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I've got one for RS. I was thrilled to see it listed. I thought I'd have an advantage. Nope.
Thanks man, you quite likely made my day!
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Any part of the U.S., that is.
I just can't believe that Linus' comment was made to be entertaining or is seen to be entertaining. The point of this kind of invective, as far as I understand, is for Linus to say:

"Shut up and go away, I don't want to hear any rebuttal or any other point of view, because I have waaaay more experience than you do, I know that I'm right, and I don't have time for it."

Basically: he's asserting his right as the "benevolent dictator" of Linux.

Which is fine by me until it goes so far as telling people to kill themselves. That seems unnecessarily and extremely harsh to me (guess it's just an American thing, maybe...), and it seems like something that would be said by a pure psychopath (or a comedian, or a young schoolyard bully).

I understand he doesn't mean "kill yourself" literally, of course.

Though I've always assumed that when he calls people morons, braindead, idiots, etc., he really means those things. Right? Although I can tolerate those things just fine, I'd be really interested to learn if other people interpret those things as not meant literally.
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I've mentioned a couple of times on HN, but just one more: increasing prices means you deal with less pathological customers. What does a pathological customer sound like? They get something for free and then want their money back.

They also feel as other people have a moral obligation to comport their business affairs to the specifications of the pathological customer, and this is a very nonreciprocal obligation, because pathological customers will do absolutely nothing to change their desired behaviors as a result of a business relationship.
Fulfillment by Amazon would be awesome for this. Free two-day shipping and the site wouldn't go down.

Edit:
Seriously, you send them a big box, and they mail out all the little boxes. Check it out: http://www.amazonservices.com/content/fulfillment-by-amazon....
Probably no more than a curiosity, but http://cn.element14.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?id=2081... (Farnell's China site) will show you the product page. Even Google Translate seems to be slashdotted, so I'm not going to try to get through that checkout process.
However WLAN beats LAN, especially if I chose to build a small case and use this as a HTPC that I can use to watch.
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What a tremendous failure. Why check with your distributors before going live? It's not even the traffic; RS never sold any and for the rare moment that you could get to Farnell, they were already (or always have been) out of stock from minute one.
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I mean that in Japan, working 8.5 hours (if you subtract 1 hour for lunch) isn't considered working "long hours" at all.

Though I suppose it's not considered long hours in US too, perhaps the commenter above doesn't have a lot of experience or has been lucky till now.
Farnell had a product site up at launch time. When I first clicked "Add to Basket" I got a "Could not determine product stock, please try again" error. The second time just some AjaxError. And then the whole shopping cart crashed. Now they are serving a "Site unavailible" Page. I really wonder if they managed to sell all the stock before the page was DDOS'ed.
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is the wifi powerful enough for full HD streaming? I think the typical sub-10$ chinese WLAN card is just b/g
I'm sorry, but I don't know what Raspberri PI is. The site literally doesn't tell me anything about the actual product. I see an image of an arduino-like board -- is that it?

Not being snotty or anything, I just literally can't find any information on the site.
Different people have different use cases. Apparently yours fits the Model B better.
The $500 houses in Detroit are a bit of a scam. You get the deed to the place and then you get hit with the property taxes. Those places are empty for a reason.
The tweets from the foundation make it look more like Farnell actually took about 10 minutes to sell what they had. Nobody's quite sure whats up with RS yet.
My point was just that if you want to nitpick that it isn't x^n for all inputs, then the n < 0 cases are only a part of the problem since foo(10,10) can't possibly be 10^10 regardless of the the function's body.

I'm not sure what you want me to propose a fix for. If we want a function that calculates x^n we'd probably wouldn't write it anything like this, and we would probably return a double and accept some inaccuracy.

