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> Instead, I have my own theory about how we should interview programmers: have the candidate give a 15 minute presentation on their area of expertise. ... The one thing every programmer should know, per Steve Yegge, is how to market yourself, your code, and your project. I wholeheartedly agree. Now pitch me!

Yikes!

This really looks like an anti-test. I'd rather work with people who don't know how to market themselves -- that marketing skill would distort every technical discussion I had with them.

Even if that is a skill you want, a programmer who's really bad will almost certainly know how to bluff for 15 minutes -- they've been practicing their entire career! -- whereas a good programmer hit with that will probably wobble a bit looking for a topic.

Even if you have a extraordinary bullshit detector, it's still a poor signal. It won't tell you what the candidate is weak at -- and that's often the most important thing to determine.
There are so a lot more patterns of high availability architectures other than load balancing.

Distributed Queues, Pub/Sub, Gossip just a few that come to mind.

In your example, you are using what is called a classical three-tier web architecture - a Load Balancer + Stateless Nodes + Scalable Storage. The most interesting part of HA setup in a three-tier web architecture is HA setup of the persistent storage component. It looks like you actually haven't figured that out that piece yet and are waiting for a vendor (Microsoft) to solve this for you.

You can improve availability of your persistent storage (MSSQL) in several simple (or not so simple ways):

1. Use a SQL proxy load balancer (or a cluster setup) - a similar load balancer HA pattern you are already using

2. Shard. You will scale writes and significantly reduce the probably of your system becoming completely unavailable.
I cannot agree more on this. I am facing a similar predicament and with me being here in India right now around my mom.

I have taught her how to copy and paste files from PC to USB drive. She is a teacher, speaks english and is generally adept at other things. But, she just cannot grasp how to navigate file systems, the menus, the basic actions needed to move things around. Needless to say I have to explain them over and over again.

However, when she uses my iphone/ipad she finds is remarkably simple and easy to navigate. The underlying theme is the simplicity through limitation. The less there is to know, the easier it is to deal with. There is clearly a space for tablets for simple minds.
Judging from the amount of people on old iPhones and iPads complaining about how every new version of iOS slows things down or is just plain not supported on their older model, that quote sounds rather... imaginative.
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age does not matter.
See my response to andylei below.
The article links another article which shows, graphically, how long a number of popular Android phones were getting updates - including security patches. According to it, Android users are lucky to be getting updates after a mere 10 months. Including security patches. And that's assuming you buy the phone immediately after it hits the market.
I am a frequent flier and hate this stuff as much as the next guy, but doesn't this just argue (from the TSA point of view) that the TSA should be using BOTH the metal detector and the body scanners?
I'm curious: considering you have read all of Manning's books and have been doing NLP for a long time, what do you expect to get out of the class?

I took one NLP class at grad school but I don't remember much of it (besides it was in Japanese, which is my 3rd language). I'm trying to decide whether to sign up for the course or just get one of the books and study it at my own pace. I'm tending to the latter since 10 hours a week is quite a lot to fit in my schedule.
It's a "transformational device" in the sense that it allows people who didn't need/want to learn how to use a computer to use a computer.

I believe iPad didn't turn a computer user into an iPad user but it turned every non-computer person into an computer person.

It enabled none-tech oriented people to actually enjoy using a computer. I think this is the true revolution of an iPad.
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Halfway, but I could foresee using a sort of reverse image version of it on the project I just started. I am talking about how you extended icon-heart to icon-heart-empty.

I guess you would take the little "white" mini drop/glare inside and turn it black, then remove the fill and just keep the outer drop outline. If it looks okay and isn't too much trouble, I would probably put it to use. I do have an old version of some font software I might be able to figure it out if you end up sharing files too.
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Can't make it (have to do the Awesome Foundation party at that time), but great job hosting one.
Just wondering, is it possible to combine this with the font we use in the website so we don't need to download two separate fonts? Maybe some command line tool?
Sure it is. They own the root, they can return an RR marked as authoritative for any domain in the system.
Maybe they are embedding them in apps/ business pages.
That's awesome. I will get that changed right away.

My mom is comfortable with iPad but with Hindi language, she will really feel confident and won't worry about 'breaking' the computer and would experiment more. Thank you very much.
Android apps that look good on tablets? With 2.2?? Dream on.
Yeah, whatever. Find me one person that doesn't want a super high resolution digital tablet.

This stuff was Science-Fiction just 5 years ago. If Apple didn't bring it to use we'd be using desktop GUI computers forever.
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> Sure, but it's not like that distinction is really important for the programmer. For most intends and purposes, he can just think of those as keyword identifiers

(I'll use lisp conventions, it's what I'm used to)

What you're saying is for coders, saying

(doit x y :withFloat 5 :key "string")

has no important distinctions with

[foo doit:x:y withFloat:5 key:"string"]

But keywords have defaults if they're missing. And furthermore you can have them in any order. So to implement the equivalent of the Lisp method above, I'd have to implement all of the following methods in Objective-C

doit::withFloat:key:
doit::key:withFloat:
doit::withFloat:
doit::key:
doit::

That's just for two keywords. What happens when you have ten?
You really can't say that about many other brands. If I had to guess I would say you have to make pretty great devices, for a while, before you get that kind of brand loyalty.

