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I don't mean to steal the thunder from the poster, but I highly doubt it matters. At all.

Just like the indignation with Apple over the closed iPhone, or the terms of service or a host of other things didn't really matter. Or all the flack given to MS (bing stealing search results), or Oracle (mishandling the community, Patent trolling) or Google (not releasing source code, ripping off open source) or IBM (offshoring nearly their entire workforce), non of it really seems to matter.

Everyone loves these stories, the little guy calling out the big guy and showing them what's what. But does it change anything? Does it impact the bottom line of that company? I can't think of a single time that it did, either immediately or over time.

Don't get me wrong, I would like it to matter, but in an age of millions of users, billions of dollars, 100s or even 1000s of people being aware of something and starting grassroots campaigns will result in a speedbump at best or a blip at worst for these mega corporations. Think of facebook and the guff they got about their TOS, twitter and their killing off of competing apps. Non of it mattered; people moved on continued to use those services because it was easy, because it was what they knew and because, in the end, people will default to cheap, cool and easy.

Just the reality of the situation, IMO.
Indeed he did!
article doesn't explain well what is the issue here with infinite srolls ? i get it that poor search engines will have difficult time crawling website with infinite scroll, but why do we care ? why will user care?
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Don't discard Mountain View or Palo Alto (two nearby cities) in favor of San Francisco. But high-level, yes, the SF Bay area is a fantastic place for techies. Some caveats: you will likely see a lowering a standard of living initially. For instance, vacation time in the US is a lot less than in other places. Your expenses may also increase drastically.

Have you considered checking out the Bay area for a vacation? A conference might be an excellent opportunity. I think the next PyCon is happening in San Jose (also nearby). Just replace PyCon with whatever technology stack you may be in love with. This lets you kill three birds with one stone.

1) You get the see the Bay area first hand ... the good and the bad.

2) You'll get to meet people in love with the same tech stuff as you from other parts of the country/world. This is a really nice feeling + networking opportunity.

3) It is probably much easier to get a visitor visa for a conference. (Do note - I'm not saying you should use a visitor visa to get into the country and do something inappropriate, like get a job. In my opinion, that's a risky proposition and plain wrong.)

Once you have a network in place, you can probably find a job in a company and get visa sponsorship. I don't know how hard this is for people from the EU. Silicon Valley is built on the back of immigrants ... don't think this is impossible.
Hotmail deleted my account after 28 days and i lost contact with all the people i met in my year of travelling.

Yahoo killed their spell checking api in april and now i need a new word splitter. Any ideas?
I know you can do it, but it produces quite an overhead and it's ugly. But that's for another discussion ("sad things in JS" maybe) - here my main point was that, no, public/protected/private is not a dumb idea in dynamic languages.
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Performance benefits? No, I wouldn't think so. I can think of too many performance downsides to it.

The only benefits I can think of offhand would be if you had a requirement for something that Apache specifically provided, or custom modules you needed run. Something like suphp, modsecurity, or shared hosting configuration, etc. All policy type stuff, not performance.
None at all. It's purely because most people aren't willing to invest the time it would take to not need .htaccess.

In fact by not using PHP-FPM you lose out on awesome stuff like the slow log!
Yes, that's a common word.
Doesn't it matter to the artist?
- Urban Outfitters apparently pulled their jewelry from stores

- indie artist gets ton of free press and national attention

cost = nothing. benefit = something.
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You should have a look at Joel Spolsky's answer: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
Worth noting the the story is from Dec '09.
That was the peak of P2P as a buzzword...
I haven't read through the forum thread as there are ten pages and much of it seems off-topic. But the requests per second doesn't even matter here, the fact that you were capable of maxing the CPU at all shows me you did something wrong. I easily get 12k requests on an i7 box and the CPU wasn't even stressed then. Eventually it was IO that limited it.
I would change your "many" to "almost all". Very few websites, even sites that really should know much better (like Newegg or Gawker, both catering to technical audiences), actually implement things in a known safe manner. Many just do plaintext (like Newegg) and many an archaic and/or useless obfuscation mechanism (like Gawker's use of DES).

You should always act defensively when relying on any third-party. Very few are trustworthy. Use a reliable password management system for your passwords (like KeePass or mailing GPG-crypted passwords to yourself) and generate a unique pass for each site. Use a unique mail if you can. If you're storing any data on there, make sure it is encrypted and triple encrypted.
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I found that forum thread quite hard to follow, and there are blobs of ab runs sprinkled all over. I clicked a few pages through, and didn't see any configs posted, sysctl values, etc. Was it more of an ad-hoc test you were running just to get some vague ideas about performance, as apposed to a comprehensive performance comparison?

