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I'd guess this minutiae was written in response to some unreferenced critique of their service, in reality nobody with sense would use TTFB as a useful measure of application performance.

In fact measuring performance anywhere near the HTTP layer is often pointless when such metrics are so disconnected from what a user actually experiences. Perhaps a better test would be something like "perceptible latency", taking into account factors like the ability for the browser to progressively render partially transmitted HTML, or large hangs as a result of external objects (e.g. web fonts, GL models, etc.), especially in a world with increasingly complex front-end Javascript blocking the browser's UI thread (syntax highlighters on blogs, anyone?).

As Apple demonstrated on the iPhone, it's more than possible to hide multi-second delays using tricks as simple as showing a facsimile image of what will shortly be loaded, similarly a web app that animates a form submit with an unintrusive 400ms animation (hiding a 500ms response time) may appear snappier from a user's perspective than an app with no animation but a 300ms response time.

Actually CloudFlare's own signup process is exemplary in this respect, they bury half minute long DNS queries in the background while the user continues filling out forms.
Yeah. Thing with Dart is that its goals seem misleading. Google's complaints don't seem to be anything to do with faults of JavaScript, more the fact it isn't like languages they know. They want it to be C or Java, essentially.

JS has flaws, of course, but reacting by trying to make a completely different paradigm language that compiles to it seems a bit of an overreaction.
Twitter made a mistake by proliferating its information and then trying to build an advertising business off of it. Great engineering with an unimaginative monetization strategy. It's almost as if Twitter is trying to be two different and mutually exclusive things at the same time.

Totally agree with the platform argument. I wrote a blog post the other day about hedging platform strategy: http://www.connersc.com/blog/?p=154 </shamlessplug>
>We can say that it very likely isn't a teleological process, because, one, we have no evidence it is; two, we have a lot of evidence that seems to say it isn't;

A) Even an organism "at rest" is actively moving against the direction of Entropy. Evolution and life in general is factually teleological. You just seem to have a very specific idea of what teleological means.

B) Evolution moves towards diversity. Even as a purely stochastic process this is a motion towards vertical complexity as well as evolutionary dead ends.
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That's exactly their point. They claim most measurement tools will give false results if your web server outputs the headers before processing the actual request data.
No prob :) And good luck!
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That may be so, but it is difficult to suggest that the legal system is corrupt in the west.

The worst part about the article is the fact that there is no fair trial in Russia.

Imagine a fictitious world where everything is corrupt, but the legal system. It isn't a perfect place to live, but, you know that at the very least your freedom is protected, your contract if breached is remunerated etc.

Imagine a fictitious world where everything is not corrupt, but the legal system is. In such place, one has no freedom, for out of spite perhaps, out of jealousy, out of greed, someone could simply send you to prison.

7 acquittals in 1000 cases, and even then 5 overturned, so practically only 2 people being acquitted in 1000 cases is a practical tyrannical state.

In the west, at least, the legal system protects against corruption by itself not being corrupt. If such bastion of freedom fails, then the land is no longer free.
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I can't understand how anyone would prefer reading a backlit screen. I find e-ink so much easier on the eyes, especially after a day of staring at screens. I hope e-ink doesn't die out.
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> you write linear text wich is translated to async actions

Stopped taking this seriously there.

> Regularly, nodejs breaks its API. I saw the drama when 0.4 became 0.6 and now 0.8.

0.*? You mean a beta release broke backwards compatibility?!? Those assholes!

> use real languages like Erlang, scala or even golang.

You've got to be kidding me.
Titov talked about 13000 entrepreneurs.
I wonder if Business Insider spell it D*ck Cheney?
Linkbait title.

Every piece of software starts at v0.0.1, clearly we are very early in the stage of node.js's life, I'd much rather they make these breaking changes now and get the design right rather than focusing exclusively on maintaining backwards compatibility. This is new software, of course things are going to change as it matures, of course some libraries are missing or incomplete, these things will change and most people who're actually using node in production KNOW that they are building on an immature platform and have made the technical decision that the risk of breaking changes is outweighed by the benefits of using it now.
The gist of the article seems to suggest that you don't go all in with beta software. That advice applies to webservers, languages, operating systems, cellphones, tshirts and cars.

