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Yaws and Smallpox, just to name two, are practically extinct today. You will have NO immunity.

Rubella, mumps, chicken pox, lockjaw etc were all common diseases then. Today, we vaccinate against them, even in the third world. You, like all adults, have probably relied on herd immunity to compensate for your fading resistance.

Intestinal disease was common in this era. It's very rare today. You would suffer from it for the same reason that modern tourists suffer in the third world. Tourists, soldiers, and aid workers grin and bear it in comfortable quarters with plenty of clean water. You would be bearing it... elsewhere.

Disease might not take you out, but it would certainly be more of a problem for you than for the natives.
i choose to wear sandals -> bye bye socks & holes problem

the 'need' to cover every part of one's body is perplexing ... also the 'need' to use different products for different body parts (shampoo for hair, hand soap, genital soap, etc)

i take old skool approach, just use washing soda (a pinch for 0.5 L water) for my personal-cleaning needs. only when i deal with oily stuff then i use commercial soap/shampoo

nowaday i don't go to shoes, socks, and cleaning aisles anymore ... freeing time for more important stuffs
One of my HS English teachers did too. It at least made me notice such sentences, which were often insipid.
You used to be able to do this, I tried once, with Delphi and Kylix (the linux version of Delphi), the only problem was that the Delphi ecosystem encouraged third-party widget/controls, many of which were tied to specific versions of Delphi and only ran on Windows.
Watch out... he says "Clojure Codes" :)
I've seen how seriously some providers/hosting companies treat backups. Let's just say that deleting backups to free up space for new accounts was considered perfectly OK.

I completely agree it is something you -want- to outsource, because, exactly as you say, it's not something you want to spend time on. But you depend on your servers so completely that you become completely dependent on your provider.

What if your provider goes bankrupt? You'll have to move your server / move the data and nobody knows how it used to work. At that point you have very few options left. What if a tech decides to upgrade the kernel and the server doesn't boot anymore? Oops. In general, the linux techs aren't paid very well, are often overworked, are expected to fix problems at any point in the night and they don't particularly care about your server (no more than they care about the 100 servers next to it). Now add root access to the mix and watch what happens.

If nobody in your startup team knows how to administer a server then you're taking a risk. A big and unnecessary one.

ps: saying something like "an optimized Postgres install" makes no sense. Optimization is for specific tasks. So unless the techs know exactly what kind of queries you run they can't do much optimization. They can however, easily cripple sql performance.
I speed read--but not books. I like books too much to speed-read them.

But I do speed-read code. When coding, I am bottlenecked not by my ability to program, but by my ability to come up with ideas. And one of the best ways to come up with ideas is to read other peoples' code.

So, as a video encoder developer, I've gotten into a habit of reading through the entire codebase of other video encoders and decoders. I've gotten it down to almost a science where I can sprint through an entire codebase--understanding most of the basic structure and spotting anything "interesting"--at a few hundred lines per minute. I went through the entire libavcodec H.264 encoder proposal ( http://research.edm.uhasselt.be/~h264/ ) in just 7 minutes. I went back later and spent over an hour reading it--and found I missed absolutely nothing of note. And then I stole its strategy for level-code VLC tables for x264.

Other codebases I've read include most of libavcodec's MPEG-related code, dirac, schroedinger, a lot of Intel IPP stuff, libmpeg2, and some proprietary stuff I've had access to from time to time. And probably lots of stuff I forgot.

It is quite easy to speed-read code, of course, if you already know everything the code is going to do, and you're only interested in the implementation or algorithm.

Another thing I do is read changelogs going back years (especially svn/git logs). They often offer even more insight than the code itself.
winver.exe says Version 6.1 (Build 7000), that's the About Windows dialog.

I'm using the Beta version.
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Are there any people on this group from Phoenix that would be interested in having a get together?
I have trouble applying this to where I live in New York City.
To the same, out of date email addresses?
I don't think it works all that well in nonfiction. Too much nonfiction writing expresses equivalences between abstract concepts. Abstract concepts have trouble performing actions, because, well, they don't exist.

Fiction benefits greatly, though. Compare these paragraphs:

"Macbeth is malicious. He is staring straight at you. You are getting scared. You start walking away. Your footsteps are the only thing you can hear."

