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SVN handles large binaries with ease. I'm an EE, and these are frequent occurrences in my projects. Git can choke on big binaries.
On your first paragraph, I agree completely. As a relatively new programmer this was what made me adore Python.

On your second paragraph, I disagree. HTML doesn't have the immediate feedback of "I can write something that makes my life better" in the same way that, for example, Python does. Python lets you write something you can use for your benefit six months in. Something that will actually save you significant amounts of time in some cases. There is a power and a promise there that I don't see being matched in HTML. HTML is made firstly for others to view on browsers, while the first Python script you write can be done just to make your life easier. "Scratch your own itch."

For your third paragraph, I am again in complete agreement as a relatively new(2nd year in high school) programmer.
Would be easy for the google bot to work this out to, replace the URL part that looks like a dynamic variable with different values and see if it returns a page for them all like a search engine would. Surprised it doesn't appear to do this.
eh, I'm working on it right now; I'll be bringing the prgmr.com values, which is to say, the focus is on cheap, standard, and transparent, uptime goals will be... realistic. I'm doing it with my co-author, and I have at least one investor who is interested, though I'm not sure we'll need him... even at our target of a penny per month per replication, it's going to be ridiculously profitable, probably enough so that we likely won't need money. What are you bringing to the table?
I have been having what appears to be sex with the dinosaur for like 10 minutes now and it is still not dead.
Would be pretty cool if a kid could draw this stuff with this fingers on iPad and have it turned into a real video game. I bet kids would love this! "Draw your hero here." "Draw your monster here."
The probability that these guys disproved relativity is .00000001

The probability that these guys borked their experiment is .99999999
>and can't stand Python/Ruby/C#/OtherNewFangledLanguage types

Can you not stand them because you tried them and decided that they don't fit you, or because you refuse to acknowledge progress?

I won't commit an appeal to novelty by claiming that new programming languages will always be better, but to stubbornly stick to C, Perl or other good ol' languages for no other reason but waving your cane at the new kids in town is equally as close-minded.

The world of programming is so interesting precisely because there are always new things to explore, recent inventions and innovations to marvel and old concepts to learn, rediscover and improve.
Backblaze designed their system to be redundant across multiple systems with the ability for one to go down seamlessly.

If losing one system from your network will cause unacceptable downtime then you shouldn't consider using Backblaze's design.
Why is it a nightmare? You just run `git init --bare` and it all just works. SSH provides authentication, the filesystem provides authorisation.

As I remember, svn is more complicated, it has that separate svnadmin tool and relies on you to craft a suitable directory structure.
I appreciate your point and I'm not trying to undermine it, but there are a lot of tech people in certain realms of fashion. For instance, many people that are into the 'avant garde' style of dress, popularized by brands like Rick Owens, Julius, and Carol Christian Poell come from technical backgrounds. Just an interesting counterpoint.
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his PhD application is pretty unique, too: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~bret/create_humor_gradapp.html
clearly. I'm just saying, it's much easier to design a system where hardware failures cause downtime, and where that downtime is made acceptable because hardware with redundant drives doesn't fail that often than it is to design a system where hardware failures don't cause downtime (and where a failed hard drive causes a full node failure)

Thus, to someone who isn't at scale, the supermicro systems are likely going to be cheaper, overall, than the backblaze pods. (It sounds like these people paid more per disk for the backblaze pods than I'm going to pay for the supermicro pods anyhow.)
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So what specifically are you guys open sourcing and how does that complement existing open source search technologies like Lucene and the things that the folks over at Linkedin SNA have open sourced (e.g., Bobo, Sensei)?
No. They decided to focus on being the best centralized version control system: http://lwn.net/Articles/381794/
Excellently said, thank you.
Solr or ElasticSearch are the best options, depending on your specific needs.

ES if you need horizontal scaling, Solr if you need a specific and technical feature.
Heartening that he examined at least some of the related work that came before him.

He found: http://gestureworks.com/features/open-source-gestures/ && http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1071 && http://blog.rongeorge.com/design/gesturcons/ && http://gesturecons.com/ (which I didn't know about)

He missed: http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/touchscreen-stencil... && http://mattgemmell.com/2010/07/14/touch-notation/
That is some wanky gameplay. I think your son is paying you too much.
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This definitely is important in terms of how much "value" Google assigns to links on the page, if they can identify where they render. They got a patent for varying the amount of page rank that flows to a link based on how likely the "reasonable surfer" is to click it. So in terms of flowing Pagerank to a bunch of high value landing pages via a slew of footer links, it's game over.

