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(I hate it when that happens.)

We all know the feeling. Don't be discouraged, it's nearly impossible to do anything that hasn't, in some way, been done before. Just stick to your original idea and ignore the rest.
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yeah, as a one man team it was a scramble to be allt he "vanity pages" up in time - user pages being one of them, i cant commit anymore and linking to twitter profiles would have been far better, but having an ap that didnt crash was higher priority.

lots of the features that dont work now are there in code, but commented out cus i couldnt afford for them to influence the apps ability to stay online. a shame really. :)

thanks tho
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Kids, at least for the first couple of years, don't really require that much stuff, certainly much less than most people buy. Beyond clothes, bottles and consumables (like diapers), all you really need is a carriage and/or carrying device (I highly recommend getting both) to transport the kid, some sort of crib like thing for the kid to sleep in and some simple toys.

Ask me again in a couple of years time and I'll let you know if you need more stuff for older kids.
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Rand, thank you for the detailed and revealing post. Especially the parts that you didn't need to share that made the story much more concrete - such as revenue and gross margins.

I am curious - how do you think the funding would have changed your current trajectory? From all appearances your business is growing well.
Don't do what this guy says! Or at least don't stay in phase 1 for longer than a day. I've had used vim for a few years as a pico replacement, whenever I was on a remote computer on ssh. I picked up some really bad habit, like staying in insert mode all the time and using the arrow, home and end keys. I actually had to deactivate the arrow keys in my vimrc.

I would recommend going thought the tutorial, that comes with vim (vimtutor command) and after that reading those articles:

http://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html

http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
Switzerland is no such thing.

Switzerland is a federation of cantons with a patchwork of different electoral systems with some mechanisms for citizen-initiated referenda.
I think you are depressed by what you think you read, not what you actually read.

He explains their motivations quite thoroughly (talent is currently available, so for now, cash is their major bottleneck, not scouting).

They've also been in business for 30 years (founded 1981). Somehow I don't think they are ignorant of how to run a business.

There isn't a moral "right" answer for VC. Taking it isn't a weakness, and funding isn't a sign of giving up. It's a business tool like any other, and it's ridiculous to be sitting spectator to a very healthy business and condemning their choices.
You're a bit of a techno-utopian. In small groups with homogenous polities and aligned interests, this might work. In an opensource project, for instance.

But even those fall into strife. Politics is part of human nature; the encrustations of western civilisation and elsewhere are not arbitrary.
Love the small videos that illustrates whats going on! Nice one!
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> It works, and it's a marvel of engineering, but it's not "artificial intelligence." It's pretty much a big stack of statistical hacks piled up over the years.

i'm not sure about this attitude. it reminds me of a quote by dijkstra:

"The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim."

why demand that intelligence proceed from a single parsimonious gesture?
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>The fact that people do this is a strong indication we're missing something fundamental with the browser UI.

When I hit the backspace key, there is a significant probability that I will have to wait for the old page to download and render again. (Wether the re-download and re-render happens seems to depend on how the maintainer of the web page set the cache-control.) Although I understand the advantage to non-technical users of doing things this way, as a technically-adept user, I would have preferred for the back button never to cause a re-download or a re-render. (I know that I would have no trouble figuring out when manually to cause a re-download (using e.g. the reload button) because that is the way Lynx did it years ago.)

My point is that the main reason I open new tabs is so that I can definitely return to the current page without waiting for the page to re-download and re-render. I would be happy with the back and forward buttons and the history menu if using these things did not often cause me to wait.
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It is at times like this I think "Wow I live in the future!".
Good for him but i find this kind of free-wheeling and 'zen' lifestyle very selfish at its core. Go minimalism to what end? Why don't you do something that contributes to tree of human knowledge or something makes humanity more efficient?
Of course it's well-studied area, but you make it seem as if that means that there's a 'solution' or even consensus on its effects, which is a position so ludicrous it doesn't even warrant refuting. For the rest, your 'argument' about Switzerland shows that it is you who has no idea what you're talking about.
From what I read the easiest path to getting Android tablet versions to run (Gingerbread, ICS) is to start with the phone version of 2.3.5. It seems that all of the dev teams are taking this approach. Once they finish it will be running the tablet version but of course the alpha version with phone os and no touch support is a step backwards from WebOs.