Also, the question is do you think this is a marginal improvement and if so what would they have to do to make this more than a marginal improvement?
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>The endless parade of fragmentation discussions regarding Android all prove one thing: a lot of people don't understand what wins a market.

market share is useless if your users are not spending money.

Android is in the same position as Nokia 10 yrs ago. And we all know how much Nokia profited from their enormous market share.
Slightly offtopic, but why is Font making software so damn expensive? I'd love to help on this and other open source font efforts but there's no way I am buying $400 software.

Corel Draw for windows has TTF exporting built-in. I think this should be an AI feature.
Vapid or not, everyone is entitled to their opinions. If you can't accept that, you are not welcome on HN discussion either. End of story.

Simply stated, if HN is heading towards Reddit-like behavior where comments must gear towards "singular" minded thinking, that's the also the day I stop visiting this site.
> The increased cost of student loans can cause lawyers to move into specialities that are higher paying, causing shortages in one area and surpluses in others.

This is circular. You're arguing that shortages in some areas are causing higher prices, but then arguing that lawyers are leaving certain areas for the areas that pay higher salaries. You can't say that prices are high for corporate legal services because supply is restricted while saying that the high cost of legal education causes a surplus of lawyers in areas where salaries (i.e. prices) are the highest.

You can't make sense of the legal market by thinking of it in terms of regulation cutting off supply leading to higher prices. That is not the major operative force in the legal field.

The major operative force is branding, and that drives everything else. Companies pay substantial fees to hire firms with brands. Firms with brands pay substantial salaries to hire attorneys with brands.

There are 200+ ABA-accredited law schools, with 45,000 graduates each year. Only about 10-15% get a job working with a big firm that does corporate work. This is because at a big New York firm, fully a quarter of the new hires might come from Harvard and Yale, and 90% from the top 15 schools. Even with the high cost of legal education there is a huge untapped supply of attorneys who would jump at the chance to work for half as much as Harvard grads to do corporate work. There are no ABA restrictions to hiring these people to do corporate work. What there is is a lack of demand for lower-price lower with lesser credentials in that particular subset of the market.
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What I found interesting in dealing with layers: they charge high rates even for standard contracts, EULAs etc. and when asked if one is safe with their advice, only tell you that courts can decide in whatever way they want - so no.
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status.linode.com is down for me too.
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"Hi, i'm a professional Sysadmin, intermediate Hacker and hobby Coder."
Cute bio. Didn't know being a professional computer janitor was something to be proud of. Also, amazing hack you pulled on your hacker blog where you blog about your hack poem. You're a modern day Edgar Bloggen Poe.
Here let me give a try,

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Blogging is not tweeting.
Blogging is not programming.
Blogging is not learning.
Blogging is not making.
Blogging is not sharing.
Blogging is not networking.

Blogging is not something you do.

Blogging is how you blog.
Ask HN: Is there any point in using mailto: links any more?
I know that you can get a mailto handler for web clients, but from what I've seen not many people use them.

We're moving to an approach where we have a contact form. This doesn't appear to work as well - our guess is that people don't like filling in their email on the web (it's also an extra step).

Does anybody have any hard data on usage of the mailto? We've done some A-B, but don't have enough data to draw out anything significant.
these measures are hit and miss. I always carry clippers and never are confiscated.
I know some people will say this isn't related to HN at all, but it's social media. It's an experiment to see if we can share something at an incredible scale, and this is the tangible result, the real-world benefit, of the technology that all of us strive to develop.

Our solutions make the world better in a slightly better way; Kony 2012 integrates all of our technology to make it better in a grand way. So yes, this is related to HN - as technologists, but also as humans.
jrockway, you're projecting.
Short answer: No.

Lynx/links/elinks are not acceptable substitutes for a modern browser.

The command line is a powerful tool, and it has its place, like any other tool. This just reeks of "all I have is a hammer..." syndrome.
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RMVB files are getting more popular for movies as for they have smaller file sizes and lower bitrates with better quality compared to DIVX files. RMVB is compressed by Real Media video files which are optimized for content of video. That recalls my first RMVB movie -- Roman Holiday, which is black and white film, but it has better video quality.
Since when the number of sales has anything to do with being transformative ? The PS2 sold tons of units. It did not transform anything in the video games industry. The Nintendo DS sold tons, too. Where's the transformation?

The popularity of a device cannot be a good indication of how disruptive/transformative it really is. To be able to judge that, you need to see trends over a much longer period of time. Let's see if tablets are still around and as popular as they are now in about 10 years. Then we can reflect whether they really achieved a transformation or not. For now the only thing that we know for sure has brought computers to a mass number of people, more than the iPad, is the PC. And you can count it in billions of devices sold over the years, not just a dozen of millions. It was transformative because it enabled a number of people to access internet from home and do a number of stuff for a relatively low price and great compatibility across models.

