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The page speed that Google uses in it's ranking is (in part?) collected from the Google toolbar installed on local clients. The JS is only cached for 6 minutes. So it seems this will indeed negatively impact your search rankings.
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Really great advice - I find it refreshing to read this kind of candid, straightforward talk.
I can't express how many times I've seen code with comment block boilerplate at the start of every method. And nothing filled in. Its really more common that the other kind.

So sure, we all know its great to document. The challenge is figuring out how to get it done. Given that we're all in a hurry, mean well but think we'll get back to it.

It feels like you're doing something when you paste in all those blank comment blocks. But soon you don't even see them, since first off they're usually blank, and second when debugging you're looking for the code not the comments, since if it all worked like its commented then there'd be no bugs.
Obama.
I don't think anyone involved (on the Gov't side) would plan things that poorly. Once the actions of any individual or group of individuals become a threat to the national security of the US they become 'enemy combatants' by the current definition and can (and have) been simply picked up and sent 'elsewhere.'

So if you noticed that some guy you used to chat with on IRC isn't around any more what's it to you? How do you know they are dead? You don't. The tribunals for folks in Guantanamo have been classified. Its not about publicity for them, its about eliminating threats to this nation both foreign and domestic.

Want to create a constitional amendment ala the first which says "Congress shall make no law to abridge the freedom of the people to use the Internet." ? You can be as noisy and active as you want, there is actually a path there for making it happen.

But clandestinely attempt to 'punish' the Government for what you consider to be abuse of its power over what we know of as the Internet, to the extent that you disrupt its operation, and you might as well just walk into the Congressional Rotunda with a couple of M16's and open fire.

In both cases the government has reserved the right to simply shoot you and move on, and frankly there probably won't be a lot of outcry one way or the other, teenager or not.

Either way, its going to be educational.
Very detailed and well written article.
->However one of the challenges here is that the information that is available to someone 'in' the office and someone 'seeking' the office is often very different

I haven't read the wikipedia entry yet, but thinking about that, if they don't have sufficient information while seeking the office, then they should only promise what they know can achieve. It would make things easier and more transparent, in my opinion.
Good grief, no. I have dozens of passwords. The 10 or so that I use regularly are committed to memory, the rest may require me to consult a legal pad or KeepassX, the latter being protected by an extremely long and complex password unique to it. I do of course reuse some of the passwords, given that there are only a couple dozen of them and probably 100 or more accounts which use one of them.
http://crowdtube.tv aggergates reddit and delicious.
There were 4 third-party tickets in 2008 which were on the ballot in enough states to theoretically win the presidency, and about a dozen more that appeared on the ballot in at least a few states. If you really don't like any of those either, perhaps you should get involved in helping a candidate you do support get on the ballot in your state.

There are plenty of other ways to become involved and have an influence, however small. Not liking the choices is not a good excuse for not participating.

(source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_i...)
I'm reading Anna Karenina right now. It's enjoyable. I think many people would get something out of it if they read it. But most people never did. The majority has never been "well-read". And so, if we can make the majority well-equipped with information (by destroying impenetrable silos and distributing their grain), who cares if that doesn't have any other effect? The person who is well-informed will not necessarily be the same person who has received an excellent liberal arts education any more, but at least ze'll be well-informed.

Edit: clarity. I never intended to say anything about the classics' value, only their past and future popularity.

(in hindsight, the former could easily have been an interpretation of the post)
I think you miss the entire problem and have bought into the propaganga of world governments. The threat is the individual against the systems of government control, power and those who leach off their positions of power.

You, the consumer, are the asset of the corporations - both as an employee of them (where you productivity is measured and your demands for opportunity is resisted) and as a consumer of their goods.

The governments are in a state of transition, where forever the goods which the economic system is based on were almost all physical - the next 1000 years will have most all value in data. The physical is sunsetting.

There is no threat to you, the citizen, that governments are concerned with - there is threat to which faction hopds the most economic power in the world.

Countries dont matter - they are consolidating down to 5 economic centers - ultimately all reporting to one central system of financial regulation.

The wars are all about which faction will control. It will be china, russia and a split middle-east against the us, EU and japan.

The plays in iraq, afganistan and iran are because the US cant depend on the house of saud.
Have you considered including Redis in your benchmarks?

Yes. The trouble is that doing performance benchmarks correctly is incredibly time consuming. Most of the time people aren't actually measuring what they think they're measuring, so most benchmarks end up comparing apples to oranges. We spend a lot of time to make sure that our benchmarks measure the right things and expose the right data, at the expense of doing more benchmarks. Naturally, this requires learning a great deal about the products we're benchmarking against. We're working to automate much of this process and putting an organizational infrastructure in place to add more (hopefully almost all) competitors, but it will take some time.

