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My point is that the norm for folks living in the developed world on Earth is for their food, water, and housing to be obtained via a very technologically advanced and typically world spanning industrial supply chain. The amount of effort and technology that goes into something as simple as buying a single hammer at the hardware store or turning on the faucet and getting fresh drinking water is stunning. The difference between what's required to support a Martian civilization and an Earth civilization is not so much a difference in fundamentals as it is merely a difference in degree. And possibly it's less of a difference between, say, living in New York city today and living on Mars in 2030 than NYC today vs. NYC in 1800.

As far as water, the largest deposits of H2O on Mars are near the poles but it exists in enormous quantities at nearly every location on Mars a few meters below the surface.
I still want to move my domains away. Has anyone had any experience with gandi.net or namecheap.com any interesting experiences with either one?
Happy Christmas, Jacques!
As a Dvorak user, I find it very odd that he has a version of the keybinding (http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html) with all the letters swapped around so that shortcuts are in the same physical place that they would be on a QWERTY keyboard(!).

I can see relearning C for copy, as it's logical and would reduce the burden of switching between normal Mac/PC applications, but having J mean copy because that key would have been C in QWERTY is just too weird. I think about lots of Emacs bindings mnemonically: C-b, C-f and friends, obviously, or C-c because that's just the "bindings having to do with this mode" key, and you see it a lot when you read documentation -- in my head, it's a letter, not a physical position. I touch-type Dvorak pretty fast, but two-finger type it very slowly, because in my brain the letters are wired to finger movements starting on the home row.

A possible reason for this is that he has an "inverted T" for cursor movement (but on the left hand, like vi, not WASD like I believe PC gamers would be used to). If your set of cursor keys is based on the physical layout of QWERTY, like vi, it doesn't translate all that well to Dvorak (vi manages to be not horrible since J and K stay next to each other, but in this proposal J and K are not on the same axis), but if they are mnemnonic, like Emacs, there's no problem.

If the idea is to fit better with what the vast majority of "normal" people expect computers to work... well, normal people use the arrow keys. Telling them an invented abstraction is better because they don't have to move their hands from home row isn't going to sell them, I think.
ahh i just saw that. thanks mate! Merry Xmas to you too!
Try downloading 'em again. Should be fine now.
Yes! Global warming is exactly what Mars needs, and I'm not being facetious......This will prove once and for all that humans can warm a planet.
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The idea of doing an UPDATE on the custom levels table every time someone dies in order to increment the deaths counter terrifies the database administrator in me. That'll scale REAL well. Yikes.
Completely agree... its sad how corrupt the US government is and its all bundled up in official terms that everyone takes for granted - lobbying, contributions, etc. US politics has become more and more a corrupt money grubbing system where actual governance and society is not considered. The people voting on this despite what they say are not thinking about how this affects the US society so our pleas are falling on deaf ears.

If it passes it seems like the unique power this community has is technical expertise. As some have already been doing, we should be talking about solutions that allow society to bypass SOPA (hopefully without anyone getting sent to Guantanamo).
> The only smart way to give clients access to a database is through some sort of frontend entirely under your control which prevents them from having the user/pass and sanitizes the queries.

MySQL maybe, but enterprise DBs (think Oracle, DB2, Postgres) support a very fine-grained access model.
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I love Hamster [1], but since I switched from Linux to the Mac I haven't found anything like it.

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That's a great analogy but I'd like to add another variable to the mix. With a dedicated server you know where your data is stored (e.g. a data center in Denver, CO, or Dayton, OH) but that isn't the case with EC2. Their servers are distributed all over the world.

If you business has any sort of sensitivity to data-origin type legal consideration you're better off with a dedicated server. The country of origin for your data isn't easily controlled with a cloud type service.
Are Visa and Mastercard actually pro-SOPA? (TechDirt: no)
I don't have domains with GoDaddy, but I did turn off autorenew for my one and only SSL cert through them.
This is spot on. I didn't realize until now that the owner of MegaUpload was kimble. Unbelievable. He used to have all these intensive flash sites celebrating him, his businesses, his hacking etc. Everyone I knew considered him a joke and a con artist.
Stick to your guns. If you decided to leave, leave. Teach corporations that they must serve customer interest at all times. Let Go Daddy be the example.
Yes they did:

"Replace the front page of every website we can with a simple, clear protest page."
Media Temple's stand on SOPA
Mojang as a whole may not but something tells me the Creeper does.
Don't download in parallel! No wonder his servers are crawling...

