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"There's no bandwidth cost associated with transferring data TO Tarsnap"

Except for those of us who's outbound bandwidth isn't free and/or unlimited. It makes no difference what Amazon charges Tarsnap for it - I can't upload all of my 128G SSD every hour - I just don't have the bandwidth to do it, and if I _did_ have the bandwidth, it'd probably send me broke pretty quickly (or have my ISP throttle me or cut me off).

It's not a Tarsnap cost, but it can be a Tarsnap user cost, and I suspect cperciva considers that just as much a "real cost" as actual monetary expenses to Tarsnap.
Postgres's replication is very good these days, and it works for many of the read-scaling use cases. Scaling writes is a harder problem and I don't think there's a automatic drop-in solution for any sql store that I know of. Mongo gets away with it because it's non-relational so you never have to worry about joining across servers.
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If you're looking for work in London then why not check out www.techmeetups.com/jobfair
There was also a big change in May 2010

http://i.imgur.com/43a23.png

2011 / May2010 / pre-May2010

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All those arguments sounds similar to arguments about why the RIAA would have easily stamped out file sharing.

I would say that the arms race is highly asymmetrical against Google. Building ad-blocking technology isn't that hard, so the labor force force is significantly larger than Google could ever afford to combat.

Google is smart to not take on this battle. Only a small percentage of user's install ad-blocking software, and those users would not likely click on ads anyway. Now, if only Google could teach the RIAA of its ways.
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“It makes me uncomfortable. It’s an invasion of my privacy”

That's bullshit. Its not by any means a invasion of privacy since you're in a school, which may already have cameras to track you. This is for the good of the students.

Here in Brazil we have these and they are great for the school and the students, no invasion of privacy, and helps the school to know if you're in or out.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

A file filled with identifiers is not extraordinary evidence to link this to the claim of being a FBI laptop. It is only what it is (a file of identifiers) and says nothing about where it came from.
I can't believe Google removed the ability to scroll down.
Alas, the last time they mentioned this program, you app had to be "Certified" - presumably they verify it's not crap. It now sounds like they've added a second restriction - it not only can't be crap, it also has to sell $1000 worth as well.
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It doesn't have the crazy f of Inconsolata. It's one of the Bitstream/DejaVu Sans Mono derivatives - I think it's Menlo.
And maybe it just might work...

He doesn't have to jump from $4k to $10k. There's a demand curve and by raising prices from $4k to $5k and up he'll figure out where he can sit.

More importantly, he's already at $4k. The person that spends $4k on a suit isn't going to sneeze at $8k. The person who spends $120 for a suit, throws a fit at $240.
Surely the ideal would be a single result with exactly the information you need. But because the search query is seldom perfect, it's good to have several results - and by extension, some paid results too.
// comments and mid-function variables are C99 standard. The platforms that don't support them are probably not worth supporting yourself, and are not likely to be seen running varnish. This is the same mindset that held mozilla back for ages and ages because the hpux compiler from 1987 didn't support some c++ feature, so therefore nobody was allowed to use it even in 1997.
So is there a big benefit for the school to know if your in or out ? Any other benefit ?
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> Rather than "merging often" to take small pain now rather than big pain later, they should be taking a step back and looking at WHY there's pain. They could, for example, choose to stagger their work (work on stories involving unrelated files as much as possible) such that they're not stepping all over each other all the time.

I guarantee you that the people who invented "merge more often" tried this approach first.
To everyone who's on the fence you should definitely go. I flew to two of them from New York and it was well worth it. The talks are available online but by being there you get to feel the startup energy and meet a ton of motivated, driven people.
@pg will the event be recorded/archived and viewable later?
IMHO all depends on the employee's work ethics, the company's work environment, possibilities to learn, autonomy in your work, feeling you do something interesting, etc, etc.

I can offer my situation as an example: I work as a senior lead dev in Rails in a hourly basis (US East Coast). Interesting job with a lot of autonomy, possibilities to learn (there is a complex mix of technologies here). I know it is not easy to find someone with my skills set and I know they are more than happy with my performance. The job is hourly just because that was the initial deal, a 'contract to hire'.

They've just offered me a fixed salary and benefits, but with a lower pay from what I am doing hourly (even if my hours are cap to 8h/day). You know, business side tries to push down. So I am seriously considering to start sending resumes and just leave if I can't continue hourly, just because of the pay cut.

