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You are right. Excessive consumption can get in the way of creation. However, I think consumption can also inform creation.

Excessive consumption can also get in the way of quality consumption.

Analogy: I remember the days when Times Square in New York was a free-for-all of adult themed establishments. Sometimes, this sort of over the top shouting makes you want and appreciate what's being advertised even less.

Analogy with music: I find that many mainstream audiences are immune to many musical subtleties and often have only the crudest understanding of rhythm. Many such people are unable to hold a melody in their heads, much less process complex melodies. Music used to be a special and rare thing to be cherished, sought out, and paid attention to. Now it's a background thing that we largely tune out.

What's really disturbing about reading and writing suffering from this phenomenon is that writing is frozen cognition. If there is so much to be read that we are tuning it out, then what's the point? If we are reading so much that we are reading without deep cognition, then really we are hardly reading at all.
Me too, been using gandi for many years. It isn't the cheapest, but the service has always been great, and they would never be on the wrong side of something like SOPA.
The 1.0.0 release is actually formerly known as the 0.20.205.1 release -- ie just bugfixes since 0.20.205.

Hadoop's been "production ready" for years - there are hundreds of companies running it in business critical applications. But some people want to see "1.0" before they move to production :) So we recently decided to call it 1.0 so that the version numbering matches the maturity Hadoop has already achieved.

-Todd (Hadoop PMC)
Quora comparison... really?
It's $8/yr til the end of 2011.

I recently asked them why they charge more than competitors for, this was the response:

Thank you for contacting Gandi Customer Care. It is true, Gandi does charge slightly more for
domains than some other registrars. We do feel that we are still affordable, however. The
reason we need to charge a small premium is that we have a different business model than
other, larger companies, and cannot get by on razor-thin margins. We are a commercial
organization, certainly, and we do make money, but we also support the community of
innovators in the hosting and domain name management space, and we do not advertise, but
rely on word of mouth for our marketing. We do not buy market share with ads, and we do
not make empty promises to capture customers.
We also include some services (such as a free year of SSL certificates and the ability to
obfuscate your whois data) that other registrars tend to charge incrementally for. This is
because we believe that your data is yours. We will never sell your private information as
some others do, and so we do not have that revenue stream.

We appreciate your willingness to consider Gandi as an ethical, no-bullshit alternative to
GoDaddy. Right now a lot of domains are available at $8/yr through the end of 2011. We
hope you will join us.
As a programmer, would I choose to be a member of a community based on open and free information, one where contributions are open to all of humanity, or a community built to feed the bottom line of a large corporation?
Especially considering large profits are possible with with both, why would I choose the latter?
Yeah, I'm afraid you are right - being a FOSS guy talking to people who want their "product to just work!" is a very tiring thing. They want to pass judgment while I want to discuss the process of their judgment. I don't do it often, but this thread was just too tempting, what with it having an example of the process working as it's main subject. Of course, people still get it wrong and then insist on being right. Very hard to deal with in general.

As for your project - phew, that is miles over my head, sorry. Trust me, though, traction can also be a curse. At a certain level, you start to get people who don't criticize your software or code, they criticize you for their own inability to use it.
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This obviously doesn't include the financial industry. I know for a fact the average salary range is higher than this. In some of the medium sized firms, not even the large ones. Not to mention Perl is still a highly valued language in this industry which wasn't even included here.

I assume this sample is based on start ups only?
Programmers may indeed lean toward using PHP, Python, or Ruby because of a cultural influence but I truly believe that the deciding factor is cost. New startups typically can't afford to use .NET because of the expense of licensing IDEs, MSSQL instances, etc.

I do agree that programmers should be generalists so they can quickly adapt to new languages and frameworks.
An Internet without marketing advertisements. Is it possible?
Remember back in the 70's and 80's before cable TV? We only had channels 3,6, and 7. We loved TV but couldn't stand the commercials every 5 minutes. The internet has turned into one big TV commercial. Websites are now 10% content and 90% ads. It is so sad that we let this get out of control. Don't get me started on social networking and how they exist to be the big TV commercial just to make boatloads of cash.
I transferred 7 domains today. What a great way to support the EFF at no cost to me.

For those of you who think this costs something: the $6.99 price is for an additional year of domain registration that is added to whatever time remains at godaddy. If you were going to renew your domains at some point anyway, it's essentially free.

I will have no downtime since my DNS is not at godaddy. If you use godaddy DNS see http://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/...

