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Before we talk "erosion" we need to talk about what the market actually was. In reality, alot of lousy "photographers" were able to make a living because they had access to professional equipment.

So the challenge is getting to a higher level of professional skill that you can break off from the pack. That's harder to do now, as you're not making alot of money during the learning process.
We now go to the original sources of the old engravings (we have a big library of old books full of them), and we also have a few illustrators who are able to work in that style. When we started out, we had no money for high-end illustrations; luckily the animal images I chose for the series were in the public domain. Fortuitous.
Go. Away. Arrington.

I am tired of your Paris Hilton shit - you provide no value to the tech community.
We are working on it. We have so many more titles and animals these days that it's hard to keep up.
That's interesting. I've just really started paying attention to the effect that my constant (almost compulsive) "internet checking" behaviour has on me and I'd be very interested in the steps you've taken to halve your addiction (if that's the right word)?
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Hey, I'm the guy in the video. If anyone has questions, I'd be happy to answer them.

Any questions regarding odd numbers will have to wait for my upcoming presentation.
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Haha. I'll be glad to put up some figures later in the week. At some point I need to start working on a product worth buying I guess!
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Why is it not good for the web? Unless an insecure website is leaking personal information, I don't see how that affects you. Besides, how many websites designed by newbies reach hundreds of thousands of daily visitors (or even tens of thousands for that matter)? If said website is so terribly designed, no one would visit it because it would load slowly and be ridden with bugs; no fun.
It is good to know that there are GOOD marketers-turned-programmers in the world. I work with someone who bills himself as a programmer, in fact was hired to be "senior developer." This "senior developer" isn't. Instead, he's a marketer and bullshitter who lied his way into his position. He's not coded a single thing in the 8 months of his employ. Instead he has had his position changed to "marketing director" because "that's his niche."

I wonder what impact being around world-class engineers are Google had on Systrom's path.
> and not shipping OS X with Java

That won't help the people who actually use Java on OS X. It would be better to allow Oracle to manage the updates for Java on OS X, the vulnerability that Flashback abused was patched by Oracle back in February.
I treated North Korea asymptotically with respect to technological development and authoritarianism. I should have been clearer about that beyond using the word "approaching". Sorry about that.

Think of an authoritarian country with universal surveillance and the ability to dispatch fully automated enforcement. That system is very stable at eliminating chaotic subsystems before they become threatening. It is also remarkably resilient in its ability to contract to its power base, re-charge, and then re-project from a solid platform (think Assad and his Alawite base except with no question of wavering loyalty). This makes it resilient even during tail events.
The difference between getting it done NOW and getting it done properly is very small in terms of time and huge in terms of safety.

There really needs to be a "good" version of PHP.
I don't understand how deployment, source control and not patching your live code have anything to do with PHP.

Keep your source in a svn or git repo, export the new release branch or bug fix release to a testing box and once you're happy move it over to production. What does any of that have to do with PHP itself?

If you're talking about moving from one version of PHP to another, just compile the new version of php in a different directory from the old version (e.g. /var/lib/php/5.4 ), create a new virtual server definition in apache and point it to the newly compiled php version (e.g. using Apache's mod_fcgid) and test your site. Once you're happy, make that virtual server live to the public and retire the older one.
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the point is there are only several. and there is a huge difference between a "loud mouth marketing engines" and "true tech".
It's so cheap to get a VPS from a good company (I use linode). Gone are the days that hosting from home is really necessary.
It's definitely a nice example of responsive design. If you resize your browser window, you can see how the content resizes nicely to fit almost any screen
This article was profound because of the parallel drawn between meditation and CBT. The latter suddenly makes a lot of sense to me.
The quickest way to immortality is to create an artificial intelligence that will conduct the necessary experiments to discover cures for aging or invent brain uploading.

The second quickest (and the first step towards AI) is to create computer vision algorithms, specifically human level object recognition. These will dramatically increase the wealth in the world (seeing robots that can do all manual labor tasks) so that conducting biomedical experiments becomes dramatically cheaper.

