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Memcache is used on your server to cache data that you would normally request from the slower main database (probably MySQL).

If you have a lot of video content, investigate a content delivery network. They host your large files in various locations around the world and send them to end users much more quickly than your server can.

I generally use Softlayer's CDN, but Amazon and many others have good offerings.
Boss: Give me money or be fired.

Employee: Peace out sucka!

later

Bosses: How do we attract and keep top talent?
Looks like they've been reading into Steve Jobs' biography a little too much.
In the short term yes. But once they get past killing all the current cruft we will see fewer products being supported for longer.
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you have to keep user experience in mind...everyone is used to scrolling down to find the country...if you throw this in, half your users will get frustrated not knowing what to do.

on the technical side, it should just match the starting letters, instead of all letters in the name
I've always wondered why more sites don't do this. Even without the fancy auto-complete, just set the default country using a geo-ip lookup.
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I'm curious to learn more about what you're working on, but I couldn't find contact information in your profile. Could you email me? (See my profile for details.)
Exactly my thought. Chosen has the advantage of working moo tools, jquery or prototype. There's also a drupal plugin. It doesn't have alternate spellings support, but that should be really simple to add.
Are you in executive/board/founder position?

Once again, curious to hear the name of the companies. I glanced at this http://www.linkedin.com/in/kentonsmeltzer from your HN profile, and didn't find any Silicon Valley names, but I'm assuming you might not disclose everything there.
But I doubt someone new to regexps would understand what "looks like" means in that context. For instance they might think "ok, so something like 'abc@efg.xyz' matches, even though it's not a real email address." They might not think to consider that a full sentence like "hey, I'll see you tomorrow @ 2. Can't wait!" also matches.

That said, perl one-liners are certainly useful so thanks to the OP for putting this together. I just think it would add a lot of value to include examples of where one is likely to go wrong.
Sandboxing only applies to applications in the App Store -- regular downloaded applications from a website will not have to abide by the sandboxing rules.
Do you happen to know exactly which MBP your friend has? I'm just a little surprised since mine (13" MBP 7,1) has never actually overheated no matter what I throw at it (gaming, heavy compiles etc) - the worst I've had is that the fan gets louder and the case warms to touch. When running normally it's cool and the fan's practically silent, as you'd expect.

Agree on Linux preinstalled; that's pretty rare full stop. Dell had a few at one point but IIRC it was not across their whole range.
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"all the compiler checks enabled"
" ... and no one I mean no one worth their salt is going to sign up with them now."

I think this is probably a bit extreme (I realize you may be employing hyperbole for effect but still) Zynga is a considered a "hot" IPO candidate and as such you will find folks who recognize that not everyone is a super star. Some talent might be more attracted to Zynga because they 'deal with the dead wood' in a proactive way. And pre-IPO options are better than post-IPO options.

It will certainly be interesting to see if it affects their ability to recruit and retain talent. I can only hope that some of the HR people escape and can share the results with others. Too often there isn't any really definitive data post event if it was a net positive or loss for the company. This is why I think there is a lot of hand waving in the HR space, hard to get real numbers.
His entire argument - if you could call this boatload of FUD one - fell apart at the moment he implied that anarchy is equivalent to chaos. I can't take anyone serious who does this. It showcases ignorance.
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I can believe we get a skewed view of anecdotes at HN, but stories about how employees got screwed out of equity by investors/founders when an exit loomed do seem like the norm around here. People even routinely give the advice that you should treat equity grants as having cash value ~$0 if you aren't a founder or maybe one of the first few key hires, because apart from the risk of the equity becoming worthless if the company folds, there's always some way to cut you out of the deal even in the case of a successful exit. Zynga's notable because of how brazen it is, not because the screw-employees-at-exit story is never-before-told...
That was my reaction as well, Zynga doing it is not surprising at all
I'm actually glad the Fire won't have the Market on it. Presuming it does sell like hotcakes; the Fire (and any related Amazon devices) becomes incentive for Google to ensure that Android stays open. Forcing a fork (by closing the source) would shatter the Android developer community; bigger devs have to use more resources to stay compatible with both sides, smaller ones have to choose a side, and some would decide to leave altogether for a more stable platform. Even if Google "won" the fork, they can't afford to send developers away.