My personal (anecdotal) experience shows that nginx is amazingly fast. Some nginx configs can impact performance if you aren't careful (I am thinking of try_files vs if-tests[1]), and there are various nginx tunables (worker process count, cpu affinity, etc) as well.

I have personally seen issues with apachebench when there are lots of connections (not to mention linux system tunables such as max file descriptors!), iptables state tracking, etc...

[1]: http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil
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oh wow. I didn't even notice the posted date on the original article until I followed the repost link you provided, and saw how long ago that had been posted.
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Ok, so I got the details wrong. However, still think this effect could partially be explained by the tightly knit community of editors.
100% agree, before internet, power structure could control undercover to some extend while claiming being perfect.
With internet, this undercover control desapear making very for the power structure to 'arrange' issues in small group of understanding people. This upset them a great deal.Ask DSK
Yeah, C++ and Java http://www.quora.com/What-programming-languages-are-used-at-...
I agree. It makes web browsing a Sisyphean task, and I always feel on-edge when I'm reading such a page.
I believe in trusting your own ability when it comes to startups. It's nice to work for someone, but it's not your product. I'd definitely go for working part time or even full time but keeping your site on the side. I dont think that you should have to give up your website to work for someone.
This is surreal. I just wrote a draft blog entry about the changes in startup economics due to event-servers like node and nginx (publishing tomorrow), and I hit HN just before heading to bed and this blog entry is #1.

Thanks for all the love today guys. Have an awesome memorial day weekend if you're in the States.
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Wasn't the plan for them to expand their business in China with the IPO?
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>This is well established and I don't know why there is such a fuss about it - its pretty black and white issue when it comes to ethics and morals [...]

I disagree, it's not a [necessary] natural conclusion based on logic axioms.

Aside from that consider this possible opposition: Patents are a contract of disclosure in return for a time-limited monopoly. I can well imagine that patents are a greater benefit to a society than industrial secrets; the knowledge is released in to the public domain and can be built on. Thus industrial secrets create a detriment, they hide knowledge that the society has spent resources on discovering (creating?).

Having briefly thought on this matter I think that forcing people to use patents to protect their IP instead of shackling inventors is probably the greater good. In any case presenting it as a done deal that needs no discussion is wrong IMO.

One could look at this from a Kantian perspective - if everyone hides their industrial/technological progress is that better or worse than everyone disclosing it?
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Indeed and has lead to much greater cross browser support for standards, it ain't perfect but it's a lot better now. Even IE7 was a breath of fresh air and that was practically forced by the competition from FF, Op and the like.
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Why use nginx instead of Varnish as the frontend proxy? If you are using nginx as your http <-> fastcgi gateway, that's one thing, but if you're just using it as a reverse proxy, it seems like a lot of extra stuff to maintain.

I like living on the bleeding edge, so I do varnish -> mongrel2 <-> apps instead... but varnish -> nginx <-> apps or varnish -> apache <-> apps seem equally reasonable. The key is caching and being able to handle slow users without tying up your app. All three of these setups do that. nginx to apache only saves your app server; it doesn't do much caching.
The business model for charging for operating systems is going to go away thanks to patents.

Sorry, Reg. I can't disagree more. The top 2 tech companies by market cap have Billions of dollars in cash on hand because they sell OS's (among other things). Apple would be a maker of very shiny hardware if it weren't for OSX and iOS. It's the OS that's the "special sauce" of Apple products.

And, last I checked, Microsoft was still making Billions per quarter selling OS's.

Ubuntu and all flavors of Linux are free, and have been for years. Yet, they've never really reached decent market share, because people generally feel like the user experience with an OS like OSX or Windows is generally better than the user experience with Linux. People are generally willing to pay a hundred bucks for a nice OS.

Android is free-ish. You don't pay for it, but you do pay in kind by giving Google access to your location data, your email data, your voice data, etc...

Renting OS's... Who's doing that now? Who's making money on that?
The keyword alerts is too vague. I think the estimated daily clicks is based on the CPC and the competitors you'll have to face if you choose to bid on that keyword.

Because personal search is more specific, you might actually get up to 19 clicks per day based on the estimates that google gives you.
Somehow over the last 10/20 years, the notion of "rich" has had a much bigger inflation than the rest of the world, this is particularly true in the US. If your definition of "rich" is not needing a paycheck, then 2M with 2% interests over inflation should be enough to live OK in most countries except maybe Switzerland, Denmark or Norway.
I must admit I've never used varnish, but from what I gather, it's function is caching, not handling large numbers of concurrent connections. Nginx's strength is handling tens of thousands of concurrent connections with very little incremental CPU load and a tiny memory footprint. It then reverse proxies those connections to a threaded-model server occupying each thread for very little time and quickly freeing them up for other work.

