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It's a neat technology and I'm very interested in using it. It's almost a perfect fit for my business, which deals with serving traffic during email spikes.

I think the questions are just around the economics to make sure you guys stick around and can continue to offer it. My initial thought was that being able to scale up and down so quickly would require you to have a lot of idle resources sitting around at any given time, both on individual hosts as well as across hosts.
I must apologise, we are both currently recovering from a bad cold. While 99% gone, its still lingering on a word or two. No illness or ailment can stop a developer!
"Even" frolicking? Frolicking is a pretty common word. If it was called frolicking.io and you knew someone who went by the username, you would similarly assume it was either an uncanny coincidence or it was that person you knew?
How does comparing very favourably against OSX imply that it merely "sucks shit" less?
It's a pretty solid argument if the premises are correct:

The article benchmarks the performance of Ubuntu and OSX, and finds them to be in a dead heat.

Ubuntu was developed at a lower investment on Canonical's part (OR with a larger team of less skilled developers, I can't tell which is more important to frownie).

Therefore Ubuntu represents a greater achievement relative to the resources invested than OSX does.
Also, they don't really want a solution that works up to the size of this rover. They want one that works for 5x or 10x the weight of this one, that could be used for manned missions. Curiosity is meant to be a test for that as part of the mission. Similar to how Mars Pathfinder was a science mission but also a test for the Mars Exploration Rovers.
Something seems wrong with this argument... Surely science is a subset of reality?
Armstrong's decision to quit participating in the witch hunt certainly does not 'tarnish' his record - just the opposite.
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Actually, there's Hackernest: http://www.meetup.com/hackernest/ in Toronto on Monday, August 27, 2012 (8 pm EST). I'll be there promoting my book: Ice Cream Startups http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z
The event's free, and if there's anyone in Toronto in the startup scene, esp. if you tried applying to YC S12 like I did this summer: (http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l...) I'd be interested in hooking up.
There are many good points in there.
sales commissions will forever drive a wedge between sales and engineering. I have a few gripes about it

1) engineers should get a similar form of compensation, in my experiences 'bonuses' don't come anywhere close to what commissions do.

2) how can sales get commissions AND a salary. should be one or the other

3) commissions incentivise sales to sell ANYTHING they can get a commission on, not necessarly the things you want to sell or are good at making. one needs to be very careful in what sales is allowed to sell.

4) how can a product or service be returned or canceled and the commission still paid! insanity! no clean sale and the corrections fall through the cracks...

yeah... I'm a little bitter.
My god, constructive responses.

Some further observations:

I didn't think about this koan for more than three minutes.

I don't follow this very well myself. I also don't do paleo for that matter. I'm a baker. I think pies and pancakes are awesome, French bread is the height of human civilization, and while I try to moderate these things I wouldn't give them up unless they were killing me painfully. (I live in fear of gluten intolerance and eat a muffin every time I think about it.)

When I wrote "local" I tried to find the better word. In the end, "local" is pretty good because it captures the paleo theme; our pre-literate ancestors were always local. But this is 2012 and we shouldn't read that word literally. Think of "local" as "among your friends, family, and neighbors".

This "echo chamber" concept deserves its own essay. Here I will say that the word "mostly" is there for a reason, as it was in the quote I stole it from: Michael Pollan is no more opposed to French bread than I.

And I wish I could give the same loving attention to the words of seven hundred diverse people, or seven thousand people, or seventy thousand people, which would bring me up to almost 0.001% of the people currently alive - but of course I should save some time for the great works of people now dead - but this is impossible, just as my living until 2170 is impossible, and the era has come where we need to face that squarely, because the technology is there but the human capability is not. You can meaningfully hear the words of a few hundred people per day, tops, and if those people are all different each day it isn't good for your personality.
No, I am not joking at all. This is a serious mater. Unless you want humanity to eventually degenerate to beyond even the point where everyone is dependent on multiple surgeries simply to live past just being born, then this is something that needs to be though about, discussed, and rectified - no mater how difficult a subject.

Some of your questions appear to me to be purposely absurd in order to make the topic seem absurd. To answer your first question though, which is a reasonable one: It may not be a simple answer of some point is too defective, but the answer there must obviously be something other than the current idea that no level of defectiveness is too defective to be aided to breed more unfortunate burdened souls. My personal feeling is that the line has to be somewhere around being too defective to live without medical intervention beyond childhood or perhaps better is the point before one is otherwise able to have children and raise and support them to the age where they are self supportive.

Your pointing out that the issue is a complex one with no easy answer does not justify the continued destructive course that humanity is treading down.

