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Personally, I think this is more about a sense of power, rather than simply 'billionaire envy'. I've seen that people at a certain level think that normal rules don't apply to them. This operates quite insidiously too, it's not always a chest thumping, fist pumping, 'I rule the world' kind of behaviour. I imagine Mr Gupta thinks of himself as a regular law abiding citizen, but didn't think there was anything wrong about him helping out a friend with his contacts.

Also, I'm quite astonished by the fact that that 60 of the 66 charges have been resolved by guilty pleas or verdict. In many of these high profile cases, detractors claim 'witch hunt', and a quite often win on appeal. However, with these statistics, anyone who claims that there isn't something rotten going on is on doesn't have much to stand on.

All in all however, a 63 year old man who was something of a personal icon is going to jail. Sad, particularly for his family, but count me impressed by Preet Bharara.
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You are definitively right. But I meant to group the users with internet and cable in with the internet only users.
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For a hundred bucks an hour, maybe they should!
Hmm… I don't think that what the author was getting at. I felt it was more closely aligned with the point that social media put some of wall/distance between us and our connections/relationships - in the sense that we are assimilating stories of our friends through status updates instead of a more personal face to face interaction. ie: Getting the news your friend is pregnant through status update vs. them breaking the news to you face to face and the emotions that happens as you congratulate and hug them.
I ditched Facebook for about 8 months (I've been back since January) last year and it was incredibly liberating. As a result of my complete withdrawal for such a long period I don't check nearly as much as I previously did, although I must admit I have been starting to slip back into old habits. Also when I re-activated my Facebook I also joined Twitter which I now spent far too much time on. Despite some regression, I still feel that by having taken such an extended hiatus I am far less addicted to receiving the constant stream of information, as I once was.

This post has inspired me to take some steps to make sure I don't completely revert to the state I was ~1.5 years ago. I too plan to be more consciousness of my Twitter/Facebook/Reddit usage and not just spend large chunks of time mindlessly browsing them, when I could be doing some productive.

Great post, thanks for the reminder!
I use reddit, but I had to unsubscribe from most of the default subreddits, and also from a few subreddits that I'd hand picked. It's a shame, but it's difficult to get programming news from reddit these days. Apart from silly memes, it's sipping from a firehose. So these days I largely stick to the backwaters where there's a much smaller amount of total content and good signal:noise.
... and, on closer inspection, that turned out to be a bit of a mess:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3846208

In that business, in order to ensure quality, the owner had devised a detailed set of procedures and even acquired uniforms for his housekeepers --- but kept them all 1099'd instead of giving them formal employment. Which is an IRS and State/Local red flag.

Presumably (you'd hope) this business either employs its housekeepers outright, or is making an effort to disassociate itself from the actual delivery of services and just acting as a dispatcher/marketplace for housekeepers, and caveat emptor to the people who hire from it.
After I wrote this last night, I'm now leaning towards the idea that the "rare item" economy is intentional, and working as designed.

In effect, by making it difficult to turn virtual gold into money, and allowing rare items to sell on EBay, Valve is paying a small number of traders to provide a liquid market.

I'm aware of the spreadsheet, but I think you overstate its importance. Sure, people are aware of the book value, but just like real life, people pay more or less than the book value according to their desire.
This is my favorite reply, because it's exactly right. No one is stopping you from mixing and matching paradigms either! You can extend CoffeeScript classes with extra mixins.

I think CoffeeScript's class keyword does a great job at what it's trying to do: make all the complexities of prototypical inheritance accessible to the average person who just wants simple object-oriented classes. CoffeeScript is just JavaScript.
There are several tricks you can use for DNS failover, but it's not generally regarded as a reliable option. DNS caching has all kinds of awkward gotchas.
You could also host a reverse proxy somewhere reliable which just forwards things to you over the appropriate connection

If you need reliable hosting with multiple providers then you can get your own AS number and use BGP routing to provide failover. But that's more expensive by one or two orders of magnitude.
You're misinformed and/or looking at older models.

As I pointed out to another response, I'm talking about the 420s model, not the 420. The 420s is substantially slimmer, and mine has an i7. I believe the 420s does max out at 8GB, but it's a year old at this point; the replacement 430s does accomodate up to 16GB.

There is a 15" model of the series 9. It's a full pound lighter than the retina mbp. I strongly suspect it can be ordered with the same i7 you can get on the mpb, but I don't remember off the top of my head.

