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If you want to give SASS a try (specifically the SCSS dialect), we support it at WebPutty.net. (Yes, I'm a dev on WebPutty and am totally biased, but I actually do think the live preview makes it a good learning tool.)
No, they do not need to know about the filesystem. Take the iPad or iPod as examples. They have full-featured applications and the filesystem is invisible.
>> The realm of human knowledge is simply too vast for anyone to have a broad command of, so we specialize.

This statement could actually be used just as easily against voting for representatives as we do today. The real question is do you trust public at large to make a better or worse opinion than <name your representative> on some issue you are deeply informed on? In other words the comparison should be versus the existing system as a whole, not versus an expert on a single topic.

My perception of the demagogue is that their power comes from railing against the current authority. So while I can agree that it seems likely that a 'true democracy' would instantly prop up the Becks and Palins of the country, who do they blame when a majority of people vote that they are wrong? Or maybe even more extreme who do they blame when their views and proposals are voted for but still fail?

There is no longer a 'bad guy' to blame and arguments put forth by a demagogue will have to deal with two new realities-

1- They can no longer claim they are part of the majority opinion in an effort to gain further support. It'd be hard for Sarah Palin to keep up her 'regular joe' persona and reconcile it with being in major disagreement with a majority of the country

2- They can no longer claim obstruction by some authority steam rolling them in legislature. It would become pointless to argue about which pundit supported which policy or law in the past, because every individual would have their personal voting record.
I'm late to the table and you might not read this, but something conspicuously absent from this conversation is a discussion of the representative nature of the US government by _state_.

The higher legislative branch gives more weight to states as individual entities for very precisely balanced reasons. In a very real sense it is not representatives that act, but states themselves.

This has been incredibly important, because it further decouples the population from the decision. Sparsely populated states have traditionally had different concerns than urban states: the Popularist Party of the late 19th century was sharply divided along these lines.

In other words, the popular vote is disregarded because different 'types' of people shouldn't have too much power: the density of cities should not grant that population dominion over the agrarian folk.

People complained about the popular vote being for Gore without realizing that the system was still functioning as intended: the states vote for the president, their votes being determined by the population within. Those foolish states that split their electoral votes make themselves irrelevant!
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Anyone have any details on what Tim Cook's vest period is on his 1M shares he received?
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Now I see what you mean, I didn't even know that feature.
GnuCash is downloadable software targeted towards tech-minded folks. Smooth is a web app + mobile interface aimed at a different audience. Similar functionality, though.
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Absolute genuis, @rohitkumar. Thinking back to the famous Betamax vs VHS tape technology, it wasn't the best tech that won, it was the easiest to implement. Websites/platforms are the same: the winners will be have the most elegant front facing solutions (graphics, ease of use, marketing/promotion as you note) not necessarily the most elegant back end or process solution.
We created a "real-time" public transportation map for our city: http://ulmapi-de.no.de

Due to the lack of real-time data in our city, we scraped and parsed timetables in the GTFS format and generated mock events based on that schedule.
Rapid Prototyping gets my vote..I'm in the process of working on a prototype for a new web service that's attempting to make easier a very complicated industry (where things are evolving at a rapid pace). I've noticed that we never have any time to create test user cases, however I am working with 2 others who hire outsiders to perform real user tests, which works well enough for the time being...but testing only a few users, with a minimal amount of requests doesn't really give you a good indication of whether or not your application can handle the load of multiple users. From a functionality standpoint user testing is good, but from a stress-testing go-live standpoint it's not really that good an indication as to where you stand
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How likely is it that this public data analyzer will be significantly faster than, say, watching TwitScoop? Or have any advantage over just grabbing the private data of social networks, which contain such valuable indicators including the number of and keyword content of messages between parties of interest?
I don't know much about VC, but just in my "main street" experience people always get shaky before stroking a big check. When it comes time to sit down and send away a lot of money on a business, a piece of property, whatever, that is when the doubt begins to creep in.

It could be that they loved seomoz but weren't that excited about the industry. Or, like Rand mentioned, they were nervous about the market. The July numbers probably wasn't the reason they pulled out, but it probably was the excuse they used internally to rationalize the decision.
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I think it's 5 years for each half.
Apple releases "Retina Display", with ultra-high resolution: "Amazing! So much better than anything else! So crisp! So beautiful!"
Someone else releases lower pixel density display for laptop, but far better than what Apple deigns to offer: "Ugh! No! How can you read that? That just gives you eye strain..."

