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> A good caching plan obviously helps with these kinds of issues.

Caching is suggested far too often and too frequently in the Rails world. The solution to "the default tools for template abstraction are too slow to use" is not "use a difficult-to-get-correct system with concerns that cut across the entire project."

As someone else mentioned, Rails is much slower than other frameworks. It does an order of magnitude less than 5000 req/s. Obviously you can just scale it out and load balance, but that suffers increasing costs from an operations perspective. Aside from per-machine cost, there are peaks where adding more servers requires a big change in your management techniques. Those costs shouldn't be trivially dismissed, and if we can look at reworking our tools to keep most (ideally, all) of the productivity but save on the utilization (read: management overhead), how is that a bad thing?
Occupy congress, "We demand INTERNET FREEDOM to replace SOPA [and other antiINTERNET FREEDOM bills?]".

SOPA could be renamed to SOCPA (Stop Online Child Pornography Act), then you will have a lot of hostile people towards the current and future INTERNET FREEDOM movements.
I've been using Gandi for 11 years. They've generally been great. Initially I was drawn to them because they were one of the first registrars to make it clear you owned the domain name and they were an agent.

I've kept with them largely because of the generally convenient and low-upsell nature of the website on top of this.

One caveat for U.S. customers: on the very rare (once or twice a decade) occasions when I've had to contact customer service, the time separation and some rough English skills have led to a slightly bumpy communication experience while resolving issues, but even with those obstacles, they're better at it than GoDaddy (and their English is a heck of a lot better than my French :).

~$15usd/yr rather than $7ish a year isn't a big deal for domains I care about.
Some registrars support uploading zone files, at least Safenames (our current registrar, not the cheapest but good, simple UI:s and good customer service) does, and I believe that you can export the zone file from GoDaddy. So check if your new registrar supports importing entire zone files, if so the transfer of DNS should be trivial.
There's a problem in the application process that I am not sure I can overcome. I can upload a youtube video fine, but the only camera I own takes 240p. Which I really doubt will do anything besides convince the people running this program I'm not a good candidate. I might as well snail mail a VHS. So, if I can get around this step, I'd love to apply(and if I'm accepted I'd move heaven and Earth to make sure I completed the course) but the fact is it doesn't matter how "hungry" you are if the first impression you make tells people you don't have two nickels to rub together.
I moved from Edinburgh, Scotland, to the West Coast of Canada. I am now eligible to apply for citizenship and fully intend to do so in the new year.

First things first: visas, and start budgeting to arrive in a new country with a decent load of cash in your pocket.
Put some feelers out for work when you apply for your visa - if you can secure something telecommute in the interim - it's a great way to start, especially with the opportunity to work in house on arrival.

I am now happily married and my first son born in June.

While I miss the romantic memories of home, and my family, I don't regret a thing! I do travel home once a year and with the advent of video IM - being away is not quite as horrific as it was just 20 years ago!
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Nevertheless, it is conceivable that a company could support SOPA while making good investments in the tech industry. Maybe they don't think SOPA will pass, and they want future business dealings with the RIAA.

But that's not really the point, which is that whether or not they're good investors, they support something harmful. We're not boycotting them because we think they're bad investors. (If we thought they were bad investors, why did we do business with them in the first place?) We're doing it because they are allied with our enemies and we want to hurt them for that.
In their case, I rather think they are uninterested in the provisions about internet and would support removal of these clauses if this could help SOPA to pass.
Regardless if SOPA passes or not, let's make sure every single one of the people voting pro-SOPA and supporting it loses their position in Congress at the next elections.

We need to start being more pro-active about protecting the Internet, because it's obvious Congress won't do it for us, or at least not enough of them will try to do it. Otherwise we risk being in the same situation a year from now with a new SOPA/PIPA-like law.
"somewhat secondary" ... that's what the MPAA etc. want Congress to think, so that their Internet-destroying legislation gets in under the radar.
I can't find any further news on this, specifically the following is of interest:

"Several such balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past twenty years, authorities found in an Internet search."

