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I don't think he despises Android as much as he really just doesn't see a viable market. Why spend twice as much (if not more) time developing for something when he surely won't see double the profits. Also, if he takes longer developing for Android, then the iPhone updates will be slower and slower and he'll lose customers.
HP TouchPad is the second most popular consumer tablet in the US.
The ASF is the first home that comes to mind when an successful open-source project needs independent stewardship. Often when a company wants to "spin off" an open source project, they turn to Apache.

What alternative organizations fill this need in a more lightweight fashion? Most other umbrella open source organizations I know of focus on copyleft and other issues that can be hostile to commercial interests.
why is PostgreSQL instead of MySQL? What are the advantages of Postgres over MySQL in DBaaS implementation?

I've seen some Database-as-a-service projects and all of them chooses PostgreSQL.
I don't really feel comfortable building a business on a platform that requires me to break its rules to support it. Who's to say that whatever hacks I put in today will work tomorrow?
Is it really a secret? Sorry, a skeptic here. Not every well worded piece of advice is a secret.
I'd really like to see a ClojureCLR Swank server for emacs/SLIME.
what software programming languages, models, etc. exist to support the description of fundamentally concurrent processing, whether task-parallel, data-parallel, hybrid, or "other" that will allow for the supplanting of HDLs?

Not a SW guy, but I'm pretty sure the options can be boiled down to "pthreads or HDLs"
He was employee #40 i think. possibly earlier. I think the title is misrepresentative.
There's actually not a lot to cover here? The question is why you're so scared of git and in six paragraphs you managed NOT to answer that question. This is really sad. One might hope an open source fondation would be forthright and fairly transparent. Apparently not.
Beyond that, Ice Cream Sandwich unifies "phone" and "tablet" apps (a distinction that already makes much less sense in an era with large, 720p "phones"). That completely changes his inferred dynamics of the Android app stores. I think the Android Market and the Amazon Appstore (and GetJar and Handango and ...) and direct sales from developers will happily coexist for the foreseeable future.
too little, too late.
This essay put me in mind of The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It is a neat demonstration of how tools and processes are inextricably linked.

Who knew, though, that the ASF would be cast as the new priests in the cathedral? I suppose it took a whole new level of social development, enabled by tools, to cast them in that role.
What browser are you in? Shows fine for me: http://i.minus.com/iO2g26qadZ3eb.png
Excellent assessment. Can't see it happening on the scale you have suggested, since it is unlikely Google will ever lose influence on more than half the marketshare of the Android app ecosystem....

Yet another equally plausible scenario would be an eventual deal between Amazon and Google. In wherby Amazon would acquire / take-over the Android brand and replace Google's role as leader of this platform. Cause some of us have a suspicion that Google will eventually transition their focus to 100% Chrome anyway; 'dropping Android' and/or selling whatever control it currently has on it to another company. Amazon seems ready.
"difficult" does not even begin to encompass the half of it. It is really cool in theory, but in reality a ridiculously difficult challenge that existing tools are in no way whatsoever up for.
How about mathpazo? That's the \usepackage{} I use to get Palatino in the first place, and it includes Palatino-styled math elements.
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I understand what you are saying and will try to make future HN posts more accurate.

However, the BSA has been the only source of info as to what Apple, Microsoft, and most of the other association members have to say on SOPA. To my knowledge, none of the companies with BSA membership have made any independent statements[1] on the bill, and if so, certainly not on the scale Google did. * My hunch is that the BSA was created for a reason in addition to stopping copyright infringement: To represent these companies without their explicit support, just like any good lobbying company.

If we are considering evidence as to what these companies' positions are, the BSA is the only source we have, and the fact most of them stand to gain from software licenses.

[1] If anyone has seen a BSA member show opposition to SOPA in the past few weeks, I'd like to see.

