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There used to be a saying about MS; that it took them three goes to get a product right

I was thinking about Apple products, and I think perhaps they deserve this now. Each new (1st gen) product from Apple is a bit short on features and a bit expensive, but they have commitment. 2nd gen is a decent product, and 3rd gen has typically been great. [Cases in point: iPhone, iPod, MacBook Air, Apple TV (3rd gen still to come)]

The difference (between Apple and HP et al) comes down to commitment to a product. Apple (like MS) gear them selves up for the long haul; they expect to spend lots and take years to achieve their vision. Other PC manufacturers (speaking very generally here) seem to have a bit of a half arsed shot at something and kill it if it doesn't fly.
Got it. Sounds like a beautiful setup compared to what I've got now. All this seems to comes down to "dedicating" a server for LAMP use to keep server loads balanced. Correct?

Question: Why wouldn't I just use two of my own servers? One for LAMP + one for the CDN.
I recently bought a ThinkPad as my first laptop, but it's unfortunately got some technical issues (need to send it off for warranty). In the mean time I've been using my old ASUS Eee PC 1000HA, and I've really settled in. I'm surprised at how productive I am, despite the lack of horsepower.
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Copyright law generally allows copying for research purposes that don't compete commercially with the author's use of the work. For example, see https://w2.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/ (And Google, unlike some of us, can afford lawyers to press that point in court if anyone tries to sue them.)
In regards to the right to assemble/demonstrate, I personally believe that the public's idea (or at least perception) of what makes an effective (nonviolent) demonstration has changed.

"Unifying issues" seem to be somewhat of a thing of the past- it is rare you see tens or hundreds of thousands protesting anything anymore. As demonstrators grow more fringe (due to the lack of "unifying issues"- they protest things that interest only a small minority), their numbers have dwindled to the point a traditional protest is ineffective, and in an effort to secure results they have adopted more... radical techniques.

As an example, if the majority of the San Francisco Bay Area really cared about the issue at hand here, it would have been trivial to stage an effective protest. E.g., call for a boycott (effective, easy and captivating, but only if you have a large following). Pack the cars with protesters, so many that regular commuters can't get on, and refuse to get off. Protests are about demonstrating a majority, a plurality, or a very significant minority, not a tiny vocal minority.
If you have not patent your business models, there is nothing you can do. For every Groupon, there is Living Social, and others... might as well keep innovating, and stay ahead of competition.

I am not sure about your website because I don't see the link, but if it's something you can patent, then you should do it, then you can sue. :)
If it was on a table next to an Air under a sign that said, "free computers" which one would you grab first?

Turns out $1,000 more isn't that much for a productivity tool these days; the dollar ain't what it used to be. Not to mention you'd probably get a much nicer screen and keyboard which helps a lot for coding.

That said, I'm still using my trusty Sony tr2a for trips just because of inertia and that it still works fine. But I won't pretend I wouldn't rather have an Air. ;)
If you are running with journaling enabled, you should get a much stronger crash recovery case.

In the event of a crash, the journal will be replayed: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Journaling
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From the article:

> To start, there are some very practical reasons why we think single server durability is overvalued.

Most people should just stop reading at that line.

> If you have durability through a transaction log, then you have to replay it to come back up.

That shows a serious misunderstanding how append-only can work. In CouchDB's case there is no need to replay the whole file just find last consistent piece of data at the end. So seek close to end & find last consistent header.

> If you have a master and slave in the same data center and you lose power, both will have to recover which could take 5-30 minutes.[1]

If you use MongoDB your DB apparently can get corrupted and you won't find out about for another month (link from article):

http://www.korokithakis.net/posts/using-mongodb-for-great-sc...

> If you have a 100 node cluster, worrying about every machine is a liability.

I see having to buy 100 nodes to get durability as a non-starter.

I mentioned this before and I'll say it again that calling their product a database and by default not returning write results is dishonest.

10gen employee (Kristina Chodorow) replying to the article admits that "We did this to make MongoDB look good in stupid benchmarks"

Well that's fine but then just call it rrdtool-ng
I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley don't want to touch it, because of the stigma. Having that on your resume reduces your chances of getting a job with high profile companies or government agencies.
Additional details on the matter are reported here:

http://www.baycitizen.org/bart-police-shooting/story/bart-ce...

with BART saying they were within their legal right to shut down the cell service. However, the Electronic Frontier Foundation had this to say:

“It’s outrageous that the authorities would resort to the same tactics of the repressive Mubarak regime,” said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “The fact that it was motivated by a desire to stifle free speech raises serious First Amendment problems.”
I don't consider myself a "real" assembly programmer. I can, however, try to debug compiled c code via gdb disassemble and not get totally lost.

