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What I'd like to see some discussion for is what consequences ORM has that SQL seems to manage to avoid. What I mean is that any ORM, even a theoretically perfect one, requires that you write an entire datamodel in your application that manages to remain consistent under modifications.

What a chore !

Then you get to write a battery of tests (and I mean a battery, dear God, this is many tests)

What a chore !

And I don't mean this in the sense that I want to get out from under it, but you have to admit, making a datamodel remain consistent in-memory ... it's not hard ... it's not challenging ... but it's very hard to get that last bug out of it, and SQL ... well they've done this for you.

So why would you bother doing this ? And before you say it, as anyone who wrote a few webapps knows : you DON'T need a datamodel in your application to create very complex webapps. In fact one of the big reasons for the (unfortunate) popularity of PHP is that you don't.

None of the ORM frameworks solves the data consistency problem half as elegant as SQL does. So why bother ? There's one good answer to that question : because it doesn't scale (although 99% of sql does scale, just large reporting queries don't. Of course, these don't scale no matter what system you use, it's just that sql makes it very easy to build this).

Also : take a look at how SAP products work. They solve the problem of big reporting queries by having massive amounts of triggers generate the reports for them. This scales, is easily distributed, and it's amazing what it can do. Of course, what it can't do efficiently is give you new reports based on old data.
During DHS11 they seems to have a 20 gbit link divided into a pair of 10 gbits, one in each hall. The summer events is usually about half the size as the winter events.
I can see two benefits of increasing Chrome market share for Google, that justify these expenses:

1) It speeds up the web. Since every second internet user makes Google money, making the web a great place for both consumers (speed, security) and developers (standards, up-to-date browsers) is very much in Google's interest.
2) It makes Google the default search engine. Instead of being at the mercy of browser developers and having to pay them huge sums of money, they can directly make lots of people use their search engine (and look at their ads).

I personally believe the second point is what actually finances the Chrome team. Like android, Chrome is but "moat" for Google, protecting their main source of revenue: Search. Shaking up the industry for the better is just a nice side effect.
I, too, found this quote very remarkable. But it left me wondering.

Can anybody tell me where the harm in underprotecting "intellectual property" comes from? This is an honest question. I don't understand it. Maybe it's because I'm too young and don't depend on "intellectual property" protection yet. I don't understand where this idea comes from that ideas can be owned by anyone.

What if the limit of copying would become what's copyable and not what is allowed to be copied? Wouldn't that accellerate innovation? Isn't innovation more valuable to a society than anything else? Why do we put a tax on it?
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I can understand why Mozilla feel threatened by Chrome's growth but why the use of major version numbers for what could have very easily been 4.1 ?
What Jobs meant to say was "Folks who want freedom can buy an Android phone".
Microsoft, Google and Twitter debate whether HTML5 is "Holy Grail"
I was frustrated to find that Kickstarter is US only if you want to use it to raise funds, though they happily accept money from people outside the US.

No personal experience myself, but the Diaspora team would have some experience with it.
The comments on the linked article make me sad. The comparison with Betamax vs VHS makes me sad. Do all Android fans wish for a Google monopoly, or something? I have iOS and Android devices and for one I'd hate it.

I really wish that Android fanboys would stop trying to convert/bash Apple users in public and vice-versa.

This is all turning into a religious fight... sigh...
Thanks Charlie for taking the time to sign up and for your feedback.

The question you raise is a good one--I think it's common knowledge around here that targeting HN developers is a good way to make life difficult... :)

My current reply: "Sure, you should definitely hack something up on your own but you'll need a project log for the project so you can use Labradoc until you have yours running."

Slightly less tongue in cheek:

* Use Labradoc for the same reason I use Google App Engine and Django-nonrel to host & develop it: because it's easier and you can focus on what you actually want to be doing.

* Longer term I'd like to take the "GitHub for project logs" angle where there's feature & social benefits to having project logs on Labradoc.

