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I actually found a3camero's post informative! I am a native English speaker and I have never had any trouble differentiating between "effect" and "affect", but had never seen it written down as a rule. One of the fascinating things about language is that we "know" an awful lot of grammar rules without actually being able to explain how they work. Another example is the Spanish verbs "ser" and "estar", which both translate as "to be". As a (bilingual) native speaker of Spanish, I use them correctly, but it wasn't until I was in college and trying to help a friend with his Spanish class that I came across the rule that governs their use.

I think it's very easy to mistake "informative" for pedantic. In this case, the OP made it clear that he was unsure whether the word was correct and a3camero offered not just a correction, but a succinct explanation. I wish people would correct my grammar like that more often.
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But was he a pharmacist that could code, or a programmer who showed up one day and said, hey, need any programs?
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"Readability" (linked above) is an app that allows you pick your own fonts on the web.
> "and it seems to have lost the ability to create great products"

I disagree with this part. RIM's products are just as good/bad as they've always been - the problem is that Apple came in and raised the bar across the board, and Google came in and did it some more.

RIM is creating early-2000s product in a landscape that has been completely reshaped by iOS and Android.
you know most iphone fans do not understand android dev ecosystem..the reason why android is wining..

1. No OS license costs
2 plugged into java dev ecosystem which has large dev base
3 Mobile Operators love android OEM terms
What exactly are "hot" particles that can't be measured with a Geiger counter? I assume they are talking about radioactive particles and not particles with increased temperature. This article sounds like pseudo science to me.
Uh, I think one of us is confused.

A base server on Rackspace Cloud is already more expensive than a comparable Linode VPS, even before you factor in bandwidth charges.

1GB Rackspace Cloud is $43.80/mo plus bandwidth.
1GB Linode is $40/mo and it comes with 400GB transfer.

http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/server...
http://www.linode.com/index.cfm
It's an interesting idea, but how much of a benefit would there really be to serving ES.next code to people with modern browsers? I'd love to see benchmarks / realistic code size comparisons.
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Could you elaborate on this some more, particularly the email client?

I had a Blackberry 8830 a few years ago and, even at that time, I thought it was a barebones POS. The email client was pretty unremarkable, as I recall.
Exactly this. As hard as I try to be pro-privacy and anti facebook, it's on ever device I own and bookmarked into the very muscle memory of my hands. Where I used to log onto IRC to see what was happening after work, now it's FB instead.
My understanding is that the 1024 server will be on hardware shared by half as many VPSs as a 512. On both of them you get as much CPU as is available proportioned to each VPS. But with the 1024, you have half as many competitors for that CPU. You also have half as many competitors for IO. Disk space and Ram are the only things that are handed out in fixed quantities.
I agree that it's more important to have some additional domain knowledge than to be some superprogrammer. I'm not the best programmer but I have some (human) language learning knowledge and thus could set up my own business at http://www.chinese-course.com/
Best thing you can do as a programmer is be your own boss.
The simplest hack I've ever used for this kind of thing is to keep a notepad on my desk and whack it instead of the enter key whenever I'm doing critical work.

In the time it takes to thump the notepad, it gives my brain a vital few seconds to triple check what I just typed before I blast monkies into space. Saved my behind more than a few times.
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What tool can I use in order to see some analytics for my Rails APIs?

Thanks
Get out of the house.

Work in new places. This library, a cafe, that library.

Exercise.

Meditate.
Totally agree with you, the thing I don't understand is why bias is so important, everyone is biased because people rarely talk about things in which they are disinterested.
Winning can be measured different ways. I've owned both devices simultaneously (recently switch Verizon HTC incredible to iPhone ).

Android app store outright sucks. Many minor usability things on android are annoying. I don't think Android is 'winning' but I do think they are shipping a lot of handsets. IMO there is a distinction.

Chevy 'wins' over Bentley. Which would you rather drive?
No, they can be gone for any length of time.

Think of the timestamp stored on the session cookie as a token -- as long as it matches the token on the server it doesn't matter how long the token sits on the user's computer until their next request, it just has to match.

The 30-second window is just to reduce false positives from an active user double clicking on a slow/flaky connection.
Under the normal case of a matching token, the difference between (stored_session.timestamp - session.timestamp) will equal zero (no difference).
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Just wondering how you guys learn to navigate around the linux terminal environment or bash(?). I would like to become comfortable in the linux environment. (total noob atm).
I think his statement is incredibly short-sighted. Has he never been to an art museum with interactive sculpture, etc? Perhaps he could hedge on the 'degree' of interactivity offered, but with such an emphatic 'only', I think its more likely that he is simply wrong.
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Assuming you're using Rack, I would suggest you use a Rack Middle ware like http://raindrops.bogomips.org/ and then filter for your API routes
Microsoft has the perspective of the entire OS from top to bottom. Google and Firefox have the perspective of their respective applications.

