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Since you generally have to trust most of them, and at least some of them will fail (or have already), but you don't know which, then obvious answer is: None of them.

Sorry :\
Many comments on HN have said that it's totally the opposite in Asia: people Hate yellow light and like the bluish light you get from cfl:s. So I guess you really can't make statements that broad.
It's either 5 decades of patent of cold war or a few years of all out patent war, after which the major players will beg US authorities to change the law.

This is insane. So much money and time wasted over legal monopolies such as "multi function buttons", "dropdowns on a webpage", "rounded corners", etc, etc, etc.

Now even Google is dragged into this crap hole by moronic companies such as Oracle and Apple.
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I was curious enough about this that I looked into it...

There's an excerpt on his wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. then search the text for "anonymous", and an image of it at http://www.oilempire.us/cointelpro.html

TIME magazine also mentioned the letter in 1975 at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913763,00.h...
If I found a laptop I would:

1. PC... pop out the BIOS battery to clear the BIOS password, re-flash the BIOS, DoD wipe the harddrive and install Windows fresh.

2. Mac... pop out the battery, wipe the PRAM, DoD wipe the harddrive and install OSX fresh.
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So every person on earth only gets 300,000 of the smallest possible unit?
And people wonder why there aren't more women in computer science...
There true, it's hard to transform the concept in SVN/CVS to git world.

I remember when I was migrating from CVS to git, it's ok to understand cvs update is git fetch & git merge now, committing is the same, additionally I need to push the commits to share with co-workers. The hardest part to understand rebasing and branch management. But it worth to learn all these concepts, it make version control more flexible. It's pretty cool to use git reset and git push -f to modify the commits history (make sure you know what you are doing).
Upvoted since genuine comments and questions should not be downvoted. The concept is known as the paradox of thrift:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/the-paradox-of-t...

The counterintuitive thing is that you would think that all savings flow back into the economy as investment so demand will always equals supply. This is an axiomatic assumption of classical economics (the idea is known as Say's Law) and is what people generally believed before Keynes basically demolished it.
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You can have a look at the HN Contractors List:
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Albert Einstein has become the benchmark by which everyone measures intellect, though few understand what made the man tick.
Throughout his long life, the creator of E=mc2 (and one of a handful of people to know what it really means) indicated what he saw as the path to success through his words and actions. Entrepreneurs have more in common with Einstein than they think. Many of the traits that led him to be named Time magazine's Person of the Century--kind of an elite club--drive people to create businesses. Do you see a little of Einstein in you?

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Actually Goolge and the GAE team are very much about app/data portability. They even sponsored our open source App Engine project AppScale (http://appscale.cs.ucsb.edu/sponsors.html) which lets users run their app on their own hardware or on EC2.
Glad to see this up here. They have a cool open office space in SF on market. We work on our startup (SEscout.com) from there some times. If you're in the bay area, definitely check it out.
It's pretty easy to wipe lojack from your laptop BIOS... I did it a few times before.
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That doesn't seem very practical.
You can easily wipe the BIOS.
Good luck getting it to work for mobile apps built to Dropbox's API, which is my main use of dropbox.
ever heard of the network effect?
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I remember going to a dual-talk in Amsterdam of Michael Hart and Richard Stallman. I went to see Stallman, I returned energized by Hart's vision. He was a convincing visionary person that dedicated is life to the good of all people.

The world needs more Michael Stern Harts.
Is there a reason you are ignoring transmission and generation losses for natural gas? Methane isn't a frictionless fluid, it costs real money to pump it through pipelines. And, of course, you have to dig it out of the ground in the first place.
I think a lot of readers here fail to understand that the worry isn't whether TC can live w/out Michael Arrington, but rather what kind of culture will be instilled onto TC when Arianna Huffington has a direct say in what is being said and done.

Sure, TC Disrupt can go without Arrington, but will you still like it when it starts resembling more of New York fashion show?

On a very basic level, this is the same reason why investors used to dump Apple stock every time Steve took a yet another leave of absence.
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Neat,

K&R's itoa implementation example (page 64, in case anyone is curious) specifically calls out that it doesn't handle INT_MIN, and explaining why and fixing it is one of the exercises.
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(Obviously tongue-in-cheek... mostly... :-)
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Think certially and not distributed there :-)

This is handled in projects like the Linux kernel.

Could easily enough have the commitor push to a different repo than he pulls from. Then you could have person manually review pull his changes into manager (like Linus does with Linux).. or if you wanted some automation, have a script import his changes if they match a set of rules.

The other option is submodules.
What to do if the .com domain for your idea is taken?
I have been working on my first idea for a startup for 3 years now (most of time spent just teaching myself how to code... i only knew basic html back then). The name I have for my startup I am pretty firm with, though unfortunately the domain is taken. It's just 4 letters long (no vowels) so you can imagine that it is taken. What do you think the best way is to handle this situation?

I was thinking:

A) Get a top-level domain such as .net or .info?

B) Get a country code level domain such as .us or .cc?

