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"With most web architectures, your state is outside the process (RDBMS, NoSQL, filesystem, whatever persistent store you're using)."

I submit the fact that is nearly 100% is effect, not cause. If web technologies weren't so bad at handling multiple cores, you'd be more likely to move your web apps up to where ever the "real" computation is taking place, so as to remove a link in the chain. But since that is almost entirely not an option, nobody does it. It doesn't prove it's the "right" way to do it if it's the only way to do it right now.

Using Erlang and Haskell tech, I've actually had some great fun writing applications that are heavily multithreaded and happen to include a web server too, built in. It isn't the solution to every problem, but damn it's fun and nice not to spend so much time marshalling things over a database gap for what is basically no reason. The database goes back to just being persistence and querying, instead of communication as well.
...Sure, your car can go 150 miles per hour. But most of the time, it's not even being driven.

You need not use all of your capabilities all the time. My A/C can go to 50 degrees. Maybe there will come a day when I need that. Until then, I'll keep it above 70.
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Unfortunately, it matters to some degree. The comment indentation doesn't work properly in elinks :(
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That's asking me for a lot of effort without giving me much of a reason.
Bethesda suing over "Scrolls" when their trademark is for "The Elder Scrolls," even in the light of notch's offer to relinquish his trademark seems irrational.

But, they're still doing it.

So, what are some rational alternative reasons?

One conspiracy theory immediately comes to my mind: they want Mindcraft. They can't buy it; but, they sure as hell can "settle."
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The scary thing is that those situations feel contrived to you. But to someone who is actually in that situation this is much closer to reality than you want to believe. Sure, it's been crunched in in time a bit. But the end result is about the same. You can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps when all your time and energy is spent desperately treading water.
Like many others, I also ended the game ahead at the end of the month with a fair amount to spare. It was't necessarily easy, I had to critically think about each decision. I also consider myself fairly 'financially fit' in making decisions. Many of us are problem solvers and entrepreneurs so the fact that we can 'beat' the game says nothing about the difficulty less educated have in real life.
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Nope, the 65816 address space is flat. If you read the docs and look at the opcodes I see how it can give the impression of being segmented (with all the "bank" terminology), but it's a full 24-bit address space with no restrictions.
Up until the '50s, there were mostly single winners; now, there hasn't been a single winner since 1992.
But your previous posts say that you don't buy it because it's too difficult to do so. Which one is it?
I would add a parallel between Youtube and Dropbox.

Then compare the coming gDrive with Google Video and remind us that Google Video was unable to disrupt Youtube userbase.
in America you are still in a first world country!! have you ever lived in Calcutta??? Oh please come on, stop the whining!
Yes, and the red highlight when you select the text doesn't work in Firefox 7.
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I work for one of those businesses and we were affected. The reason we didn't have a backup line, is because the other major ISP (Virgin) doesn't have its fibre in our region. Therefore, BT is our only option.
There is still a ton of information that you could provide to the new users visiting your home page. It is your job to convince the users to send that first email. Suggesting that people create throw away email accounts does not sound like the best user on-boarding process. This is where examples, or better descriptions on your home page would help.
You can't. Trademarks have domains in which they are functional. Microsoft owns "Windows", an English word, but only in the computer domain (whichever one that is). They do not own the word Windows. The system already does not let you simply trademark English words.
I'm curious why you got that error. Could you please try again and see if you get the same error again? I'm trying to find out what went wrong.
The editor in chief doesn't need to be the center of attention, I agree. BUT in TechCrunch's case he was. Mike had a swagger about him and how he wrote - which I think helped define how the others wrote. I think that's a big part of what made TC what TC is. So in this case, I think it does matter. Can Erick change how the ship is run and still be successful? Sure, but it's going to be hard.

BTW, I wasn't clear in my original post. My post was in reference to how both articles were written, not about the content. Swagger vs no swagger.
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It is broken for scala!!

http://gigglebang.com/?q=scala
This is also why IT admins become fascists over the long haul. Turns out nothing is compatible with anything, especially turn-key software. Turns out that no vendors care to test with any other vendors. Turns out that everything is in some state of brokeness and the only sane solution is to limit complexity and variety and focus on x amount of technologies that we have time to test and make work.

This is why you get a PC without admin rights, set to autoupdate, with our default image, our security policies, and our unpopular defaults (IE9 in my case) but with an option for chrome for those who request it.

