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I really liked the article, it made me think about interesting problems, but I only count 7 features in it.

>1. Query progress
>3. Session Wait Data
>4. Session Tracing

These are all the same feature. Granted, it's an awesome feature, and thats a reasonable division.

>2. Index Only Scans
>5. Multiple Block I/O

These are real valid (and separate) points. There's a good argument for leaving 5 to the OS, but it does mean accepting that the OS might suck at predicting what you want.

>6. Tablespace Quotas

It doesn't seem like this should be so hard -- use a user-space FS with a cap.

>7. No Logging

Why are you creating indexes all the time? Large data loads I can see.

>9. Query Hints

Flamebait, but acknowledged as such.

>8. Better Export/Import Tools
>10. More Backup/Restore Options

Seriously, you just used the flamebait between these two so you'd make it to 10. Nice tactic :)
I like the points on comments and miss them (not that I just miss change). Often I don't have time to read a whole discussion but just want to get the gist of what people are saying about an article, scanning for the highest scoring comments (while not perfect) helps me quickly decide if I want to read more of the discussion.
No, no international charges with BrainTree and none in the foreseeable future. If that is a concern then it might be good to look at other options, I'd assume you'll face similar difficulties with other processors (I could be wrong).
I think if a social networking site got "social circles" right, it would take off.

I think the main problem that others have pointed out, is that you typically have a persona that you reveal to different groups of people and you typically only want those groups to have a specific view into your life:

* Family - you are an upright person that loves grandma's pumpkin pie.

* Distant friends (coworkers) - you are a hard worker that occasionally is interested in backyard BBQs.

* Close friends - they know you are really a drunk.

* Intimate friends - they know you are really just a big kid.

* Internet friends - know you really have a thing for fishnets.

Point is, a social network really needs to successfully tackle this issue. If they can do that, then they'll be able to fold facebook, linkedin, twitter, et al all into one site.
1987: simpler times. I can't help but wonder what to author would have written today given the order-of-magnitude larger mistakes we've made since then, such as reality TV.
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Try taking a look at this guy's submissions over the past few days...

He's waging a smear campaign against Mono.
Too much text. I have no idea what the site does.

You need a nice big verbal call to action button:
-"Create an XXXXX"
-"Make a YYYYY now"
-etc.

The things people can do on your site are "Register" and "Sign In." Those aren't things people want to do, those are ends to a mean. Give us an enticing link to click, because right now the 3 in your header are extremely large barriers.
Well, lets say you love art and get a business degree. How happy would you be making a good living but at the same time listening to mindless suits who love to hear themselves talk in boring ass meetings 9 HOURS A DAY.

Doing what truly interests you and being poor isn't a bad place to be IMO and this being the worse case scenario since CS folks usually do well financially.

If you enjoy technology/programming, you most likely will never be homeless if you get a CS degree. The "Good" employers see passion in potential employees and usually want these type of people.
There are a lot people who do open source stuff and make a big thing out of it ("I think a github link is more important than a CV" etc.) to the point where those of us who don't, the silent (majority?), may feel we are somehow lesser programmers as a result.
Actually, I disagree that there is more good music produced and released by major labels in a single month than you could ever listen to, although I liked the implied condescension of "tragically limited tastes"

And this is essentially a thought experiment - extend it out to a year, where you're downloading 24/7 and what I'm saying holds true. Paying a fixed amount for (legal) unlimited DRM free downloads isn't a model that's going to work.
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Very happy to see this launch. I'm happy staying on the East coast, but if NewME ever launches something in NY I'd love to be a part of it.

My only quibble is with this:

"Without successful exits from minority-led start-ups we forgo creating new angle investors, venture capitalist, mentors, role models, and more start-ups."

NewME is an investor, so I get the need for returns, but it wouldn't hurt to have a few minority-led companies with a 37signals-like philosophy toward business and promotions.
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As a customer, paying a monthly subscription roughly on par with the price of a CD for "all you can eat" music is, I think, bloody good value.

It seems to me that Spotify are killing it.
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>> and you both need to be contributing equally all the time

You lost me there. My wife and I have a 50/50 split on life, but we don't both contribute equally "all the time".

Sometimes one of us will go out to dinner with friends and have an awesome meal while the other one struggles to puts three snotty, sick kids to bed. Certainly not equal contribution that night.

The beautiful thing about a 50/50 split in any partnership -- be it a marriage or a startup -- is that you don't have to keep track of every nickel and dime of contribution.
We're seriously not even trying to be web2.0 (have you seen our site?), we just liked the name and pretty much everyone we've talked to agrees on that.

