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I put templates in my loads, but data I get with a background process that takes advantage of the local cache. So the first get will take 500ms or so to prime the user cache, but from then on it is all diffs back to the server. The agent is something that I have been meaning to open source.

It is about weighing pro's and con's. I would prefer to take advantage of having all the assets being static, cachable, CDN-able etc. Weighing those options in other apps might not make as much sense, but this particular app for me had small amounts of very user-specific data.

Btw there is still a lot of this 'stack' to be built, I am finding myself having written and having to write a lot of Javascript to support the model I am using
I knew a German lit student and looked at his summer reading list (to prepare for grad school). It contained about 100 books, and he aimed to grind through a substantial fraction of them that summer. I read a lot (back then), but not at that level.

That was one of the experiences, besides the time I took French and had my ass handed to me by people who were also simultaneously studying other languages, that brought home to me the linguistic workload that can be part of a humanities degree.
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I can and do send bits of my Python code to non-Python developers for them to examine for things like business logic errors. The only reason this is practical is because the code is clear and explicit about what it's doing.
I agree Siri isn't a threat for Google in terms of market share or features (Google beats Apple on their own game here, they own the whole stack of data/speech to text tech while Apple is cobbling together everything from numerous sources). I think it is clear Schmidt is just trying to downplay Google's dominance here, and highly doubt he is really afraid of Siri. But Siri can be dangerous to Google, because if personal assistant style search becomes the standard, it is going to be hard to sell ads. Currently, it is no big deal if you throw a few ads on the top or the side of a search page. In a Siri-like conversation, though, it is a whole new ballgame. It is more personal and direct, so it would be extremely off-putting to be pushed products by your "assistant".

I have my doubts about Siri taking off, but if it does, Google may have a problem on its hands.
To be fair, at an extremely early-stage startup, no one really knows who will eventually fill the executive roles. There is a good chance that the founding "CEO" will no longer serve in the CEO role a few years down the line (particularly if the company has taken a significant VC infusion). It is relatively difficult to know how much "contribution" each team member will make over the long-term.

Therefore, I would say that your argument makes little sense. The reason why the founder gets more than developer #1 is that the founder takes on the risk of starting the company, while employee #1 is making a salary of some sort (if not, he should be considered a founder and take a significant equity stake).
"Tracy was last seen at 7:45pm PDT on Wednesday evening at the Whitehorse Bar located in San Francisco." <-- does the bar have a security camera, and if so has anyone reviewed the footage from that night?

"After leaving the bar, we believe Tracy texted a friend to let him know she was going home." <-- Has anyone asked her friends if she sent them a text message that night?

(these should be obvious, but there was no indication, from what I've read, that these avenues were explored)
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Google has the best combination of money, people and data (and control over Android) to make any potential Siri-killer. If anybody could do it, it'd be them.
Microsoft has JScript.NET (and has for a while now).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms974588.aspx

I haven't seen it used anywhere as a server side application, though.
> these should be obvious, but there was no indication

I would assume the latter (txt msg) refers to the possibility that the text message was not sent by her but sent by someone whom has been involved in her disappearance. There was a text message from her phone to a friend, but they don't know if she actually sent it. That's my assumption about what it means anyway.
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Doesn't Siri, by default, USE Google to search for queries given to it? I've read that Google is just upset that they are cut out of the equation which results in their ads not being shown. However in this situation with Apple it seems like Google has the leverage so I would agree with other commenters that Schmidt seems to be trying to downplay Google's power to Congress.
I find it interesting that at this moment, your comment seems to be the most highly rated one, whereas my post,(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3201862) which makes much the same point using a famous literary metaphor, is currently at -2 :)
It's pretty obvious, though, just by looking at it side by side (let alone tasting it). Grade B just looks darker and more maple-y.
It has a 2.5" enclosure. It's basically a hard drive enclosure that plugs directly into the wall, takes little power, has wifi and ethernet, and custom software. It also has an SDK.
Lots of people like it, so I'm sure that there's an argument to be made for it, but it feels unnecessary and crufty. Personally, I think that the strongest case for it is that it lets your manager without any technical ability feel like he's a useful part of the process, but it just seems like a solution in search of a problem.