(Exaggerated for emphasis)
If you have ever served on a board of directors you will get a much better appreciation for exactly what the CEO adds or doesn't add to the company's value.

I suspect that a CEO has a lot more impact on the board than she has on the company as a whole, and it's this impact that boards are really reacting to when they judge a CEO's performance. Unless someone has been in the position for a very long time, it's difficult to attribute a company's long term success with the actions of its CEO. There are just too many variables. Boards want to hire someone with a resume similar to their own (ie, experienced and wealthy), and by definition that is going to be an expensive pool of prospects regardless of their individual management qualities. In reality there are probably a lot more people with the inherent skills to be successful CEOs than exist in that exclusive pool, but since the boards don't really know what makes a great CEO (or even whether there is any such thing) they fall back on the basic instinct to stick with their own kind. This is one of the contributing factors in the increasing concentration of wealth that we observe in our economy.
Anyone know how 'free' storage providers make any money?
This is basically 10G + backup + geographical replication.
IT costs (hard disks), electricity,cooling, bandwidth all add up.
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I do game programming for Android, and use Scala for my server infrastructure. I'd like to use Scala for the Android device as well, but haven't even tried because I'm concerned about garbage collection. You see, I can't even use Java iterators in areas that are called on every frame on the Android device, because those create little object instances that will trigger garbage collection. So I have to write for loops. There are all kinds of things I need to do in an action game in Java on Android to carefully pre-allocate my memory and not trigger garbage collection.

When I look at the code that Scala produces, it's spinning off little instances of auto-generated classes all over the place to work the magic that it works. You can't breathe in Scala without it generating a few anonymous classes and instantiating them. All that is fine for an app where the device is idle between UI events (a "normal" app), but how does it fly in a game? I can see and "feel" a noticeable glitch when my machine GC's, and I need to avoid that pretty much at all costs. How in the world do you avoid that with Scala in an action game? So far I've been assuming that you pretty much don't avoid it, so I haven't bothered trying to use Scala for my games on Android.
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I've managed clusters of 60K plus large servers. I mean, I didn't manage them by myself; my primary job was automating hardware failure detection, but I took my turn on the pager. My personal focus was to see to it that bad hardware didn't go back into production; as someone who shared pager, that was... offensive. But really, hardware failure is less of an issue than people seem to say. I mean, sure, it happens. But not nearly as often as software issues that bring down the box, unless you count bad hard drives; and those happen all the time.

Even with 60K servers, I quickly learned that if I found a lot of bad servers that were bad in similar ways, I needed to be careful before having them sent back to the vendor. More than once I embarrassed myself blaming software problems on the hardware. For the first 3-5 years of it's life, if the computer was properly assembled, very likely the only things that will need replacement are the disks.

My thought would be to treat the things as hard drives. two options: For the lowest tier of support, if your system fails, I leave it and provision a new one. Leave the dead ones in the rack until it's time to upgrade. The second option is to put the boards on some sort of hot-swap power backplane, and when the thing fails, pop it out and replace it like a hard drive.

The question would be "how expensive is it to make the hot-swap system, and does the manufacturer give me a warranty that makes it worth my time to swap 'em out and send 'em back."

I suspect that if I can get 'em to give me a discount to not have a warranty, my best bet would be to set it up so I could hot swap whatever i used for storage, but if anything but storage failed, I'd just leave the system in place.

sure, maybe I'd want to offer 'premium' support with mirrored storage where I'd swap your storage if it fails, and yeah, in that case, expenses would be higher than a giant server with fewer disks. (by fewer disks, I mean fewer disks per 256mb guest. Obviously, it has more disks total) I/O performance is probably also going to be worse on the giant server with fewer disks, so I can charge more for the 'premium' dedicated hardware with dedicated I/O.

I mean, you get into the 'all troubleshooting must be automated' range much faster with those than with physical hardware, but somewhere between a couple hundred and a couple thousand hardware nodes, you are going to get there either way.
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It looks like Microsoft is taking a lot of care to take user usage statistics to see how the default behavior of explorer should be. However, I really hope they don't strip out any existing functionality out of explorer since it is "not used much". To be honest, I'd still prefer two-paned 3.1 style (instead of a useless shortcut bar or whatever they have by default on the left now)
What both of these philosophies seem to miss is that the self exists to create something enduring.

