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Apart from Capistrano, those are applications. From a user point-of-view it shouldn't matter what those were written in.
While this example is a little extreme in its similarity with the original, copying a startup idea and implementing it in another market than an English speaking is not just done in China. Here's an article about a bunch of european startups doing the same:

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-do-ebay-facebook-and-gro...
AFAIK, comments are still sorted by weight. Is it that hard to just look for the top (literally) comments?
Innovation works, but genius steals.
Quantum teleportation just means reproducing the entire quantum state of the system without physically transporting it. It's interesting to note that you can't do this without destroying the original (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem).
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Let me start off by saying I clearly added an extra 0 pre-edit. Tiger hasn't been alive for a million hours.

Second, I said closer to 100,000 than 10,000. So I'm taking the over on 55k hours. Although I do think 100k is possible, even if unlikely(say 4-5 hours a day from 2-21, then 18 a day from 21-present). I do think he's probably averaged more than 8 hours a day since he turned pro if you include all activities that are meant to improve his ability on the golf course. That's clearly pretty close to the upper bound but more likely than 10k.

Finally I agree that it's dismissive towards incredible golfers and I think that's why it's so many people looked at the article and commented here. I have no doubt that if someone puts in 10k hours over 6 years they would likely be a damn good golfer(better than scratch) but touring pro level is very unlikely. The issue in my mind that this article is stupid because either 1) It's obvious that you could get very good but perhaps not incredible at something after 10k hours of practice or 2) because we go by the title and realize that becoming a touring pro after not touching a golf club in the first 30 years of your life is not at all likely.
I suspect it would be extremely difficult to self-teach yourself to become a board-certified brain surgeon. University is definitely the best route if that's your career goal.
Something that we tend to forget is that we learn by imitation — and industries are no different than individuals. Chinese firms will start to evolve their software to local tastes and will slowly set themselves apart from mere clones that don't translate well. That will be followed by free form borrowing of the best ideas from multiple sites — and that will be followed by local innovations. And at that point China will begin to export their software as the world wants to talk to them (much the way you'd join LinkedIn from abroad if you wanted to do business with Americans).
It might seem like controllers are not that necessary but (similarly to pilots of modern airliners) they are very important when stuff doesn't go as planned. Pilots can take over a and pull a Sullenberg, controllers can provide pilots with information on speed and height in case their instruments don't work (ground controlled approach style)
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"The absolute last thing the PHP community needs is another framework."

I disagree. A lot of innovation comes from new frameworks and the current breed of php frameworks have problems that needs to be addressed.
Every boom (90's internet, 2000's housing, oil, eventually China) always seems to be wrought with fraud and held together by matchsticks and glue. People thought oil prices were purely demand driven until we found out they were being bid up traders.
I've often wondered if one of the (many) reasons why there are so few successful startups coming out of Europe is due to the copying.

I visited Berlin a while back and my buddy was telling me about a bunch of guys who've built a successful business (dozens of engineers) just cloning 'hot' American products.

It's got to reduce the number of people working on brand new ideas. (I'm not suggesting that you can't build a great business by copying somebody else's work, but you won't build a world-changing, super innovative company doing so)
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I have a vague impression from articles read in the past that quantum entanglement could allow for a signal to be transferred over an arbitrarily large distance, instantaneously, because somehow a change at point A was 'magically' reflected at point B. I admit that this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with teleportation (I honestly don't understand their usage of the word).

By the way, a quick Google search shows that I am not alone in my thinking, and that I am wrong. :-)
I also love Zend but you're right about the learning curve. It's a bit steep but is well designed IMO.
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Will be interesting to see if this goes to other markets both within China (I can't imagine Shanghai is 'decoupled' from Beijing) and where it trickles over to (Sydney? Vancouver?).
I hope that didn't sound like an attack. I'm glad you solved your problem and communicated it. I did see that while twisted does have multipart file upload in a branch on lp, it's not actually merged in yet.

The problem is just one of language and toolkit abstractions. Too many python APIs are blocking unnecessarily with no way out. A non-blocking version of that API would be obvious how to run in parallel (as the twisted one is).

