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I live in Sydney, Australia. Public transport here frankly sucks, most people I know commute for more than 40 minutes.

I would estimate that the typical city worker here commutes for between 50 mins and an hour.
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A physics thesis is not a writing task which should be taken lightly. It requires much work and thought to submit a paper of high quality. Therefore, students assigned the writing of a physics thesis should pay strict attention to their task so that they will be able to submit a work well done.
Indirect branch is not too costly when it is correctly predicted and due to proliferation of C++ code, modern CPUs are very good at predicting indirect branches when they mostly lead to same target.
Netflix is actually pretty well known for its resiliency to AWS outages.
Freedom of information laws are used to harass scientists, says Nobel laureate
As I stated here [1], It's definitely not easy, though I've found the only difficult part to be getting initial traffic and consistently building high quality backlinks. It's not something that can be automated, but it can be outsourced.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2593650
Terminal into a remote server and use the remote install of VIM then pretty much any computer will do.
It is interesting than on a completely different debate, chomsky takes norvig's position (he is accused of not looking for a "theory" and "whys" and he replies that it is pragmatic results that matter):

http://mindfulpleasures.blogspot.com/2011/01/noam-chomsky-on...
Yes, so you may have to spend some of that money you have not been paying Google for Feedburner, and use it to build or buy a replacement.
Varnish is arguably more performant than varnish. I've had amazing success with both, and I don't think both are necessary together, but they're both screaming fast. I noticed one day that varnish had served 100,000 visitors per day from the cache due to a Google mistake only because I saw it in my analytics. The server load was at 0.05 all day.

I love varnish. Hard.
Here are two discussions from previous submissions - there were a dozen or so comments on each:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2379419

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2382850

There were more.
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Check out entrian code search which can be thought off as full text search for your source code. I never ever uwe VS builtin search any more.

Alt+=, search, navigate matches with key arrows. Sadly it doesnt do replacing.
Ah, so you already have an existing business. I believe that most programmers do not.

You have to work to make money from your business (most likely). With an authority site providing data that people want and are linking each other to, you're making money passively.

$2,000/month is only $66/day. That's not a big number. That's a single sale of certain products on Clickbank[1]. If a given product averages one sale for every 1,500 visitors, your goal is 1,500 unique visitors per day. That's not unattainable, either. Making money online is not a complicated process.

I don't see how the OP's idea is anything near a spam site. It's taking data that people could be interested in, making it available, and helping people find it. If people happen to click some ads while they're on the site, great! A spam site IMO would be like those fake torrent sites that come up when you search for a product name.

[1] http://www.clickbank.com/marketplace.htm
As long as you are willing to wait 5 or 10 years for someone to replicate Google's R&D.
You're doing them wrong. Just check results posted by Leif Hedstrom (Apache Traffic Server developer)... He's getting 100k req/s on far worse hardware: http://www.ogre.com/node/393
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You make an excellent point about the primacy of the community. I can't remember where I first came across the idea that languages are communities, possibly Richard Gabriel's Patterns of Software.

As someone about to embark on the Standard ML learning curve (motivated primarily by Ur/Web - Ur is a ML-like language), it is striking that the SML community is fragmented to the point of non-existence (not even a Planet SML, the sml-list is dead, & the SML subreddit is pretty lifeless).

Looking at Alice ML which has significant advancements over both Objective and Standard ML, it has great features, but no momentum which isn't helped by the fact that there hasn't been a release since 2007.
Patio is SEO incarnate. I can't even say he "struck again" with this organic link, because he doesn't strike, he just exudes SEO with every fiber of being and press on his keyboard.
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TypeSafe have money in the bank and a serious commitment to fixing the Scala tooling for Eclipse.
That'll definitely give you a speed boost, as the interpreter doesn't have to get involved (if configured right).
However, this article is talking about IO clogging apache workers. The issue is that the worker must do two jobs: generate the page (using mod_php) then send it to the client.
Using nginx in front of apache means that nginx handles the IO to the client (which it is extremely good at), leaving the apache workers to handle nothing but generating pages, hence getting overall higher requests/sec from the same machine.
Nemerle's been around for years and I don't see it getting any traction, especially in the shadows of both C# which has been cherry picking functional features & F# which has the backing of Microsoft.
I wonder if the author would feel the same way about OCaml if he had come across it before Scala.