Flip side, there's the possibility that this is exactly the scenario Amazon is hoping for.
Absolutely not. I always recommend the weaker .com over the stronger .net or ccTLD
Thanks! Did you try the others before and they didn't work? Just want to know if it's time to post more.
Can we switch this to the original title? 'going anywhere' could refer to a dead end or perseverance.
But in Egypt, the shutting down of the internet was an even more proximate cause.

The US is not like China where this massive firewall infrastructure is practical for two simple reasons.

1. There are people who will compromise for the sake of protecting children or "property", but just about any voter will laugh at the idea of a government-run morality enforcement service. Particularly given the cost involved.

2. Other censorship-minded countries seem to be able to concentrate their resources on border firewalls to keep the inharmonious concepts out. This requires a big infrastructure even in a little place like Iran or Syria.

But the US has a healthy mix of users and controversial servers. Any given router may have users and websites on either side. There simply isn't enough rack space in the world to do deep inspection and blocking at every node. Instead you'd end up with prohibition-era like raids on some small random sample of servers and users. That would be simultaneously one of the most expensive and unpopular government projects ever.

My guess is the DoJ is going to stick to "takedowns" of small video streaming and fake handbag sites for a while yet.
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The poster child here is Groupon (GRPN) and while the poor choices of their executives did negatively affect the IPO they are still (11/9) trading above their IPO price of $20 ($24.50 when I glanced).
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"A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image, while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead" (e.g. iron resolution) has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness. But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves. Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles' heel, swan song, hotbed. Many of these are used without knowledge of their meaning (what is a "rift," for instance?), and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed, a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying. Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact. For example, toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line. Another example is the hammer and the anvil, now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it. In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about: a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase."

--George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 (emphasis added)
Yeah, I know it's nothing. That's what I said. However, if I can make that amount of money for very little effort, blogging occasionally; somebody who does it full time, should be able to earn 50 times that. A reasonable salary in most of the World.
No, contracts are useful even if you trust the other party intimately, because they spell out, in writing, exactly what is expected of each party. Believe it or not, sometimes disputes arise even among people who had the best intentions.

They also allow you to continue to do business even if the other company changes hands.

I think the point you're trying to make is that if you already don't trust someone, a contract is not going to save you. That I can agree with.
You might be interested in talking to this guy:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221094
Probably an anti-dilution clause prevents that.
no, but again, that wouldn't be that hard to add.
Is there an ethical reason for Tracking users? Just asking. Off hand I cant think of one.
I don't know. I bet it's probably an artifact of the implementation - it may be tied to the fact that you can't edit a post after a certain period of time.
Somewhat related: if you know someone at Google, could you please tell him/her to add keyboard support to the country selector of Google News? Thanks.
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aren't all disruptive/new/exotic ideas causing some kind of trouble?
Unit testing is a good idea in any language. If you look at their tests, I doubt many of them look like type checks. I bet most of them are logic tests. The compiler would not negate the usefulness of such tests.
Actually, no. I think it's correct to oversimplify this - Either you care, deeply, about a relationship or you don't.

"I'd actually say most relationships turn out to be much like normal relationships"

I'm not sure you realize how extremely shady that sounds. Does that really sound satisfying to you? Real and honest? I understand that manipulating people into forming a relationship (of whatever kind) with you can somewhere in the end resemble something like a genuine relationship. But that still doesn't make it a genuine relationship. It either is a runway and you are a tower operator, or not.

If you define a relationship as one where two people occupy the same room and have frequent conversations then a lot of things are a relationship - all the way to a torture chamber. What I'm talking about is two people who really care about each other.

'The Game' is very particularly about getting women into bed. Being in bed together is usually related to a deep, emotional connection, but pickup artists just care about that last bit. To stay in the metaphor: They really, really do care about making those cargo planes appear. Boy do they ever love that cargo. They do everything they have seen others do to provoke the kind of reaction from the planes that they have observed. What they don't care so much about is what those planes are, why they usually care about ACTUAL runways and care about having a very good reason to drop off their cargo.

Because if they did care to understand, they'd very quickly see how pathetic it is to sit in that makeshift straw hut pretending to be an international airport.

