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Took me a week to be comfortable with it, but would take at least 2 years for me to grok the performance implications of each construct.
Amazon recently announced their Virtual Private Clouds (http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/) for enterprises that will not keep a customer on multi-tenant infrastructure if they wish otherwise.

In any case, except for Google/Facebook-scale data and content providers, having your own datacenter for 25m users sounds premature. Many large enterprises use private clouds hosted and managed by service providers like IBM or Verizon; this makes sense when their core business is their service, not the infrastructure itself.
There has been a complete lack of leadership from the Congressional Democrats on this issue. They haven't produced a budget plan in nearly three years, while borrowing 40 cents of every dollar spent during that time.

Uh, you are merely parroting inaccurate GOP talking points, and I think we can be a little more accurate than that here.

First of all, the House and Senate easily passed Obama’s first budget on the president’s 100th day in office. That budget measure, however, did not include a single GOP vote, a harbinger of the lack of bipartisanship to come. From 2009 to January 2011, Republicans forced more than 90 “cloture” votes, which require 60 senators to agree to limit debate (ie stop a filibuster) on a measure.

Pretending that there was no Democrat "budget plan" for 2010 is disingenuous at best. Ongoing Democrat "plans" were continuously on the docket:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=11...

Democrats did not have anything like a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and Republican Senators were quite open with their threat to filibuster any legislation until the “Bush-tax cuts” were extended.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/gop-will-filibuster-...

"We write to inform you that we will not agree to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to any legislative item until the Senate has acted to fund the government and we have prevented the tax increase that is currently awaiting all American taxpayers,” said the letter, which was sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this morning."

“The true effect of this letter is to prevent the Senate from acting on many important issues that have bipartisan support,” Reid said this morning on the Senate floor. He said the letter codifies a GOP strategy of delaying action “on critical matters, then blaming the Democrats for not addressing the needs of the American people. Very cynical, but very obvious, very transparent.”

And imagine that, here we are in 2011....

Of course, filibuster has been used by both parties, but these tactics by Republicans accelerated drastically when Dems took over Congress late in Bush's presidency. As even the conservative American Enterprise Institute noted, Republican filibusters were used increasingly to obstruct legislation:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/the-rise-of-clotu...

"It is the most striking in history," American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Norm Ornstein told TPM.

"What happened, Ornstein says, is that during the last two years of President George W. Bush's second term, Republicans offered "no initiatives to speak of."

"The initiatives were coming from the Democrats, and the Republicans wanted to kill 'em, or slow things down.
Republican filibuster threats, Ornstein said, were "like throwing molasses in the road."

"Still, Ornstein largely attributes the stark rise in cloture motions in the 110th Congress to Republican delay and obstruction tactics."
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$10B is stupid? It gets worse than that.
A $10B valuation now indicates an expectation of a $20bn future valuation.
Consider what the investors must be thinking. Take into account that investors buy "low" now to sell high later. So, if investors are willing to put money down at $10bn, then to get even a modest return (by VC/tech) standards of 2x, they expect Dropbox will be worth $20B within the next 7-10 years (the usual VC fund life).
Things are getting very loopy out there.
The only thing I could think of was:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW6PowAIAxg

Bad name and a bad poll.
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Thanks, I appreciate the detailed response. Actually I have been thinking how to show an internet TCP connection that goes through several routers with video.
If Yahoo had've bought them, we wouldn't be here discussing facebok any more. It would've been sucked up into the Yahoo startup blackhole and well past the event horizon by 2011.
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It's possible to have the best of both worlds by using node-fibers (https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers) and mixing synchronous and asynchronous styles as appropriate.

I believe that JavaScript could become the dominant language on the server. We just need to have a set of consistent synchronous interfaces across the major server side JavaScript platforms. This would allow for innovation and code reuse higher up the stack.

I'm doing my bit by maintaining Common Node (https://github.com/olegp/common-node), which is a synchronous CommonJS compatibility layer for Node.js.
>85% of the $14 Trillion deficit over the past 3 years was not any items you described but these items: -TARP

TARP was $300B, of which the government will recover all but $25B, according to the CBO. The "bailout" in general (considering all acts that fall under that umbrella term) consisted of about $3.5T in payouts, the vast majority of which is expected to be recouped.

