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Even with regular non-ECC modules, it seems like the odds of this affecting you are very very low.

But the sheer number of operational computers probably means that the likelihood that at any given moment this is impacting someone's DNS query is probably fairly high.
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I think the text on the homepage is too technical for your target audience. Try listing the benefits and features in a way a business type person can understand. You can don't have to include the part about being written in Java... Only developers care about that. Overall this could be a good service.

I agree with others, you can make this kit free and charge for a monthly fee for support/maintenance. Just something to consider. Your niche is in an area where business users will be happy to pay for support.
The biggest problem with wikipedia edits are people NOT following the rules. People act like they can make CRAPPY edits in any way THEY like and then EXPECT those CRAPPY edits to stick. If you add a bunch of text WITHOUT a reference citation, then whine because someone deletes your text, then it is YOUR own fault for NOT adding a reference. Most people need to quit whining like a bunch of little girls and edit articles the correct way.
If any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Check the blog post for some technical stuff. I will add more of those later as I did write most of them during building, but they are unpolished etc.
This. There's always a backlash with unexpected post-beta price increases as well (see google app engine.) Be straight-up with the pricing and hold your words.
I had a similar reaction when I first heard about it, but quickly realized it's definitely capable of offering a lot more than that.

Parse is like an envelope labeled "Instant Server Guy – Just Add Water." If you need your app to be able to create/query/display remote data between users, damn, you've got a huge head-start just by dropping in their code.
I really think the two paradigms can be combined: you can have a command line which makes suggestions as to what you mean (like tab completion), but also just takes what you've typed and works out what to display in response, even before you've hit enter. For instance, typing "play" may as well make a few suggestions as to what to type next, but also present a list of your favourite artists, so you can just click on one, or you can carry on typing.

A lot of people's fear of the command line is the empty imposing box, with a cursor and nowhere to look for help. I think we just need to help users exploring the interface, and maybe rename some of those cryptic commands, too.

It's a shame there's so little work in this field, really.

(I posted this comment there, too, for the record.)
If you're unsure what the OP is talking about, SICP stands for "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" aka "The Wizard Book". http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
as the founder of Parse.ly and owner of parse.ly and parsely.com domains, I just have to say -- that's friggen cold, dudes ;-)
I think the time for indie iOS developers as real contenders has passed. Yes, indie developers can still make great apps, but it's no longer realistic to compete with the production quality that is often seen in the top 10, or even top 50 on the app store. If you really want to work with a small team, you absolutely need a great designer who's as invested in the app as you are. I suspect that in the near future (if not already), even a great coder / designer team will have trouble competing with the distribution and marketing advantages of larger names.
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> A javascript, DOM-based window manager would be a worthy project for someone with the skills to do so

You mean like GNOME shell?

A month or two back I started glueing XCB and spidermonkey together. The thought of DOM-based window management crossed my mind but I never saw the point of it. It makes sense in HTML where elements are nested inside one another, but in X, windows are seldomly nested - unless the application was designed that way. The heirarchy would be rather flat in a window manager.
Your understanding is correct: it was the success of The Guild and the timing of the writer's strike that inspired Joss to make his own thing.

By the way, if anyone here has managed to not watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog, I can't recommend it enough. I also recommend The Guild, though if you only have time to watch one web series than the three ~15 minute episodes of Dr. Horrible are where you need to start.
I hear you, but you're arguing that less information is better, and I have a hard time with that. Especially when you're saying that half of new HIV infections could possibly be prevented by this test! I'm not ready to chuck that out with the bathwater.

The problem is one of information interpretation. If the test results were given as either "Positive" or "Unknown", this would solve the issue, yes?
He specifically talks against advertising your music on social networks, and not just your talking about it.

Getting a gig somewhere local without having fans isn't much fun. Anything you can do to jumpstart that is probably a good thing.

It's almost like telling programmers not to put code on Github and share it because it takes time away from the coding itself.

The truth is, sharing the music is beneficial in itself, and it's not really like you can only do 1 or the other.

He had a Twitter addiction and took it to extremes. It was ruining him. That's a lot different than simply using it to create a fanbase or interact with your fans.
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Author of Noir giving ClojureScript tutorial tonight at CUG in Mountain View.
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Congrats on semi-launching.

1000+ signups in just 7 days is awesome.

