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He might just have strong opinions based on his experience.

Certainly you could level most of your post against the author of Varnish, but then you read his rants and feel that they're valid, and you look at his code and it's some of the best I've seen, and you look at his track record and who is using Varnish and are won over.

Rants aren't bad things, I want highly opinionated leaders of projects to be good steers for them. You just need to decide whether you agree with the rant (and the direction of the project you could project from those views) and make your own decision on whether to use the software.

As rants are usually subjective, there's going to be a load of people out there who will want to use the software on those terms.
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I agree with the general consensus and my usage patterns confirm it for me: Google+ is the social platform where I see all the engineers and scientists, Twitter is similar (but I have a Twitter account set up just for following/interacting with tech people). Facebook? Nope. I do see some geeks trying to leverage it, but it's mostly syndicating their blog posts or speaking engagements, I don't see very many tech people engaging there.
Wow, seconded.

Freaky benchmarks + closed source + that attitude => closes tab

Nginx recently had a security advisory, about a hole which was found by a third party. I doubt this would happen with G-WAN, which leaves me feeling scared.

I can't just trust a binary from someone which states that "protecting the NSA from injecting backdoors because it's too hard to track who put them in" is a valid reason for not open-sourcing the thing
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It is not only that it is Perl-style; this version also supports multiline regular expressions.

I do not like that it requires you to know a file's line endings to use them, though:

Mac. : a\rb
Windows: a\r\nb
Unix. : a\nb
Ah yes, the old "perform it only on localhost" benchmark. Those pesky networks, they're just bottlenecks for a webserver.

I'd take this benchmark more seriously if it was a little bit less artificial.

(edit: for grammar)
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the autocomplete is much nicer as well.
(check out oh-my-zsh for awesome configs)
... and, of course, you want to be on both cities (on different states) at the same time.
That's what I believed too, that trees would help breaking your fall, right ? Until, one fine day, I was construction workers emptying a 20 floor building for demolition, basically throwing furniture out the window. Uhmm, thick wood doors get impaled on tree branches.

Also, parachutists know to avoid landing in trees at all costs. So nope, trees don't help at all.
"Google has responded to the man's complaints by saying that since the results are compiled automatically there is no intrusion of privacy"

It's hard to see how this case is about privacy - it seems like it's really about defamation, however the real details aren't disclosed.

That said, the argument that because something is done by a machine the operators are not responsible for the consequences needs to be debunked once and for all.
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Out of interest, is there any technical reason you'd want a JVM application with 180,000 lines of code?
I'd have politely pointed to the sign with my middle finger. Just to prevent them from ever showing that picture to anyone.

Unless they want to start the even more boneheaded campaign showing sore losers.
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Nice, looks great. There's a bug though; when you post a job with the same title on the same day, the slug is the same which obviously causes issues.
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Agree with all the points here.

Most of all, there's a cost to switching to G-Wan. It's not a zero cost. So as long as that cost is greater than the speed/load benefits, it won't gain serious support. And it doesn't help that the creator attacks and insults people who dare challenge him.

Right now, G-Wan can't serve any of my sites without serious work and modifications. The claimed load capabilities aren't nearly enough to make me switch from Nginx. For me, Nginx handles anything I throw at it AND it's very easy to implement. At our size, buying servers twice the size would still cost a fraction of implementing G-Wan across all sites.

So really, this "comparative" benchmark needs to include 1) time/effort to implement, 2) ability to run existing websites, and 3) community support.
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Hoard is fine, but if we're going to start talking about various scalable memory allocators designed for concurrent, multi-core/cpu systems then...

libumem is the user space slab memory allocator first available in Solaris 9 (SunOS 5.4) now the default allocator on Solaris (and Illumos, SmartOS, OpenIndiana, etc.). There is a fork of libumem that has been ported to other popular operating systems, such as Linux, Windows and *BSD systems (including Darwin/OSX) by OmniTI (https://labs.omniti.com/labs/portableumem). I maintain a fork of portable libumem (https://github.com/gburd/libumem) that includes changes made by Joyent as part of their ongoing work to improve SmartOS.

I have deployed this allocator to dozens of production systems to improve the performance of highly concurrent memory-intensive applications (such as Riak) and found it to be an excellent, stable and fast allocator.

In addition to fast allocations it includes excellent statistics and memory leak detection (https://blogs.oracle.com/pnayak/entry/finding_memory_leaks_w...) as well as a few different allocator heap-fit algorithm choices.