Redis supports lists, sets, priority queues etc, whereas RethinkDB values can only be strings for now (if I understand correctly?).

Correct. We think of RethinkDB as a database first, and a protocol second. We've built really good, largely protocol-independent technology that allows to execute most protocols with very high performance. We think that part is hard, while protocols are easy (in a sense most people can implement a known protocol, but few people can build a system that makes them all run fast in the same product). We'll be adding more protocols shortly, and Redis is definitely on the list (among Cassandra, Hadoop, and beyond).

With Redis, writes are not immediately durable by default (though they can be configured that way at a performance cost), whereas with RethinkDB they are?

This is fully configurable. See here: http://rethinkdb.com/docs/#durability

Redis has built-in master-slave replication, whereas RethinkDB does not yet.

Correct. RethinkDB 1.1 (currently in QA) has full support for master-slave replication, automatic failover, and range queries (via memcached rget extension).

Redis is open-source; RethinkDB you have to pay for updates. (Will updates eventually trickle down to the free plan, or is 1.0 all she wrote for free users?)

Our strategy is to set up the pricing structure in such a way that companies that have the money and the demand will have to pay for the product, and customers that don't have the money (companies + individuals) will be able to use it for free. Getting the details on the pricing structure is difficult - we're working it out now, so I can't share the details yet.
A non-runtime type system.

First class familiar Objective-C-style messaging and block syntax.

Stable, mature, well defined language invariants on par with Apple's requirements for its own APIs and languages.

"Objective-C without the C" would look more like Smalltalk or Strongtalk with a near identical syntax, not Ruby.
Windows also has 'Roaming Profiles' as students at most Universities can attest to (at least at the one I went to).
The Iwata Asks interview for Wii U has been posted. Some interesting insights into the thought process that went into it.

http://e3.nintendo.com/iwataasks/
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It works fine in the DS. Status and maps generally go on the other screen, which prevents the "pause, go to menu, look for something, resume what you were doing" flow. You just glance up.

The Zelda mock-up seems like a clear win to me: the controller has the full item menu, and you could just tap the items you want to equip. Yeah, there would be a context switch to look at and manipulate the screen on the controller, but the same is true for using a pause-based menu. The difference here is that the main screen remains unchanged. I think that incurs less of a cognitive context switch.
I use one password per account.

I have a common shared suffix like "HuRf!z0" and then I prepend a prefix depending on the website, like "gm" for HN.

So far, this has been quite simple to use, even when I am not in front of my machine.
There are less than 20 people active in the hacking escapades that get attributed to Anonymous. There are less than 100 people who actively engage in DDoS and the few fools who join in straight from home have mostly been arrested.

The fairy-dream of an anonymous active online collective with no discernible membership is simply a joke. The lengths AnonOps goes to keep up the image is pretty hilarious. Crafting figures like Kayla, a cyberpunk teen hacker chic (actually Xyrix, who's been forced to remake himself after getting owned by zf0 in 2008[1]. they're lucky zf0 were merciful and did not dox them). Creating new group names with new narratives like Lulzsec with theme songs and such.

Let me save the typing for those who will argue "but n0ez, Anonymous is Legion and every1!!11!". Anonymous was everyone. Now the name has been hijacked by a small group that uses tools online from places like Reddit to cheer them on but not actually do anything. Hijacked similar to the way the Tea Party was hijacked by the current crop that show up Tea Party rallies.

[1]: http://www.gonullyourself.org/ezines/ZF0/zf0%204.txt
>since if it all worked like its commented then there'd be no bugs.

Unless it is no longer supposed to work how it was originally written and commented. Software lives and evolves over time. All too often comments go stale. When the Big Bug Day comes, many hours will be wasted on such legacy comments.
Given that the gamecenter password is the same as your iTunes / Apple account password, they could wipe out your account balance by buying / renting things. If you have any card details stored then they could go onto the Apple Store and order using those. They could see your billing address, and so intercept your mail, thus gaining more documents to eventually steal your identity.

Of course, if you only buy using the pre-paid cards you can buy in retail stores then all they can do is wipe out the balance.

