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Here's the deal.

I am working on a web service. There is already an existing market, which is mostly dominated by two players, which provide a whole range of products and services for the target industry.

What I am working on is improving on a certain aspect of this environment. To do that successfully I need to develop a bridge that will enable my customers to integrate with their existing systems (which run other aspects of the business process).

These current market players will probably not help us integrate into their environment, since they already sell a competing product (with inferior user experience and overall quality).

I haven't yet contacted the vendors yet. And honestly don't think I can gain much from that - since their core competence is not IT and are pretty old school type business.

So what I would like to know if this kind of reverse engineering is legal in EU and US. And does it matter on what level it is implemented (e.g.: straight DB access vs protocol reverse engineering). I haven't gotten hold of the vendor system yet, so I don't have a clear picture of what will have to be done to achieve what I set out to do.

So what I am after from HN: What are the ways they can (assuming they come after me) impair my activities and what I can do to avoid getting lawsuited off the face of the earth.
You should fall back on thinking about what you are doing to the record in the database.

You are updating the state field (ie UPDATE bookings set status='cancelled' where ID=:id) which maps to PUT
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Maybe someone didn't like your comment because of this quote _from the article_:

If we were using SSD as storage, then I would recommend it.
Vanilla MySQL performs equally bad on SSD and HDD,
while for SSD in Percona Server we have

innodb_adaptive_flushing_method = keep_average.

Doesn't seem like a solution at all, if we believe the author.
I don't understand what your company mantra/slogan above means at all.

In your defense, this comes after three slides of prep which explain computer-photography, and how Fohr is like Pixar.

The words "leverage" and "next generation" ring MBA-speak alarm bells in my head. Generally, "leverage" can be substituted with the much simpler "use". And you don't get to decide if your technology is "next generation". The market will decide years later.

I meant "leverage" in the sense of "strategic advantage; power to act effectively". "Use" is better though, and I'll switch to that. I do think next generation applies here -- provided you think Toy Story was a next generation way to make animated films.

What do you mean by computer-photography?

I wrote a primer on it here: http://erichocean.com/fohr/lighting.html. In a nutshell, if a classically-trained Director of Photography can light the film's CGI environments using their existing, real-world knowledge of lighting, and if those "virtual lights" are identical to their real-world counterparts, the 3D rendering engine falls in the "computer-photography" category.

I don't know the film Carpathia.

Well, it hasn't been made yet. :) Hopefully you'll see it when it comes out, the release date is November 20, 2013.

The analogy is very vague. What exactly are you repeating?

Fohr is at the place, as a company, that Pixar was at before they made Toy Story. Our "Toy Story" is a film called Carpathia. Similar to Pixar, we can build a public company on the strength of our first film and computer-photography. (Pixar IPO'd a week after Toy Story came out, in 1995.)

Our basic investment thesis (why we think investors should invest in our tech side) is that we can take the same path Pixar did, leading to an IPO. (We can make Carpathia regardless, but we can only build an independent studio with investment on the tech side of our business.)

Hope this helps, and thanks for the feedback!
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There are two big ideas in REST. First one is in realm of system engineering, and second one in the realm of programming paradigms.

Using HTTP[S] protocol allows you to pass through almost every heterogeneous network. That means any highly restricted and protected (I prefer the term 'misconfigured') network of a cell phone provider, who blocks everything else, but http.

You can survive in that crazy hotel's or airport's wi-fi network, especially located in developing countries, which is a mess of cheap Chinese ADSL-modems and no-name Wi-Fi access-points with settings no one cares about.

It also means that you can pass through all these almost useless corporate firewalls made by idiots (why firewall if you have all those windows with IE6 boxes running by users with admin rights?).

The second big thing is about statelessness and using URI as a namespace - representing data as a file-system hierarchy and using one standard protocol everywhere - it is almost the same ideas which lays on the foundation of this enlightening Plan9 system. No xml, no BS, just names and simple standard protocol - 9P.

Together, those two ideas are enough to forget about all that proprietary crap, not because it is proprietary, but because REST is more general, flexible and easy to implement concept.
DVDs are on their way out and streaming is now in and he's putting all his efforts into the streaming business.

