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diamondhead, while I disagree with your tone I do agree with your premise. That is, with social bookmarking you create an army of curators and this data can certainly rival search engines (for any topic that has achieved critical mass).

One feature I would love to see with pinboard (or delicious) is recommended 'bookmark buddies'. That is, someone whose bookmark tastes overlap with mine (weighted by how rare the bookmark is) [1]. Recommending specific web articles is hard, but I find that following the full bookmark feed of 2 or 3 carefully selected individuals can often be more relevant than generic recommendation services (e.g. Stumble).

[1] This would have been possible on the old delicious site but delicious had severe throttling in place to prevent crawling this data. Now it appears avos has removed the list of 'co-bookmarkers' entirely from the website.
He states "They've already tried going through WIPO and lost. Now they are telling me that if I don't accept a ridiculously undervalued offer they are going to file litigation against me. I am a college student and can't afford a lawyer. Can anyone give me advice? What should I do?"

Something is a little fishy about this.
It doesn't make sense that he won the UDRP without an attorney but hasn't been able to figure out an attorney that can give him free legal advice on these issues. (Ref: reddit comments) (See http://www.esqwire.com who gives free advice and has probably won the most cases). In order to respond to the UDRP he would have had to do some research and would have turned up the obvious suspects in this industry (Berryhill, Goldberger etc.)

While people have won UDRP's without a response (I've seen it happen) it is pretty rare.
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If you could have infinite coding speed, what project would you work on?
Just a note - it's 25% of employed graduates that go to consulting/finance. Not of all graduates. This is a significant difference.
Singapore and Malaysia reads Simplified Chinese and not Traditional Chinese.

Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan reads Traditional Chinese. While simplified Chinese is getting much more popular in Hong Kong, some of Hong Kong's traditional Chinese is meant to be read in Cantonese, a dialect. So it's not so straightforward.

I doubt there is a correlation between Traditional/Simplified Chinese and purchasing power.
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I am interested to follow how your progress with your ADHD medication goes -- are you keeping a log anywhere?

Have you been able to get a full 8 hours of sleep every night?
Why use quicksort over arrays when you can do mergesort over lists and get 1) stable behavior and 2) solution to maximum and k-max problems due to laziness? Do you really need arrays?

And quicksort for arrays in ST monad wouldn't copy anything unnecessary.

Actually, I've seen many claims that some algorithms are inherently mutable. So far none stand close scrutiny.

Matrix operations? You better copy intermediate results, that way you'll be safer and faster (parallel algorithms). Good compilers do that behind the curtain (array privatization).

Sorting? Use maps or lists, that way you won't forget something important.

Graph operations? Immutable (inductive) graphs are slower by a constant multiplier and sometimes are faster than their mutable counterparts (tree-based maps are faster for changes than arrays).

The last one is even more amusing when applied to compiler optimizations (i.e., to non-trivial graph algorithms): http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2443 Pure version is less buggy, faster (!) and allows more optimizations.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the fees seem way too high for this to be a viable option for anything of scale. Even PayPal's fees are lower, and I get credit card fees of only 2.15% + $0.25 from a company offering a similar service. Yes, Stripe is beautifully designed and simple to use, but since I'm already setup somewhere else with significantly lower fees, I don't see the appeal. Are they specifically targeting small developers?
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It's just a regular, multi-headed large company.
I am aware of that phone, but I was never able to find them for sale at anything close to a reasonable price.
Here's our Top 10 coffee shops list - http://dcfounders.com/top-10-coffee-shops-in-washington-dc/ - we're no seattle, but you work with what you have :-D
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Actually they aren't - they did try though. Currently they use a single-operator ruleset.

Locomotives have a refrigerator, hot plate, coffee maker and stereo with CD player and iPod hookup for the crew member. There's one on YouTube who has done cab rides all the way from the mine to Port Hedland. I think he is rather bored :D
So fyi, just published the new list of Top 10 Coffee Shops for Entrepreneurs in DC (http://dcfounders.com/top-10-coffee-shops-in-washington-dc/). For when you need a break.
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What is "key money" ? A bribe? Or is it security deposit?

Can you imagine them marketing a 660cc car in the USA? I'd love to have one but it will never happen.
> I'm more inclined towards Yglesias' counter argument in the second link, in that the US has plenty of room to raise taxation

Whether the US could have more revenue doesn't address my point that the US has sufficient revenue to satisfy the demands of folks asking for more revenue. Given that, it's unclear why more revenue would satisfy those demands.

The US govt spends more, per person, than does Canada, yet we get fewer benefits. When that changes, we can talk about more spending per person.

> I doubt anyone had a racially enlightened point of view at the time.

