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And how it works after that? USPS just return mail to sender with no questions asked? I recently bought a house and also receiving bunch of mails. Once - check for few hundreds of some refund from some utility company. Thanks I had contact info of previous tenant, so I could mail it to him (never got a thanks letter :))
Low carb makes you think about food plenty. I never thought I could crave so much a piece of bread. Admittedly, I was going for ketosis so it was a bit extreme low-carb.
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I certainly don't like to go around spouting nonsense, so I spent some time looking for formal definitions of concurrency. I wasn't able to find any support for the description you provided, though. Do you have a source?

FWIW, Wikipedia seems to believe that "concurrency is a property of systems in which several computations are executing simultaneously, and potentially interacting with each other".

Regardless, sorry if sloppy (or poorly defined) terminology obscured my point.
I don't think you really need to be friendly for an empty repo for users who can't admin the repo.
> As a bonus, some of them let you make it * paralleled* with the same syntax.

JavaScript is single-threaded, so parallelism within a single JS VM is not possible.
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From what I understand, all spam in mailboxes appear from cooperation of USPS with advertisers, since most ads do not have any address stamped on it. So it looks like USPS actually distribute spam.
Upvoted for "truculent".
Switching to another provider seems like postponing things. Yes, the other corporation/organization might not have the same range of products and thus not the incentive/benefit from cross-checking your content, but there's still room for abuse (employees), and even if your leave your mail underneath the wings of angels, they still might get hacked.

Sure, setting up your own mail server incurs that same risk, and the professionals at the corporation might know a bit more about security, but on the other hand you present a much smaller target, and the software tends to be pretty stable/secure.

So hosting your own seems to be a common option. I think that probably means a basic Linux/Postfix/Dovecot setup for IMAP access, and maybe some web frontend. I don't know anything really good for the latter (besides gmail, I don't know anything good commercially, either), and it probably means installing more software on the server, which adds security risks. (Is there a third party web-based IMAP client who doesn't store anything locally and basically does everything via JavaScript?)

If anyone got a good hosting recommendation, I think that would be helpful. Most VPS offers might run into storage limitations, so something as modular as AWS might be needed.
While this article has some good points, I feel it's advice on how to advertise is misguided. Why does a government mandated monopoly waste money advertising?

Every time USPS asks for a rate increase I can't help but wonder how much they spent on Lance Armstrong or the other advertising campaigns.

Make your service efficient and reliable, that's your job. You haven't been glamorous since the pony express days (I know thats a myth).

I want my mail to be reliably delivered at a good price. I don't want you to be slick or hip.
looks like it has a lot of similarities (philosophically) with Google's Closure Library:

http://code.google.com/closure/library/

The latter's compability with the advanced mode of the closure compiler make it more appealing to me though.
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I agree about the anecdotes. I'm sure the experiences are varied.

I'm thinking more big picture. How much mail will my 17 month old send or receive via the postal service when he's in junior high? High school? College?

I see the USPS becoming less and less relevant during his lifetime.
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Isn't there a website that ranks not the restaurant, but a particular dish at a restaurant?
I think programmers also tend to overestimate how little code you need to learn to contribute massive value. I've posted on this before, but learning how to automate excel scripts, use autohotkeys, or do some basic data analysis can easily be huge wins for the average office worker.
I'm not sure what this has to do with my question. What you linked to has nothing to do with either Google or email.
Is the argument that they have enough money and thus shouldn't make more?
This is absolutely true for the first movie, I wonder how much it applies to the seventh. I think Daniel Radcliffe would have a not of negotiation power in discussing salary for Harry Potter 7 part 2; there's a bit of a hold up problem. Also there's more than one studio and they do compete for talent, although you always have to look out for gentlemen's agreements a la Apple.
The average contract revenue for an iPhone user is around $2,000 ($100x24 months, give or take).

The average subsidy for iPhones is more like $450 per phone (thus the Apple unlocked price of $600+ for unsubsidized phones).

15% of contract value to subsidize the hardware doesn't seem that bad. I wonder how much cable companies pay for set-top boxes, Vonage with free VOIP adapters, etc.
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>> I feel like these Benefit and Flexible Purpose Corps are more about allowing companies to be publicly traded without having to play this game through setting social expectations than through real structural differences.

As someone who works at what was, until Patagonia, probably the largest B-Corp around, I'll comment on this.

Yes the idea is that with these legal designations and social/environmental charters written in to the company by-laws it will allow for, someday, a B-Corp to go public and not have to change the way it operates. The oft-cited example of "what went wrong and why we need this" is Ben & Jerry's.

