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I know this is a tangent and that this story isn't about dependency management, but it's important to me and I've spent a good amount of time trying to understand it completely.

I spent what I thought to be a generous amount of time trying to wrap my head around Ivy and I just couldn't make it work the way I thought it should work. I use Maven, and while I'm not a Maven...er...maven, I can work with it well enough and I'm certainly adept with its dependency management mechanisms. Ivy just seems to have way too many moving pieces and their documentation always seems to be missing key pieces of information that link theory to example. I'm left with an incomplete understanding of how Ivy works and, as a result, I can't use it effectively.
That's a simplified test case. "Normally" Chrome would eat up 300+MB, which is a lot since I have _other_ applications running.
i agree with the quality needing some adjustment, there are waayyy to many osama links posted. its getting kinda annoying.
but in terms of the links. well, i was already against hiding the votes for comments, but, i feel like if the votes are hidden from links, i would have NO clue what to read or whats just junk
This discussion also strips out everything that complicates the agreements utilities have with MNOs to handle smart metering traffic. These boxes get deployed in massive huge waves, tens of thousands at a time, and require terms of service that are not typical for normal MNO customers.

It's simply not reasonable to compare the rates payed by a utility for always-on reliable backhaul from hundreds of thousands of meters to those payed by a single mobile phone customer for "download web pages" data service.
I've only tried contributing to OSS once. They had n00b-tagged tasks on pivotal tracker, the problem is they wouldn't give me the permissions to sign-up for that task. Instead they said to claim it on IRC. Except that two other people thought they were the only one doing the same task (because that's a really stupid way of doing it) and I just said "screw it"- it wasn't worth all the drama. I'd just rather just work my own stuff.
RS CloudServers is cheaper than Slicehost. I'm almost done of doing the migration myself because of costs and acces to CloudFiles, CDN, etc. Takes time but well worth it to me.
That may be, but they are claiming that $193k+ is the cost of what she took, which I doubt very much is the case.

If someone steals a fake piece of art from my house worth $80, can I turn around and claim that it was the original and therefore worth millions that should be repaid to me?
Francis Crick gives credit to LSD for helping him to unravel the double helix nature of DNA. Is that not real?
WHAT?

I hope you are one of few that thinks it's morally wrong to do something that is illegal.

Legality should reflect a subset of morality, not the other way around.

The idea that you are morally obligated to follow unjust laws is absurd. Especially in a country where the laws are so obviously controlled far more by corporate interest rather than genuine democratic consent.

I will continue smoking pot and any other drug I fancy and shaking my head in disbelief that anyone can believe marijuana in particular should be illegal.
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You're right. Although there isn't a way to remove it from the screen.
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What happens when one of your systems becomes buggy and starts using lots of data transfer? Oops!
Every time I feel like I've got a grasp on just how insecure things are on the Internet, it's like someone hits me over the head with slice of lemon, wrapped around a large gold brick.
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I guess someone could, but I think there wouldn't be much need for an app on how to make coffee, then there is for tea? Well if someone has a cool concept, send me a message, I could code it up!
> AND spend a month or more with no computer

Or have a desktop computer too.
No, you cannot claim that.

However, when a utility gets a bill from an MNO for $193k for services they contractually agreed to, and that bill is a result of a criminal action or a tort, it becomes easy to establish $193k as basis for damages in court.
The retweeted quote is so in keeping with Dr. King's beliefs it is no surprise that so many people would attribute it to him.

Except if you think about MLK's life you'd think "What the hell context would this have been in? Who is this dead 'enemy' who killed 'thousands'?"

The (fake) quote does come across to me as a bit too holier-than-thou. It's a form of cost-free conspicuous po-facedness to which you set your facebook status to mark yourself as being morally superior to the less sophisticated USA-USA chanting crowd. It doesn't sound like the kind of thing MLK would have said, because MLK wasn't all that into "Hey look I'm better than you" type announcements.

There's a scene in Return of the Jedi where the Super Star Destroyer crashes into the Death Star. Everybody else on the bridge cheers, but Admiral Ackbar looks sad and bows his head, acknowleding the awfulness of the loss of life even if they were evil enemies who were trying to kill everyone. The listed quote is propagated by Ackbar wannabees with a George Lucas level view of what being morally sophisticated looks like.
It won't be a problem if Chrome is the _only_ app that you run.

In my case, its not.
Not very much valuable comment but I found a typo at page 146. Second to last paragraph says: "First, ACO is builds some popsize candidate solutions all at once."

