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Re [Debian/Ubuntu], wait, they incorporated the fix on 17 June 2011, but the patch is being exposed now on the nginx mailing list?

Edit: changed [2] to [Debian/Ubuntu]
How well does it work with formatted email?
$2-4M/person, just for the people. Boy does this sound like the telecom bubble, and the internet bubble before that.

The music is playing, find a chair.
In the end, I guess that it all depends on who your superiors are. Before this episode I worked with other people, and my extra effort was rewarded - nothing spectacular, but I both got a monetary compensation, and the possibility to pursue a project of my own proposal.

With my current manager it took me some time to understand that his promises were written on water. Add to that a daughter, a mortgage and the crisis, and he probably felt it safe enough to screw me. I hope to prove him wrong soon enough ;)
How would this be done and is it practical? Deep packet inspection and a database of copyrighted material to compare against? Watermarks in copyrighted files?
Anonymous-OS - a response from SourceForge
Dwellable for iPad - beautiful vacation rental search
Funklet - Funky Beats with the Web Audio API
There is actually something _else_ they could do; run a service where you forward your email to an address on their end (with GMail's autoforward thing or whatever); they push notifications to you based on that. Of course, that would require server infrastructure, and there'd still be privacy concerns (though lesser ones, as they wouldn't have to _store_ anything).
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Wow. I thought this might be something I could send to my parents to explain this stuff, but it's just some guy being snarky and sarcastic and playing to "us" for laughs. I guess if your goal is feeling superior, it's a worthwhile diversion.
"Listen to how Vic Gundotra talks about Google+ as opposed to how Zuckerberg talks about Facebook."

Many similarities and differences in how they talk--which particular differences do you have in mind?
That's what the barista suggested, while kindly pointing out that would cost about half as much.

The customer insisted on the order as originally stated, and happily paid the extra two bucks for it.
My main problem with Digg is it blew up largely because Rose got to shamelessly plug it on ScreenSavers.

A LOT of ideas can succeed when you get to skip the whole network effect hurdle.

I think he has some insightful thoughts once in a while (like predictions he makes on Diggnation), and he did a great job parlaying Digg into Rev3.

I'm also pretty jealous he'll get a paycheck to say "Hey this feature would be cool" or use his celebrity to push Google+.
The first lesson of economics is that sale prices have nothing to do with _cost_ and everything to do with willingness to pay. Price discrimination is possible in only certain limited market segments; national borders happen to be one convenient such segmentation.
It will be interesting to see if markets want this product??

There is an ongoing debate going on as to whether people are comfortable with the amount of requests for "various connections".

Good luck..the product looks easy enough!!
Shipping ideas is hard and is a multi phased process in which technical building is only a small portion. Finding an audience, not f'ing up your product once adopted, growing your team and letting the experts do their job without hopping in to meddle is just as difficult to do. I am not the biggest fan of how Oink was handled, but this guy clearly creates and understands leverage and in 9/10 cases that is more valuable than the perfect technical product.
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A lack of sex drives flies to drink
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Good write up - keep them coming! We've done our experiments as well and plan on moving more to this direction.

Would love to hear how you end up dealing with more nested collections and model loading / persistence.
Moral fiber is no doubt important. So, too, is culture. But it is a mistake to understand culture without also understanding incentives. The culture that Smith praises was the product of a firm with a particular legal form, in a particular financial environment. At just about the same time, both particularities changed. And given these changes, it is no wonder that the culture Mr. Smith celebrates soon disappeared.
As far as I know it only uses Facebook to pull display pictures for received emails, which is actually a pretty cool feature.
Unless they have some new control scheme, I don't think my hands will stand up to the intense mouse clicking this game needs.
Alex - I agree with the above example, but my definition of a generalist is someone who knows a little bit of everything - engineering, sales, marketing etc. An awesome programmer is still a deep expertise in my opinion. But I get your point.
The vulnerability from last year sounded similar and I therefore initialy mixed them. Updated my comment.
That half-baked idea got hundreds of thousands of users in 3 months. That is success.

Just because your definition of skills is limited to writing code does not mean having connections, being good at marketing, PR or selling has no value. It's exactly the same mentality we developers hate when idea-men want to hire us as code-monkeys to implement their perfect vision.

Reading stories on tech blogs does not mean you know how much hard work someone put into their whimsical-seeming startup. Being a celebrity certainly does not automatically imply you don't have to work hard.

And just working really really hard also does not entitle you to success. Life is unfair. Get used to it.
Let the guy work, let the market evaluate his results.
Kurt,
While I support wholeheartedly this adventurism, don't you think focusing all your energy into your start-up would be more effective and beneficial than spending all this time in San Fran dealing with these "inconveniences"?

