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I've recently switched most of my domains to namecheap, and I've got to say I'm really happy with the experience so far. Considering there is generally only a couple of dollars difference between most of the big registrars, I don't think it's worth skimping for a much worse experience.

Each to their own though.
I'm impressed you can get through the interface that easily. I find there are always more steps to get things done than there ought to be, and the whole process is rather frustrating. As I said though, each to their own.
what's the over under on this being cited in a lack-of-women-in-tech article in the next two weeks?
It is a very contentious issue: the wealth belongs to the Temple trust which is controlled by the erstwhile Royal family. Also, the Government has no say on it since it was donated to the Temple by private entities even before the govt. was formed.

Even if the court decides that the control of the wealth should go to the government, there is going to be huge contention since the donations were religious in nature, and has such strong connotation.
I think the coding horror blog benefited a bit in average post quality when Jeff switched focus to be primarily a developer/ project manager on stackoverflow rather than primarily a blogger. Previous to that while there was a lot of good information there, a lot of the posts felt forced, like trying to hit a quota, kinda like techcrunch.
>We've been eliminating jobs with labor-saving devices for centuries. In the past they've always created as many jobs as they destroyed

This seems dubious. The avg. work week has been decreasing for a long time. It was only a century ago that significant amounts of <10 year olds were working, and the average work week was twice as long. Now it's slipping towards 30 hours a week.

This seems to just to continue that trend. It's becoming less likely that <20 year olds will have ever held a job.

I can't see it getting any better as boomers get older and refuse to give up their jobs.
flashbake is version control for writers based off git. It checks specified directories every 15 minutes for changes
I'm an Indian and a hindu. I've been to that temple. It's really sad to think that there would thousands of people around that temple who would go hungry as we speak and this temple has wealth that will pretty much stay locked up for the rest of humanity. It'll never get invested. No next google would come from thiruvanandapuram because of this. People would go on their lives living in terrible houses, driving terrible vehicles on atrocious roads. And Hindu fanatics would organize protests at the first mention of using this for any practical purpose.
It depends what you are trying to achieve with a blog a bit to, are you trying to address customers, prospective customers primarily or are you trying to become an authority in your niche by writing about it more broadly and picking up a lot of search traffic. I think a great example for authority is SEOMoz, provides value well beyond the actual product.
Right, and it's equivalent to the more readable

Number(new Date())

or more simply

Date.now()

if you don't need IE8 support.
With Django 1.4 (or the dev version) it will be possible to cryptographically sign a cookie:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/signing/

You can use this to store the session data with the user without having to consult a database and without fear that they will tamper with the id:

https://github.com/ericflo/django-cookie-sessions
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Careful with the grammar and phrasing on here. As a social networking site, communication is key.

edit
Also just realized that this was a "template" landing page of sorts. If you have access to a designer, have them take a few minutes to whip up something unique to your app. A landing page like this is a serious turnoff (especially for the geek crowd who will be early adopters).
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"If you are a low skilled worker at this point in the U.S., you're likely to be either not conscientious, or dumb."

This shows a lot of ignorance of the economics and sociology of poverty in America and elsewhere, including poor educational opportunities that are not created by laziness or stupidity by the students. The statement detracts from your other well-made points.
I wonder how popular A/B testing is on iOS.

I agree with you though, I think most people avoid it just because of the very nature of the app store..
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They have top men working on it.
Odd outlier in that graph is that Turkey appears completely unchanged. Possible but not at all likely.
I go back and forth on this. On one hand Google of all companies should have no problem scaling a new service up to a huge number of users, and quickly.

But I think the real issue is they want to tease out problems early, with people who are likely to be a bit more forgiving. I've been using G+ for almost a week now, and I've heard of a few bugs that were easy to fix with a small userbase, but could have caused trouble -- and a lot of negative opinions/press -- if it had been open to a wider audience.

So yes, it's a little frustrating that I'm missing chunks of my real-life friend circles, but I totally understand why they're rolling out the service as they are.
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Not really, no. Google is an advertising company; their revenue comes from understanding people and selling that understanding by proxy to advertisers. Google+ is yet another way for them to do that, and it's just one facet of their business. It's a very powerful facet, and they have a lot to gain by making it work well, but it isn't the crown jewel.

