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Hello from Philadelphia! I live and work quite near you, in center city. My economics and motives are likely rather different from yours, and/or from what you are used to seeing in most other people. Let me know the next time you feel like throwing away a project which might, in the right hands, still be viable. One man's trash is another man's treasure.

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I didn't mention my discussions with vendors because those conversations didn't go anywhere relevant.
wouldn't it be easier (and have the same effect) if you just wrapped 100 statements (or say 60 seconds) of delay-able INSERTS into a transaction with the correct isolation value set?

or use INSERT DELAYED and let the database do it itself.
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I suppose you are an exception then, because the traffic problems, at least here in Toronto, arise from a large majority of people who positively do not need a personal vehicle for their day-to-day activities.
Abstraction should never be something "bad", if today "common" people is able to develop a basic game in seconds with flash, then why don't you try to compete with big game companies? try to beat their graphics and their AI.

"Nowadays? Grab a Flash development tutorial and you can do in a week what I spent most of high school learning and doing."

Is like an electrical engineer complaining about assembler in favor of binary electrical pulses:

"Nowadays? Grab a programming tutorial and you can do in a week what I spent most of high school learning and doing."
Hey Tjerk, welcome on HN ;-)

You're right sometimes peaks can be coverage from other websites and drops can reveal a problem with a website however here it's no such case. It's pure seasonality, which is why I felt compelled to write about it :-)
I was in Melbourne for 3 months last year and was surprised at how car-centric it is. The road from Melbourne to Geelong has some of the worst traffic I've seen anywhere, including Los Angeles.
> I seriously doubt 77% of Comcast subscribers are ghosts like you, so I stand by my argument that Netflix is massively financially outgunned by Comcast.

I don't disagree but time is not on Comcast's side. Anyone who went to college in the 90s and younger is a huge threat to cable tv.
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Funny, I think my first program did exactly the same on the same hardware, back in, oh, 1969 at Claremont High in San Diego (the campus used for the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Had entirely forgotten that episode...
I personally stand there with them (or over Skype) and ask them to show me how they manage their keys.

Most devs know how to use ssh-agent. Those who don't are really excited to learn that they can increase security without an increase in effort.

Password uniqueness, on the other hand, is something that requires continuous effort. There's an ongoing temptation to reuse the strong password that they've memorized for my server in other locations.

Like most things in security, it's a matter of layering and balance. You layer your security, and you stop at the point where the added effort doesn't justify the added security. I view the progression like this

OK: Strong passwords

Better: SSH-key authentication (much harder to brute force, not susceptible to disclosure through third-party security disclosure)

Best: SSH-key authentication with passphrase (prevents unauthorized use of private key if stolen)

Insane: SSH-key stored on external drive with imaginary super-encryption
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I completely disagree with your, and partly for the same reasons you disagree with others. The local maxima you describe is something I hit early on, then got access to the university of Missouri while still in middle school. Being below average to average was a giant wake up call that pushed me more. When they connected to the Internet, the information and people available from that connectivity pushed me more. I'm likely never going to do anything that makes me world famous, but if I can be within a standard deviation of all the brilliant people that are only a sentence away, i'll be ecstatic.
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I read a summary that a redditor wrote maybe... a week back. It didn't seem that bad. What's the controversy?
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I don't have a citation for this because it's from memory, but I believe that a lot of the companies that go under in debt are actually subsidiaries of the studios themselves. It works out as a tax/debt write-off.
Aptitude handles package removal, especially orphaned dependencies much better. I think it's now included in the Debian base system, so there's very little reason to prefer apt.
> "There is nothing wrong with suburbanization, but we wouldn't have nearly the extent of suburbs that we have now if all transportation options were on equal footing."

This is basically what I'm thinking these days. Having suburbs is fine. What's really killing us, is the incredibly low density of those suburbs, caused by zoning and the hiding of transportation costs that subsidize that zoning.

