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I'm using GoDaddy (I wouldn't recommend them for any of their other products besides domains and maybe SSL certs), but I hear lots of votes for Dreamhost.
India becomes the 4th country after USSR, USA and Japan. It is a great moment for the developing nation.
i think that the use of capital letters will decline while most of our writing is done on screen and the world becomes smaller still. most writing systems make no distinction between capital and lowercase letters. also, eventually the american spelling system will become dominant. jerry is probably incorporating the same philosophy that is highly regarded at apple, google and by many ui designers: "if it aint needed, get rid of it"
The sports analogy is misleading.

If you want to make it to the top in sports, you need the talent, which in this case, means the right genes.

Usain Bolt will never beat Haile Gebrselassie in a marathon, no matter how much training (or doping), and vice versa.
Great. I assume you have got a chance to use iphone too. Whats your take ? Would like to hear first hand.
i just switched to http://www.gandi.net/, i wasn't able to find a single bad review.
The hashing that is used within a single memcached server is different than the hashing used to determine which server to communicate with. The memcached server does the former, which only needs to ensure low hash collisions for the keys itself is storing, the client software does the latter. You couldn't have a single memcached instance that is terabytes anyway -- can you even get a machine that would take a terabyte of RAM? -- which is why you scale memcached by adding more memcached instances.
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'Talent' is not something anybody should be proud of having. Everybody is born with a particular advantage over other people in some particular area. Some discover this advantage and put it to good use. Others do not, or never have the chance to develop it. So 'Talent' is irrelevant, because everybody has it.

The thing to be proud of is discovering your talent and actually putting it to use in a way that benefits you or other people.

In a church choir, there are tons of people talented in singing. But they don't try to develop or focus on those talents.

And of the programming crew here, perhaps some of you could have turned out to be the greatest footballers in the world. But you may not even know that the balance and co-ordination for this is within you. Instead you're here writing medicore PHP code.

To develop a talent, one needs a positive feedback loop. Many people don't get that in the area they have natural abilities in.

So, talent is irrelevant. Everyone has it. It's the development of the talent that counts.
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India has nuclear power (and weapons) and aircraft carriers. To all intents and purposes, it's a developed nation. Underestimating India on the assumption that it is "developing" or "poor" is a mistake that will bite competitor nations on the arse if they're not careful.
The next space race will be spurred on by applications that are not purely symbolic or scientific in nature. We are seeing this today with the rise of the private commercial space industry, and I fear that the military will be close behind.
Only one reason needed:

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"Spec work" refers to speculative work. A client will ask one or more designers to each submit one or more designs with no guarantee of getting paid unless their work is selected as the winning bid.

It should not be confused with pro bono work, where the work is unpaid but the relationship between client and designer is transparent.

The practice is by no means limited to the design industry, but due to the nature of work involved, is where it is most rampant.
"Poverty is still there, 80% of the population live on 20 rupees (25p) a day, according to a survey, but a large well off group has also emerged. Some 250 million are reckoned to be very well off, many of them very rich."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6946800.stm
While India is booming in many ways, it still cannot be called developed. There is still a huge divide between the rich and poor and poverty is still a major roadblock.
What is this blog thing? A site with a RSS feed? The BBC website has RSS and news aren't posted in batches. So is it a blog? Nope.

Isn't a blog supposed to be personal? The mentioned sites aren't really blogs, so the article is irrelevant.

Blogs still matter when it comes to details that aren't discussed in the media. In my native language blog posts and forum discussions are among the top results and I often learn more and understand my country better from this content than from the PR-dominated media.

I am glad that some of the bloggers I read have started micro-blogging - I am not interested in reading what they ate for dinner last night.

I like traditional personal webpages.
I use godaddy. I have used 1and1, NameCheap, ipowerweb, yahoo, etc.

GoDaddy may suck balls for a lot of things, but they are the best that I've found for having multiple domains. I don't have a lot, just a dozen or so active - but the interface is sweet, fast, and very easy to do domain locking/unlocking, nameservers, multiple edits, etc.

Of course, I'm not authority. This is just me saying what I've done, and what I like.
Web based companies like Yahoo, Google, Amazon etc should hire
engineers who can think out of the box.

And with conventional interview process they cannot hire them.