I haven't heard of this and have they identified what the origin of the other "several such balls" was?
Just wanted to add to this (not that it's needed to make the point): Louis C.K. isn't your child.
> Similar arguments can be used to suggest that we should rid colleges of literary theory, gender studies, philosophy, sociology, [...] most fine arts,

you say that like it's a bad thing. sounds like a win. at least in terms of reducing burden on all taxpayers (Fed backed student loans) and parents (esp middle-class: too rich or too white for enough financial aid, too poor to foot the skyrocketing fees) and the larger economy (no job degrees). Keeping in mind you can study anything you want, at any time, at any point in your life, for free or at least much cheaper if no universities involved. Also certain fields are not as much anchored to objective reality as they are to the opinions of a small subset of like-minded people. I can come up with an elaborate theory on an owl-based patriarchy and write a book on it, and even recruit some other nutters to back me up but it doesn't mean it's provably true or actionable and constructive.
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How is this possible? I was under the impression that TOR by design cannot be shut down by an external source. Am I off base here, or is this another "series of tubes" example of how congress doesn't understand technology?
"""Your assumption is that if someone doesn't buy knock offs, they'll buy the real thing. Until that can be proven true"""

I keep hearing that argument in discussions about counterfeiting/piracy. Does it convince anyone?

Yes, lots of people would buy the real thing X if there was no way to buy X's knock offs.

It only depends on a) how much they want something X-like and b) the relative price.

If (1) something X-like is desirable, and (2) the price of X's knock offs is near the price of X (so that people not affording X at all is not an issue), then people WOULD buy the original if they couldn't get a cheaper knockoff.

Does even one person's money lost qualify the issue as "proven"?

Because I know that I have downloaded albums and books that I would DEFINITELY have bought if I could not get them for free of the intertubes.
But the money did end up in his pocket. He then spent a big chunk of it on something he wanted to spend money on, which was five specific charities.

That excludes the part he spent on expenses and staff, which went precisely to "support a great effort". It's not like he does this stuff alone.
not to mention the fact that i'm now hardwired to go to the left corner or "windows key" to do things, which is something i really like doing (and do intuitively now). i really like that one can just press the windows key and start typing.

regarding showing nautilus style icons on the desktop, you'll want to get the gnome-tweak-tool and then go to Desktop and enable the "have file manager handle the desktop" option. You'll have to restart, logout, or restart the desktop manager to see the change, but this should do it for you.
After seeing these pages:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/issues_RogueWebsites.html

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/Stop%20On...

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/SOPA%20Su...

I'd guess that the chance is very, very, high.
My guess is that the bonus to those who helped produce it is probably a business expense, as is the production costs. The charitable gifts are probably tax-deductible, although AMT can hit you there.
it's weird that it's because of SOPA that people want to transfer away from GoDaddy. Their incredibly misogynistic ads should have been enough...
No. If the Earth's mass were to vanish, the Moon would continue to orbit the Sun. It would be a bit more wobbly, but the Earth is not an essential part of the system.

If the same happened to Jupiter, all of those moons would fly out of of the solar system. (Or at least go cometary.) None of the orbits would survive.
there is next to no discussion of any part of the compiler that isn't parsing

Are you sure? There are 200 pages that cover lexing and parsing -- of a 950 page book.

If anything I'd argue that they've largely punted on parsing given that it's a lot less important than it used to be (which may explain why they didn't add GLR or packrat parsing) and focused on things that were considered more interesting issues in compilers.
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Unfortunately, many Spanish commercial banks and saving banks bet the farm on the real state market. For example the Sabadell Bank just bought the CAM (a saving bank) for one euro.[1]

The were some talking about burst the bubble in 2004, but Zapatero's government never implement the reforms. The Spanish prime minister regret later about not bursting the bubble earlier.[2]

Spanish banks are well protected against loans because, the asset pledge as collateral" clause is rarely use in Spain.

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-08/sabadell-buys-ca...
[2] http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/06/28/suvivienda/13092749... (Spanish)
The other important thing to note is that:

They didn't just study success, they studied success AGAINST mediocrity

These findings aren't just what the 10x companies did. It's what the 10x companies did that the mediocre ones - which were very similar in size, product, team, market - did NOT do or vice versa. They also only selected practices that were done for nearly the entire time studied, in the majority of the companies studied, and that look to be reasonable explanations for the different outcomes. We're not just injecting data into an algorithm.

And to respond to jaylevitt - thanks for mentioning Halo Effect. I really should find the time to review it as well.
I'm sure you've seen the list of supporters (http://1.usa.gov/t7Wpo8). Even the list itself is a half-assed job by pro-SOPAs to illustrate Congressional support for the bill.

Unless, of course, the fragrance company Coty Inc has been seeing a lot of their fragrances being pirated online.
Over the past year I've moved about half of my domains from godaddy/moniker to http://nearlyfreespeech.net/

I recommend nfsn to anyone.
Rouge Websites. I'm blushing.
But its not KKR listet on the pro SOPA list its one, and only one of there portefolie companies. KKR are not (in the same way as YC isent) responsible for its portefolies standpoints.
Inasmuch as that's true Tor will still be unstoppable. It'll just be illegal, which makes it that much easier to stop Tor by the brute-force method of arresting every single user (and seizing their computer).
Boom, headshot.

