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If she wouldn't have had the backup in her house, couldn't you have simply restored the files from the original disks? Of course you would have to rebuild the folder structure somehow, but that would be the work of some days, not months, right?
> ex-Soviet Union states possess an arsenal of tricks you can learn from

Interesting, but I don't see a reference. Where can I read more?
That is why the future belongs to native applications, the consumers are finally realized how this web everywhere sucks and is only able to deliver half-baked experiences.
First, I'm going to quibble with #5. The networks databases typically must communicate over are typically much lower latency and are at the very least far less subject to spontaneous hardware failure (human error is another matter that I'll concede is certainly debatable as that has a lot to do with the complexity of your storage and network systems...).

From elsewhere (lost the link) you wrote:

> My point is that every database comes with terrifying failure modes. There is no magic bullet yet. You have to pick the system which fits your data and application.

I'm totally with you in this part. "State" is the magic from whence most (all?) software bugs seem to stem. This has lead to emergent design time behaviour such that as few of the components as possible manage the authoritative logical state of our systems. It lead to it being desirable for those few remaining stateful components to be as operationally resilient in the face of adversity as conceivable. These forces have conspired to ensure herculean efforts to make such systems resilient and perfect, almost as much as they have conspired to ensure those components present the most impressive catastrophic failure scenarios. ;-)

While on one hand I completely agree that one needs to select the system which best fits your data and application, the maturity of more established solutions ensures they've been shaped by a far more robust set of different contexts. They've crossed off their list far more "fixing corner case X is now our top priority" moments than those who have come since. They really can better address a much broader range of the needs of at least applications that have been developed to date. By comparison most "NoSQL" stores have advantages in a fairly narrow set of contexts. Particularly if you are a startup and really don't know what your needs will be tomorrow, the odds favour going with as high a quality RDBMs as you can get your hands on.

I really do think far too few startups consider the reality that the thought process should probably be, "Are the core technical problems that stem from our long term product goals fundamentally not well suited to solutions available with RDBMS's?", and only asking about alternatives if the answer is no.

Another way to look at is is, from 1-6, only #4 could be argued as not being applicable to a file server (I'd throw in SAN too, but those are so often lumped in with RDBM's, so let's skip that one)? And really, #4 is both simpler and harder for filesystems: they have a far more trivial interface to contend with... but consequently have a far more difficult time determining/anticipating query access patterns for selecting optimal data layout, data structures and algorithms to maximize IO efficiency.

Why don't we worry as much about choosing a filesystem to suit our app as we do a database?
It's only prioritized up till the cable modem, not after so that part doesn't matter (i.e. other providers have equal access to your home network).

And up till the cable modem it is basically using a different channel: They are increasing your allowed bandwidth to make up for the usage. To me that's indistinguishable from a dedicated RF channel.
That excuse is fairly invalid, since there are many highrises in SF, and Vancouver Canada seems to not have much of a problem making their entire downtown core largely high rise.
Those rare people tend to be found in places like Stanford and other great universities and successful businesses like Apple and Google...
This is so stupid. Do the proponents of these positions ever acknowledge that maybe the Bay Area likes the current density trajection and maybe part of the Bay Area's charm is that it's not New York?
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Rails does work with multi-threading.

Ruby has no support for concurrency, no matter how many threads your interpreter is using. 1.8 had no OS threads at all, and 1.9 has a global interpreter lock. This is not solvable in the application layer (for example, by a framework like Rails): this is a problem inherent to the runtime.
Sorry, but "Tokyo... one of the most human, inspiring place on earth". Living in Tokyo is not fun. There are way too many people. You barely have space to walk, and the trains are overcrowded. It's very noisy, and if you want to go out of the city you need to take a 2 hours ride to start seeing actual green stuff.

To my mind, inspiration comes from flexibility, i.e. when you can choose to change environment as you please. A mid-size city is ideal for that, since you can have times in the city and off the city, that change your perspective. If you live in Tokyo, you just cannot do that, and you are stuck in a world that is very different from everywhere else, and out of touch with a lot of what most people consider "reality".

Disclaimer: I live in Japan.
nothing teaches state machines like networking protocols, just look at the server & client fsm's for tftp (rfc-1350).
I use Freedom. (Costs money.)

Works really well: http://macfreedom.com/purchase.
for fun I did this https://github.com/khakimov/freodom (yea, simple 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts), you can add this feature in your project:

- Automatically changes status to DND (skype/adium)
Agreed. A P2P program with a browser? Come on! We /already have/ wonderful P2P programs. I sense browsers becoming awfully bloated. And for who's benefit? Google's.
Would you believe that the Bay Area is one of the most desirable places to live on the planet?
Well, perhaps college is a little more than 'just doing the work' - I grinded out calculus 2, actually went to all the lectures, did all the assignments - still only managed to get a C+ - integration by parts is just one of the elements that required more memorization of patterns, and speed than I could pull off. And we had a LOT of hard working, disciplined students flunk out of the EE program.
Rent control does NOT help new migrants to an area, or the young in general. Those are the people most likely to start new tech companies, or to go to work for rapidly growing companies.