Based on what? Mark Twain certainly shows otherwise.

> If they opposed civil rights, they were certainly not progressives.

Sure they were. In fact, today's progressives claim them as their ancestors. Yes, including Wilson, Holmes, and Sanger.
Mh, i don't think giving points based on code size is a good idea, developers really really shouldn't try hard to minimize the code size, this just leads to unreadable garbage.
Time to Solve and Speed to Run is ok, imo..
I've seen "lazy eye" used two ways. One is exactly what you're talking about. I had it (and the corresponding pirate eyepatch treatment) as a kid. The other is when one eye doesn't physically track with the other.
Nice. I've been stopped as well. The most recent time it was raining and I had just been tossed off my bike at a fast speed. Shortly thereafter a cop stopped me, and while pondering how I would explain my situation in nihongo, he called in the bike ID, and as soon as he saw the blood all over me he let me go pretty quickly.
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The reality is running software (proprietary or FOSS) is costly...A large DB operation will be an expensive overhead regardless.

I wasn't commenting on SQL vs NoSQL and which will add more value. I was making a remark on Oracle's insinuating tone "Your developers are probably poorly skilled, your not going to change that, using new tools require new skills, you'll fail at that because your not Google - don't even try"

Regardless of my personal opinions, what happened to striving for excellence?
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Well, one reason that forces itself is, that the 'value' part is not homogenous, primitive type. It is often kind of tree or graph, with possibly different branches for each key.
..and if you've used slony in anger, you know using slony isn't really an option.
Cool, just what I need to pre-edit lengthy texts for Reddit.

But wait, it's only for OS X?
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Yes it does - good point, but the sigil-tastic snippet in the parent reads the whole file into an array, too - it's just harder to tell.

Plus the parent snippet is not Ruby 1.9 compatible.

Anyways, my version was just to illustrate that sysadmin scripting in Ruby does not have illegible.
I know about this but as a web developer/designer I would prefer not to mess with anything other than the resolution. I too am thinking the possibility of using an external screen and use the Macbook Air as a desktop because it's really fast. But I'm very sad about this outcome.

You know when I tried setting it to Medium or Large it almost looked like Metro!
"He is probably benefiting in some way (personally or politically)"
... besides being a politician he is also the chairman of the German music industry organisation. There you go.
Or, as designed by academia and force-fed into the business structure, the PMBOK. http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Project-Management-Body-Knowledg...
>> People try Facebook’s stuff all the time—just look at the adoption rates for their iPhone and iPad apps

An otherwise interesting article, but there is no iPad app.
Amazon should do a tablet with a LCD screen on one side and eInk on the other. They can share a lot of components (battery, CPU, radios), so it may not be as bulky as one might think. And then you could read a book inside on LCD, step outside, flip the device over and you're reading the same page in eInk. Likewise for webpages.
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What about the infamous TIOBE Index? http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
There should be atleast 3 other languages before ruby then ;)
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So far we have signed up Sellers for more than 25 products categories; the Buyer list is growing as well.
I think I'm going to subscribe just to say thanks for all his previous efforts.
> Facebook's Browser would be Google's Worst Nightmare perhaps

Fixed the headline to be truthful.
Amazon don't have access to Honeycomb source which supports larger screen. May be it is one of the reasons to think about buying webOS. Don't know how difficult it is to add support for larger screen in Android 2.2/2.3 though.
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> Restrictive covenants were not rare, especially in the post-war suburbs. The first modern suburb, Levittown, NY, was racially segregated.

Pointing to an instance doesn't make the "not rare" case.

Levittown takes good pictures, but it isn't representative of post WWII housing development.

Moreover, you're still ignoring the fact that even if covenants were't rare before, the affected housing is a very small part of today's housing stock. As a result, covenants which haven't been enforceable for 50 years can't have much, if any, effect today.
"NoSQL databases may only have partial or no sql support."

Really?! I never would have guessed. I mean, it's not like it's right there in the name.

They go on to state that if you need RDBMS features, you should use an RDBMS. My mind is being completely blown here.
Why should people paying fuel taxes who do not own railroads, subsidize track repairs for private companies?
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If the screen uses 30% of your battery then switching to e-ink would be a 30% improvement at best. Hardly Nokia 1100 territory. Though it would be so slow and annoying to use that you wouldn't use it as much, so that would "help" too. Also, need I remind you that your Nokia 1100 has an LCD screen?
I'm currently sitting at 2 million users generating data, and that number has grown from 1 million users in the last month and a half (100% growth in under two months).

