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I'd be curious to learn more about your thinking on this. A few years ago you were heading in the other direction -- i.e., you were talking about how people could or should start companies at younger and younger ages.

pg, May 2005: "The three big powers on the Internet now are Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. Average age of their founders: 24. So it is pretty well established now that grad students can start successful companies. And if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?"

pg, now: "Someone who can start a successful startup at 19 can do it as well or better at 22."

It seems this logic can be extended to say people should wait even longer. Someone with a few years of experience at 26 should be able to do a better job of starting a company than someone at 22.

So I'm interpreting this as a major change in your thinking. It certainly isn't a crime to change your mind; I'm just curious about how and when it happened.
You are probably right. Everyone in this thread seems to be agreeing with each other. We're just discussing semantics.
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A few quick observations:

At one point, the text at the top started saying "Rate NaN movies".

You seem to start off with extremely popular movies. Those movies seem unlikely to generate a range of ratings. You might consider starting off with movies that a large number of people have rated but which polarize people, which would help differentiate people sooner and improve the quality of the circles.

At one point the "I didn't see this movie" links became french: "Je n'ai pas vu ce film".

In one category, I hit "I didn't see this movie", and later the same movie showed up in another category.

I found it slightly odd that the rating scale goes from 0.5 to 5 stars, rather than 0 to 5 stars.

I rated all the films deegr showed in the first batch, and they all disappeared, but now I don't see an obvious next step. The rotating deegr explanation banners at the top mention something about "refine your search after rating a few movies", and shows an icon for that, but I don't see that icon anywhere in the interface. I finally found that clicking on the "Deegr Circle" dropdown, then "Deegr Circle" under that, led me to something useful.

Once I get to the mode showing a circle of other people, I don't see any options for "I haven't seen this film" anymore.

Once you start recommending a circle of people, and recommending other films liked in that circle, that encourages rating those films too, which seems unlikely to change the circle.

I'd love to see an explanation of the name. Best guess: modified form of "dig"?
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I have used FreeBSD since 2.2. I used to laugh at the slashdot trolls saying BSD is dying but I really think it is dying. The commercial support is just not there.
That wasn't stupid. It was cunning. Record labels only signed on because the market looked to be safely relegated to Macs. Little did they know that iTunes would be ported to Windows and FireWire would be supplemented with USB.
Rapidxen is more expensive than Linode when you get to 512mb ram... that can't be budget :)
> The porcelain, however, is incoherent and riddled with special cases.

Eyup.

Mercurial's UI sitting directly on top of Git's storage backend (replacing hg's own storage by git's) is an idea I've been wondering about for quite some time.
All I need is to handle the HTTP requests for the "directory" of videos.

Have you considered just using Amazon S3, especially now they offer full 'httpd'-like functionality (no more bucket XML listings if you try to visit the root of the domain).

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/02/host-your-static-website-...

If you are running a CDN in front to stream the content, this sounds like the best solution to me. You could probably get away with Reduced Redundancy Storage too if you have backups.
Then "privacy fuckup" is a somewhat hyperbolic choice of phrase for this, isn't it? And it's misleading to mention private investigators and law enforcement when the friend list is only shown after the phone number has been verified.

The potential privacy compromise here is that people who might've not wanted the user to know that they had them in their synced-to-Facebook phonebook, or may have a secret profile connected to said phonebook, could be unwittingly exposed to the user. As your example of the friend with the hidden gay profile shows, that can have alarming results. I'd say that example's bad enough and worth addressing (even if the answer is just better messaging about how synced phonebooks can be used) and that the PI/law enforcement talk is just muddying the waters.
Why can I rate movies without logging in, but not add movies to the mute list without logging in?
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Do you have a source for that claim? Because the store did not pop up until the same era as USB and Windows support.
By the heart of things, do you mean the Tenderloin?
Hey, I like it. A very great place to draw artistic and design inspiration. Maybe it would be better as a blog?
You get a support person to triage said items and to put them in a bug tracker so that you get to see it show up when you go and look at the bugs that need fixing.
Thanks marquis; I've just edited the main message to say that we're already working on a feature that will enable you to remove mainstream movies in a single click.
So please stay tuned, it should be up within a couple of weeks at most :)
Record labels didn't sign on till later. The first iPod was for playing songs you'd ripped from CDs, or found on the internet.
The ultimate hybrid is to find a budget VPS (or premium VPS) provider who is based in the same datacenter as your 'bare metal' servers. Granted VPS != cloud, but depending on your requirements you might get the same benefits.

The benefit here is that you can exchange data between servers/VPS's via the private LAN - low latency and potentially no bandwidth costs.

