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> ... non-essential components of our codebase ... to build lower priority features that our core team doesn't have time to get to." [emphasis added]

Sounds like they've already got their most valuable assets, the employees, where they need them the most (presumably on core product). Using contractors to fill the lower priority gaps doesn't seem so bad in that context.

However, I could see it becoming an issue if something that was previously considered non-core suddenly turned out to be critical (e.g after changing direction based on customer/market feedback)
Presumably the same things that makes an area attractive to artist and hipsters makes it attractive to start-ups: Cheap spaces to work and live. At least if you are bootstrapping, that is a big deal.
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At the moment, I'm aiming at affiliate sales. I'm open to other solutions though :)
I imagine that the hydrogen peroxide wasn't the off-the-shelf stuff seeing as he was intending to make rocket fuel from it. The off-the-shelf disinfectant is extremely weak. Concentrations of like 0.001%.

edit: in response to the downvotes, I don't agree with his treatment. I'm just stating my thought that it probably wasn't the same as the bottle of hydrogen peroxide that you have in your medicine cabinet.
Damn, that page (bellard.org) is full of awesomeness... Pardon for my ignorance, but who is this guy?
As stupid as the comments are, I wonder how many of them are law enforcement (or government) officials... (i.e. psyops)
Who is this for?
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You don't need a service like that; just like you don't need 750 words to write three pages a day; and you don't need facebook to stay in contact with your friends.

This isn't about need - most little one off ideas like this aren't about that. First, it's about encouraging the idea (keep the hand moving/practice a kata) via a nice, simple online tool. Second, it's a central, online service - ala google docs, drop box, etc where you could, every day, just upload a snippet of code you toyed with.

So; no - you and I don't need an online service to do this. No one does. No one needs an online calendar or online service that hosts a private journal. This is more about the idea and encouraging that idea and practice than making a profitable service millions flock to.

Make a nice little tool to share the idea, and a service that encourages the idea. Sure, someone might code the thing they want to make (e.g. the app/service itself) but if the original idea helped spur them to do so, then I've happily succeeded in planting the idea in someone's head, and hopefully they will also do so in turn.
The problem not just in Canada but in many places elsewhere is that advocates for digital rights havn't been proactive enough in lobbying for laws which protect people's digital information. Over the previous five years or so digital rights advocates have been continually on the back foot, reacting to and bemoaning bad legislation.
I hope this doesn't happen. The negative impact of social networking doesn't need to happen to people any sooner than it already does in their lives. Especially in the developmental years where kids are just learning to socialize.
This blog has to be the poster child for Readability.

https://www.readability.com/articles/c4xdmodo
So does Java :)

But seriously, I don't think Spotify could be the great app it is if it were a flash app. Can you imagine yourself running a tab in your browser with an app like Spotify inside and your fans running full-speed on?
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I mostly keep up with my stream as a part of my wake up ritual, but Twitter does have problems. One important question, however, is how much room Twitter gives you to change things. There was a mention a few days ago saying Twitter has rules about what you can do.

Two obvious changes I'd like to see?

1. The ability to search my own history and that of my friends for when I want to find a link someone posted a week ago about whatever.

2. A better way to view conversations. Maybe vertical, going down as the conversation progresses, with new branches coming in as new people contribute. All I know now is when a flurry begins, making sense of it in one timeline (with broken reply links from shoddy and experimental clients) and not necessarily following everyone in the convo to begin with, is a pain.
I would probably start here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22berlin%20user%20group%22

and:
http://lanyrd.com/places/2345496/
Why not for men too?
There are basically 2 type of common UUIDs : 1 and 4.

UUID1 is generated from mac address of the machine + timestamp + random bits and UUID4 is completely random. Sometimes you'd want one sometimes the other.

You can try these in python as:

>>> import uuid
>>> uuid.uuid1()
>>> uuid.uuid4()
He doesn't insist that they need to describe a sharp splitting of worlds. It is simply a fact that they do. And in so doing they are mistaken.
Or one could simply use a ready made blog-platform like Wordpress which supports a majority of the features listed
and maybe modify it a little

> Allow signup/signin

Check.

> Allow public sharing of journals/non public

Private and public posts.

> Allow submitted “ideas”

Use comments for getting those.