This is part of the reason for node.js' rise in popularity -- or at least reason for existence. He took the other extreme where nothing blocks. The community is coming up with ways to simulate blocking APIs in efforts similar to what you've done to simulate non-blocking APIs in a world full of blocking APIs.
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"PCI Compliance" is like keeping a drivers education book in your glove compartment. It's good because every once in a while you find it and it makes you think about safety. Unfortunately it does absolutely nothing to actually make you safer.

Lots of bark, absolutely no bite. There is not a single case where a bank will shut you off and stop getting your processing fees.
Communicate, communicate, communicate. The first thing you need to do is talk to your manager / boss / leader and explain why a spec is important for you and for him. Explain that if we have a spec then he wont have to deal with angry calls that the system doesn't do X,Y,Z. Explain that without a spec you'll be forced to assume.

If you're the manager, then it's your job to explain to the customer why a spec is important.

You've just gotta communicate my friend :) Managers, Team leaders and Clients (in my experience) are usually very good if you only communicate :)

I listened to a really good audio book recently and it talked about "The importance of communication, either the conversations you're not having, or not having well" ..

Chances are you as a developer are more than skilled enough to write the software, and your manager is more than capable of managing - but there's just a lack of (good) communication :) hope that helps
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Dopo una lunga serie di notizie di attacchi, finalmente una novità che può tirarci un po' su il morale.

Il Dipartimento di Giustizia americano e l'FBI hanno fatto sapere che hanno portato a termine un altro takedown di una botnet. La botnet in questione è Coreflood, una vecchia conoscenza in giro ormai da diversi anni e che dal 2002 ha infettato oltre 2 milioni di PC.
Yeah, but how many people take full advantage of that? How many would be better served by a beefy Linode instance running lightthpd?
In principle, usually, but you tend to see one side supported a little bit more zealously than the other.
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It takes 3 clicks to change my search provider to Bing. IE ships with Bing, Ubuntu ships with partnered Google search, Verizon phones launch with Bing, even on Google devices.

Anyone can change their search provider. What's impressive is that Chrome have gained the market share that it has without having to ship on any systems. (oops, except the Cr-48)
Well, the Chinese have no shame. If copy-paste your competitor's UI isn't shameless, I don't know what is. Seriously you raise funding and yet wouldn't spend some of it on a good UX designer?
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I have to disagree here both Oregon and Oregon State are underrated universities. I'm a bit biased towards Oregon State as I graduated from there but their Engineering and Science colleges do a fantastic job.
I doubt it. Just because there exist all kinds of social networks - e.g. phones, IMs, email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. - doesn't mean there's not a LOT to be gained by thoughtful integration (hopefully with sufficient privacy safeguards)
Well some ask HN threads could easily have one or two good answers which shuts down the thread. This would break the <n positive comments rule.

You could have <(n positive comments/total comments) as a work around perhaps.

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The thing is that all mathematical rules end up being terrible at specific edge cases which are better served by another set of rules. In my opinion, the best possible use of mathematical rules are ones which are simplistic and easy to follow. Leave the rest up to the quality of the community.

(There is a different set of changes to cues and layout, which control social/behavioral action - such as removing the vote count, which I am not targeting.)
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Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers, engineers, and supporters that has been imagining and creating the Global Village Construction Set, an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform. These DIY-fabricated industrial machines can be used to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts. The GVCS lowers the barriers to entry into farming, building, and manufacturing. It is a life-size lego-like set of modular tools that can create entire economies.

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This is amazing.
Never underestimate the capacity of humans to be wrong. Science is made from people being willing to admit they're wrong: the evidence for speed limits is compelling, but not absolute.

It would just mean our current model is screwed if we're wrong...
He actually switched back to Rails again. From the foreword to the Rails Tutorial [1]:

> My former company (CD Baby) was one of the first to loudly switch to Ruby on Rails, and then even more loudly switch back to PHP (Google me to read about the drama). This book by Michael Hartl came so highly recommended that I had to try it, and Ruby on Rails Tutorial is what I used to switch back to Rails again.