I have no idea how home users get by. I hear about their problems and its sounds like a nightmare of poorly written default (your average home laptop is a minefield of OEM junk and a malware magnet). I suspect this is why Apple is doing so well. They abstract away the complexity and actually make their products compatible with their OS and other offerings! Toss in the fact that OSX isn't as targetted by malware, and I can see the allure. On the corporate side, linux is the same deal. We all are comfortable with the command line tools we learned in high school/college/whenever and they haven't changed. Its like an old friend. Sure, it may not generally "just work" but its easier to tinker and fix than a closed system.
The concept of the site, or the description of the site? What seems taxing?
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That's actually a great question. I've thought of YC as more of the Ivy League experience. Exclusive. Great brand. (No disrespect intended). And, I think that (unintentionally?) pg and the YC partners have modeled a lot of YC around an Ivy League model.

The question that I'm interested in with Hackers & Founders, is how do we teach thousands of engineers how to build great products, and once doing that, how to you help them build great startups, and then how to you help those founders turn around and be serial entrepreneurs.

Tons of VC's that I talk to tend to turn up their nose at our community, and proceed to tell me, "Send me your Rock Stars".

My question to them, is... "Where do rock star entrepreneurs come from? Do they descend from heaven on a cloud like Mark Zuckerberg? Or, do they try a bunch of things, fail a lot, and then slowly become rock stars?"

I've had beer with 5 out of BusinessWeek's "Top 20 entrepreneurs under 30" two or three years ago. Did I know they were rock stars then? Nope. No clue.

I'm really interested in having H&F, and all the grass roots startup communities that we partner with around the globe be a support system to failing entrepreneurs. If entrepreneurs fail enough for long enough, they generally improve their entrepreneurial skills with each startup they create. Eventually, they become rock stars. YMMV
> A huge number of bugs are obvious to the eye, but have high odds of escaping tests. Doubly so in code where there's no "right" output to test for: as in the case of any non-optimal optimization function.

I agree in principle, but your example is off. Optimization is testable, and even provable. If your optimizers doesn't rely on ad-hoc techniques, you can also usually give an estimate of how far away your solution is from the true optimum.
So it's a DNS block? That will be incredibly easy for Belgians to bypass...
You get downvoted a lot. shrugs
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Actually, I'm mostly in the second category too. Err... that's why I like Google. I've just got lots of feedback on my products from people in the first category. But I'm aware that people don't always act as they say.
Not exactly true, the non-BT option is primarily Virgin. Virgin has a pretty good infrastructure (at home I have 50Mbps broadband from them) and generally they are cheaper. BT on the other hand is more expensive. If available I'm sure businesses would select Virgin. But we (I work for one business that is stuck with BT) have no option but BT because Virgin doesn't have its fibre in our region.

While BT runs over telephone wires. Therefore is more pervasive in the UK.
threads achieve better cache-locality

Why do you say that? What exactly do you mean? Please assume I'm not a server hacker (I'm not, but I AM a computer scientist).

(BTW, not trying to pick - I am genuinely curious if there is something here I wasn't aware of, which I consider very likely.)
The indentation is fine on IE7 mobile (WP7).
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Vibe probably wouldn't have a record of your phone number, just your ip. If messages were sent over SSL and detailed logs weren't kept, the best anyone could say is that you accessed the site at that time. It's not perfect, but it does have the potential to be reasonably good.
We survived with multiple 3-MiFis.
Given that it does go to YC it makes even more sense to have it be the YC site icon so if the YC guys ever change that logo/icon HN would automatically get it. Then again a lot of mobile browser don't fetch the site icon so couldn't it just be a 'Y' in an orange box with no icon fetching at all?
Bethesda makes awesome games, but their legal dept is clearly full of industrial grade a-holes. Notch has clearly show he is willing to back down. Get that in writing & call it a day. Instead they decide to take it to court.

Sounds like lawyers trying to justify their existence.
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Okay. Good point. How would you describe it through words? Keeping in mind people don't want to use their personal emails. Suggestions welcome.
People still using classic security measures for virtual server security
Things have gotten better for most people because of moral advances and technological advances. But government has gotten worse and has slowed down progress.
Well I think you should work for free as well then.
When I read articles like this, my first impulse is to pour money into equities.
Some of us browse HN at work with prehistoric browsers or micromanaging IT departments that won't even let us run a portable version of Chrome.

Plus, my beautiful phone is IE.
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It isn't specific to Node. What's specific to Node is that there's a whole bunch of hype convincing people that Node is the epitome of multitasking, when in fact it's just yet another event-loop based system, subject to the same foibles. The same very well known foibles.