What if Microsoft did something similar? What if the CEO in 1998 put all his efforts and attention into the Web? Results for Microsoft might have been much better.
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Of course, you'd have to upgrade from vanilla MySQL to Percona to take advantage of this option.

Given that Percona is fully backwards compatible with MySQL, while adding this and many other tuning options, I just cannot see a reason to use vanilla MySQL ever.
Credit card issuers have access to this information for years, right? I suppose there will be some relevant legislation somewhere. Google is bound to be doing this on a very large scale though and i m pretty sure these terms are already violating privacy laws in certain countries.

It is one thing to use the search data, because it involves just Google, so at least you know your private info is not spilled over. Using data from merchants is a whole different thing. Actually i m pretty sure many merchants will frown upon the fact that google knows what their customers are buying (thus potentially leading them to competitors and breaching buyer's trust).
I've seen the feedback for Fohr's mantra (all of which I agree with) and was wondering whether I could get feedback for our mantra/tagline (note: we are still building prototype, nothing to show yet).

Tagline is: "The Game Show We Can All Play"

Any feedback welcome, thanks
The straight comparison to your average bible-thumping US ultra-conservative this might invoke is the reason I "complained" a bit. The argument back then was purely on a "Think of the children!" basis, it's really not usual for German politics that a "But Jesus..." cry comes up.

Also, the whole "Christian" component of the two parties (CDU/CSU) would be quite baffling and shocking to some bible belters, as we're talking about "Christian socialism" here, all based on a popular notion from the 19th century, backed by a Papal encyclical. Looking for a "third way" beyond conservatism or straight-forward socialism – which almost makes them by definition more "lefty" than e.g. the US Republicans… Think of it as "hyphen" ("christian-socialist") instead of comma ("christian, socialist"). Or as "neither" instead of "both" (I certainly wouldn't call Bavaria's CSU "socialist" – then again, as an American I might).

This historical perspective curbed my annoyance about those dreadful "C" letters a bit. Well, this and the fact that even compared to some Christian moderates in the US, the hard-core Catholic loons here come out rather saintly…
Ahh, I think I understand where I'm misinterpreting things. I've been building a purely javascript based website so I've been thinking from that perspective instead of the more traditional page by page approach where this makes more sense when described in these terms.

It's definitely still possible to build a RESTful service, but I think if you're primarily building in js, you tend to have more routes that return resources without URLs to other resources than ones that do, especially when you're just starting out and don't have a comprehensive list of resources you want to represent and the accepted mime-types you'd like to be able to return.
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> Amazon Prime streaming is more than enough for children, and most families already have it.

The estimates I saw from February were 4-5 million Amazon Prime customers. That's much smaller than Netflix, much less "most families".
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Well, just assume that I'm also speaking from experience of delivering complicated applications to production and I'm tired of how ORMs become a pain in the long term:

- they create a dangerous illusion of an leaky abstraction which leaks very quickly

- they require programmers to learn 2 things anyway

- they initially speed up the coding, but later slow it down, esp. when you have to tune stuff (how many times you peeked generated SQLs only in order to feed them to EXPLAIN ANALYZE... ?)

- they can promote bad habits, code which takes your engine to a crawl

- they hinder debugging, esp. tracking performance problems, often effectively putting a problem under the carpet to be discovered by admins

There's also a funny thing: most of the world seems to happily use active record (as a pattern), although when you go deep into it it occurs far inferior to data mapper (as a pattern). That also demonstrates that many people are using habits, not engineering, and stick to what's used around instead of making some investigation on the topic. This is not bad per se; but when it comes to discussing problems, such people are not in the position to argue, precisely because they haven't done their homework.

So, the problems above are caused by the mismatch which one can expect from the theory. You've got what you paid for.

I guess we all could learn most from the history of relational databases or just try to remember what relational databases really are and what other examples of this technology are around. For example Prolog is relational (apart from logic engine). If one does something in it then it becomes more clear how much it "fits" objects or not.
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Thanks a lot for posting this. I love that the lectures are broken up into smaller chunks, it makes the whole subject much easier to watch.
I still don't get what's different? You seem to be talking about CGI which is obviously used a lot today. Have you not got any screenshots to show the difference?
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> Consider this: the hard drive is the least reliable component of almost any modern PC/laptop.

