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At least MS is making some improvements. The big advantage of dealing with open source projects is that you can steal from other open source probjects, while MS can't touch a single line of mozilla or webkit or v8 code since it will be forced to make their own engine open source!

Ah sweet irony.
It would be interesting to also see how much RAM was used to run Hello World, but then I'd want to also know how much was shared with other programs, shared between instances of this program, and not shared... it would probably get out of hand.
I work for Microsoft:

I don't even use the same build tools, version control system, or issue tracking database as the people in the office next to mine. As of a recent re-org, my next door neighbors and I report to the same manager. Even before the re-org, we developed complementary products which work towards the same set of goals.

I have also worked for Google:

Believe me, the pervasiveness of Google's infrastructure sharing is unique.
Where citizenship is a condition of employment by statute, that condition is usually exempted under anti-discrimination legislation. For example, my little brother is an aerospace engineer designing for the JSF project - "Are you a citizen?" was pretty much the first interview question.
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Amazing! If only Knuth could appreciate this progress in computer science and software engineering! May be in volume 7 he can write about Web Browsers, DOM and AJAX… he can even drop its MMIX and rewrote all his books using Javascript, the real assembler of the Web!

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Whoa. I'm not sure where your enthusiasm is coming from. It's nice to have simple support for another language in Apache, but I don't see how this changes much in the big picture.

Lua may be nice (so I've heard, I've never actually used it) but it's not orders of magnitude better than Python, Ruby, or even PHP. You can't run Lua in the vast majority of browsers. If you want a unified language on server and client, your best bet is probably JavaScript.

<shamelessplug>I'm currently working on making the state of server side JavaScript a little better with Jack, which is like Rack/WSGI for JavaScript: http://jackjs.org </shamelessplug>
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Your missing the main point.

The comment being responded to is BS. 'Even modorate muslims actually believe that womean sink.' That's pure BS. You might encounter it in end cases, isolated, uneducated, poor or ultra-religious sectors but on the whole it's BS.

It is just like Europeans (& others) citing Americans that think the world is flat or don't notice when you swap Russia & N. Korea on a map. "Even American geologists think the world is 5000 years old."

All these upmods haven't been delivered because the level of insight or quality of argument. It's because attacks of this kind are easy wins in 2009. It was a (probably made-up) anecdote: Even moderate muslims thinking that woman can't swim.

Just like I've said multiple times already, culture isn't sacred. Just because it's cultural doesn't mean something should be tolerated. But giving infinite rope to any 'muslim women are oppressed' line is garbage. All up, dress codes are down the list of worries.
Get Cloudcity, made by the same guy who made Baghira, Thomas Lubking. http://cloudcity.sourceforge.net/. Best KDE theme, period. You have to compile it from source, but it's definitely my favorite KDE4 theme. Much cleaner than Oxygen. I just wish the KDE guys would do more to support it.
Well, I think we're using the term design in a couple of senses. The sites you provide (and dozens of others, really there are a lot of awesome sites running on Drupal) are solid, clear, high quality websites. They have good visual designs and layouts, and they have managed to scale well. This is true.

They aren't groundbreaking websites, however. They do their job well and all of those sites are successful because their owners/content was successful before their current drupal incarnations were developed. I'm also aware that there are some sites that have launched their 1.0's as drupal sites, I think it's pretty safe to say that these sites are familiar conceptually (like digg, like slashdot, like etc.) In that sense they don't have "amazing" designs.

Perhaps we should rephrase this as "you will never create an innovative desgin in Drupal." I'm generally in favor of Drupal, but I think this is probably the truth.

It's also not a bad thing. Websites need to excel at presenting information above all else, and drupal sites provide a lot of power to make this happen. Most websites are adjuncts to other things that organizations and individuals are doing, and they don't need to "shift the paradigm of web design and architecture." Lots of people need websites like this, and drupal's ideal for these cases.

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I think the "you'll never create a successful startup in Drupal," statement requires a bit of a clarification, but it's probably mostly true: given the constraints and assumptions of the platform, you're unlikely to create a new kind of website in Drupal that will succeed on the Internet. The next boom of new websites (like blogs in 2000, or social networking sites in 2004, or webapps in 2008) isn't going to be built in in Drupal first.

But it will be built in drupal second (maybe,) Drupal is great for making custom instances of websites that are targeted at niche/specific audiences. And that's a huge chunk of websites. It doesn't make a lot of sense to build highly local sites like "digg-chicago" and "digg-Sao.Paulo" all in custom-built perl or ruby based sites, when something like Drupal promises to make development and maintenance much more simple in the long run. These kinds of sites have a great deal of worth and potential.