"Macbeth fixes you with a beady-eyed stare. Dark flickers of malice creep across his pupils, and the intensity of his gaze makes you take an involuntary step backwards. A shiver of fear runs down your back, skin crawling. You start tiptoeing backwards across the room, eager to put more distance between you and him, yet too scared to make a sudden move. Your tiny footfalls echo across the great hall, providing the only relief to the oppressive silence."

Yes, the second one uses more words, and yes, it describes more. That's the point. By eliminating "is", it forces you to think more carefully about what you want to say.

P.S. +1 for writing your comment in E-prime. ;-)
Passive sentences are enjoyable. People that dislike them are missing the point. Abstract thought is obscured by concrete detail.
Existance, or oblivion? I ponder this.
Didn't mine it... I just had that one in mind and this post reminded me of it.
But it really doesn't matter. Most flights will finished boarding well before the departure time, and many will arrive late as they always do. The plane can't leave until the departure time, so unless there's a direct cost benefit, why bother?
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"Cisco was founded two weeks before a stock market crash. Oracle was founded during the Reagan recession," Mr. Holland said. "In bad times, that's when the best opportunities come up."
I didn't look at who submitted the E-prime link; after reading this comment, I knew it was you ;)
Actually, the Mandarin shi can also used for predication with the "noun shi adjective de" grammar pattern. For instance, you could say "ta shi hen gao de," for "he is very tall." This is grammatically correct, but then the sentence has a tone that is like passive voice in English. Thus, in most simple cases, like the above example, you would opt for the terser "ta hen gao" instead.
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> Many languages get along just fine without that verb, such as my native language, Tamil.

Ummm... in Tamil, "Movie was good" == "Padam nandraga irundhadhu". Irundhadhu is "was". AFAIK that is how people say it. It would be weird without "was".
1. Get blogs interested in the app, VentureBeat has been reviewing a ton of apps lately.
1a. Give out few redeem codes in return for a review, blogs love it.

2. Word of Mouth, wether it be twitter, facebook updates, social events impressing people with your mad memory skills, people talk and their friends listen.

3. Comptention - best way to do it is through webcharts and ingame leaderboards. If a friend just got 120k points in a game, I'm going to buy it just so I can beat him.

4. Get out of Games category, other categories are easier to get to the top lists of and therefore will help bring in sales. Not sure if you can switch categories later once you are selling enough to be featured.

I have seen these suggestions work for other apps but I speak from observational stand point as I have never promoted any iPhone app, so take that as you will.
I've always been a big supporter of this. Now they just need to get project Gutenberg on there... I'd rather read my books in Google's reader then some text document.
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How about also selling it for $1?
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Kick the ruling party out every four years and things may get better.
Tucson here, when/where were you thinking?
If you buy the $20 knives, as long as you can invest the money you don't spend at 6.34% or more, you actually come out ahead.
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Before going to Ikea, I would try hitting a couple garage sales. Check out the Pennysaver magazine too.
You must live somewhere perpetually warm. I can't imagine wearing sandals this month in New York, unless I didn't value my toes.
Didn't they extract potassium from urine somewhere in The Baroque Cycle?
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Not speaking for the article in specific, but just what I've been picking up from people in general: It's not so much the lack of new services, but an eery lack of communication post-acquisition. Also, lots of complaints about email subscriptions being broken, and feed refreshes getting worse (slower) post-acquisition.
I honestly don't think that that second Macbeth paragraph is necessarily better than the first one. There's something to be said for succinctness/directness.
You can say the same about forests and what not. Woo, same old green tree mold. Wow, another pine tree. Just endless, endless variations of the same leafy green thing.
Yes, timing is always an issue. It can actually be a problem in both directions though -- many startups are actually too early for the market/tech. Marc Andreessen has some good stuff to say about this, but I can't find it at the moment.

Getting market timing right is a simple matter of predicting the future ;)
Nor is Blogger or most other blog services. You can simply add them as "Blog" though. The "featured" services are generally things other than blogs where it's friendlier to ask for their username instead of url (such as YouTube), or that require other special processing.
For understanding, repetition and context will help more than speed.

Read a number of articles on the subject. Write out the definition in your own words or explain it to a friend. Complete a few textbook exercises to calculate the values you want to understand.