When Ben & Jerry's was bought by Unilever in 2000 the new ownership shut down a handful of their social programs and stopped sourcing products from local farmers, among other changes. Other companies were concerned about that happening to them in the future, and thus B-Labs.
Well, I only glanced at their current offering, missed the VMware part. My request was mostly wishful thinking.

I.e. instead of VMware it'd be more useful for us to hook in with a FUSE-layer or a patched variant of a filesystem such as GlusterFS.

You're of course correct about the pricing. Their current prices cover some middle-ground but would need to be discounted to make it feasible for larger deployments. However, at the low-end (your 20T figure) the price seems already justifiable when you factor in staff and infrastructure costs (rack+power alone make up for half of the difference).
> Devil's advocate: would Wheaton be speaking out in this way if he were more successful actor?

How successful? Courtney Love also complained about this ages ago:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml

And Wikipedia also has a whole list of lawsuits over it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

For example, on paper, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix lost $167 million dollars. How bad is that? Well:

"Order of the Phoenix is the unadjusted 15th highest-grossing film of all time, [...] The film opened to a worldwide 5-day opening of $333 million, fourth all-time, and grossed $939 million total [...]"

But you have a point. The people who aren't that successful can't afford to rock the boat. But the people who are successful have less incentive to want to, because it no longer affects them as badly. They can demand cash up front and worry less about the alleged financials of the work.
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I receive bunch of scam letters in to my mailbox. One looked like official gov printed notification and started with words "You might be subject for 5 years in prison" and then smaller letters "if you prevent delivering this mail". And then actual ads - extend warranty of your car..

Same goes about "won tickets to cruise" with phone number where they offer you to buy something...

So in this regard USPS is not better then email. It is just happened that sending bio hazardous stuff is expensive through snail mail..
"My last 1BR (in SOMA, on a rough block but the apartment was perfectly nice) was $1100, and another 125 for parking."

I haven't seen a rent like that in SOMA since 2008...at least, not anywhere that I'd consider safe. There are some bedbug-ridden firetraps in down near 6th, but there's a limit to what I'm willing to sacrifice for cheap rent. And I'm saying this as a guy who lives in a not-so-great part of SOMA....

Rents have gone up. Decent 1BR rents land at around $2,000, even in inconvenient/less-than-great locations. There seems to be this general delusion/denial trend regarding San Francisco rents, when they're easily verified by going to craigslist. It's an expensive place to live, and that's the greater point -- $70,000 isn't making anyone wealthy in San Francisco. It's enough to have a comfortable single-20-something lifestyle, and maybe put a bit of cash away for retirement if you live frugally.
We're working on a bunch of cross-platform widgets as part of the continued development of Enyo 2.0. This means porting over the widgets from 1.0, giving them a fresh style, and making sure they work as many places as possible.
For one, you don't have a MAC. This means an attacker can flip arbitrary bits in your message. There's a huge difference between crypto primitives and a crypto system.

(It seems like it should be possible to devise a non-algorithmic MAC using a second pad. But now we're back in theory-land.)
There is no such thing as an objectively "accurate" search result. It's all relative to the question in your head.
Ask HN: Why do big companies rarely hire people with 0 yrs experience as a VP?
I've been looking at some job ad's for positions which say "Director" or "Vice President" or some high level management. They always mention they are looking for someone with 10+ years experience,a resume the size of dictionary, and so forth. They never seem to be looking to hire anyone with 0 years experience but with a ton of motivation to try something new. Any idea why?

Companies like this spend billions of dollars to acquire companies with a culture which do the complete opposite of what they do. If they only spent those dollars starting a few divisions and putting a few "start-up" leaders there, they might create something cool. However, that rarely happens. Why?

Starting an "entrepreneurial" division in most big companies is insanely difficult. Why won't they allow that? Dollar for dollar, it would probably be cheaper if they create their own then buying successful startups.
Thanks for sharing this. Definitely good point on the SimTower comparison.
First, thanks for the honest critique. It really helps me improve. :)

I confess to linkbaiting a little with the title. Where we are now isn’t utterly broken, but the way we think about programming can always improve, and this is one direction I can envision improvement. Also, I wanted to tie it in to the article I was referencing.

Performance is obviously important, but it’s a large topic and I didn’t have strong enough examples on hand to make the point I want to make. I’ll definitely go into more detail on that point in a future article. The gist is that high-level languages don’t need to sacrifice performance if they are constructed in such a way that the program contains enough meaning for the compiler to intelligently optimise it, a property which existing languages tend to lack.

