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Legally, no. Morally, yes.

Samuel Beckett, possibly the best writer since Joyce, insists that if you perform his play, you do it precisely according to his directions: you use his setting, you follow his directions, you don't edit a line. It is his idea. In Beckett's case, thanks to copyrights it was both legally and morally his right to demand that.

In Roark's case, he did not submit the plan under his own name. Therefore, he couldn't have a legal right to it (Peter's confession is legally shady ground). However, it was his idea and therefore his right to demand that it be created without compromise. I think the ending of that book is a fantasy that would never actually happen, but if I were on that jury, I'd vote to acquit.
My good-at-math friend is Asian, and her parents instilled a very powerful work ethic in her. That's not racism. It's a cultural difference.
Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter
The multiverse is my favorite scientific hypothesis. It just seems right. It's always been cool to think about the boundary conditions of our universe (how big? how long? how much?). But one among many? That's utterly baffling and exciting.

Unfortunately, without evidence, it's an argument of faith, like any other.
Read the NYmag article. You'll find that Gladwell argues the exact same point that you just made. Except for the "people at the top" argument, because I know a lot of people from wealthy families who still work incredibly hard. I think there are lazy people in every class.
Agreed. That was silly.
Evince will use the anti-aliasing option that Gnome does, including a couple of different flavors of subpixel rendering.
What you've said is 100% correct. Notice how you didn't attribute it to a history of rice farming, but rather to academic prowess and diligence.
Flagged: it's a fun little post, but it's repeating the key claim that Gladwell made in his new book, which appears here in 3 other top-page stories right now, and it's not adding anything new other than the title.
There were way too many people responsible for Steve Jobs success. Steve Woznaik, Jonathan Ive, John Lasseter, Gil Amelio and many many others. Steve Jobs didn't have to put in 10000 hours because someone else did it for him.
Keep in mind that this is my blog, not the tarsnap website itself. The tarsnap website -- once it's more than a placeholder -- won't have technical details about the cryptography, but will instead (as you suggest) have it on a separate page which only the interested people will go and visit. My blog, however, is the blog of someone who regularly critiques other people's security (and complains about companies which don't provide details about their security), so people would start asking questions if I avoided the question of security in a blog post about tarsnap. :-)

Server side security -- you're right, I should probably talk about that more. The cryptographer in me says that there's no need to talk about it because it's irrelevant... but people tend to care about irrelevant things anyway.

What do you mean by "do dynamic updates"?
Turbo C++ was my first C++ compiler. I literally stole it from college when I got access to a machine and copied it onto 10 floppy disks.
He said elsewhere that he's going to try to get that working tonight - it's on the App Engine, so it's tricky.
I think you're associating two things that Gladwell didn't. He brings up rice farming for the anecdote about fallow-fields versus 360-days-of-work.
4 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, you will be fucking awesome.
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The experiment is here:

http://inimino.org/pffs/experiment

I'm looking for feedback on the idea itself, the demos, and suggestions for other projects or demos to add during the week.
Yes, and it works marvellously for most fonts, but I think it doesn't do anti aliasing for bitmapped fonts, and xpdf does. I could send you a screenshot of how badly jstor pdfs get in my laptop, if you're interested.
In that case I was wrong to trust the article linked here.
While I generally agree, this is the sort of political article that is worth discussing in this forum.
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But that's too easy an association. Jobs has the ability to get rid of excess. While he doesn't make every single thing by hand, he's usually the final arbiter in most cases. And from most stories, he's the one who usually demands that people remove everything but the essentials. And that's absolutely a talent - not everybody can do it - and it's one that isn't explained by the sorts of work Jobs does.

One of his abilities, absolutely, is the ability to spot which people are incredible at what they do, and to put them in a situation in which they can do it. In Pixar, he created the central hub that got people interacting with one another. (I forget the article that talks about this - anybody have the link?) He has a genius ability to fix things, to make them better.

I argued once that if Jobs hadn't found Woz, he'd have found somebody else capable of doing what he needed done. And I think the end result would be largely the same. Woz was a programmer. Jobs was the visionary and the designer.
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Indeed, what they really need to do is find some way of guaranteeing that their warranty obligations will be fulfilled, by fobbing that off on someone else as part of the reorganization. If they can do that, I don't see why they'd have a problem selling cars.
Yeah. It's a pretty bad one.
Gladwell's writings undermine Rand's beliefs justifying her vision of what could/should be.
unalone, get over it. Sheesh!
Agreed. Even knowing that I thought it'd be higher.