I managed to pick up this ability after getting to know assembly programming, and the subsequent "higher level manifestations" in C/C++, from Paul Carter's open source ebook: http://www.drpaulcarter.com/pcasm/

When I first downloaded this book in 2002, I was fairly comfortable with the linux command line, gcc and emacs, but I knew nothing about assembly and computer architecture (registers/interrupts etc).

Whereas other books on assembly were somehow tied to DOS, this was a free book that wasn't tied to any OS and was easy to understand.
I don't know whom you are talking about, I didn't refer to anybody's last name :)
Regarding other comments, I agree Sam didn't bring this down single handed, but may be ten years down the line if I tell my kids about this 'starbucks social experiment', I will pretty much remember about 'one guy who messed it up all'...
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While Sam's post was admittedly a bit snarky, and his actions did seem a bit 'scummy.' But Sam simply contributed to the experiment. Surely others were going to take advantage of the system. While his actions may run counter to the 'spirit of the experiment,' it's fair game and part of the experiment. Stark didn't enforce any sort of rules for a reason. People who participated in the experiment can continue to pay it forward however they want.

I don't necessarily agree with the reasons Sam cited for running his own take on the experiment, but I have to say I'm sort of surprised by the general reaction by so many -- then again, these reactions are just another outcome of the experiment. I find the following and dedication to this movement utterly fascinating. He made a statement regarding people's generosity (or illusions of generosity?) and the resultant attacks on Odio himself are even more intriguing.
I agree. You learn about your customer's pains, then build a product to ease them. Asking your customer what features they want is lazy product management and gives you " me, too" products.
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Nice website. Original idea. Hope it works out.

can you elaborate on your question? is it something like where and how to recruit? what equity and money you want to give? It's not very clear on what you ask.
I think you're speaking of the late 90's MS, they seem to have lost much of that edge.

Apple does something a bit different. It starts slow, getting the core features right and then builds on them. It doesn't pile on features, they are added slowly only as they mature.

Of course it also drives demand for several years, a very profitable formula.
Actually, it belongs to the Hacker News, because it shows the type of "job offers" that YC-companies are notoriously posting here.
> You couldn't give me an Air for free and get me to give up my Sony VAIO Z.

Right, but you paid considerably more than the price of an Air for that machine. That's the point. You wouldn't switch, but for anyone looking for an ultraportable now, it's hard to beat the Air in any capacity.

As someone who was looking for a great ultraportable for years and kept a very close eye on Sony, I snapped up the 11 inch Air ASAP. Nothing can step anywhere close to it when it comes to offering a well rounded ultraportable.
and my OS is now two versions out of date, since Apple stopped supporting it.

No machine that shipped with Leopard is unable to run Lion. Only the Mac Mini 1,1 and MacBook 1,1 from early 2006 with 32bit processors are unsupported.
Freedom of speech implies the freedom to communicate. Given the era of technology has made it such that the communications infrastructure is fundamental to our speech and communication, it could be construed that removing this is violating our constitutional rights.
I wrote this, quite a while ago.

MongoDB implemented an append only log which is not enabled by default.

The rest of the article is still accurate, and the fact that durability isn't on by default IMO continues to prove that my characterization of their attitude towards durability is still accurate.
Same, Asus EeePC 1000HE running Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 like a champ. As responsive as a regular laptop for most things, and the heavy lifting I offload to AWS free tier. Everything redundantly backed up to Dropbox and SpiderOak. <3 it.

Having said that, I'll probably pick up 13" Macbook Pro or Air soon to start getting into iOS dev, and have to say I do look forward to running VMs locally again, even though AWS free tier obsoletes that now.
Experiments have hypotheses and controls. This feels more like art.
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Most of the laws (as summarized on the page) seem to address only interfering with a person making a call ("it is a crime for batterers to prevent their victims from making a call for help") or interrupting the service (prank calls?). If BART is the one providing the service (or at least the communications medium), it'd be harder to say they are interfering. They simply stopped offering the service. Also, it's pretty rare for an agency like BART to be charged with crimes.

