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The Facebook app is also a major battery drain. But the real kicker is the privacy violations where they grab your phone's address book to make creepy friend recommendations. I tell everybody to uninstall the app and just use the web app. If you make a shortcut to the web app it will work just as well as the native app without the privacy or battery issues.
There was a quote from someone, "Find something you enjoy doing and you'll never work another day in your life." ... maybe your friends are technically richer, but for them it might be just a job, whereas you actually enjoy what you do and get the sort of satisfaction from it that money can't buy.
I'm not saying it is more difficult. I'm saying that it's not any less complex by the time you put everything you need together. In other words, it's a wash, so I just use Django instead. Fewer dependencies to install, fewer helper functions to write (because many of them already exist), and more components that are designed to work together.

And then there are other things such as having all of your URLs specified on one place vs. as decorators with your controllers. But that's just my personal preference.
Stockton hasn't had high real estate prices since 2008 when their market crashed harder than anywhere else in the country.
yep same user interface and same code across platforms means suboptimal app for each of the distinct platforms
Probably written wrong not degraded.

It's very easy to say the backup should be tested, there should be mirrored recovery systems etc. but this is a movie, even in a studio system this is a one shot deal, the systems and even the hardware will be disposed of after the master is cut,the people will leave for other jobs etc.

Now in the middle of crunch to make the movie - tell the producers you are going to double the HW budget for a test system to test the backups and you are going to stop doing any new work until a backup system is built and tested.

Personally I'm amazed they had any sort of backup beyond personal copies on animators machines.
More than that, studies find that between 6% and 13% of men admit to having raped women, with an average of ~5 women raped each: http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2010/03/25/predator-th... 1 in 4 is not unrealistic, even assuming some women are significantly more likely to be victimized than others.
Hehe. I prefer the regexes. More power, and I've used them for decades.
We had two replica sets of three nodes each. After the first migration, we took it down to one replica set.
It's no more dangerous to "do a startup" now than it's ever been, it only seems like it's harder because everybody is doing the same stupid fashion/flash sale/monthly curated box of shit startup ideas.

A successful business finds a need or desire in the market place, solves the need or fulfills the desire, and people pay for its products or services. The principles haven't changed, nor has the percentage of the population capable of creating sustainable businesses. I think the author is confusing causality. He is speaking as if the number of startups coming online somehow affects the viability of other startups. That isn't really so. If you can create something people will pay for and are able to scale it sustainably, you will succeed.

What has changed is people's expectations. Whereas it used to be that people understood that building a successful business was a process of years of hard work without a reliance on investment money, nowadays it is assumed that if you aren't a millionaire after six months you've failed. I think Jeff Bezos said that just by taking a long-term approach to your business you instantly make the vast majority of the competition irrelevant.
Of course. That doesn't mean I can't regret or think about decisions of the past, right?
Whoah there, iTunes is not ease of use. I had an MP3 player before the iPod was ever relased and it was most definitely easier to load music onto.
Actually we have around 20,000 lines of node in production spread over about 20 services. It's perfect for SOA.
Wow.. I'm ignorant.. but if you joined 3.5 years ago, you'd have millions right now? Really? Is that the norm or exception? Geez... that's just 2008... I would understand 2005 when they were in a huge growth phase.

Either way, I know it's hard to emotionally know this, but I once had a phase in my life where I was making lots of money for a couple of years. To the point where I am sort of financially independent right now. But I was horribly depressed because I had very little friends, and no authentic relationships. It felt quite empty. So money really isn't everything.
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I like bootstrap because it allows me to iterate quickly.

Problem is a lot of people dont dig into the actual styling of the page and leave the standard stuff in it.
Not only that.

No urban sprawl -> no backyards & cul-de-sacs -> few babies -> no natural population growth.
I think 'the ecosystem' consists mostly of people with connections to money. Which of course is true, since the money is so provincial. Yes, there are lots of engineers there too, but as the article points out, they all have jobs plus back-up offers lined up three deep. Instead of going to the trouble to import people, why not invest in them where they're at? I'm not talking about farm towns in Iowa, I'm talking about places like Boston, New York, Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, etc, etc.
Wasn't Anon the group that took down the Westboro site? From what I remember they took down the site while an Anon "spokesperson" and a Westboro representative were both being interviewed live on a talk show.
yes, the new LinkedIn app on the iPad is gorgeous, performs really well and apparently is mostly made out of HTML5. They use local storage to cache data, FB app does not do that. http://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-ipad-using-l...
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Spot on, we need to see more business move into the east bay where there's plenty of room for it and transportation infrastructure already in place... it's only natural
hey Zac. I'm the author of the post.

