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I use [Archlinux][Arch] everywhere on production servers at work and at home.
[Arch]:http://archlinux.org
At work we use Arch for the following reasons
* It's simple. Using Arch is dead easy compared to Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware (my old favorite).
* It's vanilla. Arch doesn't mess with upstream code, it contributes to upstream.
* It's current. Arch has the freshest packages. Partly because of it's vanilla policy. As a startup using the latest tech it's quite foolish to use a distro that bundles old (Admittedly proven) versions of our tools.
* It's stable (enough). This one is the most disputed but if you pay attention when you `pacman -Syu` it's pretty tough to break a system. I'm running the testing repo on my home workstation and laptop because core is too boring.

__Some reasons not to use Arch__
* You have to pay attention. You can't just forget about it for long periods of time.
* It is currently susceptible to (theoretical) man-in-the-middle attacks on mirror sites. To get around this you could use the Arch Build System (Like Gentoo or ports) and build everything you need from source then use that machine as a local mirror. So if total security is a must just use Gentoo.
* It moves fast. Don't expect to be running Postgresql 8.4 on here it or anything that isn't the latest release. Major upgrades are announced so everyone sees them but there's no support cycle for old releases. Upgrading individual packages rather than the whole system for long periods of time is haphazard and not sustainable.
* They're already using Py3k as `/usr/bin/python`. This is part of moving fast but I put it here because it's exceptionally important and upset a lot of Python folks.

Sometime in the coming months I am actually preparing a longer form version of this for my blog. I'll naturally post that to HN.
Hilarious. What we need is Shatner reading it, with bongs and all, a la Palin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpbSwSlP4Yc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mLvzARScak
This is a gold mine for a budding programmer. Anyone interested in learning MapReduce frameworks or messing with sentiment analysis/classification should get this data.

With that said...the data is now unavailable?
In complete honesty, what are some of the weaknesses of OpenOffice? Lest I seem like an OpenOffice fanboy, I will say that I expect that I will agree with a number of its weaknesses, but simply be unaware of them since I have not used Microsoft Office much since moving to Linux a few years ago. One weakness I do know of is that its .doc converter is not perfect.
It's actually a pretty good idea. You know, try to be in markets that are already validated inside-out, with profits as evidence.
"The company has already raised more than $16 million in venture capital and federal research financing." - Awesome! Much better details in this.
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why is evernote diverging so far from their core product?

there are other flash card apps that already do this way better and i dont see evernote catching up anytime soon

the peek thing looks cool but it's not a useful gimmick because

1. you want the ability to use longer questions as well as images and video in your flashcards

2. you want to be able to move on to the next question quickly without the carpel-tunnel implications of physically unfolding this cover

3. proper flashcard learning requires more complex interaction than this. Each time a card is finished one needs to indicate how well they learned the card (among other things) In order to do this people would have to use 2 hands here.

The evernote marketing team is at the top of their game, as are the UI designers. But this is just brand cannibalization -- leveraging the evernote brand to get sales in an unrelated market with an inferior product based on a gimmick.
I've been in a very similar situation.

Lesson learned: humility. Go take a 9 to 5 somewhere. Anywhere. Doing work you would look down on. Start all the way at the bottom. Save money. Pay off your debt. Deal w/ that first. Chances are if you're smart, a side effect will be that whereever you're working you'll quickly rise to the top and new opportunities will start presenting themselves.

But deal w/ the debt first, you'd be amazed at how your outlook on life will change when you're no longer under water. Solve that and everything else will start coming into place.
I think he says clout, as in influence.
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Nice interface.

One suggestion: make the instructions stand out more. I was drawn to the hourly rate selector and then immediately began scrolling down the page. You might repeat the instructions in the footer and even move the hourly rate selector there.

Good work.
I'd like to know what you switched to?

As a Premium subscriber to EverNote, this news about a very bad flash card app indicates to me that they aren't serious about improving their core product and instead want to capitalize on the brand with gimmicky spinoffs.

Basically I just lost a lot of confidence in the EverNote brand.
"We're all adults here, right?" -- besides the fact that this is a patronizing way of putting things, history (and hacker new fads) shows us adults at times are no less capable of groupthink than children. Age is by no means sufficient for establishing wisdom.
ever the gentleman, he ducked the question.
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I expect that an argument could be made that this applies to videos as well - they're just moving images, after all. So Tennessee has (accidentally?) banned the distribution of horror movies via the internet.
1. Tapping the screen means you're using 2 hands.

