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If that's all he had said, there wouldn't be so much pushback. But instead, he's setting himself up as a "wise" elder dispensing advice, and (ironically) much of what he's said is wrong.

If his point two was, for example: "You should always test received wisdom. You've probably heard not to use 'with', but do you know why? Well, let's write a quick benchmark, here's some code with 'with' and here's some without. And if we benchmark it like so...hey look! The code with 'with' is a little clearer, but it's glacially slow! And now you know not just why and when to avoid 'with', but how to test other language features too!"

But instead, basically, he said "Hey, don't listen to those idiots who say not to use 'with', listen to me! And I say it's awesome!" This is unhelpful on multiple levels.
Only responding to clarify: the only part I will admit was incorrect was the quote, "and, by extension, his consulting and training enterprises." Everything else I said I stand by 100%. Maybe I'm wrong and that's not his intent--but it's certainly the perception I have; having watched this same scene play out time and again.
Both those examples are things google noticed and penalized a decade ago.

I took this as examples of sites that are being penalized, but examples of other less subtle versions of webspam to illustrate his point...

My guess is this new update is irrelevant to those examples other than the two sites those screenshots are from will both be hit.

I think this is a puzzle to solve. Figuring which sites those two are and running them through an seo platform to see what they are both doing that is grey area.
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So, as I suspected, your antivirus deletes the installer when you try to install Racket.

Have you tried to right click and install as an administrator ?
You beat me to it. I only know Cameron from his work and his mailing list. His Retrobits site is a kick:

http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/
Adults frequently bully other adults, both in work and leisure time.
Same here, rarely watch videos, but not because life is too short, because video are very intrusive. I need to put headphones, it may download slowly, I have to focus on somebody talking to me, often with a very weird accent, in a language that is not my mother tongue. Moreover I am in China and may have to fire my VPN, switch on the proxy, all this because some guys decided videos were more than text.
It's not my job to teach you Sexism 101, so I'll be brief. It reinforces to the minority of women in tech that they will be routinely otherized by their colleagues.
I wonder why they suggest that? Their homepage is 115kb, so clearly they're not trying to absolutely minimize the size of their pages.
This feature didn't require a blog post. It just works, and there's probably been thousands of iPad users who've pressed these phantom keys without even realising it.
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why don't you publish the 10 funniest or most creative attempts and black hat webspam... I bet it would be great link-bait. (ofcourse stuff that doesnt work... wink wink.)
Also the MySQL query cache is not very granular, it gets cleared on every write to that table. Thus, we've seen in practice that with it enabled MySQL has poorer performance as its constantly being flushed. The overhead of maintaining it doesnt pay off.

Of course its a trade-off. If you have have substantially more reads than writes than it might be OK for your needs.
Two things:

1) The Firebug team had their own priorities, development timeframes, and goals, and wasn't interested in being integrated in the core, exactly.

2) The Firebug code is .... not easy to work with. Actually trying to make any sort of significant changes to it without introducing some serious problems is pretty hard.
Here's some snake oil for $270,000:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1047510073/remee-the-rem...

Kickstarter isn't particularly thorough about vetting technical projects.
LDA has been used for a while. How much better can that get? It definitely isn't new.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lda-and-googles-rankings-well-cor...
I like to imagine the Dalai Lama and George W. Bush getting stuck in a hotel room together. They'd probably have a wonderful time. We tend to assume that social relations are built on sameness, but people who can't build relationships without sharing every experience and attitude down to the last concrete detail are only one step more socially advanced than people who fail to build relationships at all. People who like to conform and be tribal have no need for the ability to find commonality across a superficial divide, but for weirdos, it's an essential skill. (Which I lack completely, of course, but here's to trying.)
Thanks, I've actually used Linux from ... 1999, hopefully I'm still sane even if I need to use CentOS for RedHat compatibility on one of my shiny new laptops.
Yeah, kickstarter just says it's up to the backers to do their own research into the project owners.
yes, Cisco discontinued the Guard module, which is unfortunate, as it did a pretty good job at determining what ACLs needed to be generated and applying them, and was actually much cheaper than the appliances.

in terms of mitigation hardware, all of those appliances are a ripoff. the solution is to replace them with free software that does automatic analysis on the flows and then sends that data automatically elsewhere, putting them out of business.

i have a system set up that does automatic mitigation using ddosmon by having a "scrubbing center" running on freebsd-based devices. this is accomplished by having a custom 'action' module in ddosmon which does three things:

- calculate the necessary ACLs

- insert them into the appropriate pf tables so the mitigation strategy fits my ruleset

- direct the router to send traffic for the IP being flooded to the scrubbing appliance

this is basically the way that the mitigation appliance vendors tell you to do it if you're handling >10gig floods anyway.

i think ddos mitigation is really a place where free software can cause a massively needed paradigm shift.
Probably because it's cheaper than defending yourself against a never ending stream of lawsuits (baseless or not) that would inevitably arise from founders and teams all leaving to one company en masse.
I agree Google has been making some amazing video ads in the past year or so.
I agree completely.

