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We use Dreadnot with chef, it works pretty nicely.
> The only value add to software development is people who can do software development.

>> You just described why projects fail. Developers Developers Developers.

Read it again. Software development isn't the same as the whole project.

> Marketing? Sales? Who needs that, my github repository sells and when it doesn't, there is always oDesk.
And don't get me started over "customers" and "clients".

Hyperbole.

> I know that a lot of MBA's and Architects suck.

Not what I said. "If you are an architect, I don't care about your slides and umls, unless you know what you are talking about, and can do a PoC before dumping your horseshit of slides on me." is what I said.

> As do a lot of software developers, even if they call themselves agile or know that svm is somehow related to classification.

I implemented bayes, and suppose I don't know about svm. If an architect comes raving about svm is so much better than bayes because (I read a blog/I read a book/my thesis adviser told me so/once I did a project), it's your job to prove svm is better for the problem at hand. Don't waste my time with your slides and blogs.

> So I do not really see where this straw man burning leads to .

I don't either. Your whole post is full of hyperbole(marketing sucks, oDesk, github). You are making up arguments I didn't put, and then responding to them.
Uh what? People still use FTP all the time. Just not for deployments.
I cannot think of a situation in which extradition of own national or citizen is justifiable. If a Ruritarian citizen sends a bomb from Ruritania to Poronia, Ruritarian authorities should jail him in a Ruritarian prison after a trial in Ruritarian court. Poronian authorities should at most assist the Ruritarian prosecutor.

When it comes to citizens of other countries just temporary residing in Ruritania, it may be more appropriate (cheaper, "not our problem") to just send them back, guilty or not, to be decided by a justice system in their own country. Preferably, after evaluating if there is a reasonable expectation of a fair trial.

Releasing them to some third party (in this case, a German citizen to US authorities) sounds absolutely awful to me. Barbaric from the perspective of the person being sent away, and servile from the perspective of sovereign people.
Clinton would have done the same. 9/11 was much different than the attacks in the 90s.
When I tested the performance again, using apache benchmark and also a query profiler I discovered that there was absolutely 0 performance difference between the 2 solutions.

Benchmarks are hard.

What were you testing exactly? The behaviour you are seeing is surprising, but if the database server is on the same physical server as the app server and you are testing for response time without loading the server I could see how it could happen.

Did you have indexes setup to support the joins?

Did you have sufficient RAM for the join to be done in memory?

Was the database server hitting IO limits?
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ftp can overwrite a file, git won't, the old one is still in the history, and it will take space esp when the pushed files are in large size(binary files,etc).
blog.company.com is a pretty big mistake from an SEO perspective
Only the part where you claim to represent some copyright holder is made under that penalty. So you can't claim to represent Sony when taking something down without getting into trouble. There is a "good faith" clause in the DMCA, but it just doesn't get litigated very often.
How is this better than "background-size: cover;"?

Example: http://css-tricks.com/perfect-full-page-background-image/
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PayPal needs to buy up the rest.
Disingenuous.

He said "twitter private, Library of Congress public. Public preference to one of several private corps not in public interest, especially when there is a larger, more archive-worthy corpus that doesn't require private APIs or vendor discrimination".

Which part of that do you disagree with?
I'm not sure what living costs and so on are like in good ol' Canadia but $80k seems like a huge chunk of cash to make annually off one app, that works out about £51k GBP which is some serious cash for someone in the UK.

Whilst I'm sure there's plenty of devs toiling away making next to nothing I'm going to guess there's another set who are making reasonably solid amounts of money as a supplemental income to their main jobs, or enough money to justify doing it. You only ever hear about the wild million dollar success stories, or the stories of woe. The inbetween? Not so much.
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Why would the DoD want to do a MITM on Facebook when Facebook just hands it over when told to do so?
Besides your points, we must also consider that MySQL does neither support hash joins nor sort/merge join. MySQL it just not very good at joining.

Nevertheless, a MySQL join should never be slower than the N+1 select approach.
I've stated elsewhere in this thread, I don't write Blurity. It seems that you so want someone to attack for perceived violations of user privacy that you haven't even stopped to consider who you're attacking.