I suppose I should've clarified that sooner. Having had some experience scaling MySQL at growing businesses, I am now trying to anticipate an explosion of analytics requirements alongside an explosion of user growth and activity caused by feature growth.
I dont't want to generalize, but if there is one thing I have learned from my limited experience working in both a Title I HS district and a fairly affluent K-12 district is that these problems are very, very complex.

aik, Here's one example of a downside: Even relatively well-performing school districts can struggle when their student population starts moving to a new charter school in the area. Since many of the costs for education are fixed within a certain margin, it becomes difficult to shed costs to compensate for the lost funding for each student that left the district.
For any of you Washington DCists - following up on demand, I just published The DC Founders list of Top 10 Coffee Shops for Entrepreneurs in Washington DC - http://dcfounders.com/top-10-coffee-shops-in-washington-dc/ . Let me know if you have some others. Enjoy!
I saw a grey-scale style calendar (branded with a pharmaceutical brand) in a pharmacy the other day. I asked if it was an e-ink display and they said yes. Then they realised it was just an old-style flip-page calendar which LOOKED like e-ink.
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Who cares? Canada and Mexico account for a trillion each as well. The point is, European Union is not one country.
Looks great, always good to see a UK based company innovating.

I've been using wasitup.com and just the other day I was thinking why aren't there any reasonably priced monitoring services for small single site owners? You've filled that gap and innovated at the same time. Congrats, I wish you every success.

Think you have a typo, search about section for Earlywarn instead of Erlywarn.
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This article is a (well written) startup distraction.
All the user needs that the article lists and that a Facebook browser would answer to (instant notification, always on chat, etc.) could be just as easily be answered by a simple toolbar, on top of another browser.

As for the adoption of a FB browser, I would be curious to see how it would fare. I'm pretty convinced that most early adopters which sustained the initial adoption of Firefox and Chrome would never use a FB browser, because they would be worried about Facebook becoming the sole owner of the internet - and because they're perfectly able to be always on on FB, should they want to.

Could the typical Facebook user become an early adopter? Everything's possible, but it wouldn't be very easy.
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That LoCreep app sounds horrible. Often the "creeps" are just socially awkward guys, and the last thing they need or deserve is public humiliation. Didn't we just go over this with the MTG champion?

Otherwise, this sounds like a great event.
I personally hate developing when I don't have much control over the project or when I don't see any return.
Maybe you should see if he is happy with how the project is going. Does he agree with the decisions being made so far?

Don't be too controlling over his work either. Ask him what he thinks he needs to be working on and let him do it, let him come up with the solutions to problems. I hate it when I am told, 'work on this', then when I finish it I'm told, 'no make it more like this'. Most the time I know more about what is needed so just let me do my job. If you have a suggestion fine but make sure it's just a suggestion.

If you can't resolve the issue you should probably find another programmer. Try to find one who is passionate and really wants to work with you on this project. You're just going to be wasting your money and time otherwise.
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Ross's talk is significantly more deferential in tone than the Arstechnica writeup may suggest.
This from the guy who blames it on women voting:

http://gawker.com/5231390/facebook-backer-wishes-women-could...
Can't vote this up enough.

The use of NoSQL is for very specific scenarios, don't make the mistake of thinking it's a good object store replacement. As a business guy this is definitely not a decision you should be making, let your team use what they're happy with, they'll get a lot more done that way.
I guess this boil down to the following four points:

- NoSQL is good in scaling: but do you really need to scale? Is your business so great to handle 1M users? Simple MySQL (and PostgreSQL when mysql is not ok) will go a long way for many many installation.

- NoSQL are in good in scaling but it is pain to maintain it: it hard to hire somebody who knows it good, there are no good management tools, etc.

- NoSQL requires you to make your application logic more complex and not portable

- There is no clear NoSQL leader and clear mainstream knowledge. And a lot of these NoSQL implementation requires some secret sauce known only to engineers maintaining and developing big NoSQL installations at Facebook, Google and Amazon.

In short, for startups, NoSQL is one more variable introducing risks and unknowns. So I think startups should not go NoSQL unless that is the core of their offering.
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The biggest reason why there are Haskell packages wrapping C libraries is not for performance, but to reuse good C libraries, and because Haskell has an excellent interface for C libraries. Many people prefer to write Haskell for computationally intensive tasks than C/C++. Depending on the problem it is possible to get within 2x the raw speed of C and you much nicer code to maintain and much easier concurrency/parallelism opportunities.

I have not found it to be the case that existential types are commonly needed (and need to be forced on the user). Maybe you are in a different problem domain. I find Haskell's regular polymorphism to work very well for 95+% of my use cases.

