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The ad proves the old maxim true: "Everyone's a reactionary against something they know about."

Nearly all of the companies listed in this ad were heavy donors to the Obama administration. Now they understand what their donation got them.

Everyone in the Internet industry feels extreme pain when these regulations are proposed, and rightly so. SOPA is an insane example of a bankrupt government flailing about.

However, the same commentariat thinks that regulation is somehow "necessary" in medicine, law, or energy.

("<Calamity-of-the-day> could have been prevented if we just had more rules on the books! Surely the evil profit-making corporations would cut every corner they could, just to make a buck! It's not like taking it in the shorts every single day in the press will hit their stock price!")

Once you've tasted government intervention in your industry, you'll want some mouthwash.
totally agree with you..some of us(maybe just me!) should really take a look at ourselves for being the jokers that we are!....I will come back and read this post whenever I am slacking!
Sorry, but I could not read it all... I got bored after 5 minutes of reading.
I think the idea of the fold might means different things to different designers. "Above the fold" is really "Your first Impression". If you have a good first impression, chances are you'll stick around, if not you might leave.

Regardless of what a user does afterwords (such as scrolling or clicking) we can all agree that the first experience is "Above the fold". Just another way of thinking about it. I agree that if you have good content users can and will easily scroll to see the rest.
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I really dislike seeing comments like this on HN.

I've clawed my way from poverty to lower middle class, helped out as many people along the way as I could, done some amazing things, written a lot of brilliant code that's running the guts of a couple businesses and maybe even an East Bay school district still.

But, I've never written about any of it, I don't talk about it much, and honestly, I'd rather do just about anything other than write or talk much about it.

I have some really fantastic clients that are the same way, too.

There are a lot of incredible people in the world whose name you don't know. Just because they don't do PR for themselves the way that, presumably, you do, doesn't mean they should be dismissed out-of-hand.
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How is this scalable? It seems like this is a single-instance solution that in theory could scale, but this isn't even proven, nor is a clear path given. The author throws out a few vague ideas, and seems to vastly underestimate the complexity of scaling out. Redis cluster also is nowhere near stable, and keeps getting pushed back, so how does this help anyone now?
Since most commentators seem to have missed it: Please read the very first paragraph!

> Get a coffee and some popcorn ready before you read this one. Love it or hate it, either way you’ll be wildly entertained. Names and details changed, for obvious reasons.

In other words, the whole article is not meant seriously.
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Are people who buy pirated movies or pirated books guilty of the same crime?

I think it's important to remember that non-commercial distribution is a civil matter, _not_ criminal. That is no small distinction as it determines who will bare the cost of enforcing these rights. Criminal matters are funded by the tax payer.
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towards those getting laid.. I know it's stupid, but I think in the past part of it arose from just knowing that they were doing it, and I as a geek was not going to get it.

I strongly thought in the past that because I was nerdy, I was automatically despised by girls. I know that's not completely true now, but there is a little bit of truth to it.

But to reiterate, I think what gave me this feeling, was thinking that girls hated me coz I was a nerd, etc.
He's joking for sure. Just have a look at the very first paragraph! (see also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3246869)
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And here I thought it was the guaranteed monthly payments for 2 years at over 100 dollars a month well after the phone's values is gone.
I have traveled with people who are happy with the situation, they don't understand whats going on, and are very happy to give up out freedom for a insignificant increase in security.
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All online petitions are worthless wastes of time and energy.

Always.
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Easy response, to quote a friend, is: There's Google Ventures. What do you do?
I would say robotics is another super exciting application, especially humanoid robots.
If you want to be BIG then this is how you do it. You stop being a fucking joker :D

FIND A WAY. OR MAKE ONE! great stuff on there. This is an excellent motivational post.
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If your school is teaching you stuff that you could just pull off the shelves and learn, then you're not really getting a great education.

My college certainly wasn't like that. We spent the a lot of time learning stuff you would never devote 3-4 months to while working. There was a lot of breadth.

In my experience there weren't really "horrendously difficult timed tests". There were tests... but either you got the general concepts or you didn't. It wasn't about micro-optimizing speed or memorization. I think a good education should teach you broadly what you don't know that you don't know, and then you can go back and fill in the details yourself.

When I got out of college, I thought a lot of CS wasn't all that useful for my programming job. But 10 years later, I am glad it taught me some "lofty" things, at the expense of having to struggle a bit early in your career.
This is not a single instance solution. We can run as many instances as we want across multiple servers. It is currently a single-Redis instance solution, however we have some intelligent sharding planned.

I agree with you about Redis clustering, and would extend it by saying I don't think it'd be helpful for this problem regardless. Intelligent sharding with some gossip for slave promotion is where we'll have to go.

See my follow-up post tomorrow.
Its simple to think that regulation is good and bad if you generalize and say that no industry should/should not be regulated just because it causes inconvenience.

Regulation should be in place to put safeties into a system. What i mean by that is don't let people "cheat" too much. By cheating the reasonable bounds of the system the whole system would suffer (people dying, civil liberties slashed or financial systems collapsing).

