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I really hate the hijacking of the term "open source" by the OSI. I think open source is a generic term that should mean what it says -- the source is open, i.e., accessible and modifiable. I don't think that the distribution limitations should go into it.

While I certainly appreciate all the open-source projects that allow commercial usage, I really think that a trend of projects using non-commercial or licensee-only licenses would do a lot of good, because as it stands I'd rather have the source code for every program I use even if I'm not allowed to share that code with someone who hasn't paid the original author.

I recognize that copyleft and all that is important and good, but I think we'd see much more source availability if people were less rabid about their demands for unlimited distribution. Unlimited distribution is rad but it greatly reduces the effective profitability of the product, and there's some software that just doesn't get made if it doesn't have some cash behind it.
Is the combined vacation/sick thing common in the States? I've never seen it until I worked for a US company (I'm in Canada). Everywhere else either gave 3 weeks vacation and unlimited sick (with HR policies to deal with abuse), or banked sick time separate from vacation.
It's sloppy thinking to equate taking equity and showing responsibility. There are plenty of reasons to turn down equity in favor of a higher salary, and many of them have nothing to do with a lack of responsibility.

That said, I agree that talking to him is the best solution, at least for a first step. If nothing else, it shows that his output is noticed, and that what he does is important. Even if he doesn't give you a solid answer to the ? "What's up?", he knows that you've noticed his output tailing off. This gives him a good chance to self correct, and can avoid a more difficult conversation down the road. Plus, these conversations are far cheaper than an equity grant or a raise. Talk to the kid and see if things clear up in a couple of weeks.
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I think the consumer are the entities (Fujitsu, Coke, eBay, etc.) advertising on Google, not the people using Google (mom, sister, dad) for search.

From that perspective, Google being the pre-eminent search provider (i.e, where the advertisers' customers search for a product or service) this becomes relevant.

Basically, yes, an advertiser could only advertise on Yahoo! (but in the process lose quite a chunk of their potential customer base).
".. and as a gift to you all, we'll be building side by side diffs!"

(j/k -- congrats to the Github team, you can pry my account from my cold dead hands)
It was the first one that didn't suck and it was the first one that made money.

Infoseek was the first search engine I saw. They were thinking of charging people for subscriptions.

Altavista came out with a bigger and fresher index, for a year or two they were the best, but they were being totally rolled by spammers, just like the others.

Then there was Google, which was spam resistant and much more relevant than the competition. Then Google figured out how to make money and nobody's caught up since.

Arguably Bing "doesn't suck" but it doesn't make money.
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And why not?

Google could put up a lot of resistance but if the government wants something bad enough they generally get it. The other option is not to do business in that particular country, and for google that option is not on the table.
I loved the site hosting the slides—does anybody here have an invite or the ability to setup a new account? Would be much obliged.
I dunno man, that's awfully wordy.
> Insurance companies won't insure people with many preexisting conditions, and when they will insure them the rates can be completely impossible to swing.

Yes they will IF you don't let your coverage lapse.

How many people don't know about their preexisting conditions? If their preexisting conditions are serious, why are they letting their coverage lapse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Insurance_Portability_an...
I'm confused, are they saying Twitter etc have scaling problems because of sessions?

Sessions are just about the easiest thing to scale. What am I missing here?
>Does that handle double detours, where two different programs each patch the same function?

I believe Detours patches the import table inside a single process, it does not patch the call on a system wide basis, so there really is no 'two different programs each patching the same function'. In theory you could have two different pieces of code running in the same process doing that (i.e. each patching a given function), but Detours gives you a 'trampoline' function to invoke the original thing you are patching so I believe the second to patch, when invoking the trampoline function would simply invoke the first patch, which when invoking its own trampoline would invoke the original, though I haven't tried that so it may not work that way :)

VS uses this mechanism allow you to run as non-admin even though there is TONS of VS and third party code that expects to do things like write to HKLM which is a no-no if you are not an admin.
F'ing pick Bartz.
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I'm not sure if all of these assumptions follow. Marketers are in the business of finding reasons to compel you to buy new stuff, and marketers are the ones making products.

In the past, people held on to things longer, not because they lasted longer or were viable longer, but because they didn't have the resources to buy new stuff. In order for "repair culture" to set-in in any significant way, consumption culture would need to be displaced. The factors that would drive that are largely unrelated to technology. For example, a global economic depression would result in people keeping their possessions longer simply because they don't have the money to buy new.