Is it really? Completely anecdotally I've never lost a HDD, but keep going through power supplies… it'd be nice to see some data on component failure rates. I assume some exists, but I haven't really felt strongly enough about it to go look.
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>I think it ultimately leads to cultures like Google's, where every decision requires a room full of engineers to agree.

What is this fantasy Google? The Google I interned at was highly hierarchical, with enough meddling managers to drive this whole thread insane.
While this explains why Google wants in the payments business, I refuse to do anything more with Google than search and email. I am just not comfortable with one company knowing that much about me.
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Also, you need to compare the cost of a single developer who fixes innodb to the cost of hardware incurred by _all_ users of innodb who would benefit from the solution.
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But Google's hardware related efforts (along with many others) are a means to the end of ensuring their core business doesn't get shut out by one or more gatekeepers. If Microsoft benefits more in this narrow sense I'm sure that's OK with Google, as long as they don't use that to substitute their own advertising system for Google's.
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Netflix has one thing that most streaming video sites don't, and that's massive market penetration. In my living room, I have 5 devices capable of Netflix streaming, as well as every mobile device I own.

Amazon is probably second with their offering, and even then I don't own any devices that can stream Prime Instant Video (my TiVo can download from Amazon, but isn't compatible with Prime's streaming). Any Netflix competitor has a huge hurdle to overcome to be as successful as they've been.
"...A lot of the movies are not available for streaming."

Quite a lot, actually, including the majority of new releases. And this will only become more evident in the eyes of streaming subscribers when they no longer see most of the new titles listed in searches. (Even the presence of those "Only available on DVD" titles in streaming-service SERPs lent a sort of subconscious, psychological indication of the robustness of Netflix's library).

Hard to see what Netflix stands to gain here. Streaming may be the future of media consumption, but there are still a few big hurdles to leap. Placing all the eggs in the streaming basket now feels a tiny bit premature. It's entirely possible now that streaming will win the day, but it'll be a competitor (or two) waving the victory flag.
The difference is 100% on the production side, not in the final images (although we can do certain kinds of Avatar-style full CGI environments for about 80% less than they cost now -- $100K minute vs. $500K minute). Carpathia, as you might have guessed, is chock full of them. :)

It's the production difference that actually gives us the Pixar-like edge -- we can iterate on the film, slowly closing in on the final film over a multi-year period. This allows every department time to do their best work. "Computerizing" the photography (just like "computerizing" the animation at Pixar) is what allows this to happen.

We've got special tooling to support it as well, but that's what makes it great in a nutshell: (much) better films at lower cost due to massive numbers of iterations from concept to final film.
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Playing on sex have proved ingenious for PETA. They've attracted loads of attention. The message they are trying to communicate have, however, to some degree drowned in meta discussions on how they try to do it. But there's no doubt they've gotten a lot of attention, so I don't think disingenuous is the right word here.

Doesn't necessarily make it less controversial or 'wrong' for some people, though.
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Ahh, refactoring vs rewriting.
All fairly sensible stuff, but while the spirit of the author saying:

"If you can’t implement new features in a clean way I claim: You aren’t really able to implement the whole application in a clean way from scratch either"

is noble, there are surely circumstances where the existing system is so broken/incompatible that this claim might not hold up. However, you would hope competent developers are aware that outright binning a working system is a Bad Thing.
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From a generalized perspective, it's just so damn fun too.
I agree with this, I just wish they'd open source more of their technology. It's sad that they've spent time creating things like a blazing fast Javascript engine from scratch, and nobody else can make use of it.
The shrinking of privacy when buying stuff isn't new.

Everything is already there with credit card payment. Most governments/judiciary system can already ask for this data (and it is tied to a real life identity).

Edit: and since like many people I already lost that battle (I use CC for most purchases), I might as well get some benefits out of it.

My CC company doesn't offer me any fancy spending tracking, and I don't trust companies like mint.com as much as I trust google to deal with my data (and I'm not sure if Mint works outside of the US).
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Sometimes you DO have to rewrite your application, particularly if you build it on proprietary software which has support agreements and EOLs which get hit. For example, look at all the crocks of shit hanging around on COM/VB6. They need to be completely replaced.