Saying 'Nodejs is a toy' seems flamebaitish.
Hi tptacek,

Thanks for your feedback. You're right that cryptography is not my strong point - but my hope in making the code open source is that others will help improve my code. I didn't write the AES code - I just used a popular sample, but a bad one it seems. What do you think of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryp... ?

Yes, using PGP is better. Yes, I ended up implementing a poor (but much better performing) copy of PGP. It's flawed, but I did it in a few days and I think it's not broken. For the next version, I will use BouncyCastle for a true OpenPGP implementation.
You're right about the web but honestly they've been doing the same thing in mobile. They had an initial lead with their embedded windows stuff but they never progressed it. Competitors quickly surpassed it with them staying the same.

I think people are saying downfall precisely because they're playing catch up.
In the article it was examined what some of the tests for page load speed measure as TTFB: The tests measure the time until the arrival of the first character of the HTTP headers.

When using a dynamically generated page it is possible to send the HTTP headers, then maybe send some some content and then do some server side calculations or database access, and finally send the rest of the page content. The TTFB measured by the tests, which were mentioned in the article, will not reflect the time needed for server side calculations.

When using a server side scripting language there may be some kind of output buffering, which has to be deactivated first.
Could someone explain to me why NeXT Software/NeXT Computer is listed as a co-plaintiff, on a lawsuit that was only recently filed? Did Apple and NeXT not fully merge in some capacity? As-is, this would be like reading Attachmate, Inc., Novell, Inc., and WordPerfect Corporation had just sued Microsoft.
It is fairly plausible, however. A shrunken iPad would be a perfect replacement for the (hasn't been updated in nearly 2 years) iPod touch as the iOS "gateway drug"; and it could still get away with a slightly higher (~$250) price point without lagging too far behind the iPhone and regular iPad in terms of components. That it would happen to put pressure on a segment Amazon and Google are currently exploiting Apple's non-presence in is just convenient.
UK here. I'm expecting mine in a couple of weeks.
It would be determined mostly by price, and this would just be another version of the supply/demand curve. If he sells the tickets at $20 each, then 100k will want to see his show. At $50 each, 10k people, and so on.
Right. FB doesn't get that all they have is the user experience, and it is bad user experience if I drop out of a conversation I'm having because their DBA-free database has decided to simply, silently drop my last comment. Or if it takes me several attempts to post a photo. Or if I invite someone to an event, and they never get the invite.

You can do all sorts of amazing things if you just don't care if your code actually works or not. Grown-up companies have full-time professional DBAs, and not just for separation of concerns.
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Yeah, obviously an e-ink display is easier on the eyes, but having a separate grayscale e-reader is a waste of space and resources. A color e-ink screen would be perfect - I'd say we'll see tablets using them in a couple of years...
Is that directed at me? Look at my profile: I don't have the ability to down vote.
I love the e-ink on the Kindle with the only downside being that reading in the dark requires a lamp. Battery life is another huge plus in favour of e-ink.
Why there won't be a 7" iPad mini - A developer's perspective
Hm. I read the first couple paragraphs and was pretty convinced it was a parody of a breathless async fanboy.

Sadly, it turns out he was serious.
Technically it is a toy because of how new it is... But so was Python, Ruby, and any other popular language before it became version 1 and even higher.
The one thing that really annoys me is that in the UK there's a 40 GBP difference between the 8GB and 16GB version. I'd rather pay extra for an SD card slot when I can get a 32GB class 10 SD card for around half that.
L'Oreal's iPhone app Color Genius: is it really Shazam for make-up?
Eh, I dunno. I don't want the carpenter designing my house, and I don't want the architect cutting the main support beams. I want both of them doing what they do best, and working together to do it.
I use MSSQL every day. But that's because I'm currently working in IT for a very large company. I don't expect the job I do to exist for another 10 years so I think it's irrelevant what's popular here.
Right or wrong, the physicists would never trust data analysis done by a CS person.
"Broken" seems strong. I'd agree with "has flaws", but every system has flaws.