Out of curiosity, what's your conversion rate to paying users?

I doubt you are gonna give out that number, but it would be very interesting to see :)
Contract starts on page 25. This is pretty much a par for course recording contract boilerplate.
And while here in tech/web/startupland we may acknowledge that there's a certain amount of promotion necessary to get at least the initial eyeballs, once those eyeballs have landed it's your product that's the best attraction.

If you build it good, they will stay.
Another big problem on Wikipedia is people thinking they are overly important and list themselves on School and City articles as notable people. If you don't have a wikipedia article about yourself, then most likely you aren't notable.
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Zonnon is an imperative, modular und objektoriented programming language written by Jürg Gutknecht, which is a direct successor of the Oberon programming language und therefore also of Modula-2 and Pascal. Oberon development was from 1985 to 1990 and it was written by Niklaus Wirth and Jürg Gutknecht together at the ETH Zürich.
While I agree that there are many companies that do strip out stock-based compensation charges, in my opinion their reasoning, as you put it: "accounting mumbo-jumbo" charges" I do not agree with. Share-based compensation is very much a real cost for investors.

Also, when companies do these adjustments, they should carry it consistently throughputs its full extent, i.e. by estimating the dilution
Ditto that.

I came to Linux from a DOS background, where I was pretty proficient. My first attempt went down in flames and I didn't come back for years.

Now that I've learned it enough to consider myself 'good' (but not 'expert'), I prefer it. That took a LONG time. Longer than it took for DOS, actually.
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Sensible defaults. Sure, it's a polish issue. Polish is a good thing, particularly for racket which aspires to and is succeeding at making scheme accessible.

When you fire up rebol, perl, ruby, python, awk for the first time, they don't send you off to poke around in preference screens. Type and go.
The guys behind this are incredibly smart. I really wish them the best of luck.

I do agree with @biot though. Pricing needs to be better defined and there needs to be the ability for people with side projects to be able to integrate this without forking over $99 a month.

I feel that the much bigger users would be building their own service instead of using Parse as it would be more economical anyway.
Whats your suggestion about Howwebstuffworks.com
Hello there, I need your Suggestion.

I purchased a domain http://howwebstuffworks.com for an experiment to compete against crunchbase.com or venturebeatprofiles.com and howstuffworks.com. But, the experiment doesn't bring any fruitful results. Requires more features, functions, more information and so on.

What would be your suggestion? What things do you expect from this site? Or what business transform is possible with that domain? Any IDEAS?

Please share, I will appreciate your support, suggestion.
How much did they spent on the domain name? Just curious.
I can't speak specifically to how idiomatic it is as I've yet to read it, but I've heard http://www.amazon.com/Eloquent-Ruby-Addison-Wesley-Professio... recommended a few times.
Is there a particular reason pagination navigation is not used (e.g. at the bottom of each page, including previous/next links)?
Congratulations Alex! I've been waiting for something like this for too long :)
It's interesting. HN posts don't have to be solely about programming or startups. Anything that gets you thinking is fair game.
There is likely to be a lot more info shortly as there's currently a live press conference going on (encouragingly, the BBC has interrupted its normal news coverage to cover the entire thing).
Like I said.. the shell should offer a tutorial by default on first login.

And 'help' should probably be a built-in (like it is in fish!) that explains how to navigate the help files, and give a brief introduction to the shell.

The non-obviousness of these commands is not an inherent flaw of the CLI, it's an implementation error.
We definitely don't want to weed out weekend projects or free apps. The goal is to have a pricing model similar to Heroku's, where you pay more than you would for a Linode box, but not a ridiculous amount more.
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I heard about it yesterday for the first time thanks to a submission on HN. I'll probably read it sometime in the near future.
The title Eloquent Ruby has been getting excellent reviews by beginners and Rubyists alike. And I happened to have loved reading it.

It is basically a book of best practices and ruby idioms. (For example, the use of a ruby object's each method instead of for..in.)
>Many pharmacies have programs for drug users to buy clean needles, no-questions-asked for exactly this reason.

unfortunately, not being a drug user i couldn't benefit from it. Once i needed to buy a syringe, and when i'd ask for it (it was here in Bay Area), they would make big eyes and refuse. Surprised, i tried a couple other places - the same. Until, at another place, they sold it to me and made sure that it packed so when i'm walking to the car, it wouldn't be visible.
That argument is absolute shit. The reason people in the demographic of "college towns" use condoms is because they don't want pregnancies, not because they are actually afraid of HIV.

