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For the future you can point domains directly to AWS S3 and serve high traffic content directly from there when you have high load. Just create a bucket called 'blog.kevinwilliamdavid.me', put your content in it, say that it's a website, and redirect DNS. It's only static content but will help weather the storm.
Lots of collectors have machines around that can read ProDOS disks. A quick note to the Classic Computer Collectors email list [1] would turn one up.

[1] http://classiccmp.org/cctech.html
This whole issue is fucking retarded.

Get out of your mother's basement and finish something.
While Google's chief executive Larry Page recently described an $2.5 billion annual run rate for the company's mobile revenues, the company has testified that it has earned less than $550 million from Android across four years from 2008 to 2011.

wow that's low.
Really general articles, like [[global warming]], do have more fundamental problems

As a wikipedia user (edited only typos & punctuation), I don't see these problems. I think http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming is very informative and reasonable, more so than any other page I can find immediately with google. The talk page is also very good.

Can you be more specific about the problems you think it has? I have trouble seeing wikipedia as anything other than a mind-bogglingly amazing 'shit i woke up in the future' thing :-)
Have you heard about POW?
Specifically regarding:

We must buy another domain, so we will lose our Search Engine Optimized domain. We spent last year 23k $ for SEO

You will not lose Search Engine Rankings providing that you 301 your links to the new url - if you want them to go to specific pages you can also do that fairly easy with some .htaccess 301'ing instead of doing it through your registrar.

Search Engines will then eventually replace your existing links with your new ones.

NOTE: Sometimes, there may be a minimial loss in some rankings during this period however, if you continue with your SEO strategy then will go to their original positions and may improve (this is also dependant on other facts such as domain age, geo-targetting etc)

Furthermore, you should try and get your links changed which are currently linking to your site to your new url by contacting the webmasters who will change them for you.
(Business hat) I wonder what would prompt someone to make yet another drawing app for the iPad? It's a fairly full space with entries from the major players, and the market of skilled artists is fairly small and is never going to blow up into a #1 hit.
For those of you who haven't read them, Jordan Mechner's "The Making of Prince of Persia" is one of the most engaging things I've read online.

http://jordanmechner.com/old-journals/

Just realized there's an e-book now... I'll probably get it.
Pre-coffee comment. Thanks for the proof read.
The journals referenced in the article are an excellent read and will likely hit home for those pursuing or considering startups:

http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2011/10/ebook/
Will geo-targetted domains be used on the same domain or on sub-domains? As search engines regard sub-domains as completely different sites.
Remove the top banner so that the masthead /register / sign-in is the first thing you see.

You should get better brand recognition and more registrations/logins.
Several people I work with use the iPhone but complain the screen is too small to read the type without reading glasses and they all wish Apple would come out with an iPhone with a bigger screen like the Galaxy Note. Some of them have actually changed to the Galaxy Note for just this reason. Apple is missing out on a large number of baby boomers who would prefer a larger screen.
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Here is a link directly to Mechner's blog post about the found disks.

http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2012/03/prince-of-persia-sourc...
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Numbers are quite good, but I wondered: is this official income on which you pay taxes? How do you declare this income? How much taxes do you pay? And, if applicable, is this still worth it after you pay taxes?

Even though it will be very country specific, I'm very interested in your experience.
Actually, that isn't what the parent said, and I'm not arguing with the parent. I'm making a point that cursing only maintains it's visceral power when used sparingly, which I don't think it really is in this video or in some recent articles.
PLoS ONE is quite a reputable journal, one which some people prefer for philosophical reasons (open access).

Without knowing the submission history of this paper or talking with referees in the big name journals, it's hard to know whether or not they submitted this to one of the other journals and simply didn't get accepted.
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If it's static content (ie, not changing super frequently and not customized per viewer), you could drop Varnish in front of it and more or less crash-proof the whole thing. Cloudflare is a similar sort of solution, but you don't control it and it's been spotty for me.

You can optimize your application all you want, but you're never going to get better performance that a caching proxy handling most of your requests.
Treading carefully here ... I love DDG and find it yields far more useful results than anything else.

