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"As much as I love Apple, Inc, I would happily give up my iPhone to put food on the plates of starving children."

No you wouldn't. If that were true, you would have already done it.
Exactly my first thoughts! Like it a lot!
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Think about what you would learn at both companies and whether that would help you get to where you want to go. Also, which team do you like more. The best work experiences I have had were due to the friendliness and quality of the team.
http://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html?t=1319912579

This is actually a trading platform but if you can run the exchange on the JVM you could certainly write a client for it on the JVM.

Also:
http://www.quantfinancejobs.com/jobs/java.asp
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I use a netbook for my gmail. This new UI is, once again, a big negative from me because of all the wasted "white space".

I hate this love affair we have at the moment with white space. To me, it's wasted space. I guess I just hate scrolling or maybe I should just move to Asia.
Making 400 quick bucks with a game called "BUS JUMP" is quite motivating I think!
The most important part (resources to build your mobile site) is just a list of vendors. I would have liked to see frameworks, templates, ets. Paying someone else is certainly a viable option but shouldn't be the main resource. Part of helping businesses create mobile friendly sites is showing them how.
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You're slightly ahead of my next post which calls out some of the more advanced ways of using it.
I wouldn't idolize Bill Gates either -- while his recent activities are more charitable than Jobs, he led Microsoft through some less-than-charitable activities. I worked for Sybase which, initially partnered with Microsoft, but which later Bill Gates had targeted, much like Jobs and the Android.
I hope there will be a way to keep the current look, all of the new themes from Google are terrible. (As many people have stated before.)
I love guessing. I'll guess $5k - $12k.
If you're missing pf you might check out Debian/KFreeBSD. http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
>But then, what about all those PCs in banks and call centres?

They are used in the creation of income :)
This is what I meant, I don't think it's that far fetched. Certainly not worth being down voted. Whether the white house intended to or not, it's essentially a database of citizens passwords that WILL be used by some three letter agency somewhere.
everytime this guy blogs god kills a kitten
Clearly there is a lot to admire in the life and careers of both men. I don't think this is an either-or situation.
I agree - NYC definitely respects flamboyantly creative people, who are just as interested in making their image as in making their art (for whatever value of art), but "hackers" don't really seem to fit that mould.
They both contributed to humanity in different ways.

They don't need to be one better than the other.
OMG. It looks like a housemate had some fun with my account last night. Ugh.
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The problem with idolizing Bill Gates was stated most elegantly by PG: "no startup can be the next Microsoft unless some other company is prepared to bend over at just the right moment and be the next IBM[...]Microsoft is a bad data point." There is much to be admired in what Bill Gates has done with his wealth (and little to be admired in Steve Jobs by the same criteria). But if you're looking for an idol in the context if building a tech company, Steve Jobs seems like the way to go.

I guess the important thing, then, is to have different people guide different parts of your life. No one was good at everything; pick and choose their good sides.
I wasn't whining. I was asking if the conversation is being had. It's a question of fostering trust. So I'll ask again: Is anyone talking about the potential concerns here? Has this been asked and answered? Is there a technical solution that alleviates the concerns? I don't think this is whining, just starting a conversation. If the goal of the forum is to open a dialogue is there a way of doing so that ensures the security of citizens?
So basically "boo hoo" that they're not getting any rank.

Stack Overflow is a business too, but it's one worth supporting.
> - ancient userland pthread implementation

Indeed, being worked on with rthreads.

> - worst SMP implementation of any mainstream OS

There's slow progress to push back the kernel biglock.

> - no unified buffer cache

Very few people have a justifyable need for a synchronous cache between read()/write() and mmap().

> - no working TRIM support

Is available in -current, not sure about this release.

> - video card drivers aging, ~3 years behind mainstream

OpenBSD is doing quite well compared to the other BSDs. Intel and Amd graphic options are supported, depending on chipset, OpenGL works out of the box. KMS is being worked on from what I hear.

Nvidia and Adobe, well... they are a cancer and in a perfect world, would go bankrupt for their behaviour.
Oops! Didn't mean to steal your thunder, just happy about pip's flexibility in that regard!
That's pretty sweet!!
> You even said a few posts up that there WAS durability.

When did I say that? Just cut-and-paste my phrase if you are replying to it. I don't remember saying it.

> With respect to the speed of writes, MongoDB has, at least, three other things going for it [that CouchdB doesn't]: 1) the journal file is append only, 2) updates can often be done in-place, 3) a binary protocol.

I never said MongoDB wasn't faster. It is in most situations. I was criticizing their hand-wavy attitude and what I perceived was shady marketing when it came to their trade-off. That turned me off and made me look for another product.

Besides, what exactly do those implementation features mean? CouchDB has an append-only BTRee so it doesn't need journalling:

http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/btree.html

Updates-in place are great but they again are a trade-off. Now you also need a journal.

Binary protocol -- ok. That probably makes a significant difference in some case. I would actually like CouchDB to have a msgpack or protobuf driver.

