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My story is just like your story except that each time something didn't work, I took a few days or weeks off and then tried another site. And another. And another. It took dozens of ideas until I found a business that worked for me.

Take the lessons you learned and start again. Sooner rather than later. You'll probably fail again too, but eventually you'll stumble upon something that clicks. The key is refusing to give up.

Perseverance is much more important than any idea, programming language, or system of doing things. People who get it all right on the first or second try aren't skilled entrepreneurs. They're just lucky.
This is a harsh comment but there is some truth in it (the photo itself is nice!). I have to admit that I almost disregarded you as someone who is self-promoting. I'm glad I didn't, because this article is good, but bear in mind that other people might do. If it was me I might put a picture on the about page.
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I agree and I believe if they simply picked a direction, be it a CMS or Framework, it would indeed trim out a lot of the fat from the core like you mentioned.

The fact they're trying to be all things to all people is what will likely cause the project to fail. Which is unfortunate, since I do like using it.
>> Frankly, I think that the majority of the current problems would be solved by trimming all of the fat from the core.

The challenge, of course, is that everyone has a different definition of "Fat" versus "Muscle." The developers who actively maintain the codebase are a tiny, tiny percentage of the overall community that uses it. Many of the features that are frustrating and annoying to maintain are popular among the non-developers who use Drupal for site building.

Balancing the usage needs of those people with the maintenance woes od the developers is one of the big challenges.

The other is dealing with the identity crisis you describe; the lack of willingness to focus on a manageably small set of use cases or target audiences became a real problem once Drupal's growth curve started swinging up around 2007 or 2008. Now, simply declaring that things are "more focused" will orphan large numbers of users who came on board and started doing their own thing with Drupal while it was less focused.

It'sa conundrum.
Agreed, but I don't find that stuff especially in-my-face on the site -- although I have adblock installed, not really sure what effect it has on the site. I generally visit twitter.com once or twice a week just to poke around and see what I can find and then go back to the native apps.
The "Drupal Association" prior to this year was an unofficial name used primarily to describe "Drupal Vzw" a Belgian non profit.

Drupalcon Inc. is a non-profit in the USA. They are both non-profits, just in different countries.

Neither has been merged/folded/acquired: much of the business undertaken by the Drupal Association moved from Europe to USA making Drupalcon Inc the main body doing business. There was a governance update to officially make Drupalcon Inc the main focus of governance/efforts to match what was coming to be in practice.

The link you included, https://association.drupal.org/node/1584, does indeed have more information but it doesn't say the things you've said in your comment.. ;)
OK, I'll play devil's advocate: I think the photo is wonderful.

It got me interested in who he is, got me to click around his website, got me to read some of his articles published in his college newspaper, got me reading his old email newsletters, etc.

Without a photo, I doubt I would have made that first click around.
Most of us on Hacker News, from what I can tell, are generally against legislating the Internet. But, that's exactly what DNT requires to be effective, since it provides no technical barrier against tracking: either websites are legislated into being required to honor it, or it has essentially no value to users. As much as privacy is important, I'm actually glad that Chrome doesn't support DNT. Hopefully that will give reason for a better technical solution to be developed.
You will always find someone who minds (like me, in this case), and you will find people who don't mind. Whatever you do, you'll always influence the situation.
Sometimes I find myself typing out a long command and then deciding that I don't want to run it quite yet. Normally I just hit C-c run some other command first and then copy paste the long command. Surely there is someway to put the long command in history?
Is that true? I didn't think private key forwarding was vulnerable to a MITM like that.
Ask HN: I am wasting so much of time, what can I do?
Hi guys..
I am wasting so much of time, working few hours, although I have so much of work and pressure, but I am still just surfing the internet and waste time..

I hardly deliver jobs on time, and my clients are annoyed because of that.

What can I do to solve this horrible issue? Any tips pls?
I'd like to see a similar graph ending in 1900, 1800, etc. How different do those graphs look to this one? (EDIT: obviously you can just block out the last column(s), but the resolution isn't that good.)

In other words, is there anything special about this point in time?

Would a log graph better show if there has been other explosive growths like the 20th and the start of the 21st centuries? Maybe I'm incredibly naive, but it seems like they've plotted exponential growth and said, "hey, it looks exponential!"
Working as a developer in an ad network I'm very interested in implementing this. However, said ad network doesn't currently provide an opt-out mechanism and Mozilla isn't doing a good job of providing me with arguments to take to management and convince them that a DNT opt-out is something they want. What do you think?
I'm not sure if you're just trolling, but I don't understand your complaints at all. What would your "Donald-Normanesque keyboard shortcuts" even look like? In Windows the arrow keys act pretty similar, don't they? left-arrow, right-arrow for moving by character, Ctrl-left-arrow, Ctrl-right-arrow for moving by word. Windows is about as Donald-Normanesque as you can get...

