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While some of those things don't have alternatives, some certainly have. You just need to use them.

> Gmail + Google Calendar + Chrome + Google Drive + Google Search + Google Docs + Android Phone + Google Maps + ...

What about:
Gmail + Google Calendar + Firefox + Dropbox/Wuala + DuckDuckGo + Live Docs + Android Phone + Nokia Maps + ...

Of course, you could go Google free if you want, I just pointed the alternative that doesn't regress in usability and convenience from what you currently use.
While there are no kids that ask their mom "where's daddy?" - meaning you - there is little to worry about.

I totally wasted several years of my youth and that was the best time ever. And this guy was creating something, so +1 for that.
I've been using that technique (site:foursquare.com name-of-venue) as a backup, but we've been taking the opportunity to fix obviously incorrect lat/lon data on our venues at the same time so we avoided full automation.
This is like a hotel manager kicking you out because you and your partner are having sex. Why? Because prostitutes have sex too, and we don't want our hotel associated with that.

There are other, more troubling things here too. Materials related to the sale of firearms and ammunition are prohibited. Firearms in various forms are completely legal to own and trade to various degrees in the United States, why are documents relating to that trade of firearms banned?

I also see that anything that incites, advocates or expresses profanity is prohibited. I would advocate that all SkyDrive users place a copy of the terms of service in their account. This should incite most people to express their opinion of Microsoft's actions by saying "Fuck you, Microsoft", and thus violating the terms of service.
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Dead-simple, too. I only have moderate experience with web applications and I found socket.io extremely approachable.
No, it was more or less assumed to be bollocks. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blix#Iraq_disarmament_.27... for an idea of what we were hearing).
The UK has slander laws. Apple claimed that Samsung copied their design. Not just in a private trial, but in public.

You cant actually do that in the Uk, unless you can prove it. They could not, according to the judge, hence its slander.

The default assumption is innocent until proven guilty. If i call you a murderer, but i can not prove it, Uk laws would force me to make statement that you are not a murderer.

Again, you dont have to prove that you are not. I had to prove you were, before i opened my mouth.

These laws sound really cool though, and they are good for these kind of situations. But in general those laws often end up just limiting free speech of people with less legal funds.
> My point was that HTML5 apps have proven not to be a suitable replacement for native apps.

Not sure that's been proven. After all, companies like Apple and Google seem to disagree, as they put out HTML5 apps. We are seeing the same transition that occurred on the desktop now happen on mobile.
My same question. Reading this thread makes me feel like I am watching a PHP conference host a panel on language design.
Probably by hashing your files and comparing them to a known list of "banned content". I imagine this is one of the ways Gmail disallows child-porn or malware to be sent.

Less likely but more worryingly it could be skin-tone detection and other pornography detection algorithms with a human filter.
>One is closed source

Actually, so is Chrome.
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God technology moves so fast. I'd be stupid not to learn this stuff. It could be life changing!

The question remains; When do I have the time to learn this stuff? I was thinking about this for a while. Besides working/planning/coding on my own project, I feel like I don't have much time for this.

I think I'm going about this all wrong though. I should divi up my week into departments. That is, have a few hacking days, a planning day, a maintenance day and a R&D day.

Having one day a week to study new techniques doesn't sound like much, but at least it gets the juices flowing. Its all about balance.
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I actually still POP my mail (if you can believe it), so I haven't yet adopted Gmail, but I feel the lure. If I want to share my archives across any of my machines, I have to constantly sync them, and I don't really have remote access to my mail, unless I leave it on the server for X days, and then I don't benefit from deep search. But I do get access to my mail and archives going back to 1998 while I'm offline, and that's definitely a plus.

I've been looking for a good, self-hosted version of Gmail that can replace my POP for a while, but the main reason why the lure of Google is so strong is convenience. And cost. And to some extent, reliability. Living a Google-free life is definitely doable but it can come at a cost (time, expense, convenience, functionality, reliability). That's the main tradeoff.
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The easiest way is to work on a side project (of your choice) and explore what technologies would be best.

For example, why not try to write a HTML5 game? Even if its something relatively simple like a platformer, you will have opportunity to learn a bunch of technologies and actually have an end product (if you have the stamina)
A video that went viral 5 years ago pops up on HN three times in two days. What's up?
Seconding that.

