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I am both a database guy and a software engineer. Being a software engineer, i kind of understand the hype behind NoSQL. Being a database guy spending years in studying how database engine works under the hood, many NoSQL implementations make me wonder how powerful marketing can be.

In general, I love the ideas behind NoSQL. I can still feel the excitement when reading the BigTable and MapReduce papers. HBase, Hadoop, Radis, etc. are awesome products. I use some of them in my work. But some other NoSQL products? Being engineers, we must understand the implementation and be full aware of its limitations, instead of believing their marketing materials. Well, if all you want is to test a toy product, to build a prototype, or your product is of low concurrency and low data size and you have no concern on operation, it certainly looks that they make your development easier. But in these scenarios, any good relational databases won't add significant burden either.
What he says he means by it in the post?
"Because Dex relies on heuristics that don’t take your data into account"

So if you do take your data into account and create indexes accordingly and have a solid non-changing schema, is there any benefits in using dex? Is it smart enough to tell me that my existing indexes might not be as good as the suggested indexes? or is this considered part of the data that it doesn't analyse too?

Just curious where and when this tool is a lifesaver.
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>>So someone with no work experience but with a college degree can make $44K/year, and you want the upper limit, even after 25 years and for teachers living in an expensive city, to be $60K/year. This is not reasonable.

What? To say that I want them to make no more than 60K shows you're not even reading what I wrote.

>> I guess I should take a pay cut because I find my work to be interesting.

What again? You clearly don't get that what I'm saying, which is that people in ivory towers should not be making decisions on what people make, the market should.
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> Digital versions of games are so much better and move faster. How many times have you played a game and then half way through you realize you forgot some important rule or have been adding some points up wrong?

The primary mechanic in pen and paper games is the players describing what their characters do and the Game/Dungeon master explaining what happens as a result. All the rules and math are just tools. In a pen and paper game they can be laid aside at any time when they get in the way (and in my opinion are ignored in a good game frequently).
I leased my car for 3 years then I didn't renew it and they sent multiple notifications to my last contact address and finally repossessed the car a few months after I stopped making payments.

Now some car squatter has hijacked it and has my car on a parking lot. They're not even driving it!!! Why is this even legal!??!
yeah, i think i clicked +1 last month (once), too. proud to be one of 100 000 000.
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If I was a betting man, I would say most of the usage is not in the USA and Europe. Probably primarily in India, Asia, and South America where Google products tend to get a ton of usage. That's really nothing to be ashamed of, but it really gives the impression that no one uses G+ when the tech press is primarily located in an area which doesn't see a ton of G+ usage.
Hey Flexterra, I'm glad my post on Rails inspired you to write this for Django!
Recruiting is like dating. The problem is still not solved - but I also think it will never be solved. The nature of process requires involvement on both parties and that can be outsourced only to a very small extend.

So in dating you have guys saying: "I want to date supermodel. Lets go this dating site ... after a couple of months... oh online dating sucks it needs disruption".
I'd attribute this to the product owner doesn't have enough staff or time for this bug which isn't affecting enough people to fix.

The good thing with open bug trackers? You can contribute a patch if upstream is ignoring your request or taking too long to fix it.
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I have a hard time believing that many indie artists are willing to pay $15/mo for access to a distribution platform with no traction with music purchasers or listeners. That's putting all the risk on them. I'd structure it more like "we get the first $15 of your earnings on our service each month".

That said, welcome competitor! I admire you guys taking a stab at this problem; it is one that needs solving.
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So Picasa might actually support Nikon RAW files? (They currently sort of work, but look like crap and don't format correctly)
That's still less bandwidth than any other recent SoC and keep in mind that the GPU is also sharing that bandwidth.
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Me too, i got my whole family on there and have another peer group i share a lot of stuff with.

The stuff for my family is not visible to the public. People wanted a private network like Path, what is just for mobile unfortunately.
Hmm, it's still 99% the same 5 people (one of whom is Vic) on my google plus feed, even though I follow many hundreds of people.

Whatever the number is, or whatever the value of the audience is, I'd judge its current state as about 1/100th of Twitter's.
I maintain my personal site as a remote git repo, and all of my journal files get backed up there. So I add to the journal, git push web, and what's done is done. It's up to you what you want to keep private but I've fallen in love with the workflow. Anyway, if you're worried about the time it takes to maintain a journal, perhaps you should try spending a few weekends exercising your typing skills. My entries are only 30-45 lines each (wrapped, tw=80) but take only a few moments to clack in and done.
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"if you do not believe me try getting a major surgery done in another country"

Or you could try not being able to afford it in this country?
It's fun to chase consumer benefit in a circle. At least some of the drive towards more features and low upfront price comes from consumers giving more weight to those aspects of the design (rather than reliability and lifetime cost).