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As for lean and scalable.

Totally the truth. Drupal can scale, but it's a pain in the ass. Which means, a sliver of the huge gains made in development times and maintenance times is absorbed by increased architecting costs. Lots of memcache and hardware can fix this problem. But if you get to the point where you get to that level of demand, presumably you'd have to have a sysadmin on staff anyway, so I'll concede the point, but I think it may really be a draw.
Why I would not use IE8:

Not because it is by MS (hey windows works, and is a heluvalot cheaper than mac [though you can argue you get what you pay for])

Not because it is by MS (yet again) I don't hate MS just because they are Microsoft.

Not because it is not cross-platform. Chrome is not cross-platform (yet). More importantly if it makes my windows experience good, then fuck other platforms.

Not even because of the memory requirements. If I browse the web I want my computer 100% used up to make the absolute best experience for myself. If I want a browser and play a video game I would hope my OS can page-swap (IE8 was supposed to have a huge memory footprint).

Why? Because of plugins. Making plugins for firefox is encouraged, supported, free, and more importantly firefox is built on being customizeable. IE... not so much. And since most geeks and technology enthusiasts don't use IE I won't resort to hoping the corporations who want to build IE plugins to stay competitive to be my sources for features.

Sure the argument can be "why use plugins, the browser should do what you want" but that one dies rather quickly. MS is realizing why they are losing market share. Once IE6 dies it's market share will drop even further. The only reason why my company uses IE6 all over is because of some crappy old programs that just work on IE6. So why the hell would they want to upgrade? They don't even use those for regular internet browsing.

Now a direct critique to the claim that IE8 loads faster. How can something that has an over 100 meg memory footprint to just start up (last numbers I have) start faster than something with just a few megs unless it is pre-fetched by windows vista on startup, in which case this is not a fair comparison, thats more like cheating.
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Counterargument: Obtaining the usually-excellent reliability and stability that Google usually offers would be time-consuming, difficult, and a distraction. Sure I could set up a server with Postfix et al, but there's no way I'd be more reliable than Google without investing a substantial amount of time, money, and energy.

I don't want to spend my time maintaining a mail server. Let someone else do that.
It almost smells like a troll. If not it's a bizarre glimpse into the psyche of a enterprise class NNPP--not just damaging code directly, but operating at the strategic level, steering the whole organization toward the jagged rocks of utter failure. I'll bet when it was all over, years later, he still thought it was a fundamentally good idea.
My school also has an intermittent game theory course, in economics. I think it is an underappreciated field in undergraduate curricula.
a) A simple idea doesn't infer a simplistic idea.

b) Building a company is like building a baseball team...

Which is pretty much exactly what the article says:

What if you were hiring a receptionist? What spare-time activities would suggest to you that a candidate might be a star?

Well, what do star receptionists do? Don't think of all the million things they might do. Just think of the one or two most important things. Perhaps the best ones are super friendly and well organized. Well, if a candidate likes to spend his spare time alone reading a book, he probably won't be your star. But if he throws a dinner party once a week, you'll know you've got a winner.

Greg Davis, my friend the fishing guide, is on the water fishing with clients six days a week. Can you guess what he does on his one day off?
Look at the current patent trends. The first company to paten an idea that having people interact via avatars interact in an online world managed by a server was not the first company to come up with the idea. However they are now suing every MMORPG on the market because any game in which users chat with eachother using avatars violate the patent.

Apple is doing such things as well patenting things like "a 3d desktop" they don't have to do much just describe a rough idea of one.

OOOOOO and my favorite is the company who is suing Apple, MS, Palm, Google due to their exclusive patent on operating systems. I am sure they invented OSes it just a few years ago.
I think pre-fab homes is a wonderful idea and wish it would take off more. Imagine if we built cars like we built homes:

1) They'd be hand-assembled by local artisans...

2) ... in your driveway.

3) The median production run would be 1 vehicle.

4) The design would be done from scratch every single time.

5) There would be no Blue Book, because no two cars worth buying are identical. If you want to know what your car is worth, you have to hire an appraiser. His job is to go around the neighborhood looking at all the cars, identify those that are "comparable" to your car, and then see how much they have sold for recently. Then, after having done that, he picks a random number. Stick a dollar sign in front of it and that is what your car is worth.

6) Your new car will need to be exhaustively safety tested, since it has never been built before. Don't worry, your local government has a body whose only job is to promulgate and enforce safety codes for cars built within its jurisdiction. These codes are incompatible with the codes for another car driven a mere six blocks from yours.

