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Working for a company that serves big pharma, I have the following observations:

The iPad is the game changer for the mobile worker (pharma reps). Companies are taking away their sales reps MS laptops/tablets and replacing them with iPads. Why?

1., Unbreakable compared to classic hardware. Both in hardware as in software. No moving parts, light, powerful enough, so easy to use that reps can't claim anymore to be baffled by it. Cheap. No enterprise MS tablet PC comes close.

2., Far lower TCO, as the IT overhead is far lower. Virus Scanners? Custom OS images? Gone. A fully controlled, curated environment. Even if a user installs something, it will not break the system or steal your data. If an iPad gets stolen/lost, remote wipe and buy a new one. Log in, restore, done. Apple suddenly allows for bring your own hardware - the wet dream of enterprise IT.

3., Completely homogenic hardware, globally. This is the most important point. Wherever you buy an iPad, from Brazil to Korea, it is exactly the same. Same hardware, same OS. With notebooks? Lenovo, HP, Dell. And they change their models all the time, warranting a new driver here, a different OS image there.

4., The death of Blackberry is on the wall, making the iPhone the natural successor - for the above points.

Now, what about the MacBooks and iMacs? Looking at my company, once the iPad is in, those follow. If the majority of users is on iOS, there are no benefits of being on Windows. Most admins like Unix-style anyhow, and OSX is a great UI for that.

Managers are the ones left, and here the MacBook Air is gaining traction. It is sleek, light, and works. Plus, IT can standardize on it. Also, as people create slide decks, Keynote is seriously cool shit. Those presentations work seamlessly on iPad, whereas PPT breaks. Strong incentive there to switch.

The last big footholds of MS in the Office are Excel and Outlook. But both are available on OSX, and some argue in better shape than their Windows brethren. The biggest gap of Apple is Excel on the iPad. Whoever releases a fully compatible iOS Excel version/clone will accelerate the demise of MS in enterprise desktops.

Servers are completely different discussion, the MS Exchange/Sharepoint/Dynamics/SQL Server behemoth is here to stay. This battleground will shift due to SaaS.
reply your BTW:
modern browsers support that feature, it could be altered by css code:

resize: none | both | horizontal | vertical

many browsers use both as default
Lisp (Scheme) was the introductory language taught for CS and EE majors at MIT when I started as an undergraduate, and I found it to be the most intuitive language I had ever seen.

More recently MIT switched to Python.

Either one is a much better choice that Java. I would never have gone into CS if MIT had started us off on Java.
>>If you go to the gym and do heavy squats at 6:30pm without eating anything since your lunch at 11:00am you are going to feel like absolute shit afterwards.

This is correct.

Eat a wholesome meal(but don't overeat) 90-120 minutes before you leave for the gym.
Those squat numbers aren't going to go up on their own. :)
There have been intermittent issues. I was driving home from SWSJ and unable to deal with it for around an hour earlier this evening. Trying to fix a few bugs in the code now.
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Eating 1 hour before workout hasn't worked out for me. I guess digestion time varies from person to person.

Tasting bile when squatting/deadlifting is really unpleasant.
thoughts:

1) fairly clean design, but consistency between pages could be improved
2) that home and "blue box design" hot spots go the same place is extraneous
3) front page nav is strange. buttons to go to the other tabs, but when I click on the network button I don't know where it has taken me
4) where has it taken me problem - need a visual way of showing what tab you're on
5) 2 level menu on corporate is inconsistent
6) load time could be improved

There's a few thoughts anyway!
Well, I used redis to hold a few sets for each user. You can atomically add items to sets in redis. Mongodb doesn't support this functionality (AFAIK). MongoDB is great for dumping and retrieving lots of data and is more durable than redis. Haven't built a site using these tools before so has all been a learning experience.
That would be a great app--Facebook content management utility. Write a few queries, like the UI equivalent of

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FTP is dead. I haven't used the FTP protocol in years[1]… that's what we have SSH / SCP for.

[1]: Before you say that my anecdotal evidence does not a fact make, my point is that there's nothing forcing us to use FTP today. Even the lousiest web host supports SFTP, and none of my machines or VPSs run an FTP server. There's no reason to proclaim that we need to kill FTP, because FTP is a non-issue in today's world. Sure, you can still use it, the same way you can still use telnet if you'd like. But practically nothing relies on it with no alternative.
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$100 is pretty low end for a GPU.