It's the cul-de-sac neighborhoods and massive parking lots sitting idle 90% of the time that make suburbs unwalkable and impractical to service with public transport. If the suburbs themselves weren't so sparse, their residents wouldn't need to use their cars as much and transport options for getting into the city, or to neighboring suburbs would greatly alleviate traffic and increase freedom for those who can't drive, can't afford to drive or just would prefer not to.
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I still don't like what you did and I am sure you made plenty of developer/startup enthusiasts angry and that they would love to be in your shoes profitable. If it was profitable, it means it was sustainable, at least in short period of time. You didnt have to spend your time on it, you could hire a team and literally outsource entire project. You could easily sell it for 10x fold and score $1MM to use for you current or future projects. I assume your team worked hard on this, they should be rewarded monetary-wise as well. Not to mention if you had coming back customers, it means they liked or loved your service. Now you left them pissed. If you were concerned about lists (which is nice thing of you not just selling to spammers), and if a "large companies" truly approached you, I dont see a problem putting a statement in your sell paper how the new company will treat existing database of leads. I am sure if you would sell to Google, they wouldnt go wild and spam the heck out of each lead you had.
Yes, but that's how caffeine (not capitalized) is spelled in Russian and German also. "Tvit" seems to come from the Russian word, too.
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No, it is not less exciting today than 20 years ago. The excitement is not about technology - for me it never was. It's about being exposed to a very wide range of people, businesses, fields of study. Building applications across a broad range of business domains means that programming never becomes less exciting. I love programming for that reason. It's never the same.
So, if the government were to put money in to troubled businesses to prop them up or even create jobs, it gets heavily criticised. Its seen as socialist and evil. However, if the government criminalises its citizens to support a dying business, well, that's OK and all American, patriotic even. Protecting American jobs by criminalising Americans.

Have I missed something? I must have.

Surely, the government should be merely supporting the market forces of capitalism, and if the current form of Hollywood dies, well, isn't that exactly as it should be? All that will happen is that new business models will emerge.

Oh, I dunno. Too much interference, if you ask me. If "we" truly believe in capitalism, then why not sit back and let it do its thing? OK, so Warners or who ever goes bust. Well, wont all those people simply go out and start again, but in a different way? In fact, while the government supports the antiquated Hollywood, its is in fact holding back the natural progress.

Imagine if the government made moves to protect valves, and transistor possession was made illegal. Would we have still gotten the microchip? Well, it amuses me!!!
Very nice. I'm glad people are using their GPU's for something more productive than farming bitcoins.
I can't make that assumption. Any one of these crafts: direction, acting, editing, cinematography and soundtracking is always hard to find. You always had to wade through a mountain of garbage. The way most execs did it previously is through word of mouth. I don't believe that's changed today.
I agree. It's a great one but unfortunately lost among huge amounts of so-called "great methodologies".
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Perhaps I'm mistaken, but it doesn't seem that farfetched to me for authorities to seize someone's assets when they are arrested for allegedly participating in a criminal conspiracy.
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another thing to consider, Store.records is keeping everything in memory. Using only localstorage should save some memory (although it depends on the browser implementation)
I believe IBM was the first company to use GMR in hard drives.
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"just evidence that your interests are in the minority."

This evidence restated means that HN is not a Microsoft friendly place. OP just termed it as fanboys But I would rather call it Microsoft haters or Microsoft ignorants at least. Given that Microsoft is still a big enough name in the world of computing, this hate/ignorance can only be attributed to being fanboys/girls of other platforms/corporations.
It depends on your perspective. It's getting a lot of coverage and attention overseas where it should be. Here in the states, there's no impression of impending doom for the US-based Internet.

Also, SOPA / PIPA had a specific proposal that called for monkeying directly with DNS which raised obvious "break the internet" concerns.
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Does Anonymous's association net help or hurt the anti-ACTA position? And historically, did it help or hurt anti-SOPA/PIPA?

I generally took what they do as being emotionally gratifying but having zero real impact, but by giving the un-informed but not necessarily malicious (and potentially the intentionally malevolent spinsters) an easy way to justify onerous regulation, I think they may be hurting the causes they ostensibly back in the long-run.
What secret code are you referring to? To do a direct ACH transfer to someone, you need only an account #, and that's not a secret since it's on every check you give out.
looks like ACTA's potential enforcement on ISPs to implement content filtering can't be applied in EU countries that adopted http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_o...

Can't find an English source: http://goo.gl/sVQUN (translated from Polish)
also, I'm sure you meant minute in "Can take only 10 munites a day"
Great article, thanks for sharing. I would have loved more information about the acquisition process (maybe even including your initial email) because this is the most interesting part to me. I would also like to know where the final price settled between your initial offer and the 5x rebuttal (no need for actual price, just a reference).

