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As someone who switched from PHP to Python, I don't understand why this is so controversial as a statement. I'd expect 58 comments on Reddit or Slashdot, not on HN. (Aware of the irony of commenting on this myself, but please forgive me the blasphemy)

TLDR is "It works for us, why shake things up?". Doesn't that fit the Startup ethos?

Python and Django work for me far better, but I often find mod_php and php allow you to prep quick "small scripts" for sites that are far more easily deployed than an equivalent in Python or Ruby. I wouldn't build a whole site in PHP anymore, but I can see how one might feel the ease in testing / deploying might yield benefits.
Sounds like they are trying to fluff their reliability reputation.

I develop a web application that is used by schools and just can't entertain the notion of anything other than 100% uptime. I take the reliability of my product very very seriously. If one of my customers had a fire at their school and couldn't access our system for registers - that would be us and them up the proverbial creak without a paddle.

I've built up a company (over 7 years now) with a very good reputation for reliability and uptime. Don't assume that just because something is web based it doesn't require 100% uptime.
Yeah, working on direct access to Google Docs accounts so people can save/load using that. Same for Dropbox, Jungle Disk,etc, will come later. Google Docs proving a bit tricker than we hoped, but we'll get there.

Don't really want to get into us storing the diagrams since we don't want to charge for this. But maybe we could look at storing just the raw XML, that would be pretty cheap on Amazon, even for a lot of diagrams.

Good point with the bookmarking, we want the tab to show the drawing name, but that BM isn't helpful. We'll look it that.
How did you start chrome after exiting the shell?
Do you have a link to examples of these stencil sets?
> I would run a "real" application server underneath for the middle tier (i.e. to handle the business logic), and have the scripts handle the presentation layer only.

Yeah, I believe you would. But not Facebook, Wordpress, or even large parts of the Google Apps landscape. I'm not judging either side, mind you. Do you by chance primarily develop business applications? Because business app people often favor this special type of multi-tiered design that typically has a Java app server behind everything.
Can I not defer paying homage to the LISP cult until I achieve a fair amount of productivity in Clojure ?

I am learning Clojure as I work through "Clojure in Action".(Thanks to Manning's promotions-- I also have the "Joy of Clojure" ebook but I haven't opened that one yet). My complaint is that there are not enough exercises in Clojure for beginners. I recall the K&R C book -- it had exercises at the end of every chapter which were very useful. Those exercises are the reason why I can still dive in C with no fear whatsoever .

I understand Clojure's relationship to LISP ; but that doesn't have to mean that Clojure can't have its own set of programming exercises and blogs for the beginners.

But posts like OP are not helpful for beginners. And they are not helpful to Clojure ecosystem as they scare away causal learners.
We are using PHP, Javascript and MySQL
I'm sure some systems are vulnerable to this (although the mic might mangle the DTMF). After all until the late 80s the entire phone system was vulnerable to these kinds of attacks because it used in-band signaling

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_box
Thanks, but couldn't find add url or any other way to submit - you might want to check/fix that. All the best.

BTW, here is one of ours (completely hand-coded), that we built as an experiment a couple of years back, where you can get free instant listings in upto 5 categories:

http://www.EGYG.net

ps. We've found that new sites submitted there usually get crawled within a few hours. - HTH
Anand's browser benchmarks are the highlight:

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

The Xoom loads pages, on average, in about a quarter of the time of the iPad.
The growth of the internet was impeded by a government backed centralized service in France, it was called Minitel.

Centralized planning never has and never will work as well as a decentralized market driven system where the best ideas can rise to the top.

Dr Chrono may have its drawbacks, but I'd rather see my physician make that call instead of some over-age government bureaucrat.
Without being familiar with your service, do you implement caching? memcached[1] may lighten your load if you do not.

What web server do you use, apache? Perhaps nginx or lighttpd would be a better fit if you do use apache.

Check out this post[2] for more details on decreasing load.

and try not to knock your server offline at your peak time ;)

HTH.

[1] http://memcached.org/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2220273
Here's where: http://www.1up.com/news/hideo-kojima-japan-lost-compared

And here's a translation of the original article: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl...

He seems to think it's a technological and budgetary issue, not a Japanese-ness issue.
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This is one of the great moments in the history of humanity, right up there with the first self-powered flying machine. North Carolina got a licence plate: "FIRST IN FLIGHT". Someone is going to get the credit for open ended question answering machine shortly. Who gets it?

The race is on, whoever creates the first reasonably good question-answering machine for demonstration will get their names etched into the sands of time for the next ten thousand years. Get to it!