2. If you aren't using spaced repetition statistics with your flash cards... you're doing it wrong.
I think this might be overly optimistic. Really smart people can also have really large egos and no patience for common courtesy. When they're sure of something, they have no problem calling someone out on it.
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I built some software a decade or so ago that did ticketing / concessions / gift cards / inventory / time clock for smaller movie theaters. You wouldn't believe how crappy what they were using was. Still, selling was a royal pain; either people are doing all the above w/ paper and it's hard to demonstrate how much better software can make their lives, or they're locked into a competitor with enormous annual fees.

It can be done, but it's not as easy as the blog author makes it sound. Also, don't underestimate the technical support load of dealing with really technically incompetent people.
Sounds like you need to get down to earth. I'm going to make a pretty weird suggestion but - you live in a small town right? People have lawns that need mowing, weeding to be done, cars need washing, windows need to be cleaned, odd jobs needed around the house. There is plenty of work to be done.

Rather than thinking startup, funding, business, figures blah blah blah just get out there and start being useful to your community. You'll make friends, you'll get exercise and become more healthy, you'll make some money and you'll give yourself time to think things through.

Give yourself 2 full years. See how much money you can make and save in this time. If you're suffering from crippling debt, talk to a debt consultant or financial advisor to find out about your options. Bankruptcy is not the end of the world (although I'm not sure about how things are in the US, I've known folks here in Australia who declared bankruptcy and it was the best thing they ever did).

In short, shake things up and do something completely different. Engaging with your community is a fantastic way to overcome your social anxieties, also.

I think you need to remind yourself that life can be simple - and that all of your fears and anxieties are more ephemeral than you realise.
AFAIK in Quebec the preferred term is "courriel", which is a portmanteau of "courrier électronique" in the same manner that "email" is a portmanteau of "electronic mail". (Funny that we're talking about Anglicisms in French, given the vast number of English words of French origin - like "portmanteau".)
What you really want is Anki for iPad, which is a GOOD flash card program that uses modern neuroscience to improve your learning. And it's free.

Also doesn't force you to lift up a magnet in meat space to use it.
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None of these reasons you mentioned is a reason to quit/stop/lose. It doesn't seem you failed for any of those reasons - you failed because you simply gave up!
Lesson for businesses: for any service that's "mission critical" (communications would be for most I would think) either have a tested backup plan of your own or be VERY comfortable that your vendor does.
In chronological order:

- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Kiyosaki
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- Happiness by Matthieu Ricard
- Walden by Throreau
- Zen and the art... by Pirsig
I don't want to be "that guy," but there are a few typos in the article, thought it'd help to see a couple here:

"... startups in the Twitter ecosystem ti stop “filling holes.” "

"He disagrees with Michael’s ffirst Blubble post in which he..."
Don't let debt depress you unless you are driving around in a luxury car and have a 60 inch TV at home. Loans are a risk the lender gladly takes in return for nice profit - sometimes they lose, it's part of their game and they get to write it off.

Assuming you are in the USA we don't have debtors prisons (for now) and creditors aren't allowed to harass you. Change your phone number and don't give out the new one to anyone. It won't stop the letters from hell, which will arrive every week for decades to come (seriously) but you can stop opening those.

Don't bother to declare bankruptcy either unless you have assets they could take away from you.

They only debt you cannot escape is student loans because by congressional law they are for life, can't be removed by bankruptcy, and can be taken from tax returns and future benefits like SS.

Become a cash customer, it's a better way of living efficiently anyway.
Did Wolfram ever get around to giving credit to Zuse and Fredkin?

http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_zuse_fredkin_thesis.h...
The Grasshopper guys have given me great service over the years. It's unfortunate that this has happened, but I'm sure they'll make things right when they have time to breathe.
Massive corporate office buildings seem so antiquated to me. Don't people work remotely nowadays? Even when I am on-site I prefer to hold meetings over web share and phone conferences. Meetings you have to walk to never start on time. What a waste.
Kinda out of topic, but I tried out top websites that use long-polling (like Quora), and it always fails. I guess the app waits for all the resources to load completely, which for long-polling websites, happens rather long after the DOMready event.
From the Grasshopper blog:

Unfortunately, our efforts are being slowed by a few complicating factors:

1. We are running in our disaster recovery site and this is not a normal practice for us – this is leading to some unforeseen issues.