It is licensed under the CDDL.
Front and center at the top of cnn.com as I type this.
Sure, there's nothing wrong with rants. I agree. I wouldn't be using Linux if I didn't use software by creators who rant a lot ;-)

There's just something off about G-WAN, something different. I can't place it exactly. It just makes me not want to trust it.
I think cynicism is understandable. It is indeed an "ad-hominem" argument, but it's universal — for example, few in the West took what Pravda had to say at face value, when the Soviet Union existed. When institutions have a record of bias, their claims come under more scrutiny. It's just plain institutional analysis, which everyone uses to some extent.

(The World Bank is hardly a neutral figure. Otherwise, how could the Bush administration move the neoconservative Wolfowitz from the Pentagon to head the World Bank? Did the world's population directly vote him in? It most certainly is a "special interest group", in the sense that it acts in the interests of a tiny minority.)

That said, in-depth dissections of the claims themselves are certainly good, like this critique: (http://www.stwr.org/globalization/world-bank-poverty-figures...)
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It seems to me the GP didn't talk about the relative wealth of e.g. Britain, he was expressing a conspiracy theory that everything Britain had was stolen?

It took me a bit to realise that you did answer the GP's "point".
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This really only applies if you do 'web scripting', applying some dynamic stuff or AJAX speedups to web pages. Once you start building an actual application (say, Gmail sized), the lack of modules, types, versioning, etc. really starts to hurt. Yes, you can implement all of this with either javsacript libraries or server side tools, but that way you lose a lot of the advantages he mentions.
Like recording a macro in Excel? It is, I admit, uncomfortable.
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The paradox of choice is not very robust in practice. The experiments are often difficult to replicate and small variations in experiment design make the paradox of choice vanish.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9cebd444-cd9c-11de-8162-00144feabd...
Actually, a much more realistic image of that specific Microsoft Store is here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112837958187789332975/alb...
You're right. We spotted that bug a bit too late last night (3am to be precise) and implemented an ugly work-around.

Jon (my co-founder and lead dev on the site) will be tackling that particular issue this evening.
One thing that struck me:

"Out of the approximately 10,000 news stories you have read in the last 12 months, name one that – because you consumed it – allowed you to make a better decision about a serious matter affecting your life, your career, your business – compared to what you would have known if you hadn’t swallowed that morsel of news."

When I was thinking about all the news I read on HN, for me there was a very small percentage that really helped me as a developer. But I'm still getting here more times a day...
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I read the whole article and every comment up until yours, and I only just now realized it didn't say 'toy'.
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The trick to learning vocabulary would be to make these words meaningful and not arbitrary, for example by learning words related to an activity or a theme (which happens naturally when you spend time in a foreign country). Meaningless words are more reliably remembered by making up a story about them, even though that technically adds to the quantity of information to remember; if the subjects had been encouraged to use those strategies the gains might drown the before-sleep effect.
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I use EditPad Pro instead of Notepad++ because of this. I'll try this new NotePad++ version today!
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I am surprised by how many irrelevant 'hot on google' posts get in the way of me using google plus. They could put an add down the side, sure, but not in the middle of where I am reading, and not completely undistinguishable from my contacts' posts.
Those auto-completes can be gamed, as most of them are just searches most people have done. What you do is get a large group of people to search for <NAME> + something else.

Of course you need to be creative, so rather than tell your friends, make it a contest or something. Or in your Linked In profile and email signature, put something like "If you want to see my latest resume, just google "<NAME> resume".
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I don't use Facebook at all.

My coworkers use it a lot but only to get in touch with friends/families, organize events or find funny viral videos. They, like me, have other means to get tech information.

Maybe you will reach your audience but I'm not sure they will pay any attention.

Also I chose "No" but not at all because "No real programmer would show his face there.". Your choices are very poorly worded and too polarizing: bad form.
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"Most small business owners don't own their own business, they own their own job." (paraphrasing The E-Myth Revisited)

My POV is this person needs to start delegating as much of the business as possible and manage growing the business to support that.
Care to share how did you guys get started with a whole bunch of job listings? Contacting tech companies to provide free listings on your job board? Employers actually discovering your site and posting their jobs? Thanks!

I'm currently working on a job board in an entire different niche so I'd really appreciate your comments!
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Not on my new install of Debian 6 (squeeze). sh is a symlink to /bin/bash.
It's funny how Excel allows non-programmers to end up programming without knowing it.

Reminds me of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3374431
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> So basically there's customer satisfaction in spite of their best efforts :)

That's funny, because you're in the exact same situation. You sort of wish people would stop using your product so that you could move on to doing something else. But that isn't going to happen because people need what you're offering so badly that they search the web until they find your product. Weather you make that easy for them or not.

Then again a product called "Access" is probably the most likely of any to be a special case.
Let me first agree with you that the first link was not very HNish.

But I don't think it was mere snark. It was mockery, of quite a high order. In case its not obvious most of the words quoted are actually Chomsky, from http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/200307--.htm

But let me draw some parallels.

