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I feel like we sold our birthright.

We did, and for what?

One in a thousand of us gets to be to be a billionaire, and the other 999 suffer declining autonomy, less interesting work, less stable employment conditions, and a psychotic housing market driven not by engineer compensation, but by the zillion VPs of NTWTFK (Non-Technical-Who-The-Fuck-Knows) who cash out their equity before it becomes toilet paper and can afford to bid up, into the mid-seven-digit range, what were supposed to be middle-class houses.

We can take our industry back, but it won't happen in VC-istan.
> We were building roads and services before taxes.

That's all I need: Paying to use Verizon Interstate Highway in order to traverse my state.

Infrastructure is one of the few things that taxes are pretty good for, as most everyone benefits from roads, utility grids, etc.. War, scanning air travelers, and installing the Great Eye of Sauron at every intersection are not good uses of public money.
See my top level comment, we're talking about 501(c)(4) organizations, which, by the way, are allowed to engage in political activity but not with tax-free donations and are explicitly forbidden to donate directly to politicians, or, as I recall, "coordinate" expenditures.

And the actions of the IRS went way beyond even normal investigations, into explicitly forbidden fishing expeditions demanding membership lists.

And then "it's not the crime, it's the coverup"; the Administration swore up and down nothing targeted was happening in the run up to the 2012 election, and now, surprise, surprise, it turned out they lied.
Meh. I'd personally rather be the oppressed than the oppressor.
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It's not ethical to encourage you to feel empathy? OK. You're entitled to your opinion but it's stupid.
Did you use a PHP framework to build this? If so, which?
Most likely made up, but that's the fun in the story. Doesn't need to be true to be good.
My understanding is that they are focusing on right wing organizations. If they are just investigating them at the ordinary rate the.n this is not a problem.
We used to run a load test on a piece of POTS gear that would blow a reasonably large cap. (Timing in the firmware was applying voltage to something that shouldn't have had a voltage... and the circuit didn't have good enough protection.)

A (very) little bit of flame and lots of smoke. Great way to get the attention of every hw/fw eng in the building... "FIRE IN THE LAB!" thankfully it was never enough to set off the smoke detectors.

We also used to have (small) gear out in the cubicles. Every once in a while I'd get a whiff of "that smell" and would take a walk around cube-ville trying to figure out whose box was overheating.

Good times...
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Sorry, I missed this reply earlier, I'll take a look at it today.
It definitely has something to do with the current load on my server. I didn't adequately plan for it at all. I should have at least compiled my less files and minified/concatenated my js files.
Gorgeous. Love the concept, love the price, love the Stripe integration <3

Since you're asking for feedback, I thought this one thing was a little odd:

* Click on a Project (http://www.plumtheory.com/demos/duet/#projects/1)
* View the calendar tab (http://www.plumtheory.com/demos/duet/#projects/1/calendar)
* Click on a different Project (http://www.plumtheory.com/demos/duet/#projects/2)
* The calendar tab is no longer being displayed.

Is there a way to view an overall calendar -and/or- switch between projects without leaving a calendar view?
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Freaking awesome. By the way even though this one was mostly a keyboard song Space Oddity is a great song to start learning guitar.
Yeah. That why I use TaskCoach (desktop app) so the timer icon is always shown in my notification area. But you can use the dashboard for this.

A year back I had started building a web based time tracker using HTML5 background workers and stuff. But I lost motivation. :(
Sweet! What a blast to browse this in a native app! :) Page flipping, keyword searching ... everything happens immediately. Byebye Web browsing. Just do it:

sudo apt-get install chmsee
wget http://thecybershadow.net/d/docs/d2.chm
chmsee d2.chm &
I actually didn't use any frameworks (server or client). They always feel to heavy for what I'm trying to accomplish, especially php frameworks. I rolled my own MVC implementations for both the client & server. I've been thinking about porting the entire thing to Laravel + Backbone, to see if I like it better, but I haven't made any decisions yet. If I do, it will probably be a month or two before I get started.
server overloaded? website crawling...
Great job, this is and incredible leap for iOS development. I foresee this becoming an essential tool in a lot of developers workflow.
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Postgres supports native nested structures. Well, as long as your structures are not circular.
JSON everywhere is really a bad choice for most data structures. It's like having no structure at all.
Lois Lerner, head of the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups... acknowledged that the behavior was “absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. That's not how we go about selecting cases for further review. The IRS would like to apologize for that.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/15375-irs-admits-i...
Server is down for me.
>Any situation in which the government flouts the law/is "above" the law is a dangerous situation of importance to everyone.