If you also use two-factor authentication, I daresay that you are in the 99th percentile, or higher.
> A service per application to handle updates is not very good.

Why not? The only problem I see is that it bloats out the list of services, and that list has been dying for some kind of hierarchical reorganisation for some time.

It's not like the service is continually running.
There are a lot of lucid dreaming devices, and people report varying degrees of success with them, but I've never heard that any of them are completely worthless. Is there any particular reason why Remee wouldn't work?
Here's one funded almost 2 years ago:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/schuyler/lockpicks-by-op...
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is it too late for me to say that i meant the opposite when i wrote that?
Apparently Google Drive isn't everywhere I want to be; it's not "ready for my account" yet. Is it really that hard for Google to make this available for everyone who wants it right away? How many people are trying to do this on opening day?
Here is site number 2: http://profitmonarchs.com/get-fit-using-these-simple-and-eas...

This might be site number 1: http://best-seo-software.biz/no-hands-seo-seo-link-building-...

look at the popular searches box on the bottom right.

Although it seems a few affiliates might have the same string of keyword stuffing.
Yes, in my experience of tech support, I often did have to tell the user what buttons to click.

I'm curious how it works in your country. What would a non-technical user do if they had a problem? What if you're a paying user of a web service and you start having a problem with it?
Analysts were actually below what was posted this quarter. Next quarter looks to be disappointing for analysts, they are aiming higher and Apple's guidance is lower ...
There is an option in settings drop down from top left of the homepage od docs. Also the offline url is https://docs.google.com/offline. But you need to set up offline first from the menu i wrote about above.
I will check it out, and it genuinely sounds interesting. Thanks.

> i think ddos mitigation is really a place where free software can cause a massively needed paradigm shift.

I'd argue resilient, reliable network gear in general is such a place. Reassuring to hear that Google is adopting Openflow and rolling their own ... maybe that'll trickle down. Cisco gear has led the way of being overpriced for fucking years.
Presumably the privileged service has been coded to only execute binaries that have been cryptographically signed by Mozilla.
Sarcasm? Can't tell on HN sometimes :-)
94% growth Year-over-year. Any other company doing that well?
it isn't investing /or/ buying; you're literally just giving money
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There's a LOT of space between saint and tyrant, and I'd guess that Amazon falls into that space (as almost everybody does).

Regarding your 'Tyrant' arguments:
* EBS sucks and they can't seem to ever fix it

Maybe durable, reliable, cheap and flexible storage isn't that easy to do?

* Beanstalk is a terrible excuse for a PaaS

Haven't used it, so I can't really comment.

* Completely locked into the AWS ecosystem

How so? I mean, they have a few proprietaryish services, but at least from my usage, I haven't found anything that I couldn't replace with something else. SNS? Email. EC2? Dedicated server. Elastic Block? Disks. I haven't used Dynamo, but I got the sense that it was just another NoSQL store?

* Servers can and do go down without notice

EC2 instances are designed to be ephemeral. If you're worried that they are going down, you've probably built your app incorrectly. It isn't meant to be used in lieu of a dedicated server, and it shouldn't be used as such. That's not how their compute units are meant to be used.

* Can't run AWS on premise

They're selling compute time. I mean, sure, they could open source their stuff, but most of their infrastructure is based on open source utilities that you could replace easily. Do we call Dropbox a tyrant for not releasing their source? No. The 'ease of use' is their entire business model.

As to actually answering the question, I like Amazon. I use some of their services where it makes sense to, but I don't think they're the greatest thing ever. They certainly have a good set of utilities, but it doesn't fit every use case.

For small utilization / commodity web needs you've got your typical web hosts. Dreamhost, ASmallOrange, etc.

For slightly larger needs you've got VPSes. Linode, Slicehost, etc.

Slightly larger than that and you're in single dedicated server territory.

For data intensive or computation expensive needs, you've got Amazon.

Bigger than that, and you're on big hardware from (dating myself here) Sun or IBM (and possibly using S3 for storage, because it's bad ass.)
In this case, its only the updater that runs privileged (which last time I checked was a separate application). The only way you should be able to 'compromise' it would be too man in the middle, and pretend to be Mozilla servers. Even then, if it used SSL (I'm not sure it does), and had an embedded certificate, then it should be fine.
Have been using idonethis for 8 days. Love it. Hands down, we need more slow web.
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I'll ignore the pointless first statement just as you ignored several of my questions. If you don't want people questioning your opinions, don't share them publicly.

