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I still haven't figured out how to do the song and dance. (All I want to do is run hello world on "my" device.) You eventually end up at this technical note, which of course leaves out any links:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2250/_in...

How I become a team (of one) admin, or where to find this "iOS Provisioning Portal" are of course left out.
How is that underestimated, a world of 10GB Hardrives when that's much less than the base package of dropbox these days. Managing the terabytes of data required for the movie back then was a much more difficult task.
"4. Respond to criticism better, the customer is always right etc."

Keep in mind we're not paying for TNW - we're not "the customer".

(Having said that, without rewarding this poor behaviour with any more pageviews than necessary, it's not clear to me who _is_ paying TNW - I wonder if that 'cause their advertising roster is empty, or just 'cause they've geo-targeted me as being from the wrong side of the planet for their advertisers?)
I generally like this sentiment, but I think there are definitely times when the grapes are too sour. If we aren't able to intellectually ask hard questions that challenge our own assumptions we will never recognize sour grapes.
Did you try Googling "Django tutorial"?

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

If you don't like that one, there are even more:
https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Tutorials
A part time jr. developer that can do all that is called a full time senior software engineer.
I had the same experience about throughput being a bit sub-par. For me it was a test on a single macbook pro with a regular 2.5" hdd.
Which client did you use to write to riak? protobuf or http? Also: which language? did you use threading? Did you enable search?
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I like the no-grades aspect of it, but I'm pretty turned off by the way they pressure parents to avoid having computers and recorded media around children - and that they even delay learning how to read - and that the prohibition is for religious reasons that they don't usually discuss in public.
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sweet, I was wondering when someone was going to mention the GIL, now the fun can start.

http://dabeaz.blogspot.com/2012/03/pycon-2012-followup.html

"In any case, the performance of threads is highly specific to the application at hand. You can't just take some benchmark from one of my GIL talks and extrapolate that out to a general statement about all Python thread programming. Personally, I find that Python threads have worked pretty well for most of the problems where I've used them. Of course your mileage might vary."

So.... maybe, it depends on what you are doing.

Personally I would have been happy to see ProcessingActor in pykka, maybe with 0mq for the ipc. That would be cool, but this looks useful nonetheless.
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The simple answer is that you redefine mainstream. Mainstream doesn't mean that everyone uses it like Facebook, but instead that "everyone" uses it just like "everyone" uses shopify or github.

Quora goes mainstream when a certain elite, much like the Salons of Paris, gather there. Academics, Business, Cultural, Medical, Scientific and Technology elite all show up.
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Well, for the benchmark, I was using Basho's benchmarking tool which is erlang, and I was testing with protobuf. I had 5 concurrent clients running for the benchmark, but also tried with more and less, and got about the same results.

Search wasn't in use on the test bucket.

For my app, I'd integrated Riak using ruby.
Or Quora ignores dguaraglia's requests, continues their success (however you - or they - wish to measure it) as a private company and watches Hacker News whip itself into a frenzy about the financing climate?
Where's the news about the idiot VP of HR, the one who didn't vet him properly, being fired? Yahoo! is a doomed company, much like AOL was.
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How is 'Q&A site for venture capitalists' a frighteningly ambitious problem?
Google has my email, Dropbox has my taxes and a few other important documents, wedding photos are also on a family member's computer, and svn / github takes care of my code for work / play.

Nothing else I have is that important. Lots of games and recorded TV shows. Either I already finished it, or I'm probably not going to.

I could loose my desktop or my laptop and only be out time. If both died at once I might loose a few important things, but nothing too life-shattering. In general, I can pick up a brand new computer and be productive by the end of the day.
> We're sort of destined to hate ORM, because the people who love databases aren't going to love ORM no matter what, and people who hate databases will resent how much effort they require to use properly.

Speak for yourself. I love databases (note the plural form) and love ORM. ORM is a godsend for developing application that has to work against different databases (postgresql, mssql, db2, etc).
You're right in jumping to the conclusion that I also switched. I didn't feel forced to switch, but I did feel like trying something else out. I can't speak for anyone else's reasoning. I have a perception that if I'm not using the defaults, I'm more likely to run in to problems with more difficult solutions.

The other question I asked myself: "If they are going to make changes in this manner, what else will they do?"