That, or something like it, is Comcast's argument. Which makes no sense. This is a video streaming service, it's prioritized, and it's delivered just like other video streaming services are. Hopefully the data reflects this.
If you are single or DINK (double income no kids) - moving to Bay Area (or NYC for that matter) can have economic sense.
Sure. But it's certainly easier than most other languages. It's not a great reason to switch for that, but working with Mongo is fairly trivial in Node.
I'd love to see the bay area achieve a level of density that makes mass transit (and not cars) the norm everywhere.

There has been a lot more progress, at least in areas like Palo Alto, than this article makes clear. Throughout my life countless properties have been turned into relatively high density homes.
You can use coroutines as long as your state machine can be structured like code. Loops are Kleene closures, Ifs are alternation, and lists of statements are concatenation.

I used nested C# Enumerators to implement a parser which didn't turn into too much of a mess, but it was a small project.

Structured programming limits you in the state machines you can construct, but probably in a good way.
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There's another problem: integration of mass transit across counties... BART and Caltrain each have their advantages, especially BART which is truly rapid. But those are arteries, and we need to see veins also connect across counties.

For example it's a pity that Palo Alto, being at the county line between SAMTRANS and Valley Transit, does not have any good street car service. The light rail that ends in Mountain View should continue to Palo Alto, and I hope the density will push that.
Extremely excited to see how this works out. This is an amazing idea.
Thank you, this cannot be said enough. About AppData, ComScore, Compete, or any other public traffic estimator.

I love AppData to pieces, it's fantastically useful and I hit it pretty much every day--but it doesn't actually even match Facebook's data sometimes and Facebook logins are only one of Quora's supported login types, so one could extrapolate that there are at least that many users but in no way could you say that's even close to the topline (you might guess it's 2/3 of it, but it'd still be a SWAG).
About your first point: a friend who joined in April 2009 and is now Engineering Manager says he stands to make about $10M if the valuation of $100B persists when he gets to sell.

I do often think about the non-monetary aspects of my life, and feel better knowing I'm not in terrible shape socially or financially. Thing may or may not have been similar on the non-financial front had I worked at FB - obviously, I'll never know.
A symptom of this issue is that you have to wait before you can start playing the movie. So if you wanted to play a 1 GB mkv the player had to read the whole 1 GB from disc once, which took a fair amount of time back in the days.

Afaik playback performance is not affected by this. Poor playback performance is mainly related to the lack of hardware acceleration (and codec optimizations) people take for granted since h.264 matured on OS X.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cable_Communications_Policy_A...

Cable transmissions are not 'internet video' transmissions. They are different. Your cable tv is a 'video streaming service' too. Xfinity tv is probably a cable communications ie. cable tv, not an internet communication (i.e. streaming tv). It's how you define it to the FCC.
Looks like some sort of charade.

The red truck image was taken directly from http://www.beckhamsautos.com/web/used/Chevrolet-Silverado-15... (Not th3j35t3r's Facebook as claimed)

Here's the truck's VIN number (2GCEK19T2Y1374502): http://photos.ecarlist.com/gK/SH/wn/jz/QY/rC/O3/mf/Lk/Z1/yQ_...

The truck in the picture doesn't have plates. It has a Beckham's Auto placard.

There is a decent Carfax history on the VIN. Georgia.

More soon...
N Reduce? Y Combinator? Sure, why not.
>"I can't rationalize that being worth a few million bucks though."

The skills and experiences are worth more than a few million dollars.

>"I love what I do, and I've built something users love."

You have a success story, don't sit on it and just wish for the best things to happen to you. Keep shipping. Keep building side projects. Keep learning new things.

Following the IPO there will be many people who have cashed out and will look at the general investment market (equities/bonds/fx) and decide that they'd rather roll the dice and invest in what they know: startups. Keep networking, keep up past relationships, and don't burn bridges unnecessarily. When you're ready to raise funds for a project that needs outside capital, you want to have a black book full of names and numbers of people that have the wealth and connections to get you funded.

There will always be opportunity costs to every decision you make, stop thinking about the "what-ifs" of the past and start thinking about the "what-ifs" of the future, based on what you do today. Then get to work building that future.
Except, from what I can tell, there's no way to have it alert you when applications try to call out. So you have to know in advance which applications you want to block, and specify them manually.

