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> For most of the websites, currently on the web, I don't think AppEngine or Heroku is the right choice

Besides instant roflscaling, another advantage is that a site (basically) won't go down for the life of the PaaS. I can throw a site up and not worry about: logs filling up my server's HDD, forgetting to update my OS and exposing an 0-day letting people inject malware into my homepage, DDOS attacks, routing misconfigurations, shared hosting companies rebooting your server without notifying you (yes, I've had this happen), or other transient things. Heroku has a philosophy that an app should effectively run forever without maintenance on their platform, but I can't find a link to that now.
I really hope the websites that implement this also supply an off-switch, it looks great but detracts away from the text and reduces readability.
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Looking at the source, he uses jQuery under the hood for (at least) element manipulation, event handling, and the ui-slider. So the effort is non-trivial, although it probably wouldn't be too difficult for someone to rewrite it if motivated.

Nice work + demo, btw.
Do you mean "no, they do not have to be incompetent to get it wrong" or "I agree, but incompetency is the norm, so it would not surprise me if they erred there"?
I'll do it if I apply next time and get in.
I'm interrested to develop a new messaging system that truly provides end to end encryption and is as secure as possible. All that with an open source protocol. I would be glad to share the work with people sharing the same interest.
A lot of the questions and opinions about Assange came up when Ecuador granted him asylum (eg [1]) as I'm sure they come up every time Wikileaks or Assange makes the news.

I just can't escape the opinion that something about Assange is just off. Don't get me wrong: something is very strange about the way Swedish prosecutors are acting. But think about this: if these charges were exactly what they appeared to be and there was no US involvement, claiming a US conspiracy sure could be an effective defence in the court of public opinion.

Some commenters point out that there's no evidence the US government put the two women up to this so there's no US involvement. This is a false dichotomy.

Personally I believe that the initial interview and prosecutorial involvement was innocent enough but probably what happened is that the US got wind of it and saw it as a way to get Assange to Sweden. I expect the reports are true that the US has a sealed indictment against Assange. I also find the idea that you can prosecute someone with espionage (most likely) for what is essentially journalism very disturbing.

The question of why not extradite from the UK is also unresolved. It's clear that it is easier to extradite from the Sweden (ie "temporary surrender"). Perhaps the US doesn't want to give the UK the political headache of having to deal with this and having it drag out in the courts.

It also seems like the Swedish government does't have the legal authority to guarantee non-extradition to the US.

Overall it's very strange and very disturbing.

EDIT: another possibility: the Swedish police and duty prosecutor misinterpreted and/or overreacteed, a more senior prosecutor acted more rationally but then it went further up and may not been at the behest of the US at all but simply could've been the government or even some lackey just being eager to please.

If nothing else, Sweden really should have to come clean on who made the decisions regarding Assange's arrest warrant (after giving him clearance to leave) and the Interpol "Red Notice".

[1]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4390885
Always great to see creative work like this :-)

I am not a native English speaker myself but I've always felt that translations into my language of just about anything (computer lingo, science etc) made difficult concepts harder to understand, not easier.
Seems this would make an interesting use case for bitcoins.
Oh man. I am so sorry.

I'm worried I did damage by posting that. I'm mortified to be an instance of an incorrect loudmouth spreading misinformation, especially in security.

I should've known better than to speak about stuff I haven't experienced firsthand (other people's competency levels).
I used to distinctly not look forward to most formal 1:1's with my management. Upon reflection, this may in good part have been because in that setting, I could not simply ignore and tune out the bullshit that was being shoveled at me.

Real meetings -- fine. Mandated 1:1's. Propaganda. All the sadder when both parties know this but -- for legal reasons if no other -- have to talk around it.

I'm sure it's different in other workplaces. Some workplaces.

P.S. In my last corporate gig, 1:1's were very much about establishing a formal record for HR purposes. After you'd been through a few, and watched any substantive comments and feedback you made go nowhere, you figured it out.

P.P.S. Reading through it now, the OP post seems very self-contradictory. E.g.

Me: “Well, let me explain. I came to work, because it’s personally very important to me that Opsware be a good company. It’s important to me that the people who spend 12 to 16 hours/day here, which is most of their waking life, have a good life. It’s why I come to work.”

...

“In a poor organization, on the other hand, people spend much of their time fighting organizational boundaries, infighting and broken processes. They are not even clear on what their jobs are, so there is no way to know if they are getting the job done or not. In the miracle case that they work ridiculous hours and get the job done, they have no idea what it means for the company or their careers. To make it all much worse and rub salt in the wound, when they finally work up the courage to tell management how fucked up their situation is, management denies there is a problem, then defends the status quo, then ignores the problem.”