Node isn't a bad technology and I don't hate it. Well, I personally hate working in the event-loop paradigm (due to abundant experience) but that's no discredit to Node, which simply is what it is. The hype is toxic. The hype is basically full of flat-out lies. It teaches people that the state-of-the-art as of 1990 or so is the state of the art today. The hype claims Node is blazing a new path in the field of concurrency, when in fact it's traveling a 4-lane highway with fast food and hotels, while putting blindfolds on its partisans to hide them from the fact they're actually smack dab in the middle of civilization.
manage which of your data structures are shared and which are not

That is exactly what you are doing when you decide which of your data structures go in memcache and which don't.
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"...for some categories".

As revorad said, ugly ads definitely work for some categories but there's no real consensus why. What categories?

Seems to be self-service C2C sites (CL, PoF) and low-end consumer products (diets, affiliate stuff) in industries that feel amateurish/scammy at the best of times - so is the poor design a trust builder only when it feels like an individual has spent money on the design?

Is there a point where this tips and poor design breaks trust rather than grows it? Will a web development company with terrible design convert better for some clients? Lawyers? Hospitals?
> Selflessness gone awry may play a role in a broad variety of disorders, including anorexia and animal hoarding, women who put up with abusive partners and men who abide alcoholic ones.

As an alcoholic man who has to put with an abusive partner, I find this paragraph offensive
Good news: It's in the app store, works with Lion (10.7), lots of new features and support for GNTP
Bad news: It's in the app store (for $1.99), you MUST have Lion to use it.
Yes. http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2008/10/laches-and-equi.html...
I don't understand what's free market about mortgage-backed securities, bank bailouts and giving the banking elite a monopoly on money through the federal reserve...
Questions about the demo:

- When will it actually be accessed? Can we continue make updates after the application deadline?

- Should the demo be tailored so that anyone can use it without one of us guiding him?
> "It starts you out as a single parent with no savings and evidently no family members who will help you out...without any acknowledgement of the fact that broken homes, divorce, out-of-wedlock births, a lack of a high school diploma, and a failure to save are the major causes of poverty."

Some people find it useful to walk a mile in the shoes of those affected by the policies they support. Whether you might ever choose or have to wear those shoes personally is rather beside the point.

A dialogue tree that allowed the player to navigate life choices at an intellectual remove from real human life would simply reinforce our societal tendency to dodge the question of "what do we do with the struggling" by asserting that "I know better than them."

edit: effect/affect
Why 100% split? Why not a fractional share with a dollar cap, like social security? That could rednce the effect of freeloading, while still providing security in case the richest of you feels less generous in the future.
I guess people that work/contract at BigCorp.

From 1-2011 until 5-2011 I contracted for a company that had no internet for most and IE6 for some.
Google's redesign has them looking better and more like Apple. I used Google Apps before but now that they've been streamlined they no longer look like they could crash at any moment.
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You're being sarcastic, but it's not really a clever or original distinction. It's an obvious distinction that should always be kept in mind when comparing physical and non-physical goods. Your moral outrage falls flat.
I know this is only thinly related but I thought I'd post something that I heard from an investor that I met with a few months ago that we decided not to pursue a career with regarding app development for enterprise blackberry stuff... Disclaimer: I'm just posting his point of view and don't necessarily agree with it despite seeing his side of the argument.

My partner (at the time) and I met with him regarding an application we developed during our last year of University that had seen a lot of industry interest during our formal presentation. He wanted to meet with us and discuss helping us market the app because he was close friends with my friend's family and helped students like us previously.

His only real question to us regarding the app was our marketing plan. "Sell it" is not a very good pitch despite us not knowing what-so-ever what we wanted to do with it (or what we were capable of doing without shooing investors away). He brought up the point that whether we want to or not we should not be giving it away for free. Why?

His argument was that if we were to put a few months of effort into development of an app to give away for free we were essentially robbing ourselves. I myself am a strong avocate for OSS and had a hard time agreeing with him, I gave him a perplexing glace in favor of a "wtf". He continued by saying that if we were to dedicate that much time only to give it away we were robbing ourselves of those hours of labour we invested as well as preventing any other student/developer/whatever from being able to make a living from the product line. By us giving away something for free that had a real-world value we robbed others from entering the market to make a dollar.

His argument was that we must charge something for our work and if we don't want to make any money to give the proceeds away to charity. By doing that we could allow others to enter the market and make a dollar to fuel future efforts and development.

Its sort of a funny way to think of things and sometimes I find myself agreeing with him but I'm never certain... I felt the idea of "free software" preventing the developers from making their share of the effort is a good example of how his side of things can be right in many cases.