Also, if the app you want to block calls out during installation, it's too late.
This. It's all but explicitly stated on the screen. Notice the notice informing you that your "simulated personality" will be terminated upon refusal to accept the TOS.

Not that it matters, clones don't have souls, like twins. [0]

[0]: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/#22
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Thanks. That puts it in perspective. All I have is my time and my experience.

I guess you are either doing the hustling or getting hustled. And I know which one I'd rather be.
1. Any "friend" that forgets you because you didn't "make it" isn't a friend in the first place and isn't worth keeping around as one (as much as I hate to burn bridges altogether).

2. There is no point in regrets and asking "what if". Better to focus your energy in putting you best foot forward and figuring out what you want to do next base on what you feel is best for yourself. I'm confident many people, if not everyone, has had opportunities they've passed on in their lives but its not worth dwelling on. Easier said than done for many, however, but you should still try to move forward.
From the Wikipedia article on price ceilings:

"A price ceiling set below the free-market price has several effects. Suppliers find they can't charge what they had been. As a result, some suppliers drop out of the market. This reduces supply. Meanwhile, consumers find they can now buy the product for less, so quantity demanded increases. These two actions cause quantity demanded to exceed quantity supplied, which causes a shortage"

Price ceilings are monumentally stupid. Unfortunately, the government rarely seems to be run by people who have much of an economic education.
The hoop is not using the software. The hoop is having to install the software.

Why can't the iPod work without iTunes? (It can, but only with a lot of work.)
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Wow. This entire thing from start to finish is like a textbook example on how NOT to handle PR crises.

Let me get this straight: you're telling us the lesson you've learned is to not respond when emotional? You're posting this as a read-only Google Docs? As a CEO of a major tech publication? Seriously? Wow.
Eh, to be fair, they probably both have.
Maybe this was staged and Zee never wrote any of those comments. The Google doc link is suspicious.
A few million dollars go a long way in changing around your life.

Knowing a few people with a few million dollars, one of the things they'll confide over drinks is how much less it changes your life than you would think. Unhappy families with a million dollars are unhappy families. Sick parents with a million dollars are sick parents. Seeing the Avengers with your kids with a million dollars is seeing the Avengers with your kids. (Flipside: Maybe it is just a reflection on the kind of people I'm likely to know, but four separate people have told me that the thing that really freaking rocks about being a millionaire is that you can easily swing a cleaning service coming by and doing the whole house every single week.)

I sometimes think about how things could have shaken out differently. I went to a fairly good school and many of my classmates went into management consulting or finance. A good deal of them wondered why I didn't. (Neither option was ever really on my radar screen. I think if you had asked me in college "Sketch out how you, Patrick, would get a job at McKinsey" I would have been literally incapable of answering that question even though the answer was probably "Put on your debater suit and talk to the recruiter from McKinsey.") They have fairly predictable career trajectories and are now hitting 30 right as I do. I was raised to never talk about money, so I don't, but if I were guessing I'd peg many of them for low seven digits millionaires.

This would have been mildly irksome to me if I were still a salaryman (less for envy over their conditions and more for still being a salaryman), but since life is pretty rocking right now I don't give it too much thought.
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That's why I said it was a pocket of low-priced housing.
Comparing the 2 densest boroughs of NYC to the entirety of the Bay Area seems pretty specious to me. Last time I looked, there was a giant sprawl of suburbs around that city too.
The key is that Comcast does not stream its conent to nomn Cable TV subscribers. If it did, it would bea violation, but this just seems like an alternative way of accessing Cable TV, which still needs to compete with Netflix/etc on price and content.
If they didn't have rent control in San Francisco half the population would clear out every bubble. The city is already transient enough as it is. Having lived in and around San Francisco I have seen the mega-booms and busts. I think that rent control keeps the housing market from being warped by the gigantic tidal waves of money that slosh in and out of San Francisco every couple of years.
The problem is that the U.S. is huge compared to Europe. I agree that we need more mass transit but it's a different problem here.
The two are fairly related. Without sufficient housing density, it's difficult to build efficient mass transportation.
Despite how much money is glorified in our culture, its a relatively ho-hum thing after reaching a certain point. I am definitely not mega-wealthy but I've reached a point where I've realized how little potential it has to make me more happy than I already am.

Having money presents an opportunity to achieve more happiness but it has dramatically diminishing marginal returns in my experience. In fact you'd be amazed at how many people use it to do something that inevitably makes them less happy.