That's why it's so important to have harsher penalties for people that abuse power. Unfortunately the opposite seems to be true.
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I've had a similar idea in the past. Not to sure how to monetize it. This would work for generic stacks provisioning but the real power of chef/puppet/saltstack is configuration management. Maybe offer base boxes at $5-10 one time fee or maintained and custom boxes for additional monthly fee. Like I said I've given this lots of thought, and would be interesting in talking about this idea further if you are interested in building something together.
His response to Captain Kirk was epic. https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/286948264236945408
I found this book by Duckett to be very helpful. It provides a good visual overview of the stuff you're learning. http://www.amazon.com/HTML-CSS-Design-Build-Websites/dp/1118...
Nice job on the app. Regarding frameworks, Backbone is very light weight and server side MVC is worth the weight IMHO.
It is an extension of how 9.2 can use trigram indexes for LIKE '%foo%' searches.
When I was young, I just thought astronauts were lucky people who got to go to space. It wasn't until I got older and read through their bios (and such books as, The Right Stuff), that I realized they were actual uber-men/women...not only good at operating a space shuttle, but at a hundred other skills that may be needed when you're in space, including musical performances.
Kudos to Jeff Jaffe for staying calm and professional while replying to all the arguments.
For anyone else confused, I believe NH means "New Hampshire".
Sandberg Schmidt 2016. You heard it here first. They're in the middle of PR marathon saturated with juicy election tidbits: North Korea, Facebook, etc.
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> In most cases, filters and contrast are not relevant; although they could be in some edge cases.

This makes me think of the infamous Time magazine cover featuring O.J. Simpson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OJ_Simpson_Newsweek_TIME.p...
I think he means https://amon.cx/.
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Yeah but since it's just being added, it precludes "NoSQL guys" having built upon it, which is the original complaint.
Yes, I struggled with how that should work. I ended up deciding that the default 'project tab' should open whenever you navigate between projects, regardless of what tab you were viewing before. I'm definitely open to changing it if enough people think the current implementation is awkward.

There isn't an overall calendar. I thought about adding one. I wasn't sure how valuable it would be though.
Because of this it's worth thinking of things you do on the Internet as public and irrevocable.

It's worth knowing that things you do on the Internet are public and irrevocable.
I wrote the tweets featured in the article and thought I'd chime in with a few more thoughts...

I think flat design is inclusive design, that is, it's not hoity-toity, impossible-to-execute, beautifully 3D-rendered and textured expensive design. It's simple and clean, sparse and understandable. In the most simple application of "flat design" trends, it's essentially one step up from a wireframe: pick a color scheme on some color scheme website, download a 200-pack of glyph icons and BAM you've moved from an abstract wireframe to something a little more sophisticated and approachable. Friendly colors, nice spacing, good typography, and you've got something.

Yes, I am saying it is quicker to execute a "flat" design than it is to execute a skeuomorphic, highly-stylized, deeply-textured design. A product manager or developer without a lot of design experience could probably use some flat design trends and one nice font and put something together that doesn't look like horse shit. I don't think that same product manager could spend an equal amount of time trying to mimic a beautifully-crafted and textured interface and have anywhere near the same luck. Using flat design trends gets you to some sort of product design quicker than if you're spending 20 minutes crafting a 5-color gradient to emulate the perfect lighting of a semi-glossy aluminum rod for your button texture.

No, I am not saying that by simply using "flat" design trends you are able to bypass all processes and thinking surrounding good whitespace, grouping, contrast, alignment, typography, usability, etc., but because "flat" design elements are graphically simpler it lets the content of the design show through and not be muddled by textures or skeuomorphic execution flaws, so your design message is clearer and cleaner by default.

Non-designers or "mediocre designers" seem to be flocking to these flat design trends the same way they flock to the excellent Bootstrap framework: because it's a simple way to jumpstart a product design out of a blank canvas or browser window into something that, even when starting out, looks pretty decent.
Indeed, it would have been better if the author had mentioned Collabtive (http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/), or even better: did a short comparison.
Just PHP 5.3 and mysql. Any shared host will do.
LOL, no, not as a primary store of data, no never again.

Plain text logs are a great place to funnel all "unable to connect to database" type of errors for dbas / sysadmins to ponder, however.

I've implemented quite a few systems where data changes are logged into a log table, all fully rationalized, so various reports can be generated about discrepancies and access rates and stuff like that. This is also cool for endusers to see who made the last change etc.

