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Always wanted to know what is it about node.js, I hope now the quest would be complete :)
I just deployed a project to layar.fluxflex.com.. It says it's deployed, but I get a 404. Any ideas?
a) Why doesn't it? Unconscious is simple, and procrastination by nature avoids conscious reasoning, no?

b) Can you clarify? I'm not sure I understand this question, and how it pertains to natural selection.

c) I don't see a reason for fear. I don't want to edit my friend's grade 11 paper, not because I'm afraid I can't do it, but because it's probably boring... or I feel I have better things to do. If you pick extreme examples, you might be able to reason in favor of fear, but I feel that's very selective criteria.

d) There's a subconscious and conscious element to a lot of things we do. When my friend tried to teach my hypnosis, he stressed that hypnotists act on the subconscious by breaking down preconceived resistances to ideas. This isn't as much an overriding as it is symbiosis, with one force pushing just a little harder.
Thanks for your advice. I think chnaging load balancers to 64-bit instances is the first thing I should do. And also I heard several times about the performance of ELB, so we will change our architecture to some alternatives.
So it's nearlyfreespeech.net but with semi-persistent workers like Heroku?

I agree that the pricing is too low for you to make money on top of AWS and also deliver decent service, it's hard to imagine that you could stick around — at the very least you should emphasize how developers don't end up tied into your platform.
It's obvious, but this fact escapes so many people today: we do not have capitalism in the US.

What does a free market mean, anyway? Free of what? It means freedom from your neighbors, no matter if it's just one of them breaking into your house at night, or a whole bunch of them voting for laws to take what's rightfully yours by day. To put it another way, in a free market, others can't control when you buy or sell, nor can they take your money by force or fraud, even if they call it "taxes."
I'm amazed so many people and companies are focussed on trying to manage/limit peoples exposure to tracking technologies. Everyone is looking at this problem backwards. I say this because the vast majority of these technologies are javascript based and simply read cookies and execute simple image requests to send information back to tracking servers. If someone was to invent a plugin that allowed these technologies to still function, but randomly scrambled the data being sent (along with sending extra dummy requests here and there), it would be over...

Tracking companies rely on clean data, they even report on exact numbers coming out of these systems, so instead of people trying to avoid being part of their clean data, it would be far more effective to make their data dirty so they can't trust it (or sell it).
it would be great and I will probably use it.
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Wow, so once the term sheets get signed and everything gets all official, it's as simple as a wire transfer of cash? Why have I always been thinking it was a lot more complicated and involved arcane other stuffs?
My one big gripe with Spotify is that they don't serve up a lot of the music I listen to (WARP-label), and it seems that all music before 2005 is either a karaoke or cover track – when I search.

It's just too limiting, for me at least.
I sympathize with all arguments here. However, if the client expects a lot of the audience to be using IE, and is willing to pay for the extra effort, some conditionally commented CSS and JS could layer on the extra images for the corners that really need to be round without sacrificing any performance or SEO juice. You may also want to check out http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ .
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Javascript: The good parts and today I find this..Thank you.
Are you sure? When I tested it, early on, it was unlimited hours of streaming, with ads now and then.
Probably because your comment added nothing. FWIW, I hadn't heard of SL either, despite having used and administered Linux distributions for the past 15 years. Feel free to use that fact to call my entire career into question, too, though.
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In a lot of cases, three albums on Grooveshark beats the hell out of none on Spotify.
From the US site http://www.spotify.com/int/coming-to-the-us/

>The award-winning music service that’s taken Europe by storm will soon be landing on US shores. Millions of tracks ready to play instantly, on your computer and your phone.

>Any track, any time, anywhere. And it's free!

Maybe there's a bit of a drawn-out bait and switch strategy here, but it looks like Spotify is going to start off in the U.S. with an "all-you-can-eat free tier".
Initially, the free tier did offer unlimited (ad supported) streaming. It was only more recently (6 months?) that this has changed.
I'll let Google explain the exact same product decision for their social network Orkut in 2009:

"Mass exportation of email is not standard on most social networks — when a user friends someone they don’t then expect that person to be easily able to send that contact information to a third party along with hundreds of other addresses with just one click. In order to protect user privacy, we now exclude email addresses from the CSV export file."

http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/orkut-slows-hemorraging-to-...

They're right. Programmatic export of friends' email addresses is too ripe for abuse in the world we live in.
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This is actually really cool. Its the kind of thing I've been really wanting to get the Cloud9 guys to get working with dotcloud. A huge stumbling block for me has been working on my CR-48. Dotcloud, heroku need you to install their CLI witch will obviously give you much more power and flexibility but cant be done if you don't have terminal access.

