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1 - I agree that's a huge, massively important thing, but there are non-x86 processors in the world which find their niche (in ARM's case it's quite a huge niche), so surely if it is possible to develop a processor which is so much better than x86 then why don't they already exist? I am hardly very well informed on the processor market, so for all I know they do, though I'd be surprised.

2. Sure, I guess what I'm getting at is that we've done amazing things with what we've got, I'm by no means suggesting we shouldn't take a broader view and replace crap, or at least work towards it where market entrenchment makes things difficult. The point is, again, that if there exists such a plausible alternative to the Von Neumann architecture, then why aren't there machines out there taking advantage? Again you could probably fill a niche this way. I suppose, in answer to my own question here, that you would be fighting a losing battle against the rest of the hardware out there being reliant on V-N but still, I'd have assumed that something would exist :)

3. Yeah. But it's hard + often the harder path to do things right in any industry. Such is life, not that that excuses anything.

4. A sort of philosophical point. Feel free to ignore :-).

5. There is stuff out there that already exists too though. Go, OCaml, Haskell, F# are all really interesting languages which in their own ways tackle a lot of the accidental complexity problems out there. Plan 9 + inferno are very interesting OSes, though they are probably a little too niche to be all that useful in the real world. But yeah, understandable, fighting the tide is difficult.

6. Cool will take a look.

Yeah - one of the things that attracts me to software engineering is the relative freedom you get to be fully creative in solving a problem. However that cuts both ways it seems.
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But he isn't benchmarking web server concurrency because he is doing a single curl

$ time curl http://localhost:8000
165580141
real 0m0.016s
user 0m0.007s
sys 0m0.005s

So he is running the Fibonacci (40) once with the web server. The only concurrency / parallelism that is happening is in the recursive Fibonacci algorithm. I stand by my contention that the Fibonacci algorithm is a very poor test of concurrency / parallelism.

I stand by my contention that he should have implemented an algorithm that could be solved in concurrent pieces and then benchmarked node.js against his favorite language. If the algorithm cannot be parallelized effectively, it doesn't matter how many tasks you spawn to solve it (cooperative or otherwise), the algorithm's dependencies will cause all the tasks to block and effectively serialize their execution.
To be fair, he was pretty much always their apple columnist / fanboy.
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1. Well GPU's crush x86 CPU's in some areas so there is at least one competing technology that is a clear win. Also, Intel added both a GPU and video decoder to their CPU’s, but neither of them use anything close to x86.

As to the rest of it, I think you can look at microwaves for a perfect example of terrible software in wide spread use. You need to be able to select cook time and possibly power level or set the clock. Yet, most microwaves have such a terrible interface that few guests get embarrassed asking how to get a new one to work. And as long as it takes more effort to send it back than it takes to figure out the strange design there is little reason to build a better system.
I hadn't heard that about Angie's List. I'd be interested in reading about it if anyone has a link.
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That was my first reaction too but when you think about it there is an internal logic here. Arrington was the overall editor so he had to go because he could skew coverage. Siegler is staying on but only covering Apple so CrunchFund can't influence his writing because Apple is way too big for them to invest in.

I mean, it's definitely right on the line but I'm not sure it crosses it.
I find this kind of amusing
1. May 2011 Oracle writes a white paper on why NoSQL is not reliable and future proof for serious business [1]
2. Removes the original the document [2]
3. Releases their own own NoSQL db

[1] https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:G4pI4ZOkzWYJ:...

[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/debunking-nosql-t...
The Jobs presentation showing it off is quite entertaining. You can tell he hates the thing.
Apple Predictions stats for the October Special Event
Google Code, and Microsoft's CodePlex have, yes.
Your best "earning expectations" are not to play the lottery in the first place.
Sort of. Our site instances are shared-nothing peers, so there's no primary/secondary. Users resolve the closest host to them ( anycast geoIP )by default, but if one of the hosts goes unavailable, the DNS entry for that host is removed by our scripts.
What's the plan for Typekit pricing? Will it change?
meant to post this one - R for Programmers -

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/R/RProg.pdf
Play-fibo: Fibonacci server with Play (does not cure cancer)
"Do you really want to be contributing to an open source effort?" dropped my jaw when I read it.