I'm sure your response was partly flippant, but the implications because of Apples one universal account means that someone determined could do a lot of things.
It's more that geeks oppose old institutions having a monopoly on knowledge than that they oppose any sort of knowledge at all. Maybe there's some resistance to the rigid, hierarchical structure of "intellectualism" as well.
what simulator do they use?
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Yeah if anyone can point out why Apple will be able to continue it's dominance over mobile apps with a 30% tax I'd really like to hear why.
for this to be remotely useful and interesting, you do need some critical mass of people interested in discussing these topics. i'm sure you've thought of these already, but if i were you'd, i'd ping every legislator i could about the site and what it's trying to offer - potentially get them to start dialogues with their constituents through it or something. i'd also reach out interest and lobbying groups(on both sides - e.g., repeal Prop X, support Prop Y) - it's all about just building the presence. one argument against those is that you'd want to get "real people" discussing the issues, but i think you'd at least get some impassioned perspectives from these people, who are the ones that arguably care the most - from there, you can hope it builds on itself in facilitating a dialogue.

to the earlier comments, the site probably needs a design refresh and some tangible, clear focus where visitors can engage (not currently clear)
Hm. I have 8. 13 if you count the ones I haven't memorized yet. :P
I relate to this very strongly, and it's the #1 thing stopping me from publicizing my work more. I see a lot of comments saying things like "I don't see the problem; I use X for work and Y for personal life." That isn't the problem.

The problem is having lots of different, separate audiences, each across several different sites. I'm a composer wanting to grow an audience for my music, a professional software developer wanting to develop my day-job career, a 3D engine developer wanting to write up my realtime rendering research and correspond with other graphics programmers, an indie game developer wanting to cultivate a following for my game, a paraglider wanting to communicate constantly with other paragliders about weather and flying opportunities, and finally a regular guy wanting to keep up with friends and family about more ordinary things.

Each of those subjects has a separate audience that hardly overlaps with the others. The worst part is that most of those things could use a Twitter account for daily updates and engagement, a blog for more detailed write-ups, and a YouTube channel for video or music. The music probably wants a SoundCloud account. Some of those things want separate email accounts. Some want dedicated web sites.

Having a properly rounded web presence seems like a nightmare of account management. I imagine keeping a spreadsheet with a huge matrix of login info. It's possible to do it - it just seems daunting and hard to manage effectively.
Erm... no. Apple announcing iCloud is kinda like Palm announcing WebOS a couple of years ago, streaming music from LastFM (though iCloud doesn't stream), getting your pics up and down from Flickr, and working on GDocs/Gmail/GCal/Office365.

Windows is an OS. iOS is an OS. Mac OSX is an OS. The iCloud service is designed to allow you to shuffle from one to the other seamlessly but not to replace those machines altogether. Kinda like using dropbox.

Now, is the OS becoming less important in comparison to the services available? Absolutely. Not for everyone but for the average user it certainly is. Will iCloud suceed? Surely it will, but only for those who wish to be tied into Apple products (unless I am mistaken and you will be able to share iCloud uploads with Android or WP devices).
Thanks for your responses! All makes a lot of sense.

We'll be adding more protocols shortly, and Redis is definitely on the list (among Cassandra, Hadoop, and beyond).

Great to hear!
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While this is true in theory, I don't maintain a copy of the database on my phone - when I converted to using a pw database I looked into it and didn't feel comfortable with the level of security on iPhone apps. I want to know exactly when and how information is being transported and when something is in memory.

The state of the art is probably more mature now, but this is information I'm not taking any chances with.
Yeah, but it's going to take science a while just to find the corners on the earth. ;)
I'd like to see spoiled ballots counted in elections. That way those that want to vote - but don't believe in their candidates - could be heard in some fashion.
I can read a wikipedia article on Libertarianism, or I can read "Stranger in a Strange Land". I can read about the dangers of absolute power and lack of free will, or I can read "1984".

The lessons learned from classics are constantly quoted, and it's beneficial for people to read and learn.
The SecureID device S computes S(s,t) without any input from the server the user is authenticating to. t is synchronized time and available to everyone. s is a secret specific to that device. I don't know if it's a shared secret, but the compromise suggests that either it is, or RSA kept the 'private key' part on their servers for convenience.

You're right that a different device S' that received a challenge c from the server and computed S'(c,s,t) could offer more security via public key crypto. But it would take more power (if communicating to the client machine to avoid user transcription of the challenge) or have a more cumbersome UI. I'll bet such devices are already sold.
Just FYI, The circumference of earth is roughly 4 * 10^7 metres, and the speed of light is 3 * 10^8 m/s, so light can actually circle the globe almost 7.5 times per second.

The depths of the oceans are just a few milliseconds away (40ms -ish?).
Was that a real-time video (i.e., shot and played at 1x speed)? If so, the matter appears to be traveling at roughly the speed of light. Greater, perhaps, indicating the video was sped up. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=diameter+of+the+Sun+%2F...

