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That's some great advice. It is fun to read both sides. I've been on both quite a bit as a buyer and a seller and this is some of the best advice I've seen out there for approaching.

However, I will point out one thing I disagree with.

" The fact is, domains are only worth what someone is ready to hand you a check for. (A tip to all you wannabe speculators.) I've seen many GREAT domains never get sold, so always keep that in mind."

Almost. A lot of those truly valuable names have type in traffic which can be monetized (those landing pages full of links you always see) and can actually make decent money. So when your offer doesn't line up with the expected income stream of the domain over time, it doesn't matter how long I wait to sell it. It earns money every day, every month, every year.

Of course, most domains don't earn anything or get any real type in traffic.

It's also funny to watch the evolving arms race of owners vs buyers and the tactics used. It's constantly changing and people are improving on both sides. If a bunch of people start using this exact template, domainers are going to look at this and try and take you for more. Figure out this exact play (it's not all that unique). Domainers holding really good stuff know how to wait indefinitely for a buyer. Some of these guys have been doing it for over a decade. One lost sale may not fit into their business model of getting super high prices when they own 5000, 50000 or 500000 names.
"This is clearly bait. Pretending this gigabit internet service is available or practical for a startup, much less personal use, is either dishonest or ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga."

What are you talking about? I do believe you are the one ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga. Gigabit internet service IS available to startups. Hell, its available to residential customers.

https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/fi-speed-internet-1000

I've got the 30Mbps package at home, and it is a true 30meg up and down. They laid fiber all over the city, and it is 100x better than any other internet services I've ever had(I don't think my internet has been down one time since I moved to Chattanooga).

"Generally your choices are making a decent salary working in healthcare with .NET/Java, or making <30k salaries with open source, which generally doesn't go much further than CMS modifications, or working for a CTO that thinks php frameworks are fadish and don't really work in most situations (so he rolled his own)."

I'm making ~50k working for a startup, using ruby, nodejs, mongo, redis...all kinds of open source. And we're hiring.

"And even there, I won't even talk to local companies. I've already wasted enough time hunting local clients only to realize nary a one of them expects to pay > $20/hr."

Not gonna argue with this one :)

I think you are a bit behind the times as to whats going on in Chattanooga.
With the title Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life, I think it's clear who's making the decisions.
Now that we've gone this far, may as well link to this classic from "In the beginning was the command line":

http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/holehawg....
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Scaled integers give you an instant and very significant boost in performance. And, what's best, in most cases the error is far smaller than 1%. I've done tons of real-time image processing work on FPGA's where you almost never use floating point hardware due to how resource intensive (and slow) it is.

Another construct that is extremely fast, cheap and can even represent nonlinear and discontinous relationships is the good-old lookup table. In hardware (FPGA) you get one result per clock cycle.

Now, of course, if you can deal with the error and name the tune with just a handful of transistors it could be a good tool to have.

It might make more sense to have a hybrid. Build a CPU that includes a traditional FPU as well as a "physics-based" FPU. Then the programmer can decide which way to go by trading off between accuracy and deterministic behavior against speed and errors.
Then there's Gelernter's Linda [1] and it's tuple space model [2], the granddaddy of non-relational data stores:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
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> What if they say "I don't have a computer"?

click

> What if they say "I have three computers, which one?"

"We're going to need to check all of them."
Good. A lot of developers justified doing it in their own projects because Twitter and Gawker were doing it. Now that one of the headline sites is no longer using it (and will hopefully condem it) we can file this episode to history and never speak of it again.

Edit: wouldn't it be awesome if Google (they did start this, afterall) would allow sites using hashbangs to auto-update all indexed URls
No, but the author is CEO of Singular Computing, LLC: http://singularcomputing.com/

(not that there's anything there)
I'm a moderator on the Quant Finance Stack Exchange. This link has been posted to HN before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934042

And I'll say what said then: The accepted answer on the SE comes from someone who doesn't even work in quantitative finance. In fact, most of the answers on there are totally speculative and should be taken with the proverbial grain they deserve.
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> If you mean to mean that normalization matters only for transactional processing, I dare disagree.

I think we are, actually, in agreement. The benefits of ACID are essential to OLTP. It also so happens that normalised data can be written fasted as it only needs to be written in once per datum.

As for Wikipedia, I think there's two reasons. First would be path dependence, second would be that their data is (I'm guessing) easily partitionable.
The actual URL for the informative blog post is this: http://danwebb.net/2011/5/28/it-is-about-the-hashbangs

The linked blog post only contains some relatively meaningless Twitter messages and the hyperlink as text, not as an actual link.