My suggestion is ask that friend who offered you his couch, if it's ok to stay there for a month. Then use that month to get your shit together.

You can pay him back by cooking dinners, keeping your stuff clean and being a considerate human. Later on, when you hit the big time, you can buy him a month long vacation.
This was my exact thought process.

Burka has great UI skill. I really don't know what value Rose could bring to Google.
Well said, thanks raganwald!

Being a writer myself, I'm sensitive (probably overly) to the amount of work that goes into a piece like that. The fact that Annie made herself learn Ruby and get deep enough into the specifics of Matz, _why, dhh and the whole Ruby mythology I think needs to be encouraged. Not a lot of writers take that amount of care and time to understand their subject the way she did. It was good journalism.
However, the Digg redesign was prematurely deployed because the old code could simply no longer handle the load. At least that was the story. Who knows what it could have been if it were released on the intended schedule.
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That's just incredible. Milk made one application, gave it away for free, summarily shut it down, and sold for $15 - $30 million. I understand these guys are very talented, and that Google was buying the talent more than the product, but that's quite a price for some gifted people!
The problem is that the headline is wrong and the Turing Award isn't a Nobel Prize. It may be similar in prestige to a Nobel, but it is awarded by different people.

Maybe there is no harm in saving people from having to do a search, but there is harm in being misleading.
This is a fairly content-less piece. As near as he comes to naming a specific problem or proposing a specific solution is this quote:

> Robert Reich, for example, has long argued that "professional companies should not be permitted to become publicly held corporations." As he puts it, "Such a step puts them into high-stakes competition for investors, pushing them to maximize profits over their responsibilities to the public."

And even that's pretty hand-wavy. What makes a "professional company" and why would such a thing have a "responsibility to the public" above and beyond any other company?

Goldman may be a bogeyman to a lot of folks, but at least they had the sense to get out of the crazy CDO world as fast as they could. If you're going to spend pages explaining how "toxic" the environment is there, some specific, verifiable examples would be nice. Neither Smith nor Lessig provide any. Goldman's clients aren't morons, and if they thought they could do better elsewhere, they were and are free to stop doing business with GS. Until you can really nail Goldman with black and white evidence of fraud, it's hard to take these generalized allegations seriously.
FYI - the ban was not his idea. He was very much against the idea. There was quite an internal struggle during the course of that day.
This is the wrong storyline. Reddit didn't evolve from Digg.

They started around the same timeframe and it was as much Mac/PC in terms of fanboyishness. Reddit won because of the power of subreddits and capturing the long tail for content and communities.

What's out of touch with your story is that Digg users thought Reddit's UX was horrifying and avoided it like the plague. Even to this day without enhancement suites I wouldn't crown Reddit to be the pinnacle of UX. It's very much Linux terminally compared to Digg's Mac.

Finally, this jaded bitterness that Kevin Rose got $1.7MM to piss away...

If you were worth getting $1.7MM to piss away you would have had $1.7MM to piss away.
Having certain subset/derivative of a game NP-hard is orthogonal to it being difficult for humans to play.
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> It also means that when you change a function signature, the compiler can't tell you all the call sites you need to fix. You have to find them through testing. This is a large barrier to aggressive refactoring.

This is a problem inherit to every dynamic language. You sacrifice brain-dead refactoring for improvements and tradeoffs elsewhere. Not to mention that modern IDEs and tools like Rope [1] can definitely help.

[1] http://rope.sourceforge.net/
Sorry to say, but The Broken is not coming back.
My problem with the sizes is that I wouldn't have thought there war that much graphical content in that sort of application. Just toolbar (and other) button images, a few for fancy effects on the apps "crome" and a high res image or two for splash screens. Perhaps I'm behind the times there?
What does it matter if Twitter goes down? The odds of it happening for an extended time right at the beginning of an EC2 outage are rather small, and even in that worst-case scenario, it doesn't really put us in any worse of a position than we're in now.
What I still haven't figured out is the best way to do responsive web apps with Backbone.js. Off the top of my head I can only think of two, Flow and AudioVroom. Flow uses separate javascripts for both versions. AudioVroom, has one file, but it's minified and I haven't had a chance to trying to reverse engineer it to see how they implemented the different layouts in a mobile, tablet and desktop environment.
> Don't you think there should be a term for the phenomenon where someone makes it more or less clear that they have said all they're going to say about something on a message board, and still people come out of the woodwork to write comments cajoling them into saying more?

