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Your first paragraph suggests you look down on the idea - do you?

It was grossly ahead of its time (remember, this was the late 90s). The assumption was that the network was faster than the disk, which in our implementation was never true because it required a reliable backing store, so it was network latency + disk desktop disk latency. And we couldn't use a lot of RAM as cache because desktops didn't have multi-gigabyte memory at the time -- even servers didn't.

How far did you get and what happened to it?

I assume it's on some backup tapes somewhere. Every so often I come across an old CDROM I made during the era and get this idea that the source code is buried on it somewhere. It was tied pretty closely to early 2.0 Linux kernels and the block layer that existed at the time (I don't know how much would be portable to modern kernels).

A certain company that sued Microsoft for a patent related to embedding executable content in web pages, that we had a working relationship with at the time, had claims on their web page that they owned the trademark for it, but as far as I know, we were the only ones to produce working code.

Both of us who were working on it eventually left for greener pastures (and that was like 12 years ago at this point).

I wasn't suggesting a VM based idea, more of a daemon/windows service.

Nah, davecampbell in this thread suggested the use of VMs. Using a VM might make deployment easier. There wasn't anything like vmware player back when I worked on this, and we had to go around to everyone's machine and install the new versions after hours with every release.

there's no real need for it to be a filesystem per-se, it could be any kind of store with a central interface (web based, for instance) and then it wouldn't have to deal with parts of a filesystem vanishing arbitrarily.

True. And with removing that constraint/use-case, there are a number of things today that already provide this: Amazon S3 is one. We implemented it as a generic block device and put a filesystem on top of that, mainly for testing. One of the "goals" was to eventually use the block device as an Oracle tablespace file (once ported to HP-UX, since Oracle didn't exist on Linux at the time, or had barely come out for Linux).

Like I said, if you want to do this today, try it with something like md on top of NBD. Although, see the section "Late news - intelligent mirroring" on http://enbd.sourceforge.net/ (which is itself old).

But today, I wouldn't even bother. I'd just bite the bullet and buy the disks (or use some other system that is more directly under sysadmin control than employee's desktops). I think there's way too much variability in using desktop clients that were deployed for another use (desktop use) for this purpose.

A friend of mine pointed me to this http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=844130&dl=ACM&...
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One of the headings is "The Ballad of Sickabod Sane", and a quick Google search turns up his MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/sickabodsane

An article in Flak Magazine[1] describes him as "a popular MC from the Manhattan club scene."

You don't specify what you mean by "a good career," but it would appear that he's not reached the Cristal-filled-hot tub stage in life yet.

I did enjoy his songs, though.

[1] http://www.flakmag.com/features/makingrap.html
>> If by "culprit" you mean "person who noted that there a number of very poorly cited Wikipedia entries," yes.

"And decided that said heavily-trafficked articles should be deleted as being unnotable, instead of asking for more citations."

Sure.
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How did Facebook banish QuickTime?
Branson having done it already, the second time around ought to be a lot cheaper, right?
Tactile feedback actually tends to matter for data entry. Back when people actually cared about the quality of their calculators and there was real competition, the quality and durability of the keyboards was one of the most important features of a calculator.

The flexibility of an iPad's screen might be able to offset the lack of tactile feedback, but it would have to be a very well-designed piece of software. I know of no such app, though I would love to hear about one. Unfortunately, given the poor and stagnant user interfaces for both desktop applications like Mathematica and MATLAB, and TI's graphing calculators, I doubt that anyone with significant resources is doing the necessary UI research.
I tried to add information about how Node.js is now part of the webOS SDK, but then it complained that someone else was now editing it.

And there was the first time I've ever tried to edit a Wikipedia page.
I dont necessarily mind not seeing the points for each comment, but I used to look at them when scanning a discussion to find the better comments and conversations.

I would like to see some sort of asterisk, maybe shading for comments that go above a certain threshold, showing that they have more votes than other comments.
I actually like the book. Its copy editing is about the typical lulu level, but the content is nice. Definitely more of an idea/approach inspiration than a programming reference. I liked it the first time it came around too. Though it is a dupe, I believe it's good content and I at least have missed many good posts in the past simply due to time zones. Why not upvote this?
I am not sure about being notable but it definitely does not read as informative in the sense for general knowledge (as said in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Node.js).

It reads as a README file to get me started with Node.js which looks very similar to the original

http://nodejs.org/

So a bit more effort may need to go into making this useful for public knowledge. (The Community section is not needed in my opinion) This is just my idea based on how the jQuery wiki page was organized.