Mmmmmaybe these companies are all so clueless that they think it's a good idea. Far more likely, they know what they're doing is bad, but choose to do it anyway because there's no downside for them.

It's like people who are deliberate assholes in public because they (correctly) gamble that no one will risk punching them in the face.

Well I for one fully support punching SOPA supporters in the face. This is as good a start as any.
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Google search: godaddy sopa, last hour: 698 results
i believe the center of mass is inside the sun if you look at each planet-sun pair individually. IOW, 2 body to n-body kind of messes this definition up.

also, by inside the sun do you mean inside the corona?
Purchase third party whois privacy. Whois privacy costs nothing to run, it's just a company saying they own the domain on your behalf, this opens you up to domain theft though, I don't understand why people use it. Set up a PO Box somewhere and use that.
Indeed we all should OCCUPY the capitol or the judiciary committee; inside the committee and outside.

Though will 1,000s of citizens trying to save the Internet from the media be covered by the media?
"""If the world's belief that America is a role model for democracy hasn't been killed by now, passing SOPA will certainly kill it."""

I don't think many countries consider the US a "model for democracy". More like a greedy global cop with a (not so hidden) agenda and holier-than-thou attitude.

Which reminds me: "I'm well-known for my sarcasm. But even I wouldn't have thought of placing a statue of liberty in the harbor of New York". (George Bernard Shaw, satirist)
That's maybe an interesting discussion in its own right, but I think the fact that they're "arguing against" it means it was at least a relevant example.

A much better example would have been "The Power Company", a formally-regulated utility. The phone, electric, or gas utility is not allowed to refuse you service simply because they don't like your politics or your business judgment the way a Y Combinator can.
Thanks pg ! This is the kind of effort that make a difference.
I doubt it'll become a topic of conversation what your registrar is..but if it does happen to come up and you happen to say GoDaddy, judging from pg's post above the answer is probably yes, he will hold it against you :)

Funding a company that supports a company that supports SOPA is just one step away from supporting a company that supports SOPA...which in turn is just one step away from supporting SOPA. Scary, isn't it?
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ is pretty good. Their site design is basically the exact opposite of GoDaddy.
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Remember their take on Wikileaks? No surprise.
Use cash.
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A more recent example would be this fellow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
The House Judiciary supporters list is chock-full of lawyers -- one-seventh of the list has the string 'LLP' -- and therein lies a major target of opportunity for the technology industry. I doubt anyone will change their counsel over this, but they can make them explain their position.

Let every tech industry CEO, CFO and board member call their most senior contact at a supporting firm. Ask them to explain their position, ask them to explain how this _won't_ break DNS, how the precedents set here won't spread to other policy questions or countries. Don't get into balancing one industry or another -- just make them demonstrate a reasonable layperson understanding of how the internet works. The last thing a partner wants is to sound less than informed on the core technologies in their industry of expertise. If nothing else they'll have to go to school on the question.

No doubt many such partners will say they get it but the firm is larger than they are. And that's the point of a law firm, isn't it, you hire one because it provides quick access to expertise on a wide variety of subjects. But if that larger firm doesn't understand the tech business, just how prepared are they to handle technology problems in various corners of the law? Ask the M&A guy, the financing guy, the tax guy, to explain how SOPA won't break DNS.

I don't know where tech billings compare with movie and recording industry. But they aren't small: M&A, financings, patent, etc etc ad nauseum. Beyond that, the network and technology are the core of how business and industry are changing. Maybe these firms stand to gain from SOPA over the next five years. But can they, can the individual partners, afford to misunderstand the technologies that will be driving more and more clients over time? Get on the phone, not to argue, but to make them understand that they are showing an ignorance that could leave them behind.
I don't have anything against Cassandra. I will take a look at your link, and see how easy it is to integrate with Pig. I would be pretty excited to have another painless option available. The fact that Cassandra works with Whirr is very, very cool. However:

Cassandra's documentation: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted

"Cassandra is an advanced topic, and while work is always underway to make things easier, it can still be daunting to get up and running for the first time."

Change your docs, or demonstrate how to one-liner push data to Cassandra, and I will happily update my post. Shadow puppet docs do not count.

Your statement about Hadoop being complex illustrates EXACTLY the problem I'm trying to solve. 'Big data' usability. ;) Amazon EMR against records in S3 with Pig is not hard. Publishing data from S3 via EMR to Mongo in Heroku... that is not hard either. Wow, suddenly 'big data' is open to anyone using Heroku. That is a big deal.
Essentially the entire "damn the torpedos, we're right and there's no going back now" approach Gnome seems to be taking. I've seen lots of people submit valid and thoughtful criticisms of Gnome Shell, and the only response Gnome seems interested in giving is "we have our grand vision and if you aren't submitting a finished patch that we may or may not accept then fuck off."