Given the concerns Microsoft is voicing (and they aren't the first to voice them) are well below the application itself, I tend to trust Microsoft more on this one.
Totally unrelated request - you posted your YC application a few years ago, but the link 404s. If this is intentional, you can forget it, but if not, I'd really would like to see it,

Link in question is:
http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html

Original submission:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503

Thanks in advance! Dropbox is really an amazing product, even to techies.
The problem is RIM still thinks it's making great products - the Blackberry phones. They think this because countries that have heard of the Blackberry brand for years, but not so much about "Android" or even iPhone, have started buying a lot of Blackberry phones lately.

What RIM didn't realize is that this was happening because of their global inertia, not because their products are still very competitive with iPhones and high-end Android phones. After all, there are still a lot of people who keep buying high-end Nokia phones rather than iPhones or Android phones.

It's all about inertia. They experience growth in new markets (for now - just a matter of time) but their core markets are fading away. This could blind them for years from seeing that they will be in trouble eventually, because overall they were still making a lot of money until more recently.
Yes there is a compelling reason: It's not the task of the browser to do this. With such an ugly hack you gain some short term benefits at large long term costs.

I guess about 15 years ago someone asked: "Why not let the browser try to interpret broken HTML instead of showing an error page?". The result is today's security nightmare, where it's impossible to reliable prevent script injection into HTML pages, because you can't just block the "official" way to insert a script, but also need to look into each of those ways how an HTML engine might interprete broken HTML.
I see. In practice I'd expect the others on a node not to make full use of CPU, so you're getting more CPU for the same money on a 512 (unless they artificially limit it).
DONT DO IT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxLmLUT-qc
More Harry Potter?
Adobe Air bids adieu to Linux, shifts focus to mobile (engadget.com)
http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/16/adobe-air-bids-adieu-to-linux-shifts-focus-to-mobile/
Quite true.

However, those things don't seem to matter as much with stand-alone devices that are sold sans-contract, such as the tablet market. Nobody could outmarket and outsell the iPod when they went head to head. Didn't matter if the device was cheaper or better, iPod outsold them. If the tablet market dynamics are similar, Android won't fare as well on tablets as it does on phones.

Simply put, if the and Android tablet is the same price as an iPad, most consumers will buy the iPad. All Apple products are seen as expensive luxury goods. Nerds might disagree, but that's how people tend to view Apple.

If you could buy a BMW for the same price as a Chevy, you'd probably buy the BMW. Most people would.

Most people buy into Android phones because iPhone is only available on 2 carriers. If iPhone was available on all carriers, Android phone sales would be much, much less.
"Chevy 'wins' over Bentley. Which would you rather drive?"

I want to use that. It's applicable to more than just phones and cars.
Funny you should say that. I remember when reading the interview with Mike Lazardis in "Founders at Work" it struck me how much he boasted about himself and his pals being cool, smart, and innovative. It was somewhat off-putting, and also surprising how someone with so little humility and self-awareness made it so far.
Please dont use Alexa for ranking sites. Their numbers are almost always wildly inaccurate. The downside is there aren't many better alternatives.
>Chevy 'wins' over Bentley. Which would you rather drive?

Haha, I used a similar metaphor and posted at almost the same time. Great minds think alike?
The important metric is dollars.

According to a random internet article, iPhone accounts for less than 3% of phones shipped, but 40% of the profits.

iPhones make more dollars.

edit apparently Apple's mobile market share is up to 4% with more than 50% of the profits.
"The code caused the capacitors to keep charging even after they had reached their limit, until kaboom."

Sorry, but that isn't possible. Maybe if you keep raising the voltage (which would be a pretty strange thing to do), but even then it wouldn't cause an explosion, but rather a short. And no capacitor I have ever heard of can store enough energy to explode.
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I noticed early on a preponderence of folks download a book that is out of copyright from books.google.com and then upload it as a self-published work for $0.99 - $4.99 on the Kindle store. Same scan flaws as the Google books result, everything.