How, exactly, does the choice of name minimize women? If a woman wrote 'clit', would you say the same thing? If a woman wrote 'dong', would we call her sexist? I understand the problem, but we're really throwing the baby out with the bathwater here. An effective solution to stamping out sexism in the workplace does not, in my opinion, hinge upon commanding people to ignore the presence of their sexual organs and doing so is, I think, more damaging.

I don't want to live in a world where the mere mention of a body part launches an accusation of sexism. Neither do several women in tech that I know. Can we agree that in certain cases, we're being a touch too sensitive when it comes to fixing the problem, and we should really choose more important battles than accusing a dev of sexism due to the name of a one-off, pointless Twitter client that he's not billing as the next Tweetdeck?

Fix sexism: Treat everybody equally, regardless of gender identity.

Don't fix sexism: Pretend gender identity and, by extension, sex, doesn't exist.
> Non-competes might prevent this, but I was under the impression that they're not terribly enforceable in California.

It is enforceable (in California) when the employee holds "significant" equity and the company the employee is leaving for is a competitor. If you're not developing a social networking site, Facebook should be able to hire you AFAIK.
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Not giving legal advice but here are my two-cents:
1) Possible tax savings: Signing bonuses are taxed as income. If you held your stock long enough, you may qualify for long-term capital gains tax treatment.
2) Silicon Valley is a repeat player business. You don't want to screw over your investors if you want to raise more funds or do anything else here where folks might ask around about you.
3) Non-competes are generally unenforceable in CA except in certain situations, including the acquisition of a company.
If you ignore the "shiny new features", it doesn't make much difference if the updates are 6 weeks or months apart. They are not fast-moving targets because the already standardized technologies don't change.

Oh, if only that were true. The number of minor issues that Firefox and Chrome have broken in their rapid updates is vast. And they break major things occasionally too. Try looking at what happened to pages using Flash or Java applets in (ironically) the initial LTS release of Firefox a few weeks ago, for example, or consider the Chrome/H.264 fiasco.

Leaving aside the things they are breaking, there is also the issue of things they are not fixing. There are plenty of long-standing and widely applicable bugs in the rendering of existing but no longer trendy features in these browsers. I don't see how you can have this constant pressure to show progress and support for bleeding edge technologies without also squeezing out developer time that would be better spent fixing bugs that already affect many users today.
Did you read the article before commenting? The article proposes that Yelp should provide people the option to use their credit rating to prove they are not a sockpuppet in return for Yelp displaying their review. It is only an option, credit ratings are only used because they are a pre-existing identification and authentication source and most importantly YELP IS NOT DOING THIS YET.
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biggiesu I totally agree. We actually had a prolonged discussion about a many different ideas.

Oddly enough, the issues we expected to have the hardest time ended up being the easiest to answer. When you've spent a lot of time with someone hanging out outside of work, doing normal stuff like spending time with their family, shooting the shit and not talking about work but just being people it allows you to be more open.

There was a time where Joyce and I got excited about doing a dating site, for a day or two we did a bunch of research and were slowly building momentum. By the second day I woke up and I realized that my heart just was not into the idea doing a dating site (sorry dating sites, I'm married). I shared my feelings with Joyce and after a short conversatio we dropped it and moved on.

We eventually came up with the concept of a "24-hour test". If we didn't care or love the current idea we were working on after 24 hours, we would move on to something else.

We iterated through several other ideas in this fashion... researching, prototyping or mocking up, digging in, thinking, debating. One or two ideas made it past 24 hours, and one made it a couple weeks.

But, finally, after several months of planning we landed on an idea that we both are excited about. I can't wait to share it with the world.
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The Wifi is on par with the Nexus One for me. The only connection issues I've had were capacity/carrier based (e.g. T-Mo in San Francisco).

Lucky...I bought mine last month for $529. Not full price or bank breaking but still a bummer.
> You can only check parts of the binary, not the whole binary

Not only would they be signing the binary in its entirety, they're almost certainly signing every single byte of the update package, right down to the very last manifest file and license agreement.