This industry has the chance to be bigger than Google and Microsoft combined. Every person on the Earth will demand one of these. Those who won't have one will be at a remarkable disadvantage. This is going to turn into a trillion dollar industry.
I will too!
Do you know if we would be able to implement on Rackspace's Managed Cloud hosting? Considering we haven't slept in forever it seems like it would be hard for us to learn how to set up a new server manually at this point :)
I presume you get a free name and an unpleasant nagging feeling from your conscience. It's probably not worth the effort to try to prevent this in the beginning.
Normally I avoid these language war threads, but I just thought I'd mention that I have customers who use this 47 year old language:

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

and absolutely eat their competitors' lunch with it.

It's not how big your tool is, but how you use it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2257827
Recently someone compared weird downvotes to cosmic rays. They are going to strike but they are mostly harmless. Upvote back and carry on.

On topic: I’m not sure whether architectural decisions hamper iOS multitasking – it seems to me that the UI for multitasking in iOS just isn’t very good [0]. There are some edge cases where true multitasking would be great but I think that Apple is for the most part facing an UI problem, not an architectural problem.

[0] There isn’t much of a multitasking UI, actually. There is this horribly inaccessible row of recently accessed app icons and nothing else. If only it weren’t beneath Apple to shamelessly copy WebOS or Android.
In other news Dell XPS Laptops Add Premium Audio, 3D Video, Sandy Bridge Processors.
I have this little scheme that I am writing (just for the sake of it), It would be great if you can write some blog about how to generate Rubinius bytecode.

So far I have been compiling to C, but I just created a horrible mess.
Indeed this article doesn't talk about scaling but about uptime... But although the topic is still open for discussion in 2011, I don't think an article written in 2005 should be posted in Hacker _News_.
Confusingly similar (cringe) to "namesonic", a company that already exists and has been around since 2001. Interestingly, they claim a trademark on the word but I couldn't locate any filings in the US.

There Was a trademark on "nameonics" in the early 1980's, however:

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=7...
I was about to use your service for $20, but I wouldn't pay $50 for a hobby project of which I'm not sure yet how seriously I'll pursue it.

I guess you just can't be everybody's darling...
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Your explanation reminds me of an experience I had watching Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure with an old girlfriend's roomate.

About halfway through, he started making these little dismissive groans and mumbling "no way" under his breath. They gained volume as the plot progressed until finally he couldn't take it anymore:

"No way. There's just no way they could fit that many people into a phone booth."
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100% uptime is as fanciful a notion as risk-free investment.
Well, there are many web analytics tools that will show zou historical data, you can use Google Analytics for free, then you also have Google Webmasters Tools which you a different insight into your website.
But monitoring the traffic in real time is a real curiosity. That is where Hummingbird comes in. Very neat.
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I'm not familiar with that service, sorry.

However, looking at their FAQ from [1]:

"Totally customizable, each Cloud Server gives you full root access"

so I would imagine you can make any changes you'd like. However, every host is different and YMMV.

[1] http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server...
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Congrats!

You might want to check this (and possibly also the parent thread), quick:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2235994

God speed. :-)
Maybe it's just me, but I find the whole Facebook Like system very confusing. This is a small step forward, but Facebook still hasn't fixed the core problems that make it so frustrating.

I have a Facebook page (that I use for both of my two closely related sites) that has a lot of likes. Each of my sites has its own likes, but not nearly as many as my page. Then there are pages on my sites with likes too. I choose to keep promoting my Page because it has the most likes. Obviously, I'd rather show people a link with 3k likes than 500 likes.

Why can't I bring these all together in one place? If I could register my URLs with my page, then everyone who likes anything on my site would Like my Page. There would be subsets of the Likers (I think it made more sense when we called them Fans), and I could Publish special content to them. But I want to be able to Publish to everybody who Likes my stuff with one click of a button. I don't want to send the same message to 12 different groups through 12 different interfaces.

This is the price that I pay for being an early adopter. First I had a Group. Then I had a Share button. Then a Facebook Fan Page. Now a Page and Like buttons. I have no confidence that Facebook won't come up with something new and make me start all over again. And it's why I don't invest more time (or money) in Facebook marketing.

It also bugs me that the "Share" functionality is actually better for a site owner than a Like; however, I've been forced into using Like (until now) so that I can Publish to the people who Like my site.
PNUTS: Yahoo's hosted data serving platform
I believe they also sell some of the tech behind this in their business-intelligence products, as a kind of extended semantic version of information extraction / information retrieval.
Knuth has argued specifically against reuse in the past. He prefers "re-editable code".

That being said, the sorts of problems concerning the Knuths of this world are decidedly not the sorts of problems I find myself facing every day. I'm happy enough not hacking an HTTP client into shape for every project that needs one, for instance.
Macbook Air still the laptop of choice?
I've been looking at picking up a new laptop for a couple weeks now and talking with fellow developers the most popular recommendation has been the Macbook Air.

