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Ehsan fixed several contentEditable bugs for me to make the Google Spreadsheets formula bar and formula highlighting work in FireFox. I created those features in my 20% time and the initial release supported only Chrome and IE. He was the biggest help in making it work in FireFox.

Anyway, I wouldn't say this really has much to do with it being an open source project. I've had the same thing come up in many closed source projects I've worked on for big companies. Sometimes the code's very complex. Maybe you can fix the bug, but it would take 100 hours of learning the code to really figure out the correct solution that handles all the ins and outs and edge cases. That's a hard investment to justify quite often for a single bug unless it's a big one.
JVM web servers seem to use a ton of ram. I'd love to know of a good way to minimize it, if one exists
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So was Twitter, and Blogger before that.
Oops, sorry, I neglected that. I was talking about GAE Python runtime.
A side issue, but there are real differences among what many people think of as interchangeable brands.

I started using Tide many years ago after, dissatisfied with my laundry results, I found a Consumer Reports article that said it was the best. I just did a quick search and they say it still is, although you can get your clothes almost as clean with some much cheaper brands (http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/jul...).
I use Chrome for my personal account and FireFox for my work account. It's way to hard to use a single browser with multiple accounts.
Phew, good thing we're also not so petty or immature as to compare all of reddit to a person, or a person to all of reddit.
They now have a pretty small Palo Alto office (<100 people) and over 3,000 in Chicago. I don't actually think it's that relevant as they started and got huge (Google wanted to buy them for $6Bn huge) without the presence in SV
Yes, exactly. Which is why you would redact that line and tell them you can only sign the contract without that clause.

In the current climate NO software engineer should be signing any employment contract handed to them without making some change - there is tons of opportunity to leverage better terms in the current market.
This is great! I'm glad I can be a part of it. Congrats!!
Either it's a smart marketing strategy, or they have a drinking problem.
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the biggest question/implication of this change I see is evaporation of any business model (as in 'the ads are gone').

You can use Gmail with AdBlock or through a POP or IMAP client, too. I think Google will survive.
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I don't think it would be much cheaper.
Go isn't going to help at least in the near term. Concurrent request handling is not supported on Go. Nor do they have it on their roadmap, AFAIK.
I'm at the point where I've heard so many stories from people hiring, that I really just want to see source code. Point me to a public repo of projects your company (or, failing that, you yourself) have.
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What resources do you read about cold fusion? (i'm new within the last 1 year to CF).
I think it will to, depends on your value proposition, I see it working for an article I want to read because the minor inconvenience is worth it for the article. If what your producing is fairly low quality and available everywhere you will drip away a far larger % of users.
Into: " If you do want to grow more, then be prepared for a rewrite." ... If you're the dude cutting the checks & you think it's well designed, you don't have to redesign just because your dev gets pissy.
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Of course companies can be built elsewhere. People with one leg can finish marathons. That doesn't mean it isn't sub-optimal.

Startups are pretty dicey. I don't know what a founder's chances are, but I'm pretty sure that they are better in the Valley. Depending on your market, your personal network, etc., they might not be THAT much better... But it's pretty hard to argue that, on average, the Valley doesn't help your chances in StartupLand.
It's a bit off-putting that they try and push this kind of thing a second time and expect people to believe it. On the other hand, maybe I give too much credit to human kind.
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"the site is updated in seconds, not minutes."

That is an implementation issue. That problem is in no way inherent to static content.
Sounds like a challenge :)

First, this doesn't have to be for each pageview. Crudely, you want every story to have a vector in some giant hyperspace characterizing it, and every user to have a vector precomputed offline based on their previously shown affinities, and take dot products.

This is not necessarily easy, or computationally very cheap, but the payoff can be pretty big.

I believe LinkedIn runs something similar to this every night.
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Wouldn't the perfect cloud platform be one that charges based on disk IO, disk space used, network IO, RAM space used, (Ram IO?,) and CPU used? Maybe there are other metrics I'm ignoring.

Someone should start making this.
Reminds me of Plan 9 Acme and its middle-click global eval :)
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Evernote, these days. Which reminds me, I should save a backup right now.