Trying to reverse engineer how some data got into a messed up condition using logs that can be JOINed to actual data tables as necessary is pretty easy, compared to trying to write a webserver log file parser to read multiple files to figure out who did what, when, to the data resulting in it being screwed up. You parse log files for data just once before you decide to do that stuff relationally. Debug time drops by a factor of 100x.
I'd like to see you hunt for the dynamically added case to the dispatch table. Maybe then, you'll change your mind.

There is no fundamental difference between either approaches except the runtime cost. If you need conditonals, use them. If you need a lookup table, use them. Keep the code predictable.
What type of license does it come with?
If you capture a Snapchat you received, it notifies the person who sent it.
Exactly. This is why warrantless wiretapping should be perfectly legal. Hell, I record all my calls and forward them with the rest of my email to the NSA to do my part.
Which is pretty much what you want to build a schemaless nosql-on-postgres.

Also, Posgres already has hstore (already mentioned) and XML columns, which are schemaless and "unstructured".
So it's like "social proof" with your past self providing the peer pressure.
Index support for regular expression search
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Yeah, I have a support ticket open with my host. The demo is hosted on a vps with liquidweb. I thought it would be enough. I was wrong. :/
I've grown to hate the phrase "static typing". It's almost as meaningless as "strong typing". While checking types compile-time certainly has it's benefits, the issue presented here is almost entirely orthogonal to that. The problem here is that strings are handled essentially as untyped opaque blobs as far as the type system is concerned. If the strings were typed properly, then both static and dynamic type systems (if otherwise equivalent) would catch the errors.
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The IRS has claimed that 'low level staffers' [1] are to blame for this. I find that chilling. It probably means that 'low level staffers' with an axe to grind have been wielding this power in unfair ways across the board. This just highlights a case where politics was an issue. But where else might someone have been treated unfairly for a petty reason? We should hold the IRS to a higher standard than this.

[1] http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-irs-improperly-ta...
When a client asks for new APIs and more complex HTML5 specific features, it's clear and it's easy to explain why it could be more expensive. But if he/she asks "Develop me a website in HTML5 because I think XHTML is obsolete and has no future", the answer isn't so evident.
If there would be HandlerSocket or similar, yes.
PostgreSQL ::xml datatype madness
Same. I hope I'll remember to check in later to the demo in action.
The "User-defined background workers for automating database tasks" feature sounds very interesting:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/bgworker.html

I wonder if it would be possible to plug a python/node interpreter into that.
"Beautiful charts with 1 line of ruby"

"This looks nice, but most of the hard work is done elsewhere."

What were you expecting?
> On the whole, the resurgent right-wing business elite of the Welch era (1977-95) was worse than the politically centrist old-board northeastern elite it replaced.

My view is that the Welch era isn't over--the right-wing business elite have just turned their focus to tech now that there is some money to be made. I think Zuck is completely out of his element here, and FWD.us is on track to getting played by savvier establishment forces.
>There isn't an overall calendar. I thought about adding one. I wasn't sure how valuable it would be though.

I totally understand. You've put together a great product where you can (and should) build more features based on customer feedback (rather than trying to build every feature imaginable and never launching).

Kudos!
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If you like these kinds of stories, here is the ultimate classic: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5iZB7A31G4Ic1VNS05TN3Zxa0k/...
Mark Zuckerberg is no more a technology leader than a powerball winner is a financial leader.

He has worked hard, but no harder than many others.

He is brilliant, but not any more than many others.

He is tenacious, but not more than many others.

He was is the perfect storm of the right place at the right time on the right thing and played his hand beautifully. But he still hit the lottery.

The idea that lottery winners are suddenly Subject Matter Experts on other things just because they have money, eyeballs, connections, or whatever is silly. Out here in the diaspora, we pay little attention to the opinions of powerball winners. Too bad the same thing can't be said for the fanboys and followers in Silicon Valley.

This was inevitable.
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A solution I came up with to keep jquery plugins very modular with my front end code. Some gotchas with it, but I think an interesting approach. Would like to see a similar thing done in angular or ember?
Isn't this already the case? Netflix forces users to use Silverlight; YouTube won't serve HTML5 videos if ads are enabled. The "Open Web" is already lacking their content because they rely on DRM already.

Content industries won't give up on publishing, they'll just pursue the current status quo of terrible plugins for the imaginary protection DRM gives them.

In an ideal world the executives concerned about piracy would realise their errors, but from my perspective, DRM'd HTML5 videos natively decoded are a world better than those reluctantly vomited out using Flash.
Can I make a different suggestion:

Spend the millions in each of the State capitals, as openly and as locally as possible. The state senators are unlikely to have seen such attention, and most importantly, State law is still law.