If you go with an Amazon based solution then you don't have this benefit due to the NAT-like way Amazon works and the fact they either own their own datacenters or at least don't allow any private routes between other servers in the same DC.

(I don't know whether every Amazon availability zone is in a wholly operated Amazon datacenter)
Good luck. I think they are here to stay for quite a while.
Dense.
Concise.
Informative.
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> Firewire only.

And this is stupid because?

> First generation did not sync with Windows, though a later revision made it work using Music Match, which was an awful program to use.

First generation wasn't intended to sync with Windows. For what it did it wasn't stupid at all.
Hey Josh. We prefer to have registered users than visitors, so that you too can be matched and in order to grow the userbase.
That's why we've put some features only to be used after registration. On top of that, these feats are useless as a visitor; the muting will be forgotten when you come back after 48hrs.

It takes literally no more than 10 seconds to create an account, you should give it a go ;)
"Honorable mentions: A depth charge or cappuccino on my desk"?
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Hmm, I didn't know SU had this feature. We don't use a toolbar, so we don't know what sites you visit.
> I've run all my personal services (email

I've been considering getting off of Google for my email hosting, but I remember there being a number of issues with virtual hosts getting their entire IP blocks blacklisted. Is this an issue anymore?
Ah, true... It's just a side project, data is removed when both people delete it, and the plan is to have it be free forever, yes. There are no ads inserted anywhere.

I'll add them to the front page, thank you!
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Awesome! Looks like I've got a new radio station :)
I found half-stars rather useful; they made it more natural to quickly give an appropriate rating. I frequently find that half-stars make me less inclined to over-rate something; 4.5 contains mostly stuff I would otherwise have rated 5, and 3.5 contains mostly stuff I would rated 4, as well as a few things I would have reluctantly rated 3.
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Thanks coffee, glad you like it.

1. Oh yes we want to push Netflix! We're just a small french project and Netflix has not invaded us as of this date; and is unlikely to do so for sometime, actually. I know what you're talking about and we'll see how/if we can implement it.

2. Well that's a bummer, deegr's all about finding others like you ^^ If we only recommended movies without telling you why you should like them, we'd ressemble every other engine out there! Don't you like knowing you have taste-mates out there?
I think if it comes to it, Microsoft will invent WebDirectX under the guise it's for Windows 8 metro apps, and simply left it on in IE10. 3D on the web is a niche so it doesn't make their browser uncompetitive. Besides, they can also claim "you can do the same thing in WebDirectX anyway, just use that" - and they don't have to be seen supporting OpenGL (who cares if anyone writes wrappers? they don't have to pretend WebGL is a good idea).

For the record, it's an utterly backward and damaging thing to do to the web, but they'll do it anyway.
They have the userbase.
I think it's harsh to call something stupid just because it was initially aimed at Apple's own demographic.

It is however interesting to note that the device was effectively useless for the vast majority of techies unless they switched platforms. Which makes the poor reviews a bit more understandable, they couldn't use it even if they wanted to so it's a classic case of 'sour grapes'.

And switching at that time would have involved paying over the odds for a weird looking computer with non-x86 chips and a half-finished, Frankenstein OS. So as well as the standard not wanting to change and cost reasons there were plenty of perfectly sensible reasons to not switch to a Mac. Indeed if anything, that was clearly stupid. But I did it anyway.
Perhaps obvious but for Spotify usage, just discovered today that you can change the track to next one without actually going to Spotify by just pressing the >> key (F9) on a Mac.
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Yes and no. I don't think it's an empty tree hugger comment, but I do think we need actual numbers in order to discuss these things.

World energy usage: 474 exajoules per year

Incident solar flux: 1000W per square metre

Let's suppose (optimistically but not unrealistically) we can get 10% efficiency (over day and night, so more like 20% during the day).

How much land (or indeed, water) do we need to cover with solar cells? About 150,000 square km.

So, while the cost of building all these solar cells is significant, the proportion of the Earth's surface they take up isn't.
Showing that your claim was baseless/anecdotal is trolling? The word "trolling" doesn't mean anything anymore.
Haha no, but that is funny. I am talking about Greenville, SC. As I did say I wasn't sure about SF.
My first impression: what problem does this solve? Why do I want to connect with people with similar movie interests?

After I started rating movies that I've seen, I could see the value in the recommendation engine aspect...

I'm not a fan of the name either... it's not memorable.

Also, it seems that French text shows up every now and then.

Good start, keep iterating.
Because no one used Firewire.

