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[JOBS] DevOp / SysOp for Web Application 
DevOp / SysOp for Web Application
Location: Preferably in Berlin, remote work possible

You will manage the entire Wimdu hybrid-infrastructure that serves one ruby application to more than 50 localized top-level domains, which are visited by hundreds of thousands users daily.

Your Tasks:
•	You will lead infrastructure decisions (hardware and software)
•	You will optimize cachings and performance
•	You will extend the current automation
•	You will help Wimdu to deal with growing traffic

Your Profile:
•	You are experienced with cloud infrastructure and have a background in server administration or software engineering
•	You made experiences with:
•	cloud or hybrid environments, debian or Ubuntu, vpn, git, chef or puppet, nginx, unicorn, nagios/icinga, MySQL (Percona), JVM (Jenkins, Solr, ...), Redis, HAProxy
•	You have got strong ruby or python coding skills
•	You know what DRY and TDD means
•	You measure everything you do
•	You know DevOps Borat (not necessarily in person)

Our offer:
You will become part of one of the biggest Ruby projects in Europe and work with a highly skilled engineering team while individually enhancing a global online platform running on our global cloud and balancing rapidly growing traffic. This way you will directly impact Wimdu’s worldwide success.
We offer you the international start-up spirit, combined with an inspiring workplace in a stylish converted warehouse directly located in the heart of Germany´s capital. Alternatively our DevOps can work from home or remotely (why not Hawai?). You will benefit from an attractive compensation and many development opportunities.

Excited by the prospect of joining us? If so, we look forward to receive your application via mail to Wolfram at engineering@wimdu.com and feel free to include your github handle.<p>Before we ask you, ask us: Send us your questions, doubts and we will get back to you. We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Reinventing Our Freemium Model
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=mass+of+satu...

Saturn is 95x more massive than Earth.
I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I think even for it's time, it's wrong on a few accounts and it stinks of elitism and an "I am better than thou" attitude rather than a discussion on relative merits or the preface which was slapped on to change the context. It sounds like it's written by someone who's comfortable status quo is threatened.

Ubiquitous readily available knowledge is power, not elitist hackerism...
>Imagine all the awesome applications possible if you had access to these photos easily.

I cannot. Please, do tell us some of those "awesome applications" if we had access to several billion photos easily:

>One of my favourite services that does more with all these photos is Picplum. Picplum allows you to print and send your photo prints to loved ones.

Awesome... is probably not the right word.
No NO how many times do I have to say this it is the Alien Spacebats who controll the polaticians. Certianly explains some of romeys gaffes.
I am wondering if you did any testing to determine your pricing? IIRC, patio11 recommends not putting a price for the Enterprise option.
> Running a Billion Dollar Startup with Twelve People?

A "billion-dollar startup" is a contradiction in terms, like a "newborn self-made millionaire". It's a classic of overhyping and wishful thinking. Especially in view of the fact that the majority of startups fail.
To be fair the animals didn't hurt anyone and were tortured and killed

She was trying to shill her porn site and knowingly poked a hornets nest

Bit of a difference
No hard numbers, but I'm sure most Java implementations are still running Java the language. IMHO Java's success today is more because of corporate inertia than anything else. Kinda like how COBOL still has users in this day and age.

It also helps that it's one of the languages being taught in CS classes.
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This is a good example if you also include a Saw class and an Axe class. Saw and Axe implement ICutter and IUsable. The Tree class implements ICuttable. Then Worker class calls ICutter.cut(ICuttable)
The New CTO
Cambodia deports Pirate Bay co-founder to Sweden
I bought my last domain at Namecheap because they said that they provide a free secondary DNS service for your domains. After I tried to set it up I was informed that you can use their free secondary DNS only for domains that where not bought with namecheap!!!

Then I bought GoDaddys premium DNS solution for 35$/year and I use their DNS servers as 3rd and 4th DNS servers for all my domains (primary and secondary are on my servers).