Also, you're confusing debt with deficit. The debt is $14T, the deficit is just over a billion. Your 85% figure appears to have been drawn from your sphincter.
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It's not a uniquely American thing - Telstra/BigPond in Australia do it too, partnering with Yahoo search.

It's frightfully annoying (but easily disabled for the technically-aware), because it actually redirects - this means fixing newss.ycombinator.com requires retyping the URL in its entirety.
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they put in a copy of the actual complaint along with the letter showing that they can simply file it, to appear more intimidating..
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Definitely will talk to cpa/attorney. Did any one do this? Appreciate sharing your exp thanks
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How many clicks come from Facebook vs. G+ vs. Twitter vs. reddit vs. Digg?
For example, for major newspapers. Thanks.
WOW....talk about CAJONES! I must tip my hat to S&P. This one...just WOW.

I mean, I am not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination, but I just never imagined that they would be able to pull the trigger.

All it takes is some 'investigation' by the US Treasury into S&P and that's it....game over. Not that I think the US Treasury will retaliate....but WOW. I never thought they would take this step.

Good for them.

Double-dip recession, here we come.
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Oh yeah, reference Moody's, they did such an awesome job rating mortgage securities a few years ago.

My own wholly unfounded reasoning goes as this: give a broke guy some food stamps, he'll spend it on food. So the government is essentially buying this guy food. Food and groceries happen to be some of the the lowest-margin sectors of the economy - Safeway's operating margin hovers a little under 3%. So yeah, the guy will spend it right away, but you're not making much money out of this. The broke guy just wants to feed himself.

Give that same money to someone who's actively trying to make more money out of it (e.g, a business), they have much more incentive to use it efficiently.

I'm a SF liberal, I totally believe feeding the poor should have government support. But it makes a poor economic argument to me.
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A little documentation: This works with both expressions and actual code. For example,

if "5 % 3" is in your clipboard, you get: 2

and if "print 5 % 3" is in your clipboard, you also get: 2

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The problem is it's teaching you Python's module system, which is very different from Ruby's require system.

Ex. 12 introduces `require` with example code that is way over the reader's head at this point in the book, and unrelated to anything they have seen or will see until ex. 25. It also says that features are called "modules" but that's completely wrong -- Ruby modules are something else entirely. And the term "module" is used in the Python sense all over the book. All those need to be changed.

Ex. 25 asks the reader to require their own file but never explains how to get the file in the load path, so I don't think the reader has much chance of completing this exercise.

My point is that I don't think a direct per-exercise translation is going to work. Requires in Ruby are more complicated and used less often than modules in Python, and the book is very linear, so I think require will have to be introduced in a completely different way if it's going to make any sense.

There are other topics that have this problem, like heredocs. In Python they are pretty so it's ok to throw them at the reader early on. But Ruby heredocs will melt their eyeballs out of their sockets, and they are rarely used in practice, so they probably shouldn't be in the book at all.

I am working on these sorts of changes with the intention of sharing them with you to see what you think, but it's starting to snowball so I don't want to promise anything. I'll do my best.
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I think the factory may be down the street or even in your house -- my gut tells me that will happen first before a badly needed transportation revolution.
Disproportion between givers and takers of money makes democracy weak at this. In democratic country, bigger and poorer group can always take some money out of smaller and richer group.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Income_Taxes_By_Country.sv... - all top countries are democratic.
Well, yes and no. The story gets much more interesting, and his exposition on The Good is fascinating, but his metaphysical claims of Quality being a fundamental existing thing were somewhat weak.
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The reason yields have been so low is because a) there is no other 'safe haven' for investors to flock to, and b) the markets generally didn't anticipate a downgrade.

A downgrade, even if the markets don't raise Yields, can be catastrophic because many financial institutions (mutual funds, insurance companies, unit trusts, etc.) can only hold AAA rated securities in their portfolios - and some central banks can only hold AAA rated securities as collateral in some situations.

