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Except it's not a total meltdown. The last reports I've seen suggest it may be a partial meltdown that is still fairly well contained.

And people did not say it could not melt down. They claimed that even if it did, it would not be a Cherynobl like event. The claim was that the reactor design includes some form of containment in the event of a meltdown. Unless I'm missing some new news, all these claims have held.

Your comment bothers me for another reason. The above comments are based on the claims of the engineers who built the reactors. I don't think any of the commenters here have actually designed the nuclear reactors in question.

In other words, you are criticizing people for accepting the experts analysis as being unreasonable. Meanwhile, on what do you base your obvious opinion to the contrary? What analysis have you done? Why should anyone value your input?
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You shouldn't ask users if they would use feature X, their responses will be almost meaningless. You should ask users about problems they have etc., not about features.

http://fitzgeraldsteele.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/guerilla-re...
“You never ask the question you really want answered. If you ask the question you want answered, you’ll miss all kinds of rich information.”

If you ask users if they want more features, or feature X, they'll almost always say yes. It doesn't mean anything.
I agree with most of that, I'm just not sure why you wrote it in reply to my comment. I'm not criticizing Japan at all, my issue was with the "35% spike caused by Fukushima" hypothesis. If it were true, then I take it there wouldn't have been many surviving babies in Japan. That would have been a huge problem indeed.
So why is Firebug telling me that you're pinging my email address to http://track.reinvigorate.net?
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Yeah, this is when I stopped taking the article seriously. The reactors handled the earthquake just fine. It was the tsunami wiping out all the backups that screwed it up.
Anyone else find it interesting that you can't get google.com stats?

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=google.com&geo=all&#...
The demographic that googles "facebook" can easily have different behavior patterns from people who type in the URL.
No, that's not correct. EC2/EBS and Linode are actually almost the same pricing model: you get a base configuration with some amount of cpu/memory/storage, and can add extra storage on a per-GB basis. Amazon just happens to bill by the hour instead of the month for this stuff.

EC2 and Linode instances are actually pretty comparable in capability and price. But storage is way out of whack: again we're not talking about Linode being a little more: it's a full order of magnitude more. That's just not acceptable to me.

I used to have my camera archives on Linode until they outgrew the 20G instance. At this point they're going onto EBS (or S3, if I'm willing to write some code) as soon as I get the opportunity to do it. I don't see any value beyond inertia to staying with Linode.
Looks like O3D would have been a better approach after all.

Did Google back the wrong horse?
Well either Google and Mozilla are knowingly shipping insecure code or Microsoft is, to some degree, wrong. Given the history of the organisations in question I'm going to assume Microsoft wrong or not telling the whole story until we hear a response from Moz or Google.
Oh very cool. That will definitely make tracking down some hard-to-reproduce ANRs easier.
Bug report: I can't generate a PDF for my username. I think it's barfing on the hyphen.
Totally as in, you have observed this phenomenon first-hand?
Not a bad idea. Surprised this hasn't been implements in cPanel's jailshell to be 'customer-proof'
Very enlightening. I did not know that solar panels can last from 25 to 40 years and that only in 1 to 2 years the produced energy pays off the carbon footprint needed for producing the panels.
I'll bet at least some of the difference in facebook search traffic is offset by the rise in popularity of mobile devices. Most people with mobile devices have an app to go to and would be less likely to search 'facebook'.
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Back in 2000, I remember that a PC game I was working on, was slower in NT, than Windows 98 or was it ME. Explanation from Microsoft (they ware the publisher too) was that in NT they had to check every vertex index, whether it's out of bounds, otherwise one somehow might be able to read memory which he's not supposed to. And couple of other things too.

I guess it might be a valid concern. Though I would love if WebGL becomes adopted by everyone.
I'm kind of disappointed by http://bitovod.com/hn/best-of?username=swombat - most of my highest-voted comments are short and snappy.
Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but if you want to make about the same money and be happier, you could actually just go run a fast food joint.

Zed appears to be saying that he isn't happy as a professional programmer. Some people really enjoy it.
who gives a shit about the quality of his comment.

your mother said to get off the computer
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I think this becomes apparent to anyone with experience with multiple languages and multiple platforms. The language is just the tool you use to accomplish the goal. Its good practice to learn new and different languages and paradigms just to see how they work and how you can take the good and add it to your arsenal.
If they succeed, wouldn't it be essentially overturning 17 USC 102(b)? If none of the graphics, code, or names are stolen, wouldn't this fall under a method of operation?
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And don't forget that Firefox sends address bar input that doesn't look like an URL to Google's I Feel Lucky search. That's why a significant part of the Mozilla Foundation's income comes from Google.
Hold up everyone. Where did these statistics come from? Did they come from a credible source?