The paper is basically "You should pay us lots of $$$ because you're dumb."
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Kinect has no qualms about guessing a woman's age
Cool, who's your DNS provider who does the anycast geoIP?
Oops...I mis-read your question. I thought you asked "Has any popular hosting site added mercurial support?"
Exactly, GitHub is to Git as Rails is to Ruby.
Out of curiosity, what do you feel the point of NoSQL is?
US Patent 6714559 is one they sued several hotels over. It was filed in 2001 but was a string of 6 continuations of a patent filed November, 1991.
i am a sprint customer and i hate this move.
the android market may be chaotic but there is more freedom for the user.
this is a dangerous move for sprint.
android will only gain in market shares baring any great upset in the current trends.
When a company is as phenomenally successful as Apple has been over the last decade it's hard to discern legitimate praise from evangelism.

If you were an Apple-centric blogger and you were just calling balls and strikes your blog should look like John Gruber's or Marco's. That's how dominant Apple has been over these years. If instead your blog is filled with press releases and looks like Engadget's review of the original 7" Galaxy Tab then your blog is bullshit and pushing false equivalence for pageviews.
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From the outside looking in, it sure seems like TechCrunch is doing this so he sticks around long-term. 2/3 of their most popular writers are gone and they desperately want to hold on to him as TechCrunch moves into the arrington-less era.
A so called 'goroutine' locking up will not lock up the rest of that server. Other pages will still be served by that server. This has nothing to do with the efficiency of the underlying language, it has to do with Go doing cooperative multitasking transparently. It might as well be a separate process (in fact, for all you really know it could be).

The code seen here does cooperative multitasking explicitly. It is essentially explicitly specifying places where rescheduling can take place. The result is the same but with this Node code you are getting your hands far more dirty.

The point of the Cancer article is that since it (allegedly) is not made explicitly clear what is going on, programmers can deal far more damage to themselves than they would with other schemes.

I really don't know how to explain it any better than that.

PS: "cpu intensive" is relative. The fib example is a deliberate exaggeration of what you'd see in reality, to make the point trivial to observe.
I don't know if I would call it envy. It's an attempt to try and model human behavior - as (ir)rational as it may be. Using math to try and get a better understanding seems like a pretty good idea. No model is perfect, but they constantly try to adjust.
I'm a bit unconvinced, since specification, design, and testing could be fundamentally different and vastly improved from the way they are now, not just the area of syntax errors.
One thing that may be awkward to talk about but comes up, here, is that my imagining of VCs were that of all rich people, even partners. I imagine Siegler is well taken care of a Techcrunch, but it seems "well taken care of" is a far broach from having the cash to be a Venture Capitalist. Am I misinterpreting the needs of such individuals? Is it possible he's just a one-off exception who has the cash to spend here?
Interest in a downtown Baltimore based Hacker House? (starting Summer 2012)
I am considering converting a large downtown Baltimore home into a full time live/work hacker house. The scene here is in it's infancy, with the city overall being very conducive to creativity and culture (moreso than DC IMO but less than NYC). I am gauging interest from the community in being interested in participating. Cost of space would be comparable to similar rental spaces, except this is focused on attracting similarly minded people in a creative environment. A program supporting the goals of applicants would also be developed.

There are also tons of tech related jobs and companies in the area as well.
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I could list 100 people that write about Apple at least on occassion that I don't consider evangelists or advocates, but you probably haven't heard of them. I tried to list those that are big names.

I could list pretty much everyone on the staff of the Verge and Engadget and Gizmodo. None of them fit this mold. Geller isn't, Laporte isn't, Lyons isn't, Paczkowski isn't, Om isn't, Block isn't.