Therefore, anyone really serious about curing diseases should be devoting most of their time to objection recognition technology.
The e text editor implements a modern version of structural regexes. There is a blog post about it here: http://e-texteditor.com/blog/2010/beyond-vi

It is actually really cool how you can interactively move into regexes and refine your searches. I wonder why no other editor (as far as I know) have implemented something similar.
agree. the only class where my first computer (TI 99/4A, 1983) had a positive influence was English not Mathematics.

I'm from Germany and at the time they didn't translate the manuals, so my reading skills and vocabulary got far more additional training than the Math part. It didn't need that much math to write simple programs and the hex/binary stuff wasn't much use for school anyway.
But that is how Facebook won the opening salvos of the ongoing social media competition. They had easy to use photo sharing wrapped in the veneer of social commenting so people could share photos and interact with each other (about the photos) easily. As an anecdote, this was the compelling reason most everyone I knew migrated from Xanga over to FB--they could share all their photos and interact with their friends in one spot.

Instagram took the whole photo sharing idea and ran with it to the next level to include multi-platform sharing and picture editing. Put a social wrapper of some sort around that, and you're back where FB was when it took off several years ago--exception being you have BETTER photos.

TL;DR Photos win the social networking game. Good photo sharing + easy to use social == winning formula, see FB's early years and reasons for adoption.
That's not the same level of beginner friendly.

With PHP, you have a file with a .php file suffix on your server.

That file has code in it. Navigate to that file on your browser. You have a dynamic website.

No installation of external programs is necessary. No terminal. Often, you don't even need an FTP client, since you can use your hosting provider's GUI.

That blinding level of simplicity gets the non-programmer started in under an hour.

To run Heroku (on a Mac), you need to download (1.8GB) and install XCode (or another version of GCC for Mac, but the moment you say GCC, the beginner's eyes glaze over). Once you install XCode, you need to open up terminal (no GUI). Then you install homebrew in order to install the dependencies that Heroku tools require (some JSON libs, if I recall). Once that's installed, you need to install the heroku cli tools. Now you can deploy your heroku app, which requires registering (or, in the case of beginners, generating) ssh keys.

Every single one of those steps is too difficult for the beginner. That is why PHP wins.
Thank you! Iterative development is key.

Out of any language I've ever used, PHP has most allowed me to just get stuff done fast. It certainly isn't elegant, but it works. And even as you grow and scale up, as long as you constantly refactor at critical moments, you can avoid spaghetti code just fine.
The money in YouTube is in professional and editorially selected content. Music videos, trailers, some guy crashing a music video audition, etc.

There's almost no room for that kind of content from a photo sharing system.
>“For Microsoft, we have all the security response team’s addresses,” he says. “We don’t know the antivirus group inside Apple.”

Does Apple even have an antivirus group?
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Out of all of these languages, Python was by far the easiest and most flexible language to learn..

are you saying that Python is easier to learn than PHP
The abstract of the actual research:

"Although many countries are aggressively implementing the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, there is a lack of empirical evidence on its effects. This paper presents the impact of the first large-scale randomized evaluation of the OLPC program, using data collected after 15 months of implementation in 319 primary schools in rural Peru. The results indicate that the program increased the ratio of computers per student from 0.12 to 1.18 in treatment schools. This expansion in access translated into substantial increases in use both at school and at home. No evidence is found of effects on enrollment and test scores in Math and Language. Some positive effects are found, however, in general cognitive skills as measured by Raven’s Progressive Matrices, a verbal fluency test and a Coding test." - http://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/publication-details...

So, rather than it being a failure, all we're told is that, after 15 months, maths and reading don't show improvements, but other areas do. So overall, it's positive.

But hey, what's an attentive reading of scientific studies worth against a link-baiting article that can be knocked up in ten minutes?
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Generally speaking, I'll tend to downvote anyone who says something like "Go ahead and downvote me" unless the post is otherwise insightful enough to be worth an upvote.
It's the community
Fair play to him. He's achieved to what many here aspire. I cannot begrudge him the success because he's NOT a developer.