Don't take this the wrong way, but I think it was the tone of the response.

I.e.
"What are the implications of this?"
"It's a bad bug, patch it ASAP"
"....."

It's the kind of non-response one would expect from a management type to a low level engineer. Somewhat odious to the average hacker, in other words.

(I could be COMPLETELY off the mark here, and if so, please disregard this entire message)
I understand why you'd think that, but I really feel that my current situation will allow me to focus completely on work. I'll be spending all my time in the co-working spaces, and simply sleep in my car. It's looking like there are several better options for showers than I wrote about, so that's not going to be much of a distraction.

But again, I really don't know what the daily routine will be like until I'm actually doing it. So if the situation proves to be having a negative affect, then I'll look for alternatives.
iirc that policy was reversed within a day or two and there was no major exodus from digg as a result of the event
> Facebook-based link-sharing games are loser projects you need to avoid.

Can I be any more clearer and constructive to a young developer looking to break into the industry?

Okay, maybe I should've added that if you need the money, feel free to do the work but don't go putting your name on it and make sure get paid up front.

I'm not speculating on what intentions the two non-technical people on the team have as when I see one year's worth of work from lightbulb to launch manifested in that weekend project of a poorly conceived website, I already know they have no clue what the next step is and therefore it's a waste of time to even think about it. It's a couple of dudes trying to find unsigned talent through clicks measurements on Facebook.

Didn't see that movie. Was it any good?
Can I follow up with you on your experience (even second-hand) with music promotion? This seems like a key part of any attack on the RIAA's stranglehold on music today.
I agree that it's a bad way to install new software but I was merely suggesting a way to upgrade nginx that was installed this way in the first place, I assumed the OP meant that by asking for a "stable way to update nginx installations from source.". The fact that I did it on Gentoo is irrelevant here.

I love portage, I use it whenever I can. In this case, I think I've did it like that because something was messed up with Passenger support in the port. It's the only package installed from source (bypassing portage) on my system and it's not an orphan in a way that /opt was dedicated purely for such scenarions. I can see all such packages by listing /opt assuming I keep the install prefix convention.

In any case, thanks for pointing that this is a wrong way to install packages, someone might benefit from this indeed.
I agree and as a kid I always wanted to visit both the Moon and Mars. But for any of this to happen we need a breakthrough that applies Moore's law to $/kg for space travel to become economical. We need cost effective nuclear fusion to increase our energy budget. Or material science has to advance to the point that space elevators or launch loops and similar become feasible. Does anyone know the timeline on those?
I think the term everyone here is looking for is "overrated". If you really think he is, stop talking about him and go on with your business. You're giving him the attention that you claim he doesn't deserve.
Congrats to you and Moses :P!
Curious to know what powers zCloud. Do they use eucalyptus/openstack kind of open source cloud platform? Also glad to know that this open source cloud platforms have become so powerful. Thanks nati for sharing it, btw i like Gigaspaces alot .
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I'd like to see an example situation to make this point. We'd need something that is "NP-hard" but which is laughably easy for a human to deal with. I've no ideas though.
Add a destroy() method to your views that unbinds any events bound in the initialize() method or other methods and then calls remove() on `this` (for every .on() have a corresponding .off()). Call this .destroy() method instead of remove(). Most of the time this should free up all references so the javascript GC can sweep and clean up old views.

Another option is to reuse the same views and never re-render the same view twice.
Opacity has problems and quirks, but I enjoy it a lot, actually.

Its concepts of factories + variables more it quite powerful indeed.
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Thanks! RE: Nested collections, we ended up playing around with Backbone relational as an extension to backbone ( https://github.com/PaulUithol/Backbone-relational) to deal with nested and multi relational collections. In short, whenever faced with a more complex relation, we took the easiest path possible which was normally a matter of creating another collection relating two entities. As far as client side persistence, we did not address that. Its on our backlog, but for right now we are just relying on our API to serve up the right subset of data with every call.
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Ever wonder why it's so inconvenient to rip a DVD you own and play it on another device? This is only one of the many, many issues these guys deal with daily.
I am very much aware of the double-edge sword nature of macros, and therefore follow and aid their progress with much trepidation. The single thing that sold be was that macros by themselves already could replace a compiler phase, which did code reification (i.e. generate ASTs at run-time; something that's needed for LINQ like technologies). So in that sense, macros, if they arrive, would already have paid for themselves. Concerning possible misuse, I believe the best thing we can do is give an option to developers. So we plan to enable macro definitions only if a special import is present. Something like:

import language.macros

Of course that will not prevent misuse, but it will make it much easier to enforce policies, if someone desires that.
Yep...why go through the normal interview process to work at Google when you can get acqui-hired, get paid the same, but get a million-dollar "signing bonus"?
great call. Seems like every piece is being shredded to its bones. Ycombinator and pg is really humming the disruptive tune.