Besides, I like not getting tracked all the time and I can switch off ads without needing any extensions. That in my view is a very civilised set of options and the rest of the Internet should follow by example.
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I spent a few hours during the course of a week last year and got 1000 in reputation. Most of the points I got were from quickly writing answers to boring questions before someone else could get around to writing an equally good one. I did get some points from going above and beyond, or from answering questions that hadn't been answered for a long time because they were from a niche I was familiar with. I suspect that most of the people with a lot of points are treating it like a game, though.
If you look at the number of ideas that get funded and fail, I would say there is more money out there than good ideas at the moment.
i hire people.

the vast majority of people calling themselves recruiters are actually just sourcing. they do no filtering, vetting, etc and have been uniformly a waste of our time.

not sure how to change this.
Yeah I'm the same, thanks! :)
Chrome autocomplete support would be awesome.
zsh will actually do this for commands if you make a typo when the correct option is turned on. I don't think it will correct options though (but can autocomplete).
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I disagree, I think small stuff like this pushes the window so bigger stuff seems less bad.
So maybe the Library of Alexandria wasn't burned, it was just stored in a format that no one knows how to read any more. :)
I hacked together a pipe tool for Google spreadsheets a few weeks ago. I need to get data from spreadsheets from other people, and then spit them back again. I wrote the pipe tool so that I can go

googlepipe --command get --document $DOC_ID | $SCRIPT | googlepipe --command update --document $OUT_DOC_ID

It's a pretty neat way to work, and being able to revision control all of the input data, scripts and output data is a godsend.
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Best Buy has always been for the desperate 'NEED IT NOW' person, at least for the people who were computer literate.
Even when I worked there in 1999 briefly I only bought the stuff that got returned and had a super low 'open box' price... everything else was gotten from the more grungy hardware shops you find down dark alleyways.
Except for cables, employees got them at invoice and that was like $5 dollars for a $20+ cable :P
Which reminds me, we were pushed hard to make sure customers bought all the accessories we could because the computers themselves were little profit and the cables, mouse pads, whatever all had ridiculous markup.
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I'm not saying that the UI couldn't be improved - I'm just saying that what they're doing isn't really an improvement on the the command-line as a UI, as it's just a domain-specific application. (And, I implied this but didn't state it explicitly: domain-specific applications should aim to be as 'compatible' as possible from a UI standpoint with the generic tool - ie, Unix - deviating only when there's a specific need to, and defaulting to the generic toolset. I'd need to see more to judge if Opa fits this; it's just a general principle).

More importantly, though: what you're looking for can already be done! Just use zsh (or, even simpler: a bash correction tool).

Because Unix is so modular, you can make these kinds of UI changes without breaking or even changing the underlying toolset. That means that you and I can tailor the UI to our specific needs, and we don't even really have to touch the general purpose toolset. Other examples include using Vim keybindings for the shell instead of Emacs (try modifying keyboard shortcuts with most pre-compiled GUI applications!) or scripting and aliasing.

Thanks for mentioning that, actually, because it illustrates my point very well! The command-line UI's strength is that it's literally as modular and as minimal as possible (at least, as far as I can conceive of). That's what I personally love the most about it. It defines only the bare minimum of tools necessary to satisfy two conditions:

1. By default, [almost] everything works as expected, with no customization (but assuming knowledge of the system).
2. Those who want to customize will find that it provides all of the tools necessary to create the exact interface they want, without modifying the underlying toolset as well. (This customization can be done to an essentially arbitrary level -- the technical limitations are well beyond what a reasonable person would consider 'sane').

You may make the argument, then, that the command-line isn't even an interface at all! It's more like an abstract interface that lets you stitch the tools together to define the interface you want, all the while providing a 'default interface' - a sensible set of defaults for those who can't be bothered to customize.

(Edit: I understand that tools aren't perfect - the git-pull/git-push asymmetry is an example - but the inconsistencies are vastly outnumbered by the overarching uniformity. And again, with such a modular model, you can create the UI you want without waiting for Linus to change the behavior of git).
If we're taking that definition, fair enough, but I don't think most of us would accept self-censorship in any public forum on the off chance that a client or customer might see it.
From the home screen, hitting "Music" -> "Songs" involves about 20 seconds of waiting before you can pick "Shuffle." The ssh app is significantly worse than similar apps for other OSes because it is missing important keys. Putting music on the device took a couple hours because it would repeatedly spend a great deal of time indexing the music before telling me that I did not have any music. The UI is generally less responsive than is tolerable, even when doing extremely simple things like dialing a phone number. I do not enjoy going to the phone app, hitting a few numbers and waiting a few seconds before the phone makes any sound to assure me that it knows I am hitting numbers.

The swipe gesture is really cool until a bunch of apps also want to use swipe within the app. At that point, you get to play the fun game of trying to perform a swipe that is long enough to get the app to acknowledge it without starting at the edge of your screen, because that would cause the OS to switch out of the app.

There is no option to display 24-hour time and YMD other than by setting the locale. My phone now thinks that I am Japanese because I want it to display 24-hour time and YMD, but I do not know any Japanese, so every bit of software that localizes based on my locale is somewhat difficult to read.