I used to work for a company like JT Marlin; they'd buy company phone books by the 100.
web2py and web.py are completely different animals, but they both eat pythons.
Yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo’s BOSS API
I just remembered that I read "Tipping Point" years ago and didn't detect any prejudice or really any negativity. I just didn't put two and two together (Gladwell's name doesn't stand out to me).
But her characters are absolutely recognizable as humans. I've met people who talk like Rand heroes and people who talk like Rand villains. I've always envisioned Herb Kelleher of Southwest as a Randian hero. He refuses to compromise, gets mocked for a lot of things that turn out in retrospect to have been brilliant, and has a very flippant attitude about it all.

It's like reading Asimov, who judges most of his characters by their approach to logic. There's an advantage to illustrating a single facet of a human being. It lets you focus and create characters that revolve around a theme. If Rand had made her books more involved, they'd have lost the focus on the attributes that she writes about.
The article is good. Just look a the discussion it's begun.
Ruby has a more elegant syntax than Javascript with jQuery. But i don't see any real advantage of doing it that way.
Oh grow up. You sound like you're 14.
S-Corps cannot have non-US residents.

That forced us into an LLC (and since, into a C-corp).

I'd suggest you talk to a lawyer. 90% of them will be able to cut you a deal on a simple C-corp.
Exactly. It has a lot to do with the ambiguity of language, particularly english.
To some extent, yes. As I said: Gladwell is like a Rand villain. But they aren't polar opposites. I doubt Rand ever saw the world as stylized as she wrote it. She's openly a Romantic Realist.

Gladwell opposes Rand. But they still hold fast in certain things. The opposite of Rand is not the person who says that people aren't responsible for their success. It's the person who says that civilization isn't a success, that human beings are beasts, that the solution to our problems is to go back to being savages. Similarly: I think Rand would disagree with Gladwell's claim that nobody is responsible for their life, but she wouldn't dispute his findings. She would just argue that they aren't as relevant as Gladwell thinks they are.
But the discussion exists because the topic is so vivid. The article itself is rambling, incoherent, and at many times wrong.
My roommate is a prostitute who advertises on Craigslist, and it basically slowed her down for one day, because she didn't have enough money in her checking account.

That is now fixed. Business as usual... for $10/ad ...
When did that happen?

481 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
I don't think the guy is disputing that search engine optimization is relevant, but that the sleazy, slimy guy who tries to sell you SEO is selling snake oil.
Good link, I liked it. Nothing stirs up outrage faster among the Randinistas than a poke at their goddess.
I simultaneously feel proud and shamed for making that happen!

No hard feelings, I hope.
I am aware that neither Rand nor her philosophy is perfect. That said: I think that Rand talks about her ideas in a way that make them very accessible and attractive to people, and I think that her philosophical beliefs are worthy of discussion at the very least. I agree with her statement that it is better to be selfish - in the sense that you act primarily for your own good - than it is to be altruistic.

I don't think she is the end-all be-all. I voted Obama, who will expand the government in many ways and demand some altruism from everybody. But I think that compromise is a necessity: that altruism is a necessary evil rather than an end unto itself.

The immature one is the one who dismisses somebody's argument because they choose to support a flawed person. Frankly, I'd much rather talk with an Objectivist than a Nihilist - that despite Nietzche's being a much more influential and agreed-with writer. I'm trying to argue my points expressively, and to respond to people who disagree. You're either being immature or a troll.
monopolies are bad, it doesn't matter whether it is a monopoly by the "evil corporations" or the "saintly workers". monopolies always hurt the economy. ALWAYS.
I'm not convinced that Ayn Rand says no. She really never addresses the question of how her heroes get to be the way they are -- they just appear in her books fully formed with their brilliance and their values already in place.

I expect that if Ayn Rand were actually pressed on the issue of "do the successful owe at least part of their success to their upbringing" she'd be forced to admit that yes, they do.
"The fake pharmacy site was made to resemble those run by Storm's real owners but always returned an error message when potential buyers clicked a button to submit their credit card details."
No hard feelings. :-)

More than anything else, I'm amused that people here care so much about the Putnam -- I personally consider winning the Putnam to be a relatively minor accomplishment.
While I "see the point", I think you have a legitimate complaint with regards to the voting.
visitors is well thought of. I'd give you a link to the hom epage, but it's fing impossible to find. http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/hardy/visitors

If you want to sort-of roll your own, I maintain a command-line program called logrep that lets you "query" your webserver logs:

http://code.google.com/p/wtop
This is like JungleDisk but at twice the storage price and lacking the GUI or cross-platform clients.

The per-transfer and per-storage fee sounds like tarsnap also stores back to s3.
No. At 4 hours a day, you'll need 2500 days. [6.8 years]

If you did it full time (40 hours a week), you'll supposedly be fucking awesome in 4.8 years.

