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I think your description of redis' reliability is a bit too vague and scary. There are several levels of reliability that redis supports, each with its own tradeoffs:

1. No disk. Everything in memory, and if redis dies, so does your data. This is closest to memcached.

2. In memory, with periodic background flushes to disk. After a timeout (shorter if there's a lot of modification to your data), redis will spawn a background thread and write out all its data to a file in the background. (Then it will atomically rename the file in the place of the previous dump file.) This is the easiest form of disk persistence, and good enough for most of what people use redis for.

3. You can also configure redis to write to an append-only file that logs every operation, which you can periodically compact with a cron job or something. The flushing interval is configurable, and makes a big difference in speed. This is not particularly convenient -- who the hell wants to write a cron job to compact database logs? -- but it gives you durability on par with a conventional database.

4. If you have another machine lying around, there's an option that you can combine with any of the three options above: master-slave replication. A read-only slave redis server receives a stream of all writes to the master, and changes itself to match. This gives a small data-loss window in the event of a master failure, and makes fail-over possible. If the master goes down, you can have a slave become the new master. Coordinating this can be tricky, but it can certainly be done.

tl;dr: If the reliability approaches above look good enough for your application, and redis looks like the best match from a semantic or performance standpoint, then go for it!
Nice this is just like the Swedish party that took seats in the European Parliament in 2009.
Having done a LOT of work in that space (historically), I can assure you it's all SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, AS400 and epic quantities of turds. The largest turd being EDI and all sorts of nastyness.

It's not fun. It's actually painful. It takes a special kind of person to do it: Someone who doesn't care about what they do, just the money.
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Thanks for sharing your story.

As a side, my ex-roommate is an Objective-C hacker that funded his move to the Valley from Pennsylvania (my guess is that he netted $10k+ on the app in about 2 months - based off his vague hints) from coding an app for iOS. The app can most easily be described as a widget that is an add-on for the Safari (mobile) browser that allows users to view+open recent downloads from a drop-down embedded in the browser.

So while fun apps like LuckyStar may be a great place to start, utilities that enhance the user's mobile experience may earn more traction/revenue/downloads.

Good luck on your next project!
Ours is a different approach that has some advantages and some drawbacks. As a job seeker, all you have to do is join the list and then you will get offers automatically. It's literally no work. But we don't know if it's gonna work. Depends much on your feedback.
The most probable situation here (if it actually occurred) is that South Korea owns a certificate authority that is accepted by browsers and did a MITM attack with their own google cert.
I ran an online web forum in the United States and had the COPPA stuff, had an online fax service where parents could fax signatures. Many kids instead just lied about their age to participate, in the years that I ran the online forum only 2 people ever sent in forms.

Recently I sold the website and the new owner moved it to Europe.
And this is why I am doing a start up - and praying we are not growing large(?)
That's not quite true; Redis also provides an append-only-log mode of operation just like conventional databases, and of course it can be run with master-slave replication. I wrote a bigger reply here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010949
Totally agree. The code is open-source, and I won't sell the phone numbers. Really didn't mind too much if people do/don't use this.
Yeah my bad, wasn't specific enough - I meant painters, sculpters and the like.

In my head they are called "art", I have to make an active decision to think of "art" as "the arts" including other things - guess just the way I learned the vocab. as a kid. So it was already a step to edit from "art" to "visual art".

Perhaps I should have gone with "static visual art that is created for the sake of being art"?

As to your examples, I suspect the main reason that there's such a link is (obviously) the big crossover. If you're an artist who wants to make money making websites, or videos, or whatever, it makes sense to learn at least some of the technology related to it to help you. And if you're, say, a website developer, it sometimes makes sense to go the other way too.
You are missing a very key point here: consumers do not decide what they wear, the fashion / PR machine decides that for them.

Think about this: while a girl may discover a cool, new designer on Pintrest and buy a dress from that designer, trust me, she will still scratch out some girl's eyeballs to get the new Louis Vuttion bag. And why? Branding. And hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing to create an image, an illusion, and an object that conveys status. LVMH is the most powerful and profitable luxury conglomerate in the world for a reason (it is about 3x more profitable than Amazon with 20% less revenue).

Brands either die or thrive based on their ability to do two things: create a desirable brand and manage inventory. The entire function of branding and marketing is not going to be replaced by Svpply. Or Pintrest. Or whoever.

Lastly, it's comical you keep mentioning Amazon. One of the biggest reasons for their success is their ability to manage a supply chain better than almost anyone else.
The quote on the cover of the notebook in the picture reminds me of possibly my favorite quote of all time:

"...and for those who dare to dream of, dare to do." - Alfred Lloyd Tennyson

Also apropos in regard to some of the other comments in this thread, re: ideas are nothing without execution.
Discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/kj25j/south_korea_ad...

