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The author forgets market demand. If the society needs 1 Oscar winner, then there will be 1 Oscar. After all, it's the viewer who finance Hollywood. There is a need for talent in the Tech (and other related industries) industry. Youth bootstrap startups so they get paid the right price for their talent.

If you have the right talents and skills (programming, some design, marketing, market analysis, costumer support, networking...) there is little reasons that you fail your business. There is always some demand in the market, in some field. You have to figure it out and solve the problem.

It's the problem here in Tunisia. We don't have a decent infrastructure (roads, schools, houses...) and we have a huge number of art, language, IT... graduates who can't find a job. They complain about the poor infrastructure, but solving it is actually finding a job, and a new business. There is a demand for workers in that field, and there are people with lots of money despite the country being a poor one.
I don't like the playing the lottery analogy. I get that your odds of joining the ranks of a mega-corp and climbing the ladder to one day become CEO are infinitesimal, but it's not dumb luck either. Unlike the lottery, many things are under your control, and if you have the proper drive and dedication you will quickly pull ahead of all the people who are there for an easy paycheck. When applied to startups, the assertion is downright offensive. At a startup the point is you take equity and you play a key role in the success of the company. There is luck involved as with anything in life, but chances are if you are en early employee, many parts of your success or failure can be traced back to specific actions that you personally decided and acted on. It's not easy and it's not always fair, but it's as close to a meritocracy as humanity has achieved so far.
Very interesting to see them bucking the trends, I love his closing line:

"But we’re relatively satisfied with sharded MySQL storage for Evernote user account metadata, even though that’s not going to win any style points from the cool kids."

Indeed, hipsters beware!
The rest of the title is: ...with ASP.NET MVC 4
For 2, I just used this short command line:

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I've stuck it on pastebin instead of in this comment, so it doesn't spoil it for anyone not looking.
"many graphic designers have been replaced by Photoshop" ... I'm not sure that's how it works.
the appeal of pinterest is the ability to see multiple things at a time instead of scrolling through one image at a time like tumblr. It also adjusts to the size of the image so things don't get cropped out. (If tumblr added a feature to make the dashboard a mosaic like layout it'd be amazing!)
http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18065079081/cogs-... might be interesting
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Fashion is something that been quite the buzz of the world, be it the men, women or even the kids fashion has its wings spread everywhere and on everyone.
Since wealth is at least in part relative, there's some limit for how many people can be at the very top in tech as well. If millions of people had as much money as Sergey Brin has, then having $15b dollars wouldn't mean as much, or buy him as much. One way of thinking of it is how many people you could hire to work for you, which depends on the ratio between your wealth and their salaries.
The biggest news to me was that they are using MySQL.
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It would be suicidal for their aim of getting atom into tablets and smartphones, I meant. (Which would almost certainly hold more profit than making someone else's processor.)
I am not at all anti-redis. Its not at all redis's fault it gets misused either; I say so that in the blog-post, even.

So why would you compress something that you can only decompress if its recently-reused?

How would you do mailinator with your strings in redis - and taking O(n) calls to redis to recover them to decompress an email where n is the number of lines (or consecutive lines, granted) in the email?
great, I got both the date wrong and didn't notice the EFF post :)
If the lenses were transparent and you could get decent prescription versions, I'd be all over it.
Does anyone have a link to a decent comparison between MySQL and PostgreSQL? I'm really wondering why so many people use MySQL, even though it supports a lot fewer SQL features than PostgreSQL.
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Those old Japanese hikers are awesome. While we were in Japan we did the obligatory "climb Fuji at night to see the stars and the sunrise from the top".

We didn't get started as early as we hoped, so we had to push hard to reach the top in time. 100 ft from the top I collapsed with a very painful cramp in my calf. So without a word this old Japanese guy gives me this incredible 30 second massage and I limp to the top.

The sunrise? Complete letdown. Prairie sunrises are much more spectacular, and the star view is comparable. But the climb was awesome.
This also drove my crazy.

