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While the effects caused by each bug might be on a similar level, I would argue that the fact that this particular bug was never released in a patch (I don't think I've ever seen anyone using Ruby trunk outside of those hacking the Ruby interpreter) makes it less severe.
Right around the time you get around to execute him he'll have hired a private security force, bought off judges and police with all his millions and jet off to the next laissez faire economy. Don't kid yourself.
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Colonizers on new planets will probably still use minutes and hours because that's what they're used to culturally. Especially if they have to collaborate with people on Earth.

This Wikipedia artile about timekeeping on Mars is fun reading. The Mars rover operation teams used work schedules (and watches!) based on Martian time because they need to be available when the rover had daylight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars
Interesting, incorporated this into the YAML sample: https://github.com/eliotsykes/monitorstxt/blob/gh-pages/moni...
I was wondering about what the current policy was myself. I have been debating on studying in the UK and Europe, but ending up choosing to stay the U.S. for the startup resources. Thanks for explaining the new visa policy.

I talked with two guys from Germany and Australia, and both said incorporating in their respective countries was difficult. I'd research either Chile or Israel and see what their policies are.

For the entrepreneur visa, it looks like you must have 200,000 pounds in the bank, so for me that definitely takes the option off the table: http://www.visabureau.com/uk/entrepreneur-visa.aspx Feel free to let me know if you find other ways to do a startup in the UK or Europe. Good luck!
They all have their warts. For every story like this, there are petabyte deployments of your favorite datastore that work fine.

For every X sucks article, ther is Y is awesome.

In the nosql world the only way to choose is around the problems they solve... They are each specializing and optimizing for certain nitches. mongo is the most mysql-esque, but dosnt do things that redis, couch or cassandra do that you may need.

There is no clear winner (fortunately or unfortunately dependng on what you were hoping for)
I recall some functionality in a PHP framework I was using that allowed you to make API calls on the server side through use of a class or function. It was something like

$user = $api->GET('/accounts/the_user');

which would process the API call without actually making a separate HTTP request. Would this accomplish it?
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Put up some ideas for what yaml, xml, and json formats could be:

Cucumber
https://github.com/eliotsykes/monitorstxt/blob/gh-pages/moni...

YAML
https://github.com/eliotsykes/monitorstxt/blob/gh-pages/moni...

JSON
https://github.com/eliotsykes/monitorstxt/blob/gh-pages/moni...

XML
https://github.com/eliotsykes/monitorstxt/blob/gh-pages/moni...
ObiTalk has the same problem. They were selling the Obi110 for $50 on Amazon and it was constantly selling out within minutes and scammers were buying them and putting them on Amazon for a lot more. Finally, they were able to produce enough to meet demand and then the scammers found they weren't able to sell them at the high price anymore.

There's reasonable reasons to want to price it lower. They don't want potential future customers to see a really high price up front and not come back and check later when the price drops. They may also want to find out what the real demand would be at that price.

However, it might be an interesting experience to auction off the first x units as a way to show the high demand and what people would be willing to pay for it.
That's incredible what one can do with a watt! It's also incredible that the technology has improved so much in the last 18 months that the energy consumption has dropped to 1/4 of their first generation plug.

I'm in the process of installing a security camera system that's capable of recording to an NAS, but I don't currently have a computer at the location. This seems like it might be a inexpensive way of doing it.

It seems like it might even work for remote access to the stored video. Does anyone know what the security is like for the remote access? I presume it's making an outgoing connection to their servers to punch through any firewall?
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Easy way is to just boot a live CD in a sandbox (virtualbox, vmware)..if your really concerned about security check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amnesic_Incognito_Live_Syst...
You're either understating (or simply unaware of) the extent of the real estate bubble in the US or you're overstating that bubble in Australia (or both).

To suggest the FHOG (which is $7,000 now and only ever got as high as $14,000) is responsible for this is disingenuous at best. What's your argument for this?

There are two basic components in house prices: the cost of land and the cost of construction.

Land is essentially scarce. Sure there is lots more land that we haven't built on than we have (particularly in Australia) but desirability comes into play here as do infrastructure costs. There is only so far you can effectively live from work centres. The further you have to build out the more roads, public transport (if you even have it), water, electricity, etc cost.

Land has certainly increased in value in Australia but a huge component of the increases is in the cost of construction. Nowadays it's hard to build a house for less than about $200,000. That is (IMHO) a huge problem. Building apartments now is in most capital cities prohibitively expensive for the middle class.