Specific comment: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/kj25j/south_korea_ad...

To corin_ : perhaps he wanted a link to see the discussion rather than a source.
It appears that Google’s WebM (VP8) codec in all likelihood does infringe on existing patents: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/googles-webm-vp8-all...
No, it's just a bug. I have been using two sets of data where the name of the countries were not perfectly matching (example: United States VS United States of America). I fixed most of the inconsistencies and showed the map to some people to help me spot the problems. This one slipped through (as the geocoding of Serbia and some NaN).
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Sports stadiums are never profitable. Tax payers in the municipalities where the stadiums are built pick up the losses in almost all cases, either during construction or when the team decides to just leave and holds them ransom for a new one.

2/3 of restaurants fail outright soon after opening. The other 1/3 tend to be profitable really quickly (running a restaurant is tough and you can't run it at a loss for very long). You'll see successful restaurant owners start another one within a few years, because the old one is starting to get stale to people. Besides, around that time usually the star chef decides to move onto something better too.

Dance clubs fall into a couple of categories IMHO. You have the smaller spots, which can and do thrive. They hold about a 100 or fewer people, are often started by one really savvy entrepreneur who just wanted to create a cool spot (sound familiar to hackers and OSS? :-P). Then you have the bigger spots. These are cavernous mega clubs, and in my experience they're often in one way or another linked to organized crime and/or money laundering. They'll garner a lot of attention through PR, celebrity sightings, and marketing, and eventually implode under a pile of debt. How you can pile up debt selling alcohol at $7 a shot and several hundred dollars a bottle, I'm not quite sure. Read about Peter Gatien, one of the more notorious club owners in North America. Jay-Z has rapped about him: "Me and my operation, running New York nightscene, with one eye closed, like Peter Gatien". The whole business is about shifting debt like a hot potato. It's disgusting.

Social businesses have a finite amount of time with which they are fashionable to the masses and under which their growth is distorted. That first explosive growth trend never repeats itself ever again, which is probably what Facebook is trying to contend with right now as it decides when to go public.

If I were Mark Zuckerberg... I'm clearly not anywhere as brilliant as he is... but if I were in his shoes, I'd take a page from other successful social entrepreneurs. Start something new that's cool and is not Facebook-branded. The trick to social businesses is that the entrepreneur should be the brand. Facebook should be a Zuckerberg product in the same way that 69 Royal Hospital Road is but a single Gordon Ramsay restaurant. Zuck should have a portfolio of social sites, not one fucking behemoth that, when it fails, takes him down with it.
Virtual memory support is being dropped from redis in versions after 2.4, so you should definitely avoid using it.
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Some Apple product predictions
wristwatch iPhone - the third-party version of this for the nano was very popular. This will also be cheaper. It won't be a full iPhone, just the phone part and basic iPod functions. It will be very affordable.

edgeless iPhone - (i.e. no bevel at all, so putting two side-by-side would form a seamless larger display - tho not intended for that); the screen resolution would be the same for compatibility, but with smaller dimensions, by using a finer dpi than retina (this is justifiable if you hold it closer to your eyes; for young people with better eyesight; and because you could actually see the pixels anyway - it wasn't really retina). Also, thinner and cheaper, with better battery life. Basically, the same as the current iPhone, in a smaller, cooler package.

pro iPhone - dual-core, same battery life. Apple doesn't really believe in this product, because it's already fast enough for what the iPhone needs - but it's necessary for enthusiasts (and who knows, maybe they'll create a killer-app that really does need quad-core?); and to retain leadership over Samsung.

iPad 3 - 2048x1536 quad-core iPad with a GPU that surpasses current game consoles. This isn't as hard as it sounds, as current consoles are quite old (i.e. xbox360 is 6yo - that's 4 Moore's Law doublings, or x16). There will be a couple of AAA titles available on it. For battery-life, the GPU and CPU can run at in low-power mode. You'd plug it into a dock (with power, display and keyboard) to use it as a desktop; full office apps will be available. ---- In other words, it will disrupt consoles and desktops, as well as mobile devices.

laptopt/desktops/servers - just standard increases; they aren't crucial anymore since Apple is disrupting all of them. Rather than making ARM-based laptops etc, they will replace them with iPad-like devices.
The x86 processors will always be more powerful, and so far, this is still needed by people who buy desktops etc.
Good strategy combined with good execution is a joy to watch (case in point - Apple over the last decade).

I wonder (because I forgot) who did people used to fawn over, or hold up on a pedestal, or revere, or look up to, before Apple came out with the iPod and all this other greatness of the last decade?