Affordable rent does help both of those groups. That's distinct from rent control.

Actually, most big tech companies set up offices outside Silicon Valley for back office functions (where cheap labor is important -- like the phone call centers and CSRs in India and Omaha), and just to recruit engineers (SV has more engineers but also more competition for them; Ann Arbor has fewer, but fewer local companies). The only organizations which need to only be in one location, and need to be in silicon valley, are early/mid stage tech startups.
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vImage is not GPU accelerated and provides no useful operations for decoding video. You may be thinking of OpenCL, which also provides no useful operations for decoding video, or VideoDecodeAcceleration, which is already supported by QuickTime and needs no further 3rd party support.
To me hiring a professional for 20 minutes might sound enough for some small taske, but I'm not sure how well this goes for more complex tasks (e.g. where the pro has to read and understand your code). I guess you can buy couple of chunks than but I'm not sure I see the benefit. Is it just so that you don't have to pay every starting hour?
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Rent control dramatically increases the price of housing and reduces the quality of housing. Rent control is basically just an inter-generational transfer of wealth. People who have cheap, rent-controlled housing (usually older people who became tenants long ago) are subsidized by new renters who cannot get the limited supply and rent-controlled housing, but pay higher housing prices as a result of supply constraints.
As a resident, seconded. Even living in San Francisco, the utility of a Caltrain connection is much reduced vs. BART. Was 10x too much to pay, if it is as the OP claimed? Maybe. As a former resident (and having grown up in) the east bay, the same applies: the Bart connection is much preferred to Caltrain, which is a big plus because the snarl of getting from the north-east bay to the airport is considerably worse vs. people taking their cars from the south bay, having also lived there as well.

I have also commuted on Caltrain, and liked it, but it's in weird places farther north, not well integrated with BART, and not frequent enough.

All in all, I don't think the difference in price (projections are awfully fickle) or at least utility is as clear as the OP suggests.
Really? No Screenshots, no live preview, even the video doesn't show the actual application? No offense, but why would I want to sign-up to even get a glimpse of your editing environment?
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Something worth remembering, all caught up that we are in $1 bn IPOs and multi-million exits.
I went from LaunchBar to Quicksilver to Spotlight to LaunchBar. Can't live without that clipboard history! I don't use many of its other features anymore though.

Preview annotates things well enough that I never use Skitch, although Skitch is cool if you want to use the sharing features.

You might be missing out on Dropbox. I wouldn't want to go without it these days as I use more than one computer regularly and don't have to remember to commit 'WIP' on a branch before I head home, I just drop the mic and get the fuck out. YMMV.

Divvy is great. I use it w/ SizeUp every day and wouldn't want to go without them. I don't miss xmonad at all anymore.

Other than that I install 1Password, The Unarchiver, Growl, CrashPlan, Flux, TextMate, iTerm, and GitX and I am good to go.

I seem to shed tools as OS X improves as well, but I hope that nobody is using plan9 in 40 years! ;-)
How is this at the top of HN? Apparently people that need this stuff sit on HN and vote it up. If you don't want to go to these sites I have some advice: Don't go to them.
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Slate is more mainstream than HN, but not mainstream. Forbes is a better example of mainstream reach, but also the risk: the Forbes audience is not a quality content crowd, it's an infotainment filler crowd, and infotainment is cheap these days.
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Yes, basically. Though it more like the existence of twice as many twice as small cities. It also means that we devote huge amounts of infrastructure dollars to the middle of nowhere serving virtually no one. Look at the subsidies we give to "rural phone companies" or the postal service.
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These guys killed the MediaPlayer market for the bad.

It is one of the apps making knock my head on the table. It is so terribly poor in UX.

While the appearance is IMHO seems to be heavily "inspired" from existing players (e.g. Quicktimes controls overlay) without any charming twist, it is implemented ridiculously poor.

Boys, a cursor that hides when you try to click the playhead!? Ridiculous. The playhead is so idiotically tiny that this crap product turns into a Aim & Click game.

Yea, it's free but this is for no good as it kills any efforts to make something better. This is such a pity.
I only learned Prolog in an academic context, so I unfortunately have little knowledge about the best way to integrate Prolog with a ruby/python/other app.

Concerning resources, this is a good start that will give you a good overview of how Prolog works:
http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online
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i think what i'm enjoying most about node.js and the new frameworks, is that they require me to think differently. i'm also optimistic about coding end-to-end in the same language (client, server, database). this is a big learning curve for many folks. i remember when folks transitioned from C to C++ and from C++ to Java -- it takes awhile. i think this is going to be a lot of fun to see where it takes us. also i think work like coffeescript and future IDEs might make this really interesting. Also meteor -- lots of creativity and cool things.
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What you say is literally not true, unless that bit of text was selling for $1000: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html#506

Further, YC is protected by DMCA safe harbor provisions.
SCVTA is pretty bad compared to some select localities in North America (NYC, SF itself, Montreal off the top of my head). On a world scale it barely registers, the transport infrastructure compares unfavourably with, say, Lille.