Look at the many other products in our lives that people regularly replace before their usefulness has expired. Cars are probably the best example. When the economy is booming, people replace their cars rapidly. As it slows down, they hold on to them longer. I can't find any long term data, but the graph and caption on this page imply that the two are correlated: "The Changing U.S. Auto Industry Series: Consumer Sentiment During Challenging Times."

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2010_fotw...

I don't see any reason computers will be different. "Hackers" will remain a niche community, but I still think the many other reasons cited by the author will result in better tools for us to play with. For example, development of reasonably priced and performant FPGAs would be huge. Look at the Arduino line of products.

The future is still a bright one. I just don't see "heirloom laptops" in our future.
Small screens better than large and/or dual screens?
Agreed I took it as a joke. Honestly I think anyone that you would give the CEO title to at a multi billion dollar company should also be given the trust to pursue the chosen strategy that the board approved.

On the other hand, its a huge turn for HP to sell off the leader of a segment and try software.
My glasses are scratch-resistant polycarb and they're scratched all to hell. The aluminosilicate glass on the iPhone 4 is supposed to be stronger and more shatter resistant than Pyrex.
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When people testify before congress like this, is it under oath? Lying to congress should be considered perjury.
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The last days I saw some job ads for yc startups. These postings were no regular postings (no points, or comments) submitted by readers. Please stop this shit.

e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3023723
I hope the politicians don't confuse plain old search result rankings with smart searches.

http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/

When I enter "1+1" into Google, I expect back "2", not a link to a calculator website. When I enter a street address, I want the first result to be a map, not a link to a mapping website. When I enter a stock symbol, I want the current stock price at the top of the results, not a link to a slow loading website.

Google has had these smart search results since day one and the functionality keeps expanding much to the displeasure of some companies. One could argue that this is an example of Google "favouring" its own services, but as a consumer, that's what I expect and that's why I keep using Google! I don't want links, I want answers. Bing likes to talk about being a "decision engines", but Google did it first.
A potential profit point would be providing the legacy compatibility, any necessary personnel, etc., for so cities and other slow movers can still use the old system to set up automatic withdrawals, but implementing a client-side control over each of these hooks into your accounts. BankSimple could charge $5/mo to allow you to use the personnel that will configure this manually while people hooked into the API will be able to register hooks for free.

This could be done now by any major bank, but it isn't done because banks want you to unexpectedly lose money in hopes that you will overdraft. There are many, many problems in banking like this; not much technical overhead to solve, but the banks don't want to solve it because it stands to affect their predatory profits.
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Trademarks are super cheap. Why not? It is a unique label they wouldn't want copied.
You must've missed the videos of BlackBerry and HTC phones doing the same thing.
Banks can give these interfaces easily, like generalized ACH interfaces, like some merchants have already, but then it would expose to the general public how badly secured the entire design of the system is.
Isn't the fact that Google Maps appear at the top of any results page that might be location related the smoking gun evidence?

It's an obvious truth. I understand the need for diplomacy, but acknowledging the obvious and then explaining A) Why you do it, and B) Why you're entitled to do it just seems like the right answer. Or at least more right than saying you don't do it, and acting kind of ashamed about it.

Obviously I was facetious with my overly Jobsian approach, but I'd like to see a little more upfrontness about it.

Of course we do it. Here's why.
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I think the killer app is that this is a bank that actually cares about their customer's experience (because they know it's one of their big competitive advantages), and is coming at it from the standpoint of techies who understand what should be possible. In itself, that's not a checkbox on a feature list that you can line up against the other banks, but it should show itself in myriad ways as they rederive what a bank is from first principles. They're obviously not done. If they keep pushing, that's exciting.

Also, since they're likely to be run much more cost efficiently than most banks, they should be able to do a lot of things without the normal gotcha fees.
I was wondering this same thing! I wonder if someone can provide more recent data on how many programmers there are worldwide.
Fantastic. Thanks for the heads up. lol
> I really hate the hijacking of the term "open source" by the OSI.

