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I use it on a PC. I can't speak for the Mac but it works beautifully on a my WinXP box.

Plus I am heavily keyboard driven, and Opera is the only browser I know that can be used without the mouse (at all!). Navigating links is especially cool!
>"I agree, mainstream media doesn't understand how much hackers are our era's Robber Barons (or Industrial Statesmen, take your pick). Expect a handful of IPO's and at least one billionaire graduate within the next ten years. I expect Y Combinator graduates and their related companies will have billions of dollars of impact on our economy over this period of time."

I don't think that applies to the guys at the Fool, especially the Rule Breakers. David Gardner got the following he has by investing in AOL in '95, Yahoo! in '96, Amazon.com in '97, Ebay in '98 and telling the world about his picks before he bought them. He's been far ahead of the curve for a long, long time. More recently he's had a number of 5-bagger plus investments in a variety of tech fields.

He's utterly crushed the market over a long haul, done it publicly, and done it almost exclusively in technology.
Any kind of discrimination based on the differences between a group and an individual should be actively discouraged (be it on race, sex, weight, nationality etc.) It's the mark of a primitive and uncivilized society.
Agreed - I never knew about the physical effect of the financial industry on people. Yeah, okay, it was pretty obvious that they were drinking thousand-dollar bottles of wine and ordering steaks that rival my daily (or weekly?) salary... but I never knew about the rampant waste. It's pretty disgusting to say the least.

You can see this from day one, really. Freshman year in college, while the engineering, arts, and science majors were running around soccer fields doing team-building activities... the commerce majors were getting drunk aboard a lavish yacht on loan from an alum. Go figure, I suppose this starts pretty early.

A close friend of mine was a commerce major... he transferred out after a year to pursue math - he couldn't take the ridiculous egos (and he's a cocky bastard to boot) and the "eye on the money, fuck the plebes, we're better" mentality that his peers seemed to have.

I was pursued by Morgan Stanley and Barclay's for a while for a college internship - I decided to go elsewhere, but even for technical roles, and even before I was offered a job, they were boozing us up and booking expensive restaurants and clubs in town. Glad I stayed out and did a meaningful job instead.
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In real world, tough competition with Pepsi is going faster on the virtual world of Facebook. There are quite few Pepsi applications which are constantly growing with its active users and I wonder how far this advertising-war will go and till when? because this online-war is getting more influencing and powerful as per research and is crystal clear why. Most of the people?s time is spent on the virtual communities and youth of every region is fond of these fuzzy-soda drinks which are the 70% who use this technological spider for webbing-connecting-sharing.
But twitter is still winning in the One-To-Many relationships.. I can't see what AplusK is up to on facebook.
OTOH, they will instantly get the facebook stream.
Thanks for the in-depth response. I always wonder how close the actual ad deals are to the prices mentioned on the FM rate card. If the Mommy Blog is really selling out $18 CPMs, that's fantastic.
I'm going to guess he asked "how much does solar cost, per watt..."
I think it's much more positive to look at the development that is going on around the newest version of firefox, with open source technologies for streaming media.

Just look at adobe and their dedication to 64bit linux users, Because it was not open source people who could have made the software perfectly sat around waiting on them because there was simply nothing they could do.

Adobe is an alright company to me, But I think they hinge a lot of their goals on dominance rather than being feature rich and "liked"..

I'd love to see an open source Adobe/Flash initiative, That would really get things rolling, Because 40% of my cpu shouldn't go to showing a 400px video..
>> "But twitter is still winning in the One-To-Many relationships..

What sort of use case do you mean?

IMHO facebook wins when it comes to updating your friends, general chit chat with your close contacts.

The use case twitter is good for and facebook isn't yet afaik is 1 'celeb' updating thousands of followers.
Indexing, in the trivial sense is easy. PageRank (which is old) is already a step beyond (How does one deal with spam? How does one handle redirects, or splash pages that forward you somewhere). Semantic analysis is a step further (what does apple mean?). And then theres everything else (What should happen when I search for "camera", am I shopping, or do I want to find out more about how a camera works?)

In so far as building a search engine involves buying computers, yes, its easy, but then theres everything else.

Any problem is trivializable in this sense. Amazon is just a storefront (except for the recommendations, the user experience, the search, and I'm sure all sorts of domain knowledge that I don't have at a glance)
Twitter has undoubtedly been over-hyped, and maybe they'll be the poster child of all that is wrong with web2.0 social networking if things don't go well...