If this were true, I should be an awesome programmer. But I know I am not yet one. Far from it. So I call bullshit. (Some popular 'fucking awesome' programmers for reference: Steve Yegge, RMS, John Resig)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359551

Better discussion.
I can see how Roark has every right to be pissed off, but I still can't see how that translates to the right to blow it up with dynamite.

Followup question: What if Roark were a lousy architect? (But still thought he was brilliant?) Of course we know he wasn't because the book never gets tired of telling us how brilliant he is, but what if his original plans actually did kinda suck and the alterations were actually improvements? (cf. the Sydney Opera House).
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Ok, so I currently use cron + s3sync + s3 buckets to backup servers/sites.

How would this differ (other than the price)?
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Agreed. He's being a jerk.
No need, consider me educated.
No, it's garbage because it makes a claim, then fails to back it up well.
--

The guy simply asked a question. A question which then led to this long tirade by Rand groupies.
Odd, I've been using Evince all today to read a 772 page PDF of 'Solaris 10: The Complete Reference' (yes, I read textbooks, yes I'm also aware of how piss poor Solaris is).

It handles the document fine, including generating thumbnails for all the pages on the fly as I scroll down.
You know, you just proved their point about people who talk like Rand's villains. Is there anyone here who has read Rand's novels and can't imagine those words coming from James Taggart, Floyd Ferris, or Ellsworth Toohey? (Maybe not Ellsworth Toohey. He was more subtle.)
I've been down this road many times. It isn't this simple. It's a genetic disorder.
To be slightly more constructive:

You have at least one entrenched, successful competitor with lower prices and more features. This proves there's a market, but it means you're also going to have to be good at marketing to succeed. Especially because the product is something people are very risk-averse about and the switching cost of re-uploading everything is a big pain.

You might enjoy the book The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham. There's a lot of war stories from author Brodsky about his document-storage business (a similar market to yours) and how he differentiated it from competitors.
I found this really interesting, because we covered this exact topic in a psychology course that I took while in university, and I think that it is often mis-quoted / mis-used. The conclusion that was drawn from scientific research was that the vast majority of experts all shared a common trait - they all had at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice (not that anyone who practiced for 10,000 hours would definitely be an expert). Deliberate practice was defined as practice which: has a goal / task that relates to improved performance, there are explicit instructions as the the best methods of improvement, there is immediate feedback on the performance, and the person repeatedly performs these actions. Obviously his isn't leisurely practice like playing catch in your backyard if you're a baseball player. The experts also didn't practice for 1 hour per day for 30 years like someone in the comments mentioned; the average was about 4 hours per day if I remember correctly. The research had also noted (much like the Matt Maroon article) that this does not mean, for example, that ANYBODY can play in the NBA. What they are really pointing out is that those who are in the NBA probably had at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. They also noted that some fields of expertise (such as the NBA) have built-in physical constraints (ex: height) which must be considered. Their study actual dealt with the field of music (violin playing, specifically) which has fewer constraints than something like basketball, and the results were significant.
Speaking of Apple, Steve Jobs actually contributed immensely to the company while pretenders like Guy Kawasaki arrived late, contributed nothing, and today try to take all the credit for the company's success.
1. Security.

2. Snapshotted backups. With tarsnap you can take a backup every day, but only pay for each unique block of data once -- which is useful if you don't want your nightly cron job to "synchronize" the fact that you just accidentally deleted some files to S3.

3. I don't know all the details of how s3sync works, but how efficient is it at handling files which have had small changes made to them? (Or, in the case of log files, data appended to them?) Tarsnap doesn't have to re-send the entire file.

4. Does s3sync compress data before storing it? Tarsnap does (and you pay for the bandwidth and storage used, post-compression).

5. When looking at the price, keep in mind that S3 has a per-request fee which can get pretty expensive if your average file size is small.
I think the difference is significant when you are RAM poor. It made a huge difference for me on OLPC. May be you have lots of RAM?
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How is it rude?
It's a good signal since it is hard to exaggerate (like you can with claims like "I was the first person to X" for vague X) and very simple to describe. Although maybe I am biased ;-)
If you had spent 10,000 hours practicing basketball you would probably be better than anyone you know at the game. Granted if your short or old there are limits but a tiny fraction of the populous really focus on getting better for 10,000 hours.
Sometimes DHH has some extremely stupid opinions. Such as his blog post about how "reusable apps" and "components" are not possible, even though Django is using them with overwhelming success.