PHP doesn't scale. Java doesn't scale. Python doesn't scale.

If you wait for something that "scales", you'll never ship anything.

Scaling isn't done automatically, it's something that's applied to a problem. If MySQL doesn't scale, and it has proven itself to be very capable in a wide variety of circumstances, then what does?

The more you read about scaling, the more you realize there's no magic bullet, no magically scalable language or platform or framework. It's all about careful investigation of the nature of the problems, the bottlenecks, and developing solutions to address those.
Holy bolts, that looks like the source of the lightning is doing a distributed spatial breadth search of the potential space looking for a connection for the main jolt (the action potential event).

Could this be what the brain is doing? A group of neurons get excited (some concept or thought), and a distributed spatial search happens electrically starting at the source of excitation (literally brainstorming), until it finds the best pathway to connect to "ground" (reasoning), at which point the pathways between "source" and "ground" stay continuously excited for a measurable period of time (the ephiphany moment, learning is happening via hebbian). "Ground" is whatever that causes the source energy to drain, such as the epiphany of a solution, which makes the solution appear obvious.
That's not how the market works. Every large phone manufacturer already had big investments in would-be iOS competitors, such as Symbian or Bada or Maemo/MeeGo or WinMo. These companies are also big enough to not see the impeding danger of their conservative investments until it is too late.

The iPhone wasn't considered a real threat (remember how Ballmer laughed at the iPhone?). If the requirements for Android would have been restrictive enough for manufacturers to realize that Android is a great deal, I don't think it would have caught on so well and Microsoft could have eaten their launch, since they are better at selling operating systems.
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You should not be able to sue somebody over and over again.

Yes, someone who isnt guilthy isnt always innocent. But in this case the judge considered it poven that the designs were not (legally) stolen.
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Look, if you have a job that forces you to work 80 hours a week or 130 hours a week and it's not your choice, you have a shitty job. Period. Go find another one. The only time I've ever had to work even close to that much was when I was doing data entry at piece work rates and even then it was not that much.
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This is unlikely, since Microsoft has put a lot of money and marketing behind their own cloud offering, Azure. It also is inconsistent with everything that they are trying to do with Office360.
Although parody would be an interesting defense. I suppose in some jurisdictions there might be a possible freedom of political speech defense too.
From the Terms of Service:

"incites, advocates, or expresses pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous violence. "

Wow, not only is it impermissible to upload pornography but apparently it is impermissible to talk about it too.... Nor can one express hatred of an ex or even say that there are times when hating another person or even an idea is beneficial!

Way to go Microsoft!

I HATE Neo-Nazis! Good thing I am not posting a document that says that to Skydrive!
of course there is difference, but the rules are in place because if it turns out that someone on $SERVICE is are sharing login information with a network of people doing $BAD_THING you want to be able to say "he did that against our policy" not "well, we thought it was private".
This is the first time I share anything I've made on HN. Not sure if I'm doing it right, so please don't kill me. :-)

I was fed up with trying to find suitable hosts for websites I've been working on, so I decided I'd make a site to help myself and others find what they need. I hope I'm on to something, and please tell me if there's something you'd like to have changed or added.

Thanks!
It's kind of disgusting to encourage people to fuck up their bodies to win an athletic competition.

A lot of the things you could do to yourself to help you run faster next year are not exactly going to improve your health. And children need role models.
Testing the beta on XP (sic), seems to work ok.

edit: still good three hours later, capped around 500mo.
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Agree with you 100% - I think I'll be doing this soon :-)
How is a head-on view of the device random?

Seems a lot more likely to me that the line break was a device to add drama to the "Behold!". Basically I read that as an ellipsis.
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An interesting point. I get the part about "stupid webapps" (e.g. loading a configuration file once and never checking it again), but I find the PermGen part surprising. Would you care to provide more detail? I thought that PermGen was garbage collected in modern JVMs; furthermore, wouldn't the new version of the application still use (roughly) the same classes/methods and thus (roughly) the same space?
> If you use a lot of tabs and don't close your browser for long periods of time Chrome is vastly superior to Firefox (and all other browsers) in terms of memory use and stability.

