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Here is more detail on the demonstration with Fuji. http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/10/storage.html

And here is a scientific paper on Scaling tape- recording areal densities to 100 Gb/in2
http://signallake.com/innovation/argumedo.pdf
Which would be why I was commenting on what I thought of the form factor, i.e. the physical dimensions.

If someone read that as implying that my netbook was slow, therefore a MacBook Air would be too, I have to question their reading comprehension skills.
I ask "How many customers asked you for a network block device" but I don't know what EBS or a "raw device" is?

So yes, I'm well aware that "compatibility" is the general reasoning for building a block device interface. But how many unique domu kernels do these providers support? Two, maybe three on the outside? And minus win32 theyre all posix with shockingly similar vfs interfaces.

Which comes back to Henry ford and his faster horse. Do customers actually want another layer on the abstraction fest so they can stack their mount option of choice on top? Or do they want a persistent file system with well defined consistency semantics.

I've never heard a customer actually request Yet Another Leaky Block Device Abstraction. And if that customers out there, what's their use case? Because building an fs shim to the dom0 seems to eliminate a whole mess of underlying infrastructure. So why isnt anyone doing that?
The submitted link is from Heroku - I suspect that they are tracking links and forwarding to Svbtle, and it may be the Heroku forwarding that is down.
Yeah, because it's exactly the

-) create a simple beat with maybe a slight variation when the chorus comes up, which takes 1 minute with todays software

-) fix missing singing talent through studio production / auto-tune / hearing exact singing line in headphones / professional software

-) don't think complicated: 4/4, some simple musical hooklines, lyrics about some stupid ass shit

popchart garbage that most of the world listens to.
Kim's music videos are exactly the prove (if we would need any :/) that today's music is solely about producing, not about self expression, nice rhythmical designs, creativity or art in general...
What are the differences?
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When we worked on a previous project, bootstrap was something we based our product tour off. Joyride, similarly, accomplishes the same deal with a little more fluff. However, there were a few things that were tedious.

- Keeping track of who has seen what tooltip, when they should show up, backend type stuff.

- When things moved around, layouts modified slightly, they were a pain to update. Granted it wasn't always the case, but it was enough that we decided we ought to build a front end to handle it. And thus, Taurus was born.

We realized that while engineering the product tour isn't hard, it takes time to make and maintain, and that we could help solve that.
Split testing sounds like a really neat idea! We'll talk about working that in later down the line. :)
I'm happy to stand corrected on Andrew Mason since I don't know an awful lot about him. But as others have said, Lefkofsky definitely appears to fit the profile.
"There are other hybrid models of blending SSD and mechanical disks to save money, but none of them are able to integrate with the OS and do it as intelligently as Apple is able to with Fusion Drive."

Seriously? Aside from hybrid drives, Windows has had a very similar technology since Vista (SSD's weren't as inexpensive back then, so it wasn't terribly well received), and of course there is ZFS with it's L2ARC.

The whole "it's not a cache" thing is a canard. Doing it right means doing it much like swap: you may have dupes in certain cases. Going beyond that actually hurts performance.
How about combining hardware gadgets with the SaaS model? Will HaaS be big in the future?
In the review video the author says 'Because the screen is so wide, typing on the surface is actually rather painful.'
Is there really no keyboard split feature like on Android or iPad? Did anyone have his / her hands on it already?
I think part of it is a marketing and documentation issue. I have been working to help get beanstalk into a better place specifically around ruby tooling and overall documentation. Check out https://github.com/nesquena/backburner for my solution for a 'resque' inspired DSL for using beanstalkd. We are using it in multiple projects. Also, I have been working to improve the ruby beanstalk client. Expect more news soon.
A different way to work on a script.
Agreed, but while people can change, they usually don't. Doesn't justify what governments have done to him though.
Ryan Dahl of Node is internetly gone in a __why style
Following what seems to have been a twitter bash, Ryan, creator of node, seemed to have taken a cover:

https://twitter.com/ryah

Personally, I hope it's temporary.
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It is an awesome piece of software. If you like it, I would love for you to check out https://github.com/nesquena/backburner which is a resque inspired project powered by beanstalkd. There is a great sinatra admin tool as well https://github.com/denniskuczynski/beanstalkd_view
All of that can be true, and this site still be worthless self-promotion.
Great to see the progress made since Startup Workaway! I was really blown away when I tried it out. Looking forward to the final version.
I'm surprised they had 2000 employees.
The problem with asking Unix users about their tools is that you'll get a long list, and the interesting part is more about how they connect them. While I personally would be interested in a long treatise on how he combines shell-scripts and plubming actions in acme to get his coding/documenting/project management work done, this is probably a bit too long (and maybe technical) for a usesthis post.