The OSI was founded a couple of months after the invention of the term "open-source software", by the same people who invented the term. They aren't the ones who are "hijacking" it. You are. It's dishonest. Please stop doing it, and please stop attempting to rewrite history in order to justify your dishonest attempt to hijack the term. The people who read HN aren't so ignorant that you can fool them that way.
My two words of advice to BankSimple (well, two acronyms):

API and CLI
'Devops' is nice, but I'd be you end up getting shitty SA work and shitty code rolled into one package, instead of great versions of either...
Apologies I was mixing up your plans with one of your competitors.
And finally, the no health care provided is unacceptable

If the salary really is higher to compensate, I'd count that as a plus. Having an individual policy not tied to your job is much better.
I'm not claiming FaceOSC isn't open source just because it depends on proprietary software. I'm just trying to clarify the situation — open-source software that I can't practically run is a lot less exciting than what I originally thought this was.
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"It was the first one that didn't suck"

That's also untrue. I remember being viscerally mad at Yahoo for moving away from Inktomi because Inktomi results were much better for what I searched for...or I had gotten my searches to work for Inktomi. Who cares? Eventually, Google got better, and I started using them.

I use a lot of Google services, but when I search the web I use Google because it works. Searches have very little traction. The only thing it takes to move my searches elsewhere is consistently better results. All it takes for me to try a new search engine is Google not working well a few more times a month.
I found that when coding I'm most productive on my 12" laptop. But I use workplaces a lot to organize all my open applications. And a keyboard-driven interface (ratpoison).
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THANK YOU!!! A few users emailed to tell me they were having that same issue but I couldn't recreate it to save my life. A fix is on the way...

Glad you like the app and thanks for letting me know. Now please go tell a few thousand of your friends about it. ;)
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I get all that from First Republic now. Great web tools, no-fee access to any ATM, and fantastic phone support.
No, but following around board members (or the CEO) would make a FANTASTIC reality show!
I imagine there's also a small, but non-trivial number of people on GitHub who wouldn't be readily identified as programmers. For example, I'm acquainted with a civil engineer that's on GitHub so he can contribute to software used with his astronomy hobby.
By "got there first" he could quite likely mean that they were the first to achieve search market domination, which is entirely true.
It is under oath. This is not the kind of thing that should be prosecuted. Jeez.
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I guess crashing isn't a feature. I'm not trying to be a troll, but let's be honest -- There has never been a version of Flash that hasn't piece a complete piece of garbage when it comes to stability and performance.

If Adobe "got it" this list of "What's new" would include words like "removed" and "deprecated" and "eliminated." Those words don't appear once. They've just thrown more stuff into the kitchen sink that was already overflowing.

They have amazing developers, but there is a reason Flash is the beast it is, and this isn't moving it in the right direction in terms of delivering a stable, secure and fast experience.
It's very rare to really need multitasking when you don't do stuff that takes a long time, something that's getting less and less common, even for developers.
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> people keeping their possessions longer simply because they don't have the money to buy new

This is already the case for most of the developing world. However, with increasing automation and outsourcing, it looks as if that is a future that might not be too far away here too. There might simply not be enough jobs to go around and a new class of lifestyle may arise where you need to purchase durable and repairable goods and a market would rise around that need.
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And we all know the wildly varying calibre of people with "programmer" or "software engineer" type titles ("Source control? Which key is that?"). I wouldn't be too surprised if it was more like 10% of those capable...
I wish this wasn't a video. When someone gives a talk, rather than just posting the video, won't someone at least post the slides? Or better yet, a transcript?
Do you need an account to be able to report issues or watch projects? Interested bystanders and responsible bug-reporting OSS citizens may account for some of that.

I wonder how many of those accounts have active repos of their own?
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Is this not similar to "Free-to-Air" TV stations promoting their own shows rather than competing stations shows.

Seems identical given the fact they both generate revenue from advertising, are "anti-competitive", and free (to the viewer of ads)
> American firms have been laying-off their engineering staffs for years. In today’s world of MBA-managed companies, R&D is perceived as not being a good use of money.

I love this guy's writing.
I completely agree that startup should minimize chance on hiring wrong people (that is reason I'm arguing that pay in startup must be market rate (no 20% less as many startup try) - otherwise your are gambling with the most important asset you have).

Yes, without a portfolio, you're guessing, but the problem with requiring candidate to have portfolio is that you will narrow the search to consulting/freelancer group which might not be the best pool of candidates.