It took a couple days to get IMAP IDLE to work, but even once it worked it would often repeatedly attempt to download a huge amount of email, fail midway through, and start again from the beginning rather than keeping whatever portion it had finished.

It is also missing a lot of software that two other OSes have, but I at least knew that would be true before buying it.
Those who disparage "X for Y" descriptions misunderstand their use. When you have only a few minutes (or seconds) to pitch your idea, being X for Y or the X of Y is an effective way to give people the gist and pique their interest. Only then does it make sense to go into more detail and explain the full scope of your ambitions.
A wise man once said "Nothing is original. There is nothing new under the Sun. It's never what you do but how it's done".

While I agree that saying "My Product X is like Y on steroids" is somewhat unoriginal and maybe even uninspiring, the simple fact is that every idea is pretty much an evolution of a previous idea.

That being said, I'm not to sure what the point of the article was :)
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To prevent having to 'implement custom styling', use Readability (firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability/) or as for Safari the Reader functionality: http://shrt.nl/s/shot-UD7ba5RjHg.png
yes, I have to pay taxes :-) Right now I don't pay many taxes, it's about 20% (it's a new special status in France for sole entrepreneurs who are just starting out). So remove 20% of the gross income, and that's it. Still worth it if you ask me.
A problem I see with many of these ideas is what I would call the profitability mirage. The general belief is that the flow is: $founder->getStartup()->iterate()->getUsers()->monetize(), with a AcquiredException thrown somewhere in one of those method calls.

The problem is that so many of these startup ideas (that don't happily see an AcquiredException before monetize() is called) will fail at the monetize step because there is steep competition in many of these markets right now, and the burgeoning startup mentality means that someone else is probably doing exactly what you do, slightly better or worse, but they're at a point in their business cycle that they don't need to call monetize() just yet. Thus, you may have a mass exodus of users at precisely the point where you try and bring your ARPU above zero.
The OO tenet says "Don't couple unrelated things". The converse of this is "Don't decouple related things", which is equally valid yet often ignored.

Orthogonal areas of concern that are used together are just that: used together. They can be used together and packaged in a way that's super convenient. That still doesn't mean I want them tightly coupled.

NB: Works well together != tightly coupled.

An example of this is the Java file API. In an effort to decouple a reference to a file...we end up with FIVE classes

Yeah, I freakin hate that too. This Java JMI Api I used once, I had to instantiate seven entities from as many different classes just to get to send a message. But not all Java libraries are paragons of good object design. (You can leave off the Java, actually)

A better design is to "couple" these things together in a gimmeTheContentsAlready(filename).

Sorry, but you're mistaken here. Things are just as decoupled in the VisualWorks Smalltalk class library. There are equivalents to: (File, FileInputStream, DataInputStream, InputStreamReader, BufferedReader) and much more, but you can also still do:

'file.dat' asFilename readStream

If you wanted to, you could just add a method to String named gimmeTheContentsAlready that would just return you the whole contents of the file with that pathname as a String. (I'd name it fileContents, though.) Either would take 3 short, easy to read lines of code, or one messy one, and about 2 minutes to write and save in your image.

Convenient methods and well designed APIs aren't the same as "tight coupling." If you think they are, then you need to read some better OO code.

EDIT: Another example -- at the same place there was a Sun message bus we used in the same product line, same functionality as JMI, just with better performance. Needed to instantiate 2 object to send a message with that.
If you can't pitch your business as x for y you haven't boiled down your idea enough yet.
Only the point is BS.

It's not like he purposefully introduced some "painful_installation" feature, and is now asking money to make it go away.

It's not even like he unintentionally introduced some "painful_installation" feature, and is now asking money to make it go away.

What he did was what every OSS contributor does. He created some tools, added some fixes to Rails, changed some stuff, proposed some future roadmap, etc. One among MANY. People used his tools and changes and adopted them because they made their lives easier.

That doesn't mean that those changes (e.g the Bundler, a way to gather requirements) can or should also solve the general problem of easy installation of a whole and complete Rails system.

And that's what he asks money to create: an easy installer for the whole system.
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IIRC "zo" is also valid. It's a Tibetan yak hybrid.

Hmmm... Yak butter tea.
There’s one caveat though: you need a Social Security Number. So if you haven’t worked in the US, I think you’re out of luck.

I'm not an expert, but I think you can get an EIN using an ITIN instead of an SSN. ITIN's are specifically designed for this process, so you shouldn't be out of luck.

