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To start, I'd ask the current admin if he is willing to learn something new. If he wants to keep the admin side the same as always, your choices are going to be limited. In that case, I'd suggest doing a CSS only edit...

If he is interested in learning something new, you have some options.

Most of the work I do is in and around the marketing sector. Consequently, I am often in the same place you are - I need non technical people to be able to edit content. When I evaluate solutions, I always focus on two main areas. My solution has to be extremely easy to use and when it fails, it has to fail safe.

Under this criteria, Wordpress has always risen to the top. Not only is the admin interface elegant and easy to use, but it would be hard for a user to screw up so badly that he/she kills off the entire site.
Off topic. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Welcome to HN, meatcat, but please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :-)
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Two reasons:

1. TPC-C is a vendor sponsored cock measuring competition that noone other than marketing people take seriously.

2. Most people scale out rather than scale up so it's pretty much irrelevant as it considers monolithic computing only.

TPC-C is from the dark ages...
> Legally it is not entrapment

I think the law is a bit more complicated than that. Anyone who commits a crime has some propensity. Entrapment is meant to draw a line between encouraging a person to commit a crime, and simply giving them an opportunity (i.e. a sting operation).

Most sting operations (not entrapments) aim to catch habitual criminals - drug addicts, dealers, thieves, etc. Habitual criminals have a propensity to commit the offense, people who were talked into it by an agent do not.
I highly doubt Anonymous would be behind it, considering they let everyone know when they issue an attack
You can outsource your hardware, but you can't outsource your responsibility. Backups and redundancy are your responsibility, not your service provider's.
The power of technology! A laptop, some (a lot of) lines of code and here you are!

Congrats guys! ;)
Yet again, Steve Mann was there first: http://cyborganthropology.com/Diminished_Reality

Sorry for the monomania, but the man really did pioneer a huge chunk of wearable computing and AR.
In my experience, Wordpress + a training session + a handful of 'common tasks' videos has always worked well for clients. Joomla is a fun CMS to play with, but the admin interface/verbiage is far too complex for the majority.
I disagree with your premise that marketing for new customers is a mistake. Its entirely dependent on your strategy. But also its much harder to increase margins on existing customers then it is to gain margin by getting new customers.

Take a Pizza place - say an average customer gets 12 pizza's a year. Pizza D can focus on trying to get more business out of them but how many more pizza's do they sell? Can they maybe sell 3-4 more pizzas per customer per year? Compare that to an entirely new customer each which brings an average load of 12 more pizzas a year. Even if it costs twice as much marketing to convert new customer its still worth it.

Ultimately it comes down to your business and your campaign and which type is more valuable.
They'd need leadership, training, and materials to actually accomplish anything.

Great point... The FBI is taking what is basically a thought crime and pushing that person along until they commit an arrestable offense.

Like all government agencies, the FBI (and all departments within it) has to continue to prove it's usefulness in order for everyone to keep their jobs and keep getting nice government salaries and bonuses.

So, if there isn't a real terroristic threat, they'll just invent one.
Good writers move up the organizational and/or salary ladder.

Good technicians or engineers who cannot communicate end up making the guy who translates whatever they are doing to the customer or management look good.
What will drive this is hosts providing free IPv6 static addresses but charging increasing amounts for IPv4 ones.
I don't think you're trolling; Excel is certainly an option.

But for two things:

Excel for Mac - $129 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YCOJBC)
Excel for Win - $121 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0039L2XG6)

And you need a Windows box or Mac with Excel installed. I personally have access to dozens of machines, literally none of which have Excel. All of them have a web browser, and thus access to Google Spreadsheets and Google Apps Script for free. To me, and many others, that makes all the difference in the world.
Have you not just reinvented CICS?
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Read the article. On June 6, only 1% of traffic on the Internet will permanently switch to ipv6.
You are right, it's something I forgot to mention: we are Google Apps users. We love that product: gmail, docs, spreadsheets, now drive... our whole business is based on Apps and our own ticketing/crm/sales software.

And I don't even use Excel, I run linux, although I've used Excel a lot and I think it's awesome at what it does.