>Make it look decent

Thousands of free and premium themes available.
What is the Berlin type?
Just like any luxury good, they'll restrict the supply while keeping the price high. Simply because many people don't even consider Prada shoes as an option hasn't made them any cheaper.
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I haven't read Everett so I can't speak on his behalf, but Everett's adherents definitely speak of sharp splitting of classical universes. David Deutsch for example argues unambiguously in favor of many-classical-worlds. So whether or not this is what Everett intended, that is the worldview he has fathered. And it is demonstrably wrong.
This idea is called "hierarchical tagging". Searching for that phrase in google should get you some links to other people who've discussed and implemented it.
The friend has to be a real hustler, great in communication, specially written, should have a knack for closing deals and is willing to help in documentation and testing.
From where I sit, I think that he has done no wrong (at least according to the article).

I don't know that it is wise to purposely antagonize the government, but it doesn't read like he was attempting to induce sedition.
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I am planning on expanding to men and kids later on. I just thought I'd keep it simple by targeting one section to begin with.
Or they could use posterous, livejournal, blogger - or an internal text file. There's a million things that could do it, the idea is to make one tailored for it and tailored to the idea. Sometimes a custom built system can beat a generalized system made to "sorta do it".
Tagsistant is not supposed to replace posix filesystems and can't be used in system directories like /bin or /etc.

Tagsistant is a personal tool to organize files (and directories, starting with version 0.4).

It provides a plugin architecture to allow autotagging.
From speaking to someone on the board of a major UK uni, the funding provided is something like 11k, if I recall correctly. He added that if the uni opts for the 9k fees then the overall funding provided by the government in advance would jump up to 14k (presenting a cash flow problem for the government in the short term).
Without a theme of some sort, how do they ensure that the sites are really thought of and built over that 24 hour period?
Dunno, this article really hit home to me. This past year has been the first time I've been involved in a relationship that's gotten to the transactive memory phase, and that's kind of scary. On the one hand it frees up cognitive cycles to let you do things you never could have done otherwise, but on the other hand there are chunks of your life that are disappearing. (If I remember correctly, this is theorized to be one of the reasons why men are more likely to commit suicide after a breakup.)

I guess that's the way it's always like with our parents, but somehow it feels different with a significant other.
Yeah... it reads like some sort of apology for fascism and "Let's All Think Mainstream".
First, you should test on an unloaded domU, not anything in EC2;

- EC2 will dynamically adjust your CPU share as you try and use it, so you will _not_ get consistent results over any short period.
- EC2 is subject to other people's loads, which may be IO, CPU or network bound.

Going from there:
- Xen is slower any time you need dom0/domU coordination - it wouldn't surprise me to learn that there's some sort of coordination happening in accept() to tag the session through the upper dom0 firewalls.
- You don't describe what your backlog is on the listening socket, but you should make sure you're accepting as many as you can during your CPU share on EC2 -- your slice _will_ be interrupted at inopportune times.

Finally, EC2 is _lousy_ performance-wise, especially w/r/t disk IO - it doesn't sound like it, but if you're logging to disk after accept(), this could be the killer.

Tangentially -- you _might_ get better accept() performance if you turn ON syncookies, as then the handshake occurs basically at the kernel, and the accept() is only relevant _after_ the handshake is done. It's a bit hacky, but with _large_ numbers of connections, it can improve your performance a bit.
what's the end goal here? The article notes that one of the sites re1ease.net simply registered another domain name re1ease.net.in ... So they're still up and running.

In the future are these sites going to be accessed via static ip?
I agree with the thrust of your post, but not with:

Occams Razor is not a statement about the world. It is a tool for thinking.

In a world where everything is best fitted by a fifth-order polynomial, scientists who encounter a seemingly linear relationship will think "Oh, what a coincidence. I bet that if we had better observations, those higher coefficients wouldn't be exactly 0." [1]

We live in a world that has:

- Very simple fundamental rules

- A ton of emergent complexity arising from those rules

That's why Occam's razor has a good track-record. Because the world is reducible to simpler laws.

[1] Similarly, Occam's razor does not hold in worlds where gods intervene, because every "coincidence" can have epic, Iliad-sized explanations in terms of Zeus getting mad at breakfast.
We can also take advantage of computers to help us to be able to actively recall things, using spaced repetition systems. These are an attempt to make long-term memorization as efficient as possible.
My guess is Byron Sonne's jailing was meant to send a message to dissident geeks. I would also guess that the fact he wasn't released until after the federal election isn't a co-incidence.

