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How is this any different than buysellads.com? Other than a more reasonable 5% cut than the 25% cut BSA asks for.
what kind of quantities is he going to pull off?

I don't know, I mean presumably he's thinking OLPC-esque. I could see this being at least as popular as the WM8505/VT8500 devices just on price (price having being those devices _only_ selling point), and then the education angle picking up some more bulk deals with education departments.

is he really going to contract out to a chinese factory?

Does anyone not contract out to a Chinese factory of some kind, these days?

For now, the Trimslice is pretty exciting

That is exciting, I hadn't seen those before! Thanks for the link.

Of course, as you say that is a "different world". The Trimslice is four-generations of ARM along the line, in x86 spec equivalents it's a Pentium III compared to a Core 2 Duo.
Thanks for the comments! The homepage isn't a good landing page at all. We're working on a video to show off the site a bit more, and will soon put the most popular quotes on the homepage to get people taste the site better.

Agree with the sign-in part. We're using Django (perhaps should have picked rails) and that's the default settings. We will rectify that issue soon. Thanks again for the feedback!
Blackberry is better for dealing with emails than any other phone. Plus RIM is doing very well financially.
> camel casing variable names is right,

Personally I disagree. In my code-bases it's:

functions: doSomeThing()

constructor: new Foobar()

object/array/primitive: some_object

"constants": SOME_VALUE

I find that much more readable, especially when looking at code completion in the IDE, I can always tell whether a property is a method or not.

For example, you might have an object foo that has a property called isBar. I like being able to tell that that is a function that returns a true or false value, as opposed to is_bar which just holds the boolean value.
HDMI and DVI are interchangeable for this purpose; most computer displays manufactured in the last 5+ years have DVI ports. With a $10 adapter they can use the screen from their parents' crusty old Dell.
After my initial excitement of "wow, cool" and "wow, tiny" and "wow, cheap" wore off, I'm also becoming skeptical about what niche this fills for educators.

Why? Because an old PC with equivalent specs is essentially free (anything from ~2000 onwards.) Thousands of them, desktop and laptop, will be being recycled or landfilled every day.

Linux on x86 hardware is standard enough that you can effectively call it a standard platform for developers, already, same as this.

The remaining key advantage (I guess) is size. And maybe the fact that it's easier to get kids excited about playing with a tiny brand new board than with a 10 year old computer.
It's scary what you can do with machine translation these days...
The "unusual code" portion of numpy is the entirety of numpy. It's BLAS for Python. Once it's well-optimized, basically any other numerical code or libraries for python (things like scipy and probably large portions of PIL, and applications built on them) should do reasonably well written in pure python running on PyPy. The JIT in PyPy should be able to offer good performance for non-numerical, dynamic, branchy code, so you will very rarely have to drop down to a lower-level language (C or RPython) except for FFI.

JITs can help with tight loops that can't be identified and optimized at compile time, but that's not what Numpy is composed of, and code using numpy shouldn't have to go through several iterations before the Numpy routines get identified as hotspots and optimized. Numpy implements algorithms that are designed to be easy to statically compile into machine language code that makes efficient use of memory, FPU, and cache resources.
Love the design of the site pre-login.

Once I signed up and logged in, it was downhill for me too. Quotes don't seem to need backgrounds, photos, etc. Play with more typography and minimize the design elements!
I emailed you. In summary: I don't think I'm capable of passing an interview atm, certainly if (as I presume) your place is good. But we can discuss, at least.
Reminds me of the rossum's RBox: A diy 32 bit game sonsole for the price of a latte.

http://rossum.posterous.com/20131601
And Microsoft was suppose to be dead by 2010, or was that 200x or 201x?

Declining from King status? Probably

Dead? I put that right up there with world is ending in 2012.

PS: I am an iPhone user... no fan of Blackberry... but I find it a bit nuts when people make broadstroked arguements without any real support.
Just had a phone upgrade at my work. Got to choose from Iphone and Blackberry.

Went with Blackberry. Many people thought my decision was crazy.

Except, I actually work from my Blackberry. I write emails, and ssh with it. I need an actual real keypad, and not a toy.

For people like me, an Iphone is worthless.
Meh, your argument doesn't hold much water either.

My friend just dump iPhone for BB because well... his friends are using BBM.

My father works in Bank and him and his friends and all of his business partners don't bother to look at iPhone/iPod/iPad.
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This is a terribly common refrain. Perhaps all freelance developers in a given area should collaborate (read: collude) and come up with an agreed upon, open source scope of work document framework? That way, setting aside variables like price, feature requests, and time estimates, there can at least be a common structure that developers in a particular geography can rally around to at least attempt to minimize the impact of this type of problem.

