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the article you linked to was from 2 years ago. i guess you are saying microsoft is 2 years behind? google apps had 99.984% uptime last year. on pace for over 4 9's this year, including planned downtime. microsoft is the newbie here, and judging from their first few months, it is a long and winding road before they iron out the kinks in their cloud.
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The guy who decided to ground all planes on 9/11? It was his 1st day on the job.
Have you tried its CNAME[1] directly?

[1] http://mobile.twitter.com
But there is no automatic update on my home TL in the mobile version
What's with the [] notation? Isn't there a way to "overload" the () in ruby? I.e.

(sqr * inc)(5) ?
The Chaos Computer Club (the hosts of the Chaos Communication Congress) is not just about hacking, but also about the relationship of society with technology. For example, when German Home Secretary Wolfgang Schäuble pushed for increased use of biometric identification (especially in law enforcement), they published a silicone mold of his fingerprint. http://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/CCC-publishes-f... They also recently expelled Daniel Domscheit-Berg (the OpenLeaks guy) from the club. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,780289,00...

The talks at the conference are extremely varied, from crazy-technical to historical to just-for-fun. Here's a list of last year's presentations: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events.en.html
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I've been trying to parse this and just kind of failing. Is the implication that of course a naughty secretary wouldn't know anything about MongoDB?
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is calling it "Office 36X" leaving enough room for all the major outages the service will have in its first year?
Doesn't turning machine off and on each time shorten life of various its components? That way, a user would need to buy a new one sooner, which is definitely not better for them and the environment. I'd agree with grandparent in that most people normally do not need to turn their machines off completely and are better using sleep mode / hibernate, and this is the thing that needs optimization in the first place.
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The three approaches I've seen mailing lists use to solve the job posting problem:

1) Have a specified criteria which jobs have to meet in order to be posted (i.e. by a regular mailing list member, direct from company, etc.)

2) Have a separate but affiliated mailing list for jobs

3) Charge for job postings (with the money typically going to the bar tab for the next mailing list meetup)
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Cool. Now how about

companies
.Where(c => c.Name.StartsWith("A"))
.GroupBy(c => c.Sector, c => c.ProfitAndLoss)
.Select(g => new {Sector = g.Key, Profitability = g.Sum()}

Closures are massively more compact than running around with inner classes for everything.
Low fat is not synonymous with healthy.

Someone else made the comment that often "Low-Fat" advertised products are jammed with sweeteners or sodium to replace the lost flavor that fat provides.

I think it's funny that the American consumer has been indoctrinated into thinking "Low [Insert Nutrient of the Month]" == Healthy.
You're right, there's no need. But there was a reason why I put it there, point (2) on how people who know nothing about MongoDB shouldn't be posting to the lists.

Honestly, I think it removes some of your post's effectiveness. Using a photo of a model with her blouse unbuttoned and writing SHE USES MONGODB over the top... I'm wondering if I'm missing something; are you being ironic and using using one inappropriate action to illustrate another? :)
The article also links to other outages. Partial outages are frequent enough that they don't make news anymore and Google has a dashboard interface that shows them here:

http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en

The relevant context is that cloud services go down. There's nothing straws about that. Amazon experienced a large issue recently as well:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/04/the-aws-outage-the-clou...
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People are comparing this to The Drudge Report, but your layout is much cleaner, and your headlines less hyperbolic, and you don't seem ideologically motivated. Otherwise, this is like The Drudge Report for Tech news! Good job.

- I don't think that your site is much like The Drudge Report.

Also, if you are so interested in news for Linux, please just keep it as one of the main topics.
The mobile site took 15 seconds to load for me.

Blazingly fast, Twitter? In another reality, maybe
It's a comprehensive summary of the keyboard, I'm looking forward to studying it and extending what I know.
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I don't hate recruiters. There are a few really great ones and a whole lot of really bad ones. I don't fault them for trying to make a living, but I do recognize that the entire practice of placement fees is what drives these bad behaviors.

The recruiting/placement industry would vanish overnight if companies would stop paying placement fees to any recruiter who manages to locate and then recruit good talent.
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You're reading too much between the lines.