On a side note, amazing job with the redesign. The new hittail landing page looks great. One thing I noticed however was that you have an extra checkmark on the last row of the pricing page that doesn't seem to correlate with anything. Done on purpose?
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As a matter of interest what have boards done? I'm abroad on a mobile and it's displaying as normal for me?
Im not even that sure acting and cinematography are essential. I know with web based TV type shows, the only thing I have cared about is the plot. An example is Pioneer One. Terrible production values, which is OK because it only cost $10k ish per episode, but the plot was interesting enough to keep watching.

OK, if I pay to go to the cinema to see a film I expect something a lot better, but then there is more cash coming it to cover that.

Anyway, my silly little point, is that a good plot and script can carry a hell of a lot of iffy production.
Rather than emulating Stanley Kubrik, I think young people armed with 5Ds want to make music videos, comedic shorts and skateboard films... all of which have improved to an amazing degree over the past decade. I'm not so sure startups changing financing for feature films will "kill Hollywood." The preference of the newer generation to watch shorter bits of content that don't require such financing in the first place, might.
Or don't use password based authentication...
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If by 'film backers' you're referring to the executive producers that pay money for the movie, I highly doubt they're stupid enough to fall for hollywood accounting and actually lose money. Their fee is in that $938 million somewhere.

More likely, the losses are probably for tax reasons or to screw over anyone involved in the film that signed a 'percent of net' rather than a 'percent of gross' deal.

EDIT: See link below for how wealthy individuals finance films because they WANT the film to lose money on paper. This gives them large tax deductions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_finance#Tax_schemes
If IBM didn't think that it would be awarded patents for work like this, why would they bother to do the research in the first place?
They said that they had 2TB in postgres not 2TB of total data. I imagine all of their data is probably about an order of magnitude larger. Additionally, the challenges are not as much around how much data you have, but how you want to access that data (indexes).
eh. I did it on purpose. I try to do what _I_ think looks different than most. Instead of making those sectional headlines a larger font or underlining them I decided to use strikethrough as I thought the little break from the conventional norm would be noted. Goal achieved, obviously. Sorry I decided to not be a complete sheep in the herd and do things the way EVERYONE ELSE does them. My bads, yo!
Yes, attaching a retracting security connector to a removable battery cover wasn't a particularly smart move.

I also noticed the Nokia knock-offs in the background. Though I'm not sure if any of the phones are built by the chip maker themselves as ODM samples or if they're provided by customers who've bought their chips.

There's another video here with a better look at the Nokia-alikes as well as the tablets they're powering and it's more obvious that they've gathered together products from a range of low end brands that they've sold chips to.

http://youtu.be/Hlm1VM_aF3k
Good point. On the other hand, localStorage access appears to block, sometimes quite a bit. I'll investigate some more.

It's a bit I inherited from Backbone.localStorage, and haven't looked into much.
This reminded me of a fun fact from an old professor's paper:
1/99007599 has a binary expansion of period 48993900.

http://www.math.ucsb.edu/~agboola/teaching/2005/winter/old-1...
Something doesn't add up here. It's like they bought a house, started renting it, and when being a landlord got boring, burned it down.

When you start a service and sign on customers, you take on a responsibility to keep that service going. Even if that means selling it or passing it on when you can't carry the torch yourself.
The source with real (readable) text, without annoying animation:

http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/01/08/math-notes-76/
You make it sound like its inevitable that Bing will be a huge success just because Microsoft can burn money. Its has made inroads, but my guess is that it has reached its peak.

I'm not counting on Microsoft giving up on its products - I just see them as patiently burning through cash (generated from its successful cash cows) without making a significant splash in mobile. Just because they can afford to throw away money doesn't mean that they'll be successful at all of their new ventures.

This isn't exclusively a Microsoft thing either. Look at Google and its multiple attempts at new products (Wave, Buzz, Google+). They can obviously afford it because of their own cash cow, search.
I'm not the biggest fan of w3 schools either but as it stands if someone is new to design in general, and doesn't fully grasp the concept of such html5 elements, then it stands to reason that they probably trust the definition given by W3.
errant view-port metatag left over from my last design, try again :)
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I've started using ShareJS[1] in a new app recently to handle real-time collaboration where conflicts are likely. It's spearheaded by an ex-Google Wave engineer and uses Operational Transformation principles to handle automatic merges.

