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Agreed, there's a strange attitude in certain groups that seems to believe that entire industries, built to first world standards, with first world pay, should simply fall out of orbit into a developing economy and bring them all the wonderful benefits of the first world. They simply don't understand that to get to a modern developed economy, you have to develop into one. Even South Korea, which has probably one of the fastest third-to-first development stories in history, took decades, and they're only moving about 50 million people up the wealth ladder. They even started with a relatively literate, well educated work force.

Still, I wonder if there are ways of hacking the development curve to get more people and their entire economy moving faster. China for example, appears to be going through a modern version of the industrial revolution, intense pollution and all...and China may be too far along their process for this to matter. But as Chinese wages and conditions improve, the next "cheap place to build our crap" will need to start from someplace...just like many countries are developing telecom infrastructures without landlines, I wonder if future fast-growth developing countries can develop without having to go through the nastiness of an Industrial Revolution.
That's interesting. Give some examples of Marine Corps cultural pathologies.
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Honest question: How can Facebook compete with Apple?
In that case, you might like Concordia (https://github.com/schuttelaar/Concordia). From the same author as RedBeanPHP.
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Same here.. Anyone found a mirror? or contacted the original hoster? I wouldn't mind hosting a torrent if that can help.
What a great story. It reminded me of my own father, who's been gone for 8 years now.

I still vividly remember the first time we played 20 Questions. I must have been about 8 years old. I figured it out in 5 questions. I was so proud.

"That's not the way you're supposed to play the game!" he told me, "You're supposed to figure it out as soon as possible, then ask dumber and dumber questions to make the other person think you don't know. Then on Question 20, you just pop out, 'Is it a razor?'"

I've played that game (and many other real life games) like that ever since. It's amazing how empowering it is for an introverted nerd to enable his adversaries to underestimate him so easily.

Thanks OP for the memories and thanks, Dad, for all the lessons. I can still smell the Old Spice.
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What if Ubuntu were right?
Lol, maybe Microsoft hasn't changed. I like windows on desktop, but I love android on tablet. I guess I'll sticking with android for now.
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Cool, I signed up and will be there.
If your an iPad user, try Textastic app. In my opinion, it's the best source code editor for mobile at the moment. It has syntax highlighting, code completion, symbol navigation, (S)FTP, Dropbox support and great keyboard extension with easy swipe access to all special characters and numbers. See more: http://www.textasticapp.com
I code for living and with this app, coding even on the touchscreen is a breeze.

Your app looks great too, though.
There's a couple notable omissions from C#5, with respect to what was implemented in VB.Net.

- No anonymous iterator functions. They are useful for correctly implementing iterators with eager validation and lazy iteration.

- No type inference when assigning an anonymous function to a local. Determining and typing out a function's type is incredibly slow compared to just 'var'.
What .NET meant for developers back in 2002...
Exactly!

That's the point. Most of us who are tech savvy sometimes have the misconception that "everyone knows how to use social media." This is far from the truth. This tool can be used in companies to train employees, it can be used by small business owners who can learn to market their business, and it can even be used by students to learn a new skill and help them find a job by leveraging their social network.
Has anyone figured out why exactly Microsoft makes such buggy software? Is it a company culture thing?
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You only need a tracker in space, nothing more.

Not sure what the disk usage is of the tracker though. I would guess it all fits in memory ?
That analogy is awful. You can buy a $800 coffee machine, and put it on the factory floor unused for 10 years, and it will not make a difference.
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Care to explain how the OP can avoid further "selfishness and excessive thinking" while he's "finding out why he's doing what he's doing, reaffirming it, and getting inspired again?"

Not only is there no medical basis for this kind of comment, it doesn't make sense. Exhaustion and fatigue are not a character defect. The numerous other comments here from entrepreneurs and developers should attest to that.
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This article is from 1998. A lot has changed since then: Ruby, alternate JVM languages like Clojure and Scala, C#, Perl 6... If I were to make a sweeping historical characterization, I would say that Perl was exactly what people needed in the 1990s when everything was new and nothing worked with anything else and everyone needed lots of duct tape and Perl's wonderful concise syntax made excellent duct tape. I used it during that period, but I just don't use it much anymore.
I'm interested in learning what this will do for I/O speeds, anyone got good pointers?
I'd be interested in seeing what the acquisition would do to apple's stock price
Beautifully, yes.
I associate myself mostly as an Architect first, Starter second.