One of the things the post doesn't mention (it's sort of implicit in "going under the radar") is that with hash bangs, every request has double the round trip time to retrieve the initial data being displayed, as the server cannot know what data the client wants to retrieve. This makes a lot of nifty performance optimizations impossible.
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Fixable for technical people, sure.

Not for the average user. The user who uses the default web browser. The user who uses IE.
Do you know how long ago Gawker dropped them?
So it's basically a digital slide-rule. Am I the only one picturing a million guys in neckties moving a slide rule at a rate of 1 billion times per second?
That, and they handle transcoding to all kinds of different formats for us.
XP SP2 made the firewall default and enabled. If Chrome disabled it for themselves and started uploading user files when the computer was idle, will that make it okay since it was Microsoft who installed the firewall by default and not the user?

MS tries to market their browser as safer and with more privacy features. Presumably some users trust MS to go with safe defaults. And Google tries to break that by intentionally breaking the standard for their profit by recording the users' browsing habits on their tracking servers and you are sympathetic to Google because they would make less profit if they didn't do this?
Like the idea! I agree that the webpage needs some improvements. I'd get rid of the white stucco pattern, and I noticed that you have four videos, three of facebook apps and the fourth about an android app. For me, that would be the first to showcase, bring it to the homepage!

Ps the kid without the body creeps me out too.
The main difference is Debian isn't quite as user friendly out of the box. Sudo isn't set up for you for example so you'll be in for a surprise the first time you try to use it. Also, Debian isn't quite as pretty. The fonts aren't as good and the desktop looks quite a bit dated. The upside is Debian at least for me is much faster. I don't know what Canonical did to Ubuntu 11.10 but it drug for me. Also, Debian doesn't crash at all at least for me whereas Ubuntu did suffer some random instability.

That having been said, I like the idea of Ubuntu. I like the fact that they are trying to move the Linux desktop forward and I will happily return if they can get Unity straightened out. As it stands though, I'm a content Debian user for the forseeable future.
Microsoft, Google and Apple all agree that your privacy should not be sacrificed for the sake of their competitors making a buck.
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There's nothing ruling out the possibility of an afterlife either. Ergo, by your logic pursuing them is an undeniably good idea.

As I said before, extending lifespan is worth pursuing. Living longer is technically achievable. But eternal life is pure fantasy. Death comes for us all, and unless we face that fact squarely, we won't use what time we have as well as we could.
Raise your hand if you want the product liability exposure caused by your code potentially having 1% (or whatever) errors in calculations.
It's not really about Grove vs HipChat but more IRC vs HipChat. IRC is a really old and open protocol, meaning that hackers built lots of tool around it and already love it. But it's a pain to configure and maintain it if you've got more important things to do. (Like building your app). A couple years ago, I believe grove wouldn't have stand a chance against the hacker mentality of "I'll do it myself", but now that more and more companies need to go as fast as possible, it makes sense to pay a little bit to have a service that's stable and just work out of the box.

And, for me personally, I hate HipChat clients (IIRC they run on a crap adobe version?) and I like using the existing tools I have for IRC. For instance, I've already setup everything to work on my vps with irssi, with the plugins I want, the theme I want, etc. I don't want a "new and prettier" solution to a solved problem.
irc ? 2012 ? .................................
~6 months ago IIRC

they constantly had problems with their redesign and the last update involved removing the hashbangs
Interesting, I've been using 11.10 on a netbook since last fall, and on a new laptop since January, incluing daily use of VirtualBox and KeePass(2, not x), two of my top 10 most frequently used apps. Zero stability issues, I've been very happy with it.

I wonder if there's some hardware issues, or something else you've got installed that's causing those problems.
I got curious and looked at a Google Map of the place. It seemed that the neighborhoods mentioned covered a majority of the older urban neighborhoods close to downtown.

Perhaps they are indeed all hellholes. If so, I'm very glad I don't live anywhere in Chattanooga. I have never been there, and perhaps it would be idiotic for anyone to take them up on their offer.

