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Yes, it's probably an order of magnitude more expensive when accounting for the countless hours spent pre-optimizing everything, tracking down intensely opaque performance issues, dealing with the AppEngine team's tendency to introduce changes that entirely alter performance characteristics without notice, and etc.

This, of course, is on top of the now rather ludicrous cost associated with maintaining a write-heavy application that must be both highly concurrent and consistent, with a large number of composite indexes and relational schemes that the datastore was simply not designed to cater to. That isn't AppEngine's fault, but it is by no means a generic hosting platform and I truly believe that their goal of creating an "infinitely scalable" and robust system is directly at odds with providing a product that is a good choice for the majority of applications.
No matter which choice you make, best of luck! If US doesn't work out, take a look to the north (Canada - Toronto and Vancouver)!
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If such a discussion was had, I'd also be very curious to hear the details of it. I imagine the followers display was carefully considered, and I'd love to have been a fly on the wall for the conversations on reasons why vs. reasons why not.

Part of me thinks, well, maybe they could just split the difference and make the display an opt-outable feature.

But I think the genie is well out of the bottle at this point. We now inhabit a world in which a lot of people make their livings based on Twitter fanbase reach (or, really, on the public display thereof, given that they're not actually capable of engaging every single follower with every single tweet). And I think there'd be an interesting psychological game afoot if various people started opting out of the display. Would others see that as some sort of admission of lower status? Would they see it as somehow antisocial? Personally speaking, I think it would be a nice feature to have, and I wouldn't care about who did and did not display his counts. But if I've learned anything in my life, it's that my preferences are atypical.
thanks.. this should really be just about design, my friend've done coding as quickly as it was possible so i know it's not css/html masterpiece
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I still do not understand on what grounds this is legally possible.
Wikileaks was not convicted or even accused of any crime.
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Wow I always hear people talking about why Silicon Vally cannot be reproduced in Europe, but I have never seen anyone put it so pointed. Thanks for education someone in the States about the realities of some areas of Europe.
Outstanding! I also was going to have to re-implement this.
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Thanks, I didn't know that. As usual it's probably a mix of factors.
However, to counter this as renters the tenants are or should also be liable for any neglect or abuse that falls out of regular wear and answer to the landlord. Deliberately breaking property or failing to notify the landlord of, for example, water visibly leaking into the building structures or occasional light smoke out of the fuse box means that while the tenant could try to legally avoid having to pay rent but end up paying (likely) much more for the damages.

Or is this not true in the U.S. or certain states or cities in the U.S.?
it means the road you use to get to work is essential, yes. Otherwise you'd simple pick a different route, no complaints necessary
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Today is actually the first time I heard of both the bootcamp and Ars Digita University (http://adiuni.org). I'm going to spend a bunch of time looking at both of them. Thanks!
What happens if Twitter refuses? It's probably going to take a tech giant like this, Google, etc. to stand up to the United States government. I just can't see Twitter getting their domains seized or their servers confiscated or anything extreme like that. It would be a huge story and I can't imagine that drawing attention to something so unconstitutional (IANAL, but it's gotta be, right?) is what the government wants.
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Pivotal can handle much more data and is much more geared towards to agile. I like it to handle my tech project management. Its brilliant for that.

I use Trello for "business project management" (marketing copy, emailing people, customer development todos) and pivotal for "technical project management".
Doesn't this apply to any form of exercise though?
The language used in this story is awful. If I had never heard of the group Wikileaks, I would assume they were a known criminal organisation. "having ties to..." "allegedly support the group..." replace Wikileaks with Al-Qaeda/Mafia/IRA and you get an everyday story about a bad group of people not a non-profit org who assist whistle-blowers. Fascinating how such everyday phrases can colour your perception, to such a degree.
So will I, but only if I can check out his code on github and ask him a whole bunch of puzzle questions first. ;)
In what aspects you think contractor is 2nd class citizen.
I personally like fact that I am paid at least 50% more and that I don't have to play corporate politics. And funny as it is there are companies where contractors are treated same as employees in most respects (aka. smart companies)

heck I had so many team lunches for successful milestone of project paid by company that I don't care to count
I never turned any device off (except for laptop) and planes never crashed. And they never will. Just have to notice when a flight attendant is coming around, put it down for 30 seconds and get back to reading/listening/whatever.
Will I be blacklisted by the FAA by writing this?

(on a sidenote, that article is way off-topic for HN...)
No, but it does link to Forward error correction, which links to fountain codes as well as rateless codes.
I wonder if these types of legally-enforced privacy intrusions will bring about a new design goal for web-app builders: making retrieval of this information impossible for the service provider.

It's one thing for Twitter to promise not to give your information to government entities until asked, but it's a whole other thing to engineer their application so it's impossible to comply with such a request.
It sounds like you have trust issues to work out.
Have you actively contacted companies you're interested in and asked for interviews? It's much harder to wait for someone to contact you than it is to send a personalized e-mail / resume to each company you're interested in.

