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Yep, I actually misread "thrashed" as "crashed".

That doesn't really change anything, however; his program was acting abnormally, and there is nothing suggesting that anyone tried to attack the problem systematically through a process of elimination and deduction.

There's just not enough information in the anecdote, and (in my opinion) everyone comes out of it looking a bit silly because of the missing pieces.

There is nothing to be learned from this anecdote that sheds any philosophical light on Scheme vs. Lisp, life at MIT, etc. We learn that Scheme has/had a function that one should not use, and that computers used to be really dinky things. So I truly don't know why Greenspun wrote down this anecdote.
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> We need better tools that let companies understand and budget for the cloud money they are already spending while at the same time letting end users sign up for the services they need to do their jobs.

This kind of tool would be aimed at precisely the market that would never pay for it.

If employees need to circumvent company policy to use Basecamp, the only way in which such a tool would be used is to identify culprits and get them back in line.

edit: on the other hand I would love a startup to prove me wrong :)
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Social, Mobile and Local ... but what about humane? :(
Setting up takes some time but the end result is really awesome. I've been looking for something to keep me sync up automatically with contacts new phone numbers (well, especially my changing numbers..) for some time now.. nice work!
$.50 is steep (that's about $15/month) unless you can get great content that is actionable and can't be gotten elsewhere (for example, stock tips or financial analysis)

As a more consumer-ish type product, you probably should start around $5.

I run a weekly newsletter that goes out to about 8,000 people (it's free) and I can tell you that my audience would probably drop by 99% if I charged anything. Churning out good content is tough and not a model that really scales from a revenue standpoint but it can be monetized in other ways (ie. thought leadership leading to new opportunities)

Furthermore, looking at your example letter (on your site), I'm not sure there is $.50's worth of news there. Take a look at the competition (eg. This web day at http://www.thiswebday.com/ ) and you will realize you've got a high mountain to climb.

That said, don't get discouraged by people who doubt your idea. There's always an exception out there and you may be it so think and do it but take the advice and synthesize into something awesome.
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Ruby does this with mixin modules :)
Zed Shaw and Salman Khan are ordinary?

I don't really want medical textbooks produced by ordinary people. I want them produced by geniuses, and checked by other geniuses.
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Great point - and very true - He didn't break the rules, but found a way to make the rules work for him. If he just showed up with the truck it would have been a few hours before he was ticketed and forced out, but this way he made it look even more important and translate to even more sales. Perfect!
As I recall, the path taken by the neutrinos in this experiment is several hundred miles of solid rock, so, no, there really isn't any other type of particle that could be tested with it.
This is a truly great troll.
Forgetting what you are charging for a moment, what are your qualifications to be a curator of the information you are trying to save others time gathering by going to the obvious places? You site doesn't talk about that at all.

Also I think you should be targeting people who are not in the tech community. Management of mid size companies or larger. People who want to stay on top of things but don't have the time or interest and additionally aren't in front of a screen most of the day.
This is obviously a matter of opinion, so here is mine: Patches and information pertaining a vulnerability should be released in a coordinated way or as soon as there is evidence that information about the vulnerability is already public. By public I mean that has escaped the closed circle of the vendor, and in the case of a reported vulnerabilty, also the reporter.

If you find out a vulnerability is being exploited in the wild, and already have a patch or technical description, you should release it. If one of the two parts commits a mistake and releases information about the vulnerability (like, for example, a patch that can be reverse-engineered), then all other involved parts should release what they have.

If they don't have a patch or if they aren't ready to release it, which seems to be the case here, Adobe should at least release technical details. These can be used to mitigate the impact of the vulnerability on unpatched hosts.
Thanks, I actually used W3Schools as a reliable source to know browser usage stats.
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What is it spam for? The newsletter link at the bottom?
Tell that to the founders of YouTube.

It's extremely risky but perfectly acceptable to grow an unprofitable business to the point where it becomes an attractive acquisition target for a company that can monetize it effectively.

It's also extremely risky but perfectly acceptable to sacrifice profitability in favor of extremely rapid expansion in a new market, and then achieve profitability later.

Venture capitalists naturally like businesses (and yes, they are businesses) with strategies like this because they require lots of capital.

Just because you and I have a different appetite for risk and wouldn't build a business using these strategies doesn't mean the businesses themselves are 'neat little side projects'.
While it is annoying, this will exponentially grow the spotify user base. I am a single island of music consumption right now on spotify. IF I were to link my facebook account(which I never use) to it, my feed would be seen by all of my friends encouraging new signups for spotify.