Thanks again for checking the site out and I hope you find it useful as you switch between your Monotask & PearBudget projects. :)
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Marketing reasons, tech blogs don't write about minor version increments.
That's only the beginning of the flaws; I saw no mention of the author taking into account the individual scoring systems that the various reviewers used. Some reviewers can be quite harsh, and would use the majority of the 0-100 spectrum for scoring AAA titles, others (i.e. the ones getting the games for free from the publishers) tend to only use between 65-100 (65 being an arbitrary cutoff) on the scale (they'd give a 65 to a game that another reviewer who used the entire scale would give a 0 to). It's especially ironic that the author bashes Metacritic and other aggregation sites for being "shallow," then proceeds to churn out similarly shallow, infographic/graph-laden content. With something as incredibly subjective and contextual as a video game review, distilling a game to a numbered score is pretty ridiculous; then aggregating those scores together into a totally context-lacking mass is pointless, as the result would be totally lacking in almost any meaning whatsoever.
Also, for an article whose title has the form "Why Xes matter for Y," the article mentions only the most superficial causal relationships -- far short of what'd be needed for worthwhile economic insight.
Yours is a good solution, and effectively blocks the attack mentioned in this article. From a REST purity standpoint, it's "unclean" to require all API calls to be POSTS, but, hey, life is short.
The obvious argument is that it lowers the incentive for people to create truly new ideas. If you can't patent or copyright something, why would you sink a significant amount of time, money, or effort into it? Especially for big projects - operating systems, etc.
This is a knee-jerk reaction from someone who has been bitten.

The fact is, EVERY worthwhile venture has failure waiting at every step. Every good idea has a multitude of people doing it poorly for each rare person doing it right. And whatever industry you find yourself in is the one that will seem the most fucked up because it's the one you're closest to. It's an imperfect world we live in, and that's not going to change.

But if you're childish enough to expect things to go your way without YOU taking charge of and responsibility for your affairs, don't expect any sympathy.

Who dares, wins.
The usual argument is that protecting "intellectual property" encourages the production of culture, ie. you are forced to buy copies of CDs instead of copying them for free, which means that the artist earns more money and thus there is a financial incentive for them to record songs. Obviously the same argument can be taken to apply to TV, movies etc and IIRC is more or less implied by the US constitution (it says that a system of limited rights may be permitted for the progress of the creative arts, or something like that).

I guess the same thing is taken to apply to innovation as well, that Apple is encouraged to invent a cool new operating system for their mobile phone because they control it exclusively once they've done that. The argument would run that if anyone could then just copy it, Apple wouldn't gain relative to their competitors by creating it so wouldn't have spent the money in the first place, and hence less innovation.

I'm not necessarily arguing for this point of view - goodness knows I think that it's too far-reaching and over-enforced at the moment. That's just a description of some of the usual arguments in favour of it.
How much Math is there in an iPhone?
More bandwidth and users have probably made it a very stressful job for ~5 people.
IMHO Good point for the water pumps. Bad for the computers, sure it helps but maybe not really an immediate need? What are the positive effects of putting them there apart from the old "education" argument and what percentage of the village population will benefit from them?

Also I don't see any sustainability in this one village project. Make a commitment to give a % or fixed amount to help a cause and see your actions through.
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> Can anybody tell me where the harm in underprotecting "intellectual property" comes from?

I will speculate that, without any protection, there will be significantly less investment in intellectual property, and any projects will be smaller. People have to eat, if you make a business of content creation you get to spend more time doing it than if it's just people working in their spare time.

Either that, or rely on rich patrons to fund the arts. But you would never have Hollywood with just their help. This is both a bad and a good thing, for reasons easily imagined.
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The symptom of empty residential developments was one of the first signs of the collapsing housing bubble in Ireland and in Spain.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/markets/news/article.cfm?c_id=62&#...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/mar/...

If China shows the same symptom, but on the scale of empty cities rather than just empty developments, the bursting of the bubble could be calamitous. Plenty of economically astute observers are concerned about this.

http://www.economist.com/node/18836400?story_id=18836400&...

There are already signs of new unrest in China

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e0696f2c-98f9-11e0-acd2-00144feab4...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ht3xQPsLO...

in some of the most prosperous regions, and many social scientists in China are worried by the example of Yugoslavia, a country that split apart when regional economic disparities were less than they now are in China.
Meanwhile, more and more food sold in US supermarkets mad in China:

Apple juice, candies, mushrooms, fish products...
just to be chrome-defender guy again: whenever I've installed chrome it's always asked on first start what search engine I want to be the default.

I haven't installed from a bundle before, so that might different.
That sounds uncomfortably familiar to us veterans of the '99 crash.
I might remove MDMA from that list -- the head researcher at Johns Hopkins for this study was interviewed about a similar 2006 study he did; it mentions that studies at John Hopkins have shown the potential for brain damage from MDMA ("certain nerve cells", anyway).
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2006/Griffiths...
I don't think that the problem is that javascript is bad, but that it will kill most other scripting languages just by being in the right place at the right time.