My only question is how frequently Googlebot actually renders the full JavaScript. Surely they don't have the computing resources to render it on every crawl.

Link to patent discussion: http://www.seobythesea.com/2010/05/googles-reasonable-surfer...
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Same here, but 11 years for me. So many things in life can't help but be complicated, it's nice to simplify where you can.
Well when you're going at it from that angle, how can you prove to yourself that anything you experience is real? There are centuries of thought surrounding epistemology, I don't see why problems of how and to what degree we know what we know should apply to drug induced experiences and not regular experiences.

But then again, I don't know what you experienced. The most profound insights I had make perfect sense to me now, and they mesh with current scientific understanding as far as I can tell, so I have no reason to doubt them.
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Learn C, Unix and SQL. They will not go away in the foreseeable future.
I agree. It's something steve jobs would probably loved to have on the iPad and it would be a prime example of using technology to inspire the imagination.
I think you over-estimate what you can do in three hours and underestimate how much non UI stuff there is in trying to keep out garbage and prevent voter rings and score karma and vary behavior based on that karma and probably a dozen other little small things.
If a sock has a hole, it gets tossed.

Now that I think of it, the mixed sock problem can actually be worse than O(n^2). For instance, if I decide that I want to wear my Marvin the Martian socks, and can only find one in the sock drawer, then it's a big problem. Look in the other drawers. Look under the bed. Look in the dryer. Repeat. Repeat. Until the other one is given up for lost.
Thanks Matt, took a look at the video, that answers my original question.

Also is there a preferred monetization model, e.g. do Google think advertisements are more or less harmful to the user experience than affiliate links, sponsored posts, etc?

Obviously across different models you can't just track space taken up, so is there some kind of metric that tracks the rate of content diluting via monetization?
Yes, I fully grant what you are pointing out. If I were to write it over again, I definitely would have said "more active" instead of more current. I've never used Gentoo, but I understand it may be attractive to users who want a ports-based system as well.
Isn't that what Drawn To Life is all about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawn_to_Life
Nice. The same can be done wit hthis jQuery plugin: http://facedetection.jaysalvat.com/

It is based on this computer vision library: https://github.com/liuliu/ccv
Very nice article. I like the coverage of "." (this directory or cwd) to show new users how to execute programs in /home, etc. One often over-looked feature of "." is that it can be used on non-executable files as well. For example, it can be used to removed a file named -f:

rm ./-f

That was actually a question for me during a Google phone interview. I kid you not.
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I think Greplin could provide this service fairly easily (since they are already indexing all of your data from other services for you and perhaps have access to your DropBox account.) Just using Greplin today as-is they could be a good cloud-based "backup" of a lot of your cloud-based data, so long as they do not automatically wipe out older data to match what is on the individual services.

Another service that could be really helpful for this problem would be one that would just automatically burn your DropBox account (which ideally had copies of your other cloud-based data) onto DVDs and send them to some location at some interval for automatic cloud-based offline backup. Not sure if you can automate the mailing part, though, and I would worry a little about ensuring that people get the right data.
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Because I do not like the way e-ink displays look (such as the Kindle), I bought the Nook Color. To me, it is smaller and lighter than the iPad, but large enough to comfortably read books normally printed on large pages. For technical books, I paid $1 for the ezPDF reader app. Also, it has a browser (and other features you would expect in a tablet), so I can also easily read books on sites such as Safari, in addition to other sites if I want. Also it is quite affordable. Highly recommended for this purpose.
I'm not sure I understand where the pandering was, and for me the post certainly wasn't pointless, I learned some new things, and it provoked me to think deeper about the difficulty of language design.

I read it as a humorous warning to would-be language designers of the challenges and pitfalls of coming up with a new syntax, compiler, runtime, etc. A quick run-through of the items in the checklist should give you a hint these guys seem to know what they're talking about. Click the bio links above the article and those suspicions will be confirmed.

Sure there's a bit of snark here, but it serves a purpose, as does the humor. They obviously put some thought and time into this, they have some strong and worthwhile opinions about language design and the expertise to back it up.

Now, if it were Zed Shaw or Joe Damato up there, I'd totally agree with you. Kidding!!
>A competent manager might argue that it would be a better use of his time to delegate to his resource

the first sign of all the bad managers i've met - s/he delegates. S/he aren't competent enough to perform his/her duties (including and especially - taking decisions) and covers it as delegation.