To give you an example, I pay less for my one bedroom in downtown Manhattan than the apartment I used to live in in West Perth now costs. Manhattan.

Conventional wisdom is that property is a good hedge against inflation. The massive inflation in construction costs should tell you something about inflation. Despite what the ABS may say about the CPI, the standard of living in Australia has dropped massively in the last decade, particularly in Perth.

This probably mirrors the massive housing inflation and the after-effects you saw in Sydney in the 70s and 80s, which results in those with homes being cash-poor and asset-rich and those left standing when the music stopped just being poor.

You just can't compare what's happening in the US and Australia. In the US in many large cities you can still buy a house for <$100,000. Where can you say that in Australia?
It isnt packaged and marketed as cleanly. It takes hunting and learning on your own to get good with couch, and map reduce is no where as easy to get started with as mongo queries (although the addition of unql may improve things next year).

Also there is no single, central steward and authority on couch. All of this stymies traction and confidence even though the tech is great.
Conversely, you could have a NoSQL layer below Postgres, where PG stores and indexes metadata which tells it which, of many, small NoSQL dbs to find the actual data in. These data dbs then can be sharded/replicated across physical systems as you like. You loose some raw speed on reads, but avoid a global write lock and the system scales quite well. I've started playing around with such a system with https://github.com/cloudflare/SortaSQL
No, I was the only one there for an interview. I had two phone interviews before coming in for an in person interview.
This trend worries me. We're starting to see a collection of "sealed apps" that only explicitly support specific cloud-based services instead of connecting to the local machine's operating system or managing services. Facebook becomes popular and then we start seeing sites that only take a Facebook. Dropbox becomes popular and we'll start seeing apps that treat Dropbox as their only filesystem. What happens to those of us that like basic authentication and filesystems that don't run through centralized, closed platforms?
Sadly, MongoDB blows for actual usage. It locks, it's not crash-only, it has mutable data.

CouchDB is much better (you're as likely to lose data as with Postgres), but is potentially less efficient (no BSON).
If you can model your data in redis data structures it is excellent. Keep in mind that there is no preferred mechanism for operating redis when data is larger than ram. There is vm and diskstore, both deprecated by antirez, and a focus on data sets that fit in ram.

If you can do both of those things, it is awesome.
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That's very interesting. The guys at 37signals really do a good job in keeping their company in the spotlight one way or another. Seems like every time I pick up a copy of Inc I read one or two articles that mention 37signals, also on the net I always seem to come across some site, blog post or article that mentions them.
You should have a peek at what my former coworker William is doing with Heliotrope. Pretty nice email client that supports threading with incredibly fast searching. It's not exactly what you're looking for and it's still pretty raw, you have to be familiar with the command line, but it has a lot of potential. https://github.com/wmorgan/heliotrope
I think it looks really interesting as a way to share files in a group. I can take my little NAS to a meeting and have people connect wirelessly and grab or share files with everyone else in the meeting.

It could also be a really great external hard drive, being able to put files on it wirelessly before a trip then grabbing it and heading out.

My question is, is there any possibility to run it off DC power, like from a USB adapter? So, could actually be used as an external hard drive? That would make it a great dual-use product.

Lastly, I wonder if you could install CrashPlan on it and use it as a CrashPlan backup respository? With a good 500GB drive in there, you could backup all your important data from all your computers onto the device, and in case of an emergency, just grab that one little box and run. Having an always-on, power-efficient backup would be awesome. Heck, you could even put one off-site at a family or friends house and backup to it over the internet to have your own off-site backup. Would that work?
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Wow. Didn't think that many people would read this. It took our site down :( Working on getting it back up.
small to medium changes? find a better migration tools.

large changes? throw away and start over; tools like Rails can help you get up and running really quickly.

I rarely see people go back and fix the mess.
I disagree, Microsoft would be a great advertiser to get, and the only reason they can get away with the practice is because they are a monopoly. Would be illegal in the US, but they do it to other countries.
I don't want to :( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co7WUA900Ds
I suppose you could do it based on downloads and reviews by requiring that a certain download limit be reached at a certain star level?
Keep in mind this isnt meant to be redis-on-postgresql
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2011-05/msg...
Great. Another thing I don't need, but can't help myself from wanting.
Cassette of course! If I remember correctly, it took 30 minutes to load programs I had written. Maybe it just seemed that long to me, or maybe that was the write times.
Only things like my Sony bedside clock require changing for me.
Back at you boy. I'm a dev. I hate dealing with other dev that wasted my time just because he ain't lover with RDBMS and decided to write more code and add more infrastructure components (that includes message queue unless you absolutely have no choice).