Citation needed.
Why no Steam, Notch?
We are deployed on Amazon EC2 + S3 so the backup infrastructure cost is saved. In terms of profit, it definitely works out depending on how you go about doing it :)

We will add options to earn more free storage soon, but I would love to see some stats behind other similar services if they are available!
It is closer to fair sampling than you think, since the average internet user is more likely to install toolbars unlike the technogeek niches that we hang out in. Also, it's more useful for relative changes like drops and increases rather than absolute percentages.

Also, it's one of the only few samplings we have, unfortunately.
As a stand alone feature? I never really got the use case.

Other than using things like Google latitude to mark locations and routes for hiking and photography and the like; I didn't use any of the other services.

I would say that it would start being integrated into other services where it makes sense. For example, proximity services to share coupons or offers or reviews with your would-be customers...
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Excellent article. Looking forward to the next one!
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Because vim's paste command, p, will paste what was last removed with a command (such as d or c).
Although you're not explicitly told that d and y are analogous to cut and copy, after learning the mechanics of p, each command you learn adds a new (and powerful!) mechanic which doesn't have a parallel in the normal cut/copy/paste model.
Justin.tv seems like it's doing really well (at least from the outside), which makes it difficult to understand why they keep launching new products.
I've seen a lot of this.. I don't believe in it.

You don't give reasons for using an ORM in your code, do you? You just do it as part of your development work. It's nothing that's being questioned by PHB's.

Writing tests is (or should be) part of your development work.

Make sure you include the time it takes to write the tests in your "time estimate".
I gave up pretending that I'm a Vim beginner a year or two ago, but I also continue to skim through and learn from "beginner" tutorials that show up in my stream. People always pick a different set of "basic" commands, and from this one, I learned about "t<letter>", which I hadn't known before.
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I think the next file explorer I want is more like a Graph/ DB, with search, stats and files resting in multiple folders like tags.

I think windows is so set in how they do things that they can not think out of the box ( window ) at all.

With 3d and ssd becoming standard there are plenty of new ways to visualize the files on your drive.

Even photosynth an ms product would be a cool bolt on to file explorer.
The solutions are probably not as useful as the PR piece suggests.
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How much taxpayer money has been wasted over the past 50+ years over this nonsense. Flights, security, agent hours, overtime, pensions, etc. just to pursue this nonsense.

Anyone could think of a dozen ways the money could have been better spent, but I guess every level of cops need their own little agenda to abuse to feel important.

I say if anyone happens to have one, let them sell it and instead charge a 40% tax rate on the selling price.
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No. They are exactly the same design as coins minted 1908-1932 (1907 was a special case, having two different designs, only one of which continued on).
It's a neat project, technically. But...

"If one turned on one's anger light in a fit of frustration, it was useful as a reminder later in the day to remain angry."

I'm all for finding healthy ways to express anger, but
actively holding on to anger that would have naturally dissipated seems like a great way to transform yourself into a perpetually bitter person.
Add a tree structured tagging system with tags/sub-tags (to replicate folders, without folders, but with extra ability to have files capable to belong to different folders at once) and it's gonna be a very, very good service.
Otherwise, it is simple, yes. Spartan design, but I like it.
How would this work for the investors of Justin.tv? I know that Justin.tv has a stake in Socialcam, but to go from owning 100% of the value to something less seems like a lousy deal for the investors.

I suppose you could make the argument that this will enable Socialcam to grow more quickly and thus drive higher value for everyone, but it seems like quite a high risk.
i believe it is a negative article, but it's very well hidden.

And it recommends funding all this by discovering a “muse,”
which Ferriss defines, as Seneca did not, as “an automated vehicle
for generating cash without consuming time.” "

There are a number of other similar jabs in the article, in various degrees of obviousness.

If anything, i'd say the author was more than kind.
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Selecting a language that lets you develop quickly over a "fast language" is orthogonal to selecting algorithms.

Is there a reason you believe them to be related? Or, did you repost one line of my comment without any context and expect to make a salient point?
Would you recommend that airlines publicize the experience of the pilot on each flight, and offer discounts for travelling with less experienced pilots? Because, other than with something like this, "experience" doesn't sound like an alternative to a "panic button" or a "filter button." Where does the experience come from?
To prove a point.
Assuming you have demand paging, your virtual memory doesn't "live" anywhere.
Seems more like Amazon's tablet will hardly be recognizable as Android - with a focus on it's own AppStore and other services Amazon offers, the underlying OS gradually becomes irrelevant.