I figured there'd be less hassle in future with something more stable. I put Debian on out of curiosity as to how different Debian is from Ubuntu. I'd gone with Mint before but the one I got logged me in with no password required, which was a bit unsettling.
I've learned over the years to try talk to people online as if they were standing right in front of me. Most adults would never call another person a name (in seriousness) to their face.

It's good manners but also from a practical perspective I was in a job interview once where they googled my name and they had a print out of snarky comments I had made on a public mailing list.
Best of luck to the whole team there. It's such a great tool, and seamlessly pulled off. I'll be sad to see it go, and I'll be crossing my fingers in the hopes that it will work with future OS releases for a while.
You can use SQLAlchemy with Django.

The part I really like about Flask is the decorators for routes. This is how it should be, not some messy file of reg-exes.
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A lot of advice VCs give entrepreneurs seems to me versions of "make my job easier," like how to write a great business plan, how to pitch, etc. In this case, I see him asking entrepreneurs to improve the signal-to-noise ratio so he can have an easier time funding companies. Nothing wrong with trying to make your life easier, but he makes the article look like he's helping the entrepreneur, when he's writing it to help himself, discouraging some would-be entrepreneurs who might love starting a company even if it didn't make a VC money. For an entrepreneur who makes their business their life, leading the company may be its own reward, making his advice meaningless, since he'll call it a success only if it generates a return on investment.

At the very least, I'd appreciate the article more if he specified "Think twice before starting a company that might seek venture capital funding." Most entrepreneurs I know never approach VCs. Did he forget few companies involve technology at all? His advice doesn't apply to them. Well, except that thinking twice is obviously good advice to anyone, but his reasons for it.

Entrepreneurship is far greater than starting tech companies looking for VC. I'd be wary of an investor who didn't realize he put himself in such a bubble. With all that name-dropping, you can see how social bubbles can contribute to investment bubbles.

If you love starting companies and you have an idea whose time is now, you'll find a way to start your company. If you don't need venture capital, hopefully you won't hear his advice in the first place, or will realize it doesn't apply to you. Even if you do want VC, if your firm eventually dies but you loved doing it and it helps you do better on your next one, it seems to me you've succeeded.

EDIT: I fleshed out a few more ideas to this post afterward if anyone wants to read past what I wrote here -- http://joshuaspodek.com/entrepreneurs-advice-venture-capital...
Key lines: "Somebody please look at the diff. Thats a simple 3 line code addition. I agree to you @torvalds but you could have excused this time :)"

AND: "By the way, its quite funny that github is sending instructions to @torvalds on using git."

Neither of which lines does Kenneth mention.

To me, this post is like the selective editing FOX News or the Colbert Report occasionally do to take things out of context.

Not a fan.

It's hard being a project maintainer. Linus was more than explanatory. This is the kernel, after all, dealing with github gen pop can be quite tiresome, and I don't blame him at all for not wanting people to be throwing rocks at him.
You're right that they may not have been exclusively Stanford students. But they were recruited through city and campus newspapers, limited to male college students who were in Palo Alto for the last two weeks of August 1971, and had to report to an on-campus location to sign up.

I've seen definitive references that some were Stanford students, and my guess under those conditions would be that most were.

But even if most were not: a cohort of 24 male college students (23 white; 1 asian) in 1971 was not representative of society at large. Those in comfortable Palo Alto for the last 2 weeks of summer break, even less representative. And those who arrived on campus in response to a classified ad for paid volunteers "needed for psychological study of prison life", less representative again.

(As one of the followup studies footnoted in Wikipedia discovered, the mere presence of the "study of prison life" phrase in the recruitment ad changes what kind of people respond.)
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Well that would have been boring! How about a BS in four-five years with a bunch of random cool-sounding classes in between, along with a fair share of partying and establishing hopefully enduring friendships and romantic relationships.
I see a lot of potential for the "lower class and noneducated" in the Q&A space. Questions about relationships and social issues often cannot be answered by merely browsing websites. Everyone views their own situation as being unique. People love giving advice on these issues, even if the right answers aren't black and white.
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He's probably too honest, ethical and has a good understanding of risk.

I don't mean to say that everyone else is dishonest and unethical, or that they all have the risk ratio upside down.

But in times of boom, people can sail a lot closer to the wind which can have a big upside on the results. However, in down times people like to deal with those that they can trust.
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Every project should work on triage of both patches and bugs to make it as friendly as possible. It's the point where you can stop being simply a user and make a contribution, but it's also where you can have one bad experience and never try again.