To put things into perspective, everyone has limited time here on earth. Money is a small component of how good that experience is.
no, they are definitely not going to all be big businesses. for every Zynga there are plenty of RockYou's (or Free Gifts) that grow but never turn into sustainable businesses.

but the point is that the conditions that allow companies to grow are fleeting, they happen rarely and the people building real companies are best to sit up, take notice, and take advantage.
I agree that Comcast is in fact trying to classify this service as a Title VI service. The implementation of this specific service seems to have far more in common with Netflix than standard cable service (even including VoD streams delivered to your STB.)

Whether the FCC considers this as a Title VI service or not is yet to be seen.
I think I might understand what you're saying.

Let's say we can copy me. As in, we make another me (let's call him me* ) that is physically identical to me in every possible way.

I believe your argument is that I will continue to be me, and me* will essentially be a different person. If I die, that's it. me* lives on, but I am not me* , I am me.

The interesting question, which your parent (in the thread) posits an answer to, is what is the actual difference between me and me* ?

If you believe that humans exist entirely within the physical world (as in, there's no mystical/religious/spiritual element to our existence--we're just matter and energy), then me and me* are no different. Suppose we go back to your idea, that we kill me after creating me* . Since I am purely a physical being, I have no way of distinguishing between me and me* . In particular, if you never told me that I am me* , I would have absolutely no way of distinguishing the difference between me and me* .
My mistake on not seeing the previous comments but even if the original work (not the TNW version) offered little extra value at least it was written from scratch using the authors own words. His outrage was minor, Zee's outrage is seriously overblown and I think our outrage here is justifiable.
At least, in this case, the jobs won't be, for example, creating a yelp clone for $250.+
You need to be a Comcast subscriber to use their iPad app, but they don't have to prioritize traffic or exempt it from bandwidth limits for it to work.
Well that's including the three20 version, which would support the author's point.
Check these articles out for some good points

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-274.html
http://www.nmhc.org/ResearchReport.cfm?ItemNumber=55262
MPlayer lacks a playlist though, which is annoying.

VLC's recent UI changes have been a step backward (specifically making it impossible to see the playlist and the video at the same time), but at least you can queue things up to play.
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Hit the stop (x) after the content loads. Worked for me.
Thats a pretty good analogy. I am absolutely for helping out those in need- I just dont think it should be shelved on the landlords shoulders- It should be a responsibility of government.
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I once lost two weeks of programming to an errant delete.

I recreated it in about two days, and it was better.

Obviously, artwork != code. But I find a second pass nearly always improves things.
Even at 90 million users, with anything approaching a reasonable level of activity, we're not talking about serious data.

90 million rows of denormalized data isn't a big deal, and if I had to guess, their ops per second is probably no higher than what a dedicated single, or maybe a small master-slave postgres deployment could handle.

Again, something a DBA would yawn at.

And I say this as someone who scaled up an API for a service that plugged into multiple ad networks concurrently for a total of billions of impressions per month with a high level of reliability. Using NoSQL and an RDBMS combined.

People who want to preach the NoSQL message should probably have some actual experience. Otherwise, it just makes very viable NoSQL solutions look really bad.
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(I am not the OP).

Let's suppose we believe that everything about me can be contained in the physical processes that happen in my body.

Now suppose that we have the ability to digitally simulate those processes perfectly. Since my existence is purely physical, the "sensation of identity" you describe is perfectly captured by this digital simulation, by definition.
I still take issue with the argument and I had trouble finding the citation for this statement or the graphs.

Under the price ceiling there is excess demand relative to the supply. This is a no brainer. But excess demand is not the same thing as an increase in demand. If there is an increase in demand why is the demand curve not shifted to the right? The curve stays in the same place.
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To each their own, but this sounds like an enormous nightmare in places. Did they do analysis to determine that support IE6 was worth the developer frustration or the large, large set of features they simply can't use (many of which pilif mentioned, in addition to those mentioned or implied in the article)?
I have one more itch to scratch: please let me pay with me debit/credit card! The other day a shipment from GLS arrived. This actually was the second shipment, because they claim I wasn't home when they tried the first time. Even thou i WAS home, sitting in the kitchen all afternoon to intercept the GLS guy so that he wouldn't wake up our little one...

When GlS came the second time I was at home. I just don't have a couple hundred bucks worth of cash in my pocket. I mean, come on! Cash only? Really GLS?
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