Regardless of how hard an issue it is to solve, it must be recognized that the current setup of unlimited medical intervention to keep people alive and breeding, no mater how defective, in fact results in a degenerating gene pool, a downward spiral of suffering. This is the true reason why medicare costs keep increasing to the point now where it is the majority expenditure of any western nation (even in America, it is greater there than how much is spent on the military). Again you can see why the medical industrial complex is set on continuing this trend. If not for the limits of economics, this would eventually consume all resources of the world just to keep itself alive with medicine.

In some countries this has led to the talk of not providing medical intervention for some groups of people who need it to survive. Unfortunately the talk is always around not giving it to the old people in order to save money. While they may seem less important to save, it is actually the wrong group to withhold intervention from, as saving old people is not destructive to the gene pool. They need to start talking about withholding it from the opposite end of the age spectrum.
You need to be careful with the 'closed beta' stage, It's really easy to get "sucked" into that state for a longer period than you thought and blame all of your shortcomings on being in closed beta. Don't forget to ship.

Regarding the 'open beta' - I don't think it's applicable, if you're open to users and anyone can register and growth hasn't happened yet, investors will spot that.
That's a good point. I'd be curious to learn what the variance across the average corporate sales team is.

I think there are basically 2 forms of distribution at start-ups that multiply together. The distinguishing factor seems to be whether relationships can make a real difference ie talking to people (partnerhips, PR etc) or are not needed (growth hacking). There is a ton of interplay e.g. you could do all sorts of smart stuff to hack a big social platform, but propriety early access to new platform features via a great relationship with one of the platform team will give you a differentiated toolbox.

For the first type of distribution a great salesperson who is also highly intuitive about product, growth hacking, scalable systems etc, can have even more impact than if they are just selling as part of a traditional sales team.
The idea that there's a single location for things like self-awareness is silly, and comes from the fact that we lack the language or the mental metaphors to talk about emergent, epiphenomenal, decentralized processes.

Even economics, which studies such things almost exclusively, struggles with thinking about them.

For some reason though we have no issues with this in more mundane spheres. We can speak of a tornado, even though it's an ephemeral "thing" composed of other things that is in a constant state of flux.
> The speed and efficiency of the C++ Standard Template
> Library (STL) vector class is virtually unbeatable.

But the slowness and inefficiency of marshalling your way out of the AppDomain is also virtually unbeatable. And C# isn't necessarily a slouch at the kind of task the author is trying to accomplish.

The claim that this is a faster way to do it really needs to be backed up with some benchmarks.
That's the difference between guaranteed capacity and most services. It's very common to use the properties of normal usage patterns and pool the excess capacity. The phone system has done that for ages. Ever try to make a call during an emergency?

Just because their service doesn't cover certain extreme situations does not mean it's worthless. It would worth knowing how much excess capacity they are pooling together, but vendors generally won't release those types of details.
> relative to the resources invested

While Canonical has invested limited resources in Ubuntu, the overall amount of resources used to create the Linux kernel, the Debian toolchain, and the Ubuntu OS are far greater.

One could say they match or exceed the "resources invested" in OSX, which also uses a range of Open Source software and history (to name just one extremely important part: BSD Unix).

The two are actually broadly comparable in the work and effort put in, and apparently the results as well.

You could argue that Ubuntu has the greater achievement because they spent less money on it, but given the actual value put in, it seems like a moot point.
I'm also enjoying backbone.js since a few weeks and it helps me write new code without too many callbacks and keep a clean separation between the UI and the data.

I also pushed some Emacs Yasnippets templates for backbone.js today, feel free to contribute:

https://github.com/kototama/backbone-underscore-snippets
> Therefore Ubuntu represents a greater achievement relative to the resources invested than OSX does.

Certainly. However, I think most people looking at benchmarks like these are deciding which operating system to actually use. An entire OS created by a single teenager would be a stunning achievement, even if it ran terribly. That doesn't mean you'd choose it as your primary OS.

As it stands, the Ubuntu team can stand proud that they stood toe to toe with the Apple behemoth. But these benchmarks really don't give anyone (on either side) a compelling reason to switch.
Hahaha, now THAT would be someone with a grand sense of humor.
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They use DotNetNuke, a god awful CMS running on ASP.NET WebForms. Together with Umbraco, it's the most popular open source CMS in the Microsoft world. It's really sad.

You can access the page (internally called a "tab") by its "TabId", for instance: http://www.theiacp.org/tabid/1007/Default.aspx?id=1665

or, just by using query string parameters:
http://www.theiacp.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1007&id=1665

DotNetNuke uses a system similar to Joomla (at least I think so) where a page is composed of instances of modules that are placed inside "panes", these panes in turn are defined by the theme a given page uses.