Taking the time to internalize a subject is significantly more helpful than quickly scanning words you do not yet understand.
Mutt has email threads. It had them for as long as I've been using it (6+ years). It also has regex search and selection, besides other things...
You must live in a nice, warm, dry land where you don't need the warmth and protection of socks. And you must be blessed with resliant skin and hair that doesn't dry out or become rough when you wash it with baking soda.
Ask HN: what do you guys think of JavaFX?
In the RIA world, with the release of proprietary frameworks+runtime such as Flex, Silverlight and opensource HTML+JS based frameworks such as cappacino and sproutcore, how does JavaFX stack up? Anyone has played with it yet? is it simply Java applets of the late 90s again or is it something worth learning and looking into for building rich-media applications?
Finding and internalizing that "5% of insight" is why I read at a normal pace.
Heh, that's funny, I had the idea for this exact same product about a year ago, and never got around to building it. Props to you for actually executing.
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I'm more of an advertiser than a publisher, but as an advertiser, I would love the ability to search all sites registered with Trafficspaces, and bulk place ads on them. Similar to the AdWords content network. To appeal to advertisers, highlight popular/niche sites using the system.
In order for you to succeed, you need monetary incentive for publishers to sign up, that is Trafficspaces will bring more revenue on a CPM basis than say, AdWords. To do that, you need to engage adveritsers to actively use the system.
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No, they will magically reappear the next time memcached is restarted. The way the article describes the idea the same thing will happen when there is a database error during user deletion: The user will be gone from the cache, but may reappear later. To make this scheme work, both the database and memcached must be made to support two phase commit, or the application must try to get the shard information from the database if it isn't in the cache.
Robert Anton Wilson disliked the verb:

I suppose Joyce made Bloom such a tangled genetic and cultural mixture to expose the absurdities of anti-semitism; but I also suspect that he wanted to undermine that neurolinguistic habit which postmodernists call "essentialism" and which Korzybski claimed invades our brains and causes hallucinations or delusions every time we use the word "is."

http://rawilson.com/prethought.shtml

(Scroll down approximately 1/4 of the page for the entry titled "Schrödinger's Jew")
I also grew up in an extremely small town (813) but went to college in Portland, Oregon, an extremely green city. I've found the same thing - I find myself very energized in Portland, much more so than where I'm from, but I get stuck in low energy ruts whenever I visit, say, Dallas, or LA.
Agreed. Recursion and first-class functions are something that most CS students know way too little about.
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"'Big-ticket enterprise ideas that take $50 million to $100 million to get to market are going to be few and far between,' said Dana Stalder, a general partner at Matrix Partners."

Is it just me, or did they mislabel the section "Enterprise is Back"?
We are getting off the interesting point, namely, that people do better on certain tests of concentration after spending time with green tree mold, pine trees, etc, than they do after spending time with concrete, cars, etc.
B/C it didn't actually happen that way. The "Dark Ages" is a myth perpetuated in elementary school to children. The "Dark Ages" referred to the 100-200 year period immediately after the fall of Rome, during which Western Europe was thrown in relative chaos. After that however, Europe was fairly vibrant, and new inventions were churned out over the next several centuries (mostly military, agricultural, and metal working technologies).
Italy never lost its luster as a center for science and research; even after Rome's fall, the climate, location, and trade made it attractive to inventors, architects, and artists--the Vatican did not fall.
For example, the earliest patent systems, (yes, plural) predated the reintroduction of Classical texts into Europe. Many European scientists and mathematicians independently came up with ideas similar to the Ancient Greek dudes, but don't get popular credit for this because they weren't first.
You know, the game might be really addictive, but the graphics of the tiles doesn't really attract attention.
No doubt they are easy to remember, but for attracting people to play the first time you want a game that _looks_ good when playing it the first time.

The games of the early eighties had very simple graphics but made up for it by having very imaginative paintings in their advertisments instead to get people excited about playing the game in the first place.
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Do you set goals?
Hello. Do you set goals? If so how do you go about doing it, I'm talking about things like...

- certain categories (finances, relationships, etc.)?
- do you limit the goals and/or prioritize them?
- do you use a SMART method (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Time related)?
- do you set a plan for each goal?
- how do you keep focus, avoid distractions, and keep attacking the goal?
- do you write them done or do you use certain software?
- does setting or not setting goals helped you?
- what has worked the best for you?
It must be a bug in their back-end infrastructure; there's no general reason why 'naked' domains should be any more prone to TCP connection problems than any other domains. (TCP doesn't even care about domain names, and even in DNS, 'naked' 2nd-level domains are functionally equivalent to 3rd-level domains, 4th-level domains, etc.).

