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But we can build big buildings. Large projects tend to fall in on themselves.
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It seems as though someone read half an article about 99.999 uptime and decided to be clever.
amasad: After a 5 minute play my first impressions are 'awesome!'. Some feedback:

I selected QBasic then changed my mind but couldn't immediately figure out how to get back to the list of the languages. Clicking the logo of a website usually takes you back to the 'home page', which in this case I consider to be the list of languages. You have buttons at the top right, with the lambda taking me back to the language chooser. Maybe button labels, even tooltips would help. But I would definitely make the logo the 'home' button. Even refreshing the page didn't take me back.

Anyway, a minor complaint. A super-cool effort. I will now go play with it some more.
I think you mean

Price = K/(1-uptime)
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Come on, this is possible.

First we're going to have to get the governments of the world together to agree to remove all nuclear weapons. Second would be getting that asteroid tracking and deflection system working. Quantum physics does unfortunately predict that the earth might flick out of existence with some small probability, but by distributing the website across the universe we can reduce this probability arbitrarily (and numbers approaching p=0.9999.. are the same as p=1). The client is going to need to budget for this.
Sky-blue-pink. A colour never before seen?
Good response.

I recall reading (think this was in Too Big To Fail) that the deciding powers were afraid that if there was another Lehman, cash would stop coming out of the ATM machines. This is what prompted AIG and a few of the other shotgun marriages.
I love sed too, but you should mention QED (1965!) here, which is actual proto-mother of almost all text-related goodies. Let me quote a nice wikipedia paragraph, which covers it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)

ed went on to influence ex, which in turn spawned vi. The non-interactive Unix command grep was inspired by a common special uses of qed and later ed, where the command g/re/p means globally search for the regular expression re and print the lines containing it. The Unix stream editor, sed implemented many of the scripting features of qed that were not supported by ed on Unix; sed, in turn, influenced the design of the programming language AWK, which in turn inspired aspects of Perl.

And I love AWK too.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" - Einstein.

Amen!

>> There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. When that happens all of this shit will be trashed.

Amen! (Include with complexity above the complexities of real life like project schedules, time-to-market, ..., ultimately economics.)

Ryan claims that the systems are still complex, which suggests that the accumulated complexity (including project schedules) has NOT exceeded the complexities of creating a new one in general.

Having said this, what is Ryan really saying that tells us something we did not know before!

A tacit aspect of the whole argument is that the people are intelligent enough to judge complexity to make rational decisions, and would be able to find a simple solution when creating a new one when even with all the new understanding gained with experience, the new solution will still be very complex (just simpler than the existing one). This is to an extent analogous to the rational market hypothesis, and that I doubt to be true.

Next Ryan may propose a new system that will be written from scratch to satisfy his no-overly-complex goal. Only to find that the new software runs on the top of existing hardware which is immensely complex. Oh, then he thinks about developing hardware again too. Only to find that hardware development is immensely complex (EDA tools for example). Oh, then he thinks about developing them again too. He now concludes that the accumulated complexity hasn't yet become too high after all.

After taking all of that into account and if that is not complex by itself, find something intermediate level (say a programming language) that has less complexity at that level (going deeper would increase complexity) and build something on the top of it. But isn't this what all of us already do?
I'm not sure but did he say it took 7 hours or that Windows estimated that it would take 7 hours?
Yup, this is what I'd do. Mirroring would be the big issue, but not that big a deal unless data was time critical.
I would agree to this but charge them infinite money.
http://xkcd.com/612/
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We thought the lambda button would be obvious! Will add labels/tooltips soon, thanks.
Tutu is surprisingly badly behaved for a trained dog. I wonder if allowing him to run amok is important for sniffing effectively.
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I was at an Akamai presentation the other day in which the salesperson claimed "100% reliability" of their services "not 99%, not 99.9% but 100%".
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It's fun by itself, but what I believe could make it really useful would be to include interactive tutorials for each language. That's what I was expecting when I clicked the link.
Hitting that QBasic button was like Hot Tub Time Machine... and just as bad as the movie.
The advantage of discuss is that it has a common signon for all disqus users so your more likely to get comments.

The disadvantage is that the comments are pulled in by Javascript and are not part of your page. Therefore they won't get picked up by the search engines.
Great site! Already tried Ruby and Python and it works perfectly - except one thing: I can't enter [ ] on a German keyboard.
(This is part 2 of 4 planned about Cassandra 1.0. Part 1, compression, is linked at the bottom of this. Parts 3 and 4 will cover leveldb-based compaction and performance.)
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In the short term this is probably true. As long as the top execs stay in place, I'd agree. I seem to remember people having written off IBM as not having much of a future beyond milking clients, but they seem to have done some radical restructuring in the past 10 years or so, and seem somewhat rejuvenated.

