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We deleted his comments here, of course. At first we did so quietly, not wanting to "feed the troll"
I just tried it and it works :) You'd think that they'd hire better developers .... What's a good 1-900 number to try?
I expect this link is getting attention solely because it was written by Felicia Day, but I too have a list of a number of sites that I don't read as I wish I could because of their lack of RSS.

And taking it a step further, RSS without full-text is little better than no RSS.
This is somewhat unrelated, but I remember reading in one of Mixpanel's job posts that they had over 200 servers. 200 for a company of their size that charges by the data point seems kind of a lot. I've worked at a couple tech companies who get by with an order of magnitude less servers and deal with the same load that I bet they deal with. So either they were exaggerating by re-defining what a "server" was in the cloud, they have tons of (costly) freeloaders, or their infrastructure is inefficient.
Facebook's CTO thinks the opposite or perhaps even alike.

IMHO, a startup should not start with dedicated, but perhaps when you get to a certain size, perhaps, dedicated hardware, team and bandwidth is the way to go.

Just like you will not have a dedicated chef to cook your meal at start, but rather outsource meals, etc.

-- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12406171

What's the biggest technology mistake you've ever made - either
at work or in your own life?

Prior to Facebook, I was the chief executive of a small internet
startup called FriendFeed.

When we started that company, we were faced with deciding whether
to purchase our own servers, or use one of the many cloud hosting
providers out there like Amazon Web Services.

At the time we chose to purchase our own servers. I think that was
a big mistake in retrospect. The reason for that is despite the
fact it cost much less in terms of dollars spent to purchase our
own, it meant we had to maintain them ourselves, and there were
times where I'd have to wake up in the middle of the night and
drive down to a data centre to fix a problem.
Were you originally eating unhealthily before you lost weight eating that way? I am REALLY struggling with losing weight at the moment, and it's baffling as to why.

Exercise - 3x/week 2 hours minimum cardio+weights and pilates, dance. I lost a lot of body fat and I'm in normal ranges for my age, but I'm just gaining a disturbing amount of weight via muscle mass to the point that simple BMI calculations think I'm obese.

Food - My new doctor and personal trainer were both confused at my heaviness after finding out what I normally ate in a two-week timespan. Whole grains across the board (brown rice, beans, my favorite quinoa), half my meals were salads with little to no dressing/sauce (and that was usually just sriracha or a little vinaigrette), almost always water or green tea for drinking, small portions spread out with a little fruit across the day. My only guilty pleasures were the occasional piece of dark chocolate and a glass or two of wine/beer in a week. All the meat and seafood I ate were cooked pretty healthily, and things like butter are only touched when we have guests over. The only time I deviated from any of this was for rare situations, like my birthday lunch at The French Laundry :)

Nobody could come up with a great diet solution for me that wasn't "eat less" or "exercise more", given that "eat less" would be sub-2000 calories for a moderately active person and "exercise more" would be quite painful and make me less likely to work out. I tried eating less for a short while anyway, and nearly passed out in the middle of a street. I can't possibly find a healthier way of eating than what I do now, and the people I talk to only wish their clients/patients would eat like I did. And yet here I am, looking fat, am still fat in some areas, weighing enough to be obese, running <10 minute miles, and still struggling with my weight despite being in pretty good shape. :(
I think they fixed a lot of mentioned mistakes with Windows 7
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Good writeup. Key part (lessons learned):

"After deciding to go dedicated, the next step is choosing a provider. We got competing quotes from a number of companies. One thing that I was surprised by — and this really doesn’t seem to be the case with the cloud — is that pricing is highly variable and you have to be prepared to negotiate everything. The difference between ordering at face value and either getting a competing quote or simply negotiating down can be as much at 50-75% off. As an engineer, this type of sales process is tiring, but once you have a good feel for what you should be paying and what kind of discount you can reasonably get, the negotiations are pretty quick and painless.

We ultimately decided to go with Softlayer for a number of reasons:

- No contracts. I don’t think I really need to explain the advantage. You would think that you could get better prices by signing 1 or 2 year contracts, but interestingly enough, out of the initial 5 providers we talked to the two that didn’t require contracts had the best prices.

- Wide selection. Softlayer seems to keep machines around for a while and you can get very good deals on last year’s hardware. Most of the other providers we contacted would only provision brand new hardware and you pay a premium.

- Fast deployment. Softlayer isn’t quite at the cloud level for deployment times, but we usually get machines within 2-8 hours or so. That’s good enough for our purposes. On the other hand, a lot other hosting companies have deployment times measured in days or worse.