My list wasn't meant to be comprehensive, but just meant to attempt to explain how other reporters differ from the trifecta.
What you are talking about here is rather meeting people for business or business-related purposes and for furthering your own career and especially your personal gain; this isn't just "meeting people" and find personal friends, this is social networking and working it.
Maybe he will now be an unpaid blogger.
Zerigo, cool little startup in Colorado that got acquired earlier this year:

http://www.zerigo.com/managed-dns

Their API offers full control over everything, which is good because the way you set up geodns records is ridiculous - scripting it out is the best way to handle it.
At least Google Code supports git for some time already. :)

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/07/announcing-git...
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This x100. I love GitHub's user interface but as a poor student couldn't justify them for my private projects (until I found their free student plan), so I used BitBucket.

BitBucket is very good from a pricing and support point of view (and I actually preferred Mercurial before I learnt Git properly) but it's not nearly as polished as GitHub - one thing that springs to mind (it might have been fixed) was it trying to show me a complete diff of Xcode project files when I clicked on a commit causing my browser to crash. Pretty much the main reason I switched.

I'd be really keen to see some real competition in the hosted social-coding space (it's funny, that sentence wouldn't have made sense just a few years ago), and Atlassian has the resources to do it.
lol ted is really mad :D https://github.com/teddziuba/node-fib
When I install Dropbox on a new machine, I can use selective sync to decide which folders are kept in sync on that machine. You can configure selective sync in CLI mode using 'dropbox exclude <path>'. (Unfortunately, I don't think there's a whitelist option.)

Is there a reason this wouldn't work for your use case?
I think an appropriate GH response would be to make a few/all personal (aka 0 collaborators) private repos free.
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> it syncs with eBay, allows you to upload hundreds of images in bulk, and lets you ship multiple orders with Fedex, UPS, and more.

It should say this on your website?
And this is why, any cache without an eviction policy and/or size limitation is bad (and memoization _is_ a cache). I shudder every time I see a "magical" memoization function whose interface is just

memo function-to-memoize
On the other hand, I know about a Free Software clone of a game that used the original graphics and music. Not quite legal, but the game was very old and the right holders obviously didn't care. However, after publishing the project got a little fan base that eventually included graphic designers and musicians, who replaced the proprietary stuff step by step with their own creations. So the game changed from "legally-grey" to "solid free". This would never have been possible if the game hadn't been published.

I voted you up specifically for this bit. This is great.

What game was cloned, and what is the name of the clone?
yes, but all of that is brought to the table by Arrington
Quality comes later. You do this kind of thing to get ahead in a certain world where you want to achieve something that you wouldn't normally achieve if you did things, as you say, "naturally".

Like I said you can be creepy and a "user" if you do it only for yourself. Or you can focus on helping people and connecting them like Ron Conway for example. It happens in all sorts of human interactions.

You say you would never go to a house party full of people you don't know. Would you go to one that has lots of people you do know -- i.e. your friends?

Let me ask you something ... as an introvert, how do you plan to meet someone e.g. a girl you are attracted to, if your immediate circle of friends wouldn't introduce you to one? How do you meet people if you never go to events full of people you don't know?

Actors in hollywood, etc. have to hustle and make connections. Same goes for musicians, comedians any other performing art. They can't ALL be creepy can they?

What I can tell you is this. A lot of people you meet who make you feel good do it by having empathy and UNDERSTANDING where you are coming from. If you do this systematically with everyone (e.g. think about what a promoter would appreciate before coming to the party) then you aren't being creepy, you are being considerate. And people like that. Yes, this generates social proof, but that's the next level. You generate things bigger than yourself. Just because you are able to "hack" the system doesn't mean you're a bad person, if you are helping everyone.
Fun fact: Marco went to my high school, and was vehemently anti-Apple.
I agree with every aspect of your comment except one: Dropbox does not require the mouse.

I've been very happily running it on my headless web server for over a year. There's a CLI installer, and you can do things using the 'dropbox' command-line utility.
Good article. The app store stuff is spot on (coming from someone who's either directly or indirectly worked on over a dozen iOS apps.)