There is nothing more than I'd like for someone to just take some designs I've drawn up, critique if necessary, and then get it done. Generally, I get so stuck in the big picture that I have great difficulty getting anything done :(

I CAN debug... often I can identify a problem just from a general description of the problem (when you see me sit down in front of a computer and take over, it's when the problem has dug in deep). Sadly, with all the maintenance work I have to do with some legacy systems, debugging them is not a task I take to fondly.

Definitely not a finisher... I'm a sprinter, not a marathon runner.
Sounds more more suited for write-rarely, read-often data.

Not sure I would trust the wear and tear of an alloy that is constantly heated and cooled.

60TB of write-rarely cheap storage for backups would be very handy though.
I have the same question.

I don't see buying Twitter as being very useful to Apple. Just because Apple, Google and Facebook are 3 of the largest tech giants at the moment doesn't mean they directly compete.

What's more, if the assumption is that Apple isn't very good at social, then the only thing they achieve by acquiring Twitter is to suddenly make themselves a straight competitor in a field where they have little expertise.

I don't see it making sense, but maybe I'm just being shortsighted :)
Massive company. Massive software projects. Massive amount of end users. Massive amount of use cases for their software. Time restrictions on their development.

The wording you used makes it sound like they make buggy software on purpose, which makes no sense.
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I really like the Dorsey CEO thing, but I think they should of bid for T-Mobile. Not only could they sell the devices, but they could of been a major carrier just on their own devices. Not to mention being one of the first companies to make laptops with 3g/4g built in.
What would you call the primary property(/ies) of democracy?
"Luckily, there was a second tablet available on stage that was working, so the changes for the hypothetical app were successfully written to the pretend database, and all was well."

That's not luck. I would think that a backup is almost always a must for any presentation.
Did you try switching roles with a cook or server? That would have been fun :-)
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Just ignoring for a moment that you've linked to a four year old article whose lack of a tabulated summary of its data borders sociopathic...

The same article says the cost of labour in Bangladesh is: $0.23... I suspect there's lower to be found for those willing to keep the clicking.
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Most of the Mozilla people, whom I otherwise quite respect, didn't like to admit that you're also almost certain to end up needing to pay royalties to ship any other decoder as well. The difference is that if you use H.264 your startup can know exactly what the costs will be whereas using WebM means you're just going to have to wait until you make enough money for someone to sue you.

The Mozilla people wasted a ton of energy conflating WebM with open-ness rather than directing attention to the actually problem: current patent law. As long as someone else can show up and demand money for independent work the environment will predisposed against complete openness.
Aye, I'm thinking of adding that functionality so you could do <re:blah> in the route, however for now I'm keeping it as simple as possible.
If it falls when exactly K nails are removed, I don't think it will go back up when you remove the K+1th nail. And if you remove k-1 nails first, and then remove 2 more simultaneously, the picture will fall anyway. So it's ">= K".
Yes but isn't the rule that last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time?
Android never freezes or crashes. Come to think of it, neither does iOS or OSX, or Linux.

Oh wait, almost all software crashes.
Typing "Hacker News" into the search box will open a Google (or whoever) search page for that term.

Typing it into the Awesomebar will do an "I feel lucky" search.
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Jibber-jabber. Why doesn't he just say "we don't know", or, better yet, leave this clause out?
My wife spent twenty years as a Hospice social worker.

Some of the homes she went into had a panoramic view of open water. Some were house trailers with an addition consisting of a hole in the wall, a van without rear doors, duct tape and a tarp. Some were worse.

At times it involved getting up in the middle of the night and watching someone die. At times she knocked on the door and found the body. Once it had been feeding the cats. The time she found the lady who had fallen between the toilet and wall and survived four days despite being stuck was probably worse.

She had clients who were suffering the slow debilitation of Alzheimer's, clients who were losing body parts, and clients who were facing death in the prime of their life.

All the while, she had those clients' families. Some were close, some weren't. She told me that death doesn't fix dysfunction.

If we had a dollar for every time I didn't get it, or was selfish, I'd be an angel investor.
Oh, sorry. Yeah I meant why they end up producing buggy software when competitors like Apple have proven it's possible to both ship and make stable software. And Apple does both hardware and software.
Alternatively pass on that hysterical title and go directly to the press release http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=...