If he was a developer and not a marketer, would the community be judging or discussing him in the same way?
The assertion is that, for a billion dollars, Facebook should be able to create a significantly better app and market it better (or 'at all') than Instagram do.

Facebook have got 721m users and all the data they need to constitute incredible market research. In twelve months if Facebook couldn't build an app which is competitive to Instagram, and get it installed with ~5.5% of their user-base, I'd be really fucking worried.

Also consider this: Twitter add "Photos" to their filtering options adjacent to "Connect" and "Discover". So you can just click a Photo button and see all your connections' photographs in a stream. Oops, they just went halfway towards creating most people's Instagram experience.
Instagram is younger than 2 years, isnt it
I found the Haskell operators to be particularly unenjoyable, and that's coming from someone who started to program in Perl. I don't see any logical purpose in such a large deviation from most languages even in basic things like comment operators. It felt like I was writing code in a different (spoken) language.

In short, Haskell's modernity didn't offer enough for me to consider it over Clojure.
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All the great-grandparent's points are true, but irrelevant. There are plenty of ways to improve SSH security. None of them make having passwordless keys anything other than utterly brain-damagedly stupid.
It seems like I'm missing something in that you are able to mount the encrypted partition without a password.

What's stopping me (or the police) from stealing your hard drive, booting into my own Ubuntu installation, and mounting your encrypted partition?

Is the lesson learned here not use use Ubuntu disk/partition encryption?
Bahh.. it was at where I worked. It was because we relied on C libraries that PHP connected to. When PHP is slow, they make links to C libs to get speed. Java did the same with JNI. PHP simply isn't fast enough in some situations where C libs are necessary to hook up with. (private message me if you disagree.. I'll be glad to go into details)

We were typically getting up to 200 req/second on our stack. So it was pretty heavy traffic to begin with. We solved the core dumps though. And the java core dumps were for the same reason (necessary to connect to JNI).
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Seems like this is rapidly becoming antisocial behavior for all those NOT in god mode, though.
I had one class that taught anything about computers in my teenage years (the laughable ECDL course), and I got kicked out on the first day. Nothing I knew about computers manifested in any of my exams in other subjects, but I loved the things.

Now I have a good job working with code, which I enjoy.
Well, yes.. I am a chilean developer myself, and run a meetup.com community of chilean developers called Huevapi (read as "web api" in spanish)
I've been coding PHP for years and am just starting to learn Ruby on Rails. I'm not a programming expert at all, and so most of the objections mentioned would take me a while to parse.

From my perspective, Ruby on Rails is really, really difficult so far. You have to learn to use the terminal (which I've seen other people in my position use to totally mess up their computers); to make a simple application you're already looking at maybe a dozen files, many of which you don't understand; most importantly for me, because there is a lot of stuff going on that you can't see, it's very hard to extrapolate from examples.

I have learned what programming I know from breaking apart example programs and then using the pieces to build other things. I'm not good at learning from textbooks or tutorials. This has proved very difficult with RoR so far. I'll take components that look like they should make something happen, and then they'll throw an error that I don't understand and can't seem to locate.
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RIP Jack! Big fan of the Atari ST.
It looks like a Trello-type clone, however the interface seems more simple and easy to use. I suppose the site is focusing on development more than marketing right now.
> its not bout test scores

It's not about test scores, it's about verifiable and quantifiable results. Does dropping a computer in every kid's lap increase the number of hackers? Are we observing more opensource contributions from Peru which can be attributed to OLPC?

Is there an empirical reason to believe that this kind of subsidy is beneficial? This question deserves more than a yawn.
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Bahh.. Don't be so patronizing. I'm a nerd dude. I was joking when I said I hate them all. I'll fuck Java and PHP in a 3some if given the chance.

I'm saying as long as I get paid I'll do the job because I'm an hourly coder (pays more, have mouths to feed). I do plenty of "fun" work and open source work.
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Wow, this is the first I've heard of this, thanks!