Explain to me the value of cramming one more meeting into the day of an employee who's already working "12 - 16 hours"?

And, after six months, if "Tim's" department hasn't 'blown up', maybe your first question (to self, to Tim) should be "Why?". Maybe Tim knows something you don't.

When was your last 1:1 with Tim?

What did you discuss in your last 1:1 with Tim's manager.

Per the OP post, Ben has been very successful. ("If it was about the money, couldn’t I sell the company tomorrow and have more money than I ever wanted?")

Well, there are a lot of successful assholes out there.

Well, let me explain. I came to work, because it’s personally very important to me that Opsware be a good company.

Why? And how do you define that, when you are working people 12 - 16 hours per day?

I don't know Ben, and circumstances could differ from the following, but one way to read this post is as being stuffed full of ego.
Ah you're right. I didn't realize that because I'm using AdBlock+ so I don't see ads.
For the wrong video, maybe you can see the likes to dislike ratio? That would filter out lot of bad music too but I guess that's not what you want.

Another way is to use some API to look for the song title and duration, and match it with the duration of youtube video with +-10 seconds.
Did you misread my comment? I don' understand the "Seriously?" part of yours, since we seem to largely agree.
Whether or not you use it, it's all about understanding the tradeoffs you're making. It's worked out for us :)

If you want more from us about GAE, our lead developer Ben Kamens' blog is full of good stuff: http://bjk5.com
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I'm late responding but I've been trying the arrow keys more because of your comment and many others who use them. In the older *nix and depending on the shell, it seemed they didn't always work. On Ubuntu though, they work great! I might switch to using them, thanks for the tip.
How peer-to-peer methods are moving into physical production
Well, not technically. He isn't being persecuted for being a whistle-blower and there isn't any hard evidence that he is. Of course, you can always assume that all the problems that exist with his extradition and all are caused by his whistle-blowing, but that's not an objective fact.
I think it's pretty much mandatory to move there for three months. I've read a few days ago something where pg explains they tried once to have a founder remotely and it was not successful, they were way behind the others for demo day, it was hard to progress/exchange/etc. But he also said that you can manage with only part of the team moving there, for example if you're three and one cannot commit to moving that would still be ok and could work.

EDIT : ok found it, it's right in the FAQ, must have been reading it again a few days ago ^^ http://ycombinator.com/faq.html under "Can we do it without moving to where you are?"
Yeah, I think you're probably right about that. But there are already some 400 nuclear power plants around the world. As much as I'd rather the Iranians not have one, it's pretty difficult to say "Sure, we have 104 nuclear reactors in the US, but you guys aren't allowed to have any."
Counter-example of what? I'm sure profiting from copyright infringment is illegal in the UK aswell.
The thing is, I don't think he was really being self-deprecating at all. If he were being self-deprecating, then after admitting to being mediocre, he wouldn't have spent the rest of the opening paragraph name-dropping extremely successful people who he claims read all his articles.

There were some reasonable ideas in there, but I didn't notice anything that hasn't been said before by many other people, and they probably said it using far fewer words, far more clearly, and with far, far fewer references to themselves.

I wasn't a fan of the implicit sexism betrayed by comments like "enjoy the sunset with your wife on occasion" and the reference to asking every girl on the street, either. The only link between anyone female and success in that entire article is a picture of a photogenic young lady holding hands with Larry Page.
Be clever: write it once and for all.

This problem is nothing new in the world of programming. That's what libraries try to solve. GAE just happens to be a platform for which few abstractions exist because some of its technical choices render it slightly different than what the industry has been doing in other areas. If anything, this post is a scream for higher-level libraries targeting GAE.
For ambient video, you could slow it down (say 0.5x or 0.25x) if it buffers too much?
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Yes. They have their product/market fit and can comfortably delay features and defects for another release cycle while they experiment for a month. Depending on the start-up and their capitalization and runway I think a start-up may be able to execute something like this and if they are in a position to have the resources to delay product/market fit for a month they may even find a great idea to pivot off if what they are working on day-to-day isn't working.
That's a good point. I wonder how many more lives they could save by taking the money they're planning to use to phase out nuclear power and using it to build stronger tsunami walls.
Maybe porting TextSecure would be an alternative? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure
Reading about garbagemen taught me how to be a better product manager
I made http://www.tunesicles.com . It allows you to easily search youtube (you can search for an album and instantly add all the songs to a playlist). Not sure if this is something like what you would like!
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I'm surprised no-one's pointed out the irony of a man locked up in a building in order to stop him from being locked up in a building.

Seriously though, lets try to look at this objectively.

