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Cloud Business News Roundup - September 12-18, 2011
In the field of software development, location doesn't matter.

Especially when some of the most vocal companies are in the business of bringing people at a distance together. If they cannot manage remote workers, what does that say about their products?
I talked with Greg Lindahl, the CTO of Blekko about their infrastructure. He came into the office one day with 700 SSD's and said, "Here's our new storage back end." Their search index is stored entirely on SSD's.

They haven't had a single SSD failure since. Granted, their search index is read only.
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The answer to your last question is the same one Jeff sent to all of us customers in his email yesterday. At the moment, there are a lot of titles only available on DVD. However, we still opted to drop DVD in exchange for streaming since our local 7-Eleven fills in the 'new release' gap for $1-per-movie with Redbox.
The parties to the Terms of Service can't, but a third party could offer a non-binding interpretation.
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Apologies if this has been asked before (probably more than once) this is my 1st post and I am unable to find the search facility.

I am in the process of prototyping an analytics tool. I need a good set of real world data a twitter scrape would be the best but I'll take what I can get.

I have also been looking into how to scrape twitter for data myself - any tips in that vein would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks!
You can build a machine that physically creates a specified protein and watches it fold. Will that qualify as a solver of NP-complete problems in polynomial time? Not likely! I'm pretty sure some proteins don't fold into their lowest possible energy configuration, they just find a local minimum. It's like computing minimum spanning trees with soap bubbles (there still exist cranks who think it works).
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Oh no, not the high scores!!!

Seriously, UDID based auth mechanisms are an issue, but the horrible example ruins the impact of the article.
Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) is now open source
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Direct link to the Mixergy interview: http://grumomedia.com/how-to-create-videos-that-get-you-cust...
By unimpressive, I meant precisely that all balanced search trees have shorter maximum height - they are "more optimal". I expected other performance indicators.

I believe, but haven't verified, that expected logarithmic height is achieved just by randomly permuting the input sequence and not doing any subsequent balancing - so the treap approach is simply deferring the permuting to insertion time.

I can't think of a search tree with worse finger search performance than the treap - can you expand on that?
Anathem's first few chapters require the reader to learn about 100 made-up words via immersion.

True enough, but that's quite common in science fiction.

scientific and philosophic theories, which are given different names (like Hylaean Theoric World)

That's also true. But if you're already familiar with the concept, then the nomenclature shouldn't bother you too much (it didn't me). If you're not already familiar with it, then you won't know it's any different (until you're at a dinner party trying to talk philosophy with someone, and are met with blank stares).
Well, at some point you might run out of space in the opcode byte (or multiple bytes), and then you need longer sequences that put up more cache pressure and require more time decoding, right?

Also, the developers time budget and the VMs complexity migth keep you from optimizing all possible paths.
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How are you spinning this to be about choice? You're conflating the app type with the distribution channel.

I agree that curated native app stores are generally great. Users get higher quality apps with great discoverability, developers get a great distribution channel, and let's not forget, the platform owner gets 30%.

It's hard to argue that this is about choice of where you get your apps, though.
The importance of proper rehearsal cannot be emphasized enough. Record yourself during practice and don't stop until you would be comfortable with uploading the result to Youtube. With enough practice, you can be confident that you will be within the time limit. Once you know what to say without thinking, you can also focus on other aspects of your presentation, like making eye contact with your audience, good posture or avoiding fill words like er, um, etc.

Also, never rely on the internet connection at the venue and bring adapters if you have a Mac.
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This has the ring of truth--otherwise, why not just better separate the divisions within the Netflix brand, as many (angry) commentors have suggested?

An additional possibility that occurs to me is that the movie studios' well-publicized dislike and fear of the streaming business is hurting the physical DVD business. Netflix has had to accept some pretty bad terms from studios, like delaying their availability of new releases, in part because studios see Netflix as a long-term threat. Quickster, on the other hand, should be able to build better relationships with studios precisely because they're not a threat to the studios' long-term dominance.