That said industries you would want tight regulation on is in the food or medical industries.

Nothing is black and white but always varying shades of grey.
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I'm interested in which TLDs and server hosting locales would be best bets for protecting against gov sponsored asset seizures. I would like an EU country to step up to the plate as saying "If the U.S. wants a server taken down or a domain revoked, they have to go through our courts...We will provide fairness and due process to the accused". This may be boom times for migrating to non-.com domains.
Insightful Humor? No. Humor just for it's own sake? Often. Shallow, 'meme' or mock-wit humor? Pretty much every time.

The rule of thumb is: If it doesn't add to the discussion, better hold on to it.
Yes. I was struck by the definition given to the school by the Urban Dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=FCS&defid...

BTW is that the past tense of the verb "know" as in "we _did_ know how to do math until we f*ed our brains out!"

Sorry, I'm just jealous because I have never met a girl who went to Friends Central School. Had I done so possibly she could have demonstrated the marvels of "female ejaculation". I'd keep my distance of course, just observing.
Shoplifting is something diffrent because you cant copy something in a store. You dont take anything away from somebody when you copy (exept an abstract right).

If I could copy a car for basiclly nothing I probebly would too.
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It reads like the person has a drug habbit. I feel sorry for the employees.
Hmm! You've contributed a lot to HN / BSD / world, so I wanted to give you a gift. But, alas, HourlyKitty would be too much of a time investment for me right now. (Getting my family's cell phone service turned back on is perhaps more important.)

But! I present, for you, my next best effort, "YearlyKitty": http://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/scuzzle.JPG

Thanks for everything you've done Colin. I hope you're able to maintain your drive and ambition throughout your lifetime, and I look forward to seeing "your next thing", whatever it turns out to be. (For example http://www.daemonology.net/papers/cachemissing.pdf was especially cool IMHO, but all of your projects have been interesting.)
I've been over this already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3246010
"Stop being a fucking joker." It is quite funny how people come up with the subjects they have the most problems with. For example we had a professor also teaching project management who had a hard time keeping his meetings, work, teaching, etc organized ;)
TL,DR. Started out with an email that looked like it was written by a scammer, got bored, moved on.
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I don't 'disagree' with him, one 'disagrees' with opinions, and I don't waste my time on that - opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one and most of them stink. There was a factual claim being made, that somehow people who read some specific pages on the internet (the HN pages) are smarter than others, a claim arising from snobbery and self-aggrandizement; one of a false duality, too, like your 'doesn't make it Reddit'.
But I somehow agree with the non-joker argument. Ever heard somebody who doesn't write code, arguing about how great open source software like Ubuntu is?
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Its a shame most of the comments on this seem to be reddit quality. Almost as if the people making them have never been in this situation.

I think the problem is, anyone that's worked in the startup world for a while has been in this situation. But most of them have seen it from the other side.

Where you've got maybe 2% equity in a company if you're lucky, and a salary that's about half what you'd be making flipping Java-burgers at a bank. Where you, the sysadmin-at-large (amongst other hats that you wear) see first-hand that traffic levels are a couple orders of magnitude less than you were supposed to set up the system to scale to. Where you're asked to put in 55 hours this week instead of the usual "lazy" 50 because the killer hail-mary-feature that's going to save the company (and is suspiciously similar re: customer visibility to the killer hail-mary-feature of last week) has to be pushed out by Monday or else, ...what, all 20 of the people that bothered to sign up to the mailing list will be disappointed at the missed deadline...? Blech.

Sure, sometimes the situation is different, sometimes it really is a matter of a few people with equal stakes in the outcome not equally pulling weight, and that can be a real problem worth worrying about. But I'm always skeptical when I see CEOs complaining about lazy drones, quite often these complaints are more indicative of top-down scope-creep, bad time estimates, or a failing business model than any actual problem with the workers.
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Good point! I never actually considered this, because almost all Common Lisp code I wrote was single-threaded (CL and threads aren't friends), and nowadays I write in Clojure, where I just stick to fairly plain catch/throw.

This is a great example of why it is always worth it to learn various languages, not just stick to what you know. You regularly get eye-opening revelation moments.
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Au contraire, he makes the incentives quite clear: in the short term, parties at beach houses in Asia; in the long term, being rich and "RISE IN THE WORLD FAST".
I think the CD popping out of the slot right next to the button would be enough feedback.
Huh. Google should take out an ad on its front page!

Maybe censor all requests coming from the .gov domains.
Yeah or censor google search results from any .gov clients!
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I hope they will get the money they need to launch their product. Anyway, now when people oseruse or misuse the word "design", I can point them to The Clip (which is a simple and effective example) and say "See this? The work behind it is what we can call design.".
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This is only true because our tools for reading and exploring source code suck. I mean, we still work at the "unit level" of code (i.e. files and functions, classes, what have you). If our development environments let us viscerally experience the relationships of these units (a systemic perspective) we'd be in much better shape.
> and that's something we just have to accept and move on with.

