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Ah, but Amazon sells almost everything.

Spatula City sold spatulas,

and that's all.
"Some kid gets into your server and runs this script while you arent around to fix it it could not only take up all your memory but may even take your site offline."

As opposed to, say:

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I'm not getting the point here. If "some kid gets on to your server" with shell access, it won't matter all that much whether Python is installed or not. :-)
Kind of ironic how he mentions productivity posts 3-8 times, all the while giving advise to create more(aka productivity improvement)
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That's a practical, real problem, yes. But something with the equivalent power of a relational algebra (e.g. SQL) seems needed, if web APIs are to be used by many different clients, and be back-compatible.

It's true that some aspects are different from those problems in an enterprise that SQL were designed to address (e.g. the web crosses companies; massive numbers of users; rarely mission-critical), so perhaps SQL itself won't be the ideal solution
Even if it was, the usual approach of our industrial is to invent new standards whenever possible (new firms may do this partly to lock out old ones).

But it seems that the solution must be conceptually identical: an sufficiently expressive data model (e.g. relations), and a way to map between different representations with that data model (e.g. relational algebra).
Hmm... interesting idea.. i haven't taken notes in a loooong time but will start now and see how it works out...
Oh, the fun I could have with that job. First prank, Stephen Hawking sounding like Scooby Doo. Or how about a plugin which would translate his speech to jive? Or maybe Darth Vader for the Star War fans?
I don't blame you with going with this one. I mean, the first sentence of the first post reads "Wow, this is one great ladle."
What was your problem with it? I have tried to use Condor for a couple things recently and was annoyed enough by it I concluded Gearman was probably the better approach, though I haven't used Gearman.

For the record, Condor probably works fine for its primary use case, which is long running single threaded processes on Unix that eat an input file and spit out an output file before terminating. I was trying to use it to have a bunch of processes on Windows that also occasionally write to a database. Was also trying to tag "slots" on specific machines to use certain installed dependencies. I advise against trying to use Condor and Windows, or on trying to use any of its advertised advanced features beyond the basic "standard" or "universe" model. Have had no end of trouble with the "stored credentials" feature that lets you run a process under a specific account.
///Hacker News to distract myself from work...

Can identify with that... try to use a time based site-blocker for the same, but of course have learnt to disable it..:-)
Having already put that much effort into it, I would have bought the highest-reviewed ladle, not the cheapest.

http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-Brushed-Stainless-Steel/dp/B...
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I've read The Good Parts, most of Pro Javascript, and working through MEAP JS Ninja now. I am thinking of browsing through the jQuery source in addition to making some neat things to get into the groove again.

Is there a better way to prep than reading books, writing code, and reading code? Perhaps better put: is there anything else that I can do that might be useful?

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The phrase "scaling complexity" has at least two axes built into it: the abstraction axis -- how to get better at telling the program to the computer -- and the collaboration axis -- how to get better at telling the program to each other. Most of this thread has been about whether we suck at the former. But I say we really suck at the latter, and the reason is that we haven't fully assimilated what software is yet. Software doesn't live in the code, it lives in the minds of the people who make it. The code is just a (lossy) written representation.

Ah, you're right. I was conflating the two axes.

I'd like to be part of a 'band'. I've had few opportunities, but I've caught the occasional glimpse of how good things can be.

Since that whole aspect is outside my ken, I focus on expression. Hopefully there's no destructive interference. I would argue that what you call abstraction is about 'communication with each other' more than anything (even though it breaks the awesome symmetry of your paragraph above :)
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Did you also look up ladle reviews out of curiosity? This is an untapped gold mine.
Sounds like you have some interesting algorithms there, but I think you might want to spend some more time looking at well-known algorithms that might make improve both efficiency and accuracy.

For efficiency, you might consider one of the various tree-like structures that would allow you to not bother searching every single word. That would become significantly more important with a larger database, or a less powerful device.

For accuracy, consider arithmetic coding, and take a look at some of the work and writings from the Dasher project (http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/). In addition to their impressive input system, they've done a ton of work on accessibility.

Also, depending on your input system, you should consider the possibility of common typos or equivalent; for instance, on a keyboard you'd consider adjacent characters as likely typos.
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Careful! namecheap has shown clever marketing. That's how godaddy made a business.

I tested their DNS today, and their email forwarding. They reject entire Comcast mail servers as spammers! Plus, they want ME to get comcast to follow up with their blacklist providers.

Anyone got a godaddy alternative to recommend that's not so, well, cheap and cheesy?
Can we start a discussion on dish sponges/brushes.

This is by far my favorite:

http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Good-Grips-Squirting-Brush/dp/B000...