I don't know for sure that namecheap is the world's best registrar, but I decided not to overthink it, since if choosing a registrar were really such a key decision I wouldn't have stayed at godaddy for years. And with transfer being so easy I don't expect there to be a problem if I decide to move elsewhere later. In the meantime I'm supporting the EFF and exercising meaningful opposition to SOPA.
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Yeah, I generally enjoy going to the movies, but in the past couple of years, a setup that puts most theater experiences to shame has become pretty affordable. A fairly good high def DLP projector is in the ballpark of $1k. Add a $100 Roku or Apple TV and a $300 set of 550W Logitech speakers (including amp), and you've got a great general purpose theater for less than $2k, and without the hassles.

(If you don't have a good wall to project on, you can make a screen out of two metal poles, blackout cloth, and staples, or spend a wildly variable amount on a manufactured screen - from 100 to 1000 and up)
... for new hardware.

If you still target Pentium 2 boxes, this is bad news for you :)
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Care to provide some evidence for this assertion?

I am aware of the some of the research into building multilevel models of student and teacher performance, but one of the issues here is that if these metrics are used, there is no test set which can be utilised to validate the model. This is an absolutely huge issue when you are essentially hiring and firing people based on the metric.
It can be. However, if you find DJs who you really enjoy, then you let them do all the curating and mire wandering for you. I posted a bit about this and the difference between college radio and freeform radio: http://cacciatc.github.com/other/2011/12/29/get-off-the-popu...
would love this!
Care to elaborate a bit more on this?
Just checked out ovh. Looks good, but because of ovh's 99p/month charge, it still works out cheaper to use localphone unless you make at least a couple of hours of calls per month.
Inflated?

I was thinking they were at least $20K on the low side.
Subsidy purchasing is not free. Most low end markets are hugely bias to pay as you go due to income variances from agriculture incomes. iOS devices in that regard are a much higher price of entry point than alternatives.
Not that I down voted but this is may be why.
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Don't write MapReduce. Check out my tutorials of late on http://datasyndrome.com and check out Apache Pig. That you can understand easily. It will MapReduce for you. Try Amazon Elastic MapReduce wih Pig on some logs.
Is that for material you host under their hosting services, or does that really include sites that only use their domain registration, and host the content elsewhere?
> general impression that namecheap is just GoDaddy in another guise

In what way? I don't see any cleavage on Namecheap's site.

We have GoDaddy that openly supported and aided SOPA, and Namecheap that openly denounced it.

We have GoDaddy with a long history of hijacking customer domains after unfounded abuse complaints by IP rights holders, and Namecheap with a long history of ignoring or fighting such complaints -- meaning you better show up with a court order or they'll stand up for their customer.

For two companies selling the same commodity product, they couldn't be any more different.
Thanks for taking the time to check this out. Both scripts have the same content. I just needed more than one script so that I could play with more than one element in clojure's sequence data structs.

Also, I had trouble finding anything other than Glengarry Glen Ross. Pointers to other scripts and screenplays are greatly appreciated.

One advantage to this over the methods you mention is the ability to use your own Handlebar template. FYI.
I don't agree that it is mostly culture (and "ego").

Purchasing/licensing software is always a hassle. Even aside from the monetary cost, you need to decide which to buy, go through the purchase process, and sometimes you also have some activation hassle.

With open source software, you just download it and use it. If you decide to change to another version of the software or different software entirely, you just do that.

Startups are hard, removing anything that takes time or effort is a good thing.

But even with this, cost is still an issue. Yes, salaries are the biggest cost, but in a startup, you might be working for yourself, so no salaries are being paid. Having to shell out any money at all becomes something you avoid. (Yes, there are Microsoft programs to give you Microsoft software at very low prices. But the procedure for those programs is always more complicated than "download and run".)
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Pretty sure #5 should be a bit higher on that list. As soon as we see more movies make iTunes debuts at the same time as theatre debuts it'll surely get worse and worse.
There's no need to half-ass the test, you should be able to get the actual significance at any point in the experiment. The software just has to correctly calculate the conditional probability of significance.
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I think the editor is sympathetic to your position. The subtitle "Print me a stratovarius!" is pretty tongue-in-cheek towards high quality 3D printer manufacturing.
BULLSHIT. I repeat: BULLSHIT!

Mr. Marlinspike bought a SSL certificate from Gandi by giving them wrong personal information. When Gandi revoked the certificate, the support guys first wrongly communicated that it was probaly due to a trademark dispute, but it was actually just about the wrong whois information.[1]

Ok, miscommunications happen, but what really irks me about Mr. Marlinspike is that he later went on to complain about how companies did not do enough to verify the whois information for SSL certificates.[2] Which was, as we know, the reason why his SSL certificate was revoked.

What do we learn from this: Give correct whois information and your domain will be fine. For trademark disputes there is the UDRP process[3] which not just Gandi but also most other registrars (including namecheap) have agreed to.