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In this case the article is only there as a prompt for conversation.The comments have been quite interesting to me.

One of the points the article did make though (well, along the same theme anyway) is that interest in ageing will wax and wane as you go through life. As a 28 year old, soon to be married ageing is on my mind more now than it was 3 years ago. I went through a similar stage when I finished University. Between the two though I may well have skipped past this story.
What is the input going to be like? Speech recognition and motion detection via CV seem to clumsy to me - I'd love to have a small controller in my pocket, something like a wireless touchpad or a joystick.
There's plenty of older music that is not available on CD anymore (or has never been), but can be purchased via iTunes. To give an example: most of Sam Rivers' albums. Or Old and New Dreams (ECM).
Keyboard cover.

http://www.amazon.com/IVEA-Keyboard-Silicone-Aluminum-Unibod...

I've got the pink one, and I get groups of them to have on hand for friends - they're generally less than $2 from amazon (the one above is 26 cents, but you've got shipping on that in some cases too).
I disagree, as i look at HN several times a day i like how pages expire. It explicitly tells me that the order has changed. People are WAY too fussy about messages in their UX because we have abstracted UX to such an extent that we expect the same smooth UE independently of function. The internets expectations (and sheepishness) is making all software like that crap you get free with your camera.
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Pure inertia. Over time, a lot of people were using LAMP stack, and they continued to use MySQL for familiarity reasons.

Also, MySQL got commercial entity behind it in its early days which promoted it a lot. In addition, it worked an all platforms, including windows, while Postgres was there just in last couple of years.
There could be niche applications - think any profession that constantly requires the use of both hands.
Agreed. I did the following:

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This doesn't perform a deep copy, but prevents modifications on self.obj.__dict__ from modifying self.original also.
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As far as I'm aware, to stave off cognitive decay you need to keep your mind active in ways that are different from the way you usually keep it active. Studies show that sudoku prevents brain decay, but only in people who don't play sudoku or games like it.

So if you're a programmer, learning new programming skills might help your career but it probably won't help your brain. Learn a new language or a musical instrument or something else completely different.
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tldr - it works, we don't care about "being cool"
Bad analogy, but the others work.
> Wall Street, however, is a special case. It offers extremely high entry salaries and enormous potential earnings.

Ha ha. No wall street in fact fits this analogy perfectly.

1) The number of "producer" roles vs suport/finance/tech/legal/admin etc is small. 90% of employees are toiling long hours in the hope of making the jump across.

2) And even in "producer" roles you're still playing the lottery system. While grad/starting salaries may seem high - say $120k, do you know how many hours you'll work? Double a regular 9 - 5, and often on the weekends. On an hourly basis it's really not high. And you'll need to put in many years of this to get to a position where you're "winning the lottery". I dare say the few that make it that far feel they deserve it.
The notebook/note example is weak - in a nosql database you need to design your data structure appropriately to get the level of atomicity you require.

Storing an entire notebook in a single document would be the most obvious. I use postgres all the time and sql is great, but poo-pooing nosql because it wouldn't work with your relational structure is not the best idea. Also - I have found a hybrid between nosql (mongodb) and sql (postgres) is ideal - who says you need to use a single database?
For a long time there were no PostgreSQL for Windows. So Windows developers had to use MySQL.

MySQL is good enough so there is no need to migrate applications for a few additional features.
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Its not about failing more, its that you cannot be successful at something until you try it, and its likely you wont immediately be great at whatever that is. It will take practice, you will make mistakes - but thats OK as long as you are resilient. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, Practice, Practice.

You can give people wisdom and advice, but the most important lessons cant be told; until you actually try and fail, you wont listen. Examples include: dont build consumer startups, b2b is way better. Co-founding a startup with someone living 3,000 miles away is a bad idea. Solid legal contracts are very important.
This article is representative of why I dislike Planet Money so much - anecdotes and conjecture presented as data.
Yes there are H264 software that is released under an open source copyright licence. However the implementation might still be breech patents and might still be illegal to use.