Presumably what we actually want is an example of a hard to read function that calculates a simple result so we can use it on an amusing quiz. In that case we could change it to take unsigned n and ask what it computes in the cases where there isn't overflow. Or even better, it would be neat if there is a reasonably small modification that could be made so that it would calculate x^n mod (2^32-1).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

There's usually more at their site, they went static about a half hour ago because of the load on their servers.
This is great. I made a personal periodical for myself using readability and it worked, but was a pain in the ass. This is exactly what I should've built first.
What a pity! But there is still infrastructure: roads, water, electricity, telephone lines...
People might have some luck with their telephone ordering

RS Online: +44 8457 201201
Farnell: +44 8447 111111

(Although I have been on hold with RS for a while now...)
This is approximately equivalent to writing a program that would read poetry or literature and explain what's going on, including allusions, metaphors, snarky inside references, etc.

Or, framed differently - if law is code, it's linked against a complicated set of libraries that isn't standard worldwide, or even across a single nation. And the libraries are frequently updated - so unless you've got a statically linked executable (which may or may not be permissible) it's entirely possible that library functions will do things at runtime that hadn't even been imagined when the code was written.

Also, when the code is executed, the system's got a built-in "red team" trying to substitute other libraries that produce opposite results, and from time to time fuzzers appear that generate gibberish which may also be linked with your code.

In that context, your task is to solve the halting problem.

The battles that you are trying to avoid occur because someone wants them to occur.

The problem isn't that law is complicated, the problem is that people are assholes.
Then I blame their fucked up shop system with yet another site for every other region? All I can say is that one minute after launch, the product page on Farnell was showing "out of stock". After that, the site never loaded again.

Apparently the only way you could actually get one is through some back of the woods partner site of them in Australia. Hooray.
I edited my post to clarify: first digital p2p currency.
Curious as to why they chose 6AM UK time to launch. I wonder if RS or Farnell tech staff are actually at work ready to handle the server problems?
01536 201201 a cheaper number for RS - but yeah, the wait could be a while..
It seams neither of their distributors where shipping these to the US?
Maximize the amount of publicity throughout the day perhaps?
RS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/rselectronics

They tweeted at 6am to link to the page, then not since.

Farnell on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/farnellnews

They at least tweeted at 6.30 to say they are trying to fix the problems.
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The first batch was limited to 10K units. Their logic was probably that the most devoted fans would take the time to get up early, and the rest would buy from the subsequent batches.
Finally got one in the shopping cart at Farnell but checkout/registering a no-go.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing. Reminded me of this: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/david_bolinsky_animates_a_c...
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Good point, there's nothing wrong with playing with style on a blog. Few better places to test, practice, and refine.
He wouldn't have made it free if he couldn't afford it, and we wouldn't have chosen free if we could have paid.
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No, but there are a lot of other things they could've done. EC2 anyone?
Phoned RS and the hold message is great:

"But you don't have to wait. With our world class system you can be confident you can get what you want when want it. Did you know while you listened to this message you could have placed your order online."
Crazy fast build times.
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I couldn't even find it on the Australian site. I got it into a shopping cart on the UK one, but it died while trying to create my account.
Totally agree with all the premises here: more time with loved ones, be happy, etc. But to nitpick...

I've always wonder if this is _valid_. I think it's fairly established that people who are dying have these feelings, but is that to be the guiding principal for our lives? If I feel something else is more important for 30 years of my lifetime, am I wrong because in the last 10 years I regret it?

I'm not sure if the objective function of my life is to minimize regret, it seems much more complicated than that. Furthermore, I'm not convinced that incremental time spent with loved ones will do much to assuage the pain of not having felt like it was "enough".
What's the prices in USD (I'm seeing $50.45 from Farnell)? Has anyone from the US officially ordered one? Shipping?
It turns out the author of the article used to work at Apple in customer service. (According to his Google+ page https://plus.google.com/112301869379652563135/about)

But he makes no mention of this in an article that speaks largely about the customer service of Apple and PayPal.

I find this pretty disingenuous, and regardless of whether his story was factual or not, it takes the wind out of anything he's saying.
The Farnell product page came up briefly for me: http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspber...