Even if Facebook at high, and comes down a bit, it is so integrated in the fabric of the internet, which is a major hurdle to an AOL-like down fall.
Sounds like a great way to fill up your disk to me.
You would think so but linode is pretty much still the exception with quality vps hosting.

The first year I used linode 2007 there was an insane amount of upgrades, maybe someday soon they will pass more of this on to us but I'm glad they are still doing it.

http://blog.linode.com/category/upgrades/
Where are the "this is not a problem" people? I dont' recall a single person claiming the failure at the plant wasn't a problem. As I recall it, there was a "this is not Chernobyl" camp.
I think you need to capitalize the first letter of your username or else it doesn't work.
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Closest I can find is YouTube, which was overtaken by Facebook in late 2008. http://trends.google.com/trends?q=facebook%2Cyoutube&cta...

EDIT: "the" was ahead of Facebook as almost-mid 2009.
Two words. Lex and Yacc. These are freely available tools that should (if nothing else) atleast give you solid launching platform into writing your own language.
That's true, but Google can find profiles with the magic string, and one could even go so far as script finding the names that haven't been registered. A unique magic string, only generated during account creation, at least means you have to crawl HN yourself, and pull out those strings via some regex (which could be thwarted by making the magic string unpredictable in length and format), and do so in a very small period of time.

I'm sure it's not really likely that any of those scenarios would happen...but it seemed an odd bit of security theater, which could at least be made a bit more secure by adding a dose of randomness.
Zed's a strong cup of coffee and guys like him generally play a really healthy role in the community they are a part of, driving discussions in directions they might not have taken and playing the part of Gadfly at Large -- every community needs a Zed to keep from becoming complacent.

"Rails is a Ghetto" notwithstanding, Zed's writing is always worth engaging even when you strongly disagree. In that respect he's always reminded me of Steve Albini.

What Albini would do with Fret Wars, however, is another question entirely.
Doubtful. The last time I was privy to accurate data on the top search terms at a major search engine was almost five years ago, but at that time the most searched-for terms were all names of popular websites. Lots of people use search boxes as URL bars. With Facebook the most popular site in the world, it doesn't surprise me that it would be the top search query.
I don't understand. Did I offend someone, was I out of line?
Google Maps v2 has been deprecated so sites should update to v3 anyways.
Of course we're at Peak Facebook. Practically every internet user in the country is on Facebook, and a good fraction of the world.
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Can't watch the launch demo because I don't have silverlight! Not what I hoped for as the SDK, but as others have said I think its their most innovative product and what may in the end crack open an area for them to innovate in.
HNSearch API Javascript Example: top new links within last 3 hours
This probably has to do with the fact that 'facebook' is the same in every language. Meaning that other popular items that may receive higher search volume are split among many different actual queries.

The closest I could find to 'facebook' was 'youtube' which falls into the same category and comes in at just under half.
well -

Can I at least get a preview before I give away my credentials (say, do you support openID?)

What is so awesome about your site (how do I spell it anyway >.<)?

What does it offer better than dreamwidth, facebook, or twitter?

Understand that I want to get ROI on my signups at this point: I don't join sites just to join, or out of boredom.

Or, to put it another way: market at me; I see nothing to make me stick around your site.
True. I would like to have used a nice JS library or something so you could drill down better. Putting numbers on the charts would have been nice to get a sense of the actual sizes (especially on the ones with very small slivers.) Will keep this in mind for next time!
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It is because people don't search for "google.com" while they are already on google.com. Google Trends only contains data for large search volume.
> and employee benefits

That seems mighty obscure and a weird thing to include.
Yeah I generally do,

if object_in_cache_of_object return object else
if object_in_cache_of_object_list add object to chace_of_object, return object
else populate cache_of_object_list, populate cache_of_object return object
Nice survey but considering the limited data-set I'm not sure that's it's worth much.

Nice looking blog too.
I agree that there are plenty of possible reasons for poor personal performance, and it would be foolish to assume that more sleep/exercise is a universal solution.
But the article never even went there. It's specifically talking about willpower - getting it back or getting more of it. I'd say that the concept of willpower is more of a subcategory to the larger idea you mentioned about underperformance. In that sense, it's about solving a piece of the problem, not the whole thing.
Totally misleading headline. Not OPs fault -- the problem is in the post. 171k unique visitors is not 170k users.