I very much appreciate placing this book online. It showed up on HackerNews right when I needed it!
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It's not always that simple. Sometimes a piece of software has only one instance, and you want to contribute to that particular instance and not the general one. For instance, you may use a particular website or web application, so you would like to improve it. But the people running that project are disorganized or not open other contributions, so you end up just saying "screw it."

If this is just software you have installed locally, that makes sense though.
I've noticed that the people who seem to think that comment quality has gone down are the same people who used to skim and only read the high-voted comments.

It seems like the people who used to read all of the comments regardless of vote, seem to think that comment quality has gone up.

It's possible that the former groups impression of comment quality might be attributable to the fact that they are now reading lower quality comments that were always there, but which they weren't exposed to given their reading style.
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Just out of curiousity, what's the salary of a personal assistant who can both keep your schedule, and set up an EC2 instance?
I wonder what these dates actually point to? When a company was founded could mean so many things.

The summer can be a great time to develop and plan. If you're raising funding, from what I hear, the worst times are July-August and Dec. People take holidays, etc and you want to be timed for that.

But that doesn't mean you're not working? Build your product, get test users, etc. etc. Now is always the best time.
I don't understand your argument, because you've buried it under multiple layers of emotional appeal. Instead of passing judgement on the commenters on this thread, I think you'd be more persuasive if you started by composing a sharp argument for how the judgement here was "technically clueless". You should be prepared for people to rebut that argument.
> I have sold my previous phone on ebay for at least $100 MORE than the subsidized cost of my new one.

Are you paying the full price of the phone when you bought it? Or your cell plan paying part of it (subsidized)? In the later case, the sold phone is still being paid until the cell plan finishes.
While I agree with your sentiment, we aren't talking about an MNO's business-to-consumer billing relationship; we're talking about the vastly-more-complicated relationship the MNO has with an electrical utility.

By way of comparison, if I accidentally spin up 4x as many EC2 large instances as I needed, I don't believe Amazon has a system to send me a message saying "you are doing something dumb, stop it".
A friend of mine freaked out after taking LSD for a while. She is fine now (it happened twenty years ago), but she was really scared - especially as there can be flashbacks, so you can not just opt out of not experiencing trips anymore.
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Until they get bought too :(
Seems to work for me, and problem is not visible on google apps status page: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en
Only because it turns some experienced buyers off. And your dream buyer is an experienced buyer.

A reserve means the seller can bail at any point up until that reserve is met.

Imagine that you're selling a laptop that's going for around $800 in other auctions. But you're not entirely sure you even want to sell your laptop. You put a $2,000 reserve on it just to leave the option to bail available at the end. An experienced buyer realizes this and will likely just pass on your item out of principle.

If it would make you feel better to place a reserve on your item, at least state right up front what your reserve price is and why you've placed it in the first place.

In my experience, however, I've never once been low-balled on an auction. There's a median price for your item in it's condition across the entire marketplace. If you're OK with that median price, don't post a reserve.

Spell your brand and product name correctly and you're virtually guaranteed to get close to that price in the end.
I use Dropbox to store my media (photos, videos, and music). I love it. Each time I have a new laptop, I know that all my media will be intact, and I don't need to invest any time to migrate it.

Media storage is, I believe, a common Dropbox use case. And Dropbox's transparent uploads, which seem to automatically detect and throttle when I am using bandwidth, are a great feature that I haven't seen in any open-source competitor.
I read it as a clever portmanteau of NoSQL and SQLite. As SQLite is to full-blown SQL systems, NoSQLite would be to full-blown NoSQL systems.
I wish the Khan Academy and everybody who is working for this awesome idea and good cause all the best. It is these people that make me feel so proud of mankind.

Getting the chance to work on such a project makes money and career fade far into the background. All the Good this project is doing for the world makes it worth it. And all without the need to charge for the service or display ads.

Congrats John on this excellent choice for a chance to make a change.
Actually, this is not true (at least in the US... not sure how it translates to other common law countries). Your mistake about the facts doesn't excuse you if you still knew you were committing a crime. (I'm having a hard time finding a concise source, but try googling "strict liability for grading").

As for murder, the penalties there do differ depending on your state of mind, but that's not an issue of mistake (you can't try to third-degree murder someone but mistakenly first-degree murder them).