We have a man who is wanted for questioning relating to sexual offences and is actively trying to escape the charges. In any normal situation, we would all say that he should go and face the courts and if guilty do the time. Pro-Assange people claim that he should not face the courts on the grounds that this will be used to extradite him to the US. These same people are saying that someone who may be guilty of a crime in Sweden are saying that the law shouldn't apply to him.

Additionally, this same man has done an awful lot of work to expose corruption and wrongdoing at a high level. In the process of this however and through an exchange with a journalist, the raw cable information, all unredacted has been compromised, in the process potentially jeopardizing the lives of many people named in the unredacted cables. The US is understandably livid and take the disclosure of classified material seriously. Again, pro-Assange people claim that the law should not apply to him, that he was doing a good thing by exposing the redacted information, but are strangely silent on the fact that he posted the whole thing online and put these lives in potential danger.

Additionally we have the unprecedented act of the British government threatening the integrity of the Ecuadorian embassy (thanks for pointing this out Daishiman). This is indeed strange and unique. It's worth bearing in mind that the threat was made against the advice of legal counsel. It may be possible that the person responsible didn't understand the Vienna convention. The UK now has a legal obligation to extradite Assange to Sweden, as per their treaty with Sweden.

I find it interesting that people can suspend their views of justice based on the allegations of political meddling. The fact is that he is wanted by the Swedish government, and he's admitted that he had sex with the two ladies in question, yet the arguments against him facing the Swedish judicial system fail to offer up any reasons why he should be exempt from the law beyond claims of a conspiracy (which may or may not be real, we don't know for sure and probably never will).
It is good idea but it won't fit all companies. Specially larger companies with more work than the people of 37 Signals. I however think it is important for all companies to celebrate their successes. At SpaceX, Elon gave us a a week off after a successful lunch. This was two years ago. The employees came back refreshed. Celebrating successes is something all companies can do.
Thanks for the link; I've been out of touch with his writing for some time. It's good to be reminded.

As for help, I'm going to need much of it once things materialize. It's going to be free (as in freedom) software, and contributions will be essential; but I don't intend to release anything until the initial architecture is settled and I have a working, dogfoodable version 0.1. And if I fail to create the necessary living conditions for focusing on the project, that can take a while.

I hope you don't mind me contacting you when that celebrated time comes. And if anyone is interested in updates or would like to discuss related matters, feel free to say hello at the email at the address in my profile. (Some folks already have; thank you.)
A Few of My Problems With Higher Education
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Oh god it's a light hearted piss-take.
i think your reasoning here is kinda backwards: "To do a good job in government, you need experience. Therefore, you should only be allowed to work at it for one year."

An electrician also needs a lot of experience before he can be good at his job. But he doesn't get a max of one year to accomplish mastery. He can shadow an experienced master electrician in an apprenticeship role for years before he actually takes charge.
Same here, I have never heard these 20% had been added on top of a full week of work. I think Google is trying to get back to their roots nowadays.

Regarding the idea, I think it is brilliant. We all know that we are stuck on a problem, going away from it for a while is healthy and productive. I do think it works on a bigger scale.
Exactly, a lot of people are defending Assange by trying to portray this as some sort of extreme law that is "not like normal rape", "not a real crime". It's not just reddit, look at the comment I replied to ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404277 )

• "the issue is about protected or unprotected sex" (er no, sex with someone asleep is one of the charges).

• "Rape has a different definition in the Swedish legal code than everywhere else in the world". laws are different yes, but the UK courts have looked at it, and decided that the charges would count as crimes if it was in UK. To re-iterate what the UK Judge said about UK law: *"in having sexual intercourse without a condom in circumstances where she had made clear she would only have sexual intercourse if he used a condom would therefore amount to an offence under the Sexual Offences Act 2003" (§86 of http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2011/2849.html )
This is right out of Reamde
I don't know what I would do. I would hope that I would face due process and defend myself, but I am not Assange and so cannot answer that question.
We're trying to solve this problem with more of a focus on priorities - mainly to try and prioritise what one person should be working on at a time:
https://mijura.com/
please read between the lines here. "Companies can maintain an in-house fork..."
And if you look more carefully, you'll find why the NYT comes up with these hilariously slanted headlines and salt misleading tidbits into various articles (like Assange and Domscheit's cat): the Ombudsman wrote about their interactions with Assange, and they clearly disliked his demands and treatment of them.

One does not engage in lèse majesté with the Grey Lady.
All great managers are alike
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Beautiful! I just wish there was a way to disable the video player on the bottom left, but seeing as how you're using youtube I don't see that being a possibility. Here's what I immediately love about this: no registration.
I'm curious: was there anything that damning in the info that was released through wikileaks? I didn't really follow the story there with the diplomatic cables.
I think doing a startup is risky for a lot of people in general. Comparing risk in the manner the OP did is poor. I think to succeed you have to have a certain level of risk tolerance. There are a lot more things to consider and compare than who risks more financially or in opportunity cost. Getting into a startup requires more commitment than that in my personal opinion.