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I'm currently in the process of leaving work now to take 3-6 months off to learn Japanese and maybe work on some of my own project ideas if I feel like it. Although I still have a little doubt about the switch, it is reassuring to see someone who has taken long breaks as well.
Good question, does anyone know if they're using public funds as a loan instrument or are they taking equity in these companies?
This article from May of last year claiming a 31.4% m/m plunge is interesting:

http://www.economicsjunkie.com/beijing-property-prices-plung...

It's possible that there are significant seasonal fluctuations in the market.

That said, the three-month average is still significantly negative: "Beijing property prices rose 0.4% m/m in February, 0.8% in January and 0.2% in December". And word on the street is that it's getting a lot harder to sell property.

I'd be interested to see a graph with average housing price data stretching back for the past few years.
> That said, no doubt there are declines to come in the
> Chinese property market.

I'm interested when I see predictions like these, because it's possible for people to make money on them.

You have no doubt - have you taken a position in order to profit from the certainty? If not - is it possible you have doubts?
I am currently negotiating* a commercial (office) lease in Beijing and I can honestly say the market is ridiculously overpriced.

I have put in offers on a number of buildings in Beijing's Financial Street district[1] and there is literally no space available. There are tons of brand new, A-grade office buildings but they are all owned and less than 20% occupied by China Life, People's Life Insurance Company of China and other monolithic State owned enterprises that let the space sit idle and they leave the lights on all day and all night.

The best office building in Beijing[2], was leasing office space at 300-400RMB/sqm per month less than 12 months ago and now they are turning you away if you offer less than 750RMB/sqm. The wierd thing is, some random domestic Chinese "investment" firm will actually pay that rent and happily move in.

I do believe there is a major correction due, but the government does control the media so its hard to say how hard or soft the landing will be and how much we will hear about it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Financial_Street

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_World_Trade_Center_Tower_...

* hence why I am posting anonymously.
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I have only anecdotal evidence of this but it sounds like valuations in Portland or Seattle are more like 70% off as compared to Bay Area deals.

I'm astounded more VC money doesn't get deployed elsewhere.
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Many Russian internet businesses (can't call most of them startups) copy parts of interface, ideas or business models from American [ex]startups.

They never seem to copy the whole experience as a whole, as it seems to be with Chinese ones - but useful bits here and there.

On the other hand, when they don't copy they are accused of that anyway because for some reason Russians value precedence in tech highly.

In all the world the problem seems to boil down to: If there is a business model that works and the niche is vacant in their market, why innovate?
I had DNS RBL in mind because of your mentioned advantages. But the service needs the new domain-feed done by users requesting the service. As far as I know this is not possible by DNS RBL.

And: for me it was easier to develop a web based service than doing new things with bind.

Gerold
The trick is not to evaluate registrars who play the price game, you get what you pay for.

joker.com - 10+ years now, over 100 domains, referred dozens of people, never a problem.

Edit: to add to this, don't host your DNS at a shitty domain registrar and then complain about it later. Get a proper DNS host like easydns. Keep the two separate
Yeah, it's impressive how much marked share Chrome has gained. I wonder how much is that because of Google's advertisement of Chrome if you using any other browser to go to any Google product/webapp?
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That all sounds very complicated

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Mistaken views of the origin? Maybe. However the current economic state of the western society affords us to indulge in intellectual enrichment purely for the sake of it. In the pre 18th century era the difference between having and not having vocational training translated to the difference between starving and freezing to death or not. Now, even earning minimum wage or something close to it can afford us food and shelter, thus making the risk of going to school for "your passion" rather than "find work" much less life-threatening. Excluding a few exceptions, the economic gap has shrunken between the rich and poor. Given this comparative cushioned state, it is absolutely reasonable for universities to be expected to provide intellectual fulfillment and feed curiosities.
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I'd say it's more dependent upon the faculty and students you learn from/with than the subject you're studying. Your classes could be led by lazy, incompetent instructors and filled with dull students who are all just looking for "job security and decent benefits" (barf). On the other hand, there's a chance you could meet your future business partner while being taught by an inspiring professor.

