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This satellite looks awesome, but it's basically being put into service by the satellite ISP WildBlue, which ViaSat bought in late '09. My parents live in a rural area and rely on WildBlue for their internet (they have a dish on the roof), so really this headline was deceiving for me. Why? you wont get 140Gbps of internet speed - WildBlue gives you satellite internet in 7,10,12Gb (etc) TOTAL bandwidth per month. So they will break bandwidth up from this satellite to handle traffic for another 30+ million customers, which is pretty huge, but you definitely wont be getting some super-rapid internet service, unless somehow they change their pricing.

Other drawbacks from WildBlue or satellite internet (in case you're thinking about signing up):
- Limited (low) monthly total bandwidth caps = no online movies, Netflix, or even working online more than 3-4 hours daily.
- high latency, meaning VoIP services like Skype absolutely don't work. No online telephone calls, etc.
- Pretty costly at around $40/month for just 7Gb of total bandwidth. But there aren't many other options in rural areas.
I thought 'excellent' ... then saw [scribd] and thought 'meh'.
If it's POSTed anywhere, the backend gets the data and can process it. I don't understand your question.
Shopify for affiliates... I like it! :)

Yes, creating a template library would definitely be one option. As you said, it would involve quite a lot of maintenance, though.
Maybe creating 3-4 base themes and making it possible to style and adjust them in the backend would be a good start.

Thanks for your feedback!
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Hehe, yeah, I am aware of WF. I think I will wait until ShowSpace is ready for prime time, though, WF strikes me more as the place to get loads of users than loads of good feedback. :)
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That may point to a DNS stuffup. Running "nslookup www.robohash.org" returns an error about not being able to find the domain, but "nslookup robohash.org" returns the ip address of the server.
Intellisense in a REPL based on static type information is novel, as far as I know. Some dynamic languages do this based on dynamic type information, but that is limited to expressions whose value is known. For example you have a variable A in scope at the REPL, and it has a method A.foo(), then you'll get completion on .foo. But you'll not get completion on A.foo().bar(), because the value of A.foo() is not known at the time of typing that expression.
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Hm. This one: "CEO 101: When you say COME TO ME WITH PROBLEMS and no one shows, THERE ARE PROBLEMS EVERYWHERE."

I would rephrase it as: "CEO 101: When you say COME TO ME WITH PROBLEMS and no one shows, THE PROBLEMS ARE ALREADY WITH YOU."
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[I am surprized that this post is still on the top!]

Here are my comments:

> I'm removing myself from google. I'm setting up mail services elsewhere, I'm migrating my Google Apps and App Engine accounts to other services. I've stopped using Plus, and as I move things elsewhere I'm deleting them from google.
Gmail Accounts are still 'anonymous' and largely disconnected from plus accounts. If a person is really bothered by the pseudonym policy they can chose to continue using other services but plus.

> But requiring a real name, tells me that google doesn't just want to track me to advertise to me. They want to correlate my online activities with my offline identity.
Well, if you had seen other comments, there are 2 reasons they have given for not allowing pseudonyms: (A) User behaviour is better and more dignified when real identities are used (Youtube comments vs Facebook comments on various blogs. HN is a niche community of professionals - doesn't count) (B) They cannot provide a fake support of pseudonyms - if they do they will provide full support

> ...online activities with my offline identity
Possibly. Which is still fine for most people. As their online actions shadow their offline behaviour. Refer to previous point on how they think it will help the online community

> The search results stuff There was a recent article on HN itself I think, where this issue was discussed. Google is now focusing less on the technologically skilled users and trying to serve a larger mass. For them, autocorrect and instant are good. Again, this is NOT the topic of discussion here. You can turn off some of the features, I guess.

>PS:
Last I remember, they were adding features using which you could opt out from analytics, adsense and other forms of tracking. If the direction you are suggesting is true, either Google has two very very different instances in existence or you will never be able to trust anyone. And by that, I mean that you will be in deep unrest as some distrust is necessary.
Groupon even alluded to the layoffs when the CEO talked about marketing costs dramatically decreasing.
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There is wisdom for startups here.
That's the thing with large companies. If each division was a separate company, that wouldn't be an issue.
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Whoa, what? Did you know about this before you took investment money from TechStars?
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Surely 4 is impossible. Email is both consumption and production. Listening to music is just consumption. By the crudest estimate, that means that any email device must have an interface that is twice as complicated as an ipod.

The jokey 7 Reminds me of the time I hitched a lift with a drunk driver, because I concluded that it was safer to be in his car, than walking along the road with all the drunk drivers about. Such a device actually sounds quite dangerous - I'd rather have someone driving towards me talking happily on their 'phone, than looking at it in confusion trying to see how many bars they have.
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I have seen this first hand, starting with worse conditions.

