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You can't name a single thing the Gates Foundation is doing simply because you aren't benefiting from it. You're not one of the million people dying each year from malaria, or part of the population likely to be infected. Beating it, which seems like a possibility, could be a pretty big deal all things considered.

I don't think either will be a household name in 50 years, but if I had to bet then I'd give Gates the edge.
I have learned never to underestimate the human ability for rationalization. Usually the smarter and more intelligent the person, the crazier and more convoluted the self rationalization goes. So believing god created humans and believing in evolution is, I think, quite common.

"God guided the evolution". "God used the evolution to build the physical form then imbued the bodies with human souls". I could go on, but you get the gist.

People are very irrational, and quite easily believe contradictory things.
Thanks for the advice, and yes, I have. I also clicked the "email yourself a new password" link that appears after logging in without a password. Sadly, no emails yet.
The Boltzmann brain is about a conscious entity arising due to chance, or the known universe for that matter; cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
The word simulation does not occur on that page, it is about our universe being just a fluke.
This is moronic. You're suggesting that Gates' work to eradicate malaria is worth less than Steve Jobs being worshipped among creative people? This kind of stupidity is prevalent among those who have never seen poverty in life.

I didn't downvote you because I respect your opinion, but I think you're dead wrong.
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Or you could get on EngineYard and stop caring what Heroku does. That's worked wonders for my business.
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Or you could get on Engine Yard and stop caring what Heroku does. That's worked wonders for my business.
My experience says there is a difference. Allow me to offer one possible reason. A good framework gives a project a good structure to start with. Most homegrown solutions have to recreate much of the structure of the framework, and they often do a worse job than the highly developed frameworks that have the experience of many open source developers behind them.
I'm not religious but if you were cloned the clone wouldn't be anything like you, for one thing it wouldn't be your age until far into the future.

Any animal is distinctly different from others and even a clone of itself, if that's not a soul maybe some other name would be better.
Your view is the same as mine. Chemical engineer here with an interest in quantum physics. A lot of people take the view that God directly created "stuff", as in He literally created the earth or literally put together the universe. My view is a little different -- I think he created the laws of physics (and math itself essentially) in such a way to form everything exactly the way it is now.

It's a much deeper level of creation than most people consider, partly because the laws of physics are generally taken for granted as simply existing on their own.
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Bostrom's argument is also a statistical kind of argument. I can't know what Daniel was thinking - I merely hooked on the words most likely living in a simulated universe. and all of our sensory inputs are being manipulated in ways that mimic the universe we think we live in.

The cause of a Boltzmann Brain does not act directly, it's merely a random fluctuation that allows an arrangement of particles to form a mind that thinks it's existing. There is no simulation or manipulation or attempt to fool. It just is something so unlikely, you have to wait an unmentionable amount of time to have it occur. Assuming there is nothing in physics that ends up barring such.

The Boltzmann brain argument is one that is hard to swallow and very unlikely by definition. Bostrom's simulation argument puts forward that we are most likely in a simulation and makes a compelling case.
I recently spent a bunch of time looking for a basic list of cities & populations for my latest personal project (list of sales tax rates per city: http://www.sale-tax.com) so I'm glad to hear there might be another option. I tried their fact finder website site (http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtm...) but it is really difficult to navigate and they cap the number of rows you can download at a time.

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Nobody cares why your site is down, and for most sites 99% of your users will have no clue what is meant by "This site is hosted by Heroku".

What you say is true for a certain type of users and a certain type of business, but not for all the users and uses that a Heroku app might have - big companies, small companies, consumer sites, internal tools, iOS apps, etc. You have to assume a variety of use cases here, because that's kind of the whole point of a platform business.

What about when the user is your boss? "Hey, did you fuck this up?" is not a question people want to hear all day.

Or when it's an internal tool, and your users are a whole bunch of people who work with you?

Or when the site that went down is the system you use to invoice your consulting client, and they know you wrote it? Would you be anticipating repeat business?