Something like Steak (https://github.com/cavalle/steak) feels far more comfortable and readable to me.
I have been a debian/unstable user for ten years on my workstations and laptops. During that time I have rarely experienced any problems. With the addition of the experimental repository there are rarely if ever any issues. The easiest way to avoid troubles in unstable is the installation of apt-listchanges and apt-listbugs.
He made the point a lot better than you did :)
Perhaps, but list() is certainly easier to google/find in the docs than [:]
I meant: Windows is designed to support a gazillion hardware platforms, and Microsoft goes to great lengths to make that happen. I guess I wasn't very clear.
Latest chrome on windows 7 here doesn't.
Just sounds like it was a bad deal for you all around, not all start-ups are out to "sucker" employees. If you are making a disgracefully low salary, you should of been asking for sizable percentage of equity. And you really should have been insanely excited to work there, and not "slaving" away. I've been fortunate enough to work for some great start-ups. One paid me about 20% lower than market, but a couple years later I was able make 10x off my stock options. At another, I was able to cash out on some of my equity within a year, while making above market. Even if my options ended up being worth nothing, it was a very good decision for me. As an employee, the wealth of experience I gained from working at start-ups has actually doubled my market value within a very short time period.
Maybe I'm really confused, but how is this effectively any different from just "shifting" your personal schedule? The day is still the same length. The effect is the same as if you just got up at 7am instead of 6am and went from there.

Measured time exists only for interaction with others, so wouldn't it make more sense to continue to use society's time standard, and just shift your personal activities accordingly?
Have you considered the Backports for Debian? It solves the problem of glacial updates for many people - just add some of the packages you want, like Firefox and such.

I've been using Unstable for a couple of years now (updating every few days) and it has only broke once or twice in the entire time. Sure, it took me a couple of hours initially to configure it just as I wanted it, but I never feel like I'm doing "maintenance work".

One of the problems with Ubuntu is that it loads too much damn stuff, which increases the probability of breakage. My base desktop - the stuff that gets loaded after logging in - is just X, Awesome, Wicd and XScreensaver.
see: https://developer.palm.com/content/resources/develop/faq.htm...

Q: I’m a non-US developer and trying to register for a Developer Account. Do I need a U.S. taxpayer ID?
A: If you have a US taxpayer ID, please use this number. If you only have a foreign tax ID number you can enter your foreign tax ID number in the Tax Identification Number field.

i.e. For a Canadian individual (like me), you can use your SIN, if you want. Or use gibberish and figure it out later if there are any problems.
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Exactly what I meant. In debian, there is no "initdb" step and the daemon is started when it's installed.

Anyway, people who call themselves ops or devs ought to be able to do that sort of 3 lines operations.

As I said before, it happens once in your product's dev/op lifetime.
> Data is all there. Tagging is categorized to the T on porntube sites by the actor/actress, genre, ethnicity and different acts depicted.

I looked into doing this.

The problem is that all of the popular tube sites have bad data especially in the tag section. People put up videos with the most searched on tags, even if the content doesn't match.

Actress/Actor data is a joke on many sites---being a wild guess at best especially for asian actresses.

Still you could take what they have and make it easier to search through. There's some movement on that front in the niches--like hentai, but none on the main stream sites.

One thing to worry about in recommendation engines (which is why they're so conservative on the big sites) is that users are enthusiastic about their particular niche but nothing else, and unlike in say Netflix--there's a real possibility of showing miscategorized guro to someone doing a vanilla search.
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I live in southeast Alaska, and the only carrier available is ATT. My wife would like me to get an iphone so we have compatible devices, but I lean towards android. I will not get into iphone development anytime soon, but I would probably try out developing for android if I could load my own app onto my own phone.

Are ATT android phones helpful for development, or does ATT's policy of locking android phones make them useless for this purpose?
Computers have had microphones as a standard for years. Typing has clearly won over voice for search on desktops and laptops. On handheld devices, where the keyboard isn't as easy to type on, voice might win out. Might. You broadcasting what you're searching for every time you speak to search and you end up attracting people's attention.
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Yeah we are using Dropbox as syncing / backup in our iOS and Mac budgeting apps currently. To his(Houston's) point, you set it up and then if you throw your phone in the river it doesn't matter. Go get a new phone and you have all of your data.

As space continues to get cheaper, I could see using Dropbox exclusively for storage at some point in the future. Not just a few things I want backed up, but storing everything there. Then any computer I pick up has everything I could ever want or need. Currently it's far too expensive for me to do that though. That is where the real power to "having little Dropbox buttons everywhere" would be for me.
Make the calls to the API over HTTPS.
Because there are extra mental operations involved in translating what the code does to what you think/know it does.