An interviewer may not appreciate these 'disruptive' engineers.
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"You could say that work, like deliberate practice, is often mentally demanding and tiring. But that's typically not because of the intense focus and concentration involved. Rather, it's more often a result of long hours cranking out what we already know how to do. And if we're exhausted from that, the prospect of spending additional hours on genuine deliberate practice activities may seem too miserable to contemplate. "

That I can agree with :( A very interesting article once you get into the description of deliberate practice and how to implement it.
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So it's a developed nation with a huge underclass.
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I do this all the time on the GitHub repo itself. I'll have an idea for a small tangential feature (like per-repo pageview stats) that I want to spend an hour hacking on to see if it goes anywhere. By branching off master, I can experiment to my heart's content and then just shelve the feature easily if I don't finish it. Then later on, getting it back is just a single command away. Git really is a hacker's best friend. It facilitates exploration and experimentation of code. Fits perfectly with a startup mentality.
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But doesn't every developed country depend on a large pool of cheap labour (i.e. poor people, working for low wages)?

You could look at is as Europe and the US just outsourcing their cheap labour, whereas India keeps it in-house?
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What a weird idea for an article
Gandi is among the most requested by our customers in our domain registration plugin (which uses the APIs of common registrars to register domains without having to leave the local control panel). Gandi seems to have a lot of fans. And a decent API, for what it's worth.
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Hi,

My company has been burned recently by Flexiscale and GoGrid, having long outages and data corruption. We need a scaleable hosting provider for our windows and linux environments. Amazon do not offer windows yet, so we are at a bit of a loss of who to try next. Our clients are disappointed with the outage times we have had, which have been unacceptable really, Flexiscale was over 1 week outage with our servers corrupted and data lost. GoGrid corrupted our database server. I was wondering if anyone can suggest other providers? We are a SME so 3tera's applogic is out of our price range.

Any suggestions would be welcome,

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Techies priorities:

1. Technology

2. Processes

3. People

Business priorities:

3. Technology

2. Processes

1. People
No. Poverty gets reduced as a side effect of technological advancement. It has always been that way.
Each version control model has it's own merits and drawbacks, and there will always be situations where one is good and another isn't. For example, while many OSS projects have switched to distributed vc's such as git and mercurial, two of the largest oss projects still remain loyal to Subversion, FreeBSD and KDE. If you search their mailing list archives, you will see that after long thought, both projects decided that the Subversion model reflects better their development style. So, no, git is not simply "better" than subversion, it just reflects a different development methodology.
I'm using bluehost.com, it's $10/year. Their checkout process is very quick.
Also see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150561
You will have to see it to believe it. Nuclear power or Space research are just one off achievements but the general GDP per capita speaks volumes.

Once our director visited India, where I live, considering expansion of the insurance business. He went back shocked that India needs at least 20 more years to be even considered for a systematic underwriting. Such is the state of development, government and people.

Its unfortunate but true that India is far away from being considered a developed nation. Education or Patriotism cannot change much in a extremely corrupted political system which controls everything in the country.
At domestika.com we've been developing a javascript XHTML purifier, for this purpose. It's based on the algorithm for parsing html, specified in the HTML5 draft, so it's a lot more powerful than the typical regular expression based solutions.

For our use we're only interested in a very small subset of XHTML. We use a rich text editor to let clients edit the contents of their web sites, and we don't want any tags included that could disrupt the design of the page. So only the most basic markup is allowed.

Should be easy to extend the script to take into account more of the elements specified in the HTML 5 draft, if anybody wants a more permissive purification...

Best of all, we just open-sourced the script.

Grab it from Github:
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still almost 100% techies in India never prefer or think about joining ISRO/DRDO which are world-class research organizations.
Trying to work on reducing poverty is like trying to fight a war on terror.You will get no where with such an abstract and undefined cause. Rather Indians have chosen to concentrate and improve on concrete goals which I am sure will lead to elimination of poverty in time.

Flying to the moon has tremendous symbolic value which will energise the raising economy. And hey it was done for just 80 million dollars, so its not exactly a huge indulgence if you think about it.
Where did you get a promise of tenure?
Totally.

More for a country like India there is no other way out than to get more and more people educated and build an awareness.

India needs yet another revolution like the Freedom Movement in the 1900's to take the next leap.
I've always felt that early music education had something to do with brain development later in life. This article helped to explain a lot. To be able to identify weak areas and purposely practice at them is something I used to do in my 20s all the time, mainly because my music education told me that this was the way to improve a poor-performing piece.