No good deed goes unpunished, indeed.
A random thought popped into my head around defacing sites. Rather than defacing the front pages of every website they can, they should change the 404 pages to say something like 'Content censored by SOPA legislation'.

Every time someone comes across an out of date link, or makes a typo they will think that they have been denied their request due to SOPA :)
Yes, do ask them to design something if that helps you, but make sure you're having him/her design something on the fly that's related to your product, not a real problem you're actually having currently. When interviewing for my summer position at Milk, a part of the application process was re-designing a product that was similar to what Oink could eventually be. The exercise is supposed to be theoretical anyway, so this just furthers the amount of time a designer has to think about the problems and to just get to the solution. This could also be a take-home assignment where they allocate Xhrs to the problem.

More than anything, recognize that the purpose of this exercise isn't to see the designer's abilities (you should be able to see this in their portfolio of previous work), but more about how they approach problems and how they think critically. Understand that no one can ever really outline their design process specifically, but should be able to speak to about the way they solved problems in the past (again, see portfolio) and how they came to solutions.

Talk to them about what they view as "good design" and why they think it. A good designer is ultimately a good communicator and should be able to talk you through why they think it's "good" (in their opinion).

Something that might provide insight is this Behance interview of Ben Barry, Facebook's communication designer: http://the99percent.com/articles/7118/Facebooks-Ben-Barry-On.... It's not completely specific, but it will give you insight into the way most designers (in Silicon Valley, at least) think about their jobs and their work.

Hope that helps!
It partly depends on "stage of life" as well. Most of the outlier coders I know are 40+ now and don't work 80 hours weeks; nor do they ignore their families, etc. However, all did at one time in their lives, and all still have a strong work ethic. Work ethic often goes along with long hours, but beyond a certain level of experience, I see excellent producers working smarter and not just harder, to use the cliche. It could be that it takes the proverbial 10k hours to get to that level of experience; I don't know.
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I found this image succinct and telling: http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1641/itsfinetrustme.png
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For music it is easy. There is so much free stuff around, netlabels, jamendo, etc.

For reading there is so much out-of-copyright on archive.org and Gutenberg.
GoDaddy CEO Says He's Neither For Nor Against SOPA
| I'd much rather work in a non-union workplace where I get benefits above the statutory minimums because the company truly values it's employees and understands that people who are treated well are more productive than one where everything I get was a concession to avoid labour strife.

Agreed, but do take notice that most people, in most industries, generally don't have that choice
I'm not sure if I'm alone in this, but I had to actually look up the name of SOPA's founder (Lamar Smith). He should be facing heavy criticism right now, at least to the extent that SOPA-supporting companies are. It's as if his career isn't in any jeopardy at all over this.
What about the emacs interface is weird to you? Is it just the unfamiliar keybindings, or is there some overarching paradigm of emacs' that just rubs you the wrong way?
I've been considering for some weeks whether I can simply go "cold turkey" on paid, mainstream media for a period of time.

I don't see why not. I haven't owned a TV in 18 months. I haven't bought a magazine in over five years. I probably haven't been to a movie theater in over five years either. A TV was useful when I was so sick that I needed passive mental stimulation to keep from going completely batshit insane while I laid around trying to rest and get myself well.

What purpose does most mainstream media really serve for you? I don't ask that pejoratively. It's a serious question to help you analyze what needs you are looking to meet and what alternatives you can seek out. I would be happy to help you try to answer such questions. I think my life is far better without spending so much time having my mind filled with what is usually crap.
I would pay $100 to anyone that made a one-click (or close) auto transfer of domains from GoDaddy.
Stop being opportunist flip floppers bent on the bottom line Go Daddy (worse name you could ever come up with for a company). Go Daddy deserves to go extinct their time has come. You have shown your true face (forget the damage control). You've only gotten by up until now because of people not willing to their research and mass marketing, and now it's plainly obvious you are a shill of a company, money can't buy everything. Go form yourselves a new company under a different name. No knowledgeable person on Hacker News would ever choose Go Daddy for anything so go do your online marketing somewhere else.
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Ask HN: Object Oriented databases?
What is everyone's opinion on object oriented databases?

I see a lot of talk about NoSQL unseating incumbent SQL players, but is something like db4o important at all?

Thanks for clearing it up!
This is why my next phone is not a Samsung. Thank you Samsung for helping me make up my mind about my next phone purchase, through process of elimination.
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Yeah I don't think a retraction should change anything, it s clearly a damage control measure I don't for a second think they have suddenly backflipped on a position they have taken up strongly and worked to form the act.
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I agree, except it doesn't do it on purpose. It's too old to change.