Again, not saying this is my viewpoint so don't get all "up in my grill" :)
we already provide the bare minimum...we have welfare, social security, unemployment benefits, hospitals that are required to treat your broken arm even if you can't pay for it...all sorts of help from churches and other charitable organizations. i don't think there is any threat of anyone in the united states starving to death unless they are anorexic, addicted to drugs, infested with tape worms and too stubborn to see a doctor, or lost in the woods for a long time. what you're thinking of is a star-trek sort of world. we're a long way off from that. we're still in the jungle baby. just be glad you're alive and breathing and stop trying to convince uncle sam to take even more of my money or i'll just stop working and play call of duty all day and let you program all these websites for me.
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> But these plans can always be tailored to address the needs of the buyer, and of the provider.

Unfortunately, as any startup who's tried to buy health insurance can attest, this isn't really true if "the buyer" isn't a giant corporation. If you're an individual or 5-person business, the market is completely broken. The main problem is that insurance only really works if you can effectively pool risks, and health insurance is difficult to pool risks in unless it's mandatory in some manner. A large employer agreeing to sign up every employee with no opt-out is the only real way to create a mandatory-coverage pool that seems to consistently work in the U.S.
Erm, at the risk of being (equally) trite, one data point doesn't corroborate anything except for the somewhat fluffy claim that some good researchers are also good educators.
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Fixed. It should work now.
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The rails ecosystem moved to github bringing along the community. Ruby eggs, one basket.
There have been some studies showing things like divorce are "contagious." Basically when one person in a social circle gets divorced, the likelihood is high that others will also get divorced. I haven't seen a study that separates causation vs correlation on this one.

I wonder if the professional burnout has a similar "contagion" aspect. A bunch of us are getting burned out. People who are borderline burned out, see the similar behaviors, mindsets, etc, and cross over the line. And since we're all super-connected and many of us are super-vocal, the effect is magnified.
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Yes, true. Patch the library if the annotation is wrong :)
I don't see how my posts contradict each other. I do not think "buy an optical drive, pay through the nose and wait a month for an imported CD to arrive" is a reasonable condition when the trivial alternative of pirating it exists. It's up to content creators to set saner conditions.
I can't think of anything more toxic to an already struggling company than for the leadership to not be fully engaged. HP needs full-time adult supervision, and whether or not she's got dreams of getting elected again Whitman will continue to try to be a rainmaker at least for the California GOP. Not going to end well.
> Not everyone shares your narrow requirements when using a general purpose language.

IMHO, if the resource difference between processes and threads is significant for your workload then moving away from an interpreted language is probably a step to take before going threaded. i.e. remove the overhead of the interpreter, before you worry about overhead of a GIL.

Also note that a GIL gives better performance on a single-threaded workload, since you avoid the overhead of fine-grained locking.

So, asking for GIL removal is asking all users of the language to pay a 'threading tax', when it isn't at all clear that there would be any real benificiaries (since the above argument can be made that those workloads would be better in a different language).

I'm not rabidly anti-thread, but I think it is important to note that there are good reasons (not just laziness) why you might not want the GIL removed - i.e. I don't think it's as simple as being bad practice.
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" >> /etc/resolv.conf

problem?
I think you answered your own question. Spend the money on on people instead of the military.
I am a fan of TVA type government workfare. It is not close to perfect, but it is better than the MIC. I would rather have contracters skimming graft off of construction and litter cleaning and boarding schools (my pet solution to inner city collapse) and science labs and music and dance troupes,than off of bombs and desert deployments.
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Thanks for the response. I actually have a ton of ideas and have done market validation. The problem I have is of implementation.
i bet if they were as successful as angry birds, rovio would (rightly) have asked them to change their name
TDD while pairing is even better.
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Wooooow! I can't believe that's actually in the NYT! Downvote me into oblivion, but I gotta say it. The NYT finally pegged contemporary liberalism =)
> what's free market about mortgage-backed securities

It's an aggregation of assets to reduce variance.

I won't invest in a single mortgage because of the variance. However, I'll consider investing in a small piece of 1000 mortgages.

Of course, I'll want to know what those mortgages look like and what the mortgages in the market look like. (Fannie lied about the makeup of the market, significantly understating the fraction of sub-prime, which threw off everyone's risk calculation.)

> bank bailouts and giving the banking elite a monopoly on money through the federal reserve...

It's a vehicle for funding politicians and buying votes.

"Nice bank there, be a pity if it was burned down by folks who can't afford a mortgage that they can't pay for".
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Meg told us specifically (yes, "us" -- I am an HP employee) that she would drop her political activities while CEO. But as others have pointed out, this fundraiser was surely already scheduled.
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