This guy ( http://www.expopyme.com.mx/vpabellon.php?cat=4&cid=33373... ) started selling ice cream in a bike like this ( http://www.yesh.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/t-370.jp... ).

He sold to the local University for about 10 years, until he got money to rent a very small place in front of a hospital.

From there he continued growing and growing and now I know they have 3 good size shops in different parts of the city.

I know because my mother has been teaching in the local Univ. for 25 years and met this guy in the beginning.

>The problem is, regulators can be very unfriendly to mobile vendors.

I think at the end this is what matter the most. In my home town (well... in all Mexico in general), cycling ice-cream makers do not need to comply with a lot of laws (as long as nobody dies because of the ice cream...)
And reactions at http://mapbrief.com/2011/10/19/political-hypocrisy-economic-... and http://blog.entchev.com/2011/10/17/a-call-for-help-for-atana...
Often these SOC chips use POP (package-on-package) RAM, where the RAM is on a separate package that is directly on top of the processor (soldered to pads on top)... That could explain it.
> while standing on the sidewalk somewhere

Do you not have a home? ;-)

I think there's a big geographical problem that's overlooked. These things are all designed in California where the weather is sunny year-round.

But in the rest of the world, most of the time, it's cold. You will not stand a long time "on the sidewalk" because you'll freeze. Maybe you're wearing gloves, which make using a smartphone impossible.
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Especially symptom #2 - "Executing idempotent functions multiple times (eg: calling the save() function multiple times "just to be sure")"

That could just be OCD rather than bad programming.
Here is a fact that will hold true no matter where you are working and whether it is the smallest, most promising little startup or the biggest governmental behemoth, whether you are just a low-level code grunt or the CxO:

Do not ever put yourself in a situation where you are blindly giving and bleeding into projects or the company because the chances are oh-so-incredibly promising and you blindly threw all caution and personal limits overboard. No matter how awesome the chances, you need to know where your limits are, whether they are financial or personal and you need to know what you are getting out of it right this moment. Not all "compensation" is exclusively monetary. There are a lot of other things you could be getting out of it. But think of it as investing your time, energy and resources and ask yourself what really are the things you are getting in return? This is not charity, this is work - no matter how much passion is involved. (And even people working in charity get some very real returns; they are by no means all altruistic.)

Yes, people WILL lie to you (for their own advantage) and they'll give you lots of brave talk to get you to hold on, so see it for what it is and do not let it affect or cloud your judgement. Whatever it is, you need to make the situation work FOR YOU in whatever situation you are currently in. Don't make it work for that one glorious point in the future and then keep holding and clinging on and totally forget about the path leading there and the very real possibility of failure. It has to be viable and sustainable (for YOU) now and each turn where it is not, each turn where you are giving more or too much: take that turn consciously and know exactly why you are still giving and bleeding into it, understand your motivations and accept them or otherwise do NOT do it.

These decisions won't be easy but be honest with yourself and realistic and understand all your time and energy as a very valuable resource you are giving away, so it is just fair you are getting something in return - whatever that something might be. And on the upside: there are a lot of other chances out there. There hardly are that many romantic "only one shot" situations in real life.

Do not ever put yourself blindly into those situations where later on you will end up being the one who got completely screwed over and all you have left is your rage.
> I can read novels comfortably in bed on my smartphone

Really? I tried with an iPod Touch and an iPad, and really hated both. Then I bought a Kindle and found it extraordinary. The Kindle is the best device I've ever owned.
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Only looked at the video - Looks like a nice simple app. I would be tempted to put a "+" on the "List" table view to take me to the "add" screen, rather than having that as a tab, simply because that's the kind of interface I'm used to.
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What code did you use? I've typically used a 408 in a throttling use case but it never seemed to fit well (our client handled this response from our server with an exponential back off so we were not relying on another client to handle it correctly).
>but more generally what exactly is the name of an imaginary discrete state of a program that currently only exists in a coders head?

This is what I'm trying to get at. There isn't one is there? It's weird.
You can thank me by drawing me a picture of a Robot ;)

Sorry for the downtime, though. That's embarrassing.
Lots of words, not sure what's the point. If you got bad reception, maybe it's a broken handset - have you tried repairing? Smartphones seem to work pretty well for other people so you're really the random bad case here.

The plan has nothing to do with he smartphone itself. I can have mine on around $6 per month prepaid in total (not in the us though). Regarding the true story... Well choose a phone which cannot be. If you don't want to be constantly connected to facebook et al. Just don't configure that account - use it via website, or not at all.