Now some will say why would you even try to do any kind of dev work without proper tools but I think this really lowers the bar and gives people another frictionless way to get their hands dirty.
I discovered that PyPy used to be in Debian, back in the days of PyPy 1.0, but it was removed because it took so long to build and because it wasn't yet generally useful. The latest releases of PyPy seem to be a lot more useful, and hopefully the build-time is being addressed...
http://www.aim.edu/ mandates MBA graduates to do a startup as part of their curriculum.
That's why advertising exchanges are picking up - put up an auction for each impression for which you have no ad to run, maybe set a reserve, and you're off to the races!
It could very easily be the case that Facebook's difficulty in popularizing friend lists was somehow path-dependent: e.g., FB users weren't using it from the beginning, so users had a different model in mind. We agree, I am not saying that circles are hopeless just because they've already been tried.

There seems to be a bogus meme propagating that Facebook doesn't have the functionality at all, though. You can do this stuff on Facebook if you're so inclined.
This is world's better than discovering, post-launch, on the first time you talk to an actual customer, that the customer has no need for the product. I would caution you, though, that finding someone who won't buy the product is not the same as proving people won't buy the product.

I could go to any teaching forum right now and find you thirty people who won't pay for Bingo Card Creator, and/or think it is a sin to charge poor little teachers $30 when they only make $60,000 a year and have to buy their own paper. This isn't maximally relevant to the business, because I can constructively prove that there exists an addressable channel to sufficient teachers who will pay that make it viable (on BCC's scale, at any rate).

This is one reason why I really like MVPs, by the way. You can often get a close approximation of an actual customer acquisition strategy running on them. Then, see if they'd take at least some action which suggests willingness to pay. ("I can't find the buy button. Where is the buy button!?" has worked for me, at least once.)
Interesting view. But I think this FB case, maybe it just happened that way..
Aside from the size of startup & investment communities, there are still lots of great early stage investors e.c. JBoss backer David Skok of Matrix. - one of my favorit VCs. At least these guys sometimes do very very early stages.
You can not write a static compiler for python, because python does not have static typing, and it is a dynamic language. So that part is a tautology.

I suspect the author is trying to say that you can not write a compiler to machine code for python. This is wrong.

Compiling dynamic languages to machine code has been done dozens of times in languages with equivalent or greater dynamic properties (Common Lisp, Scheme, and Smalltalk, for example). I guess an example of proof of concept here is that Python was implemented in Common Lisp as a DSL (macros), and it works on the machine code lisp implementations.
(http://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/manual.html#compilin...)

The truth is that no one can be bothered to do it, because there is little to be gained from a faster python implementation. All of the slow code is in little parts that can be rewritten in C (or whatever faster language... so almost any language).

The mentioned Python compiler projects are all 'research,' as far as I can tell. Doing something that is actually known to work and is difficult would be of no use to someone who is interested in tenure.
If the client wants backwards compatibility, then it should be a billable extra. If you're billing on an hourly rate, it's in their best interest to get the project finished as fast as possible.

I don't think the document was anti-backwards compatibility, just well, you know clients... they are always wanting the look like a Porsche, while still driving a rusty old pick-up.

They are just trying to justify the lack of support in an easy to swallow way. You want support, expect to pay for it, but realize that the money you're paying will only benefit a small percentage of your audience (you included).

Everyone's had (and still get) those clients using IE5, saying that if it doesn't work for them, it won't work for the rest of the internet.
D:

I've also heard things about how, for example, simply walking regularly for exercise can sometimes be more effective than chemotherapy.
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Spotify is fully legal, Grooveshark is quasi legal and may not see another year.
Ex-Wave, Ex-Plus engineer on why javascript is required to read a blog entry.

No, it should not be.
Am I the only one who finds some slight irony in this document being a PDF rather than an standards-based HTML document?

None the less, I agree with the author -- and it's how we try to design at OpenDNS these days. Too much time wasted to make it look the same everywhere; it just needs to look good everywhere.
I got that too
Why parallel programming frameworks like Apple GCD, Intel TBB, Cilk don't work?
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The arguments in this article are indeed poor, but just because someone uses poor arguments to support X doesn't imply that X is wrong. I found the main point raised in the article to be very interesting because it supports a view that I arrived to independently, by thinking about why I myself was procrastinating in college (I was a pre-med student and of course I had a heavy course load -- but I never deep down wanted to be a doctor -- my real love was math, technology, computers, and believe it or not philosophy).

a) The entire consciousness/unconscious separation is somewhat bogus (our "unconscious" is simply the part of our brain that evades introspection, but degree of introspection is hard to measure for obvious reasons). The main point to gather is that there is a process of self-criticism that manifests itself as lack of motivation, at least as stated by the article.

b) Our lives are always at risk -- being outcompeted by others of our kind is equivalent to being trampled upon by a mammoth.

c) I don't see how lack of motivation to do X is a less efficient alternative to fear. Fear is rarely an efficient mechanism (except in very time-constrained situations) -- it forces us to focus all our energy on a single task, it prevents us from thinking broadly and seeing new opportunities, and finally it forces us to make decisions towards increase of security instead of increase of opportunity. And the "loss of interest" you mention is technically the same as lack of motivation.

d) It makes perfect sense that we are conflicted about complex decisions for a long time. If we made up our minds quickly instead, it would prevent us from gathering enough information to make the aforementioned complex decision correctly. Complex decisions are complex for a reason.
PDF is a standard...
What investment will you lose if they shut down?
and then readability to fix the ridiculously thin font

http://i.imgur.com/9Oy37.png
> Am I the only one who finds some slight irony in this document being a PDF rather than an standards-based HTML document?

