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I do think that the popularity of MySQL, however, owes a lot to it being used by non-engineers for simple web apps, though ;-)
Am I the only one who thought this was going to let me run git commands?
I've been a co-founder a couple of times, but never a CEO. At one startup (not a co-founder, but was around it before it started), we took on a new CEO (new to us, first time CEO to him) to try and get the company directed the right way. For a time we did. About a year after that we hit a snag and things started going south.

Sometime during all of this the CEO took a pay cut, and then simply checked out (BAD BAD BAD). We ended up in a crisis and with nobody at the helm to guide us through it the crisis got worse. Executive decisions were made, but without a corporate officer to direct liability to, things were very "sketchy". Eventually it got so bad the investors decided to sell the company off and recoup what they could, but needed the CEO to stay on for some legal reasons -- they gave him no pay, he provided no interaction with anybody in the company. It was beyond unpleasant.

Talking with him later on he admitted he was embarrassed things had gone the way they did, but justified his behavior that half pay means half time and no pay means no time. There was some realization that with a few simple decisions early on (when it was just a snag) probably would have resulted in no pay cut and full time, plus a graceful exit. But hindsight is 20/20 and it's an experience that he and the management learned tremendously from.

TL;DR The real problem was that when times were good, he was the captain of a proud, well run sailing ship at full sail. When we ended up in a storm, his psychology told him to take cover, even as the ship sank into the abyss.
I agree with you in that the story of De Beers is pretty well known. But - for reasons outlined in the article - the intrinsic linking of diamonds to the act of romance and marriage is well embedded in society. So even if people know it is essentially meaningless (in the true sense of rarity) as far as society goes, they have a social status.

Any society is full of irrational practices and purchases. Throwing rice at a wedding? What's that about? $5 cards to wish someone well? What on earth? Yet these are all accepted by society as societal norms, and even when the companies have conspired to create them (or at least magnify their importance) it is what it is. In a form of social proof, nobody wants to be the first to break with the tradition, which is how most tradition stays. Same goes for Christmas - which is nominally a Christian religious festival, but, at least in the USA, widely adopted by people of all religious and aetheist beliefs. Because nobody wants to be the grouch who doesn't hand out presents.

Interestingly the article mentions the introduction of Argyle diamonds - a friend of mine, while travelling in remote WA bought a large diamond at a fraction of the retail cost, direct from either the mine itself or a local retailer. He kept this for 15 years, which was the time period between purchase and eventually finding someone to marry (and getting it put into a ring).

But as to why the introduction of new sources hasn't drastically affected prices, I think that any new cartel or operator entering the market is just as likely to free-ride the hard work of De Beers. If De Beers spends significant money and influence maintaining a monopoly, and therefore creating monopoly pricing, any new entrant rationally would be well served to restrict supply so that they can free-ride on the monopoly prices without any of the costs of maintaining the monopoly.
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Amazing write up - quite informative - interesting how non-CEO's do not understand and greatly underestimate the value a good CEO brings to the equation.

It's easy to talk about the CEO when he is not listening or present... but they can't imagine the work behind the scenes.
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Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.

Am I the only one getting this error?
At Bell Labs, Rob switched acme and sam from black and white to color in the development version of Plan 9, called Brazil, in the late fall of 1997. I used Brazil on my laptop as my day-to-day work environment, but I was not a developer. I remember writing Rob an email saying how much I enjoyed having color but that it would be nice to have options to set the color scheme. He wrote a polite but firm response back explaining his position. He had worked with a graphic designer to choose a visually pleasing color palette. He said he believed strongly that it was important for the author of a system to get details like this right instead of defaulting on that responsibility by making every user make the choice instead. He said that if the users revolted he'd find a new set of colors, but that options wouldn't happen.

It was really a marvelous email, polite yet firm and a crystal clear explanation of his philosophy. Over the years I have from time to time spent hours trying to find a copy of that email. It is lost.

But I can say definitively, both as a matter of philosophy and because I did the lion's share of the open source release work for both systems since color went in, that there have never been color theme files in the Plan 9 distribution, nor in plan9port.
I don't think anyone has ever proposed that Android couldn't be beautiful but rather great design comes secondary to iOS. As far as innovative products go, I'd argue that this is still very much the case.

Flipboard set a standard for beautiful news applications. Path reimagined what social could be on mobile and made numerous UI innovations. Instagram took a novel concept and made photosharing exciting to a new audience. Square showed off the increasing real business viability by making payments accessible to anyone with a phone. All these apps weren't available on Android for some time. Sure they are now but this far more a matter of increasing market share than a change of opinions and it continues to hold true as we see well-designed apps like Paper start iOS only. Android is by no means the epicenter of creativity on mobile and though beautiful, the ports largely still have substandard experiences than their iOS counterparts.