Now if you're talking about risk appetite in doing things and jumping into a startup, then I'd agree risk is a factor worth taking note of.
I think the main point is that MariaDB is a better MySQL than PostgreSQL ever will be. I don't see what anyone is gaining by turning postgres into yet another mysql.

Postgres is doing great being postgres. To the extent postgres can accommodate converts from mysql, or oracle or sql server, then also great. But we're too busy inventing new stuff to endlessly chase the quirks of other systems.
This remains still great stuff, but it leaps from the "doing everything yourself" dilemma straight to handling several employees asking you questions, skipping the "first employee" problem. The gap between those two situations remains vast and more reading on going from being time stressed and doing everything to having that first employee would be awesome.
How serious is the quip about Guy Steele?
Can anyone verify the statements in this post?
How many of these folks are AFNIC-related? Is there a big non-DOD presence in STL for tech stuff?
You can't empower users by targeting ads
The one reason you know that something is weird is because courts/police/governments usually don't try to prosecute rapists this way. Usually rape victims are ignored. Seems the only way to get the state and police to really care, is if your rapist is an enemy of the state.

Also the UK will not extradite murderous dictators if they don't want to. (e.g. Augusto Pinochet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_August... ).

It's very fishy, but that doesn't mean Assange has immunity.
Same problem. "Why did $PERSON get a number lower than I did? I'm even paying more for the service than he/she is!"
Radical concepts that sound really good. Unfortunately, productivity is very difficult to measure. Isn't it possible that productivity would have been higher if the 37signals team were working 5 days a week instead of 4? How does one measure this?
Rockets, Cars and Gardens: Visualizing waterfall, agile and stage gate
At work the other day someone showed me a pad of punch card keying order forms where you would fill them out and send them out to get punched. They even say "University of California Form xxxxxx" printed on the bottom of every page on the pad. He says when he stared in the 70s they had just stopped using punch cards.
I loved this article! He did learn the wrong lesson regarding the failed demo where he couldn't launch his CD because he only knew Macs and Unix. It is important to know how to use Windows, that's true. But even more important is: be absolutely certain you control every variable you can in a demo or presentation. Count on as little as possible from the audience/venue. Every salesman knows this, right? You bring your own laptop.
Two points:

Sweden has not charged Assange with anything. They want him for interrogation. There is nothing impeding the Swedish government from questioning Assange in the UK. The whole extradition is a farce as long as other alternatives remain, which do not affect the investigation in any way.

It should be noted that the flagrant threats the UK has made to Ecuador's diplomatic integrity is something basically unheard of. Throughout the entirety of the Cold War no government has made a similar case for people of both much higher profile and admittedly far more dangerous to the public.

Second, no one has proved or bothered to show to any degree that anyone has had their safety compromised.

Lots of talking about Assange from the embarrassed governments in question, very little action towards showing that he was any danger to anyone.
"I would hope that I would face due process"

That's the entire issue with this. If Assange was getting his due process, the interview would have taken place via video conference as has been enshrined in Swedish judicial practice via this (https://lagen.nu/dom/nja/2007s337) ruling from the Swedish supreme court. The man probably knows more about his situation than you do and if he thinks going to Sweden is a bad idea for him then, unless you can come up with a really good reason why not, his opinion on the matter carries a lot more weight than yours.
"Done us better then perfect..."

And this is why you will fail. Nobody was asking for perfect just appropriate, but you still chose done.
This mapping to numbers implies a total order on problem classes with computerists' problems being even more <lesser integer>-worldish than the plain old first world problems. I believe this is not the case. Computerists' problems are incomparable to i-th world problems, for i in {1,2,3}.
or when your machine won't boot into a display that can run vi and you need to edit some file to get the machine to boot up.
Ruby Hash - Fetch - Returning a (Default) Value for a Key That Does Not Exist
I was looking at some ruby code I wrote a few days ago and something didn’t sit right with me. I had a bit of a code smell when setting a default value for a hash key if the key didn’t exist.

The scenario… there is a hash that has a search key which holds information for a search term, optionally the order key may be set also.
How To Structure A Marketplace
These look nice. My only recommendation would be to drop the hsl() border color, to get better fallback compatibility with IE.
I will just note the irony of the NYT posting some 37 Signals propaganda on the same day as they posted "Skilled Work, Without the Worker" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/business/new-wave-of-adept...
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It’s unclear whether the Illinois surgical center’s records were backed up (...). The organization declined to comment.

This is where they get a huge lawsuit so they learn that they can't hire incompetents to handle their systems, right?