This is the precise reason why I am trying my best to come up with my next start up idea, client work is a drain...
Seriously.. I didn't even realize that was a translation till I finished the first paragraph.
I have a lot of trouble seeing the difference between my “personal understanding of [that] sentence’s meaning” and my “knowledge of constitutional law”.

Sure, I’m free to define words any way I want – but that’s not how society works, that’s not how law works. There are necessarily mechanisms to arrive at common definitions, in everyday life and in the legal system. The common definition of “executive order” – which, obviously, comes packed with information about constitutional law – clearly states that executive orders are severely limited in their scope.

That’s the definition of “executive order” I’m carrying around in my head and it is flat out impossible for me to divorce that definition from my understanding of constitutional law. I also can’t divorce my understanding of the word “standing” from what I know about gravity. It’s nonsensical.
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fyi, this is fixed now.
Here is another data point, my finance, who's in sales and a Droid user for a year, recently got a Blackberry for work. She didn't like it at all. Blackberry is not going away anytime soon due long enterprise sales cycle. But like fertel said, it's only a matter of time.
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In the 15 years I've been flying actively, i've only once been on a plane where I was told to return to my seat so they could do a count. I'm presuming that was a situation where someone hopped off mid travel. So, this is really a rare scenario. I think most people who do this are savvy, which means they realize they are about to screw an entire planeload of people - so it's a fairly rare endeavor.

The fact that the NYT was consulting with Trial Lawyers as to the legality of this, is some indication of how sketchy this behavior is.

BTW - all of this thread applies to layovers where the plane lands, and some people deplane, while others stay in their seats.

None of this applies to the situation where you have to get onto another plane, or, as I've had happen to me a couple times, they require you to exit the plane and then get back on. Particularly if you didn't check luggage. I'm fine with people playing that game - usually only causes a minute or two delay, if that.
The product feels like it's lacking innovation, and among a crowd of hackers & builders, it makes sense that this article would gain traction. I've heard rumors that RIM will be adopting Android in the coming months. Regardless of this claim, a company with as much money and momentum can't be discounted so easily. It is foolish to claim that a Goliath is dead until you have his head in your hands.

Let's think for a moment about other tech giants: HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and certainly Apple --whose resurrection story is legend.
a site used by hundreds of millions, actually :-) and a site that helps ensure the security of every Firefox user across the globe.
:))...I think I know you from somewhere :).
So, you did talk to a VC..is he from SV or from Arizona?
The article is very well-written and worth a read regardless of whether or not you are an anarchist [1], as the author appears to be. The naive advocacy for a society without a government monopoly on force at the end of the article falls flat, though. I don't see a convincing argument in there against the natural assumption that such a society would be ruled by gang violence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
Google Instant cannot be turned off..
I've disabled it in preferences probably at least 4 times now, last time being just yesterday. Today I go to search for something, and sure enough it's back again. Check preferences - it's back on. Is anyone else as incredibly annoyed by this as I am?
Isn't Blackberry the only company providing guaranteed messaging with latency caps? (Verizon might, as well) This was an issue for the operations team at a place where I worked. You couldn't use, say, T-Mobile because an SMS notification about a broken server might never arrive, or might arrive after an arbitrary delay.
Another interesting thing here is that Mozilla has just provided the blueprint for responses should other sites get this kind of request. Perhaps this could seed a project for "how to respond if it happens to you".
This seems to be a competition against pen and paper. Barrier to entry here is so low, and other alternatives like Google Docs or Evernote will probably blow this away. Is this a feature or a product? http://venturehacks.com/articles/feature-product
While an interesting article in its own right, it has nothing to do with node.js, except that this happens to be a criticism of the way V8 works, which node.js is built on. However, they may not be using things in the same way he is, or there could be mitigating circumstances which make it possible for node.js to pull this off. (I don't know anything about node.js internals, I just know this article isn't about it, as the title indicates.)