As far as overhead, I'd suspect that Google+ isn't even a blip on Google's overall radar in terms of overhead - the latest Netcraft survey puts Google as running 4.6% of all webservers on the internet; while it's certainly a large undertaking, Google is at such massive scale already that I don't think deploying a social network necessitates a severe shift in focus.
> Bad for programming.

Unless you like emacs. No Caps Lock taking up precious space, Control/meta/super keys in great position, and the emacs keybindings work not only in emacs, but system wide.
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Within a period of, I believe, 12 months, Steve Jobs became CEO, installed NeXT execs in almost every key exec role in Apple, and replaced the board of directors.

Although Apple acquired NeXT, in every meaningful way, NeXT consumed Apple.

edit: here we go: http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1997/08/NewBoD.html -- Steve convinced three of five to leave.
That's a pretty good analogy, although you need to remember that a plain git branch is like a File -> Save As that doesn't keep the new name of subsequent File -> Save's
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I'm a cofounder (coder, not a business guy) of a site that's currently filtering thru a few first round offers that will put our valuation somewhere between 5 and 10m. We're less than a year old and we're not live yet. I'm being vague here for obvious reasons. The original founder, a friend, asked me to come on and do the backend work for 10% equity and a very low initial draw. He's subsequently decided to cut my equity down to 5% to accomodate bringing on a CEO who will be getting 20%. My dilution was out of proportion to all the other equity holders. I don't have a signed equity agreement - everything I've done was under a contracting agreement of which I've been paid for approx 1 month of the 7. A few months ago I cut my salary to zero to help float our offshore UI dev. None of the principals are being paid. I've written somewhere around 90% of the system - everything but the front end. My buddy, the original cofounder, is dawdling on bringing the formal agreements up to speed, and he's behaving like a power hungry jerk. The strange equity dilution punishment didn't help things. A lawyer I spoke with said I would have ownership of all the work I did that was unpaid. And I've brought along a personal library I've been working on for a few years that's a core piece of the system. We don't have legal on that either. How do I deal with this? I have a personal rule about not working with jerks and my trust level is very low. And if it weren't for the potential I'd have left already. Your advice and thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
I see where your heads at, but this isn't the most professional approach to inspiring your local community to do better. If anything, it'd be smart to get a job at one of the shops and try to influence their work. This is a bit bullish and will definitely be brushed off. Also, if you're going to attack, make sure your own skills are up to par (e.g. typography).
LabVIEW comes to mind. Not really for web stuff though...
What exactly are your business needs?

If you need an IVR or virtual call center, the ability to measure response rates from ads, or the ability to automate notification calls to your customers, then Ifbyphone would be an excellent fit. Tell us more about your business and your needs, and we can help you figure our what makes the most sense for you.
I believe some of us have an intrinsic desire to build things. Just like birds build nests and bees build hives. Some of us have a desire to build and are probably rewarded with some chemical brain fix as a result.

At this point though, we've simply changed the medium from sticks and mud to Python and Minecraft.
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The Isaac Newton quote is pretty funny. Robert Hooke claimed that Newton's work copied his own. Newton wrote the quote as an insult when replying to Hooke, who was very short.

The original variation, not Newton, did have the expected meaning, though.
You might be interested in A "Visual Git Guide" as well.

http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/index-en.html
Okay, I'll try to grasp at my thoughts again.

Algebraically, 12 is not the same as 10+2. 12 is an element of, say, ℤ, while 10+2 is one of <+,ℤ²>. To make them interchangeable, we need to establish an equivalence relation. Given that relation, we then have the opportunity to express useful, non-obvious equivalences using transitivity.

Now that we have X=10+2=12, we need to choose which one represent the equivalence class of X. 12 is certainly shorter, but a seemingly magic constant. 10+2 implies that in other number systems, X=b+1+1 may be also true. If the scribe subscribes to the principle of MDL, we can speculate that this is the reason he chose the longer version, and if that is accurate, we have gained more information. If we chose 9+3, we would arguably lose information, since this expression is (hypothetically) misleading.

