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Regarding entrepreneurship part..

For me bitcoins is just another sale channel for my http://store.gifti.us . Once I receive coins I immediately exchange them to fiat dollars to pay suppliers. It works perfectly so far. And this is how I suppose it should work, at least until bitcoins will not become world currency =)
That boat sailed a long time ago.

I do like pleasant stuff. Please, if you want me to read your email, don't send me plain text emails.
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Example: "We want to survive. Survival requires sustainability by definition. Therefore, we must have sustainability". True, but rather useless without going into what sustainability means numerically.
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Yeah, tell me about it - I poked in here more or less by accident (tab still open) and found your reply. Everyone else is long gone, of course.

You're right about topicality being important, but there are tons of forums which I've followed (on history, for example, or on science) where nothing is topical and threads go on for 140 phpBB pages or more. Needless to say, these threads are unusable, especially compared to Usenet. So why not make software for it? People write software for more obscure niches all the time.
I think coding at this level -- successfully; well -- reflects a kind of relentlessness that was essential.

Gates had other qualities that contributed to Microsoft's success: The desire and ability to focus on getting people to do things and on business, etc.

But his coding work demonstrates a focus, an intensity and persistence, that was instrumental.

I'm not particularly fond of some of his and Microsoft's business techniques. But he damned well executed them, relentlessly. As I see it (from afar), he was, is never one for half measures -- not with regard to his true interests.
I built http://www.facebook.com/nikerunning?sk=app_151033471623290 with Backbone.js. Still trying to get my head around underscore and controllers.
I know of one company where I live that exclusively hires CL developers. They're called Secure Outcomes, and I think they do something with fingerprint recognition. They are, however, the only company I've ever seen "in the wild" that uses CL. I don't know if there's a .NET equivalent to Clojure, but that might be an inroad for you. If you find anything, would you let me know? I'm in a similar boat except stuck in Java / Groovy land.

On a different note, would you mind if I pinged you some time to ask some ?'s about life in Australia? My wife and I are talking about places to emigrate, and Australia is very high on our list of desired places.
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I'm curious how many people here choose Nginx over Apache. If I have a choice in my stack, I will always choose Nginx but all too often if I'm doing work for someone else, they always demand Apache. I think it's because it's the "defacto standard" and tends to be well known among less technical people. I'm sure the same situation goes for people who prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL.

I guess my question being, how would you convince people to use your favorite stack, and sometimes the best service for the job, such as Nginx/PostgreSQL, when all they know is the most popular services. Sometimes, just convincing them it's the best for the job is not enough.
The framework itself is perfectly capable of supporting REST as the article we are discussing is evidence.

My point is that the default routing, the built-in helper functions, and the documentation for beginners all discourage it. For example, the router does not route differently based on the HTTP method. It only takes the URL into account and leaves it to the developer to make a switch based on if the method is GET or POST. This means you're effectively doing some of the routing in the urls.py and some of the routing inside your view.

Several of these REST frameworks above (for example the dagny project I mentioned) change that. I think REST is a good enough design pattern that the framework should lean heavily toward it by default.

My main site is django so I appreciate the flexibility I get from it. I think it should be possible to do non-REST. This is one thing that I struggled with as a new user. I thought Django would lead me down the right path and in my opinion the default routing is weak.
Most of the European problems right now are problems that the US just plain cannot have -- Greece, Spain and Italy running up huge debts because they have the credibility of the eurozone without any of the responsibility.

America's different, we're one country.

Those problems aside, we could do a lot worse than modeling europe, way less gas usage, higher health insurance coverage, 2 months of vacation a year. Sounds a lot more stable to me.
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Usually that's the case -- but if you know for certain that there's a one-to-one relationship between a model and it's view, then there's no harm in having a direct reference for convenience. Pragmatism > Purity, where UI code is concerned.
> Here is essentially how this entire page read, for me: "Q: Will we ever run out of resources?" "A: No, of course not, that's silly!"

Well, then you need to read better. For instance, he estimates that nuclear and solar energy will last us 5 billion years. If he's wrong by a factor of 1000 that's still 5 million years which is not too bad.

And there's a whole page of references:

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/references.html

PS: I expect that some people will assume I'm in the same "camp" of the author, but I'm just pointing out that the criticism above is unfair.
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Hey PetrolMan - I am using Firefox 4 also and did not receive that message. I also updated "The Schwarz." Can't believe I missed that.
Short version: money is valuable because you pay taxes with it, and without it you go to jail.
If they do I will tatoo a SQL-injection attack on my forehead.
Alright, took a second look, I guess the issues with those browsers aren't so mission critical, but probably still best not to use a 900px width.
tl;dr Since Weiner's sex life is private his only wrongdoing in this affair is because he made the Democrats lose a valuable candidate for NYT Mayor.