*Edit
licensing might be an issue.
I stopped reading at the misuse of weary for wary.
Indeed. It would be nice if the mods (we have mods here, right?) would change the title to make that clear.
Yeah, I was looking at this earlier - it's a good demonstration of the limitations of napkin calculations, especially when you stack the napkins on each other. There's a lot - a loooot - of information missing here, although it is a thought-provoking little post.
Moreover, bittorrent connections are almost never as simple as Alice sending a file to Bob. The network topology is far more intricate, with Bob and Alice sending and receiving chunks simultaneously from dozens of seeders/leechers.
Being a warm-bodied app developer in the cold hard smartphone/tablet world
Organizations such as the BSA, are business driven, and thus their policy follows where their money comes from. In this case, the BSA's source of money comes form it's members (Apple, Microsoft.. ect) So it's very likely that some, or all, members were behind this bill. Keep in mind that withdrawing support very well may be a political ploy, SOPA got TONS of negative press, so affiliations such as the BSA may have backed off simply in order to get the public off their back, re-group, and attempt to get a similar, yet less widely criticized bill through. Also, all these companies affiliated with the BSA have long histories of fighting piracy, as they license expensive software, so don't for a second think they are completely on the publics side here.
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Good point -- however my comment still stands for the most part. It depends on the purpose of you visualizing success. Visualizing yourself accomplishing something as simple as quenching thirst is completely missing the point IMHO (unless you believe in the magical "The Secret" silliness), per my previous argument.

Visualizing yourself accomplishing greater things serves multiple purposes:

1. Energizes oneself in the current moment.

2. Opens your mind to the possibilities of accomplishing greater things. i.e. If you think small, thinking of accomplishing big things will make you believe you can, and hence have greater capacity and motivation to bring it to fruition.

3. Get your subconscious mind started on pondering how to achieve that success.

#3 here may actually relate to the article. There may be two opposing factors at work -- on one end your mind ponders how to achieve the success, on the other hand your mind feels satisfied already, which prevents you from taking action and consciously looking further into achieving the success. Which is stronger? In the study it appears the latter is in the cases tested. However, I highly doubt a standard answer can be derived from a few limited cases. I would think there are just too many factors.
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The Turing machine we're interested in didn't terminate. It got a stick stuck in it by the outer Turing machine. :)
What does it mean when you have 3k+ following and 3k+ followers?
i've had this question for a while. when i stumble across someone's twitter profile, i see they have 3k+ following/followers. it's usually the so-called social media gurus. why do they follow so many people?
You might like Pinboard ("Social Bookmarking for Introverts"):

http://pinboard.in/
Are there any parts of the quake source code in here?
Guilt by association. I didn't hear Apple or Microsoft threatening to withdraw funding for the BSA in light of this bill.
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Google is very much a random, rhizomatic company. For the project I'm working on, we have all sorts of different groups who are working on random bits of functionality (some of which overlap with and duplicate each other) that we need to integrate into one big whole. If anything, I think Google runs the risk of not having enough organization and unity.
I am a Code Academy Student and it has been an amazing experience. I really don't think that I could have a better atmosphere for learning. The professor is one of the best I have had, the mentors are all very accomplished craftsman, but the atmosphere and student interaction might be the most valuable part. The 35 people devoting all of their time learning rails are unbelievably motivated and passionate. Just about every hour of the day there are people learning, asking questions, and working on projects together. To me, that part alone was worth the price of admission.
When we finish I know that I won't be half as good as most of the people on HN, but I do know that I have a solid base on which to build on. Not only can I read a lot of the technical posts on HN and fully understand them, but can take those and implement them into my projects. Most of the students in Code Academy came with startup ideas, and now not only have the ability to program them ourselves, but we have a solid network to help get it done if we need it.
It looks ok in any browser when I check on Mac OS and crap on Windows 7 or XP, again in any browser.
That moment of thought was apparently too expensive for you; you didn't respond to the actual concern, but rather raised an argument suggesting that any argument about git must be meritless.

I don't know who you expect to convince by baying at the moon.

The ASF people are right in at least one sense: if you don't want to run projects in the ASF style, you are free to take your work elsewhere.
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Structuring it as a loan is a very good idea.
I'll add here too - there's a _lot_ of other work besides the actual coding that goes into getting a piece of software sold to a customer like a government department or big corporation. Even if the "6 hour" estimate for development time is within half an order of magnitude of being correct, there's a great deal of work needed to be done both before and after that to make the sale work.

