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OK, interesting.

The research I'm doing as I wait for comments suggests that it's the power of Perl with some of the good parts of Java, and without having to lean on Moose to get decent OO...
Oh come on. This isn't blackmail, it's offering an exchange that's win-win. California wants - actually, badly NEEDS - jobs; Amazon wants to avoid or at least delay the sales tax. They have every ethical and legal right to make the proposal.

If I'm selling burgers for $5, and you give me $5 for one because you're hungry, am I "blackmailing" you to get your cash?

Perhaps I'm missing something? If so, please point it out.
To be honest, that analogy with 1+1=3 is really out of place. It feels like generalizing into an area without actually bothering to look whether it hold or not. Why is that? Because in just about every system of expressing arithmetic, the whitespace around the + carries literally no mathematical information at all. Whitespace on the whole has little role other than to serve for formatting purposes.

On the whole, though, the premise is sound. Showing nothing at all can often be underestimated, but nothing is a concept that we all can easily grasp and distinguish, so it can be associated with all sorts of subtle (and not so subtle) hints.

In fact, for a programming anecdote, I really like Haskell's decision to apply functions there with ... whitespace (add 2 3). After all, that is the most fundamental thing you are doing there, the most "obvious" as it were. I think that choice is not only convenient, but shows very good understanding of aesthetics. That is good whitespace management.
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> This has never been done before.

What about OCaml? I've never used it, but I was under the impression it is sort of OO combined with ISWIM FP. I've been poking about and reading about Standard ML and the module system seems like it supports some quite powerful OO stuff, but I also haven't really wrapped my head around it.

I'm a Lisper and I basically don't know what I'm talking about here when it comes to ML and Scala. I do find Scala interesting though.
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From what I can tell, DIDO does not overcome Shannon's law, it just moves the channels around that still fall under Shannon's law (basically re-using white space). Interestingly, this is not that different than what LTE does already (using it's SON feature, Self Optimizing Network). One problem that DIDO has is that it neglects the the speed of light, latency, introduced by the central manager.
"I’m writing this on my laptop (a MacBook Air), but I really just want to be browsing the web on my iPad right now."

So... why aren't we blogging on our iPad? I call BS on this "post PC" thing. The iPad is not the right tool for every job.
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They make no money on those products. They can't charge money for their products because they are half-assed knockoffs that nobody will pay anything for.
Isn't that a kernel bug and not a Ubuntu bug?
Not like the plague, but it shouldn't be first priority. On that point, I think we're saying the same thing.

I'd argue the end goals you mentioned can be harmful to the startup itself (not to mention the tech community), but that's a different debate. If your goals start smaller, you don't need funding in most cases.
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I hope PlusFeed's author read this:

Man that's some nasty code, horrible, don't open source that kind of "code"... it's bad, even for a 5 minute projects, it's really bad.

Open Source software is not a dumpster of your bad code.
Meanwhile, 13-year-old users want to know how music execs brought down YouTube videos they made.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#recipes/xcode_help-i...

Is the iOS link to the same article. I just hit the wrong one in google.

>The one thing I would recommend people do is not use Interface Designer. It bloats your code base and adds more complexity to the view hierarchy. It might be good to quickly mock-up a prototype, but not much else.

Is the issue. If you yourself wish to do things a different way, that's fine, but it should be clear to people that this is a you thing, not a thing that's really accepted by anyone much who does this. Have fun not using it, it's fine, I'm not working with you in particular.
Certainly if one is fluent, that's a perfectly reasonable desire - I'm not, but I'm sure there's a significant amount lost in that translation process.
The long term solution is to cut NASA's budget more.
"Also, in Objective-C you should never user the Garbage Collection feature."

Why not? On the Mac, the garbage collection process is offloaded to another CPU. Any performance hit is more than made up for the fact that developers probably messed up the retain counts.

Memory management is a thing that you have to get perfect or your app will crash. I personally trust ARC or GC more than I trust myself.
As a follow up, he has been booted out of the rebel army.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/09/libyan-rebels-...
Reading the original Japanese wouldn't have helped me, but I did desire a better translation. It's barely understandable as it is.
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Why? It is fair play. The government has been openly coercing and blackmailing private individuals and businesses since the beginning of governments.
As others said, don't be afraid, just try it.

Also, internships are there to learn, nobody expects you being a guru, they expect someone with passion and a hard worker.