The bash shortcuts are from readline, which (in this case, but by default?) are the same as Emacs. C-f,C-b for moving by character, M-f,M-b for moving by word. C-n,C-p for next and previous line. I think there's a vi switch for readline which would allow you to have vi style shortcuts in bash. This is nice, because it means you have one set of keyboard shortcuts in your editor and shell. Emacs users in OS X get this in any text box (at least any that supports the same defaults as the system, I'm spitting at you MS Outlook/Entourage). I'm sure you could set something up in other windows systems, like GNOME or KDE.

Sure the keyboard shortcuts might be cryptic, but any keyboard shortcuts will be. Don't slag something just because you don't know the history and background behind the choices.
Perhaps you should listen to the core developers who started this debate, when they explain what's burning them out? For better or worse, architectural decisions in Drupal's past have resulted in very large workload for a relatively small number of developers, and great pressure from others in the community to "Keep the system running" in the face of numerous feature requests and so on.

There's a difference between "Let's turn Drupal into an architectural masterpiece" and "Let's refactor some of this stuff to make it more manageable." Drupal has long had a culture that devalues planning and deliberation while glorifying the "firehose of code." Attempts to iron out the best path for a complex change can only go on for a few days before they're shut down with cries of "Talk is silver, code is gold!"

Obviously, the other extreme -- endless unresolved attempts to come up with the "perfect master plan" -- is just as unproductive. But there's a healthy middle ground that needs to be maintained for a project of this size to avoid crumpling under its own weight.
If you don't allow third-party scripts to store any information on the client, you break everyone's Google Analytics scripts. Then everyone will have to give out subdomains to analytics companies, ad networks, etc and we'll be right back where we started.
Given that the majority of Titanium's cost is in its processing, its cost is pegged to that of electricity, in a way - should we improve our energy tech (something that we're undoubtedly going to be working on for a while yet) the cost of Titanium should drop with every breakthrough - by any time that one could steal those metal components they may very well be cheap to manufacture...
oops. Correction: The MapReduce paper doesn't have the most readers in Mendeley. I just saw it at the top of the "Popular" list on the computer and information science page. So they must have some other way they're sorting that list.
The thing is that as usual, there's no good or bad guys. The ones doing the tracking - which is in this case embedded in the websites - are not criminals who run botnets and crack servers, they're big, amoral companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and some specialized firms.

These can be pressured (by public opinion, for example) into complying with DNT even if it's not their 'first instinct' to do so.
Comment it out (put a # at the front), unless your shell is set to ignore commented lines.
It's counterintuitive but try reducing the amount of work you take on until you start seeing a reduction in the amount of time you spend procrastinating.
Somewhat surprisingly, some 'evil bits' like the .xxx TLD, seem to be getting traction.
[update: better use the wayback link]

cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:oyOudsA...

(there's quite a few annoying typos with the text "MATH" - is that a problem with the cache, or was the article converted from some other format, poorly? ah, thanks to the wayback link - those are cache errors)

summary: it's a rant (i'm not being critical here - it's quite interesting, but that seems the best description) against standard set theory as the basis for mathematics (more generally, a rant against an axiomatic approach at all). but it doesn't really offer much in the way of alternatives. no mention of constructivism or intuitionism.
'fixed' :)
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When using SSH agent forwarding, your private key is absolutely not compromised if the host you connect to is compromised. All that happens when forwarding is that a socket is set up so that the forwarding host can proxy any authentication actions back to your home host (the one with the private key).

The root user on the forwarding machine should be trusted because they can monitor the contents of the agent socket while your connection is active, being able to eavesdrop on communications, but since your private key never leaves your own host, there's no way it could be leaked.

The fact that your private key is never transmitted is one of the core strengths of asymmetric keys. Did you think you were leaking your private key to any server you SSH'd to?
RDP has been around for over a decade and works fine. Transferring 100's of gigabytes of data over wireless is a nightmare. Keeping small amounts of data in sync by dragging and dropping every 10 minutes is a clunky workaround.

To clarify, I am not dismissing the feature, it may be useful for those who are running multiple computers and monitors side by side, which I am not.
I don't have the details, but a modified SSH client could be modified to leak the private key. A modified ssh server can't, since the server never gets the key.