It's certainly easier with your average Mac user's "I write my code in TextMate, use Things for GTD and manage my foodie photo library in Sepia Extreme".
> People have ported useful Linux tools to Android

I was genuinely surprised how the jailbroken iOS userland gives you a really good debian-like experience, whereas with Android you often get just busybox and the rest is more up to you like LFS.
Meh, can't see his new site. What's wrong with latest Firefox ESR? The website doesn't look like too advanced (from what I can see in Opera), just a bunch of embeds.
He should declare war on retarded web designers as well.

http://img.nux.ro/3jF-kim.com.png
Quite fitting, he seems to have an ego that would require Roland Emmerichs' most widescreen lens setup.
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It's the Sharing Charm symbol that you get on the right.
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/30/dahl-out-mike-drop/
Author doesn't seem to have any clue as to how software gets delivered. Oracle obviously needs to perform regression testing. The fact that this bug affects multiple versions, means the testing effort is enormous.

Author seems ignorant to think it's a matter of editing the fix and doing a build. BTW, Integration tests != regression tests.

I see nothing wrong with Oracle's decision. You have to release something at some point. There will always be 'one more bug/feature' in the wings, and if you let the author have his way, nothing would ever get delivered.
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I'm even more confused having spent 20 minutes consuming the bizarro content on this site.

This appears to be an anti-obama website though he isn't making it directly clear. Sure, we should question our elected officials, and hold them against the standards on which they were elected (Change in Obama's case), and that's what he seems to be doing in the first section.

I'm just not sure why he is taking some of the goodwill he might have built up and directing it at Obama. I might be wrong, but I suspect he would be much worse off under a Romney Administration.
Continue: Visual Studio tool windows - http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0171/
I've owned plenty of Macs, even my G4
with 256mb RAM was still usable, surprisingly, under Tiger. Generally I didn't find it to have the issue you mention, or find it slower than windows

Of course SSD's have a benefit. But I think your particular MacBook may have had a failing drive.
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isn't there something to be said for "a smaller slice of the bigger pie" ?
Is making a round wheel copying inventor of the round wheel, or is it just using what we know, through trial, error, and customer and market feedback, works best? Or, to bring it up to the Internet age, take the Amazon.com checkout process. It is, arguably, the "best." (NOTE: I'm not going to take up space defining "best," but to try to nip the troll in the bud, I'm talking about "best" as Amazon, the world's largest Internet retailer, defines it, which is in ways it can and does test, measure, and optimize.)

The current state of the Amazon shopping cart and checkout experience is the result of billions of tests (transactions) over the past 18 years of its existence. In fact, we can think of Amazon as a giant "shopping cart testing and optimization machine" that displays its findings for all to see. To not use and benefit from those results is, let me try to find a word other than the "s" worD, maybe not a great idea.

My point is that Github is the market leader in what it does and to not identify and benefit from its best parts is maybe not a great idea. I would expect a strong competitor to GitHub to be strongly inspired by it. Obviously, they cannot (or at least should not) copy things that would infringe on GitHub's copyrights and trademarks, and not its color scheme, typography, and copywriting, but I would expect features and workflows to be very similar, sometimes even identical, to GitHub's. Microsoft Office vs. LibreOffice is an example that comes to mind. Don't reinvent the wheel. Use the knowledge and test results that you have available. Swim downstream, not up.

Just my two cents :)
Let me assure you, working at wooga, in Berlin, is nothing like what you just described.
Well, noen of the 1.gen iOS devices have had a retina screen
Great idea! But 3$ is really way to cheap, even at the current 9$/month I'd just have signed up without thinking twice! Why? Because I know how much value a tour provides my app/my revenue!

I already have a simple tour in Bunker App but it is really a PITA so I've postponed doing improvements to it. I have hopes that your software helps me, and if it does, it's totally worth some money for me!

I've just signed up for your mailing list, I hope I'll get into beta to test it soon. My app is a JS-heavy, single HTML page app so I'm curious to see how Taurus works with my app.
Difficulties of a hardware startup, compared to a software one, is mainly of storage, selling channels and after-sales services.
The inability to iterate quickly is also one of its problem.