WebOs is arguably better than Android. The huge advantage Android has is apps. I've had the Touchpad for a week and feel like I've already downloaded all of the quality games in the market - can you imagine how much fun I'll be having in a year?
Can't blame the guy, the only reason he got sued is because he has money.

Another thing that is possibly part of this is that people feel the need to lay blame for everything, they can't just accept that someone died and that's that.

It's tough to lose a loved one but no amount of money will bring them back and blaming the guy that bankrolled the operation seems a little weird to me. The pilot was responsible, he should have known the limits of his license. But the pilot is dead and probably was penniless anyway so the blame gets shifted to the nearest entity with money.

In the end, the people that will win are the lawyers, everybody else just loses, even if they get some money they've still lost, for all the time that they could spend to heal they kept the wound wide open.
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Nothing would change. Seriously, who cares about PageRank?
I've a nine years old girl, and a three years old boy.
They own some 60% of the stuff in the house.
I would like to get rid of 80% of that 60% :)
US military's rational for not scrambling video feeds

Bruce Schneier wrote about why encrypting the video feed of predator drones was not as straightforward: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/intercepting_p...

The command and control channel is, and always has been, encrypted -- because that's both more important and easier to manage. UAVs are flown by airmen sitting at comfortable desks on U.S. military bases, where key management is simpler. But the video feed is different. It needs to be available to all sorts of people, of varying nationalities and security clearances, on a variety of field terminals, in a variety of geographical areas, in all sorts of conditions -- with everything constantly changing. Key management in this environment would be a nightmare.
Just because you only use your tablet for media and web browsing doesn't mean that everyone does. I like to play games on mine and the game market is embarrassingly small and will not be growing due to the discontinuation of the Touchpad. The cool thing about Android/iOS is that you can find an app for literally anything. I don't feel that way when browsing the HP market.
The goal is to run Android tablet versions - these are just the first steps to make that happen.
Meaning that it's a means to an end?
I hope you didn't leave the dog in storage.
Yes, there is definitely a tension between pleasure and minimalism.

However paradoxical, minimalism can be also an be attachment. As Buddhists would say, take the middle road.

Taking cooking as an example: food touches on the outer world (think of everything involved in a simple crop, from the farmer to the sun) and the inner world (physically and mentally). Preparing food is very good for exercising awareness and appreciating life, why would one sacrifice that?

Edit: sorry for accidentally downvoting you :(.
vimtutor is actually slow and boring
You're not suggesting an alternative, well maybe in the most abstract sense, but in your post several levels up from here there is not even a hint at how to address even just the most obvious flaws in letting people vote for each bill. There's no 'argument' made, just a cry for revolution - of the type that is very common amongst high school and undergraduate students; rising from a simplistic world view that fails to recognize that there is a reason why we've some to the situation where we are now, and that radical, sudden changes very seldom lead to the outcomes that they were designed to lead to. 'Juvenile' was not name calling; it's an (albeit unqualified and broad-stroked) description, or maybe rather 'characterization', of the argument and the context that lead to it.
Open tabs are like frozen functions (or even better, frozen stacks or trees). In addition to the content itself they also preserve the info about how I got there and, hopefully, some notion about what I intended to do next. This wont be captured as easily in a bookmark or evernote.

Right now I have 8 browser windows open and on average each one of them has 30 tabs open and this is on a laptop that has 512Mb of RAM. I can pull this of with FF 3.6 (some what tweaked), which of course I leave open for months on end. On another machine I am running FF 8.02a, it definitely seems lighter, but most of the add-ons that I use do not support it yet. Using Chrome this way will kill my box(es).

So yes I am one of those incomprehensible corner cases that many complain about. The one that expects that software should be tight and memory leak free. This is in contrast to what I get to hear a lot, "leaks dont matter, just restart your browser" or "memory is cheap, go buy some". No thank you, I would still like to retain control over who gets to decide (a)when to close an application and (b) where my money should be best spent.

Why do I do this ? perhaps because its is the most unobtrusive way of deferring or saving a thread. Tabs are my poor man's alternative to evernote, reminders, frozen trains of thought etc etc, that I do not yet consider permanent enough to bookmark and those that I can organize spatially and into groups and all that with minimum effort.