Not illegal (the book is out of copyright) but really annoying.
Blackberry had the smartphone lead in the UK for 2010 [1], and is still growing. [2]

Blackberry has a 42% share of the smartphone market in Canada. [3] They also dominate other markets like Argentina. [4]

I wouldn't count them out just yet. I don't see the Playbook getting much of a response from users who don't already use BBs, but their handsets will have a long life. They will have to move fast to keep up with Android, but I think this announcement is a good example that they are aware.

[1] http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201105/6765/BlackBe...

[2] http://m.mobilemarketingmagazine.com/mobilemarketing/i/artic...

[3] http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/6/c...

[4] http://www.nextwirelesslatam.com/index.php/1-3g/symbian-and-...
You need to consider that many users toady have iphones/ipads. session store will work only once and will require the user to relog each time.
I don't know if I'd submit my personal email address to this service. I'd rather Ctrl+F through the flat file of addresses if I could find it.
Lately I feel Apple is behind Google's Android.

There are many decisions Jobs and company have made that for me has made Android look more attractive. I currently own an iPhone and have so for over a year now, but there are things I want it to do that it can not while Android can. When my contract is up Im getting a Nexus or EVO.

I want to enjoy flash, i want to truly run apps in the background, i want the ability to have voice search on home screen via click of a button, i dont want to have to go through sync process when i connect iPhone ( i dont want to find out how to stop sync), I want Google's awesome built in GPS and I want the ability for more customization.

Ive enjoyed my iPhone but playing with girlfriend's Droid X2 and her prior Droid Incredible just showed me Im on the wrong platform. Though Apple's customer service is almost unmatched - will miss that.

They have hordes of cash now but to me with what I mentioned above maybe Apple is truly headed down and destined to repeat it's own history?
Actually the part of it that runs in kernel mode does have it's source visible. It's part of the standard packaging provided by NVIDIA so that it can work on many different kernel versions. For the most part their driver is also userspace and the kernel driver exposes a communications pathway to the userspace. That's not to say I know how robust that pathway is, but they have separated things somewhat.

The open source drivers also follow this kind of model where the kernel modules handle hardware access and memory management but not a whole lot more. Mesa (and Gallium 3D) all work in userspace to handle compiling things to the native formats of the cards.
Chevy 'wins' over Bentley. Which would you rather drive?

Which would you rather buy? And this is important, with things like the $350 Vizio tablet. Bentley's are nice, but I wouldn't buy one.

And given this is a dev focused site -- do you want to make accessories that work in Chevys or Bentleys?
i'd also be inrerested in more information on Stripe
Ok, although "when there's a will, there's a way." ;)
I'd say the point is, there's no reason in having them spend any time at all adapting to it just to get right back to where we are, right now -- they churn out readable and workable markup.

We're not having any problems with HTML that HAML would solve.
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I think the overall value is very high in terms of CPU and bandwidth. However, I agree that the storage is a sticking point for many of my projects.

My solution has been to run my application on Linode, but I push uploaded files into an s3 bucket shortly after upload and redirect download URLs to the bucket url. Since one of my sites is a church with 50 GB of sermons on mp3, this saves a lot of money over getting storage on Linode.
Thanks. Any specific city that you can recommend? Is Kuala Lumpur ideal place to live/work/enjoy?
It's only 10,000% profit if you assume his time had no value.

There are plenty of startups who began with a meagre cash investment, but bucket loads of time and effort, that turned into multi-million dollar companies, in some cases without additional funding. So it's not as far fetched as it may seem in a one-liner that makes it sound like an overnight result.
This guy is a rare writer, but he is always on the money.
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It's simple to use. Uncluttered. Makes your communication with your friends easier.

We use the term "easier than" because only you can decide if it is better. I haven't used dreamwidth so no comment. Twitter and Facebook are gigantic successfull companies doing great work. For the "communication with your friends"-wise our product is easier to use.

Your ROI could be easier and more direct communication with your friends. On Tusulog you cannot broadcast to all your friends at once, only to the specific group you choose. So you don't worry about "if I post this my mom/boss/ex may see too!". This may not be a problem for power users but most people don't know how to tackle those complex privacy settings.
Agreed, iOS isn't perfect and other mobile OSes have features I want. Jailbreaking fixes that most of the time, but it would be nice to have those features without having to hack them onto the device.

I don't think Apple is headed the way of 90s Apple. That was a disaster because Jobs left the company and left a bunch of clueless idiots in charge of everything. I'm sure Apple will decline, but I don't think 90s Apple will be back anytime soon.