My time is finite. Ops time is finite. Obviously you decided to dick around with mine and Ops. How bout I send you to the QA department to write automation and software tools so you don't dick around with production code?

You can write with any language and any storage systems you'd like there.
This is exactly why I do not believe that what we do is engineering. Engineers do not refuse to use proven techniques and technologies because they are "too hard" and instead use easier methods that have serious shortcomings.
> If that's really true, try to start developing some project and see how you like frequent schema changes, trying to synchronise schemas with peers, resolving relation issues when merging features,

How does something like MongoDB actually help with this, though? Certainly a lack of a schema lets you be more nimble in changing it, but you still have to write code to handle whatever schema you decide rather than letting a battle tested RDBMS handle it. I think NoSQLs have their uses but not forcing correctness on your data as a feature is not one of them. But I also believe in static typing.
I like the price level of this thing. If can run as a wifi access point, that means in many cases (lots of people get the ethernet connection provided and use only wifi at home) you can get a wifi router + storage box for the price only slightly higher than that of a good device (WRT54G is 70$).

I like the future where I can buy a home storage+router appliance for ~100$.
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Which has a ton of magic baked into the driver making it unlikely you'll get your data back out via anything but .NET.
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What mechanical_fish describes is totally normal, and the result of normal growth and hardware refreshes. A company doesn't start with 0 servers and buy 200. They start with 5, then add 15, then 30, then 50. After three years they get to 200. Then they start replacing them in waves. New generations of hardware become more efficient, you can actually save money by replacing old hardware.

The "platform spread" is inevitable. Besides that it is impossible to physically replace all your servers at once, the bean counters also prefer it to be spread out. They don't want to replace $1,000,000 worth of servers every four years, they would rather replace $250,000 every year.

Sysadmins and devs shouldn't really care if they have five generations of hardware. There are a few things that matter so new hardware fits into the infrastructure, like having IPMI, serial ports for console redirection, enough RAM to run the apps. Try to keep as much as possible the same, like it is way better to only have 3 models of spare power supply to keep in stock vs keeping 20 models. Beyond that I don't think it matters. If every server was a different model it would suck, but having 5 generations is normal and good.
http://www.tonido.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=4101
That's interesting. Perhaps the fact that I've learned about ops entirely in the era of virtual machines running atop disposable, generic, and (in the case of AWS) entirely invisible hardware has distorted my thinking on this matter...
You are depending on an undefined side-effect, specifically that adding two lists returns a new list. This is a very bad habit, especially if you move to a different language that doesn't have such behaviour. When you are programming, you should be writing what you want to do, not depending on side-effects to do it for you. People reading your code (including yourself in the future) would have to spend a lot more time working out what the code does otherwise. The only real exception to this is C on embedded hardware, where you really need to use lots of these tricks.

What if you wrote `b = b + []`, some languages might just append to b, and not create a new list (python seems to create a new string). Slices can still be seen as having the same problem. Really you should be using the Copy module or the List constructor, which have the implicit guarantee of a new list.
"Capitalism is the engine that propelled us from riding around on horses to putting a man on the Moon in the span of one man's lifetime."

Except for that it was actually socialism that put a man on the moon, seeing as it was a government project.
So, uh, why are people doing so much list copying? It's not something that occurs often in idiomatic code. I understand that it's something to be aware of, but it's just not something that is required often.
So true. So true. I wish happy users would donate more as well.

Unfortunately when happy users get used to the culture of free and good quality software, they started to have a sense of entitlement (instead of donating). That if the software didn't provide exactly what they wanted, they starting to swear and whine instead of being... calm and helpful.
I was talking about this one: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20018/facebook-de...

"The OAuth tokens for Google are at https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens (it's different from Linked Accounts).

When I tried it, Facebook created a popup with a OAuth prompt the first time and only briefly opened a blank popup on subsequent attempts. De-authorizing facebook makes the prompts appear again."

Unless they're talking about two different prompts?
Looking at the page for the new TonidoPlug2, I wonder if the $150 HP Touchpad could be used as a server?
Unfortunately solid software projects do not get much love these days.

SQLite. FreeBSD. OpenBSD. PostgreSQL. Python (there are some, but Ruby took the thunder).
> An intelligent computer, he quipped, would require “1.8 Einsteins and one-tenth of the resources of the Manhattan Project” to construct.