Basically, it's true that this is not the most customer-friendly move in the short-term, but the movie studios' strategy in the medium-term was to kill Netflix. "Continue to grow in the same direction" was not an option because the studios hated it, and this way both pieces of Netflix have at least a chance to survive.
Network, network, network! Get out and shake hands. People make most of their decisions based on emotions, you want to interview for the position before you even get to the interview. Also, I find that a good strategy when looking for a new job is to say that you are currently working on something else but are always on the look out for new challenges and to keep in touch if they have something come up.
It has already happened. Big sites like SFGate.com and SeattlePi.com made the mistake of calling it Quickster in their story about the split:

http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/09/19/netflix-ceo-i-me...
If a client does something such that I do bad work once in a while, fine. If one client in a while does things that make me do bad work on their project, that is regrettable but I’m not going to an early grave lamenting it. But if this state of affairs becomes normal, such that I am doing bad work nearly every day, for nearly every client, that is not fine with me personally.
This has always reminded me of the pilot episode of Stargate Universe, where Eli Wallace solves a real world complex math problem in a video game. Maybe Fold.It was thought up first, but it's a fascinating concept either way. It makes a person wonder what else could be accomplished via clever crowd sourcing.

Also see Google's reCAPTCHA project: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
On the surface this seems like a good idea, but i imagine separating two halves do not make a whole. I can't imagine the logistics of breaking apart a system that was tightly integrated for db inventory and shipping control, customer mgmt and billing etc would be better for them. businees wise it seems they are essentially doubling their cost of operation
Ultimately I agree with your original post to an extent. It certainly doesn't hurt to include the appropriate keywords but I wouldn't lose sleep over it.
A good start. The thing to remember is that there is absolutely no difference between looking for a job and looking for customers while running a business. You have to market your product – which, in this case, is yourself.
Except that the ARM tablets will only run Metro apps.

Which means that if you have one of them then you have no choice at all.
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There are few Ycombinator like funding systems in India. Lookup Startup Saturday and http://www.thestartupcentre.com
Unfortunately the German "pirates" managed to kill the whole idea even before they were voted into parliament.

As far as I know, the original idea by the Pirate Parties was to have an opinion in the areas that unite their members (online privacy, copyright, etc.) and to leave the rest to the other parties.

Unfortunately the German Pirate Party now also tries to deal with all kinds of topics such as economics, education, gender politics, etc.

Maybe they've managed to get some additional voters that way, who don't care about the original topics that much. But at they same time they've made theirself unelectable for their original target group, as I guess that there are many people who don't agree with their opinions.
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Thank you for the information. Because of this, and others', comments, I added an opt-out button. While the customer can still share, they have the clear option that they can download the offer without having to do so.
Aren't those phase 2 problems though? As a simple test to see if a market exists, why isn't it viable to sell your (polished) prototypes? One could make, (just spitballing) a doorbell that sends you an email as a hobby project, then throw it up on whatever the electronics equivalent of etsy is, and build them on build-to-order basis for the first few hundred units and then worry about investors only if your idea floats.

For the products we're talking about here, no competition exists. So I can sell my gimmicky doorbell for $80 or $90 just to see if there's any interest at all, then get investors and start building my own arduino boards from parts (since the specs are open) at scale.
Why don't we own this? Live stream of Detroit foreclosures
http://www.funtoo.org/wiki/Keychain is also quite nice.
I am a member of the AMQP Working Group and the OASIS AMQP Member Section. Last month we released the AMQP 1.0 protocol. This is something that we are really passionate about.

The one thing that has really held back the broad adoption of AMQP is the delay behind the release of the 1.0 version of the protocol. Now that we have this under our belt we need implementers such as RabbitMQ, StormMQ, Microsoft, INETCO etc to add support for AMQP 1.0. Finally, we need native AMQP clients installed by default and widely supported by OS and hardware developers, put simply, we need the full participation of the main operating system stack suppliers such as Microsoft and Redhat.

Luckily enough, both RedHat and Microsoft are members of the AMQP Working Group. I assume that they will release native clients and thus pave the way for broad adoption. It is the growth of pervasive AMQP clients and a strong and healthy developer community that will drive adoption and general acceptance of AMQP.
Maybe not as soon as you think. Studios keep a tight control over which movies can get digitized, some will not release some of their old movies to streaming.