Good luck!
For anyone new to writing games with Python, this tutorial might help get you started:

http://ezide.com/games/writing-games.html

It uses MVC to design a game engine with PyGame and Twisted. Definitely helps point you in the right direction.
I've been playing with ep.io for a while (nothing serious), it's a standard Python + PostgreSQL stack using few inis for configuration. Their pricing is a bit high on bandwidth though, so I'll probably wait for Heroku Cedar to officially support Python and use that instead.
Supposedly it will change, but that's what's available in Python 2.7 preview. The number might be different on release, but I don't think the limit itself will be removed.
I'm glad to see coverage of bootstrapped startups and the supportive comments. I've worked at both highly funded startups and most recently I've worked at a profitable bootstrap for the last 3.5 years. The bootstrap startup is definitely more fun... It's nice that we don't have any investors to answer to and micro-manage every aspect of our business and that also have their hands out to get paid first when an acquisition event occurs.
"Regarding point x, it's not that screen size is calculated on the diagonal; doubling the diagonal (and keeping the same aspect ratio) doubles the width and height as well."

I assume you meant point y. Anyway, right you are! This is what I tried to express by saying "By the rules of Pythagoras" because I was lazy and didn't want to take the time to calculate it precisely. I also assumed most people here would understand the implications, but on reading your comment I realized they may not and what I visualize in my head is likely far different from what everyone else does. Thank you for making it much more clear and explicit for me!
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I think Alexis said it best: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938709
For a fascinating take on the subject, I recommend "Industrial Society and its Future" by Ted Kaczynski.
These guys have nice Yahoo! Mail App for scanning your
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Government agents have guns. Amazon does not. Who's really threatening who? The only card Amazon has to play is to leave.
Agreed with wccrawford. There are just so many things that become self-evident if you watch the trends. Seeing that the digital elite tends to hang out on the same sites and forums, it's hardly surprising that we'd find a spark of the idea from the same trends and lead to similar output.
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I was talking with a friend about how, if we were just starting out, our best strategy would probably be to pounce on the market abandoned by an acquisition, particularly a talent acquisition.

For example, after Fflick got bought by Google early this year, they closed their site up. But they clearly had decent traction, users and press interest. And if it's a straight-up talent acquisition, that's a reliable signal the opportunities in that field of technology are substantial.

Doesn't it make sense to have another startup (a re-startup?) steal the ball and kick it down the field when it comes to something like Fflick?

There are abandoned users who you can court right away. They've already paved the roads as far as publicity and how to sell the idea. And it's not like the game is over once Google buys a company. Finally, if Google turns this technology into a hit product, you know their competitors are going to be envious.

It made me uneasy to say but couldn't find much fault with this line of thinking.
The title says "120 megs of RAM", but I wonder if that's at all comparable to a real machine with 120 MB. I imagine that the "120 MB" VM is running on a beefy host with tens (or hundreds) of gigabytes of RAM shared between the guest VMs and also used for disk cache. It seems likely that accessing a guest's virtual disk would actually hit the host's disk cache a lot of the time (especially when that guest has been busy recently); that would improve the speed of disk access for that VM enough that it could make up for the lack of memory for disk cache within the guest.

This is purely speculation, but I would be interested to see if there is any actual research to back it up.

I suppose if the guest in this instance is not swapping very often, then this is fairly irrelevant, but the article didn't mention anything about swap.
He wrote software that many people found useful and gave it away for free. That's awfully damn generous as far as I'm concerned. You see an improvement that can be made? Then make it. But stop complaining.
It would have to be quite a few orders of magnitude, considering that Jews make up less than 2% of the US population.

It's not as hard as you think to get support for Israel. It doesn't require a lot of lobbying when the people being lobbied already agree with your position.

The objective analysis of the situation is that support for Israel is the right thing to do morally. It's not always great for short term American interests, but long term its value is unquestioned.

Obviously it would be a lot easier to submit to Arab demands, but even though letting someone bully you can remove the short term pain, long term it's not a good idea.
It's not useless. It has real world academic use cases where researchers need data which might be related. It's also documented in the comic book of this service. Also this is a service becoming real because of a real world problem.
There are few things that seemed more magical to me at first glance than Haskell's point-free style! :)

I would explain the difference between Perl magic and Scala magic as being that Scala magic reduces down to a relatively few simple but flexible rules, whereas Perl magic reduces to a bunch of edge cases and special rules that lack any form of cohesion. Once you learn these rules, reading Scala code becomes very manageable.