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

Notice how it actually explains the examples in more than one line. Again this is all observation.
I hate it. I understand the motivation, but the coin has two sides. Sometimes I want to contribute, and the karma-less system allows for greater discussion instead of easy convergence to groupthink. Sometimes I want to just benefit from the insights, and I can no longer do that effectively without the comment karma.
>Error establishing a database connection

Ironic.
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Go to college. I had the same thoughts as you in high school. Here's why:

1. You're most likely incompetent. Don't take this personally. In HS, I thought I was amazing and a genius too. It took college to make me realize that there were a lot of smart people out there. I was the top 1% of the top 1% of my HS. And I'm definitely not even in the top 1% of my university.

2. You think you're a quick learner and a hard worker. Most people think they're quick learners and nobody likes to think they're lazy. Guess what, most people are actually average. I thought I was a quick learner in HS. I got to college and I realized that I'm pretty average. And in terms of hard work, I don't sleep in the library and take the 8 hardest courses the university has to offer in the same semester. So no, I don't even compare in "hard work ethic" to some of my friends.

2. You have a lot of theory to learn that will make you a better programmer and school is the right place to learn it. Yes you can learn it on your own. The majority of people think they can and some claim they do. 99% of them are kidding themselves and actually don't.

3. If you're at a university that pushes you (my experience is with CMU) you'll work harder than you ever thought possible. This just isn't something you'd do on your own because normally you couldn't fathom that this much work was possible.

4. You'll meet friends and professors who are much smarter than you and will be valuable friends along the way. You'll learn from them and improve yourself.

I don't mean to be mean, and take this with a grain of salt because maybe you are accomplished enough to not need college. Just take this as a warning to do a reality check, and then make sure your frame of reference is realistic. ;)
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Sorry about that. I deleted my original post because I liked reddittor's phrasing better. But since you decided to reply to my post, I'll respond too. :-)

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"And decided that said heavily-trafficked articles should be deleted as being unnotable, instead of asking for more citations."

Except that's the opposite of what happened. Read the notice: anyone is free to remove it even if the contents of the page aren't changed. Removing the notice stops the process. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion:

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Proposed deletion is the way to suggest that an article is uncontroversially a deletion candidate, but that it does not meet the more stringent criteria for speedy deletion. If no editors object, nominated pages are deleted after seven days. An article may be PRODed only once. This process reduces the load on the articles for deletion (AfD) process, but should not be used to bypass discussion at AfD.

There are three steps:

1. An article or disambiguation page is nominated when an editor carefully reviews the article and inserts the {{proposed deletion}} tag by placing {{subst:proposed deletion}} on the page. This lists the article in Category:Proposed deletion.

2. If any person objects to the deletion (usually by removing the {{proposed deletion}} tag), the proposal is aborted and may not be re-proposed.

3. The article is first checked and then deleted by an administrator 7 days after nomination. It may be undeleted upon request.

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To object to and therefore permanently prevent a proposed deletion, remove the {{proposed deletion}} tag from the article

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Personally, I greatly prefer that to the usual system I see: vague warnings about non-notability followed much later by a full AfD process (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion). Take this as a wake-up call that the article needs some attention, not as a personal attack or an attack against a community.
As is evidenced by this and the GE story some weeks ago, it is clear that good (as in thoughtful, experienced, and very legal) guidance in taxes is almost always worth the cost--IF there are big bucks on the table.

In my experience, many of the techniques used with the rich can be used (after a little tinkering) with struggling startups. Its just that the wealthier clients are willing to pay more. There are only so many hours in the day. Thus, the professional, by default, doesn't choose to end up earning 1/2X when they could just as easily earn 2X.

There must be a way to leverage technology so that these expensive folks get paid the market rate and micro companies can afford it.

Not cookie cutter forms, but real, specific, thoughtful solutions that fit.

Maybe its in the interface.
Has certainly been true for me. No-CD cracks have been wonderful, they let you play the game without inserting a CD which does nothing but eat up your CD slot and make noise (once you do the "complete" install option). Similarly, a few binary patches have made old games work again, new games start faster, and buggy network behaviors smooth as silk (by removing them entirely).

I'll put this plainly: pirated software is often more user-friendly. Even when it involves a zip within a rar within a tar with a batch file that runs for an hour to extract a dozen .cab files. Because once it's in, it works - DRM frequently means it doesn't.