Not saying MongoDB is worse or better, it just works differently.
This is how research works. You report your results, and people critique it. Part of that critique is methodology. That you were researching something else, or that we're not giving suggestions to improve it is irrelevant.

And you're right, you did compare it to two other collectors - I initially thought it was the same collector with different settings. So what are the assumptions these collectors make? Presumably the different collectors are supposed to be used under different scenarios. Does your benchmark fit into the scenarios the G1 collector should be used? Why or why not?
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Will there be a way to play via browser that breaks it out of the phone interface? I'm having a blast, the only thing that bothers me is playing in the small area inside the iPhone.
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I use a normal 15inch laptop and that wasted white space was an issue for me. Hopefully with the new theme, the 'compact' theme is compact enough.
hmm, i think what people mean when they say this is:

i would gladly trade the system which produces iphones for one which puts food on the plates of otherwise starving children

there's a mismatch between the narrow "my iphone" and the broad "plates of starving children"
At 0:17 in the video, they resize the browser window to netbook dimensions, and all the whitespace automatically disappears.
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> I'm very interested in any citation related to apparent congressional intent that in some cases software should be patentable. Please share.

If memory serves, Kennedy's arguments in the SCOTUS decision in the Bilski case are based in part on apparent congressional intent. I don't have concrete citations to actual congressional activity; this impression is seeing it alluded to or asserted in decisions such as In re. Bilski. I'm making the assumption that the justices are not totally fabricating, although they may be misinterpreting.
Indeed. It's funny hearing definitive statements about global warming ("I don't think carbon has anything to do with it") followed by an inadvertent but total admission of scientific illiteracy.
Did you watch the video? At 0:23, they click the little gear and it gives three different padding options.

When he selects "compact", it looks like the classic padding to me.
Also, while talking about updates, the article freely conflates hardware and software updates by comparing the release of the iPad 3 to a Windows upgrade. There's nothing stopping the tablet OEMs from releasing new hardware at any time regardless of Windows upgrades.
I know - I think the post makes that clear. I explained the purpose of the whole thing an earlier reply. But Oracle and IBM have realtime implementations of the JVM I believe, though I am more familiar with the Oracle one.
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Be careful clicking that Google Cache link. The page appears to make a bunch of requests to shady sites.
I think ideally you create an entirely new word, like a portmanteau, that is nonetheless spelled exactly the way you'd expect it to be.
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Thanks for posting a download of the cap table, will be useful if we go out for funding.
Researchers defeat CAPTCHA on popular websites like Visa, World of Warcraft
I had an account on whitehouse.gov the last time they did this petition thing and now I can't log in.

Not that it won't let me, but if I hit "sign in" there's no fields in which to enter a username and password. Like there's no sign in option there at all. What the fuck?
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It seems likely that k33n's opinion regarding racism in the world is, like most opinions, based largely on personal observations and experiences rather than a careful consideration of all available data. He does not observe racism to be a significant problem and thus concludes that racism is not prevalent or relevant today. You argue that k33n's race is irrelevant to his reasoning.

Both of you are incorrect. We have two hypotheses: racism either is or is not a relevant problem. And, we have that k33n does not observe much racism. We (and k33n) should update our beliefs based on the ratio P(k33n does not observe racism|racism is not relevant)/P(k33n does not observe racism|racism is relevant). The value of this ratio depends on k33n's race. If k33n is white, he's unlikely to observe much racism in either case, and the ratio's value is close to 1. If k33n is black, he's much more likely to not observe racism if racism is not prevalent, so the ratio's value is high and useful for updating beliefs.

You're also arguing that we ought not conclude that someone cannot understand racism simply because they are white. I agree with you, but I don't think that's the issue here. The issue is that k33n is white and seems to glibly conclude that racism isn't a real problem. He couldn't have reached this conclusion by looking at statistics because, as you know, the statistics push you toward the opposition conclusion. So, he probably came to this conclusion because he observed that racism isn't a problem for him personally. In doing so, he was being unreasonable and somewhat callous.
Google Releases GoMo
Inevitably when you develop web technology at scale you end up asking the question of whether you should degrade the experience of the common case to make it ~comfortable for, e.g., netbooks.

Usually the answer, at least for a service like GMail, is to just ignore the netbooks. I actually think that's the right answer almost always, but I would absolutely love to hear the opposing view, as this is a position that I feel I don't fully understand.
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This is not fair to Steve Jobs. We don't have a full life to judge him by. If this writer had to judge Bill Gates 10 years ago, he would have fallen short of Gates now.
I had seen that, but Martin Fowler is not whom I would have thought of as deeply familiar with low latency and JVM performance under stress.