It's disappointing that there isn't more outrage at this, the G20 mass arrests (which are the largest in Canada's history), and the fabrication of the "secret fence law".
Despite the misleading title, Watson is not going to medical school. He's being fed medical information for 2 years to train him.
Hm... I hadn't considered that. Touché.
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"The British elite will judge you not only by your university but by your high school."

I've never seen people judging based on high school in the UK. Who, exactly, is doing this?
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I'm in the same position, and asking the same question :D I have a free summer, nothing to do, no money, and i can't be bothered to find a non-programming job.
It wouldn't work because the processes of coding and writing are different. In writing, yes, "keeping the hand moving" is important. If you're stuck, a good way to get unstuck is to just keep writing, and wait for your subconscious to hit upon something that your conscious mind can use as a seed to craft a story around.

Programming is not at all like that. In programming, getting "stuck" is a signal to stop writing code. Its a signal to stop and rethink your approach, or at least step back and think about the problem before jumping back into coding. You can't write yourself out of a programming problem, but you certainly can write yourself into one.
video describing what they plan to do: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcrVzWVo4Fs

Based on the video, I think maybe diaspora would serve this purpose better.
The c-base (http://c-base.org) has several programming related events:

- Android round table every last Wednesday
- Lisp round table on Thursday
- Wifi hackers every Wednesday

You can "follow" their calendar: http://www.c-base.org/calender/termine.ics
As a long time Eels fan, I cant say that I would call the bulk of his music "uplifting". Blinking lights has a few "happy" songs, but I would hardly call that a feel good album. Great music, but not uplifting. So I both agree and disagree at the same time :)
link to the demo http://cansdemo.heroku.com/browser
The clue seems to be in very high cpu load on one cpu under xen. Need to do some digging to see what it is. I would look at the interrupts under xen and see if they are not being balanced. The config of the network interfaces and which drivers are being used are key.

There is really not enough information in the post to diagnose though, although someone might recognise te situation.
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He is not using EC2...
When will this app see the light of day?
It's about a third of that in Berlin. I have a (nice, freshly renovated, wooden floors, high ceilings, new appliances, balcony) two bedroom place about a 5-10 minute walk from our office in one of the cool parts of town (dozens of restaurants and bars within a 15 minute walk) and pay EUR 580/month. My co-founder and I shared the place for a couple years when we were getting going.
GitHub is investing heavily in libgit2 because we think it's the future for git for all the reasons listed at http://libgit2.github.com/
Indeed. Keep in mind it's the top, so these are the people you really expect to keep something like that hidden. I promise you the stats are much worse further down the list, or if you do the same, but for a specific country's TLD.
Yay...semantic technologies. I hope they make a way of utilizing existing technologies from the semantic web. Like OWL :) https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Web_Ontology_...
I often have trouble getting my motor started on my current major project, but banging on a different idea for half an hour puts me in a good coding groove which I can then carry over into momentum on my major project.

750 code words would be more about starting than about being stuck.
The new idea about .bit is that you have a decentralized system able to securely assign names to different participants. With existing systems the name is basically the hash of a public key which is not really that easy to remember or to use.
It would be interesting to compare accept() performance between different hypervisors to see what the performance hit is with KVM, VMware, etc.
The author of the original article is, at least for some of his tests: “(on an 8-core EC2 instance, c1.xlarge running Xen)”
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because I do not think it's easy to learn the german language

I'd actually disagree with you there. Given that English is a Germanic language, the little German I know was far easier to learn as a native English speaker than French or Japanese (the two other languages I studied for a short while).
I always thought at Tagsistant as an archiving tool, but you are totally right.

But files are also accessible from the archive/ directory where nothing is supposed to change as a consequence of tagging.

Can be a reasonable compromise?
Exactly right; this isn't about being stuck. Or trying to unstick you. I don't write 750 words/day to "unstick" myself from writing a blog post. I do it to bang my head on something else a little bit to keep the juices flowing.
Not all hacks end up getting completed. I participated in this hackathon and was surprised how full the room over into the wee hours of the morning. My personal opinion is that the lack of theme is a good thing as it brings together a wide audience of developers.
Is there a need for this?

I've never had a need to search for social networks that meet my interests
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A search function or tag system would be good
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The reason self-publishing works for Doctorow is not because his audience wants it to. It works because he works extremely hard, is prolific, and smartly leverages technology as well as his massive audience at BoingBoing. He is not an overnight sensation. There's no trick here.

Yes, he's taken some risks with technology, but he's also worked hard promoting himself to mitigate that risk.

