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"Andreessen Horowitz Partner John O’Farrell said that there are studies that show it costs $300,000 for a one-hour outage."

Huh, what? One hour of outage for who? What? Context is everything.

Also, this looks really good, but... what does this offer beyond coalescing of alerts that almost any 'enterprise' level monitoring software does?

I'm curious as to how there's $11M worth of work involved in this product needed - plus the $18-36/month/user for ongoing costs.
As a bystander who does not have the background necessary to evaluate either of your claims at face value, I would really like to hear your explanation for why you disagree with his explanation.
If you're looking for a self-hosted solution to keep you from becoming overly dependent on Github, take a look at Gitlab [1].

Since you're using Git, all those repos are presumably backed up on individual development machines. Or you could easily write a cron job to mirror them every day or so.

The real problem is other content like issue tracking, wikis, and pull requests. If keeping these is important, you may be locked into the platform, at least as far as existing projects are concerned.

[1] http://gitlab.org/
While in South America for a year I drank tons of Coca tea and chewed on the leaves a lot too.

For me, the effect was something like a red bull, but less instant. Kind of like that "second wind" you get sometimes late in the day where you have all kinds of energy you were not expecting.

I feel it genuinely did help with hiking at high elevations (above say 3500 meters, 12k ft) which I did a lot.
Right, I think if you want to work professionally as a developer you can certainly find one maintaining PHP code.

However, newer projects and startups are moving towards Python and Rails so if your goal is to be in that game, learn one of those.
This made me laugh so much a little bit of crap came out. Reminds me of the recent product announcements by Google.
>but it sucks that CSRF bug becomes RCE bug :(
you just said it - it cant be exploited via CSRF. Because you cannot set header.

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I find they're actually quite good gifts for smaller or more casual situations - as a thank you for someone who did you a favor, or when you don't know someone all that well. Or even for people who just like coffee.
Sorry for the brevity, but the only thing I can think of is: A-fucking-men. This is a colossal waste of time and resources, and it's a completely distraction from other -real-, -actual- privacy concerns that every day citizens should have. This is not one of them, and there is already a solution.
I am puzzled that stories like this surprise people.

Ever since Obama picked Joe Biden as his VP, it was clear what his administration's default stance on copyright issues would be. If you wonder why I say that, https://www.google.com/search?q=joe+biden+copyright provides lots of starting places to learn more.

Am I the only one around here who actually researches the candidates that I'm presented with to see what they think about issues that I care about? I thought (and still do) that Obama was the lesser of 2 evils both times. But I'm well aware that I do not agree with this administration on a number of issues, and copyright is one of them.
how u gonna set content-type?
I'm using the term "language" very loosely; you are technically correct. To be clear, I'm referring to the 5000+ global functions, as well as the myriad classes, that are part of PHP's standard library.
Sort of similar to what Zelphyr was saying. We liked the idea of sort-of building our own framework out of component parts, rather than something like Angular, mostly for the flexibility.

For example, we use Sammy for client-side routing. However, if we decided to ditch it and use something else in the future, it wouldn't be a huge effort to do that, theoretically. With something like Angular, though, it's their way or the highway, usually - you couldn't use a different routing system if you even wanted to.

This lets us pick and choose with the style we want instead of having to 'fight with' a tool trying to work around parts we don't like.

I don't know, I've also felt like recently we've been re-inventing the wheel to get all this stuff to work together anyway, so I'm not 100% sure of the value of our choices, but it's a conscious choice we made early on in any case.
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Most tech startups acquired in 2012 had no VC funding
of course they did: http://gizmodo.com/5980618/amazon-is-down

bogus, I can assure you
At least according to PG, VCs like you more with a failure than with nothing. One of his essays also refers to a claim that older founders are more likely to be successful and to run their companies sustainably -- fewer eighty hour work weeks, etc. I dunno for sure, but I guess the person you're replying to probably doesn't know what he's talking about, because I haven't seen anyone claim before that there's a serious age barrier in startups, especially to the degree that that would be a primary concern if you failed in your mid to late twenties.
This varies significantly from person to person. For me after 30-48 hours so I start getting itchy, my hair and face get obviously oily, and I start to smell. And that's assuming I'm not being very active.
The pressure to fragment is going to become overwhelming. Percona's version is already a different beast and now with another version becoming the de facto standard I wonder if this is going to push people with limited experience even more to supposedly easier to use NoSQL databases.
In after the 1991 Gulf War, PTSD rates spiked beyond rates ever seen in the US Army. A study commissioned to examine the effects of PTSD found that this long-term stress was actually causing the hippocampus (the short-to-med/long term memory module of the brain, amongst other things) to atrophy.
This confirmed a similar effect they had found with mice a few years earlier.