We appreciate your feedback though! Thanks a lot for taking the time to let us know your thoughts. :)
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Actually the one I was talking about is when the pilot actually gets aboard the ship first!
just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are after you, either.

The only point Roy seems to have is that he hates Mono and is jealous that he isn't respected by anyone in the community while Mono developers are.
I had a very similar experience teaching my wife. The thing I've found fascinating is that counting in binary only initially seems hard to people because, in most cases, people really don't know how counting to 10 (10 decimal that is) actually works. I actually remember having a similar feeling when I first took discrete math, I suddenly realized how little I understood of things that I had previously considered basic.
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No different than Apple really, requiring your in-app content to match the lowest pricing available.

IGDA says the Amazon terms limit you to the lowest price "available or previously available on any Similar Service" — it's the "previously available" that's the sticking point.

Tweetbot is having a $2.00 introductory sale on the iOS App Store, where the price will eventually go up. If Tapbots were foolish enough to do an Amazon version, they'd be constrained to offer that price forever. Absurd.
That could help. It'd be like taking guitar lessons from Jimi Hendrix - you'd be all like "Man, piano sucks! Guitar rocks!"
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What a magnificent story. It's amazing to me how he he and the spacecraft are so connected. The radios go off, he works on other projects, until one day they are reunited as both reach the ends of their journey, transitioning to whatever lies beyond.

I'm saying that last part without hyperbole, which is beautiful to me.
I was expecting the burning of the Library of Alexandria or the Library of Baghdad ("House of Wisdom").

I love Jared Diamond's work, but I think that this essay is incomplete at best and only raises more questions.

If agriculture was a last-resort method, why didn't smaller fractions splinter off from the groups and continue their hunter-gatherer lifestyle?

Diamond writes, "Gorillas have had ample free time to build their own Parthenon, had they wanted to." I don't think that's true. Very little engineering was done before agrarian societies, and I'm fairly certain that most ancient wonders required no small amount of engineering chops. And while great sculptures may have arose 15,000 years ago by hunter-gatherer societies, no violins or pianos certainly came about. I think he is downplaying the effect that art and engineering have had here.

In the last paragraph Diamond calls the hunter-gatherer lifestyle the "longest lasting" lifestyle, which is trivially true (it was there first). But he also calls it the "most successful in human history."

Successful how? In terms of happiness? In terms of overcoming various maladies? If they were almost all completely crushed by agrarian societies, as he illustrates in Guns, Germs & Steel, wouldn't that be considered unsuccessful?
I haven't tried TweetBot yet, but I have also rejected other Twitter clients for not showing enough tweets in the timeline view.
I'm not sure what you mean here - are you talking about access to pirated music?

Also, I'm uncertain that millions or hundreds of thousands of people really do pay £40per month for rapidshare/usenet accounts. I'd like to see some evidence for that claim.
Out of curiosity, is there something special about "p" words that you base your suggestions on?
This is completely false. The value of a verbal contract cannot exceed $500.

The sales person may try to pressure you into going through with the deal by telling you the contract is binding, but no court in the world would make you pay ~30k for a car just based on you saying you wanted it.
Nicely done.

You will also get a much better indication on the type of audience your site is attracting, enabling you to tailor content and better position your offering.
I open source because I enjoy it.

Why do I enjoy it? I dunno. I think that mostly it allows me to feel karmicly balanced. After all, it's open source technologies like Rails and jQuery that have allowed me to quit my job and work from my own sweet office doing as I please for the most part. Now I can give back, and maybe one day, one of my projects will help someone else do the same.

Also, writing open source projects feels kinda like the geek's ultimate networking tool. I came from the business side of things, and had started getting burned out on networking events. Contributing to open source projects helps me meet awesome like-minded developers from around the world and build productive relationships with them.

You tend to get feature requests, bug reports (with a surprising low level of accuracy) and emails of gratitude. But seldom do I receive ‘Here is patch that allows you to d x, y, and z ‘ emails.

This has been my experience exactly, with everything from my jQuery EasyTabs plugin, to the Remotipart gem, to the Rails jQuery UJS adapter. The bug/feature requests always outweigh the patches-with-tests by a factor of 10 to 1. This is usually when I have to start justifying the time in my mind with thoughts like, "it builds clout for the consultancy, just keep at it." The good news, is even the bug reports/feature requests make me feel good that at least people are using it.

Of course, the status and recognition are nice too. Coming from the non-coding side originally, it's nice to feel accepted by the community.
Enrollments are somewhat up compared to the past few years, but still not particularly high, especially relative to the growth of the tech industry over the past decade. So I wouldn't worry about enrollment increases unless they get much larger.

