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I think abstract tools like App Titanium are definitely the future too.

I've been coding for about 4 years and struggle to grasp Obj-C.

What do you have against App Titanium as a matter of interest?
I wonder if they could tastefully have a commercial with a LEGO Kennedy saying "I believe that these hobbyists should commit themselves to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a lego brick on the Moon and returning it safely to the Earth"

Imagine next decade when the Estes catalog has $10k kits for rockets that can get to the moon. Sadly I think Homeland Security Theater would prevent that but in a parallel dimension maybe.
But in the spirit of interdepartmental cooperation....
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In which number system is 8 odd?
I don't know whether to applaud or be scared without looking at the code.

The true test comes if and when you have to scale in 12 months.
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What sort of servers are they going into?

~ 13 servers with 4 sticks (64GB) each?
You seem to forget that it's not just Americans who consume Hollywood content. NetFlix is great in theory but it's not available to everyone and even when it is the selection can suck. As for 10+Mbps connections? I wish. I had dial-up 4 years ago. Some countries, even 'modernised' western ones, still have crappy telecomms infrastructure.
Yep - for now

We are evaluating the feasability of using symlinks (the problem being cross-platform execution).
He didn't do anything particularly offensive while running Microsoft. He shouldn't apologize. Competition on that big of a scale for that big of a prize should be very competitive, it should be painful and brutal. Gates didn't use a gun, he didn't use TNT to kill his competition, he didn't use the government to do it either.

Oh no, the big company competed very much so harshly.

And much like IBM before Microsoft, a new big nasty company came along and made them barely relevant. Now we have Google, Apple, Facebook, all giants that are nasty in their own ways.

Who gives a shit. In another ten years, the world will be turned upside down again. You should be thanking Gates for stepping up to the plate and competing as he did. It's no different than the way Apple or Google or anybody else competes, and it's a good thing.
This post made me think of this article:
http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/2011/10/thoughts-on-p...

For those who don't know, Travis Oliphant is the creator of NumPy and(?) SciPy.

It's a good read and it puts some of the issues with a port into perspective.
FWIW, the URL I submitted points to a file on Scott Aaronson's personal website... I'm not sure how the scribd link was added to the title.

UPDATE: HTML version available here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/journal.html
Wow, that's a nice first post to launch PluggdIn TV. Congratulations team. IMO, apart from interviews etc, product showcases on the TV product might be a good idea too.
Even among startups, web scale data requirements are the exception, not the rule. Facebook and Google are ginormous. There are many, many very impressive applications whose database wouldn't tax a single commodity server. (Similarly, there are applications that make terrible businesses but which consume computing resources like losing a byte of information would doom humanity.)

I mean, go through a list of YC companies or other startups you respect, winnow it down to the ones that exited or otherwise achieved some level of success, and play guess-the-size. How many terabytes of storage do you think e.g. Airbnb needs?
Pfft ... We were testing RHEL 6 on machines with 2 and 4 TB of RAM (in a single machine) the other day.

They have lots of cores and are very NUMA.
Hopefully you know about ACTA by now. TPP is worse.
I would never go away from running releases, its fantastic I have my laptop since quite some years now and since I did the install I never had a real problem with keeping it going.
illico is definitely more readable than Illico.
> Put Bluetooth Low Energy radios in the next iPhone.

Not sure this is what you meant, but the iPhone 4S already has a Bluetooth Low Energy radio and an API to control it (CoreBluetooth).
"Unless and until the tech industry can do this, and help develop new ways for artists to empower themselves, the self-righteousness will backfire, the way it did for musicians who railed for generations against the powers that be and are now left with

I'm also a musician and software developer but I don't agree that there are "less employment opportunities in the industry than at any time in the last 100 years." That is just ludicrously false. You're saying that, in the Great Depression, to pick an obvious example, times were better and easier for musicians? Or during World War I? Or WWII?

Sorry - I think this is the golden age for being an artist. Never before has it been so easy to record and distribute. I can self-record as many albums as I want today for $3000 worth of pro-sumer level gear. I can print physical copies of the CDs for $1.50-$2 each and sell them for $10 at shows or make $7 by selling them online. I can sell digital copies for $0 upfront cost to me. I can have a free website with any number of sites. I can post my events on Facebook at no charge.

I'm sorry - I 100% disagree with you here.
"...russian-doll architecture of nested caching that I’ll write up in detail soon."