No idea what you're talking about with the Vaio Z. This is the one I'm talking about: 2.6 pounds, 0.66" thick. Yes, this one actually is a 13" machine, but before you go setting up a straw man remember that my point was about thin-and-light engineering, not about 15" laptops. http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/04/sony-vaio-z-series-ivy-br...
Definitely dual monitors. At home, I have a pair of 25.5" monitors: an ASUS and a Samsung. Both do 1920 x 1200 resolution.

At work, I have a 4 monitor setup (I'm a software architect):

* 19" @ 900 x 1440 (portrait)

* 2 x 27.5" @ 1920 x 1200 (a Hanns-G and a Hannspree)

* HP laptop @ 1600 x 900

You can find the latest Hanns-G @ NewEgg for around $260.
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It did suck, you just didn't have nothing to compare it to.
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We are developing a POS for small/medium sized stores in India as an web application for very minimum price. However the problem we face is, many of the small shops cannot afford to setup internet connection. We would need to now setup it in localhost. The problem is entire code resides on the localhost machine, is there any approach by which we can tackle this. Or it is better to advice them to go online.
One approach we've experimented with in JSGI is a similar API to Rack but with the addition of promises to add an asynchronous mode of operation. It's theoretically elegant, but a bit awkward in practice.
it's just not that different to maintain a hard server than a virtual server

I'm guessing you haven't used Heroku. Server setup is "git push master".

you at least maintain control over every aspect of your systems

There are still plenty of things you don't control - network feeds to your cage, continuous power, bugs and failures in the hardware you buy. You cannot provision new systems without either buying machines or having a hot standby, and somebody needs to make a trip to the cage. If you're getting hardware by the month from a service, you will probably have faster turnaround (hours not days), but once again you're giving up some control.
"It is far easier to take a fundamentally-streaming stack and layer conventional request-response on top as a special case than it is to take a conventional request-response stack and layer a stream on top of that."

This is demonstrably true in that Rack/etc are themselves almost always built on top of conventional socket-based streaming APIs. Streaming APIs have been the norm, and yet people choose to put abstractions on top of them. Why? Mostly because it gives substantial improvements to application code, and turns the system into more of a set of contracts and less of a mushy touch-any-object-you-want system, which I think is fundamental to how streaming works, due to its imperative nature.

Using Rack or any of its equivalents, it would be fairly easy to allow a hole to be punched through the system to give a direct socket streaming API. Just toss the relevant objects into the request. It would violate the abstractions of Rack, any middleware, etc. But you can do it, and it would be easy. It's not unlike using Rack instead of the abstractions Rails puts on top of it – arguably it can be useful shortcut parts of the stack.

Why don't people do this? Mostly because no one cares to. It's not that useful or interesting or testable. It's noticeable enough that people complain about it, but not noticeable enough to be worth it to take the hit and use a more imperative API.
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Might be worth noting that this post is 8 months old.
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Agreed there. I missed one cause that encompasses all of them: the customer has no idea what they actually have/don't have in terms of infrastructure, which negates their ability to effectively measure and manage redundancy.
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Ditched my TV last week and have been cutting back on my internet habit when I'm home for a while now. I suddenly have hours of free time every evening and I'm re-discovering magazines. But you're right, lots of them have been under pressure or have disappeared.

One thing I found out about myself is that internet made me lazy. These days I find it easier to read short articles - online articles used to get bookmarked and never read. I'm also trying harder to work on stuff without the net. I'm in electronics/embedded and I used to click around for every little thing. Now I sit down with pencil & paper again until I crack it by hand.
I've set up something similar with old hardware and pfSense.

It supports Multi-WAN and HA failover, and the price is nicer than the custom hardware units (as long as you can find a fast enough unit to run it on).
Yes - odd to think that once the idea of the military being outsourced to Haliburton, 3D city models on your phone/glasses and a cyberspace landgrab for new domain names was in the future.
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That doesn't seem like a big deal. If you have requirements that every request hit your server then, duh, you can't have a caching proxy in front of your pages.

I think very few ads work that way, though. It's almost always a javascript include (often from a 3rd party ad server).
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Balance and moderation. You can still use it, just not be obsessive.
There's a difference between boycotting the retailer and demanding that they accept a return.

Also, from their perspective, they sold you "a computer with Windows installed" and expect to receive the same in return, unless the reason for your return is the lack of said Windows.
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Hey, I have a beautiful house and it's filled with beautiful things. Why would I want an ugly person touching them?

Seriously, I wouldn't pay extra for a good-looking maid myself, but if I were rich then it would seem appropriate to have good-looking staff, all other things being equal.
I imagine Microsoft took the intrinsic value of Yammer and added a stab at the value of the impact on Microsoft if a competitor, say, Google bought Yammer.