Main content is:
The maximum capacity of today’s 3.5-inch hard drives is 3 terabytes (TB), at about 620 gigabits per square inch, while 2.5-inch drives top out at 750 gigabytes (GB), or roughly 500 gigabits per square inch. The first generation of HAMR drives, at just over 1 terabit per square inch, will likely more than double these capacities – to 6TB for 3.5-inch drives and 2TB for 2.5-inch models. The technology offers a scale of capacity growth never before possible, with a theoretical areal density limit ranging from 5 to 10 terabits per square inch – 30TB to 60TB for 3.5-inch drives and 10TB to 20TB for 2.5-inch drives.
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It is probably not much the hardware itself as the concept. Everybody can figure out how to use a tablet, the app store, etc. but not everybody can figure out how to use Windows or Ubuntu or OS X. We are close to the point in which everything a 'normal' person (not a developer) may want to do with a computer, such as listen to music, watching videos, receiving and sending email, buying plane tickets he or she can do with an iPad.
Thanks, and I agree. I usually use exceptions but for some things (like cache misses) it seems unwieldy. For the example of the cache calls, I check when I've done a cache call like:

$data = $cache->get("key");

if(!$data) {
// do the stuff if cache misses
}

Though yes, I do need to go through and make sure it's extremely robust, as I did hack it up in an evening :)
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> No, I am not suggesting Apple buy Facebook. (Zuckerberg has his own path to travel, and it does not go through Cupertino).

Who is this guy? Yoda? Or Nostradamus?
It would be interesting to run an HN poll: Which of these rolls are you mostly associated with?

My guess is the population here is dominated by Starters and Architects.
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Supposedly they are working on a phone product of their own. Maybe that is what the author meant, but still I think they are playing at different games. Tech pundits just say shit, you know how it is.
A ssh client, vim and external keyboard is all I need for code editing. I don't see the need for this kind of app.
No if the insurance companys get hold of your you will be "Fucked" If they can find loop holes to increase your premiums they will.
That would be horrible for twitter. The thought of putting such a revolutionary communication product under the control of one of the most secretive and unresponsive companies around makes me shudder.
Because they have to support every freaking hardware device out there. If you control all aspects of the machine things can work out pretty smoothly.
I can highly recommend https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.sblo.pandor...

It has syntax highlighting too, not sure about indentation.
Having lived in the Midwest most of my life, a lot of the talk about the culture does ring true. At least enough to make me smile. But I'm not sure the problem of a startup ecosystem that won't take off is because of that culture, because it's not unique to the Midwest...

Serious question: is there any region that regularly produces "tech first, business model second" startups apart from Silicon Valley? New York, maybe? (Though you get "Why New York Sucks" posts too.) If this particular brand of lightning has only struck once or twice, the question isn't "why does everywhere else suck?" but "what kind of bizarre conditions made Silicon Valley happen in the first place?"

I suspect that this is a strongly path-dependent phenomenon: part culture and attitude, but part historical accident. If so, it's going to be very difficult to duplicate.

Edit: typo
Am I reading this correctly that currently the route results will stay cached for the caches TTL? So if you change a route to have a different callback in your main program it will not update?

Really cool framework and congratulations on hacking this up in a night!
I blame it on Android, but hoping to see Adblocker for it.
Gotcha, that's kinda cool. I just learned about this http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php#object....

The __invoke method means I can use my apps AS closures which is totally sweet.
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Classic Microsoft :)
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> but GitHub would be the thing that would really make this rock

no. not 'github', but 'vcs support': git, mercurial, others. where it's hosted doesn't matter.
I meant it tongue-in-cheek, but what you say is true and the Steam interface has always been a custom one. I haven't used the Mac version - how did they rectify this on the Mac?
This post also helps us non-technical types when interacting with technical co-founders and the engineering team. I realize my partner is definitely a starter and not a finisher!
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You should move for sure. Here is a great article by a fellow Canadian debating the same issue.

http://jakek.posterous.com/just-do-it-move-to-silicon-valley

Paul Graham:
http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
http://paulgraham.com/revolution.html

The best 1% of the world moves to the Valley. That synergy is impossible to duplicate.
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Should I give up everything to be a bus driver, a photographer, and move to a quiet town...

Anyone recognizes this?

I do recognize this, though not anywhere near as severe.