Some projects both big and small do a very bad job of this. When I see Linus' comments I understand where he's coming from, but I also feel he's a bad gatekeeper with these interactions.
But the sorts of circumstances that guys face, while there are some correlations, are not analogous problems to the problems that women face in fields in which they are the minority. The oft cited thing keeping men out of nursing and dietetics are cultural things like the work not being "manly" enough

Not adding anything other than a data point here. My wife used to be a nurse for deafblind teenagers. She prefers male company so was friends with the few men there. I used to ask her about this topic, and while the men weren't being sexually harassed, there was more to it than the above.

The key things the men seemed to face was social exclusion (that is, women are engaged in "women talk" or women are socializing together outside of work and not including the men) and regulatory sexism (male attendees weren't allowed to bathe female residents or attend to any of their hygiene needs).

I thought this was pretty interesting because while it didn't seem like they had that bad a time, the social exclusion and the 'like sticking with like' aspects do ring true to what I've heard from women in the tech industry. That is.. even if the men aren't overtly harassing the women, there's an element of 'boys stick together and do boy things' which the women at my wife's workplace also fostered.

No judgments or anything here, just a datapoint! :)
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"Kids aren't stupid. They tailor their behavior to the incentives they are offered."

To be fair economics has only been around for 300 or so years. We've had birth control in one form or another for thousands and we haven't even caught up with that yet.
Quora is just damn useful.

I actually struggle to think of many other b2c companies who are equally as useful and yet also fun to use. It's like Google Search (useful) combined with Tumblr (fun.)
Thanks for mentioning Basho Bench. Looks slick. For anyone else interested, it's at:
http://wiki.basho.com/Benchmarking.html
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The small gist below shows the very small range of length for the lat & longs.

https://gist.github.com/2698035

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None of that needs to cost most of $100,000 dollars.
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Saying the exam wasn't "hard" as such wasn't intended to slight All Souls College or the humanities.

It seems like what makes a question part of the humanities is that many if not most humans have some sort of answer to the question. For that reason, I imagine the humanities might be better served not conjuring up images of super-hard exams only a few can pass.
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The question is inherently crippled, because there have to be objective probabilities, otherwise quantum mechanics wouldn't work.

I guess the question really is "if the universe operated according to classical principles, would there be objective probabilities?" And that is an interesting question, but it's a hypothetical alternate-universe one.
The benchmarking tool is very slick. Easy to configure for a variety of scenarios, and once you figure out how to install R it produces those pretty graphs.
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My Tutor at university (Computer Science) is one of the leading experts on using Slime-Molds in computation. He makes robots controlled by them. Very interesting stuff I think, although biological computing isn't normally my area of interest.
Are there any connector libs that provide "simple" last-write-wins out of the box?
I dont disagree, but I think ask.com, yahoo q&a, reddit and even to some extent metafilter as a better fit for those types of questions.
It's all priceless.

It's also possible that Stanford might not be the best place for you if you are unable to get grants/scholarships, and it places too great of a financial burden. You can have a successful career with degrees from other universities as well.
There's are some web frameworks that are aspiring towards Django/Rails-style, but none that have a similar ecosystem of plugins and developers yet.

The most popular web framework, express.js, is a bit more lower level, and is similar to Werkzeug from Python or Sinatra from Ruby.
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One Q&A site to rule them all is ambitious if not frighteningly so.
Yep, sounds like the usual issue-dodging non-apology damage-control bullcrap to me.
This process is truly the most cryptic thing to ever come out of Apple from a developer standpoint (30 years developing Apple software). Amazing that this comes from the company for the rest of us. Believe it or not, it is super streamlined now compared to what it was like when it first opened for business! All of this effort to keep you from writing software for something you bought.

I can understand the hoops if you want to sell your app on the official Apple store, but I think it would be very reasonable to allow devs to create and sideload apps. It's your device, your risk. That seems like a post-Jobs compromise that everyone could live with.
it's not like Postgres/MySQL/etc are operational nightmares

Every database is an operational nightmare. Just wait until MySQL segfaults every time it gets more than 4 SSL connections at once, or takes four hours to warm up its inno cache. Or Cassandra compaction locks up a node so hard its peers think its down, turning your cluster into a recursive tire fire of GC. Or a Riak node stops merging bitcask and consumes all your disk in a matter of hours. Or Mongo ...

