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It's interesting how much noise there is around MapReduce. I'm working as CTO of a start-up with a very large dataset (terabytes) where we need to do quite complex queries across the dataset and very quickly.

Naturally we are taking a distributed approach to the problem since hardware is cheap and relatively easy to coordinate via software.

We decided to go our own way using a mixture of some databases and raw file system access with our own application coordinating both the cluster of machines and performing the queries themselves after performing extensive benchmarking of everything.

We looked closely at Hadoop and came to the conclusion that MapReduce was just the wrong architecture for our problem. Its performance was horrible.

The moral of this story is that MapReduce is interesting, but that doesn't prevent you from having to actually test algorithms and make an informed choice. Just because Google's using it doesn't mean it's a panacea.
Visual Studio 2008 with client-side debugging is pretty darn good. I use that along with firefox/firebug and have found the two to be comparable. Microsoft has done a pretty good job with the javascript debugging.
I'd like to see the Trademark Application for this. Is it public record?
I mean, he certainly didn't start this, so where is this claim coming from?
After I've exhausted all the usual suspects (google, newsgroups, etc.), I'll take a nap. I now do it on purpose and it's amazing how often I wake up with the answer in my head.
That's interesting. Could you be more specific about the numbers?

Are these workdays? This would be the equivalent of 5 months. Or are they calendar days, which make it a little more than 3 months?

Do they have to take the break after 12 months of work? Or do they take it every year, making them work 9 months per year (assuming you count the break in calendar days)?

Another question. It sounds like Microsoft contractors have to take a break if they like it or not, so the point is probably not to keep them motivated. What advantage does Microsoft get from this?
No not really. but some are so involved that this is a good reminder kind of.
The banking system isn't solvent if people can lose their money based on competing on-demand claims to the same cash.
I honestly don't know why we don't shift to a time-deposit system. It would work nearly exactly the same in every way and we wouldn't need an FDIC as much or worry about bank runs.
“Representatives” vs. “Leaders”
Agree ! Having gone from nothing to Subversion, I think Subversion is great (with TortoiseSVN, at least).

Are there better tools ? Is Git better ? Maybe, but different tools for different uses. For me personally, Subversion does not suck, and I don't need a "better" tool.

It works, and gets the job done for me !
I'm absolutely baffled by how they've managed to compare this guy to Linus Torvalds. They're operating in completely different fields, with completely different motivations, and for completely different markets...and very likely, their impact will be measurable on a completely different scale.

We already know that Linus has changed the world for everyone who uses the Internet, with no relation to religious beliefs at all, and that his impact will be felt for at least a generation to come (very likely more), and I kinda suspect that this "Torvalds of the Muslim world" fellow will have little to no impact beyond building a moderately successful niche social network (or whatever it is he's building...the article is a bit bombastic and not long on clarity of thought). Maybe he's the Tom Anderson of the Muslim world. Maybe he's the Mark Zuckerberg of the Muslim world. Maybe he's the whoever it is that started Linden Labs of the Muslim world. But he's not in the same league, or even playing the same game, as Torvalds.

I just wanted to get that off my chest. Nonsensical comparisons bug me.
And if you're good enough at your job, it's unlikely that you will be denied your request.

A couple of years ago I wanted to go on a holiday for a month in a busy time. I notified my employer about half a year in advance and we planned around it. In the end, the planning didn't work out, I moved my holiday a couple of weeks and my employer paid my airline ticket in return.
Trademark != Patent

Also, despair.com got one a trademark for ":-(" in 2001:

http://despair.com/frownonthis.html
What do you mean "secure"?

Secure between (you, Google) and (World), perhaps, but I'm not sure that's quite the same thing.
I currently use Nginx + FCGI for my minimal PHP needs. I have also used Apache, and the only real differences I've noticed is how its setup. Lots of people use Nginx because it feels alot more lightweight for whatever reason than apache, plus many stats show it can handle more connections with less memory. For my setup, I am using lighthttpd's fcgi starter script, since it automates the process initialization.
It isn't really about community vs corporate support. He is making a much broader point that the internet (and other modern tech) is enabling like-minded people to work together to produce stable and effective systems purely for the love of it, on a previously unimaginable scale.
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See also the Ship of Theseus paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
The Russian Patent Office explained that they only registered the trademark for the logo of this company, which includes ";-)". This doesn't mean that the company have a right to sue everyone who uses smilies.
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Well, for all that matters, I could just die today and I'd be pretty damn unhappy if, before it's my time, I hadn't had a life that's true to myself.