Therefore: 1) This is also an argument for banning The Pill and the like in college towns. Clearly an idiotic idea. 2) Knowing their partner does not have HIV will not prevent people most people from using a condom if they were going to otherwise.
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My beef with Wikipedia is the squeaky wheel gets the grease problem: a vocal minority easily drowns out the more rational but less rabid. For example: why does the article on pregnancy need a naked woman on it? The talk page dismisses all arguments of "why is this necessary, what's wrong with this other photo of a clothed pregnant woman" with "we don't censor".

The article for video games is a good example of this. There's clearly someone on wikipedia who has made it his life's work to ensure that there cannot exist an article which doesn't explicitly state that "video game" can only refer to something that has a raster display.
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You know, if you think in terms of the technologies they fund the development of that eventually everyone can use, the three most virtuous industries are banking, porn and the military.
The problem with epidemiology is that it's complex, and I mean that in a technical sense.

For instance, there's evidence that slowing the speed of an epidemic can result in a higher number of total infected.

I'm not at all saying this is bad. Cheap tests are good. However, we already know that test and treat- no matter how cheap it is- will not stop the current epidemic in the U.S. This is an advance in the cheapness of technology but it can't stop an epidemic, only (possibly) slow it. And even that could ultimately result in more people being ultimately infected, but that's not known for sure.

The only technology that can stop the epidemic currently are condoms. The only behaviors that can stop the epidemic are monogamy and using condoms. And it's possible technology such as this could reduce condom usage, and that's the disaster.

From a public health standpoint we need to watch out for anything that can alter behavior on a positive or negative scale. From the comments on engadget I would predict it would impact human behavior in a negative way, and that's what frightens me.
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You'd be surprised. I worked through SICP a few years after graduating, and after the dragon book, and it still managed to warp my brain in new and exciting ways.
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Did you notice the last word spoken by the host Garry Moore was "withal", meaning "nevertheless". Can you imagine a game show host using the word today?
My assumption was that most of the people who load up DrRacket don't go poking around for the teaching languages. It's a pretty useful IDE, not just for students. I usually use it unless I'm working with a large number of files in which case I prefer emacs.
The app dilemma: Is it a feature, or a business?
I often come across articles in the German Wikipedia that are translated from English. Not as often as would be beneficial, though.
The notability criteria are rather stricter than that. There are plenty of individuals and nouns that assuredly exist but which are not "notable" according to Wikipedia. The criteria wording is "significant coverage" in outside sources, so not only does your band have to have one article written about them, but many, in different outside sources, before Wikipedia won't delete your entry.
Finance is just a way of doing resource allocation in a quantifiable way. The ideal scenario is that the cheapest option is also the most efficient (or vice versa, depending on how you think about it). The finance industry is a highly abstract way of finding the methods for creating the most wealth (for any given definition) while consuming the fewest resources. That's called "return on investment".
This guy is SO out of touch with independent music it's not even funny.
How many people know amazing, talented bands that get no where? Good music within itself does not promote itself. You have to advertise, whether it's engaging in fans online or offline, or making friends with other musicians to split the bill.
Do not have a backup plan? Is he insane? For every insanely lucky guy like him there's thousands of other guys working off their blood, sweat, and tears only to end up extremely poor or with nothing. What he's saying is like every startup is going to be Facebook or Google... I'm sorry that's not going to happen. But at least even in a startup you tend to make decent money, not near poverty wages like touring musicians have to endure for years before any "break" ...
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It's controversial because people get into arguments about it. He included it in the list because it's also trivial and silly, as a way of saying that Wikipedians get into arguments about trivial and silly things ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:LAME ). It's a joke of sorts.
Then you didn't live in a building full of 200+ proto-adults, many of whom lacked bsaic cleaning skills, long enough... or maybe I just lived in one too long :)
Not snarky--I feel the same way. Maybe it's not for a product that they intend to make, but just another piece for the patent portfolio?
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I used PLT Scheme (now Racket) 8 years ago to work through SICP 2nd Ed. Was great fun. Should be even easier now that Racket has concurrency constructs.
College kids don't worry about HIV to begin with. They will either wear a condom, or won't. Knowing their partner does not have HIV won't effect the decision since that is the default assumption anyway. People inclined to not make this assumption are also intelligent enough to realize that this test has false negatives.
I think it's a good angle.
This seems like it would be easy to test - register a bit;flipped domain name, set up a simple redirect script to the proper domain name and monitor the hits. A good evening or lunch-time project.
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Do you see that page as a good or bad example?
> Normally a couple hundred IPs a day will visit popular bitsquatted destinations. #blackhat

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I think you're underestimating the depth of the book.