The flip-side of this is what Steam has become, with essentially proper DRM: easier than pirating. And I've spent more money through Steam than all other game purchases combined. Not to imply Steam hasn't had / doesn't have its issues, of course - it used to be an absolute nightmare, and there are still people getting things locked out for no good reason.
Just looking for some feedback on the initial concept. Thanks.
>Now, if a framework-platform like Node.js existed for Clojure, now, that would be a different story.

What about aleph?

http://github.com/ztellman/aleph
I don't care about karma either, but it's an arbitrary metric that steers community behavior somehow. May as well utilize that.
You're being disingenuous here. Anybody looking for information about jQuery's selectors will google "jquery selectors" and find that five-word phrase front and center.
Or take a look at the jQuery front page and hover over "CSS3 Compliant" to see "Supports CSS 1-3 selectors and more!".

If you want to pick on something that claims compatibility, try Sizzle itself - http://sizzlejs.com/. In that case, you'll find a summary of alterations right at the top of its documentation https://github.com/jquery/sizzle/wiki .
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You are not making any sense. You say that Quicktime is outdated technology and has to be banished, yet you are okay with browsers using it to display HTML5 video?

How does that work? On Mac OS X to do anything with video you use QuickTime. QuickTime isn't just the front end software. It provides an API that can be used to create all kinds of software, not only that it allows other codecs to easily be installed (see Perian for Mac OS X).
If I'm going to learn to renumber my whole day anyway, why not just switch to UTC and preserve hundreds of years of convention in notation and utility?
I was giving my four suggestions to show how the author could have chosen more variety; eg functional, oo, concatenative and distributed/actor. Mercury/Oz mentioned by Mahmud below is another great idea, they don't get nearly enough love.
The UI is the big problem. It's currently only the same old stuff with minor modifications. If only Apple were into calculators … (A calculator made with the same dedication to the medium as GaageBand for the iPad would be awesome.)

I don't think that tactile feedback matters all that much. The keys on the iPad screen can be much larger, that alone helps a lot. And, again, arbitrary keys offer great potential for making data entry easier.
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I wrote this comment on the India specific HN version that has some suggestions on how to go about finding a good offshore development firm -
http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=1058

The suggestions are quite generic and might be of some help even if you are looking for a freelancer/firm in any other geographic region as well.
While the author has a point that calculators are essentially pointless (if not downright scammy) these day, I know more than a few people learned to program on their HP calculators. It was my first experience learning the ins and outs of an entire API, eventually deciding it wasn't sufficient and then digging deeper into the previously hidden world of the firmware below and eventually to the CPU itself. Of course you can do that on any device, but it was helpful be able to play around in class without suspicion.
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Maybe, except that these demo apps, Yelp, Hipmunk, etc. are probably seeing 100s of simultaneous viewings right now. I guess they could have racks and racks of mac minis.
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One alternative is to hide the number of votes a given comment has received until after you've voted on it. Then it could be revealed. I don't see much downside to this. And it would encourage people to vote.
I have no idea why haploid's comment went dead - he raises a very good point. RoR, for better or worse, has become the trendy tool to use for web apps. Java, once upon a time, did occupy that niche, too.

- worse, IMO
This guy's requests for deletion look to be automated and on a massive scale. I can't agree that what he's doing is remotely appropriate, and while it's not an attack on node.js specifically, it's definitely an attack on the computing part of wikipedia in general.
Part of my job is working on a in-kernel key/value store for a data center network operating system. The problem it is the context switching between user and kernel space kills your performance if you're targeting sub-millisecond read/writes. That may not matter for something like acunu when you factor in network latency but when you're using the database as part of the packet path it does. In addition, under a high system load your user space process has a high likelihood of getting scheduled out at the ioctl call which makes latency even worse. Although being in the kernel allows you a little leeway in terms durability constraints and all that because if you screw up the entire system comes crashing down anyway.

It will never be in the mainline kernel. Also, although I haven't actually looked at what they did yet, I assume they're just loading a regular old kernel module instead of actually really messing with a lot of the mainline code.
They've set up a great lock-in system. They've bought off all the schools and teachers to get them to require students to use a specific TI model, and then they get the schools to buy textbooks that are written to use the TI calculators, with examples that give keystroke-by-keystroke instructions, and sample programs written in that model's dialect of BASIC. Sometimes they even get the standardized tests to require a specific calculator.

