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I always thought alcohol would be one of the first items to go when trying to cut costs. Do young people generally consider it a necessity rather than a luxury?
Regarding Ubuntu....
Recently I was trying to install a 3G card for my laptop. I dual boot Vista and Ubuntu. I was having trouble with it Vista since I didn't have the drivers. When I mentioned the fact to my girlfriend, who is pretty much a complete tech dummy, she said: "Why don't you just try it on Ubuntu? That's what I use most of the time anyway."

I was pretty taken aback, I can tell you. I didn't even know she knew what Ubuntu was.
Turns out she was rebooting the machine into Ubuntu each time I "left" it on Vista for her when I went in to work. The reason? It's prettier(she is an Art major) and runs faster.

And tried installing the the 3G card on Ubuntu and guess what? Worked like a dream.
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Nagare (http://www.nagare.org) is really different.
Not yet-another-MVC-framework clone but based on a true components architecture and using continuation, like the Seaside framework, to free the developers of the Web constraints.
I hope you don't buy cable :)
Its error handling is a little odd, and it doesn't detect unexpected commands.

$ resty 42; echo $?
resty: curl returned error 42
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(curl was never called.)
Have you read the text? Is there any politics in there? Even the most die-hard Ayn Rand fanboy should laugh at it. It's hilarious.

Of course satire and politics are NOT mutually exclusive. To keep you happy, Rod should have written "it's satire, NOT politics, and NOT (satire AND politics)" ;-)
I think both arguments above are flawed.

Some derivatives might help brick-and-mortar production happen but a look at the details of the financial crisis will reveal that the majority of derivative investments have involved a casino-like approach to investment which bred exponentially increasing systemic risk. Some derivatives can be a necessary part of healthy economic activity but that doesn't justify the most recent approaches any more than the fact that some hospitals stock heroin justifies becoming a junkie.

On the other hand, it is too glib to say that the activity of getting rich with a brick-and-mortar factory is fundamentally different from getting rich with derivatives. Factory managers and hedge fund managers each manager people and risks. Bioinformationists and quants each manage complex formulas. I mean, you can dig a hole to lay a foundation for a new factory, you can dig a hole to cover it back up again or you can dig a hole to bury some bodies. The activity of digging the hole itself isn't that different.

There is some "service" production that differs only from the production of material things by its immateriality. There is also the production of wholly useless good or goods intended to cause harm to someone, like land mines.

In the derivative mess, there are ways that our society, as a whole, allowed resources to be channeled into detrimental uses. Those who profited from this weren't necessarily subjectively different from those who built railroads in earlier times. Indeed, a lot of useless tracks were laid in the 19th century as an adjunct to a lot of dirty dealing.

Hey, no conclusion but keep these points in mind...
I'm willing to bet many of the gigs are from big corporations who often love cliches and making up superfluous words.
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python is better for future work with matlab-related stuff like data preprocessing; or its matlab competitor library (scipy).
That's an intelligent comment.

"Some derivatives might help brick-and-mortar production happen but a look at the details of the financial crisis will reveal that the majority of derivative investments have involved a casino-like approach to investment which bred exponentially increasing systemic risk. Some derivatives can be a necessary part of healthy economic activity but that doesn't justify the most recent approaches any more than the fact that some hospitals stock heroin justifies becoming a junkie."

What could be the solution? If one destroys a market, one creates a black-market (quoting Churchill). If one imposes heavier and stricter regulation, there's really no guarantee that it will be enforced. There will always be loopholes to be exploited. The one solution would be economic totalitarianism (?)
How many startups does this put out of business?

This keeps happening repeatedly - so let there be no more startups offering missing features of EC2. Go back! Build something else! Amazon has made it clear that you should not build a general cloud offering on top of EC2 - it must be niche, or not an enhancement of their offering, or they will simply do the same thing and kill you. And I don't think its that they're copying anyone. They've given lots of notice. Its just that their product vision fits with most anyone's who looks at what EC2 is missing.
Not sure if anyone will see this, but Matt Aimonetti (yes, that Matt Aimonetti) just posted to the CouchRest (a ruby library) ML reporting that with the availability of recent RPC-JSON ruby/erlang direct access libraries, an estimated 5x speedup was possible over the straight HTTP.

5x speedup by integrating with erlang direct, and the HTTP is still there if you need it. So there goes much of the premise of the blog post. Needless to say, the DB itself has still not been optimised for speed - not even close - so this is far from the last word on the project's ultimate speed potential.

This is why you don't read too much into the current performance characteristics of alpha software.
Awesome. I can't wait to try this out!
Why Wodehouse? BTW: If Stephen Fry invited you as a guest on QI, would you go?

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I'm currently trying to get an indy games company off the ground but I can't take the risk of going full time at the moment. Work 8 hours as a programmer during the day then do about 5 hours at night on my game.
Been going for about 5 months now, probly another 4 to go.
I don't know. I jumped into Rails without a good understanding of Ruby, and there were a lot of things in it that just felt too "magical" to me. I never got that feeling with Django, but I was already somewhat familiar with Python before I ever gave django a try, so I'm not sure how it would be for someone new to Python.
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Well here you guys go, pretty simple small desk, although it is all glass which is kinda nice looking. Nice big monitor, but only one. And then my computer which is really the reason I'm posting it has an acrylic case and uv lighting over reactive tubing, neato huh?

http://tinypic.com/r/2eewug5/5

here's one of the computer all alone:
http://tinypic.com/r/15qufc2/5
I've found that it is consistently a few seconds slower. It's not slow as such, just slower than QuickSilver. And when it come to app launching, these few seconds kill, imho.
God, not another one of these... How many of these video spoofs do we need?

