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The unmentioned take-away here is not simply the focus on Platforms, but the reminder that 'Circles' are a weak feature to build a social network on. Why? because user's had already build organic circles across multiple social spaces (e.g. professional-only on Linkedin, perhaps family or college-safe on Facebook, close social on gmail, etc).

What's the advantage to multiple platforms for multiple circles? you don't accidentally post your internal company rant to the whole world. You don't post pictures of red cups and beer bongs on Linkedin and you don't talk about work on Facebook. This is how users were operating before G+ launched, and is precisely why users aren't diving in.
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I didn't know about kickofflabs nor about dotcloud. Thanks! Actually dotcloud seems to be one of the few offering mongodb and tornado, which are the requirements for my app.
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First thought: That's a lot of bandwidth.
Second thought: That's a lot of code.

I hope it's a lot of awesome-sauce.
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His argument is basically that slower dynamic languages like Ruby are popular because databases are slow, and databases are slow because disks are slow. But databases are not slow because of disk speeds. Disk access is pretty fast compared to network speeds. Databases are slow because of the join algorithms they use, because of the way data are structured, etc.
As a Wesleyan graduate of CS, I have to say that this piece amuses me. None of the people mentioned in the article actually are CS majors (there were only 5 of us the year I graduated), but are "McKinsey consultants" and "[guys] where Hollywood didn't really work out for us, but now are trying our luck in Hollywood." And the picture of the urban rooftop party featured in the article vaguely reminds me of the NYC rooftop party at the hedge fund office where I worked for previously staffed with attractive hipster receptionists, HR people and managers who dressed the part and were quite clueless about the technology or the domain area we were involved in - but were very good at making mixed drinks and dj-ing. These guys in essense, are very much part of the "party people" that look and play the part, complete down to the prep school pedigree and the sensibly choosen retro flannel mix-and-match - that a lot of programmers both in the Valley/Alley are looking up to.

There was a phase in my life when I drank the kool-aid, partook in the festivities and read James Joyce and attempted to think deeply about the Hegelian dialectic but then I realized that these "lofty" concerns belied a more pressing issue, how Joyce or that indie band might have impressed that hipster chick that I ran into at the MGMT show last Saturday and had the hots for - because she was French (and therefore social-consensenually hot).

Fast forward to present-times, I work in IT and my co-workers consist of one guy from Belarus and another guy from India both on H1B but both of them could write amazing code and we are three months ahead the schedule in shipping out a informatics platform with about 100+ users. It's not the sexiest work a la "changing the way one shops on the Internet" but we ship, get paid and have free time to pursue our other interests - because impressing programmers/tech bloggers isn't really my concern as you can't get laid anyways by doing it. It took me awhile to love and embrace the atom bomb but I have to be grateful for my alma matter for teaching me unexpectedly to distinguish between what's crap and what's substance. So while I am unfortunately no longer part of the "Wesleyan mafia," I try to keep my head up and am confident that I'll be around when the IT/startup market crashes in the next cycle.
if you consider SMTP+IMAP/POP3 to be APIs, then this is a simple corollary to Zawinski's Law. the reduction is left as an exercise to the reader.
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There is a massive area between the two extremes, and I will assume you are putting me at one of them. This means I failed to communicate.

If my food, entertainment, services, and small expenditures are predominantly local and my money is in a credit union I and my community have control over, then 1) I haven't gone "back to the land" but simply back to my home, and 2) that is money not going to any of the companies legislating their own irresponsible bailouts.

Supporting strong local organizations owned and directed by local members can and absolutely would stymie Wall Street and corporate socialism.
I read the post a second time much more carefully and it seems clear now that he did target an internal Google audience from the tone, i.e. it was a genuine mistake. So I take my previous comment back.

As for your comment about thrashing a product but loving the workspace: Yegge's criticisms run deep, they are not just about a stupid feature in a product; rather they are about the company's DNA.
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very useful.

good stuff. you should always be tweaking.

best of luck
I don't get this post at all. It's poorly written and is comparing Python (the language) to Rails (the web framework), concluding that it's easier to create a website it Rails?
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To be fair: farmers weren't simply getting sued for having Roundup-ready crops; they were finding their fields populated with Roundup-ready plants, and then using Roundup on the field. There was an element of getting-something-for-nothing on the farmer's side, too.
Does anyone know how iOS 5 runs on a 3GS? Does it bog things down?
An even smaller nit to pick is that nits are ordered by size, not count.
Yes it is true, reimbursement fills up 90% of all expenses, but allowed salary compensates for the remaining 10% even if the team has only one member. But since the grant money is dispensed via reimbursement you will need ~5-7K of cash per team to start.
Tried to download, always ended up with a "corrupted" download. Trying again now, it says "5 Hours."
"Is it wrong to even associate with a company like Monsanto? What if they're providing some tangential support infrastructure that doesn't relate to the actual business practices that people are so ethically opposed to?"