As I said before, most desktop software phones home. In fact, by necessity, any software that auto updates and most software that requires registration phones home. Thinking otherwise is just naive.
With the slight correction that it's "ergo LoC should probably try to archive the web before it tries to archive twitter". But yeah, that's the gist of it. But so what? That doesn't mean it's an invalid argument. In fact, I'm inclined to agree with it.
This is kinda what Heroku does, right?
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GP is disparaging, but doesn't state any disagreement, his argument boils down to huff puff mumble mumble, get off my lawn.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258035 for the way this is activated. It only shows it if someone has already made it clear they're trying to not pay for the software.
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There's so much wrong with this approach I don't even know where to start. Follow if you want mediocre ux.
Note this is (currently) using a custom Android build modified for Wayland support, so it doesn't sound like Qt 5 on normal Android phones is particularly close.
It's probabilistic, but there are patterns (lines with significantly greater prime densities than others).
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>>> phd shit ... Rides to the rescue with so ething implementable

if you have examples I would love to know. The variability of architects I have known has been enormous - I put them on a spectrum - everything from UML 'oh I don't need to program' waste of time to highly competant "set of principles" approach - such as why are we serving this per second data to all the clients by holding open connections to everyone of thousands of clients, let's put them on caches with 1 sec TTL all the way upto folks who live in the JvM and can debug it and explain how

can you supply examples of the phd shit solved and where it sits on the spectrum - cheers
As used, I think the more appropriate comparison is

GIT is the new RSYNC
Ask HN: What tools do you use to track analytics on secure internal sites?
I've built an application that my clients keep secure and possibly secretive data on, so I don't want to use 3rd-party tools like MixPanel or Google Analytics.

Does anyone have recommendations for tools I can set up locally and track metrics, JS events, etc.
Facebook stock drops on news of decline in user base
B&N prepping new tablet with 'revolutionary screen technology'
Ok all that is great I am still not seeing the connection to HN.
I'm curious why you think international spying is unnecessary. Until countries cease to compete for limited resources, it seems to me like an inevitability.
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git is closer to rsync than to ftp. scp and ftp are file transfer protocols, while git and rsync are higher-level systems that can use other underlying file transfer protocols
Assuming there's no risk legitimate customers will see this message, it's still a short sighted tactic in my opinion.

For an extra $29 in the bank, you've risked alienating your other customers, and could even lose revenue going into the future - mainly because you posted it on your company blog which I'm sure is read by a lot of your legitimate customers.

It's a precarious position because the $29 isn't much upside at all and can easily be negated by one single customer who reads this post and finds an alternative.

I understand that you feel celebratory about this, but it would be fair to assume that some of your customers will not feel the same way about it.
I have a pretty dim outlook on the state of civil rights in this country but I think you're going too far. States which ask for this information do so in order to give you your party's ballot during primary elections.

I think you're reading too much into this one. The fact that not every state asks should also point to a lack of any grand conspiriacy here.
Megaupload judge quits case after inflammatory comment
1. Make native android development easy. Why can't I develop android apps in language of my choice - python? I don't like java. If you can let me easily develop cross-platform native mobile app it will be a bonus.

2. I need a HN recommendation system that uses machine learning algorithms to learn about my likes/dislikes(upvotes), find other users who have similar likes and show me a custom list of posts based on that.

3. Use HN Search API to find all articles/comments submitted on HN for a particular search keyword (e.g., "machine learning") and present it to me in a way that let me easily browse the information and sort it on basis of points, date, relevance etc. In short, if I need to find learning materials on HN for a given subject, I should be able to do that.

4. Develop a complete REST API for HN. I don't know any way other than scrapping to do it.
If they had a good process for archiving blogs on the open web, then I wouldn't have a problem with extending that to Twitter.
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Core assumption is there is some business advantage in having LoC archive. Not sure I agree.

Much more fun is to use an analogy. LoC will arbitrarily by their own high level decision only and exclusively archive ABC TV shows, NBC, CBS, etc, too bad. Or perhaps if they only archived Ford corporate materials and ignore GM and all others.
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Car crashes are the most common form of car accidents. Every 10 seconds someone in the United States is involved in a car accident. By law, if the driver of a vehicle not use reasonable care is considered negligence.
Switch back to 2G. You get all the important bits of the BB experience (email, messaging) and easily 3 days battery life, compared to 1 day on 3G doing the same things. I'm a happy 9900 owner.
Nice... also cmd+shift+{ and cmd+shift+} works for changing tabs.
The fact that his band members were still loyal to him also parallels Steve Jobs: even though their character is often described as unpleasant, these people still retained their allies.