This is all to say that expressions are more informative than their equivalence classes, since they have been hand-picked to be representative.

To represent the equivalence class of 6.28... with 2*3.14... implies that the equivalence class of 3.14... is more important, and that the prototype likely involves two separate instances of the concept of π. This is misleading.
Better demolish the bloody temple and errect sth meaningful there.
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I used to work for a startup with a similar product aimed at K-12. This is a pretty good summary of how the whole learning management software industry works.

It's unbelievably hard to sell educational software, but once you have some customers signed up they will stay with a particular system for literally decades before contemplating a change, regardless of how stagnant and outdated the product becomes. As recently as five years ago, there were still a significant number of schools using systems based on Foxpro.

Companies spent years establishing a customer base, and then they're almost inevitably snapped up by a larger fish. My startup was purchased by a regional educational software company, which was itself almost immediately afterward snapped up by a private equity group.
Old iMac, which is going to need to be replaced for post-iOS 4 development. I think it will have been my longest serving box ever, going on 4 years now, though the Mac Mini hooked to the TV is just a tad older.

Still using my day 1 MacBook, though much of it has been replaced at one time or another. Just a surfing and occasional light dev machine.
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@awaz - What was your business use case for Ifbyphone?
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Keep in mind that a 3 carat red diamond is worth about $20,000,000... as an example I'm not sure what the geology is around there, or what India's historical gem cutting practices were... but I wouldn't say this is impossible.

Maybe... haha, this sixth door is the key to the world ending in 2012 :P
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Companies rarely buy other companies for their profits. Most of the time it's a strategic move e.g. Twitter purchasing Tweetdeck to protect itself from aggressive moves by UberMedia
Apologies, I didn't realize that was your blog (I think I understand where you're coming from, provocative language aside).

But could you please clarify where the jobless person gets $22k per year for leisurely consumption?
Putting aside your extremely dubious claim that India was the richest country before the arrival of the British, I still fail to see why you think "White culture" is so terrible. Want to know how a small country like England managed to subjugate a huge country like India? Instead of stealing riches from it's people, to store it in a temple, leaving the people to live on uneducated poverty, the English instead were investing in infrastructure - roads, railway, schools, courts, police. The thing is, all of those investments made England a better place to live for in, if you were just an average person. What did India do during that time? When you figure out the answer to that question, come back and tell us how Indias culture was so superior to "White" culture.
Quoting from the article:

Thurner and co found that positive behaviour intensifies after an individual receives a positive action.

"The probability of acting out negative actions is about 10 times higher if a person received a negative action at the previous timestep than if she received a positive action," they say.

"We interpret these ﬁndings as empirical evidence for self organization towards reciprocal, good conduct within a human society," they say.

In other words, humanity is fundamentally good.
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The irony is that (in my experience) ~90% of instructors don't use Blackboard for anything more than an easy way for the HTML-illiterate to distribute syllabi, course notes, and assignments. Unless forced by the administration hardly anyone even uses the gradebook, let alone the more advanced features.
Heise fought 6 years for the right to link to "illegal" Software while reporting about court decisions regarding that software. After countless lost proceedings in lower courts, they finally won at the end of 2010, where the Federal court (the highest instance below the constitutional court) decided in Heise's favor that links are an essential feature of the freedom of online press and thus protected. This sadly does not include linking in general, only news coverage, but it was an epic win for press freedom anyway, since it was de facto illegal for the last 6 years even for the press, due to all the negative decisions by the lower courts.
Feels adventurous to live in the vicinity of this temple :-). A bit like watching Indiana Jones.
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Thanks! That looks like a really helpful working introduction to git. I'll probably start recommending it to git newbies.
If anyone is interested in an analysis of the rise and fall of NeXT, I highly recommend Randall Stross' "Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing", which was published in 1993.