Maybe "politics" wasn't the best possible word choice but the idea is ego over engineering: a few guys at the top are making these decisions and more or less putting their fingers in their ears. At least that's the impression I've been getting.
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If you have the time, definitely give your representative a call, but you can also check out the Open Congress page for SOPA (H.R.3261): http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261

Also, be sure to ask about Protect IP (S.968): http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s968
I'm a US citizen who lived in Europe about when I was about 27. I was there for 4 years and it was a great experience - both leaving and returning. I'd do it again in a second.

How it worked for me was: I helped start a company in California, then when we decided to expand to Europe, I moved and helped set up operations there. I never considered changing citizenship.

After going and returning, my feeling was that I could be at home in either place. Its good to shake things up every now and then, and it is interesting to be in a place where things are a bit unfamiliar. So if you get a chance to move, do it!
I think it depends on what you mean by "good investor".

If you invest in tobacco, land mine manufacturers, and semi-competent toxic waste disposal facilities, you might make a mint. That would make you a good investor in the sense of profitable.

However, no entrepreneur in his right mind would take money from people like that, because they wouldn't be good investors in the sense of being supportive of a long-term effort to build a sustainable business in a healthy ecosystem.

So I'm with PG on this one. Anybody internet entrepreneur should be very suspicious about money from a SOPA supporter: partner, investor, or acquirerer.
If Jupiter were to orbit the sun at the same distance of the earth, what would happen to the orbits of the moons if its mass suddenly disappeared? Would they still be cometary (at the least) or would they settle into a planetary orbit?
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Ironically, even if Tor becomes illegal, the effect of SOPA passing could be millions of people flocking to Tor (or other onion projects such as I2P). This would be a net positive for internet freedom: Tor would work better, using Tor would not be a suspicious activity, and the government would have to either arrest millions of people or suck it up.
This "fact" sheet was the most disturbing document for me to read:

http://judiciary.house.gov/issues/Rouge%20Websites/Stop%20On...

More like "opinion" sheet, there isn't a single fact on there.
how could they be good investors

Because they have a checkbook? Does General Dynamics care if pacifists buy their stock?

Since YC doesn't seem to sell to media-providers I suppose they won't be losing much, but seriously? If GE wrote me a billion dollar check, I'd take it no matter my politics.
1) Adjust the movement to be about INTERNET FREEDOM, not SOPA. This is because the bill can be delayed/stopped til there's an anti-child porn bill with similar wording.

eg "Demand INTERNET FREEDOM bills to replace the ANTI-INTERNET bills [of SOPA, PROTECT-IP, DMCA, etc]"

2) Having INTERNET FREEDOM bills would make it impossible for laws like SOPA to pass. As a bonus, compromises can be made while having some INTERNET FREEDOM. Whereas with SOPA, they're watering down some parts that still lead to ANTI-INTERNET. Which further encourages ANTI-INTERNET supporters to make huge demands. It's a technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

3) Find Congress people that love Internet. I hope there's a few! Ask if they can be the mascots, the INTERNET messiah, etc.

4) Copy and paste SOPA to start with. Replace the words to protect INTERNET instead. This is a delicious backfire of using someone's work and their own weapons against them.

5) Add a way for people to be excepted from the movement to the services. Also allow a way for people to understand why the companies are no longer appearing politically neutral (because the anti-INTERNET bills are going to kill them).

6) Add some masking of dropped services with JS hover and non-JS side-by-side of anti-FREEDOM warning 'of increased costs to comply with the legal demands of other companies'.

7) Of course, provide a simple link to the INTERNET FREEDOM movement that has to have two different sections;

a) Simple. A video, simple acts to perform to demand and spread the information. This is an attempt to educate people with simplicity. A link is provided to advanced for more complex information.

b) Advanced. 'Nerds', that understand the terminology, and what it's about. How to demand and spread information. Also how to explain with simple education if some people don't understand.

I tried to suggest some of this to Reddit's ideas for admins but got ghostbanned and censured because apparently it's 'politics' despite Reddit's recent anti-SOPA support.
Both are there, and with their take in the Wikileak blockade it should not surprise anybody to see them supporting SOPA.
Anyone familiar with any good registrars that support both .me and .it domains?

EDIT: gandi.net looks like the best bet if anyone else needs both .me and .it.