I take it from that blog post they don't have equivalents to the commands [XYGV!] I talked about, in e? Still, awesome stuff.
There is definitely a lot of social fatigue. I have cared less and less about my friends' hiking pictures over the years---and family and a few very close friends might be the largest group I will ever closely follow. It will be interesting to see what you guys come up with.
Really liked the CRACS theorem, and agree on Redis and Riak.

One thing I found lacking is the explanation on why Redis, and Hazelcast are in the list. I don't disagree they should be, but, at least Redis deserves a better explanation.
What you are seeing there is only the visitor traffic metrics for the landing page and the URLs shared out. You aren't seeing the back-end API centric traffic from the app to the core servers.
So is this one the truth then? http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/behind-the-netflix-pac-a-broadb...
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?? what does him going to the party knowing that Horowitz will be there has to do with luck??
They have 13 employees of which 3 were heading web ops.
Denial of service concerns seem to be at least briefly discussed in the paper (which I have not finished reading yet):

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dress to fool the server’s roaming detection. Such an attack would not
compromise the confidentiality of the connection but would disrupt it.

(Not the same scenario as you are describing, but still.)
What do you think Microsoft has done that Apple has not?
I think it was YouPorn, but yea, same idea :)
Yeah, Trello came out after I began development--so not a clone so much but definitely a similar product. I won't be able to compete on price (that was the worst part of seeing Trello launch) so I'm going to focus on a few other things. Simplicity and ease of use is at the top of the list.
If they paid 1B for 27M users it means they paid about $37 per user...
It's only a protection if properly used. Bound parameters don't work well for some types of dynamic queries.
When you say Wikipedia, Digg, Wordpress, Facebook, et all were all written in PHP, it doesn't mean a thing. All those use PHP simply because when they started PHP was the best thing available. Nowadays this is not a matter of "it gets the job done" anymore (e.g., Facebook paid $1b for a site that runs of Django).
Sadly, it makes sense given the intense lobbying from the *AA on SOPA/PIPA issues and broadband providers lobbying for some variant of a tiered internet. At least they're planning on fighting and not capitulating.
An anecdote from Michael Tomczyk (who Tramiel gave overall responsibility for the VIC-20 launch) that seems quite fitting:

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Ask yourself this: would the Instagram team have been as successful had they chosen PHP? I think not.

Instagram was only succesful (i.e. bought) because they had something (lotsa users' photo habits) that someone with lotsa money (facebook) wanted.
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Design by committee ("the players say they really want X, let's include X") is not the same thing as design with consideration of feedback ("the players really liked X_0, let's build X_1, and deemphasize Y because it didn't turn out fun").
> Facebook can afford to throw money at the problem

Aaah the good old circular reasoning of dismissing the big guy - they did get big enough to be able to afford money by using PHP too you know.
Sorry short and messy, ask an actuary. The probability of a breakthrough is IMO much the same as for an afterlife, not very high. There are lots of quacks about.

However the following about fasting once a week is interesting:

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If a chinese has a foreign friend and is able to communicate with you in English, then he/she is no where near average. He/she is probably an average among the middle or upper middle class, but definitely not an average among all chinese. However the bigger problem in China is not that they don't know how to bypass the firewall but that most people simply don't have the motivation to do so even if they know. The chinese version (copycat) like Baidu(google), Weibo(twitter) or youku (youtube) etc is simply good enough or better for them.
As someone who has written PHP for years, I would say it's starting to matter. The inability for PHP to adapt in a speedy fashion to new programming trends, the continuous implementation of features in a half-assed fashion (namespaces, anonymous functions, etc), and the unwillingness to even attempt to clean up the standard library have begun to marginalize PHP.

It's now easier and faster to get up and running with JavaScript or even Ruby, and these languages have more internal consistency than PHP, meaning that long-term they will see more skilled developers using them and thus will eventually have more and better libraries than PHP.

In addition, the JVM has reached a point where languages like Scala can compete, and apart from the initial cost, C#/.NET will actually save you money in the long term.

So, in short, while PHP is just fine as a language and I use and abuse it every day, I have a feeling that we will be seeing its twilight sooner rather than later, unless something like HPHP takes center stage, breaks backwards compatibility, and shakes up the ecosystem enough to revitalize the language.