Not to say I agree with the punishment in this case, though.
Now I remember that actually a friend working in the French submarine industry talked me about this. I don't know if I've got any other source.
If I had a contract with a company that charged $193K to replace said $80 artwork - should I then be able to claim $193K damages?
I agree with you. But the conception of following the law is not a popular one in online culture.

oh, to put it another way:

geeks align hard towards chaotic good.
Switched to it and the animations really look smoother now. Sweet release, can't wait for 1.6.1!
Try openhatch.org. It's a startup with the intent to make contributing to open source easier for newbies.
Or you'll end up being shat on, from a great height, from people whose credentials largely involve "being there first."

(Not all open source projects are like that, fortunately, but running into one or two can sour your view on the whole process.)
Maybe, but it's a nice overview of a lot of stuff, spanning a long period of time, and it is better - IMO - than telling somebody "go read primary sources for all Western philosophy developed since the Greeks." I suppose one could recommend Frederick Copleston's A History of Philosophy, but it's difficult due to all the untranslated quotes from primary sources. (Well, unless you happen to read Latin, German, Greek, and whatever else.) It's also 9 volumes long, which is quite an undertaking.
Now it works for me also. It was some glitch which has continued also with saving files later.
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No, because that scenario isn't any different from the original scenario proposed.

The utility is in this case contractually obligated to pay those fees. The basis for damages here is straightforward.
They're also forcing (at least) an IP address change on those of us in the STL datacenters, from what I've seen on the forum.

For me, this isn't a huge problem. But, if I was running a email-based service, or managed VPN connections to/from clients from my slices, I'd be seething.
Same here. What if the buyers complains that something is broken in the MacBook? I tend to pass my old computers on to family and friends...
Agreed. Mozilla may have helped change the browser landscape, but the Khan Academy could change the face of education in this country. Both worthy places to pour one's energy but I'd give the edge in excitement to KA.
The two big systems I architected where I made the decision to go with ORM's were the online EA Sports system (all EA Sports games on all platforms, currently running in a 7 node Oracle cluster), and most recently, the Need For Speed World Online system. We launched the EA Sports system with Madden, and went from 50 to 11 million users hitting the DB in less than an hour. Then we rolled out the other EA Sports games. Needless to say, both systems were slightly bigger than a simple blogging site.

In both cases, we had a large number of smart developers who we empowered with the use of an ORM; they understood the domain model, and they didn't have to worry about waiting for a "DB type" to write stored procedures, or develop a data model, etc. As a matter of fact, in both cases, I was the only DBA on the project, and it was a predominately part-time role. We'd meet, ensure we were all on the same page with the object/data model, and then they'd go and build it. The developers were able to immediately build and run and test and integrate something that was functional and operational, when they needed it. This was HUGE, and something that most people don't properly appreciate. Timelines were already insane enough as it was, the last thing we needed to do was artificially constrain ourselves by waiting for other (db) devs before work could go on. Especially when requirements had the potential to change from one day to the next.

In both situations, we took advantage of very, very sophisticated testing procedures that would happen nightly, both functional and stress/load, and it pointed us at the bottlenecks of each nightly build that would require tuning and investigation. We intentionally set up our testing to be able to monitor and test the effectiveness of the ORM, and to point it out when it didn't work efficiently. The devs would do the majority of the heavy lifting with the initial data model, and the results would be tested, reviewed, and then modified if required. The performance modifications were not a lot of effort to fix, either. Usually it was a very slight data model change, or using a named query to take advantage of a database-specific features. And CLOBS. Every database seems to handle them differently, so we had to hack some solutions.

Having done large scale database development for almost 25 years, using the classic stored procedure approach and the ORM approach, I'll say again that ORM's are a great solution for certain projects with the right staff, and aren't a crutch or some lazy choice if used properly.
"He tweeted it to his 1.6 million Facebook followers, and the rest was internet history."

When your name becomes a verb that can be applied to your competitors' products, is it good, or is it bad?
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I have used also used their docs as well, while never having actually been a customer. Some of the best generalised VPS admin resources for newcomers out there, it'd be tragic if it went.
> any time you write "sql" in a non-sql language like python or ruby you are letting go of any ability to optimize your queries.

No you're not. Look at ActiveRecord, it lets you drop to any level of SQL optimization you need. In ActiveRecord 3 with ARel queries are composable, allowing lazy loading and the breaking of queries into appropriate locations according to your code architecture.