So, legally, they will not be able to hold on to American gov't debt, even if they wanted to. The mere fact that a ton of people will be flooding the market with debt, will push up yields and that will lead to other catastrophic consequences.

I expect that the Fed will buy a ton of bonds to push down yields and keep the Treasuries Interest costs low - but they will have to print a ton of money to do that....which will lead to inflation, which leads to higher yields which leads to higher interest costs, and creates a crazy cycle.

You get the idea.

However, that's just theory - in a perfectly balanced global economy that's not fragile. In this global economy, I suspect that there might be a concerted effort to loosen standards to prevent a mass exodus out of US Treasuries, but at least this sends a strong signal that the ratings agencies are serious.
> For these displaced workers to find new jobs years of training could be required.

I think we vastly overstate the importance of training.

Being a farmer, I enjoy following farm-related discussions. Farmers spend just as much time talking about the shortage of talent as tech companies do, if not more. What is interesting about farms is that the job needs to be done in a timely manner no matter what, so you have to hire the best you can, and hope they become good at the job eventually.

Being a software developer, I also enjoy following tech-related discussions. We read story after story of people going from absolutely no experience to profitable software company in weeks, yet we still believe that years and years of training are required to work on even the simplest of projects.

Tech companies come with the luxury of artificial timelines. A tech company can leave a position unfilled for months or even years without any significant impact to the bottom line. Your software codebase isn't going to shrivel up and die or your warehouse of stock isn't going to expire if it takes an additional month or two to complete a feature.

There is no reason why anyone with a few days of studying software development cannot join the team. We just don't need them. We can wait and hire the guy who scaled out Facebook and developed Watson while working on iOS on the side. That is the shift in employment we are seeing and no amount of training is going to resolve the underlying problem.
One example that comes to my mind is that Indian IPOs can be subscribed by foreign institutional investors using AAA bonds (they just show this as backing instead of paying the full price in cash before getting any shares allocated). I think now investors can only use the bonds of others countries.
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It's an interesting post but I don't think the statistics actually support the conclusion. The 1st blog post referred 1'500 people -- we don't know how many actually visited the blog post. The second post had 3'000 visitors. Without knowing the bounce rate from the first post we can't compare these stats.

UPDATE: The other point to consider is that this is purely post-hoc reasoning. I can think of at least one alternative explanation -- the people who arrived from the first blog post were already motivated enough to click another link so they were more likely to purchase. Without doing some kind of experiment to differentiate these hypotheses we can't make a judgement one way or the other.

It probably sounds like I'm raining on the author's parade. That's not my intention. I really like that he's put these figures online and is trying to analyse. I hope I'm just showing that the issues are more subtle than they seem at first.
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Investment in Spain has been (traditionally) far away from technology. Starting a company in Spain is not easy and people are generally looking for a stable job, they don't want to take the risk of starting a new company.

In my opinion, Spain doesn't have (in general) the culture of the entrepreneur even though some cities (like Barcelona) are trying to change it (22@, for example: http://www.22barcelona.com/index.php?lang=en).
I think it will take more than rolling back the Bush tax cuts. If no entitlements changes are made, it would take roughly twice the GDP of the entire world:

"Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it comes to $99.2 trillion over the infinite horizon. Traditional Medicare composes about 69 percent, the new drug benefit roughly 17 percent and Social Security the remaining 14 percent." –Richard W. Fisher, Dallas Federal Reserve President, May 28, 2008 [1]

1. http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008/fs080528....
The intern was told to rewrite the server for a first assignment? What were the other programmers doing? jquery?
So you might be interested to know that universities in Ireland (and I think England, where we inherited our university system from), everyone aims for a 70% grade. That's a "1st class honours" degree, and is basically the best you can come out with.

Below that is "2nd class honours, I" (colloquially 2.1, pronounced "two one")). With a 1st or a 2.1, you're considered a high achiever (like a good job, or grad school, might require a 2.1 or better). A 2.1 is between 60-70%. Pass is 40%, and exams are marked harder to make the numbers work. (I believe harder questions are asked than equivalent US universities, but that's just rumour, unless you really do get multiple choice questions in university).