Quote from the post:

"Please note that I don’t think recruiters are evil. They provide valuable services to both companies and candidates. But good recruiting takes hard work, time and social skills building relationships over a long period of time – something that justifies a 25% ticket from your year’s salary upon hire. In contrast, what’s the definition of sending an e-mail to 800 people because you have their e-mail address and think they are in your target demographic? Spam."
Very cool, but couldn't they have picked a better name? "Grow Lab" in Vancouver?
it's hard for my eyes to find what work is actually being done

Aside from if a lambda expression or anonymous class is the better choice overall, this just happens to be a case that you're just not familiar with the syntax. Its been years since I've done any work in java, but I read this over some coffee and didn't even slow down for it.

Lambdas will be nice for the situations where there is more boilerplate than implementation, but the anonymous inner class in java isn't going to die.
The recruiting/placement industry would vanish overnight if companies would stop paying placement fees to any recruiter who manages to locate and then recruit good talent.

Correct. The problem is that this isn't likely to happen as so many companies need extra resource to help them recruit and will suffer the costs willingly.
Jumping through the hoops for a chance of $20,000 doesn’t sound enticing. Certainly, the amount won’t be enough incentive to spend several years to write a new book. They might get some really old books or more recent ones that have gone nowhere (otherwise they wouldn’t be available).
No keyboard shortcuts is a dealbreaker.
I am used to people not connecting with Russian humor. She's actually well known porn star.

UPDATE: I removed the pornographic infographic, I don't want to have a debate about it.
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Why? Because this is a seed funding site. It's a similar philosophy to buying into a franchise. The franchisor does a lot of the work for you and tell you exactly what to do. Most people these days tend to not want to think so they prefer that others do their thinking for them. They'll justify their decisions saying it's a solid working model (franchise) or they have access to greater funding/mentoring (seed funding) but it's all the same.
Exactly. There is "gays & abortion theater" (financial impact: $0.00), but otherwise, multi-national corps get what they want.

Citizens of this nation seem to no longer run their own country very much.
Seems like Flat World Knowledge would be a great place for them to start if they're looking for free CC-BY-NC-SA textbooks.

http://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/disciplines

Disclosure: I did a summer internship there, everyone is awesome and I loved it.
The highest court the case would likely reach is the BGH. The EU courts aren't really courts of appeals, but concern the interpretation of EU directives etc. If there was an unclear EU directive in this case, the LG should have sent the case straight to the EuGH.

Nevertheless even the decision of the LG itself isn't final, but it concerns a "preliminary injunction". However in cases like these, it is unlikely the end result would be different.
I don't get the bitching about the new UI. What is he talking about when he says "pages that take several minutes to load"? Is he talking about the regular twitter.com UI? It loads in less than a second and is otherwise completely responsive.
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If you are calling every single button press a command then i(insert), m(mark), %(brace match), w(save), q(quit), /(search), s/(search and replace), y(copy), p(paste), d(cut).

That covers 90% of what I do in vim. Add in R (overwrite mode), o (start a new line), !(run a command at the command line then return to the file you were editing), crtl-ws (split windows), Ctrl-ww (switch windows),Ctrl-p (auto complete), various movement keys(I really only use h,j,k,l, $,^,Ctrl-f, Ctrl-b) and you have 100% of what I know about Vi. Definitely not a power user but it gets the job done faster than any other editor I have tried.

I find just the first 10 are faster than using notepad or its replacements. Throw in a few Vim addons like a source control plugin and tags, and it becomes fairly nice.
The thing is.. there's a really step learning curve in learning the fundamentals of vim, but once you know them, it takes a second to learn a new command.

For instance, dt' will delete characters until it matches a'. But also, dtf' will delete characters until it matches a' but also delete that '. T and F goes backward.. you can put a number in front of the command to delete until it matches the nth ', etc. It looks like a lot of command.. but it's all the same basic ideas.

So to answer your question, yes you can use vim effectively with less than 10 commands.. but once you know those 10, it's a matter of seconds to learn 100+ which would make you extremely more effective.

And as my "top" commands.. I'd say definitely:

ciw *deleting the current word*
cit *deleting between the current html tag*
ci) *deleting between the ()*