2. We are experiencing internal network issues at our disaster recovery site.

This really has the smell of a disaster recovery plan that was never adequately tested.
Thanks.. we're going to check that out.
Isn't this exactly what Wordpress does?
But is there anything to suggest that other banks in similar business space are any different?
Exactly! Writing. Copyrightable but not patentable. :)
I've been working through git immersion the past few days and it's definitely helped a lot. Short exercises to teach basic things.
With longer methods, it becomes more strenuous to say that it obviously has no errors.

I disagree. The proper comparison is not between one long function and one short one (that's a no-brainer), it's between a long function and a corresponding set of short functions plus all their interactions. Posing the comparison correctly makes the complexity tradeoff look very different. I'm not saying it's obvious, but the prima facie bias goes the other way.

There's a shortcut for answering this kind of question that may not be infallible but is very useful: program length. Things that make a program longer tend to increase its complexity. One should hesitate to argue that something which inflates code size is making a program simpler. But that is what the short-methods-OO school does routinely.

I don't see why one can't take overall program size as the basic measure of total complexity.

Edit: from another comment in this thread I gather that you tend to see interactions between functions as less complicated than code inside functions. Boy, do we look at this differently! If a function can do a single meaningful thing in isolation, of course I'd factor it out (that's almost another no-brainer). Those are what PG calls "utilities" in his Lisp books. They're meant for random access. But when functions start to interact with too many other functions in ways that affect application logic, my complexity Geiger counter goes crazy. I'd much rather have those interactions isolated in one place, where nobody else can get random access to them and introduce even more dependencies. As befits a truly different world-view, I'm puzzled as to how you can even hold yours.* It seems like a simple matter of combinatorics.

* Doesn't stop the discussion from being delightful though. Just to be clear.
That doesn't make sense in the context of my comment, and besides, i don't think that's true.

If you take the Turing Test to it's logical conclusion, a program that is indistinguishable from a human intelligence is a human intelligence. There's no means to some other end. The program is the intelligence.

This is also something that Turing came up with in the 40s & 50s. Not exactly novel.
This[1] is much more comprehensive and useful, imo. Compiled by the good folk from 4chan's /sci/ board.

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Does Ron Ritzman do anything other than delete other people's work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ron_Ritzm...
Last I checked the app was free. Sounds to me like a product they thought would be fun to make, so they made it. I dig it.
'product gifting will become a dominant channel for finding new customers'... interesting premise.
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I am neither in financial services nor technology, although because I live in the region I associate with people who work in both industries, and although it's not right to generalize - in general there are vast differences in their outlook on life, the world, and what they contribute to manhattan.
I love self-sealing arguments that accuse others of making self-sealing arguments. They're simultaneously contradictory and consistent. The essence of paradox and self-parody.

If their arguments are invalid, then perhaps they should be rebutted, or perhaps someone could link to another resource where they have been rebutted.
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I was at the Singularity summit in SLC this weekend and had the privilege of hearing Mr. Shantanu Sinha (president of Khan Academy) speak. One of the questions from the audience after his presentation was about how they plan to teach subjects that are more open to interpretation than math.

His answer (according to my notes) is that they are working on it, and it is a challenge to eliminate bias. He stressed that they have just recently grown to 8 employees thanks to the recent funding, and that they are doing their best.

Their overall vision is one of enabling true mastery of subjects by enabling students to proceed at their own pace, and expand upon on a topic only after mastering the prerequisites (switching from percent knowledge in fixed time to complete knowledge in variable time).
The eventual goal is to change the in-class focus from data transmission to social interaction, learning interpersonal skills, communication, leadership, and teamwork.