There's just too much we don't know, meaning that any comment we make here amounts to little more than meaningless speculation. Unless someone has a credible source?
Maybe we have different ideas of what legal brilliance is. I thought that letter was at least 4 pages too long and excessively pedantic for what it is trying to say. The letter also spends too much time reaching conclusions rather than actually applying the law. Overall, it was about the same quality (from a legal and linguistic viewpoint) as Mr. Carreon's initial letter.

Moreoever, as to Mr. Carreon: Mr. Carreon has managed to make himself look like an expert on internet law to millions of potential clients through multiple media appearances. Mr. Carreon does not work for techies; he works for people who still think computers are magical black boxes. He's almost certainly okay with techies thinking that he is an absolute idiot.

Not only that, but Mr. Carreon has managed to make his client look sympathetic in front of the same audience (i.e., any potential jurors if the case goes to trial). Techies will find the drawing of the mom seducing the bear harmless (in part because it is, relative to the stuff we see coming out of reddit and 4chan on a daily basis), but ordinary people will look at that drawing and be horribly offended.

As to the IndieGoGo interference: by raising that issue, Mr. Carreon has suggested that IndieGoGo's TOS is toothless. It places IGG in a bind: if the Oatmeal did violate the TOS, then IGG must take down the fundraiser or lose the ability to use its TOS as a sword/shield in future litigation.

Mr. Carreon's job is not to look good, it is to represent his client in potential litigation. From a litigation standpoint, he's definitely got the upper hand so far.

(I am not commenting on the merits of his client's case, because I simply do not care enough about either party based on what is currently known about them to put in the effort to analyze the current or potential claims and outcomes.)
If reliability is that critical, you need multiple data centers. This is far easier to implement with EC2 than by building out hardware.

Also: Most downtime is caused by bad code deployment, poorly-conceived network or system configuration changes, and sysadmins with fat fingers. Do you really think your hired talent is going to be better than Amazon's hired talent?
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I'd argue though that a news aggregator can separate signal from noise and still provide no value. On HN I catch myself reading very well-written, thoroughly researched and fascinating articles... that have nothing to do with my life. That takes time away from _doing_ things, like the writing and painting OP accomplished on his info diet.
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I figure it's because it's easier (and possibly legaler?) to run Mac OS X on the Macbook than it is on an ordinary PC. I presume Linux and Windows would be about the same, in terms of difficulty of setup, whether you're using a PC or a Macbook. So, if you aren't sure what sort of work you might need to be doing, some kind of Mac-thing covers more potential cases.

Also, if you can look past the somewhat childish glowing apple, the Macbook Pro ticks all the usual Apple boxes: looks nice, easy to keep clean, feels solid.

The productivity thing is just the usual bollocks. Changing OSes and development tools and so on can seem like it would be the end of the world, until one day you're forced to do it (for whatever reason), at which point you always find out that it's no more than an annoyance.

(This even takes into account Xcode 4 and the Windows command prompt, both of which are maddeningly, frustratingly awful.)
I think this may be a deceptively difficult business to make sustainable profits from.

Most of what you'd think to do to establish quality, ensure your housekeepers are legitimately bonded & insured, and reliably staffed will result in those housekeepers becoming full-time employees of your company.

A full-time housekeeper is, as it turns out, a pretty expensive employee. In addition to the tax burden, the training overhead, and the huge employee turnover, housekeepers also have some of the highest workmans comp insurance rates in the market.

Meanwhile: how long do you think you can pocket 50-70% of the value in a housekeeping transaction just for providing an iPhone app? Remember, anyone can build that same app. The real value is being provided by the actual workers, and by whatever processes keep those workers happy and productive.

I think this may be one of those businesses that instead of being "eaten" by software, quickly reverts back to the mean of the original business.
I haven't seen explicit documentation about the rewriting behavior, but I assumed they were rewriting on based on the before and after waterfall charts in this blog post[1]. I agree it's not a great idea. Cloudflare actually recommends blacklisting problematic scripts [2], which partially defeats the feature's usefulness.

[1] http://blog.cloudflare.com/56590463
[2] http://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/Rocket_Loader
Except that they already said "no, installing an OS doesn't void your warranty, that was just a mistake". But the people actually processing RMAs are clearly not aware of this. That's the problem. I can not trust the company to process an RMA, because they have demonstrated that they do not train their staff to do that job competently.
I have a 1080p monitor on my desk, and a 1080p TV hooked up to my computer as well. In addition to playing movies, I use the TV to show people things. That way they don't have to squeeze behind my desk to see my monitor. Overall I'd say that 1080p is not a good resolution for a desktop monitor. It's much too wide for a single window and not quite wide enough for 2.
Those are different divisions of Samsung. IIRC, Samsung's semiconductor and mobile corporate arms are separate entities. I think it's a weird legal arrangement that allows them to do business with direct competitors without hurting their bottom lines.
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I've got an MBP for work, and I really dislike it. I've gotten used to the software not behaving as I'd expect (I find that I have to use the terminal for many operations that I'd prefer to use a GUI for, which is probably good for me), but I still hate working on it and would gladly take a laptop of lower "quality" for something that didn't rub me the wrong way quite as often.

