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What an amazing amount of money. Apparently they have got $70m+ in total.
Our small/mid sized company with about 20 employees could operate for about 50 years with that amount of cash...

An apparently they already pay for themselves:
"“Business is fantastic,” 10gen President Max Schireson told me. “We keep outperforming every goal that we set for ourselves and the market just feels like it’s huge.” In fact, he said, new sales people pay for themselves almost immediately upon joining the company."

So I wonder what they are going to do with that huge pile of cash? R&D for a single DB surely can't be that expensive (or at least it would be difficult to get that many people to suddenly work on productive things that would actually improve the product and not just make it bloatware).

Apparently the hype works, for a DB that is about scaling but doesn't scale yet? "Just another $100m and we'll get there"?

How many people actually need a DB that "scales" better than mysql/postgres which are much easier to use and better supported and understood?

" Among other things, it has been criticized for being rather difficult to manage at scale. This is somewhat ironic, as scalability, along with the flexibility that comes with being schemaless, is among the driving factors behind the NoSQL movement. One would expect the most-popular of the bunch to scale with ease."
The difference here is that GE's business model doesn't involve keeping tabs on what you have in your refrigerator and your MRI scan results.
I have had the similar experience. Living in Melbourne, IKEA was considered as almost exclusive, being Swedish and with a pricing slight higher than Freedom or Plush. Now that I am living in Germany, IKEA is considered almost poverty pack furniture!

Personally, I really like their design - clean, functional and to the point.
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Ah cool I see. I'll update as appropriate.
Oddly, I have also been using CUDA to port some linear algebra routines for neutron scattering (spinwave calculations) and find it rather useful--but I think better tooling would help. But, overall, the speedups that we've achieved have been worth it and would be cheaper to do these calculations on a GPU or two than on a cluster...

Having embarrassingly parallel problems also helps...
TL;DR:

--Windows 8 is not Windows, it's a new operating system with Windows 7 compatibility tacked onto it.

--Although Windows 8 looks pretty and is great for tablet-style content consumption, I question its benefits for traditional PC productivity tasks.

--Big OS transitions like this one traditionally cause users to reconsider their OS decision and potentially switch to something else.

--Microsoft has worsened the risk that people will migrate away from Windows 8, by disabling some key features of Windows 7, and mishandling the consumer "preview" program.

--However, people won't necessarily abandon Windows because it's not clear if they have a good alternative to it.

--Apple could provide the best alternative if it chooses to. This might be Apple's best chance ever to stick a fork in Windows.

--If Windows 8 is even moderately successful, it could weaken Google and the big web services companies. The trend toward bundling web services into the OS is potentially very disruptive to the web community, and they should be quite worried about it.

--If you're a PC app developer, you should probably hold off on Metro because it's not clear how quickly its user base will grow.
While I agree with the point on quality, constant aperture zoom lenses tend to be MUCH more expensive than variable aperture lenses. Your single lens costs more than twice her entire starting kit :) They also tend to have fairly specialist zoom ranges. I find it hard to imagine somebody with a constant aperture zoom lens would find benefit in this camera simulation. The majority of the kind of people using it will be beginners with kit variable aperture lenses.
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It dramatically improves your cycle time to debug this kind of issue interactively instead of repeatedly stopping the process, coding up a hypothesis as a test case, running the tests, and then dealing with the positive results and the false positive results.
As someone with access to the Treehouse's real hiring board I can say that those aren't real names :)
Make it even more ridiculous and wrap every branch in a lambda function, then do

test[true]()
In the end, while the author makes interesting or even compelling points for those who jailbreak phones, most consumers do not give a flying duck about all that and that makes it unlikely to change.
This guy's brain is going to explode if/when the next iphone comes out with a different form factor.

I look forward to that.
The thresholds are non-public, and adjusted from time to time based on pg's perception of the growth of the site. My impression is that comment downvotes seem to occur about 500 karma these days. There's no post downvote that I know of.
Money, it grows on trees and its great for balling up and hurling toward people.
Even if that were true, it's not especially important for the end user to be familiar with the brand name "Amazon." They use its services constantly. Are they familiar with Netflix? Do they read the Guardian or the Washington Post? Maybe they use apps like Yelp or Foursquare or visit websites like Reddit or IMDb.

Amazon's web services are everywhere. If you're dismissing them because you don't recognize their name, I'd seriously question your familiarity with the current web landscape.
No, brazzy is absolutely right, my whole point with this article was to question the easy and commonly accepted "blame the customer" explanation.