How do you know what code to write in those 6 hours? How did you even know there was an opportunity? What are the requirements? Is there a spec? How is the customer assured you are capable of delivering what they need? Does the customer even know what they need? Is what they _think_ they need even possible? How will you prove you've delivered what they asked for? Is there a need to user acceptance testing, and if so who's going to write the tests and who's going to do the testing? Are there any safety/copyright/legal implications about what the software displays? Who's ultimately responsible for those? Who need indemnifying or insurance to cover that? Is there any backend service required in addition to the mobile app? Who's building/maintaining/paying for that? Who's responsible for "fixing" the app if a 3rd party backend the app relies on changes or goes away? Does the customer require copyright ownership of the app source code? Are there 3rd party licenced libraries you're going to use that you don't have enough rights over to be able to give/sell the copyright to the customer? Who's going to spend the time figuring out and explaining to the customer exactly which bits of the source code they do and don't own? Are there any patent issues relating to the problem being solved? Are you _sure?_ Who's "on the hook" for patent infringement if something comes to light later? Who's doing the UI/UX/graphic design? How many iterations through the customers approval process will need to be done? What are the customers turnaround times on those approvals and who at the customer has the authority to ultimately sign off on things? What documentation is required? Who's writing that? What training is required? Who's doing that? What ongoing support is required? Who's doing that?

I think sometime developers fail to understand just how much _business_ stuff needs to happen before and after they write their code. It wouldn't surprise me at all to find that in the _best_ case, a project like this with "6 hours of development" also required 4 or 5 times as many hours to get the deal done. I could also very easily see the team stalled for a week or two waiting on approval/signoff, and if your 6 hours of development turns into two weeks where you (or a colleague) couldn't do other work 'cause you're chasing answers, decisions, or approval from the client - a factor of 10 between the "actual coding time" cost and the project cost starts to seem positively reasonable.
It would be highly unlikely for Groupon to issue a dividend, but shorting does have risks you need to educate yourself on if you are going to attempt it. I have a feeling options particularly put options would be priced highly at this time so a better choice could be to do a bearish call spread.
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Without access to the database itself? How?

This is part of git's interface. (I appreciate it and don't think it's a bogeyman, but can see how it could be incompatible with some projects).
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Did you publish/share that interview?
It's about people, experiences, fresh-air, and knowledge as much as artifacts... an inoculation against stupidity if you will. For example, when you hear someone bashing European healthcare, you'll not wonder but know they're full of shit. Simply put, if you endeavor to be well-rounded there is no substitute for travel.
"The definitions of who can be the subject of legal actions and what remedies are imposed must be tightened and narrowed."

Glad he pointed out the obvious. (not being sarcastic)
That is probably making it harder on yourself as the recommended route for learning factor is to read a forth book and read the factor docs. (Unless something has changed and a book or big tutorial has been written)

With that said, Factor is really cool.
I don't know about running Emacs over ssh on an iPad, but locally using the X front-end (e.g. not in a terminal), Emacs can display PDFs.
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off-topic: what are some of their initiatives and positions you strongly disagree with?
My original point is that the process of bidding and having people who don't care about a project spear head it.

I suspected it was offshored because I smelled the rot, but looks like I was wrong. It was just the victim of the broken process.

That's what my rant is really about, not necessarily against foreigners. It's just that the process produces broken/poor software.

I'm not saying that it's true for every company, but it was true for CAT.
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I guess you're the perfect candidate for the "4-hour Workweek". No guarantees but there are some good ideas in there. One of them gave me the courage to talk the boss in letting me work remotely. That's the first step, I think.
So you're saying a system that has had repeated successes is harmful. I really think you make a good point here about the need to remain open to change. So talk about that. Obviously github has some very positive impact. How can Apache adapt to that? You're not really talking about the tools here, you're talking about community.

I see a potential solution here being that Apache has different rules for projects in different stages. Do you think that would solve the issues?

Remember, you're view of anarchy on GitHub will only last so long. Rules and order come out of anarchy for a reason and like all things GitHub will become the exact same stale community you're complaining of now in 10 years.
I think it's funny how many commenters assume that people whose user agents don't support JavaScript are "relics" or need "a new computer with a modern browser". In my experience, people who use NoScript, for example, are much better equipped (technologically, etc.) than those who don't.

That said, people whose user agents don't support JavaScript get a big fat warning message after they log in to any of the web apps I've recently worked on.
He's working on the other side of the world, story continues. In a few years he'll be on the next adventure.
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> The solution to integrity, IMO, is distributing the log (multiple independent logservers).

Isn't this already solved by rsyslogd?
You mean the ridiculously overpriced $4 cords from monoprice?

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&c...