Yes we shall have a discussion on the merits of kitchen utensils on hackernews.
Ladles are important.
I'm with you; I've already experienced various spooky things with desktop applications on top of Dropbox (like the excellent Papers2 by mekentosj) because of file conflicts and latency. And that's not Papers2's fault, since it would have to be redesigned to be tolerant of such things. But it goes a long way toward showing that Dropbox is not a syncing FS that can put any local application data in the cloud. In particular, Dropbox is bad for typical database use patterns (simultaneous writes, transactions) and the versioning and locking are not tunable.
You can't go wrong with OXO. They put a noticeable amount of thought into the ergonomics of their kitchen tools that is sorely lacking in most other brands.
There are some freakin beautiful cheap-as-dirt Chinese made stainless steel ladles out there. Sometimes they show up in the grocery store for a song.
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That's enough of this nonsense on the frontpage.

Flagged.
The intrinsic beauty of the post aside - this sort of in-depth, but cheaply available product insight simply wasn't available before and it is pretty damn useful.

What if it's a cheap Chinese ladle that is made of led?

What if the handle is too thin and it heats up when left in a hot soup?

What if the shape of the bowl is odd?

What if the rubber grip falls off after the second use?

Any utilitarian gadget could certainly use an usability review. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. How often do you buy ladles? Exactly. Why not pick a good one then?
Do you remember when there was no internet? Does that make unadvertised throttling by deep-packet inspection okay?
Fun story: when I read "cd /; rm -rf *" or anything similiar anywhere my fingers automatically lift off the keyboard and start to tingle. It's a self defense mechanism that I didn't know I had until now.
"It would require web services like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to monitor and aggressively filter everything all users upload."

False. It's the opposite actually. A site continues to have existing safe harbor protection UNLESS it does this. Even Congress knows you can't put this type of burden on sites.

"It would deny site owners due process of law, by initiating a DNS blacklisting based solely on a good faith assertion by an individual copyright or intellectual property owner."

False. Individuals and corporations cannot DNS blacklist, or block from Google results. That's only allowed based on a request from the Attorney General, requires approval of a Judge, and only applies to foreign companies that explicitly and solely exist for the purpose of copyright infringement.

In short, it's the worst article I've ever seen on Tom's Hardware. And like watching something on CNN when you clearly know more about it than they do, I'm left to wonder if they're this wrong on everything, or it's just a rare case of them talking about something they know absolutely nothing about.

But I do see why we're so worried about politics affecting the web. We're not good at it and we're too lazy to actually read the proposals. We sure are great at moving incorrect information around, though!
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I agree. I feel like through Github the Ruby community forks, argues, and resolves problems faster than most Python projects do. Maybe I don't read enough mailing lists to see the angry posts, but maybe a bit more contention would be good to move things forward.
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> Flagged.

Careful. They took away my flag option when Steve Jobs died, and I still haven't seen it back.
No, you're right. They're not axes.
Done. ;)
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the highest reviewed of the cheap items is always the useless moneypit.

you want something in between. cost benefit.
This is actually a very solid insight, the value of the problem you're solving with your app can be determined by the amount of time someone will complain to you about it, especially busy people.

Sound so simple but its amazing how many "entrepreneurs" are terrified of talking to potential customers and end up wasting a ton of tie developing things nobody wants.
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I cancelled a 4 year gym membership over this. They wouldn't allow credit card payments anymore, only bank drafts. Not giving a gym access to my checking account. Some MBA figured wrong when they ran the numbers on that change.
Apple doesn't allow offensive apps in its app store either, but somehow, this has never bothered MG Siegler.

Double standards.
I had the same thought at the first glance at the loopy graph, but decided to take off my nerd hat and put on my "I'm listening to a business guy" hat. I think this is something we tech people tend to get hung up on too much... snickering at the slightly misused technical jargon and other similar errors (like this graph) that business people make and then not being able to hear what the person is actually saying.

Any non-technical, non-mathmatical person would look at that graph and say "yeah, you go around in circles for a while and then finally get things worked out" and I actually thought this was a pretty good post otherwise.
Nonsense? I found the post perfectly interesting commentary on the recent cultural transitions that we've all had a hand in shaping. Even the mundane has been transformed.
As far as I can tell, the Hawking example shows that even with pretty much the best possible resources available, just about every special-use system for the disabled is more or less doomed to become something like a stovepipe system; a system that's a wonder when its created but by its very nature of having limit audience, subject to limited maintenance after a certain period - maintenance that usually can't prioritize upgrading for the next version of whatever OS it runs on. Steve Hawking, the world's best known quadriplegic, is still running WINDOWS XP.