The wrongness of this essay goes to the heart of the matter, I think. When the (similar) Strauss-Kahn affair surfaced recently the overwhelming French response was that he was tricked and that this was his private life anyway. One aspect of why people were angry with Strauss-Kahn was that he got himself out of the presidential race, and caused Le Pen to get more votes. This is, in essence, exactly what this essay says for Rep. Weiner.

I find such an "us vs. them" mentality abhorrent, where when someone from "our" camp screws up we get more angry with them for making "us" look bad rather than what they did. Politicians should be held to a higher standard in their private lives than normal people, if you cannot handle this (or don't want to) then don't go into politics. Things that can be deemed OK (and legal) for normal people, i.e. sending a shirtless photo of yourself to a woman on Craigslist, having sex with a prostitute (e.g. in Nevada) are off-limits for politicians.

Another interesting point is that such behavior in these men (they are almost exclusively men) are not isolated incidents: Strauss-Kahn had a history of aggressive women groping, Weiner was sexting with six women, etc., so we can't write it off as a momentary lapse of reason. This is exactly "broad generalizations made nowadays about the sex and powerful men" that evidence shows to be true again and again and that Bader calls bullshit, because he's blinded by his political agenda.
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Thanks for the input benatkin. The table was really just an example but I definitely agree that a more standard width table would be better. I updated it to 600px in width.
Looks like that has been changed.

https://github.com/seanpowell/Email-Boilerplate/commit/45663...
Unfortunately, it doesn't handle cycles in the object graph[1], which was almost the entire reason I wanted GC. Manually dealing with cycles is one of the worst parts of working with blocks (the other is the lack of parameterized types).

Assuming that ARC works reliably and consistently, it'll be nice to lose some boilerplate, but the worst facet of reference counting -- object graph cycles -- still isn't fixed.

[1] There is support for zeroing weak references, but this is a very manual solution to the cycle problem.
A question for European readers:

Do you see the culture of the Welfare State as an obstacle to changing culture to accept that being successful, doing new business ventures is a good thing?
If the third chart were a chart of the economy, I would swear that Microsoft IIS was a perfect representation of the housing/financial bubble. I can't think of why there would be a correlation though.
Why not include shared hosting accounts? Isn't convenience and cost of shared hosting a valuable metric?
I agree with you. I'm concerned about memory leaks from the circular references, though.
It depends upon what management has as their goal. If they want flash everywhere than they need to make sure it works on places like 64bit Linux. If they are in the final days of the product (which it seems like they are) they just trying to milk it for what it is worth before it dies (i.e. make sure those XP users are not too unhappy).
hey JonLim - I am definitely open to any input. For email I see people take a two pronged width approach a lot. Setting the width like "width=XXX" and style="width:XXXpx." Thanks for checking it out.
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It might be helpful to have a clearer link to the GitHub project on the site so people know that they can fork it easily.

https://github.com/seanpowell/Email-Boilerplate/
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Is a scenario where you actually want your emails to convert to sales not necessary?
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Apache is easier to configure and provides a bunch of useful plugins that Nginx doesn't. It's more trustworthy in a shared-hosting environment too.
The number 1 reason why bitcoin will fail: Silk Road (et al) have handed legislators all the ammunition they need to go after it with a vengeance. All of what's coming next has happened before. Think e-gold, act II.

Simply put there are no incentives (and massive disincentives, both perceived and real) for any government to tolerate financial transactions in anything other than fiat currency. The more popular the service becomes the more frenetic legislative and enforcement activity will become to stamp it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold
I suppose that's about the time that this will come into fashion: http://ahprojects.com/c/itp/thesis
If no one gets before me ill verify today if Nitro is running in WebView / Fullscreen webapps, I would also like to check if webgl is working now but can't check right now, at work.

Great news that webworkers are "working" :)

I'm sure we'll also get an update from Phoboslab and impactjs if there are any significant performance gains elsewhere for html5 graphics.
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Hey SamColes - The table itself was just an example to show setting up a table properly (not necessarily a view on how wide it should be). The whole width question is a more of a design call than anything else. I am trying to keep it as design-free as possible.