That would be my fault. Sorry! The original was a blog post that I linked in my other comment but I came across this PDF first and thought HNers would like it. Also, I'm pretty sure it is meant to be printed out like an informational booklet and handed to new clients along with brochures, portfolio, and business cards.
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an FT.com article put paid subscribers at 1 million, 15% of their user base. They've just closed $100 million of funding. Based on the FT ratio the projections equate to 7.5 million paid US subscribers. They'll need to retain those customers to make a return and the market is very competitive. More crazy valuations.
It amazes me that this engineer appears to not know that Google+ Circles are already implemented in the core of Facebook as Friend Lists (though without a nice UI and pushed aside over time) and that Facebook Groups solve a completely different, unrelated problem.
Not to be a jerk, but if you're going to start offering opinions on evolution, at least get it right and not refer to the "Homo sapien" species.... it's the "Homo sapiens" species. Again, not trying to give you hard time, but at least for me, that stuck out like a sore thumb.
Another convert is Sachiko Kobayashi. She lives in Sendai, a city at the heart of the tsunami zone, and was in Kesennuma looking for a friend, a fellow student in the koto, a traditional Japanese instrument. After Ms. Kobayashi posted a query on a separate Web site, a stranger directed her to Person Finder. There, she learned that her friend was alive.

There's a little trick to reading the New York Times, most commonly disaster reporting or any time the story takes place in conditions of extreme hardship: any time you see "a stranger", replace it with the reporter's name. They do it out of a perceived ethical stricture to avoid putting themselves in the center of the story.

After you know this exists, you'll see it a lot.
You're right, javascript should be required to browse the web, not just a blog entry.
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A web page explaining why rounded corners are expensive in IE, showing both rounded and unrounded corners...in IE.

I would actually stick with a PDF.
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What browser/OS are you using? It looks fine for me (Win 7 + Firefox): http://i.imgur.com/BNjXj.png
I mostly agree with you, but there are cases where the problem isn't that "thing X is too slow", but "after a long period of running the garbage collector gets bogged down with long-lived cycles and dies". So I think garbage collector improvements would be really helpful. Core interpreter improvements, not so much.
We'll see. I agree that Facebook Groups is much less powerful than Circles and much less fundamental to the core Facebook experience than Circles is with G+.

On the other hand, Facebook Groups takes less effort to use - each person does not need to sort their friends, a small number of curators can organize the group. More importantly, it is clearer to the user just what is going on. I have been trying to talk to as many non-techie non-early-adopters as possible about Circles, and many get it and love it, but several don't really understand it.

In particular, the asymmetry of circles is overlooked by a lot of people, even by some casual users who think they understand how Circles works. On Facebook, there is one authoritative list of who is in the group, and posts to the group stay in that group. On Google+, your circles are not my circles. I may have you in a "close friends" circle, you may have me in a big "co-workers" circle, or you might have all your friends in one circle. When I am browsing my "close friends" feed and see a post by you, I may guess wrong about the social context that you are sharing that message in, and make an inappropriate comment, not realizing who else received the message. (The way to determine on G+ who received a post is by noting and clicking on the gray "Public" or "Limited" in the upper right of the post) Maybe I am underestimating people, or maybe comments are just much less big a deal than posts, but I think this lack of clear social context for individual messages within Circles is going to lead to some serious privacy/sharing accidents.

If I had to make a prediction, I'd think that the ease-of-use and clarity of FB Groups will trump the power and flexibility of Circles. I could be wrong, so it'll be interesting to see what ordinary users prefer.
Agreed.

Also, California has this lovely law that guarantees that your employer doesn't own what you develop on your own time without using company equipment in areas that aren't the company's business. Which means that in California, an awful lot of people who would otherwise have continued working for HP, Shockley, IBM, Apple, and so on, went out and started companies — the companies that have, over the last 30 years, brought the people that Facebook needed to hire to California. Not to Massachusetts.
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I don't mean to distract, but wow. What a gorgeously designed clean website. I meant to read the article - and I did after a while - but the first thing I did was CTRL + U to check out the source code.
My only-slightly-educated guess based off what I've read on this (read a few mentions of this story over the past week) is that while the child-sized trachea wouldn't just stop working/become disconnected, most likely there would be a later adult-sized replacement.
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I think you would have gotten a resounding yes on this one.

"Would you be intersted in a seaarch engine that is much better at finding the content your actually looking for?" is a yes every time.
There are a number of areas in G+ that seem like they're going to lead to highly-publicized mistakes, and the asymmetry of circles is certainly one of them. You basically have no way to know who can see your comment on a post (outside of the fact that everyone can see it on a "public" post).

I also suspect an Weinergate style mis-post of something that was supposed to be private will occur fairly early on. Though to be fair, nothing is as easy to misdirect as a twitter DM.