The next push is to replicate the more positive result of environment enrichment, which has been shown in mice but not people. Basically, environment enrichment has been shown to help facilitate LTP (long-term potentiation — an extreme period of neurogenosis) and makes the hippocampus less prone to stress-induced atrophy.

I've personally been a few very high stress work environments, but I use this knowledge to help convince myself to relax productively.
We haven't tested on workloads like that, but I can't think of anything that would prevent this workload from working well. The idea behind Rethink's architecture is to eventually allow people to run full analytics on the same cluster as their live app. Currently we're optimizing for online-type queries, but you can run analytics queries too, it's just that we haven't given the optimizer enough love on that front yet.
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Everyone can use a decent tailored suit? No, you think people should have a tailored suit. I have 0 use for a tailored suit and would be offended if any of my friends tried to suggest I should buy a suit. I'm not a child I can decide what clothes are appropriate on my own thanks

Your whole approach seems to be that you assume people are incapable of making decisions about their own lives.
> It sounds oddly similar to the Rails issue from about a year ago (the one in which the reporter was able to commit to master on Github)

Hey, yes, yaml bug is _very_ similar. Whitelist is better than no list at all
bundle install has several other useful options too. My favorites:

--local will prevent rubygems.org from being contacted, and will only use previously cached gems

--standalone will package all dependencies into ./bundle, so that you can copy and run it on a server that doesn't even have Bundler

[1] http://gembundler.com/v1.2/bundle_install.html
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Jamba Juice is one thing because it isn't on every street corner, whereas buying Starbucks cards for people you know spend money on coffee every morning is not a bad investment. Furthermore, with Starbucks' cards, it allows you to start redeeming points for more drinks and gives you incentive to keep re-upping the value to earn those points. I get a free drink/food item every two weeks from what started as a gift card that turned into a gold card. Do I have a consumption problem? Sure. But it was a benefit to my already-shitty lifestyle and I can't complain.
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Didn't see this on the feedback section (granted, I didn't look through each page). Y'all should think about also having Disaster notifications for the general business. I know for my company disaster recovery planning is a big deal. Having the ability to initiate a DRP due to system alert, or manually and then have it blast to a call tree would be huge.
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Yeah, I already said that in another comment. Thanks for playing. To be fair, though, you do sound like the kind of person that a decent suit would be wasted on.

Am I to take it that you refuse every gift everyone ever offers, in a fit of outraged morality? "How dare you offer me some money? Do you think I'm incapable of getting money? You want to WHAT? PAY FOR MY CUP OF COFFEE? How dare you!"
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I think that "Hey, I did something relevant to this discussion!" is a valid reason to link to something of yours. People do it with coding projects all the time.
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Didn't get any but tumblr (not even facebook, which now seems obvious). Never used the website before, but that exact color combo is pretty unique. No one else recognized it? I think it's telling that only 4/18 don't have a blue button.
You responded to:

| This worked for me, I'm going to tell you
| because it might help you too.

with:

| what a load of balls...

and

| neckbeard lifting gurus are so full of shit

Way to keep it classy.
When I saw the post on Jody's death, I almost made a comment similar to this, but I didn't know how to phrase it.

I'm afraid the terms "inspired" and "encouraged" don't properly convey the mechanism of "suicide waves". I'm still having a hard time describing it, but I think seeing suicides from people in a similar situation to you almost reminds you that suicide is an option at your disposal
Oh no an article with PHP in it, here comes the PHP SUCKS BLAH BLAH!
Spreading FUD.

There's an immeasurable amount of new work to be done in PHP. You have absolutely no numbers to back up your statement.
Why not just use Flash?
This library uses jQuery events which are synchronous. I.e. the event handler's callstack will include the triggerer a few levels up. Not any harder to debug than a direct call version.
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Symfony2 with Composer is very similar (IMHO) to Ruby on Rails and gems. Symfony2 calls its modules bundles, instead of gems.

If you want to get your feet wet with a multi-user web application, I recommend trying Sonata's sandbox: https://github.com/sonata-project/sandbox#installation
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Couldn't agree more. Companies of all scale need to be receptive to remote work, otherwise they will never be able to fill in any of their job roles.
If your question is about detecting services like mailinator.com, 10minutemail, ... this could be the service you are looking for: http://www.block-disposable-email.com
I really know nothing about whether VCs have a tendency to age-discriminate. But ageism is rampant in VC-istan startup culture. It's not so severe that older people can't get hired, but they tend to get less respect if they haven't held executive roles by age 40.