Also see this econtalk episode: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/06/jonah_lehrer_on.htm...

> And I thought about the following. Jobs and Dylan had something in common, which is they blurted out often cruel things to people around them, which we often call--as adults we call it selfish. [...]

> [Jonah Lehrer]: It all comes back. No, no, it's a fascinating question. What really interests me about that is, especially in terms of Steve Jobs, because I think we've got this epic biography of him at this point, is the way it complicates our traditional notions of self-control. I think we often think of self-control as domain-general : If you've got self-control, you can exert self-control in every facet of your life.
could someone please explain in general what is the state of Qt5 on Android? Thanks!
So i didn't realize that betaworks also acquired Wefollow. I am not too sure how many people use it since Klout is now the standard.
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Well there certainly is a business advantage. Or why would Twitter have done it, and done a big rollout of the deal (I believe it was at SXSW). It was a huge publicity bonanza, the message was that Twitter is Historic. Don't believe us, believe the Library of Congress. They didn't do it out of altruism, they did it because it was excellent publicity. (Probably the LOC did it for that reason too.)

And we have a say in this in the US, since we pay for the LOC.
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The H1B factor may not be a non-issue as you point out. It is like the elephant in the room. In 2012, companies are not willing to mess with it unless absolutely needed. So in the OP's case, even though he has good intentions, recruiters are probably not going to understand the value he might bring to the table. I do agree with you though that the issue could happen with a US citzen as well but in case of the OP, his H1B status is definitely making it worse.
The redesigned Firefox for Android is here.
I just found out recently that SCP is horribly slow when transferring lots of small files. I found a blog post showing how to send compressed tarballs over SSH and it worked really well:

ssh username@from_server "tar czf - directory_to_get" | tar xzvf - -C path_to_save
Because 'background-size: cover; only works with IE9+'. This example is not supposed to be best practice or most preferred practice, it is meant to educate people and give an alternative to the one everybody already knows :)
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I think that the early shareware game days did a good job of this and I miss it. Instead of a "Click this link to purchase" you got a message from, usually, the sole developer or small team of developers. It was very humanizing and it was great.

The message would thank you for trying out the game. It would usually talk about how the game was awesome and what you were missing out on. It was clearly genuine. You didn't feel like you were purchasing something from some giant company trying to sell something. You felt like you were supporting some people who were passionate about the art they created.

I miss this about games and think it may be the reason that I've sort of stopped playing the big titles after 25 years of non-stop gaming. I find myself much more drawn to independent developers on the mobile platform or the wonderfully simple and innovative games from small teams.
More: Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120718/00503119739/pro-co...

A better translation of TPB here: Aftermath of The Pirate Bay Trial: Peter Sunde’s Plea – In His Own Words - Falkvinge on Infopolicy. http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/06/aftermath-of-the-pirate-bay-...
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Someone is eventually gonna steal your idea anyways.
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SSL seems to be a pro feature.
I think the invasion of Afghanistan was inevitable, but not Iraq. Afghanistan was a big mistake (even Rthe USSR, with a land border, couldnt handle it) but Iraq was worse and bizarre.
Mulder, is this another X file?
Care to elaborate? I'm open to switching if I think it'll be worthwhile.
As an Australian, this really grinded some of our gears. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hew_Raymond_Griffiths (This is actually altruistic copyright infringement)
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> Never understood this complaint.

Because when you have an issue, moreso an urgent one, the last thing you want to be doing is repeating yourself and asking the other guy to repeat themselves many times. Misunderstandings at that level could at the very least lose you access to your account.

There's a reason I've taken to using TTY service to deal with companies where ever possible, it completely eliminates that ambiguity.
I agree, but in American culture the sentiment is different:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism#Double...
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If any screen folks are trying out tmux, here is my .tmux.conf assembled to have screen like bindings.

https://github.com/rahulkmr/dotfiles/blob/master/.tmux.conf

C-a c new window

C-a | vertical split

C-a S horizontal split

etc etc.

As far as copy paste goes, I use this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux#ICCCM_Selection_In... C-a C-c copies tmux buffer to clipboard, C-a C-v sets tmux buffer to clipboard and pastes it(it's already in the configs; just putting it here).