Unless someone come up with a solution for these problems, I don't see a renaissance of hardware in the form of many startups (but can be in other forms, since now Win 8 is encouraging hardware creativity)
Well, Ray Bradbury would like to have a word with you about your dream: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man :)
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Thanks for the reply. You should put that on your website because from what I saw it wasn't really clear that there's a backend to manage my tours and to see some metrics.
Wow, someone pooped out a website.
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No problem! Will do. :)
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On my laptop (windows or PC), I can walk into a new office with a monitor or projector that my computer has never seen before, plug it in and it just works. No configuration changes, no command line changes, my desktop pops up on the new device. I've tried to do this with Linux and failed - is there a guide to get it to work? And btw, if you have to muddle around with the command line or download a driver for the new display five minutes before a presentation, that doesn't suffice.
I followed and watched the youtube video links and gleaned a greater understanding than I had before.

I dont doubt the site is in Kim's 'enlightened self interest' as Aldous Huxley or Alexis de Tocqueville would say.

But I found it useful to absorb the information and ruminate.
How is it not running PC applications? It doesn't run x86 applications, it doesn't run other desktop applications. I very much hope that metro will be an inspiration for "PC" applications everywhere: Plain, responsive and made for tiling. I have been using macs almost exclusively for about 8 years, but I'm getting more and more annoyed with all the cute skeumorphisms.
This is pretty cool. We're less intensive than this, but we try to make the whole product tour setup very WYSIWYG. From what I saw, they do a neat job of delivery the full product-tour-package, but at the cost of engineering effort.
OneNote on Windows RT could be the killer app that makes me want one.

I want a sketchpad, handwriting recognition, the ability to insert audio clips and videos and images, OCR for text in those images... in fact let me take a photo, paste it in and then extract the text in the photo... quick text tools with basic formatting... and all of this should be searchable, shareable, integrated.

That's OneNote.

On the desktop I always felt OneNote was being held back. It begged and screamed for a tablet to bring it alive.

The only thing that makes the Surface compelling for me is: Does it have a full-featured OneNote?

Unfortunately the reality is that OneNote falls short just a little.

Surface has OneNote MX which is a version of OneNote that doesn't have feature parity with the desktop version.

And that sucks, as if it did Microsoft would have me buying a Windows OS once again, just for that application.
It applies to certain things but I don't think that applies to $5 SaaS. Because to be sustainable you'll need 1000-5000 customers, even though those numbers can be small in that big pie, it's still extremely hard to reach and support.

However you can easily get a smaller slice of the bigger pie in an enterprise market with 20 customers instead of 5000, and that's much easier to accomplish.

This model seems more suitable for "go big or go home" players.
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So 19$ instead of 25$ for 5 services? Why bother? Or you got something more elaborate in your mind?
Read the release notes. There's an entire section about migration from 2.4 to 2.6.

Short answer: You can simply upgrade.
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That is the CouchDB model. It is very appealing...
omfg...

Following Weapons of Mass Destruction debacle

== kim.com site linked on HN, while not conaining any new information and consisting of music videos and self promotion...??

And i didn't call case information about megaupload "worthless", i called this entry "worthless" (no new material, site is already well known, probably not the first time it has appeared here et cetera...)

Get a hold of yourself!
I think the Surface with Windows 8 Pro (perhaps its second generation since current one's too bulky) is a killer business product. Put it down on a table with the keyboard, and it's a fully-powered laptop! Pick it up and fold back the keyboard, and it's a fully-powered tablet!
It comes down to expectations. I'm not sure about the Verge, but Anand is someone who understands the limitations of hardware - There were several interesting points on wifi performance, display resolution notes and what could be achieved on the NV Tegra3. Anand's review is a technical one (he know's this is v1 of a product) and comes from a content-creator's POV. That is what resounded with me more than the verge's article.
I like how his photo matches the colors of the blog design (pink & grey), obviously on purpose. This tells me that he pays attention to detail. Not every Unix hacker would change his clothes for some random interview on the web.
Agreed this is a real issue, but a professional buying a device personally is unlikely to care about those bits of the puzzle. Compared to the existing tablet market, Windows RT is significantly better in terms of enterprise integration.
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well , these are on demand services , so bundling them would make little sense unless the bundle is very flexible ( i.e. you can choose 10/20 out of XXX services for a fixed monthly fee ).
We've given the popups the ability to trigger JS events and we will be adding the ability to trigger popups with JS events as well.

Could you send me an email (ebzlo@ebzlo.com)? I'd be more than happy to send you an invite immediately if we could work together on making this work for you, single page apps are definitely something we want to be viable for.