I switched to Merb because of Slices. But Datamapper turned out to be an amazing upgrade from ActiveRecord. And I'm starting to love all the other little framework features (defer blocks in routes for example) that just don't exist in Rails.
Guy Kawasaki = poseur
Who in their right mind would want to live forever (at least physically)?
whats a PO?
I started with VB too ;-) I got some bad habits, but later I learned C and it was ok.

The advantage of starting with VB is that it's very easy. However, these days there are other languages that are easy to learn and that are more powerful than VB, i.e., Python.
That's totally cool, but I'd seriously recommend just viewing a couple videos over at merbcamp.com/video and check out what it is trying to offer.
Are you really spending that much time trying to get better or are you mostly doing the same things over and over again. One of my favorite sayings: "I don't want someone that has the same year of experience repeated 10 times I want 10 different years of experience."

PS: If your in the top 5% of coders most people will consider you fucking awesome.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=359551
It's 10000 hours of deliberate practice, not mere activity, that's necessary according to this theory. Deliberate practice requires that you're constantly challenging yourself and attacking more ambitious goals. The conversion ratio on paid work for very few jobs is anywhere close to 1.0; a job where it's 0.5 would generally be considered excellent.
Snapshotted backups

While we're giving marketing advice, shouldn't that be "source-based de-dupe"? :-)
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No, he is suggesting you take large companies from 50 years ago and see how they are doing. If you take companies that are around today it's going to look like 100% of companies stick around or are bought out and the only question is for how long.
well-respected yc-er cperciva

I saw the "well-respected" part before, but didn't notice the "yc-er" part. To avoid any confusion: I'm not funded by YC, I just happen to have been on news.yc for a long time.
Yes, but I absolutely HATE the word "de-dupe", and I've been hoping that if I ignore it for long enough, it will go away. :-)
Carriers Demand More Data, Consumers Get Less Privacy
Hibernate Query Cache: A Dirty Little Secret
Not really several are well on their way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies.
Lessons learned from a failed idea at Startup Weekend
The team is more important than the idea. Leadership and clearly defined roles are a must. Strategy and value proposition should be decided and communicated.
I think the difference between athletic and intellectual endeavors is that the genetic factors necessary for reaching the highest levels are fairly well-understood, and also known to be very rare. By contrast, we don't know how rare potential great writers or programmers are; they might be fairly common. If there is a natural basis for greatness in these fields, we don't have any way of testing for it.
Anyone read the new Malcolm Gladwell book that this is based on? Is it any good? A lot of his books seem half-finished. He points out something (Blink: your intuition is more powerful than you realize, and not well-understood) but never gets around to explaining why the phenomenon exists.

Is this one worth reading?
I've been coding since I was 11 (like many people here). I am 29 now. I'd say that I've been trying to get better than myself all the time. I don't think one would do the same things again and again unless it is a sad day job.

All I am saying is that may be 10,000 hours is not enough.
In short, yes there are other advantages. If you just want a list, the release announcement is full of goodies. I was really just listing the things I noticed when working on one small app. As to features I haven't used, yet... I'm probably most excited about Merb's slices. Slices are potentially a huge win for code organization and re-use across webapps.
Do Startup Weekends ever generate anything else?
I understand. I was not talking about 'day job' type of hours. However I agree that I may not have put in 10k hours of intensive coding.
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Reading that blog reminded me of the Joe the Plumber story. At first he comes on like some big Randian success story with attacks on Obama's tax cuts for the bottom 95% of Americans.

Then it's gradually revealed that he is making far less than he claimed and would benefit from the cut.

Then we find out that he's not a licensed plumber.

And that he owes back taxes.

Finally, we discover that his family was on welfare twice and benefited from it.

Yet, Joe insists on pretending to be this great autonomous Randian hero.
So true. Even with the best spam filter in the world, I'll always have to check for false-positive. We need something else...
Taxes would have to increase to finance this, though-- taxes likely levied on the companies that would have been providing the insurance before. This just leaves them providing health insurance by proxy.
I guess
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It's only a draft. Everything may change.

Read http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-layout/
Smukke danske kvinder
Mange kvinder venter i håbet om, at de vil finde deres Mr. Right en dag, når de ikke er på udkig efter ham. Desværre er det ikke sandt. Det er nu muligt at finde den eneste ene via dit netværk af venner eller på internettet.
If gravity were slightly more powerful, the consequences would be nearly as grave. A beefed-up gravitational force would compress stars more tightly, making them smaller, hotter, and denser. Rather than surviving for billions of years, stars would burn through their fuel in a few million years, sputtering out long before life had a chance to evolve.

This is wrong, with slightly more gravity smaller stars would burn hotter but there is a wide range of stars that can last for 5 billion years. Now if was 100 times as strong they might have a point but there is about an order of magnitude to play around with.