But not in terms of ui, tabs shrink till they hold no text in chrome instead of scrolling like in firefox.
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The differences between Chrome and Chromium are minimal - aside of Chrome bunding some mostly unwanted plugins:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoog...
So why aren't you encrypting everything you stick in The Cloud?
MySQL is as capable as Postgres and can be tuned just as fast. The differences between these two are features, not performance.
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I live in Kenya, and our internet adoption is blowing up right now, especially on mobile. I run an ad-based startup which I've been diligently building up to 140,000 users. I thought this was great work, considering the total addressable market for my website consists of just over 2 million people. But shock on me, when I embarked on sales, I've found that some of the biggest 'must-buy' websites still quote their hit count when pitching ads, and the ad agencies are buying it. Even Google Kenya has an ad campaign out for their local business directory where they quote that one small business owner is getting '12,000 hits per day' on her page. All of a sudden, my 140,000 users looks like spit in a hurricane. I heard this was also a problem in the earlier days for the more developed internet economies, so how did people get around it?
And yet it was the Reddit comments that pointed out that the "Shell" Twitter account cited in the article is also (probably) fake.
You have no idea what the problem is and you're already advocating a change of platform? This is not how you scale. This is how you hit up a client for thousands of hours of "consulting" fees.

This performance problem could be because of missing indexes, grossly inefficient queries, or a whole host of other elementary problems that can be fixed with a keystroke.
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I was of the same opinion before I tried 8, but after a week of use it's actually far easier and better from my perspective. I do not miss the start menu, the start screen is better in almost all ways. it does take some getting used to though. (Oops, I suppose this will be rated as fake by Toshio, downthread, who thinks he can detect fake sentiment in online postings. Guess I'd better report to the corporate overlords for my chip implant.)
I've not come across that one before, and... it looks really interesting. I'd argue that it's not completely offline because it requires time-sync, depending on the precision of the client. That assumes the validator is online and can re-sync at any time.

Using a phone is a great solution. Except when the app that requires TOTP authN is also on the phone. That's a shame.

Either way, thanks for positing the link, and clarifying. I learnt something today.
The most challenging thing is that the people you’d normally share your challenges or fears with don’t understand the concept of “I’m gonna create something huge with nothing and I don’t care if I die trying.”

This strikes me as the saddest part of this article, but also a bit of a failure on the part of the author. Part of being a founder is surely inspiring others to believe that you're on to something; that you’re adding value and ultimately making the world better. If you believe in something, strongly enough to make you sleep in a truck, but can't communicate that to the people closest to you (who should be predisposed to listening to your point of view) then surely there's a problem.

When I say 'communicate' I don't even mean getting them to sign up to your service, I just mean making it clear to them why you are sleeping in a truck and why that's a rational behaviour from your point of view.

If, for example, you were sleeping in your truck to raise awareness of homelessness or as some kind of performance art; your friends and family might not agree that that was the best way forward, but they'd probably still be bringing you hot food at night. Why is your proposition so hard to explain that you're lying about where you sleep? Is it actually quite a shallow mission (e.g. I just want to make lots of money and haven't really got a vision of how to make the world better) or is it that you're not able to communicate your vision well, even to those close to you? Either way, alarm bells are ringing in my head.
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This is awesome. I would love to see versions of this for Linux and OS X.
I agree with you entirely. The problem with some of the responses you've received, as well as an issue which Taubes seems to ignore, is that when you look outside the USA, it's a different story. In many Asian countries, rice is a staple and eaten with almost every meal. Noodles are heavily consumed as well. Yet they don't have the obesity issues we do. The major difference being they don't eat heavily processed foods (at least not until recently). They do consume all types of meats but their portions are not astronomical.
Pasta, rice and potatoes are not the culprit, depending on where they come from. But soda is. And its not just the chemicals involved in processing food, it's also the abundance that the technology creates - lots of food for relatively cheap prices.
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Confused consumers? Seriously, what kind of drugs are these Apple fanboys taking. I want some of them?

Talk about a reality distortion field.