The details will be interesting, but that description sounds like a headache waiting to happen.
What time were you going to sleep before and now? I'd be interested to see a followup in 6 months or so to see if you manage to keep it up.
Something the article mentions, but bears repeating, it that Arch has an excellent wiki on just about every component you're likely to use. So for those fearful of having to set everything up yourself, the wiki will be your savior.
If I'm a 6 foot white guy with blond hair and blue eyes with the name bin Laden, I would expect some funny looks and nothing more.

Names - particalarly short ones - are not what you might call unique identifiers.

It's idiotic to match on names like rte.exe.
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20 years?

In 20 years there will be very few bookshops. There will be a few niche "artisan" booksellers, which serve only old fogeys and whatever Hipsters will be called in 20 years time.
In earlier versions it was just a lack of polish- I looked maybe a year ago, and their include function required you to use different paths depending on whether you were on iOS or Android, tableviews had memory leaks- that sort of thing.

It seems like they have a lot of that sorted now, but after buying Aptana are now mandating Eclipse as the only environment for developing and debugging apps, which I find disappointing. And Eclipse isn't exactly newbie-friendly, either.
Every single point in that article made complete sense, and yet it left me feeling even more convinced of Javascript's insanity.
No, because boiling the equivalent amount of water is the key energy required in distillation, which will also desalinate the water. It's unclear if this is actually in fact, much of a win.
This is not "WHY", this is "HOW exactly". I bet the reason why JavaScript has these behaviors is due it being developed as a browser scripting language. Authors didn't want the entire script terminating because some part of it was buggy. This could have been handled by some clever isolation and error-recovery mechanism, but it wasn't. Probably due to time constraints.

These kinds of things are one of the reasons why I really don't like the idea of everything (including server-side and standalone apps) being written in JavaScript.
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Slackware isn't rolling release, though, is it?
I'm not sure what you are getting at here. The word is originally Greek (ἀπόκρυφα) and means "those hidden away" - in common usage it can refer to accounts that are not part of the "official story," such as the Bible's Apocrypha.

There are other meanings as well which cast doubt on the authenticity of the story (not surprising actually when you consider the Bible's Apocrypha's relationship with the Church.) Here are the 2 definition OED gives:

1. A writing or statement of doubtful authorship or authenticity; spec. those books included in the Septuagint and Vulgate versions of the Old Testament, which were not originally written in Hebrew and not counted genuine by Jews, and which, at the Reformation, were excluded from the Sacred Canon by the Protestant party, as having no well-grounded claim to inspired authorship.

2. [As in Greek] Hidden things; secrets. rare.
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Those must be ECC prices.

16GB DDR3 is "only" $100, that would make non-ECC $5400

ah okay, ECC is $175, so 175 * 3 * 18 = $9450
Facebook: "…use more than 800 servers supplying over 28 terabytes of memory to our users." (http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=39391378919)

The scale of a memcached cluster doesn't really say anything about the scaling abilities of their underlying stack.
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You never worked in retailing, right?

We call it "understanding the customer mindset" and is something that every small business owner in retail does intuitively. When formalized, organized and budgeted it is called marketing.

The difference is that small business owners in retail usually have better social skills than software developers and, therefore, are way more accepting of people's flaws.
Belittling others' successes is bad form and indicative of a a sense of entitlement and superiority.

Oink is interesting and beautiful, Kevin Rose is smart and decent. Your app is neither and you sound bitter. It is not surprising to an objective observer that you were ignored.

A little more humility might allow you to learn some lessons here.
I've been using Arch for the last 7-8 months and I think my love affair with it has already peaked.

Everything written here is true re: learning about Linux, having more control, straightforward architecture, bleeding edge software, etc.

But the instability factor eventually will bite you in the ass, and per Murphy's Law, often at the worst possible time. It's happened to me twice in this time span.

My solution is to use a separate data partition for all my files and install Arch and a more stable distro (Mint in my case) in different partitions. Both OSs link to the data partition and grab dotfiles and things from a git repo.

Arch is my preferred environment, with a tiling WM and everything painstakingly set up for my preferred workflow. But when it crashes, I can still use my workstation to get stuff done, and go about troubleshooting when I have free time.
Exactly. As horrible as it is, sharepoint rules this area and probably has an install base that dwarfs base camp. When the average corp person thinks project and file management they think sharepoint.
Its best (for most hackers) to work at night through to the early morning. Zen. 1am - 8am. Then you go to sleep, wake up after lunch and do it again.