We all learn a natural language and its grammar, and use it daily. It's very important for a machine language to be as cognitively compatible with a natural language as possible (aka readability), because that is extremely important for productivity.

p.s. The above is particularly relevant to Python, because it (justifiably) prides itself on its emphasis on readability. To me, even though Python is 5 to 30 times slower than Java, it holds the keys to the future because of its commitment to readability. In the long run, that is the single most important feature of any language - other fundamentals are necessary, but not sufficient to ensure a language's longevity, and can be fixed more easily.
I think a big part of the entitlement problem is not being clear about the business model, or positioning oneself to take advantage of it.

One key thing is, I think, to advertise services and ways of making money. IOW, giving people the option to get new features, etc. is an important thing.

There is a lot of solid FOSS out there: PostgreSQL, BSD, Linux, CUPS, and more all come to mind. These often are less sexy than heavily marketed, inferior counterparts. But these all also have solid business models attached.

I highly recommend that folks who start open source software look around at business models surrounding the better open source products and see what they can do to capitalize on that.
It didn't came harsh.

I use no script whatsoever and the complication . For a dev environment, I go like this:

$ sudo su - postgres
$ createuser -s nakkiel

And again, no further operation is required until you install a new OS on your machine.

I really think we're missing the point anyway. The complicated things, and Mongo's advantage, only really come later when it's time to create a database and tables and columns and indexes..
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That was painful to read. I almost expected "What would you say you'd do here?" to show up in the conversation.
That site indicates they're attempting to launch a human on a suborbital trajectory. What does that have to do with either orbital flight or going to the moon?
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My God. If I ever heard the bit from "Well, if you worked for me directly [...]" I would've just stopped him in his tracks and said enough. Even though it's text, any interpretation of that utterance and the ones afterward are completely degrading to the listener.
The B stands for "better" :)
There might be off by one error. On my system the following works:

awk -F: '$7=="/usr/sbin/nologin" {print $1}' /etc/passwd

Or

awk -F: '$7 ~ /bin\/nologin$/ {print $1}' /etc/passwd
I also like list(s) for its clarity and universality (the same technique works with dict(m) and deque(d) for example).

The s[:] gets called faster (builtin syntax dispatches directly) than list(s) which requires a global lookup. One called though, they both run the same underlying code and are therefore equally fast when it comes to the actual copying.

In Python 3.3, we're adding list.copy() and list.clear() because so many people were having issues with the [:] notation for copying and clearing.
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The long tail exists for the user. For the content provider it is a myth. The long tail rewards platforms that deliver the content, not those that participate in it.

An example from the world of books:

http://www.baekdal.com/opinion/the-myth-of-the-99-cent-book/
This. I worked for AMC Theaters for 4 years as a developer. One of the wonderful things about that company is that every employee has to go thru a week long training program in the theater business, to include working at a theater.

One of the things I'll never forget is the trainer telling us one day, "We're not in the movie exhibition industry. We're in the snack concession industry. We just use movies to get the patrons in the door."

The reason is that, in the movie industry, the Hollywood studios have almost all the power. When the original Batman came out and lines were around the block, the company actually lost money on ticket sales (after theater costs). That's because Batman cost the theaters 90% of the gross ticket sales.

If the theaters were really making big profits the companies would have margins -- and stock prices -- akin to Apple's. They don't. Check the stock listings: they have a marginal business.
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aeden, I agree with you that the disadvantage of this approach is that you can't just repackage the client as a mobile app.

However, there are two reasons why you would access the API with server side code in a web client (as opposed to a mobile one).

[1] You can provide a Google friendly, static (no javascript) version of the site and all content - as opposed to a completely invisible site from an SEO perspective.

[2] You can store local versions of all data that's returned from API calls.

This is useful in a couple of ways.

[a] It means that you need only check the API for a 'last modified' date and, if it's older than the current date, use the locally cached API call results first (if they exist). This makes the client extremely fast, since you're reading flat files locally.

[b] If the API is inaccessible for some reason, the client can default to using the locally cached copies of previous API call results

I built this site (backend, not the HTML/CSS/JS) the same way a while back and have been pleasantly surprised with the results - http://jacksonteece.com/
As I have posted elsewhere here, as a fact-on-the-ground 'discovery' is highly over-rated and over-emphasized. It is much easier to connect with 100 people deep enough to get them to come to a show than to connect with 1,000 or 10,000.