That being said, maybe it's your own experience that cheap customers have an overgrown sense of entitlement, so I'm not saying it's entirely impossible. It's just not the point I was making :)
Screw the power users
Marketing it as a viable alternative seems right to me:

http://www.10gen.com/why-mongodb
Not really. Firefox has a minimal featureset out of the box, but extensions are allowed to do a lot more. With a few extensions you can get nifty new features and UI customizations that Opera just doesn't support.
Thanks.

Although now I'm in the wikipedia rabbit hole -- looking at fascinating places like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knap_of_Howar (potentially older than those Malta temples) and most of the other sites on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in...
Theoretically, it's not a bad point of view, but for a newbie, it's not how the concept "MVC" is normally used. I would suggest linking to something like this: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html#the-mvc-a... - Now, Rails isn't the only way to do MVC, but it's more or less the de-facto standard, so it's good for understanding the basic concepts.

I don't think it makes sense to consider HTML-CSS-JS as a triad on par with MVC anyway. CSS and HTML are very intimately related, so I think it makes most sense to consider them two parts of one technology. JS is more separated and generally takes different skills than HTML/CSS.
Unfortunately, I do not completely agree with the post. With the prices of DSLRs coming down, nowadays everyone has a DSLR. And most of them don't give a crap about photography and its internals.

While I agree that constant aperture lenses are substantially costly than their variable aperture counterparts, cameras like Canon 5D Mark III is coming with a 24-70 F/2.8L II lens as a kit.
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Watch a science-fiction movie, or Nat Geo series. These could generate my work enthusiasm as well as motivation for a period of time.
Let's face it, most companies are still built on relational database systems. I'm assuming that a lot of this money will go forward to changing this "culture" and injecting NoSQL into tech industries that have yet to adopt it.

...or they could just wait for the next generation of young developers to take leadership roles at BigCorp.
DeCSS is only illegal because it circumvents the copy protection system on DVDs. Absent that, there would be nothing allowing the DVD people to force companies to license CSS rather than simply cracking it.

As far as I know, Apple is allowed to lock things down by requiring keys, and other people are allowed to crack Apple's lockdown if they can.
short answer. Yes and there will be integration between RPH, RCH and intents.
Pleasure. As for your question, hmm not sure, but I suspect SoC (Separation of Concerns), fits the closest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns
He says, "I’ve created a public example that you can view, copy and then edit." [1] and the names there match his screenshot. They also include ringers like "Jenny Craig" and "Billy Jean". How/why are you "quite sure these are real names"? If you're right, I agree with you, but it seems hard to believe.

[1] https://trello.com/board/hiring-process/4fc4942316b650d22d09...
I’m not a fan of Apple BUT iPhone is perfect :)
Why would you use Chrome, but not the potential FB Opera? Google has just as much of a stake in your information as Facebook, but that hasn't led to their browser being a privacy vulnerability.
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Not sure I understand your point. Gauss is credited for the term “complex number” as well.
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I wonder what would happen if Facebook ran a scheme like AdSense.

Advertising on the Facebook site itself seems not to be working, but I could foresee a situation where website owners allow Facebook to display ads on their site for a fee per click just like AdSense. Facebook already has a javascript presence on many, many websites already.
It's hard to find any language that has better online documentation than Java.

Java as a language is dominant in universities (for debatable reasons) and in average-boring-industry shops and at high-scale shops, both for very good reasons. There's going to be a lot of books sold because of that.
"You mean forced updates and taken up memory to keep these applications on my phone that I have no desire to have? Great." This happens with the iPhone, too. Stocks? Compass? Newsstand? Does anyone actually use those?
Shortly after commenting I fell down on the iTunes bit (couldn't sort out importing that feed), and ended up using the mp3s. Would be awesome if you got the podcast incorporated into iTunes eventually. Until then I'll use google reader to keep up to date.
The numbers aren't exact (I doubt Gap sells a t-shirt for less than $30 these days) but the point is: promotional merchandise works because it's actually worth a lot less than you think it is.

One guy I know in catering likes to bet that someone can't eat £1 worth of food. He's paying 2p for an egg and 1p for a rasher of bacon at wholesale rates...
Nice benefits indeed.
I generally liked the article but this drone part is totally off the hook.