Compared to Indiana it may well be nice.
Ask HN: How do you use IRC?
I see a lot of people and projects advertising the fact that they can be found on an IRC channel. I've tried it before, but generally I find that it's too distracting.

How does the HN community use IRC? Any tips on how to successfully use IRC to promote a company, product or project?
Eventually there might be real pictures of people actually coding in strange locations.
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What?

No they are not conversation killers. I used to think they were conversation killers till I realized that all it meant is that I now actually have to think harder and respond at a higher level.

His last line is important: We agree that its a complex problem.

So at least now we can start identifying multiple solutions which can help this.

One of them, and important - is pointing out that Concrete jungles DON't have to be bad places to live.

A good follow up would be examples of cities that do manage a good balance between high density places, good mass transit, and managing places which keep a good balance of greenery.

Places which can be redeveloped would be another option of something to discuss.

what/how good are the mass transit options in SV (I don't live there), what are the long term city plans? Do they need to be updated?

Is there enough cash to follow through on the original plans? The updates? What are the time horizons for those things?

All those questions can be worked on better, if people are no longer spending time fighting between themselves, and working together on getting a common solution everyone can be happier with.
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I beg to differ. I live in Tokyo. I think it feels great and fun. It's New York, but nice. There are open spaces to the north/south/east/west, within 30 min (depending on which side you live).
I'm not convinced anyone really WANTS to sell their time in such small intervals.
"I'm not really sure why you'd want to "fully control the event loop" for testing,"

Because while I'm actually one of the first to tell you that not everything needs to be a unit test and I tend to prefer integration tests over unit tests if given a choice, I will also say that unit tests still have their place, and the way you unit test an event-driven program is to feed the events you specify to an event loop and ensure that the proper actions taken, using whatever is necessary to ensure proper independence.

It's nice to be able to do integration tests, it is not nice to have to do integration tests.

You know, this may explain a great deal of the gap between my opinion of event-based programming and the conventional Node opinion. Testing event-based code isn't necessarily that hard (testing is never really easy in a language where you're always in the local IO monad equivalent, though cracking it up into events does make things challenging, especially if you try to take advantage of closures in your handlers, which unfortunately is advantageous in other ways but hurts testability hard) but it doesn't help that the frameworks never seem to ship with the testing support I just specified and I'm always having to bash it together myself, which tends to show a certain... disconnect in expectations between me and the authors.
Whoops, I totally forgot to mention 1Password. Another top 5 essential. Without it, I can't login anywhere :).

Also: Growl.
Windows support was not immediate either. It took some time. I used to use a program written by a student at Williams College. I forget the name. It was more simple and faster than iTunes. Then for a while I used a Perl script. I must admit, in retrospect, Apple knew what they were doing. I just couldn't see the point in iTunes. I doubted whether their $1/song "music store", and forcing users to use it by forcing them to install iTunes, would ever fly.
I'm not sure who you are referring to when you say "they", but there is an Android IDE for building android apps already on the Play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aide.ui...

I've only done some simple hello world type programs, but I was impressed.
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On your last point, we'll have to agree to disagree. Good night! Thanks for the spirited discussion.
I find mplayerx extended better:

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The $8 billion number doesn't make sense in light of the link I posted of California alone spending $6 billion. (Maybe they hadn't budgeted the plan yet 3 years ago? But I assume this kind of stuff takes at least that long, if not longer.)

Maybe they only count federal money? But http://fta.dot.gov/grants/13442.html shows around $10 billion per year (the $29 billion is for multiple years) - not all of that is light rail specifically, but it's all infrastructure investment, and doesn't include local (state, city) money, nor any of the other federal departments.
Sure, but it could still be wrong in sooo many other ways.. (not arguing either way, just saying ;)
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Home prices in the bay area have skyrocketed 10 to 15 times beyond the rate of inflation over the past 30 years. This has pushed the renters who used to live there further and further out, or forced their standard of living ever further downward.

I disagree with the idea that existing homeowners have some right prevent developers from building tall housing nearby on PRIVATE property. You own your land, I own mine, and as long as I'm not doing anything toxic, your rights do not extend into my space. These anti-development policies force people to live far away from their workplace, turning most of the bay area into a massive wasteland of highways and parking lots.

A few incredibly lucky and selfish people can deny the right of the many to have the dignity of affordable housing, but it is not just. It is shameful.

As an aside, despite artificially enforced low-density, Berkeley and Palo Alto have depressingly few vibrant public spaces. Sure there's trees along the street, but most of the parks are just little tiny bits of grass and a few scraggly trees sandwiched between two or three active roads. You'd think low density might include huge open parks, but no, it is mostly just big houses with private yards and lots of parking lots to deal with how far apart everything is.

Contrast: In Tokyo, since there is almost nothing preventing you from doing whatever you like with your own land, there is a wide mix of different housing to choose from, at all different price-points. I can afford to live smack in the middle of everything, near the biggest park and shopping area, also a few minutes walk from a major train station. I also have a spectacular view that goes all the way to the horizon for about 160 degress.