I suspect not somehow.
Full disclosure: I'm the CTO of myGengo

I would also add that because translation is core to our business, we would never deprecate the translation API :)
htaccess is just a configuration file used by Apache to determine what should be served to whom.
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Very good.
This is really neat. I just finished building an acoustic guitar, I'd love to see it's acoustic profile as compared to some others... Hmm, another project idea to investigate (although I'll prob have to settle for the old fashioned method).
The trend I'm seeing isn't towards verification by proof but leveraging the type system to ensure that the compiled program is correct and secure. Both Opa and Ur/Web take this line.
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I make ~$100-$200/month from < 10,000 pageviews (although not with AdSense).

It's pretty much impossible to claim any CTR or CPC rate is unrealistic because they vary so massively depending on the site, the market and even things like the time of year.
the guy is funny :)
Thanks for the tip .
There is a definite functional trickledown effect going on with mainstream languages.

I have the suspicion that the breakthrough functional language will be like CoffeeScript in that it compiles down to Javascript taking advantage of the high performance Javascript runtimes and the functional core of Javascript.
Great source . Also love the style of how he communicates . Thanks for the tip .
What do you think of sites like DMV.org that wrap 50 godawful state websites and non-websites with nationally uniform easy to navigate content, plus ads mixed in?

It adds a lot of value to me, and Google rewards with huber page rank than government websites, which one assumes get a huge authoritativeness bonus from Google.

A lit of folks get indignant that someone is "just" exposing true information for money. That is 99% of what Google does and why everyone loves them. If you cut the money out, the ride stops. Organized information is more valuable and more costly than scattered hidden information.
If an incident like this occurs two more times this year, the company could be in real trouble. Their target customers are on Twitter/Facebook and will probably hear about this fiasco.
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The latter. There's no way that it's reflecting a million watts back to the Earth's surface (1/1018 of the main beam power). Or to put it another way, with a beam "footprint" of 2km across, and with the size of the rover rather less than 100 m across, there's no way it alone could return that high a percentage of the light sent to it.
Interesting analysis in this post on the PPrune forum:
http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/447730-af447-wreckage-fou...
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Google Search has an insecurity complex where it will show you a ton of low quality content instead of telling you it did not find anything good.

The problem isn't that a bunch of folks have made lame sites; the problem is that no one has made a good site. Make one, and Google will happily rocket you to the top of the results page.
You guys could probably find a job without too much trouble. So if all they're offering you is a job I'd say no.

Until they bring cash/equity to the table, I wouldn't take the offer seriously.
No. It's much more about intersecting social circles than other places I've been. That said you can get places in nightclubs and the mindgames involved in courtship are different. But if you wanted to settle down and were a relatively respectable, solvent man, Germany'd be great.
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The article does recommend buying freelance writing for $10 per page, which is more than $3/hr for the low-complexity writing presumably required. For example, he kind of writing on DMV.org, that just puts some chatty flow between steps in a workflow and around the data.
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The CoC's thing is helping its members make gobs of cash, and that's often a very bad thing because it comes at the expense of everyone and everything else. Tech is one of those weird cases where public and private interests frequently align naturally.
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Shoot me an email and we can talk about it. I'm working on a related problem right now, so we might be able to help each other out. Address is in my profile.
Ironic domain name "MyAimIsTrue", considering how off-base the accusation was: http://www.regretsy.com/2011/05/27/urban-outrage/
Creative and Intuitive.
The same way our body keeps us cool by sweating.
Well, emacs is the most popular Lisp implementation and area of application.
Not a new concept, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
I think it helps to organise speculation about bio-hacking for longer life around a five way split. Any science fiction author trying to write about life in 3000 A.D. will have to commit to one of these five options. Describing the current situation as 60 years of vigor and 20 years of decline they are

1) Reduced decline: 80 years of vigor, 15 years of decline

2) Fixed decline: 100 years of vigor, 20 years of decline

3) Subproportional decline: 120 years of vigor, 30 years of decline

4) Proportional decline: 180 years of vigor, 60 years of decline

5) Superproportional decline: 240 years of vigor, 120 years of decline

You have come up with a 6th option, crappy extension: 60 years of vigor, 200 years of decline. Well, maybe, but why do you suspect that bio-hacking is going to turn out to be so very disappointing?
A perfect storm for XMP?
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This only works in dry climates, no?