I'd prefer to see Stripe move to supporting Canada though instead of jumping through hoops to be their customer.
There's even more complications to complicate the complications ...

"you need many reads to get consensus even for any individual base"

Not necessarily. If you know that the minor allele frequency it close to 50% in related populations and you only have a few reads, say 6, and three are minor allele non reference and three are "major" allele reference (and the quality is good and there's otherwise low regional noise), then it's a good bet it's HETEROZYGOUS. You don't necessarily need a lot of reads.

"second, you have to deal with the fact that a human genome has two copies of any individual chromosome"

Well. Sort of. Men only have one Y chromosome and one X chromosome for instance, women have zero Y's. (a nitpick, granted). Disease sample often have 0,1 and 3 or more copies of a genomic area.
Ah, also meant to say that adding strictness with `seq` is haskell 98, and there's nothing so strange about forcing evaluation in a lazy language.
I don't expect the batch to contain all frighteningly ambitious ideas, but it would be fun if at least one was. I'm sure YC would be receptive to such a plan if the founders were smart.
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More specifics about what you're interested in? I work in the space (human genetics - we analyse the output of 1000 Genomes) and happy to help, but "bioinformatics" is pretty broad.

I'll also note so much of the human genetics space is so new that most knowledge is still couped up in academic papers - there aren't very good resources for the general public. A colleague helped edit a textbook in 2007 on genetic analysis (which would still be considered "new" in textbook space), and none of the tools in that book can be used with 1000 genomes data.
Would the release have been discussed in the monthly issue of Nintendo Power? Or maybe the magazine didn't exist in 1985?
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The way I understand it, ignorant of the psychology of swearing but having had to think about it since arriving here from the UK, is that if you're swearing, you're breaking a taboo that people assume you understand, so if you break it, they guess that you've lost your ability to keep your cool, and that because of that they fear you might punch them or shoot them. Which it seems, to me, most people, rightly or wrongly, believe happens quite often here in the US.
What I gathered from the article, though, was that this shortens a cell's self-checks before the cell itself self-destructs. There is no virus RNA being evaluated, that's still done by the cell.

If I misunderstood the article and people's commons in this thread, please help me understand properly.
Those are some pretty wild assumptions you've got there.
One workflow is to create audio files which you later process with a speech rec application.
Looks awesome. Anyway to open source the tool?
Yikes. I would be scared to look at code I wrote 23 years ago.
exactly my point. that requires rooting AND flashing the device
Thanks for taking the time to explain, I'll definitely be doing some reading over the code.
1. It doesn't break. In the article they say it repeatedly survives 1.5m drops.

2. It's easier to fit into your bag/pocket. You don't have to fold it for that, simply bending it a just bit would help in many scenarios. Plus again, it doesn't break so you can use your back pocket for your smart phone and sit on it.
I would widen the article area by moving the smaller sidebar or advert panel down the page. Feels like you're trying to get too much content above the fold.
The best ideas are only as good as the ones who pursue them.
What I think you're alluding to is something like this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/may/20/craig-venter-s...

I haven't been following the progress for the past year and a half or so, but it was state of the art then.

Long story short, we're not synthesizing de-novo babies any time soon! Well, at least not in the lab.
"With the press these companies are getting, I expect they will make investors and founding teams a hefty profit, but they certainly do not speak to me as signs of brilliant, innovative thinking."

This is something I've seen several times, I don't believe anyone has shown that 'press coverage' was a causative agent in a successful exit. I believe 'delivering a useful product' (which happens to generate press coverage as a side effect) is the missing piece here.

You want a brain dead stupid IOs App I would buy that is derivative? Instapaper for Printers. Which is to say I would love an App where I could launch it on my iPad and then 'print' to it across the network from my Mac or Windows machine. I don't care if it dropped the printout into iBooks or created its own 'space' (I could imagine a designer would have fun with the old 20th century printout distribution bins). But basically there are times when I wish I could print something out and then read it on the road later. It was a capability discussed for the old Plastic Logic Reader that never saw the light of day.

And yes, I still do 'listings' when I'm studying old code or dumping a bunch of numbers and charts.
> In theory could a company build a machine that read one of these "files" as input and made a baby as output?

Not quite. We can read DNA sequences, but we can't reliably write them yet beyond a few dozen base pairs. In fact, we can't even take a fully-assembled human genome and "make a baby as output." That process is called cloning, and it is fraught will all manner of practical and ethical difficulties. But there's nothing that prevents it in principle, and given the pace at which technology is advancing "printing a baby" may well be possible within the lifetimes of some of the people reading this.