And because Mac market share when the original iPod was released was very poor.
Sure, but that doesn't support his claim that Linux is "easier" to develop in, which is what I was refuting.
Thanks!! I have been waiting for this. There's lots of stuff on Youtube that isn't anywhere else. Suggestions: Let me search for Youtube playlists. Somehow, songs could be connected in a network of similar songs by mapping the playlists. Also, let me create link for the current playlist/song.
"Commercial support" as a selling point is really overrated. You can always get commercial support in any case, from FreeBSD specialists for hire. Apart from that, normal users will always be able to get support from the mailing lists, forums and so on. I'm happy with FreeBSD and there's nothing stopping me from using it both personally and for my businesses. I am not interested in FreeBSD on the desktop, however.
Very true, my PC and my chair are really expensive in comparison to everything else in my room.
The three icons below films in the "so-and-so also rated" section, which look like a plus, a TV, and a speech bubble, don't immediately suggest obvious functions to me. You might consider either adding floating help for those icons, or making them more obvious.
City, Country?

How many Big Mac's would you be able to buy at your local if you spent every cent of your income on them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index
I really hate how Facebook killed the competition because there's no place to go besides G+, and that seems to be targeting a different audience than Facebook. :(

Just because a company is big doesn't mean it has to sell out and stop caring about user privacy.
Doug Morris, as quoted in Steve Knopper's book, as related in the recent Fortune magazine's special edition re: Steve Jobs, page 14:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Morris

Jobs cleverly made his pact with the record labels when iTunes worked only on Macs, which in 2002 had a personal-computing market share in the low single digits. Apple's humble position - before iTunes became compatible with Windows, expanding its potential market share to nearly all PCs - was a virtue. This made iTunes an experiment rather than a destructive paradigm shift. "I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac," said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self-Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper. "Why shouldn't we try this?"
Designers and engineers have a codependent relationship. Either party can (and should) learn to do what the other does, but a single person mastering both fields is pretty rare.

I've see a lot of hostility between designers and Engineers. Engineers can feel contempt for designers that dictate functional and UX decisions (often without understanding the ramifications of their choices). Designers often feel contemptuous towards engineers that are getting paid 2-3 times their salary.

We probably all want to be on collaborative project teams. I wish they were more common.
Record labels didn't sign on till later.

Yes, that is precisely my point.
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i am waiting for the new Thunderbolt enabled Vidock which will finally put an end to the USB2DVI or DualHead2Go performance and usability restrictions.
Also it will finally enable Macbook owners to just plug in one cable and have a full fledged docking station with Dual Monitor output and good GPU performance without making the macbooks fans spin like crazy!
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In the U.S., if an employer gives information about you that's factual, you'd have no grounds for suing them. If they fired the original poster, they'd almost certainly have the paperwork to prove it.

If you want to learn more about these kinds of employment issues (from both the employer's and employee's point of view), I can recommend a couple of excellent blogs:

- Evil HR Lady: http://www.evilhrlady.org

- Ask a Manager: http://www.askamanager.org
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Sometimes the hovering image of a film doesn't match the title and the imdb entry; for instance, the film "super" showed an image of "Superman/Batman Apocalypse".
[1 1; 1 0]^n = [Fn+1 Fn; Fn Fn-1]

So you could rewrite n as a sum of m powers of 2 (just write it in binary), then for each "1" there, send it to a separate processor to compute [1 1; 1 0]^k using exponentiation by squaring (where k is the corresponding power of 2). Your reduce step multiplies the resulting matrices together.

Note: this is just the first thing that comes to mind, I have no idea if this is what you were thinking of, or if it's even a good idea.
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Sony VAIO Z [1] does exactly this - it uses Thunderbolt-over-USB-plug to connect external Radeon 6650M and Blu-Ray Burner.

But I'm also waiting for cheap ($200 max) Apple-compatible PCIe enclosure, so I could play newer games on my 13" MBP. I don't really want bigger screen and more weight and don't really need more power that 15" gives, but playing some game from time to time would be nice.

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/29/sony-vaio-z-review-2011/
I love this!
I would say to focus more on the recommendations and see if you can integrate services like Netflix, Hulu, etc so I can see a movie that I might like and immediately go watch it.
"Git for your boss" would be great, because I am terrified every time my boss uses git.
So if you get something more than a $24'0000 (($1000*12 months)/.55 after tax income) raise to account for the $1k rent difference, would you go for it?
What are some of the wars of the 90s?

Everytime I wanted to install FBSD on an old box I would always run into awful issues wioth acpi/acpm. All of the boxes I tried to install it on recently ran linux without a quirk.

I really want to get a fbsd box up and running so I can run phk's ntpns
Thanks a lot Josh, that's some heavy feedback.

We'll take some time this week to search & fix the translations you reported.

As for the mainstream recommendation, I've edited the original post: we'll soon let you users get rid of mainstream recommendations in a single click.

