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It is absolutely true what Zach said about priorities. I remember arguing over what is more important between 40 tickets for literary hours. Kudos to GitHub for cutting out the clutter
This story makes no sense, is Netflix supposed to be the perfect IPO or something?
everything has been just toasty since i got them off IE.. 6 years ago..
Hi all.

just for clarification, cocoonJS is not focused only on converting CAAT projects into native apps.
CocoonJS aims to execute your canvas based javascript games/applications 'inside' a native application, which means there's no cross-compilation. The javascript code is evaluated at runtime untouched, and must not be CAAT based.
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That IS the problem. They can't do the business side, but they SHOULD be able to do the business side. Government contracts favor large mega-corps rather than small, efficient businesses because of the enormous amount of regulations involved.
The problem tends to be not only compiling PHP itself but the myriad of dependencies for modules, so I assume the project also simplifies the process of downloading and installing those. This is similar to what the BitNami LAMPStack installer does for Linux, Windows and Mac (disclaimer, I am one of the developers). We provide self-contained, binary installable packages of Apache, MySQL, PHP and all of its dependencies http://bitnami.org/stack/lampstack
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I highly recommend olark or a similar onsite live chat feature.

olark is great because its much lower barrier of effort than email, so your customers often come with questions they might not have bothered with via email. You can get some great insights into how people use your site, and you'll learn about bugs much faster.
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You're wrong. You don't need to know what's visible ahead of time because you can load the tree lazily on demand. Voxels lend themselves naturally to perfect LOD scaling in a way exactly analogous to how mipmaps and megatextures work for 2D textures. There is no analogous algorithm for polygons; polygon mesh LOD is a very hard problem that is solved only imperfectly today and with a huge labor overhead for both artists and programmers. John Carmack himself has proposed voxels as a solution to this problem: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/John-Carmack-id-...
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Read the comments at the end of the article. About half of them are complaining about Badoo being a scam of various sorts. Fake accounts, fake female to male messages, email harvesting, can't get out once in, spam, etc.
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Considering "music" is always one of the most common answers to this question, and undoubtedly something you've tried before, you might also want to consider "no music". Time and time again I've realized how much I get invested in whatever I'm listening to, want to switch tracks, which makes me open up my browser/Spotify, makes me want to research new music, I end up on Facebook... It's best for me to just turn it all off. You may want to try doing the same, if music has been the norm for you.
generating GIF in pure Tcl (2004) https://github.com/antirez/gif-pure-tcl

I remember that when I was playing with this code I was pretty shocked by the elegance of LZW.
these are good reasons for having a string templating system in a library, but I was referring to the 90% use case of having a script that outputs something it computes.

The things don't seem mutually exclusive to me.
We did this experiment in physics back in college. If you get sufficient charge you repelled by charge of the same polarity. I would speculate that the charge on people was the same as the charge being created in the spooling area (it is a giant Van DeGraff generator type apparatus after all). That would also correlate with the humidity component as the humid air would have a lower dielectric effect and you would get a lower max charge due to leakage into the surrounding environment.

The edge of that electric field would feel to you exactly like you were a magnet of the same pole trying to move into it.

Per some other comments here the biggest risk would no doubt be creating a conductive path for the charge to dissipate. At those levels it can and does ionize air and create lightning.

Would be great to get a picture of the factory setup. I bet you could trace the charge sources. In physics 101 we had to compute how much charge you would have to have on your body to levitate off the ground. It was a lot less then you might imagine, the challenge of course was keeping it on your body and not zapping things nearby in the occasional ionizing discharge. I was busily thinking up high K clothing concepts for a while to try to solve that issue but alas, nothing came of it.
Do you think there's any sort of relevance for a Masters, not a PhD? The timescale is more similar to an MBA, and the 6-7 years of a PhD is quite a large commitment.
How does advertising make it worse? Can't companies already hire PR firms and other editors to slyly improve their coverage? Isn't that cheaper and less subject to backlash than trying to communicate conditional advertising budgets?
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"Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment." - Nassim Taleb

People procrastinate because they're doing something they don't like.

I procrastinate when I'm doing homework. But wouldn't you know, I always get motivated when hacking on an open source project or when working on a freelance project.
The MBA is a bullshit degree for an entrepreneur.