I read SICP and took a distance-learning version of 6.001 as a first-year grad student (undergrad BS in CS) and found it to be very challenging if your goal is mastery of the material. Another grad student, who was on a team that placed second in the national Putnam exam (i.e., a national-level math geek), also found it quite challenging.

Two of my professors, both now Fellows of the IEEE, also took the course with me and found it just as deep and original, and even more challenging, than we young computer weenies did.

Some courses, you have to take twice to master. For me, information theory was one of those. And I suspect that to a lot of MIT undergrads, 6.001 might be like that. The first time, you're just too bogged down in tactics to see the big picture(s).
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Agreed. Given the scope constraints, a successful Encyclopedia should be expected to have sigmoid growth. Less-to-contribute will inevitably invite fewer contributors.
Get PDF Version: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.98....

This is for those who hate to have the browser open to read something. Reading something in a PDF Viewer on touch enabled devices is much better.
I actually think that students could be exposed to proofs at an earlier level. At least, the ability to conceptualize a reasoned argument.

But I think to be able to do actual mathematical proofs, elementary school students may lack many of the tools and mechanisms that are necessary. Those tools being arithmetic and basic operations. By the same token, I think understanding basic CS principles and programming are necessary prior to understanding the theory.

Though it would be interesting for an Intro to CS course that used no actual language but was taught with only psuedocode. Teach basic concepts, hell even data structures, prior to tying the concepts to any one programming language.
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I don't disagree with what you said. My comment was in response to what I saw as the claim that just because something impacts the financial industry, it's related to the financial industry in a meaningful way. That reasoning could be applied to just about everything, which means it's a meaningless distinction.
I was kind of bummed before that a book with such wonderful reviews was only available in one language. This is awesome! Thank you guys so much for doing this :)!
I found the following article: http://hiwaay.net/~becraft/FRS-myth.htm#hd25

Apparently the Fed's revenue is not 'destroyed' but transferred to the Treasury.
And, by 'design' I assume you mean the entire user experience, not just the pixels?
Heroku gives you the comfort of not having to think about configuring and maintaining the servers that run your webapp.

Parse gives you the comfort of not having to think about architecting a server-side component for your mobile app.
I have an app in the webOS app store. Palm/HP have been absolutely great about payouts. There have been two problems with the payments so far, both due to technical issues, and they have been addressed promptly and professionally (they sent us money).

Last issue was just last week, where their online interface reported inflated sales numbers. A few days ago I received an email saying that HP will send us the difference in the next payout, even though the actual payouts were accurate based on actual download numbers.

They also had the Hot Apps contest running where both of my apps won. The payouts were prompt, they even sent more to take care of PayPal fees. So in the end I got the exact dollar amount in that I won in my bank account.

They've been good to developers in general.
haha yep, I will be!

I'll be talking about Noir first and then showing some fun stuff I've been working on for ClojureScript, including brepl and potentially a preview of my new client-side framework.

It should be exciting :)
Very cool tool. But it appears that the "article appears on Hacker News" is cut off.
I think you should create a Twitter account and share your work (both with design and your great social work with the children). Maybe even tell the story as it unravels with a Tumblr blog? Just a quick thought!
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You would need something with high traffic.
Actually, there are still plenty of gameshows around where people play for (generally) sub-thousand dollar prizes. Cash Cab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Cab) comes to mind. $50 payouts on that show are actually surprisingly common, although that is considered doing poorly.

I suspect that the perception of the cash prize size is related to the perceived commitment the contestant has to put forward. So they are fairly large on shows the contestant has to go out of their way to be a part of, but low on shows where the contestant just happens to "stumble upon" the contest.
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Wow-- this is an increase from 17 in 2008 to 91 in 2009. I would have guessed that both were several orders of magnitude higher.
I suggest you watch the original video lectures by Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman [1].

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...
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