Edit… If you look closely (in HD), there are timestamps, suggesting this is being played at ~3600x, or one second of playtime representing an hour in reality.
Am I the only one who thinks BJ Fogg is completely full of it?
Anyone else always spend a huge amount of time understanding someone elses code when their doing bit twiddling? It's just not intuitive to me, and I always abstract it away as much as possible.
I don't think Apple ever liked Web apps; they just talked about it until the real SDK was ready.
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But that is not to say that after 200 years, many people have not been working hard to make sure that the system of control is firmly entrenched.
Do you know how crazy that sounds, typed in a medium invented by a theoretical physicist? Of course I am referring to Tim Berners-Lee.

What counts as "innovation" these days is what, LOLcats?
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Except "geeks" often live in their own little warped world where trivial relevancy tests might be something like meme recognition, something I'd be more proud of failing than passing half the time.
There's been a movement for a while to add hella as the next SI prefix, for 10^27. It's already been adopted by Google and Wolfram Alpha, among others.
Yes.

One is the encumbant, vote against that one.
One is the opponent, vote for that one.

Here's the deal, politicians that aren't in office have no power, no fun, and no reason to live. So they desparately seek "being in office." (often times by making silly promises but that is another comment)

Now if you have a choice between a giant douche (GD) and a turd sandwich (TS) and you always vote against the incumbent. Then one of them (and often both of them) will start changing their behavior so that if they get into office they would stay there. You have the power to modify their behavior, use it.

Many elections are won by a difference of less than 10%. So if the 10% of the electorate can choose to play this game (is there 1 in 10 intelligent people in your district?) they will create a better government for everyone.

They use a simple rule:
1) Person in office is doing a 'good' job? Vote for him
2) Person in office is doing a 'bad' job? Vote against him

It doesn't matter who is running against them or their qualifications. Because, like evolution, this system has its own fitness function (the 10% group think they are doing a 'good' job) which anyone running will quickly come to realize determines if they stay in office.

You can even start a campaign "I'm one of the 10% making a better government for you." And when you talk to your elected officials, and candidates for office, let them know the criteria you are using to determine 'good' and what it will take to stay in office.

The only way to defeat this system is with outright vote fraud which, as intelligent people, you should be able to help the election commission detect. No amount of special interests, no amount of campaign money, no amount of lying to the stupid people will work.

So use this system and always vote. It always matters.
>By restricting HTML5 Audio controls, and rendering engine speed, it prevents games and music web apps from being viable inside the browser.

It must be frustrating for the WebKit team when their engineering advancements are taken for granted and attributed to Chrome — the perceived bastion of web freedom — while they themselves are simultaneously criticized for assisting in a conspiracy against "the web" whenever they fail to make enough cutting-edge performance improvements.
youtube-dl -o sun Hyi4hjG6kDM # [1]
mplayer -speed 0.25 sun

[1] http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/. It's available in the Arch Linux and Ubuntu repositories, as well.
Most of the world still uses relics though.
pretty funny - i'd like to see the data cut by box office, since some people have consistently made terrible movies but those movies may have made a lot of money. of course, you'd get a bunch of random people who no one knows because they're so bad, but perhaps filtered by some minimum # of films and at least 1 box office hit.

it would also be interesting to see what filmmakers or actors consistently make critically reviled films, but those films do very well in the marketplace - in addition to m night (arguably), also the michael bays of the world.
Because their platform is superior to everything else out there. Because mobile apps is not even close to providing proper user experience.

People expect snappy as hell execution on the iOS, the actual flow of the app is often more important than the looks. And in my experience the web apps just aren't there yet.

Apple make no money on the app store it more or less goes to operations. You can call it a tax or you can be honest and call it what it is. The price of keeping a well structured market place.
Ahh got it. I found your tone rather dismissive and read too much into it. Fitocracy is a primarily a social network and tracking service, the rpg aspect is secondary. I'm not sure how they plan to monetize it, but I'm sure they would make a lot of money with an ad service like PoF or Facebook.
> as it doesn't have widespread use, they won't bother putting in the effort

But this can be said about almost any Javascripty custom trick, and there are ones that no effort from user and don't have accessibility issues beyond requiring JS.
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Tim Berners-Lee created something practical to solve a problem he and many other people actually had.

What most geeks are against in terms of 'anti-intellectualism' is the difference between X.400 and SMTP. You can build a somewhat functioning SMTP server/client in a day, try doing that with X.400.
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I absolutely agree that reading some classics would be valuable for anyone, but I think it would be hard to learn anything concrete from a lot of what is considered "art".

My argument was that we aren't destroying the silos because we hate the information, we're destroying them because we hate the silos. And if that's beneficial, who cares if most people, who wouldn't have otherwise read Russian literature or listened to Mozart, still don't?
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Has been used by Lulzsec effectively to hold up against DDoS attacks and popularized by them on Twitter as well. It works.
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