Edit: Bunker looks really cool. If I start freelancing again, I might just have to try it out. ;)
Well, you can always use your flagging powers.
> whereas the republican senate was behind it

SOPA had

19 republican sponsors and supporters

35 democratic sponsors and supporters

https://projects.propublica.org/sopa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_Congresspersons_who...
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Actually, I did bootstrap a hardware product: www.growguard.net. Agree, it's not the best looking product, but engineering, designing and puting it in manufacturing cost less than 5k!

A couple of years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of another hw startup (FTTH space), we did get this thing off teh ground for less than 300k and it is now doing very well and one of the top-3 in it's niche
Wholeheartedly agree here. The trade-off of a 7 yr console means not having to skip a mortgage payment every single year to buy the latest/greatest gfx card just to stay on top of the latest FPS in the PC gaming world.
Well, I don't know about you, but many of my files are on my website, and my website is tracked by Git (on my PC, on my server, and on GitHub).
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in a narrow sense... yet I've always wondered why people don't choose the master-master model of doing things more often...
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Side project - not a startup. But if you want to try it out.

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Woah. I'm plopping my vim, zsh, tmux & go stuff in there tonight & symlinking where appropriate. Thanks!
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Weight, battery life, resolution: with current tech you can choose two.

Since these devices are hand held, I prefer weight over screen res.
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It was a bipartisan effort carried out mainly for the entertainment industry. The reason why there were more Dems is largely because the business is in California, and is heavily unionized. The employees in the entertainment industry tend to see piracy as something that costs them money and jobs.
Nope. The button to copy the link is in the same dialogue as the one you use to invite specific people.

Given there is a distinction between the security of invited as opposed to just shared this same dialogue is not clear that there is a difference in security - that's the issue.
...I know, we geeks have this already as we use dvcs for all sorts of stuff other than code too (like my text editor's settings etc.)

...but most other non IT professionals using computers (doctors, physicists, most non-software engineers etc.) don't do this and are pretty far from using things this way ...they are more likely to be "fished into" cloud solutions that will have them "hanging from the cloud (someone else's cloud)" than actually be "part of a/the mesh/cloud" ...it's easy for us to forget how things work for "the rest of world" (and I don't mean computer illiterate or dumb people, just smart persons that don't happen to be neck deep in coding or other IT specific activity...)
Yeah. I remember getting up early to watch kids TV as it started, but first, 15 minutes of Ceefax and stock music!
Nice comment. I think there is indeed an inherent "inertial" in hardware business.
A software/website service can have different usage. Users may prefer to use a smaller part of the service, or using the main service for purposes not originally conceived by the creators. In this way there is a chance of pivoting.
However a piece of hardware has a very focused usage. All parts are integrated to provide a single function for the user.
Also, unlike software, there is no straightforward way to collect real-time data on how a user uses their hardware.
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Huh. I thought we used one of the HTML subsets for our interactive services. Guess not.
the difference is that everyone knows that Github is for free software whereas everyone knows that Megaupload was for copyright infringement.
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I installed the 750GB/8GB Momentus XT on my late 2008 MBP and it has been a breath of fresh air.
Previously I had a 500GB WD Scorpio Black. That was fast but it vibrated a lot and I think battery life was worse than with the Momentus.
I mainly use the machine for XCode and Visual Studio and now I am CPU bound.
Think they will make a larger iPad? 13" maybe?
Well that was stupid of me :/
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I judge people based on their past actions. Not on their hypothetical potential. Kim has a history of fraud and questionable activities going back _decades_. If that makes my way of thinking frightening to you, so be it.
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It gets more interesting when adding google code which started before github: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sourceforge%2C%20gith...

Looks like google "stole" mindshare from sourceforge.
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iBookstore allows publishers to sell books as DRM-free, so Tor books should be OK from it. Subterranean Press' books are DRM-free in iBookstore too.

Unfortunately, other's aren't (I only bought a few books there and it's a 50/50 split so far) and you don't have any way of knowing before buying.
The tech industry is really fleshing out every form factor between phone and full sized laptop now.

As others have said this could fill a niche for who only need office in terms of productivity tools and also want the benefits of a tablet. So as well as business people students would fit that niche.

Personally though for anything productivity wise I am going to be happy to carry around a laptop, any tablet usage is purely as a consumer.
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Thanks, that reinforces my supposition that "It's a PC" is just a line of bull Microsoft is feeding to conservative IT managers who are scared of iOS/Android.

Maybe I'm oldschool, but IMO a Personal Computer is end-user programmable on the device itself. RT comes with no devtools and doesn't cut it.