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qooxdoo solved all the problems of web development long ago in a single simple uniform complete way.

As long as you arent forced to use apologetic strap-on technologies, I see no reason to look elsewhere.
Where are Digital Ocean's data centers? I can't seem to find that information anywhere on their site.
Someone told me once that a contributing factor to the "jewish lawyer stereotype" was caused by law firms who discriminated against jews — who then started up their own law firms, and outcompeted all the other law firms because it's easier to find talent if you don't discriminate.

The Harlem Globetrotters picked the best of the african-american basketball players, who were not welcome on other teams. The result was predictable in hindsight, they beat the other teams by humiliating margins.
Reminds me of a pithy observation: "Homophobia: The fear that men will treat you the way you treat women" (i.e. as sex objects)
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It's a hybrid app, views written in HTML5 & CSS3, and wrapped on the device. Navigation is native.

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I agree with everything you say, but if history has taught us anything it is that people want "cheap" and just expect great support regardless of price.

I mean the best example is airlines. For the longest time the big national airlines claimed that they would laugh last since their support/customer care was /so/ much better than cheap no-thrills airlines.

But look at what happened! The no-thrills airlines have been stealing market share year upon year, people are booking whatever is cheapest in the price comparison all other things be damned.

The same is true of retail Vs. the internet. Retails shops claimed that they wouldn't lose market share because people loved the one on one customer service and face to face interaction, but clearly they were mistaken.

In fact the ONLY company I can think of who has high quality customer care/support AND is actually growing is Amazon. But they also often happen to be the cheapest.
I think its so great that we have so many new toys and such innovation going on in the world of the web. I remember when I was first starting out as a developer (when I was 10, it was 1996, I wasn't very good) all we had was HTML and CGI scripting. CSS was the new hotness that no one understood and PHP was just learning to crawl. Those two technologies were all there was and I don't remember other developers ever going nuts like an adoloscent girl at a Beatles concert over any of the stuff that was coming out then. It really is nuts how we push all this latest and greatest stuff only to abandon it next week. I remember just about a year or two ago the HN community was in absolute love (like 'The Notebook' style, forever and ever, everlasting love) with Rails - even more so than now. There were endless debates over its merits and its pitfalls and I watched as the people who took those debates the most personally agonized over every small bit of the development process while those who didn't really care as much just built stuff.

It really is great that these new toys are coming out but what I see as the real problem is that we lose sight over one particular piece of the bigger picture. We forget to ask ourselves "Does this solve my or my users' problem(s)"? Even when we do ask that question we then get caught up over minutia like the elegance of code and performing between two competing tools.

That stuff doesn't matter yet! What matters is that you grasp the concepts the tool promotes and can use it effectively. Beyond that there's usually not much difference in the "elegance" or performance of your code between two tools and it usually comes down to subjective views and how you work. Even if you do choose the "optimal" tools you're most likely fucking up some other part of your codebase anyway. None of us write perfect code. That's why refactoring is a thing.

Are you stuck when it comes time to choose handlebars or mustache? Can't decide between Ember and Backbone? Is Rails or Sinatra better? CodeIgniter or Laravel? Thinking of using Django over... uh... whatever the competitor to Django is? Then you've got your head stuck way too far up your ass and focusing on the wrong thing. I don't mean to offend with that crack - I too have had my head up my developer ass many times before and all it got me was a 'Hello World' page in a project that was stalled before it even started.

So my point is that using the new hotness is fun and challenging and it can do you a lot of good but the moment you stop developing and start chasing the new hotness you've become kind of a tech groupie rather than a developer.
And that's exactly the problem. The promise has been there for _years_, it just never has been made up to. Sure, cross-platform development is cool, you can do that in Java. I can also do it in Ruby, Go, Rust, Clojure, Erlang or Haskell. And those solutions don't feel like a duct tape on a drainpipe.

It's still the same as it was 10 years ago, we can't wrap our head around a solution that works for all browsers, hence, we can't just make the language concise, let alone change it fundamentally to solve the more actual problems of front end development. And then, if frameworks don't have to fix a language in their own way, we can get something real going. In any case, I just can't wrap my head around the discrepancy as to why-the-fuck-still.
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> Suppose for a moment that you are a guy who just graduated from college, make $20,000 a year in your dream internship, and are on the long trek to success in your field. You're in a new city, and don't know many people. You're constantly bombarded with pictures of men who "made it", have $200k cars, wear $10k suits, drink $500 bottles of liquor, and buy their mistresses $80k pieces of jewelry.
Now I'm going to kick the analogy up a notch, so it's solidly in the "alternate reality" realm.
You date a girl, and she tells you, "My personal goal for you is for you to make six figures next year."