I would still agree that cost optimization has certainly done its part in trampling all over maintainability.
Thanks! Here's a screenshot of the previous version: http://i.imgur.com/PeGXp.png
"Any column in an SQLite version 3 database, except an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY column, may be used to store a value of any storage class." http://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html

SQLite, for better or worse, is designed to do what you had an issue with. Pick a different DB if you need strict data types. Check out section 2.0 Type Affinity.
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I think what the OP was saying (along the lines of the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis) that since their language is relatively (significantly? I don't know much about whale communication) limited that this limitation in the ability to express such things as lonliness in their "language" limits their ability to conceptualize abstract concepts like loneliness.

I agree that comparing bees to whales is... probably not too useful. I guess (again, if you buy Sapir-Wharf) if they have some way to verbalizing / internally verbalizing feelings like loneliness, it's quite possible that they have the cognitive / emotional bandwidth to "feel" it.
Don't worry 99,999,999 of the users are Scobilizer, the other is Vic Gundotra checking the user stats.
Yes, I saw Vic interviewed by Guy Kawasaki at SXSW this year and he basically said exactly this. He was counting active users as people who had plus accounts, were logged in, and were using any product with a plus/social component, i.e search. By this metric, I'm an 'active user' (using their search engine) despite having not visited G+ in over 6 months.
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I clicked on the link, and am now likely going to count as an active user because I was logged into gmail. In other words, I am NOT a g+ user, but google probably counts me as one because of my gmail account. So, scottbartell may have a valid point.
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Would you have made a similar comment if these numbers were for some other site, say Baidu or Rakuten?
Google's strategy with G+ is looking smarter by the day: instead of trying to compete head-on with FaceBook, Google simply made sharing via Google+ the default path of least resistance for everyone using one or more of its applications. Now there are around 400 million people sharing things on Google+ (even if many of them are doing so inadvertently), and 100 million people are visiting plus.google.com every month to access all this user-generated content. In short, Google figured out how to get the content, and now it's getting the users.
The <$basename> ':' syntax for inner reference is great. As the OP describes it, hypertext for files.

With per format program, possibly implicitely called based on extension, it could be extended to structural reference.

/foo/bar.c:function[2]/statement[3] would call an ANSI C parser and return the substream enclosing the :/expr/ passed.
You still need to update your data when doing schema changes under SQL, and you have a lot less control over the process.

And you can do anything to your data without a schema, you just need to build your app as a service that provides access to it.

IME SQL schemas do more harm than good; usually you end up with a schema that's subtly weaker than what's actually valid for your application, and the difference between the two models will trip you up at the worst possible time. Have a small, distinct set of classes that you store, enforce that you store only those (and don't access the storage layer any other way), enforce that they remain backwards compatible, and enforce that you can't create invalid instances. But application code is the best place to do all these things.
This is great! I think we need to keep exploring new models for how people get their best work done. This guy built a desk in a tree:
http://variationsonnormal.com/2011/09/15/tree-branch-work-de...
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They're certainly telling people that there's no opt-out - I guess most people who turn up to the airport don't have the luxury of refusing the scan, being turned away, and then taking the government (or airport operator) to court.

The current UK government isn't what you'd call EU-friendly, either.
I'm not sure I like the analogy (as a gold miner disappearing into the mountains), but it certainly made me laugh.

I remember someone saying that one of the biggest winners of the incubators processes were sometime the incubators themselves (via the equity they get in the companies they help). You analogy is not that far.

Thanks for the thought.

Martin
Some thoughts about your pricing...

The relatively minor jump in pricing from manager -> label really confuses me. I'd think a label should be paying in the thousands per month, not just 6x more than an individual artist.
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Hard to beat the 2M of preorder in 24hrs for the Iphone :)
Ooh, I like the piping syntax better. The module name is a bit long and hard to remember though.
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Totally agree, but from my understanding it's often the editor that decides the title, rather than the author. I'm sure that depends on the publication, though.
The fundamental problem is that scammy tactics is the value most recruiters add. You as a company can't cold call developers at your competitor and convince them to work for you, you can however pay a recruiter who does it at an arms length.

At any point of time the vast majority of good developers are off the market, they need to be cold-sold on a job before they even consider looking.