I've been thinking for a little bit now that it would awesome to build a Backbone sync system that could cache things locally when the user is offline, then seamlessly handle bringing them back in sync with ShareJS.

[1] https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS
You can't do it ad absurdum, though, and have to put the line somewhere. That reminds me - in one Czech Onion-like fake news, there was an article about the architect union collecting money from every person who looks at buildings; the more buildings you see, the more you will pay.

You just have to draw the line somewhere and I think that pirating for personal use is fine.

I think it's reasonable to say that pirating for personal, non-commercial use (even when "non-commercial" is always vaguely defined) is fine.
If you haven't already, read up on the tragedy surrounding Edwin Howard Armstrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Howard_Armstrong)

Edwin invented FM radio which RCA saw as a threat to its AM empire (much like Edison saw Tesla's AC method of power distribution as a threat to DC). Edwin committed suicide after being bankrupted by RCA's legal onslaught. He never got to see FM radio become a success.
This site sounds interesting - will have to check it out.
damn leftover view-port metatag from my last design that was a Responsive design. try again
Yes, you are right. 20k is an approximate number.
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Well, I would argue that the traffic problems arise because of a failure on the part of city planners to design their roadways to accommodate the amount of traffic that they receive (not a problem unique to Toronto), but yes, the traffic problems would certainly be reduced if less people used vehicles.
Can anyone explain to me how 37signals got all the way up on the high, preaching horse? Aside from a handful of well designed web apps that are used primarily by web dev's and designers, what makes their wisdom worthwhile? I'm sure this will get down-voted into oblivion but I am genuinely curious.
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I disagree, a fair majority of developers fall within the INTP or INTJ classification of Myers-briggs. both of which like to analyze a situation before they would consider answering. Specifically, the INTJ classification is filtered heavily at the whiteboard because of their Judging trait. INTJ's know what they don't know, and if they don't they are going to stop to find a resource that can provide that portion of the answer. Due to the INT part of their profile, they are not going to look at anyone in that room as a potential authority for that answer and therefore they will feel research is needed. This can cause a situation in which an INTJ can basically lock-up. They know they don't know a portion of the answer, and they have none of the natural authorities to look to, to resolve the answer so that they can move on. This can happen on something as simple as forgetting an API method or the modulus operator.

No matter how much interviewers say they are just looking for solutioning, they are not being honest with themselves because when they see code that is not their style or they see someone make stupid mistakes (which we all do) on the whiteboard, it embeds in the mind. It such an overpowering signal that it outweighs all other evidence. An INT already knows this and would therefore prefer to present finished code, not how you get there, which finished code is all that really matters, you can walk them through how they arrived at the finished code, and they will have a far more competent answer because they are not trying to code and drag people along with them at the same time.

Even if a developer makes 20 mistakes, and uses the compiler/debugger to catch them, then fixes them, if the code that they are going to check in is always clean, is his process bad? on the whiteboard it is, but for me personally if said hypothetical coder never checked in a mistake, he would be my top pick. There are just too many failure points for me to recommend the whiteboard. I believe that they provide no use in an interview and I believe they hurt companies more that employees.

Organizations that utilize the whiteboard are doing themselves a disservice because they are setting introverted people up in a situation where a portion of them are naturally going to fail, in a situation that send such a strong false signal that all other evidence is negated. Then some of them are complaining that they cannot find talent. If a company is whiteboarding then they are filtering INTJ's out no two ways about it. As such, they are filtering out a lot of people that combine technical skills with creativity.
Hi from Mexico City.

Do you think you are living a "cars nightmare", then believe when I say this: "Never come here pals!".

Civic/Vial culture is absolutely absent. Public transport is a surreal dream, I would say... an adventure (not an enjoyable one).

"Urban planning" is not a known term for people on charge.

We are a troubled city in a troubled world.
I am pretty sure I have seen the exact same "trick" being used on sites here in the US - including Kayak, and Orbitz etc. So I don't think Cleartip in the only travel site that does this. And probablly that is how Cleartrip got the idea from. Also, not to defend this practice in any way, but did not the OP realize that the price of the seats was changing each time he increased the number of passengers.
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