Consider something like the drones shot down by Iran. The reason is that they are designed to be cheap, to be frequently lost while flying over the enemy. Thus, it's likely that one of these FPGAs was inside the drone shot down by Iran. While it's unlikely the FPGA had any secrets worthwhile, issues like this make it easier for Iran to reverse engineer the drone and manufacture their own.

What!?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_RQ-170_Sentinel

The RQ-170 Sentinel was developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works as a stealth Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)... Few details of the UAV's characteristics have been released, but estimates of its wingspan range from approximately 65 feet (20 m)[6] to 90 feet (27 m).

Even US public doesn't know pretty much anything about it, not even wingspan, as it probably stems straight from some Black Project out of Area 51.

So it is not only VERY expensive, it also includes some of the most TOP SECRET technologies developed by USAF, like stealth and what not. In military jargon it's called high-value asset!
Oops, sorry for the mistake. Its time to get off the computer I suppose :) Thanks!
I would love this but 90% of the people I meet and know are not actually interested in actual discussion of the ideas they believe in and consume.
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How does a country get to the point where 92% of TV viewers are watching pirated channels?
s/good reasons/unsurprising reasons/
I'm confused. Are you suggesting that the type of person who would find the camera simulator site useful is likely to be somebody who would own something like a Canon 5D Mark III? That's a $3,500 camera - body only. If you own that camera, I should hope you aren't visiting camera simulator sites, otherwise I suspect you're not going to be putting it to much good use :)
The iPhone 4S's weight has certainly put me off having one. Despite liking near everything else about it, walking around with it in my pocket, it's a noticeable, heavy, lump.
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> thanks for sharing

Such a poor choice of words.
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Are you seriously trying to convince a non-US citizen with those services?

And I fail to see how amazon hosting a few sites makes it important enough in the current web landscape to be able to be compared to microsoft/google/apple/facebook. (I bet that reddit would exist without amazon)
It's not a typo. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596527358.do
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We'd need to vote on votes, dispute reasons for your reasons, have a checklist of user's logic for voting and then filter out users with bad logic history.

We could instead argue in code or in language that can compile, so "[y]ou are punished swiftly for obvious errors." [1]

[1] http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/05/16/please_lear...
I don't mean to keep picking on you, but this might be more persuasive to you: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=book+value+amazon+faceb...
wow IBM still after this?
Just yesterday I took the same photo with the latest Nokia Lumia and an iPhone 4. Let's just say that Lumia's photo-camera performance was very sub-par compared to the iPhone, which was launched more than one year ago.
So I'm thinking one way to reduce the barrier for entry into participation is to have the bulk of the application's features in a higher level language (rather than C), with the core in a high performance language. Unfortunately this is not something I'd have the time to pursue.
I get your point, however Java came after C++, its usage of "new" is however more consistant IMO. In that regard I don't see what either language designers could have done. This post, if I understand it correctly, was a plea to language designers.
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Thanks! And you're right about the text editor. I should do that for myself too. I guess vim is one of those things that you keep running into, and unless you never figure it out, it will remain a mystery (and if you accidentally do get it, you can do damage - I have!).

And that's a fascinating point about your professor not mentioning StackOverflow. Would be great to hear about what 'unofficial' or community-based resources do get mentioned in 'official' education.
disclaimer: I used to work for Couchbase, and am still involved in the CouchDB community

'Magic Scaling' isnt the only reason people use alternative data stores such as Mongo (or Couch), in fact as shown it can often turn out to be a really bad idea to do so. I wouldnt still be interested in CouchDB if it was just 'do stuff a bit differently from mysql and everything will work at scale' type database.

Schemaless, Native JSON, master master replication, HTTP API are all features which can be hugely beneficial to particular applications over tradition RDBMS' (those were only a few features and they were probably bias towards CouchDB because I know that better)
I haven't used PyCharm a whole lot, but a friend of mine raves about it constantly. They've apparently added heuristics for Django (and other frameworks), so that it can make assumptions about the layout and behaviour of the code. See a render() call? You can click on the path and have it open the template correctly, even though that normally has to go through the TEMPLATE_LOADERS machinery.

You can get a long way by being slightly smart about things, instead of just relying on a naive static analysis. (I mean "naive" in the sense of ... well, not in the insulting sense :P)
This is great, but for it to really be useful it needs wide spread support. Or a decent fallback I guess.
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You'd be surprised, "scaling" a database is something that more and more folks are having to do lately, with the onslaught of mobile apps and facebook apps and web apps, it's just a whole lot easier to create an application that gets hundreds of thousands of users - millions of users.