Your phone doesn't force you to do anything - you can use it however you want.
Good points.
Just out of curiosity, are you moving to another webmail and which one?
Ease of use and convenience of using Gmail is the only reason why I haven't switched yet.
The specific way you get to notifications, however, is pretty much exactly what Android did (not that I think copying that is bad).
Sorry, it's not a money thing (It's actually really cheap to run), I just made the mistake of sleeping ;(
See post below for details!
Robohashes are free for all ;)

https://github.com/e1ven/Robohash

As the pros say, 'Patches Welcome'.
How exactly were you or anyone else mislead? The guy ran a bunch of iOS apps with an HTTP proxy and posted the results (screen captures) and a requisite analysis.

He didn't say or present the post as a comprehensive overview of the entire mobile app data/security model, but did offer that even though this was just a look at one platform, it was probably pervasive on all of them.

As for the headline, he showed tons of data on the apps phoning home to Flurry, a 3rd party app analytics company, with his device ID and location across several unrelated apps. He then provided a link to Flurry's site and used their own language to describe what they do.

"Secret Business" can also refer to that fact that all of this stuff is obscured by the app model and can't be readily observed or controlled by the user like it can in a web browser. Nothing about this is untrue, even if it is applies to other mobile app platforms. And again, he's "guilty" of saying that it does.

All iOS apps are reviewed and approved by Apple before they're available. They hold themselves and their apps to a higher standard and if anything open themselves to more scrutiny than others for this reason. That's my opinion, not the authors.

I saw your green username (new account) and that it was your first comment and was just trying to be helpful. Good luck in your search to find more "higher quality content" and discussion on HN than you already have.
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In Formula 1 the FIA (rule-makers and enforcers) often seem to give penalties to ensure the title fight goes to the last race.

Hamilton in Spa 2008 and Alonso in Monza 2006 are examples which come to mind.
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Did you ever read mad magazine?

At the end of every issue there was a thing called a fold in - it was one image with one caption which, when folded in a certain way, created a new image with an entirely contrasting message.

Imagine an image which, depending on the focus, changes the mood and message completely. I'm sure they will emerge.

Right now the images on the site are mainly tech demos but in the hands of someone able to think outside the box I'm sure we will see some striking new art.
Nope -- absolutely nothing to do with it.
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Sorry, updated it so it is in about: now.
It has been proposed several times. 2008:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sharhalakis-httptz-05

1995 - shot down because (paraphrasing) "I don't need this so neither should you":
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/ange/archives/archives-95/htt...

The general consensus seems to be that since this can never be all things to all people, we can't ever implement it. To me it seems like this is crying out for a Worse is Better solution.
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WP is more successful than Rails and Django because WP is a blogging system and more people need a blog than they do a development framework. Secondly, it's successful because it's in PHP. But successful because it's "not like Rails", are you kidding me?

Also, check the damn tutorial. A line for url routing, a couple of lines to fetch some data from the DB and then a couple of lines to render a template. There's nothing scary about it. The reason people find it so easy to make and mod WordPress themes is because they can start from existing code. If they'd have to make one from scratch without the ability to copy-paste or look at existing themes, 90% of 'em wouldn't even know where to get started, no matter how good everything would be documented. There's no reason why this same learn-by-copy-pasting routine couldn't work on top of an MVC approach. Beginning programmers do learn Rails and Django, y'know. Hundreds every day.
It's called poetic licence, this is why I never comment on here, it's tedious backing up every little comment with 10 pages of pseudo-factual internet trivia.

Trucking ships more ton-miles per year than rail and by value is an order of magnitude larger. (http://www.bts.gov/press_releases/2008/bts058_08/html/bts058...)

Trucking became cost competitive with rail in the 1910's and took off in earnest with the construction of the interstate highway in the 1950s. It's approximately 1/5th the cost of rail.

The quip about rail companies forgetting they are in the "shipping" business is largely a reference to Penn Central which went bankrupt in 1970, the largest bankruptcy in American history at the time. The private sector failed to revitalize the company and it was nationalized along with 11 other lines in 1976.

From the wikipedia entry: "Facing continued loss of market share to the trucking industry, the railroad industry and its unions were forced to ask the federal government for deregulation. The 1980 Staggers Act, which deregulated the railroad industry, proved to be a key factor in bringing Conrail and the old Penn Central assets back to life."

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn_Central_Transportation_Com...)
Sorry about that!

It's entirely my fault. I screwed up in a few ways, which is what you always see in something like this.