Here's a graph, showing how much below the early-2000s enrollment peak we still are, even in raw numbers not adjusted for percentage of the population, or percentage of the degree-holding population: http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/0... I think some of the perception is due to how changes are reported as percent-increases and percent-decreases: to reverse the 50% decline in enrollments that took place between 2004 and 2009, we'd need an 100% increase in enrollments currently, which we aren't anywhere near.

Plus, if you're good, it seems to be near universal consensus around here that it's very hard to hire good computer scientists, whether you're hiring for a startup or a larger company, so the supply/demand still seems to be very much in the supply's favor.
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also very happy to see this. hopefully this will lead to some great things in the future.
You can't loophole your way out of a merchant/producer relationship. They decide what qualifies; they'll slap down your loophole and kick you out.
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http://www.budgetsimple.com looks nice and it's completely free. That tells me that you probably have the best of intentions; plus the sales text on the front page seems genuine. I just feel that a more in depth analysis would make a better blog post; maybe even something to cite.

Your post did get the idea across. The US needs to change the way they are spending their money or suffer the consequences in the near future.
It's funny, just a couple of hundred years ago, the belief was that the human race used to be happy and successful, and then declined. For intellectuals: Greece, Rome, even the Central/South American civilizations. For every one else: Eden or Atlantis, etc.

Progress isn't always a straight line. Early automobiles were poor replacements for horses or horse-powered vehicles, but the potential was there.
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Coffeescript isn't a "language extension" to JavaScript.

Coffeescript is a language that compiles down to Javascript. Haml is a language that is interpreted into HTML.
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The adage "Any publicity is good publicity" only holds for celebrities (or wannabe celebrities). I don't think it is true for an educational institution.
Option isn't a good plan. If you decide that turning off points-display improves the site then you should turn it off for everyone.
I don't think Tweetbot would have any trouble launching at whatever list price they wanted on Amazon. Amazon isn't selling iOS apps so the Apple App Store isn't a similar service. Google's Android Market would be though.
This is a great concern to have - and I agree with you. You should major in something you like that also has good job potential. If the thing you absolutely love (like art history) doesn't have good job potential, settle for something that you like that does. You can always study art history as a hobby.

The education industry has fooled a lot of people into thinking you should pay a University gobs of money to study "something you love." You're only in college about 4 years. The rest of your life will hopefully be much longer than that. You're paying the university for a degree that is supposed to help you get a job, nothing more. If philosophy or art history is your passion, buy some books and study it on your own time - that's free. You don't need to pay a university to pursue your passions.

All of that being said, I think it's still a great time to pursue a CS degree. More people are going into it, but there's also been an explosion of tech startups, and tech companies in general will continue to grow.
That depends on whether it's a Similar Service. Seems like you'd have a lot of wiggle room there.
Exactly! We're monitoring which customer persona gets the most clicks (with good old Google Analytics). Down the line we might even try 8-10 different customer types with A/B testing and see which ones attract the most clicks.
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Vaguely related, is that I once hooked up a monochrome VGA monitor to my Amiga 1200 by soldering the monitor's cable to a suitable Amiga video connector, and setting it up to be 640x480 VGA in the OS settings.

Worked a treat!
We actually have that very tool developed (alpha-ish, I guess you'd say), but we found that no one seemed to pay much attention when we talked about it. That, plus the difficulty in monetizing has put it on hold in favor of the Windsoc API.

The Windsoc Social Client aggregates activities and includes the concepts of Circles and Channels. Circles are collections of people just as you described, actually, while Channels work to split contacts and services (and someday individual activities) into separate subject areas. This is because usually I'm on startup mode, but when I'm relaxing I like to change over to my other interests.
Just put the value in euros (if you're in Slovenia) or whatever, and ignore the dollar signs.

The results are for your own use anyway -- it'll work just as well even if you don't bother to convert.

Of course, that'll skew whatever larger purpose the developer is hoping to have with the data, but if the project seems to have legs, that just provides a big incentive to add support for other currencies. :}
Simple and no clutter.

Do you plan to add more algorithms?
droz, totally agree with you AND honestly I think this should be THE MOST important thing Facebook should be working on...

Internet is more and more shaping like human life, because well it only exist if humans contribute. When internet was young it acted like a teenager: want to be anonymous and talk crap, spam, troll, now this is like a 20years old growing up man -- wants to put his real identity upfront, upload real pictures, organize and connect with real-life friends, etc.