I found the Haskell code I saw to be clearer because it's type system allows one to omit types much more frequently, its indentation and function declaration style let you avoid a lot of curly braces and parenthesis, it's type class system involved less syntactic ceremony than Scala's implicits, point-free style allows one to omit Scala's underscores, and so on. All of these things added up so that in the end, I felt like Haskell just looked a lot nicer, much more concise and like the math it was trying to express.

I'm sure some of the authors of Scalaz could do a much better job than me explaining Haskell's advantages over Scala when writing functional code, since I am by no means a Haskell expert.
I'd much rather use a browser plugin, a la Rapportive. Anyone know of such a service?
While I'm sure the various "follow up" services are great (I'm a pretty big Boomerang Gmail fan myself), it's also incredibly easy to roll your own solution to this problem using gmail filters.

When sending a message that needs a followup, BCC yourself - something like myname+followup@gmail.com. Then setup a filter that labels/stars/etc all messages to myname+followup, and you'll have a nice queue of messages that need to be checked for responses.

Once I started tracking this, I was absolutely blown away by the percent of emails I send that get ignored. I'm not selling anything, but still get <50% response rate.
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Boomerang Gmail for Google Chrome/Gmail is great (but a bit pricey).
I don't really understand why that is an advantage. You might prefer one or the other – but an advantage?
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Not to mention the HUGE price difference. I'd probably still be on Leopard if it wasn't for the fact upgrades are $6/seat.
It's not fair to make assumptions like this. I have a Google App Engine app which doesn't push put a lot MBs each day, but does use a fair amount of CPU, and I'll pay for it. It's not a poorly designed service, it's a service which doesn't generate a lot of traffic (when measured in MB), but I'm getting value from it elsewhere. In this case, my app on GAE is an API which my front end (hosted elsewhere) is consuming.
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#2 is perfectly true, Scala for me is a basically acceptable ML that can interoperate with everything else JVM, given the choice I would be using OCaml or Haskell. Integrating these with C/C++ is straightforward but I have no experience of calling Java from OCaml. Hmm, I ought to write a blog post about that.

On .NET they have it much better, F# is much more MLy.
Yeah, I was hoping it was about "tribes" of developers leaving EC2.

If I wanted to read stuff like this I'd go back to reddit.
More often, I see an idea that I've had for a while, then some group with the same idea gets vetted by YC and other investors. In this case, I would feel a little conflicted about still going forward with it due to possible "follower" perception issues, but I think two groups can honestly come up with similar solutions to the same problem.
Jon Stewart is also a journalist. Saying he's not doesn't make it not so.

But unless Stewart was elected to the Senate when I wasn't paying attention, he doesn't have the ethical conflict that someone who reports on the technology business while simultaneously investing in it has.

(I'll pre-empt your next likely counterpoint by pointing out that having a point of view is not the same as an ethical conflict of interest, and that opinion has always had a place in the discipline of journalism.)
> If HTML5 data-* attributes change during program execution, use jQuery's .attr() method to get the current values.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to use an attribute for storage, but this is good info. I for one love data-* attributes. It's better than the days of trying to pack info into the id or rel attributes.
Slight nitpick - the article said that the collision and missile test increased the amount of debris by 60%, not that they were responsible for 60% of debris in orbit. Still a lot, but not more than half.
That's if your software assumes a scarce book is a rare book. In actual bookstores for this type of book, low supply, low demand == SALE 50% OFF!
I interpreted it more as saying that their architecture allows them to parallelize all sorts of 'back end computations' across their infrastructure, such that their scarcity is in internet-facing processing and not processing as a whole.
Wow, this is some kind of prototype or exemplar for snark.
How easy is it to interactively provision an new EC2 instance nowadays? When I wrote an eerily similar blog post (scripted install of node 0.2.1 on EC2) last year I didn't really enjoy the process of setting up my zones and picking an Alestic image, etc.

By contrast, I've set up my first Rackspace Cloud VPS a few months ago and the install was a few clicks followed by them emailing me the SSH connection info. I'm not making any claims about the serviceability of one product over another, but the "I just want to try it out" story for Rackspace ca. July '11 was far better than EC2 ca. September '10.