Status reports are second worst - they mean that the manager doesn't have enough competence/skills/interest in being continuously aware of what happens in his team. Frequently the team responds in kind :)
There are a lot more advantages to moving your app to HRD, like no more random datastore timeouts. There is also a new migration in limited testing right now that will allow you to migrate your data in multiple passes, which will minimize the read-only time required for your app to migrate.
I haven't read much at all about Dart yet so forgive me if I'm missing something but it seems to me that dynamic-typing capabilities do not rule out absence-of-null.

Doesn't Dart's use of optional typing mean that it really behaves as a statically-typed language in some contexts? The Go language sort of has this via interface types. Consider the following:

type Foo struct { a, b int }

func Bar(x interface{}) Foo {
if f, ok := x.(Foo); ok {
return f // x is a Foo at runtime so return it
}
return Foo{0, 1}
}

There is no need for the Foo type to have a null value. Go does have general zero-values for all types but that's somewhat different from null and not the only solution either. I think a Haskell-like model (neither null nor zero-value) could also work.
Congrats to the team!

That said, it proves once again that entrepreneurs should not feel discouraged by the presence of competitors in their field. Continue to build your own great product. Your biggest, most successful competitor may be the next one to fail for whatever reason or, hopefully for them, have an early exit which clears the field for your product/service.
While switching to a single .svn directory seems good, there's also a feature lost: you can no longer move parts of your working trees around the filesystem without hassle.
Official docs here:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/
Seems like a weak attempt to take some of the stardom away from Instagram.
> people sell weed on craigslist these days

Very dumb people. That's almost sure to earn you a visit from the least harried law enforcement group in your local area.
I've put together some basic computer vision tutorials over here - http://www.aishack.in/ Most of them use OpenCV.
I just migrated an app.

I had to make a few updates to app.yaml, remove use_library() references in the code, create a new config file that permits the old app to write to the new app, disable billing on the old app and enable it on the new one (will take a few days for this to resolve), disable writes on the old app, switch over my Google Domain config to point to the new app, and a few other things I'm forgetting.

Not as bad as I thought it would be, but still non-trivial and this was for a relatively simple app.

If you're considering making the switch, take a look at http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/datastore...
Really cool. Teaching kids early is very important. Cool initiative in Ireland to teach young kids programming early, http://coderdojo.com.
oops! my asterisked footnote after unwell (and linked to the last line) has been interpreted as italics.
I appreciate hearing a story that doesn't involve, "Look at how quickly I got rich!" :-)
Really?

I used Subversion for over 4 years and suffered through the regular merge issues, connectivity issues ("huh, can't commit because I'm not connected"), line ending issues, you name the problem I had it.

Two days into using Mercurial I felt more confident with it than I had ever felt with Subversion. I could branch code without having to work with the server, I could commit on my own machine and later push changes... and the merges just worked. No praying for ten minutes, no stupid CR/LF vs. CR errors, nothing.

I guess you'd have a point about easy of use if you count on the excellent TortoiseSVN. In the beginning Mercurial and Git didn't have anything as nice as that.
Pardon my naivete, but what are you referring to?
I too am curious and am no better at finding this logo online than you are, apparently ;)

In case anyone is interested though, here are other logos that Paul Rand has designed: http://www.paul-rand.com/site/identity/

Amazing how many iconic logos are on that page.

Jobs paid Rand $100k for the NeXT brand identity, and Rand created a 100 page brochure detailing the brand.

Jobs on working with Rand: “I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, ‘No, I will solve your problem for you and you will pay me. You don’t have to use the solution. If you want options go talk to other people.’”
Ask HN: Will I get my ability to flag back?
On the news of Steve Jobs' death I upvoted several of the most thoughtful pieces on the front page. As the day went on I became increasingly frustrated with the barrage of Jobs related articles and proceeded to flag several of the less unique/interesting ones in a short space of time.

My ability to flag articles has now been revoked, is this permanent or has my karma threshold merely been increased? (I do not have sufficient karma for down voting anyway)
Joel Spolsky created a website called Fogbugz Sucks
Finished the app, and it's on the app store:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/follow-my-money/id471808412?l...
I want to believe that my own post is more interesting than the TC article :)

http://blog.indextank.com/1221/indextank-linkedin-acquires-i...
This is dangerous and error prone... What use case are you solving for by doing that?
IndexTank have already said that they'll open source their code so others can take up the mantle. Another alternative is the excellent open source Apache Solr search engine, discussed elsewhere in this thread.
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No, I meant Android models. People who want the latest iOS, get the latest iPhone. People who want latest Android won't necessarily get a Galaxy S2 because there are are many other new Android phones. So I'm saying comparing the iPhone sales to the Galaxy S2 sales isn't fair.
Webfaction are the best hosts I've ever used.

http://www.webfaction.com/why-webfaction/
"If everything goes as planned" is not something any business can rely on.
"It's easier to imagine changing the world when the world is so easily changeable in your head."