Are twitter adding any features? Seems like they will need to soon.
"They see a useful product, they want it and they are in too much of a hurry to read the small print"

Or maybe there just aren't alternatives that provide the same value.
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However, we warn you not to get too complacent because this is still in the initial stages, in fact the product is still in the lab! In addition to it still being in development, the invention requires to be produced on a bigger scale and at a good price, as we are hitting the peak period of the recession very soon...
I disagree, I rarely log into facebook -- only respond to a friend request/invite etc...

whereas I user twitter everyday.
Sometimes when you spend too much time hating a proprietary technology and working hard to reverse engineer it and open its tools .. you might actually just end up accepting it.

Adobe Flash didn't interest me at all until I couldn't find a nice portable platform that offers what it offers. My interest in flash is not for the love of flash, but flash as a target platform, using a language better than AS3 and development tools better than Flash or Flex builder. HaXe is an interesting experiment, but I would still want a Lisp on there.

You will never see me defend Flex and AIR. I use Raphael.js now for my system's dashboard, for example. But the flash run time has replaced ActiveX and XPCOM as a non-standard standard that you can reach out to stuff like client-side storage, explicit sockets and data streams, audio and video, along with the usual eye-candy stuff.

Accepting something as fate is not the same as advocating it.
Sometimes it's not the fact that you have to sign up but the way registration is done.

"people will just pick their normal username and mash a laughably simple password into the appropriate box"

It's not as easy as it sounds.

1) My username might be taken
2) Often, I have to go to my email and activate the account.
3) Entering and remembering a password is not as simple as it sounds. New York Times is a good example on how not to do it: http://twitter.com/vpdn/status/1620213111
4) Most of the time I don't see why I have to sign up.
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I find myself using only very few screen sessions because my WM takes care of most of the work, and only use it for persistent applications when I need to shut down X or launch irssi on a remote server, etc.
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I've had that happen to me before. You'd imagine if that were really the problem that they'd find a more PC way to tell me they don't want a woman on the team so I don't then go on a huge rant about gender discrimination, but some people have said it to my face that that is why. Yeah, it's their loss, and I don't deal with them after that.

I'd have to be delusional to say that discrimination wasn't a problem. I've cried my tear ducts dry and screamed my lungs out before over the unbelievable things that have happened to me that I never saw happen to any of my male friends just in tech alone. My boyfriend gets tired of hearing my stories of my frustrations over these things - he doesn't deal with anything even close to them except when I'm with him at an event (and THAT is a whole 'nother world of discrimination right there). I had to learn to just deal with some inevitabilities of being female in such an imbalanced industry. I also have to admit that in the course of dealing with these inevitabilities I've pretended to be a guy online very frequently and still do because it's just so much easier. I've also learned this nasty habit of becoming a total jackass in the face of other jackassery usually in the form of sexual harassment by people who think it's okay to harass a girl because they're behind a layer of pseudoanonymity.

Most men are really nice. Most men will hold open doors for me and treat me as a colleague and help me out when I'm having a problem, and I've had male friends who've mentored and supported me and my decisions over the years and more. Most of them, I would not mind working with - in fact, I would be glad to work with. But there is always someone out there somewhere who thinks discrimination and harassment is okay, and eventually, you just get really, really, really, really, really tired of them. It all builds up.

Can't forget that all this is on top of the annoyances in the non-tech world that one deals with every day just by being female, which is enough to drive a lot of women crazy. Once I've fingered my knitting needles and my knife on my keychain to use as weapons because an annoying guy wouldn't stop following me around saying something about taking my clothes off. Just last week, I drove around in circles near my house because there was a creepy guy in an Audi who had been following me by foot from a mall and then in his car for a very random and unlikely 5+ mile drive (think 4 left turns in a row followed by going up and down the same street for half a mile), and I went as far as to call the cops with his license plate #. How many guys can tell you that they've had stuff like THAT happen to them? Pretty rare :(
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"Gradually, I was descending into the strange social isolation of my colleagues. I spent less and less time with normal people and more time with people from the bank."
I enjoyed this article, because it suggests that, for all their occupation of what they thought to be 'the real world', bankers were living as bubble-like an existence as a fourteenth-century monk.
What if your line of code gets deleted during refactoring?
Interesting. I'm going to give it a try, thx.
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I have found Sifter (http://sifterapp.com/) to be superior UI wise compared to both Pivotal Tracker and Lighthouse.
If you're targeting cheap, then Linode is a better bet - you get more for your money. There are plenty of options when you get bigger, but if you really need to save, then deal with getting big when it happens, rather than spend money on 64 bit pointers.
I love how most of the comments are reflections, or stories about how useful this is. I agree wholeheartedly, and when I saw the link was hoping it was now a full blown book or something.
At Soup.io (tumblelogging/lifestreaming) we initially had content creation buttons right on the front page. We figured that the best first action for new users would be to actually post something, not filling out a sign-up form.