7) Economies of scale? Hah!

8) There would be so much uncertainty in selling cars, because so much of them was one-off, that you'd need two teams of overpaid professionals to actually sell one. (One team would include, at a minimum, a broker, a lawyer, and an appraiser.)

9) You might not have the foggiest clue of industrial design, but don't worry, you'll be asked to make all sorts of decisions on the design of your automobile anyway. From "How many cupholders do you want?" to "Here are forty-seven types of available sheet glass -- what do you want your windows made of?"

10) Essentially all the used cars on the markets will have been built as cluelessly as #9 suggests.

11) You would never know the exact price of a car before commissioning it. Car artisans would routinely miss price and delivery targets. They use the excuse that you had no clue what you were doing when you gave them the directions that they asked for, which is true as far as it goes.
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Match.com started a free site to get plentyoffish's traffic, so plentyoffish starts a paid site to go after some match.com traffic, it's a pretty smart move in my opinion.

From what I can tell, while free and paid dating sites are largely the same, their market is different; most people if they can afford it and want to pay will choose Match.com due to its popularity; some may also setup a profile on plentyoffish and the other free sites, but since they paid for Match, they'll likely use it more.

Markus knows exactly what traffic goes out via his ads to third party paid dating sites, and how many of those never return, so if he can make that traffic and sales his, it can only be a smart move!
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> "You can't respond with the cliché brainwash argument either. Culture is always brainwash."

Your logic is bad.

I more-or-less agree that "culture is always brainwash." The logical follow-up is not, "Let's therefore accept all cultures that don't immediately, viscerally violate our sense of right and wrong"; it's, "Wow, culture is fundamentally really messed up! But I don't want to live in a society that eliminates it completely. How much messed-up-ness am I willing to endure to get the benefits of culture -- namely, consistency in what I'm expected to deal with every day, social stability, a sense of unity with my neighbors and countrymen, a sense of heritage, and various intangibles?"

> "I am saying we need to be careful of what we are criticising. A lot of cultural norms are always arbitrary."

So criticize all of them! The problem here is that you're working off the premise that our own cultural norms are somehow above critique, which is simply untrue.

However, I think that, even on close inspection, many of our culture's norms do more good than harm. I honestly think that most Americans would be (marginally) unhappier if it became culturally acceptable in America to walk naked in public (even if we let a generation pass so that there's no cultural shock) -- whereas I'm quite certain that at least a majority of people living in societies that force women to cover themselves and act subservient would be happier if their communities' cultural norms allowed women to act like women of first-world democracies. That's what distinguishes our cultural norms from theirs. And if any of our norms fail the shit test of "does it make life better?," for God's sake let's throw it out.
Knuth doesn't write about a particular programming language for one and what relevance does it have to this story here? What Knuth has written is relevant to programming in general. He has reasons for using MMIX http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/mmix.html. Really you should try reading at least a few chapters from his book.
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Very shrewd move by the KDE people. Realistically, if you want to create a good UI with limited manpower and financial resources, do you try to invent everything from scratch, or do you copy the UI of a competitor that has spent hundreds of millions on usability research? A lot of thought is put behind each design decision at the big software companies; a good rule of thumb is to borrow an idea unless you have a compelling reason to do otherwise. This frees up more developer time and energy to make Linux better in other areas.

Besides, what do you think is so horrible about Vista's UI? I've extensively used both Gnome and KDE, and much prefer Vista's UI. Usability is one of Linux's biggest weak points, IMO.
What a coincidence that Bob Walsh asks that question the same day I write a blog post on the exact same topic (http://blog.fairsoftware.net - startups for software developers inspired by open source).

Entrepreneurs, Bob is interviewing for his new book, so answer!

In our case: brainstorming with a friend, analyzing pain and finding a way around it.
Lua has the nice trait of being tiny, fast, and playing correctly with all the various threading/process models apache supports. Ruby and Python don't.

Mod_wombat (now mod_lua) came into being out of frustration trying to embed ruby, and then python, in apache with the worker or event mpms (multi-threaded).
This would be nice...when I first installed Linux I remember remarking how nice the bread crumbs in Nautilus looked and worked. I don't know if they were the first to have this feature, but they were ahead of Windows in adopting it.
There is, the Kepler folks came up with it, they call it WSAPI.