I have been looking along the lines, thanks.
How to describe without loosing ownership of idea 
I have an idea that I want to develop and build -but because it's not already out there in the form I plan to deliver - how can I share to get the support ($ and builders, etc). It's a really good receipe - it brings many things together in one place. My existing hurdles at the moment - funding and the right developers - which wouldn't likely be so difficult if I could at least describe it safely.
While I agree with the points you make regarding the industry The OP answers your question in his post - albeit without directly addressing any of your negative points about the industry.

For whatever reason, this video incited a thought about the power of free music and the power of fans as promoters of the music they love. This concept consumed me.

And...

If you are ever consumed by an idea, focus on that idea and see where it takes you. Your obsession with it likely means that it embodies your passions and values.
One thing I do with my books is I actually meet up with beginners and watch them try to use it. It seems every time I do that I find something new I hadn't anticipated. Like recently I changed the first exercise of LPTHW to have screenshots of what they will literally see:

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/ex1.html

I met with a beginner and watched her go through the first exercise, and she didn't understand that she's needed to type "print" and not the line numbers. I talked her through it then realized if I just show a screenshot then people could step from literal thinking about the code blocks in the book to abstract thinking in one exercise.

Same for the terminal/powershell screenshots. People didn't get that they just type into powershell. They thought they had to run python, then type the powershell commands into the python REPL.

Doing this kind of "usability study" on my books, and having the comments on each exercise, has really taught me a lot.
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Hacker Mindset
* Many startup acquisitions are speculated or known to be about acquiring the team rather than acquiring the product.

* Consultancies are nominally the experts you call to compensate for gaps in your inside staff.

* You can run a contract with a consultancy first, and consider acquisition only if it goes well and if their people fit well with your people.

If you were aiming for that particular exit strategy, it sounds like it could be much more effective than building a random web / mobile product without a sustainable revenue model beyond "get funding, hope it lasts until someone buys you."
Just a stylistic nitpick: the CSS shadow letterpress effect is fine for titles and other places where emphasis is needed, but it's just distracting when applied to large swaths of code.

I tried to leave this comment on their blog but the only options were to comment using Facebook, Yahoo!, AOL, or Hotmail...
I completely agree.

Even better, learn to both hack and hustle. That is truly where the magic happens.
Don't hate the player, hate the game my friend.
> I have not noticed any reduction in battery performance since moving from 15 minute polls.

Push should be less taxing on the battery, since you only really need to fire up the radio when new data is coming your way, save any overhead of ensuring the connection is still alive. Apple does the same for their notifications (and ActiveSync) for the same reasons.

> If Apple can't do it for iOS, that is a flaw in their design, or their thinking.

It's not really a flaw, just a different methodology that is reasonable given the design goals. If you want iOS to be like Android, why not just use Android? That's the beauty of competition – you are free to choose the best.
I agree that knowing how to code is not utmost necessary. But don't you think it's highly important and, at least,very close to necessary? An idea/product guy will never come up with a solution he didn't know was technically viable. So his pool of solutions is more limited than that of a hacker. He'll also waste time overthinking ideas that are not technically viable. So he's not as efficient.

You don't need both legs to run a marathon. But it's so important to have them both. That it's no coincidence that every great runner has them both.
> quite a price for some gifted people!

Every time I saw this happen in the 90s the result was the same: Small team shows up in big company after big $$, gets frustrated with big company BS, doesn't really care and runs down the game clock until vesting is nearly complete, leaves without fanfare.

I'm sure there must be counter examples, please let me know some if you have them.
"I managed this process strategically"

Remind me never to work with ex-bankers
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Um he had an idea, paid someone to build it (ojbyrne on HN). Promoted it on air in his role at TechTV and had it take off.

Right, so he made it a success.

I just find it disheartening sometimes that developers (and I am one) seem to think that good code is all that matters. It isn't. You can have the most functional, highly-tuned web site in the world and have no-one use it.

Even if Kevin Rose is nothing but a giant hype machine then he deserves credit for being a giant hype machine. Digg would have failed if he wasn't.
Forgive me for not knowing this, but when an acquisition like this happens that is solely for the talent, do the developers themselves get any part of those millions, or does it all simply go to the company owner?

If it does all go to the owner, what would stop the developers from banding together and leaving all at once so they could pick up those millions directly, instead?
Ah, what a day that was.