I tend to think of this age discrimination as something where both classes are victims. Older programmers start losing opportunities, but younger programmers are attractive precisely because they're easier to take advantage of. Both young and old lose in this.
That update is particularly hard to find - you have to dig several windows deep into the control panel in desktop mode ... it's one of those inexplicable things that just dumbfounds me - they leave a pre-release version of Office on the tablets and then almost guarantee nobody will install the proper version by making the update UI impossible to find.
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And the remedy for that is for the demographic who believes in "hot streaks" in casinos and professional athletics, who thinks the lottery is a good investment of their cash, and fashions themselves as homebrew "masters of the universe" to listen to Warren Buffet and invest in index funds rather than trying to outcook Bobby Flay in his own kitchen.
An <img> tag pointing to animated gif should work on every combination of image host + CMS + browser.

I'm not sure off the top of my head what HTML 5 market share is like (anyone with recent data want to chime in?), but I'm guessing lots of people are running browsers that still don't have <video> capability.
MongoDB has been durable for a while with journalling. They're only just enabled safe mode (i.e. synchronous) for the clients by default, but this is something different to being durable.

If you want a durable write; you should not disable journalling and use safe mode / getlasterror with the desired writeconcern setting - http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/command/getLastErro...
Awesome, this explaination and electronic derivatives trading lead me on the right path of reading candlestick graphs. I discovered stockcharts.com from doing some basic research and now have a pretty good understanding of them. I won't be trading any time soon but I can at least read it to some extent. Thanks a bunch. Sorry if I got a bit off topic, but I hate not knowing stuff.
Great writeup.

What would be your #1 and #2 choice?
I am reminded of the debate going on around American football. The big "concussions" are obvious, and in a good situation you will have friends, family and colleagues on your side (although disappointed), because the event and its impact are big and obvious to everyone around you.

But the slow buildup of damage due to the everyday smashing of your head against one brick wall or another, is both hard to measure, and difficult to communicate to people outside the startup bubble world. And even if you do get some sympathy, inevitably they say something like "you're so smart and talented, you can get a job anywhere and live a normal, relaxed life!" They're trying to help, but to your ears it just sounds like "PLEASE, QUIT NOW BEFORE YOU FAIL AND ALL YOUR DREAMS COME CRASHING DOWN AND YOU FALL APART IN FRONT OF EVERYONE WHO LOVES AND ADMIRES YOU!" and it has the paradoxical effect of making you even more depressed.

Just saying.
I really don't get why you would call it "VC-istan" then, because that makes it sounds like you're trying to disparage VCs. Also, it makes a whole host of your arguments in your original post irrelevant, because what we're talking about is founder-suicide, not employee suicide. Last, it's kind of offensive that you use the "-istan" suffix pejoratively as you are.
> How many MS products sell well in their first edition?

Not very many MS products sell well regardless of version number. Outside of Office and Windows MS struggles, and the only consumer success they have had has been with the XBox. Their other initiatives -- Zune, Windows Phone, Kin, etc. -- have all struggled despite sustained efforts from Redmond.

Microsoft has entered a field that already has established players -- Apple and Samsung -- who are on the 3rd+ generation of their devices, and who have greatly refined them over time. Microsoft has put out a device that is first-gen. This is woefully insufficient to make a dent, long-term or short.

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that the Surface* tablets will eventually suffer a fate similar to the Zune. I also don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that Microsoft has shown that it cannot compete in the consumer space.
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Do you have a cite for this? And efficacy in what? They are not medicines, they are lifestyles (just like lifting or diet as another commenter mentioned)
Guessing a large portion of that funding go towards marketing. They've likely proven that their acquisition costs can scale profitably. They should grab customers before others come along with a similar offering.
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Yes of course, certainly there are language constructs or features specific for some domain. That doesn't necessarily mean that such constructs can't be used in other contexts or domains (sometimes they can, sometimes not) but they were introduced into a language with a specific domain in mind.

For example Erlang's `receive...after...end` and `!` are language constructs that are specific to the domain of message passing concurrency and they cannot be used for anything else. On the other hand Erlang's bit syntax is specific to the domain of writing binary network protocols but can be used for extracting data from binary files or constructing chunks of bytes for interoperability with C (structs).