From what I gather, varnish uses a threaded model with 1 thread per connection which is what nginx solves. So it might make sense to put nginx in front of varnish so you get high concurrency with great caching.

Nginx does offer some caching but I've played with it in high load environments and wasn't impressed with the performance.
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Yes. You also have a much better chance of getting broke with your own company than getting a six fig salary at an existing company - so at the end it is just basic risk management.
But does it change anything?

In this case, Yes. The company pulled the infringing piece of jewlery.
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Thanks
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So they don't really test the code, they just push it out, and fix the bugs on Thursdays. Genius strategy. No wonder their platform breaks so often.
patio11 also has a blog ( http://www.kalzumeus.com/ ) about how he ran this sort of business.
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This isn't "scraping government websites", this is using your skills as a programmer to manipulate data, to make graphs and visualizations of the data.
By "similar service", do you mean direct competition? If so, I'd stick with what you're doing (esp if it's paying some bills) - it's obviously got traction. And you can't beat being your own boss.
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Its OS is built with alien technology (aka LISP)

http://dwave.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/learning-to-program-th...
The tech stuff is easy

The tech stuff is easy for us. If us programmers can figure out the non-tech stuff, we can be rich!
The code is tested. There are unit tests, Watir tests, tests written by the developer for that specific change, and all changes require a test plan from the engineer.
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Don't forget that the number 3. (Which is almost at # 2 ) has at least three OS's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system

And they're all a lot more expensive than Windows.

And don't forget HP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NonStop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_UX ) and Oracle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29 )
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The same criticism applies to cheques as well as COD, but I don't see anyone saying they don't serve a purpose.

Assuming BTC becomes a generic unit of exchange, the currency promises to save me around $50 to $100 per international money wire and cut the time it takes to transfer funds down to a few minutes. I've had zero failures using the system to date (max transfer time of 20 min), and would need to see a 10% failure rate before it stopped making sense. And that's without even calculating the costs of relying on monopolistic intermediaries like banks for currency exchange.
I would call that a soft win. Urban Outfitters is still in business, still printing money, still going to infringe in the future and people will forget their transgression in a matter of days.

Great, they pulled the particular piece because they got enough negative attention. How many other things on their shelves are infringing that we don't hear about? The point remains that an even if this one case was "won", it won't change anything. Companies have, do and will continue to run over people because the vast majority of people simply do not care.
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Probably this one http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/24/lumier-adds-a-new-coat-of-p...

Useless.
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How about offering them the opportunity to buy your company as a talent acquisition?

"Shut down and work for us" isn't an offer, it's a threat.
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Can someone explain what this endorsement means? Higher chance it passes through congress?
I got stuck in an infinite loop starting from Firefox.
I'm pretty impressed by the "push karma" system for gauging how risky individual engineers' commits are on average.

Here's another (much shorter!) video where Chuck Rossi talks about push karma very briefly: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=778890205865&...
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I notice that this infinite scroll technique uses some sort of Javascript technique to update the contents of the address bar without redirecting the user to another page.

Isn't that a massive, cataclysmic security risk?
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If you can get the cleartext of the password without any information outside of what lives on Newegg's servers, then the password is effectively stored in cleartext.
I agree entirely, but capability and usability are unrelated concepts. I don't doubt for a moment that emacs is immensely capable, which is why it has a large following.

Usability is, according to wikipedia "the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object" Ease of use and learnability isn't exactly emacs strong points. As an obvious example you need to learn emacs-lisp to unlock its potential.

Capable: absolutely. Easy to use: definitely not.
Yep. Can use the endorsement to get folks in Congress to pay attention where they wouldn't otherwise.

Endorsements like this are a piece of the 'execute' pie necessary to get any 'good idea' through Congress.
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They have tests, but for systems of that complexity, some bugs only appear in production whatever you do.
What he says at the beginning is to me the most important. Having great tool is great (!), but the most important is to have the right culture about QA and releases.
Test and iterate is obvious.
What's not obvious here is just how early and where: test the idea before you have a project, test on a high-traffic site instead of picking a group of test users to play in a private setting.
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If it's related to the Chamber of Commerce, chances are it's regressive policy.
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Re Google: not doing paid placement probably helped improve results more than PageRank. Also in terms of actually helping users, fast response and a sparse search-only page (not a cluttered portal), helped even more.

Though I'd love to think The Algorithm was key, their main idea was to put serving customers before monetizing them.
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Normally, I wouldn't disagree, but this is an offshoot for supporting entrepreneurship. Also, the libertarian arguments are there for Startup Visa: keep the government out of picking winners and let VCs use market-based metrics to decide which foreign entrepreneurs should get visas.

And the VCs (http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2011/03/the-startup-visa-act...) and entrepreneurs (https://www.votizen.com/issues/startupvisa/) both want this bill to pass.
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