Saving for the future conflicts in part with the desire to live a full life today.

Taking sensible care of your money is wise, spending a bit less than you make is wise. Trying to get lots and lots of money and giving way too much to your work now in hope that you can then, at some time later, retire and finally start living for real is an illusion. Because you never know what's in the future and you never will.

If you haven't learned how to live and let go before you retire, you sure don't know how to do that when you actually do retire -- in fact, you're going to spend most of your remaining days learning just that. Most people seem to fail in that, because transitioning from a "drone" to live a full life is hard. Really, really hard.

Living now doesn't mean careless, extravagant spending and ending up broke. But all the work you've put into your savings needs to be periodically extracted out and enjoyed by yourself because that's what life is.

You can never control life to the extent that you could be certain you won't run out of money, even if you try. (Well, one way would be to kill yourself as soon as you have lots of money -- then the money and security has outlasted your own life.)

I've learned that the only thing you can do is force yourself to trust that you will always get enough money somehow, somewhere, for everything you really need in your life at the time. If you try to think something else, it's an illusion. Life is at stake in many ways, all the time, there are endless ways it could change or end each day and each hour. And you won't have a say about it should something happen.

You can only trust that your life finds its own way and that's all. The rest you can choose to learn to enjoy.
I think they trained on a bunch of random patterns, and can recognize basically anything of approximately the same resolution.
There are of course other camouflage techniques other than just changing the port number. You could try port knocking using something like my tumbler project: http://tumbler.sourceforge.net/
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This is my standard source:

http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3

I use this usually with English, Greek, Russian, Arabic and Chinese text. This makes me fix up most character encoding issues at the earliest possible opportunity in a project.

This maybe overkill for a lot of development, but most of the sites I have worked on in the past two years have been in 14+ languages.
I was about to post the same observation. The comparison with Linus is silly; this man appears to be a perfectly reasonable entrepreneur who's going after a specific target market for social networking/immersive worlds. Good for him, but not relevant to a Linus type impact even if he does live in Finland.
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I find it slightly humorous that he's assuming 'edifice' and 'process' are different and yet he's working with computers. He even mentions longevity a few times.
It didn't do the auto-update thing for me. If it doesn't for you either you can go to "Tools" (the little spanner icon)--> "About"-->"Check for updates" and it'll install the latest version.
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I feel mostly the same way. I love coding but I don't like working, nor a career, nor having a job. I've been working part-time for a couple of years now which helps a little. I currently do 4-5 hours a day in the average, and whenever I get excess money I take a week or two of unpaid time off.

I try to maximise the part I really love, coding in a flow and creating and making stuff (which counts to most of the "productivity" anyway), and minimise the rest of the stuff that would just get me more entangled and drowned in work.

I spend little and I live a small life, giving me more leeway -- something I've been very grateful for to myself. But I'm still not entirely happy because I can see the potential in myself to do something that's great in terms of where I feel I should be going in life.

I've considered starting a company as well because I might find a way of working that gives me what I think I want. Something small, I intend to make a small living, not a fortune -- given the amount of money associated with programming and IT services, I might be able to do it with less hours.

I think that time is the wealth that separates the rich life from the poor life. And you don't have to be rich to live a rich life. Few people can afford time for their life these days.
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... It takes a philosopher to create paradoxes out of well understood physical processes.
I had trouble figuring out what the site did from the text in your advertisement, possibly because referring to video as "casts" is counter-intuitive to me. It makes me think of the word webcasts, when your examples seem to be video files and movies.

Tried dragging a video into the lower sitecast box which is right beside the video selection menu and it did nothing, although it started playing in both when I dragged it into the upper one. The Say What option didn't work for me, or maybe I just don't know how that stuff works. Clicking in various places there did nothing for me. Someone with more experience with SEO would know if the tag cloud is being useful. I wouldn't try to find video using it.