So I think all depends. Flexibility in the hours, if it's possible, is a good thing, but fixed salary has also some advantages (if the salary is attractive): health insurance, benefits, paid vacations,... and you may get a higher degree of identification with the company.

So again, it all depends.
Patrick,

Just wanted to point out that was my first thought as well. Also, wanted to say that I make it a point to read your comment feed on HN. You're one of the 4 folks who I read regularly because of comments like this help me change how I view charging and valuing my work and others.
Why do you think the suit is dead?

Don't know about other places, but at least in NoCal high status people don't wear suits. Since the only function of a suit is status signaling, it seems just a matter of time until everyone else catches up and suits will be replaced by bike jerseys or whatever.
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The percentage of space occupied by ads varies depending on the search.

35% ads only 1% of the time isn't nearly so bad as 35% ads all the time. And the auctions help guarantee that ad-crowding happens most often when searchers are actually well served by advertisements.

People searching for "saas help desk" probably want to find people to sell them support, rather than just info about saas. Searching for just "saas" alone reduces ad volume. Searching for "origin of saas" reduces ad levels further. Wikipedia is the top entry, and we're down to one lonely ad at the bottom of the page.

Similar divergences occur with "linux" and "linux support."

I'm not convinced fewer ads would be better. Imagine asking a friend for help with your broken machine, and he hands you the short biography of Linus Torvalds.

When you want pure information (for me, most of the time) ads drift out of the picture. When you want to buy something, they're more prominent, just as you probably want them to be.

N.B. - There is a hell of a lot of whitespace on a 1920x1080 monitor though.
Maybe a bug ... hover over a download link (e.g. install on nodejs.org) and the file downloads.

Very much dig it. Very fast rendering of preview.
This. I have been recently diagnosed with Aspergers - a form of autism - and my school life was hell because of bullies.

All I want now is a rematch....
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It also doesn't mean that there is a massive inefficiency created by a large number of users ignoring a large number of ads.

I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion, or what constitutes a large number. I'm not saying your wrong exactly, but it sounds like some pretty significant assumptions are being made in your statement. Proof?

I was actually under the impression that most people find the ads relevant more often that not. However, I can't remember where I read that so I won't stand behind it.
The plugin can absolutely mock the ad element(s) and make them seem to be visible.
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>> "The suit is dead for any number of reason, dittos bespoke clothing."

Barney Stinson would beg to differ: http://vimeo.com/17152345
Maybe it's just me, but all that wasted empty whitespace bothers me. I think it may have gotten worse when google did their big UI overhaul.

I think some screen real-estate could be saved by simply tightening the padding. I see a lot of areas that are blank. It would be really nice if the content was allowed to take some of this dead space.
Since you are in a school, you don't have any privacy? That's the bullshit. Students shouldn't be treated like inmates.
only because sites generally don't do so; if necessary, extensions could get much more aggressive with website scripts, current user script limitations aside.
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If you scroll down the percentage of the search results significantly increases :) I found this article quite dumb, honestly. If you make stats, make it on the whole experience, not just the first seconds using Google...
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"...there is now a large difference between what is monetizable and what is actually valuable."

There's my gem of the day right there.
There is one economy of scale which eventually hit the bespoke suit industry: robotics/automation. Eventually you will be able to make tailoring robots to do each step of the process, much like they do in car factories. With the proper software you could step into a booth, get a 3D body scan and have the suit finished in hours or minutes.
It would be nice if the self-proclaimed "editor-in-chief" could spell "naïveté" (his version: "naivety"), among other terms he managed to mangle.
People dismiss TV ads. Are they failures?
No, the point of ads is not that 100% pay attention to them. The point is that there is that 0.01% of people who are going to look at it, and at a large enough scale it become worth it. That is why TV advertising and online advertising has not died.
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I've been using skittles-berry[1] a lot lately.. Supercolorful but pretty scannable.

[1]https://github.com/shawncplus/skittles_berry
It seems like the obvious solution. There must be a reason why that has not happened. People will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a Ferrari mainly because they are so (artificially) scarce. And still they will have to wait a long time (two years) to get it. Incredibly enough the best advice to get your ferrari a little faster than other people is to suck up to the dealer. Could it be that a big part of his problem is branding and awareness?
You are right. I apologize. Allow me to reword my post:

"Still no Netbeans support? What can I do to help?"

Hummm... to make amends I'll take a couple of hours this week and "port" the color scheme to Netbeans. See what I can come up with.

Thanks for setting me straight.
Totally not offended by that comment, but I strongly disagree.