Washington seems to be a good place for the outward face of the USA to speak from, but seems not so hot for fixing internal problems.
Was looking for something just like this. Very cool, Thanks for sharing!
Where would one find out if anyone is working on a patch for ActiveRecord?
Aquihire is a failure mode. Company builds a good team, but the product can't get enough traction to be sold on its own merits. ${BIGCORP) swoops in and buys out the company for a LOT less than it would be worth with a successful product, ditches the product and handcuffs the team. It's a less awful ending for a startup than going bankrupt and folding the company, but it's not an actual business plan! Sheesh, if I'm pouring a few years of my life into creating a product, I hope it's more than an elaborate flirtation to get hired at Google with a signing bonus!
I was fortunate enough to play with the demo before things went down. 10/10; would demo again.

I, too, hope you remember to check back :-)
A great list of questions, and far better than the awkward, "er...no...I don't have any questions" with an embarrassed smile.

It should also make you look better to your prospective employer too.
Surprisingly, that one has been making lots of money though. That fact changed my impression that Android users don't pay much for non-game apps.
>>Administration swore up and down nothing targeted was happening in the run up to the 2012 election, and now, surprise, surprise, it turned out they lied.

This is jumping to conclusions; as of today there is no evidence anyone outside of the IRS had knowledge about these alleged targetings. It is not as if all politically motivated acts require being orchestrated by top politicians, partisan politics can happen at all levels of government. Of course when they are, it does make for much juicer news.
> bootstrap has a lot more components

What are your thoughts on Bootstrap vs Gumby Framework (http://gumbyframework.com/)?
A sentiment that several Apple employees have voiced is:

NeXT acquired Apple for negative -$400M

That says it all, I think. Apple today is more like a successful NeXT than it is like Apple of the 90s.
I had a similar situation when I was 14 years old making prank phone calls. It was 26 years ago and I stumbled on a block of numbers that contained every phone company error message. You know... You have to dial 1, Don't dial a 1, deposit a quarter, etc. Most of those numbers work to this day - 215-257-0012 to 215-257-0017.

The best trick I ever did with them was to record the message, "We're sorry, you must first a dial a 1 to call this number" message onto my answering machine when I was 21. People would call me, get my answering machine that told them to a dial a 1, hang up then dial a 1 and then get the real phone company error message, "We're sorry, it is not necessary to dial a 1 when calling this number." I didn't get a single message for two weeks since people were basically caught in an infinite loop.

I thought it was pretty funny until I came home from work one day and the phone company was digging holes around my house. Apparently my mother reported a problem on my line to the phone company who couldn't figure out how the hell my line got mixed up like that so they just started digging.
FWIW, since Posgtres has hard version cycles (6 months I believe?) the point was to have a working base out and about, future versions will likely add auto-update:

> This is a minimal implementation, but should still be useful in many cases. Currently data is only populated "on demand" by the CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW and REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW statements.

> It is expected that future releases will add incremental updates with various timings, and that a more refined concept of defining what is "fresh" data will be developed. At some point it may even be possible to have queries use a materialized in place of references to underlying tables, but that requires the other above-mentioned features to be working first.

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;...
ya, there is something here, but I can't put my finger on it. That's why I was thinking, offer the default code that we use to provision a box, and allow the user to customize it; then push it to git, let us take over and apply everything appropriately.

PS- Id love to chat anthony@coderindustries.com skype: coder_for_hire
As also some one that has been in the thick of some of the "big data" projects in the industry recently, I have to agree with the article.

One of the terms I learnt in the PyData Silicon Valley in March is "Medium Data". Unless you are dealing with terabytes of RAM and Exa bytes of storage, google style, the overhead of having to maintain a cluster is something most (intelligent) people try to avoid.

When you cant avoid hundreds of machines, the cluster is a necessity and you design that way. But given where the Moore's law curve stands today, most organisations really dont need that.

You can buy servers on Amazon with 250 gigs of RAM for a few dollars an hour. They specifically call it the big data cluster. It is possible to analyse the data using tools like Pandas/Matplotlib and others in the Scientific Python eco system fairly easily.

These tools are being used by scientists and industry for a really long time, except they aren't really advertised that way.

For instance, here is some analysis I was doing recently of the children names in the US, from 1880, with 3 million records: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/53ec0c5a2fabcfebb358. My Mac could handle it without even breaking a sweat.
Looks like Hacker News is starting to veer into politicial bullshit territory again. And it was going so well for about a week!

Flagged.
OMG, I still have my coherent 3,5"s somewhere... loved it on my superbeefy 386sx
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Ahhh, thank you!

I tried googling, but kept getting asked "Did you mean amazon?"