Who was doing it well before Apple came along and became the go-to example for everything?
did anyone on the standard bodies (from MSFT?) suggest LINQ framework as a WebSQL "replacement" ?

it makes a lot of sense IMHO. it abstracts away dependency on exact SQLite version, but preserves a familiar SQL-like mental model. it is stable, mature, well understood and widely deployed/used (god i sound like a shill.. ;)

and has the added benefit that it can be implemented in two different flavours: as a standard JavaScript (ES3) library on top of WebSQL (or SQLite in Gecko), or as a first-class language extension with syntax sugar similar/related to array comprehensions (from JS1.7/Harmony/ES6)..

check out the two code samples, and a list of language extension (all feeling right at home in JS): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query#Langu...

if it wasn't proposed, can someone from WHATWG (like you Brendan ;) politely ask Microsoft to "contribute" any related intellectual property to W3C? how likely do you think would it be for AAPL/GOOG to accept it? (and if not, it could simply be implemented as a thin layer above WebSQL ;)
Google has had both success and failure. The successes have paid for the failures and then some, but the failures did happen.
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totally agree. copyright ownership is often overlooked, yet is incredibly important. buying a copy does not mean you buy the underlying rights. moreover, even if you buy some type of implied rights, what rights exactly have you bought? presumably (but not necessarily), you can modify, compile, and publish. can you buy the source code, then turn around and put the source code in the same store for half price? what about confidentiality? can you give the code to your employee? to your third party independent contractor developer? can you give it to your friend? can you put the code on your website for all to see? it's not clear to me what rights the site is selling.
WEP is completely broken. Even if you do everything right, it's trivial for an attacker to access a WEP-protected network.

most of the time when a browser warns you that a certificate is bad there's nothing wrong

I've never had a false-positive browser warning. I assume you're complaining about Firefox's and Chrome's treatment of self-signed certificates, which is completely appropriate. Self-signed certificates should always be rejected, unless the user has manually added them to the keystore.
I will fix all the typo.
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Here is mine:

A GOOD free service that gives detailed reports on Internet companies given keywords or tags. Needs to be fast, retrieve data from extensive range of sources. Use multivariate report criteria and present results as infograms or similar.

Does it exist already? Please tell me. I do not like catalog sites.
I agree. I think the strategy of the studios is doomed to fail, but I think Netflix and consumers will end up paying the price (through more expensive services, and less content). They absolutely hate that someone else is building a profitable business on their content. The studios, much like the recording business, is slow to react, and they didn't realize the value of streaming video until Netflix proved it was a viable business model. I see the studios throwing money at it, hoping to buy their way into a new source of revenue. That will only serve to fragment the market, and won't succeed in the long run. The big question for me is, does Netflix have the resources necessary to weather the time Studios spend experimenting with their own distribution?
Oh I didn't actually answer your question in my last post. At first we have to get our hands dirty to get the seekers to sign up for the list. Talk to people directly, ask for feedback in developer message boards etc. But if they like the convenience of the service it hopefully spreads.
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The title is incorrect. The article is primarily about the Enterprise, the first shuttle that was built in the late 70's and used as a testbed for the technologies that would go on to be used in space-worthy shuttles.

An "orbital launcher" is something that gets a payload to orbit. That could be a rocket, a space plane, a space elevator, a pitcher with a very strong arm, etc. The Enterprise was most certainly not an "orbital launcher".
Is that a rhetorical question? I think Bill Gates was certainly one.
But I wonder if any of those services can handle the immense scale of usage that Netflix has been designed to handle. GP's idea of a white label service makes a lot of business sense.
"Scale" is a funny word. It doesn't scale in terms of decision making speed. But it does scale in terms of decision making quality. Obviously if social cohesion within the group is too high, or if the people present cross too many hierarchical levels, the group won't use its diversity to make excellent decisions. But if done properly, including more people in decision making results in good decisions.

This is one of the ways that you can get over narrow-minded specialists making decisions that work for them but screw everybody else.
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I think you killed your reply. Still read it. You may have a point. In the case of Google you can see this happening, and Jason Calacanis pointed earlier this week that "Google is now buying content companies and just giving you the answer". So you are right. However I think when you are dealing with physical products the dynamics are truly different.
There is no need to downvote. The Romans were the first to use the unit of long distance mille passuum (literally "a thousand paces" in Latin, where each pace was two steps) and hence back to the human body! (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mile and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man).
In that spirit, which is more likely: that South Korea has figured out how to decrypt arbitrary TLS connections, or that a clueless reporter was clueless?

The article also claims that Google uses deep packet inspection to do its targeted advertising. This does not inspire confidence in its accuracy.
I should also add that do not try to be so f*cking revolutionary. Most products and schemes that aim to be revolutionary seldom end up being that. Apple has been an anomaly.