One last thing about getting dedicated hardware. It’s cheaper… a lot cheaper. We have machines that give us 2-4x performance that cost less than half as much as their cloud equivalents and we’re not even co-locating (which has its own set of hassles)."
>Guy says "I have kids". No problem.

>Woman says "I have kids". Problem.

Candidate on the interview says "I have kids". It sounds like the candidate is bringing on a condition that the candidate considers as potentially having some relation to the proposed employment (otherwise why would the candidate mention it?). It is only reasonable for the interviewing person to ask how the candidate would manage the condition that the candidate brought on in a manner and situation that strongly suggests that the candidate may consider the condition as potentially related to the proposed employment.
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On reading this I wondered if this was meant to target Apple? I'm sure the Maps app uses over 25k API calls a day.
I'm one of the organizers, but yeah, we're a small dev shop in Eastern Washington who just love doing realtime stuff so we figured we'd try to throw a conference about it.

Didn't really realize how much interest there would be. Personally, I'm pretty pumped to hear about some of the new realtime frameworks. NullMQ, SocketStream, Derby, et. al.

Looking forward to adding some of those tools to the 'ol toolbelt.
I'm really surprised that Google would make such a sudden change. I would've expected lower rates or allowing free use if AdSense ads are placed on the maps or on the same page. Such changes could've been easier to accept for many sites instead of making them look for alternatives. It appears that they decided that the branding effect of having the Google logo and copyright plastered on so many Web pages wasn't doing much.
Who the HELL cares about this guy?
I'd put passion largely in the same category of glory. It's an emotional good used to get people to accept lower returns.

I'll use the video game industry as an example, people are passionate about writing video games, their not passionate about not being able to see their family and friends for weeks. People are told they need to sacrifice to follow their passion but really they are sacrificing so the company can hit some arbitrary date and extract more rev from each employee, eventually to be discarded by the company when they are no longer profitable.

If your passionate about video games it's probably better to get a iPhone / Android / XNA dev account and make video games than to go work for a video game company (or your VC).

People are passionate about leaving their mark on the world via a business, not making sure their VC gets their 2X earn out.
It's not that tricky, it's a problem easily solved with money.

Step one: "Hey big-name famous professor, want a job at Stanford NY? We'll pay you $big_face_money and you'll get all our fancy new facilities, plus the Stanford name, and whatever the hell else you want." Repeat 200 times.

Step two: The professors attract the grad students.

Step three: The grad students create the ecosystem.
Partner up with epi0Bauqu on his idea for a book about getting traction: http://tractionbook.com/

He hasn't done it himself after a very long time, so seems likely he'd be willing.
Don't forget the NeXT's failed attempts to steal GCC.
I happen to have worked on a SaaS offering entirely focused on aggregating and consolidating RSS feeds, and I can truly say that only a tiny minority of technically inclined people ever gave a shit about RSS feeds, or even understood what it meant. The fact of the matter is that most people have no urge to fuss with news aggregating tools.

RSS was also useful for streaming playlists and status items to thin clients, but they too are increasingly supporting full-on web browsers instead.
Amazon S3 is awesome and different from intrastructure in the cloud. If you choose to use S3 and a lot of your servers rely on fast access to it, then using EC2 too can often make sense.

Rackspace offers a good compromise where they have cloud services like Cloud Files and Cloud Servers, but you can also have dedicated servers with fast access to your cloud stuff.

As others have mentioned, it’s a lot easier to achieve geographical diversity with a cloud provider like AWS.

Another thing to keep in mind with the AWS cloud: if you have a huge setup, you can always start the largest instances, and you will almost certainly have the physical server all for yourself. And for a fee of $10 per hour per region, across _all_ your instances, you can have totally dedicated instances where you’re guaranteed that none of your instances will be on shared hardware.

($7,200 per region per month sounds like a lot, but it is a fixed fee and a drop in the bucket for people with huge EC2 deployments.)
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Softlayer manages our boxes so none of us are waking up and driving down to any datacenters.

For us, you should keep in mind, the big takeaway is consistent performance not just price.

To be honest, I've never had more sleep in the past 2 years ;).
Not so simple. Let me illustrate in increasing levels of absurdity: if Peach Inc. tried to, say, claim property of any data or content authored, produced or processed with any of their devices, and forbid you from using them in the loo because it damages their image, and claims rights on the organs of your firstborn child when you open some DVD shrink wrap, etc. etc. and I find that aberrant, there is a point at which "so don't use Peach hardware" doesn't settle the issue.

For many people, being forbidden to use a piece of hardware that you legally own in whatever way you want is an unacceptable intrusion on personal freedom.
That sounds like the start of a boring and offtopic thread. Let's not fall for it.
rms is not a member of the OSS community. He is a (founding) member of the Free Software community.