> some content is unpredictable once it runs

Yes, but "some" content isn't allowed to run.
I wish my grad school advisor had asked "How do you behave when you get mad?" What an important thing to figure out ahead of time :)

Best of luck to you two!
Now that so many people are hosting their dotfiles on GitHub, I'd like to see someone write a script that can scan all those dotfiles and produce some statistics about the most popular settings and aliases. It would be educational, but it could also give operating system vendors some suggestions for new terminal defaults.
Wow, those 1-star reviews are pretty scathing too. I had no idea that negative reviews were filtered like that; that pretty much ruins my trust in the review component of the site. From now on, I'll be using Yelp for contact info. and price points...
I am sorry, but skydrive has basically ms office build in. you can easily create/edit files. although it is obviously not the complete office suite, it is definitely very decent.
Am I the only one who hates how some projects are named like this?
Did Aurora and Nightly install themselves into your %USERPROFILE% directory instead of %PROGRAMFILES%?
At first I thought that failed Kickstarters were a small minority of projects, but I've come to think that failed projects (or at least greatly delayed) are the norm, rather than the exception. Of 4 projects I've funded 1 was delivered as promised and on time, 1 is currently on pace to be delivered only slightly late (~1 month), one is 5 months late and still being designed, and one is mostly content complete but over a year late for physical delivery. People really, really don't seem to realize what they're getting themselves into with these, and drastically underestimate time to completion.
That's a little pessimistic.

There's a range[2] of ISPs who will sell DDoS protection to you, either as an addon when you host with them, or as an external service (re-routing your traffic).

E.g. StormOnDemand just recently added it to their portfolio[1], which is note-worthy because they actually list prices right on the website.

Either way, even without "explicit protection" any ISP beyond mom&pop-size deals with these attacks every day and will sort them out for you for free the first couple times. Only when they turn into a habit or become so huge that they have to talk to their upstream they will politely ask you to throw some money their way.

Pulling the plug immediately is definitely not normal. However considering Pastie was apparently a sponsored account it's at least somewhat understandable (albeit a terrible PR move).

[1] https://www.stormondemand.com/ddos.html

[2] When in doubt, and pockets deep enough, there's always Akamai. They're the ones who can filter TBit/s-scale (yes, that was a T) attacks for you.
Wow, highly upvoted. And spot on :) Wish there were more companies like this in our field.
Things I'd like to see before I consider using or recommending GDrive:

- A statement from Google regarding whether or not they will scan the data and files in GDrive to develop further profiling information or other data about the user

- A guarantee from Google that GDrive will not be subject to account lockout in the event of account suspension due to AdWords/AdSense algorithmic (or human) triggers. In fact, I'd want that guarantee for any Google service.

Here's what Dropbox has that Google cannot currently offer: If your work in AdSense/AdWords triggers a Google account suspension you do not loose access to your data with Dropbox.

Being that the algorithmic shutdown can happen at any time, without notice, warning or recourse, it is a far safer bet to keep your data on Dropbox, at any price.

The other guarantee you have is that Dropbox will not mine your data, email and docs to get deeper into your head and your life. Maybe Google offers this too. I don't know. I quit looking at their terms of service a while ago. I'll reserve judgement on that. I'm sure someone will tell me how this works.

In fact, Dropbox, the best come-back to GDrive might very well be to offer email and document services. I know that this might be a huge undertaking, but I am sure that there are lots of people, like myself, who have developed a serious trust issue with Google due to the way they behave on the AdWords/AdSense side of things.

This is an area ripe for an incursion simply because of what google isn't doing well: Customer Service.

As I have stated on numerous posts in the past, I have zero interest in any tool outside of Google Analytics because of the shitty approach they have to customer-no-service everywhere else. Could I use gmail and gdocs? Of course. Would I pay for that service? Certainly. Why don't I? Because I have zero interest in loosing access to my data because of some shitty algorithm, the lack of a staged approach to dealing with account issues and an even crappier non-existing customer service philosophy.

Why I feel this way (from about a week ago):
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804260

A thought on what could be a better system:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804260
Perhaps there were thousands of iPad users who used the keys without knowing it. I don't have access to those numbers.

But how many more would have used them if there were an affordance?

And if we're talking about good (user interface) design, there's an element of "what if everybody did it" involved. I don't want a lot of applications hiding useful features behind invisible buttons. I think having the keys there is a fantastic idea; I just think it would be better if they were visible.
Pick on it because its a poor game, not because of how it is written. It shouldn't matter to the backers if the guy was learning to program (how many experienced programmers would be happy with $10k-expenses for 2 months work?), or what tools he used to get the job done, as long as it does what it says on the proverbial tin.
With a universe of possible ASCII combinations to choose from - just because a particular iteration is witty, it does not automatically exclude it from offending one or more groups of people (whatever the reasoning).

If you want widespread adoption of your tool, your best bet is to try to offend as few groups as possible.
If it's just photos, you might want to check out Adobe Revel - they're offering storage of an unlimited number of photos for $5.99/month. Might be more cost efficient. I haven't checked it out yet but plan to.