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wear some pants for god's sake

As if you could offend The Creator, who made humans[1] pantsless, by not wearing pants.

[1] source: a creation story
The way you've worded this, and the official response, it reads like you didn't have hot spares available?

That being the case, the two disk failures didn't need to be concurrent for you to end up where you did...
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Never heard of you till just now, but looked at your designs. Incredible work. You all should consider doing a video of you designing an icon or image or page or something. I'd definitely pay to watch designers of your caliber go through the process.
If your only experience was Symbian and Nokia then I can see why you feel that way. There's a reason that even 10 years of development after you had your phone, Nokia has decided to dump Symbian. Terrible platform.
They charge 19% last time I checked.
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funny. we had better experience with jira than trac (python). try redmine (ruby).
Hmm.. I don't know Scala, so I cannot really discuss Scala complexity.

But having no degree whatsoever, I find pretty much all Haskell I encounter understandable and approachable and that has been the case ever since I had around 4-6 months of Haskell experience.

I have never encountered significant bugs in GHC's type checker -- are there any more bugs there than there are in other less advanced type systems?
This is going to be an awesome talk. I have been following these guys on twitter. Although I don't have a challenge coin to make it to the talk I would hope those that do can report here how the talk went.

https://twitter.com/ridpath
https://twitter.com/freedomcoder
That is not true. A startup uses all resources at their disposal, including recruiters if necessary. A good recruiter can hire very specific people that you couldn't reach easily yourself, especially if you are young and haven't had the time to build a good personal network.
You've set the forground colors for this text entry box and the Submit button to black. That causes the text to be invisible for those of us with light-on-dark systems. Just leave the text color alone for those and it'll work fine for everyone.
Was it none of the software? I had a tough time reading it... seemed like definitely two pieces were out, but the e-commerce stuff might have been in?
Don't get me wrong --- I completely hear your frustration. Sounds like you've encountered some serious losers.
Accenture is more known for bungling giant contracts and sucking money out of nearly-bankrupt organizations.
Does anyone know how often Facebook does this? Is this just one of many that happened to make news?
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Would you consider a recruiter if the pricing was much lower than what is charged by traditional headhunters? (thinking $3k USD per person)
Code yourself a cliffhanger
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Last I checked, the LuaJIT allocator on AMD64 platforms uses only a small part of the address space for the Lua heap, partly so that more efficient type-punned representations can be used internally. I don't remember what the limit is exactly, but it's only a few GB (and beyond that the GC starts having trouble anyway). I don't know whether this applies to the machine-code JIT output, or to external cdata arrays, but it's something to watch out for here.
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What is your email?

Let me give a meaningful response: in low latency trading, the value is truly in the platform. The strategies are simple, and you can pick up a textbook (ie Aldridge http://www.amazon.com/High-Frequency-Trading-Practical-Algor...) to learn the strategies employed at that level. That being said, the traditional "sysadmin" role is oftentimes filled by people traditionally described as "developers". The roles have melded over the years.

Hence, the question you are asking really delves into the "alpha" of the platform. This is something a practicing HFT sysadmin wouldn't want to divulge (or can't because of the highly litigious nature of the industry -- take Sergey Aleynikov or Samarth Agarwal as examples of what could happen if people talk too much)
My girlfriend does exactly the same thing. I wonder if its a gender thing? Her PC kept freezing, but she loves her new Mac Air.
Any advice for improvement ?
No, Checkout and Enstore are staying with Sofa's JV partner, Acclivity, makers of the US versions of MYOB.

On one hand this stinks because Acclivity has shown little ability to create excellent software. On the other hand, Sofa's development speed is crazy slow. Way too much pixel-pushing.
Why does the most obvious and logical course of events require justification?

It doesn't. Your claim does.

The easiest way to "hack" is to install a script and run it, e.g. a traffic sniffer, a wifi encryption breaker, Firesheep, or any one of many vulnerability scan/exploiters. Or to look over someone's shoulder as they type a password in, or to walk up when they step away from their computer for a moment. None of that needs any hacking chops or brains. Most exploits by volume are going to be like these because these are easiest.

The next most easy way is to do phishing scams, it needs some chops to fake login forms and bulk email, but it's not massively complex.

The hardest way is to understand and find flaws in a system and then exploit them. This is likely to be most successful, but due to the knowledge, effort and skill and sustained interest required, to be the least common by volume.

And then above that, people who do the last one "for a living".

A canary that squawks against "I made a mistake and some opportunist got into my email" is more likely to go off, and more likely to be useful, than a canary that squawks against "a skilled hacker targetted me and got through Google's security".