(but the servers are still melting, so the buy links weren't working)
Apparently....

http://au.element14.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-chipset/chipse...
For non-EU citizens:

http://www.consulfrance-washington.org/spip.php?article519
No, but good job on buying the copyright lobby's threat-mongering.
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Obviously people were only expressing concern because they were interested in purchasing reliably, not because they were worried about Rpi's server uptime numbers. It's a little trollish for them to blame their distributors and say "Our site is fine".
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So what are you paying the distributors for then, if not for their infrastructure?
They did not need new hardware, just a super-streamlined single-product order page for the Pi.
Or you could buy a nice building in downtown Detroit and create a startup village for roughly the same price. Enough space people could live in the building and just take the elevator to their office. Maybe something similar to this one:

http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/17455927/40-Hague-Detroit-MI/

Detroit already has the Madison building which is filling with VC's and their portfolio companies.

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/detroit-madison-t...
Thank you so much for the advice! Sharebuilder, for a number of reasons, looked like a good choice to me so far, so it's nice to hear your thoughts on it.

Now, to find my own Chipotle for 2012...
Just got a broken CSS site, now says;

http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi/raspbrry-pcba/sbc-raspber...

Availability: Awaiting Delivery

... so back to work...
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It looks like the RS site is coming back online - but their Raspberry Pi product page still only says "register to express an interest"...
"We're so frustrated about the DDOS effect - and apparently some of you are VERY ANGRY. We're really sorry; it's out of our hands."
-http://twitter.com/#!/Raspberry_Pi/status/174747109046755328

Supplier 1: RS Components redirected to a product interest page - no purchase option

Supplier 2: Premier Farnell redirected to a international region picking page with no US link - no purchase option

Traffic wasn't the real problem. People are familiar with lines and queues- I wait in a slow long line every time I go to the grocery store.

Seems like they simply did not test their launch with either distributer internationally. Combine that with months of hype and last minute server/traffic arrogance for an angry social mob.
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I'll believe it when I have the board in my hands though!

Order confirmation email just come in:

Description

SBC, RASPBERRY PI, MODEL B

Qty Ordered 1

Qty to Follow 1

Estimated Delivery W/C 12/03/2012

That's 12th March for our foreign friends -at least I hope its not 3rd Dec!!
After 25 minutes on hold with RS, I spoke to an agent. She was (understandably) a bit flustered, so this might not be correct, but what I gathered was:

* She couldn't take an order
* They weren't going to be able to take an order today
* What I should be doing is "registering an interest" online when the website comes back up
* Noone had ordered anything today, although a few had managed to register an interest before the website melted
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The hard link that RS had given out on their twitter was here: http://uk.rs-online.com/web/generalDisplay.html?id=raspberry... if anyone wants to keep trying...
I managed to buy one in Australia, I had it in my cart at about 4:10PM, took till 2 mins ago(5:08PM) to finish checkout. No word if its a backorder or not...
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The one I just spoke to said they are waiting for managers to come in to sort out what's going on, so far they don't even have stock numbers and all they know about this product is what's shown on their own website.
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120228006472/en/RS-C...

That's from RS's Twitter feed. Not exactly the praises I'd sing right now.
Are you seriously 12??? I was building static html pages with frames at your age! That is seriously impressive dude. Shoot me an email, my hn username at gmail.
As I understand it, these French villages are huge money sinks. You buy them, then find that French law requires you maintain them in their original condition. You can't bulldoze them and build modern buildings, and making 15th century French hamlets livable (let alone suitable as a hacker-space) isn't easy.

If you love restoring old buildings, knock yourself out; but otherwise I'd be very careful. Check what the impact of heritage laws is.
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The "average user" shouldn't be trying to do law any more than they should be trying to do their own plumbing or wiring or surgery.