There are however many interesting uses for wider than normal emails. In any case, I updated the example table to be 600px wide.
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Naturally if you'd had a quick look at the readme/roadmap, you might have noticed that this is a proof of concept :o)

V1.0 will combine it with a standard PHP captcha, which is replaced onload.
My favourite company in the world is a German engineering firm called Rohloff. Their motto is "No slogans, just facts" and their business is really just a single product - a beautifully engineered internal gearbox for bicycles called the Speedhub, that costs €1000 and lasts 100,000km.

Rohloff make a product as finely engineered as any swiss watch, but in doing so create an anti-consumerist product. Their product is built to last forever and usually does. While their Japanese, American and Italian competitors battle to create ever more fragile "racing" components and strive for ever increasing levels of built-in obsolescence, Rohloff obstinately refuse to make anything the most durable and reliable product.

If we measure the wellbeing of society purely in terms of GDP, Rohloff are a disaster; But the only way for Rohloff to improve profitability would be for them to throw their customers under the bus. There is nothing left to improve in a Rohloff Speedhub - it is for all practical purposes perfect. Any possible "improvement" would benefit the marketers, not the customer.

I prefer Mercedes and BMW to Cadillac and Lincoln. I would rather see my country emulate Germany than America.
Recently tried to choose nginx -- Mono fastcgi is a trainwreck though, and mod_mono works well enough.

I'll switch to nginx as soon as that situation changes.
That's thanks to mrdoob's Harmony, specifically the Ribbon brush (http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/)
And he came at the right time to the right place - with an operating system for a new platform that would prove to be more widespread than all platforms before.
I agree with designer's responsibility to maximize "findability" of content - however it's simply impossible to design for every single resolution and size of window. Until now, at least scrollbar was always there, no matter what resolution (if content was bigger), indicating more content.
I agree it's to soon to predict effects of that change, and I'm not trying to do that. I'm just trying to understand what would be the benefits/reasoning behind the decision to change standard GUI element that already worked well.
I found the proposition absurd: Why would you suspect Gates to be less of a coder than, say, Page, Brin, or Zuckerberg?
> They had enough spare bytes to not have to pull
> that trick. It'd have been better to clean up some
> algorithms somewhere or reuse some code.

I assume from your clear and unequivocal statement that you have first hand knowledge of that. I'll bow to your better information.

> Note: I've worked with very memory constrained
> systems in assembly before

As have I.

> (actually hand assembled code on paper as well).

That's how I started, although largely I ended up writing directly in machine code since it was quicker, and after I found my third bug in the assembler I had occasional access to I gave up on writing mnemonics at all. It was only much later when I had other people to communicate with that I went back to writing assembly.

And I remember writing code that really, really needed to do things like jumping into the middle of instructions.
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I'd argue the opposite. I find nginx config much more flexible, and compact.
The plugin actually combines two libs, the Ribbon brush is used only for display (could be any brush if you switch out that class in the JS), meanwhile the points you draw are also tested against the Protractor gesture recognition algorithm.
For a foreign company attempting to break into that market:

Not with censors, minders, and the party looking over their shoulder. Also, would you care to give half your company over to the authorities.

For a home-grown company attempting to break out of that market:

The same as above applies, but in reverse. You need to get rid of that albatross around your neck.
Very interesting - thanks.

I'm looking to include a "Switch to default captcha" option for those concerned with usability (myself included)
It's great that the open source solutions are so strong in this market. It's nice to see nginx carving out a nice bit of market share too.

Another web server project I quite like is Cherokee (http://www.cherokee-project.com/) - it's got a lot of features but still manages to beat Apache, lighthttpd and nginx in a lot of benchmarks. It's got quite a nice web interface to control it too but it's a bit annoying to not have configuration files for automated setups...
Salespeople are marginal costs, not fixed costs, and that is why they do not scale. (Unless those salespeople are converting prospects into long-term renewal sales)
Engineering and design is a fixed cost.
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The canonical linkbait headline would clearly have been, "IIS is dead. Netcraft confirms it."
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This whole hoarding argument is bogus: it assumes bitcoin will fail because bitcoin will be so successful that people will hoard.
The choice of nginx vs Apache over MySQL vs PostgreSQL is not an equal comparison at all. Until the application hits very high hit rates, the web server choice is mostly inconsequential. RDBMS choice will have real impact on the developers from the outset.
600px may be fine for Hotmail, but I think the bigger question is how to deal with people reading this HTML mail on mobile clients with smaller screens. People are reading alot of email on mobile devices and its increasing. A table 600 px wide is still to wide for most devices.
It's only a proof if you take a leap of faith and accept certain things. You could argue that that's how math works, but to me the less axioms we need, the better.