Metalfrog's claim is that it is more likely that a real hacker would get in, be taking precautions against honeypots, and the canary would be useless. I think it much more likely that an opportunist would be getting in and a skilled hacker targetting something more important instead, and that the canary stands a slim chance of being useful instead of zero chance.
Agreed, hard drives fail constantly. I've had as many as 3 dead at a time while waiting for hot spares to rebuild in arrays as small as 24 drives. Dual drive failures have happened at least twice that I can remember off the top of my head in the last 3-4 years.

Usually running raid10 for performance reasons but when I don't need fast writes I use raid6 instead of raid5 for anything beyond 8 drives.
Same with Checkout and Enstore. While Sofa has pretty good design skills, it's development speed leaves a bit to be desired.
The other day an editor at work was complaining that a link they added only worked when visited directly, not when clicked. It turned out the target site had an access logger that synchronously downloaded the referring page, got its title, and then attempted to insert the title into its DB - without escaping it of course. Our post linking to the target site had an apostrophe in its title...
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Why would you recommend it? That link doesn't give me any reason to think it's worth watching, or that I should want to change my dislike of advertising.

I think I have very good reasons for disliking advertising, things like one or more of the following: it's taking up my limited time, attention and cognitive abilities to tell me about things I don't want or need or can't use. It's uglifying my surroundings. It's interrupting and distracting. It's telling me about things I do want but can't afford, or use, or don't have room or time for. It's telling me about things I didn't want, but now do, which is annoying. It's telling me about things I do want, and already know about. It's deliberately misleading. I feel bad that an advertising company is paying money to a service provider because I saw an advert for something I will never buy.

There is a hypothetical "targetted advert" which shows me just what I want, right when I want it.

I think this is a mirage they chase to avoid facing up to how ridiculous an idea it really is.
> His basic method is to confirm some common wisdom, maybe with a handful of anecdotes.

And I like it.
"And no, outsourcing an MVP and paying for that, and coming up with the idea is not a huge value prop."

I actually read through the cursing.
What does that do?

Looks like it's supposed to make sounds or something, but can't hear a thing on Chromium or FF4.
My wild guess is that Facebook is working on something that requires a lot of icons, such as a mobile interface.
Of course you do. And that's why it gets upvoted.

But you are not enriched by comforting, unverifiable group-think.
I doubt it's a marketing campain. Its dubious homepage looks too amateur-like.

And .us domains, really?
RAID-DP and the array always has a hot spare, and we had one cold spare on-site and another there within hours to replace the 2nd failure.
Funny that they say multi-master is bad since we can't reason about it. It always feels like they are out to insult the users telling them they are too stupid to use other things because it's hard. I guess all that durability didn't matter too until they had time to implement write-logs. I guess first class conflicts won't matter until they have real distributed computing support across multiple data centers either.
I hear you man, snow building is where it's at.
I don't think you're really describing business co-founders but instead just the want to be entrepreneurs who are out of work. People who are all talk are everywhere in the workplace and society and of course you will find them in the startup world. No way to get rid of them, so just ignore.
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Which RTP startup people are active HNers besides you and javery?

I know there are more of us here, but I don't know everyone's HN username. Offhand I can think of kacyf (works with javery at AdZerk)
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kacy

and Corey from Blinkness: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Cblinks

I know there are others, I just can't tell you who they are on here, from memory.

What about interface and ux design talent in the area? Anyone notable?

A lot of the folks that work at Viget Labs are pretty sharp on UI and UX. We had a great UX team assembled at Lulu.com at one time, but unfortunately that team got broken up, some people moved away, some people went to other companies, and some people I just plain lost touch with. But yeah, there are some UI/UX people here who do some nice work.

http://www.viget.com/

When is the next decent event between now and the 21st?

Hmmm... we've had a flurry of stuff just in the last few days, so I'm not sure what else is going on this month. Let me glance at some calendars and I'll post an update later. Or maybe somebody else will have something "on the tip of their tongue" so to speak.
sysadmin stuff is pretty much standard because the challenging work is actually done by the strategists / developers. Stuff like processor affinity magic, which at one time would be covered by sysadmins, are now being covered by the people who deploy the strategies. I guess there's something to be said about the extent to which roles have melded (the line between strategist and developer and sysadmin is not clear, and in some circumstances a single person fills all roles).

"We had access to all kinds of advantages in this regard that normal ccompanies wouldn't get." <-- it costs about 15K a month, soup to nuts, to get the "advantages"
While I can't confirm it definitively, it looks as though it may require Flash to handle the audio underneath. If so, this is unfortunate, but perhaps understandable: as nice as the audio tag is for basic purposes, the lack of precise control makes composing sounds together problematic. The Audio Data API helps with that, but it's pretty nonportable still.
I see. So, sort of like a sculptural "chip away everything that's not an elephant" kind of approach. That makes some sense.