The worst that's likely to happen is someone sues them, but good luck proving damages.
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While this is awesome, anyone that needs to do about the same thing but with a Python stack should look at pyquery as an alternative.
Would you say that airlines are violating your right to free speech because they make you turn off your cell phones in flight?

What about all the subway tunnels that don't have cell service - is their lack of cell service unconstitutional, or is it just that once you offer someone cell service, you can never take it back?
As a frequent public transit rider in SF, and the developer of a popular Muni iPhone app, let me say: If you told anyone in SF thought that there was intentionally functioning cell service in the subway tunnels, they would LAUGH.

My application is supposed to tell you when the train is coming, and it doesn't work once you walk down to the platform due to complete lack of cell service.

I chuckle at the ludicrous idea of "disrupting" something that doesn't actually work to begin with. If it worked, perhaps my app would be more useful.
But is "hacker" really analogous to "genius"? I mean, we have a bunch of annual hacker conferences. If "hacker" isn't something you can call yourself, who is going to all of these things?
The line is remarkably blurry. There's a modern breed of "multiaxis machine" which are capable of both milling and turning. Nobody really knows what to call them, I imagine because they have more in common with industrial robots than a traditional machine tool. Lathe is probably the wrong word for the type of machine in question, but milling machine isn't that much more accurate.

I can confirm that there is a global shortage of certain types of CNC machining capacity. CNC machining is much less common than you might imagine in volume production. It's an expensive process that designers are usually desperate to avoid. Apple raised the bar for fit and finish with the Unibody Macbook and rather caught the rest of the industry on the back foot. A lot of designers and engineers still just don't see why you'd manufacture a housing in such an expensive and convoluted manner. Laptop OEMs are certainly not equipped for it, presenting substantial logistical problems.
An interesting thought: Constitutional rights cannot be violated by private enterprise. They are only protections from government.

Is BART government?
There seems to be a habit to define the rules of the experiment - on the basis that there are no rules - and then use this to illustrate a particular point of view as "right" or otherwise justifiable.

By your definition it would have also been fine if Sam had actually gone out and bought himself and iPad. Technically fair game? Would that have been ok? Probably not to most people. Not because of the rules, but because we all have our own view of acceptable behaviour.

In this case, he gamed the system and in the process poured water on some people that were having fun. I don't buy that it's a social experiment more than someone trying to be clever and game a system. So yeah. Fair game, but I can see why they're annoyed.
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I just don't see what the experiment was about really considering the audience entirely consisted of people who can afford coffee - I just don't get it! The only explanation is a viral marketing scheme in my mind
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Sam literally did the opposite of contribute to the experiment. There is nothing he could have done which would be more disruptive.

The "experiment" was to see if a system based purely on goodwill, like take-a-penny, leave-a-penny, can survive. And in fact, it largely can, as the growing popularity of Jonathan's Card showed. That there are people who will abuse the system does not excuse the people who abuse the system— that's absurd.

I'm baffled by your surprise at the reaction. Are you likewise surprised by the fact that people don't like the guy who comes up to the bowl labeled "Free Candy" and takes all of the candy, leaving none for anyone else? "But I'm just demonstrating that any system based on goodwill is open to abuse!" Well, yeah. We know. People hate that.

"But I'm giving the candy to underprivileged children!" That's good for them, then. We hope they enjoy it, dick.
is their lack of cell service unconstitutional

As I understand it, no. The way Free Speech works in regards to newspapers (which are the closest well-established analogue to cellular) is you have the right to say whatever you want, in your own newspaper, because you own it.

You do not own the cellular networks, in the same way you do not own the San Francisco Chronicle, and you do not have the right to have your speech carried by either.