MD5 is many times faster than SHA256, too.
RIM manufactures their smartphones on-site in Waterloo Ontario Canada (if I'm not mistaken, I know people who work there). The working conditions and wages are excellent by any standard.

I was never a user of Blackberry smartphones, but I will be from now on because I refuse to support inhumane and cruel working conditions with my money.
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One of Apple's claimed differentiators is that they're a vertical operation. I'm confident an Apple rep would say that the iPhone was a prestige product because Apple produced both the hardware and software; that the "cachet and desirability" of their products are a direct result of a single editorial voice.

I haven't used any Android-based phones, so I can't say whether or not existing offerings match the fit and polish of an iPhone. Judging by your own comments, I will assume that none currently do, which makes me ponder a few questions.

Question One: If an Android-based phone were to achieve a level of integration between hardware and software comparable to the iPhone, would that put the lie to Apple's claims that keeping everything under one roof is their recipe for success? Or would a hardware manufacturer have to "own" the operating system for this to occur? Will Amazon eventually achieve Apple-like user satisfaction with the Kindle Fire because they forked Android?

Question Two: Is Jony Ive really as talented as the business press claims? Is he - or, more generally, is superior industrial design - Apple's secret weapon?

Question Three: Assuming question two is true, is Ive's level of design talent really that rare, that Samsung, HTC, Amazon, or Motorola cannot find an individual with competing skill?

Question Four: (Again assuming Ive's talent is a significant differentiator) Given that Ive was marking time, unrecognized and unappreciated, within Apple until Jobs' return, is it likely that a company requires a (hopefully benevolent) Dictator For Life in order to achieve the greatness that so often eludes decision-by-committee? Are there examples of best-of-breed products (in a similar or related industry) produced antithetically to Apple's methodology?
Here's the full article without page breaks: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-power-o...
One of the best things I ever did was get a door frame pull-up bar and stick it right next to my desk. Whenever I'm stuck on a problem I hop up and do a few sets of pull-ups. Clears my mind and helps me focus.

For $25 it's a no-brainer investment.
I think it's hilarious and I'm proud to link it to FB :)
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Recommendation for (auto?) creating beautiful graphs from mySQL data?
I have a mySQL database with a few linked tables. I'm looking to generate pretty graphs and tools to present this data or search for other interesting correlations and insights.

Would be awesome if there was something out there where I just give it the database login details and it spits out a bunch of potential graphs and datapoints to present.

Any ideas?

Edit: hopefully free, using Javascript/jQuery/PHP or a web UI
RIM manufactures their smartphones on-site in Waterloo Ontario Canada (I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong). I have a friend and a cousin who work at RIM and working conditions and wages are excellent.

I know for a fact I will never purchase an Apple device again. I don't want blood on my hands. RIM Blackberries may be the only ethical choice.
Viable? Who knows. Hilarious? Yes! Now let us click through to peoples' profiles to view all their posts and it'll be awesome!
The fragmentation mentioned in the article to me highlights one of the main reasons why enterprises shy away from Android. On iOS, there is ONE email/calendar client with a known set of features/limitations. On android, almost every manufacturer has their own email client and their varying feature sets and bugs are not documented anywhere. For example: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=4760 How many posts in there are from google employees stating that it's not their problem because the email client the person is complaining about isn't written by google?
My hoster of many years charges for a similar setup 60 EUR, "unlimited" bandwidth (whatever you can pump though 100Mbit within a month), RAID10, etc, 75 GB external backup, as a managed server. And at another big hosting company you get an even bigger package for 45 EUR, not managed though.

However, I remember that hosting in the US is surprisingly expensive for some reason, and has been for many years. Don't know why.
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I remember that after "Find His Porn" website was featured on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3301137) someone here presented an application that does the opposite - provides hidden, secure, encrypted drive - and that basically is TrueCrypt + some magic scripts that make it normal-user-friendly. Can't Google the link though.
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Have you tried varying the amount that you eat? Maybe eating something closer to a snack (rather than a meal) will work better.
Some guys sell it as a product http://labs.agriya.com/burrow
Another reason: updates