Regarding the scale starting at 0 instead of 0.5, that's because you have to give them a .5, that's for several reasons: for example, you wouldn't know if you've rated the movie a 0 or not when clicking somewhere left of the stars. Also we think it's more disgraceful to get a 0.5 than a 0. And other reasons.

Regarding "but now I don't see an obvious next step.", this sounds weird; you should normally have been redirected to a search result (a Circle) straight out of rating 5 movies, no more. Isn't that what happened?

There's no other "I haven't seen this movie" once you land your first search Circle, because there's no point. Either you haven't seen it and it stays as a recommendation (which you can add to your deegList), or you really don't want to see it and you can therefore Mute it with the "-" sign.

Yep, deegr, derived from digging. It's quick, catchy, simple, easy to type and to say... And it was available :/
I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this. Early mornings and late nights are both good... but during the typical work day I find it nigh on impossible to really be productive at the office.

It reminds me of this talk by Jason Fried, which is so obvious but no conventional workplaces solve these issues: http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_fried_why_work_doesn_t_happen...
Well, the community isn't "poor" -- it's just not for me.

I don't participate nearly as much as I used to. It's not like the only choices are "stay" and "leave".
Yep, noted; we'll try to work on that. Thanks
Songza.fm allowed you to listen to music from YouTube in 2007, although lacked the Pandora-like features. In 2010, YouTube blocked their use of the API.

Interestingly, they pivoted into a 'better Pandora' where they license music, allow playing similar songs, but also let users hand-pick songs for playlists (that for licensing reasons can only be played by other people).

http://evolver.fm/2011/03/30/songza-attempts-to-reinvent-net...
Roger that; we'll make tooltips I guess.
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Grosper.com is a group buying website for user initiated deals. We concentrate on big ticket items such homes and wheels. We allow an individual user to 'Make a Demand' to rent a home. Once enough users are interested, we contact landlord that own buildings and ask them for the best price for a group (min. 3). Landlords have been willing to give at minimum 15% discount up until now.<p>I would like to discuss how we could automate the process to ensure that we don;t have to spend a huge amount of time always going back and forth with the landlord. Also, how could we decrease the time to form the group and then list a deal for the group?
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The custom scrollbar on the recommendation summary loses the un-click sometimes, and keeps dragging as I move the mouse even with the button up. It also requires much more precision to grab with the mouse. Please, consider just using the browser's native scrollbars there.
Oh, odd; we'll fix that. Thanks
I rate a movie and after the "I didn't see this movie label" changes to "Je n'ai pas vu ce film", which is obviously fine for me as I know some french, but ... you go it.
The typography seems to be at least partly fixable. Go into Tools/Options and you can easily change the editor font, or with quite a lot more work change the preview fonts.

Evan, since we're talking typography, a few suggestions...

* Why default the editor to such an ugly font as Courier New? There's no real reason to use a monospaced font at all here, but if you must go monospaced at least put Consolas in front. It would be even better to use a nice proportional font such as Georgia - both in the markdown editor and in the CSS editor within the options dialog.

* Don't limit the font size selector to even numbers when you get above 12. I want Georgia 15! :-)

* The preview window text is awfully small on a high-density monitor like my ThinkPad W510's 145 pixel per inch display. I see how to edit the CSS to make the text bigger (although in a quick test it didn't seem to work at all - will fiddle with it some more) - but with every element sized in px it's a bit of a pain to just make everything bigger. Maybe size everything in percents and just have an overall px size on the body, or some similar technique? Then I could just change one number and make everything bigger.
I've been at Servint for years and can recommend them enough. They are -not- budget (I pay $129/m for an Ultimate VPS http://www.servint.net/vps.php).

I can only assume they have a terrible marketing department because they almost never rate a mention in articles like this one, despite being the pioneer in the VPS space.
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Wasn't the problem tied to politics and national scale reforms (1) more than absolute improvement room in the healthcare systems ?
Maybe smaller/more innovative attempts could succeed; things like non invasive surgery, new or cheaper ways of monitoring (earlier response is often best)

at one point, all people want to be healthy, they just don't have tools to do it.

(1): I just skimmed lightly through both links btw.
Thanks for your response, but frankly you are presenting a textbook example here of continuing to impolitely blame the messenger(s). If you don't enjoy reading posts entitled "Facebook privacy fuckup" at 5am on a Sunday, then perhaps FB should start to take privacy more seriously. I'm sure the fact that people are more than a little suspicious of FB in numerous ways and that many have made repeated privacy complaints is hardly news to you, at 5am or otherwise. FB privacy is your firedrill, not ours.
Are you sure? You need an income of over 300k Euro to reach 42% taxes in Germany. Not saying, that you are not making that much. But sometimes people get confused between marginal and average tax rate.