How is this any different from our reality? You really don't need to venture into some alternate reality to experience this.

I think this describes exactly describes the frustration that many men experience. You can be called dumb your entire childhood; it is made clear to you that you are inherently a monster capable of anything, that you have most likely raped someone; it is funny if your genitals are mutilated because you probably deserved it; if a woman hits you, you probably deserved it and you should take it like a man; your life can be ruined by simple accusation by a woman and if she was lying there is no punishment for her; if you divorce, your children will automatically go to your wife unless she is a criminal; even if she initiated the divorce, you will still have to support her; political figures proclaim that women are the true victims of war even though you were the one who lost his legs in battle; if you want to stay at home and look after your kids, you are lazy, if you want to focus on your career you are an uncaring father (either is okay for a woman); you are portrayed as bumbling idiot on television; you are told that you are lucky if a woman gives you the time of day; if you approach a woman you can be called a creep, if you don't you are shy; if your wife hires a hitman to kill you, she will be acquitted because you apparently abused her despite no evidence of this; you are treated like a creep if you show any interest in being around children and any social pressure on you to be successful can apparently only exist in an "alternate reality" but NONE of this matters because you are in a "position of power" so you should just deal with it like a man and make sure you don't show any pictures of women in underwear at a conference (despite how stupid this is) because then you are a sexist pig.
I would actually agree with you for the most part. Especially their more recent features which appear to have a real focus on design.
> You would use Octave/ Matlab instead of Julia, R or Python because Matlab syntax is the cleanest and most succinct way currently to articulate complex (in both senses) matrix algorithms...I am pretty sure you need fewer characters or LOC to say the same thing in Matlab than in the other scientific languages mentioned.

Julia syntax is mostly Matlab syntax with the parens-for-array-indexing replaced with square brackets. Its main shortcoming WRT Matlab is that it's a new language and a lot of things still need to be implemented, but the built-in linalg support is pretty good.

Python is also not that bad with pylab, which eliminates most of the verbosity of calling numpy/scipy functions directly, although it might still end up being more LOC than Matlab in some cases. I have only minimal experience with R, so I can't comment there.
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> "why doesn't my computer know I don't want my program to deadlock, segfault, or loop indefinitely?"

For a device which can be checked from outside (second subsystem for device self-monitoring), this is actually possible to implement and fairly common. Watchdogs are often implemented to restart automatically when the device is completely unresponsive.
I personally think we should drop everything we're doing RIGHT NOW and work on solving the issue of the heat death of the universe. Everything else can wait.
Equinix(New York) and Telecity(Amsterdam).
So? It's not legal to discriminate based on gender, or family status.

The people reviewing CVs didn't claim to be taking this into account (and odds are, weren't). This evidence shows they were taking things into account that they thought they were.
I live in a state that has a few mountains (not a mountainous state, though). A lot of people I know just have shitty brakes now. I have no idea why knowledge of downshifting is not getting out. Even an automatic transmission will support it.
That's ok for some, but it kind of annoys me. Where's the equivalent index for people want a VPS to do real work? I'd love a site that would let me compare pricing for say, 4GB/4 core machines.
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Maybe part of the problem is that "design" has been forced to merge with "engineering."

That and everyone seems to want to discover a language or framework like it's an Indy band. "I was using _____ before it became popular." That credential and $5 gets your coffee at Starbucks.

Let's face it. If the high-paying gig comes along and, god-forbid, demands .net or PHP, you're not going to argue, you're going to quickly adapt and get it done right? That's because all these things solve basically the same problem and it's a problem that you're used to solving.
You are confusing Octave (which is a Matlab substitute where you "write" in a command window, not so much use for "buttons") with Maple ... Please stop trolling.
Reminds me of the story of Richard Feynman deciding that he was just going to have fun with physics. He observed somebody in a cafeteria throwing a plate into the air, and noticed an interesting relationship between the plate's wobble speed and spin speed. He dug into the physics behind it, which an acquaintance told him was a waste of time. He didn't give it up, and later that research led to a nobel prize.

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html
It's not really the overall shape that bothers me. It's the two shiny circular objects on top which make it look like some sort of mechanical object.
"are DigitalOcean making a profit?" -- pandodaily is mentioned on the home page, so I'm guessing no.