It is entirely possible that he's found the correct price for a suit: two hours' labor for his core customers. It is entirely possible that the devs who tell me their clients won't pay more than $20 an hour for Rails programming are accurate, and that they're correct in thinking that they're not skilled enough to work for better clients. It is entirely possible that the Rampaging Monster of Doubt actually understands how banks do loan underwriting better than e.g. the banker who you could confirm or reject that hypothesis in a five minute phone call.

But that is not the way I will bet. We're pathologically bad at this. Hiya, freelancer on HN: to a first approximation, you don't charge enough. Seriously. No information required to make that call. (This is said from a place of love. I don't charge nearly enough, either.) This guy, who produces things which rich people love and try to shove money at him for, so much so that he cannot afford to even talk to the rich people to take their money because he is so busy? This guy has our problem, too.

Starving artists who are starving because they produce something nobody wants to pay for are one problem. Starving artists who are starving because they think that they are a precious snowflake immune to Microeconomics 101 are an entirely different problem. They just need business sense.

The point of the article is to cry a bit about how the market economy is making true craftsmanship economically non-viable. (It practically tries to club you over the head with that conclusion.) The article is wrong. It has identified a problem to which there exists a trivial solution that will work.
it sounds like a trojan or other piece of malware. DNSChanger variants for OSX exist and might not have been affected by the FBI's efforts to shut down DNSChanger itself, though it could just as easily be some other malware.

It could even be something that infected your router, such things exist. http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/03/23/2257252/botnet-worm-ta...

You shouldn't take this lightly, and definitely shouldn't bank online or otherwise do anything that should require any kind of security until you resolve this.
Don't know about other places, but at least in NoCal high status people don't wear suits.

There seems to be a kind of inverse snobbery about smart dress at the moment, as if the 50-year-old CEOs of huge tech firms think that by taking off their tie we're going to think they're one of us, or the 25-year-old founder of a trendy start-up is going to convince us of their business savvy by wearing a T-shirt and trainers while giving a presentation.

Since the only function of a suit is status signaling

Really? I happen to think that smart dress looks better on me than casual anyway, but even without that, suits are fairly practical garments. A well-made suit is comfortable to wear all day. Suits have an easily removable jacket if you're hot, yet provide useful shelter for the elements if it's cold/wet outside. They have plenty of handy pockets for pens, phones, etc.
I believe the number of ads displayed varies based on the perceived usefulness of the ads in answering the user's query. The ad space above the organic search results shouldn't be lost space.

Note: I work at Google but not on web search, ads, or UI design. This is just based on my personal observations.
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I skimmed the article, but it sounds like free apps that make money through in-app purchases are still eligible.
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Do you currently look favorably at RFS applications? Or better to try to apply with an independent idea?
Los Angeles: Porn Star Developer

We are an angel funded startup looking for hard working porn star to join our production.

You should have tremenous coding stamina which results in voluminous output. You should be able to go all night for hours on end and not get bored.

You will get very little direction, so it is expected that you know what you're doing - like it's instinctual for you.

We are a small team so you should be prepared to wear a variety of hats such as server repair man, pool cleaner and pizza delivery guy.

You should be good with people. We often begin the day programming by ourselves, but sometimes end up pair programming (or even small groups!) by the end of the day.

We are proponents of testing. If your code fails a test you will be prohibited from doing any new programming (especially with others) until the bug is cleared up.

We are a company of finishers. If we start a project we keep at it until it's done!

We expect a ton of users when we release. This thing is going to explode - we'll be all over HackerNews!

Real talk:

Swagsy is a socially driven marketplace where celebrities share the products they love. http://investors.swagsy.com

This isn't another "I have an idea can you build it for me" Craigslist ad. Our product is built and in private beta. We are launching with some of the biggest celebrities in the world. And we have a pipeline of brands that are ready to ship.

We have A-list advisors, have raised Angel and will close Series A soon.

We are looking for a talented Senior Magento Developer for Swagsy.

The ideal candidate:
- loves Magento like it was their first born
- is brilliant, fearless, and passionate

Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting teammates.

Email mlulic at swagsy. Interns and H1Bs and TNs welcome.
I find this mysticism around the US military to be puzzling. I mean really, "The honour of the professional soldier in a modern western democracy is that they don't pick and choose the wars they fight in"? As opposed to every other soldier ever? And when it's a volunteer military and you sign up after a war is declared, that's choosing to fight that war.
It's just a standard card with RFID embedded, right? Unless I'm wrong here, the cards can be read by the standard scanners mounted on the doors. So rather than some creepy "tracking device", they'd have to be used for registering entry/exit from a classroom explicitly - pretty much the same as any big office... Which doesn't seem to make much sense to me, since they can move around without scanning the card (enter behind another person) - this happens even in many workplaces where everyone is supposed to scan their tag on entry.