Also many intelligent people which had startups or consulting end up working for corporations (Comcast, Apple, Oracle, etc.) because... because they are very very good and corporation pay with gold to get these kind of guys.
it's anti-competitive. the question is not whether it's hurting consumers directly, but whether it is stifling competition in the spaces that Google enters, which then indirectly hurts consumers -- a lack of competition, the theory goes, slows down the pace of innovation, and gives dictatorial control over a market sector to one actor. bundling IE with Windows didn't directly hurt the consumer, either (and for a long time, IE was the best browser available on Windows), but it didn't stop the DOJ from pursuing Microsoft over it.

given how steeply traffic falls off as you get farther down a SERP (see, to name the first page I found searching for "serp clickthrough", http://www.pagetrafficbuzz.com/understanding-google-serp-cli...), it's hard to argue that (theoretically) practices which unjustly downrank non-Google properties would not constitute anticompetitive behavior when Google has a 65%+ share of search.
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I see a lot of work done in making 3D printers accessible to the point of having one in every home, but I wonder if any home improvement stores have considered having them on-site and using it to gain foot-traffic to buy the additional parts needed to complete the object.
Cool product design; anything real behind it? Or just wishful thinking.
Well, while I found the question strange, perhaps it is more of a method to gauge whether the applicant is familiar with tools like cvs/svn/git?

A reasonably experienced team developer [perhaps a dev admin guy as well] will probably know how to issue a 'svn update [url]' to obtain specific files [or directory trees] and avoid pulling the entire 500MB repository just to ensure those files are updated.
In terms of ease: twitter > facebook > linked in > salesforce.
So let's say you have a stable job with insurance but you have diabetes, or perhaps you are a cancer survivor. If you switch to this job, you will have no insurance and you will not be able to get any.

Yes, which is one of many reasons why employer-provided insurance is a horrible system. If individual policies were the norm, most people with expensive chronic conditions would have been covered before developing those conditions, and then wouldn't be trapped in their jobs or completely screwed if they were laid off.
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Anyone know of an available transcript?
Your wish is my command sir. I am hard of hearing so I try to transcribe talks. This one is more abbreviated than my last one.

Secrets of Postgres Performance

Measure Everything Before and After

Do not do Dumb Things

Cache Everything

Watch your query counts

Tuning Parameters

shared_buffers: set to 25% of available ram, move up/down 5%
to find sweet spot

effective_cache_size: planning hint that tells PG how much RAM it can expect for OS disk cache

work_mem: per process amount of ORDER BY space

Other Parameters

wal_buffers: Set to 16MB and forget it

checkpoint_segments: Increase to at least 10

maintenance_work_mem: 50MB for every GB of RAM

synchronous_commit: turn off with data loss risks

Disks. Lots of disks.

Not all disks are created equal. Faster disks make a huge difference.

Configuration of disks matters a lot. RAID-5 is bad. RAID-1+0 is good.

Separate out the WAL onto its own disk. Can 4x write performance.

Worry about CPU after your disk/RAID/filesystem configurations are more or less optimal.

Use pgbouncer to pool connections

Tablespaces

Consider putting archive or legacy data onto slower drives/volumes

Separate your data and indices onto different volumes if possible

This applies even on SANs

Best of both worlds with Rackspace and Cloud Connect

EBS volumes and Software RAID is best but scary on AWS.

Choice of filesystem matters. No journaled filesystems for your WAL, it is a journal.

Use XFS for maximum performance.

USE noatime!

Avoid queries in loops.

Count() is slow
Yes, see my response to emmett.
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Very interesting. I trained at a student reactor (TRIGA) but that was a while ago we didn’t learn that much about real-world considerations. I remember being told that CANDU happened to be near price parity with LWR in general, but that this was basically a coincidence and would change someday.

Do you have any remarks on “generation IV” reactors like VHTR and MSR? I’m particularly curious about PBR – seems like a cute idea with some possibly showstopping bugs.
If you are reading this Assistly dudes, good job!

Genuine question for people who had sold their companies: How much does it matter if a deal is made "in-cash"? What does it affect by doing a deal in cash? Does it get bought at a lower price in comparison to an all stock or a mix cash-stock sale? Who determines whether it should be all cash or not?