (the 2.7Ghz part in the high-end 13" model) spec sheet for example: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=52231
Just saw this startup at the Hacker News DC meetup last night ... very cool concept!
Intel's page sheds some more light on it, too: http://www.intel.com/technology/io/thunderbolt/index.htm
Saw the showcase at HNDC as well, interesting idea for sure.

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They want to push everyone towards iTunes so they will continue to ignore bluray.
Is this US only? I don't see this on your FAQ, but references to social security would imply it is.

Can a one-off fee be payable by the estate?
I didn't say we provide 100% uptime. We just don't entertain the idea that we may have to settle for less .. simply, we pro-actively monitor our servers and have enough redundancy in place to keep problems under OUR control.

We don't pretend, promise or have an SLA that offers 100% uptime.
From the article:

"The name "Ruby" was decided on during an online chat session between Matsumoto and Keiju Ishitsuka on February 24, 1993, before any code had been written for the language." (emphasis added)

Ruby went public in 95

From Wikipedia:
"The first public release of Ruby 0.95 was announced on Japanese domestic newsgroups on December 21, 1995. Subsequently three more versions of Ruby were released in two days."

So the original parent's post is much more accurate than your 'correction'.
And does anyone have a good response? Or do people just get scared and clam up?
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Another project closed by Yahoo! Do they buy em just to close them in the end?

I wounder when is Yahoo shutting down.
The people in this forum would be very surprised you can't program Cuda on Mac OS X :)

http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showforum=75
Most of the comments here agree with the article. I wouldn't call it controversial, but it's a topic people clearly want to talk about.
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I agree with you but...

It wasn't that long ago that we had a "day you'll never forget". Though, I wouldn't blame if you if ..ahh..forgot about that.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Sounds like the sequel to Steve's Disney "classic" Bolt(2008).
There should be a law against that.

Reminds me of the "unlimited mobile phone internet" plans here in the UK which in the fine print resolve to "fair use policy of 1GB a month) .. why can't companies just call a spade a spade.
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So I guess the official branding of Lightpeak is Thunderbolt, even from Intel? And the standard connector (even outside of Apple products) is essentially Mini-Displayport?
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Pleasantly surprised that it's backwards-compatible with the mini-DisplayPort. Was expecting another round of buying dongles.
This has to be satire.

"Making iPods is better than giving to charity."
"Making iPods is more important than caring for your children."
"I want to be a pescetarian just because Steve is one."
"He stole from his partner, no problem though. He still is the greatest."
"He became so cool by doing drugs and getting into eastern religions."

Really, this HAS to be satire.
What really helped me understand the way Steve Jobs (probably) is was reading the memories of early Apple employees at http://folklore.org/.
* It's a bit like "lies to children." We know that Newtonian mechanics is wrong, but we still teach that first because it's easier to grasp, easier to do the sums, and more directly in line with our own experience. But if taught properly (and that's another story altogether) it lays the foundation for being able to do the sums and do the work "properly" in Relativity. *

This is not the whole story. We also still teach Newtonian mechanics because Newtonian mechanics is not only good enough for a wide range of real word applications, but the only feasible calculational strategy. Mechanical and aerospace engineers use Newtonian mechanics (and derived disciplines such as Newtonian continuum mechanics and fluid mechanics) to great profit.
They're only actually occupied for about ~30% of hours in the week during the school year, and the hours are usually fairly predictable, which gives one some advantages. For example, if you had a scheduled maintenance window for 5 hours a week every week starting at 2 AM on Sunday, that would blow 98% uptime but no actual user would ever know. (This has saved my bacon a few times, as 2 of the 3 outages of my software were outside of peak hours, so I could count inconvenienced customers on one hand.)
I saw the demo last night, too.
Sure there is a need for this, personally I have tried to do something like that using Google Finance and see how I perform over time, without actually buying anything.
I should say I didn't understand were the credibility of the site comes from. I mean why should a user trust the scores? or maybe I missed something there.
Will you be publishing any names you come up with, so potential customers can see for themselves if they like your "style" or not?
Yeah, I was a little vague there. I didn't mean to imply that people interested in MBP would be supporting everything done in iOS, just that there was not a simple pro- or anti- Apple opinion here. Thank you for explaining that better than I did.
Thanks. Our social security end-of-life detection is US only. You can still use the service outside of the US but this feature won't work (unless you have a SSN).

We don't have an option to be paid by the estate - claims to an estate are generally quite difficult to collect upon unless an attorney is involved beforehand. We liken our model to any pre-planned end-of-life care service, paid before you pass away.
Thank you for this post, as it inspired me to charge myself $50 and come up with a name for a venture of mine. Just bought instarchive.com, neat!
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Yes, and you can pick up a cheap $7 mini-display port to DVI connector from Monoprice.com. I'm using one now to connect my early 2010 MBP to an el-cheapo Dell 22" LCD.
Codenamed Light Peak.