A tiny portion of consideration for other people when you write your error messages can save those other people a great deal of stress. 37Signals wrote a book on that in around 2005 or so:

http://www.amazon.com/Defensive-Design-Web-improve-messages/...

It's short but it's good. (twss)

I think people are getting way too angry about this, and geeks get awfully weird (and often oddly furious) whenever you suggest employing simple social graces, but I also think it's indisputable that OP is absolutely right.

And to be fair, I didn't have any apps hosted on Heroku when this took place, so that might even be the reason why I think people are getting too angry about this. Maybe they're right to be mad.

"If you had a setup with a hosted machine at Rackspace and the power goes out, you don't expect a custom error. So why would you expect one from Heroku?"

Because Heroku's not Rackspace. It's a service, and one thing people like from a service business is good service.

I like Heroku, it's awesome, but asking them to take responsibility for their downtime is a reasonable request.
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I thought the phrasing used in the article (humans had evolved without the guidance of a divine power) was particularly exclusionary. I know plenty of people who believe in evolution and God (they would answer no to the previous question). They don't buy into the whole six days and rib bone thing literally, but the process by which "monkeys" turned into people was overseen by someone pulling strings.

There's a lot of chance in the world. Which of a million sperm fertilizes the egg that turns into Alexander the Great. I don't particularly believe someone's out there manipulating chance events, but it's not provably false, so I see no reason why it's fundamentally incompatible with science.
Author is an intern, and excited. ;-)
Why the ad hominem attack on the author?

Irrespective of the author's affiliations, I found the article well written and well reasoned. The problems discussed are real and it would be in Google's best interest to address them.
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I always hated that advice "Do what you Love". It's a fucking terrible advice. I know people mean well when they give that advice, but its a downright terrible advice for the vast majority of people.

Let me point out that this is an article written by a guy that ended up "loving" programming. I know that there is a lot of programmers here, (myself included) but let's face the reality here: only weirdos love programming. I say this because I'm a weirdo and I love programming, and every friend I know that loves programming is more or less the.. eccentric type. We just happen to be very fortunate in that we happen to love something that guarantees a middle class income and plenty of opportunities.

Most people are normal and love normal things. They like food, they like music, they like art, they like sex, they like sports, they like adventure. If you tell normal people to do what they love, you are practically dooming them to shit careers. It's all about supply and demand. Most people love the same things that other people love (except programmers, who are weirdos), and there just isn't enough jobs that normal people will love. Maybe 1% of normal people will end up in their dream job, and the other 99% end up on the hamster wheel chasing what they love.
That's a very pervasive mistake, to the point where one could question if it may be simply snobbery to insist on it being a mistake (although I am strongly in favor of correct usage, the nature of language is such that people use terms which they believe others will interpret as they do, and the people who associate the "wrong" meaning already appear in the majority). On another note, I think it's generally nothing to be proud of when you "stop reading something", and I wish people would stop announcing it in this complaining manner--if you didn't read the article, there's not much to discuss so you might as well not make this known at all. There are lots of other informative points to be gleaned from the article if you look past these rather superficial errors.
I think you are overselling X server, I don't know if you've ever tried to use X over a network but it's pretty awful. The web is not a crappy X server. It's a much much much superior approach to the X server- in that it allows code to run in the gui without the latency of sending every single mouse click and key press over the network, and every single low level drawing command and uncompressed pixel put back.

I think what you want has already been tried with Java applets. Java applets had 10 years to establish themselves as the one true way to make professional web apps and replace the OS. It was a monumental failure of epic proportions, and javascript+html won that battle a thousand times over. Now you want to try it again because .. why? Because you think it's a technically better approach. It's just history disagrees with you.

The web can work over a modem and crummy mobile phone connections. X would be hopelessly unusable under such conditions so it's a complete mystery to me why you are claiming that the web is a "poor man's" X-server. You'd have to be half mad to think that. The web could be 10 times more shitty than it is and would still beat X for quality and responsiveness. So really... HUH!? WHAT?
On Mac OS X Lion, in Safari, scroll bars are hidden by default. They are only shown when you start to scroll, using either the arrow keys or the two-finger-drag gesture. So if the page looks complete and you don't try to scroll because of that, you have no indication that there is more to the page.