At least that's my understanding.
Thanks, Ben! We're thrilled about it, too! (One of the organizers here)

The idea for the conference came out of discussions that @henrikjoreteg, @fritzy, and I had in Brussels in February early this year at the XSF Summit. Our team at &yet has been building realtime web + mobile apps for the last couple years. both for clients and for our own products. We've used a variety of different methods building them and made friends in several realtime-y communities, particularly XMPP and Node.js. There's so much new stuff going on in this field all the time, we wished that we could get people together from all the different communities working in this niche.

We're really grateful for being able to team up with Julien Genestoux of Superfeedr, who's the quintessential Hacker+Hustler CEO+CTO. We've also gotten tons of help and support from Chris Williams of jsconf and all kinds of other folks. We couldn't be more excited with how things have shaped up for krtconf so far after 8 months of ridiculously hard work! :)

We wrote about it here: http://blog.krtconf.com/post/8637335388/a-cross-communal-con...

It's gonna be a blast. :D
Mixpanel isn't purchasing their own servers, they are still having a third party rack, cable, and repair their gear.
Your response conveys that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the theory even describes. It has not "been predicting overpopulation disaster for 200 years" on a continual basis as you make it seem by your analogy in the second paragraph.

The theory merely maintains that population increases ‘geometrically’ or exponentially and that subsistence increases arithmetically. Thus, population increases along the order of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32..., whereas subsistence limps along at the rate of 1, 2, 3, 4... You are correct that this has been debunked in the past in many ways due to technological and agricultural developments, changes in societal organization.

But it has been revived recently. What you don't take into account is that fact that we are only approaching 7 Billion which is sustainable currently but is expected to double within the next 100 years if not checked. Also, the problem has changed as agriculture is no longer the main concern; Oil and energy are. Peak Oil production has, or will have been reached within the next 10 years which presents an entirely new and much more serious problem for world economies. We are already seeing some of the beginning effects that depletion is having.

Don't get me wrong, I believe humans are ingenious and can move to solve problems when cornered, but I don't think you can argue that at the growth rate we are seeing today, that there will not be any sort of check necessary whether it be natural or imposed by man.

(and i don't think a downvote was necessary, as I was merely stating opinion, as you have as well)
That's very fancy and a great start! I hope more social graph networks release contextualized data like this. Despite the impressive visualization, I still find myself struggling to find the answers I really want:

1. Path (and distance) that a reshare traveled between the originator and the reshare I'm currently seeing in my stream.

2. Percentile (and absolute number) of reshares my reshare accounts for. That is, what volume of the total reshare tree my subtree is responsible for.

Bonus: Potential impressions (aka maximum reach) my reshare accounts for by counting the total unique audience for each reshare in my subtree.
Regardless of the origin of the words or their perceived context, it's widely considered unacceptable to publicly post the content of private emails and subsequently attribute authorship. It's not the doing thing.
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> 1. How do we make a software distribution system that simultaneously keeps malware off but allows developers and users liberty without a third party policing the content?

Android lets you install alternative marketplaces. In effect, the user now has to trust only a couple of marketplaces and this should help keep away malware while preserving freedom.

> 3. How do we workaround the fact that most people do not and will never have an interest in the technical workings of devices

Regulation :-( Ford is not allowed by law to build cars that can only be serviced by Ford. It should be the same for computing devices.
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""I have friends who happen to be both notoriously successful
in the tech field and female. They are all extremely touchy
about this subject. They are touchy because crazy shit like
this happens to them all the time.""

This is very true. unbelievable crazy batshit stuff happens to me -all the time-. Like "Police report filed" crazy. Like "I no longer open up any letters or packages unless I am positive I know who sent it" crazy. Like "I have to make sure that wherever I live, there is a camera at the doorbell and multiple doors before they can get in" crazy.

Its not a majority of guys, and some even 'mean well' but you only need to have it happen to you once to decide that the stress of knowing something crappy will happen to you if you attend X event, is not worth the benefit of attending X.
(IIRC Atom is an x86 translation layer on top of an ARM core. Am I mistaken?)
The flipside in terms of selling in large volumes to amortize fixed costs is simple: the iPad. Monumental volume tied to one single SKU of CPU.

If they needed to, Apple could afford to front someone the entire cost of building a leading-edge fab (or, I suppose, build one for themselves, except that I doubt they would want to operate a fab).

So if Apple wanted to make some super advanced ARM chip available at a consumer price, they could probably change the colume aspect of the equation radically.
>I mean seriously, a forum?

it sounds like you somehow missed the Grand Challenge trilogy.
> Stallman sees this and he has dedicated his life to moving us in the opposite direction. He's been hugely successful at this and he's been almost prophetic in his opinions about what we should be worrying about.