So essentially this is my way of maintaining two sets of bookmarks one volatile, spatially mapped, (almost) random access, higher priority and most crucially with a history that I can access with back&forth buttons, the other more permanent bookmark has a different set of complementary properties. Some of my tabs graduate to being bookmarks but not all.

To do all this I have to enlist the assistance of a few add-ons that keeps the inactive tabs unloaded. I use one called restore-control[1] (that or bartabs[2]). The other add-on I use is searchTab[3] to index the contents of the pages so that I can search for it based on a few words that have stuck in my memory. But usually I have a fairly good handle of where spatially they will be located so I dont really need to search.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restore-contr...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab/

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-tab/
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I actually think the license had very little to do with its popularity. The fact that MySQL was a lot simpler than Pg made it popular.
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I think ASP's a bit of a merger of the two cultures. The implementations are heavily SAT-influenced, with all existing ones based on eliminating variables to ground to a finite program that's then solved. But its semantics (stable-model semantics) originated in the early-90s flurry of attempts to come up with a solid logical semantics for LP (alongside other attempts like the well-founded semantics), to replace Prolog's operationally defined "whatever SLDNF resolution returns" semantics, and especially its displeasing-to-logicians property of the semantics depending on statement order. And the most widely used surface syntax, sometimes called "AnsProlog", is an adaptation of Prolog syntax.

This research group in particular is now pushing it heavily in the programmability/expressivity direction, which is pretty interesting: http://potassco.sourceforge.net/ . There is even some other research floating around on more software-engineeringish things like ASP debugging techniques.
Yes... but I think quite many of us older than 23 would rather program SAP than games or Iphone apps, although I wouldn't hazard a guess at the proportion.
They are actually animated .gifs. Awesome!
Does anyone fancy a game of vim golf? :) (after finishing the last phase, of course).
A more accurate title would be "The Linuxification of HTML5 Mobile Apps" (the author specifically talks about mobile apps, not all web apps).
Yes, I don't see these often and it seems that they are powerful learning aids. Full-fledged videos/screencasts are hard to search and index while screenshots are bad to show actions.
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The image quality is also amazing!
I loved this post. Well written, personal and insightful. I'm starting a SaaS company and I truly appreciate being able to learn from others experience. Thanks for sharing Rand and best of luck for you and the rest of SEOmoz.
Postgres has had auto-incrementing row ids for a while, see this example: https://gist.github.com/1178237
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Nuance is speaker dependent. You have to train the system to understand the speaker's voice. This is speaker independent which is much harder.
When I learned to use vim years ago, one interesting observation was that the biggest thing to learn in vim is efficient navigation.

i.e. if you know how to get to a particular logically defined place in the file, you will always be able to carry out copy-paste-delete to and from that place to where to cursor is.

One would be surprised how easy thing become once you know the basic navigation rules due to marvelous mix-n-match nature of vim operations.
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According to the comments, they have a fiber optic cable up to the ship and from there a sat link to a server at washington.edu...
Depending on his configuration they come in 2way and 4way RAID-0, so those numbers are potentially feasible.
When I first got into full-time pro web development (about a decade ago), I started learning PHP. Just about every tutorial I read or book I wished I could afford had 'MySQL' next to 'PHP' as though they were one in the same.

From there forward, any time I was looking into a new host, they ALL had both PHP and MySQL. Any job I was bidding, discussion I was having in IRC or on Forums, anywhere - the two came as a matching set. I can't say that's WHY it became more popular, but I've always assumed their popularity were closely aligned.
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C++ developer working at SAP here, so my job is not exactly representative of SAP. That said, it is a very interesting job. We are building a distributed in-memory database that can power lots of SAP applications. We work with server machines with 2TB of RAM, gigantic SSD storage and many, many cores.

You also get to work with application developers who have built the things that run at the core of the major companies in the world, and many of them have decades of experience at this. These applications will likely never be put in the cloud or replaced by something with just a nicer GUI, since the important thing is security, correctness and absolute stability.

So do not rule out companies which seem to do "just boring" stuff when looking for your next job. Enterprise applications can be very challenging (and are also reliable money makers).
I tend to have about 100 tabs open in my web browser. Of those, 10-15 are for pages that I always have open, ~50 are for pages that are relatively temporary (as in a few weeks), and another ~25 for more temporary (days), and then up to 50 for very temporary (like when I'm browsing through hacker news and so on).

