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The line 'Google more corrupt than Apple' is total karma whoring bullshit.

The article talks about anti-corruption measures and visibility of reporting. It does not give a measure or even an indication of corrupt or inappropriate behaviour on the parts of the companies.

It's really good though to see how organisations like Transparency International are one day going to change the world by slow, gradual, naming and shaming that encourages companies to change their behaviour. Corporations can't have ethics due to their shareholder responsibilities so it's good that we will be able to implement a positive feedback loop to get them to improve.
This doesn't help the consumers but the laborers.
a) http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instruction...
To you it looks like two old car tires. To me it looks like the perfect tool for the job.
I did and I could not cope with it. My brain can either do Emacs or Vim, but not both. Whenever I used Evil, I would fall back entirely into Vim mode and more or less ignore all the Emacs goodies and miss my favorite Vim plugins. Mixing Emacs and Vim did not go well with me. However, maybe I should try it again now that I am comfortable with Emacs.
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You just made me stop and think where this hate is coming from.
I am imagining a probable scenario were Paypal employees are hating their job. So their hate is transferred to everything they do for Paypal. End product would be the hate we feel by using their services.
Correct. In any case, I would not trust the government and courts of any country with such a huge loophole ("anything that might become banned in the future"), let along those of Russia.
Agree, but trotting out Google and Twitter's most painful and unattended-to shortcomings, while touchstones, does not support your original thesis.

Furthermore, Google and Twitter aren't startups.
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The counterpoint is reliability. If it's ok to have your whole service fall over when any part of it fails, go monolithic. This isn't snark, there genuinely are a lot of cases where this could make sense.
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For a westerner, the easiest way to understand is Caste = Corruption.

For e.g.

1. If you kill somebody, you should be **hanged**, if you're NOT from my caste.
2. If you kill somebody, you did it in **self-defense**, if you're from my caste.
Furthermore read onward for some examples from Zemanta itself, which afaik is a startup.

I could also get into the experience I had when using Google App Engine for my startup a few years ago. Horribly over-engineered architecture, nothing worked, had a whole bunch of trouble and everything went all manner of bad to worse very quickly.

But hey, we had awesome scalability! Until we got 200 users and everything started falling apart because of the overhead of keeping all the different parts of the system communicating.

PS: the "saving is taking too long" example is actually aimed at Buffer not Twitter or Google :)
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Hi ,

I am working on a startup idea, Its " Google Voice for customer support " .

Recently someone launched a similar service and they are charging for incoming calls and even the outgoing calls are very expensive.

I am well connected in VoIP sector and can offer better prices and give free incoming calls option for this service .

Do you guys think only with better pricing I can fight with the competitors as most of the features are similar ?
Generally type coercion seems like a bad idea in most languages
The last thing Bitcoin needs is another speculation craze based on its high value. If Bitcoin's value is growing, that's fine, let it keep growing naturally. Don't start publicizing it so it starts another speculation roller coaster, at least until the Bitcoin market is big enough to not be impacted much by speculation-based transactions.
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The biggest problem with those lists is that any courthouse from a tiny town in a middle of nowhere has the power to add resource to the federal list. People who do not understand what they are doing.
Thus we have seen the whole lib.ru being added there at some point, along with some parts of Quran declared extremist materials.

And now they want some random NGO to be compiling their own list of paedophile resources. They'll have all the control without much responsibility, hurray.
There are a lot of people who do more sitting, they call it relaxing, than 3 hours a day and manage to live very long lives. Physical activity is always good but sitting down is not unhealthy.
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You know people do those 2D and 3D plots with dots representing where ideas are on a spectrum? You know, like this: http://www.politicalcompass.org/images/axeswithnames.gif

I think what you need is a diagram like that with Google Docs, Wikis, Evernote, Piratepad, E-mail and your product. You know, something that answers every "so how's it different from" at the same time.
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I overengineer everything as a matter of course. IMHO, always, places that support this wind up winning from the habit, places that don't support this wind up dying because of a lack of management foresight. Just don't put an engineer in a business position such that they are occasionally reeled in, and the habit is probably a good one.
This is a really weird article.