With surround plugin:
ds' *deleting the surrounding '*
cs'" *changing the surrounding ' for "s*
/ *incremental search*
o/O inserting new lines.
Nope. Whenever you use (), the parser assumes a method call. sqr, inc and (sqr * inc) are not methods (but Proc objects), and all you can do is call _their_ methods, such as [].
I dont even bother opening twitter on ipad anymore. Will try out this mobile interface.
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No. The (sqr * inc) part returns a lambda, and in order to call a lambda you need to either .call() it, or you can use the [] syntax.
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That is correct, only disputes between countries are settled to WTO law.
German courts and the ECJ do not apply WTO law.
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The "For Programmers By Programmers" is a bit unnecessary.
Is anybody else using it?
Presumably it would work identically to inner classes (only captures final variables, so value/reference doesn't matter).
Even without wildmenu option, repeatedly pressing TAB key will cycle through the list of matches.
Neither; you're giving it too much credit in either case. It's just looking up strings which have been used before in past conversations in response to similar prompts.
Sounds like you came a long, long way. As a former little league baseball and musician myself, who has started my fair share of bands, and other ventures, I can totally relate to the feeling of putting so much in, and having to hang 'em up when things just aren't working out for one reason or another. For whatever it's worth, consider this: even the most talented, hardworking ballplayers never even make it to the show. Unlike those guys, there's not really an age limit in your field, and instead of needing a few hundred pros (or thousand, if you count the minors too) as a software engineer you'll have lots of time and opportunity to get back up to the plate (too many sports metaphors -- is there such a thing?)

All the best at Twilio :-)
I get your point, but I think that's actually well within the scope of the quote. Someone tried to do something and failed, while onlookers point out why it was a bad idea to even try.

The quote isn't meant to absolve those who try of responsibility or even to nullify criticism; it's meant to help counter-balance the steady stream of nay-saying one is subjected to when trying just about anything with any visibility at all.
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>The same with phones compared to iPhone.

Except, of course, for that phone reveled before the iPhone that had the same basic style. It was a style that the industry was headed towards anyway, apple just helped the momentum.
A very neat, useful application.

I second some of the other feedback here (saving details, better labelling of on or off days, .ics export).

One extra feature you might want to add: ability to check a date in the future without having to scroll through the calendar months. So, in your wedding example, I could put in my shift details, the start date, and the date I'm checking, and it would tell me whether I'm free or not.
Ask HN: What can I offer as a 'Tipping Point' for my deal site
I'm working towards a deal site where users get the deal for free, they pay the merchant directly. We won't be taking a cut from the merchant's revenue but instead charge them one time low flat fee for running the deal on our site.

We got an idea form this quora post (read last answer):
http://www.quora.com/How-did-Groupon-solve-the-marketplace-startup-chicken-and-egg-problem

In our beginner days we are thinking of adding a 'Tipping Point' feature. Meaning users will be able to secure a coupon for free, however, it will only get activated once they send a secret link to two other friends and those two friends download the deal.
when I think as a consumer I feel that forcing the user to perform an action (sharing in this case) is not a good practice, however, from a startup point of view we will really need people signing up.

OR our other option is that we don't tie activation of the deal with sharing but instead have a karma point system. Meaning for each friend the user influences, raises their karma points. But again...since deals are free (we don't take a cut) what would we have to offer the user in return for more karma points?
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That's bad form when you have funds available. It's not like they were trying to cure cancer.
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It does the same on my HPtouchpad. We'll be fixing that.

We have that on our todo list.

Honestly, nothing else yet. The designer put the text in there. Trust me my algo is nothing like developing an algo for netflix recommendation or google search.
After reading the title I really wanted it to be:

"Sailor (pirate) offers millions of dollars in booties for opened textbooks"

Am I the only one?
There were a few 'everything by X' comments that got massive upvotes (Philip K Dick comes to mind) that aren't really represented here. The authors appear, but only 1 or 2 of their works. It's worth keeping in mind that this wasn't just a list of books, but of authors as well.
For combinations that happen to end up adjacent to one another in the pie chart. For other combinations, it's not really any more obvious than in the bar chart.

Perhaps pie charts would be less sucky if they were interactive and allowed you to rearrange and/or re-colour the slices. Then at least you could go looking for subsets that add up to 50% of the pie (or 31.42%, or 99.94%, or whatever). Though I can't help thinking that there are better ways to do that.
Ads inline with content was definitely a major factor. Just look at this screenshot: http://www.treehugger.com/digg-oil-spill-sponsored-bp-image....

Pretty terrible way to treat your users.
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Why single out Amazon? You should have the same concerns with any provider. If you lose sleep because you are unsure of your provider then the only option is to host/manage/backup yourself. Regardless of who hosts it there will be human error and technical glitches. It isn’t about if something will happen it is when. Design in such a way as to minimize recovery time and effort. Plan for failure.
I worked with a designer on this and the project had a few goals, but the last of them was to make money.