His over-the-top quip has also turned out to be breathtakingly hubristic. AI may well be the hardest problem ever proposed.
You aren't stuck declaring one price forever, immutable. If you're selling out your limited stock now and you want to make more later, set the price higher now, use the profits to make more with better economy of scale and sell them cheaper. Everybody wins. Leaving money on the table may sound noble, but it makes me wonder about the odds of the company being there tomorrow. Not that many companies are so generously endowed with resources that they can just pick and choose what they take like that.
I ran into that the other day, and was pleasantly surprised. This is how interconnectivity is supposed to work.
I think they mean in the context of his lifetime. My brain appended a suffix of "so far" to that first sentence.
I also question what the hell is "Ghz level performance"? Especially when the CPU runs at "~800Mhz", obviously less than 1Ghz. Plus frequency is a crap way to measure actual performance anyway.
I gotta say, it was weird for me to do my daily visit to Hacker News and see my own site on the homepage.

I run www.atariarchives.org and www.AtariMagazines.com (started that site in 1996. It has the full text of a bunch of old computer magazines including Creative Computing and Antic and more). I also run FlightSimBooks.com, full text of classic flight simulator books.

If you want to help out with this stuff, find me at www.savetz.com. Need reliable volunteers.
I've been mulling around the idea that the world should just get rid of Daylight Saving Time and Timezones completely. We should all just use UTC.

I work with people across the U.S. and every time I setup and meeting we have to always clarify the timezone and it's worse when working with Arizona because sometimes they are in Pacific Time and sometimes in Mountain Time since they don't observe Daylight Saving Time.

So, if everyone were on UTC, you could just say "Let's have a meeting at 16:00". 16:00 might be the middle of night for some people or the middle of the morning for others, but who cares? Everyone knows when 16:00 will happen. So, if I agree to the meeting, I don't have to know if they are in Mountain, Eastern, or Japanese time zone, only what time in UTC the meeting is. Done. Easy. No time math.

Who's with me?
I have four I need to change: the clock in my car, an analog clock in my family room, the oven clock, and the microwave clock. Everything else is self changing.
Another day, another post up in arms about Facebook privacy. This is getting old.
Actually Goldman tends to exploit a lack of regulations, and will lobby to get regulations removed in order for them to exploit markets further.

Interestingly, the propaganda used to win public support for these moves is that "big government is bad, and we should let the market decide".

Your opinion of regulations needs to take a 180, in my opinion :)

"The date was November 4, 1999. Senator Byron Dorgan was captured only by the cameras of CSPAN2.

"I want to sound a warning call today about this legislation," he declared, "I think this legislation is just fundamentally terrible."

The legislation was the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act (alternatively known as Gramm Leach Bliley), which allowed banks to merge with insurance companies and investment houses.

The title of the bill was 'The Financial Modernization Act.' And so if you don't want to modernize, I guess you're considered hopelessly old fashioned."

Ten years later, Dorgan has been vindicated. His warning that banks would become "too big to fail" has proven basically true in the wake of the current financial crisis. He seems eerily prescient for claiming then that Congress would "look back ten years time and say we should not have done this."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/11/glass-steagall-act-...

Even the titles of bills in this country are propaganda. It's frustrating.

People like Christopher Dodd should definitely be in prison. Take a look at his role and support in the article linked above, and then take a look at this:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chris_Dodd#Co...
Sure, but in Scheme every block is an implicit lambda. In JavaScript, blocks are justs sections of code.
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> Who's with me?

International pilots and the army. Just start calling it Zulu time, instead of UTC.
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And the Atari 400 my brother had, we had to buy the damn BASIC cartridge separately.

Of course, my brother became a Star Raiders ace, rather than a programming ace like me, ahem.
Hey, Android voice commands handle the time change correctly! It's 21:45 local. I just said "set alarm for 24 hours from now" and got back a new alarm for 20:45.
> Identical twins and celebrity lookalikes may still present problems

Or just someone that doesn't care about their job that much putting their friends pack of gum on the same tab as the guy being 100 things.
Unfortunately my bedside alarm clock still has the pre-change timezone info : It gave me a fake lie-in on Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago, and will (most likely) have me stumbling out of bed too early tomorrow.
Some of the more popular ones:
1. Sync your files to the TonidoPlug, ala a private "Dropbox"
2. Stream your music whereever you are
3. Remote access to your files and photos
I took it to mean "at 800MHz, it performs on the same level of some chips that clock in at 1GHz", kind of like how AMD used to label their chips by "equivalent Intel GHz" rather than their literal speed. Like you said, clock speed is not really the issue.