How then does free speech interact with cellular networks? Well, if you owned and operated your OWN cellular network (no matter the size, technology or hardware) the government cannot prevent you from transmitting to others (unless, of course, you are in violation of FCC regulations)

In short, you have a right to speech (broadcast), but there are no requirements that say intermediaries you do not own must pick up and deliver your speech (broadcast).
I'd probably take the Air, try it out, decide I didn't like it or Mac, and resell it. Buy the original thing I saw, or something else cheaper and nicer, and treat myself to a large steak afterwards.
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Yeah, I am aware that he was using the words in that context. I was using his words as a platform based on the tautological relevance. I sought to indicate that long-standing corruption can't be excused by ignorance in terms of awareness, because it really portends an ignorance that is borne of actively ignoring important matters, and at the heart of the matter ignorance is about ignoring things. There's a time where it's reasonable to say nothing has been done because most people are ignorant, i.e., not aware, but the FCC has been this way for 30+ years.
No sources cited; also, the facts the author claims the sources provided (chronic sleep deprivation <5 hours/night increases heart disease risk by 39%) are very far from justifying the conclusion he came to (that Ranjan Das's fatal heart attack was almost certainly due to his chronic sleep deprivation <5 hours/night). Justifying that conclusion would require that the relative risk be something like 10:1, not 1.39:1.

In short, while a lack of sleep can kill you, this article is superstitious nonsense that insults the intelligence of its readers.
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> Which is exactly why it's a terrible idea. There is no "super" mechanism in Bash. Imagine if the Perl, Python and Node equivalents of rvm overrode cd -- they'd all have to be aware of each other's existence in order to play together nicely.

That would be a problem until rvm fixed it. Then its users would have to update it. It's not ideal, I know, but rvm is very much an active solution. Because it's used to install rubies, which get updated, its users update it.

That's one great thing about rbenv: it's easier to write, and thus easier to write clones. I'm looking forward to seeing a node.js developer adopting your shim approach. By the way, I'm glad they're plain sh scripts, so I can still use Xavier Shay's technique for making no-dependency ruby scripts fast. The rubygems wrapper scripts run a lot of code and don't provide a convenient option to skip it if it's not needed. By the way it would be cool if, with a plugin of sorts, reshim could remove require 'rubygems'. It could get people running more than one ruby CLI tool at a time (with pipes and/or backquotes) more often by shaving off the approximately half-second rubygems load time.

https://github.com/xaviershay/xtdo

> Overriding cd for dependency injection purposes is like killing a fly with a machine gun. It's completely inappropriate for the task at hand, and it's precisely the kind of problem that $PATH is designed to solve.

I like your shim approach but while it may be obvious to you, I found it quite clever. I think virtualenvwrapper could use it. I don't think it was like killing a fly until you introduced this idea, which most of us hadn't heard of or considered.

> Furthermore, rvm breaks the expected behavior of the cd command by prompting you with security theatrics the first time you enter a project with an .rvmrc file: https://gist.github.com/34c251a56e83c61c667e This kind of thing wreaks havoc with third-party programs that attempt to interface with rvm. I've had to deal with far too many bug reports in Pow as a result of this messy behavior.

You were using it in a different way than most, up until you wrote pow, and found a weak point. The trust database should have a way to inspect it, and it should have been documented. It's frustrating, I know.

> This is not some theoretical concern. It's just bad design.

I don't think the rvm, virtualenv, or virtualenvwrapper developers particularly liked designing (or attempting to design) this part of their system. If they could have skipped out on this feature and still have the benefit, I think they would have. I'm glad you found a path that you enjoyed taking to solve this problem.

By the way I'm a happy pow user and I'm glad you wrote rbenv since it makes pow easier for you to support and maintain. I hope it helps me to use my rvm-installed rubies with pow.
It's harder to hire Perl developers than Python or Ruby. I recruit for all of these positions, and recruiting for Perl positions takes significantly longer, at least in the SF Bay Area.
Good luck finding a front-end Perl developer.
I can already press ctrl+enter in Opera to sign into any of my accounts after I do it once. So I guess this is a more complex but also more secure way of doing that?
For those who are curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B0x

Huge page though, needs a tl;dr of changes.
It's what all startups (here) should follow; make a MVP and if it works perfect it. Normal practice you would hope, yet it isn't; comments here and to the article directly are too techy. The 'public' wants the air because it looks great and is easy to use; they don't care about 'power'. Don't take it from me or the article writer; just look at the sales. People who would normally not consider spending $1000 on a laptop are buying these, I can see it around me; men and women, computer illiterates a lot of them, went from 300-400$ netbooks to the latest air. No-one knows what processor or memory they have, they are light, just work and are 'much easier than Windows' (between quotes, because I don't find either one particularly easier or harder than the other one; just a matter of getting used to).

People who talk about 'better specs', 'only a few inches thicker but twice the cpu power', 'does have a dvd drive' are tech or at least into computers; most people are not, they don't care.
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