No one, not even Google, the carrier or the manufacturer can guarantee if you'll be able to install a security update on that Android phone you deployed to 2,000 sales people 6 months ago.
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I think you pointed it out, it's the cost. I love Heroku too, however, I can definitely see how Heroku can be much more expensive in the long run. 37signals just recently showed how their recent RAM addition was just a tiny fraction of what they would have payed at Amazon.
Thanks, these are are valid points. Going to crash right now but will see what I can do tomorrow.
"Don't make me think" is a pretty good book on this topic.
As a member of an enterprise IT, and one that has been involved in out testing and decision making I'd put it down to three things:

1. Android support for Exchange is generally awful. I can't speak for ICS, but many of the android phones we tested wouldn't do calendar sync, or would randomly stop receiving emails, requiring hard resets, or would have little to no global address lookup. In contrast, iOS has had very good exchange support since at least iOS 3, and it is rock solid.

2. Android still doesn't work with our Cisco VPN, iOS has since at least v3.

3. Beyond the internet and PIM software, we have been more successful finding quality apps. Too many apps on both platforms are lightweight things without much use in a business environment, but there are some decent application to be found on iOS (the Omnigroup apps come to mind.). There is also better support from business focused companies like VMware, ESRI, Autodesk, and all the conferencing companies like WebEx.
You mean the Atari 8-bit computers; the Atari 400 and 800 were released in 1979. The Atari ST didn't debut until 1985.
MeeGo is dead. This runs on Mer[1] which is a continuation of MeeGo, combined with Plasma Active[2], the KDE Tablet UI and apps.

[1] http://merproject.org/
[2] http://plasma-active.org/
Love the article, just one note: I think #1 is not necessarily constrained as it may sound. Especially with Heroku, I think it is very easy to upgrade later on for most set ups, not too much special code or conventions. The major one would be probably the read only file system, but I'm sure using Amazon S3 is not that bad
No-one has mentioned mixed hosting, whereby you pick from each category.

Something like Varnish you want a lot of RAM for, dedicated suits that well.

Web servers tend to be numerous and are just computational power (stitch all this gubbins together and return a string), their number vary according to demand and they suit virtual servers really well.

Now databases, these really need good disks, lots of RAM, decent CPUs. They are best dedicated or colocated. When things go wrong with a database server you really want to be able to rule out the invisible magic of other hosts, and the voodoo of being a virtual machine.

The best thing I can hope for whilst I scale is to find a provider that will sell me dedicated and public cloud instances that can live on the same VLan and still be reasonably priced.

I'm currently still totally with Linode, but with 9 instances, and an over-heated database server I know I'm getting close to the limits of what I can do there without re-focusing on splitting up the app when I could be adding new features.
Alexandrescu is a great programmer, and it's well worth heeding to his advice.

While reading "Modern C++" and being honestly horrified by the complexity of C++ and the way you have to fight the compiler and the language to get flexible code working, I was also mightily impressed by Alexandrescu's prowess. It's not hard to see how deeply he understands programming at the most basic level. His writing makes that book very pleasant to read.
Interesting idea, I'll definitely try it once I can login some other way.
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The problem I have with Ec2 is their configuration. They have small instances and then large instances. Nothing in the medium range with 4 cores, 2 GB ram, 64 bit etc. So if I were a small company and I need 2 medium instances (which IMO is what most people want) I’ll end up paying .34 * 24 * 30 = $244.8 in Amazon where as in Linode I pay $60 per month.

I run my staging boxes on Ec2 and production on Linode. The small micro instances are good for staging/dev with just $15/month. No other provider I know gives you a VM at such low costs.
5., Apple convinced people to pay enough to get good equipment.

An IT department implementing anything PC based is constantly fighting against the $300 acer netbooks on the shelves of the local best buy. Management will cut corners on a PC.
I'm in my mid-30's ... and no, I don't subscribe to a newspaper either, but lots of people still do. And, as you mention, even if one doesn't subscribe, the most likely work-around is to view on one's phone/computer, rather than to print a copy at home.
> PDF, half the pages are oddly blank

Duplex scanner.
Reddit very much regretted using Amazon EC2 EBS disks for their site according to their blog. It killed their site for almost entire days, many times, for a long time. It's taken them months to undo that decision.
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this looks really good. really well thought out. congrats. We are in the process of choosing a mobile JS library for our framework. We were going to go with JQuery Mobile but I am impressed with Kendo. You might get a call from us in the next months. You never know...:-)
It might be essential, but it's also overrated as a primary measure of mastery. The more difficult the subject matter, the less useful rote memorization is in the end; there were plenty of people with near-photographic memories that I saw failing upper level math courses at university. And I knew plenty of people that excelled at that level but had to look up specific formulas all the time (as best as I could figure, they tended to remember quite well what transformations the formulas allowed, just not the exact form that they allowed them in).