Certainly. Ethics should trump finance in every scenario. There are very few companies as evil as Monsanto, and helping them further their cause is akin to direct involvement.

I see the nazi / ibm situation being tossed out in the thread, but in this case I think it's more like the RIAA.

Would you help the RIAA further their cause?
And as someone who might be hunting for a job, I hate having to comb through twitter and the thousands of daily posts to make sure I don't miss a job opening. I stopped following twitter because it was so hard to find the few things I was interested in from all the noise. Sites like this make me believe twitter is still valuable.
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Sergey Brin: BS, University of Maryland

Mark Cuban: University of Pittsburgh/Indiana University

Just off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.
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I too have opinions based on half-remembered articles in lifestyle magazines!
Anything to make a buck.
I think if I wanted to round out the mix I would add in

BP

Halliburton

Xe Services (Blackwater Worldwide)

The creation of roundup resistent crops is possibly the worst mistakes that the human race has ever made. It took what 3-5 years to make roundup impervious parasites?

Terminator seeds that can't actually create a viable organism? You have to go back to the source (Monsanto) every year.

Mono-cultures and engineered genetic pollution. Monsanto shouldn't exist.
That sounds totally unlike Apple. Last time I checked, Apple made its billions by selling products and software, not ads.

They do have iAds, but they specifically designed those to be as unobtrusive as possible, and developers have to decide if they want to use them in their apps.
This raises a real dilemma: at what point does a company or organization cross the line from "not my cup of tea" to "ethically ambiguous" to "pure evil"?

What if Cloudant were to power analytics for Trader Joe's?

Goldman Sachs?

Halliburton?

The Sinaloa Cartel?

Certainly there's a line...
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For what it's worth, I appreciate your sanity.
You don't have to incorporate in Chile, but if you want, the grant will pay the legal fees.
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If their aim was to permit building desktoplike applications, they already failed, because the difficulty in building those has almost nothing to do with javascript. The big problem is the DOM api, which is too lowlevel to program large apps in. Javascript's limitations are almost inconsequential next to the deficiency of the DOM api.

Google invents too many programming languages, and too few frameworks / platforms. It's a typical computer scientist response to a software engineering problem. We don't need more languages, we need better api's.
> Is it wrong to even associate with a company like Monsanto?

Yes. Associating your name with the likes of Monsanto, especially as an entrant to the market, is PR suicide. You would be hard-pressed to come up with a more universally reviled entity than Monsanto... maybe the Church of Scientology, though even that is probably not enough.

I've got it; Intellectual Ventures!
If anything I see the opposite happening. Siri will pull users away from search and advertisers and back towards expert guides and personal recommendations.

Siri, what was that restaurant that John liked?
Siri, where should I eat with my birthday friends?
Siri, recommend me a live gig?
Siri, recommend me a funny movie?

Suddenly we have have all the possibilities of the social graph and Netflix-style recommendations.

Would Apple be bold enough to use Siri to collect & correct this information?

Sam, did you enjoy the film?
Yes, Siri, very much
How many stars out of five would you give it?
Four.
Thank you, Sam. I will try to recommend similar films in the future.

It would be fascinating if this happened:

Would you like to recommend it to your friends?
Yes, Siri, I would.

I could see a vague possibility of Songbird-style interactions, too.

Siri, can you notify me when tickets for The National are announced.
Siri, please let me know when the next Quiz Night is going to be.

I doubt Apple will ever do this, but you never know:

Siri, please inform me of upcoming special offers at HealthSpa
If Amazon understand APIs and platforms so well, why doesn't Amazon Cloud Drive have an API?
Looks great! Is it still a hostage to Microsoft?
There is no effective Seattle startup culture. I worked in the Seattle area for 7 years, and startups are not really a big thing. Going to work at microsoft is a big thing. You make more money there anyways.

A lot of this is due to the lack of a VC infrastructure I think. no sand hill road there.
The Green Revolution is a specific phrase that means increased agricultural productivity. It should have been capitalized, not quoted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
His argument is that slow languages are acceptable now because databases are slow due to slow hard drives.
But this seems not right to me. Most databases eat as much RAM as they can get their hands on, and in any reasonable sized setup, the frontend and database will be on different servers so you still have to factor in internet work transit time. What this boils down to is that harddrive speed increases won't make as much of a difference as he is counting on because

a) They aren't necessarily the biggest bottleneck now

b) Even if they were a bottleneck, we still often have network transit time to account for, making DB access still relatively dog slow.