And more importantly, you can have an application that has hundreds of thousands of users and not really make a ton of money, so you kinda need something that is easy to use because you don't have the capital
Fallback we have the shim. Decent Fallback? I need to fix it for FF. I am working on the eco-system now :)
1. Opera is really not useful. On mobile phone it uses more memory does my built-in android browser, and it doesn't even run many of the websites smoothly... damn
2. Acquiring Opera doesn't really help Facebook. It generates some revenues, but doesn't help FB to maintain its large operation cost, and doesn't help its ads moving either.
The equation is pretty much built into the connotations of the word as it's currently used. Documents called "articles", "reports", "wikis" or "blogs" don't create the expectation of potentially being printed and bound like documents called "books" do, even if all of them are being viewed using a web browser.

This is most likely going to change, but we don't seem to be there yet. It might even be that the word "book" just can't shake off the print connotation, and will end up going the way of "folio" and "vellum" as an obsolete format-specific word when printed books start becoming curiosities.
> The reason is simple. Cheapest plans attract people who are just starting out and don't know what they are doing.

This sounds like you are agreeing, not disagreeing.
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Wow. Its like you just read my mind! I was about to say the same thing.
Indeed, especially since there are a lots of apps out there implementing Facebook login, especially mobile apps, games and apps alike, could this be a solution to their mobile strategy? (this is not a rhetorical question.)
Whats stopping them from implementing this?
Often times the most obvious/direct methods of addressing these problems fail spectacularly. Put a different way, simply dropping tons of food on a population doesn't benefit their ability to become sustainable. I'm not suggesting we cut off food aid, but rather trying to understand how mobile phones make a good investment for an organization like UNICEF.
Wow, thanks for the submission @wgx. I'm too slow even to promote myself! ;)
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Looking at the manual you apparently don't have to half depress the shutter, just the exposure compensation button (which has an aperture symbol next to it), but other websites suggest you do have to. I'll look into it when I can see the camera in person in a few weeks.
Can you do those things on Android via HTML/JS? (Not bait I honestly don't know).
Love the presentation. Nice work.
I tried it with a European City and a bogus city name. Both were processed without complaining. Maybe a validation check would avoid frustrated users that never receive a mail because e.g. they mistyped their city?
The main problem I suffer from as an Android developer with intents (in Android) is that applications inconsistently implement them.

For example, I can send an intent off to send an email. Then, any email application on the device that has declared itself as able to receive that intent with an <intent-filter>, can respond to it.

The problem is that there is no way for the response to be standardized. Applications often give you back different results for the same intents, that lack the extras you expected, or don't respond at all.

The end result is when you try to use an intent to add a cool feature to your app, you run into the problem of the user potentially having an app installed that doesn't handle it correctly, but publishes itself as able to do so.

The aftermath is that the user tries to use this app, then when it doesn't work, to them it is a bug with my app. When there's really not a thing I can do about it.

Does Web Intents address this issue at all?
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I love the concept, and I'll be ecstatic if the project is funded and can move forward. But I'm curious if I'm focusing too much on my own insane hunt to find the simplest way to cook, or if that appeals to others. Most people I've told about this respond with, "You're kinda analytical, huh?" or "You think people would pay for that?" or even "...."

The thing is, I'm not trying to sell recipes, I'm trying to sell convenience, and I'm not sure I've communicated that fully on the sales page. What do you think?

1. Can you tell what FounderMeals is?
2. Would you buy the product? (I consider all of HN to be part of the market)

(I just pushed this live this morning, you can view my launch metrics here: https://www.foundermeals.com/metrics - something new I'm trying)
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I quite like the weight actually, it reminds me that I haven't left it behind somewhere.
Good implementation of a good idea. It'd be extra good if there were various scenarios to photograph. E.g. a race car in motion, a dark indoor scene.
Np! Was a good read, important to dissect failures too.
That would only evaluate the original [true] key, though, right?
Those are typically US-oriented services, so that's a fair point. I was trying to list brands which end-users might be more familiar with, but really that's beside the point.

Just one more nitpick: Amazon does not just "host a few websites." Seriously, Amazon Web Services is a noteworthy business and is widely used -- yes at the level of those other companies you listed -- whether you believe it or not.
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