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I believe the first half of 2012 will go down in the History of blogging as the era where simply mentionning Steve Jobs would be enough for your blog to get attention. Remember this shallow article that topped HN by comparing Linus Torvalds to Steve Jobs?

Heck, even an old (badly written) blog post of mine, dating from early 2010 and called "Steve Jobs the control freak" is attracting so much traffic now.

I'm complaining about this article. It's not interesting. It's not Steve Job's opinion on the Project Glass. It's simply relating an anecdote about Jobs giving a cocky answer to a cocky employee. But it mentions Jobs, it mentions Project Glass and ... BAM! Front page of HN for the day.
The cover photo is to social networks as extra blades are to razors. Features are being stockpiled as if these companies were caught up in an arms race. It seems platform won't risk being caught without equivalencies, without questioning the worth of mimicking in the first place.

I'd like to see more confidence shown by social networks. Who's forging ahead when they're all chasing each other's tails?
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I think that's more about the disconnect between your perception of how the text looks and the author's.

It's not uncommon for people to have a very poor understanding of spelling and grammar, and how this affects others perception of their work.

As an example, I've received bug reports that go along the lines of "This outcome is not what I expected????" but the text is beautifully formatted.
yes, CloudSearch uses/wraps around the search stack developed at A9. The CloudSearch team is also actually at A9.
And this is relevant to hacker news because of?
He isn't critizizing the mail technology. He is critizizing how we choose to present the most barebones stuff to the user, where some layer on top in the client would be much better.

So you're basically totally in agreement to what he writes.
Yea, that made me smile too :)
Exactly. He wouldn't announce anything, and would deride competitors efforts until Apple had ironed out all the bugs.

Then he'd come up with some minimal produce with a great user interface which slotted in perfectly to Apple's ecosystem, then try to grow it into its own platform.
This is false. Amazon only recently started using+moving some of its services/fleets to AWS. To this day, a vast majority run on dedicated fleets.
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In this scenario, why would Alice and Bob not simply use the mechanism used to transmit the "classical" bits for their entire exchange? What is the value added by the quantum stuff?
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I'm guessing made up numbers again, probably some AI researcher getting nowhere and trying to come up with excuses their CPU is too slow or they need more RAM.

And anyway, isnt most of the brain used for other things like making sure you dont fall over everytime you walk. etc
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It's Amazon's in-house search stack, related to the A9 project.
25,000 might sound like a lot of visits, but I have been beyond that in mere hours with a single slashdotting.

Well, that was in 2004 when /. was big. Today, I would fear the Reddit frontpage.

The next step up? Going from $29/mo. to $99/mo.

I might just not be their target customer.
In case you wonder, after Redis 2.6 RC1 this is my #1 commitment, to provide a standard Redis failover tool.
Note that Redis Cluster that will be also be one of the big focus after 2.6 is not the real fix for this: many users just have two instances, one master and a slave for failover, or multiple instances that are coupled this way and are conceptually single servers. Often they don't actually need Redis Cluster, or even can not use Redis Cluster (because does not implement the full Redis API, but a subset). So what happens? All this users have to invent an HA system for Redis again and again.

It's still a work in progress but the idea is that the standard Redis failover will be based on a stand-alone daemon that is called redis-sentinel that you can place at different positions in your network. It talks with other redis-sentinels, and if there are the right condition the failover is performed. So there is no proxy or alike, nor the server itself will be touched.
Destroying the language indeed... Now if only there were some way of measuring that. Perhaps if a neighbouring country with a similar social structure, with a similar government, with a similar school system, with similar core values, already had a gender-neutral pronoun in their language? Then we could look at that country, measure the language development and gender confusion among school children in that country and actually know if this new word would "destroy" the Swedish language.

A country like... Finland perhaps?

The debate is ridiculous, a few people feel very strongly either way, but most people don't care at all, don't use the word, but won't get angry if someone else uses it. Whatever. It's a mountain out of a molehill.
Given the amount that I still hear people gripe back and forth about Google stealing from Apple and vice-versa, I think it's at least mildly interesting to know that Jobs explicitly passed on this idea.

I'm not saying it does or doesn't, but if it became big, it would reflect differently on Jobs and his "foresight" knowing that he frowned on it. If it flops, he is "right".

Not important and probably tends towards petty fanboy credits, but fun to think about (and there is the thought that Jobs would shoot it down even if he liked it or considered it more later).
Ditto the Feynman lectures recommendation. Those were incredible icing on the cake of my undergraduate physics course-load, adding significant intuitive meaning and understanding to a subject with much potential but that's taught in a very try manner most of the time.
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Things seem to go in cycles in computing (and life in general). We had a solid model for developing single user applications, then we dropped that in favor of multi-user (web) applications. Now it's going full circle and we get the nice rapid development tools again. I wonder what the next cycle will look like.
He'd ask whether it would help you to get a girlfriend, or whether it would just creep her out.