Let's suppose for a moment that I actually wanted to do a performance comparison for my own purposes (which means I actually care about the actual results). How would I do it right?
It would have been nice if Coursera offered an Algorithms class in Python..
I've heard that story as well. Same thing happened with investment banks. Legend has it that Goldman Sachs was started because Marcus Goldman and Samuel Sachs couldn't get jobs at WASPy firms.

The other side of the coin is that the white-shoe firms didn't touch certain types of businesses (like M&A or IPOs) because those businesses were considered "ungentlemanly." So they were left to the Jewish firms, who developed an expertise in the fields during the decades that they were considered unimportant.

If you really want to trace the origin of the Jewish finance/law stereotypes back to their root, it goes all the way back to Middle Ages (and possibly earlier). Money handling and the trades were considered unclean/uncouth professions, and the landed aristocracy were so rich that they didn't need to concern themselves with such business. Some countries even mandated that Christians couldn't engage in such businesses. Jews took up finance, merchandizing, artisanry, etc., and placed a great deal of importance on professional success -- it being the only way that Jews could advance in society. To whatever extent that my people are stereotyped as "naturally" good at finance, etc., it's usually because nobody else was touching those things for hundreds of years.
(disclosure I'm James Robinson, CTO at OpenSignal) openBmap and openCellId are both great projects, I also recommend Wigle.net

We don't consider ourselves competing with these companies, although we collect similar data. Our business model is to collect data, use it to provide analysis that can help carriers improve their networks and from that revenue stream continually improve this project, while always being committed to providing free and independent coverage maps. Our competitors in this space are Rootmetrics and Sensorly, and we're trying to be as open as possible within this space: we have a free API (network rank) and we share data with academics as well.

I love the opensource model, but it's not the route we've taken with this project, that said this is a project undergoing continuous development and if we can do it without undercutting our business model we will release more and more data.
Also see: hospitals with names like Beth Israel or Mount Sinai.

Jewish American doctors, facing discrimination from the WASP elite of the era, leveraged their talents, innate ability, and entrepreneurial drive to create institutions with names that now stand for the best in the business.
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At home, in the privacy of your home.

Look, it's like talking about or showing your naked body. You can't do it in work or professional contexts. If the people close to you are OK with all of ye getting naked, fine. But if someone complains of you being naked at work, you have no right to complain.
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And the cliches and Prudishness of one specific society do not universal "basic human decency" constitute.

Just wanted to highlight this response from coldtea below because it's spot on.
That's actually incorrect because of drift (if D's clock is faster than A's clock, if you don't correct for drift the measurements can't be reliably compared). You'd have to correct for drift for every step (A->B, B->C, C->D) before you start.
I'm not trolling (intentionally), just pointing out how a nice user interface makes the difference between crapps and apps.
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"With Linode, I know that I am getting excellent support."

To be honest, the poor support was one of the reasons we moved away from Linode. We were in the Newark datacenter for about 8 months with 12 linode boxes. Had frequent issues with their load balancer and most of the time when we told them there was a problem, they asked us to prove it.

A few times we had extended outages due to "unscheduled maintenance"

Prior to running my business on Linode I had a single VPS with them for 2 years for personal stuff. I had zero problems... so YMMV. Overall, I'd still use them again, but not for mission critical stuff after that experience.
From a friend I saw logging in, it seemed like the oauth webview screen (that 3rd party apps use to interact with the API) has been ditched for something native as well. Something 3rd party apps can never re-create.
No, actually, they got fucked pretty hard. What you see in the movie is only about 10% of what happened -- but you are also misinterpreting what you saw in the movie, which is already pretty bad.
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I addressed this in my second paragraph. There is a fundamental tension between two different views of fairness:

One view says that fairness is about aggregate outcomes. We can observe that certain groups appear to be suffering from poor outcomes, and we regard this as unfair to members of those groups. We also recognise the historical factors involved in producing those outcomes. So, we might say "Women are under-represented in the software industry. This is because there are fewer women with relevant skills. But this is because of a legacy of centuries of sexist discrimination against women, and the only way to correct this is to perform some balancing discrimination in favour of women now". This view has no problem in recognising that women can be, on average, "inferior" (less experienced, say) programmers, but says that if they are inferior then it is because of historical factors and not any innate characteristic of women.

The other view says that fairness is about individual acts. It's unfair to take certain aspects of a person's identity (e.g. gender) into account when evaluating a person, so we don't do that. It's unfair to act in a way that makes people of certain identities uncomfortable or disadvantages them in group situations, so we don't do that. Since advantage is relative, it's also wrong to act in a way that benefits only people of a certain identity. They think that disadvantaging someone because of their identity is unfair to that person, and even giving a person a positive advantage is unfair to them because it demeans their real achievements.