It's a shame that a complete clean room open source implementation (e.g. x264) might still be illegal to use in some territories.
But will it continue to be updated?
There's a lot of unused land around, if circumstances ever get that dire.
You can make things simpler for dumber AIs (or dumber workers) by designing field-replaceable-units with that in mind. It is going to cost more/be less efficient, so as long as a human costs $300k/yr or less, no need, but when that isn't the case, you see "forklift upgrades", etc.
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You are right that you might be able to claim "open source" while still requiring a patent licence under the letter of the 'open source'. However that would definitly go against the spirit of "open source" and it would not be viewed by anyone as actually open source at all.

"Free Software" vs "Open Source" would not be relevant here, since both FS and OS would view this "you-still-need-a-patent-licence" clause as incompatible with FS & OS.

There are a few bits in the new GPLv3 that say "if you release under GPLv3 then you have to give everyone a patent licence". However I don't know how that works if you don't have a full patent licence…
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There isn't a 'gift search' feature... just search. Some of the stuff might be gifts I'm guessing.
The paper is available -> http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4961

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Though once I got a 300% raise instead of a 5% one, would I really want to retire at the living standard I had before or after the 5% raise? So, chances are you are STILL not going to retire anytime soon...
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I suppose as I don't have gold coated cables, I can safely ignore these issues for now...
How is using less power superfluous? It's better for the environment and it beats having to charge every device every day.
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Yes, but there are also a lot of things not under your control. You might be able to pull ahead quickly of the easy paycheck people, but then you're surrounded by other people with proper drive and dedication. To get ahead of them you need luck to have been given the right opportunity (in hindsight) that payed out, or to be liked more by those who promote you than your colleague, or to be the right sex (which is often irrelevant for the job), or be more beautiful (which often is irrelevant for the job), or being promoted just before the economic down turn and getting another turn when the economy comes up again, or having a family with some problems (like a sick child or spouse), and so on. A lot of these things will have unconscious effects on yourself, your colleagues, and the people that can promote you. It isn't a clear cut choice to perform well anymore to get ahead.
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How cute:

The Citadel developers are strongly against the use of this product within CIS. The product doesn't work on systems with Russian or Ukrainian keyboard layouts.

There was a tradition among some ex-USSR shareware developers in 90's to make their product freely available to ex-USSR users (because they won't buy it anyway, and I guess, doing good for neighbors). They detected keyboard layout or had special registration instructions, like "enter the current month name in Russian instead of registration key". Example: FAR Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAR_Manager#Licensing

Today you can actually sell software to ex-USSR users, so not many developers do this, but -- hey -- the evil people continue this tradition with malware!
This article is very weak, they insist a lot on ACID, but those are completely orthogonal concepts from SQL. Most NoSQL products are ACID.

Also, the example itself is very weak as bitdiffusion below pointed out.
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Of course there are people now who have a much better chance of getting to the top now than they did in the Good Old Days™. Women, black people, asian people, etc.
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So if I release my code under Apache license, and later it is found that it happens to infringe on a patent, am I liable to pay the damages on behalf of anyone using my code and getting sued based on the patent infringement?

Or, to put it another way - what is the best "free" license for a developer to release his/her code under? I don't really even care about mentioning my name in derivative works.
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Org-mode is a big stumbling block for me as well and it seems like most of its features would be possible in Sublime Text 2, but the sheer degree of integration that it's managed with Emacs' various hooks and processes might be much harder. The various org-insinuate functions, the packages to hook it into magit (or rather ST2's equivalents) & Mew, etc. are all pretty important to me. I haven't looked deeply into customizing ST2, but is it actually feasible to hook into it so deeply?