I wouldn't pay for this, but that's more because I don't think it makes sense to pay intermediaries for online content presumably sourced elsewhere. I do like the design and the drag and drop functionality, although the line-height on the about page needs to be increased to make the text more legible and some of the navigation terminology "Cloud" is puzzling.
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That's right. Have you seen Copenhagen (a movie produced for TV)? It shows Niels Bohr arguing with Heisenberg about the atomic bomb... it's a really good movie about a meeting between them that nobody knows what was it about.
The problem with super easy jobs is that anything you do should align with a meaning in your life, otherwise it feels frustrating, stupid, and just plain wrong.

A stereotypical government job where you spend all your day playing the Tower of Hanoi with stacks of "important" papers isn't likely to hit that sweet spot of yours.

What the right place is depends on what you desire but your work should support the way of life that you can't help thinking about.
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The unions broke their own backs. Republicans (and Democrats) didn't make the big three into horribly managed, debt-laden, corporate pigs producing products that no one wants, but they both helped--but the ways they helped make them soft-headed and inefficient are probably things you approve of (like protectionist tariffs on imports, stricter immigration laws, trade restrictions of various sorts, etc.). The management and the unions at those companies worked hard for many years to destroy the US auto industry.

Neither bailout is a good or fair solution, but deciding that every broken industry ought to be able to extract limitless funds from innocent taxpayers in order to continue with business as usual, merely because one broken industry is getting a bailout, borders on evil. Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Interesting article...but the translation from the audio is poor. It gets a lot of the words wrong, making it a little bit jarring to read.
They don't have blogs, but there are a couple of big adult webmaster forums where they hang out.
Why port your Firefox add-on to Internet Explorer? Because your competitors won't
hmmm... I tried the 280slides demo, it seems only for English. I can't type in Japanese and Chinese.
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The limited user base is the one that would do it for me. 100million people may seem like a lot, but that's less than 7% of internet users (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm).

I'm fairly sure that I wouldn't want to be turning away 9/10 of the people visiting my site...

You could go with OpenID - or use a third party like RPXNow.
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Yes but you lose the benefit of the cache of jquery.min.js some people may already have when loading the first page of your site (the most important time for performance)
that's why I like wickedfire. At least they admit that they're evil.
Because it means the end of the telecommunications industry. Cellphones that use Skype would mean free national telephone calls to everyone. But it's exactly this kind of progress that can get us eventually out of this depression.
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I agree with that. (I'm a long time Mac user all the way back to the 68k era.) It's just that ever since Steve's return, there seems to be a subtle disregard for the history of the platform and a willing forgetfulness of the R&D effort expended by the company over the last few decades...
"This technology can also be applied to senses other than vision..."

Sweet, it could be used to make music without having to learn an instrument.
The sense of community and collaboration has been on the ris for years now. I think it's evident in the open source spirit and the increasing usability and documentation of open source tools. The django and python Q&A communities I'm part of also have this "collaboration" tilt.

Still, when I think "hacker" I think solitary, ego-driven programmer, doing immature things to prove himself. I think of the anger and non-compromise that comes out of some of the old beards.

If "hacker" has been reappropriated that's great. I don't mean to quibble over words--regardless of what we call things, I am very optimistic by the growing team-work and social awareness of internet communities.
Perhaps add to the end of it - The Longevity of FOSS.

Good idea. Alas, it seems to be beyond the edit time limit.
Do you know enough about this generator to trust the text generated in other languages? For all you know, the Arabic or Hebrew ones might be embedding culturally insensitive words if they were "translated" from the original gibberish lorem ipsum. Or do other scripts have a pseudo-canonical passage to quote from like De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum?
by using quotes you prevent google from not searching on the complete phrase. this is a better comparison:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Triumph+of+Robe...
Is it just me or "IE evangelist" sounds a bit strange? :)

Hm... this article does not make sense.

First they say

Firefox users are more likely to "mess" with your business model. "They tend to install things like ad blockers, whereas the Internet Explorer user is more mainstream."

Then they actually want IE users to start using custom plugins too.