Additionally, from this article: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Kernelorg-hacked/

"Phalanx variants have attacked sensitive Linux systems before by stealing SSH keys to access servers and exploiting kernel vulnerabilities."
Thanks for the tip, but getting more work is giving me some positive result..

But I need to solve this issue permanently.. as I started to lose a percentage of my income because of failed projects.
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Cheatsheet for emacs mode (which is what the article presumes): http://www.catonmat.net/download/readline-emacs-editing-mode...
Sort of. See http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/ssh-agent-forwarding.html#se... for more details.

I left out a few steps, but at the very least the system you connected to through kernel.org could be compromised.
The real cleverness seems to be in Hillis's mechanical digital logic for time-keeping; I looked up the patents once to look at the diagrams, and realized I had no idea what I was looking at. (Still looked pretty cool, though.)
I don't see that this would require legislating the internet. Instead, amendments to things such as data-protection, privacy or human rights legislation should be able to cover it.
Who stands to gain from an attack on linuxfoundation.org and kernel.org?
You don't actually send your private key to the server during authentication, the server asks you to sign a random value with your private key, which never leaves the safety of your computer. If this value can be restored using the public key, then you are authenticated.

Since the private key never left your computer, it is impossible to compromise the private key on the server side.
At minimum people get a laptop and a desktop, and quite a bit of time you see more than one desktop in offices. I haven't seen anyone in the engineering disciplines with fewer than two.

Having more than one machine is very handy for when you need to run VMs to test different versions, and not risk getting your own main machine into a bad state. If you work on services, the VM runs a local copy of the service.
Dwarfs suffer a number of other related health issues.
Can you explain why ++[[]][+[]]+[+[]] = 10
archive.org's wayback machine has it ... http://web.archive.org/web/20110616020815/http://web.maths.u...
Linux Foundation & Linux.com multiple server compromised
> If they really wanted to prevent theft, the builders could alloy the metals with something poisonous or radioactive. But that's harder than it sounds.

I'd also point out that such a technique would run opposite Long Now's goal of having visitors - I mean, it's hard to build a clock that lasts 10k years, hard to contain radioactive materials in casks buried underground in salt flats for 10k years, how much harder would it be to do both simultaneously?
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not with autopager, best extension ever.
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One advantage of more expensive cables is that they look nicer and feel a bit more solid. But fortunately, Amazon ruined that industry with their "Amazon Basics" line. Those are some of the best cables I've ever seen, they come in easy-to-open packaging, and they're dirt cheap. A two meter HDMI cable is $7, and it's nicer than any other HDMI cable I've seen.

I feel sorry for people that go to stores to buy things. What a waste of time and money.
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This works great! There is even a shortcut: M-#
Actually, backward compatibility has always been not just an afterthought, but completely thrown out the window with every major x.0 release.
My guess is the same people who stand to gain from knocking over mailboxes.
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I was referring primarily to enterprise adoption - there have been quite a number of high-profile wins recently in terms of Drupal finding its way into companies/gov agencies that previously would have used proprietary software like Sitecore, Sharepoint, etc.

But yes, the total number of installed sites has gone up dramatically as well. I guess the side benefit to demand outstripping supply of talent is that it's a great for companies who provide Drupal-related products and services. Every one of Acquia's Enterprise partners currently have more work than they can handle.
Thats a question i asked myself why go after the opensource world.

But its probably only for the "fame"

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"Normally if you were to target a high-value target you would potentially use something that's more more tailored to your specific target, something that's not going to be flagged or potentially detected," said Oberheide. It was not likely the attackers were after the source code, or they would have performed the attack differently, he added.

http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Kernelorg-hacked/
It's worth noting that you can't really spend $18 on a single HDMI cable at monoprice unless you are getting a super long one. No one should ever spend more than $7-10 on an HDMI cable.

For fun and profit: What I do when I order from monoprice is buy five or so at a time, which equals the price of a B&M cable, and then I sell my extras to friends for a buck or two over the monoprice cost, and then my cable is effectively free.
I have that problem with Page Up also. I want to scroll up in my terminal and I think "ah, this is a laptop, fuck it". Then I realize that I have a Page Up key, and am able to scroll up. It Just Works!

You'd think I'd learn someday, but I never do.

(BTW, if you want "crazy person", I own two keyboards that don't even have arrow keys. I don't think I've ever had a use for them!)
> Technological progress should cause increasing economic inequality, because the bottom end of the scale is firmly anchored at zero (someone taking a vacation), while technology gives the top end ever more powerful levers.