I keep telling myself that if I ever were to get so bad that my non-work life and health quality drop significantly, I'll drop everything and become an Alpaca farmer (that was a running joke when I was in uni, but nowadays I feel like perhaps someday I'd like to do that for real).

I don't have as much experience with high pressure work and burn out as you do, but a few years ago, before I quit my job to work on startups and contract stuff, I was getting pretty burnt out working in telecoms. Similar deal, though not as severe (I didn't work as long hours, for example, but I rarely used my holiday time). Also, some personal stuff made the burnout all the worse. I quit my job and took a month to relax before starting contract work and other projects. Looking back, I think its very important to make sure you use your holiday time and to disconnect yourself completely from anything work related (which for me means to stay away from the computer altogether as much as I can).
You've been lucky, then. I love Perl, but there are so many ways to do it you're bound to run into someone who does something in an entirely different way than you. The worst experience I had with this was a colleague who knew the entire Camel book by heart and insisted on using every damn trick there was. He was fired very quickly as the code he produced was impossible for a more normal person to understand
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A laser? They are used all day in fiber optics...and they are pretty fast.

Without mention of the power required for the laser it's only speculation.
Seems their expertise is being measured by ping and the fact that it's not fb sized or twitter sized.

How does twitter fit with their products and strategy? It just seems sort of expensive when they can partner with those companies and have most of the same benefits
Another metaphor I've seen is to the military (specifically the army), and consists of three roles. Don't beat me up about military minutiae, please; I don't claim to be an expert in that area and it's not even my metaphor.

(1) Paratroopers, who jump into unfamiliar territory. In software, researchers and architects.

(2) Infantry, by far the largest component, responsible for the core task of taking and holding territory. In software, most programmers.

(3) MPs (also quartermaster, community liason, etc.) who maintain order in the held territory. In software, debugging specialists and release engineers.

The problem I have with the OP's metaphor is that the "starter" and "architect" roles are both part of (1) and many people actually can do both pretty well. Similarly, the "debugger" and "finisher" roles are both (3) and also combine well. What's really unfortunate is that (2) seems entirely absent even though in real life it consumes most of the time and resources on a project. These are the folks who take mostly-complete designs from a starter/architect, and get most of the code mostly working before the serious integration/stress testing occur and the debugger/finisher come to the fore. In other words, most of your colleagues most of the time. If you hired four people according to these four roles, you'd have nobody to write most of the code and you'd be abusing your four specialists to do it.
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So the TL;DR version of the article is "so Apple can become a player in social" but it never address the question as to whether that's actually something that Apple would want to / need to do.

To me this move would suck of Microsoft buying Hotmail, or getting into search or Messenger or any one of the things they go into when the internet started booming and they worried that they were getting left behind. And what's happened since? Microsoft have lost money hand over fist on them with little genuine strategic gain other than saying that they were in those spaces.

Social is a pretty rapidly evolving space at the moment but other than Facebook is anyone really making money there? Google have made several plays with limited success, Twitter is interesting but has an unclear business model and most of the social start ups range from the uninspiring to the niche to the sort of thing that Facebook is just going to copy and crush if it takes off.

And even Facebook, anecdotally at least, seems to be getting tired. I hear so many people talking of irritation with it, drifting away, even closing accounts. The figures continue to show growth but among the sort of people who were early adopters I'm personally seeing a complete lack of engagement with it.

So yes, it would make Apple a player in social but really, is that something they want?

In terms of keeping it out of the hands of Google or Facebook or whoever, if you think it's a good acquisition, you should buy it because of that. If you think it's a bad acquisition then you shouldn't care, in fact you should probably want them to buy it to have them waste a billion dollars.

Oh, and I loved the idea "they fix Ping and monitize it". Is it just me or is this MBA speak for "Buy Twitter, ?????, PROFIT!!!".
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Each bit will be smaller, so maybe they will be more vulnerable.
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I love Apple products but I don't think my Safari iPad browser needs to crash all the time. Embedded video especially seems to be a problem.
"We're essentially enabling you to break the electronic concrete of the past and move your business to the future, by connecting your people, by enabling your people to communicate and collaborate in real time, and by taking all the wealth of communication, collaboration, and social networking opportunities, and apply those into very specific business scenarios."

Now that sounds good! What would be even better, is if you build the whole thing on web-standards ;-)