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SQL Aliasing

Alias table names to one or two letters. Better still alias them to the names of other unrelated existing tables.

Hmmm - it appears that the person I replaced has already been here before.
I guess they'll rip off the Facebook part and make it an "official" Twitter client for Windows.

After 1 hour of working, the win-version of Tweetdeck eats more memory than Visual Studio + SQL Server... Kinda bad for an "official" client that is supposed to have high penetration among "casual" users, and work on Netbooks
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Same here (but C-x 3 in Emacs) - I am working on some code that mixes OCaml and C and it's nice to have the corresponding parts side-by side.
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And I suppose if I didn’t <negative action verb> your <relative>, some other bloke would?
people need to stop attaching themselves to what they do, this way its easier to both have fun just doing, no matter skill level or adherence.
I've seen bizarre cases of very skilled people tearing themselves up just because whatever they do is not perfect in any given respect, be it technical or artful. They end up miserable.

I don't design. I could, but I know that the time I would spend designing would be twice the amount compared to a skilled designer. Instead I ask someone who loves design. collaborate with them to create something awesome. We bash and we chastise, but always realize that its about the work, not the person or his/her skill level.

This does not translate well to corporate, but for the better it really should.
Amazon tags the mp3 you bought from us with your customer ID. I suppose this is why each customer gets a very slightly different file in this case too.
What restrictions have others placed on you?

This is what happens when you identify with your chosen profession too closely. Psychologists refer to it as a persona: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(psychology)

It's tempting to believe that others have placed these kinds of restrictions on you, but the truth of the matter is that we put these restrictions on ourselves. That's the truly important discovery: you have control over the mask you wear (albeit not unlimited control).
An old friend:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=252615

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=304039

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=637491 <- This one has the most comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922369

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1573034

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1988165
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Unless these two people have a ridiculous amount of skills you're not mentioning, I wouldn't touch this with a twenty-foot-pole for any amount of equity.

It certainly sounds from your note like they don't know what they're doing, and will end up dooming your company before it starts.

Besides, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread, this guy is family. This situation likely ends with you mutually hating each other. Who needs that?
Does Minno work for you? Flattr has Donate now ... though they're paying a lot more than $0.99 by the time all is said and done.
Just curious: why are you using MongoDB with ActiveRecord and not say MongoMapper or Mongoid?
Fuck. Them.
Any suggestions guys ??? will help a lot ...
(disclosure: one of the authors)

We're definitely not interested in business success in any sense. In some ways, anti-success is more interesting to us as researchers because academics tend to study communities that are successful, popular, and self-sustaining (like Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, etc). That introduces a bunch of funny biases in our understanding of how identity and persistence work in online communities: we've only really studied sites that have pseudonyms or real names and have searchable archives.

To the extent that we do care about "success", it is useful to be able to say "4chan has TONS OF POSTS" because it's a way of saying that the site does, in some sense, work for quite a few people. If it was just a quirky design but wasn't tremendously high traffic (I think the comparison we make in the paper is that /b/ alone has 16 times more daily posts than the 8 biggest news groups on Usenet), it would be a lot harder to get something like this published. People would be more inclined to brush it off and say "well, it's the internet - you can get a few thousand people to use anything." But that kind of traffic is hard to deny. Plus 4chan's role in the web's collective unconscious makes for a great story, too. So bottom line, what researchers choose to study is very strategic, but the metrics that matter definitely aren't about money, but there are lots of other factors.
"Talk About Something People Want"
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It's disappointing to those of us standing on the sideline enjoying the show. But it must be very comforting for App developers, knowing that Apple is standing by them.
Ever tried to resize them to 32x32 pix? I bet you can't even read them @ 64x64 pixels.

The idea is nice tho.
Counter argument: why do you want to allow gay-married Muslim homosexual commies to sneak into our country and piss on our burning flag after taking our jobs and blowing up our kindergartens? Is that what you want? puppy-AIDS and Sharia law?
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I like the stability of ActiveRecord. It was also to show that it's very easy to use the Ruby MongoDB driver just for some data. I have thought about changing it in the future to use only MongoDB, but not just yet.
I've been using it daily on OS X for about 2 weeks. I haven't had any crashes or unusual problems.
Also, if every country had the Great Firewall, there wouldn't be a Tor to get out of any of them, period.
Then he couldn't do an major redesign of the kernel interface and signal it in the version id.
"Y Combinator is an isolationist model [for lack of a better word I use isolationist, but the negative intention of the word is not intended]"

This like saying "you're fat... no offense".