This article was a good reminder for me. I need to get back into that mindset.
I'm using name.com which costs me $6.99 per year for the first year, although I don't know what renewals will cost since this is my first year:

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Not entirely right. Before the software industry's success in India, most engineers would either aim for ISRO/DRDO or other niche government organizations.

The software industry simply offers better prospects - better pay and faster career growth.
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There's very little money in the encyclopedia industry anymore - but there's plenty in the information industry.. profits will flow to other things..
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It is always a happy moment for some of us when it comes to the end of a Friday. This is because we are going to relax from that excruciating week. I personally chose to relax by watching my favorite TV Shows (my favorite TV show is Heroes) or video (Music video, movies) or playing a video game. Are you like me or just almost like me? But what to do to watch TV episodes which I have missed?
Check out: http://gleichmann.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/building-your-own... for more tricks with varargs, generics and static imports to "pimp" things up a bit.
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Can u just upload the 128mb image you created somewhere?

I have a spare old P3 CPU. Will try to get Android running on it. I know its for mobile phones. But guessing if I can use my spare CPU with a lightweight OS(Android should be light for a P3). So that I can develop apps and do something interesting.
I'll add a fourth, which is the "killer feature" for me and my current workflow:

Git allows working from more than one system at once without requiring a constant server connection. When I'm on the go and want to make changes to my code from my laptop, I can make commits, I've got access to the full history, etc. All that's required is a pull from my desktop before I leave my office, and I've got a shell script that pulls the repositories for all my projects at once.

With something like SVN, this kind of thing was a major pain, as I'd either have to work just with my local copy on the laptop (leading to poorly tracked mega-commits), or copy the whole file system structure of the repository to the laptop, which quickly gets you into desynchronised territory. Add another developer and you're instantly dead with that kind of system.
It is an essay after all. I think Umair means to provoke thought more than anything else.

If he is at least a bit right, then businesses will naturally converge to these ideas, without requiring deep rational inquiry (the rationalism will be limited to: "those guys are doing something new and it's working, so let us also do it").
This is all fine and well for content created with Flash and Ajax, but it just doesn't make sense to me to criticize Flash and Ajax because Google can't index a menu bar within applications built with the technologies.
The nice part is that with git, one can interact with svn projects seamlessly via git-svn -- so endless local commits may be repacked to one single remote commit or push.

But svn lacks suh flexibility to interact with others. Hence git > svn, as in svn is a tiny subset of git.
Ask HN: how quickly do you answer support emails?
How do you deal with support emails? Ideally, you deal with each request within the hour. Especially when you have to back and forth a few times quick turnaround time is critical. But when you're in different timezones (and we're a European startup) it becomes far more challenging. Add to that we can only work on our startup part-time and it becomes an even bigger challenge.

How quickly do you respond to support requests? And when disaster strikes (server down/hacked/etc) is there always somebody ready to deal with it?
I sometimes feel like the technology world is similar to the fashion industry - this year CVS is, then it's suddenly SVN, and when I make the switch, everyone is using GIT, and I'm sooo last year with my SVN.

I'll wait out the GIT wave. If it's more dominant than SVN in 2011, that's when I'll switch.
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Think this depends on the pricing structure. Are you offering a free or a paid service? Is support part and parcel of this, or do you offer different levels of support?
I think you should think out of the box here.
You didn't ask the right questions.

How can you make people don't email you every time when they have problems?
Like building a good knowledge database .... give them the solution of the problem before they asked for it and so on.

How can you prevent the disaster strikes to be less then a minimum and hopefully never to happen?

For does question the right answers depends on you and what you can find on the net ....I think.
Amazon has said that they will offer Windows Server on EC2 this fall, see http://aws.amazon.com/windows/

Microsoft will also announce a cloud platform at PDC. I assume that it will be for hosting .NET code which may not be want you need.
Interesting if true, but it reminds me a bit of the xbox360 vs ps3 vs wii "which sold most" fan fights of the past where each side quoted only the most favourable numbers for their favourite. I guess the real challenge will be when Android results come out (presumably not until the next quarter?).
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No different levels of support: best-effort is the best we can do. This means that sometimes it may take a while for us to get respond to somebody, given that we have to sleep occasionally.

I'm mostly curious how other people deal with it. Do people carry a laptop everywhere so they can plug in whenever something happens? Or do people just hope for the best and deal with problems only during "office hours"?
I used to register the domains with yahoo but the renewal price its quite high.

