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A function may have the perfect name at the time you wrote it. It may make perfect sense within the context that you initially conceived of it. However, after some time away from it, when you're trying to mentally rebuild that context, it may make as much sense as def foo().

Good naming is important, but you also have to know the context, which is more difficult to remember.
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3183311
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_... :

The sales pitch for the Redstone systems, says Santeler, is that a half rack of Redstone machines and their external switches implementing 1,600 server nodes has 41 cables, burns 9.9 kilowatts, and costs $1.2m.

A more traditional x86-based cluster doing the same amount of work would only require 400 two-socket Xeon servers, but it would take up 10 racks of space, have 1,600 cables, burn 91 kilowatts, and cost $3.3m.

Hmm, let's see. It's about 7-8 grands per Xeon server, something like HP Proliant DL360R07 (2 x 6-core Xeons at 2.66GHz). It's 3 times as many cores as Redstone, clocked at 2.66 times greater frequency each, and doing more instructions per clock tick, too. And that's without hyperthreading.

Am I missing something big, or is Redstone solution neither cost-effective nor energy-effective?
Developed countries might provide a safety net and strong job retraining programs
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I can think of one, non-governmental one:

http://www.petitiononline.com/netflix0/petition.html
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No matter how you slice the education process, you're always going to have instruction and practice.

It seems Khan Academy has a great model for instruction and Code Academy has a great model for practice; it seems reasonable to posit that a combination of the two would be superior to either one on their own.

I would further posit that the blend between the two models of instruction and practice would be something that might be tailored to the learning style of each individual student. Some people learn well by understanding before doing, others by doing first then understanding.
I was looking to disable chat from the mail view for long. This helps. Mail == Mail now!
Unfortunate typo in title but I can vouch for scalr.

Used it since the early paid beta. Compared to the likes of rightscale it's a bargain. Alongside all the expected things like ami creation and cluster (aka farm) configuration the scripting features and automatic DNS management make life much easier. Their quality control used to be a bit hit and miss and it sometime felt like we were testing their functionality for them. I also had the impression their European DNS performance was poor (never validated). For the money though they were still a cost effective way of managing large ec2 clusters.

The open source version used to be a real pain to setup. Given the relative cost of setting up and running your own install I'd go with the paid version.
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The progress tracking is basically a daily self-assessment on how you're doing towards building and launching an app at the end of the month. You can see your progress in each email as it's been tracked. People seem to find this self-assessment valuable.
+1 (incl the right equilibrium strategies)

Ad pt 1: Absolutely agree, but a gradual shift could also have supply/demand adoption curves overlapping quiet neatly.
OpenVPN Technologies distributes a virtual appliance for their Access Server product, in addition to packages for the various distros.
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While I like Khan Academy in general for their Math lectures, the selection of CS lectures leaves much to be desired IMO. What they call "Computer Science" I call "Intro Programming".
A long time back, I knew a group of consultants that were big into Shockwave. They were the types that would throw parties with their animations projected on the walls.

They would use Shockwave professionally to visualize the interactions of a business workflow. It was really a animated use case when you get right down to it. They had a lot of success and it was easy to get people onboard with a new process because they could "see it". Really not sure what happened to them.

I can see using a concept video like this as an internal "Does this make sense?" and "Prototype Modeling", but I am at a loss as to why you would release it the public. You aren't selling it now so you cannot profit off it, and various critics will point out the flaws in usage inside the video. Plus, Gruber is right, it does take away headlines that could be about your now and selling. The worst part is having a obviously struggling and clueless competitor decide they too need a video.
Ask HN: what do you think about my Quora redesign?
I tried my hand at redesigning the main Quora home page. I would love to get some feedback on it:

http://folyo.me/guides/quora-redesign

For what it's worth, here's what Quora's own head designer had to say about it:

"You're right about a few problems you decided to solve, wrong about all the proposed solutions."

(http://twitter.com/#!/artypapers/status/131401350272647168)
Chicago, IL – Utellit – INTERN, Full time, REMOTE is fine.

Utellit is looking for a full time software engineer as well as a full time graphic designer.

Utellit is adding voice everywhere to make the ways we communicate more personal. Here’s an overview that was published yesterday: http://socialmediaclub.org/blogs/from-the-clubhouse/chicago’....

Please apply by emailing me at rishi@utell.it. Feel free to send your resume but I’m more interested in seeing what you’ve built and having a conversation about it. Please note that these are unpaid internship positions and that you don’t have to reside in Chicago.