Emacs' ugly, clunky, non-standard 1970s way of doing everything is so closely bound to all the good things about Emacs that you can't have one without the other. People always try (for good reason), but then Emacs doesn't work as well, and the efforts evaporate.
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They really are an excellent company. I currently host my startup with them and I couldn't be more pleased. Glad to see they're against SOPA as well.
GoDaddy needs to become a very loud opponent of SOPA if they want to retain any customers that have a clue.
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Too little, too late. I'm still moving my ~20 domains away. Their initial stance, plus their ridiculous initial response ("We heard some people were mad, but we're not changing our tune until we start losing money") indicates that they don't actually care about dropping SOPA support.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if behind this "we're so sorry" facade, Bob Parsons and Lamar Smith are having dinner and a laugh.
One thing I do is that I show the person our current UI, and ask them what changes would they propose to make things better and the reasons behind their decisions. This really helps to see how the person approaches problems and what kind of design mentally he/she has.
I've always wondered about this sort of political touring - does it pay off in the polls? How many people see the politicians at a rally versus reading about them or seeing them on TV? Or is it that they get a lot of press from the tour? Or perhaps they meet people who become fired up to be their grassroots support?

I'm spitballing, but hopefully someone here has some data or knows a bit more about this?
Wow, that just saved me hours of waiting for the website to load. Thanks. And thanks Lim, really appreciate this. Happy Christmas.
There's no reason to use GoDaddy anyway. There are a lot of better domain hosts out there (Namecheap, Name.com, and more).
Asking the database administrator in you, what's the most efficient way to do it? Queue and push updates every 10 minutes?
So it could be that they create a mysql "database" for each user, and give them all the privileges needed there, and no privileges anywhere else.

And conceivably you could have some kind of proxy that looked like mysql but actually sanitized/logged/whatever any queries, before passing them on to the real server.
FWIW, my laptop, running Fedora, boots to the desktop in 15s total, with pulseaudio. I would sooner attribute that to a problem with the suse init system (every time I've dug into the suse init scripts, I've found horribly absurd decisions) than I would pulseaudio.
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Going to family at Christmas, it's gruelling to be in the same room as a TV pumping out commercials and other nonsense.
I was making a general point. I didn't agree with the 50 years thing. It probebly want be posible in 50 years but then again if we are not going to trie we can be sure it want work in 50 years. Just like with the 10 years to the moon thing.
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>> new features being introduced are all centered around increasing the value of Facebook to advertisers

<Casablanca ref> Facebook's business model is selling eyeballs to advertisers? I am shocked... shocked. </Casablanca ref>
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Our democracy is completely broken, as there are no congress critters that disavow corporate money. Lamar Smith is one of the most blatantly corrupt.
This might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_S._Smith

Lamar Smith is a Texas Republican in a district that is 2/3 R -- any effort to unseat him would have to involve a primary challenge and thus speak to Republican primary voters.
Thanks for the early Christmas present! I've been wanting to check out a subscription, being able to see the current content will push me over the edge.
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I am a newbie programmer looking to improve my [Python] skills by reading some code (probably Django).

Every time I have sat down to do this I have felt overwhelmed by not knowing where to start.

Does anyone have advice on how and where to start reading source code?
If Samsung doesn't care about customers, how can it hope to keep them?
I don't love Emacs' UI either, but imposing a new UI on it won't work, unless you rethink its entire model, in which case you'll no longer have Emacs.

A better way to help new users with Emacs' daunting learning curve might be to make a game. A fun game would get that stuff into muscle-memory pretty quickly.
So, just be more productive and iterate your work endlessly. Find flaws and fix them. Do it in iterations. You will be taken care of.

I think, somewhere in there, you have to learn how to make sure you're taken care of, even if it's just learning how/when to ask for things you deserve for your efforts. Every workplace isn't a strict meritocracy.
The problem is that they control our culture. Boycotting some of these companies involves removing ourselves from many of the shared experiences which allow us to identify with the society and time that we live in. Until our artists figure out a viable way to extract themselves from this machine (through methods such as Louis CK's experiment, perhaps?) I don't see this kind of boycott ever gaining the critical mass it would need to make an impact.
.. and did you get bonus marks for recognising the Golden Ratio? Or is that too obvious?
So what would be the solution? He used a password protected database connection and put the password compiled in binary. If I was doing it I would have probably done the same. How else can it be done? Use web service? That would still look "open" to someone digging inside the compiled binary and getting the keys.
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Unfortunately the closest you can get is something like what I hacked together: https://github.com/jm/ditchdaddy