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.
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I don't disagree that folks would pay more for a better experience, but I think they'd pay a few bucks - maybe up to double. Not 10X. Paying $200 for shipping would be like paying $10,000 for a PC to play BF3. Most people who can spend money like that have someone who takes care of their shipping and receiving, because their time is valuable.

Consider this: for $50, you could probably get someone who lives on your street to sit around all day waiting on your behalf for your package to arrive.
nope, but i have a lot of respect for how they run their business. the only experience i have is when i asked them to add a product, and they were very professional.
Can you clarify how those "key lines" substantively change the situation? It's not clear to me how either of them justify "You're a moron."
Random thought on proto buffers:
OP is advocating using the "required" modifier for fields and touting it as an advantage in comparison to JSON.
I would move the field value verification logic to the client, because it can cause backwards compatibility problems if you un-require it.
MySQL is circa 1 million lines of code.

I like SQL engines for moderate data sets that fit nicely on one machine and well within the normal performance envelope. But even there I will often have to try a few different incantations and cross my fingers that one of them will perform reasonably because that's easier than trying to figure out what that 1 MLOC engine is up to. And I don't know anybody who does very large MySQL setups without a lot more hassle than that.

For some things I'd much rather deal with 1KLOC that I had to write myself than the 1 MLOC that I'm scared to even start digging through.
Techcrunch broke the evaluation story 3 weeks ago:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/21/quora-is-raising-at-a-400m-...

And Quora already has numerous Q/A's on the valuation. See, for example,

http://www.quora.com/Valuations/Is-Quora-worth-400-million-d...

along with the Related Questions listed on the right.
From a body-centric point of view the original dies either way, whether neuron-by-neuron or all at once. From a consciousness point of view it's less clear. Firstly because we don't understand consciousness.

But if we believe consciousness is some subjective experience that results from the functioning brain or similar physical device, what can we say?

Think of a vinyl record and a digital music player. The vinyl record is playing along when it is stopped suddenly, the digital player is started at exactly the right time to produce no break in the song.

If you insist that you are the record player, then you die, you stopped. If you think that you are the song, it continued without missing a beat. Instead of an abrupt stop you can cross fade the record out and the digital one in over a few minutes. Does this make a difference?
I agree as well, but to a point. Do we really want our most targeted education resources being directed towards conformists? I think these institutions should be (almost) reserved for those who are pursuing leadership and cutting edge thinking.
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This is the same reason I've dropped using pseudonyms for the most part.
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Dear Refer.ly,

I am in Pain. I am Suffering, and you are in the perfect position to cure me. Please, this is a great business idea that I am sharing publicly with you because I would rather see it happen, and benefit from using it personally, than own the company and make all the money waiting to be mined from this great idea. (I tried, it's definitely not easy from what I'm told...but what do I know.)

I am one of those folks who fall into the category of more technical than almost everyone I know. I do SEO and Paid Search, but to the rest of the world... I am just a computer guy.

I probably send out a dozen emails a week to friends, family, old classmates, with links to website building platforms, hosting companies, email list management software, and a series of other wonderful products and services that I am apparently an expert in because, "I am a Computer Guy."

The simple truth is I am too lazy to hunt down affiliate links for each and every referral I make, and I certainly don't have time to sign up for new ones which I am not already an approved affiliate.

I am literally begging you to build me a viglink or skimlinks that does a search and replace function in my outgoing emails from gmail, that just swaps my links into affiliate links. Heck, build it on twitter and facebook.

Sure, lots of companies might hate that they have to pay a commission for a referral that they would have gotten anyway, which will be one of your many challenges, but that's easily fixed with a competitive marketplace where I can choose to recommend a reputable and curated competitor just the same. No need to scale, focus on us, "Computer Guys" to send to our less technical friends and family and you'll make a fortune.

You have the new class of YC to figure out the best direction to go. I thought this over through and through, and literally go through the same pain of feeling like I am throwing money down the drain every single day.

Build us a tool that swaps personal recommendations with affiliate links in outgoing emails. Please. Pretty Pretty Please.
Do you mean the physical server crashing? You should have a hot spare replicated machine for that. If you mean the RDBMS failing randomly at night, that really doesn't happen on mature systems like PostgreSQL or MS SQL Server. I mean it could happen but it's as rare as hen's teeth.