Used to be a little spiral bound notebook that I was scared to death of losing.
I can only speak for http://blitz.io. We generate an account-specific UUID which becomes a URL that you need to make available on your app (adding a route in ruby/node.js or uploading a txt file). Before each load test we check that your UUID is available on the app. Even if your UUID is leaked, this is not a problem, since it's unique to your account. Unless of course, your Google/Facebook account gets compromised. We currently, do not support password logins. It's either OAuth/FB Connect or SSO through our partners.
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autonomous of reddit.com?"

It's easy to do this on reddit itself:

1. Create a subreddit for your new forum.

2. In the subreddit control panel, enter the domain name you're going to use for it.

3. In your domain name registrar control panel, point your www cname at rhs.reddit.com.

4. Voila, you've got your own subreddit style forum, with the benefit of it being integrated into the reddit supercommunity to whatever extent you want.
I just sent some mail to my old colleagues in Windows Azure. If you're working on a cloud provider, a large one or a startup, you and your biz-dev/sales team should be out there actively trying to get people dissatisfied with GAE's announcement today (and from what I hear, that is a significant number).
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One of the best things about the iPhone simulator is that it is a simulator and not an emulator (unlike, say, Android). This makes it fast enough to actually be usable for day to day bug testing.
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I think you're mistaken about superpowers flinging nukes at each other. Only two nuclear weapons have ever been used in war, and that was 65 years ago.
Not really, if you enable multi-threaded request handling. While one thread/request is waiting for IO/network to complete, other threads are still handling requests. All in the same instance.
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Perhaps this should be better written as "Nothing needs gigabit rates of _cryptographically strong_ random numbers."

Using a megabit rates of cryptographically strong random numbers to seed a PRNG would be fine for most purposes.

Can anyone think of a reason why you would want/use gigabit rates of truly random numbers instead of using a slower rate to see a PRNG?
I am:

1. Very impressed that the author had the balls to write this.

2. Hoping that none of his peers or superiors catch wind of this.

3. Hoping he lands on his feet if they do.

4. Surprised that he didn't take any steps to post this anonymously, considering that 20 seconds of Googling shows exactly where he works.

5. Glad I don't bank there, and yet horrified to think that my bank (Chase) is probably not any better.
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Thinking of this from supply and demand theory, programmers only build programs that have a market, and there doesn't seem to be a market for such a tool (there isn't a large group of people vocally demanding it).

I'd guess that there is a market for it, but like the market for the iPhone before Steve Jobs, nobody powerful enough has discovered it yet.
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A master of everything is a master of nothing. I tend to try doing everything myself all the time but I find I usually can't perfect any of it b/c there isn't enough time. P.s. The design of his site is average ... Not ugly but exactly what one would expect from a talented individual who is stretched too thin.
To me a developer unwilling to learn Windows: The Good Parts has always been like an IQ test, too.
Same. I find MailChimp to be an overdone pain in the butt more often than not and have quickly signed up at TinyLetter to give it a shot.

Well done Pud - was a frequent reader of FC back in the day and I also use CFML!
"And don't forget to look into what may be able to be done to minimize some of the quota impact. Good design changes may be able to have a noticeable positive effect there."

You mean concurrency? That won't be available until November. And if it fails to save the bill, you'll be screwed big time.
You'll have to take my word for it, or try it yourself: there are visually noticeable repetitive patterns that are a direct result of the naive PRNG.

For example I once modeled raindrops as falling billboards that struck the ground at some random (x,y) in your field of view, followed by a "splash" animation billboard where it struck the ground. I started by using C rand() to determine the random (x,y) of the raindrop. And it looked terrible! The raindrops would mysteriously clump together in sinewave-like patterns, and seemingly avoid some spots altogether.

I dropped in a Mersenne Twister RNG and the problem instantly went away. I didn't change a thing except the RNG.

So yeah, a few arithmetic ops gets you rand() quality. But humans are unfortunately good at noticing the overall bias in the resulting patterns.

And you'll run into similar problems when e.g. trying to implement a non-repeating perlin noise function on a GPU. I tried it with a weighted combination of several different perlin noise textures... but I had to be very careful about aliasing artificts in some of the more interesting effects; while also being careful of avoiding visually-repetitive patterns (which almost always occur).