1: http://www.gandibar.net/post/2010/04/06/TheRegistercouk-comm...

2: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysi...

3: http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp.htm
I thought of dozens of ways to improve on the current big movie theatre model but ultimately decided it was much simpler and easier to just have a good home theatre system for private use. Also I figured it was so obvious how to improve and innovate in that area that if it hadn't already been done by now there were probably nasty little complexities or political/bureaucratic swamps involved. Because there were no significant purely physical or technical challenges.
We don't stop creating because we are consuming more. It is other way round. We are consuming more because we are afraid of creating.

I think that is very key. If one can convince a population that they are not capable of mastery then you can make them feel inferior and keep them as your subjects. This is why so many royal courts funded and raised up artists and musicians and claimed the culture they created as theirs. The inverse is also why so many independence movements have also grown up beside artistic and intellectual movements.
There is a theater in Columbus, Oh Called "Arena Grand Theater" it's a mix of a traditional thatre and something like Alamo... A few points about it.

1) Always been more upclass than competing theaters (and more expensive).

2) Far less seating.

3) Beer, Food, salads, wraps, and traditional snacks.

4)Located in the "Brewery District" or "Arena District" This means there were never any children there because the area doesn't lend itself to it.

They always stayed busy.
Hadoop is much more than MapReduce. It's a fault tolerant, highly scalable file system where you can store a shitload (technical term) of data. That alone is remarkable.

Once your data is there, then you get your map/reduce on. And the best way to get started there is to look into Pig or Hive (high level map/reduce abstractions). Either of those will take you a long way.
Worth noting that Gandi is not a US company and has no telephone number to call in case you need real, live support.
Your work would likely be in Manhattan, maybe in Brooklyn. A 2 bedroom apartment within walking distance of the business districts in midtown or downtown runs about $4,000 a month. 3 bedrooms are available on the Upper East Side, but at that range prices rise exponentially. The only good public schools in the city are the magnet schools.

Obviously $8,000 on an apartment isn't supportable on $100k. The compromise most people make is to commute from New Jersey or Westchester (45 minutes to an hour, depending) on the excellent train network. If you're coming from Westchester, this is a very comfortable commute on relatively new trains with WiFi, etc. Schools in these places are very good, and leasing a 3 bedroom house in that range is very doable.
From their blog:

> "For example, Gandi does not tolerate activity that is morally objectionable or that poses a threat to public order" [1]

From their domain registration terms:

> "Consequently, You commit Yourself to assuring that Our services are used in a licit manner and in conformity to Our Ethical standards" [2]

> "You commit Yourself to choosing and using Your domain name and Our services in a way that constantly respects the rights of third parties (intellectual property laws, personality rights, image rights, and the respect of private life, trademarks, etc.)"

From their general conditions of service:

> "By accepting Our Contracts and using Our services, You agree to abide to Our code of ethics which consists, in particular, of protecting and respecting minors, human dignity, public order and good moral standards, not infringing on the rights of third parties (private life, image, honor and reputation, trademarks, designs and models, copyrights, etc.) or the security of persons, property, the government, or the good working order of public institutions, and to help in the fight against abusive and/or deviant uses of the Internet (spamming, phishing, hacking, cracking, or attempts at hacking or cracking), or any other infraction as cited in the Penal Code." [3]

So Gandi reserves the right to revoke your domain name if it determines you violate one of their "good moral standards", or anyone makes any copyright claim against you. They essentially gave themselves contractual power to police the content of the sites on domains purchased through them.

1: http://www.gandibar.net/post/2007/01/11/Gandi-fights-back-ag...

2: https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g1/pdf/domain_name...

3: https://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.0-EN....
I think point #5 (home viewing) is the most important one. The other issues have, more or less, existed for quite sometime now. It's only fairly recently that the average person could afford a pretty nice home theater setup. I've had a home theater with a projector for the last 5 years or so and the idea of going to a theater to watch a movie seems ridiculous to me. It's like going to a concert hall to hear a CD played over the PA. Why bother? The industry has to focus on delivering content to home-viewers the same day it's released to theaters. They do all this marketing for a new film and exclude a huge portion of its potential audience who would rather watch at home?
I don't think that's it, I like to think that many people desire to use C# but that ASP.NET is scaring them off.

There are also no success stories of Mono on the serverside. If I use Java, I can rest assured that Google and Twitter have solved those problems before me.

Even if you do client development: WPF is perceived to be the only choice for gui c# development, and WPF is pretty complicated.