Given this, the choice of iOS as your OS seems kind of unfortunate. Why choose an OS where the hardware makes a point of being a black box and where the support for, say, an old version ten years from now seems rather doubtful.

And thing with Hawking is that his system work. It's a virtual certainty he has no interest in your system 'cause getting used a system is lifetime affair. But someone will be used to your system. Will you be happy explaining to them they have to upgrade or even abandon their system because backward compatibility is not a high priority for Apple?
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The illuminating thing about the internet for me is not that people comparison shop for simple objects like ladles. It's that there are enough unemployed or lonely(?) people out there who actually have the motivation to write a 250-word review about something as mundane as a plastic ladle.
That was unclear. The reason I grouped the dropbox API in there is that it is an HTTP REST API. Good for a lot of things, but to layer a filesystem on top of it is complex and doesn't fit well.

It's a natural extension but it's reinventing the wheel poorly. That happens all the time as things progress. Wheels are reinvented on the new platforms. Normally the new method either pulls ahead quickly or is replaced by an update of the old one. I don't think a good enough implementation of a filesystem over HTTP is easy, and it will at least have to be bloated. A good web aware wrapper around existing filesystem sharing stuff would be much better, sooner of later someone will do that or something even better because they're so clever.

tldr; I like the idea of API's and having internet aware applications for things a browser isn't suited for, and non-http protocols for the things HTTP isn't well suited for. This API strikes me as a poor direction for major development on top of, but makes sense since dropbox is already there and useful.
Yeah, but someone in the store might be able to outline the pros and cons..
I look at the 1-star reviews first to see just what so bothers people. Often it's something random ("I could not open the plastic wrap") that really has no bearing on the product itself.

If no one has a legit killer complaint I look at the middle-star reviews.

Sometimes, though, the 1-star reviews point out some flaw or omission that you'd never know about until you owned the thing for a bit, and you end up feeling duped if you bought it (hence the 1-star venom).

There's a point, though, where you have to ask yourself what's the worst that happens if you end up with a piece of crap. How much time/money are you out?

The problem (as the ladle purchase shows) is that it can become a sort of personal challenge; "I will get the best item for my money!" Even when it make no sense.
> So what if people are horribly offended?

It's not about this, it's about setting your rules for your property. You want to use a service, you agree to terms of use.

Imagine someone painted a giant middle finger on your house wall, how would you feel about that?
I don't dislike fighting dirty when it really counts, but realistically this strategy would never work. First, such actions would not stand long-term, because the government can merely prohibit withholding services from government agents, and sanction any companies who do. You delist certain senators from google? That is (insert violation of law or ethics here, real or conjured), you are fined $1 million a day until you de-de-list us. And they could make the fine as big as they wanted, and google (or whomever) would buckle. Make no mistake: the government has the power over long-term behavior, not corporations. And second, the government knows such a boycott would not be able to stand up against their power, that it is an idle threat, and so they would call their bluff and vote for SOPA anyway.

You can't win a fight by threatening to beat the bully up tomorrow and the next day and the next day for taking your lunch money today. You have to win the fight now, before the damage is done.

Add in the additional problem that it is much easier to pass (or block) legislation before it passes than it is to repeal, and I don't think this strategy is viable. If it were, google and other companies could get together now and force the repeal of legislation already in place that is distasteful. How likely is that? On the other hand, the original nuclear strategy mentioned in the article would indubitably have an immediate and unbelievably tremendous impact. We're talking shock and awe here, folks. If google didn't work for a day, every voting person in America would know about it.

And that's the way they pass legislation that the majority of people wouldn't like if they knew the truth about it -- by sneaking it through because, frankly, most people are just too busy or too apathetic to not fall asleep when someone mentions the word "politics". The actual nuclear strategy mentioned in the article would certainly wake them up, and in a big way.

That said, unfortunately I doubt google or any other publicly traded company has the balls to do it.
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the how is irrelevant for this tasty speculation.

they may move only hosting outside and refuse access from the US, if not from their US corporate network.

IMHO, the more interesting thing to think about is the resulting wake up call. would be nice to have to use underground proxies to be able to access free services hosted at some place like Sweden. Would at least not give a false sense of political freedom if SOPA passes as is.
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I felt the same. The personal note, has touched me in a way I cannot remember. We are so used to search stuff, read about stuff and buy stuff, that we forgot how the buying process was not so direct little years ago.
IANAL, but I would expect the uniform commercial code to cover what payment methods are allowed if not stipulated in a contract. For example, in § 2-511 of the UCC (http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/article2.htm#s2-511) "Tender of payment is sufficient when made by any means or in any manner current in the ordinary course of business unless the seller demands payment in legal tender and gives any extension of time reasonably necessary to procure it."

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