The value of Intel's RNG, I'd imagine, is that it's uniformly random and also unbiased -- meaning repetitive moire patterns won't show up in your results.

Of course it's not deterministic, which is tricky, but I can still think of several use cases for something like this.
OP here. Ok, yes that statement was a little bit extreme on my part, but I think it is still 95% true. Startup location is another one of those holy-war topics, but if you want to learn by immersion, SV is the place to do it. There are certainly valid reasons for locating a company outside of SV, but for first-timers like myself trying to build my network of peers, professionals, mentors, friends, VCs, etc, it feels like this is the center of the universe (for better or for worse).
but then doesn't this mean that parent^4's point is still valid? i.e.

> What if an update silently breaks the update process? Hrm!

If the updater is self updating an update may break it so that no further updates are possible.
Sounds like Flash to me.
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Do you really want to provide yet another way to "goof around in class?" :)
only problems I've had using pip and virtualenv on Windows have been related to corporate proxies/DNS

64 bit vs 32 bit package problems can be horrible, too.
So how come this guy can get away with literally stealing personal belongings ? Do the employees sign some kind of waiver agreeing to penetration tests that may result in the loss of their personal items ? Stealing bags, laptops, ipods, seems crazy that they'd pay this guy to do it and then he keeps the spoils. I'm sure those people had confidential information not related to the company in/on those items.
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Well, that put it much better than the article did.

Since the points I've highlighted argue that he's talking about database features I'd call that a database without impedance mismatch, like erlang's Mnesia.
What about a Asus U36? See e.g. the U36SD-RX145V model or the U36SD-RX117X model.

The display is not as good and the touchpad is probably inferior, otherwise it looks like a good fit for $$$ when compared to the Macbook Air.
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Meanwhile, VPS and dedicated server providers are getting cheaper, faster and more competitive.

I'd imagine that the majority of the people on GAE have found that they don't actually need to scale as much as they thought when they signed up to it.
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I don't understand the problem. There are two ways that I know to handle this.

1) on secondary account setup imap/pop3 access. Setup primary account to read that. Grant access for primary account to use secondary email address (allows to change the from email)

2) in the app settings of your second domain, setup mailing list that has your primary email as the only destination. Enable the mailing list to accept any incoming email. Grant access for primary account to use secondary email address (allows to change the from email)

There are probably more ways, I know of few people that have 5 email addresses all setup to route through one core account.
I think the language is called 'LockIn', and it's similar to Visual Basic 6, but with Indian keywords.

This is highly scurrilous of course!
Interesting, I guess this shows how popular python has become, tried a couple IDEs, so far pycharm, based on intellij, is one of the better ones if any one has a better one would love to try it ...
I wonder what was the reason behind this?
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Reddit is now a tree with only one level of nesting.
What would help is making the subreddits a graph, and not have all the subreddits trunk in the frontpage.
Just move on. Lesson learned. Get things in writing.
If a designer thinks learning a little bit about how things work under the hood is somehow going to make them worse at designing, then they ought to also become worse at designing if they learn about anything else outside of their craft, like cooking, rock climbing, french, knitting, cars, football, or any other hobby or side activity.

Better stay completely incompetent at everything in life except graphic design. To focus, right? Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. The orthogonal skills we acquire don't prohibit us from deepening our existing ones, it's the other way around, really.
I don't disagree a non-retroactive possibility might be better; I just haven't been able to reach a conclusion about it.

And, it is more than just a tax on patent infringement damages - because you have to pay the tax upfront, which makes a big difference in cashflow.

eolas's $600M verdict against Microsoft, and i4i's $400M verdict would both require posting $6M / $4M per year respectively in never-to-be-recouped taxes, which is a huge sum for the companies in question, and would probably have made them not sue.

Furthermore, it involves the IRS in valuations, which is a good thing (because it is much harder to mess with the IRS) - manipulation of the value of a patent would have to be explained, and not arbitrary to avoid taxes.