I really love this quote from Wittgenstein:

"Where the nonsense starts is with our habit of thinking of a large number as closer to infinity than a small one".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_Cantor%27s_the...
thanx :o) watch the repo to see when it becomes ready for use on live websites.
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At the current price miners are producing $140,000 worth of bitcoins per day, I expect most of these miners will be looking to cash out and the ones that don't need to at least cover electricity costs etc. $100,000+ new investment per day probably won't be sustainable for long and hence the price will have to correct itself.
Yeah, there was a case a few years ago where IIS surged ahead because Microsoft convinced a big domain parker to switch.

Personally I like Apache for bulk hosting. It's easy to write scripts that can deploy thousands of sites. There's a scripting interface to IIS that would let you do that too, but it's just so easy to write a script that prints lines into a configuration file.

There are a lot of things to explain in that graph. Assuming that an anomaly in Netcraft doesn't explain some of the bumps it seems like there were a lot of drops in the year after the 2008 financial crisis and also it seems like someone's gone bananas registering names in the last few years.
Godaddy.com also runs on IIS, so it may just be a company/cultural preference.
The market that Microsoft directly competes in (using IIS) has never been anywhere near the shared hosting space.

My suggestion with removing the shared hosting accounts was just a way to remove noise from the dataset so we are truly comparing apples to apples rather than apples to oranges... Otherwise you could end up seeing IIS loose in a market space that it never was in (and never will be in) because Apache gained in it.

It was just a suggestion. You could leave shared hosting in.
I just finished my B. Tech (Computer Science and Engineering) course. This blog post was forwarded to me by my supervisor in Wipro, where I did my internship. He himself agreed mostly with the article. Anyways, this article inspired me to write this: http://techie-buzz.com/discussions/engineering-colleges-stud...
A lot of that expense is redundant safety systems, inspections, etc. Which cost is born because of regulation.

Whether regulations like that are a problem or a solution is a source of endless debate depending on your political position. But given recent events in Japan, it is clear that we are headed for more regulation, not less.
Not on topic but anyone knows why Lion comes with Ruby 1.8.7 and not 1.9 branch?
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Why the ridiculously elaborate design? It's probably pretty, but it wastes space...
Circular references are garbage collected -- no need to worry about them.

You might be thinking of a terrible old IE bug where circular references between JavaScript objects and DOM nodes were never collected, but that's never been an issue with JavaScript-only references.
This is my first exposure to Backbone (aside from hearing DHH recommend it at RailsConf). It looks like it helps formalize a lot of what I'd already come to realize was a good way of doing large JS apps - MVC design.

However, I've found one of the most painful things I have to do when doing a lot of JS is dealing with HTML as a string. Escaping quotes is a pain in the neck, syntax highlighting is broken in my editors. The HTML here is pretty simple so it's not problematic, but sometimes you need to render larger, more complex blocks of HTML. HTML is just not as easy to work with in JS when you compare it to the templating systems provided by Rails, Pylons, etc. Does Backbone have anything to help this?
Automatic Reference Counting is not Garbage Collection, but it's a start, and can weakly be used as a sort of garbage collection. It is up on iOS5's site page, however, so that part is confirmed for now.

http://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios5/
There is a shortcut for finding items in current view: "$('ul', this.el)" - this.$('ul')
While I appreciate the ability to be able to disable the blinking cursor, does anyone else not mind the cursor? Personally I'd rather know where my input focus is(how many times have you dealt with a poorly-written UI that doesn't have a logical tab ordering?), or at least know that I'm able to start typing, rather than wonder if the application in question is blocking input because of execution... comparing it to "torture" seems a little far-fetched.
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His underlying assumption is that if we raise everyone's standard of living, population will stabilize permanently. It is true that raising people's standard of living drops population growth - typically to below the replacement level. But anyone who thinks that this effect will last for billions, millions, or even thousands of years has failed to understand evolution.
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why this restriction?
The interesting question is: should such decisions be made by the Congress or the judiciary (e.g Supreme Court) system? This would be one hell of a case for the Supreme Court.

Note that in 2003 the SC held the extension of the copyrights passed by the Congress in 1998 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_v._Holder#cite_note-CIT_G...). The SC Blog has interesting information about the case: http://www.scotusblog.com/2011/03/a-major-test-of-copyright-...
Well, Austria is a paradise compared to a place like Greece (which, unlike Germany, could stand for a bit of the cultural change espoused by the WSJ article): http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/business/30greek.html
I'm fairly sure that the LLVM compiler is smarter than the smartest Objective-C code I could write, but your mileage may vary.