The thing I find most annoying is the lack of home/end keys on the keyboard. I know that there are shortcuts to emulate these, but I've got a lot of muscle memory tied up in these keys existing, and not having them is a huge imposition to my ability to navigate effectively.
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I never said that the letter didn't say what it intended to say. Nor did I say that it doesn't say what it intended to say well.

My point is that it's not a message worth saying, just like the message, "Just say no" is not worth saying. It's a pointlessly simple message that is not likely to affect its target audience or change any outcome. This message is, in fact, insulting to its intended audience, Reagan's son.

Maybe, just maybe, the part about the wife always knowing when something is going on, would have an effect down the road, but the bulk of the message is, "Men are dirty dogs. You're a man and consequently, you're a dirty dog. All men want to do is dip their wicks, and therefore you will want to dip your wick. When you do, you will ruin your marriage, even if you think you won't, and then you will blame your broken marriage on your loving wife, just like all dirty dogs do. If you want to be happy, refrain from being the dirty dog that you know you are."

The fact of the matter, however, is that most men are not dirty dogs. The reasons that they cheat (which are the same as the reasons that most women cheat) are largely not due to just a desire to dip their wicks. The reason are much more complex, and by the time they do cheat, their cheating is a symptom of something deeper that is wrong with the marriage, and not the root cause of the marriage going bad, as is portrayed in Reagan's letter.
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Communication/Collaboration & ability to write elegant code are pretty symbiotic but I'd generally say it's harder to find someone who can elegantly design/code a system than it is to find people to talk about it(Reqs, specs etc).
I was thinking more in terms of the average-joe consumer, but then I guess the average-joe consumer never knew what HTTP was anyway.
> Michael Braun, the former chief of operations for the D.E.A., told me a story about the construction of a high-tech fence along a stretch of border in Arizona.

>“They erect this fence,” he said, “only to go out there a few days later and discover that these guys have a catapult, and they’re flinging hundred-pound bales of marijuana over to the other side.” He paused and looked at me for a second. “A catapult,” he repeated. “We’ve got the best fence money can buy, and they counter us with a 2,500-year-old technology.”
Nope.

> Unfortunately, new users will not be able to get the functionality just by creating a new Public folder.

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?page=2&id=62381&...

For whatever reason, they seem intent on killing the feature. Extremely disappointing.
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Clearer, and more succint:
A lawsuit based on these claims would have no merit.

Problems with the summation statement quoted:
"At the end of the day" is superfluous and pedantic.
"In this situation" is ambiguous and suggests that the statement only applies in the limited context of the facts raised in the letter, i.e., ignoring other potential facts which were not raised in the letter.
"just" is superfluous, pedantic, and unprofessional.
"a really bad idea" is superfluous, pedantic, and unprofessional. It is a really bad idea to use "a really bad idea" in a legal letter written to another lawyer.
Amazing. Someone please makes this into a jQuery plugin.
It's a terribly confusing universe these days, and boycotts must depend on the position of the moon. Wasn't that long ago that people wanted to boycott Amazon for doing their silly one-click patent. Or their 1984 Kindle book deletion thing. I'd take a break from HN and go play Diablo III, but alas, I'm supposed to boycott that too because of the bnetd snafu.

Instead, I maintain a much simpler lifestyle by ordering from whatever place gives me a reasonable price and good service, regardless of other people's experiences.

Both Amazon and New Egg have offered me excellent service in the past, and I will continue to use both.
I find this is typically due to a difference between the level of abstraction people are modeling in their head. A great coder can flip back and forth between several different levels (the 50m lines of OS code, the 100,000 of app code, the 1,000 of local code, etc) and have a reasonable idea of how those parts fit together.

Not a complete understanding, just a basic idea.

This is why mediocre programmers are what they are---they lack this ability and end up "flailing around", looking at somewhat random issues, bouncing back and forth, unable to see the pattern, and so end up spending more time writing code that eventually has to get rewritten.

A great programmer will systematically take a problem apart so that even if they don't solve a problem in one minute, they've at least narrowed down the window of options for the future.

This is also why great programmers are always great debuggers.
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