Based on this:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/52-steve-jobs-just-put-it-in-...
Can't reply for the solution posted in this article, but well, I think this is one of the main design concerns. For redis-sentinel (I described it in another comment in this thread) the trick is that you place the sentinels where you want and select a minimum number of agreement for failover, so what happens depends on where you place the sentinels and the min agreement you configure. It's easy to have the desired behavior this way.
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Amazon never claimed this.
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Having a gender-neutral pronoun is really good (I've experimented with a few in English, but most people don't understand them or care when it is explained), but some aspects are possibly going to far: I don't see any reference to the actual physiological differences between the genders.

This quote particularly got to me:

> The Swedish Bowling Association has announced plans to merge male and female bowling tournaments in order to make the sport gender-neutral

In any physical contest men are highly likely to be the victors: there is a reason why the female marathon record is 10 minutes behind the male one, and it's not lack of training and effort. Maybe this doesn't apply to bowling so much, I don't know, but at the risk of committing the slippery-slope fallacy, I hope sports don't just jump on the gender-neutral bandwagon because it's politically advantageous/correct.
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You're spot on, this is why I find "quantum computing" a bit less exciting than most (just like the "hydrogen economy" say). Both sound great to those who scratch the surface but both are really misnomers. Quantum networks presumably would have a security advantage, but not a speed advantage. Thus there is really not much to get excited about.

Basically entanglement is always dealt with in a misleading way. It's not that one's state influences the other. It's that both are equivalently altered by a third entity limited to the speed of light (as far as we know so far anyway).
I think they're holding back a write api so that g+ doesn't become like buzz; a dumping place to pipe your other streams to. Makes sense while they establish their own user base.
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From the article: Amazon CloudSearch has a number of advanced search capabilities including faceting and fielded search
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Thanks to all of the replies even though I'm only posting under Jconnolly!

You all succeeded in answering my question and making me consider applying more deeply.

I certainly can write FizzBuzz but I was rather intimidated by the projects that attendees were working on.

Thanks a bunch!
I think there's truth to what you say... he had a knack for supporting what could be made well at the cutting edge of available tech. Head's up display is crap today not so much because of imaging tech into the eye being lacking (that could be built quickly) but rather because we can't compute enough useful stuff about what the eye sees and present it to the user for a compelling experience yet.

All this is changing... self-driving cars etc. but it's going to take time.
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I emailed the EFF, pointing at that blog-post. I hope they will at least provide some counseling to the guys.
I'm from Sweden. I haven't used "hen" many times but I like it and it might integrate well with our society. (haven't read the article yet, sorry)
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He doesn't need a joshu "real" claw machine game to start a business because he's already started a business.

I'll take your personal assessments of my character under consideration, thank you for the input.
> Forcing someone to save a file and open it in another
> application just to paste the text is just plain terrible.

That's a general problem with copy/paste, not specific to Word. A great workaround is PureText, which configures WINDOWS+V to paste as text.
http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/
http://iamnotrobot.com/post/20511534816/steve-jobs-take-on-g...
Quantum entanglement works over any distance, but can't be used to transmit information. They most likely did not try further separating the atoms; the fact that entanglement is an unbounded-distance effect is just a statement of the physics involved.
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This reminds me of the old joke about the man who went to his doctor and said: "Sir, those deposiwhatever pills you gave me were no good. I might just as well have stuck them up my ass".

Using a tool (or a medicine) to do something else than what it was designed for rarely has a positive effect. Cucumber was not designed to be a testing tool. Most people don't realise this, and end up with a verbose, unmaintainable mess. They blame the mess on the tool without realising that they used the tool wrong.

I don't use Cucumber to test my code. I use it to discover what code I need to write. This is a subtle, but important difference. This approach can work whether there are non-technical people involved or not.

I typically start out with a single Cucumber scenario that describes from 10.000 feet how I want a certain feature to work - without getting bogged down in details.

This allows me to reason and think about the domain in a way that helps me write the simplest possible code. What usually happens (to me at least) is that I end up with a simple design that reflects the domain.

Last week I wrote a small application like this. It is 1000 lines of Java code. I have 6 Cucumber scenarios - a total of 100 lines of Cucumber "code" (Gherkin) and about 200 lines of Step Definitions code (the glue code that sits between the Cucumber scenarios and the app).

I could have used JUnit instead - or I could have just written the code without any tests at all. For me, this would have made it harder to start coding. I would have started off with a much more muddy picture about how the app needs to behave and how it should be designed internally. I would have spent more time experimenting.

If you use Cucumber as a starting point to discover the code you need to write - and keep your scenarios few and high level - then you're more likely to reap benefits instead of pain.

And never fall for the temptation to use Cucumber to test details. That's what unit testing tools are for.
Lucene and Solr eat too many memory, they are not fit to vps users. Cloudsearch is more cheaper than setup a delicate server for search.
Google+ is to social as MSN Search was to Search. Ugghh

Perhaps they need to re-brand to a bing equivalent at the very least.
Where does Amazon's market influence fit into this picture?

A poster below offered two valid scenarios from opposite angles:
1) Prices were illegally raised by Apple and publishers colluding in an anti-competive way
2) Prices were artificially lowered by Amazon's pricing scheme, and competition was restored by returning to price levels originally set by the market

It wasn't a stretch of the imagination to think that Apple would move into the ebooks market at some point, building on their success with music and apps. Does a competitor running a loss to preemptively lock out new market entrants count as anti-competitive behaviour?
I disagree about coverage.