This idea that music should and can function like spam email doesn't actually work in the real world.
That's a great alternative to the headline you fixated on. But the article is actually about the history of maple syrup, so I think you missed the point.
That isn't an undefined side-effect, that's the definition of the operation.
It is Ghz performance if you round up to the nearest Ghz.
The main reason I'd see for originally including PNG color space metadata is to correct for the inconsistent gamma between OS X 10.5 and earlier (gamma 1.8) and Windows (gamma 2.2). Snow Leopard and Lion have switched to 2.2 so the problem is graduating, but web designers before 2009 had to worry that the colors on their Macs did not match the colors on PCs.

The real question is why throw in the whole 100K including the color space and all, when only a gamma value would suffice?
If you're logged into your e-mail, then someone can go to Facebook, and start password recovery, and then go to your e-mail and click the recovery link. If you're not logged in, then the OpenID authentication will require you to enter your e-mail. This isn't a weakness, just a convenience.
Python is committed to code readability. It has nothing to do with people being dumb. It has to do with making a language which is cognitively compatible with a spoken language that we have been practicing every day since birth. var[:] is obscure and requires more mental effort to parse than list(var). Because of that, it's preferable to var[:] from a readability standpoint as well.
Wow, that reads like a conversation with Eliza.
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How are services like myBalsamiq (web version of Balsamiq) built ? Is there a set of tools for this kind of drag and drop prototyping and wire-framing? Or it just rely heavily on javascript.
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Google Chrome's "users" should let you segment all your cookies and browsing neatly.

I use it to separate my various different Google identities and logins (so I can stay logged in with distinct accounts).

(Google's multiple sign-in is rarely effective or convenient)
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Wow.. yeah, who would want Node on Windows? Whats the point. LOL. The sad thing is, that is probably the default perspective. Basically what's going on is status quo bias -- its the same thing with dying. There's nothing you can do about it so you learned to accept and love that Node.JS doesn't work on Windows. Who would want to live forever? Dying is great! Or you just don't want to have anything to do with Windows or something. People are amazingly stupid. I'm sorry, but its just stupidity to react that way.

"Sure, you get to support a huge chunk of the OS market" <-- This is a big deal.

Most businesses run Windows. I want my Node.JS software to run on most business servers or workstations without requiring a VM or something. Same with most PCs.

The implication is that I can provide Node.JS-based software to an additional 400 million or so people. That means that I can write my software for Node.JS and not have to write a different version for Windows or ignore 400 million people.

For example, say I built an online database application builder type thing where users can build forms using drag and drop and configure database search screens and reports easily. What a lot of my users really want is to have complete control over their database and application. They don't want to have to rely on my server or their internet connection always being on to access their business data.

With good Windows support, I can build my application in Node.JS, and provide a setup bundle that users or IT people can use to install the user's database application on a Windows server.

Seems pretty obvious that this is a big advantage.
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You shouldn't have any problems. AT&T's Android phones no longer prevent installation of non-market apps, and IIRC even when they did you could always deploy your own code on them with the developer tools.
4.2% of the global handset market, not smartphones (from the original allthingsd post: http://allthingsd.com/20111104/apple-headed-for-60-percent-o... )
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Thank you, that's good to know. Do you know if they still come with a bunch of pre-loaded apps that can't be removed?
This is funny until you work with this guy, he's completely incompetent, but he does everything with the attitude of detached superiority, and your management is ready to hear him tell them how to raise their kids (if he charges this much he must be INCREDIBLE).

Not an easy way to deal with this stuff.
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So if you've got $800K, does 'rounding it up' then make you a real millionaire?
I'm puzzled by your comment that there's very little degradation using deepcopy everywhere. Your numbers demonstrate quite the opposite.
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Yup. It's currently the 6th most popular language: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.... (among all of IT, not just iOS)
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In Criminal Minds, they talk about a perp devolving .. as business pressures increment[1] .. these incidents will only increase in occurrence and decrease in terms of surprise for users.

[1] - http://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/2011/11/04/investors-u...
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I believe he meant:

all = range()
allbut2 = all
allbut2.remove(2)

which is something that catches people all the time.
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