So yes, Radix is correct - that's what I'm talking about. What ends up on the runway are either pilots who actually wanted to be somewhere else and try their best to take off as fast as possible, or are other islanders who push their own wooden boxes with straw wings onto the dirt road.

[edit] Maybe the easiest way to sum this up is: The fact that cargo arrives on your dirt runway doesn't make you a proper army radio tower operator. The fact that you score women or get people to do things that you want doesn't make you a good partner or friend.
The "please just go take a shower" hit home HARD
Well, I think the transition from the Apple II to the Mac was a little like that.
How did several employees have equity of more than 1% of the company??

Even in a heavily equity-based compensation package in an early stage startup, anything over 1% is usually reserved for VP-level if not C-level executives, as the entire employee pool is usually only 20-25%

Per WSJ: '"Some of these people were sitting on over $200 million and close to 1% of the company" when fully vested, said one person familiar with the list that was compiled.'

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020462190...
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Pathetic. Very disappointed to see this. This is the cancer that sets the stage for other startups as well.

How is one supposed to decide which startup to work for and at what stage in the startup to join? I liked the 37Signals principles when and IF they ever go IPO/cash out. I think the VC community needs to push for such a clean and transparent model (Wishful thinking).
But not for G+, right?
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Most contracts state that you lose unvested shares upon termination. It doesn't make sense any other way.

However the problem with your math (and most others in this thread) is this: lets say Zynga values me at 4 shares, and I get 1 vested per year. However after two years, and a few splits, I have 128 shares.

The company hired me to work as a 4 share employee, then it grew like crazy and I became a 128 share employee. This is normal in tech nowadays, most people take it for granted that you just get lucky and accept your windfall. But the fact is that you are a 4 share employee being paid 3000% of what you were hired at.
Am I the only one that thinks TDD is really antithetical to agile development?
I've read a lot about TDD including a few good tutorials, and I've watched a few screencasts, and I tried it out a couple times (once last year and again more recently). And I really do "get it". I do understand where the value of it comes from.

I just think it's a slow and bureaucratic process where the same value can be obtained in better ways.

I saw this definition of TDD online: "one way to think through your requirements or design before your write your functional code". That's one good characterization of TDD, and where most of its true value comes from, but there are processes to "think through your requirements or design" that are both much quicker and more effective.

And like all design methods, TDD only works well if you're doing it right. If seen it postulated that good TDD forces (or highly encourages) you to write good code. But that's almost a tautology. If you're good enough to do TDD well, you're good enough to code without TDD. It doesn't help you any more than you help yourself.

And I have seen a whole lot of bad TDD out in the wild, where the tests offer no value or nearly no value because they are badly designed. In these cases it just adds boring busywork and a false sense of security to the coder (which might lead to even worse code than if there were no "tests" at all).

Am I alone in thinking this?
I think most agree that 'balance' is necessary, but many people have different definitions of what this means. In relation to Internet regulation how do we keep security, functionality, and economic/social liberty in a perfect balance? The answer is that you can't. Too much of one thing allows for not enough of the other. On the whole, I think it has done much more good in its current state, but people will always attempt to balance these things out based on their own justifications. Their is no true perfect state of the Internet, just a constant strive to reach it.
I'm guessing that company that was insistent about the salary was doing so because they knew they'd be paying below market rates, and once they knew you had an offer from a bank who typically make above-market offers they probably thought it would make little sense to proceed with you.
I'm currently going through this right now. My SO even went as far as to announce that "we can get a dog now because you are home to take care of it!" I would go grocery shopping during the day, pick up the mail, wash dishes, do laundry, etc, during my coding breaks while self-employed.

Now?

I leave the dishes in the sink, leave the mail in the mailbox, don't pick up the random stuff laying on the floor, etc. The result is that my SO comes home and there are a bunch of unresolved physical tasks that need to be done. It looks as though I had been at an office doing work and also just came home.

Kind of odd psychology going on, but it works for me right now.
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Wouldn't there be other ways to pull this scam off? Perhaps less outwardly visible ways?

Assuming the board is on board with the plan, why not do some sort of stock dilution and re-issue preferred shares or something like that? Conventional wisdom would dictate that the last thing you want going in to an IPO or M and A is some goofy accounting on the books but the last few years make me think Goldman and company are really really good at deciphering that and more than accepting of the practices.