If I were Zuckerberg, I'd be terrified of slipping into a premature complacency or a heavyweight process that prevents change. After years of social network king-of-the-hill, Facebook seems to be set up for the generational dominance of a Microsoft or a Google. But it's not locked in yet.

Sure, current practices risk irritating users or a severe FTC beatdown. But those are obvious risks, easy to measure and mitigate. The real harm to Microsoft didn't come from annoying UI or regulatory intervention. It came from long-term shifts that they were too culturally isolated and too inflexible to understand or adapt to, much less drive.

There are certainly downsides to shipping early and often and then seeing what happens to your user metrics. But bottom-up power to ship means that a lot more good, novel ideas will see the light of day.
The computer and OS are not my choice. At home and on my netbook I run Ubuntu.
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This is totally false. I would say hat few who "matter" ever visit or participate here. Of the 1000 or so acquaintances of mine in the Bay Area tech industry, man who "matter" I'd say 50, tops, have ever spent much time here and fewer have posted.
At night in bed I read on my iPhone using iBooks. I use the 'night' theme which has a black background and light text. I then turn the brightness down to the minimum. Zero eye-strain, you can read in the dark, without disturbing your partner.
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LOL! You think someone who's drunk the unit testing kool-aid has even heard of any of that?
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Backlit is great for reading in bed at night. But I prefer the e-ink for all other times. I'm looking forward to getting an e-ink reader with the glow backlight like the new Nook.
I think the two major factors that brought down Usenet are the focus on the web (i.e. most users not knowing that the WWW isn't the whole of the internet) and spam, loads of spam.

The weird thing is that mail actually managed to survive both.

I always wished that at least the NNTP protocol would prove to be more resilient. It would be a great secondary entry point for basically any online forum, similar to what RSS does for news feeds. Give me nntp://news.ycombinator.com, so that I could read and post via GNUS/Thunderbird/tin…
I don't remember any credible rumors (WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg) in 2009 about an OSX tablet. All the rumors back the centered around a iOS tablet (and they were right).

This time there's a lot of smoke from credible sources, as well as some great explanations (iPad mini screens cut from 3GS glass). I'd be surprised if we didn't see it hit by next February.
Is '10' a magical number or I am missing something?
The facebook system actually sounds really solid, especially the "boot camp" thing that so many companies fail to have, however it's probably pretty expensive. Choosing between fast, cheap, and good, Facebook is choosing fast and good. For many, cheap and good but slow is more desirable.

One of the risks to consider with a "devops" oriented approach is that you may become more dependent on it than you want.

Often, applications split things into a few different categories depending on how tweakable they need to be. There's code, configuration, app administration, and data. Code shouldn't need to change often. Configuration may need to change when the environment changes. App administration (eg creating new accounts) needs to change often, and data is always changing (or at least growing).

The risk is that developers will design the system so that only developers can administer it. Configuration, the settings that may need to be tweaked by sys admins long after the original developers have left the project, may wind up in the code or sometimes lumped into the database alongside end-user options.

It's not a reason not to take this approach, just something to consider when developing internal processes and culture.
i' signed up for the free dev plan to see what is like, i will play with it a bit. i cannot comment on the service yrt but about the landing page it felt... amateurish. non that it must be beautiful, but it's...too much scarce?
Disagree. http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/03/bloomberg-ipad-mini-comi...
Nonsense. If Samsung gets away with this it will have implicates for all agreements of this kind. Your hate for Apple is completely clogging your logic here.
Sometimes I also find it a bonus that you really can't do anything else on the device than read. Focus on the text with zero distractions...
during the dress rehearsal she held up a photo of a refugee child.
It seems like Google's deprecated external storage in Android. I'm under the impression they don't want to force the average user into seeing the filesystem, and they couldn't find a way to make ext. storage seamlessly coexist with onboard (apps, etc.) without showing the FS.
Haha I thought the exact same thing. I thought it was going to be a parody. What a disappointing article.
I disagree. In the article Kuhl had a legitimate buyer who backed out. The bills where printed and Kuhl needed a buyer. The police decided to become the buyer but the counterfeit bills had already been created and the artist would have found a buyer eventually.
So, comments based on people's superficial appearance usually fail, while actual compliments about something particular that a person takes pride in usually succeed, and by trying a lot you become more perceptive and compassionate in noticing these things.
Thanks for the feedback! The landing page is definitely MVP, we'll see if we can find a designer to make something more inviting!