PW paraphrases Chomsky as saying "Language has nothing much to do with language"
Norvig paraphrases Chomsky as saying "Observed use of language ... may provide evidence ... but surely cannot constitute the subject-matter of linguistics"
Not so different.

Lastly, you could say Chomsky might even take more offense at Norvigs calling him 'Mystic' and likening him to Bill O'Reilly!

Anyway, I don't take PW so seriously, but he is quite entertaining.
I thought people also have the ability to turn it off themselves - at least i thought they did, I'm struggling to find the option now. There is also another option to turn off instant update of the search results, which annoys the hell out of me (this is only for people logged into their Google account)

In any case, I'm sure it's just a case of Google flipping a switch somewhere...
Ask HN: What are some small to medium size blogs covering startups?
I'm looking to try to get to know some writers who cover startups and up-and-coming web applications and tools.

I figure that it will be easier to get some traction with the small to medium size blogs because your average Wired or Mashable writer is inundated with emails.

What blogs have decent readership but aren't so mainstream that the writers are impossible to reach?
In terms of GDP, the United Kingdom is still the 6th or 7th richest in the world. That's still pretty rich.

There are also a lot of wealthy European countries that had a minimal presence abroad in the 19th century. There doesn't appear to any correlation between the modern wealth of western countries and their past colonialist ambitions.
It's also "grammatically correct" English, technically, for gender-unknown subjects.

I much prefer "they", "them", and "their", though, as in your first suggestion. Another alternative is the verbose "his or her face".
I used to be a Tech Recruiter so as you can imagine I had quite a few contacts. That coupled with my involvement with Hacker News London, posting a notice on relevant sites like HN & Hackful got us enough jobs to kick the site off.
Sadly I just tested it and it's still not that good with large files.

I created a 185MB text file. It opens well, but:

1) Scrolling to the end is very slow

2) Finding a keyword which is near the end is very slow too

I'll stick to EditPad Pro for now.
Not the parent. But the people who signed the checks probably didn't care about those details ("We want a solution to our problem and a reassuring longterm support contract.") and the people who banked the check probably just passed the baby to whoever ended up writing/managing these 180,000 LOC.
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Facebook is where I discuss stuff with Friends. Twitter is where I discuss programming stuff. HN is where I waste most of my time, and is the place to reach out!

PS Facebook is not spelt with a capital B. You make yourself look rather out of touch.
I agree, Excel is how I first got into programming and I think I'm not alone in that.
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"However, I though it would be helpful to start with a proactive thesis to get people thinking about this issue."

Well sorry to sound like a grumpy grandpa, but if anything, this site needs less posts of higher quality, not more empty posts with the explicit goal of provoking replies.

"How come the suicide rate in Africa is much lower (close to zero) than in Europe?"

First, correlation between depression and suicide is not linear as you seem to imply. While I don't have the expertise to have an authoritative opinion on this matter, depression is much more complex than 'my life sucks'. It's just as much (more?) about 'I feel my life sucks'. Japan has a very high suicide rate, yet ranks high in various happiness indexes, and has first world GDP.

Secondly, your claim that suicide rates in Africa are close to zero is flat out wrong, as even a cursory google search would have revealed to you. To start there is the objective problem with getting data - many African countries keep little to no statistics on this. Then there is a cultural issue, which incentivises all involved actors to mask or under-report actual causes of death (this is Greenspan talk for: families report suicides as accidents to avoid the social stigma). Furthermore, even the data that is available and at least somewhat reliable, points to African suicide rates that are not substantially different from countries worldwide. For example, the only African country on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra... (Zimbabwe) is somewhere in the middle, just above (meaning: slightly worse than) Luxemburg, the most prosperous country in the EU. While Wikipedia isn't the end and all of data, I found that WHO data paints a similar picture when I looked into it a while ago when I had the same discussion, but that data is a lot harder to distill and I don't have time right now to do so.
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I'm going to go on a small tangent here and ask: Solaris ... desktop??

I've been using Linux on the desktop for quite some time now, and couldn't be happier. However I come to realize, after trying to "convert" a lot of people around me, Unix isn't made for the "desktop" (understand, unfortunately, Windows-clone).

I also use Solaris (10, not 11m but still) at work. All the time. And if Linux isn't that great on the desktop, Solaris is a catastrophe.

I'm not being very convincing, as the points I'm mentionning would take a whole blog post to prove. My question here is the following:

If this article is on the Oracle website, could it mean that the people at Redwood are trying to be more agressive on the desktop market? Or are they simply using Linus' name to attract traffic?
But is such a change worth a major version number increase?
I have! But, I'm a Mathematician invading another world, so probably a bad example...
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