Blockbuster dies rather quickly mostly because of Netflix. So, in order to predict DVD by mail business dying you have to show the alternative. Streaming currently is by no means a match. One could see Redbox putting more advanced kiosks with more selections (there was talk about kiosks with thousands of titles that would burn the DVD while you shopped) which might be threat.
Yup. Windows is locking itself down harder than OSX is.
I actually enjoyed that part of Anathem. I was in highschool when I read it, so a good portion of that book was actually teaching me concepts. His use of alternate universes was pretty fascinating, and having science to back it up (real or otherwise) just made it that much better.

(Side note: I don't know the names of a good amount of those things in the real world. I could explain the HTW theories, Lorites, and whatnot to an average person, but the real terminology escapes me.)
The rule of thumb seems to be this: if iOS does it then Metro will do it too.
The renamings and new vocabulary are clues to the nature and depth of the relationships among the book's various groups. Another crucial clue is the complete familiarity of one character's name. I can't say more without spoiling.

Really great fiction leverages the reader's powers of construction and imagination. Stephenson gives indicators of the world he's describing and leaves the reader to construct it while he gets on with other matters. If nothing else it's a better use of bandwidth. Ayn Rand lays it all out, does anyone seriously enjoy reading that? The reader's participation in construction gives them an ultimately better grasp of his idea, and a better foundation to think through the implications. Better yet, it opens the possibility of imagining worlds consistent with the plot but different from the author's imagination.

The downside is those readers who haven't time to figure it out, or miss the clues. Or maybe miss some of the background reading, which provides templates for a lot of what Stephenson's getting at. There is a lot of philosophy embedded in the book, if you aren't acquainted with it you're moving without some crucial maps.

So no, the style isn't "self-indulgent". It's a tool for communicating and working with some really complicated ideas. I'm sorry you didn't like the book, but you could just say you don't get it without assuming the author is just showing off?
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Looks like the competitive landscape for content for young professional women is pretty attractive:

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What type of free trial should I offer for my software?
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I would not object to this as much if the Windows store wasn't just filtered based on malware. But it's filtered on content as well.

Which means that if you want to write a Metro app that MS doesn't approve of, then you can't.
Amazon's streaming movies work great in linux. Even better than youtube fullscreened.
It seems odd to me, for years developers have been one of the few groups of people that could publish something and not have to pay the "gatekeepers" and actually have a shot at success. Finally after years of having to deal with the publishing, music and movie cartels; writers, bands and indie movie producers can reach the world without having permission to do so. However somehow we (software devs) have gotten into a position where we are beholden to 3 companies (Apple, Google & Microsoft) if we want widespread access to a mainstream audience. For that privilege we have to pay 30% for these companies to host a few megabytes of program files and they tell us that its breaking even. For 99 cent apps I can believe that, but I write applications for small businesses and those apps are worth way more than 99 cents. There is a big difference in 30% of 99$ vs 99 cents.

I don't know what the answer is, but I do know that its going to have the following effects (some good, some bad):
1. Software prices are going to go up for any app that is more serious than a fart app.
2. Web apps are going to become more mainstream for small businesses. Which means...
3. SaaS is going to become more mainstream, because I don't want to run a web service and not get a monthly payment for it.

Apple has done a number of good things for consumers in this industry, too bad they felt they had to screw developers over in the process.
+1 for sshfs, which comes in handy for backing up my hard drive to an external machine.
This is one of several sites by a Detroit firm http://www.makeloveland.com/ that is using City of Detroit and Wayne county data.
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Interesting. I wonder how much of a drop in applicants that gives you. I wouldn't have bothered applying for a job with a company that required a linkedin account.
Did Netflix kill independent video stores? Or did Blockbuster kill them?
Two default styles are provided with moderncv. There are some good examples and instructions on this page - http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html
I'll try reading it then. I got the audio books, but only made it partly through the first one.
I think a lot of that has to do with how in Vietnam they killed babies - and most importantly, heard uncontested stories of this sort of this from everywhere and most did nothing to stop it.

It'd be nice to blame this on something nice and tidy, like the public and their darned perceptions, but I think it's because Vietnam was just a dirtier war. (At least morally dirtier than much of what WW2 was for the common soldier, for instance.)
I am also a Netflix customer. I too canceled my DVD service. I haven't ordered a DVD from Netflix for months.

I had previously thought that if I ever did want to order a DVD again (for something not available on streaming), I could just reinstate the DVD service and order it. Now, it appears, I would have to sign up with a totally different system to get the DVDs. I'm probably not going to bother doing that.