A more interesting choice is between Ph.D or J.D.
I'm confident your opinion represents many (most?) men. Personally I dislike this superficiality though. I'm not picking up girls by randomly selecting the pretty ones in a bar. I'm meeting interesting women primarily through shared passions, hobbies, sports, activities, hackerspaces and otherwise with at least a bit of context.
"What is life" is one of my favorite books. It's packed full of fascinating explanations of how the most basic elements of life came to be.

For example, did you know that sex evolved from cannibalism among single-celled organisms? Quote from p.139:

"Microscopists sometimes witness microbial wrangling in which a hungry cell engulfs a neighbor. But the cells do not always digest what they engulf."

"Harvard University biologist Lemuel Roscoe Cleveland saw cannibalized protists live on the half-devoured. The protists he studied, covered by 9(2)+2 undulipodia, are called hypermastigotes. Normal hypermastigotes, which contain only a single set of chromosomes, live in the swollen hindguts of wood-eating termites and cockroaches. Cleaveland saw the hypermastigotes engulf one another. He noted that once they did, their membranes merged to make them into doubled cells. Most of the doubles died. But Cleaveland also saw that some of these doubled beings reproduced. Although sloppily, a doubled microbial monster would undergo cell division and give rise to another doubled microbial monster."

"Cleaveland saw how thwarted cannibalism could have led to the first set of of doubled chromosomes. Moreover, abnormal cell divisions--a precursor to the meiosis that takes place in our own cells--could restore the merged would-be cannibals to their original single set of chromosomes."

...

"Once upon a time, we think, eating and mating were the same. Terminal microbial indigestion may seem rather unromantic as the source of the human sex drive. But Cleveland's picture of hungry, serendipitously mating hypermastigotes presents a mix of comedy and terror appropriate for the origin of sex."
How do successful dev teams control "appendage" features? Consensus is time consuming to build.
+1 - good idea. BigCouch is very nice, and based on Cloundant's experiences with it (they wrote it), it seems to scale to handle very large data customers.
For better or worse, it's easier for a big bureaucracy (the government) to deal with other big bureaucracies (corporations), rather than micromanaging who is building what app for which department. It's not the most efficient, but it might be more efficient than immediate alternatives.
I strongly disagree that there's a "democratic deficit".

1. The EU court of justice's judges are appointed by the national governments (one judge per country). Each country has its say on who the court's judges are.

2. The EU court of justice's rulings are about EU law, but EU law is not national law. The highest court remains the national court, although typically national courts defer to the judgement of the EU court.

3. The EU court of justice only rules on EU directives, which are international treaties. In that sense it's similar to WTO rulings, except broader in scope.

4. The EU directives that it rules on are approved by the EU parliament, a body that is directly elected by EU citizens.

5. Directives themselves are not laws but treaties, they have to be turned into law by the national governments. While the EU can impose fines for not doing this in a timely matter, national governments can just choose to leave the EU treaty if they don't like it (participation in the EU is always voluntary).

Where in that whole chain of events is there supposed to be this "democratic deficit"?
I love bitcoin. The concept is right up the alley of some of the anti-inflation ideals of milton friedman, locke, keynes, and hayek. The only problem I see is that many people are incentivized to invest in it and hoard it, not to spend it.

Maybe something like a major global economic collapse would actually result in adoption of something like bitcoin; maybe in the long run it'd be good....
Great example of an idea that was initially widely rejected only to be later widely accepted. How many times does that happen in science?

Seems to me that the biological reality is that bacteria rule the Earth. They always have and always will, before we were here and after we're gone. And it seems at present there is _relatively_ little biotech we can do without the help of bacteria and their amazing junk-free genome. But I could be wrong. Corrections from the experts are welcome.
popularity == popularity. fascinating.
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Talk about a flawed way to ask the question.

Don't collect any more degrees. Instead, start something. In my book, a real entrepreneur will invest the MBA tuition into their own venture.

The corrolary is to only start something you are passionate about.
Mr. Ellison, you're the MS of databases. Don't rejoice too much.
> (Most) people value service in and to the extent they pay for it. If it's "free", they can often be endlessly if ignorantly critical.

Maybe people don't want to believe that they wasted their money, so they minimize problems with things that they pay for, while a free product entails no personal investment, financial, social or psychological.

Maybe a low price (including zero) is a signal of a low quality product, which comes with the expectation of something to be criticized. (Their thinking might be) why would you be providing these services to us for free if they didn't suck?
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The author is wrong. If he were right, the point would be irrelevant.