With the new Macbook Pro's released today getting a bump in speed and resolution, are these machines good enough to take the lead away from the Air as the current developer machine of choice?

http://www.apple.com/why-mac/compare/notebooks.html
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ok, anyone actually got a good name? Would like to do this if it ain't a scam and i can verify someone got their money back when not satisfied..
I spent $900 naming on a non-profit startup. Fk.
I was about to post something to the effect of "I'm disappointed that the 13-inch model replaced the Nvidia GPU with an Intel one", but it seems to be decently better: http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-320M.28701.0.htm...
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Interesting they've included an integrated graphics controller (Intel) but also a discrete ATI card with 1GB of its own memory.

I wonder if real-world gaming benchmarks will really have near the promised 3x improvements over the last gen MBP's...
Its the first MacBook Pro that I have wanted to buy
may be they should've relabeled the 13" MBP as Macbook and retired the white Macbook, frankly the specs are quite low except for the CPU.. display at 1280x800 :(

But the 15" and 17" inchers look awesome with quads
The point I was trying to make is that if I had that kind of public attitude to uptime, I'd be out of business pretty much overnight.

Yeah, 100% uptime is a crazy notion; but something always to be strived for nonetheless.
It seems as if for the last couple years every time Apple releases a new device it gets less expensive than the predecessor. I wonder if this is just an economy of scale effect, if as Apple grows they can afford to make less expensive computers, or if the lower prices are driven by falling hardware costs, or if they are deliberately driving the price down to grab a larger market share.

Either way the Apple product line up is just getting better and better in my eyes.
I never understood why the 13" version is such a second class citizen? Is it that different of a footprint that Apple can't fit the same technology in it... or is this Apple's plan?
> I believe the choice of technology stack does indeed influence the outcome of the project in many ways.

Project.

> Rather, that it's not important to the resulting web page.

Web page.

I was merely referring to the HTML that gets sent to the browser. I wasn't suggesting that the technology being used doesn't affect the project.

> The author's assertion that PHP is "just" a glue component simply doesn't reflect the amount of heavy lifting done by it.

I just said I think you are reading too much here, and inferring things the author never intended, especially considering the context of the article, especially around the part being referenced.

I agree, it's useless to speculate. So, maybe you should focus on what's being said rather than putting your own spin on it? =)
When I try "furniture placement" on images.google.com I get a wide variety of levels of drawing fidelity, so I don't think I can recommend any particular one.
Apple releases developer preview of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
I think it's obvious what they are trying to do - they are after first time app-store buyers. Get people to buy their first app and you've opened up a whole new level of potential. The first purchase is probably the biggest hurdle to repeat business...take an app that a lot of people will talk about, that a lot of people will say is worth it, and charge $0.99.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems genius to me.
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Also, as discussed in one of your previous threads, in case the current Geolocation API you're using is slowing things down (at least in part), you might want to try this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255089

Edit: Or, directly: http://IPLoc.info/api

(Partly inspired by your thread from which, I sent you an email, but never heard back from you.)

If you wish to try this, I'll be happy to work with you to get our (free) geolocation API setup on your site quickly.
hasn't Apple always done this?
Aren’t prices exactly the same as before?
At the risk of stating the obvious, you might want to check the query plans on your most common mySql queries, to make sure that all the appropriate indexes are in place and in use. I've not done this with mySql myself, but this looks like it might be useful:

http://www.learn-mysql-tutorial.com/OptimizeQueries.cfm
Interesting that they are now offering a SSD drive......does this mean they have now added the SSD TRIM command (or planning to add it in Lion)?
I agree. I'm especially bummed out that the screen resolution is the same as before. I was hoping that it would be 1440x900! Given that the Macbook Air 13" is 1440x900, it's plausible.
Quad core i7 instead of dual core i7 in 15" and 17"

i5 processor in 13"

Thunderbolt 10Gbps integrated into DisplayPort connection

AMD/ATI Radeon graphics chips
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they've always offered SSD
To be strived for, but if you sign a SLA, nobody would be offering you 100% and tell the truth.
What has made it such an improvement over the previous models?
There is already an SSD option for current Macbooks. No TRIM.
Thank you for the response. You are a mensch.
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Color me disappointed. I was hoping for:

• Ditching the optical media for longer battery life

• 4 cores in the 13"

• Max RAM of 12 GB (this one isn't listed ... maybe?)

• The higher resolution 1440x900 resolution in the 13" that the Macbook Air has

Altogether it's a pretty wussy update. Basically it looks like the diff (on the 13" model, which is what I care about) is:

• Faster CPU (finally!)