Yes.
Backblaze employee here. Yes, the 6 fans move a lot of air through the drives. We monitor every drive in every pod in our datacenter with the smartmontools (/usr/sbin/smartctl) which includes the temperature of the drives. The drives stay well within their recommended operating temperatures as long as the fans are running. In the past, we have detected that several fans failed in one single pod when alarms went off saying some drives were running hot, so the fans are working (normally) and the air is flowing. Side note: personally I think it's really awesome that consumer grade drives come with such detailed internal monitoring for free. I also think it is disappointing that desktop consumer OS's don't monitor these things BY DEFAULT and popup dialogs explaining to you when your drive is exhibiting high temperatures or high data loss!
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Ux wizard
So we are a small group of individuals(well three:) ) who are trying to hack up something and yes we think it is cool(well it's obvious isn't it!). The problem is all of us are back-end folks and we know nothing about UX and web-design. So question is how do we find somebody to help us? I'm weary about 99designs/crowdspring route as I don't think I can explain what I have in mind properly to somebody over few lines of text(or over phone). We need a UX wizard. Somebody who can sit with us, be a part of the team, understand, visualize and bring our idea to life by the way of a clean UI. How do I find some one like that? I know this might sound weird. All our lives, we have been in the back-end world and hence our connections to the UI domain is pretty non-existent. Our initial thoughts were that we could hack up something, but UI is an art and as much we'd like to be none of us are artists(well in a UX artsy way:P). Any hints?
> I don't need a license to brew beer and drink it myself or give it away

In the US you do
Someone wrote a businessplan around you and cleaned up nicely, check out blacksocks.com and the 'sockscription':

http://www.blacksocks.com/g3.cms/lang/us/s_page/79110/s_name...
The really clever part about this is that it's hard to tell whether it's mocking people trying to design new programming languages, or mocking people who criticise attempts to design new programming languages... or perhaps even both at the same time.
This is actually a really cool feature. Basically, you can have one large repository to administer instead of lots of smaller ones, and you can treat any subdirectory level as a single repository.

Want to checkout all Apache Software Foundation projects?

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/

Want to work on Apache httpd?

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/

Maybe you only care about mod_proxy?

svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/modules/proxy/

Apache server becomes a subproject of the new Apache MegaOS? Just move /repos/asf/httpd/ to /repos/asf/megaos/httpd.

See also FreeBSD repository: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/
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Dart (from what I've heard) is actually a form smalltalk. strongtalk[1] is also an optional typed system.

[1] : http://www.strongtalk.org/
The kinds of people we provide SVN for have almost no technical skills whatsoever. You could spend a month trying to explain what a merge was and they wouldn't understand.

But they do need to produce content (which they'd like to be version controlled) that they expect my team to put up on our website.

From our point of view, SVN is a near-perfect solution: explain how to check $SOMETHING out and how to check it back in when you've amended it (using the excellent TortoiseSVN).

Once they've checked their work back in they email our team email address and one of us runs SVN UP on the relevant server, and we're done.
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Fake GUIs in the Movies = FUIs
This game sucks. I don't know why you want credit for it.
Pre-acquisition and post-acquisition are two different worlds. Unless there is a direct connection to LinkedIn's business model it's hard to believe IndexTank's offerings won't be radically transformed in the next year.
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Thank you. The writers <3 you.
Probably doesn't work in school settings, but at work, it's pretty normal. Visit any UPS corporate office and you'll see people there look like they wear the exact same white shirt & black pants every day.
The layout conceptualizes well.

Except one minor gotcha: `Fx` then `,` will actually find the next x, since `,` reverses the direction of last character search, and `F` was already going backwards. But I can see how those movement commands are hard to fit into this layout :)
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Since space was limited to 716, I was wondering what the criteria to be accepted to the 2011 YCombinator Startup School was? If it has to do with something we can improve, I want to know for next year.

(I'm assuming it was either randomly chosen or the criteria had to do with user name activity on YCombinator News. Please advise.)
I used to do that when I was ceo of a company. I had a blue jeans and white button down shirt uniform, but, I didn't even know it - I was just so focused on the products. I must of had 20 of each. One day we had a company meeting and everyone came to the meeting in my uniform. It was hilarious and awesome. And that's when I found out.