"This blog post isn't going to sing the praises of TechStars"

It's hard not to see this as exactly that. YC gets "isolationist", TS gets "collaborative"; YC gets several sentences describing cons to their approach, one mentioning pro; TS gets several mentioning pros, one mentioning con.

I like the idea of comparing and contrasting the different "accelerators", but this is clearly biased towards TS and uninformed on the YC side. Of course naturally it will be hard to find someone intimately familiar with multiple accelerators' inner workings. Perhaps external investors or journalists.
It's really inconvenient compared to NYC's subway system, but I've lived in Mtn. View for a year without a car, and it's been fine.
It's not frequent, but I've seen a lot of it on /b/ lately, generally late at night/very early morning when there don't appear to be mods.
Meh, I don't really consider all the camwhores on /b/ and the new /soc/ to be cp really. It's when they start to have really small or no tits and larger head to body ratio sizes - 12ish and under - that you're in cp territory. This is true cp, and what the real btards on places like 7chan indulge in. The current race on /b/ is full of the last waves of summerfag and other general newfag cancer. There was a time a lot of actual cp was posted on /b/, but that times' long gone.
People are way too harsh on Amazon. I mean who could have predicted that so many people would buy a 1 dollar album from arguably the most popular/controversial artist on the entire planet.
Nobody, mods included, cares about the borderline cases where the subject may or may not be 18. They care about the pictures of intercourse with 9 year olds.
Do those models account for the fact that selfish individuals might get punished by the group? What if silent squirrels get systematically excluded from the screaming squirrels group? Wouldn't the loners have a lower life expectancy?
I was disappointed by the lack of an icon to represent "data is never shared with law enforcement."
The corporations, rich and powerful want (at least the illusion) of full control over the communication channels so they can prevent honest people from organizing en masse and rising up. What is happening here in Madrid is a first for this country: http://www.tvspain.tv/blog/?p=3026
Anybody happen to have a mirror of the PDF?
Don't forget fear. A small number of people are driven by greed - just about everyone else falls in line out of fear.

Fear of change, fear of the unknown, fear of other races, fear of the stranger at the playground, fear of the poor, fear of being poor, fear of losing their job, fear of a bad school district, fear of the police, fear of judgment by their peers, fear of standing out, fear of individualism, fear of crime both real and imagined... These are the defining attributes of modern life for many.
That is not an argument, that is a propaganda tool used against the easily-persuaded.
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>when combined with other personal or identifying information which is linked or linkable to a specific individual

Take a look into data de-anonymization techniques, this can encompass basically any stored information at all. This is not at all a clear issue.

(pdf warnings)

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak08netflix.pdf

http://iseclab.org/papers/sonda-tr.pdf
On the other hand, GAAP requirements cause a rapidly growing company's income to be reduced due to its own stock price fluctuations:

1) The cost of the issued option must include time value of the stock. If a company's stock becomes more volatile, for whatever reason, their GAAP income appears to be reduced.

2) If a company's stock rises, the options vesting appear to be worth more and more. In other words, the mere act of the stock price rising depresses income.
The piles of crap that come with a new Toshiba laptop...
If Apple makes the NFC APIs private it is only going to hurt them, since they are open on Android.
Ask HN: Any hackers meet or Hackathon in bay area for long weekend?
The easily-persuaded pretty much describes the majority of the electorate, at least in my country.

The average American votes against his best interest. The official response to any opposition to totalitarian tactics is .. FUD. Something only less blatant than what I have written above.
If it would be only a tag, the web server could be modified to deliver most of the song from the same file (at least I'd do that). However if they do "watermarking" in audio data, there's no escape for them, every purchase is really demanding on CPU's.
People need to read Zed Shaws "poll, epoll, science, and superpoll" on this, and no longer repeat the "scale well" mantra.