Take my project, a daily email newsletter (http://dlewis.net/nik if you're interested). It's about a year old, and I've had about 500k uniques over that period. I have 5,000 subscribers.

I'm one of Corkboard's 171,000 people but I'm not a user of Corkboard. I tried it for a few minutes and left, not coming back since. And honestly, if you're not capturing people, that traffic is not all that valuable.

This isn't to say that you aren't capturing people; hopefully, you are. Just that you shouldn't conflate a visitor with a user. Visitors visit; users stay.
Swap it with the Caps Lock key.
If you haven't watched Peepcode's Play by Play with Zed Shaw, you should. Really insightful stuff.
I don't hire anyone without a code sample. The difference between my crutch and your crutch is that mine makes no implication that you're not at good as someone who codes in their spare time.
Is LINQ even in favor anymore. I think we're all about the entity framework now which appears to be more or less ORM with an auto update component for references to the orm objects.
Take it you don't like Zed Shaw?
What exactly do you mean when you say you've learned "the 'depletion' model of willpower is bogus"?
Yep. Pretty hypocritical of them to be outraged by copy-cats.
This is an argument from ignorance and, knowing engineers at both Google and Microsoft, I have no reason to believe that the Google engineers are any more competent than Microsoft. I do know that the Google security team is smaller than Microsoft's.
first thing that will happen there is companies will start offering citizenship loans secured against your brighter future
I can't be the only person who has mindlessly done that before.
I'm self-employed and make it a point to sit down and start working at the same time each day, just as if I had a normal job. That's not always enough. If I find myself reluctant to start a task I pick something easier, maybe even fun, and start with that instead. That usually pulls me in and gets me rolling.

The Tron soundtrack has worked well for me too as far as music. I was tired of it but then discovered the two-disc version and extras (15 extra tracks)
Ahh I knew I never replied to those linkedin hr emails for a reason.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/i17q5/reddit_i_just_screwed_up_royally_at_work_let_me/
I believe the plural of antidote is "I'm not sure which snake just bit me, just give me all the antitoxins!"
I'd generalize the advice to: Math is really important, especially statistics!

I've found that makes a bigger bang to any domain expert then just programming ability.
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In spanish effect = efectuar, affect = afectar, a child could tell the difference between both, you're trying to make some effect but it doesn't affect me.
No, the problem with your advice is that it is simply spamming. Insisting that you will continue to annoy me unless I do as you demand is not the way to make points with me, and I can't imagine the rich and famous have lower standards.

I have people doing what you suggest to my mobile phone. They call every day with a recorded message offering to solve my "money problems" and telling me that the only way to get them to stop calling is to give up and talk to them. If I could control the policies on my mobile phone the way I can on email, I'd send their calls straight to the trash without passing through me, as I do to anyone who attempts your suggested email spam strategy. I can't recall any case of someone successfully spamming me into submission.
That is an excellent point and I will be sure to add a section explaining that.

You would use it in your suite to create objects to assert against. You could also use it in a db:seed or db:populate script to generate development data.
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LinkedIn down 50% from its first day high
In a shared hosting environment, http and https might go to entirely different sites.
Well, my experience with Linode started well: good price, great interface, etc. Until somebody unrelated to me sent spam containing a URL pointing to one of my web sites. A recipient complained to Linode. Linode opened a ticket around 2am. At 6am, they simply shutdown my VPS becasue I didn't answer the ticket! I got the message a few hours later when I woke up.

I f you want to take any website hosted on Linode down, you know what to do...
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I think this is an important thing to consider when people compare the demise of Myspace with what Facebook will face in the future. Myspace was never even a fraction of what Facebook is today, Facebook has achieved "global brand" status because it came along at the perfect time, just as the internet was growing in popularity and becoming "accepted" as something to use Facebook was there, growing and providing something for internet-uninclined people to use, unlike Myspace which was arguably "ahead of the curve" and didn't cater to the average Facebook user. This graph is excellent evidence.
My MacBook Air is light to the point that whenever I use it on a non-level surface (like my lap) or perched on the edge of something (like a table), the entire computer bobs up and down and moves around as I type. Heavier laptops by definition do not have this problem to a similar extent.

The other problem with the weight is that if someone brushes past and snags something (a bag strap, clothing) on the display, I get really nervous that the entire laptop will go flying. With my 15" MBP, I'm just worried about the hinge breaking, or maybe if the surface is slick enough, the laptop sliding around.