The solution is not to say "Services Suck" or "Monolithic yay!", it's to realise that you should start with a monolithic app built in a good framework, then see how your app's internals are used/accessed as you grow THEN split out to logical well designed services.

Or in other words: Premature optimisation is the root of all evil.
by "industry" I meant commercial ventures, not academic research. But now that you mention it research funded by commercial enterprises tends to be very biased in favour of the enterprises' interests - which i think further strengthens my original thesis above.
I don't know--as I said, I haven't tried it. In fact, I've never even used Vim beyond :wq. But if it's even half as good as you're describing, I might just try it--all the power of Emacs combined with Vim-style commands sounds like a very good deal.
Have you ever taken a taxicab in DC? DC cabs are dumps. Getting one with air conditioning is a crapshoot. Another city that has really crap cab service is Detroit. Both cities have thriving private car services because for a little bit more money, you get a much better experience.

Combine that better experience with app convenience and for most people the extra money doesn't matter.
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I'm all for simplifying, but what exactly does he mean by "monolithic architecture" ? Not even sure I get his overall point, the rant seems to go in many different directions.

That phrase "monolithic architecture" makes me think of one-huge-Java-project and that's not exactly "simple" in my mind. Probably not what he meant though..

Generally, I guess separating things is more work and can actually lead to less flexibility when situations arise that you didn't plan for ("maybe bloggers should be able to advertise too"). OTOH, not separating can lead to entanglement, where you can't really change anything because other things depend on this or obvious and subtle ways.

(edit: removed dumb example ;)
Wow, so you can still bribe people in some ways.

I must say its all very well handing out free tablets etc and offering incentives but maybe getting a few key applications ported and even paying to get them ported would be a better investment.

Reason I say this is having read this part "One of such programs incentivizes developers to build apps for BlackBerry 10 by guaranteeing the developers US$10,000 in revenues from the app. While the official terms and conditions for this program has not yet been released, Alec Saunders, VP of Developer Relations highlighted that apps that qualify for the program must be certified, paid apps built for the BlackBerry 10 and manage to earn at least US$1,000 within the first year."

Well It's hard not to think I could write a application - charge $10 or whatever price and get a few friends to buy that application and from the little time involved to code a "HELLO WORLD" application and get upon the blackberry market and the $1,000 friend investment of which I get a return on. Well I'd then qualify for $10,000.

So in effect the way they are doing this they are opening themself up to being scammed! Sorry but that is how alot will see this approach sadly. Also given the return then why not.

So I hope RIM rethinks this approach and does something more creative. Maybe pick a university and go in with a couple of people who know the RIM platform for developers - give a intro - hand out tablets for the student use for a few months so they can write an application and then those worthy they help promote and get onto the market offering support.

If they also used some of this money to have a developer help line ( no no not samaratins before you joke) but one were a developer can chat online and get questions answeared so they can speed up there application development then again they will gain.

Also If I was RIM CEO I'd look at large consumer markets like military and the like who are starting to embrace tablets and the like and with that at least gain some steady staple income to at least garantee some future.

But as this approach goes as they outlined I feel it will do them no favours.
True. I just put an old fashion chair on the table. It works fine; it's exactly the right height. Never have an back aches/complaints anymore and no RSI. I'm thinner + fitter as well. So even if I don't get years added to my life, it cannot be too unhealthy :) And easy to accomplish. Our office looks weird now with all these people standing though.
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Indeed, the first page was entirely useless, it was nothing about the company and no useful information about IT in Romania. He didn't mention Drakula? I'm pleasantly surprised.

Also note the ridiculous mention of Bulgarian youth as if it is relevant in some way. To this guy Sarah Palin was probably very convincing because you know, Russia is right across Alaska. Also, he "ditched corporate America and started a management consulting and venture capital firm".

Of course communism is supposed to be relevant in some way, even thought its been 20 years.
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The [Gmail] folder is the result of IMAP being an afterthought for Google (but yes, Thunderbird could be better at hiding it).
> Создаётся некая информационная система «Единый реестр доменных имен и (или) универсальных указателей страниц сайтов в сети Интернет и сетевых адресов сайтов в сети Интернет, содержащих информацию, запрещенную к распространению на территории Российской Федерации федеральными законами» (далее — Реестр).