"Another way to put this is if your server or protocol is the type that transmits a ton of data and can't tolerate idle resources, then poll will win. [...] But, if your server is the kind with lots of idle connections just hanging out, then epoll wins not poll."

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1280829388.html
"That doesn't make any sense. Anything that can run node.js can also run erlang, so let's use some erlang code inside node.js, right?"

Sounds right from a Turing perspective, but probably not from a pratical point of view. There are tons of services that provide PHP hosting, but you probably need a root server for Erlang. All services that run Node.js (except Node.Js specific services like Joyent) are probably root serves and so can run PHP.
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Where's the evidence that heavy animations in javascript are less CPU hogging than heavy animations in Flash?
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Were you aware of the name clash before you committed to your current name?
See apple's pricing. They seem to take it to the next level with the odd number thing: http://apple.com/
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Oh yes, I definitely agree that Scala has a much better approach to threading with Actors and so on and there's definite improvement over Java with lamdas and functions as first class citizens.

What I'm moaning about is, for me, I tend to like doing things "the right way" (i.e. The Scala Way) and it irritates me that there's nothing there to enforce you to do that.

That isn't necessarily a problem with Scala per se, it's an issue with myself, but it's one of the reasons why I've stopped doing development in Scala for now and going down the Haskell route.

Who knows, perhaps once I've got some decent Haskell behind my back, I might be able to transfer those ideas over to Scala and write Scala how I'd want to write it.
Should we have any expectations of privacy in the Internet age?
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Cyberterrorism is a bullshit argument. If you don't want your machines to be attacked from the Internet, don't connect them to the Internet. In fact, governments and big companies already do this!

At work, we have an IP network called BARONET. It's like the Internet except it's not. There is a bridge on one machine that proxies HTTP requests from this network to the Internet. There are no routes to the Internet.

This significantly reduces the possibility of "cyberattacks", since you'll have to go through that proxy box. (Which probably runs Windows, but hey... if you actually cared about security, you wouldn't do that. The rest of the idea is good.)
Which adds credibility to the 'next bubble' thesis. What happened last time when these kinds of minor stories started appearing on CNN?
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Yep that must be because of copyright reasons as someone once pointed to me, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMG_v._MP3.com
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Qi/Shen is a fusion of Haskell and Lisp, heavily inspired by Haskell. The Lisp contingent is not 'way ahead': they are simply assimilating useful bits of their strongly typed functional cousin languages.
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I'm sure they can run php, but that won't help running wordpress themes coded in php run in a node.js app.
One of the biggest markers of quality I've found in the handful of companies I've worked for is in their approach to new languages. Ask every company why they use the language they do. Answers like 'Oh, because we just always have' tend to mean they aren't really interested in the developing world of CS. Which also means they won't appreciate people who want to extend themselves outside of what's already being done.

I've been lucky enough to work at places that have allowed me to investigate solutions to problems using the languages that are most appropriate and that enabled me to learn a lot. During the times I was being stiffled (and I never stayed at those places long) I had no choice but to do stuff in my own time.
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If you find one, please let us know.
About as rational as statement "A male father will always produce male children".
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Ask HN: Just what, precisely/technically, does the green name mean?
I'm happily reading people's opinions about C++ compilers[1] and I'm distracted by chandlerc's username. Sometimes it's green, sometimes it isn't.

This is inherently offensive to my insistence on rigid understanding: there must be a pattern! I set out to find the system's explanation for its workings; surely somewhere is listed the minimum karma, set timespan, or other voodoo that determines who's new and who's not.

But I couldn't find it. This is where someone can very quickly strike me dumb by pointing out it's right <a>here</a> and anyone with a brain would have found it. Well. I didn't, ok? Site policies ought to be pretty accessible, ok?

Then I started thinking. Is there any purpose to coloring a username green besides simple elitism? It seems chandlerc quickly earned his stripes, to the extent that a green username _doesn't have any real meaning_.

Why is the separation of new people more important to this site than, say, the highlighting of the name of the submitter? Do we really think that alienating new people--whether that's the intent of the feature or not, that's what it does--ought to be that high in the feature queue? Does a green name _really_ help you filter out noise?