Edit: This was written when the title was "The author of Nginx on node.js and why V8 is not suitable for web servers". It's since been changed.
It sounds like more of the concern is that V8 is/was buggy & had some situations where performance would be compromised. I don't think it's a slam saying it could never be used.
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I had the same reaction to the N-word, fusion and fission are a bit too similar for the layman I think.
Thanks for the link, but I don't think I will use it, because I would like my money to directly support arts that I think need support. As long as the NEA is giving money to video game designers and radio shows, I don't feel compelled to assist them. (This isn't contradictory with my previously stated belief). I normally agree that things are better funded privately. I think that organizations like NPR should be funded by the people who use NPR (if there's not enough of them to make it sustainable, why should it stay around). The problem is that this logic falls apart with the arts (some of them) and science. It's hard to get private investors to front money for scientific research that has no guaranteed result and it's hard to get people to fund artists to produce works that they don't automatically benefit from (e.g. fine artists, playwrights, composers). While the symphony that plays a work shouldn't be subsidized by public money, it can be difficult for new composers to demonstrate their talent without support. MM for artists and playwrights. That is why I believe very firmly that one of the most fundamental services the federal government should administer is funding the sciences and arts (along with self-defense and welfare).
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I've only ever had a handful of connections where I'm on the same plane. More often, I have to haul my stuff halfway across the terminal (and the Availability heuristic* tells me that it's almost never the next gate over) to get on a different plane. Thus, if they never scan my boarding pass, they can be pretty sure my luggage isn't on the plane.

* Yes, I'm aware this is a cognitive bias. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic
Gang violence is just a microcosm of nation-states in conflict. Each gang has a monopoly on force within its own territory. One could argue that the monopoly of force is the only criteria necessary for something to be considered a 'government'.
I disagree with you, public art can be very entertaining and challenging and of extremely great value. The problem is that the NEA has attempted to become so all encompassing that it no longer has enough direction or focus to support those that deserve it. Tilted Arc by Richard Serra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_Arc) was derided for the very reason it was a success and unfortunately torn down, but as a work of art was phenomenal. More art of this caliber could be supported if the NEA got its act together.
I don't disagree, but to be fair about the time, there's at least an hour in the DC airport and at least half an hour in the Boston airport, and that's assuming there are no delays on either tarmac due to planes being in the way of your gate or your plane needing something inspected or replaced. So it's more like 2.5-3 hours vs. 7 hours. Still probably worth the flight, depending on how much you like driving, but I think most people think only about the actual flying time, rather than the total time spent dealing with the airport process.
It does, however, use the trick of being alliterative—which an N-gram analysis of terms will miss.
If you move to another job, you'll probably get at least a 10% salary bump, if not more. Salary jumps from 20-40% are not uncommon, and it's a big reason why people 'job hop' (man, I hate that label).
Indeed, and I said as much in my comment. If you agree that there needs to be a territorial monopoly on force, the only thing you may disagree with is the extent of such territory. The United States is clearly too big a territory, with too diverse a people, to be ruled by a single monopoly, I suppose. But we tried ending that, it was called the Civil War.
Not only is the translation of a surprisingly high quality, but reading the original in Russian is more awkward since a lot of the technical terms are originally English. I needed to read a particular portion 3 times before I realized it meant memory allocation.
That is true. And that basically tells us how stupid and ridiculous our security theater is. Someone planning to blow themselves up will supposedly save a couple of hundreds dollars in order to attract attention to themselves by buying a one-way ticket.
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it's a great write up and the context issue seems interesting, however it's from Feb 2010 according to the last paragraph and a lot has changed in V8 since
This is a bogus comparison. The difference between software engineering and other types of engineering is that for software, the detailed design is the implementation. For other engineering, several months or more of design and simulation occur these days before a single device/bridge/airplane is built. If you asked the engineers at the beginning exactly how many transistors this chip was going to use, or how many kgs of concrete/metal/etc., they wouldn't know the answer yet either.

I am going through and profiling code, analyzing memory requirements etc. before selecting new hardware. And then we prototype before finalizing the design. If that isn't engineering I don't know what is.
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btw, pdx: don't get too neurotic about "making" yourself sit straight. Stick in any one position for too long and you're going to get stiff and cause other problems (the nice thing about finding the right chair is it will keep you in a good position while letting you relax).

frossie is right about exercise too: staying limber and energetic is at least as important as the furniture.
Ah, I didn't mean to imply video games must have an aesthetic to be considered art (I said this because, and you do have to admit, the prevailing attitude for those who believe they are art is that they are of a supreme aesthetic). I'm not quite sure what you mean by high art. The NEA is in a unique position to fund people who will probably fail, that is people who are challenging the current popular forms. Popular art directions can more easily get private funding and don't need as much public support. I agree that video games can do this, but when you're associated with a multi-billion dollar industry and building a product that can be replicated and sold by the millions of copies, it's hard to justify why you need public support to develop it. I LOVE This American Life, but I completely disagree that it is art. It is tremendous journalism, which reaches millions of people. I donate every year to keep This American Life running and every listener should too, because they are receiving a great gift of passion and effort in every episode. However, there are more than enough listeners to support the program if they each paid for the service they receive. I do not believe they need public funding and if they did, the NEA is not the organization that should be providing it.
I agree; I always design my software with as many failsafes as possible. For example, I design my applications to crash safely. But, I also try to make sure they never crash.