I didn't find your reply as trollish, you certainly do make a very valid point.
really cool tech here! have you guys published any papers on this?
He mentions that "scale-out" is much harder when you have atomic transactions spanning more than one "shard".
But.. but.. MongoDB is web-scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

(Note how the video raises some of the same concerns as the blog post)
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Conspiracy to commit foo, is illegal for many foo. So, it is illegal to fantasize out loud.
Excuse the blatant advertising (I contracted with these guys), but Librato Metrics is intended to work like 'Graphite as SaaS' so you don't have to go through this crazy process. They also subscribe to the thought that your metrics should be separate from your production infrastructure -- otherwise when your servers melt your graphing server melts too :). Obviously if you want to stay pure open source then this won't apply, but otherwise it's a pretty neat service. https://metrics.librato.com/ and https://github.com/librato
Does Windows XP supports v6? Not unless you install it.

IPv6 will be seeing the same fate as what IE6 has within the corporate networks.
Up until 1800, Malthus was spot-on -- any advance in technology that was greeted by population increase would snap back to an equilibrium, with war|disease|hunger inflicting the correction. Gregory Clarke goes into great detail, with statistics on caloric consumption, lifestyle, etc.. that show that the average person at the pre-dawn of the industrial revolution did not experience conditions much more favorable than those of Roman times.

http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/malthusian.png
Building relationships with existing customers is a great strategy if you have lots opportunities for vertical growth, but what kind of opportunities does a small, local pizzeria have? People aren't likely to eat twice as much pizza in one sitting, or to eat pizza more often. They can also only raise prices so far before pricing themselves out of the market, and too many complementary products like pasta and canolis will just cannibalize their core business, since people can only eat so much food.

Sure, it's more expensive to get new customers than to retain existing ones, but it seems likely that they need more customers if they want to sell more pizzas.

Facebook may help with that by propagating their brand through existing customers' social networks; except, as the article points out, that doesn't appear to translate reliably into sales.
When did music become unimportant?
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People aren't naturally nice to one another around these parts.

But what would make it work is people's desire to not deal with a crash and its fallout. That's a personal loss no matter who is at fault.
The next great thing will be a post titled: "Please: stop with 'please' titles"
Now you'll have to wonder if the events in the parent post were inspired by the xkcd comic you cited. :)
It's not textbook entrapment unless they're conditioning people to want to commit acts of terrorism they wouldn't otherwise commit, but who cares? I do not want the people charged with protecting me to manufacture threats that justify their existence.
Why not just run emacs through emscripten?
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I could be really snarky here, but I won't. My earlier comment was a bit of a response to the article's claim that 1% of network traffic will somehow change the world forever. That there's an 'IPv6 Launch Day' for a protocol that's been around since the 90s and still failed to gain significant traction tells you that this won't really change the world at all.
If you guys have any feedback or recommendations for new videos, I would love to hear it!
But seriously, you're kidding right? Here's microsoft's answer to the diff and merge question: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-...

Granted, excel is a powerful tool for an individual to work with, but for teams working with a large number of complex sheets the model breaks down quickly. Keeping up with changes and versions using excel is a nightmare.
Sounds like something I wanted to make, got close with lispworks, but then that's not very cheap. Now I'm doing it with lua, mainly due to luajit, but lua is a bit harder to use in repl style, where only a function has changed (it would work only if the function is global)

Nonetheless seems promising, and not futuristic (as in bells and whistles, but nothing more)
I've used other online communities that have implemented this feature. It's creepy, esp. when you get messages from people that you would prefer to silently ignore.
Sigh. I think Atwood really should have entitled his post "please write better software." Everyone seems to be trying to ad hom Atwood by shouting "elitist!" when all I think he wanted to do was discourage people from learning to program if all they were going to do was release shitty code. Trust me, as a maintenance programmer, I can sympathize. The world doesn't need more programmers; it needs better programmers.

My take on "Please Don't Learn to Code": http://hardcorehackers.com/cgi-bin/blosxom/2012/05/15#please

Edit: Yes, this is my interpretation, and it's one way to look at it. Zed's is another (inflammatory) way of looking at it that reads in (wrongly) a whole lot more. I think Atwood is correct: for some people, learning to code is a waste of time. But no one should be discouraged from learning anything, ever.
Great tribute to Tesla
Another popular coworking café in Kreuzberg is The Nest, http://cafenest.de.
The Lightspeed Venture graphic is the best, looks like they were aiming for the Peter Jackson tricks of perspective to make the front row guys look like hobbits. Maybe looking to corner the hot Shire startup scene?
Agreed. These guys have lawyers and will be tried in front of a judge. If they can prove entrapment, then the charges will be dismissed.