Alas, I guess they have a custom news module where an article can be accessed by supplying an id parameter in its query string.

http://www.theiacp.org/tabid/1007/Default.aspx?id=1660 will point to a different news article. It's technically still the same page however.
The ioquake3-based Urban Terror game was also much faster with Apple's graphics drivers for the Intel HD Graphics than under Ubuntu Linux with Mesa.

They're comparing apples to oranges. Mesa are like default graphic drivers, with very little or no hardware acceleration.
The companies themselves are usually the ones that provide the recycling.

For me, the problem is price (and dependence on a single vendor - which is connected :))
How does paternity leave generally work at most companies? My company even has maternity leave for adoptions but they make sure to mention that men aren't eligible! (It seems to me men are just as capable of adoption as women, I'm not sure what would make them less eligible.)
Be happy Bike to work.
ad.1: "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." :) The argument that the dev doesn't want particular functionality can be perfectly reasonable, and might be a sign that he's even a good one and consciously fights to avoid software bloat...
I'm with you on this. I'm not a fan of any sort of salary bonus scheme. I hope if we ever hire a sales team we can avoid doing that. We have so far. I'd prefer to make your nX factor something that you prove to the rest of the team and that is rewarded by increased equity. Doesn't matter whether you're an amazing developer, member of our customer support team, doing hiring, or working on partnerships. What matters is that you're hacking the status quo for your role in a big company and helping us be more exceptional.
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I was, but we published already.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/startups-would-you-c...

Still, if you do end up committing to move there, I'd love to hear about your experience.
Html5 code is so easy to be copied, and it seems not trivial to prove who copied who. If my website is totally copied, how can I prove that my one is original? Any idea?
The code seems reasonable; could you explain why it's not?
Look at the numbers! A poll of a few women you know doesn't count, sorry.
I agree with the rest of the responses you are bound to receive—Apple laptops are pretty solid machines, they easily run multiple operating systems (including but not limited to the respectable OSX), I'm a nerd so "why not play with even more toys?", and I really like the feel of the keyboard.
I'm a developer by training and I always felt the same way about the term hustler. I think people who self-describe as hustlers are often not what I describe in this post. I just couldn't think of a better descriptor.
Yep. Apple notebook notebook hardware cannot be beat. Zero contest from anyone else.
Thank you, both of you, for such a relevant and intellectually stimulating discussion.
I think it's been over 2 years since I last used .htaccess or Apache, having moved on to Nginx and separate application servers like Node, Gunicorn and php-fpm.
These do not look all that different than the Keurig system. Though on Wikipedia only the Nestle version has expressions of environmental concern covering the page.

While I agree there is substantial waste this is a product of convenience. I have owned a K-Cup machine for years having given up traditionally brewed coffee during that time. While the twenty to thirty five cent cost per cup is much higher it comes down to the psychological side, I perceive more waste in a whole pot of coffee than brewing a single cup.

I have used the reusable insert for making coffee with store or coffeehouse purchased grounds but that kind of ignores the reason for buying this in the first place.
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Offhand, those strike me as things that could equally apply to a man leaving.

Do women leave Google in disproportionately higher numbers?
i thought it was worth a try. one thing i realised when i made a list of people who really fitted this description is that in most cases they came inbound vs being recruited. as a result i've been prepping a series of posts on distribution/partnerships to see if I can get the attention of the white whale.
Probably not because it's a verb. But I might, because finding small relationships between things makes life more interesting.

And now I'm very intrigued if there's a database of all or most english words ranked by their frequency. Something like the full Oxford English Dictionary, but with frequency ranks.
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that's incorrect. mesa is the 3d graphic library on top of the native intel hd graphic drivers.

the comparison actually make sense. you're not going to intel's osx drivers running in linux and you're not going to get mesa and intel's linux drivers running in osx, you realize that right? right? Oh right it's just trendy to hit on Phoronix for no reason.

Well, they're testing the same games in the different environments to decide which environment is the fastest. That's very much apple to apple.

I'd like to hear your test that's so much more accurate between Linux and Apple gaming with the same hardware. PLEASE ENLIGHTEN US.
I didn't make it clear, but Object.defineProperty with getters and setters gets rid of angular.js's traversal needs (I assume, having only looked at angular quite a while ago). There's a few different ways I can think of doing it, I'm just wondering if anyone has yet.

And it also gets rid of the need to hide all your properties in an attributes collection. I'm not sure why you think that's good because it doesn't fire events.