We measure inequality of income not in absolute dollars but as ratios. So the anchoring at zero doesn't make a difference.
They could have said it was a 24-bit IPS panel instead of the cheaper, 18-bit TN panel.
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1) Force yourself into a position where doing your work will seem better than the alternative. Since you are at home, it is automatic for you to surf the internet. If you were working some part-time job where the other alternative would be to chit chat with the 30 year old ladies about their ex-husband, you would naturally adapt and find a way to do something more interesting to you (your work?)

2) Try using a program like VitaminR, http://www.publicspace.net/Vitamin-R/
which acts as a timer to keep you focused. You might find that working becomes a sort of game, and you will be less tempted to abort your work because you can see that you only have 5 min to go.
Yes, the goal is to prevent car crashes, particularly fatalities. What else could it be?

There's data and facts behind the thought. Crashes are happening because someone was talking or texting while driving.

Come on, this isn't a civil liberties issue. I'm right there with Ron Paul on the government phone taping U.S. citizens and other Patriot Act issues, but not this one.
80x25 ought to be enough for anyone.

Anyway, this is not true. 12" laptops are all 1366x768, but 15" laptops can have up to 1920x1200. I know for a fact that the T-series Thinkpads have better than 1366x768 resolution, for example.
I've fixed the forum posts, and I'll have a read of OkTrends, seems interesting - not enough data to use as of yet, though :)
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I agree, source is better.

But. Flash isn't served as source, is it? And JS is often minified/obfuscated. Sure you can run that through a tool to get back the source (sans comments and long variable names) but you can do just that with MSIL bytecode too.
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Consider the following three steps:

1) Pomodoro Technique. Aim for something like 14-18 pomodori per day. (Assuming 25 minutes per pomodoro.) If you do the math you may think "oh that's not much" but you'll be exhausted by the end of it.

2) Install Rescuetime and religiously use it to track how your time is spent during the weekday. Use their "Stay focused" function when you are sprinting on a pomodoro.

3) Get a second device, like a tablet, which you use for surfing, reading, and leisure. Your laptop is no longer for that. It's exclusively for producing and for serious work.
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Another great review: http://www.amazon.com/review/RETS8UQ5PLPFK/ref=cm_cr_dp_perm...

... The driver, clad in a robe colored the softest of white, floated towards me on the cool fog of a hundred fire extinguishers. He smiled benevolently, like a father looking down upon his only child, and handed me a package wrapped in gold beaten thin to the point where you could see through it. I didn't have to sign, because the driver could see within my heart, and knew that I was pure. Upon opening the package, an angelic choir started to sing, and reached a crescendo as I laid this cable on my stereo system. Instantly, my antiquated equipment transformed into components made from the clearest diamond-semiconductor. The cable knew where to go, and hooked itself into the correct ports without help from me ....

(Don't miss the surprise ending.)
How Small Can You Make Your Face? (My experiments with computer vision on iOS)
Note that the original "Drupal Crisis" blog post is already a few weeks old, and a lot has happened since then.

For example, the author wrote this shortly afterwards:
http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/crisis-conclusions

You'll want to read that (and especially the various drupal.org issues linked to within it) for a more nuanced understanding of the situation.

Otherwise you are not getting anything remotely resembling an accurate view of the larger Drupal community's thoughts on this topic.
For the record I don't think the Lenovo is 'ugly as shit'. I used that phrase to drive home the disparity between the Macbook Air and any real world shipping product that people hold up as a price comparable alternative to the MBA.

The X220 is not an alternative to the Macbook Air. It's an alternative to the Macbook Pro that weighs the same as a Macbook Air. Compare the specs of a 15" MBP to a 12" X220 and notice how they are the same (except that the X220 can take one of the larger-size Express Cards; the MBPs can only take the small ones).
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Funny indeed! My favorite:

"I have mixed feelings about these cables. Yes, they have unprecedented clarity and range, but they are silver, which is chock full of small hadrons. If, like me, you are an audiophile particle physicist, you'll know that small hadrons degrade the transmission of audio signals by decohering individual notes, particularly quarter tones that have been reflected off of acoustic surfaces. Additionally, the quality of silences is tranquil, but not peaceful; Philip Glass's note-free "4'33" fails to achieve the the subtlety of a live performance."

http://www.amazon.com/review/RSXPVOGOCD14D/ref=cm_srch_res_r...
I remember a paper that compared fast implementations of treaps, AVL, and red-black trees, and found that they are approximately equally well suited. rbtrees are best at insertion, AVL at selection, treaps at overall performance (if I recall correctly). I don't have the reference though...
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