Get your diet together so you don't need too much sleep :).
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With counties bringing in even more restrictions on free speech which contradict each other this will be fun. Take the Armenian genocide for example. Denying it will be a crime in France, but claiming it happened can lead to charges of "insulting Turkishnes" in Turkey (the charges were later dropped against Orhan Pamuk).
I had a look at it too, and from a design standpoint it looks very nice. I am not sure about your choices for project budget. For example, this description was posted for bids:

Need Drupal developer to: - do PSD/HTML to Drupal theme for one new section on the existing site. - Do additional module programming. - fix issues/error on the site - Make the entire site work

With a stated budget of $100--$300. I mean come on, that's ridiculously naive on the part of the person who posted. If you could give bid-seekers some guidelines on what to reasonably expect, e.g. some examples of what a budget of $100-$300 might buy, it would help people get qualified bids.
- the arch wiki and community is really solid for bare naked yet simple linux knowledge. (gentoo wiki is my fallback)

- The arch way tends to attract users with strong|alternative ideas, IMHO they're a big part in the revival of tiling wm.

- Today I switched to nixos though.
Probably odd as in weird.
The big advantage of Make of course is that you can assume it is basically everywhere.

I have just looked at tup, and it looks interesting, except I don't really understand why the auto-dependancy only kind-of works. If building X.c uses header.h, and header.h is created by script.sh, why do I have to tell tup about that ordering? Why can't it just see it has to run script.sh to get header.h, before building X.c?
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I started using Arch about eight months ago, when Ubuntu didn't have the latest ATI and Xorg packaged so I could use EyeFinity + 3 monitors. At the time, I was very sad to leave my comfy Debian/Ubuntu roots.

After struggling a little with the initial setup, I got everything in place, and it has just worked since then. Breakage from upgrades has been no worse than Ubuntu, and my Python work hasn't been disturbed at all.

For those who don't mind rolling up their sleeves and just RTFM'ing it, this is a great distro.
I think your analogy is not quite right. Although seemingly similar, inserting Arsenic into DNA would be like taking a very large and complicated piece of software that was fundamentally dependent on the precise API of a component, and then changing that API to make it largely incompatible, thus requiring a large piece of your software to be re-written. It is not just like swapping in a suboptimal component that has no downstream effects.
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The idea that business is or should be amoral is wrong. Business, and corporations in particular, exist and have the leeway they do because it is generally believed the good outweighs the bad, on the balance. By saying "we have no reason to have any scruples" you are veering into "no longer beneficial to society on the whole" territory. While I believe there is definitely value provided by finance (duh), some things they engage in clearly are self serving and detrimental to an orderly society. Bundling toxic mortgages and selling them to people under the guise "if they're stupid enough to buy them then it's their own fault" is wrong really no matter how much one waves his hands, yells "capitalism" and tries to act like they are doing it for some legitimate reason.
I read the article and groaned. My days of "tweak it until it works, just for fun" are pretty much past me (I'm typing this on a Mac, for instance). I like to spend my energy creating things these days.

But Arch seems really cool if you want to rebuild Linux systems for fun & knowledge!
That was my experience too. I switched to Debian from Arch a half year ago or so and I've spent far less time maintaining it; and once I'm used to "the Debian way" I can navigate new packages without having to think about it. And updates don't break my system or fail to deploy, and 'python' isn't a symlink for 'python3.2'.

I also reported a major security vulnerability in the default configuration of an Arch package but I had to reopen it because the maintainer said something stupid like "people who install this package should operate on trusted networks". What?
Ok. Our joke might have been lost in translation - we actually think KR is very smart.
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I've yet to see a large company that wasn't illegal, immoral, or anti-competitive by the utopian-fairy-nerd standard.

That standard is more immoral than anything Microsoft ever did. It requires companies to kill themselves once they achieve too great a level of success.
Interesting. The official logo seems to have rounded eyes -- good intentions I suppose. However... http://50.57.81.138/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/new_ninja_blo...
Of llambda's 10 most recent submissions, three have the exact same pattern. Two more have do-nothing query strings.

Perhaps there's some other explanation, but much the most likely seems to be: When llambda finds something already submitted, s/he modifies the URL and submits again. Please don't do that, llambda: the dupe filter is there for a reason.
Designers: "No, 'kind of roundish' doesn't tell me what you want."

Editors: "This is a paragraph. Publishers usually want a few hundred pages."

IT: "No, we probably can't run [important software] off your office computer and save money."
"Sending your friends/family/colleagues a link on MegaUpload (or similar) was essentially putting a paywall between them and the file you actually wanted to give them."