Edit: the scroll bar is also shown briefly when the page finishes loading.
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I'm not inclined to argue too hard in favor of God guided evolution, but I don't think you've demonstrated that such a belief is "very irrational". At worst, it's not provable, but it's not disprovable.
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Nice. Would be extra useful to see reserved instance pricing on here too.
The problem with that is that some things we currently regard as scientific can neither be described well or controlled. Quantum mechanics is a good example. The defining characteristic that still makes it science is that we can predict things using mathematical equations (although not as well as we would like).

Which brings me to an interesting question. If a hypothetical alien civilization develops technology using different types of math than us, different analogies than us (particles/wave, etc.), and different beliefs than us, is it still science? I would argue yes. If they can create sophisticated technology that is predictable, the end effect is the same that we humans have.

Which brings me to my last question. Is string theory science? Again, I would say yes. Because although its predictions are not currently capable of being tested, they are in principle capable of being tested with more sophisticated technology. There is a clear path to developing a test of its predictions.

So I think "science" can best be described as the pursuit of prediction.
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You'd probably have more luck making a return on your investment by purchasing Facebook stock instead of buying Sortfolio. The whole site relies on the 37Signals payment integration and name, if someone buys this I feel sorry for them, because they won't ever see a dime of that money made back after you factor in the cost of running the site infrastructure and time spent integrating the sites payment system with something like Paypal who will take commission from each sale.

Shutting it down would be the decent thing to do here. I question whether the site makes as much money annually as 37Signals say it does. Why shut down a profitable site that probably in its current form requires hardly any maintenance? Something is fishy here, I don't know what but the whole thing wreaks of suspicion.
Because England and Europe kicked out all the fervent believers unwilling to convert to the state religion du jour and sent them to America.

Ironically, the separation of church and state means people can lose faith in the state but not the church.
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Reasonable people would, in my humble opinion, consider that a failing of your insane OS, and not of the producer of the web page.
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As one who lives a religiously observant lifestyle, I've always been a bit of an outlier on the topic of religiously motivated supernatural beliefs like these. I don't believe in souls for the same reason I don't believe in a Cartesian duality of the mind and body. Any rationally grounded support for such a belief vanished as soon as we developed reasonable alternative and scientifically motivated theories of the mind.

However, for some reason my mind's stubborn refusal to let me believe in the supernatural has not eroded my sense of religious commitment. I think this is because I realized long ago that the crux, and contemporary import, of religion for me (and this is entirely my opinion, and mine alone) is not in instilling belief in any specific historical event or supernatural phenomena, but rather instilling the notion of belief, in the broadest sense, deep within every individual.

This is ultimately what differentiates humanity from all other forms of life that we know of. That is, we are conscious creatures (mostly) capable of lofty pursuits, and there is value in exploring unknown territory and working together with other human beings to achieve great things. These are religious concepts at heart, because they are predicated on the belief that human achievement and the pursuit of knowledge are not merely the means to some material end. The journey itself is the point.
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Unrelated but that background with the pale hues makes it tough for me to read. Maybe Im just getting old.
Sad to see no mention of Hume (in the article or comments). He figured out the limitations of science 300-ish years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume#Hume.27s_.22Science_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
I'm agnostic, and I'm interested in Physics.

I believe in science, and the belief itself is nothing different from the beliefs in god for some people. Science theories are all about proving older theories wrong, and humans naturally regard those older theories as "intuition".

I don't think it has anything to do with being naive or not. Aristotle thought that bigger object falls faster, force is required to maintain motion, and air is made with one element. These are all great discoveries that hold for over one thousand years. They are science. And I don't think they are naive at all. Aristotle is one of the most intelligent people at his time, and so is Issac Newton, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Yet today we regard the views of the elites as "truths" and all the rest as "naive intuition".

These scientists all did the same thing: prove something wrong by discovering something that explains more things more accurately in more circumstances. The fundamental way they achieved this is empirical observations, which are simply endless. Therefore, there's nothing stopping us from proving Newton's laws or Relativity wrong.