He has not been hugely successful. He has failed outright at making users care about their software freedoms, which is why it's so easy to take them away from them. The users are the ones who care least about free software, mostly because they see every day how inferior it is to closed software. From the perspective of the average user, apple's stuff is far superior to the "free" stuff. This makes users interpret free in its worst meaning: free as in cheap, free as in low value.

And this is my real beef with stallman's brand of free. His freedom is a narrow-minded ideology, abstracted from what freedom means in the real world. In the real world the only freedom I care about is the freedom to spend my time the way I want. From that perspective, jobs did a lot to make me free, because the switch from linux to apple "freed" more of my time than it cost me.

It's also interesting to think that apple, in supporting webkit and web technology, helped make HTML5 happen, a movement that enables more user freedom than ever before. Even the ITMS, that bastion of evil, is just another web app selling DRM-free music.

I respect what stallman is trying to do, and strongly agree with it. I just think his tactics are dead-wrong.
It doesnt. And this has been a deal-killer for me for a long time. They'll just tell you that you can use TrueCrypt if you want client-side encryption.
Alternative hypothesis: the point of the competition is to make people think that reconstructing shredded documents is harder than it is.

Why? So that the enemy will keep on shredding documents instead of burning 'em.
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I think most contributions to open source projects come from a necessity, so you can start to create web apps, a todo list, a chat, whatever you want, and eventually when you start to use open source projects (usually gems if you use RoR) to build something you'll probably see some features that would be cool to have.

Even some whole open source projects are created because someone needed something and after googled it didn't find it.

If you can make money and/or help someone while you are building those real projects would be awesome, if not, create new things from scratch, and eventually you'll create your open source projects or at least you'll make pull requests because you needed something for that project.

I hope this helps, thanks for sharing your story :)
Technically, you can redistribute it, but not trough the App Store. That, in turn, means most people will not be able to actually _use_ the app you distribute to them.

As I see it, the issue the FSF has with Apple's model boils down to the following: the FSF claims that being free should be an unalienable right of _all_ software. Apple, on the other hand, claims that _not_all_ software must be free.

The two statements are in conflict. IMO, it is a matter of opinion which world view you prefer.

However, it also is true that, historically, 'A or B is a matter of opinion' can evolve into 'A is evil, B is good', or even 'B is an inalienable right' (for an example, look at the treatment of prisoners of war over the ages)

IMO, it is quite likely that, eventually, RMS will be found to be found 'right' in this discussion.
I understand this and I won't do such thing myself, what I mean is in case of Stallman he would be hypocritical if he's against it.
I just used wget, and it seemed to work. Thanks.
no, he objects to not even being able to install foss software on an iphone
> I can truly say that only a tiny minority of technically inclined people ever gave a shit about RSS feeds

So what? It's in your best interest to keep the nerds happy because they are the ones doing the actual work to push technology forward.
Ahh Mapquest. I'd forgotten all about them.

They are one of the poster children for early success and then resting on their laurels while the competition ate their lunch.
I know we talk a lot about privacy here and Google's requirement to use your real name. When seeing people's names and the network effects of events like this, it gets a bit unsettling. At least with Facebook, social networks and groups are relatively closed.

Update: Imagine the ability for a govt/group/organization to constrict the information flow by eliminating the strongest nodes in the sharing structure.
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Mixpanel is an analytics company.

Analytics is server-intensive.
Did you watch the video? If the game video is beamed to the TV, the iPad and even iPhone can be very competent controllers. Once you can use the gyroscope/accelerometer freely and use the entire screen for gestures (without worrying you're obscuring the gameplay), they can make fantastic gamepads. Plus, since every kid is using their own device, everyone has instant access to their preferences.
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Ripples looks like an absolutely incredible way to discover the reach of social media in general. I have a feeling "ripple graphs" are going to be in a ton of marketing geeks powerpoints from now on.
Swapping out libraries still isn't entirely trivial in programs either (DLL/dependency hell, etc.)
My biggest gripe with Stallman is his "I know what's best for you" mentality. His moral standards are more important than whatever you can come up with.

During a question & answer session somewhere, someone asked him a question about videogames. The questioner mentioned that the best games are just not free software. Stallman's answer was that the person should "adjust their tastes" and play free software games.

Adjust their tastes?

That is plenty more restrictive than using non-free software. I'll proudly wear "digital handcuffs" than sit in Stallman's oppressive, disrespecting, dogmatic ideological prison cell.

I appreciate what RMS has done for free software, but as soon as I learned that he thinks his interests are more important for me than my own, I decided it might be time to develop my own Stallman-libre philosophy on FOSS.