Another strange part is that when looking at attendance, this seems even easier to hack - just give your tag to someone else so they can scan it.

Am I missing something here? Are there RFID tags that work on longer distances?

Edit: Found some long-range RFID solutions out there. Other points remain though... seems easy to game and many offices already use it.
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Vivify [ http://bytefluent.com/vivify/ ] is another good one that takes the opposite approach: Show you code snippets from different languages at once and switch the colorscheme. You can also quickly scrub through the schemes and edit them to create your own.
A professor of mine and I were discussing this as we were poring over some freshman 1st semester programming projects done by primarily artistic students in Max/MSP, which is extremely similar.

Looking at a program from the scope of functions, it looks pretty unremarkable, but when you scope out to view the scale of functions you can start to make out the flow of control, etc. Even farther out, you can visually see separations of concerns that the student has implicitly created by the arrangement of the code. It was really remarkable viewing the architecture from 10,000 feet like that.

It redefined how I viewed liberal arts students.
Think EZ-Pass for humans where there are sensors throughout the building mapping the location of each person. Wouldn't matter if you entered behind another person or not as your location could still be discerned with enough readers.
This is good advice for a novice, but I have to say from my experience I pretty vehemently disagree.

I suppose there's a sort of spectrum of programmer personality types that may help to explain the disagreement. Please forgive me of I am prone to hyperbole in my description.

One type of programmer says "never rewrite a function if it exists in a library". They do this in part because they are not confident in their own abilities (see disclaimer about hyperbole), and generally trust code if it's written by somebody else.

Another type is more of a cowboy. The cowboy wants to write everything from scratch, for the opposite reasons - because they don't trust code not written by them.

Someone who reliably adheres to only one of these extremes at all times is probably not a good person to work with. However, both of these motivations do have some basis in fact and practicality. On the one hand, use of libraries gets the job done quickly and can save you some headaches. On the other hand, there are some pretty bad to horrible libraries out there, many of them quite popular; introducing dependency on the library can add considerable complexity, code size, and weaken your own "whole-program" understanding of what's going on. I'd say that being distrustful of dubious library dependencies is a good thing.

In practice, even your libc is not necessarily going to be as well maintained as you suggest. The people who maintain such libraries might not have the motivation to do the sort of periodic performance tweaks and updating for the current era that you ascribe to them. They might have a working implementation and decide to stick with it as long as possible. (In my experience this is more common than your rosy picture.) That's fine for them but it doesn't mean the library will work for you, or help you meet your performance goals. One problem with your side of the spectrum is that the people who write the libraries aren't always perfect or even good authorities. You have to know when to let go of your trust in them.

And especially, if I really need something to be faster and it's something that I can spend a few hours on, benchmark, and either decide to take or maybe just revert and go back to the library... Well then yes, I'm going to take a crack at it. One can always revert it later.
Yes, the basic mechanisms of social interaction are changing now, even if we are aware of not the new forms that are emerging, and had to happen to education itself. I was intrigued about the "BOAC! fallacy" you mentioned, what does it mean?
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Corrective upvote. In the words of Wikipedia, "Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden" [1]. It would seem the developers were Estonian, but that doesn't make you wrong about its founders. In fact, that makes the article wrong when it says "Skype ... was run by Estonians, until recently was sold to Microsoft [sic]."

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#cite_ref-14
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Cool.

It may be true that Face.com's API is theirs, and they can do what they'd like with it - however, it's a little disconcerting to see a company say on one hand "We love our API developers and we intend to support you in the future" to shutting down their API with haste.

I've already told my friends who relied on Face.com about this service, it's great to see someone saving startups the hassle of reimplementing functionality that will be complex and costly to solve in a fast-paced environment.

I hope more services like this one proliferate in the future!
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Nearly all offices of any significant size do this already, using badges† to unlock various doors on the premises. By tracing your badge as it is swiped at various doors, they can pretty much determine everywhere you've been on any given day.

† or codes, or biometrics, etc.
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> Instead of having a few websites occupying the top place, provide the traffic to other, smaller players. So the e-economy can expand more.

How would you do that? Throw in some random numbers to shuffle the search results?