[ETA: There's a stab at an ST org-mode here that I tried previously, but really isn't very far along and development stopped almost a year ago: https://bitbucket.org/theblacklion/sublime_orgmode/ There's a fork at
https://github.com/danielmagnussons/orgmode that seems to be somewhat more active.]
> If two entities can't communicate, they can't synchronize state, so one (or both) of them have to quit acting like they have a consistent view of the data.

With the exception of quantum entanglement, of course.
The announcement says:

> Because of this work, Adobe has been able to partner with Google in providing a “Pepper” implementation of Flash Player for all x86/64 platforms supported by the Google Chrome browser. Google will begin distributing this new Pepper-based Flash Player as part of Chrome on all platforms, including Linux, later this year.

It says that the plug-in will be bundled with Chrome, and Adobe have said they won't be releasing more Flash players for Linux, but the announcement does not even hint whether a stand-alone Pepper plug-in will be available from Google. I hope the Chromium blog will clarify this in due course.

I guess Adobe might forbid Google from developing a plug-in, but I don't see why they would want that, seeing as they have been distributing plug-ins for years. If Google could but didn't, that would make them look unsupportive of Chromium.
That was the worst "why we still use mysql"-post ever.
Simple reliable replication has been a huge differentiator for a long time; enough so to put up with a lot of the other faults of MySQL. Have not revisited Postgres replication in a long time but I have seen that it has been worked on. Anyone with recent experience in both care to explain how the replication of both stacks up in recent versions?
A guess. The likely demographic of early-adopters are also statistically likely to require prescription lenses. I also doubt the initial versions will cater to people who need prescription lenses.

I do hope that they've factored this in to their sales projections.
> In their book "Freakonomics" Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt explain, among other things, the odd economic behavior that guides many drug dealers. In one gang they described, the typical street-corner guy made less than minimum wage but still worked extremely hard in hopes of some day becoming one of the few wildly rich kingpins. This behavior isn’t isolated to illegal activity. There are a number of professions in which workers are paid, in part, with a figurative lottery ticket. The worker accepts a lower-paying job in exchange for a slim but real chance of a large, future payday.

This example is indeed listed in "Freakonomics" and was contributed to the book by a sociologist called Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh. What this paragraph fails to say, however, is that the chapter in the book makes it clear the "soldiers" slinging on the corners either had the option of taking a minimum wage job working 9-5 plus overtime or taking the minimum wage "job" slinging and have a chance at making it big time PLUS the gang provided certain social services and security to their members and their families - something the minimum wage 9-5 job also did not have to offer. So while they were clearly in a tight spot, they took the more economic of the two options. And the guy leading the gang was described as very capable, social, if I remember correctly he even had finished school or was working on a degree and was capable of handling all financial matters of the gang. So his skills, qualifications and killings got him the job but ultimately his performance kept him there - otherwise he would have been replaced long ago. Clearly he had something more to offer over his soldiers.

A point this chapter was making was that these jobs take practically zero skill, have no entry-level barriers and there is an abundance of people willing to do them who don't have other options - that's why they the pay was so absolutely terrible while the job of being injured or killed on the job was ten-folds more likely than the most dangerous, "regular" job in the States.
What is wrong with salted SHA or even MD5 for that matter?
Fluff piece with a catchy title.

The author conveyed as much by saying "we have a 'winner takes all economy' which might not be a good thing if employees realize this and lose their interest in working hard."
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Well, taking a consistent snapshot for backups is easier when it's in a single source. I know there are ways around this (ZFS!) and not everyone needs synced backups to the millisecond but it can complicate backups (or more to the point - restores)
> If I could go back to being 20 again, but stay the person I am, I would. But if going back to being 20 meant going back to being the person I was when I was 20, there's no way I would do that.

I'm not even 30 yet, but this is an always true statement. Thanks for sharing it.
As longs as you keep in mind that as you grow up, failing costs more, and often takes more time for you to realize the failure. If you just keep shooting in all directions, you might as well fail all and achieve nothing.

So do fail more, but also focus in achieving goals.