Anyway, we could all dream - it is the lobbyists that write the laws, and the patent holders have thousands of them in DC.
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The only people I can see agreeing to this are those who do not have patents.
Apple is not this sloppy. Controlled leak.
It was analogy / metaphor.
All the superpowers == all the big companies (Google, Apple, Samsung, etc)
routinely fling nukes == lots of patent litigation.
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i like how art is classified as 'for fun' /sarcasm
so maybe it is so. but humans will get API and will act like machine. (until maybe they are replaced by better machine, or parts that make them human are removed.). DNA is machine anyway.
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I've been developing websites for 10+ years and I work with a few different types of agencies.

The websites with richest feel and the most polished interaction and appeal are those provided by a designer in html/css/js.

It is a skill that only a few people have but when you work with people like this, you are disappointed when the next job comes along and you get handed a picture to code up.

Every agency wants 'designers' like this but they are very hard to find.
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Those do it on the software side, 'emulated'. This article is about getting it on the hardware; on the processor itself.

"Up until now, transactional memory research has mostly focused on software-based implementations. Real processors don't actually support transactional memory, so it has to be emulated in some way."

"BlueGene/Q moves transactional memory into the processor itself."
Do you have any alpha/beta testers?
mentioning it's a timelapse from Notch would get you a lot more upvotes...
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is there an app like this that is more general split screen share? or split terminal share?

i don't like how screen shares (skype, webex) are one-way, and require passing a baton back and forth. when you sit next to someone, you can each look on each others' screens seemlessly.
What do you like about their writing? A good (constant) exercise is to edit what people write, e.g. take an Altucher post and try rewriting it to make it better in some regard.

Hunter S Thompson supposedly typed the works of Hemingway until he finally could copy the pacing and rhythm. Maybe scan the headlines and find something that Altucher hasn't written about yet and write about it in his style.

Like a football game told as Altucher would. lol.
To be fair, for every startup you can namedrop who isn't in CA/SF/SV, I think someone can probably name two who are.
You think that's epic?

Try the infamous plugin object reframe bug [1]. 10 years.

Granted, it's a very nasty bug inside code that has changed a lot over the years, and deep architectural understanding is necessary in order to solve it. But the fact that such a bug is still in the open says a lot.

[1] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90268

(edit: I haven't followed the bug in a while but apparently Josh Aas made some groundbreaking progress over the past few weeks. Looks pretty good.)
I think this sounds great. While I'm aware of a couple studies that show single-founder companies being less successful than multiple-founder companies, I think the problem is being exacerbated by a self-fulfilling prophecy created by investors that single-founder companies cannot succeed.
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This -- it's not that he's saying you can't be happy. He's saying it's like moving to a distant land, before there was even mail service. Your communication with the people who are emotionally close to you will begin to fray and finally (in most cases) stop altogether. You have to start over -- make new friends, begin a new life. You can't have the happy Truman-show-esque comfort things; they just aren't available to you in a recognizable form (at least not while you are morphing and changing, taking risks, moving around literally and figuratively).

I am reminded of the novel "Stranger In A Strange Land".
Shouldn't he have cut it in half and then half again by now. Hopefully we can keep cutting it in half!
I have to say, I attribute most of my success to my ability to take a project from an idea through planning, designing, coding, and yes even server configuration, deployment strategies, etc. I could never have done what I've done without, well, just being able to do it myself.
This appears to be a very low-level, primitive implementation, so there's still room for an STM layer on-top of this. It isn't going to replace fully-baked persistent data structures, but it could certainly be used to accelerate them.

It's simply a way to jump back to a load operation if the following inverse store operation causes a conflict. The sauce is that multiple stores can be atomically committed in a single operation. This is effectively impossible to achieve without a lock of some kind on CPUs without HTM, and has major performance implications for multi-threaded code that has high levels of resource contention.
I am working on such an app over Google App Engine, which also integrates well with other Google services..

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If you'd like to explain what is it that you don't like about it?

I've just introduced myself into it, and I'm really liking all about it. ALL.
While I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a designer, I do do some design work. I've found that working with designers that can't code is irritating at best. It's not that they're stupid or un-talented. It's really about understanding the medium. It shocks me that so many graphics designers think that they can design for the web without understanding HTML and CSS. That's like saying you can design for print without knowing about different kinds of printing processes. You don't have to be a master, or even proficient, but some familiarity really goes a long way.
Sounds like a certain bar needs to be bought by Apple.
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