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> (or businesses)

I'm surprised by how many businesses (even small ones) don't run their own mail server, or at least have a proper outsourcing arrangement rather than just using a public service. We run our own (well, I run our own...) because we work with banks and all contracts we sign with them have clauses regarding where information from them gets stored and who could possibly have access to it - this is to protect their data in instances where we might be sent (intentionally or otherwise) information about some of their employees or customers. I'm guessing a great many businesses work with clients who have similar concerns so those clauses will be present in contracts that have signed too, so using a "public" service like gmail or hotmail just isn't compatible with them - we can't make any demands to Google about who can access what on their servers or audit them.

No business should use a public service like that and leave the mail on it. This isn't a dig at the public services like gmail, as they provide a valuable resource for those the resource is not wrong for, but they can not provide the accountability I would expect to be able to provide my clients as a business. Businesses should (IMO, and in order of preference) run their own server, use a service that has some contractually enforced security guarantee, or pull down the mail to local systems rather then leaving it on a public server - otherwise they can have no hope at all of controlling who can access their (potentially confidential and sensitive) mail.

Aside from the data security issue there are other potential problems that should be concerned about. If a public services goes down there is nothing you can do to help a fast recovery and you will not be their priority: your services will be available again when it is available again. Also you need to implement a good backup system no matter what you chose - you should not (as many people do) rely on a single service for both your live mail handling and backups.

The $20/month is nothing to a business (or should be), but you are right in that a mail server should never be considered a set-and-forget system so there will be technical resource cost involved with running a mail server and dealing with possible issues like "friendly fire blacklisting" so a reputable outsourcing arrangement would be more cost-/manpower- effective for many small businesses.

FYI: we currently use Zimbra's "community edition", though at some point I'd like to convince the powers that be that using the paid edition would be worth it for the support (there has never been an issue I can't resolve, and there is never likely to be, but I'm not here 24/7 and don't have someone with the right skills to delegate the job to when I'm not around). It is more resource hungry than Postfix+Dovecot+RoundCube though so needs significantly more the linode's $20 VM product to be usable, but I recommend people give it a try as its single install removes the need for you to perform any integration work putting a stack together and the feature set aside from email is no unattractive either.
Check out some of Gary Bernhardt's videos (also a play by play on Peepcode).

I stole a whole lot of things from his VIM setup (red/green bar for test runs in VIM just rocks).
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This. is wrong. One should be able to commit every little meaningful change he has made, with a equally meaningful commit message. If you wait until everything works you'll end with huge meaningless conflicting commits. Of course it is quite annoying if you use a centralized SCM since everything you commit becomes public. Well this is actually why you should not use centralized SCM.
With modern technologies this is definitely a no-no.

With DVCS you can create your own branch and push it to other systems super easily, so there's little excuse for checking in broken code to a shared branch. Also, with a lot of newer VCSes there's often a feature to "shelve" a changeset to a central DB without committing it.

Not to mention that breaking the build for more than a few minutes raises some serious red flags about the way you're working.
Wouldn't UTF-8 without a BOM look identical to ASCII for the "normal" characters?
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The Galaxy S goes beyond tethering and has a Mobile AP feature which just turns the phone into a wifi access point that runs NAT in front of the 3g modem.

People I know who still have 'unlimited' data plans have used this for weeks to provide internet to their whole household in the absence of working cable.

I assume this feature is removed in the US carrier-modified firmware builds?
I looked through my library and found a couple more that are really great for accelerated learning.

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I think what he is trying to say is that you should get designers who aren't tied down into a niche part of design, as this would often indicate that they aren't really designers but merely people who use photoshop and happen to make their money doing Wordpress design or Shopify design etc.

What I think he is missing and why I think he is basically giving bad advice is that sometimes you have to label yourself in such a way that you minimize friction from a getting hired point of view.

Many clients believe that there is a difference between a good Wordpress designer and a good iPhone designer, but obviously the truth is that if they are anything worth they don't care what they have to design for.

Design is not simply how it looks but as much how it works.
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Tuxebo (YCS09) is innovating in the rental space, and we're looking for a talented software engineer to join the team. Equity is available as well as a salary (dependent on experience). We are based in London so you would need to live in London already or move here.

Tuxebo is a marketplace and booking system for renting things. Currently focused on construction rental, the aim is to be a one stop shop for all things rental; luxury cars, wedding rentals, jewellery, clothes, books, private jets, mobile homes, etc. Renting is a necessary service, financing option and lifestyle choice, making our market a very big, diverse and interesting place.

The company is generating significant revenue, is profitable and growing rapidly. Yet Tuxebo has a very, very long way to go before even resembling it's aim. This is a unique opportunity to work with some very, very smart, fun, entrepreneurial and passionate people and to get a part of a rapidly developing startup in a huge market.

As the 4th member of the team, you will be fundamental to the company and the development of the product, working alongside experienced web entrepreneurs in taking Tuxebo from simple web app, with just a few verticals, to a huge marketplace covering everything rental in multiple countries.