Working as a web developer I have to deal with IE6 bugs almost on a daily basis. Sometimes I imagine how much time is spent on this. If we could use it on different purpose we could write a new browser with complete standards compliance.
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I think the argument is that google is an order of magnitude or so better at downtime than you are, so any google-created downtime is lost in the noise.
Wow. Given the common complaint here and at other news sites about economics lacking scientific vigor, I assumed that it was because it was impossible to experimentally isolate human economic behavior. Not only does this article point out one way to do just that, but that it even has a "stereotypical" base experiment used for decades that future scenarios can be derived from. I need to bookmark this article as rebuttal or "ward against trolls" in the future...
Thank you. I can't even remember how often I copied the lorem-ipsum into my source code and marked the paragraphs up with <p>-tags. This will save me some time (and frustration).
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> "Human Condition" is sometimes a code word for something people don't want you to fix. snip Death is inevitable. The inevitability of taxes is propaganda.

Dang, that's kind of profound. Are you quoting somebody?
...unless he was married! ;)
Riiighht. Because the phone companies are such shining examples of this so called "free" market.

As much as I'd love free national wifi, (And I do think its a great idea) I've got no illusions about it being high quaily enough to carry voice calls for a long time.

There will always be space for the traditional carriers to provide high quality wired connections. The truly ironic thing is that this will force them to actually compete with something, so the great big socialist internet project will make the telecom markets more free!
You can ask this question, but I doubt you will get a truthful answer, sorry to say. In multiple instances, I had been excited b/c the interview had challenging technical questions, only to be disappointed when I actually get into the work.

Remember: the relationship is you work for your employer, your employer pays you. Don't expect any more or less than that.
Don't let the crappy title fool you--this is worth watching.
Spend time with friends, loved ones, other hobbies? Life can't be all about your work, even if you do truly enjoy it.
> I believe that the market will always be more efficient as the time-frame grows. A market is not zero sum. Investors with long-term horizons don't have to beat the market to make money, because wealth is created.

Even if markets do become more efficent as time-frame grows, that's irrelevant because different people consume wealth at different times (a 20 year old saving for retirement in her 50s will consume that wealth at a different time than a 20 year old saving to buy a house in 5 years), they don't know when they'll consume wealth (the first 20 year old above decided when she was 25 that she really did want kids), and wealth creation over time not only isnt uniform, it isn't known. (The US thinks that it is worth a couple of trillion less today than it thought a year ago. It probably is, but no one knows the actual number at either end-point. Germany, France, and the UK lost a lot of wealth between 1938 and 1943.)
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Just think of China as a new gizmo that turns stuff into other stuff (e.g. trade). As every new technology it will shift relative prices --- but that's something we have witnessed thousands of times before and the world did not came tumbling down.

(Of course if you care about the plight of the Chinese people than the black box simile is of no use. But it's adequate for an analysis of China's influence on the western economies.)
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i ended up following this model exactly, tho haven't bought property yet. i am writing this from buenos aires and am heading to cape town on sunday for 3w, then india.

i was a developer at a couple of big media companies for 4y. ended up leaving the last one to start my own company. left that 7m ago to travel because i was burned out. this summer i spent 4m consulting in vancouver, where i was able to spend time with a lot of great friends who i hadn't seen in years. that was amazingly recharging.

left vancouver in oct to come to buenos aires. i spent 4-5 weeks of hanging out in cafes, reading, visiting antarctica, hiking in nature, and experimenting with ideas in an inspiring city. being away from the distractions of everyday life was helpful to evaluate the best direction for pursuing my calling (not a job, or a career - more here: http://is.gd/b7h8). it has been friggin amazing and i'm totally recharged.

you know that fire in your belly that causes you to be obsessed with what you're building? i haven't had that feeling in ages, but i've got it now. i was lying awake in bed until 430a yesterday thinking about a feature, so i said screw it - i got up and implemented it and was up until 630a. can't even remember the last time i even considered that.

i guess my point is that you can definitely get that fire back. my first thought when reading your post was that you need to take time to chill and figure out what your calling is. it won't feel like work when you do.
"IE sucks, the users are dumb and the influencers use FF."

Not what I expected, maybe I should look up the definition of "evangelist".
That shows some remarkable insight. Yes, the job is what it is; the company is what it is. You aren't a match. The question is what are you going to do now? Having a family I don't have the luxury of picking up and doing something else on a whim. My plan extends over a few years with small steps along the way. People in "mid-career" can still change but they need to be patient, have more of a plan, and have a spouse who is supportive.
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