I will be looking into that platform, but I see one caution flag: LMAX is a new retail financial trading platform. As a result it has to process many trades with low latency. the key word being "retail". I am wondering if retail's version of low latency is in seconds or tens of seconds.
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So by that logic, as long as the Mac market share isn't as high as Windows market share, the Mac platform will always be safer.
Gates has done a lot of good out of the company, so yes for that work he is better than Jobs, better than most people (bit hard to judge with billionaires, most of them want to give away 90% of their wealth but it doesn't make them charitable). In terms of business and innovation, when you look at the five-ish years around the starts of the two companies the stories I keep hearing lean a lot towards Jobs/Woz doing a better, more involved and innovative creation.

Unfortunately the line may well be "Don't make money the way these billionaires did, no-one did it nicely. When you have billions, give it away like they all do."
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I had that problem with Chrome Mac (15.0), but Firefox (3.6) worked.
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I would like to see time to conversion. I have a hunch the majority of the users haven't capped out their dropboxes yet. When that starts to happen, it will be interesting what the conversion rate will be.
I agree entirely. This is what the flag link is for.
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Ok, so it is cheaper to do business in the south...but businesses that start in the south will get a 250k round of funding while the same one would get 2 million in the valley...which one is going more likely to give a company to get the traction it needs?
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> A new survey by the Boston Consulting Group found that more than 40 percent of current tablet users in the United States want a tablet that runs Windows. That number jumps to 53 percent when non-tablet owners are included. The reason: familiarity with Windows, which still runs nearly 90 percent of all PCs sold.

Here, in a nutshell, is why Steve Jobs was right when he said that it wasn't the customer's job to know what they want. Not many people have the balls to risk cannibalizing their own product and launch a product that their marketeers are convinced the public doesn't want.
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I am sure that most FOSS contributors do it out of a motivation other than license restriction, but I am also certain that many potential FOSS contributors work for organizations that may have questions about contributing to a GPL project (not particularly valid concerns/questions, but the less you have to deal with the legal department the easier it is to get sign-off on contributing to a project...) When you are talking about semi-specialized software like numerical analysis tools it is quite possible that there is a latent pool of potential contributors in industry who would find it easier to contribute to a BSD/MIT project than a GPL one.

It is also the case that this is basically a library, and many who would have no problems using/contributing on a GPL application will balk when it comes to a library or framework.
This post will not be well received on HN because the taste leaders here are people who have deeply internalized the Jobs mindset for better or worse
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Hello Azaki, thanks for the feedback.

The article was written as a simplification as the target audience were SEO Professionals who may or may not have a development background. I'm really surprised in the interest so far, I didn't expect this to get outside of it's intended audience.

The "inaccuracies" are largely simplifications, rather than deliberate inaccuracies, but please do fact check it; I appreciate the feedback. It's especially valuable to hear from developers.

I'm not at all dismissing Google's efforts if you read the article more deeply. I just place more emphasis on their effort to make Chrome threaded, as I believe that functionality is absolutely necessary to deploy a browser as a spider.

It also an amazing piece of engineering, and has loads of benefits. As for V8's speed, I couldn't find any recent benchmarks, so I leaned on the anecdotal evidence. As you said, it really depends on the benchmark.

Mentioning the programming language was more about hinting at Google's proficiency in the space; C++ is one of their core development languages.

Anywho, thanks again for the feedback. If nothing else, I hope you found it interesting!
> The second edition is set to be released in five days.

I think you misunderstood the Amazon site. The book's second edition was released in 2009. (I have a hard copy here that I confirmed with.) And the PragProg site doesn't say anything about an upcoming 3rd edition.

I think you misunderstood this Amazon note: "In stock on November 6, 2011." That just means they are out of stock and expect to get more by November 6th.
From a business perspective, Gates offers some interesting lessons - bootstrapping allows a lot of your employees to get rich - even the secretaries; eating your own dogfood can help you produce successful product lines (Project, Office, Visual Studio); you don't have to sell to the the cool kids using Pascal - BASIC is fine; and if you treat consumers like your B2B customers, you will build market share.
They don't mind Operation Payback or Anonymous much at all, because their actions are inconsequential relative to the unimaginable amounts of money they're making.

You can't attack Big Content in any meaningful way, because the unimaginable (again) amounts of money they spend bribing Congress and the White House makes you absolutely insignificant as a voice.

And there's your solution:

Stop giving them money! Period.

We bitch and moan about all the bribery (I guess some people still call it lobbying, or access) that goes on, while at the same time we give them all of the exact same money that they're doing the bribing with.

If you want things to change, stop giving them money. Choke off their air supply.

You might think that your choice to not buy CDs and movies won't make a bit of difference. And you might be right. But there is no other way to stop them except by cutting off their supply of money.

Make them irrelevant in your life. Don't buy their music or their movies. Read books (I know), from the library if possible. Read more from the Internet (I know) and blogs, there's an amazing amount of free, quality content swimming around out there.

Make your own content, and be content with less content.
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One of the most important steps in Google's growth was when they cut a deal to be the technology provider for Yahoo's search back when Yahoo dominated the web, so perhaps finding a big company that will bend over at just the right moment isn't as impossible as it seems?