The gov't isn't stupid about this, they want convictions, they have their own lawyers (prosecutors). No doubt many conversations were had about avoiding entrapment and ensuring that the party in question committed a crime.

I'm not saying that there aren't abuses, but the gov't (ATF, DEA, etc) have been doing this for decades. This is nothing new.
> [...] as long as they do something about math's terrible symbol notation...

Which area of math are you talking about? In general you can make up your notation as you go along solving your problems, and only need to use a common notation for sharing your work with other people, and even then a short introduction will usually suffice and you can use your notation.

The standard notation is convenient, and that's why people use it. Historically, it developed writing on black boards and paper and works best there, it doesn't map all that well to ASCII.
The end does not justify the means. The means determine the ends.

The professor was not "educating some...about not believing everything you read"; he could do that without creating new hoaxes. Certainly there are plenty to go around.
I agree with all of this. And I also find, both as a reader and writer, that footnotes come across better if paginated. Of course, on the web you have options like having the footnotes popup on hover or putting them to the left or right margins that aren't really available in print.
I'm wondering, how can this not be plagued by GPL-hell. Anyway, the fact that a project like this will not be possible to use in non-GPL software is somewhat of a dealbreaker to me. A perfect example of how Stallman is stifling innovation.

Emacsy is LGPL.

On the other hand, you could embed vim legally in anything. That, and it's a much better editor. (Just kidding, I'm not trying to start a flame war. To each his own; I personally cannot live without vim.)

I don't think he's trying to embed an editor.
I wish i could afford TokuDB...
Being "lead" isn't the same as being bossed around. As long as the leader doesn't claim some authority over the other members, it can still be "anarchist" leadership.
Very good point. I never thought about it that way.

I have been criticizing them for their default settings (no response to write requests, safety turned off by default) for a while.

But actually it is not as much for settings themselves, but for lack of a clear red flashing warning on their front page. As their default settings could (still can?) lead to silent data corruption. The worst possible thing to happen to a database. That is shady and shitty practice if you ask me.

They are trying to market their technology to other developers, I expect them to at least try to be honest and open about the characteristics of their product. If they treat other developers like they are customers for male enhancement pills in 4am commercials, then I think they should also expect some backlash from said developers when they choose Mongo and then hit all the hidden assumptions and un-delivered promises.

Sure it is in the fine print. But if it is important, why not put it in the big print. It is a lot less painful for everyone in the long term.
Excellent article. Did you run into any major pain points when ramping up with Backbone? Any resources you used that you would recommend to a newcomer?
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If Apple were to take a leadership role here, that would help. If iTunes on desktop and mobile supported torrent downloads, the iTunes podcast directory would seed or link to seeds, and if there was some sort of protocol for pinging a centralized place to let content providers know how many times something was downloaded.
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there has already been at least one case where a female officer suggested a male citizen procure drugs for her and then arrested him when he complied.

I believe you may be talking about what was covered in Act Two of This American Life's "What I Did For Love":
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/457/w...
Exactly what I thought when I saw all the responses to Atwood's original post.

I think he meant to play the realist card. Of course the world would be better if more people learned how to code, but that comes at a substantial time cost. Lets say I argued on how everyone should learn to play an instrument. There are many intangible benefits to this, but lets get real. The world would only be a better place, truly, if everyone learned how to play an instrument well, and there just isn't enough time for that.
That's what Sharepoint is for :)

Also Word/Excel 2010 have excellent change management tools which integrate nicely with mercurial and SVN built in (under review changes).

You have to frig a couple of command line switches to get it to work but TortoiseSVN has those preconfigured.

EDIT: answers.microsoft.com is full of trash - ignore it...
There is very little automation required in writing, though.

Writing is for people, not compilers, and people don't like reading the same thing over and over yourself. Good writers don't repeat themselves simply because it's boring (except, of course, in situations where it makes sense to repeat yourself for some specific purpose, but I digress)...

Also, it's not fair to say that there is no leverage effect from writing. As a simple, obvious example, I leverage earlier blog posts that I've written in later ones. This saves me from having to re-explain older concepts, and allows me to reach into more complex concepts, since I have already explained the simpler concepts that the later elaborations rely on.