Music is extremely social. Facebook is social. Annoying, yes. Smart, definitely.
Exactly. When you install my package, I can infect other packages and have them execute arbitrary code without you realizing it.
This is by no means unique to python, and in fact can happen whenever you run any program. It just shows the dangers of running things you don't really trust.
Doing this in python is, however, slightly harder to detect, as you are changing the pyc file and not the py file itself. Someone who looks at the source will notice nothing amiss, and in fact if the update the source the pyc will be rebuilt cleanly (until it gets reinfected).
Javascript and ruby are not generally byte-compiled and so you would have to change the source to infect them.
Other languages that compile either to bytecode or executables can be just as easily be infected.
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The latest video demo I've seen is http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/04/18/broadway-update-3/
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I wrote this blog entry. Its not super technical but you can get the general idea.
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This is a great, meaty blog post. I really like the first point about always coming up with a brute force solution so that you at least have something, and so that you have a chance to think about the problem a little. I've seen candidates skip the brute force approach too many times so that they can immediately work on a more optimal solution. At the end, they often end up without any solution at all. I guess Knuth's advice about premature optimization applies too interviews as well.

There's also a good Quora page that talks about the (complementary) coding side of algorithm questions: http://www.quora.com/What-is-needed-to-write-flawless-code-d...
I cannot title it "DRAM artifacts" because it would be only 1 of the 3 different causes I speculate on (DRAM, oscillator, FPGA clock).

I chose the word "FPGA" to match the terminology of the paper which uses the word as a synonym for the Data Acquisition System.
I have been doing point 1 of your list too. I went a little further too. And even tried the QubeOS. (http://qubes-os.org)

It has the same idea as an incognito browser window, but taken to the OS level. It is very interesting.
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make.
Millions of people work around stifling bureaucracies daily.

Anyone working for a large corporation probably has a dozen or more arrows in their quiver when it comes to working around stupid rules, inefficient procedures, or stupid/inefficient coworkers.
I've worked with high resolution timing devices, data acquisition systems and NIST traceable timestamps, PMTs and APDs and FADCs. 10ns precision is a relative cakewalk, and can be done with about $600 in equipment. Often times some people neglect some latency introduced due to analog filtering, but it's nowhere near the order of 60ns. Furthermore, most of these systems are almost always calibrated daily with fiber optics, lasers, or other subatomic particles or particle accelerators. So often times the delay is actually relative to a particle (usually a photon) moving at or near the speed of light in a medium with a known refractive index. I'm sure it's not too hard to find the whitepaper for the equipment if you really wanted to look for it.

I'm not saying it's not possible, it's just extremely unlikely. The author is asking for FPGA analysis when he should be asking for calibration analysis.
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Considering Facebook and Google are both advertising-funded companies, I don't see what the concern is.

Start showing me slope on advertising revenue or momentum with major advertisers and I'll take notice.

Google's core market (search advertising) just had a new fence put up (Google+), which seems to be doing a good job keeping Facebook from marching right on in (social search advertising).

Facebook's ad-market strength is display advertising. This is a much smaller piece of the pie, and they don't completely own it, but they're making inroads. I expect Yahoo/AOL are much more worried about this than Google.
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Isn't this more a rant about why programming languages shouldn't overload '+' to include string concatentation, as well as fixed-point addition and floating point addition?
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Doctoral thesis writing can be rightly approached from what to write on. What is important is to look for something significant and out of the ordinary to you. What most doctoral students fail to understanding is thinking that there is a right topic to write about.
Try peepopen (http://peepcode.com/products/peepopen), it is text editor-agnostic.
Go back a bit further to the days of the big online services like AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy, etc. I mean before they were ISPs. They competed with the internet and lost, because they couldn't match the wild creativity unleashed by the web, which made everyone a publisher/broadcaster/developer/priest.

Social networks have taken a few of the biggest distributed applications of the web and started mass producing them, in watered down form. But notice how they have to keep absorbing every new fad that comes along? The coup will start with some platform that allows ideas to be realized faster than the networks can clone them.
If Google wanted to spend a lot of effort just to hot-foot one of the harder working teams in software security they could indeed build a system whose primary function was to put pressure on Adobe.
These comparisons are a bit silly. They do not do the same thing. We should use this graph to compare Google to Yahoo and AOL and see how they fare against their competitors, not how many of their users spend 18 hours on Farmville.
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The comments here and the comments at allthingsD make it clear that many people don't understand how cookies and data collection work which is surprising.