> Оператор связи, оказывающий услуги по предоставлению доступа к сети Интернет, обязан в течение суток с момента включения сетевого адреса сайта в Реестр, ограничить к нему доступ. Тот факт, что на одном IP-адресе может находиться несколько тысяч сайтов законом не учитывается.

The fact that technically it will be slightly different, doesn't matter. We're going to have a Great Russian Registry of Forbidden Information, which can be extended by the means of Registry Operator (without any need for trial decision) and which every ISP should respect. Western countries, by contrast, can't force every ISP to block TPB and others without trial.
It is a known fact that for realtime voice encoding/decoding and mixing, virtual machines may not guarantee proper kernel timing, hence leading to issues in Voice quality.

Amazon instances are virtual in nature. Bare Metal Server work the best here.
Except it's really not a small step, listers and renters are a completely disjoint set of people.
I still cannot see the US winning this case. They made too many mistakes and the public's perception has shifted to innocence.
You can do it Microsoft way: build Windows as a GUI for DOS, capture many users, earn a lot of money, then pay best developers to develop Windows NT and merge it into a new OS. (user experience first, architecture later).

But you can do it the Apple way: make it good from inside out - including architecture, wait loooooooong looooooooong until users recognize all this, then get maaaany users and earn lot of money. (Hopefully you have survived until then.)

If you have luck, you can have both: good architecture inside and very good user experience...

But anyway I agree with the author, that many many solutions are over-engineered instead of just simple...
If Clojure could dump the Lisp image like SBCL's save-lisp-and-die function, the startup time would be greatly reduced. I wonder if JVM itself can dump its current state and then restore execution.

Another approach to the problem would be similar to FastCGI: keep one Clojure server process running and execute scripts on it.
Here are a few previous submissions of this story, some of which have comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2830122 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3219747

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3223706 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3286693 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3310873 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3331658

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3347468 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3702070 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3938237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3945202

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4078722

There are probably more. The later submissions might very well have more up-to-date information than the earlier ones.
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It was some time ago (8 months or so). I remember googling around and finding different approaches to setting up the tool chain. The notes I kept on some of the steps I tried to get Clojure working on emacs included the following (not the whole list of commands):

Setting up Clojure

Followed the gist of http://riddell.us/ClojureSwankLeiningenWithEmacsOnLinux.html (no longer existing)
The first time, invoking 'mvn2 install' to build clojure-contrib jar failed. Later, after cleaning up Java, it worked.

Java was already installed, so I apt-get installed ant and maven2

~$ git clone git://github.com/clojure/clojure.git
~$ git clone git://github.com/clojure/clojure-contrib.git
~$ mvn install
Copy jline-0.0.94.jar

Create a bash script called clj to start clojure with these commands:

#!/bin/sh
# without jline
#java -cp "$CLOJURE_HOME/clojure-1.3.0.jar" clojure.main "$@"
# with jline
java -cp "$CLOJURE_HOME/jline-0.9.94.jar:$CLOJURE_HOME/clojure-1.4.0.jar" jline.ConsoleRunner clojure.main

Running clj in the terminal worked, with the repl functioning as expected.

For emacs:

~$ sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk

SLIME, clojure-mode and leiningen

git clone git://github.com/nablaone/slime.git
git clone git://github.com/technomancy/clojure-mode.git
~$ wget --no-check-certificate http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/raw/stable/bin/lein

Execute the leiningen script

~$ chmod +x lein
~$ ./lein self-install

For some reason, this didn't work in emacs and I opted instead to run Clojure in jEdit. It worked but I didn't quite like the jEdit look and feel. Anyway, the long and the short of it was I played with Clojure mainly in jEdit for a while.

As you said, the setup process was not well documented at that time and it was quite frustrating. I'm sure it's better now. I'm going to play with Clojure in Light Table again, and if it excites me, I'll have another go at a full Clojure install.
As we speak, Chicago taxi drivers are protesting the fact that fares haven't gone up in seven years, while their expenses have.

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That's right, they can't even set their own fares. Taxis are regulated to astonishing degrees. I don't know why they aren't simply brought on as full-fledged government employees in many of these cities. They'd almost certainly be getting paid better.
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If you could solve that problem (hint: it is far from being only a technical problem) in the general case, you could be a rich man!