Facebook lacks next layer, next growing up stage, that is everyone has multiple identities and act accordingly to situation: work, home, friends, family, lovers, etc. This is pretty much what you said already -- I think Facebook failed with "groups" -- they should put more effort into literally enforcing users to organize everyone into real-life "groups", so once this is done you can give options to modify feeds from each person. Now, my wall is equally crapped by people I dont want to hear everyday, and my closest family. Its a mess; like well-build Geocites with nice logo on the top...

IF Facebook wont put more focus on enforcing people to get into groups, I agree that sooner or later they will start declining. I dont really "buy" that whole "everyone is in so I am not going anywhere" point; looks at MySpace -- everyone was there. Fast forward 3 years later everyone is somewhere else. The point is, once a website goes viral, friend of friends and their friends start joining, you won't stop migration of users from one website to another -- but obviously first islander need to see benefits and reasons to move on. Once this start, it will NOT be cool anymore to have a Facebook profile.
I cant wait for these days.. not really that I wish bad to someone -- but I want to see how CEO of Facebook will act to save his sinking ship. Oh, I also don't buy the fact that "entire website is using facebook features, such as "like" and forum etc". Trust me, once a new network kicks in, it is obviously will be #1 goal of every webmaster and administrator to attach a new&cool thing to their website. You will see that new widget everywhere within weeks, if not days!!
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Successful in that humans survived that way without major issue for 98% of their existence. We've only been industrialized for a tiny period of our racial history, and we already have and had a host of problems.

(the human race is estimated to be 200,000 years old. Egypt arose at best 5,000 years ago.)

By the way- I don't think you can assume ancient man was unhappy. It's been shown in the past that wealth and higher standards of living do not directly correlate to greater happiness, and frankly our species would have had a hell of a problem if we were chronically depressed for 195,000 years.
I expected something like Algorithm March (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm_March), but this is far more... algorithmic.
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i tend to think that agriculture was a necessity based on population density and the formation of towns/cities. too many people in one place means there needs to be a renewable source of food. hunting and gathering for hundreds would eventually result in too little to feed everyone.
Exactly. When farmers outnumber you, guess who's winning any land disputes? Even if land changes hands peacefully, a farmer can give you more food for your land than you could possibly gather on it. As Diamond points out, today's gatherers live on land that's not good for farming.
I'm going to quote Linus Torvalds on this:

""" If you're a mad scientist, you can use GPLv2'd software for your evil plans to take over the world ("Sharks with lasers on their heads!!"), and the GPLv2 just says that you have to give source code back. And that's OK by me. I like sharks with lasers. I just want the mad scientists of the world to pay me back in kind ... [GPL.v3] crimps the style of mad scientists everywhere by also putting restrictions on the use of the source code. You cannot install it on your hardware (laser-equipped shark or otherwise) without also making sure that others can install another version """

Why do you assume that TiVo "exploited" a "weakness", when the software authors of prominent GPLv.2 projects (or other licenses that allow "tivoization") don't think that's the case?

What did TiVo did so awful to call it an exploit and market a derogative term after them, trashing their brand?

What "exploit" is there when you can make your own phones with Android's software on it?

If you, as a software author (working hard on your software) do not want YOUR software to be used in the way TiVo did, then GPL.v3 is fine and has its place in the world certainly, but other than that, what the hell are people smoking?
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Hopefully we'll be able to have a program on the eastcoast too, it makes sense to but we are def trying to crawl before we sprint ;)

Just to clarify NewME isn't an investor. We aren't making financial investment in any of the companies and we aren't taking equity. We are providing the speakers, and mentors, and place to stay for the summer. We're also providing a community of sorts. :)
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Pretty silly to expect exclusivity on three-letter acronyms. There are only so many of them to go around.

(If "serious programmers/sysadmins" are such dull people as to be taken aback by cultural references to anything outside their jobs, so much the worse for them!)
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"If agriculture was a last-resort method, why didn't smaller fractions splinter off from the groups and continue their hunter-gatherer lifestyle?"

I think he mentions implicitly that agriculture cannibalizes resources that were once diverse and auto-regenerative, in the comment about hunter-gatherers being forced into some of the worst real-estate in the world today.

There's a secondary point that heaps of knowledge about the natural world have been lost, since even the modern, technologically advanced life sciences of today do not reconstitute the "working knowledge" that humans had of how to live off of wild plants and animals for food, medicine, and shelter.

Current events certainly bolster Diamond's argument in some ways. Look at the speculation/agriculture-driven burning of the world's rainforests, for example, for the conversion of mass tracts of biologically diverse (and productive) land into monocultures of diminishing returns.
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