In humid, tropical climates this will not work.

MotherEarth had an article on building a solar-powered freezer that uses ammonia gas. Use that to make ice, and then use the ice in an ice-box like storage device.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6599651/How-to-Build-a-Solar-Icema...

Yeah, clay is easier to find than the other materials, but the ammonia freezer does work without any moving parts.
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Is it actually against the law? If the cookie only states that the notice has already been displayed, and is only used to avoid displaying that message again?
Varnish is ridiculously amazing. I use it directly in front of unicorn to host some ruby apps. The performance is just amazing compared to the load avg. No need for a 'proper' web server.
Are you in a metropolitan area?

Care to describe what type of apps you demo'ed? Language(s) used?
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Maybe it will make the artist feel better knowing that in Uruguay there are fake Urban Outfitter stores in the malls.
Are the loopback requests limited by the TCP stack?

Is it possible to set this up where nginx and apache communicate via a socket?
Namespaces are nice when the language lets you name a space at the top of a file or a block and then not repeat the name prefix on every identifier inside. They are not just used to add dots to identifier names, although that would often be NSNice in NSItself.
Now I'm really worried. My comment received 36 upvotes. How many were from people who (a) think think that Lisp and Emacs users are brain-damaged and (b) Upvote what they perceive as an insult as a kind of social bullying rather than to signal a contribution to the discussion?
Thank God you came. I was thinking of doing this exact thing with a passthrough directive for socket.io. What's your experience with it? Any caveats? Do you serve static media in any special way? I usually just have Varnish cache them forever.

Any help would be great, thank you!
This could pose a problem to the BitCoin money supply.
I came to scala because it is in fact an acceptable ocaml that runs on the JVM.
I had a similar configuration for a Wordpress blog, and another Linode instance running ExpressionEngine.

I have nginx configured with php-fpm to use sockets to communicate between each other.
I was thinking along these lines. Although, the thing that occurred to me is that Lisp is sometimes called a programmable programming language. And emacs is the canonical programmable text editor. It had occurred to me that it was not a coincidence that someone who had embraced a fully programmable tool (language or editor) would feel this way about it. I thought the article was interesting in that the author was pointing out that emacs' programmability could be used to emulate design features like a distraction-free environment and not just "power" features.
But if one insists in staying on the fence, one has viper and vimpulse: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-es/Vimpulse
He means Linode.
I wish they had done comparisons of commuting via public transit rather than driving. I have friends in NYC and SF that routinely commute 1.5 hours on the train and don't complain about it one bit.
Even though it was eight cores, he only had 1024KB of system RAM.
Which can slow things down, seems much less of a problem now than when I last dealt with them. There's a lot to read on using them to speed websites up.

Minus two for an on topic question?
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Seems like this is getting a lot of support, though I do have some reservations. I don't really like the idea of allowing VCs to decide who is allowed to come to the US. Of course, I don't really like the idea that employers having this power either.

This could distort the market and suppress what I think is a very healthy trend toward bootstrapping in high tech. Not that bootstrapping is necessarily better than funding - in many cases, I'm sure it isn't. But the decision to accept funding (and the terms of that funding) should be based on what's good for the business, not whether the founders need a VCs permission to live in the US.

Obviously VCs are very relevant in software, but with the drop in cost of starting a business, software entrepreneurs may need them less and less... unless, of course, they need a visa. This will put VCs right back in the driver's seat, and let's not pretend this has anything to do with the market - it has to do with VCs gaining control over a government function (immigration) and potentially using it as leverage over entrepreneurs.
Even UK and German attitudes to IT secruity and social are very different. I was fascinated to see that Germans are far more likely to block Twitter in the workplace that Brits: http://twitpic.com/52e4cm
It's interesting that their entire release architecture seems to be focused on never pushing bad things out to production, whereas given their traffic they could probably push things out much sooner (minutes after they're committed) to small parts of their overall traffic, and slowly increase the traffic on those pieces of code as they prove themselves to be stable, or quickly revert them if they're not.

That would mean having a lot of versions of Facebook live at any one point, but as those parts prove themselves stable they'd gradually be rolled out to all of their traffic.