C) Lookup the information of the current owner and try to buy it from them

D) Keep the same name but add something to the end of it, e.g. "burgersapp.com" instead of "burgers.com" (if it's an app for burgers)

E) Think of a different name for your product

F) Something else (please explain)
It is difficult to answer your question without knowing your purposes and goals. What aspects do you think would make a quality version control host?

For me, the primary issue is size.

A large number of people use Github. This means that social features like networks of forks of repositories and pull requests are substantially more compelling. This also means that many related websites (bug trackers, project managers) have Github integration. Further, it makes much more sense to design custom desktop apps for Github because it is what everyone uses. Lastly, the more people are familiar with Github, the easier it becomes to suggest it for a project or to contribute to a random Github-based project.

The APIs, UI, and general flow of Github are competently designed, but I do not think these are necessarily the core of its success. (I do believe these parts of Github, however, to be better than the competition.)

Ultimately, Github is in a unique position because of its (and git's) popularity. Social features that would not work on other sites work on Github. I am sure that the developers and designers of, e.g., BitBucket and Google Code are smart people, but without users they feel a little like ghost towns.

This is odd, because I had thought of VCS hosting as very much a commodity before Github.
Perhaps the hiring field in Bangalore is different? It would make sense to prioritize school more if there is a large amount of mediocre tech talent applying in that talent pool. Google doesn't have completely unlimited resources to donate to hiring. FWIW I have also felt that it's been my achievements in school (and largely out of school, in open source work), that put me on Google's radar, not simply the fact that I go to a good school.
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'twas a joke bro. If I found a laptop, I'd do everything in my power to return it to its owner.
The server need not be party to the key that is used to exchange the filenames themselves between the clients.

The content can be compressed in blocks before upload; dynamic, anchored block sizes would increase de-dup.

The compressed blocks can be individually encrypted with a key derived from the filename and block.

There's still plenty of opportunity for whole-file de-dupe there.
I don't see that as being a very good comparison. Amazon provides a great service but you have to pay Amazon to get access. Google provides a lot of open source code that you can take, modify, and run on any hardware.
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TLDR: The code is at https://github.com/philcryer/lipsync
I still (sort of) work in the adult industry :)

I worked at a big porn company a few years ago, and I do consulting for a porn startup now. I have other clients too, but it's a pretty fun industry to work in (fun parties, lots of great scaling challenges, etc).
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I'm curious why you think this is a bad thing. Doesn't SA stand for sysadmin? If you were hired for a sysadmin role, doesn't it make sense to reinterview you for a software development role? More specifically, if the situation were turned around and you where asked a bunch of software development questions when interviewing for a sysadmin role, wouldn't you criticize Google for asking questions irrelevant to the job?
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About a year ago, I needed to get some data off some old PDP-11 8" diskettes. Fortunately, an old friend had an LSI-11 in his closet with the disk drive. He hadn't run it in years, but it fired right up, and the disks read perfectly, and he sent me the images.

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Doing a .Net startup myself, I'd like to think I'm not the only one. I'd surmise that there's actually quite a few people using a Microsoft stack in the startup community. They just don't talk about it much.

Obviously, if you choose the .Net path, getting a developer job at a WAMP/RoR/Python/etc startup won't really be feasible.

But if you are a good developer, I would advise you NOT to join a startup that's already established. Why invest your heart and soul in somebody else's vision/company for a paltry equity percentage? It just doesn't add up in my mind.

Instead, start your own. Go find a hustler to partner with or just build your own product. If you get into a startup pre-development phase and you're the hacker on the team, then the technology you use is irrelevant. The only relevant thing is that you can deliver.
Is this just a way to trigger rsync every time a change happens to a given folder?

Looks like this command powers it:

rsync -rav --stats --log-file=/home/$USER_NAME/.lipsyncd/lipsyncd.log -e "ssh -l $USER_NAME -p $SSH_PORT" --delete $REMOTE_HOST:$LOCAL_DIR $REMOTE_DIR

Couldn't you just toss that in a Guardfile and get the same effect?

https://github.com/guard/guard/

Or am I oversimplifying it?
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That is probably why,though I am somewhat dubious of IIT grads being better programmers than the average tech talent even in Bangalore. Saying that often brings a violent reaction from IIT grads, but I've found it to be largely true.

Iow, I am not sure school has anything to do with programming ability (it might be interesting to draw up a matrix of dev superstars and schools. hmm). Unlike Stanford or MIT, IITs don't do world class research. They have a good bachelors degree program. And Google Bangalore doesn't do "cars that drive themselves" style work anyway. From what friends who work at Google tell me, Google Bangalore doesn't have a(n internal) reputation (to put it mildly) of pulling off feats of superior engineering skill.

That said, I have zero issues with Google using any criteria they want to hire devs (just in case it wasn't clear earlier). I don't consider them "elitist" just because they do what works for them. In fact I don't even believe in the "elitism" concept. I think it is a largely empty word used to mean "they do things in a way that I find unsatisfactory".

Even if Google has a hiring bias towards IIT grads, the best way for a non-iit grad to get a job offer from Google (if that is what he wants) is to be a better engineer than the favored folks.