This was really the best offer I could find for slave DNS hosting and it works pretty great, even when GoDaddy is down :)
"Historically, languages designed for other people to use have been bad: Cobol, PL/I, Pascal, Ada, C++. The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp."

Dazzling argumentative prowess. If I wrote that, I'd be called a troll and downvoted for senseless flaming.

Historically people making baseless judgements like that have been proven to be wrong.
For mainframe, it seems to be Grace Hopper.
Yes. After a trademark has been granted, suing is the way you defend your trademark. Also, there have been more of these...a lot more. Perhaps you remember Apple suing NYC over their NYC Green apple logo or the Victoria School of Business and Technology over their apple-shaped logo or Woolworths Limited over their logo? ...and those are just the ones conveniently listed on the list of trademark litigation from this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Trademark...
> 9. It's designed for large organizations. Large organizations have different aims from hackers.

This is where I think pg's bias steered him wrong. Hackers tend not to like Java (although that is less the case now with the JVM ecosystem being what it is), but hackers do not solely determine the success of technology. Furthermore, the type of hacker that pg is interested in—the lisper, the 10Xer, the startup founder—are in limited supply. Certainly they wield more influence per capita, but they still need critical mass to form a stable community around an open source platform in order to compete with large organizations. If you're looking to build a product or a small scale project, by all means find yourself a Grade-A hacker.

If you want to make the next ubiquitous programming platform though, there are other qualities that are necessary. Consensus building is probably the most important skill that large organizations have that hackers will struggle with at scale. If you have a ton of management and mediocre programmers, it's easier to at least get them moving in the same direction, and they'll be more tolerant of the foibles of a designed-by-committee language. Sun had the perfect storm of strong technical talent to design a solid language, but also the large organization effects to market a new platform to enterprise decision makers.

In a way I think pg's smell test might be more valid for an earlier era. He underestimated the influence of the mediocre programming armies, probably because back in the old days there weren't as many and they weren't as mediocre. This is just speculation on my part, but I have to imagine that the quality of the average programmer as declined over time as the numbers and appearance as a recognized career path have increased. I mean how many people were programmers in the 70s because they're parents thought that's what they should go to school for?
I think a more accurate statement is, the bigger the secret - the more incentives there are for it to be leaked, thereby the more likely it will be leaked.

a) Monica Lewinsky

b) Watergate

c) CIA Renditions

d) Waterboarding

e) More recently, intimate details of Seal Team Six & the Bin Laden raid.

f) Warrantless Wiretapping

Suffice it to say, the larger the likely public interest - is the more likely that leaks will appear.
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Web designers have done a lot of experiments with menus created by CSS3. These free and useful tutorials make these experiments more and more popular.
Are you suggesting that this story is, and will only be discussed on Hacker news, and that local Polish media will not cover it extensively?
Reminded me that Apple had a trademark suit against Woolworths (Woolies) in Australia a few years ago for using a 'fresh fruit' logo that looked a bit like an Apple.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/apple-woolworths-in-austr...

My takeaway from this is that trademark lawyers do their thing because they have to be seen to be protecting their trademarks, and I'm patently sick of the whole Apple legal patent/copyright stories that I'm just going to filter them from now on.

Lawyers be being lawyers.
Don't they need to be in related markets at least?
Java is horrible for prototyping, it's designed for large environments where management of complexity (through interfaces and some level of top down design) is desirable.

It's not a hacker language.

PG makes a very good point though - that today's teenagers (hackers?) are tomorrows CEOs. But not everyone can be above average, not every CEO can be of a technology company, and eventually those CEOs need to hire average programmers to do basic enterprise information systems work.

Scala on the JVM with play framework is looking pretty agile these days too
Apple logo suit from 2009: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/05/apple-woolworths-in-austr...

Your opinion is demonstrably wrong.