And if I may say so, I hope to prove you wrong too! ;)
No matter how environmental the paper is, sending paper to people who don't want it is a huge waste of resources.
I love the arrogance of "it's all about giving the users more relevant results." Its not about that at all, its all about the maximization of advertising which is totally different. I'm not the typical user, I have divorced myself from all Google products, and use adblocker and ghostery to prevent trackers. Before doing all this, since I'm interested in bicycles and talk about bicycles, Google would push the same bicycle ad in my face on every site I visited. I made a mental note never to purchase anything from that site. This is nothing but evil masked as "were doing this for the user."
Right. All of Google's cookies are now blocked on my browser.
(It might be possible to devise a non-algorithmic MAC using a second pad, hmm.)

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"EDIT: as far as including Twitter/FB goes, Eric Schmidt addressed this"

Not to the satisfaction of many people. I don't need FB or Twitter or G+ results but it seems clear to me that:

(1) if subject X is more active by far on network Y, then even partial results results including network Y are better (read: "more relevant") then results only showing network Z.

(2) Most subjects are more active by far on Twitter or FB then they are on G+.

(3) Results only showing G+ therefore are inferior to more inclusive but partial results from FB/Twitter.

LONG EDIT:

I guess even given the above we'd have to consider whether results that only include network Z are better then results that include no network.

Google's case apparently is that it does, and that, while better worlds may exist where FB and Twitter sign deals, what Google delivers today is better for the user then what it delivered a few weeks ago.

The skeptical counterargument is that this just amounts to favorable placement for Google's product. Imagine if Google launched a Flickr clone tomorrow with very few users and suddenly on GIS's a quarter of the top results were reserved for Google's Flickr clone. Why bother earning a higher page rank the right way when you can just host your images with Google's services and get a free SERP boost? That is exactly what Danny Sullivan talked about although he used video for his example.
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Out of curiosity, would you be able to break down your monthly expenses(rent, food, entertainment, etc...)? Always looking for ideas on trimming my budget and understanding how low it can go in the various categories.
130k for an entry-level product manager. Whew.
But Steam is a DRM platform, so that's not entirely relevant. They do try really hard to provide value and convenience to the customer, but they haven't stepped back from the DRM position.
Could you possibly ask for telecommuting for part of the week? Then you can use it to improve your Java (and other skills) on projects that could benefit the company.
Great, so they just know that there are more vulnerabilities in their own optimized engine, still they use it in their own browser. At the same time they ban anything else on the system, claiming that it promotes security. Doesn't sound convincing to me at all. Meaning, that if I, as user will find a more secure browser - I won't be able to use it, since it's banned on pretense that it'll compromise security (hypothetically, not that I use iOS as a user anyway).
> "This is how everyone should accumulate pensions"

Probably. Yet this is the only group that is required to. And they've been required to make up the difference under a very short timeframe. Should every pension fund be given only 10 years to correct the situation?

> "Congress anticipates that the Post Office will, if allowed to do that, report "The Post Office is profitable on its own revenues and receives no support from the federal government" reliably every year until their pension fund implodes with a 13 figure uncovered liability."

And why is the Post Office singled out for this concern?
Are other government profit centers treated the same way? Perhaps the Patent Office?
What's the model for contributing patches going to look like? With GitHub projects, the usual method is to create a fork, do some work, and send in a pull request with a descriptive note. If it's easy to contribute, more people will do it; this is one of the big reasons why so many people are fans of GitHub.

Will contributing to the projects mirrored here be that easy?
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This is to javascript as rails is to ruby. (that might not be the best analogy, but better than bootstrap) While there is a UI portion, the reason it does not exist right now is because it's not meant to be solely a UI framework, such as Bootstrap. I don't think comparing it to bootstrap is, by any stretch of the imagination, reasonable. In fact, there shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't use Enyo in conjunction with bootstrap.
Oh, man. I use Linux for my day job but keep a Windows 7 install should the need arise. An old friend sent me a link to try out a video game he and a buddy made in college. I downloaded the program, Norton deletes it immediately. It didn't recognize the application signature. (Actually, it recognized it but it wasn't popular enough -- about 100 people had apparently downloaded this game that also used Norton.) After dicking around with Norton for about 30 minutes (nearly drowning in a sea of check boxes and vaguely titled program options), and reaching the boundaries of my Google-fu I just gave up and removed Norton.

Problem solved.

I'm glad I'm not a startup or small company trying to ship Windows executables.
All of this. False positives are horrible for both antivirus companies and their customers, and great care is typically taken to avoid them.