MS could undergo a big shakeup/transformation and reemerge as more innovative and profitable. I just don't foresee that happening in the near term. "Never say never" :)
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If you could be sure the tracking was used only to present more relevant and useful ads to you, would you change your mind?
Agreed. Also - thoroughly entertaining & just, real. Thank you for sharing, Mark.
Now it doesnt have the most appealing difference the regular kindle had over iPad. With it's IPS display it will be now just as impossible to read in bright sunlight.
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British Rail once declared they operated on a 66-minute hour for this reason.
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By setting the goal of reusable and reliable he could change the cost structure

But there's the assumption, isn't it? Actually two: that reusable will be cheaper, and that reusable and reliable can go together.

I'm certainly not saying they can't -- I am, quite literally, not a rocket scientist -- but the Space Shuttle program was the triumph of the idea that "Of course it'll be cheaper if we can re-use the vehicle." Which didn't work out in practice for the reasons outlined upthread. My point is that a space program should pick the goals of "This should get people up and back safely and cost $X a launch" because those are measurable. Maybe the best way to do that is with a reusable vehicle! But to make reusability a goal in and of itself, due to a sentimental attachment to the kind of vehicles we used to travel by sea, seems silly.
It wasn't obvious enough for a half-asleep half-wit (me). But as I said, a very minor complaint. It is a great app you have made.
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5. Pivot! Experiment a little with what your users want. Ask your users what they are missing. Add a random chat feature or something that will match up potential co-founder matches based on some shared interests and qualities each of you provide and you'd like to pool.

Do some A/B Testing on landing page designs to draw more people. Measure which features stick and which don't.
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No sarcasm. I have read good books (I think), but am pretty sure that they didn't modify my personality. Normally they result in a couple of days of thinking "wow, that was a good book".
It's the patents.
We have put lots of time and effort into getting all of these languages to run smoothly in the browser, we thought we would showcase this project before continuing on with our plans (more languages, tutorials, etc..).
Obviously jocking (and I must admit I don't know who Bill Hicks is).

Anyway, I see your point.
Nice, although you would have to be of a certain age to appreciate this. There are people out there running even older 8 bit microcomputers for single dedicated applications.
Sites with large amounts of data do this in realtime all the time.

WordPress.com for example has five mirrors (maybe more by now).
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Black text on white background strikes me as a bit odd. It's in stark contrast to the starburst in the background.

300+ customers but you show me the same static set of images every time. I think it'd be cool if it was random every time I loaded the page.

Your javascript scroll thing isn't smooth on my browser (Chrome fwiw). Also, you're inconsistent with your text branding across login, signup, plans, and product tour.

The month abbreviation is strange. Isn't it just "$XX/mo"?
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Possibly true, though for the same position it will be the same pay. Having managed H1B employees, every year I was required to fill out a bunch of paperwork confirming that I was not underpaying them for their work relative to their peers. We were fairly rigorous about this.

That said, you're only on an H1B visa until you get your green card. By which point, you've gone through several promotions and are finally leaving the junior engineer position. I would also expect H1B numbers to be skewed lower for this reason.

If people really want to know what the salaries are at other companies, they should just make friends with their generalist. Big company HR orgs pay third parties to do more stastically rigorous surveys of salaries by position and use that to determine how "not to overpay."
Would a heavyweight client with nothing but static data and no network at all reach 100% uptime, from a contractual point of view? Even a wrist watch does not exactly guarantee 100% uptime.
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I fail to see the issue. Now I could be wrong but it seems to me that IBM has successfully completed numerous transitions in and out of markets whereas all MSFTs success (which has been quite enormous, to be sure) is in one area.

It seems reasonable to me that IBM can innovate in new markets whereas MSFT can't. But as I said I could be wrong.
I didn't say that I disagreed with his points ... I just wanted to add an item to his list.
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Their craziness doesn't matter. Usually crazy customers aren't rich. So if you build to their craziness, you'll lose the customer.

You need to build an appropriate infrastructure that will win the bid, figure out what you can achieve (99.9%/99.99% uptime) and build in enough overhead to cover your SLA penalties. Or negotiate a monitoring methodology that is in your favor. (ie. exclude planned maintenance windows, use a monitoring threshold/interval to allow you to address issues before triggering contract "downtime", exclude external provider issues, etc)
Another Windows Version. Another Hardware Upgrade.
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It really could be 7 hours - I spent way too long investigating how to copy to USB quickly, and discovered it's a combination of:

* Variability in flash drive speeds.
* Variability of USB implementations. For instance, a 2008 MacBook is less than half as fast as a 2010 MacBook Pro, and both were slower than Linux running on a Dell.
* Most USB drives use awful filesystems like FAT16 and FAT32 that are inefficient when it comes to any complexity, as far as both space needed and speed.

That said, I was working with millions of files, and eventually a coworker developed a single-file storage. But for people with that horrible task, the trick is mainly to make a USB drive image with the filesystem intact, and flash the drives blindly.
I thought that the lambda button would give me a list of available functions in my current language. I'd definitely recommend changing the label to something less ambiguous.
Isn't he dismissing culture with his rant? Culture as the currently common way to do and describe things?