Data always being somewhere else or where it is wanted but not in the right structure to allow practical use, is something we are exposed to a lot by our clients.
I'm sorry, but that's a platitude.
Take a look a Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell for a quick review. You'll be surprised how much stuff you forgot already!

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Always try to stand in a shoes of a regular person and ask yourself would I scan it? Does this convince me to take out my phone and spend 10 seconds of my time to scan that QR code? Is it attractive enough?

When the answer to this question is a 'No I would not', I fail to see the utility of these things.
A ridiculously irrelevant fine. Fines need to be based on a percentage of revenue or something similar (with a fixed minimum).

>Google officials say tracking of Apple users was inadvertent

Good grief. They really expect anybody to buy that? They must have a pretty low opinion of the intelligence of their users.
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Thanks for the advise!
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Come on. The media will report about this law and the vast majority of the population will be thankful for the government cracking down on child pornographers.

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Sadly the JVM can't really do that (yet?). Even for normal Java applications caching the JIT would really help ramp-up time in servers.
Just to clarify, both courts and an as yet unspecified government agency will have the power to order content removed (by site operators, web hosts, and ISPs). Looking at http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&... , the criteria are open-ended (the list starts with objectionable stuff for the sake of framing the debate; the last bullet point says anything deemed unsuitable can be suppressed; links to the same content are disallowed as well). In practice I expect the motivation for this law is to crack down on political dissent, alternative candidates, and any platforms that may support them.
This, and before 1.3 you were supposed to define a constructor function yourself. I'm pretty sure that was somewhere in the documentation. Or in the clojure.org/datatypes. Or in some mailing list post that I red. The Clojure documentation is a mess.
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Bitcoin is pretty useless, since almost the only thing you can buy with it is illegal drugs and guns...

(btw. drugs & weapons are the second and third biggest international markets, food is the first.)
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> If Clojure could dump the Lisp image like SBCL's save-lisp-and-die function, the startup time would be greatly reduced. I wonder if JVM itself can dump its current state and then restore execution.

It's still hard to understand why aren't Oracle working on something like that. It's not as if they don't care about desktop at all -- JavaFX is going to be part of Java8 and they are even working on a new packaging tool-chain for it. JVM's start-up time and inability to allocate memory when needed (as compared to up-front way it's done now) are the major reasons why Java/JVM is (still) a bad solution for desktop and cli applications.
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I think the people looking to buy drugs and guns would disagree.
I've always been on my way to work through SICP. Maybe that's something that I should actually do... :)
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After reading the post (and not understanding the product), I went to the homepage and yep still don't get what it is or who it would be for.
> Some places are better than others for placing QR codes. Bearing in mind it takes a while to scan, rather than putting a code in that busy passage way why not put in on the subway train where everybody is rather bored and is playing with their phones anyways.

Because there is no reception underground. (Yes, this is changing, depending on the city. e.g. in London there is now free wifi at some stations, but not between stations.)

Also, some people, when a stranger takes a photo of the ad above their head, will mistakenly believe the stranger is taking a photo of them, and treat it as threatening behaviour.

There is a typo in your <title>: "aobut" should be "about".
yeah I should have said "end user experience is also important besides architecture"
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Agreed, enthusiastically. Reading the original article, I went from knowing nothing at all about Rocketr to hating them on principle in no time at all. So much marketing crap, so little content. PG was right to avoid them.
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No I was refering to your examples. I sent you a mail to show you how to reproduce the problem.
Yeah, I just finished going through Unit 1 and I didn't feel like I was learning that much from him and his cleaver, but a bit obscure, one-liners. I'm thinking about looking at the Coursera.org courses.
The reason for that is the death of Bitcoinica. Bitcoinica offered shorting, which stabilized prices at around $5. When Bitcoinica went out of business, the only way to make money on Bitcoin is to speculate its' price increase which will drive demand; which will drive its' price even more.

That being said, it might be the right time to buy Bitcoins, and sell before the bubble bursts. However, for a more stable Bitcoin, we need a shorting system and enough traders.