It's a great deal for lazy teachers: not only do they not have to teach their students how to perform the calculation, they don't even have to teach the student how to use their calculator to do it. If a student wants to use a different model, they're on their own. They'll have to learn the TI BASIC anyways, because the textbook doesn't even try to do a decent job of describing an algorithm in any other notation.

In most cases, breaking TI's monopoly would be as difficult as, and possibly require, busting a teachers' union.
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It certainly drives me to not buy certain games. Assassin's Creed 2 sounds quite nice, but I don't own a console, and I'll never buy the PC version as long as there's any form of the Ubisoft DRM attached.

It's also a not-so-covert vehicle to prevent or otherwise cripple resale, which I'm sure every industry would love to do, but only video games are able to realistically implement with online activation.
Manually installing an app in the simulator is the easy part. Slightly harder is running multiple copies of the simulator.
Dont you love it when HNs brings down a website.
Let's not go nuts about this, OK?

Like it or not, Wikipedia is the web's jumping-off point for serious knowledge about a given subject, especially technical subjects, and having citations in the article gives people reasonable places to jump off to.

So don't spam the deletion discussion. Add good citations and references instead.
I'd like to suggest a simple improvement:

Hide the number of votes a given comment has received until after you've voted on it.

After a given user has voted on a given comment, the number of votes that comment has received can be revealed to the user who voted on it.

I don't see much downside to this. It would discourage voting with the herd, and at the same time encourage people to vote.
ah, but no. it depends on your "cost of capital" -- attention and time are the most costly things in my life, so anything that consumes them need produce much more than a penny of profit.
For smaller amounts, how about setting up an account in the US and getting a debit card for the payee? Pay into the local account. They use the debit card.
No witch-hunts please. Put your pitchforks and torches down. Let's finish this like gentlemen; find real citations and references to add to the page as nbpoole suggests.
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I think it's good.
Several of our customers thought about building their own largish datacenter in some unused commercial spaces they own. While they often had some idea about requirements of electricity and connectivity, not a single one thought about the incredible noise coming from all this hardware (or HVAC requirements, for that matter).
What was cited in the Wikipedia article? That's what helps the article meet the standards of an encyclopedia, having references to reliable sources.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources
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This here explains why this has not been done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2435708
Right... the majority of the searches involve terms like "download firefox" and "download chrome". :-)
> Good games, they say, are like art: engaging players deeply and emotionally (not sure how Grand Theft Auto fits in here).

A lot of people have had very emotional reactions to Grand Theft Auto...

At the risk of oversimplifying something I'm not an expert on, I think games fall into two general types: the kind you win by being very good at one skill, and the kind you win by balancing several skills.

The first kind isn't that interesting in the long run because either you're no good at it so you stop playing because you always lose, or you're really good at it so you stop playing because you're better than the game is.

If you want to gamify something, make it a game that requires balance. Maybe every time you check in somewhere, you raise your potential score for that place by one point. When you check in with a large group, your permanent score gets increased by your potential score times the number of people who checked in with you, so, you get a lot of points by going to a place a lot and bringing your friends there.
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Wow, I could definitely see this happening. Could Mayer and Sandberg really team up again at Facebook? I could see this as being the tipping point for them.
I'm going to stop you there. Not everyone can learn though wrote memorization. People learn in different ways. Second, do you remember every proof and formula (excluding ones used reguarly)? We are taught to understand and apply these things, not to spend 90 percent of our time learning them for one or two classes.
A $20 discount isn't enough for us, but as the woman quoted in the article said anytime they lower the price they get a surge. So they do $20 now, get some brands on board, get some user feedback, iron a few kinks out, then do a firmware update and drop the price another $15. The $99 ad-supported kindle will sell like hotcakes.
Yes its old, but the fun is just as much :-) Seems like a nice tool, but i guess printers use alot of SNMP nowadays
You're probably correct in saying that glasses won't disappear anytime soon, and it is impossible with eye/head tracking alone to achieve stereoscopic 3D, but I'd like to bet that sometime in the future a holographic display could be created. One that sends different images to different regions of the room, such that your left eye is literally seeing a different view than your right eye, without shutters or polarization to mimic it.

To truly get there, you'd have to actually change the path length of each ray, to allow your eyes' focus to agree with their convergence (a common complaint with current 3D, where the eyes are forced to focus on light coming from 3 meters away but converge on an object thats "1 meter" away.)
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Could it be something to do with IE9 or new OS installs leading people to give Bing a shot?