First, I've found tests to be an excellent way to debug, much better than trying to manually get the app into the state I want and then stepping into the debugger.

Second, having a good coverage lets you refactor with a lot more confidence. I often open some file to fix a bug/add a feature and notice some piece of code that is horrible. I can comfortably fix that code too and if the tests pass (including the one that failed before fixing the initial bug/adding the feature) I'm done.
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You can sort facets in your application, not sure why you'd want the search engine to sort them, doesn't seem like a feature that belongs to the "back-end" search engine.
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I don't like this, but this is what I think will happen.
Usage of 'they' in English seems to be fairly common and it has only made the language better.
The great thing is that the word for "he/she" in Finnish is "hän". Pronounced almost the same as the Swedish proposal.

(for the ignorant: these two are otherwise wildly different languages)
This has actually went into a wrong place; should be an answer to the question about facets.
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TL;DR TOS are quite refreshing! Of course I'd be interested to hear if this opens them up to any liability due to the summaries inherent imprecision... Can any lawyers chime in on this?
The gender-specific pronouns are one of the usual things to trip up native Finnish speakers in Germanic languages. In Finnish we've never had them, which may explain some of the early gender neutrality in the country. From Wikipedia:

The first European country to introduce women's suffrage was the Grand Duchy of Finland—then a part of the Russian Empire with autonomous powers—which also produced the world's first female members of parliament as a result of the 1907 parliamentary elections.

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And if you want a hassle free scalable search service with automatic sharding/scaling, a lucene underpinning and a nice REST API:

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Awesome. I was implementing my own version of this with doozer and eventmachine, but I might just use this one instead!
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It's not that Amazon isn't competitive, it's that you don't like the deal you are able to get with them as an author. If you were to go to a major publisher, I can pretty much guarantee that you would get a much worse deal unless you've already written books that have sold many copies.
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It's a great move. It might cause a slight confusion when translating to other languages, but that's not really important.

Some languages (including my native language) had always used gender-neutral pronouns, and it has never caused me (or anyone else that I know of) any problems. So I think the fear that it might destroy the language or cause mass-confusion is pointless.

[edit]

Aside from Persian, it seems[1] that Turkic, Filipino, Nahuatl, Malay, Indonesian, Georgian, Esperanto (which is not a natural language), Estonian, Armenian, Bengali, Nepali and probably tons of other languages have gender-neutral pronouns. None of them are as widely-used as Chinese, Spanish, English or Arabic though, and that's why many take gender-specific pronouns for granted...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
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They claim to support realtime indexing. I wonder what they really mean by that and how it impacts performance. SOLR is a great piece of software, I start using it 5 years ago and more recently implemented a near realtime indexing(publishing) integration but I always had to make some kind trade off between high performance and near "realtime indexing"
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(for the ignorant: these two are otherwise wildly different languages)

I believe Finnish is wildly different from just about every other language. Hindi and English are closerly related.
I am super excited about this announcement, but for now CloudSearch seems to be supporting only 3 types of indexes (http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/cloudsearch/latest/develop...), so no geo-search probably and other filters that might be welcome in upcoming releases
Finnish and Estonian are really close.
The same criticism could have been levelled at headphones before they became mainstream. "You're likely to get hit by a car" etc.

I think wearing heads up displays sounds ridiculous. But shoving little speakers inside your head probably sounded pretty insane too.
Now, suppose you (the reader of this comment) are assigned the task of promoting Morgan Freeman's proposed strategy, but with respect to sexism. With that hypothetical in mind, I ask you: is an organized program of introducing novel gender-neutral pronouns an aide to your task, or a hindrance?
>Sweden’s New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Hen

>A country tries to banish gender.

And then I stopped reading. At least with printed news media you have the weight of the fact that what you write will be printed permanently on physical materials to perhaps keep you from producing taglines as embarrassingly juvenile as "A country tries to BANISH GENDER"
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> There is little to no conservative populism in Europe

I am in London. My experience has differed - we have the Daily Mail and the Murdock press tying to influence national policy, we have a party of the "mainstream left" whose actions last time around included "public-private partnerships" (privatisation of schools and hospitals), an expensive foreign war on flimsy grounds, surveillance state via CCTV and internet monitoring, active support for extraordinary rendition, and they wanted to extend detention without trial to 40 days.

Currently we're finding out via the Leveson inquiry just how powerful the Murdock press has become.

I don't find that to be "left" at all. Who would you classify as "extreme left" in this case?
The theory that a people's language affects their cultural values? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

My country was the first in the world to introduce universal suffrage, in 1893. We speak English with its gender-specific pronouns.
Serious privacy implications, but as someone who doesn't do well connecting names and faces... absolutely a MUST-HAVE app!
Planet Money did an episode on why TOS and EULA's aren't human (as opposed to lawyer) readable.

Here's a link to the episode: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/21/134633336/why-are-...
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