Should "average lawyers" just hack around for awhile in Visual Basic and then complain that a fully featured CRM/CMS/client portal/website hasn't popped up on their screen and installed itself on some free server somewhere? Or if those average lawyers managed to get something that would build/compile/run, would it make sense for them to complain that "computers are too hard" or "developers are too expensive" when the sad little program they produced crashed, with horrible results?

No, that would be crazy.

Lawyers should let developers and programmers work on technical things. And developers and programmers should let lawyers work on legal things.

Legal fees are "extreme" if you're looking at the most expensive big name firms - but that's like walking past a Ferrari dealer and deciding you can't afford to buy a car.

There are tons of ordinary attorneys who charge relatively reasonable fees - but many people think that, just like everything on the Internet should be (almost) free because it's all just bits, that everything lawyers do should be (almost) free because it's all just words on paper.

If you really want to be in the "legal space", the effort and resources involved starts with three years of law school and passing a bar exam.

There are attorneys who don't use a traditional hourly billing approach - in particular, and relevant to your concerns mentioned above, some attorneys for small business charge a set monthly or yearly fee for reasonably limited access to the attorney for advice and basic document drafting, etc. If an attorney could get, say, 20 companies to sign up for $1000/month, the attorney would gross $240K, giving them, say, $140K for overhead and $100K for compensation, which isn't great or awful. The companies would be able to use, on average, 8 hours/month of the attorney's time, which is enough to get some good ongoing advice and handle little issues.

If those companies wanted to pay $500/month for legal services, the attorney could probably fire his/her staff, not rent a fancy office, and work out of their home and the clients' conference rooms instead. Of course, then the companies don't get to whine about how they have to leave a voicemail when they call the attorney, and they don't get to go sit in a fancy conference room in a tall building and feel important while talking to their attorney.

Some people are doing that. (Not me, by the way.) I think it makes sense. Perhaps you could write software that would help those attorneys manage their practices, or build a site that would help attorneys and clients find each other. (there are already a lot of those, and there's a new one that pops up every couple of weeks, so I'm pretty cynical about that .. but the online dating market, which isn't so dissimilar, is pretty mature, but people like plentyoffish or okcupid manage to survive and grow despite the match.com juggernaut, so it's obviously possible.)
Depends on how you want to frame the problem. I work on sensor systems where we could only save off a small fraction of the raw data coming off the sensor. All data processing must be done in real time, in-memory, with the system only saving off (sending out) a reduced set of processed output products. That problem isn't new, though; military, meteorological, seismic, and space sensors have operated with that constraint for decades, since the advances that allow us to collect data have consistently outstripped the advances that allow us to record data.

Processing these problems requires a different mindset, and we are reaching a point now where business and web data flows are reaching the point that these sensor applications have been at for decades: they need real-time processing, with a concept of perishable data and a deadline for processing that data into some intermediate or final product that can be stored for later use.

Your second point is still very much a concern with this paradigm, though. The applications I speak of usually have some degree of natural parallelism in the sensor hardware, typically tied to the number of A/D channels coming off the sensor. Despite that, there are still unsolved[1] computational mapping issues with respect to breaking these processing tasks up beyond their natural boundaries. These sensors, and many of the emerging analytics applications, are not processing sets of independent jobs the way the MapReduce paradigm envisioned them. The parallel threads need information from each other to generate their output products, which complicates the division of labor and the execution control.

From what I have seen thus far, few big data platforms address the real-time or near-real-time use cases. The applications I work on currently use MPI grids on a cluster for parallel processing, which to me is the original big data platform. Not saying its the best way to do it, but nothing I've seen with the label "big data" can replace it.

[1] Unsolved in the sense that there is no one right answer or set of answers. There are certainly application-specific ways to "make it work".
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As apposed to having to to declare a reset, and then re-declaring everything again.

He says this in the article too:
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My config is as follows:

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2. Ghostery

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10. about:config set dom.storage.enabled to false.

This is just a start and it would be nice to have some consistent way to disable localstorage.
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