The way we come up with scientific conclusions has very similar characteristics with the way we know God. In school, we can reach conclusions by drawing a graph with 7 data points and observing some linear relationship with an imaginary straight line that somehow connects them. Boom! A conclusion of "truth". One major difference of scientific discoveries is that they involve mathematics, which is a priori by nature, and this makes "science" consistent and stable.

It's perfectly understandable that not many people believe in evolution. It's a fact that evolution theories have more evidence than creationist beliefs, but it's never a human nature to chase the "more evidence". We make irrational and hence suboptimal decisions everyday, yet we humans as a whole are not necessarily disadvantaged by irrationalities. "More evidence" doesn't mean it's right and "less evidence" doesn't mean it's wrong. "More probable" doesn't mean it will happen, and "less probable" doesn't mean it won't happen. You get the idea.

Or is it true that elites (minority of people) have more tenancy to believe in theories with more evidence, accept explanation that covers more circumstances and do things that have more probabilities of success? And everyone else is stuck with emotions, "naive intuition" and irrationalities?
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Have you seen poverty? Do you know where I live? Do you know how much money I have? Do you know what I had for lunch today? You don't. You won't win this fight so you better put the gloves down.

Back to the original idea of the post, you can't glorify a man who has ruined countless lives amassing a fortune with unethical practices, perhaps not illegal, but morally reprehensive no matter how you look at bribery, strong arming, patent trolling, fudding, and many more vicious ways of making money while keeping your competitors at bay, going bankrupt, and erasing them from their path to world domination.

So now that I have billions to boot and I will be remembered like a ruthless extortionist I decide to clean up my name and contract the greatest PR firm who tells me to give it all away in the most humane way possible, curing people, and paying bold headlines every time my "charitable donations" solve a third world problem.

Look pal, I don't know you and neither Gates nor Jobs put food on my table so fuck them all, but don't tell me I don't know poverty for I have seen the ugly innards of the beast and Saint Gates won't get me out of here, thanks but save your compassion.

Don't talk about stupidity if you can't even grasp the meaning of ignorance.

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Please accept my apologies if I offended you, this stupid fight won't make us better persons.
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Need to give a warning next to the t1.micro instance

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Well, if you are on a FAT32 file system (e.g. often used for SD cards, USB Keys etc.), then you cannot store files which exceed 4gb in size if IIRC. Please correct me if I am wrong!
I thought this was an exorbitant amount for a simple website, granted this was the first site of this kind and I'm sure they wanted to get it right.

For any who are interested, I am working on a project to enable other artists to create a similar page to publish and sell their film with a simple website builder for this specific use case. I launched the first version this weekend, you can check it out here: http://filmsquire.com
Here's a suggestion for a big improvement: Pick apart the EC2 pricing page ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ) and find the URLs to the JSON (e.g. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ri-light-linux.json ) and build something that's totally dynamic.

Although the URLs and the formats aren't an official AWS API, I think it is pretty safe to count on them for an application like this.
This is awesome.

I was starting some instances this morning, and it's shocking how poorly Amazon describes what they offer. I had three browser windows and a calculator open just to figure out which instances are being offered, and at which relative prices. You'd think they would spend more time on this stuff.
I always tell people that EC2 generally costs more than a VPS. They don't believe me until they actually do the calculation. You have to factor in things like bandwidth and storage as well (which is usually included for services like linode or slicehost).
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Either offer them some money or deal with it I guess.

You have no real right to your name as a domain name... If you let them buy it before you or let it expire, that's your loss unfortunately.
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It's entirely within the scope of the W3C and IE6 is proof enough that vendors shouldn't implement things however they choose.
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As with every crackpot Reddit thread, sort the comments by 'best'. OP doesn't know what he's talking about.
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This. I would like to see the amortized costs of running reserved instances 24/7 for their full reservation period.
Also have to consider the inferior CPU performance:

1 ECU is equivalent to 1.0 GHz - 1.2 GHz Xeon CPU in 2007. And the number of cores is usually small.