It leads to interesting dynamics. In the Arts and Humanities, students are basically marked out of 80, with scores above that reserved for truly great work which is seen relatively rarely.

In CS or Mathematics, where you truly can answer perfectly, sometimes you can get close to 100% in a exam, which throws off the marking scheme. For project work though, 70% means "great job", and 80% means you've done something truly excellent. For my undergraduate thesis, a piece of novel research on sorting and branch predictors that I truly poured my heart and soul into for 6 months, I got 94%. The feeling at achieving that grade was truly exhilarating, in a way that it could never be if I people didn't normally get 72% for great work.
Is it just me or does the idea of a Washington Think Tank addressing innovation seem more what the problem is than the solution? Look I'm in favor of academic studies and The Brookings Institution did some great work back in the day (like the period of time they talk about) but they seem really far away from where innovation is taking place from a cultural point of view.
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I don't think it is Twitter, I think it was the requirement that people log in with their facebook account that destroyed Techcrunch comments. I personally saw the number of comments drop off greatly as soon as they put in the facebook login.
Erlang is the first functional language I've written, and I found it very easy to get going with. The syntax takes a bit of getting used to, but it's a compact language with not too many constructs to learn. I bought the Erlang and OTP in Action book to get my head around the OTP system, but the rest was fairly approachable.
Debt does function differently for the US; the US up till very recently were paying less interest than Germany, even though all economical indicators say Germany is doing better than the US.

I do not think that is directly because of GDP, though. It is because of the size of the US bond market. If you want to buy or sell US bonds, you can easier find a seller or buyer, the larger the market.

That is why people think Euro bonds (bonds issued by the EU, not by individual EU nations) would benefit even the financially stronger nations. They would create a huge market, and gain interest benefits from it.
The 20 billion a year air conditioning cost is marketing nonsense. Specifically, this number comes from someone selling energy-efficient tents to the Pentagon, and it's pretty clear they made up this number. At the very bottom of the article, the Pentagon states it spends $15 billion on energy for all military operations around the world (i.e. everything, not just air conditioning).

This might be a good time to read Paul Graham's article on PR: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

(I don't mean this as an attack on araes or the suggestion to reduce military spending.)
G+ is still in an early phase, so if you're in tech it can be a great source — but perhaps not for a New York Times. Facebook can be good, but you have to really build up your page and work it right -- and the same goes with playing Twitter. As for reddit it's very hostile to linking outside, the entire front page is a Gen Y confessional booth combined with a ton of links to imgur. And as much as I love Digg, it's a shadow of what it was even two years ago...
Because there's no need to burden ourselves (and, perhaps more importantly, the people who'll have to maintain the code after us) with a whack of boilerplate for a fairly simple function.

(Also, you can use enclosed variables inside of map/fold constructs, which would be hard to express via objects.)
The thing I learned from the article is that they return 0 for failure and 1 for success. And then, instead of fixing this meaningfully, they added a bit of sticky plaster that enables you to ask for verbose info when you get a 0.

I can't help but think when I spot such code smells that perhaps the issue runs deeper. So when I then read about Erlang vs Python I also can't but think that I bet it's not the language choice that is the problem.

I don't think I fully understood that I judge code at first sight like that, but I clearly do.
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Even though I live in the US I am not really sure how the royalties system works here. In Spain there is a society, called SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores Espanyoles) that collects the money from the artist that they represent. This society is really related with the current political party in power (PSOE) and since the judicial power has been consistently saying what the current links says (linking to copyright infringing material is no infringement) they are pursuing a law to evade the judges and close websites without any requirement from the judge.

If a hair salon (for example) in the US plays music of an artist, do they have to pay a canon/fee for playing this music? I am asking because I am still shocked than in Spain they have to pay the SGAE...
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Any company that argues against software patents is on my side.
Any company that argues for them, or uses them offensively, is on the other side.

When Microsoft argued against patents, they were on my side. When they use them against other companies, they are on the other side.

Honestly, I dont care a whit what the company is, software patents are bad and if they want me on their side, they will say so, loudly.
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