Intel's page on Light Peak (not the same as theirs on Thunderbolt): http://techresearch.intel.com/ProjectDetails.aspx?Id=143

Wikipedia has a very informative article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak
Kinda cheezy name. Also, the plugs on the Intel site don't look like mini displayport. Is the Apple version proprietary?
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Also consider that the new i5 in the 13" will be much better than the old Core2Duo.
So who's getting ready to sell their old MBP?
I always make an analogy to video game quicksaves, personally. They usually go 'oh!' and you can see it click in their eyes.

Then again, that only works for a select audience.
Hi Niico, well the idea came when I read this blog post (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/02/if-i-were-starti...)

I told myself that it would be a good idea to take the concept to another level. Even though I'm not a good coder (I'm more a tech guy), it was a concept easy enough for me to get started.

It took me about 3-4 days part time.
Apple won't add a new technology to a product for no reason. I can't think of a reason why the mainstream users of MBP would be interested in BluRay.

Moving forward, I hope Apple will get rid of the optical drive or offer an option to replace it with a 2nd HDD.
They're betting big on downloadable content.
Here's the friendly version of the official announcement: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/products/professional-grade/thinkp...
Sounds like a plan :-)
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Technically it seems nice, but what's up with reusing the "high voltage" symbol for this? And "thunderbolt" is a very tacky name...
Steve wants you get your movies from iTunes.
It's not an implementation of Light Peak, it is what Light Peak is now called.
Read the book "4 hour work week". He lays it all out step-by-step with links. It includes how to price and sell your item.
Neither needs root privileges to display interface status. Perhaps it's a PATH issue for you - sbin/ is often left out of the PATH for regular users.
I almost choked on a sip of tea when I noticed that the 13" "Pro" is still stuck with a 1280*800 display. Talk about boneheaded move.
Regular maintenance is enough to account for that.

Its really easy to hit 98% uptime (2% downtime). Just take your eyes off of your homegrown solution for a day.
Because it is "bag of hurt" © Jobs, and they are moving away from physical media anyway.
Introducing some tablet that looks like the iPad.
Two questions:

Is it royalty-free?

If the answer is negative, what are the licensing terms?
True - I'm just grasping as straws to come up with an excuse as to why this has gone on for so long.
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I'd be surprised if that's what happened. I suspect this is just another unrealistic number that's the same proportion of reality as the previous numbers.

That said, when I'm traveling and going for extended battery life (read: trans-atlantic flights) I get pretty close to the rated number by dimming my backlight and shutting off wifi and bluetooth.
Just so you know: Ruby and Python also have 'no framework' ways of making apps, just like PHP does.

The culture has just decided that at least using a little bit (even if it's only 1500 lines) of framework is worth it.
It works that way in Estonia, that all the doctors are _forced_ to use that system, which results to a wonderful thing where _every_ doctor has access to _all_ data there is about you - so when you lie unconcius on the street, 911 knows all your allergies, illnesses and treatments etc in that second.
Gotcha. That makes more sense. =)

You might be interested in this: http://pearhub.org
hmm - you need to go to 1799$ before you end up with a half decent graphics card and 2199$ for a decent card.

Compare it with a Dell XPS 15 Sandy Bridge - $1049 for i7 2620M, 1920X1080 display, nVidia GT525 Optimus card, HD Camera.

For a first time possible mac buyer (me) - is it well justified ?
Judging by the specs, they went for the "more powerful" route rather than the "cheaper" route. Also, in light of that Slate article (linked elsewhere in the thread) on Apple's control of hardware supply, it might be very difficult to make a cheaper tablet with both a good experience and a decent profit.
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The early equity distribution is really a measure of future contribution. Vesting (or decreasing reverse vesting) is about the only concept that should the past into account at this stage.

Just watch for tax considerations when you award equity to new people (if you have already created non-zero fair market value for your equity).
I'm excited about "Thunderbolt" because someone will finally be able to build a real Mac laptop dock/port replicator.

Henge looks nice, but having a bunch of plugs sticking out from a piece of plastic seems like such a kludge.
I also develop a web application used by schools. I have no problems taking the system down in the middle of the night for 30 minutes. Schools are quite possibly the most forgiving customers. Their revenues come from the government, so if your app goes down, they are still going to make payroll.
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What's funny is that your supposedly ironic comment in fact confirms what I said.
Good question.

We have had 3 incidents in the last 7+ years. The first 2 occurred when we only had servers in one site.

1, http://www.risktec.co.uk/news/business-continuity-%E2%80%93-... (lasted days!!)
2, A thunderstorm knocked out the power to our datacenter, the backup UPS and generators both failed to engage. (lasted a day, we also took our business elsewhere)

After the 2nd outage we decided to take up additional colo space elsewhere in the country. This has worked for years and any failures in our life datacenter have quickly been switched over to a hot backup datacenter.

We have had around a half dozen minor interruptions caused by server component failures ( psu / hard drive). This is because it takes a few minutes to detect the failure and switch over to a backup.

3, The last major failure was with our DNS hosting. They decided to scratch our main zone from there records because of a billing error. Luckily for us it happened on the Friday before a weeks school holiday. Needless to say we took our business elsewhere.