This doesn't even take into account the entirely different set of arguments that other languages like php and python are an order of magnitude faster than ruby 1.8 (and ruby 1.9 is faster too) and that Java is considered by many a horrible language, and no speed increase in the world would make them willingly use it.
"The great revolution that AMD has been talking about... an eight-core desktop processor", is it really a revolution?
an 8-core smartphone would be next..
you probably meant "hard to overestimate" :)
The legal minimum in the UK is now 5.6 weeks; That's still amongst the lowest in Europe. I simply cannot comprehend how even the best paid workers in America expect less holiday than the lowest-paid European labourers.
I agree with you in principal but I think practically this isn't always possible.

Sometimes you don't know if a product is worth being an entire platform until it's been thoroughly field tested. It's too expensive to assume that everything is.

Perhaps in Google's case there could have been more foresight, though.
Could you elaborate a bit more as to why AMD is slipping?
I like pass-phrases, especially with non-dictionary words.

Try a pass-phrase with

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=generate+a+pronounceabl...
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We came to Chile with around US$1500 each (we're a team of two). We could survive (pretty comfortably) till the first reimbursements came in (once you get a bank account which is within a week or two you have around $2000 more at your disposal thanks to the line of credit you get at the banks here).

Yeah, you get reimbursed for 90%. But I think it's fair. As founders we need to have put some money into our start-up and have something to lose when things don't work out for us.
Has that "Search source code..." input always been there? I sure needed it in the past, and somehow never saw it until now.
Why are ultrabooks more expensive rather than cheap, are SSDs too costly?
I did the same; quit my boring job to try this startup thing, just to find later that I'm maybe too lazy to be an entrepreneuer. Well, I got my old job back, but quit again after few months. During that time I also messed things up with my gf. We have a young child. My parents live far away in rural area, moving there would kill my (miserable) social life so it's not an option. Oh and I'm almost 30. I feel very stressed & depressed about this whole mess right now.

OP: You are very young & only responsible for yourself (no children), things could be much more worse.
Larry Page went to the University of Michigan.
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Not sure this message will find you, hope it does. You're 20 and made a mistake, that's ok. Really it is. At 20 years old there is usually very little chance of being an out the gate success, its rare. But what this experience shows is you have guts and clearly a ton of ambition. Believe me, this is a tough time but do your best to recover, its time for plan B. Go back to school if you want and look for other jobs. Once you get back on track you will truly value this experience because when you are ready to try again, you'll come more prepared. Good luck and keep your head up.
most of the raid cards that cost less per port than the drives are not better than software raid

Let's not get carried away; isn't a "gold standard" LSI controller only ~$1,000 ($27/drive)? But you certainly can buy a lot of Intel cores for that price.
It is common for a business to rely on it's own plans. It is uncommon (or at the very least a bad business decision) for a business to reply on the plans of another business.
A startup doesn't have Amazon's network of datacenters or hardware resources.

(I've never worked at Amazon, but I'd also heard that AWS was a small skunkworks project that basically got cover from Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, who protected and nurtured it until it was too big to kill.)
The whole argument is flawed. First of all, Java never left. It is still used widely in "Enterprise" environments where it powers complex architectures with a lot of XML.

Secondly, Ruby on Rails and other dynamic frameworks are not popular because their performance issues can easily be discarded compared to Java. They are popular because they make a tradeoff between development speed and execution speed. Better hardware may change that tradeoff slightly, but human labor will likely still be more expensive than the servers running the applications, so this changes nothing.

I don't think Java will disappear from the web any time soon. It is way too pervasive for that. I see it more like the new COBOL: in 100 years, people will still be interfacing with ancient Java apps, only to move on as soon as possible to more modern environments (that may or may not still use the JVM for their execution.)
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Locally in Seattle, Amazon has a really bad rep. Only on places like hackernews where everyone is excited about AWS (despite its many, huge, annoying flaws, remember when ebs when down - AGAIN?) do people not realize this.

Amazon has lost a lot of key tech talent, it's been happening since about 2006 when the economy picked up a lot more.
I was kind of in a similar position a couple years ago. I didn't do an internship at Amazon, but I was considering joining full-time, and was really unsure of whether to accept (I had great offers from a couple startups, which I was mostly focused on at the time, but a friend at Amazon was really pushing for me to join).

In the end, I decided to go with Amazon, thinking like you are that I could always change jobs if I didn't like it.

And yeah, I hated it. Absolutely hated it so much that I quit two months after joining. The problem was that the other startups I was interested had filled the position I'd been looking at (I'm more of a data analyst than a software engineer, and data analyst positions are a little more rare), and now every other place I'd interview at would think I was a total flake. I'd interview somewhere, and I'd have to spend 30 minutes explaining to multiple people why I left Amazon so soon and how they'd know I wouldn't do that again at their place.