I was sceptical about Khan academy, but I believe that with sufficient funding and attention they will be able to create a curriculum that is at least as good as what the average student gets now, and probably much better. They have also started experimenting with A/B testing using analytics on their 2 million students to find the most effective ways to teach.
That is why SCOTUS allows dissenting opinions. Sometimes we just don't get it right the first time around and it is good to have a record of what we could have done better. But I'll be damned if I'm wrong on the internet!
In fact, when Peter Sibel told Knuth during their interview that he was asking everyone if the had read TAOCP, Knuth said that even he hadn't read it.
>Most American high school and college students would find it difficult to give even a summary of the Vietnam War or the Cuban Missile Crisis.

That is a broad assertion on your part and one that I have yet to find true; esp. after meeting many former high schoolers in my college History classes.
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"Wikipedia deleting programming language articles" is a silly a title as "Science is biased" or "Music writes great new song"

Wikipedia does not delete programming articles. One Wikipedia editor is deleting programming language articles.
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Uh... well, I'm getting Wolfram's take right. So you don't think my analogy is true? It's just an analogy.

But it's clear that it has methodological implications for how one does science:

For example, if you think computers are just a way to simulate continuous systems, it would not occur to you to sample random programs and see what they do. It would not occur to you to enumerate simple programs. And you wouldn't think that it is very interesting that such and such a simple program can do such a such a computation.

If you did, it would. And if you were ambitious enough, you would actually try hunting for the program that computes the universe, as Wolfram has been doing on a cluster in his basement (I love this tidbit) for some years now: http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_...
Not true. Richard Feynman would criticize academic presentations without mercy if he found them wrong.
Yeah, I was going to ask if I was the only one who thought this was some weird Steve Jobs metaphor. I guess not.
We use five9, but they have downtime as well (they are hosted call center, not SIP). Super easy to use, expensive.

Tried to get a quote from liveops, but they literally won't call back. Terrible sales staff.
I think it's pretty unlikely. But the conversation had gotten around to "how would they even do that???", so that's what I answered. :)
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I've thought about this as well and IMO computer science makes sense as mathematics with a concept of side effects. In that way the universe is more a computer program than a mathematical equation.
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Well, I wrote my thesis about cellular automata, and I promise I've considered Wolfram's set of ideas and perspectives. So while I can't prove anything about the popularity of Aaronson's review in general, your hypothesis is demonstrably false in at least n=1 instance.

That being said, I took a look at your website and GitHub (not to mention your employer, Wolfram Research) and it's obvious you know what you're talking about - I don't think you should be being downvoted as heavily in this thread as you are. Plus you made a Futurama reference, so you're obviously a cool dude.

My point is, let's all avoid implying that people who don't agree with us aren't qualified to discuss this subject. I think both of us are, and Wolfram is a pretty polarizing subject - one that all sides need to keep civil about sometimes.
This is why it's often a good idea to outsource tasks that aren't your business's core competency. I've used Flurry for mobile stats tracking because they've devoted a lot of time figuring out solutions to problems like this. Time I don't have, and DDOSs I don't have to diagnose.
Ha, I'm currently wearing my 251 course staff ("yer sould = pwned") shirt as I type this.

The most recent website is contained in https://colormygraph.ugrad.cs.cmu.edu/ . One of the TAs used the course as a testing grounds for his pedagogy research, which has students grading each other (doing "verifications") as part of their assignment, and spent a while building the course infrastructure to support it. (We then grade them on their grading.) After a bit of tweaking (e.g.: we quickly realized the students would primarily benefit from verifying a couple problems rather than all of them), it wound up working really well!
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If you don't work in the code you shouldn't get an opinion and giving one to someone like that is asking for trouble. At the end of the day, it will be a developer who feels the pain, not the architect. There really is no incentive to do a professional job if it doesn't make your life harder later (sometimes that isn't even true).

*professional means good quality balanced with maintenance and time available during development.

Just putting this out there, besides the undoubtedly negative sentiment it will bring. Try pairing. You don't have to do it all the time, but if you are working on something that you have to think about, bring another developer over. The best way to ensure what you are writing is good is to get another set of eyes on it. Preferable a set that will actually need to do something with the code at some point.
MIT's OpenCourseWare is a fantastic project. It's been a while since I was involved with it, but I contacted them a few years ago and helped TeX up some of the notes (for Physics courses, not CS). Anyhow, if you feel inspired or just want to learn a subject even better by reading its notes carefully enough to typeset them, consider contacting OCW and asking if they've got anything available. It's a good experience and it's nice to think about how many people benefit from it.
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