Followers of the two ethical frameworks have a lot of trouble understanding each other. The second group thinks fairness is about acting fairly towards individuals, and thinks that it would be wrong to treat a woman differently from a man, since that is, after all, the sine qua non of sexism. But this also rules out giving the women a positive advantage. This directly conflicts with the notion of fairness held by the first group. They will, bizarrely, both describe the other group as being 'sexist' - group one for believing that it's legitimate to treat women differently from men (but only if it is done to correct a historical imbalance), and group two for arguing that it's wrong to consider gender when dealing with someone, because this ignores historical and systemic factors.

I lean towards the individualist position myself, but it's not wrong to worry about the systemic factors and the aggregate outcomes. I also suspect that whilst the philosophical debate is very entertaining, it's also not very relevant to day-to-day life, which would be vastly improved by putting the philosophy to one side and just being a bit nicer to each other.
I am very grateful to my parents, who were always supportive and encouraging about keeping a curious mind. My dad once told me that the most important thing in the world for me to keep was my curiosity. Better be dead than dull.
I was choosing VPS providers recently. I used http://www.serverbear.com for the benchmarks. Then I looked on the web for anecdotal information on how good and reliable the VPSs were. I chose Linode. Then I needed another VPS. It was favoring Ramnode, but they had temporarily run out of SSDs. So I went with Rackspace, which was used by many people, even though they seemed to generate more complaints then Linode.
alternative step 4: If something breaks, hammer it until it looks like a nail.
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Being the default search option everywhere is worth a lot to Google. A 2011 report says they pay Mozilla hundreds of millions of dollars to be the default search option in Firefox:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/8975584/Google-...

So if Google doesn't pay? Bing or Yahoo will happily pay hundreds of millions to take their place.
I said that we'd just do that if... The just implies that we do that plus other things.
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The analysis paralysis on which tools to use really comes from lack of focus on which problems you wish to work on. Many people are either told what problem to work on (employees), or have an unclear focus (I just want a job, any job!).

Therefore, they feel they need to learn and use every tool so that they can be prepared for "choosing the right tool for the job".

The solution is to focus on projects of your choosing. When it's clear that your problem is a nail, you can tackle it with any tool that can pound with force: hammer, mallet or shoe heel will all work; frozen cucumber will not. In other words, there are clear wrong choices - get rid of those and pick one of the right ones. The paralysis melts away once you have a problem around which to frame your analysis.

Another beautiful thing about web development: you can learn to use a hammer (let's say, Rails) and you can use that hammer to pound a million nails.

It's a fallacy to think that you have to learn everything, every methodology, so you can be prepared for some ambiguous future project, in hopes of solving some unforeseen problem.

This approach has another great side effect: you won't be easily side tracked by the new shiny thing that promises async evented dilly every few months. If it doesn’t solve YOUR problem, move on.
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From the sketchy article details, it seems like it's win-win for both Apple and Google. Google makes money from user searches on iOS, then shares a portion of that with Apple. The gamble is whether Google needs to be paying Apple anything at all.
The methodology is a well-documented "Phoronix Benchmark Suite".

However, why in the world is this methodology relevant for the hosting service? Would any of you really do any x264 encoding on an outsourced server, or would you use your desktop?

I would much rather get apache running, and run the ab (Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool).
I use this list to find a VPS to my specs. It has sliders for pretty much any relevant spec.

* http://vps-list.cryto.net/index.php?action=list
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This is true of a lot of stores. Last year a convenience store employee was fired for getting a gun from his truck to fend off a robber. If an employee gets shot "on the job", the store has to pay disability etc.
I've never heard of Digital Ocean. Are they reliable? Do they have a DNS manager comparable to Linode? (I have no aspirations of running multiple Bind instances on my own, thanks).

I might consider moving off Linode for pricing alone.
That's way to easy ;-)

As an alternative you could use a mail client and disable fetching mails every few minutes, so you are still able to send mails without getting new ones.
Perhaps in the future, rather than accuse people of non-sequiturs and logical fallacies, you might consider alternative explanations like "I misunderstood what was said". I asked several people to read the post you misunderstood, and it was completely clear to them. You are still insisting that your misunderstanding is my fault, and that does not at all indicate that you are interested in engaging in discussion.
A good carpenter doesn't fail, so he doesn't blame anything.
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