But I admire them for trying. I'd like to see more American cities succeed in reviving their urban cores. In so many places in America you have to be a half-hour commute from downtown to live in a safe neighborhood with good schools... and that's just sad.
That's a good question. First, I believe that intelligence agencies are already well aware of the potential of technology like this, and at least some, like the NSA, could very well be ahead of public research. Second, research such as ours is intended to demonstrate a proof of concept, and it takes a lot of work to turn it into a reliable tool — for example, we restrict ourselves to English text. For those two reasons, I think our work does little to directly help governments and other oppressive entities. On the other hand, publicly available research is effective (we hope) in raising awareness of the threat, so on balance it does more good than harm to people writing political blogs.

As for practical tips to defeat stylometry and such, organizations like the EFF specialize in doing that, so I will leave that to them. Comparative advantage, etc. If you would like to help, you are more than welcome.
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This is an absurd argument. Apple's profit margins have always been significantly higher than any other competing electronics or computer manufacturer.
That is what Canonical is pushing for, you get Unity and GTK, if you don't like it, you are probably one apt-get install away from changing it. To accomodate Ubuntu to my needs I hack the hell out of it, it takes me hours to get it right, to make OS X work the way I like it's just an hour or less, but I have more power over Ubuntu than OS X.

The problem however with choice is maintainability and duplication.
Do we really need so many window managers? Why not have only one that actually works?
While it's cool to have multiply desktop environments for almost every distro, it has it's toll, somebody has to maintain and test those.
What would we have if we had combined the effort that was put into Libre Office, Abiword, KOffice, Open Office and the rest?

Don't get me wrong I love having control over every bit of the OS and I love being able to choose, but I feel we could sacrifice some of it it for the greater good.
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So right. Not deciding what to do is deciding to do nothing in my book.
I agree that ATM's are a bad solution to this. The issue there though is loose coupling of third party financial networks though compared to a general need for consistency in terms of one's own financial needs.

But loose coupling between third party payment networks (say debit card purchases over Cirrus) and the bank is not really the same problem as using Cassandra at Facebook.
Me too. After all, the employer is likely to hire lots of people. But I have only one life to live and I'm going to spend most of it at work... so doesn't it make sense for me to ensure that I choose the job I most enjoy?
> a once-promising search startup

Really, I never thought so. I remember them being DOA.
> Am I misunderstanding something, or do these scammers literally call people's phones and tell them out of the blue that their computer is infected?

Incredible as it sounds, that is literally what they do. My wife got called by these scammers last week but she knew enough to be suspicious and respond that her computer expert husband would look into it. :) (FWIW we live in Melbourne, Australia.)

This type of scam is one unfortunate side-effect of extremely cheap internet based telecommunications.
I recognize it's a judgement call, but I'm sympathetic to breaking P3P because P3P is a crappy standard that doesn't actually do much to protect your privacy. In 2012, P3P is best known as the thing that breaks your single sign-on solution in IE.
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The nice thing about Vimeo is people can download the videos (at least I can); easier to view them anywhere. I'd pay the $60/year for Vimeo Plus, if it turns out to be a good solution. (http://vimeo.com/plus)

[Edit: Ah, thanks scottjad! I was starting to search for ways to download them off blip.tv, you saved me lots of time.]
Only inter-site links incur the double round trip (and in NewTwitter's case, serious load time); intra-site links should be faster.
Could you please avoid personal attacks? They add nothing to your argument while making the discussion less pleasant and civil.

I don't mean to single you out, but I've just been seeing too many of them lately.
Hmm. This was a fresh vanilla install that I tried recently on the same hardware that runs debian wheezy. I wanted to have all the benefits of ubuntu's large community (PPAs for a lot of sofware etc, plus I do generally agree with the direction that ubuntu is heading in), but the lack of stability was just killer.
True.

The why seems simpler: camouflage.
> As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years.

Presumably these people are trying to change that. If Eastern TN sucks for hackers, and I have no reason to doubt you -- then it seems gratitude is called for rather than derision.
> You don't have to know an entire operator precedence table to read and write idiomatic infix-notation code.

If it's "idiomatic", why is there such disagreement?

> Why then has math (which is read and written only by humans)

Convention has a lot of value. That said, mathematicians don't have to worry about getting things wrong. It's just paper, and they're happy to let humans fix up the errors.

> Parentheses are always available to clarify more complicated expressions.

Unnecessary parentheses are how humans deal with the fact that they can't handle infix.
This article really gives the impression that Cuil was a bigger deal than it was.
It doesn't seem to detect logins if third-party cookies are blocked. I had all third-party cookies blocked, and it didn't detect me logged into any of the sites. Disabled blocking, and it detected me logged into Google and G+.
You realize that's a forest of [citation needed], right?
For example, I noticed the NLP no/not problem before I had heard of NLP. I noticed that people habitually create circumstances they fear and this was one of the ways I sought to explain it. You can't imagine a negative, so try as far as you can to think about what you want, not what you don't.