I have no idea whether I prefer to see comment scores. But I'm suddenly, surprisingly filled with distaste at the green user name, not only because the mechanism isn't clear but because the mechanism doesn't do much.

You may consider my gears thoroughly grinded. Erm--ground.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2577481
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Many years ago I worked on a secure system that comprised a Sun running the webserver, connected over a 9-pin RS232 serial cable to another box running Windows 95, on which the secure part of the system ran, which was in turn connected via an ISDN line to some mainframe somewhere. I've never heard of a case of Windows being compromised via the serial port!
Unsure why this is hacker news?
I think any "bad" actors will simply display the easier-to-achieve privacy icons and not display poor privacy icons (this is contrary to the authors opinion that bad actors will decide to display none at all). The issue is consumers will start to see "black circle with green ring" and associate it with good privacy, whether or not the site displayed all 5 or only 1 or 2 of them.

To summarize, it is worse for a consumer to be misled about a website's privacy policy than to not display one at all.
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I've actually traveled a great deal (in my youth, including two years in Zambia and Kenya) and while it's not something I enjoy overall (for all the usual travel hassles, plus I'd rather spend my time earning money rather than spending it), I understand that your friend does. I don't know that there is anything particularly "perspective broadening" about it in a world that has grown so close together through technology and communication, but I'm sure she'll have plenty of memories and experiences from it. Memories and experiences don't necessarily have inherent value. They have personal value.

I enjoy working. I enjoy that every week, I get to do technically creative and very detailed and complex things with people who are all over the planet. China, Japan, India, Australia, all over the UK, France, the Vatican, Israel, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Singapore and many others. Granted, taking time away from work makes you look bad, so not doing that is a point in my favor -- but I truly enjoy my work. I also enjoy that it allows me to own a home, have plans to buy my childhood home so it can stay in the family some day, put my siblings through college, help with financial support and technical guidance of my friends' businesses and projects, contribute to worthy causes, and someday potentially retire.

Then again, if I have to die "young", I want to be one of those Karōshi deaths where they go out slumped over a pile of spreadsheets and whitepapers on their desk. So . . . take my preferences with a grain of salt, if you like.
I fear that you will find Madison is already infested with hipsters. :P At least, that was the case last time I checked (Mar. protests).
The #1 reason I still use post-its on my laptop and monitor (and... sometimes physically on my phone, in extreme cases): there's a real-world reminder that sticks around when you're powered off, disconnected, etc.

They're brightly colored, often aren't stuck on at right angles, and frankly refuse to be ignored. They're just the right amount of annoying, and I'll be interested to see how digital GTD applications manage to toe that line.
Initial observations:

1) The user experience could use some work. The initial message that shows the login/pass info is volatile, and is gone after a page refresh. Not only that, but it's flat out wrong. (the username is 'admin')

2) Apparently theres no password hashing? Seriously?

3) I guess it wouldn't be a CMS unless it stored it's configuration and settings in the database. This just looks like a pain in the neck for making changes to a dev/test/production environment. (I'm guessing the target user isn't that serious about development?)
Democracy is highly overrated. What we need is a strong constitution that guarantees individual freedom. 51% of the population imposing their beliefs on the other 49% can lead to highly undesirable outcomes. Censorship, racism, systematic discrimination based on sexual orientation or religion come to mind. Democracy is fine as long as the role of the elected government is essentially limited to the protection of individual freedom.

Anyways, I'm getting carried away here. I simply wanted to point out that we shouldn't use the word democracy so liberally as it is often the thing we should be fighting. Let's talk about constitution instead :)
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At the end of that twenty years, you can keep renting for another twenty years. Or you can spend the remaining thirty or forty years of your life in the home you own clear and free without paying rent or mortgage any more. I sure as hell don't want to still be making out a monthly check for a place to live when I'm 50, 60, or even 70 (not that I seriously think I'm going to live to any of those ages).
I don't know what you're smoking if you think "the corporations" have even 0.1% of the power of your own democratically elected government. Who has all the guns in your country? I bet it's not the phone company...