I'm also a tad worried that you skipped the portion of my post regarding looking for pure graphic designers. It may just be my experience from companies I've been in but the last two graphic designers I helped hire were combo packages.

It's nice to see another 19 year old excited about startups and technology though :)
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I'm referring to dtruss which is a launcher like strace and is built on dtrace. The dtruss "interface" predates dtrace, but historically didn't need to be run a root.
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I can't disagree there. I graduated from that program and put my year of IBM interning in while I was a senior.

Not many people seem to stick around for long though.
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Have any Wikileaks supporters been accused of any crimes?

In the meatspace, if a suspected or known criminal was always hanging out in a certain small corporate office with only a few people then they might wiretap the whole building, even though the other workers are not necessarily involved.

From there they might be able to subpeona the personnel records for that small group of employees even though neither the corporation nor the "extracurricular" group those workers are involved with are even charged with any wrongdoing, based just on the personal wrongdoing of one of those workers and that one's association with the others in his building.

That doesn't mean there's no shenanigans going on here (I haven't looked at the article yet) but Wikileaks being formally accused of a crime is not compulsory to getting individual subpeonas in general.
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come on, Appelbaum knows better than to ever have exchanged anything of value over an unencrypted medium not under his control. i woul dbe very suprised if they produced anything useful from twitter's records.

if they are able to see get his bank account or CC info, and then subpoena further records from his banks (which would be very f'd up indeed), then they may get something more. but that may be a steep mountain to climb under no hard evidence present.
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The trouble is this assumption that Facebook as it is now is “messed up”. What if it's not messed up? What if, for the simple majority, even the vast majority of people, Facebook is actually just fine? Maybe we like the fact that we see updates from people we don't know as closely. Maybe we enjoy being able to stay in touch with people we maybe weren't that close with in person? What if perhaps we're interested in hearing at least the stuff they post on Facebook? Maybe we establish relationships that couldn't have been established otherwise, because of circumstances, distance, opportunity, whatever? Maybe we're willing to deal with the noise, because we end up with signal we wouldn't have otherwise? Maybe it's just an appeal to a base desire for gossip?

In short, maybe Michael Arrington's (and the author's) aspect of what could make Facebook better is just... Wrong? Maybe the reason Facebook is so successful is because they picked the right path, not the wrong one.
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Twitter won't refuse, and if they did, their servers would get seized and the information would get taken from those servers by force. As much as it might sometimes work to our advantage, processes like this do not typically consider how things look in the press. If they did, we wouldn't see as many horrific stories like this in the press as we currently do.
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Stage two of this whole SOPA initiative is telegraphed quietly within the Al Gore speech:

"As in all things, some compromise must be possible."

I've believed for quite some time that SOPA itself was never really seriously thought to be passable by anyone. Rather just an extreme first salvo to make the next set of oppressive measures seem like a reasonable compromise in comparison.
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Stay classy HN. What the hell were you all doing during christmas and new years when he was doing this? Give the kid some credit - he has more drive than most people I know...and by the way, what does your resume look like?
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The question of "is this assumption even right for most people" is certainly a fair one. My observations which were driven from personal experience as well as various data/user research suggest that at least SOME meaningful percentage of people find utility decay in social network design.

My main point is that just restarting these systems won't solve this problem for those who have it, because we'll rush towards this same race condition. Rather my product suggestions allow for release valves without fundamentally altering the value that a Facebook, G+, Twitter, etc deliver.
> Also, I wonder if the true ideal protocol for this is SPDY without SSL.

SPDY does not exist without SSL, nor will it.

Also, SSL does not add anywhere near enough overhead to matter for this kind of application, especially when you just leave the connection established. SPDY would work quite well as a protocol for this purpose.
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OK, sorry about being snippy, though you were telling me that I was spouting unrealistic lies, so I wasn't feeling very happy about it.

I misspoke when I mentioned the ice shelf. That part IS at least partly floating, and therefore already displaces as much sea water as its mass can account for. I thought it wasn't, but I was wrong. BUT...the other numbers still stand.
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Just take Dijkstra's Algorithm (or possibly A* if you want to try to optimize the runtime performance) and give a higher cost to edges in your map that correspond to left turns. Now it's just a matter of tuning the additional weight added to suit your preference. You won't get the shortest distance any more, just the "cheapest" path in terms of the distance/left-turn weight; if you find you have to go too far out of your way to avoid left turns, you may want to reduce the added weight so you can make a few more left turns without going so far away. For example, you probably don't want to go 10 miles down the freeway and another 10 back to avoid a single left turn on what would otherwise be a 5 minute drive, but maybe you'd instead be willing to drive a 1/2 mile to avoid a left turn that you'd otherwise have had routed -- so route the left turn as whatever distance it would be plus 1/2 mile additional cost.
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Counterpoint to the idea in this article - I don't like the idea of at-will employment. I'll keep the political or ideological ranting off HN, but in short, I don't think that being able to fire any employee for any reason whatsoever is a good idea.