With all the things I've heard about game companies in general and then Zynga itself, it's a wonder that the game industry keeps moving forward. There is always fresh meat though.

To the Zynga folks... I don't know that you'll be able to lawyer up and fix it, I just don't think the laws will be on your side and there are too many loopholes. However, possibly building a coalition and contacting Communication Workers of America or something similar might make a larger impact, assuming you can build a coalition... Distasteful as I think it is, I think it might be your best option.
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You could use CppTest http://cpptest.sourceforge.net/ which is a unit test framework for C++
It's not difficult if you meet and get friendly with a lot of women. Keep in mind boyfriend/girlfriend is just a title and you can actually have one for a day if you want.

Hell, Kim Kardashian had a marriage for 75 days, that's about the same time frame, no? #rimshot
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A psychopath as defined by Hare will never kill for you. At least, not in the sense you mean by "kill", which is probably "go to extreme lengths". They quite likely would kill for you, under the right circumstance - but only if it served their purpose and only because taking a life doesn't carry any particular emotional connotation for them. The scariest thing about realizing you're surrounded by psychopaths is knowing that they have about as much regard for your feelings and well-being as those of their toaster oven.

From an evolutionary psychology viewpoint, things are probably the other way around. That is - psychopathic personalities evolved to reflect, albeit in a very shallow way, the traits we're programmed to identify and follow as leaders.

I find the whole topic morbidly fascinating. In a way, it's the closest we can get to observing an alien intellect.
The idea that so many executives in and around my industry could be such people just creeps me the hell out.
Groupon is an unregulated check cashing company
I think this is probably a bit extreme (I realize you may be employing hyperbole for effect but still)

Yes some but I don't think much, IT employment is very much based on trends, in the 70-80's the hot place to work was Bell Labs or DEC, in the 90-00's it was Google. If you ruin your name you loose the A-Listers interest and everyone in tech fashions themselves A-Listers. So when this happens you have to rely on finding talent that has not proven itself yet or settling for the "it's just a job crowd". The biggest draw to pre-IPO is stock and the possibility of fortunes. To me and probably quite a few others, this is a shot across the bow that they will limit the participation in the fortunes part, which kills the primary reason people join pre-IPO start-ups. I would not underestimate the gravity of this action especially in this hot of a market.
Great suggestion - will do.
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This is extortion of sorts right? I mean, yes they could fire the employee for genuine reasons, but if there is a way to prove that the conversation did occur, where the execs did tell the employee to return the unvested stocks in order to keep the job, its pure blackmailing.
I wish there was someway to expose these crooks and bring them to justice.
Sandboxing is only required for apps sold in the Mac App Store and the OS won't require apps to be sandboxed. None of your non-sandboxed apps will stop working on March 1st.
Sorry to say - but it sucks. Completely irrelevant results, strange sort order.

In any standard dropdown list, just press a button and it scrolls to the first word starting with it. Press again, etc, and it cycles.

Fuzzy string search is a good algo and all, but does not make a good country selector. Everyone knows first letter of a country, so keep it simple.
And, see SublimeText for an excellent example of fuzzy string searching.
I can relate and sympathize. I’m from Spain although I have spent most of my professional life in the US and Canada.

Hats off to you if you are an entrepreneur in Spain. Some 20 years ago or so when I was in college and trying to be self-employed or create my own company I would go to the government offices in my hometown (with 40% or so unemployment rate) to know what to do and they would look at me like I was crazy.

In one office nobody knew anything and I had to come back later to talk to the guy who supposedly knew something but was out having coffee. In another office they pretty much kicked me out because my questions led them to believe I was trying to find some loophole in order to commit fraud or something. And these were the “Offices for Employment Creation” or whatever they called it back them.

Everybody in Spain just tells you to go work for the government (and there are 4 or 5 levels of government that exist in Spain), competing in the “oposiciones” or tests for a position, where the ratios are like one position for a thousand applicants. This is so because not only government employment is stable (they basically cannot ever fire you no matter what) and usually relaxed but they often make more money that their counterparts in the private sector.
Bullshit, this is a free market economy. If I feel you are overpaid for what you contribute, I can fire you. This is not extortion, they are readjusting their compensation to the market-going rates.

Whether it is moral or whether it will hurt them in the future are different questions.
your selector just sucks. admit it.