As much as I dislike the (XML and other) bloat: Java seems like a safe choice to me. Plus, there are going to be new JVM based languages, like Ceylon.
I haven't seen a movie in months and don't plan to for the foreseeable future and the movie going experience is a major reason why. I will pay the ticket price without too much trouble, I don't mind kids(going to midnight showings during the week helps with that) and I never eat concessions so I don't care how expensive they are. My problem is once I get into the theater. Most movies today aren't shown correctly(I have no idea why they expect some kid making minimum wage to run 20 screens at once to know what he / she is doing), the watermarks every 20 minutes, and the poor sound quality. But the worst part by far is the commercials. I find it incredibily insulting that I pay $12 for the privilage of watching ads for 15 minutes straight. No one likes a double dipper.
Not quite a snapshot but diphur.com checks each hour 24/7 for changes and presents you with what only changed.
"both of which, incidentally, suffer from the same competition movies do: high quality home theater setups and internet streaming."

Live events shouldn't be so easily compared to movies and home entertainment. While you can wait for a movie to come to DVD for a similar experience, it's not the same for a live event. Watching a concert on YouTube isn't nearly as much fun as going to watch it live. Going to a live event is an experience.
Never mind a human virus. If Monsanto could create an airborn plant retrovirus they could potentially frame someone for stealing Monsanto seed and planting their entire farm.
No one is making any kind of argument that Android is an iOS clone. At least I'm not.

Yes, both were in development for years before the world got to see anything. To the original point of my comment, though, Android didn't predate iOS by years as the parent comment says. That comment implies that iOS copied from Android, which I am refuting.
The biggest reason why I believe movie revenue is dropping is the ability for anyone to pick up a camera (high tech low cost now), create a movie, and upload it to the eyes of many people (like on youtube). Because of this, there are just so many more options to catch ones visceral media experience. I really like Science fiction and while there were certainly some good Sci-Fi movies (and television) out in the past year or so, there were many more interesting and thought provoking movies and shorts (going back to the previously brought up idea of short attention spans) on youtube than there were movies I would actually want to go to a theatre and pay for--and to be quite honest, I am sure that some of the things I saw on youtube recently were far more enjoyable than some of the things tossed at me by Hollywood. It's not so much a money thing for me, it's a time thing, and I want to spend it wisely.
I love the Alamo for all of those reasons. Regarding #2, I have read on the Alamo site about some enforcements of that rule. Love it.
> Android was released September 20, 2008. The first iPhone, thus iOS, was released June 27, 2007. I fail to see how Android predates iOS by years.

Google bought Android (the company, whose sole purpose was to make the corresponding OS and sell itself) in 2005. Therefore Android existed long before the unveiling of iPhone in 2007.

> The release dates are simple fact.

Yes. I was not, however, talking about release date but about existence. This could have been clearer. The first public/commercial Android release followed iPhone by a year (and significant reworks, see... everything following the parenthesized section of my original comment).

> The first version of iOS was in development for a long time, as was the first version of Android, before the world ever really got to see them. Thus, saying that Android was in development years before iOS implies that iOS was some last minute project Apple threw together. It's simply not true in either case.

That is not even remotely close to what I stated. What I stated was that Android's existence predates iPhone's unveiling by years. At no point did I say (or even imply) anything about iOS's development period.
Wow. Very nicely animated, great aesthetic choices; this is really a beautiful piece of work.
Few days I tried to move my GoDaddy domain to Gandi.net, and GoDaddy denied my request because apparently the domain is registered privately. Why should I expose my name just to transfer?
WRT marginal quality, I don't think that word of mouth buzz from great quality can be ignored - one of the ways to build a massive (and massively profitable) franchise like the Dark Knight/The Matrix/Toy Story is by making a really, really good movie.
I have a question. I have read somewhere that map-reduce can leverage parallelism. So if I map a function to an array every element in the array is mapped with that function so that they can be executed parallely because they have no dependency on each other. But how do reduce leverage parallelism? As far as I understand output of the reduce function is dependent on the previous value.
This would be really handy if it allowed you to build ICS (Android 4.0) for your device. On the other hand I'm not sure running the risk of bricking my phone is worth it to have ICS a few months early. :/
WRT marginal quality, I don't think that word of mouth buzz from great quality can be ignored - one of the ways to build a massive (and massively profitable) franchise like the Dark Knight/The Matrix/Toy Story is by making a really, really good movie.

It's getting a lot harder to "con" people into making a movie a blockbuster via advertising.
Also the fact that they steal.
"predates the iPhone's unveiling by years"

The word you've missed is "unveiling". He did not claim that Android came before iOS, but that it was under development for long before iOS was unveiled.

EDIT: The point that you're refuting was never made. He simply said that Android would still have existed, even if iOS hadn't. And to prove that point, he correctly stated that Android was under development for a long period of time before iOS was unveiled
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