There is at least one legitimate reason using www (or any other subdomain) can be beneficial -- to isolate application cookies from your base domain, to assist caching. See here for details:

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#cookie_fre...

However, you're probably far from needing to worry about that, and also segregating your static, highly-cacheable data to another domain is another way to get the same benefit.

(I tend to prefer non-www domains, too.)
"Really? I'd expect pg himself, at least, to upvote a comment that gets him to think."

Perhaps a better general version is, "Criticize the content of a comment, not the writer or their style."

'A kind of comment I would like to see more of, a kind I have posted but don't get a lot of upvotes from, is asking a question along the lines of "How could we find out more about the facts of this issue?" or "What is the significance of this statement and its importance?" '

From time to time I like to ask how someone happens to know whatever it is they are claiming. It does not seem tot be a popular question, though.
I liked this article better than the one in Wikipedia:

http://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm
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What happens when they make Version 7.0?

Windows 7 will be a different piece of software from Windows Version 7.0

It's easy to see how something like this could cost MSFT thousands of man-hours of confusion and disambiguation.
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Blog about your problems selling it. Gist: "I've learned you still have to market in the app store."

Lower the price to $1; blog about the painfulness of that choice. Try to get attached to stories about iPhone app pricing issues.

Offer a demo version that works on the web (flash), so people can try it out. Blog about that demo version.

Get yourself attached to stories on 'brain fitness'. Make sure the app has some way to chart improvements in memory over time. Reposition as memory workout.

Blog on success (or failure) of previous marketing efforts; try to get yourself attached to any stories about iphone developers -- successful, struggling, or failing, it doesn't matter as long as they spell your app's name right.

Add the ability to customize the tiles, perhaps with your own photos. Use that as another blog/news hook.

Plug it, honestly disclosing your proprietorship, anywhere it could be relevantly discussed. Threads on other memory/iphone games? Reviews of similar memory games, at the app store or elsewhere? Etc.
Mutt's threads aren't all-in-a-page; you only see one message at a time.
This post is an excellent representation of my decision making process.
Ah, but the algorithm only optimizes queue'ing up the plane cabin, when in fact we should optimize the entire queue + dequeue.

I only skimmed the PDF, but I think it overlooks one side benefit from loading a plane back-to-front as airlines do today: Your carry-on bag is very likely to end up near you or in front of you, even on a very packed flight.

The benefit is, when getting off the plane, which is always done front-to-back (and is probably optimal or close to it), everyone can grab their carry-on on their way down the aisle. If your carry-on ever ends up BEHIND your seat in the aisle, then generally you must wait until EVERYONE else gets off (it happened to me once, and that's when I suddenly realized why each flight has people who seem ready to go but must wait patiently for the entire aisle to clear).

With the proposed algorithm in the PDF, if you are in an odd-numbered aisle seat, you might just have to go all the way to the back to find spare carry-on space, which is a great disaster for the deplaning part. Why is there space in the back? Because when people book their seats, my personal observation shows they tend to pick the back last... I guess they don't want to be near the bathrooms.
Have you seen the new Clint Eastwood flick, 'Gran Torino'? I'm pretty sure Walt Kowalski is not a Git user. He's probably carrying around a loaded Visual SourceSafe to stick it in young punks' faces. Cheers =)
Don't be silly -- do you think I invented a couple of new sexes by adding lower-case letters? You're just getting thrown by the notation. I could have written the options as:

1) M/M

2) M/M

3) M/F

4) F/M

5) F/F

6) F/F

but I thought that was confusing, so I introduced a symbol to more clearly illustrate the differences between the ordering of the same-sex options.
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Did I miss the content? He seemed to be responding to "all those people" who claim git users are all fanboys, but the whole thing just comes off as a crappy attempt at sarcasm.
Yeah, we should surpass it. As you said though, it's also very much about simplification (following the initial learning, anyway). EC2 may have simplified a little more eventually, but it was also even more expensive and difficult for me to learn up front.

As for a custom EC2, it's really the other way around; EC2 is a custom Xen setup. Having initially learned of virtualization before AWS and such cloud services, EC2 is the strange one to me. I'd only ever known "DYI EC2", so to speak.
I have this set up as a bookmark to automatically load selected text into Spreeder (also from a HN thread):

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Setting goals helps me get other things done. It is as if I rebel against myself.

But I am more productive when I set goals.

Nowadays I set hourly 'goals' http://smacklet.com/
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