You ever met someone with a galaxy tab, and hear thm claiming they have an Apple iPad?
I like it, though I got around curl's painful syntax by wrapping it in a few shell script. For example, here's my api_post script (meant to be used like "api_post users/123 first_name=Foo last_name=Bar") (pardon my incompetent shell scripting and redaction of company internals):

#!/bin/sh

resource="$1"
shift

declare -a post
while [ "$1" ]; do
post=("${post[@]}" "-F" "$1")
shift
done

if [ -z "${API_BASE:=}" ]; then
API_BASE=http://localhost:3000/api/v1/
echo "No API_BASE set. Using $API_BASE."
fi

verbose=""
[ -n "$API_VERBOSE" ] && verbose="-v"

if [ -z "${API_COOKIES:=}" ]; then
cookies=~/.api.cookies
else
cookies="$API_COOKIES"
fi

curl -0 -k -s -S $verbose -b "$cookies" -c "$cookies" -X POST "${post[@]}" "${API_BASE}${resource}"
"...doesn't mean they are all bad."

And that's how you get into trouble. You have to assume the good actors will at some point in the future execute a bad tactic (via incompetent or even malicious employees) and act accordingly. This doesn't mean you have to avoid cloud storage services altogether. The right thing to do is encrypt all your files before uploading.
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He didn't "use the phrase wrong"; he communicated his meaning effectively. Dictionaries (of English; there is no acadamie anglaise) consist of observations, not rulings; if a dictionary disagrees with usage, it is the dictionary that is wrong.
> I am also a happy FireFox user, but recently I have found a growing number of websites that won't even let you use their functionality unless you are using Chrome or Safari

This seems unlikely as FireFox user share was bigger then Chrome until recently and is much bigger then Safari. Except for Mobile, where I think the dominance of Android/ios has led to a lot of use of webkit specific features.
We're a mobile dev house (iOS and Android), and we charge around $60-$80 / hour. www.polymorph.co.za . Sounds like we should get some US clients if $150 / hour is realistic.
I agree with your analogy. I don't understand your last two sentences. I don't get how advocating users placing copies of the ToS in their accounts incites people to express their opinions with a "fuck you, MS."
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Mastering the top 10 of the OWASP is important. Those are trivial but are important to keep in mind when working on the web. The next thing you can do is ensure that keep everything locked down and open up only what you need. This means that if you only need port 443 open on your server for people to access your API, thats the one you use. Multi Factor Auth is important for API's (I suggest OAuth). Other than that, keep your server monitored, and never EVER trust your users (in a security sense).
I've been using JungleDisk for backups. I have it set up to encrypt locally with my key, and the backups are stored in my Amazon S3 account.
I don't think the analysis shows that it's break-even. They may be failing to make money on it because they're reinvesting on capacity.
These particular instances are not multi-tenant at this time.
There is no such thing as absolutely safe; if your threshold is high enough (and for many rich westerners thinking about their children, it is) then it really is not possible to be safe enough if you don't live in a gated community. (Of course, if you're rationally applying that high a threshold then that implies never driving your kids anywhere).
It's very true what you are saying about non-western oil and gas. People forget that the biggest oil spill ever was caused by a totalitarian government on purpose and not by a multinational oil corporation by accident.

In the west, corporate brands make easy targets, but since the companies want to protect their brands it is quite effective at making things better.
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No need to go that far. Try linking to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam

Now I need to go warn a family member who majored in art history.
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Oh, by healthy I also mean that the animals I eat have eaten healthy :) E.g., beef quality is really bad if cattle are not fed grass, but corn and soy instead (or animal meal, shudder). Same with chicken/turkey which are fed mostly corn instead of grains, seeds, worms, etc.

If organic is too expensive for you (here in Austria organic farms have a huge financial overhead because of cert. programmes -> products are almost twice as expensive), you can still by meat of good quality, e.g. grass-fed beef. Because you will find residuals or even large quantities of their fodder virtually everywhere - mostly stored in the fat.

Another thing is the way animals are kept - if they are kept in crowded rooms, then you need antibiotics for them to survive until they are slaughtered. Those antibiotics residuals reportedly act like estrogens in our bodies, reducing sperm count and testosterone level. That's the actual reason why I consider organic meat the only meat worth buying - at least in Austria, organic means there is a minimum of available space for animals, they have to be fed a certain percentage of natural fodder, they must not be fed antibiotics, etc.
If you sign up for a reservation, you seem to be able to send support a message in order to have them cancel it so that you can change to the new hotness. We had to do this for our three-year reservations when high usage reservations came out. We were getting shafted because our previous generic "Reservations" were converted to medium use, whereas we were using them as high use.

So it does at least appear that in some cases, they'll let you out of your reservation so that you may sign up for something similar. Or at least they let us do that.
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