Today i've registered one with google (godaddy) for google apps for domains and everything went ok 10$ per year and google apps for domains set up by default
Of course, prevention is better than the cure. No argument there. But no matter what you do, you will still receive some support requests. And I'm curious how quickly people here feel obligated to respond to them.

It's quite expensive to reduce the risks of disaster, and funds are tight. Mirrored servers + high level SLA costs thousands of dollars. We can't spend that to soften the blow of a disaster, which has only a 5% chance/yr per server or so of occurring.
"But code that is riddled with defects is a cameleon - one moment it works, the next it doesn't anymore. That leads to fear of refactoring, which leads to spaghetti code"

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I couldn't agree more. We just had a new feature request come in last week, which I had to implement. 20% of my time has been devoted to writing the module and 80% of my time has been devoted to integrating it with legacy code. With each successive iteration it's taking longer to develop features then it did before, all because of the "pick two" agenda
If people are paying you, then you're going to have to make an effort to not only solve their problem, but solve the general problem of support. If you weren't getting paid, you can always make the case that support services are simply unsustainable. But if you're making money presumably you've factored the cost of support into your rate, right?
It's actually the education system that is largely responsible for the "extremely corrupted political system", among other issues.
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1 minute on screen probably required a lot more than 1 minute of work though.

Films that lasts 2 hours normally take months/years to make.
Respond quickly, even if you can't answer the question immediately. The most frustrating thing if some service isn't working is if users think nobody knows or cares. Just a quick mail saying, "Hi, one of our guys is looking into it. We'll send you an update in a few hours." helps a lot.
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I hate how the godaddy UI is packed full of adverts. When you buy a domain you're bombarded with 50 or so offers that you're almost tricked into signing up to. Really not a fan.

I'm an avid namecheap user. The interface is clean and there are no adverts blocking your view. They've also just released their own API for registering domains off-site if that's your gig.
India is actually 6th to launch mission to the moon. And ISRO/DRDO are not thought to be good career choices by young Indians by far!!!
Also, I think that we will see this turn into a prestige issue with competing neighbours like Pakistan and China taking note and perhaps speeding up their mission too!!!
Just because you're deaf, doesn't mean you can't have mechanical aptitude. And what if your limitation is that you have Down's Syndrome? Clearly, some parts of human ability are genetic, and some of the variance in human ability is innate. I'm just not impressed to hear that out of a hundred smart people, only 5 became successful. That doesn't prove talent has nothing to do with it. If a study showed that the rate of success was 5% regardless of "talent," whatever that is, that would be something, but the article didn't do that.

I suppose if your limitation is mild poverty though, you'd probably have a lot more ambition to move onto something better than somebody born into a comfortable middle-class life.
India is actually 6th to launch mission to the moon. And ISRO/DRDO are not thought to be good career choices by young Indians by far!!!
Also, I think that we will see this turn into a prestige issue with competing neighbours like Pakistan and China taking note and perhaps speeding up their space missions/research too!!!
Also, it is language dependant, in German we speak French together:

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Yet this isn't really the same, because it's not necessarily about who outsells whom. That's just added icing on the cake in terms of this article. The real significance though is how the iPhone has so swiftly become both a major success and a revenue stream on the same scale as the Mac and iPod divisions for Apple. In less than eight years the company has transformed itself from a company reliant on a single niche product to one with three mostly independent but self-reinforcing and financially lucrative sales pillars. That transition is nothing less than remarkable.
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I would say that talent is how good you can be at something without having to try (i.e. without hard work), and that as such it is a continuous quantity rather than a binary one. When talent runs out, the only way to get better is through hard work. In a way, I think being too talented at something is a handicap because you never learn how to work hard, and so you are unable to progress any further than your talent will take you.
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They'll probably announce the layoffs on a Friday, to have less chance of an 'incident'.
It's not so simple. For example, if I remember correctly,git lacks a way to checkout and work on a small subset of a development tree, as it tracks whole trees at a time. This feature is something that svn and cvs offered long ago. To do that with git you have to break the tree into small sub-trees, as the X.org guys have done. This may be considered as a drawback for some people.

For more information on why git was not chosen instead of svn for FreeBSD you can look at http://wiki.freebsd.org/VCSWhy

Again, each vc has it's uses, and nothing is merely a 'subset' of another.
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