1. I wanted to learn ruby + sinatra. This was just to see what I could build acting as the programmer + sys admin.

2. The designer and I both want to work together on bigger and bigger projects. This was a test to see if we could work together well and not hate each other at the end.

So there never was any plan to make money off of it. If you have any suggestions I'd be open to them.
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Naive fibonacci is a much more interesting example for memoize than factorial:

fib = +lambda {|n| return 1 if n <= 1; fib[n-2] + fib[n-1]}
This was one of the reasons for me to write Learn You Some Erlang in the first place. All good information to learn the language had to be taken from books (which cost money, although there are very good books out there) or training courses (which cost even more money, but are a pretty good way to do things, especially for teams).

Most of the stuff on the official website is either rather short in content, or made as reference manual rather than a tutorial. I was hoping that LYSE would become the de-facto free learning guide out there for Erlang. And not just for the syntax and modules, but also for the general ideas of the languages, de-facto standards in the community, etc.
That was my original intention, but we designed for the general case instead of the specific. I think we will add this in eventually.
How does this work for sites that use Ajax / Javascript that requires server connections? What about streaming audio / video, and how about cross-site stuff? Does all that get passed through SMS as a proxy?
>Unfortunately, they've probably squandered a lot of that initial publicity.

You know, I'm not sure if they have. People wanted to believe in this to the tune of $200k. Even two years from now, if they have arrived at something truly viable, it will be trivially easy to spin the PR wheel again. At this point, their main obstacle is demonstrating competency on the relevant technical problems and processes. If they learn to crack that nut over the course of, say, another year, then they'll be the come-back kid -- every bit as appealing an angle as their initial appeal as improbable underdogs with starry eyes.
OK, OK, porn removed, too many people are now focusing on the porn instead of the topic, thanks for the comments.
Exactly. In Eclipse it's so ridiculously easy to make the method pass it on by adding the throw to your method. I find checked exceptions really useful every day :)
A recruiter is never going to reveal the employer name as this risks them getting cut out of the loop

We (Hackruiter, YC S10) are fully transparent about the companies we work with and it's never been a problem.
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Caveat: this hasn't quite worked out for instant messaging, so I could be wrong.

Aren't Google Talk and Facebook Chat both based on Jabber/XMPP, though?
Touch typing is a great analogy. I was a pretty good hunt-and-peck typer in 6th grade; I would even do 2-3 finger "rolls" across keys to type faster.

Learning to touch-type was frustrating at first: I knew I could go faster with my usual methods. But with perseverance, I became much faster with touch typing than I ever was before.

Vim is the same way. At first, it feels terrible to have to use these awkward keystrokes instead of the GUI editor commands you're used to. But eventually, with muscle memory and intentional practice, editing in Vim becomes very fast and efficient.
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The JS VM idea is really interesting - because it frees a language from having to have basically a one-to-one mapping between the new language and JavaScript a la CoffeeScript.

So I'm going to update my guess: I reckon Dart will be a tweaked version of Newspeak natively supported by V8 (server and Chrome browser), plus a JavaScript VM for running Dart on non-Chrome browsers.

More of a guess, but I imagine it might come with its own node.js-y framework with perhaps some interesting Seaside-style continuation approach and/or Lift-style view-oriented approach...
You don't need clever algos to make something useful. I just wanted to know if there was something non-obvious I was missing.
I see. I wouldn't consider it a priority request. And don't get me wrong: I think the site's functionality at the moment is great: quick, simple, straightforward. I've already emailed it to the three people I know who work shifts :-)
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Recently I had the pleasure of having the author come out and teach my colleagues and I some Erlang. It was a pretty crazy day, with limited power and internet (just after Irene), and we powered through. He did an excellent job. In one crazy day, he made Erlang fun, and I was able to grasp the power behind it.

I haven't had the opportunity to play around with it as much as I've wanted (I've just moved), but I'd highly recommend checking out his site, and reading further. He was incredibly knowledgable, and made learning enjoyable without being boring.
No, because instead of saying this he just had a snarky remark. Exactly what financial issues of recent times is he taking issue with? The TARP bailout? The stimulus? Is he arguing that this project in and of itself would produce more benefit for the financial industry than entrepreneurs? I can't nail down his position because he didn't use enough words to explain his point.

Aside: Using "banksters" is like using "M$"; all it does is show everyone that you can't make your point without resorting to the maturity of a 5-year-old.
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