Every class is a gamble unless there's some reliable evaluation system available. But if you think students are actually capable of rating teachers in any meaningful way, think again:
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Also:
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its clever because not every us startup works without localisation everywhere. ebay/groupon and to a certain degree facebook need localization and if they arent able to get this fast clones will appear and people will flock to these clones because the idea is great but the us company is incapable/unwilling to cater to different markets than the us fast enough. it seems as if other markets are only an afterthought.
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Not to disagree with you, but the fact is sometimes I "upvote" an article because it's also the way to save the story and I've liked some comments a lot, even if the referenced article is bad.
Not really, since Tumblr doesn't have any ads either. Come to think of it, besides selling premium themes, how else does Tumblr make money? Surely all the trust-fund hipsters on the site don't bring in wheelbarrows of money with their ironic 1-gear eco-bikes, do they?
MS Windows 'borrowed' alot from Mac's UI, and nowadays most smart phones are copying iPhone's concepts. I feel the hidden interest in this thread is more on Chinese/China bashing rather than intellectual property.
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I am interested in setting up some type of sponsorship like this on my site. But I am wondering how to determine an appropriate price to charge for such an ad. I am sure there are many factors involved. But I'm not sure where to start. Any suggestions?

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No,

I mean each organization needs to have in-organization backups and each individual needs to back-up their machine.

Yes, my IT guy. I need to have an institutional relation with my backup guy, not just a paying relation. The IT guy could send the data to three different online backup services but me having a personal and institutional relation with him makes sure that whatever scheme he uses will remain reliable as other things change.

The point is that every organization has at least one mission, one task that it is worth doing within the organization rather than offloading to another entity. And backup is always going to be close to that mission.
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Funny enough, spreadsheet applications are called "table calculators" in my language, so naming it "Calc" makes perfect sense to me :). I can see how it would make much less sense to a native english speaker, though. Anyway, perhaps "LibreOffice Sheets" would be an improvement on the name of this app.
I'm disappointed with what Kai-Fu Lee is doing; I guess I expect more from him.

Disappointment aside, though, this strategy works. Take something that works, and apply to the China market. Why reinvent the wheel? But I'd argue that they should do a better job with "copying" -- you don't really want to invite criticism for no gain, unless the blatantness of copying is part of the strategy (to show investors that they literally and successfully cut-and-paste working startup businesses, like an assembly line).

Hmm, now that I think about it, perhaps that's the whole point.
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> People thought oil prices were purely demand driven
> until we found out they were being bid up traders.

Do you mean "bid up by traders"?

You're suggesting that oil prices are high because of a conspiracy? If so - no.

That's a "turtles all the way down" argument.

Prices need to be sustained by demand. Traders may make money via moves on the fluctuation. But buying a lot of oil in order to push the price up is not a business model. You have to store it (expensive), transport it, and then when you come to sell it the price will decline again. Not to mention the risk you incurr by holding it, and the opportunity cost of not using that money to do something else at the time.

An idea that does the rounds regularly is that a conspiracy of evil speculators permanently distort markets. I've never seen a situation where that was true. There may be periods where the market does odd things, and market manipulation does exist, but unless it's a locked-up market (like diamonds) or a true conspiracy of all the players (can't think of an example) it will eventually have to revert to the mean because the traders will start calling bluff.

Usually when you see people blaming speculators it's someone trying to cover up ineptitude or corruption by picking an easy target.

When this kind of talk gets momentum the results can be bad. A common target during collapsing bubbles is short-sellers (people who borrow stock, and sell it, with the promise to re-buy it and give it back to its original owner at another time, possibly tomorrow). Short-sellers contribute to price discovering in markets, and this is a good thing. But during bubbles, people who know about shorting can do well when others are doing badly, so they're an easy target.

US regulators stroked this theme during the economic crisis and introduced measures that limited short-selling for a period. In doing so, they contributed to the crisis because short-sellers provide a lot of the liquidity behind money markets. Cuffing short-sellers removed their liquidity pool from money markets, which was already under strain.
That raises an interesting point. How would you take advantage of such a conviction? Can you short the property market in China, for instance?
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chinese dit it even over the air last year, distance - 16 km http://www.physorg.com/news193551675.html

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