One of the users who ended up recommending deletion, DGG, is a professional librarian who makes a habit of rescuing biographies from the rubbish bin. The domain here isn't search engine marketing: it's biographies. Plenty of Wikipedians understand that domain, and understand especially well Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion about biographies.

But his point is irrelevant because Wikipedia can't require topic expertise for participation. They have no way of verifying it, and to try ends up with a totally different beast. (For people who have tried the domain-expertise approach, check out Citizendium.) Wikipedia has to be maintainable by non-experts, because that's 99% of the people who want to volunteer significant time to make a free encyclopedia.
No, it doesn't. It's very hard to build something as complete - and as self-dependent - as Django on top of something that moves as fast as Google's App Engine.

The only thing I miss when using Django on EC2 is the automagic zero-admin scaling Google provides. The only thing I miss from Django when using App Engine is the admin (which wouldn't work on top of the datastore anyway)
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Wisely, the vote was to keep.
What that comment doesn't get is the anguish that sometimes accompanies procrastination. I don't want to start real work, often for a reason I can't quite fathom, so I go play Skyrim, and while I'm playing it I feel really really bad for not working even though I can't quite force myself to quit playing either. There's no joy in this particular kind of procrastination, and so it can't be explained by the lure of immediate gratification.

It is or should be any hacker's goal in life to do something that you love, not to accept drudgery for some supposed long-term benefit. Which means that any procrastination that remains is likely to be of the kind that I describe here, which must have different origins. I like the "procrastination as a function of faith in a decision" theory.
Do requests for free equivalents validate your startup idea?
So would you have been happy if this had been overturned by a local national judge rather than an EU one?
"This is an unelected body making sweeping decisions without any accountability on a set of laws no-one voted for"

This is pretty close to how the judiciary operates in many countries, including the UK.
The main reason is portability. The zero-admin scaling Google provides is very tempting and being able to port your Django app to App Engine can be a good advantage.
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Yeah, I do realize this. Perhaps I just need to reminded sometimes. Thanks.
Sigh.

The purpose of Wikipedia is to make an encyclopedia.

The mechanism by which that happens can, yes, be seen as a giant MMORPG. That is what happens when you try to make a machine out of half-evolved monkeys. Monkeys like to do monkey things.

Wikipedia is indeed putting a lot of effort into making the software and editing process more accessible and usable to others. Smart and dedicated people have devoted years to that very thing. It's not an easy problem, and Wikipedia is doing it on a shoestring.
How do you define "bullshit"?

An MBA will teach you quite a lot than can be relevant as an entrepreneur. It also helps you build a large network of people that can help you.

Can you do the same thing without an MBA? Sure. I wouldn't argue it's the most efficient way to gain the skills needed to be an entrepreneur (starting a company will do that), but I wouldn't regard it as "bullshit".
I would really like to hear more about this. I also do type-oriented programming in OO languages, such as Java. The code naturally falls into place, too, but it's just because of Java's verboseness, you end up a lot of hand-waving. But I don't think it differs much from how I would program in functional style, say, in Scala.
"Why do humans procrastinate?"... with a link to reddit.com

How fitting :)
The EU has lead to some very consumer friendly laws IMO. The Distance Selling and Data Protection provisions are two that come to mind immediately.
You've obviously never used CoffeeScript.
If you look at my previous comments, you'll see that in all my years at HN have never written a negative rant on a product. Till today.

Onswipe is so bad. It makes me want to throw my iPad against the wall.
Even the "Show original article " link takes 30 taps to work. Arrrgh.
Slowest, nastiest, crashing thing I have to encounter.
It hurts that magazines like slate use it because it means I can't read the article.

One interesting thing is that swipe will increase pageviews but lowers the experience because people like me will repeatedly load the page after it crashes and hit the "view original version".