As far as terminal emulators go, I have tried out a lot of them(gnome-terminal, konsole, urxvt, xterm) and finally settled on terminator. gnome-terminal will keep messing with my readline settings(alt opens up the menu), urxvt won't let me copy-paste the clipboard...Terminator is no frills - you can graphically set the preferences, or have a config file; it lets you copy paste to and from the clipboard; you can configure it to copy the x-selection to clipboard(middle click to paste - just not it). For anyone looking for a terminal emulator on linux(or whatever other platforms it runs on), I highly recommend it.
I totally understand your situation. However, your situation is definitely challenging considering that you need to be sponsored for H1B but do not have the relavant experience to justify the sponsorship which sort of negates the whole point of getting an H1B.

Out of curiousity, what do/did you work on while on H1B? You say that you want to do iOS dev. but you might have a better chance using your current experience to secure a sponsored job first. May be then you can try and explore.
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Yahoo has been trying to mine gold from their copper mine for the last ten years.

They need to make better use of their assets, reorient their engineering staff towards business, embrace OSS (they used to leverage the hell out of OSS, now it seems like they prefer NIH), and divest themselves of search.

Their data APIs are the best around (better than Google's by a mile), the amount of content they produce is stellar, and it's clear that they have smart people working there. They just need structure and direction.
Accumulo is almost identical to HBase, except it has security features built in to its core. I wouldn't be surprised if it started out as a fork of HBase.
When I read "Do not write your own bootloader...", I immediately objected until I saw "assumed...x86". In that case, I agree. If you are going to build an OS for ARM or MIPS, you really learn a lot if you make your own bootloader.
A microwave costs a couple of days of labor in the U.S. and then lasts for a couple of years. It's a pretty basic item these days.

For evaluating the impact on life outcomes, why not define poverty as the state where (lack of) financial resources frequently limit the choices available to an individual?

I don't think poverty is fully explained by external factors, but I think that unexpected events do tend to have a larger impact on people with limited resources, often exacerbating their problems.
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Google is using certificate pinning for Chrome/Gmail, though it's targeted to fix their particular case and not a good general solution.

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/new-chromium-security-featu...
It's very easy to use a framework like this trick yourself into spending more money on luxuries, though, because productivity fluctuates wildly and isn't really easy to account for on an hour-by-hour basis. Will you really be providing that extra $50 in value if you take the cab instead of the subway? Often, I think the honest answer is "no". People often do think "my time is too valuable to take the subway", but I suspect that may boil down to status more than actual value in many cases (something closer to "I'm too important to take the subway").

It all gets quite fuzzy, at least if you're working on a salaried basis rather than billing hours. My own experiences are that the opportunity-cost ROI often doesn't materialize, because spending the extra $X to save Y minutes of time does not really result in me getting more done that day, since productivity bottlenecks tend to be things other than the number of minutes in the day. Plus, you can get a lot of thinking and planning done on the subway. :)
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A good team that absolutely has to work with an egotistical prick (who might be good at his job, but not nearly as good as he thinks he is) will eventually marginalize that entity as much as they theoretically can.

Anyone whose feelings are easily hurt through criticism will never be good at what they do. I write good code a lot of the time. Sometimes I write bad code when the situation calls for it. Sometimes I write bad code because my head is up my ass (but I almost see light!)

With that said, sometimes you need to just shut up and keep your head down, even if you're in charge. In the short term, it can be not only an effective strategy but the only way to do business.

In the long term, obviously you need to correct the problem. Whether that's through helping to grow the sour team member or culling them from the flock is of course a case-by-case decision.
That rant sounds good.

But then I note that every small company everywhere still manages to solve issues of integration, security, code reuse, and systems design. That's because you can do all of those things in ways other than top-down, hierarchical control from a central office.

I have never seen a company where "architects" empowered to boss people around via white paper and mandate didn't cause far more problems than they solved.
I like the word "pirate". Everybody understands its meaning. Its not confused with the unlawfull appropiation of somebody's property ( stealing ), but it does have a negative connotation.
The trick is knowing when that's going to be faster than rsync.
> MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history.

And let's see if they can pivot the business around media. Myspace TV is a quite interesting idea and I'm waiting to see what's going to happen with it...
I always like to use the example of the clothes washing machine to people. Why do you use one, instead of hand washing the clothes yourself, or pay someone else to hand wash it for you? Do you rather want to spend the time on something else, or don't want to share your money and create another job for someone else to do this? More importantly, why is it considered greedy when a company chooses to improve productivity in the same way?