But we had exactly the problem you're describing: People are so used to scanning for "register"/"sign up" that some even assumed we were in invite-only beta.

We eventually changed that to a "Try it now -- no sign up required" button, which works better. The wording and UI is still tricky though: "Try it now", "trial account" etc. carry the connotation that it'll cost something later.

We've been meaning to A/B test a straightforward sign-up form for a while and measure effects on both conversion & retention, but unfortunately haven't gotten around to it yet.
You can also check their translation by putting it back into English with an automated translator. (Google has one for example.)
There's also ropemacs for Python auto-completion in Emacs. It also supports various automatic refactorings:

http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropemacs.html

It's not perfect but on the other hand it doesn't require that you run a tool to build the tag files each time (it just picks things up automatically).
I agree. Of course you can add a link to another single service site of you (or Wikipedia etc), that include that information.
The NYT is a site where registration is unnecessary[1]. Registration was harder to do for them than it is to not have registration at all.

I was talking about situations where you store data on a user and link more data to a user. Sure, you can do that using some kind of token in a cookie, but if you want to give your users a name at least some of the time, registration is easier. At that point "unregistered users" add more work.

Your other examples are more a problem with the way registration is implemented, than with registration per se.

[1] From a technical point of view. It probably makes business sense to them, although I'm unsure how.
Or... society didn't realize there might be a problem until someone did it.

For example, 23andme and other labs like it were sent cease & desist letters by Californian health regulators. A few months later, the C&D was lifted and license was granted. There is nothing wrong with society or government checking that all is a-OK. There isn't a conspiracy to push anyone to the stone age.

Ref: http://www.genomeweb.com/california-grants-navigenics-23andm...
I left out the part where I skimmed the blogs that mentioned Toku's software. =)
This is a really cool demo -- fast, to the point. Well done. I'll be keeping tabs on this and looking forward to the launch in May.
Christ, $4 a month is a bit steep isn't it?!
Thanks rantfoil!
Could someone explain what the phrase "Rails is a Ghetto" means?

I know what a ghetto is, but don't really get what the implication is here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghetto
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Would you adopt any other line of opensource code? Can it be generalized?
Man, this really brings back fond memories of my teenage life. Thanks for posting this.
I use the Kinesis Advantage Ergonomic Keyboard featured (except in black). It's pretty great.

The best bit is the placement of the non-alphanumeric keys e.g. space, enter, delete, backspace, ctrl, alt, etc. They are all placed in those two clumps under each of your thumbs where a traditional long space bar would be.

It also has arrow keys arranged in a Vim-like JKLH arrangement just below the "normal" keys.

I also type Dvorak on it and I can configure that within the keyboard software rather than in the OS, not that that's particularly hard but it's nice to plug and go. (I don't have the slightly more expensive Dvorak keycaps model they sell because if you're looking at the keys then you're doing it wrong)
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I think it’s entirely reasonable for Dreamhost to post this, and it’s completely fair for more than half of the commenters to gain enjoyment from someone else’s distress. If he didn’t want to be ridiculed, he shouldn’t have been so upset about a situation that we don’t understand, should he?

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go and throw faeces at the disabled kids from the local school, in order to stave off the boredom until lunchtime.
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Third guy in this comic strip:

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them-the-code

(thanks to whoever posted this in the other ESR thread, I'd searched for an appropriate strip but hadn't gone back far enough to find this gem)
Or, if you're not attached to needing the speed that C provides, use something like Erlang, Tcl, or Python's twisted that has a nice event-based system built in.
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It bothers me too, but I'm happy to see the trend going against it. Apple were one of the first to take a stand on this (possibly for iPhone reasons or to better promote Webkit). Google seems to be putting a lot of weight behind SVG (with VML fallbacks for IE) but obviously that's not reflected everywhere.
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Oh ok, then I'll win the lottery, trip over a cure for cancer and land inside a supermodel.