Unless you've got an alternative that has a proven track record of reaching developers who aren't actively job hunting, you're not going to replace recruiters.

I ran a job board that did go after this group by heavily targeting through passive ads (i.e. display ads, facebook, dating sites), and even though it was successful in reaching that group once I'd convinced a developer that job hunting was a good idea they'd often go and use other job boards, recruiters, etc. in addition to my own one.

So not only do you have to capture non-active job seekers, once you've got them you've got to close them almost immediately otherwise they'll convert to becoming an "active job seeker" and using other options for job hunting destroying your advantage.

Hence "capture-and-close" are the dynamics of the market, and recruiters are perfectly suited to those dynamics. I've yet to see a truly viable alternative.

Almost all recruitment startups focus on active job seekers, but that's not where most of the value in the market is.
Frameworks are for those of us tired of reinventing the wheel.
I fear I only have one point I can give you for this project. I would just request that there be a search function and web pages instead of PDF files to make the site more user friendly.
You have to load every document in the database and extract the audit trail from it, then filter it in your app for the user you’re looking for. Just the thought of what that would do to my hardware was enough to turn me off the whole idea.

Naive question from somebody who has done a little reading on and dabbling with key/document-with-MapReduce style datastores, but who hasn't tackled a real production problem: I thought running queries over the entire dataset was one of the assumptions of horizontally scalable document stores? In terms of avoiding computation, you can only limit queries by document key, which even if you're clever/lucky doesn't always encode the parameters you're querying on, or doesn't encode them in the right order, so you should be prepared to run queries over your entire dataset. Hopefully the queries you run often are optimized (e.g., using indexes or clever use of key ranges), but in the general case, you have to be prepared to scan the whole shebang, and that's supposed to be okay because of horizontal scalability, right?
Titles are hard. Usually nothing great comes to mind so you just settle. What title would you use?
On sites like this the author doesn't come up with the title.
2 thoughts:
He isn't saying anything except "margins are razor thin". Hardware companies have made money on razor thin margins in the past, and will continue to do so. Razor thin margins don't mean "0 margin".

He seems to be ignoring the costs of distribution. The reason the tablet is $49 is because you can walk to the factory from where it's being sold. Try to take advantage of that price and import it to the US and you'll find the cost is higher. I don't see why it's amazing that you can buy a cheap tablet at wholesale prices, that's obvious
Yes. I'm guessing gamma is to blame here.
Mongo accepts the data you give it. If you have a type-conversion error, it's in your application layer. I use Mongo daily and have never seen this problem, because I'm using a statically typed language. This seems like more of a complaint about Ruby than Mongo.

I use Mongo daily on a Go project, and I actually think it's pretty annoying; I'm not trying to be a Mongo apologist, but ... this type conversion argument doesn't seem to be very fair to Mongo.
I think it is interesting that the author mentions, "I want to see the candidate's twitter feeds, Facebook pages, LinkedIn profiles, activity on mailing lists and github, etc."

I found TalentBin.com comes the closest to solving this need. This is a screenshot that shows all the profile information accessible on a TB profile- http://screencast.com/t/DgePgGRj

Not only do you get access to what they are tweeting about, but you also can see their personal blogs, google+, Meetup, and Stackoverflow? http://screencast.com/t/SfFqIMXWIzlg

So far nothing comes close to Talentbin in terms of information quantity and quality.

And if that isn't enough- TalentBin.com recently added the entire patent database. Soon will come the day where we hire by looking at only implicit web information and resumes are long forgotten.
What do you mean? Like country by country, or in aggregate US vs non-US? Because even for Facebook, most of the usage would be non-US, obviously, since they have 1 billion users and there aren't that many people in US.

But on country by country basis, Google+ gets the most users from US by far:

http://www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/2012/02/22/google-dem...
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I really like this comparison.
I wouldn't say "almost twice". But it is 65% heavier, which is a fair bit.
Really good point. Right now we're figuring out what prices make the most sense, and we're talking to different artists/managers/label owners about how we can meet their needs.
Hardware is dead; long live hardware.

The free-fall in PC prices in the 90s "killed" the PC, except that every major PC manufacturer still sells high-end models, and retailers still make money on them.

The free-fall in automotive prices in the 20s "killed" the automobile, except that people kept buying faster, sleeker, newer models anyway.