I tried talking a client through deploying his stuff to the app store. It took about a half hour to figure out what weird setting (overridden by his target settings) that he had different.

Does stuff really need to be this difficult?
it's almost absurd.
And while you're at it.. New Zealand please!
Isn't make overkill? You just need a shell script with an rsync one liner
That would be awesome. Have you brought this up on the Node hackerspace list? or notified the LUG?

I've been in Portland, OR for the last 6 months, but I was just in Baltimore for 5 years. I agree with your assessment of the community and I'd agree that the timing is right to start one there. I'd also love a reason to make my way back there for a bit :)

PS: what do you consider downtown? which neighborhood?
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All those millions of people who bought the 3GS when it was released are now at the end of their 2 year contract so it's a perfect time for Sprint to make a play for them. If they discount the upfront price of the iPhone, offer unlimited data, and $50/month service lots of people are going to jump.
Let's recap this conversation:

Request: name an Apple centric writer who isn't an evangelist.

names a bunch of non-apple centric writers

[strike]Come off of it.[/strike] Being an Apple blogger today is like what it would be like if you could be a Celtics blogger in the 60's or a Mongol blogger in the 13th century. If your Mongol blog isn't filled with claim chowder from Kievan princes you're doing it wrong.

edit after 30 min break: Apologies for any inflammatory-ness on my part. I had a simple point that every actual Apple writer looks like a fanboy because when you cover a phenomenally successful subject a legitimate deconstruction of why they are successful can be superficially identical to fanboy praise.

There are a lot of Michael Jordan fanboys. There are also a lot of serious people that think he's the best player of all time. Go back to the 90's and both groups are going to vote for him for player of the month every month. That doesn't make the second group fanboys though, that's just a testament to how successful Jordan was at the time.
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Have a look at this series of posts we wrote on our blog: http://blog.handcraft.com/2011/01/looking-back-on-the-quest-... - we looked at Fastspring, Chargify and Spreedly and ultimately settled on Spreedly and Ogone (and a merchant account with AmEx). Spreedly is the processor most like Stripe of the above list.

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Well Beanstream is in Vancouver for one (http://www.beanstream.com/)
When web standards fail us
This is weakest part of the Oracle database story.

You can get someone else (Google, Amazon etc.) to provide the hardware, administration and support of your database if you choose something else.

And you get more for less that you would with Oracle.
I'm not exactly sure what you mean – he's not investing his own cash here.
<canvas> doesn't make my life easier, but it makes it more interesting.
A VC Firm is just a company like any other company. Generally they are Partnerships rather than LLCs or Full-Out Corporations but they're still just a business and their investments (and the money they have to make them) are all assets of the company.

So you can be penniless and still be a General Partner at a VC Firm if the other partners choose to vote you in. In his case they obviously feel his experience and connections are of some value and are willing to give him a part of the firm to acquire that experience.
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One comment on the site stated that as long as we're using theory to disprove experimental results, we might as well just republish Einstein's original paper and call it done. Until someone actually dicovers the source of error and repeats the experiment, the measurement stands.
I really love Bitbucket (over GitHub!), but it seems too late for me.
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This is the third outage we've suffered on our Fremont server in the past 3 months, it is making me look bad to the powers that be as I recommended Linode.

It certainly isn't winning us points with our clients either :(
Perhaps if enough alternative implementations are submitted to HN it will drown out the silence on the actual issue that was raised.
Yes, the PHP "language" sucks. But that isn't what matters: From a practical standpoint, it's good for getting things done.

The reason? Almost zero deployment complexity. You can take Joe Web Designer off the street, give him SFTP (or, more likely, FTP) credentials, and have him modifying your site in minutes.

Modify a file, click refresh.
Yep and all of this because mostly business drives technology not ideological programmers.

And on the rare occasion the ideological programmers are in charge, you can't get them to agree.

Frustrating but that's the way the world works and I'm not sure where complaining gets you.
what's the Free Software clone of a game?
Agree, but Foundation is still a cool production, great video quality and great guests. The only thing missing maybe better questions to the guests.
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