Bonus link, what you're experiencing is an example of cognitive bias because of priming. With the Samsung case fresh in your memory, you see Apple as launching a whole new wave of litigation, when their lawyers have been being lawyers all along: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Priming

"A simple example is the familiar "red car" phenomenon where a person who buys a red car suddenly starts seeing red cars everywhere. The familiarity of the red car primes them to spot other red cars faster."
December 7th - "A day that will live in infamy"

February 15th - "Remember the Maine"

We will get over when the next surprise attack happens
Fiddler has joined the Telerik family
Those are a military secrets that actually righteous person would be inclined to keep secret, feeling he/she serves his country well.
Murdering innocent people is not this kind of secret (it's dangerous lunacy) and would need to involve murders to silence witesses.
Not compatible with the iPhone 3G.

Guess I'll stick with the built-in app then...
whois -h whois-servers.net paypal.com
So why is it unsuccessful? Sure inside the browser its a piece of crap, but in terms of usage and the number of OSes and embedded processors it runs on, its surpassed probably only by C.
another more detailed article

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/09/11/bohemia-interactive-devs-a...
When I talk to my wife or mother or boss over the phone, I just pick it up and talk. There is a reasonable expectation of privacy, and even if I was as smart as you to know how to encrypt things, 99% of people wouldn't know how to. So my point still stands.

Lives can be ruined by exposing private messages, website visited etc., so Wikileaks dropped a lot of notches in my opinion.
They don't need to sue to defend their trademark.
Thanks to Android I've been writing a ton of Java code lately and, with a good IDE, it's not really that bad.

It should steal a few tricks from C# though. If it adopted the var keyword and real lambdas, and something like LINQ, it would actually be a fairly pleasant language to work with.
> I'd be more interested in reading on well-rehearsed, current predictions about Java.

I predict Java-the-language will stick around for at least another decade, if not for the huge enterprise codebases and the years invested in Java training, it would be because of Android. The biggest mobile platform of the moment is Android, and it's completely focussed on Java (whether that's a good thing is a whole different discussion).

Without Android, I think Java-the-language would fade very quickly, because IMO you can't possible assert the language is better in any way, for any kind of purpose, compared to the many alternatives. It's archaic, verbose, unnecessarily restrictive, misses most of the more modern language features, or bolted them on like ugly warts, it is not a very good RAD language because you need so much boilerplate, etc. In my experience (I've written about 100k lines of Java, many multiples of that in C, C++, Delphi, Python, Objective-C and PHP), Java is without doubt the least pleasant language to write.

As for Java-the-platform, I think that part of Java will not go away quickly. The JVM is actually very good, and the Java JDK frameworks are extensive, well-documented and well-known. New languages on top of the JVM, that allow leveraging the JDK frameworks will remain very popular for a long time, for good reasons.
I agree. Making a turn like Office did with the ribbon interface was a bold, commendable move. Sadly (Libre/Open)Office can't follow suit unless they design and develop a good alternative to it, which is not an easy task. And because of patents, they couldn't simply build upon the ribbon UX.
Once you like the page and revisit the page, it does not detect that you've already liked the page.

This is a Facebook limitation.
I suppose it depends on your perspective. Obviously many orders of magnitude more useful code has been written in COBOL and C++ than in Smalltalk and Lisp. If the designers of COBOL and C++ set out to make languages that other people could use, then they succeeded spectacularly.
As said above, they don't need to sue to defend it.
It's not personal if you broadcast it unencrypted more than a few meters, sorry.
there's an apostrophe before the "s" in "Masters" that is stripped out by the HN code for some reason. either add that or go to http://jeffreypaulwheeler.com/ and select the link "The abc Conjecture" near the start of "Papers Section".
What I find amusing is that Apple has almost certainly just raised the profile of a.pl and given them a boost.

In the UK online food delivery is very competitive and businesses like this come and go fairly frequently. As soon as supermarkets get involved in home delivery these companies all start struggling.