And even though you've probably heard this a million times, I'm going to type it: Apple makes features really nice. For example, they weren't the first with Cut/Copy/Paste, but they made it really nice and usable. That sounds really fanboy-ish, but it's true. Multitasking, notifications, even the iOS design itself.
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CrowdFanatic is a social media battlefield for fans and social activists to fight for their group, oppose their rivals and sway public opinion to their side.

Today there is no social media platform that deliberately engages rival groups to fight for their causes online. Facebook is a sterile environment that doesn't enable group A vs. group B confrontations and Twitter is a bubbling soup of misguided messages.

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jr, mom says to get off the computer and stop bothering people.
It is a completely separate house / separate bed issue.

You do not have permission to call Direct3D directly. You can't even do cool hacks like you can in WPF, stealing the Direct3D video feed and writing it to a movie file. Everything is abstracted away by (underpowered) APIs.

All Secunia advisories on .NET Framework / Silverlight are presently patched, and the total number is relatively small compared to other technologies like web browsers and Flash.
I don't really know enough about WebGL to compare, though.
We built a major application with Adobe Air.

Never again.

Apart from the glacial slowness of ActionScript, the massive memory consumption, the CPU hogging, the lack of focus on improvements to existing features (instead constantly building fancy new stuff) consider this one thing: Adobe Air does not support HTTP 1.1 - every request creates a new server connection. Last time I looked at a calendar it was 2011. Unbelievable.

Not a recommended platform for development and the idea of it running on a phone or pad - jeepers. At first I thought Steve Jobs was being harsh with his criticism of Flash but I totally understand now.
Well, Zynga did have to settle a lot of lawsuits that other companies brought up. Seems fair to expect the same from other companies.
Seymore Papert, in Mindstorms:

"By deliberately learning to imitate mechanical thinking, the learner becomes able to articulate what mechanical thinking is and what it is not. The exercise can lead to greater confidence about the ability to choose a cognitive style that suits the problem. Analysis of "mechanical thinking" and how it is different from other kinds and practice with problem analysis can result in a new degree of intellectual sophistication. By providing a very concrete down-to-earth model of a particular style of thinking, work with the computer can make it easier to understand that there is such a thing as a "style of thinking". And giving children the opportunity to choose one style or another provides an opportunity to develop the skill necessary to choose between styles. Thus instead of inducing mechanical thinking, contact with computers could turn out to be the best conceivable antidote to it. And for me what is the most important in this is that through these experiences these children would be serving their apprenticeships as epistemologists, that is to say learning to think articulately about thinking."

http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...
once it's on the GPU I don't as far as I know see a way to hijack the system

I think GPUs can do DMA => If you can break into a GPU, you may be able to write into kernel space, just like you could (can?) break into a Mac over it's FireWire port (and, possibly, the Thunderbolt port in new MacBooks)
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That is extremely informative. How did you find it?
In addition to the other points mentioned about this not being the browser's responsibility and http/https leading to different places, there's also the potential for swamping servers that can handle their current traffic over http, but would crush under the additional stress caused by encrypting everything.
It's unremarkable to me as well, but people who I know who have switched over from a Blackberry to a iPhone are typically happy with their decision, but the only thing they claim the Blackberry was better with is email. Maybe this is primarily for corporate environments, where they use the enterprise server.
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To each his own. I enjoy simplicity on my phone, excellent battery life, and the odd game, as such, I use an iPhone. It doesn't mean that either way is right, but it also doesn't mean that Apple is destined to repeat their failures.

Bare in mind that although Android outsells iPhone's, Apple still has 40% of the profit of the entire smartphone industry.
This seems like a great step.

In the future, I hope to see browsers starting to help sites eliminate third-party scripts entirely. <script src="http://elsewhere/>; makes your site's security depend on that of "elsewhere", and allows "elsewhere" to do anything the logged-in user can do; changing the URL to https://elsewhere/ doesn't change that.
I don't disagree with you, but painting, sculpting, playing an instrument, writing, etc, all crafts, by that definition.
Consider that the name of the site is Solarplaza. That said:

"But the payback time for the energy used to produce a solar panel is only one to two years. This means that in this time the panel generates the total amount of energy that has been used in its entire production.
...
Other sources of energy have much longer payback times. Specifically, nuclear power plants have extremely long payback times - so long in fact that it is questionable whether all the power that generated during their lifetime is enough to pay for the energy used to build and disassemble them."
And it still is (X is practising his art).
It depends on what your using the vps for, I have a vps with prgmr and it really isn't that much of a hassle, even starting fresh with debian is a 5 minute or less process with the centos recovery.