It will be harder and harder for ruby/python/perl/x to compete with js in the future just because people know js and because it essentially runs everywhere fast.

WebCL, WebGL and friends will cover anything with extreme computational needs, and that will be everything you need to learn to write applications in the future, unfortunatly.
Personally, I think if they just offered premium themes at a fair price they would make a killing.
I'd appreciate a way to get back to the last 'view'. Very often I type what I want to type, but while I type Google instant loads the search results. I read them with at a single glance and find something that interests me...however my fingers kept typing and before I can click on the link that got my attention, Google loads the view that is pertinent to the stuff I typed in, and now I don't know how to get back, because I was looking at the instant search results.
I can see why you would think that but it does work because a script that just contains a JSON object is not a valid JavaScript file. The browser will give an error. Whereas a script that just contains a JSON array is valid.
I've been thinking about these empty cities, and it strikes me as an indication that the planners of the Chinese economy are expecting continued increase in the value of commodities relative to other capital. If they expect to need more urban housing and infrastructure in the future and also expect the price of commodities (and also labor for construction, perhaps) to increase significantly, it makes sense to build them now. Since China already keeps a lot of capital in the form of US treasuries, it makes sense that they would want to diversify their investments by also building up a surplus of physical capital such as housing and other infrastructure.
That's a reasonable question to ask.

There's a number of generic tools you could use for keeping a project log (Google Docs, a blog, wiki, text file) but at the moment the primary reason to use Labradoc is it focused on making project logs easy.

Small features like automatic date tracking for entries, a clutter-free interface and simple formatting via Markdown help reduce the overhead of keeping a project log. This in turn helps increase the likelihood you'll keep the log up to date. Which makes the log more useful to you and others.

If you do use Google Docs for keeping a project log I'd certainly value feedback on what it provides for you in this instance.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.
That article is terrible. The writer takes it as a fait accompli that DNF should score about 65% then proceeds to castigate any reviewer who gave a score out of line with that. Nowhere does he even admit that reviewers might have different, valid takes on a game to himself.
Yeah, this disease disappears by itself with age.
That's the best explanation I've heard so far, makes a lot of sense!
They could arguably expand it into a full-blown social bookmarking service (in which case it would be adorable if they implemented the ability to +1 privately).

EDIT: Think of a dashboard, a homepage to the internet. Not in the Reddit sense, nor in the Netvibes sense. Something between Tumblr and Pinboard, maybe.
Maybe I need to just move to the metro-Denver area instead, seeing as I know my way around their public transportation really well.
Who in their right mind thinks BitCoin is regulated? I ask this question rhetorically because places that I hold to be intelligent, HN/reddit, seem to continue to operate under the assumption that BTC should enjoy all the benefits of a regulated currency. Does the word "decentralized" not mean anything to anyone? Do people not realize that this currency has potential BECAUSE of the lack of central authority that would guard, protect and monitor their cash flows?
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Google docs gives me ubiquitous availability, various file formats (which is a plus or a minus) and not much else. Your response includes good reasons for using your product.
You can get to most of the special purpose x86 vector instructions in GCC without dropping down to assembly.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.0/gcc/Vector-Extension...

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.6.0/gcc/X86-Built_002din...
It's not Apple's responsibility to "fix" a misbehaving company. To stop sending information identifying you as an iPad user breaks the web just the same by not honoring the user agent spec in RFC 1945.

Mobile implementations abuse agent sniffing, no doubt. This is a clear example of organizations who don't get it, or are willing to exchange readership attrition for a perceived benefit with an app. Or in this case, an attempt to create revenue.

I'm ok letting these organizations die on the vine. It means those who plan better are greeted with opportunity.
Not quite. The constitution doesn't stipulate the relationship between contractors. The part of the constitution that you've cited establishes copyright as a concept. It doesn't denote that every work you create is automatically owned by you. While it is true that works you create on your own time are by default protected by copyright, you can also enter into work-for-hire and other intellectual property agreements that alter the status of what you create.
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Exactly.

LulzSec on the other hand would probably be the ones breaking into the dentists office and drawing a penis on the patients face with black marker, just to wait for them to wake up and laugh at them.