Complaining about the Apple USB cable is just not a very valid complaint. Micro-usb is nice and all, but with how many iPods, iPhones, etc... that have sold you're just as likely to find a person with a iPod cable lying around as you are a micro-usb one. Heck, my car stereo will charge my iPods through the dock connector, and came with the cable to do so.
The only solution I've seen is to start up gdb with the process and point the process's 0, 1 & 2 file descriptors to the shell's STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR, then detach the process and quit gdb.

I can't remember the exact details, but that should be enough to set you up for some googling.
Another company that came to mind while reading the article is Shopify. While their core business is eCommerce, they have open sourced some of the major components of their system while still keeping the app that glues them together proprietary.

Some notable mentions:
Active Merchant (payment processing library)
Active Fulfillment (external fulfillment for Amazon/Shipwire/Webgistix)
Active Shipping (shipping carrier integration)
Delayed Job (job queue)

Obviously there is a lot more work that goes into making a product as polished as Shopify, but they have released a large amount of core domain knowledge for other people to use and improve upon. While someone might be able to come along and use the same components to create a competitor, they still win in the end by having more people contribute.
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because it's seen as polite to follow people that follow you, except it's usually just a big circle-jerk of "i'm only following you so that you follow me back to inflate my follower count".

i doubt anyone with more than a (few?) hundred followers actually reads tweets from all of those people.
Seems they fixed it.
Also, this $200k app is probably an example of good government spending. Arguably, it's UK style Fabian socialism, in which government spending is making it impossible for better private solutions to flourish. Libertarian fanboys will whinge no matter what the government does, unless it does nothing.

200k is a small amount (for any big org), and it's actually going to something public facing, unlike 90% of government work which is simply faceless men putting obtuse reports in each other's pigeon holes. Do we really want to attack one of the few times the government actually tries to make their work relevant to the public?

You could equally argue that the 1% is wasting billions on stupid sock puppet ads for online pet shops, photo sharing apps, and AOL. Or on stock options for chefs and masseuses. Or on million dollar teams that do nothing more than re-invent wheels, badly.

It's arguable that the government should be doing this at all. But I certainly believe that if government should be doing anything, they should be making their work available to the general public. I don't think they got screwed - 200k for an app is not a giant rip-off. They might have been able to do it cheaper, but it's not totally out of line with the sort of crap industry does.
I don't think it's easy to do. You can change a commit message, but even that's not easy (you basically need admin access to the repo files).

If you want to edit the contents of the repo I think you need to read > filter > rewrite the whole thing. I could be wrong about this, it's been a while since I thought about it.
The main reason I asked, and why I'm a little skeptical, is I see a lot of places (in the Los Angeles area) that require additional knowledge in a myriad of other technologies; MySql, JavaScript, Html etc. along with Ruby/Rails or Python/Django.

I apologize for sounding brash, but this sounds a little too good to be true, almost DeVry ITtech ish...
How is that different from users uploading music videos on Youtube? Google won that case with Viacom, so there's precedent. Plus, as far as I know Grooveshark has some deals set up, so they aren't exactly a "rogue site", or at least it will be much harder to prove.
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Pern itself will probably continue through her son and various ghostwriters.
Subversion is a centralised or push model.

Git is a distributed or pull model.

This is at the heart of the processes one may use, certainly within a project but possibly at cross-project or organisational model.
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2000 servers. 30% mis-configured. WTF?!
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That sounds like a join by another name :)
Amazon AppStore is, I believe, the biggest android tablet app store. And growing. If you believe numbers that come from Gruber (and his math seems reasonable), as of July there were roughly 1.2MM android tablets [1]. Kindle Fire has sold, or will this quarter, 6MM units [2]. Thus Marco's hypothesis seems reasonable:

(1) if you want to make money on android tablets, you have to go where the tablets are. That is Amazon's appstore. They are, by volume, already 3-4 times the rest of the android tablet market. And this gap will probably continue to row. I would be surprised if, by this time next year, they do not have 10-15 times the marketshare of any other android tablet. Remember every other android tablet manufacturer has to make money on the tablet. Amazon probably loses money in order to make it back when you buy books, movies, magazines, music, etc, from them. Thus their tablet will almost certainly be cheaper, and hence more common, than any other android tablet.

(2) this will bootstrap their presence on android phones, especially once they release their rumored android phone. Which will be shitty but really really cheap (my prediction).

[1] http://mobilechannels.eu/index.php?option=com_content&vi...

[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-57327907-64/amazon-kindle-...