The iPad has no legacy yet. Let's be a little patient before jumping on conclusions on whether it will be important/transformative in computing or not. It might just be a bubble market for all you know.
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Amazing indeed. I would pay for large printouts / posters of some of these -- sadly the shop on the site does not seem to carry anything like it...
Shortly before my parents retired, they decided they wanted a small computer to take on their many trips. I was going to suggest an iPad for them, but to my surprise, they decided on one themselves.

Two weeks later, they bought a second because they couldn't share.

My parents use their iPads as their main internet device. It's what comes with them on trips. It has certainly transformed how they read articles, browse the web, use Facebook, read email, and communicate while traveling.
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To respond to one point in the article:

> Associate salaries are not an efficient, free market.

That is probably true, but the evidence supplied in the article supports an inference the opposite of the one made by the author. If everybody in New York pays $160k as an informal arrangement, that suggests artificially low salaries, not artificially high ones. Why would a bunch of firms act informally in concert to artificially drive up their costs?

And associate salaries, of course, have only an indirect effect on legal fees. The price of a good is directly influenced only by supply and the demand curve. The costs of making the good are irrelevant except to the extent they influence supply. Clients, of course, don't care what associates make. The amount they will pay for services is entirely a function of their demand and the supply of law firms willing to do the work.
> "I'm talking about fragmentation of the basic operating system as deployed in the field.[...] I'm talking about APIs. [...] Apple is deploying and the installed base is rapidly upgrading to much more powerful APIs on the devices in consumers' hands"

The article says iOS newer APIs are better than Android older APIs, but he doesn't seem to back it up. I'm not very familar with iOS as I am with Android. So I would like to learn what exactly am I missing in the iOS API that is better?

As far as I know, Android 2.3 still have many useful APIs for us that iOS 5 is still missing, such as intent filters. And many of the great newer APIs were made backward compatiple, such as tablet/phone layout templating on the same app, and fragments. You can develop with these even if you support older devices. But I personally don't know of any features that the iOS puts available to us that developing for Android 2.3 does not.

If that is true. Then, for the developer perspective, OS API fragmentation only hurts Android when compared to "how much better Android could be". But it's not a problem when compared against iOS, if even Android 2.3 has better API than iOS 5?

So am I wrong here? If I am, could someone point me to a few examples of which awesome API features that iOS offer us that Android doesn't? I'm curious to learn that. Or is the article just full of it?
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Would that work in the face of caching? If my resolver already has .se cached, for example, it wouldn't consult the root at all when looking up thepiratebay.se, right?
Really?

http://www.google.com/search?q=cant+see+other+computers+on+t...
What is unethical about that? The video was going to get views anyway, I was just helping it out. It's like the snowball effect that would occur naturally, except they start with a bigger snowball. I don't do this stuff anymore though, that was when I was younger and in college.
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What he is saying is that you can develop with current APIs fpr 3.0 or 4.0. And still use those to make apps for 2.x. Because many of the newer APIs were made backwards compatible (such as fragments). Android allows you to build a 4.0 tablet optimized app that is also backwards compatible to a 2.2 phone optimized app, while reusing a lot of code and even layout between them.
It would have come sooner or later, it's not because Apple was the first to do it that nobody was thinking about doing such kind of interfaces before. You should know by the history of patents that similar ideas are always flowing around in different places - We would NOT have been using desktop GUIs forever on portable devices.
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Hidden makes a whole lot more sense!
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That's possible as well, but they still would have had to drive traffic to those pages, and again, ads would be too expensive. I had a client who requested that the people be real, and so instead of bot views that normal providers used, I found another guy. Apparently the people were tricked into watching the video with a clickjack from a pr0n website.
You have to watch out, a lot of websites out there that sell views are really just resellers. You have to find the site that is provided to all of them...From what I hear, youtube has been cracking down on their methods pretty well, but the black hatters always evolve and prevail, at least in the short term.
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There is a book at least: http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Star-Wars-Universe/dp/0553...
That's fine if you have W7. I have somewhere between over 20 machines on the network, more at times. A mix of Mac and PC's running a number of OS's, including XP, Vista 64 and Linux (no W7). Windows (any version) is a constant source of headaches when it comes to access to other machines.

We usually get it working, but it is always a bunch of voodoo. For example, two machines that are virual clones of each other can't see each other's shared drives. Both are running V64 Ultimate. Both are connected to the same switch. Both are on the same workgroup. Both have the same accounts and admin privileges setup. Both have network discovery and other relevant settings enabled. Other than different Windows (and other software) licenses they are clones.

Here's the kicker: Out of those two machines that can't see each other, one of them sees all the XP machines just fine while the other doesn't see anything but itself.

To say that this is frustrating is an understatement. A Google search returns lots of results, so I am definitely not alone on this one.

http://www.google.com/search?q=cant+see+other+computers+on+t...