Considering Apple's incredible comeback, it's kind of strange to read something that is so critical of Jobs, but the book really helps inform about his thought processes on product design, marketing, and sales.
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https://github.com/github/gollum - The git-backed wiki that powers GitHub Wikis.

https://github.com/technoweenie/madrox - Distributed Twitter implementation in Git.

https://github.com/schacon/ticgit - Git-based distributed ticketing system.

https://github.com/progit/progit - Pro Git book using GitHub to facilitate translations into 25 languages.

http://code.google.com/p/gource/ - Visualize the activity on a git repo (OpenGL).
So these vaults haven't been opened in over a century, and the only reason they're being opened now is because someone is concerned with how a trust fund is managing them? Excuse me, managing how? I guess that's the question, but it still makes me laugh.
Considering local government corruption, I'd actually be happy if it wasn't used for 'practical' purposes if the government gets to control all this wealth.
What do you make of the whole tug of war on who gets to control the wealth?
not being able to extend this logic to also renaming youtube should be a hint that what they are doing is a mistake
Wow. This is going to be interesting. Adioso.com (YC) is an amazing site, Google are going to have to try pretty hard to beat them for Australia, considering what Adioso.com can do without buying out a massive company.
My personal view :

Having recently been through the nightmare of planning my own wedding I don't see myself using this site.

The problem I see is if someone sends a suggestion they have spent some time thinking about it and it will feel be harsh turning down their suggestion.
Although it might work with very close friends.

Few twists that I think may work:
A free gift registry where you can add items by scanning the barcode using your iphone/android phone.
Also you could potentially use information on what other people have in their registry to give ideas to people on what they can add to their registry.
Also maybe do a price search and provide suggestions on where people can buy a product and get affiliate money from purchases.

PS: I might not be your target market so don't let this demotivate you just providing my honest personal opinion.
This is the joke:

1. The hyphen is redundant nowadays on account of startup becoming a legitimate compound word.

2. No one needs to call Jobs by his full name, he's as big an icon as William Henry "Bill" Gates III. Steven P. is just so quaint-sounding.

3. [generic joke at the expense of American manufacturing]
Incredible to think that I used to walk around this place almost every other day while I was in school.

On another note; the kings of the old Travancore (who built this temple) were known for living a very austere life compared to the other Maharajas. They did invest in a lot of infrastructure during their time; mostly during the last half of the 19th century and early 20th century. There was an urban legend in my city (according to my grandmother) that in the event of an emergency the kings of Travancore had enough wealth to pull back the country out of it. This probably was it. I wouldn't really blame the kings for storing this under the vaults; it was intended to be used for famines and such; it wasn't as if they enjoyed any of this. The complicated history of Travancore is probably the reason why it stayed hidden for so long.

What happens to this now is the big question. There's going to be a big argument amongst the secularists, the spiritualists, the archaeologists and finally the government regarding this.

Atleast it made my city famous :)
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What's it got to do with people being white? Long before the existence of the east India company Pusyamitra Sunga did more than his bit to undo all that Ashoka did to create a united India. While the British did not rule India for the sake of Indians, haven't individuals like Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton helped in creating a modern/self-reliant and Scientific India? Indians Blaming the mughals/Brit rulers is like blaming Google for indexing your mysqldump backup (with plain text passwords) after storing it in public_html/
He goes into that in this answer: http://anyasq.com/69#377
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as much as i hate Microsoft .. it is smart thinking. Get them while they are young.
You can replace the toDict() method in your model with the values() method on the default manager. For example: Todo.objects.values('id', 'order', 'content', 'done').get(pk=x)
This appears to contain no information that isn't covered by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2731695
There's Fortress.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_%28programming_languag...)

Not exactly what you were looking for, but its 'source code can be rendered as ASCII text, in Unicode, or as a prettied image.'
Okay, time for renaming fun:
Picasa will now be known as Google+Photos and Blooger will become.. Google+Globber! :D
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You could certainly support some subset of regular expressions - e.g. prefixes or suffixes. You could also accelerate special cases by using that approach.

The fact is though, that searching a body of text with an arbitrary regular expression is an O(n) operation. And with the entire Web, O(n) is infeasible to do for every search. And it is O(n) only if you mean regular expression in the narrow technical sense. I believe that the best current algorithms for extended regular expressions (e.g. the ones in Perl) which support features like back-references are exponential in the worst case.