I think the "custom generated code to mee your precise needs" category is exactly where I think scaffold writers are just lazy library writers. If there's a way to parameterize the scaffold experience, there's a way to create a parameterized library that "scaffolds" your code without generating a bunch of boilerplate.

On the last point: I think that makes a lot of sense, especially if you're working for clients. They want to end up with a complete, hackable site that doesn't have some weird dependency on a meta library. (like a library with meta-forms, meta-models, etc)

I guess I'm biased because I work on one big piece of software, so that kind of duplication would be heresy.

That said, if you tried to write a unified framework that let you build sites like that without a bunch of generated scaffold... you might end up building the next Rails! Isn't that where Rails came from?
meh - I handle interviewing/recruiting for years and have never found a need for anything like this, it is pretty easy sending challenges to promising candidates and collecting them for review by email. I'm surprised techcrunch would cover such a narrowly focused technology. I understand solving niche problems but I don't see broader use for a tool like this?
Those expressions look a lot like an alternating series to me. You should be able to generate an expression to produce them fairly easily.
More likely it's a non-tech-person thing. Leaving everything open and clicking around in expose until you find stuff is easy: closing programs and then trying to find where you saved stuff via a file manager is hard.
Who has done more good, IBM or the Carnegie philanthropy?
Curious how people blame the acquirer for this type of thing and not the acquiree.
Too bad their site doesn't scale as well as MongoDB
Google Docs is a limited suite of Web apps trying to mimic Microsoft Office. iCloud has an API that 3rd party developers can use for all sorts of applications. Neither Microsoft Office nor Google Docs is anything near the caliber of using Omnioutliner for note taking and doing great outlines. iCloud will allow the developer to store documents on iCloud and provide syncing across computers and mobile devies, which Omnioutliner for the iPad currently can't do.

Google Docs big selling point is collaboration. That's what I use it for, and I love it. But sometimes I need a richer and more powerful experience, and that's what dedicated apps provide. I'm glad that Apple is pursuing this strategy, because I believe there is a need for both.

The other big plus of Apple's iCloud strategy is offline support.
They'd been sitting on the floor until now.
251 is far harder than any undergraduate math course at CMU.

I had to register an account just to say one thing ... BULLSHIT.

Math Studies was an order of magnitude harder than 251. Even factoring in the two homeworks and lectures of math studies, it's still a night and day difference. I took both last semester, and halfassed 251 and did well. There's no possible way to do that with math studies.

Just read your profile and realized who you were ... but I still hold to my opinion.
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dh, Could you send me an email? my username @ tripadvisor.com

I'd love to chat a bit about your experiences.. I'll even take you out to lunch (I'm right down the street in Newton). :P
Perhaps try another kind of smartphone? There are some really nice models out there.
I'm not sure how tongue in cheek that was ;-) but 90% confidence was not a goal, at least. I just got bored after a week and wanted to move on. C'est la vie..
#11: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Diaspora-abandon-MongoDB-for-My...
You should have an email from me. Happy to chat anytime.
LOL sorry about the swearing. Was just frustrated when I was writing that.
They were trying to block all the copies of Zoolander they could.
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Not a marketing campaign, a joke. If you've never done it, you might not think it's worth the effort (and it isn't but it's addictive). When I was in high school, I used to get a thrill out of pretending to be the dumbest person alive and having tons of people make fun of me on the internet. Luckily I'm through that phase but I like to think I can spot a fellow troll. As long as they're not being racist, mean, or abusive it's all good fun. If he took money it's wrong, but I doubt his company has any clients.
I was kind of hoping they bought it so they could sue Apple for the name "Versions" for their new version control feature.
Amazon was a $2.7 billion company at that time.
Or just don't broadcast your ssid...
I considered adding an exception, but then I remembered Math Studies is really two classes. I definitely found Math Studies less than twice as hard as 251.

Of course, I might also say that I five-sixths assed Math Studies and three-halves-assed 251.

Maybe I shouldn't have rushed to make that statement. It certainly made graph theory with Mackey look like kindergarten, but I'm now remembering the stories about graph theory with Pikhurko and Set Theory.

P.S.: Hacker News is a proven way to break reddit addictions. Welcome!
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Uh, yeah. Every time we want a new website we should absolutely hand-code every user login system, online calendar, forum, feed parser, 3rd party integration, content templating system.....