I think it is fairly obvious a.pl has nothing to do with Apple or their brand. If Apple had waiting there was a less than insignificant chance the company would run out steam anyway..
Totally expected this to be funded by DARPA
Shinichi Mochizuki's homepage is worth a look :)
http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/top-english.html
Once you have an account, they can start contacting you, and increase the probability of you participating/contributing content/inviting your friends.
Depends on your skills. Heroku is cheap, but when you start using addons price goes up, in comparison with a vps. I'm a happy Linode user but then again my infrastructure is simple. Spent a few hours configuring everything, but now deploy only takes me a couple of minutes. Good enough for my needs.
>He didn't have a base and support in other countries. He didn't have an army of thousands backing him up.

The Norway massacre is dissimilar, but these points here are the same. There is no, and never was a "global terrorist network". That's all fantasy to sell more useless war to american citizens.
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Added to my list of things to try before I die. I would, however, suggest they should be called 'greens' ;]
There you go with some data for desktop OSes. Slightly more OSX users than Linux though. Still not a significant amount.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-PL-monthly-201108-201208-bar
Show HN: Sleepio - how I cured my insomnia, turned into software.
Where do you find Go in 2012. It is also sponsored by a large organization.
I think you captured the essence very nicely there: Java is the not-really-that-bad language.

It's not very powerful and it lacks many useful features.

On the other hand, you can do almost anything with it eventually and it's simple enough that stupid syntax mistakes are relatively rare in Java code.

It's a solid tool for a journeyman, and a crude instrument for a master. But most people are never going to be masters, and most of those who will be one day aren't masters yet.
I'm not sure I follow, what's pathetic about remembering the past? I still see stories about Columbine, VT shootings, and 9/11. Today is 9/11, what'd you expect? My children will undoubtedly learn about 9/11 and probably be reminded on 9/11s of the future. There's nothing wrong with this, it's called history.
Then again, being Exxon hasn't harmed Exxon's bottomline.
Granted, consumer goods might be a whole different ballgame.
The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East
Yes, it is. If someone leaves their journal lying in a coffee shope, I won't read it. If my neighbor leaves their Wi-Fi open, I won't hack it. If someone is talking a few meters away, I won't use eavesdropping device to listen to them, and if someone sends an unencrypted communication, I won't read it just because I have the technical ability to do so.

May I am slightly mixing my definition of personal with private, but where is the respect for other people?

"It's not personal if you broadcast it unencrypted" is the same line of thought as "she was asking to get raped". Just my opinion.
After a lot of iterative development and rigorous clinical testing, we yesterday released Sleepio - an automated, online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) course for poor sleep. Would much appreciate the wise views of HN, positive and negative!
Right, because "experience in algebra, established reputation in field, and familiarity with communication of math" can be acquired by anyone with only a modicum of smarts.

I think you are underestimating just how intricate and challenging understanding a proof can be. Especially one of this length and by someone of this standing.
The first two bullet points are basically the same one, and not a panacea. Outsourcing still requires management. These people aren't your employees, but they're still working for you. You've essentially outsourced the HR administration along with the design work / translation work / usability testing / whatever. You're still paying for it.

A lower employee headcount is a means to an end, not an end in itself. It would be nice if the article could clarify what the net advantages are, rather than the gross advantages.
> but when you have multiple applications writing to the same relations

... then you're doing it wrong.
Something perhaps worth pointing out: modern tooling (issue tracking, source control, automated tests, continuous integration, etc.) make it easier and easier to extract productive work from mediocre developers, even at scale. One of the things it has taken me the longest to understand in my career is that you can build incredible things with sufficient effort, even if everything at every level is done half-assed.
2009: http://www.cio.com/article/504167/Sour_Apples_Apple_and_Wool...

2011: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8858333/Apple-ta...

In general: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Trademark...