Website: http://utell.it/
Contact: rishi@utell.it
In addition to CHC's comment, they also freeze the leaderboards, which makes early december success a virtual guarantee of very high Xmas revenues.
Interesting. Can you point to any official response from Netflix referencing that petition, or did they just take the desired action without referencing the petition?
Which dishwasher manual where you searching for? I'd like to do a comparative study of the various search engines and see what I can get.
Link to the redesign: http://folyo.me/guides/quora-redesign
A lot of the information in the tour can be found here: https://www.saveup.com/about/how-it-works

Hopefully that's helpful.
Old: +apples +oranges
New: "apples" "oranges"

Google do a remarkable job at accurately guessing what most people want from a bunch of search terms. It's not always right, but still, it is impressive.

Or try DuckDuckGo.
I like this, it looks like a lot of fun. However since its battery powered im pretty sure it would need a large heavy battery system to do longer flights. That would complicate things a bit. Ive seen other similar looking projects on the inter-tubes but this looks like the most viable one so far.
Hm... missed it by a month. I soft launched http://onepix.me yesterday (developed through october), it's instant notifications (SMS, Email) when select web pages are viewed.
The credibility of any given proposal is inversely proportional to the number of pejoratives used to articulate it.
Also: If you want Programming Tutuorial Videos, check out http://www.thenewboston.com
I checked this out on my iPhone and it was a pretty impressive mobile web app, but I was shocked to see they didn't set an apple touch icon.
Pretty nice idea, be good to see if it gets some traction and becomes popular. I suppose the next step is populating it with the most popular packages and trying to get active adoption with developers.
There are a huge number of professional applications using PCIe cards in Mac Pros. I've seen some hundreds of installations in media centers. While I see their point, it would be a horror story if the Mac Pro were discontinued before developers moved to a format away from PCIe (thunderbolt-driven dedicated DSP processing?).
The JavaScript compiler has gone through numerous revisions, and seems to get faster and more efficient by huge leaps. Consider the recent stories on the JavaScript H.264 implementation, where nightly releases of Firefox managed 30x as many frames per second.
There's a difference between a concept which addresses an obvious, immediate need and a concept which just shows a bunch of vaguely cool stuff happening. The problem isn't that videos of not-yet-existing products are universally bad. The problem is that when you use fiction to portray a concept the farther away it is from the here and now the easier it is to go astray.
Please can I draw your attention to this Stack Exchange question, about Google Chrome blocking (as a potential phishing site) a question on Security Stack Exchange?

(http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/110081/question-on-s...)

If Google is blocking a site would that affect their ranking?
You assume the application is compute limited and that the extra performance on the Xeon translates into extra performance on a given application. That's probably not a good assumption for this kind of workload.
Dude, this is the internet. We don't think things through here, and I think the President should be weeping for gratitude that the petitioner deigned to use more than 140 characters to unburden himself. Weeping.
So how long before this shows up for Google Apps users? While I love Apps it's annoying that we're second hand users in terms of product releases.
Big-O notation refers to asymptotic behavior. The zipmap encoding of hashes only matters for small values bounded by a constant, so hash lookups are still expected O(1) time in Redis.

</extreme-pedantry>
These petitions are nothing more than a distraction to keep people busy. The president will not do anything about them regardless of how many signatures it gets. This is just the latest one to have shown the white house an issue Americans clearly care about, only to receive a big fat meh in response.
I just checked this, and it's true. Googled "experts exchange fix mod_rewrite," tried a resulting question as referred and in an incognito window. Only the former had the results at the bottom.

Notably, even if you're using secure google search because you're logged in, the referrer still gets sent - so it still works. I know some people were concerned referrers didn't get passed from the new "secure if logged in" option - this seems a decent confirmation they do.
Hi Scott,

I think I am reacting to the arrogance in the language. "This is how research works." is what you said. That is quite presumptuousness of you to say that because your language naturally suggests you are telling me something I don't already know. This is the case with this comment thread in general.

It could be cultural. In the UK, the way you and the other people on this particular comment thread frame words is really quite rude. I don't know where you are from so I cannot comment as it if you would know that or not.

If one were to say "Surely, this is how research works." then on offence would be taken. Or "As I am sure you know, this is how research works." But no, the words immediately speak to an assumption of ignorance on my part. That is offensive and I take offence.

I suspect also that news groups are easy places for people to make such mistakes. I have no idea how you think of me when typing. Do you imagine a 40 something doctor of computational quantum-mechanics trying to squeeze out a quick post before starting a day's work on the parser for a compiler for his client? Maybe you see a spotty teenager trying to wade beyond his depth?

I don't know you and you don't know me and so I suspect a little more automatic respect on both parts would not hurt.