And if you really need ignore properties, you could do something like this:

var Person = {};
Person.prototype = new Model;
var bill = Person.create({ name : "Bill", email : "bill@example.com" }); //adds all using defineProperty and a watcher in get, set functions
alert(bill.name); //Woo, alerts "Bill", not undefined!
bill.name = "Bob"; //event fires
person.special = "blah"; //wouldn't be watched as it's been added after creation
person.addProperty("special2", "blah2"); //would be watched
person.special2 = "blah3"; //events now fire with 'normal' access
var person2 = Person.create({ name : "Bill", email : "bill@example.com", special : "thing" }, { ignore : ["special"]}); //special is not watched

You could even do the opposite and tell it exactly which properties to even bother watching.

There's a reason getters and setters have been added to js, and it's for exactly this kind of thing!
You don't always bang out code at your max typing speed. But you do have bursts of fast code writing at times, which is extremely useful.

Also, I live in the shell and typing 200 char long one liners to do something useful and if you are a fast typist very quick too. It's great for generating on the fly reports, searches etc. This is the kind of thing that would take a slow typist a lot of time. Most of slow typists I know don't bother with these things because it takes too long. As a consequence they also get rusty with their shell foo, or never get good at it to begin with.
aesthetics is very subjective. personally I find mac laptops pretty dull and boring. they're okay. but that's that.
so yeah, subjective.
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You're going to get flack for that opinion, but you have a point.

The truth is, Unity sucks. A lot. Even after you get used to it. It was a poor decision by a set of developers out of touch with reality or their user-base, and it's only beginning to recover and move in the right direction slowly.

Everyone I know is migrating to Mint and Xfce/KDE4/Cinnamon (Gnome 3 fork), and with good reason.

OSX is still way ahead of the curve, but Linux (not necessarily only Ubuntu) still has a chance. The idea of Linux is still great: we're hackers, so if you feel there's a problem, help fix it. Not easy, but the fact that you can is pretty cool.
> It raises awareness of the issue.

OK, I'll bite. Who is now aware of the issue who wasn't previously?
Could the metals made with this process then be woven into cables, to make (perhaps) an orbital tether / space elevator? Or are carbon nanotubes still the best option in that area?
I supposed that's the point I was working towards: they must be overcommitted, so it's a funny thing to be cagey about. The exact numbers don't matter as much.
Facebook had revenue last quarter of $1.18 billion.

Pretty sure they know how to make money.
Maybe not important for everyone, but tambur supports SSL for all pricing plans

Well it's won you one customer here at least. I'm really sick of companies charging extra for security.
How about having them keep including you in conversations while you're on vacation, so that when you get back you can get caught up with what you've missed by reading them?

Here's another approach: Set your smartphone to stop checking your work email while you're on vacation. Set up an "away" message that responds to new messages by explaining that you're on vacation and not reading your email.* And, if necessary, give one or two select colleagues your cell phone number or personal email address for use in hair-on-fire screaming emergencies.

This approach has two key advantages over sending hyperlinks to snarky webpages: First, it doesn't try to force email to act like a synchronous communication medium. Second, it actually does something that could plausibly accomplish the desired goal of preventing you from having to deal with work email while you're on vacation.

*Ideally this should only send a message the first time someone sends you an email. If it autoreplies to every single message you're encouraging everyone to drop you from the CC list. Which cuts you out of the loop.
This is an "innovation" that saves little time (making a cup of coffee is not a time-consuming process), is substantially more expensive than the process it replaces, and generates an inordinate amount of waste.

I am sorry, but based on my personal experience, you completely lose on the time argument. It is way easier to to get espresso style coffee this way than any other way I am aware of. Just turn the Nespresso machine on, pop in the capsule, place your coffee mug at the dispenser, press the dispense button and walk away. Within seconds you have a very decent cup of espresso, with absolutely no messy after-cleaning of grinder/machine/utensils.

In this once instance, I love the technology, it is way cheaper than barista coffee, way quicker and way less messy than making it on my own.

And oh, you can pry my Nespresso away from my cold dead hands, not before. ;-)

Edit: The only item on my wish list with Nespresso is to use my choice of coffees, which may now become possible with Nestle losing this lawsuit. I'd love to be able to brew the "Honey badger" or "Sugar glider" from Intelligentsia coffee on my Nespresso! Yum!!!
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I think it's not a reason only because people's expectations in that regard are extremely low, and also, because anything remotely reasonable is seen as a perk. As such, women might might not leave over something they never knew they should have had. Just as a point of reference, several European countries measure maternity leave in years, not months.
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Great stuff. This is big, if you can pull it off.