Anyone noticing a pattern here?
"You're doing thing wrong!" says person selling new method for doing things.

I think it's slightly perverse that no browser has attempted to offer a method for uploading reduced-size photos. I know it's a new set of patents to trample over but this is a problem that has existed for years that has only been able to use messy plugins to workaround.

Edit: For clarity I'm talking about extending the <file type="input" /> tag to include extra attributes for specifying the maximum dimensions of an image. To me this isn't any weirder than limiting mime-type (which you can through the accept attribute).
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Email overload? Its your email OCD.
Is this a Great Startup Video?
It's a supermarket; they're an electronics company. There is no possibility of confusion. They wouldn't have a case even against a supermarket chain just opened in the States named 'Apple'. (That's not to say they wouldn't win, because money makes people nod their heads.)

Apple is awful.
Oh, don't worry, it'll get those features, just give it another decade or two.
In case anyone was wondering what the "hate you" messages are:

2001-09-11 22:00:36 Arch [1050490] C ALPHA ||we love you...the event mkt team..not sp..we hate you...|58

2001-09-11 15:42:56 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA I HATE you!!!!

005351897's conversation seemed to be the only one that seemed like a genuine expression of hate, but reading through the whole conversation it seems to be meant in jest, and a monologue about a horoscope:

2001-09-11 09:00:55 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA GEMINI: It's now time to decide where you want to take your affairs of the heart. The sky is the limit, if you so desire. Hmmmm....sounds promising!

2001-09-11 09:02:40 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA GEMINI: It seems that others are to

2001-09-11 09:02:42 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA o self-absorbed to fully appreciate what you have to offer...how appropriate.

2001-09-11 14:12:41 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA GEMINI: Selfish thoughts intrude Tuesday through Thursday as y

2001-09-11 14:12:42 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA ou focus almost exclusively on what you want and are quite vocal in your displeasure when you don't get it.

2001-09-11 15:42:56 Skytel [005351897] C ALPHA I HATE you!!!!

--

Huh, I kept reading through other conversations. One person was angrily breaking up with someone via pager, but had their anger turn to remorse and desperation when they heard the news, only for the anger and frustration to return when they knew their ex was okay.
Tried to view it at college but there's no sound on the PC - any chance of subtitles/text only?
http://www.spidersweb.pl/2012/09/apple-trolluje-polsce-moze-...

Sorry only Polish
Is this something extraordinary?
Cube Drone on The Value of Unit Testing
Are you American? Not being critical but I notice a lot of Americans seem to think that HN is only in America.
So many devices, so little (security) policy
I disagree that "the terrorists won". If you actually look at what Osama claimed as the reason in his videos, "all" they wanted is for the USA/foreign forces to get off their land (oh, and for Israel to not exist anymore). It was never an "attack on our freedom".

In the end, everybody lost(except for the military industrial complex): Americans lost freedoms, and quite a few more foreign forces entered the Arabic countries.
Like god?
From what I've seen the last I tried Java, there's another thing as well.

Java APIs are way more clunky than C#

In C# they're usually done in a natural way, in Java you have all this Rube Goldberg machinery to do something simple.

And if you try to tell me "they are much more flexible" I'll call BS because I never seen something that could be done in Java (except trivial limitations) that couldn't be done in C# or Python or something else, probably in an easier way
I've watched this startup progress from the early customer/problem discovery stage to MVP, validation and beyond. The execution and commitment involved has been an inspiration. Congrats guys. Very impressive.
Apple, please go on:
http://www.nadgryzione.pl/
http://www.ap.pl
...
>How do you tell if AQ and its various offshoots have been defeated?

Well, how do you tell they exist at all? Because some government that's taking your rights claim they do. Yes, some actual terrorists did 911. And since then? Nothing. The only "evidence" we have of any activity at all are some clear entrapment cases by the FBI. If there really are active terrorists groups trying to attack the US why are the only cases we actually hear about clearly entrapment?