The Air has changed the way I use laptops and makes a noticeable difference in the weight of my purse every day, but some days it gets pretty nerve-wracking...
FUD. You don't know if or when or how this would ever be implemented, and wild-ass claims about what could happen given any number of dubious preconditions don't get more plausible just by making them scarier. Are iPhones and YouTube so crucial to democracy that you get a free pass to make shit up? Fuck no.

Selectively describing parts of an obscure patent application (20110128384) filed years ago (2009) and whipping it into a frothy story about how the sky is falling is lazy and sloppy journalism. If you want a find a real threat to democracy, start there.
Patent-free wireless personal area network (WPAN)
I don't know where I heard this, but I was told that its very common for inexperienced internet users (of which there are many) to search for google in the search bar built into their browser, then click google to search for there.
They're social scientists/linguists undergrads first, programmers second, but programming plays a vital role in their academic career.

This is only because of the sad state of education where programming is this incredibly rare black magic that less than 1% of the people in your field know. (Mathematicians and Physicists obviously excluded.)

But this is changing, it has not been the case in physics since for ever, and it soon won't be the case in the softer sciences either. And when everybody is trained with at least a basic ability to program, then your super advantage is gone.
The Internet itself is inherently unreliable. Your users will traverse multiple hops (many networks) before connecting to your servers at any provider, as will any external monitoring systems you put in place. Brief issues along the paths between them and your servers can and will occur. While the Internet as a whole is designed to route around problems, this doesn't happen instantaneously in most cases, although it can happen very quickly.

This is not to say that internal network issues won't happen at any provider on occasion as well, because they certainly will. No network is perfect, least of all the massive system of interconnected networks known as the Internet, and you need to accept and plan for this. To believe or expect otherwise is simply unrealistic.
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Because when other social networks have stopped growing, they have massively shrunk as the next big thing has come along.

Of course, it's very possible that that argument is mixing up cause and effect, and this is still a relatively young field. But the implication is that, if facebook isn't relevant to pretty much everyone, then it will eventually be eaten up by something that is.
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I'm not confusing the visas, though I probably could have made it clearer. I'm not talking about what you can do with the visa waiver. I specifically mentioned the case where the visitor is from South America, because there's no visa waiver for us.

For people who are require to have visas, the tourist visa and the business visa are issued together. When you get to the port of embark, you tell the immigration officer whether you're coming for business or pleasure.

http://www.workpermit.com/us/employer_b1_b2.htm

> Next, for short trips, visiting without a visa is equivalent to having a business visa (B-1). It allows you to meet with US clients, customers, partners, and so on and it allows you to go to conferences.

Yeah, that's the situation I described.

> It does not allow you to work.

...for an US entity. If you're going for business then you're working, right? Anyway, even if it's not specifically allowed, there's a gray area.

> See as a recent example from Hacker News: http://www.noop.nl/2011/06/american-learning-experience.html

I read that, I think he was quite naive and uninformed. He should have done what I described. "I'm working for DutchCorp, and will go to a business trade event, here's the invitation". Then he would make sure the event organizers would not pay him directly. They would pay his Dutch company, and he would get paid in Netherlands, not in US.
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The next time something like the iPhone launch happens, I'm going to listen to the voice in the back of my head telling me to short the competition over the next three years...
"In the summer, almost 10% of the household electricity in the south of Germany is generated by solar panels."

I don't know a great deal about solar energy, and I was led to believe that it was a bit hokey or inefficient, but that is a really impressive number. Cool!
Programming plus domain knowledge is the killer combination. Programmers (or IT) got no respect from "business" people (finance, biologists, doctors, etc). They don't understand the difficulty of programming and think you are replaceable commodity.

But if you have the domain knowledge and the programming skill, you can turn the field upside down. Automate the jobs done by "business" people and commoditize them.
There's that, and that 19.95*2 = 39.90. Sure, it's not much more expensive, but why is one 1024 linode not cheaper than two 512 ones? Surely there is some overhead in running 2 instances on one piece of hardware instead of one. Also, do you get CPU proportional to the RAM? That is, if I get two 512 linodes do I get more or less CPU than with one 1024 linode?
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that's not true. most comments agree with you. [edit: and even if it was earlier, only a couple are anti-MS in total]
Since the best programmer, the most intelligent person or the best working people can be the lowest paid person, I think that what you must learn is to sell your skills.

Compare Linux to MS, is not about what you do but about how you sell it.
You're definitely correct about Windows (it was something I was excited about in Vista), but I'm not sure about Linux. Looking at the Nvidia GLX drivers for my Linux machine, it still seems like quite a hefty kernel module. I can't really examine it, though, because it's not open source.
What are you looking to do?
Not when I posted the comment.