One point that also wasn't covered is that as they're pushing things out they'll only cherry-pick parts of their codebase depending on which engineers they have around. I wonder if they have a lot of hairy merge conflicts around release time due to that, and bugs in production resulting purely from those merge conflicts. Or worse, subtle bugs resulting in change A going out, but being programmed against a function that was changed in change B, which is not going out because the author of change B isn't in today.
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http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=URBN+Interactive#chart1:s...

It did not seem to affect their stock price.
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I know the kindle will make me consider strongly having a book edited and indexed by someone I pay instead of a publisher.
It would be great if there was a very basic web site that could guide you to the most suitable storage solution based on the problem you are working on. Sorta like a guide or wizard.

I think it's a shame that the movement is called NoSQL because it sorta creates this false dichotomy that the field of web data storage is divided in two camps. In reality, you need to, as always, pick the right solution for the problem you are facing. NoSQL databases will never entirely replace SQL databases and I think it's important to not shoehorn NoSQL in places where it doesn't really belong.
The amount of slow-down is relative to what you actually write in the htaccess file. You can have two very different files that actually do the same thing.
Or bank holiday weekend if you're in the UK ;)

I've been using nginx for about 2 years and it performs so much better than Apache.

I'm not using Apache as a backend though, I use FastCGI. It performs even better.
Does this scale? How large can the pot be before you run into problems?
Anyone do this at Burning Man?
I like how their entire development cycle revolves around people getting drunk on weekends.
The spammers would only have to translate each page once. Further, they could translate only the pages that users request in language X as needed and cache the results.
I have a feeling this will become a ThinkGeek product.
Charles Petzold (yes, that Charles Petzold) published a nice annotated version of Turing's paper, entitled "The Annotated Turing" (published by Wiley).

And, for those wishing to go deeper, there's a nice collection of Turing's papers (this one included, naturally) by Jack Copeland, entitled "The Essential Turing" (published by Oxford).
Maybe 3rd time will be the charm.
To your request for such a guide I would like to request:

Documentation of the technological overhead: the soft/hardware/sys_admin_experience overhead required by each (and the hosts offering such support overhead for them - compared for example to support for MySQL :/ ).
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For a non-pilot that's a difficult read, but worthwhile to understand the issues involved and implications.

Thank you.
Thanks to Robert for referencing it...I was hoping to spark some conversation though.
Pruning old APIs wouldn't put me off. What puts me off is the inter-dependencies between APIs. Want to use Google Prediction API? Well you'll need a Google Storage API account for that. Oh and, you can only have one of those for free. And just in case, they'll take your billing info.

I was psyched to start playing around with the prediction API but just got totally put off by the new API pricing/management. I'd argue that the restrictions are now so tight and cumbersome that there's no real sandbox environment to encourage devs to try out the services. I'm a touch disappointed.
Dropping keepalives actually slightly hurts your best-case performance. As a config change, if you are using the prefork mpm (I wouldn't if scalability is your goal) it will generally help you though. With prefork the scaling math on worker memory * connections vs your box's memory is often the first place things will fall apart if you have keepalives on and real traffic.

I suggest the worker mpm if you don't want to switch to nginx.
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What this means is the little guy has a shot to have a big hit due to the massive distribution power of the kindle/nook/iBooks platforms. It's the same phenomenon as app stores for software or blogging for news or iTunes for music.

Major companies controlled major distribution. Now they don't. Of course an empire built around a competitive advantage that no longer exists is going to necessarily shrink.

It would be folly to think otherwise.
It's also similar to old Australian meat keepers. Australia was, historically, one of the world leaders at refrigeration development.
Describing Redis as just another key value store kind of misses the point.
Since the goal wasn't to effect their stock price that really doesn't matter.
There is a big scientific discovery, so far unknown to the general public, that you may be interested to know. The discovery was made by Isaac Newton. But instead of revealing his discovery to the world, Newton hid it in his Principia as a secret code. The discovery itself is as important as the realization that the earth moved; or Galileo's observation that the Moon is not a perfect body as believed by Scholastic Doctors of Philosophy of his time.

Newton discovered that what I call "Kepler's Rule" is the definition of density. This realization leads to the conclusion that we are living in a matterless world; and effectively reduces Newtonism to a religious cult teaching occult as true science.

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The effort changed what needed to be changed. I really don't know what you would consider a "win" but it was a win for the effected artist.