Edit: I was also put off by the many meters of EC2 pricing... I never really knew ahead of time what costs I was going to incur. With Rackspace it was easy for me to calculate $10/mo. for a single Ubuntu box. Perhaps I missed a tool on EC2 that I should've known about?
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Really, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Music execs, in the form of the RIAA and MPAA, mistakenly believing that "infringement" can be determined automatically, have forced a more-or-less automated request-and-takedown system on Youtube. That this automated system can be used against their own product should come as no surprise to anyone who has thought about it for 10 minutes or so.
>If there are, then where's the GPL video editor that competes?

Not working on it, doesn't mean they don't exist.

It is the same place the os that Competes, and office suite that Competes and whatever else that Competes are. Nonexistant.
Unlikely to deter the tax. 7000 added jobs not much compared to the hundreds of millions California projects to earn from the ecommerce tax.
There's already a link to it on the page. Click on "[ruby-dev:5173]"
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A link to the original (scroll down a bit):

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-dev/5...

I might try my hand at a translation with better flow... although, remember, the original is a chat log. Chat logs read in retrospect usually don't flow as well as natural conversation!
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At this point I'm pretty certain that the error was due to data import, and I will add it to my post. Thanks for the suggestion!

P.S: As I'm not 100% sure, I'm still digging through and I'll update my post if I find anything weird.
I see this every once and a while with Oracle when a production database is exported and imported into another environment without using CONSISTENT=Y (with the old exp command) or without using a FLASHBACK_TIME with the newer expdp command.

The problem is that sequences are exported first so if any more rows are inserted into tables using those sequences during the export process the tables and sequences in the export will be out of sync. Adding CONSISTENT=Y or a FLASHBACK_TIME allows you to export from a single point in time.

Edit: Since the OP was regarding PostgreSQL (which I'm unfamiliar with) I did a quick google search that landed me on the pg_dump documentation. According to the document exports should be consistent. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/app-pgdump.html
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Ahem, once you have used OCaml, which is a hybrid etc etc, you would never say Scala has decent type inference. I have to annotate my Scala a hell of a lot more than my OCaml to get it to compile. All function arguments for example, whereas OCaml just deals with it with no fuss.

I understand this is because Scala can't use Hindley-Milner due to some OO reason or other but still.
The repositioning, capture, and extraction of minerals from asteroids should be the number one goal of space exploration in the near future.

This may entail moon bases or larger orbiting space platforms; but there is little else that would be as beneficial in the near term.
This can be an interesting way to identify hidden yearly trends too.

Drawing a zig zag with peaks (more sawtooth than sine wave) at beginnings of the years yields some interesting results and some things I've never even heard of like "slapped cheek syndrome" or fifth disease.

Apparently people are also extremely curious about the carbs in a grapefruit/orange at around the same time...

Weird.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:xI5dDtGz4...
Probably he is saying that because their expertise and focus lies in backend, it's costlier for Google to increase frontend service and server compared with say, other web-hosting companies.
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What are these "incidental complexities" and "type system inconsistencies" the author speaks of as keeping Java from becoming second nature?

There are probably literally a million Java developers who have reached a point on the learning curve where it feels second nature, makes sense in the larger context, stays out of the way (except for a thing or two), and lets them focus on the problem at hand.

The latest argument I've heard for Scala is that its complexity and difficult to read code is a plus, because only really smart and dedicated programmers can handle it. It's a "filter". I like that one. It soothes egoes while simultaneously allowing results-oriented businesses to dismiss it.
I don't want to sound like a troll... but you're better off re-writing the whole thing... I mean look at it.

https://github.com/russellbeattie/plusfeed/blob/master/plusf...

Global variables galore, tabs no spaces, no documentation, compares to empty not just once but multiple times, pokemon style exception handling (you gotta catch them all!), 'is not None' lol, type checking instead of duck typing... Just to name a few.

14 pople forked it already, I hope those are Github bots.
That's not a hidden threat; that's been an open threat for ages. Amazon has a history of pulling out operations in states that try to pass similar laws and they said they'd do the same in California. This offer was an attempt to avoid that.
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Does anyone here know what Woz does, technically, at Fusion I/O? He may be more involved in modern engineering than we give him credit for.
I love the idea (and simplicity of it) but isn't this basically forwarding each scheduled message to follow up service? Seems like a little too much trust involved for me.
So I'll be saying "What's the heck?" a lot for the rest of my life.
My understanding of all these GAE pricing story is that Google decided that GAE is not a strategic business and that business unit need to break even or they will be canceled. Does this make sense?