You haven't said why.
Get out now. There's better people to work with.
Windows XP is going to be around for a long time, and Internet Explorer on Windows XP is a legacy browser only. You can only get this hack into new browsers.

So you'll need to wait at least a decade to flip the switch even after all the browser makers have included the hack in the browsers (good luck with that, btw).

I know someone who still uses Windows ME.
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The idea that if someone works hard on something, they ought to have some commercial control over it is sound.

Doesn't pass my personal "plumber test": the plumber works hard on plumbing an office, should he have commercial control on those tubes for 14+ years?
> How can I design my architecture to accommodate just about anything my customer throws at me?

Poor attempts at this will result in very complex systems with unnecessarily many layers of indirection which still can't accommodate to the most peculiar business requirements thrown at them. It's like having the worst of both worlds, overengineering and dirty hacks.
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In the long run, the best and the brightest won't work in that kind of environment and the customer will ultimately get a substandard product. Good sales reps set achievable stretch goals and customers reap the long term benefits.
This type of rant is insane to me, I would never work for a guy like this. But thats just me, for others it might be prefectly fine...

Generally it sounds like he needs a hug or something.
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Agreed - that is a general rule too. E.g. those that do the actual work make the final call on which technology, language, database, whatever to use - not some "architect".
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Think of a system that works much the same way as speed cameras work in some countries. You deter the majority of people from speeding in a particular area. You automate an amnesty into the system for certain types of vehicles (emergency services, military, diplomatic) but instead put a protection on publicly owned computers, libraries, schools and charities (which, IMO, should not have to pay for copyrighted works anyway and it is already too much effort to enforce). Create an independent arbiter to handle false-positives and exceptional circumstances without any direct connection to financial interests (a government, funded by the fines or industry funded). Send the remaining money to the copyright holder.

There is the same incentive now for blocking MediaSentry and the like, why would the change escalate this? Griefers already do this too but usually with material far more illegal than music.

The present system doesn't make sense. It should not be OK for a company to bankrupt someone over something that can be legally purchased for a minimal amount. Both enforcement and defence against enforcement are too expensive, time-consuming and economically pointless. Having an efficient system is better than having an inefficient system.
I was comparing to MySQL and PostgresSQL, although i can understand that it may not necessarily be a like for like comparison.

Ultimately, i agree with what you are saying and my opinion of SQL server has improved in the last few months. I really like its flexibility.
I used it for a while, but I think it works better with designer's work (example 2).

Example 1: http://blog.drawbang.com/post/12887870450/the-making-of-new-...

Example 2: http://blog.drawbang.com/post/12887912686/the-making-of-new-...
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- Oracle and SQL Server: chosen by us
- Sybase and Informix: chosen implicitly by choosing applications that preferred them[1]
- DB2: Chosen by a company that we acquired

Oh and some MySQL and SQLite too.

[1] Yes they ran on Oracle too - but when 98% of a vendor's customers are on Informix or whatever, sometimes it's just less painful to go with the flow, so you have access to that community.
Hard to believe it's a joke. In that case the whole blog must be a joke. Just read the about page on his blog. Same degree of douchebaggery
Yes, single Redis, but multiple instances of the application backed with a single datastore is hardly revolutionary. This is the classic reason why people go with a stateless app layer, so that it's simple to scale at least a single tier of the architecture.

I'm still not sure how this lives up to the "scalable realtime architecture" that dominates the title. People have been building Redis-backed message brokers for a while now. It seems like you have some untested ideas for "intelligent sharding" that could possibly provide scalability, but that's punting on the hard problem. Without this, this is all really pretty pedestrian.

The gossiping sounds like an interesting lead, is this going to be discussed in the post tomorrow?
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It seems unwise to promote casual sex without fully understanding the consequences. And I don't speak of the overblown disease fears, but the far more serious effects of emotional desensitization. Sex elicits a chemical response much like cocaine or heroin, and is also prone to the build up of tolerance. Thus, casual sex with multiple partners leads to a severely diminished capacity for pair bonding and emotional fulfilment. It is no coincidence that the state of marriage in western nations is in shambles, while citizens report high levels of unhappiness as demonstrated by massively increasing antidepressant consumption [0].

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There's plenty of precedents for fines that become much more expensive if you challenge them in court, because being found guilty by a court indicates a higher degree of confidence in the finding.
You've just written about it.

And so has this Sebastian, in fact, if anything, volume is certainly not the problem when it comes to his writing.

I'm similar to you. As in I don't write blogs or do much formal "PR" or online networking with my real name. I don't have a linkedin account, I don't use google+ and I don't have a website with my real name. I however write comments on reddit, hn and a ton of other lists and forums.

By the way, whenever somebody describes their own work as "brilliant", my alarm bells go off.
I suspect you have taken my remarks entirely out of context.

I suspect this because of the fact that you are using a sentence containing the phrase "Just because they don't do PR for themselves ..." in a discussion of Sebastian Marshall, of all people.

I'm a huge fan of the quiet achiever, but you are barking up the wrong tree, here.
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