With what Apple has done to their supply chain, I'm still not convinced that Amazon can make a tablet with solid hardware specs at a price much cheaper than the iPad. I know that's the rumor, and some people feel they would do it even at a loss, but that's a big if. And there is the possibility that Apple releases it's own cheaper, but smaller, iPad.
This. Finding Spanish speakers for an American can't be that hard, but finding a Swedish speaker could prove much harder, they should prioritize languages like Swedish.
No sprite on the sign-up button :-/
I don't like it because it's very wasteful of screen real-estate. I do want to see directory hierarchy, but I don't want my files list to be squeezed into smaller and smaller space so I can see lists of every sibling folder of every folder in the path down to the folder that I'm viewing. This view isn't useful in proportion with how much space it takes up. IMO, access to directory structure works better as a treeview, separate from the 'current folder' view, rather than as a new column for each step down into the hierarchy. The latter doesn't scale well.
I like the idea of a Ward Republic (see Jefferson) coupled with a Delegate Democracy.
If the project is new and the code is changing frequently tests slow me down and get thrown away frequently. So I don't write them until the app is on a stable path.
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Interesting. I suspect that Instagram are also contemplating adding video sooner or later, given that in their API images are to be found in the "media" branch, and for each entry there the data-type is labelled as "image".
I've never understood this "Make a startup, then think of an idea" approach. If you aren't in love with your idea, why are you working so hard on it? Why would you commit to working so hard on an idea before you've even had it?
What are you doing with textual paths that can't be satisfied by simply dragging the item from the Finder to the place where you want the path as text?
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Thank you very much and very helpful, we definitely have lot a long way to go and have many improvements to make :)
Agreed. I'm fairly proficient in VIM, and I'd love to extend my knowledge of emacs as well - but there's few tutorials that don't start with "change these 15 settings and install these 5 plugins, then use it like this..."
I'm surprised that I'm not seeing even a casual mention of the OWC SSDs in this review. From everything (else) I've ever read, they tend to be way ahead of the curve in terms of innovation and performance. Sure, things change quickly stats wise... but they aren't even on the chart.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Mercury_Extreme_Pro_6...

Subjectively, I would describe my OWC 120GB drive as "blisteringly fast". Previously I had a 100GB OWC with extra redundancy for server loads (overkill in my iMac 2010) and the first time it booted it was like being personally greeted by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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Yes, the signed out homepage needs some polishing :)
What do you mean by "hard to undo?" Every Vim user has, more than once, accidentally begun typing in command mode and done crazy things. The solution is to just hit u (undo) a couple of times.

Granted, some commands have side-effects, (e.g. "w! existing.txt" which would overwrite an existing file), but they are sufficiently complex that the odds of typing one are extremely low. I have been using Vim on a daily basis for over a decade, and I cannot recall a single time that I've accidentally typed an irreversible command.
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I didn't make any long arguments, assuming that so-called hackers are aware of absurdity of trying to manage an OS (some kernel modules utilizing an API implemented as a shared library) from a virtual machine which is, in its turn, implemented as an user-level process running under that same OS. And I'm assuming that these hackers are familiar with python's standard library and a long tradition of implementing system management utilities in Python since, at least, RH6.. ^_^

btw, thank you for explaining your opinion. It is much more civilized than silent down-voting by frustrated fanboys. ^_^
Y being a synonym for yy is from vi. What you mean to say is that it doesn't fit the pattern D/dd and C/cc present.
Use Ctrl-o in insert mode to dip into normal mode for just 1 command. Also, use Ctrl-r in insert mode to paste the contents of an arbitrary clipboard (Ctrl-r, a to paste register "a, Ctrl-r " to paste register "" and so on).
i prefer the term 'metagaming'.
More important than how you copy the path of an item in the Finder, why?
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I had a similar breakage experience with OWC, which makes SSDs using the same (new/aggressive) Sandforce controllers as OCZ. My drive ("Mercury Extreme Pro", like a "Vertex 2") failed in the first week in that it would not cold boot; if you left it powered on in a blank zombie white screen for ~5 minutes you could get it to boot on restart.

OWC's customer service was stellar though. Every time I called the phone was answered by a tech (an engineer I suspect) who very much knew what he was talking about and never wasted my time with scripts. After one failed fix -- it looked like zapping PRAM had fixed it, but it didn't -- they mailed me a new drive and I returned the old in its packaging. The new drive has been running fine since February.
You're clicking on the wrong link. They offer the bare driver on the same page...just a few lines below.
Is this different from caches? If so, the advice also applies to properly using the cache. I've read that cache misses are the biggest source of slow-downs on modern processors. (Sorry, no citation)
On another note, what are the current plans with "karma"?
Thanks for the valuable input.