In my opinion this is a result of equal parts hardware and audience. Android may be on more devices as a whole but many of the devices are not even remotely competitive with top-tier smartphones. They are sold with the intention of being budget friendly and thus it becomes a hassle to acquire the additional devices, adapt interfaces to the numerous screen sizes on them, and adjust for performance limitations. I also believe that the design of the iPhone naturally attracts great designers. Android has a reputation of throwing good hardware into poorly designed phones with cheap materials and inferior build quality - the future is just not as cool when you need to interact with plastic buttons. Lastly, I believe the iPhone audience is naturally more in tune to seek out great designed products. The openness that appeals to Android customers creates an expectation that applications should be free. There is a decreased interest in browsing the marketplace and many of the most popular apps are just free copycats of popular iPhone applications.
yeah me too. then i realized this would do for a web interface
you shouldn't have to have a minute or even second considering the idiosyncracies of the underlying language...
Yahoo Removes Registered Trademark (R) From Logo
If balance is required, than I suspect it will there in its own due time. There is absolutely no reason to force it.

I remember missing out on a college scholarship because I wasn't hispanic, and while I didn't let that stop me from pursuing my education, I'm still insulted by this sort of reverse discrimination.

Why is this OK?
I always get a kick out of Stonebraker selling NewSQL/VoltDB as the solution to this sort of problem. He provides a triangle where at the vertices are VoltDB, column stores, and NoSQL.

However, what he always fails to mention is that some of the most important OLTP that happens is in enterprise ERP systems, and these involve every kind of workload of all of these. Yes, you could probably get some additional performance gains by splitting up your ERP into VoltDB, Vertica, and CouchDB with connectors between them but why?

And relational data doesn't even start to get moderately big until you are in the TB range. This is true even of ERP apps.

Millions of rows are a problem? What are you using? Microsoft Access?
This title is a bit misleading. This exploit will not be able to fully exploit anyone running on Vista or Windows 7, since Internet Explorer renderers run in low integrity processes on those operating systems (essentially, they are sandboxed). No one has released a second exploit that would escalate privileges outside of this sandbox.

If you are running IE on Windows XP and you've taken no other steps to protect yourself (like running EMET, SandboxIE, or another mitigation), then it's your own damn fault that you got owned. On the other hand, take a look at how many exploits for IE that Rapid7/Metasploit has that support Windows 7: 0.
Am I the only one who doesn't want to hear feedback when I report a bug?

Seriously, more often than not the feedback is an excuse why they aren't going to fix it. Look, if you aren't going to fix the bug then you aren't; so be it; your choice. But don't tell me your excuse. I don't want to hear it. It will just annoy me and tempt me to get into an argument and waste both our time. Just throw my bug report in the recycle bin and we can both get on with our lives.

(Mind you there has to be a feedback capability for the rarer occasions when the programmer needs to ask for clarification about how to reproduce the bug.)
The SDK is a collection of stubs (none of the methods have an implementation), which is why the compatibility library exists as an add-on. The library does fall back to the native implementation on versions of the OS that support it for whatever you're using the library for.
No need to add identifiable details, but what sorts of things were part of "we hit a snag and things started going south."

I can imagine someone checking out in the ways you describe, but only in the face of mind-melting obstacles, the kind that cause people to lose all hope and throw in the towel once spotted.
It's almost kind of endearing,that even digital tools still have bouts of human error, albeit to a lesser extent than something like vintage/analogue electronics.
At this point I'd settle for impulse and artificial gravity. That should be most of what is needed to get people to Mars and the moon.
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I am curious about this too. After disabling javascript and fiddling with this for about 1.5 minutes in Web Inspector I was able to get it to behave like the JS implementation reasonably reliably. It would only have required some CSS cleanup to move the icons etc. back into place properly.
They're working on it: Check out the search box in the right side of this screenshot from a github blog post a week or so ago:

https://a248.e.akamai.net/camo.github.com/367fe330bc1ad4431b...

The post itself mentioned: "Spoiler alert: you might notice a few things in this screenshot that haven’t fully shipped yet."
Yes, that's still my mouse of choice. On a Mac you need a 3rd-party tool like 'USB Overdrive' to remap the buttons correctly. On Linux you can use xmodmap.
Interesting, ScienceDaily reported on this press release:

http://actu.epfl.ch/news/blue-brain-project-accurately-predi...