I would say that I am relatively organized, but apparently in another way than you are.
As an example of how I organize my tabs, I have 8 tabs open with minecraftwiki/forum, 5 imdb tabs with bad '50s horror flicks for a movie night I'm planning, 4 tabs with articles about an emacs customization that I'm planning, 10 tabs with doxygen generated documentation for a C++ project I'm doing, 6 tabs have arduino documentation for a hardware project I'm halfway through, a few appdb.winehq pages for games I have problems running, some wiki-pages with books I'm thinking about buying, and a few with articles I'm thinking about sharing with my friends. This is in 3 windows on 2 virtual desktops (on my main machine, I have another 20 tabs open on my laptop).

I don't get "[1]00 tabs of information", I get perhaps 10 different topics that I can choose between, and when I have done that I can just scroll over the group of tabs that make up a topic to get a quick overview. After this, I'm usually synced up with what I was thinking the last time I was working with the project.

Btw, I use 2 rss readers (google reader and akregator), the akregator one for things I shouldn't read while working. I have 2 cell phones. I also have 3 email endpoints, one for studies, one for personal mail and one for work.

There is nothing inherently disorganized about this (IMO), since it gives me a very clear distinction between my different tasks.
I've always likened it to riding a bicycle downhill with no brakes. Yes, it's faster, but...

Of course, now they've converged a lot, with Postgresql getting significant speed upgrades, and Mysql having InnoDB, with a few 'minor details' like transactions.
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I think the decision by Google to not buy Skype is great. Skype uses supernodes/decentralized address book and other trickery to keep the most of the load off their servers/NAT proxies. Whatever advantage Skype got from decentralization when it started in 2003 is now long gone. Bandwidth is ridiculously cheap and voice calls don't really take more than 16kbps with modern codecs.

If two Skype clients can't connect to each other directly due to NAT, they proxy the connection via supernode. Any Skype client with a public IP address can be a supernode, so they might use your bandwidth and computer to route calls.

Skype brand and userbase alone are not worth $8,5B. Their P2P decentralization technology is worth ~$0.
Especially if they are using an ORM ironically.

If you consider NHibernate, a lot of time working with it is spent optimising criteria queries to ensure that the IO and CPU on the DB server are not spanked to death and that the loading strategy keeps the read count down.
wow :O

anyone knows if they recently had an internal change or something? just wow! Disney who prevented 15 year olds from putting their favorite movies songs on YouTube?

we really live in interesting times.
The difference in error rates is in large part due to the to the difference between dictated speech and spontaneous, informal conversational speech.

Switchboard (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=...) is a set of telephone conversations between two people. Speakers tend to say a lot of "ums", abruptly restart an utterance in progress, talk past the telephone handset, etc. Dictated speech, especially when speakers know they're talking to a computer, has less acoustic and linguistic noise.
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This is great! For a couple of years I've had this love/hate relationship with vim. I'm going to actually going to give a try with this
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My entry is Picstack: http://suit-up.nko2.nodeknockout.com/

With Picstack you can create shareable and collaborative photo albums.

Useful to group photos taken of some event or person and remember moments.
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Counting public releases of non university projects sure, but at least according to the wiki page it has been under active development since 1986, with first release in 1989. Where Mysql started development in 1994.
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I may be wrong, but isn't that just a syntactical shortcut for creating a separate sequence table?
I go offline for days at a time. First, open every webpage and document I think I'll need to finish The Big Project. Then disconnect and work. Stay offline* until the project is done. If projects are overlapping, hitting 300 tabs is easy.

I also have several gigs of saved PDF and HTML files, but one-off information goes in a tab.

What good do your "online utilities" do for someone with inconsistent internet?

* Maybe every three hours I'll connect for a few seconds to check for voice/email.
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This is nice. I've been wanting to dabble a bit in Django, but I find it a bit hard to find basic information like this, for example, how to decide when creating a separate app inside a project is better than putting everything in a single app.

It definitely helps to have conventions to follow while you're learning, until you become proficient enough to break those conventions.
I love to play games too, but on my PC. I like the accuracy of a mouse and the freedom of a keyboard that I can map actions to. The thoughts of playing games with a touch screen and accelerometer is horrifying for me (at least for the games I'm interested in playing), but as you say some people are interested in this, but some people (like me) are not.
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You don't. They will already know left from right. Right from wrong.
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