He seems to imply that there could be an easier, more straight-forward way to describe things in some more common language. And that while he doesn't give any evidence how the current ways are overly complex.

Of course, there is broken or outdated software, and some things were crap from the start. Of course, there are always concrete things to improve but you won't get anywhere by dismissing all of it and starting anew.

For me, understanding the current state as part of our culture and our humanity and improving gradually on it, has guided me well in the past.
Awesome work guys! Keep at it and I would love to play around with tutorials in the future.
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Would it be possible to implement user input via the REPL instead of the current javascript prompts? Would be much less clunky.

Also, at the moment something like this doesn't work at all (Python):

while True:
user_input = raw_input()
if user_input is 'q':
break
else:
print user_input
Here's why Windows feels a lot slower in a lot of areas when compared to Linux, Mac OS X and other OSes:
the process scheduler has a bit of a high latency, the IO system is pretty bad and the entire hardware blocks a whole lot more than it should, there is no apparent control over how much IO bandwidth a process is allowed to eat up, the entire OS has to do a lot of system calls and a lot of calls to the registry every second, aero is also making the entire OS slower due to a poor design

This is why windows always feels laggier than other OSes. Windows 7 also increased the processing latency of the OS.
Government is very hierarchical. Everyone basically makes the same amount of money, so status is the only differentiation between people.

I worked for a government agency for a long time. At one point of my career, bigshots at the director level would not acknowledge my presence in a room. Later, they were my best buddies, because I was high enough on the ladder to be a minor "player" to potentially influence one of their peers.
I'm unsure about the Scheme that is included. It claims to be R6RS which requires support for exact numerical operations including big integers and rationals. Currently it seems to use only double precision floating point instead of exact integer values!
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The only way I can see this making sense is if Amazon could buy the supply chain relationships that HP must have built for their tablets. Probably HP have options/exclusivity deals on display and chip production for the coming years.
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Yes, absolutely. I actually realize I'm missing a significant amount of opportunity right now by not seeing Google ads for products I could make use of, so yes. However, I don't want my IP or anything identifying me in particular associated with my ads.

Potential opportunity here to make a special adblock which tracks user using an anonymous ID code? Essentially acting as a trustable middleman in the equation?
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I'm pretty sure Egyptian pyramids are made of fairly substantial chunks of stone, probably weren't built by slaves and as they are nearly 5000 years old they surely must have rather a lot of structural integrity.

NB I've been to the center of Khafra's pyramid at Giza and I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have done this if it hadn't exhibited rather a lot of structural integrity.
try any language online (asymptotically speaking

http://joel.franusic.com/w/page/26128430/Online-REPs-and-REP...
Various DNS caching architectures deployed by ISPs will sometimes strip additional addresses, or choose one for you themselves. That means if you're unlucky, that selected address will be down. Even if they do handle DNS correctly, hitting a dead server and failing over to the next one (possibly also dead) can take some time and may be interpreted as service not working.

Unless you control the whole path to the customer and his client application, DNS is not a solution for either HA or LB. (found out after trying to come up with something close to 100% for voip network - LB with 2 DNS entries on public internet will give you split close to 70-30)

Another question is how is the downtime interpreted? If you're halfway through some transaction / flow and the site you're talking to goes down, should your flow (shopping basket for example) be available on the failover site?
Joe Hewitt, renowned Facebook and Firefox developer, slams the 'open web'
The slides presentation was built on top of deck.js (http://imakewebthings.github.com/deck.js/).
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I am actually the author in question (I think it might be smart for me to remove my age from the posts in future!), but I do agree with what you're saying. It's much easier said than done to avoid the 'corporate drone' path, and it's something that suffocates the life out of enthusiastic minds right from a young age. I personally hated the idea enough to do everything in my power to be my own boss - but most people simply don't care. They're indifferent. It's a shame, but inevitable.
Thanks!

From the Startup Chile FAQ, participants are entitled up to $600,000 CLP monthly spending on rental. Many had fully furnished apartments around Providencia with facilities like pool and gym (from HomeChile listings, apartments with such facilities are around 400k-600k). Providencia are also recommended because it is said to be safer.

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Off-topic, but is there a reason you say 'HP have' instead of 'HP has'? I was talking to a few British guys at work about this and they thought it sounded odd as well.
You could have picked about a hundred "regular" cars to illustrate your point better and not one of the fastest and most expensive in the world.

For example my brand new Hyundai Sonata has pretty shitty rear visibility due to it's 'sleek' styling and therefore smallish rear window. I could cite many more.
Ask HN: European startup looking for a service for recurring billing
We love Stripe, Samurai, Braintree and services like that. Unfortunately, they're not available for companies outside of the US.

Most people say that we need to use Paypal. But we prefer to work with Stripe for example, because it really looks like a great service and a service with a refreshing way of working with payments.

Does anyone know or have experience with using a recurring service that is accessible for European companies?
Wow ... that's an amazing answer! And it somehow validates my practice of looking at everything as though I've never seen it before (try it - you'll find it's fun).