Which is dated today.
Virgin Mobile Shrugs as Coder Warns Accounts Are Easily Hijacked
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No, but I do export TERM=dumb and then complain to authors of programs that still emit escape sequences.
Atlantic articles that get upvoted on hn are generally pretty long.
No, but the indentation can be turned on globally using the -a flag. I always run 'acme -a'.
"But as to why the introduction of new sources hasn't drastically affected prices, I think that any new cartel or operator entering the market is just as likely to free-ride the hard work of De Beers. If De Beers spends significant money and influence maintaining a monopoly, and therefore creating monopoly pricing, any new entrant rationally would be well served to restrict supply so that they can free-ride on the monopoly prices without any of the costs of maintaining the monopoly."

Perhaps, but it's extremely hard (and not very lucrative) to follow the leader when the leader exercises such dramatic buyer and seller power in a marketplace -- unless you plan to compete on price, or to compete by tapping an entirely different market segment. Perhaps prices are much lower in certain markets, but if that were the case, we probably would have heard about the arbitrage opportunities by now, and commodities traders would have closed that gap in a heartbeat.

The different-segment theory is interesting, but it seems very hard to fathom without some sort of non-compete arrangement in place -- be it in X or Y geography, or for Z consumer segment, etc.

My best guess is that this is a two-sided story. There's a major demand factor involved (perhaps in Asia), coupled with the likelihood that the two cartels aren't directly competing. B has to go along with A if there's a price increase, because we know that the supply isn't actually low. There are enough diamonds to keep up with surging demand.
>1. Software gets large / complex to get meaning full work done. I am all about data consistency but at some point it is time to break things up into services and not have a single database.

This is true. Managing complexity is always an important task. I am not sure that NoSQL solves this however. Also the best way to break things up is to loosely couple things, and this requires to some extent that you have ACID compliance. A good RDBMS, like PostgreSQL or Oracle, will provide tools for managing that loose coupling.

>"2. If the software is popular enough everyone is running to use NoSQL (cache is NoSQL)."

Like proverbial lemmings over a cliff....

>"3. Clearly it is not a good storage solution either because for example in an address book nested list greatly simplifies everything. (right tool for the job)"

Funny, I thought nesting was what WITH RECURSIVE was for....

I am not saying there aren't use cases for MongoDB or reasons to switch some applications. For example I can think of a few really cool apps, like maybe a network back-plane for a huge LDAP directory. Also content management might be a good fit. But despite your years of experience, it doesn't sound like you have really looked at how to solve these with good RDBMS's.....
You have a better imagination than I do, then. I don't see how you can make acme run in text mode and still be acme.
Oh no, he reduced the attack space from 20% to 80%! Oh wait…
EDIT: Seems we both edited our posts at the same time

An edit-off at 10 paces. Draw!

I think the whole thing is fascinating. From a marketing perspective it's amazing how De Beers manufactured demand for diamonds out of near nothingness.

it seems odd that the cartels wouldn't go head to head

This is an example of mutually assured destruction at play. The big players can't go head-to-head selling what is essentially a commodity good, without price cutting which would eventually lead to diamonds being sold for their true value. None of the players are interested in that.
A lot of people responding to this thread do not understand relativity. The OP is correct, the fundamental problem is causality, relativity and FTL do not mix. The common way of saying it is that you can have two of the three: FTL, causality, or relativity. You cannot have all three. Here is a very nice explanation of why:

http://thebestforumever.com/community/threads/tachyon-pistol...

Also, I've never understood how the Novikov self-consistency principle would work in reality. Causality violations can be a lot simpler than killing your grandfather. Say, for example, you set up a pool table with a pool ball and hit it through a time machine such that it went back in time and hit itself, making it miss the time machine? Would the pool ball be suddenly acted on by some invisible force? Would it explode? Would the universe just end? The whole scenario seems so implausible that addressing this theoretical concern is a lot more relevant than worrying about the energy levels required to manipulate space time.
>Plus, it's sparkly.

Indeed - a lot of diamond knockers haven't really looked at a nice diamond in the sunlight. They are true wonders of light refraction.

In your vacation example - it's impossible for the casual onlooker to know that the tan and relaxed demeanour came from a trip to Bora Bora, rather than a golfing trip to Arizona. The important point for the diamond wearer is the the long-term appearance of having found someone willing to waste money on a useless item.

A large part of the use of the diamond is the social proof - any casual observance of the behaviour of females comparing engagement rings. Yes, it is totally irrational. Yes, it is manipulated by marketing. Yes, it is what it is. If you go mental at every irrational (as far as the purchase goes) act caused by marketing controlling social norms, well, you'll go insane. Human nature is obsessed with status symbols - always has and always will - these impulses are there for marketers to interpret and direct. Always have and always will.
That's just not true.

As others have noted, plenty of these apps are using the ActionBar (which is a default widget starting with 3.0, with an unofficial, open-source compatibility library) and plenty are using Fragments (also standard starting with 3.0, with an official compatibility library).