Edit: I should also add that being inside academia, I have seen some stuff which was said to be revolutionary, and indeed did change a lot of things, but only in the narrow scope of academic research. My comment was about the direct real world impact.
Google. Before them, Amazon. Before them, Microsoft. Before them, IBM.

The industry always wants to emulate the current leader, forgetting that there are a myriad of different strategies available. That's because collectively, given the limited space in news headlines, we're not much smarter than a school of fish. However, individually we can each do better by reading enough history and being focused on and aware of our personal circumstances.
Cool. I hope it works.
Until now, Google has not had to care about the coolness factor. They weren't in the social space. Now that they are, just look at how Google+ has fizzled. They pulled the worst stunt you possibly could have pulled when you're trying to be cool: hold a line-up outside your club only to have people come in and find out nobody is inside and the party sucks.

Step 6 has definitely already happened. Remember what is cool is not necessarily what is popular. Cool is the derivative of popularity though. At any given time, if you want to find out what will become popular later on, just find out what's cool. Twitter has 106 M users vs Facebook's 500 M as of 2010. It's clearly not as popular as Facebook. But Twitter's growth has been faster (and more sustainable than Google+'s initial exponential growth) than Facebook's was. The trend is keeping up and as much as we can laugh and joke about the utility of Twitter, I'd say that it is already at Step 4. You already are finding people that want to move onto something else that's cool (which IMHO is what drove the initial adoption of Google+).

We can relearn all of these lessons or we can just admit that we're really doing social businesses and these sort of things have been around for a long time. How they work is well known. Just, up until this past decade or so, we'd never seen them in the technology space.
They don't deny that they are still working out many issues. However, there is currently no danger of them having to decide on the future of the Euro zone.

Also, some of their principles apply to finance as well, such as transparency and simplicity. Open data about government spending might have some impact, too (just my thinking, not official Pirate Party, I am not a member)
Not sure what you mean by this:

"Twelve year old boys, BELIEVE this!"
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"For web development, you don't need any of that."

For Web development on Windows, that is a good list of a minimal list of EXACTLY what is needed. Web development on Windows is JUST what I'm doing, and that list of topics is JUST what is centrally involved.

What are you going to leave out? T-SQL? OS backup and recovery? Good skills with an IDE or editor?

Yes, learning most of, say, Visual Basic by itself is easy. The 'rub' is that for anything at all serious in Web development or just software development, it is just crucial to make good use of .NET, and that is HUGE. For a long time, nearly each time you turn around, you will need to use another .NET class, and that will take you 1-3 dozen Web pages at MSDN to find, download, save, index, abstract, and read. The total of MSDN Web pages needed adds up quickly: I have over 2500 now, and it grows quickly. Just yesterday I downloaded a lot just for 'request data validation'. Before that, the topics were HtmlEncode and UriEncode. Before that, TCP/IP sockets. Before that, Windows Communications Foundation. Before that Windows 'remoting'. Before that, Windows remote procedure call. Before that, a LOT on SQL Server administration and mangement. And on and on and on. It's ENORMOUS.
Also, while I didn't follow it too closely, I suspect it was more a case of extreme free thinking (question everything, don't believe anything) rather than right wing extremism.
So can Mark Zuckerberg sign up for Bitcasa and store all of Facebook's photos there for $10 a month?
Agreed. It's essentially design by committee, which may work well when there's only a handful of you, but consensus of several individuals is difficult to reach, and the obvious or safe choice is accepted with little insight or vision. Committees create divisiveness and perpetuate a loss of vision. They exist only because individuals are taught that consensus is more important than making the right decision.
Actually, your fact above seems unrelated to the point of the OP, which is purely geometrical and in no way involves meters or miles.

It sounds more like you want to tell the story of the original definition of the meter.
If I'm in the target market for high fashion, I'd probably list "clothes shopping" as one of my hobbies. I don't; I buy cheap clothes which retailers make minimal profit on. If I was in the market for designer clothes then my tastes wouldn't be price elastic, so saving retailers' costs by substituting cheaply made model videos for the user experience of actually seeing and touching the clothes in a stylish location isn't much of a purchase incentive. By contrast, unless the local Blockbuster outfit offer exceptional advice, actually going and physically picking up DVDs is a mere inconvenience and I'd much rather pay less to skip it altogether.

I'm not arguing it's impossible to sell fashion items online; it evidently is. It's probably also possible to sell wallpaper over the telephone. That doesn't mean the economies of selling over the internet necessarily lend themselves well to disrupting a sector that enjoys massive profit margins through making far more effective emotional inducements to purchase than a photograph and a like button.
The problem is that to the average user, a self-signed certificate that they should accept appears EXACTLY THE SAME as a bad SSL certificate.
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