I'd have great technical interviews, and I would get told this, but people would be worried about what kind of employee I was simply because of this one mistake I made joining Amazon.

So yeah. Hopefully you'll have a much better experience than me, so that even if you don't like Amazon you can always change jobs, but just throwing my own experience out there as another data point.
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You stated a "real solution" was what I summarized as "back to the land", including dropping wireless contracts. That says to me you view other solutions as not real. That's an indication, not explicit certainly, that at some level you believe there are only 2 extremes available, as I described.

Another solution is to demonstrate displeasure with the operation of government and methods of corporate interests. Engage enough citizens and sustain that demonstration. At some critical mass of both energy (people) and time, politicians will begin to notice and adjust their implementation of governance.

This is a known good solution. See: civil rights protests in the 1960's as just one example.
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Supporting Ford is supporting the end of our organic transportation industry. I'm kidding, but it is worth remembering that the word "organic" doesn't contain in it some magical counterargument that requires no further elaboration.
Yea I'm confused. Seems the UI of the iPhone SDK might have changed but nothing else? SSO's been around for awhile, etc.
if i had a 3GS i would wait until the next iOS update comes out unless there is a resounding "Wow!" from 3GS users.
No, I've not dealt with enough of them for long enough to have anything meaningful to say on the subject. So far I've not even had one clearly die (though there have been some very odd transient incidents.)

Jeff Atwood made an interesting post on that very subject a while back, though:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid...
I wonder how long it will be before we come to recognize that virtual things are not the same as physical things and so should not be treated the same. I see luddites everywhere holding us back with insane policies that might make sense in the physical world, but have no bearing in the virtual world.

You can see examples everywhere: an e-book is priced at almost the same price as a physical book; the RIAA wants us to treat each copy of a song as a separate physical thing, newspapers have no idea how to deal with the deluge of more timely and vast amounts of news curated online for free. There are so many examples of established industries failing to innovate and thus try to hold back everyone else who is trying. I wonder how long it will be before the generations that are uncomfortable with technology get replaced with the generations that are.
Sorry Cloudant, but the only thing you're going to be doing is helping evil become eviler. I hate to piss on your parade, but Monsanto is literally the worst company in the world. I can't be happy for you.
This doesn't make any sense. It's relatively easy to horizontally scale web servers. Perhaps at huge scale this would an issue, but I would imagine it's relatively easy for most developers to line up servers/instances behind a load balancer and have at it. The database is always going to be harder to scale because it holds state.
Missing the RIAA: Same scenario, different product. Though the key difference is Monsanto's evils are !@#$ing with our food supply / chain / system that's happily evolved over thousands of years as they sue farmers into oblivion.

The RIAA is merely making 'big music' less important to the majority of us & shooting themselves in the foot in the process while suing their potential clientbase.

Both very much similar, and I'd happily support neither given the opportunity.
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I know how you feel...once you've hit bottom, you can only go up.

I quit my job last fall to pursue my startup full time. Similar deal--good pay, good experience, but just too much stress at my day job and things w/ my startup were gaining a lot of momentum.

Things took a turn for the worse when I wasn't getting where I wanted to be. I ended up becoming a regular heroin user. The inevitable occurred and my life became ruined.

Now I'm 26. I live with my dad. I don't do drugs anymore. My credit score is probably 300 (I don't even want to know) from defaulting on all of the debts undertaken when I quit my job and ran out of savings. I'm constantly 3 months behind on my BMW lease; taking it on was an impulsive decision that I thought would motivate me to work harder.

I spent a lot of time regretting my actions. It took a long time to accept my mistakes and failure... of course, with the help of some therapy and a little psychiatric medication.

Eventually you'll pull yourself out of your slump. Focus on yourself. Exercise if you don't already. Keep up a routine. And get out of the house. Your situation could be a lot worse. Go to the mall and ask for job applications. It's likely the easiest way for formally uneducated people to get jobs, especially with the upcoming holiday season. You'll work for peanuts, but you'll meet lots of people who are in your situation (working a shitty job as a stop-gap) who will probably be better friends than anyone you know today.

After months of self-deprecating thoughts and depression, I've finally gotten an interview booked with a local growing web company. I didn't try to improve things for months because I thought they couldn't be improved. You need to get over yourself and start to try at life. Stop focusing on what went wrong and instead wake up tomorrow and realize that you can start moving forward regardless of what's obstructing your path (usually mental barriers.)
Logged on here for the first time in 417 days to say:

Fuck you Cloudant.

Also, shame on YC for allowing this to happen.
In a modern datacenter, network is significantly faster than disk. See Jeff Dean's numbers everyone should know.
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=google+numbers+everyone+shoul...

Databases are slow for many reasons. The most common is that your dataset doesn't fit into memory.