The ideal candidate has a thirst to learn new skills and technologies and can pick things up easily. We hope you are full of positive energy, relish the thought of being part of a small, fast-moving team and enjoy brainstorming about new ideas.

You must have:

* Good working knowledge of Python, HTML/CSS and Javascript (jQuery).

* Experience with some relational database, e.g. MySQL/PostgreSQL

* Experience with Linux systems administration

Nice to have:

* Familiarity with Pylons, SQLAlchemy

We're more interested in your raw talent than we are your experience.

Send your CV with some examples of your work to colin (at) tuxebo.com.
door hinge. Will make for strange reading as a rhyme.
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The errant 'h' is almost certainly not a reference to the Planck Constant; much more likely it's a mistake for an open paren as the author mentions.

You have to wonder why the crop-circle artist didn't use the same number of ascii characters to make the much more clear message:

01100101
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00101000
01101001
00101010
01110000
01101001
00101001
00101011
00110001
00111101
00110000
Welcome to Germany, where this is already the case..
It's not your fault. It's just the difference between the culture in which dining is an important experience and the culture where dining is merely a chore.
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It's still there in the Sprint version (Epic 4G), but you have to pay Sprint for the privilege. Alternatively, there are various 3rd-party firmwares which provide Wifi tethering for free.

Ultimately these actions may drive free tethering a bit out of the mainstream, but no serious user is going to be deterred by removal from the Android market.
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No I was definitely thinking of the PlayStation. The first playstation during the 90s was often found in nightclubs and places you would never previously have seen a console. They made it look cool to ordinary people.

The playstation 2 is still the most successful console with 150million units sold ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_conso... ). I'd say to get figures like that you need to have had mainstream success.

I can't speak for all of their products, I only have a couple, but I've never had a reason to complain.

I'm not apologising for them, they really have screwed up with this security thing, but I think it's disingenuous to claim they've only made crap for the past 20 years when there are some very obvious exceptions.
> Any thoughts on why JPEG hasn't already been enhanced to near its maximum potential in reaction to competition

I don't know. I guess it was because of computational power — 10 years ago you had to do more speed/quality trade-offs.

Nowdays libjpeg is very very old, but it also means it's proven to be stable and secure. This coupled with opinion that JPEG is good enough may lead to "don't fix what's not broken" conclusion.

Also, perhaps codec developers want to do something more glorious than making existing simple algorithm way more complicated and orders of magnitude slower for 10% improvement?

> those wanting to enhance JPEG for web use need to agree on some benchmarks/metrics to use

Codec developers have worked it out - PSNR is weak, SSIM is decent, and only large-scale human tests are definitive, but they're expensive.
You are talking about prosperity not the food culture. Yes most Indians still may have hard time making their ends meet but launch and dinner are an important element of Indian culture. Launch time and dinner time are important parts of your daily schedule even if your day job is to plough your own fields.
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As a commenter on the article has already asked, it'd be nice to have an explanation on how the sentiment is actually determined.
Thanks for sharing this Chad. It means a lot to me, for someone who is just getting into startup life with wife and kid to support, giving up a well-paid 'secure' day job.

An inspiring poem shared by my friend. Was read out by Winston Churchill at the beginning of Second World War.

-----------------------------------------

SAY not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for you, possess the field.

For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.

And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!

----------------------------

Here is the paraphrase shared by the friend:

Don’t say that the long struggle [against tyranny and injustice] is of no avail;
don’t say that all your efforts, and all the injuries you’ve sustained, were in vain.
Don’t say that the enemy’s just as strong as ever;
and don’t say that nothing’s changed for the better!

If the things you hoped for haven’t happened, well, maybe the things you’re scared of won’t happen either.
Perhaps over there on the battlefield, now obscured by smoke,
your comrades are chasing the enemy away,
and all they need to ensure victory is that you go and join them.

Look! Those waves don’t seem to be making much headway,
even though the tide’s supposedly coming in.
But far behind you, unseen creeks and inlets are swelling with incoming waters:
the sea really is on the move after all!

Look! The eastern window you’re sitting at
isn’t the only place affected by sunrise;
from there, yes, it’s true, the sun hardly seems to moving up the sky at all—
but cross the room and look through a westward-facing casement: see how the whole landscape’s already flooded with light!

Clough had just personally witnessed how Garibaldi's brave attempt to help preserve a new Roman Republic had been foiled when the forces of reaction (led, ironically enough, by the French) had successfully brought the Siege of Rome to an end in 1848. He was trying to cheer up fellow-supporters of reform and of independence for Italy. They were all feeling pretty downhearted. That's the historical context.
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My Desire HD does that as well, as do most (all?) other Android mobiles I've seen in Greece.