Im on an overnight business trip from Boston to Dallas.. My Real Job wanted me to tour a new datacenter down here.

In any event, I've been running straight, without sleep since yesterday AM when I flew out on a Red Eye, so I.. I'll admit it.. I went to bed.

I was sleeping peacefully from 1AM to 4AM, cradling my old-school, screaming-loud pager secure in the knowledge that all my little servers would alert me if they had problems.. I have Pingdom, PagerDuty, Nagios, Munin, I've got monitoring 16 different ways..

When I woke up at 4AM (3 hours is enough. Why not?) to make my flight back to Boston, I see I've received several hundred text messages. Hrmm.. What is this?

I double-checked the work-servers, but those were fine, and have Other staff to help watch them, and escalate. Checking email, I see Pingdom is patiently explaining that RoboHash is down.

"But WAIT?!", I can hear your exclaim!
Why didn't your pager wake you up?

Well, it turns out that old-school pagers are.. Regional. Once I'm outside of NewEngland, it's a cool looking retro piece of trash.

The text messages arrived, but my sleeping brain was able to peacefully ignore them in bliss.

As to what actually happened? Linode migrated my machine to a new datacenter, and rebooted it.
I had a bug in my init script, so it didn't start up properly when rebooted.

Basically, I need to create a Ramdisk, then copy the code from the stable position on HDD. This is because a bazillion hits/second would overwhelm the disk if I loaded it manually from disk each time.

Anyway, Nginx was started (hence the error), but the init script was trying to start up my python code, without creating the ramdisk first, so.. RoboFail.

Sorry about the problem. Imagine my embarrassment.

On the plus side, I'm now in a TSA-approved boarding area, so I have a good 20 minutes to fix the init script before my flight back. ;)
I think that the premise that you can judge a language's difficulty based upon the ratio of unanswered question on StackOverflow is fundamentally flawed.

Intuitively we know that C is not a simple language to master and a quick check on unanswered questions from (say) JavaScript indicates that the great majority are about DOM manipulation and not the language itself. Thus I would suggest that an analysis that rated JavaScript as more difficult than C is using the wrong metrics.

I would expect that languages with relatively low usage but also relatively expert proponents (with some enthusiasm for the topic - Scala??) were more likely to be of an interesting and technical nature and get a prompt and effective response.

In other, perhaps high volume, areas we might expect a proportion of questions to remain unanswered if they are uninteresting or frequently asked.

[EDIT] Perfect example popped up on HN a few minutes later see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7828865/javascript-matrix... . This is a UI problem - how to restrict user entry to a valid matrix and to only process the input for valid entries. This is not by any real stretch a JavaScript problem.

Given the nature of the question, then a full answer would be lengthy to prepare (I would use jQuery and some client side code to manage the data entry area) and it might thus go unanswered.
Video of the interview is up on YouTube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN36NHZ5IG4

The question about Steve Yegge's post gets asked here http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...

The naymzwars question immediately precedes it.
That makes it double impressive. This market really needs competition, so all the best.
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US immigration sucks. What bugs me most is that the US is founded on immigrants, so it's basically the descendents of one group of immigrants telling those 'late to the party' that they can't enter, or in this case that they have to leave.

To do this to someone that has been there for a lifetime and then some is ridiculous.

Too many lives have already been wrecked to satisfy little minds and to get stamps on pieces of paper.

Immigrants like these are the ones a country should hope to receive, not to turn away at some arbitrary future date for bureaucratic reasons only.

Disgusting.
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I'm getting:

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

Does anyone have a copy of Brin's post?

EDIT: Works now for me, too.
US Immigration sucks because it's become a political football. Instead of something that can be sanely managed like it has in the past.
Of course Google's focus is ads - that's how they make their money. Why would you expect them to focus on anything else?

Remember, if you can't see what the product is - it's YOU. :-)
Thank you for the explanation.

A good example that something like this can always hit you, no matter of how prepared you are.
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Also, this gives me a good opportunity to note some new features-

SSL support is in. Just use https://robohash.org/goldfish.png

Also, We can use Gravatar instead of RoboHash, if a user has a Gravatar-

Pass the gravatar-style hash in to RoboHash, and it'll return if it exists.
http://robohash.org/620050a4db5104bae758cd75171d64ca?gravata...

You could also just pass the email into Robohash-
http://robohash.org/colin@sq7.org?gravatar=yes

But then your email is out on the public internet, so the hashed method is better if you can do it.

With Either method, RH will return a Gravatar if one exists, and if not, it'll return a Sexy looking Robot, custom stamped just for you.
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