I'm sure we have had other instances of downtime I can't remember, but that's pretty much us in a nutshell. No idea what our uptime on paper would be, funnily.
Two reasons. Apple is deeply invested in physical media being a thing of the past, and they aren't going to sacrifice any of their profit margin to add hardware that is seen as unnecessary. I'll be very surprised if next year's MBP has an internal DVD drive at all.
Apple has updated their page on Lion with descriptions and screenshots of (all? At least all those mentioned in the linked article) its new features: http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
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I worry that by taking it to the next level you've hurt the viral component. Three words grew because it tapped into something very personal to most internet users - what people think about themselves
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The battery life will be similar, they are just using a realistic test on the 13" now. Go for the new one! :)
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Is breaking Google's rules now a PR/link building tactic? WSJ didn't link to Overstock.com in their article, but if they did, then Overstock would have built a really strong, legitimate backlink as a result of their illicit practices.

I also think the article plays down what Overstock.com did. I'd love to hear what Matt Cutts has to say about it, but offering a discount to students and encouraging them and their universities to link to said discount page doesn't sound like it should violate Google's policies. Judging from some of the links posted in other comments, it looks like Overstock.com was being far more manipulative than that.

I'd also question whether this is actually a penalization? Or did Google just devalue the links that weren't kosher? I see those as two different things.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2206813

Some discussion there.

It's generally suggested that if an XKCD is vaguely relevant to HN then it was posted the day it first went up.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882957
You know things are bad when people start saying at least we're not Mexico.
To add to your list: 3G internet.
Actually the older generation of core i7 were quad core too but had less cache than this generation.

L2 Cache (per core):	256 KB
L3 Cache:	4 MB
While i find this an interesting service i also cant help think about their first customer death. It must be kind of strange moment for the founder thinking "Yay! We completed customer cycle, but someone had to die for that to happen."

I'm not saying this is either a good or bad thing, just, ye know, weird.
You're right; Developed by Intel (under the code name Light Peak). (I've corrected my comment.)
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All,

So I have yet to see anything like this on the interwebs, but I was wondering if someone has / should create an entire site/ forum dedicated to helping programmers correctly design their data model for business critical apps. For example, every language and framework book that uses e-commerce examples as their primary focus, rarely go into advanced modeling for more intricate system design (EDI, B2B, invoicing, etc.). Language and syntax questions are important, but if your data model is f'd, then life is really going to be painful down the road (obviously every model evolves, but it always help to be "sort of" on the right track to begin with).

This may fit under the larger umbrella of a stackoverflow, but just tossing out ideas to interested entrepreneurs! ;)
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Anandtech include some battery tests life benchmarks, but only for browsing, not for games or video.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4191/motorola-xoom-review-firs...

Basically it gets same battery life as the iPad when doing heavy browsing over wifi with music playing in the background, but significantly longer life than the iPad when just doing light browsing over 3G.
My i7 says 2 cores in Device Profiler but says 4 in Activity Monitor, fwiw.
> What else do you suggest that I do?

You've already done one of the best things you could; i.e. post here. Now, I suggest the following 3 steps:

1. Put your e-mail in your profile

2. Keep checking your mail and

3. Keep checking this thread

and go from there. I'm reasonably sure something will come up.

All the best.
Very interesting idea! Looks like you have a small graphical error right here: http://i.imgur.com/cfICi.png, too little spacing between "dots" and the text when there is a big headline. (I am using Chrome 11.0.672.2 dev on OSX)
Nice! Just signed up for an account to check it out.

Just wondering: what are you using for email notifications like the ones for sign up?

(I'm the Product Manager for PostageApp, so I want to know these sort of things. :))
We use to find the holidays a massive advantage. But schools take some of their holidays on different weeks in different parts of the UK so as we expanded we effectively lost these maintenance windows.

Also teachers/students/parents access the system from home so we have to keep it running 24/7.
Just signed up for a project of mine, excited to see what you come up with.
So the whole USB2.0/Firewire is going to repeat? Sigh.
Well, I do get very close to 8 hours on my 17" MBP (when the cpu is not too stressed). That number will go down if any serious work is done, but light browsing etc. takes it all the way up to 8h.
I would like an API please. My dark humor would force me to write a bot to make tweets from hell.
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This looks awesome, but is unusable on my Quadro FX 380 in Linux - X spikes to 100% and my entire machine (despite being a Xeon + 16G + SSD) lags incredibly.

Checked with a colleague and it works fine for them however, must be a bug in my setup of some description.
Depends on whether your task requires one app or two. One app, you are right. Two apps, ha!
Great Article - Having grown up in the Boston area, I love the risk Beisel is taking to make moves on the east coast. Boston has the angels and VC's, hosts many aspiring entrepreneurs, but lacks the environment that really supports the startup stage. It's easy to get the support once you have 1M+ in sales but until then you are practically on your own. I'm sure its like this in most cities but the atmosphere Silicon Valley has developed has proved that there is a better way and I believe most investors willing to take the risk to change that will be greatly rewarded. Cheers to Beisel! Maybe someone can convince him to experiment with a super early stage fund too...
Nifty!

I'm afraid to load more apps onto my work MacBook (Because it's so old and decrepit that it's barely crawling along) but I'll give it a shot when I get home.