There are many more such examples in various languages - despite being "general purpose" they frequently include features and constructs useful for some specific domain - it's a natural way the languages are created and evolve.
The fair use rule: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
What really saddens me is the high probability that they spend billions of dollars every year to build custom, fancy comm protocols that nobody uses
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Exactly. I really want something like this, but that allows me to use whatever word processor or text editor I want (offline!) to do the actual writing.
When I last tested I maxed out at about 700 inserts / sec with nothing else happening (MBP Retina, SSD, etc) - it's not bad, but not as fast as Mongo.

I'm going to benchmark it when I get some time!
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He quotes a part of the copyright law that is giving examples of the kind of things that might be fair use, and then cuts it off before it gets to the part where it lists factors to be considered when deciding if a particular use is fair use. He seems to think that anything that falls under the examples is automatically fair use.

The xenophobia comes from the several needless mentions of the fact that some of the publishers are foreign owned.

The conspiracy theory stuff comes from the part about someone who once worked for the RIAA now being at the Copyright Office. If you follow the links, you find that the former RIAA person was a litigator for the RIAA. Yawn. Litigators are the hired guns of the legal profession. You can't tell much about a litigator's views on policy issues from who they have litigated for.

Before the RIAA, she was a litigator at a private firm. Before that she worked at the DOJ working on civil rights cases. Before that she was a clerk for a Court of Appeal judge. Before that she was editor of the Columbia Law Review.

The main reasons a litigator would typically jump from a private law firm to an in-house position would be (1) more frequent or challenging cases, and (2) money.
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This is rather a meaningless statistic, because acquisitions have a power-law distribution. Most acquisitions are HR acquisitions.
I meant research in the sense of careful, systematic study both academic and experiential. I did not mean public, experimental research.
Yes, it does. Maybe not from customers..
There's an related thread on Slowtwitch about this:

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;pos...;
The maybe monad has a counterpart from the OO world: the null object pattern. They're not implemented the same way, but they serve the same purpose.
> The very first Copyright Act in the US was actually titled "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning." Current copyright law is explicit that fair use covers this sort of situation:

(the OP links to here:)
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107

> Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include—

It appears to me that the OP is misreading the law. From what I can tell, the law says that if a copy/reproduction of a work is fair use...including for classroom purposes...then it is not an infringement of copyright.

The OP interprets this as: "If something is reproduced for classroom use, then it is fair use"

That is not at all correct. Check out this primer about fair use and education:
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/...

The short summary of it is: You can't just copy whatever you want for purposes of teaching and assume that it is "fair use".

Maybe someone more well-versed in the law can correct me, but from what I can tell (I've had some education in this, but not a formal law degree), the OP is quite a bit wrong in his assumptions.
> This is systemic engineering incompetence that apparently pervades an entire language community

The original target of that claim was the Ruby community. With this comment allowing the same issue existing in the Java community, are you leveling the same claim against it? Does every severe security issue that remains unnoticed by a community for some time and is eventually noticed suggest pervasive engineering incompetence throughout that entire community? Maybe you would be entirely right to make that claim because any security issue is indicative of incompetence at some level, but I think the closer your definition of incompetence comes to including everybody, the less useful that definition is.
It's an interesting definition of "quality" that doesn't include "the product works".
I don't think you're wrong there. I think a more honest dialogue about how things really are, when things are going bad, and better support structures would benefit us all. Sadly I think you'd find admissions of struggle are perceived as weakness by the VC community (who'd deny this), or that's certainly what most entrepreneurs believe, so they feel that reaching out for help would be a net lose.

I think of the analogy with head injuries in the NFL. They're the cost of doing business if you want to exceed, and look at what happened to Alex Smith when he took a break to recover from a concussion. Benched. Replaced. Now out on his ear.

So I agree with you, I want to get there. Just don't know how to get there from here. Make sense?
> PHP has no shortage of weirdnesses and warts, but it occurred to me recently that no other major language was created expressly for the purpose of rendering web pages. All the other major contenders (Python, Ruby, Java, etc) are, for better or worse, general-purpose programming languages, which are pressed into service for rendering HTML strings using various libraries and frameworks.

For non-trivial web applications, the "rendering HTML strings" is one of the smallest parts of the job.

The lack of separation between application and HTML output in PHP may be an asset when starting out or when making lightly scripted web pages, but when creating an application that just happens to be served up over the Web (and possibly served up other ways too), those general-purpose languages are much more natural fits for the job.
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For their sake, I hope that's the only thing.

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