Like so many other electronics and everyday devices, the commoditization of tablets won't "kill" the tablet. It will result in a glut of disposable, troublesome, irksome devices, but there will still be a very nice market of people willing to pay more for a better device. Go make money there, you'll be happier anyway.
As an analytics professional who was pressured into a MongoDB environment, I feel the OP's pain. If you want to do gymnastics with your data, (aggregations of aggregations, joining result sets back onto data), SQL expressions are a 1000 times easier than Mongo constructs (e.g. map reduces). We usually ended up scraping out data from Mongo and dumping records into a SQL database before doing our transformations.

All that said, our developers loved the ease of simple retrieval and insertion, and of course the scalability. So I guess you ultimately need to base your decisions on your priorities.

I don't fault the OP though, since it's hard to know just how limiting NoSQL will be until you try to do all the things you used to assume were database tablestakes (no pun intended).
What a deceptive and misleading headline here at HN. The source says: "over 400,000,000 people have upgraded to Google+".

Is there a difference between "active users" and "upgraded users"?
I agree.

I know Snapseed is popular, but I think Nik is actually more known for their other products, at least with photographers.

Silver Efex is easily one of the best black and white image processing tools around.
i agree then - infinite scroll is much more of a hook. seeing all those page numbers would overwhelm/disengage folks like me.
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After coding all day, almost any manual labor will do. Washing dishes, mowing the lawn, helping a friend move, etc.
This is the opposite of "agile." It is difficult to know where your product will be in 2 months let alone 12, so it seems the advice to use SQL first is sound - unless you enjoy long distractions to solve simple JOINs.
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OK, so this would be one of those instances where I support a headline rewrite for clarification. The iPhone connection is incidental and I expected something entirely different.

This was more along the lines of, "How Apple reinvented/over-engineered the animated GIF"
> In what sense, I ask you, does a number with no possible definition actually exist?

There is a difference between "describe" and "define". You are talking about what are mathematically called "indescribable numbers". They still have a definition, because we have sets that include them.

> Nobody wants to consider these odd questions. But if somewhere in the middle of a proof you ask what it all means, you may find that classical mathematics doesn't necessarily make that much sense.Nobody wants to consider these odd questions. But if somewhere in the middle of a proof you ask what it all means, you may find that classical mathematics doesn't necessarily make that much sense.

I don't think that describes the situation very well. It's just that they're not bothered by not being able to touch things. Most mathematicians have no problem working with things that they can't touch, it certainly doesn't have to inhibit their understanding of it. It isn't like mathematicians are uncomfortable with the question "but what does it mean if I can't touch it?", they simply reply with "why would I care about such a question?" (Of course, some people do care, but they are in the minority. The point is that the separation of opinion is mainly about whether the question makes sense to ask to begin with.)
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Been there; done that. And once I bought a dishwasher, I lost all motivation to do it by hand.

Scraping off stuck stuff, the whole process of cleaning the sink, plugging it and filling it with water, sorting dishes by category (do the glasses first! Pots last!), running out of room to put the dry dishes so dry hands and put some away, then back to washing.

Its not unpleasant, but just lots of work and the dishwasher does a decent job with 60 seconds of effort (put dry clean dishes away; rack dirty dishes, push a button). I do it before leaving for work.

Of course, now with the energy-star hoax I'm starting to regret buying a new dishwasher, but that's another discussion.
If you Like something, anywhere on the web, you're one of Facebook's "monthly active users".
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These people clearly stated they were using desktop browsers...

So am I, and here is what I see: http://puu.sh/161Xi

Firefox 16

edit: Maybe it is a font issue. I am not loading the fonts I see in your screenshot.
You're missing my point.

If a warning light on my car's dash turns on, I might look for a fix online. But if someone in a forum suggests I drive my troubled car off a cliff, I'm not going to write an angry rant accusing Ford of making me drive my car off a cliff.

I'm also not going to navigate to some amateurish-looking website that's obviously not affiliated with Ford, and claim that I can't tell it apart from Ford's website (and imply that Ford is somehow responsible for my confusion).

And if I can't fix it myself, I'll bring the car in for servicing, rather than writing a linkbait article speculating about what the repairman might tell me. (In fact, if the phone is a year old and it has a legitimate issue, Apple might just hand him a new phone... I find that scenario more in line with my own experiences, but we'll never know, since he couldn't be bothered).

> Unfortunately, beyond jailbreaking it there was no other worthwhile solution.

Really? Because he listed a bunch that all seemed more worthwhile.
That's not what he's saying now, though:

Vic Gundotra

+Andreas Proschofsky the numbers at I/O were google+ users all
across Google. So gmail users who used circles, or Android
users who plus oned an app etc were included. Today's number of
100m is just on our plus.google.com destination site and the
mobile app. Pretty amazing.﻿