Interesting to hear how things are in other parts of the world, though.

EDIT: If you're downvoting, by the way, please leave a comment about why. I don't really care too much about the karma, but I'd love to hear why people disagree (and for the record, this comment is at -1 at the time I edit).
Talent and effort should have more value than a degree. Sure it takes some effort to get a degree, but with designers the portfolio should be far more important.
Funny thing is these people don't realize that flying on a plane is a privilege not a right. They could be kicked off the plane for less than that, it's the company's plane after all, not theirs.
> This seems unlikely due to the taxes and paperwork expense of transferring property even with no brokerage fees.

AFAIK, the one-time govt. fees to record a property transfer is relatively small.

This in the US. http://www.arjanihomes.com/custom-tax_guide.htm-CONTENT_TAX_... says ~$3k for a 1M house.

What sort of numbers did you have in mind?
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Things vary on many axes, though. I'm pretty sure that, in Silicon Valley, if you came out and said you would never hire a woman or an old person, you would be fired immediately and blackballed from managerial positions for life (or if you were the owner, sued into oblivion). Meanwhile, in Hungary, I'm going to guess Jakab Andor keeps his job and will be free to hire or not hire who he likes--- because Hungary presumably doesn't take antidiscrimination laws as seriously as the US does.

(Also, there's much less corruption in the US, which is probably the key difference.)
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This is great. I'd like to attend, but as an undergraduate not sure how much can I do with classmates as I imagine most people have been coding for a long time. Yet, Hacker school sounds like an awesome place to go to right after college.
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Both approaches seem to work well in various situations, which is why I'm skeptical of the value of these kinds of rants which lack comparative analysis. Apparently it works badly in Hungary; but works well in Sweden. It'd be more enlightening to read some analysis of the differences, since it empirically isn't the case that strong parental leave policies always and everywhere cause high unemployment, even if they anecdotally cause one dude in Hungary to not want to hire women.

(I'd personally guess that culture and corruption have more to do with the large economic differences between Sweden and Hungary than taxation or parental-leave policies do, so I think he's barking up the wrong tree.)
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What a douche.

Guess what? People are messy. But more importantly, people are valuable.

The author can whine all he likes. But really, try getting something done without them. Oh, wait, he says he's not going to even try... why are we reading this?
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Require equal paternity leave, and the author will be forced to consider married men just as risky a prospect.

Better solution: make the employment restrictions apply to a company of a certain size. A large enough company should be well-enough equipped to take care of its employees. A startup company isn't.
And this is, in large part, why startups work so much 'better' than larger companies.

Startup hires tend to be somewhat self-selecting, as the jobs tend to draw young males without families. The risk of the job makes it more appealing to those types, but the field is generally overrun by men, which is a topic that seems to come up every few months as well.

What that means is that the eco-system is better for lean startups. You don't have to have the 'buffer' budget over actual costs that corporations do. Large companies typically offer paid vacation, matching 401k, disability leave, maternity leave and all that jazz.

If you're working on a lean startup right now, ask yourself what would happen if your lead developer disappeared for three months.

This is one of the real disadvantages we face as a nation because, in large part, the people we outsource labor to don't have these protections.
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If it's really true that someone who just started work can immediately take three years maternal leave off, fully paid, and then be due 2.5 months accrued paid vacation time when they return, then I can't imagine how that could work. I don't know if it really works that way in Hungary though, or in Sweden for that matter.
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Why the downvotes? Didn't realize dissenting opinions were so discouraged.
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Yes, definitely. Unless it bore a passing resemblance to an Atari game, in which case Atari and Apple would drag it outside and put a bullet in its head.
I am definitely not an expert on US discrimination law, but I believe that is actually the case to some degree-many of those laws only apply to companies with more than 15 people (eg Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964).
I thought about doing that. I've used a lot of coffeescript in the past, but I just didn't see it being a big advantage here.
The biggest issue with using CoffeeScript here is that I wanted control over the syntax as I wanted to have less code.
CoffeeScript (generated) really creates more code than what it's worth.
While what he says may be true, without employees, his business can't scale. What he is describing is the difficulty of startups competing against established competitors who have a reliable source of revenue. In many countries, smaller businesses get some form of exemption.
I like the idea of an employee being able to quit at a moment's notice, and that goes hand in hand with the ability of an employer to make the same choice.

To be honest I find the idea of paternalist employers rather revolting.
The first devs (already employees) chose the stack they wanted. While using something new definitely helps keep the work interesting, I can't imagine trying to do the same thing on an older stack. It would be slower and more painful at every turn; the few issues with bleeding-edge tools don't even begin to compare with the extra pain of, say, being stuck with VBScript and SQL.
I'm not so sure. If I had to keep an employee for 3 years while they were on vacation I would just not hire any employees. Or I'd move somewhere with sane business laws.
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