• Thunderbolt port (count on buying another $30 display adapter like every generation)

• 3 hours less battery life
This is the same configuration as the last gen MBP. They just traded nvidia for ati.
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Right, but now you are getting more hardware for your dollars.
Same. $20 sounded worth the risk, but I'm not going to do it for $50, especially without seeing any evidence of past names generated.

Perhaps a Hacker News special? Or perhaps a different price for those who don't mind sharing the outcomes of your service, and a more expensive price for those who do mind?
Alright I'm testing you out. 50$ for a great name is an awesome price point imo. It's just enough that I find it expensive but small enough that I'd pay for it. With a money back guarantee I'm glad to test the waters.
I remember when Apple used to have events for their notebook releases. Sigh.
I'm a bit disappointed because I wanted to fool with GPU programming and I think Nvidia is still the standard there:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4638324/nvidia-vs-amd-gpg...

Does anyone have any experience with OpenCL versus Cuda?
You have two vowels next to each other. Not good
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I'm replying to myself to give you some feedback. After the checkout process it would be nice to be given a time frame that I can expect an answer by.
What's with the downvotes?! :)
that's how it is supposed to work
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-compare.html
StartupGods > PerfectAlias. Perhaps it is because my first language isn't English but French. To me alias means second name.
like clockwork!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_law
Uhm, like everywhere else? Have you been alive those last thirty years? Hardware gets better, prices come down. This years MacBook is obviously and unsurprisingly going to better than last years.
Alistair Cockburn wrote an awesome book for small teams based on the "Crystal Clear Method". It has some great info.

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I was really hoping the stock models would ditch hard drives entirely (for SSDs) like the MB Air.
Good, both-sides-of-the-coin answer. I do see the value both potential partners bring to the table, because they fill in gaps of mine (business and design), while they have some development knowledge themselves.

But the fact is that the existing product(s) is the reason for them wanting to join in the first place.
Hummingbird looks like it has potential. I currently use a product called Woopra: http://www.woopra.com/ to do the same thing. It's a solid product but gets expensive when my sites get a lot of traffic (they only give you 30k pageviews a month for free). Once hummingbird matures if it gains more of the functionality woopra offers this could be a viable DIY alternative.
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Indeed, they've done so for some time now. I hoped it would be the default in the new MBP's... :-(
Does anyone know if Thunderbolt will support multiple displays? If I hear a yes, I'm off to the Apple store.
They never had events for speed bumps.
I don't think the laptop versions of the Core i* have 3 memory channels (neither do the Socket-1155/1156 desktop versions), so 3x4GB of RAM would be a strange/suboptimal configuration. There probably isn't enough physical space in a 13" laptop for more than 2 modules anyway (unless you sacrifice battery or optical drive space). Even soldering them to the motherboard wouldn't save much space - I think all current 4GB modules use 16 DRAM chips.

The move from Core2Duo to Core i* alone should bag you a substantial improvement in processing power, at least; the lack of a quad-core model is presumably a battery life and cooling system trade-off.
No BluRay combo drive.. I was very much expecting it to be present in the series update.
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The only reason I wasn't hoping for that is because I intend to stuff a 512 GB aftermarket SSD into my next MBP and I'd rather not pay through the nose for Apple's upgrade option.
That's not what the author seems to mean though: Clojure's exceedingly cool, but to understand it you need to speak lisp

But I agree, an uncomplicated und "Java-free" IDE would be a great gain for a low-threshold start with Clojure. Clojurebox is a beginning, but it in turn burdens a starter with Emacs.
IMO Symfony (especially Symfony2) is much more Rails-ish than CakePHP. Cake PHP is Railsish in that it an MVC with psuedo-scaffolding, but Symfony2 is much closer to the real thing.
No it's not. TCPdump and Wireshark both use libpcap, however.
Weird, I didn't even notice the lack of capitals until you pointed it out. I wonder if it's because of all the AIM I did during my formative years.
This article doesn't really explain how women rising has turned any men into boys...
newer SSDs (Vertex 3 Pro) actually perform worse after a TRIM
I've been seeing it offered more and more in recent years for colo ip transit. Just do a quick search for "sla 100% uptime network".

Apart from one of the latest colo providers we use I've witnessed downtime with every single one that offered ip transit with a 100% SLA. That's why we use at a minimum 3 geographically distant providers. So far this approach has not let us down.
Because it's a device that a large number of HN users will probably end up owning and using to do their jobs.
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Because a lot of people here use a MBP as their main development device, at least from what I've seen in the comments.

However, this topic being near the top of the front page does amuse me, because I saw several accusations of HN having a strict anti-Apple bias. That's not to say that there's a strict pro-Apple bias, however, just that the community seems to be genuinely split.