Just writing this post has got me in hives. Please just destroy this software, it would make the world a better place.
Oh god, tell me about it. Once I came to my parents' house to find the family laptop having gained a wonderful feature where every search result would redirect to spyware. Did my best to clean the mess and get everything somewhat reasonable, and then got a call a few weeks later saying my "porn watching" ruined their computer and deleted their bookmarks.
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Much to my surprse, last time we had an Oracle sales team in they mentioned that Oracle is now in the business of NoSQL databases in additional to all the other database products they sell.
AfD closure isn't a vote. It's a discussion. The closer resolved on the merits of the arguments. And they are of course accountable; people who do a bad job closing can end up taking a ton of heat. But they're accountable to the Wikipedia community, not to the general public.
It takes balls to say anything bad about Javascript, CSS and "web apps", especially to an audience full of web designers. If I could upvote you I would. But my browser does not support Javascript and I don't think upvoting is REST-friendly.
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> Paying for an app based on effort going into making it is nonsense. An app should be paid for based on the value it provides.

The price of an app (or anything, really) is based on both. It's not dictated by the supply curve or the demand curve; it's dictated by the intersection of the curves. This argument was settled centuries ago.
An MBA or a PhD aren't good paths to becoming an entrepreneur. A PhD takes 5-7 years to complete, the purpose of which is to give you the skills necessary to be a university professor or researcher. If you don't want to be a professor, then the opportunity cost of those years is huge! What else could you be learning in that time?

If you know you want to start a startup, the best thing to do is to START - now. If you're not ready to start your own company, then join a small startup. You'll learn more about entrepreneurship in the first month than you will in any degree program.
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Yeah, that seems perfectly reasonable for me. But once again, you could just state that it may break and is not made for your browser, but there is no reason to not show the content, and more drastically, even forbid entrance.
Absolutely. I wrote about this last year (Engineers- build businesses not apps: http://emphaticsolutions.com/2010/12/10/build-businesses-not...) and yet I don't think we can say this enough.

This is one of the primary values found in the essence of the lean startup movement. Customer development can not be overlooked. Business models can not be overlooked. Building apps is easy, building sustainable businesses is hard.
I'm also really skeptical about the 14 million Brazilian members.
I live in Brazil and never heard of this social network. (As opposed to orkut, that was very massive here.)
However, I think that orkut is dying here. All my friends migrated to facebook because is "cooler". haha
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This article is a good example of how myths are created and engineering ignorance is perpetuated.

CouchDB doesn't "scale"? If you're trying to "scale" with it, you don't know what you're doing in the first place. CouchDB federates. That's a wholly different thing. And in terms of federated databases, I challenge anyone to come up with one as good or better than CouchDB. (And if you do, it will be news to me, and I'll thank you profusely!)

If its not obvious to you how to scale a federated database, then its not couchDB that can't scale, its you. (which is ok, everyone has to learn sometime, just don't put forth your lack of knowledge as proof of a weakness in an open source product!)

Further, rather than just saying "We've got this great new invention-- a better technology, and we're moving to that!" the message seems to be "we are just wanting to re-invent the wheel, so to justify it, we have to make a negative claim about couchDB.

Now, I expect some particular databases[1] fans to tell us, in the future, that "couchDB doesn't scale".

Ironically, they're punting on CouchDB to use, among other possibilities, SQLite. To claim that "Scaling" is the problem is .... bad engineering form.

CouchDB is great if you want to federate, have databases across the planet talking to each other and keeping in sync (its almost a turnkey CDN in a way), want to run a noSQL DB on a mobile device, etc.

MongoDB is great if you care about SQL and single node performance and its complex distribution mechanism works for you.

IF you want "scale" your choices are Riak or CouchDB-- for "scale" where homogenous distributed servers are the best solution.

And of course there's Cassandra and graph databases, etc. which provide different solutions to scalability.

IF you're serious about scalability, I strongly recommend people look at and choose Riak. I don't think anything out there touches it-- at least for the type of data I need. Cassandra and what I consider the "more complicated" alternatives might fit your particular problem type well. And if you think that its silly of me to recommend Riak then this is probably the case for you. But in terms of general databases, Riak seems to be pulling away from the pack. IF you're a fan of CouchDB, then BigCouch is a dynamo/Riak like version of it that I understand to be quite good. Plus, since its based on CouchDB, if the CouchDB way of doing queries (which is distinctly different from Riak) fits your way of working, then BigCouch deserves a look.

But please, don't ever say "couchDB doesn't scale". If you do, really its that you don't scale, CouchDB is fine.

[1] In an earlier edit I named a database. That was a mistake, not only is it bad form, I don't think that my characterization is appropriate at this time, as that database's fans are not as rabid as I imply. Apologies.
hopefully 'helpful to users' enters into the optimization function somewhere. if not, why are users expected to donate?