Not to mention that if you start alerting the user too much, they'd start tuning out the alerts; that becomes a big problem if and when they're infected with something.
How are 'relevant' and 'accurate' different in this case? (serious question)

For example if I search for "python books" I get results about books teaching the programming language. I'm a programmer and this makes sense in that it is both 'relevant' and 'accurate'.

If my girlfriend does the same search she gets books about snakes. She is a biologist so it is again both 'accurate' and 'relevant'.

The problem arrises if she gets results about programming because she does not know or care about it. It is technically 'accurate' but now the product is useless to her.

Look at the Wikipedia article for "python". There are too many uses for the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python
I don't run anti-virus, the cons are too big and it's not actually a good protection over just taking common sense precautions. I've only been bitten by infections on 2 occasions over 20+ years, and anti-virus wouldn't have helped with either.
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This guy doesn't know much about javascript, I am guessing. I made some gists that take his code and add minimal changes to it, that fix the problems he complains about:

"Two different code paths, can't do DRY" really?
https://gist.github.com/1678395

"Oh noo, I can't return the results because they are async". That's what callbacks are for. You know what you CAN do? Do I/O in parallel that's what! Node makes it easy.
https://gist.github.com/1678415

Anyway I hope this illustrates the point. The guy says it exactly right in one place:
"Once you get your head around thinking in async terms, node.js starts to actually make a lot of sense." And therefore it is not a giant step backwards.

There are more elegant ways to write this (see http://qbix.com/plugins/Q/js/Q.js) but these are just minimal changes to his own code.
As a web developer I have typically argued in favor of write once, execute everywhere robust web apps being the future of mobile interaction. Having built websites and apps designed to work well on mobile however, this typically leads to a stream of constant headaches trying to accommodate for the myriad of different mobile browsers and features each support/allow.

Similar to the way that different desktop browsers each roll out new feature support, and often times support features in completely different ways (CSS transparencies/gradients anyone?) mobile browsers have even slower and more varied support for features and interaction control. This problem with desktop browsers has kept most web developers and firms I work with from integrating the latest and greatest HTML5/CSS3 features in all their sites, because there is a huge handicap in trying to optimize for so many different platforms as each evolves on its own timeline.

Even though writing the same app to work well in both iOS and Android is a HUGE undertaking, the advantage is you are only writing your application to meet two different sets of API specifications. Even better yet since mobile devs are typically either iOS OR Android experts you can potentially have two different teams of devs working on the platform they know best instead of having one html team constantly striving to make your application work well (or at all) in a dozen different commonly used mobile web browsers.

I applaud Facebook for their efforts to build out a really great looking mobile web app that does look an awful like their mobile apps, but has anyone watched someone who doesn't know (or care) about the difference between a native app and mobile web app use it? I got a fairly tech-savvy family member a kindle fire recently and it comes pre-installed with a shortcut to the Facebook mobile web app because the native app is not available in the amazon marketplace. Watching over their shoulder I was amazed to see how frustrating the experience was for them when the querystring gets corrupted at certain points and all they are left with is a PHP whitescreen of death. No loading symbol, no ability to get out of the corrupted state the browser got itself into, and generally the user was left with no idea why this wasn't working as nicely as their Facebook app on iOS/Android that looks exactly the same.

At the end of the day I now lean more toward the side of mobile apps continuing to be more efficient and effective for apps that require lots of interaction with the user even if you could technically implement all those interactions in a browser. The relative simplicity of only having to code for two platforms instead of 12, and simultaneously providing your users with a more responsive experience is definitely worth it.
Node is concurrent. libuv spawns threads and uses unix and windows APIs to read files, and pass messages back to the main JS thread when tey're done. So while your JavaScript code only runs in one thread, threads are used under the hood, making it concurrent.
I always turn off Java on the browsers I use. It's a HUGE security hole that allows for drive-by infections and the cost of not having java applet support is something I can very much live with.
Point made. No business wants to hire someone into that sort of role who does not understand why they would not want to hire someone with 0 years experience.

There is more to it than having ideas.

Hiring someone who has no idea how to do the job would mean waiting months to detect that, firing them and then starting to look all over again. Complete waste of time.
Instead of answering my questions, you have just copy-pasted more speculation and hyperbole from an opinion piece written by just another blogger. What I am trying to do here is get people to actually think logically about these things, not just take everything they hear from the tech-blog echo chamber and accept it as fact.
Search "income inequality crime rates" and there are lots of scholarly articles out there discussing it.

Starting with Wikipedia...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality

Daly et al. 2001.[49] found that among U.S States and Canadian Provinces there is a tenfold difference in homicide rates related to inequality.
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Theoretically processing power "doubles" every two years by Moore's law. It better be that fast!