You could conceivably put together a Selenium script or something to automate the first part, but that would be really tricky. As it is, you just have to get an export of your domains (instructions in the repos) and run my script. Right now it supports DNSimple and Namecheap, but I'm almost done with Gandi support and might be adding others.
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I welcome some constructive criticism on an app I wrote for a client. One thing I've been told is "tap to move the mouth" isn't desirable. It was a conscious decision on the design because the creative guys wanted you to feel like a ventriloquist. Kids seem to really like it and we have a Vummy4Kids coming in January.

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Exactly. The world is full of critics and theorists but he's building something that's tangibly taking us closer to that vision. So we need to give massive respect and gratitude. Like the saying goes: lead, follow or get out of the way.
I agree with you. In a few years HTML5 will be a lot further along than it is today.

I'm ready to use HTML5 for everything, it's just not ready for me to use it for everything yet, and I'm looking forward to it.

Until then, Flash and HTML5 are not going away. If there's almost a million new android devices a day, they all run Flash too, in addition to HTML5. Everything except iOS runs Flash pretty okay. A pretty okay performance designation applies to HTML5 too in places.

The web is going mobile, but not exclusively. Flash might have one kind of quirks between desktop and mobile.. HTML5 will have it's own for the foreseeable future, and keep improving.

But the desktop isn't going anywhere either, neither is the web on the desktop. It might not grow as big or as fast anymore, but we work on computers, we consume on computer, we experience on computers, and most certainly, we create on computers.

The only thing I like having Flash for today on mobile is video anyways. :)

Hope that clarifies.
Transferring domains is fairly painless already, but one click transfer would be insanity. The few speedbumps that do exist when transferring exist to prevent domain name hijacking. If you could one-click transfer then domains would be completely unsafe against hijacking.
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I'm also getting a print subscription while thinking "excellent marketing campaign!".
GoDaddy is owned by private equity firms KKR and Silverlake. These firms aim for short term profits at the expense of creating long term value.

Silverlake was the firm behind the whole Skype compensation fiasco, which was basically a quick flip. KKR does dividend recaps where it issues debt and funnels money out of the company. The company, such as HCA or Dollar General, then has to fire people and raise prices on customers.

Do you think they'll do what's right for customers over the long term or try to extract every penny? That's why they'll flip flop on an issue like SOPA - no long term values. I moved my domains to namecheap a long time ago.
We do millions of operations like that a minute by queuing, aggregating and then committing. SQL Server's MERGE is particularly useful for it, although on our MongoDB stuff (and ironically, for player created levels) we do $incs.
Sorry to hear that. I no longer visit relatives that I'm not on the same page with and I don't really do Christmas anymore. The whole thing sounds soul sucking, not just the TV.
Don't forget the millions that Godaddy invests in their lobbying activities each year. They had a hand in drafting SOPA, testify before congress etc. They are active in helping promote this type of legislation and haven't agreed to stop this political axe-grinding - they've just suspended judgement until a more final product with broader support has been forged. We haven't seen the end of this one.
It's not that hard. ROT to the left 61803398874 times.
Then re think your answer. ;-)
Use a web service, and make sure that service only allows precisely the requests you want to allow, rather than arbitrary SQL.
It's not a matter of distraction, it's a matter of support and influence and money.

If you can convince a politician that a sizeable percentage of influential people who are liable to donate money to a cause are for or a against a particular issue that that they are legislating on, preferably people who are from within his/her riding/ward/district and thus directly impact him/her.

Say, like well connected, high earning (mostly white, male) nerds. If you stop to think about the amount of power we are actually capable of wielding, it's actually really shocking that msft/goog/aapl etc seem to have really crappy lobbyists.

(As an aside, here for instance is a good Planet Money podcast on lobbying: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/01/141913370/the-tues... )
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Please elaborate with specifics. Thanks.

There are many ways I can read what you wrote.
Does Namecheap have automatic credit card billing for renewals nowadays? I wouldn't consider it "better" if it still doesn't.
Is the video subtitled or captioned? The website says nothing and I did not want to spend $5 without knowing in advance. I've emailed to the support email account listed on the website. But I'm sure it'll take time for someone to give me an answer through the email.

Am hoping someone here could chime in and give me a quick answer.

Thanks
Do anyone has stats on exactly how many domains were transferred so far?