That said, it's certainly not going to hurt anyone to increase their rote memorization abilities, in fact it's probably extremely useful in general, no matter what field you're in.
I once rented servers from a company that came highly recommended on WHT, back in 2004 or so. One day, all their servers went offline. There were hundreds of posts in the thread at WHT. They never came back. It turned out they were operating at a loss and had stopped paying their bill to the data center for so long that the building finally pulled the plug on their racks.

I'm reminded of this every time I log in to my now 12-year-old PayPal account. I see "1 open case" in my "Dispute Resolution Center" -- it's the case disputing my prepayment for the servers to this host, which PayPal said they would leave open forever, and if the principals of that company ever opened a new PayPal account they would have to resolve those disputes with all their former customers first.
This research sounds very similar to the research done by Dr. Bob Beck on his "Brain Tuner" in 1983. Bob Beck had some other radical beliefs such as blood electrification that he claimed could cure all sorts of maladies. I wonder how much the transcranial direct current stimulation differs from Bob Beck's Brain Tuner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRx0Luz86Uc&feature=relat...
Why has no one mentioned SuperMemo? The software has been around since the 80's. I use it every single day (because you have to) for about 30 minutes to remember Latin vocabularly. It's based on spaced-repetition. If you feel a particular piece of knowledge is worth remembering permanently, I would recommend using it. http://www.supermemo.com/

There's actually a Wired article about the author of the software http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia... Completely eccentric and totally devoted to using the thing. I mean he doesn't even decide when he responds to his own mail, Supermemo will "schedule" it for him. I believe the latest version supports something called "incremental reading" which Wozniak claims is better than the usual order we read things. You read till you get bored/tired and them move on and it'll keep track of where you were, etc.
The ideas is little weak- playing the lottery in a group does increase the chance you will be a winner, but the risk/reward ratio remains the same. I'm not sure I get it.

The design is a good start, keep pushing it.
Very interesting video on the memristor. Long but worth it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
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Plenty of publications by Robert Bjork here: http://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/RABjorkPublications.php
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These titles kill me. It's like the author has found out the ultimate gold mine. It's actually my strategy for learning for years. When approaching a particular topic/field, I start by reading related things to gain domain knowledge. This helps a bit later and accelerates my learning.
3-d printing (I'm including SLS in this) is easier, cheaper, and safer.

3-d printers don't need to be nearly as rigid as machine tools and can be much lighter as a result. Machine tools have a limited set of operations because the cutter head has to reach what it is cutting without interference. Complex parts require can require several tool changes as a result. Printers can create overhangs and cavities that would be very difficult or impossible with machine tools. 3-d printed objects also don't need to be clamped down while working, which makes setup much faster.

Though machines and setup are still very expensive, the raw materials in 3d printing can be very cheap compared to steel or aluminum. (And more advanced materials are available if you need greater structural integrity.)

Mills are significantly more dangerous than printers as well. Even with "advanced safety protocols" mills have heavy rotating components and very sharp cutters backed with powerful motors (otherwise they would be pretty worthless tools.) The products that come out of them often have sharp edges that need additional operations to clean up. Printers can get hot or pinch you and require respect, but I think they are significantly less scary.

I could see a world where 5-axis CNC mills were much more pervasive, but I don't see them in every garage.
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Nobody cared about my Show HN, so I'd say it's lukewarm.

And I'm pretty proud of my website, too.

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I currently run a startup here in Boulder. It's a wonderful community with the backing of TechStars (even get to work out of their offices sometimes). I'd recommend it if you'd like to get your feet wet in a smaller, closer knit community.

Can't speak for Austin yet, headed there in a month.
On the other side of the coin... illegal (free) streams are on the rise!

It is 2-3 times easier for me to watch free streaming NBA this season (and 2-3 times better quality) than it was for me last season.

I would love to pay for league pass if they didn't blackout every other game.
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Valid point. I'm putting this to the test, Monday evening.
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What company are you using?