Every time you visit a page with any kind of facebook integration (like button or whatever) facebook adds your online behaviour to it's user profile.

Ideally, from facebooks perspective, everyone would always be logged in to facebook and all pages would have a like button, then they can track everything everyone does on the web. That's why the stickiness thing is important, not just because active users are less likely to quit.

This is how you monetize a free social service.
I'd certainly like to think I'm an ethical developer, and I always implement the delete as a flag.

I, however, do not implement an easy way to retrieve deleted data without going into the database or through an administrative interface with heavy auditing.

It isn't just about data mining for customer data -- it's about data mining for site usage and user activity. Using metrics off of visited web pages or tracking that way can be too convoluted when the KISS method is: flag it on the data side and you can interpret flow.
Perhaps the most obvious difference is that with siege you can specify a list of URLs that you want accessed ( some could cause reads and others writes) and in so more realistically load your website as a whole.
Testing a single url with ab gives you different kind of information that is more artificial compared to the overall function of a site, but sometimes it may be the data that you are looking for. You can achieve this also with siege. Older versions of siege seem to keepalive connections not working...from the man "# TRIPLE CAUTION: don't use keep-alives until further notice" and if you find that you need to test with keep-alives you are back to ab. NOTE: the trunk of siege seems to have keep-alives functioning.
These are at least a couple of differences.
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"Note that just a couple of years ago, someone might have thought to include Myspace in here. Remember?"

and facebook, not being fundamentally different to myspace, could easily be victim to the exact same thing. google, however, is sufficiently diversified to be much more resistant to user fickleness (firefox spellcheck says that's a word).
I'm with you there. Aren't all classes supposed to be helpful?
Spotify seems like they're gunning to become the Zynga (meaning: first among equals) of social music.
This is really good advice... lots of things I didn't even think of! I'm definitely going to start working on this. Thanks!
Notepad -> Dreamweaver -> Netbeans -> Eclipse -> SubEthaEdit -> TextMate -> Netbeans -> emacs (lasted all of a week) -> vim/MacVim

In that list is a switch from one platform to another (after Eclipse).

Now, would it be nice to have TextMate 2.0? Yes, absolutely. Do I think I will seriously start working with it? It really depends on the features that it gives me, I am so used to vim now that I am not sure I could live without it.
It doesn't seem like it'd be any more difficult to write the FlowchartShape to a file or send it across the network if it had additional methods on it to manipulate and use its state, so I'm not sure what's gained by making two+ separate classes... what am I missing?
I disagree on your analysis of reasonability.

Much of life does not progress linearly or even continuously. Business planning requires that business people make assumptions. Some of those assumptions are good, but most are probably not. The question is what one will do to cope when your assumptions go bad.

Some failed assumptions you can shift with, others are fatal.

Spotify has made the assumption that people won't flock away from facebrick. There are all sorts of events that can kill social networks, and they're betting against that happening.
Why use meta tags when CSS does the job?
Is there some reason for mobile devices to use meta tags to control their display properties when CSS supports physical units, like points and millimetres?

As someone who has been writing CSS for some time, I find that `width=device-width` and `initial-scale` much less intuitive than `height: 15mm` and `font-size: 12pt` and `@media` queries, all of which have been defined for many years.

Instead of supporting these units properly, I find that devices are requiring meta tags to set their viewports to a pixel size, and with `device-width`, often a pixel size that isn't their actual screen size.

How did the world become this way? Did I miss something while I was asleep, and now these fake pixels are length units in the real world? Or maybe everybody is holding out for a real CSS3 standard, and this is an interim solution? Am I wrong for wanting to use these real units in CSS?
Thank you! I did pick an awful time. Perhaps I'll have more luck with the Ask HN at a later date. Maybe mid-week or something.

Though you know what's weird? "A Brief History of the Brain" is on the front page right now with 3 votes after 26 minutes, but this post had 4 votes by 20 minutes and even now is nowhere to be found (even 5 pages deep from the front page). I think HN artificially drags down things with "Show HN" in the title. (Since that was abused for awhile).
Just this year there have been several Flash or Flash/Acrobat vulnerabilities that were seen in the wild and Adobe said the patch was two weeks out.