Finally, it's worth pointing out that the purposes of writing, piano-playing, or coding, are different. Coding is generally a utilitarian activity, aimed at achieving a practical purpose, that can be sped up profitably. Writing and piano-playing are more like entertainment. It's as pointless to speed up piano-playing as it is to speed up a dance.
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Well, thank goodness I'm already done with lunch.

This article was truly terrifying.
> never seem to be able to point to any company (in the current generation) that achieved massive success by starting in a fast language?

Didn't Google start in C++?
Assuming that the two nights they currently open are on the weekend, perhaps opening for the remainder of the week wouldn't triple their business, but there's probably relatively predictable demand for pizza on weeknights, and I'd assume they could do/have done the research to determine whether, given that demand, they'd make a positive ROI by opening seven days a week.
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Seems fine to me
I feel like 1 - 2 years ago I was reading a slew of blog posts with the title "Why We Chose MongoDB." Now it seems like all of the blog posts are some sort of "We Just Finished Migrating off of MongoDB, Here's Why."

I know nothing about MongoDB and have never tried it. But the message seems pretty clear.
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That's not a major issue.:

You can use Office 2010 web apps FREE from a SkyDrive account and openly collaborate with people or you can pay $20 a month per seat for Office 365 and you will get Sharepoint and ALL Office 2010 desktop apps.

The office web apps work perfectly in all browsers (I've tried Chrome, Firefox and IE).

Considering the cost of playing around with Google spreadsheet with those restrictions, it's possibly a good idea.
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Please share. I will even pay for such sharing.
Can you explain why it accomplish the same goal as emacsy?
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"Is there any skill besides coding that allows you to use your ability to make using your ability easier?"

Code is probably far and away the best example, as you point out. But this is true to a lesser degree in areas like metalworking. It is also true to an extent in biology where one biological system can be constructed specifically to help study or mass produce another.

And of course it is true in mathematics, where by moving up a level of abstraction you can develop techniques and knowledge that help in a huge array of problems.

In short, it will be true in any field where the material being worked with is also the material being worked on.
Absolutely other fields use their "abilities to make their abilities easier". As a coders we live in abstractions and you should be seeing them everywhere.

Writers work with words, but some smart writers invented sentences as tools to help structure them. Some other writers invented paragraphs to structure those sentences. Some even smarter writers invented novels, short stories, screenplays, etc. These are all tools built with writers tools to make writing easier.

The processors you use to run your code are tools made by electrical engineers built with logic gates, which are tools they built on top of electrical components, which are tools themselves. etc etc etc.
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It seems like the skill of building machines would be analogous. There are all sorts of machine out there that help you build more machines, and if you know how to build machines you can improve these machines to help you build better machines.
ok - there are now definitely too many kickstarter posts appearing here. furthermore, why don't all those people on kickstarter not just write their app/programm, without seeking funding. wasn't the whole open source community a product of a lot of people using their spare time to create new software and give it away for free (linus torvalds, etc.). that spirit is somehow lost on kickstarter...
How many times, though, have you jokingly said to a close friend that you should blow X up to solve the world's problems? It's akin to saying we should ship all of X type of people to some third world country. It doesn't mean you want to act on the thing. It might be a joke in bad taste, but words do not equal action. This guy apparently felt "pressured" by this agent to go through with an act. I don't know what that means, but it surely casts doubt on the ethics of the investigating agency.
"Please" considered harmful?
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I'm not in a position to evaluate this, but I have seen other reporting to the effect that U.S. citizens are facing increasing challenges in investing abroad, in as much as foreign entities don't want the complications in reporting (and attendant risk) mandated by the U.S. government and its IRS. (Which is the main point in the parent's linked thread that posts a WSJ article).
Actually the first version was written in Java.
EDIT: Also, the original crawler was written in python. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
Another thing of note is your service agreement. Check what responsibilities and restitution are present in the contract. If you need them to be liable for damages beyond downtime, make sure it says that in the contract. If you need them to failover, make sure it says that in the contract. If it doesn't, well... it's pretty much: "yeah, we lost all your data, good luck".
If VC's were so worried a about how things looked over how they functioned they probably wouldnt survive as long as they have
This doesn't really have anything to do with valuation. There isn't any more or less equity being created. The early investors are simply deciding to sell more of their existing shares.