This being said there were a lot of things I never really thought were correct in NLP or at least never worked for me. Some of the emphasis on puns for example.....
I flagged this because it's just Microsoft trying to flame war with Google. These headers have been an annoyance every time I have had to consider them.

This is a clear example of Microsoft's 'extend' and 'embrace' strategy that destroyed so many platforms. The MS series of browsers were the only ones to adopt this before being recommended as a spec. The spec was never adopted.
349.99/mo for residential gigabit service.
As for businesses, I couldn't get listings for that, but per my original information, that is also cost prohibitive.

Their "30" plan (I'm guessing that means 30mbps) is just as expensive as my much faster cable offerings from comcast.

I stand by my original statement.

I won't argue with you that your salary in any way disputes the average open source salaries in that area and their general absurdity.
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That's a lot of words to express "It's iDisk for Windows."
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Is it, though? Canonical states quite clearly that they employ a TEAM of designers to handle the UX aspects of Ubuntu. Unless you're suggesting that they're micro-managed, for which you'd need to supply some proof.
I would expect every site to be extremely liberal with what they request, since, in this case, there is little to no indication to the user as to what's being sent to whom. Developers are going to add the header to get the data because that's what's necessary to get their stuff working.

Ultimately, P3P comes down to the honor system. Unfortunately, that doesn't work on the internet.
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You should also have an idea of what the market value of your desired name is, try reviewing sites like www.namebio.com to get an idea of past domain sales.
can't they just do a one-line .htaccess regex replace? or is it more complicated than that?
This isn't for general purpose computing. This would only be used for specific domains where 1% errors don't matter. No one's going to be using this for financial transactions.
The article mentions it already, but if this style of programming piques your interest and you don't know about underscore.js, it's absolutely worth your time to check it out:

http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/
In 2 sided markets network effects can keep margins high since going to one of the 300 kick starter competitors may mean not getting your project funded.

I doubt their fee will go down ever.
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You can download from blip.tv too, but it's not obvious how. You can either get the urls from http://blip.tv/clojure/rss or you can use a program like #{youtube-dl movgrab cclive}
To be fair though, the author warns about this several times.
"intra-site links should be faster"

Why? With proper caching, all you need is the new content. Which possibly entails a few KB of HTML boilerplate and a few milliseconds for the browser to render it, but the round trip is the lengthy part and you get that either way. The only thing hashbangs get you is a prettier transition.
then how would you actually block third-party cookies as a Safari user?
Why not actually follow the P3P standard and then have a flag in the Ad preferences page to enable 3rd party cookies?

>...as they preferring the privacy settings their users have directly given them rather than those set in the browser.

That's extremely misleading. That's a default as well and not something that the user have "directly given them". I seriously doubt more than 0.1% of Google users have ever visited that page.
I agree that a long life is theoretically possible. I personally suspect that even if we overcome the body problems, neither human brains nor human minds will be able to cope with that, so that anything truly long-lived will be a post-human organism.

I also agree with you that the various theoretically possible techno-miracles likely won't mean much for us than a modestly longer old age. So I think everybody should really come to grips with what dying means. E.g., by filling out a living will and discussing end-of-life issues with family. If it turns out that preparation is wasted, I don't think anybody will complain too much.
The redirection has to be done on the client-side, because the server never receives the fragment identifier as part of the URL.
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Nope, because anything after the # isn't included in the HTTP GET request made to the server - so a .htaccess-level redirection won't see it. You have to execute actual JavaScript on the client to read and redirect the #! bit.
GC may be faster in terms of total amount of time spent managing memory but smart pointers are more predictable. Many domains in which C++ is used are more sensitive to the performance spikes that can arise in GC'd environments than they are to the more expensive but also more spread out cost of managing reference counted objects. Many video game technical directors would choose spending 1ms/30hz frame in memory bookkeeping rather than going 29 frames with no problems only to encounter a 15ms GC hiccup.
You could just actually track your sleep cycles:

http://www.myzeo.com/sleep/
That is the fundamental problem with hashbangs: the server receives "GET / HTTP/1.1" and the client uses javascript to render the hashbang. The server has no idea a hashbang is present until after it sends javascript to run client-side.
I think my comment in it's full form addresses the veiled absurdity of their approach, so I'm not sure what your point is.