I am not a fan of his writing, but I admire his dogged determination to get up every day and be a writer, in an age when anyone else you asked would tell you to give up and get a job with a future.
The city might be great, but how about the German bureaucracy? I kid you not, but a friend of mine didn't need a permit anymore because of some new regulations for EU citizens, so the German authorities asked him to obtain another permit, which states that he doesn't need the first permit anymore.
That's a valid hypothesis, but is empirically false.
Considering that for the last several years nearly every significant improvement to Java has come from them copying from C#, if anyone should be looking down it is the C# folks.
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Is the assumption that any company that wants to increase head count rapidly will treat their employees poorly?
To give you an example of rent related to income:

I live and work in Berlin and my rent is about 25% of my income after taxes. I have about 100 square meters, two balconies and a lift (third floor) in a quiet pre-war (Altbau) building (redeveloped 2005) with a big playground right in front of it. It's about 6km to my work (20 minutes by bicycle) in Berlin Mitte (the east center of Berlin).
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No, but announcing the feature and showing a demo of it in action is not quite "FUD about what Google might do." It's also in line with the trend of their other products adding offline support.
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That's how it works with many opensource projects. You get around, contribute with docfixes, learn a little, then send a patch here and there, and sooner than you realize you can be doing contract or employed work related to the tools being used by the project, or to the project itself. IMHO, there's no shortage of well-paid work for those known to be talented by their peers.
I have posted the following on HN a couple times; Square is a platform.

---

I think that Square is an exceptional business enabled by a novel piece of hardware, their headphone jack card reader.

It would seem - then, that the card reader and payment service could actually be seen as a platform play.

Platforms are technologies that are useful themselves - but enable far reaching, broader use cases in ways, that at times, can be unforeseen.

Square could enable a range of cottage industries by providing other applications built on their solution.

We have the ability for mobile payments, as it were, and thus we should see a need for dead-simple mobile business management apps; inventory, supply chain, vendor management, invoicing, product lists etc.

This leads me to believe that Square is a platform that, through its deployment, applications can be built upon it that will change the way commerce can happen on the individual level.

Further - it would seem that there is also a great opportunity for sales distribution here as well. A product distributor could reach out to and enable a mobile sales force providing all these applications to their sales force in the field on a single device - as the merchants sell product, it can be tracked in real time and supplies replenished.

This could work very well in connected, yet less-developed countries such as rural Philippines, China and other parts of Asia. (areas where the vast majority of the population have mobile phones, but other forms of infrastructure are less developed)

Couple this with prepaid charge cards -- and the ability to LOAD cards in the longer term, and there are some significant opportunities that can be built using square alone.
I agree. If you get an idea for a product / website, it's easy to get caught up in using rails or django or nodejs etc... And then there's the steps of which plugins to use. It's very easy to get no work done, and spend all your time setting up the perfect project.
Don't some people use it to dye their hair with a much higher concentration?
It's easy to pickup basic german, but it's difficult to speak german properly. Also, there are few variations on german like there are on English or French, so you need to speak it correctly. There is no "African German" or "Canadian German" or "Australian German". So the language is not tolerant of many variations like english or french is.
What has been her response to the site?
This looks pretty cool, do you have any plans to do more with this DSL?
Yeah, true, rereading it he is not clear about whether he has run the software on xen on the same box he ran raw on, although it is implied. It is a very different question on EC2.
Thanks! It is based on some technical blocks that should be open sourced as soon as they get a little more mature. Don't hesitate to have a look to http://abt.io/tech for more info.

Cheers!
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The problem with knowledge transfer in the tech. industry is one of purpose. The vast amount of implicit knowledge, the little tricks and gotchas that are always different from job to job and the lack of systematic documentation make any sort of formal training program extremely difficult to implement.
Cool link! Thanks!!
Well she's pregnant again so she's finding it useful :D
I'd honestly be surprised if there is an end goal here. More likely some silly bastard who has trouble keeping his PC safe, but won't uninstall that 1000 smilies toolbar, thinks this is "sending a message to pirates everywhere!" because he's "protecting copyright."

That, or they're here, with us, shaking their heads, doing the pointless things their boss tells them to earn a paycheck.
So far, I don't think the computing revolution has significantly affected healthcare or educational productivity.

Until we start replacing teachers with Khan or similar products, productivity is capped at # of students=~30 x number of teachers. Same for medicine.
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