I can't speak to other ORMs, maybe they really are as bad as your opinion would indicate, but I suspect what you're really complaining about people who don't know how SQL works being enabled to write horrible data persistence code by ORMs with a pretty facade. That's a legitimate problem, but the fact that a tool can be abused is not an argument against the tool itself. We'll never build anything great if we are driven primarily by what the ignorant will do with it, after all, every single person on the planet is ignorant of most things, our tool development should be driven by what they enable experts to do.
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Don't contribute to open source for the sake of contributing, contribute because you are excited about something.

Implement this feature you always wanted to have, fix this bug which has been annoying for who knows how long and you will be motivated and excited which is pretty much a prerequisite.

Also if you want to contribute to a project get to know the community around it, find out who is responsible for what and use this knowledge to talk directly to the people who are working on the stuff you are interested in.

If you want to be in for the long run, no amount of posting tickets to the mailing list will make you a member of the community. A discussion in the development IRC channel, no matter if it's about the latest piece of tech, Portal 2 which just came out or our all time favorite the best editor, will teach you more about the community in a couple of minutes than any amount of posting tickets to the bug tracker will.

Despite the stereotype of the autistic geek this sort of socializing is an important part of any project with a healthy community, if you want to contribute to open source you should be aware of that.
As long as we are trying to determine causes of people's success, we should consider their location in time.

Imagine if Erdos had been around before Euler? Who's to say that he wouldn't have discovered some or more of what Euler discovered. The earlier discoveries were the easier one, the low-hanging fruit.

If I went back in time it would be easier for me to make some ground breaking discovery, like pythagoras theorem. But today, I need to be smarter and more clever than centuries of mathematicians to add something new to our collective knowledge of the universe. All of the easy problems are solved :(
You think it is immoral to do anything illegal? Any action that is not yielding completely to authority (unless in the context of very public "courageous" civil disobedience) is just plain wrong? Even if your actions don't harm anyone else? I can't really agree with that ethos because you're outsourcing your own moral compass to lawmakers. By your logic, having gay sex is immoral in jurisdictions where sodomy is criminalized.

I definitely reject the notion that drug users are solely responsible for the high cost of enforcement when you look at the obscene and disproportionate amount of resources that are poured into the "War on Drugs." What has it ever truly accomplished? It's a failed policy. Yes we should change it, but society shares some of the blame with drug users for criminalizing something as harmless as pot use in the first place!
It would have cost them far less if they had the foresight to consider the chances of it happening, or at least try and arrange it with Telstra, who's more than capable of doing so in a way that would mitigate abuse from the service?
Here's an old (2005) video of Kevin Rose building and demonstrating a handheld "war spying" device to sniff wireless security cameras. http://revision3.com/systm/warspyingbox/ Some vulnerabilities are just a lot of fun to exploit :)
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This is an open question about the best way to approach startups I'd like to be part of and also what I can reasonably expect in salary/perks etc

With any young company the risks are higher. I'd love to be an investor and spread that risk over 5, 10, 15 or more smaller investments but as an early employee I have to go all-in.

As a result I want to mitigate some of that risk by letting actual investors do some of the risk assessment. Who and how much the startup has raised should be a good indication. Of course the down side is that there's probably less stock options left over if the round is big and the investors well known.

What I'd like to know is what sort of salary/stock options/perks should I expect/ask for in early stage companies? What is a fair and reasonable amount? I don't take asking for that lightly so it would be great to hear from any companies that have been in this position. What did you offer your first hires? Did they ask for it or did you offer it?

I understand it's a hard one to answer as there's a different value for every startup, but to help value my side of the equation I made a little info page about me

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(p.s yes I'm looking :)
Having contributed to a number of open source projects in the past, I definitely feel the pain. In order to help people get up to speed with SproutCore, we just released a four-part screencast and guide for contributing to the various parts of the framework.

http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/5166266734/dispatch-from-the...
I think one of the reasons I have never considered using Dropbox for media storage is that, given three teenage daughters, I don't think I could afford a big enough Dropbox account to store all of the media we consume and generate.

Also, one of my favorite applications of Dropbox is having all of our important documents in one central location (whether this is a wise move or not... ). This makes accessing documents on the fly from my iPhone a breeze. Having media files in there as well, would, I think destroy my antique iPhone 3G!

You are right on the money about the background uploading though.
The love and empathy part is just what allows you to fix your relationship, it's not actually what fixes it.

This is akin to taking meds to suppress panic attacks in order to undergo therapy to truly circumvent the panic/agoraphobia loop. The drug is a tool; it can't relieve you of the responsibility to do the work yourself (no matter what lazy people may want to believe).
Now we'll finally know which browser Osama used (I'm betting it's Comodo Dragon).