My main use for mod_lua, right now, is actually not content handlers (regular apps), but things like auth modules, ripping out mod_rewrite, etc. A large news company in atlanta used it for mobile browser sniffing and redirects at the first point in apache's handler chain (the quick_handler), as well.
I 100% agree with you, which is why I use them for email. But if they were to drop my business off the Internet for days at a time and make it impossible for me to get in touch with them, I'd be a little more concerned with that than with sporadic email downtime.
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I don't know why, but I just dont "get" monads. Perhaps playing with Haskell more will help.
History looks backwards, but decisions have to be made looking forwards.

How do you distinguish the case where you do something unpopular, refuse to change it to conform to your users' wishes, and are wrong?
I've been debating putting in a deposit on the foxit, since it seems to be the simplest and most affordable. But since it is coming from a software company(albeit one with a good reputation) it is a gamble.

Another idea worth considering is making Eink based reader yourself. However, a development kit from E-ink is "only" $3,000, at that price one might as well buy all the Eink based readers on the market and dissasemble them.
Scratching an itch: I wanted good backups, and I wasn't satisfied with the options which already existed.
I've thought about these kinds of things often lately. Freedom defending itself, democracy defending itself & such. What should be done about anti-democratic parties in a democratic society? Those kinds of things.

I am coming to the conclusion that you hit a breaking point if this becomes to big an issue. Sure it's ok to handle it one way or another if the above party is at <5%. But once they near the 50% mark, it's game over. You cannot defend democracy or freedom without compromising it.

Same goes in this case. When it's a once a year case, that's one thing. But if you have a large number voluntarily relinquishing freedoms, it is no longer a free state.
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If the comparison held well, then prefabs wouldn't be the only way to go. Large estates also constitute mass production. But they don't seem to have the sweeping advantages that make building to your own design undesirable.
Maybe the problem is that Americans are already bursting at the seams from too much debt and no matter how far you stuff that firehose down the pig's throat it just can't hold any more.

So no matter how much CONgress wants the banks to lend, it just doesn't help.
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The marketing for Azure makes more sense in light of you not having used any of the stuff you were promoting.

Nowhere do you mention any of your competitors, much less compare yourself to them. None of the "tracks" [Web Developers, Corporate Developers, ISVs, Systems Integrators, Business] had anything pertinent, and none of it was remotely useful to anyone to whom cloud computing was more than the cover story of the latest IT Drone Monthly. The copy is littered with grating faux pas, like: "multiple internet protocols, including HTTP, REST, SOAP, and XML".

The only useful information I could find about the offering was from your competitors! -- http://snarfed.org/space/windows+azure+details

PS: use your hour-long edit window to correct your spelling and grammar mistakes
Let me start by saying that for many years I was paid to answer politely to even the most stupid support questions.

That being said, kudos to the bugzilla team for responding in such nice terms. Based on the title of the article, I was expecting a knee-jerk reaction from an open source project.

Instead, I saw very constructive comments from the open source team. Congratulations!

The weird thing is that the original requester seems sincere in his desire to port bugzilla, line by line, from Perl to Java.
Wow! Talk about the explosive effect of Git and GitHub... The Rails video belongs somewhere on GitHub's home page.

Hey, Ilya, here's an idea: Could you parse out tags and overlay them on the video? I could make a guess as to when the 1.2.6 --> 2.0 transition happened based on the activity, but it would be cool to see that information inline with the video.
The meat:

As newspapers go digital, their business model erodes. A 2008 research report from Sanford C. Bernstein & Company explained, “The notion that the enormous cost of real news-gathering might be supported by the ad load of display advertising down the side of the page, or by the revenue share from having a Google search box in the corner of the page, or even by a 15-second teaser from Geico prior to a news clip, is idiotic on its face.” [...]

Aside from providing stability, an endowment would promote journalistic independence. The best-run news organizations insulate reporters from pressures to produce profits or to placate advertisers. But endowed news organizations would be in an ideal situation — with no pressure from stockholders or advertisers at all.

How large an endowment would a newspaper need? The news-gathering operations at The New York Times cost a little more than $200 million a year. Assuming some additional outlay for overhead, it would require an endowment of approximately $5 billion (assuming a 5 percent annual payout rate). Newspapers with smaller newsrooms would require smaller endowments.
Yahoo lost $303M, but that's better than expected
I'd be interested to see a list of non-Google products using it. I've seen lots of presentations on Gears from people like Dion and it looks great but I guess I felt like it would take off more and I don't feel like I've seen that yet.
Why will putting off a PhD make it more difficult? I had lots of options like the poster, and dropped out to do the startup. Ten years later I went back to finish my undergrad and get my PhD, this time in math.