However, if you want to transfer a large file to someone, and are not technically savvy enough to have Dropbox, FTP, or some other hosting, you'd probably Google how to send a file, and services such as MegaUpload and Yousendit would be the top results.

The services are biassed to make things as easy as possible for the uploader (free, no sign up required, just enter recipient's email address, redirect to subscribe page after), who is unlikely to take into account the things done to make things a little harder for the downloader (delayed download, premium paywall, throttled free service). For clients who have neither the budget nor the wits to pay for the premium service or their own hosting, the free service worked fine for occasional use.
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The community has become quite aggressive and elitist lately, they now remind me of the days of gentoo.
I agree.

Glancing through the instructions, it looks like things might have got better than when I installed arch linux around 6 months ago. At the point I felt like installation involved a lot of carefully designed "busy work", which I couldn't imagine not wanting to do, but which had to be done exactly.

The reason I left is because of their incredibly bizarre choice to make /usr/bin/python run python3, and messing headers around so much you couldn't build gcc from source. Between these two features, it made the system basically unusable for me.
Read the comments from Skeletor in this thread, who works for DrCrono and made these claims.
Does it has an iPhone or android app?
I think you can do something like "All in one" social box!
I really need it!
Microsoft during the late 80s and 90s was famous for its ruthlessness and the way it exploited and crushed its competition. I wouldn't say "Jobs is the nasty one and Gates is the nice one"
they'll never lose your data

Amazon is not saying it, but EBS is probably lying when doing an fsync().

In this post [1] explaining why Reddit was down, one problem was that the DB slave got ahead of the master, with the most probable explanation being that the master flagged the data as being safe for replication, before committing it to disk and I trust PostgreSQL more than I trust EBS.

In this forum answer Amazon is giving about this potential problem [2], they are dodging the question by saying that fsync() guarantees durability for instance failures, but not for volume failures, with the anual failure rate (AFR) being given as 0.1% - 0.5% for volumes (how accurate that is, it remains to be seen).

So EBS is probably lying about fsync's success, especially since the behavior of fsync in virtual environments is always a surprise. So you can definitely lose your data more frequently than if you had your own hardware.

[1] blog.reddit.com/2011/03/why-reddit-was-down-for-6-of-last-24.html
[2] https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=27590
"Microsoft only stopped being evil once Gates left"

Having worked there and talked to the employees, I'd blame the consent decree more than Gates leaving. But I'm curious what your sources are.
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I thought 37signals website has videos of "satisfied" users? and some of them don't seem to be "tech" and "startup". Probably small businesses, but I don't think we can lump all "small businesses" == "startups"
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Isn't this overly complicated? wouldn't you gain more features by using virtual machines instead?
No I do not feel comfortable sharing with your servers.

Are you really free software? Give me the (server) software.

For $25 I can get a simple server and Ill use it.
It feels like he's describing installing Linux (any distribution) around 1997-1998. A bit complex, lots of manual setup, etc. Not terrible, and it has its benefits for sure, but it feels a tad like a step back.
Until recently, Sweden basically had an aristocratic caste consisting of the inner party of the Social Democrats, the labor leaders, the head editors of the major newspapers, etc. Basically a clique of people doing deals behind closed doors and having their own shared mythology/worldview as well as exclusive channels to the populace.

This appears to be what Stieg Larsson touched on in his "Dragon" (U.S. title) / "The Girl..." books. For example, his partner (in various senses), Erika, is described as 'upper class' and coming from a privileged background.

Is Larsson's descriptive language the same sort of thing you're describing?

One reason I enjoyed those books: Some feeling for the contemporary setting and society.
Sure. The point being that people can understand, at least on a basic level, that sort of obscure and indirect service.

This guy's service could be described as dealing with random craigslist sellers for you, who can be quite a hassle if you get unlucky.
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Sounds like a less stable/predictable version of FreeBSD.
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Arch for my web server and could not be happier. I prefer the bleeding edge packages and the simplicity. I also learned a ton by having to dive into my config files and launch scripts in more detail. I can imagine for a desktop though it could get overwhelming.
This is possibly another bubble.

Most programmers probably work at either BigCo enterprises (banks, insurance companies, telcos etc) or at "startup" type tech businesses or freelance agencies.

There are other industries that contain a lot of small businesses and probably employ very few programmers, think restaurants , local shops , small law or accountancy practices etc.

These guys probably aren't using sharepoint, most of them are probably using excel spreadsheets combined with paper.

I'm not sure how many of these guys are using things like basecamp but they a lot of them probably should be.
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