Fork is not negligible to handling a request, but pre-forking theoretically could be. In practice, COW fork does not automatically solve multi-core. The Ruby garbage collector is not COW friendly and thus there is little memory savings from COW (unless you use the REE interpreter which has a slower COW friendly garbage collector but saves on memory and GC time). I haven't looked at this for other languages but I assume this is still a limiting issue. Also, you are still stuck doing load-balancing between your processes, which will limit or complicate your deployment. I don't know much about Erlang other than async IO is built into the language, which is why I mention it in the same breath as Haskell.
There is, or at least was, actually at least one dual LCD/eInk display. It is called the Pixel Qi.
In another comment you said you're only asking him to work 1 to 5 hours a week. If the estimate 150 hours, he's got 9 months to 3 years to get the project done. If he started in May and has already gotten 100 hours in, he's far ahead of schedule.

In any case, few things of any importance are achieved in 1 hour per week. That is how much time I spend keeping my car clean.

Why don't you just hire a backend team in Poland like the frontend team you mentioned is doing a great job on the front end? Unless he's a genius and you're doing something really hairy I can't imagine it would take anyone long to understand the code. Just make sure you set commitment and deadline expectations properly this time.

It's more than a bit passive aggressive to call him a dick while posting under your own name on a public message board that loads of programmers (including probably him) read. The guy you have now will be relieved when you let him go.
The post mentions Montreal. Where it does snow, it rains seldom during winter and sunny, but cold, days are the norm from December to March.
You can't generalize on the weather in a 10 million square kilometer country.
You might want to include in your offer some high quality picture or HD vid of the message on the Times Square screen.

Assuming you guys are great with capturing a "scene" in an impressive way, this would make it at least for me much more interesting. You could include there some photomontage of the final result already on the website.

Maybe in the end the most important shoot of the movie is going to be the one of the sponsors displayed at Times Square. A true money sho(o)t ;)
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Technically the "residence" that Project Byzantium is being built at is HacDC (http://www.hacdc.org/), your friendly neighborhood hackerspace. Alpha should be ready by October 16th. If you'd like to volunteer your time or skills just jump on the mailing list at http://hacdc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/byzantium

(personally i'd like to see mesh networking become a simple cross-platform desktop application which handles all the heavy lifting of routing and connecting ad-hoc clients, but that's more difficult than tying together some open source software on Linux)
Why use quicksort over arrays when you can do mergesort over lists

Sure, you can do merge sort. Except that the list split step in Haskell is O(n) in time, while it is constant when using arrays. As well as merging lists, since you have to 'reattach' the second list as the tail of the first list.

And quicksort for arrays in ST monad wouldn't copy anything unnecessary.

You have to copy the data from whatever representation you had to something that lives in a memory block in the ST monad.

Actually, I've seen many claims that some algorithms are inherently mutable. So far none stand close scrutiny.

You have probably never read Okasaki...

The rest of your argument proposes that slow is better because of persistence. First, persistence is often not required, second persistence can also be implemented in a mutable language.
The best part of the article is the links. They also provide a competent summary for some concepts, like CAP, BASE and PACELC.

They totally fail at argumenting them though, having a strong bias towards their products. As expected.
> Yakuza = violent means to an end, US Loans = non violent means to a same end

And you don't consider the distinction between being violent and non-violent pretty damn significant? Also, consumer credit holders doesn't get to repossess your home, only your mortgage lender does that.
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> Our other (kinda founder) who has been with us since the beginning does the back-end programming, without him it would've been hard. We are paying him about $25/hr below his market pay, but he went to college with me so he is helping with discount. The backend shouldn't be more than about 150 hours of true programming (not including research time).
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> Here is the situation. The programmer is a dick. He has a house and baby so we try to cut slack, but he keeps on missing deadlines. He has almost no communication skills when we want to meet and work, he doesn't show passion like a founder.

I count six red flags. You're paying below market rate; your programmer is a college friend who probably agreed to take the job as a favor; you've given a time estimate which is probably wrong; you excluded "research time" from the time estimate when you clearly shouldn't have; and you show obvious disrespect and no gratitude.

And you wonder why you aren't getting his best work?
This could work for personal browsing, but I'd imagine few people would want to be seen using the Facebook browser at work.
There still isn't a built-in way in postgres to do master-master replication.
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I've been a beta tester since day one (and submitted a few of the updates).

Happy to answer any questions from a beta tester perspective?
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Facebook probably doesn't need "early adopters" per se. A big banner across the top of Facebook would drive tens of millions of downloads within days and this would generate tons of ambient discussion on Facebook feeds. Assuming normal people don't turn against it (possible if the right frantic all caps messages start being spread around), it would definitely make a dent in IE usage.