:)
At least this time we know when the bubble is coming.
A lot of products state that they're "Made in [Europe or UK]", but they are actually manufactured in some Eastern country (most frequently China, Taiwan or Malaysia). Still, the mark is not a lie, as the product was engineered/designed in named country (but manufactured in another).
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Presumably so students will have no advance warning to flush their diplomas down the toilet.
Honest question: the reason for such redundancy and overlap is because different Google teams want/have independence, because they can't communicate with each other and reach an agreement, or because they're afraid to piss off users with radical changes?
They probably already use these metrics, but there was no equivalent to the Facebook like button.
I personally use neither of them, and when you look at the numbers of the FB-Likes always very low.
Heh, it's a shame that that myth is still around. The study was actually retracted by the "scientist" himself after he discovered that his lab had administered methamphetamine instead of MDMA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retracted_article_on_toxicity_o...

However, MDMA should certainly not be taken more than a couple of times a year. It's not something you mess around with, we don't know enough about how it affects brain chemistry yet.
Not speaking against this kid in particular, what he did was cool, but there are plenty of high school kids who can write professional quality code (in a multitude of languages) and know a lot about the internals of a computer. Speaking from experience, its annoying when age becomes a matter of importance.
> It's not Apple's responsibility to "fix" a misbehaving company.

No. But it is important for them to make sure browsing on the iPad is good. When something doesn't work while browsing, it hurts the user. Why do you think they put so much effort on combating Flash? Why push HTML5? They couldn't drop Flash and not support a replacement. They had to make that push, and it worked well for them.

I'd love the option to expose my iPad Safari as a normal desktop safari. Many sites don't give me the option of going to a non-mobile version, and it sucks. It breaks being able to browse on my iPad.

How could they do that smoothly in an Apple like way? I don't know. I'm not Apple.

Responsibility has nothing to do with it.
I thought part of why US housing speculators are so screwed is that each unoccupied and unmaintained building they own is rapidly deteriorating from mold and infestation and vandalism and shoddy boom-year construction quality without repairs. Could anyone build an entire ghost town that would last until it's needed, at a reasonable cost?
Besides the obvious hyperbole (I guarantee you've made something worse in the UI department), Instant's been a massive hit. I'm sorry that you don't enjoy it, but there's always a sub-set of users that will resist any change whatsoever, even if it's a massive improvement.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2554833
Well, when you're out there trolling the world, the appeal of anonymity extends beyond a sociological concept. It's your only way of staying out of jail. The ability to remain anonymous is the ability to operate, and operating is the game. This gives rise to the social system you're observing, but it's very pragmatic.
All that you would accomplish by suing in state court is to waste a few thousand dollars securing an uncollectable judgment that neither the federal courts nor the Japanese courts will enforce.

If Mt. Gox doesn't have the minimal contacts (to the U.S. economy/legal system) necessary for federal court jurisdiction, you're SOL unless you are willing to sue in Japan.
Really cheapens the numbering of versions. We're going to have Firefox 1243053 soon.
You're framing the issue by saying that creation of IP happens for the reason of selling it later on. This is circular (IP wouldn't exist - it is a direct product of prootection), but I'll assume you meant that there'd be less investment in ideas in an environment without IP.

I disagree with your framing and conclusion. People work with ideas for the purpose of solving problems or satisfying interest that they have, not just directly commercialising the results. I write software in order that my business can operate in its environment. Mendelssohn was inspired to write the Scottish symphony. Free software authors have a commercial interest for their work because it increases their chances of getting good work, and the same applies for music teachers who compose and record, and literature professors who write, and scientists who publish.

Creating an ecoosystem that is oriented around direct commercialisation through the mechanism of IP cannibalises the innovation of people who solve problems and satisfying interest because of the extra weight of restrictions it places upon them. Many of the tunes in Handel's _Israel in Egypt_ were directly ripped from other work he had access to. That oratorio could not have been created in the current IP atmosphere.

Further, ideas benefit from network effects in a liberal idea space. Copyright hampers the exchange.

You equate IP with being all protection - this is misleading. IP is just one form of protection, one that is government backed. Consider Steam - a mechanism that furthers commercialisation of ideas without leveraging IP. The growth of models where businesses take responsibility for their own commercial model is stunted by the government protectionism offered in the form of easy copyright. This further fuels arguments like the one you've made. We look around us and see copyright everywhere tied up in ideas, and fail to appreciate the opportunity cost of the situation.

Without copyright you wouldn't have Hollywood, but you would have something else.
I haven't heard of that term before now, but I would argue that XSSI is a way of doing CSRF rather than CSRF, or something entirely different itself. (From Wikipedia: "Unlike cross-site scripting (XSS), which exploits the trust a user has for a particular site, CSRF exploits the trust that a site has in a user's browser.")

Apologies if the title made it seem like not using javascript arrays was a magic bullet to preventing all CSRF.
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