--andreas
I've been reading as many Nexus 7 reviews as I can in a vain effort to sedate my excitement for its arrival later this month. I know this is going to sound ungrateful, but this review seems a bit thin.

The idea of using the Nexus 7 as an ereader seems kind of silly to me - surely if you're into ebooks (like I am) then you'd be better off with an actual Kindle. Staring at a backlit screen like that for hours on end can't be good for your eyes.

And I still haven't seen anybody take photos or video conference with it yet, so I have no idea how good that 1.2mp camera is.
I saw one interesting analysis of service bugs. I can't find it now, but the basic point was that people should stop focusing on MTBF (median time between failures) and instead look at MTTR (median time to recovery).

The notion was that it was much better to be able to notice and fix bugs quickly than it was to add process delays that reduced bug frequency. That especially makes sense to me when you think about the value integral. The longer your release cycle, the longer you keep people away from improvements. It also makes sense if you think about companies as learning organizations; speed of learning is limited by the length of your feedback loops.

So I'd say that Google's mistake isn't going for a release-early, release often approach. It's that they don't pay sufficient attention after release to user feedback or user metrics. Hell, I've stopped reporting bugs to Google, and I must know 10 people who work there. Even with a good backchannel I just have no faith that anything would come of a report.
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E-ink readers will likely stick around the same way MP3 players have; at least until e-ink improves (or we get a new e-ink like display tech) that's more competitive with general-purpose LCD/AMOLED. It's likely we'll eventually see something that resembles e-ink replace LCD, just not for a while.
Spamming via forking seems, to me, to be very similar to trackback spam on blogs. But, yes, it will probably require a bit of novelty in terms of how one fights it.
the most expensive internet application? what do you mean?
Up there with Georgia and Russia and Rwanda and Iran.
Thanks a lot for the feedback!

I'm still working on that design - I can't stand the change either.

The email system was down a couple hours ago, and still is. Trying to sort things out with Heroku.
If only they were all a bit more like you, so productive with your dead on zing commentary. And by "on" I meant "beat".
We can only dream.
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I guess one could say that since iOS is based off OSX that that is indeed true.
Absolutely. When I first got mine my friend was shocked that I could be so enthusiastic about a device that doesn't have social apps and integration or notifications.

Like what you'd want when you're concentrating on a book is constant reminders of what's happening on Facebook.
Just ordered one.

It looks great, and at $200, you can now regard the iPad as a different class of device.

Really looking forward to getting mine, and hopefully looking forward to developing a few apps for it.
Go is interesting in that doesn't yet support Generics... but might some day.

The reason that interest me is that I like Generics aka parametric polymorphism but I feel like Scala, Haskell and OCaml take it almost to the extreme particularly since those languages also have type inference. So it can be overwhelming for a new user.

That being said if Rust was more mature I would prefer it over Golang (here is another hacker news comment on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1951467).
You probably shouldn't. :)
And it's more than just the backlight...the battery on my Kindle lasts forever and the form factor, weight included, is much better.

I tried to find a post where he mentions how much he reads. I can imagine someone who reads a bit - say 30 minutes every couple days, not really caring. But if you read for hours at a time...I just can't believe that you'd prefer a tablet.
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the camera app is not included with the device. the front-facing camera is intended for hangouts/video calls. i just tried installing Camera+ from the marketplace and it says my 7 is not compatible. this is one way Google kept the device below $200.
>That's why people downvote on Hacker News.

While it certainly isn't as bad as some other sites, I think it is naive to suggest that nobody has ever been downvoted on HN for having an unpopular opinion.
>That may be so, but it is difficult to suggest that the legal system is corrupt in the west.

Is it? I think it's hard to argue that it ISN'T. How else can you justify poor people getting 20+ year sentences for relatively minor crimes, while white collar criminals can steal MILLIONS, and get a slap on the wrist? When's the last time you saw a major celebrity or pro athlete actually A: Get convicted for something, and B: Serve real time?
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