Similarly, web application developers need to make sure that their app is 100% safe without hacks like mod_security. But after you do that, sure, turn on mod_security. People and processes can fail, and it's good to have as many failsafes as possible.

I object to things like mod_security because, in general, people write piece of shit apps and then think they are safe because the mod has the word "security" in it. That doesn't make you safe, that makes you ignorant.
As I'm sure others will point out, this article has less to do with node.js as it does with embedding v8 in Nginx. Although since node.js runs in v8, I suppose you could interpret it that way.
that or we have bad grammar sentences, sometimes.
This doesn't always run the same rc scripts (depending on the shell and local convention). I'm used to typing sudo su - (with optional username) to get the environment as close as possible to what it would be if I logged in as the target user.
It may cost more than $25 per computer to collect computers being recycled, evaluate them for suitability, clean them up, and install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on them.

Also, the size difference could be significant, as well as allow novel ways of using it. For instance, if the goal is to get this machine into areas outside cities were computers are more common, shipping costs could be significant if recycled desktops/laptops are used instead.

I can imagine that you can conduct a class where kids take these computers home, along with a school-supplied keyboard, for use with the TV set they have at home, to work on computer (programming) assignments. This would allow the school to avoid the cost of acquiring monitors.
So whenever I can get away with crime it's someone else's fault?

So you're the reason the lawyers don't let us do fun stuff in the US anymore!
How about some screenshots of what your app looks like? There could be very simple changes that you need to make to get it accepted.
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The obsession with minimalism at the expense of features is some kind of illness.

Simple to use is good. But making something simple to use by removing useful features is pretty dumb.
My wife has always wanted to move.... I'm along for the ride. It's a beautiful country and I'm very excited to move there. We have some money in savings so we could last a few years even if the economy is crappy.

I've approached lots of startups and nobody is really interested in remote employees. I'm starting to think I should try to approach big companies but that will probably be just as difficult to break into.

There do seem to be lots of local jobs in Barcelona and Madrid but I'd rather not wait a year to get a job.
It's great that you got a first pitch out of the way. Congratz to that!

First off, startups outside SV/SF get funded...don't get it twisted. But, boo-who'ing over the fact that you can't get face-to-face with someone connected isn't going to get you anywhere. So, you are doing it wrong. There may not be lots of events in your city, so go to them. Period. If you can't find a way to make it happen, you probably don't have what it takes anyway. When you get there, network the hell out of them. Pitch people on the spot (don't suck!) and have a working product demo with you.

Secondly, when an investor asks for a business plan, they probably aren't from the SF school of investment thought. And while you retort mentioning things you could do to show traction should have been more relevant to him than they were, you really shouldn't have been pitching without traction. It sounds like your project is consumer facing, users get some value, but don't pay (ie maybe geo/social/photo/blah blah). If that's the case, your product should have a small, but growing, core group of fanatic users, before smart money will pay you the time of day. Once you have that, go to angellist.

It doesn't matter where in the world you live...if you have a good product in a good market and traction, you'll get meetings (though it's still a numbers game).

Listen, it's supposed to be hard-otherwise, everyone would do it.
I actually just got off the phone with my dad who has had a BlackBerry for the last 10 years and just replaced his with an Android phone (Samsung something, I believe) last week. He said he finds it much easier to use and likes it more. It's well noted that brand preference is largely irrational and thus any amount of anecdotes means very little. What it does mean is that BlackBerry is likely to continue to decline in market share unless they revamp their OS to be more app friendly (and redo their app store to make it worthwhile), but they will probably never go away. My best guess would be that they act stubbornly (as large companies often do) and decline in market share for awhile before deciding to sell to a larger player.
I disagree. Where V8 can run is a core part of the deployment surface of node.js, so what server authors think about V8 and it's suitability for integration and deployment very much matter to node.js.

Remember, 'does rails scale'? :|
Haha, I thought your reply was talking about how the V8 engine worked(translating to machine specific code), instead of the language translator used on the blog post.
I though the same thing. I learned all the tech terms in English, so when I read "sborka musora" instead of "garbage collection" it somehow makes me smile.