However, we don't have unlimited data plans, we only have ones that cost 0.10 cents (yes, cents, apparently) per megabyte for overage.
Perhaps that works for some people, but others (like myself) still differ. To each their own. :)
This story is encouraging! I'm soon to graduate college and am figuring out what exactly I want to do next. One of the options is to work part time on my startup, next to another part time job or freelancing. It's a lot easier when you have savings to make such a leap, then again, I live lean and live cheap.
We can only use the information that the CAs give us, which is the serial number of the certificate. So we match the serial number and issuer.
> (so they could empathize but not really affect change)

In a rare reverse-typo, I think you actually mean "effect" there.
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I'll be writing this up in more detail soon, but the sentiment is basically derived through the ANEW dataset. This dataset scores a few thousand English words with sentiment values from 1 (very unhappy) to 9 (very happy). I find the sentiment value for each word in a tweet and then average that value by the amount of words in a tweet to get the sentiment value for each tweet.
Perhaps a pithier wording of this is "Regret the things you did do, not the things you didn't do."
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Processed food is expensive in India. I had to shell out $6 for a small can of salsa dip.

Vegetables and fruits are cheaper in India than most western countries, but of much inferior quality,
I will grant you that people are doing interesting things in languages other than lisp, and in that in many of those situations, when the results are interesting, you see lispers smugly replicating those systems and saying, "That was easy; we could've done that." But they didn't.

That said, I think the various lisps out there have plenty of user—and by that I mean programmer—success stories. My favorite right now is Cascalog. It's an amazing, life changing tool for anyone who needs to analyze data sets using Hadoop. It makes something that would otherwise be too difficult (given the time I have) to even try to do into something that is fun. Nathan Marz, Cascalog's author, should be considered for a MacArthur genius grant.

Cascalog, incidentally, would not be nearly so amazing if not for the relatively few macros that tie everything together.
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And this is is why it makes sense to buy a car designed by someone with experience designing wedding dresses.

Oh, wait - perhaps knowledge of the medium and its constraints is important on occasion.
"The next night, Friday, October 19, 2007 at 10:24pm" Was there a time-machine involved overnight or is it supposed to be 2008?
You don't have to "learn the hard way" any more. Just watch nearly 4 hours of video and you'll easily be able to master Wordpress, in fact I assure you you'll be amazed at what you will be able to do in under 4 hours from now.

And this is what they want us to pay $47 for... Nice scam.
This should be a blog post so it can be linked to, every interviewer ought to read it.
It's more complicated than simply psnr vs ssim though.

You need a large corpus of representative images (including typical PNG logos or other non-photographic sources would apparently favor WebP over JPEG). You need to decide target bitrates or quality levels to focus on since JPEG (at least with current code) falls apart at the low end and loses out on the high end. You need a specific implementation of ssim (or whatever, perhaps multiple measures) that anyone can run, and agree on the results of. A way to auto-generate pretty pictures summarizing results would be good too, and so on.

Basically, it's a project in itself. But perhaps like tuning JPEG, it's too boring for people to get motivated to do it and we'll end up with underutilised next generation tech, replacing older, but equally underutilised tech that could have been tuned to the same level without ditching the associated infrastructure (which seems wasteful), or we'll repeat JPEG-2000 and JPEG-XR and only get limited uptake of the new stuff and just struggle on with the old'n'busted tech as it stands now.

On the other hand it seems like this wheel gets re-invented badly every time someone writes a paper comparing codecs or tries to tune their own image codec. You'd think someone would make a start on a proper repeatable process or toolkit for building such a thing.
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I'm not sure, but if they hold medical records, perhaps they should be HIPAA compliant. I'm not sure if this is a restriction to the website or to the medical care providers.

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_an...

Discussion about HIPAA compliant: (With more discussion in the parent thread.) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347693
Or "I don't regret the things I've done, but those I did not do." - Lucas, Empire Records
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I'll be honest. When I first read this post nearly three years ago, I barely knew what Git was, the stock market was crashing hard every day, hundreds of thousands were being laid off, and turning down that offer seemed pretty foolish. Now I can't live without GitHub.
I believe the story I linked from the AP has the most info that's out now. The President still hasn't authorized releasing the photos of the body yet either, so there is still more info to come.
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I've seen this before, but never found a suitable alternative. Where does it belong? Suppose multiple developers are compiling a C++ .dll which testers are grabbing through websvn and testing. To track down crashes they get, we need the associated .pdb for the right revision. Where should these files be kept? In a plain folder where each revision gets its own subfolder named as the revision number? That means updating two separate locations with each build, using two different interfaces...
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I've had fairly heated arguments about this in the past and I'm curious to know if anyone else holds the same opinion: I contend that a normalize function is a really bad place to put an assert. Chances are the normalize will be called frequently and the assert check, in debug mode, will have an impact on performance (this goes for assert checks inside other frequently called functions too). The cumulative effect is a debug build that becomes unusably slow relative to the optimized build without the asserts, which rather defeats the purpose of having it in the first place: if you can't use it to find problems, then what's the point? (I'm remembering this being the case more often than not when working on games for the Xbox 360 or PS3).
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why the scare quotes around "law"? it's a universal enough facet of human psychology that the word seems perfectly applicable.
Also - forget technical religion.

Hah! When I interviewed at Google, I turned down the invite to the next round because it felt more like a cult than an engineering organization.

if Google stopped paying me tomorrow, I'd still come to work

Exactly.
is there a source for the claim?