Best wishes - AJ
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High school CS teacher here.

I really hate taking shots at Khan Academy, because I love what they do and his other videos have really helped a lot of my students in chemistry, economics, etc.

However, he's moving through the material MUCH more quickly than I've ever been able to do as a teacher. And I get nearly 5 hours a week of face time with my students.

For example, his third lecture is on for loops. My students, on the other hand, complete literally 80 assignments before beginning for loops. And they still have some trouble.

Admittedly I'm using Java, and Python is simpler, but I think he's VASTLY underestimating how slowly you need to move through seemly obvious concepts for the average total beginner.
Yep thats a great vid. I've been working as a producer myself for the last few years, running the online branch of a international news agency no less. And that vid is spot on.

The managers I'm specifically talking about are the ones who can tell you exactly how many hours or dollars have gone into any project under there watch, but if asked what Employee X is working on couldn't give you much more than a "Something to do with TV remotes".

They probably aren't bad managers, hell they might have even been specifically brought in because them team was flailing, but they are the wrong manager for the team in the long run. That vid is spot on, you have to be over everything, best everyones go to man, but not be the subject matter expert.
Unlikely. People don't use gmail because of the user interface, they use it because they are locked in with their email address. New users will pick what they have heard off, or what their friends use.
Boo @joebadmo!!!

I've seen it, some sexism actually. However those who are sexist/racist are easy to spot, they are just aholes in general. The one I knew was very easily spotted as every female member of the team complained about him in a month, followed by every male member just complaining how much of an ass he was.
Is there a UK version of this?
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Why, for embarrassingly parallel workloads (like the ones they mention) it's a totally reasonable assumption. And for something not so parallel the gazillion of ARM nodes is all but useless.
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There is no current TRIM support I'm aware of, but it could possibly ship in 5.1. Or 6.1. Who knows.
No virtualization ability. No addressibility of more than 4G is a killer for some apps. CPU horsepower density isn't quite as high as they say: at 72 quad-core A9's per rack unit vs. 6.4 Xeons in a comparable 10U blade server. A Nehalem clocks about 3x faster and runs about 1.5-2x faster per clock than the A9 for "random server logic" workloads, so this appears to be higher by only a little bit.

Power consumption isn't clear. I see no peak load wattage numbers, which worries me for a product marketed expressly as a low-power option.

One advantage this architecture does have is density of memory bandwidth. They have 72 DDR3 channels per rack unit vs. 25.6 for a blade server filled with 4-channel Westmere EXs (the Intel boards will stack the DIMMs up on the same channel). So you might want to look seriously at it as a hosting platform for a very parallel in-memory data store.
It is in the process of being integrated in the Symfony2 framework, which is one of the largest PHP communities. That should dramatically help adoption.

We have some other plans that will help, but nothing sure. Just talking to various people.

Ultimately though, package management is solving a big pain point. If the user experience is good, and it is easy enough for everyone to use, I would dare say that it can not fail. And don't get me wrong, things are not perfect yet on that front, but we are trying hard, and we welcome any feedback we can get.
Mountain View, CA. Kiwi Crate - Full time.

We're a newly launched startup funded by First Round Capital and Seth Goldstein, among others.

We've got some specific jobs listed here:

http://www.kiwicrate.com/jobs

We're also always looking to talk to talented people who don't quite fit the description on the jobs page!

Email: jobs@kiwicrate.com
I will be happy to answer any general questions you have about my team and the new projects we are planning. Just shoot me an email at the work address in my profile.

Feel free to reply to this thread too!
UK Foreign Secretary: internet "must remain open and not become ghettoised"
You're going to be I/O bound (network or disk), memory bound, or compute bound. It's hard to imagine the Redstone systems besting Xeon based servers in any of the three.
In their defense, I guess they remembered who their actual customers are. Otherwise, this is kinda the "1984 brought to you by RIM" video.
Had a chance to work and live in Groningen. Would definitely do that again, if only had a chance!
Thanks for your answer, I do appreciate that.
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I was somewhat surprised to learn: it's available immediately. 2 minutes after they posted on Twitter that it's now available to everyone, I followed their steps of closing Tasks and Chat windows, hit refresh, clicked the link. Done. (You may need to be on the Rapid Release track.)
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This is mostly just a way to piss off china though. He doesn't mean it in the way we mean it.
I'm seeing ads now, which I have blocked for a while with AdBlock. Does anyone know how to block ads in the new gmail?
PerkSpot, Chicago. UX and Design.