I am baffled as to why they would split the DVDs into a different business altogether. It's a different product, sure, but need it be a whole separate business? I trust it makes sense internally to Netflix, and I presume it is projected to be more profitable. And if so, then I can hardly blame them for doing it. But as a user, I don't get it.
I love reading MG Siegler, Gruber and company but all this talk about how Microsoft should emulate Apple's strategy leaves me sad. We should be pushing for innovation, not copycats. Microsoft is trying to pull something hard but they might actually make it work, why do they need to just copy Apple's strategy just because it has been working for Apple? I have said this many times before but there's not only one way to achieve success.
Do you find that at some point reading more history has diminishing returns in terms of your ability to understand current politics?

It seems like having good political sense requires two things: having a solid understanding of the current state of people and assets, and having a good understanding of the impacts of policy. (As well as having some understanding of the whole human experience thing.)

While history is obviously important for understanding this stuff, it seems like after a certain point one would get more insight from other places. I don't doubt that most people don't know enough of history to understand politics, but at the same time most people don't know enough of anything else to understand politics either.
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Why is Yahoo so 1995?
Some background: http://engineering.twitter.com/2011/08/storm-is-coming-more-...
I'll be taking a look at this today. I'm most excited about it's fault tolerance features. If this sufficiently abstracts out the details of providing robust fault tolerance, it could be a great tool to use with cloud computing.
My favorite idiom when dealing with new cloud servers is:
ssh-copy-id user@host-ip
<Paste random password>
ssh !$

Saves copying/pasting the host ip a second time. Trivial Bash trick I know -- but it is a time saver...
A. I advocate abolishing patents. Some type of temporary protection would need to be provided for the very rare exceptional case of the development of new drugs. I can think of very very few, if any, cases where 21st century patents have actually contributed to "progress in the useful arts". Instead, they are universally a drag on people who actually produce things of value.

B. People may point to an exception case here and there, but the proverbial small inventor with a patent is a thousand times more likely to have his life savings eaten up by lawyers than to actually get paid for a useful invention. I don't think an improved patent system is actually going to help the small inventor.

C. This particular law looks to me like it further enhances large companies' ability to kill off smaller competition.

I don't think that there is a contradiction here.
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Nice. Surprised it costs more than the paperback on the UK store, though.
You know, as I read through the comments on this story, I'm struck that the concept of accessibility is quite personal.

I'm pretty sure I've seen every single one of Stephenson's books been called his "most accessible" somewhere in this thread.

In my experience, "The Baroque Cycle" was Stephenson's most accessible, while "Anathem" and "Cryptonomicon" were the hardest to get my mind around. However, I don't think this has as much to do with Stephenson's writing, as it does with the fact that I was an English Lit major, and can barely wrap my brain around math.

E.g. - a complex web of semi-historical figures? No problem! Plot-lines that revolve around mathematical concepts? Oh god, my brain just exploded.
I listened to the App Teardown[1] podcast the Fiplab team started with Colin Plamondon (of "Free Books" app and HN fame), and it drills down on some of the basics of App store marketing. Good supplement to this series!

[1]http://www.appteardown.com
Has that been stated or confirmed?
many shells can be setup to autocomplete a list of hosts parsed from ~/.ssh/known_hosts.

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Is it just me? This list seems too short. Google is (as far as I can tell from outside) a great company in many respects, but their Achilles heel is their obsession with secrecy. It has some advantages, but I fear they may be outweighed by the disadvantages which include lack of early feedback on usability and a susceptibility to NIH syndrome.
I use SuperPutty on my Windows PC to manage many putty sessions at a time...it is a little clunky, however it is better than having putty open 5 or 10 times.
Google is really pushing ahead with NACL. having it foot in JS and taking advantage of desktop speed leave a lot open process heavy web apps. I wouldn't be surprised if web game development exploded. Plus its better for using HTML5 and CSS3 than firefox.
I thought the same thing, until someone pointed out that if you publish information on your invention, it makes it impossible for anyone else to file after that. (Prior art.) However, YOU can still file up to a year later. (In Europe, it works as prior art against yourself, though. Meaning you can't file, either.)

That effectively makes it 'first to publish' rather than 'first to file'.

I am not a lawyer, and neither was the person who told me this.