I would not be surprised if over half of this year's weeks fall under the case of having a vulnerability they have issued an advisory for and have yet to patch.
> I'm not saying it's not possible, it's just extremely unlikely.

Which is more unlikely though, that the FPGA has an issue where precision can be worse than 60ns, or that we're wrong about the speed of light / the ability of matter to travel beyond that speed? We're talking about hard to believe things here, so we shouldn't discard the possibility that this was the failure point simply because it's unbelievable.

I know you're not discarding the idea, and I welcome the context you bring to the discussion; I just wanted to point out that in this case there really isn't much that should be thrown out as impossible.
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Someone else mentioned Stephen King's (enjoyable) book. If you're after more "small bits of advice from respectable writers" you should look into Lawrence Block's books, specifically "Telling Lies for Fun and Profit" which I keep coming back to whenever I'm stuck.
I'd counter that if Company X learns that they're employees are using Basecamp at $99/mo to actually get things done rather than a much more expensive tool that team members don't want to use, the company has gained a valuable insight into how they can save a lot of money (and make their team's life easier). Call me a dreamer but I believe everyone wins on the cloud.
No, he's saying that Kenneth Cole was a spammer. Just a brick-and-mortar one.
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True but those people aren't a good fit for their service to begin with. Non-facebook users are not, by default, bad fits. Big difference. Hell I would bet at least some of FBs user base is also in that category of crap internet.

Cutting off arbitrary users who aren't bad fits for you is a good way to limit your user base. Sure it's 700-800 million people, but not all of the ones who use FB are going to want your service, and if it is any good some who don't use FB will. Why limit yourself that way? Especially when they already supported non-FB accounts for everything but the social features, so the work had already been put in.
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Thanks for including Chargify.

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Here's how I think it works. Things that cost about $5:

- One avocado

- One loaf of whole grain bread

- One package of low-cal tortillas

- A bag of frozen broccoli

- Five items off the dollar menu

One of these things by itself will feed your family, the others won't.
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I just heard Drew Houston of DropBox talk in Boston at StartupBootcamp and this resume rings true to what he said.

The reality is that every founder starts in the same place and at the same point, which is completely clueless. Apple, Google, Yahoo, Oracle, Facebook and many others were started by first time founders in their 20’s. Facebook was just a project that Zuckerbug was hacking on, and he didn’t’ set out to redefine the face of communication. He had done 7-8 other projects before that, and the difference with Facebook was that 90%+ of Harvard students sign up in two days.

Something all new founders should remember is that no one is born a founder.
> Reducing the TV license fee at the same time the BBC is going to report something unfavourable to the current government might seem just a little suspicious, don't you think?

That's why you don't reduce it right away. You threaten to reduce it if they're impolitic enough to pursue certain courses. You make this fairly clear to them. The actual decisions come from the BBC's own leadership, acting on such knowledge.

> An government inquiry into the BBC's reporting would be even worse, as it would be a clear violation of the BBC's independence.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. The only independence the BBC can have under its funding model is if it decided to risk going downhill and no longer being able to do the good things it's doing now. A reduction in license fees would accomplish that, meaning if you can wave that stick around the BBC will waive its independence and allow investigations.
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Uhh, does anyone know what the location for this is? I RSVPed 'coming' and never got any info on where this is happening.
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Thanks for the kind words :) Looking at thiswebday it doesn't have that much more information than the example I quickly put together?
I'm sure Google is not doing stuff like this for fun. I'm just saying the point the article is making is not crazytalk.
Thanks for the promo codes!

The Schedule page is nice but the Event Details page needs work. Would be cool to know if an event is being broadcasted on Twitch.tv or some other website (you kind of have it in the description box, but its really hidden). Also not sure why the description is inside of a box.
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Seeing the title I was ready for a good flame, but found implementation-specific nonsense instead. From the 90s.
This is also noted in the submitted link
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There are reasons to use variants of the passive voice. Using Wikipedia's NPOV [1] approach with speaking with people is very useful in attempting to agree on fact first so emotion is avoided for charged situations/discussions.

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I've played with Vicoapp but it just didn't work for me, for some reason there was just too much of a disconnect with commands I was used to in vim not working as expected. I haven't tried it lately, might have to give it another go.
Not to mention inspiring thousands to take up a carreer in various fields tangentially related to game development.

It's a bit like the Apollo project :)
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