Contemplate all possible interpretations of "technical debt" until enlightenment is achieved.
Just did, there's also happycow. None of these sites have very much content, they clearly are very old, and tattle is not tailored specifically for vegetarians and vegans - we're just good for those types of communities.
Science is a blackbox. We make theories about the world we live in based upon the results of experiments. Richard Feynman commented method of thinking about science on one of his videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1dgrvlWML4
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It is time for reading comfort Something light Something frivolous Something totally out of Iraq the economy health care environment or something or someone from Texas or Massachusetts For some it may mean a spy thriller in a bad mood or a trashy celebrity bio
This is very cool ... but what would you actually do (to prevent disaster) from your phone?

Let's say I get an alert on my iPhone but I'm 30 mins from getting to my laptop.

How would you stop them from recovering your DropBox or VPS console password?
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Actually, I think Sofa fits really interestingly in Facebook if they're wanting to go up against Foursquare and Square. Sofa has a bunch of experience with point-of-sale interactions. Maybe Facebook is going to reinvent the cash register/purchasing experience.

Or maybe it's just a talent acquisition. :)
I think that most of the spots where scaffolding could be useful to experienced devs, a higher level abstraction that does its generating at runtime is much better. It can be difficult to get right, but you end up with more power, better reusability, and less code to maintain overall.
Why is their name sofa and the logo a loveseat? Just saw their work and wow! Congrats guys!
Wow... fascinating idea about "rake scaffoldhub:snapshot"!

I really appreciate your feedback and encouragement. I definitely will continue working on scaffoldhub; probably my next step will be to open source the web site code (gem is already open) so others can help out on this. I really see this as a community resource - not a private project.
Science studies a black box. The science itself shouldn't be a black box. What is the added value of a black box representation of a black box?
Interesting-looking project.
Another terrible idea from a state bankrupt from terrible ideas.
That's because "tech people" have been conditioned, through the years, by the limitations of the hardware (limited memory) and operating system. It's the OS's job to manage resources, but we still do it anyway. Which is why Apple's upcoming Lion OS with auto-save, auto-resume, window management etc will be a god-send for many people I know.
I'm coming at this with Java semantics, apologies if that just doesn't work for you :)

I'd make the constructor private, and move the validation into a public static factory method on the same class that returns an Either.
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There is an updated version that just released this week on WSJ.
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"then the back can't read it too" what back? Oh the back of the room.

"Practice having then switch in and out at the last minute." Then what? Oh .. them.

So sorry. (and generally, please excuse my dropped periods. I use periods like commas. When infact I should use -- shudder -- semi colons.)

I really should play this more often..

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/semicolonwars.htm
These guys have amazing design. Have you guys seen the cappuccino maker design? Incredible!
http://www.madebysofa.com/#design
Why not? Choose parent at random and place the file near children of that parent. In 99% of cases it's the only parent, so you get the result you aimed for. Why would it be prevented by possible other names?
"Obama uses Optimizely. Help him get re-elected by joining Optimizely". It doesn't look very clear to me that this is a YC-sponsored link.
It would do nothing. We expose the atmosphere to 6000K every day in forges and nothing bad happens.

The reason of course is the temperature doesn't matter - total energy does. And even though it's very hot, and very large, there is very very very little matter there, so the total energy is quite minimal.
Or, they could do something towards actually solving the state budget problems and just fire themselves.
Who the fuck is Jerry? My daddy taught me never to trust name droppers.

Also, lol, you read the 251 wiki.
This made me lol. They interchanged 'maid' and 'wife.'
The physical form of the iPad facilitates the photo equivalent of this: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/52-steve-jobs-just-put-it-in-...
I think it's a very dumb way to advertise. No matter what side of the aisle they are on politically, they alienate a considerable percentage of potential employees/customers with that strategy.
That is not much of an explanation for why. It's like saying Chinese food is better for the Chinese.
but that's an inconvenience - it is much easier to just select a network then have to type the name, call me lazy #imnotsayingimjustsaying
An iPad app that's a Lisp interpretter... written in Haskel
Will do, thanks for the suggestion.
I'm still actively looking for cofounders. I go to tech events (Rails/Ruby user groups, etc), I went to the Cofounders Wanted meetup here in Austin. I put big banners on the product site advertising open positions. I put an ad on Craigslist looking for people.

I think the people who rely on their social network must either be friends with other hackers (I'm mostly not) or live in the bay area or something where there are lots of hackers. I mostly run in hippie/activist/academic circles and I'm not swarmed by people with tech/business chops so it's been a more difficult process for me. I would welcome a site or a service that would innovate around this problem.