"Be so good they can't ignore you" as a wise man said. Good Advice.
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Tarsnap gives deduplication, compression, and encryption. Some technical background on how it does this here: http://www.tarsnap.com/efficiency.html

There is a detailed breakdown provided as well. Sample output:

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Edit: Don't want to misrepresent Tarsnap's granularity. The print-stats option gives size in bytes. Above output was generated with the --humanize-numbers option.
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I vote for D since trying to buy domain name from owner could be expensive and not worth going for it

Add something to the unavailable domain is my preference D, but what ever you add, don't make it too long, try to keep it around 8 chars max
Sure they can give you a quote, it just won't be a very accurate one. There are entire schools of software development - lean, agile, etc - based on the idea that you simply cannot hand someone a spec upfront and expect them to provide you with all the time and costs figured out.
You present an interesting tool for settling such debates. However, I believe the more appropriate URL would be:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=git%2C+hg%2C+mercurial%2C+...

Obviously, cvs and svn will be with us for some time still, but those are not distributed version control systems (DVCS).

However, you raise a good question: is distributed version control so much better than centralized version control that we will all eventually be using a DVCS? Or are cvs and svn so much easier to understand for new and/or low quality developers that cvs, svn, and others will be with us forever?
Over 95% have been great. I effectively pre-screen out the weirdos so they don't make it to the house. We've just had a few cultural differences with guests which made it 'annoying' to have them.
Guests have their own bathroom, we share the kitchen and living room.
My PDP-10 software, unfortunately, was gone for good. It was all on a magtape, and the drive that wrote it was way out of spec and the tapes were unreadable on any other drive. (sob)
I think the real competitors are Heroku et al. Places where you don't have to think about file systems and upgrading and security and deployment as much as with e.g. AWS.
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Option C worked well for us. There is no harm in trying.
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ditto with colemak (http://colemak.com)
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From the article: "a large part of the credit goes to numerous advances in Google's hardware, cluster management system, and storage stack".
That is probably why,though I am somewhat dubious of IIT grads being better programmers than the average tech talent even in Bangalore.

You're probably right (and I say that as an IIT grad). Most of the people I knew there were significantly smarter than me but couldn't program their way out of a paper bag.
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A) Get a top-level domain such as .net or .info?
B) Get a country code level domain such as .us or .cc?

.org is better - there's wikipedia, craigslist, wordpress, thepiratebay, all in top 100.

If you look at alexa top sites, there's not a single .net or .info site in the top 100.

First .net site: secureserver.net (106th place)

First .info site: com-net.info (807th place)

First .us site: imageshack.us (132th place)

First .cc site: wretch.cc (287th place)

C) Lookup the information of the current owner and try to buy it from them

Assuming you can find them and they answer the email filled in their whois.

D) Keep the same name but add something to the end of it,
e.g. "burgersapp.com" instead of "burgers.com" (if it's an
app for burgers)

No.

E) Think of a different name for your product

That's definitely one of the best ways, if rebranding is not an issue. Notice that most of the top websites have completely made up names that don't say much about the business - google, youtube, yahoo, linkedin, amazon.

F) Something else (please explain)

Check out domain auctions, you might find something short and sweet for a reasonable price.
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This is great for CMU but it has a long way to go to catch up to the endowments of its peer institutions -- both on a gross and on a per capita basis.
It's not "curious",it's greed. "jobs has contributed so much to society"... Umm, what? A bunch of fancy, increasingly closed boxes at inflated prices is not contributing to society it's taking advantage of the unthinking masses.
I really don't like "git commit -a". I've seen people new to git add every file in the project directory without checking what files are there. This includes merge conflicts, SQL dumps and random backups.

If you do a "git status" immediately before then "git commit -a" can be a slight time saver; though It's better to use "git add -u", which stages all files that are in the repo and ignores any new files. Personally, I like adding files either 1 or 2 at a time or even with "git add -p".

While I'm at it, lots of people seem to have poor (single line) commit messages, stemming from the use of "git commit -m". Whilst this is OK on some occasions, commit messages are often better thought of as an email with a subject and a body.

(Yes, I know sometimes a single line commit is all you need and you can write multi-line commits directly on your shell but some people don't know this and it limits their ability to write a good commit message.)

Feel better getting that out my system. Now I need to tell my co-workers.
I love this guy Pud, but honestly man you have nothing to prove. What is the expected reaction here? "Haters gonna hate" - meaning I don't think you'll win any converts to ColdFusion with this information, that said why do you feel that you need to? Keep kicking out successful businesses like you've done for years and ignore the "n00bs" who can't see any value in a site not crafted with the latest pre-release of RoR and Node.js.
This article was EXACTLY what my little brother needed! I've been trying to convince him to jump over to git for nearly a year now.
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Legacy applications are a very valid reason to run x86, that I'll agree.
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No

I wouldn't be so glib. Didn't Dropbox start at getdropbox.com and only buy dropbox.com a year or two ago? Worked for them.
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I am talking about the model and not how it was implemented. Hypothetically speaking there is a difference between the three models: a) provide the same to all, b) Let everyone fend for themselves, and c) Provide a basic livelihood to all and allow the ones capable of earning more to do so.
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Thanks for posting this, it was fun -- not least because there seems to be a trick on the third item.
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