Moreover, many of these apps (e.g. Boid, Pocket, Papermill) are explicitly Holo-themed, so, at a minimum, they're using the default widgets for design guidance even when they're not using them directly (for compatibility or other reasons).
Wow, absolutely brilliant. I can't believe this article popped up on HN's front page tonight. I just got back from looking at engagement rings with my girlfriend.

I've known about this monopoly for a while, and so has she. Heck, one of the first movies we watched together when we first started dating 7 years ago was Blood Diamond. Here's the conversation we had while in the jewellery store tonight.

Me: "Sweety, I really don't want to buy you a diamond. I really would rather buy you something that at least has some more value associated with it, like a sapphire."

Her: "Well, I've always pictured a diamond ring. That's what everyone gets."

Me: "Well, what do you like about the diamond that the sapphire doesn't give you?"

Her: "I like the sparkle."

Me: "Ok, that's fair. What about moissanite? (Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite) It's supposedly even more sparkly and brilliant than diamonds."

Her: "What's it made of?"

Me: "You know how diamond is just carbon? Moissanite is silicon and carbon in the same type of crystal structure."

Her: "And it's natural?"

Me: "Well, it can occur naturally, but it's extremely rare. So the ones you buy are usually created in a lab, but are more brilliant than a diamond, but actually cost less. I can apparently get a 1.5 carat stone for $800."

Her: (annoyed) "I don't want something fake!"

Me: "Oh, so it's not about the sparkle then?"

I swear, De Beers has probably pulled off the greatest marketing stunt in the history of humanity. The fact that it's so ingrained in our minds, to the point where a smart, educated, and informed person like my girlfriend still wants a diamond even after knowing all the issues with them, is fascinating.

Honestly, as a community of people in the startup ecosystem, we could stand to learn a thing or two here.
It's too bad there is no magic statistics machine that we could ask about carats and divorce rates.
Even for ad-hoc reporting, the relational model has limits. For some requirements specialized structures are a better choice; thus we have mdolap.

RDBMSes were designed for an era of spinning platters, data volumes in the megabytes-to-gigabytes, and small volumes of long-running ad-hoc queries. It's remarkable how far we've been able to push a general-purpose design but it's starting to burst the seams.

Do you want to design for easy reporting or easy scaling? There is no universal right answer because it's different for every app. There are times when I really wish I could run a SQL query. On the other hand, I spend zero time maintaining my (appengine) datastore and it automatically scales to any data or traffic volume. And I have a heavily polymorphic system which would be a nightmare in SQL.

I don't think that overlap is as big as you do.
Ah, I see. The problem is that I'm an idiot and was :fixing the wrong div. For some reason it was collapsing ingloriously upon itself. Must've been a 3 AM hackjob.

Also, I'm gonna shrink the header for all of the content pages. Good call.

Thanks again for the help and feedback!
Let's discuss the requirements for an ideal marriage proposal gift:

1. Provides a physical, wearable symbol of commitment.

2. Is impossible to resell.

3. Represents a significant economic expenditure.

Mutual tattoos, for instance, satisfy 1 and 2 much better than diamonds, while compromising significantly on 3. But what 3 is really getting at is a demonstration of commitment, and on that count tattoos are even better. You might be able to scrape up more money to buy a ring and propose to another partner later, but unlike diamonds, tattoos really are forever.

The problem with diamonds is that, especially if you follow the old guideline that an engagement ring should cost two months' salary (!), they only demonstrate to a gold digger how much wealth she will be able to extort in the future. Besides, gold diggers will generally enjoy diamonds purely as a status symbol and will generally waste your money on dumb shit that's more similar to diamonds than, say, mutual funds. Her inability to resell the diamond doesn't really factor much into her consideration; the diamond already is what she wants, not the sentiment behind it or the economic power to spend your wealth any more sensibly than that.
I completely agree. This whole NoSQL/RDBMS situation is programming language debate being played out over again.

And just like not every programming language works for every situation. Neither does every database.
I don't agree at all. Maybe it shouldn't be categorized as a perk but many companies purchase standard equipment and expect exceptional performance. There's nothing wrong with telling people you recognize that they need exceptional tools to do an exceptional job. It certainly doesn't mean they aren't valued.
Sure. But if a person or a photo data object goes missing ?

Facebook has different data stores for each of their features so I imagine the loss of a person would be pretty nasty as would a photo data object that multiple people have tagged or commented on.

My point is that when you are the size of Facebook, Twitter etc a loss of data in 0.001% of cases equates to a LOT of data and relationships.
That is a horrible phrasing of a question. Talk about inflammatory!

Anyway, to answer your question, it has nothing to do with desktop linux but rather hardware. Chromebook, most Android devices, Roku etc typically have hardware DRM enabled that allows Netflix to run on the device.