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Web-based "apps" have this great feature: updates require no work on the part of the user. And they have this terrible bug: updates require no work on the part of the user. With real (i.e. native) software, users get to decide. Important deadline approaching? Click "not now" for any and all updates.
Terrible URLs? Yes; they are.

For this product, http://hp.com/go/moonshot works
I liked it better than the first one.

(1) It's not just trolls that are dragging us all down with patents.

(2) Eliminate patents, starting with the software ones.

(3) The President doesn't vote on the federal budget either, but it's not correct to say he doesn't have a role in it. In this case the USPTO is under the Executive Branch, so actually, I would think the President would have a lot of authority in the matter.
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hate to disappoint you, but they wont host your videos no matter how great of a teacher you are. If you have looked at a bunch of their videos, you might have noticed that they are all done by one guy! Hence the name Khan Academy. The whole site is from the crazed brain of this one guy.

You can see him talk in person in this TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...
> These videos are made so that the delivery manager can understand what the people around him are doing, and so he can explain it to the bean counters.

The irony is that concepts that intentionally ignore reality create the impression among those same people who "don't get it" that these concepts not only are grounded in reality, but are as trivial to create as the concept video makes it look.

It reminds me of this clip from Ali G: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc&feature=youtu...
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My students, on the other hand, complete literally 80 assignments before beginning for loops.

80 assignments? What are these assignments? Are you teaching them how to use recursion before looping in Java? I get that Java has some ceremony, but not 70 assignments worth.

The first day I learned to program (with BASIC) I learned looping. I didn't know the details of it (like there was an index variable I could access), but it was as easy as anything else.

Seriously, what are they learning before looping?
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Why are you using JSON, exactly? What's the harm in allowing comments in the package description file?

YAML is much better suited IMO, and it has traction.
Well remember I said the managers in these cases are incompetent (pointy haired, Dilbert types). A random person off the street would be better. The tech guy that knows the business and the software and has been working with said software for 10 years would certainly be better.

I've been working around people from India for 17 years now. I've known guys/girls from India that came here in the US in the early 80s. I've been in tech lead positions and have given evaluations for people from India on my team that should have been moved into leadership positions and they've been overlooked. This is how I know first hand that there is some kind of bias in many work settings.

I've seen this in the medical, defense, education, financial, and utility fields on the east coast, mid west, and in the southwest. FWIW I've not seen this at software companies.
These petitions are like filing bugs against a software team that just doesn't have any interest in fixing the system.
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I don't even know where to begin.

Almost my entire point was that your own experience is not universal. No one's is.

You admit that you've seen discrimination and that it's easy to spot. Why, then, would you assume that it's not a problem? And why would you assume that all discrimination is easy to spot?

If you've witnessed discrimination, but you're trying to stifle the voices that are trying to raise awareness of their situation, then you're part of the problem.
It's the same. The Ruby 1.9.x (YARV) interpreter uses a GIL as well, although like Python, there's a way for C extensions to release the GIL.
What's awesome though is a student can move at their own pace. If they're not ready for a for loop, then they can stay where they are, and continue practicing.
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Tons of people started using gmail exactly because of the user interface.

For your second point, if you really mean "locked in" (as in "my company has outsourced their email to gmail") you can always use an IMAP client.

But I guess this is just a small typo and you mean "logged in" - in which case I'm not sure I can follow? Is your point that people don't like the user interface but use it anyway because their friends use it?! Not sure I buy. If no-one forces you to use gmail, don't use it. Or, again, use an IMAP client.
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Thanks a lot for the input guys. I'll probably take a job if I can find a position that I'm really passionate about. If that fails, then I'll do graduate work in an area that I'm passionate about. I think things will work out either way.
I do not have a lot of time to make a full drawn out comment as to what I liked and disliked about the redesign. But I will say this.

In a number of areas like "Answer question" and the search bar, I felt you helped give them more prominence which is good!

I'm a sucker for less is more and many of the tweaks you made to remove clutter also helped.

That said I found your method of notification and menu aggregation a little to heavy handed.

On a side note: When doing a site redesign like this, it is a good idea to try and keep the same content as your sample. Adding that new copy forces the viewer to separate what is a design change from what is content. This in turn causes people to loose focus on the design changes, and even in some cases fail to see or understand those changes.
I'm the OP - would greatly appreciate feedback, as I try to write more regularly.

Also - this didn't make it into the article, but I'm pretty sure the issue has to do with a cable that got disconnected / soldered joint that broke (the stereo was working, but seems to have lost power about a week ago).
We are definitely going to add a button to take the tour again. But for now, you can just go here:

saveup.com/?tour=1
But millions of people have workbenches and toolboxes in their garages, and are quite capable of building physical objects and devices.