That has to be one of the most vapid pieces of advice I've ever heard. It reeks of quintessential motivational-self-help-guru-dom. It sounds like great advice, but when you break it down, it brings absolutely nothing concrete to the table. He might as well add 'Water is wet, so take off your clothes before you jump into the beach'.

Everyone, including 'Ryan', already knows this.

I would usually ignore something like this, but doling out buzzword laden one-liners like 'Networking is not a dirty word' seems to have become a trend these days. Restating the obvious in memorable sentences doesn't help anything. What does help is taking his resume, deciding if he can hook him up, and directing him towards a contact he knows, since he's in the same field as Ryan. You know, actual concrete help.

Or maybe it's the smug 'see how well I condense my ideas into 2 lines? that's just too cool to ignore' attitude dripping all over this self-promotional article.

P.S. You know what's even shorter - 'Sorry. I have no clue how to help you.' It's just one line!
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Here's a good tutorial on the technique:
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In a country like India or Brazil one can (and often does) always argue that funding for whichever initiative can be better spent on giving food to poor children.

Micro loans for small businesses? OLPC? English lessons in rural villages? Subsidizing cheap public transport to far flung areas that the quickly aging infrastructure doesn't properly service?

How dare you propose such luxuries when children are starving on the streets!!

Quick fact: the Indian government can allocate all of their budget to Feeding Poor Children and there would still be plenty of malnourished kids begging on the streets.
(I'm the author of the article.)

I actually know exactly what you mean -- if I had just stumbled upon this post, I would probably think the same thing.

I wrote this for my community, who know exactly what I mean: Don't try to charge $ too early, focus on the long term, invest in yourself and be entrepreneurial, etc. Many of them have read my articles from years ago that go into detail on this.

But for people that just clicked through and are seeing this for the first time, I can understand the skepticism.

Hopefully this doesn't make you think of my site as just another guru-blah-blah-blah site, because my readers have really done some amazing things -- saving millions, starting companies, automating their money, etc -- over the years.
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As pointed out in the update to the article, this isn't counting those who switch to using Twitter clients, which as the comment points out, accounts for about 70% of total tweets.
It's obvious why: start ups are a marathon.

I wonder how many iterations of user feedback it takes for successful companies to get their product right. I would wager at least 5.
> Having said that, I don't really know the situation in other parts of India. The point is, it's not as bad as you think.

Kerala has the highest Human Development Index rate in India. It is highly unrepresentative of the country as a whole.
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Honestly, no, there are no good reasons behind the deletionist philosophy as currently embodied on Wikipedia.

The problem is that, although Wikipedia has policies for maintaining quality and relevance, they have fixated on something which is not a policy (notability, which is merely a guideline) and given it a status so far and above all other policies that it's hard to see as anything other than irrational extremism.

A good first step toward improving Wikipedia would be the utter abolition of the notability guideline, replacing it instead with the much more useful and relevant question of "does this article present information which can be verified by consulting reliable sources?" (see policies: WP:V, WP:RS) This maintains quality and relevance (since now the criterion is not "I've never heard of it/it doesn't have X results in Google/etc.", but is rather "no sources can be found to corroborate these claims"), and does away with the endless wanking over what is and isn't "notable enough" for Wikipedia.
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I don't agree. I've met plenty of people, especially in tech, who won't spend time broadening their horizon. At my previous job, a couple of my colleagues attitude was, "I was hired with no experience during the .com boom, I've taught myself VB, then forced to transition to C#, and I get by fine so I don't need to know anything new."

At my current job, we're doing "boring" J2EE stuff, but not a day goes by without someone in the office discovering something new and exciting, and talking about it. We've tried three times to crowbar some Scala into the project, just to see if it sticks (it didn't, unfortunately), we're all excited about Ruby and Python and we know how they stack up against Java.

That's building skills before you need them. If my colleague from the former job is fired, he will need to land exactly the same position somewhere else, while we're much better aligned to switch to something else.
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The tests talk solely about read performance and not transaction throughput. I don't believe write performance can be increased so dramatically, especially not just using a cache-friendly data structure.
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