Downfall was an excellent movie, but seriously, all these videos are getting really repetitive. And I don't think they belong on HN.
You mean Germans can actually understand what he is ranting about? I knew my German was mediocre at best, but it is usually possible for me to follow the telly. I couldn't make heads or tails of this hissy fit.
I am especially bothered by one sentence:

"Prior to my introduction to the world of low-carbohydrate diet, I hadn't paid too much attention to nutritional science. I worked on biophysics, where I formed the opinion that medical science was mostly garbage."

It's hard for me to take someone seriously who once believed that medical science is 'mostly garbage.'
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Every hacker has a workspace and coding/working environment that has been personalized, optimized, improved, tweaked and hacked for countless hours and days. This is one of the, if not the most, sacred things each hacker posses.

Sorry, don't buy that. Many hackers just work from anywhere, and many who do work from a regular spot don't care about it as much as you do.

This is a valid question, mind you, I just disagree with your first point.
You can do a lot more than "start" with them -- they are full-featured products and (at least for Visual Studio) there are no restrictions on use for commercial products.

EDIT: Perhaps the largest cost would be once your product is finished. Your university (or host) would have to purchase Microsoft products for the web server.
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If you look at the bash source code, resty uses curl.
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I don't understand why you wouldn't switch to a place with sunlight eventually (after 9 startups)?
yup. we're incubating 2-3 projects this way right now :)
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I now have to agree with you on that one hehehe :)
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"If you're taking care of that so the rest of the team can worry about the low-level details of getting stuff done, that's valuable, and it's not unreasonable to expect that to take up 2/3 of a person in a 5-person team."

- THANKS a lot! that is enormously helpful and concise. Now I am kinda feeling better. =)
As I carefully explained, the boot sector was completely unchanged. However, I'm sure we would all deeply appreciate a link or two to your undoubtedly significant body of work on the web. The way you boldly buck mainstream orthodoxy by replacing the familiar "rootkit" with "root-kit", along with the vigorous application of name calling instead of salient facts, points to a mind unfettered by mere convention. Before tearing myself away from this enlightening discussion, a final word: having registered with this site a mere 4 hours ago, it is perhaps a tad imprudent of you to be wielding the "noob" monicker so injudiciously.
You feel you're not accomplishing anything because of "muscle memory" - this is a great insight - thanks a lot for that. Where did you get this phrase from?
I'd love to see some more Chicago meetups. I was down at school when the last one was supposed to happen, so I didn't get a chance to come.
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"The rush to participate in the “national security operating system” arms race is pretty evident across the world, with the European Union’s secure OS Minix, the U.S Air Force new ‘secure distribution of Windows XP‘ and Russia’s interest in a similar secure OS."

Hilarious. I was a little bit interested in how a 'security' blogger could conceive of Minix being some new cutting-age security product, and found this article:
http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/67026/europe-funds-...

Turns out Tanenbaum recently got a grant for more development of Minix. It's biggest security feature? The micro-kernel!

Seems like old is the new new.
Don't forget to tell everyone about the half-dead plant! ;-)
Plan for the fact that marketing the app is going to take at least two days a week. I’m talking about about 16 solid hours of work, at a minimum.

Here we have the marketer's version of the YouDidNotSpendEnoughTimeLookingAtTheIDEException, where people think an arbitrary number of hours has mystical significance because, why, if you could actually run a business in your spare time then the world would collapse on itself.

There is nothing intrinsic to marketing that says it all has to be done this week, in big consecutive chunks, for it to matter. Some of the most important forms of marketing for Internet businesses take what I like to call calendar time as opposed to wall clock time. For young sites, SEO is very intensive on calendar time but pretty light on wall clock time -- you throw a couple links at it, and then you go off and do other things to amuse yourself while waiting for Google to not hate your bones.

Similarly, blogging and similar reputation-building exercises reward stamina, not number of hours worked consecutively. (Consecutive crunching helps you play Keep Up With Techcrunch. Don't play Keep Up With Techcrunch. That is a full-time job for several people, and besides, people who read Techcrunch are by and large terrible customers who don't actually pay for the stuff they read about. Instead, write software/applications for the people who do actually pay for the stuff they read about.)

It’s very likely that the only way you’ll be able to get the word out to the masses about your new idea is by spending cold-hard-advertising-dollars.

Catastrophically wrong. Understanding PPC advertising is a useful skill, don't get me wrong, but it works a lot better after you have customer validation from your other marketing methods.
You hit the nail on the head, except for the copying part. Amazon was already 1 - 2 years ahead of it's competition. This announcement extends that distance and puts a lot of pressure on the third-party commercial tools. There's still value to be had (like cross-vendor support) but that could wane as people realize many of the features they want are implemented in EC2 "out of the box".

Amazon is building an entirely new ecosystem and we'll start seeing news kinds of tools (commercial and open source) built in and around it.
Are you aware that using channels for communication and synchronisation has been prevalent in languages other than Erlang? Occam was one, and Bell Labs, creators of C, Unix, etc., used it in Alef and Limbo amongst others. They all hark back to C.A.R. (Tony) Hoare's CSP. Here's a good overview. http://swtch.com/~rsc/thread/
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A lot of those startups are offering a much easier starting point, though. They put a pretty face on what Amazon has provided. Building a scalable website infrastructure isn't as easy as a few clicks, even with these new features. There are lot of people who don't want to think about it and just start using EC2, knowing whatever's going on in the background is providing them adequate reliability.
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If you're used to Matlab, C#, and PHP...you are going to like Python. It's a real breath of fresh air.

Django is a pretty robust framework too. Like Python, it (for the most part) just makes things easy.
Forgot to mention one of the most important parts of our work environment: the whiteboard! We make pretty good use of that.
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I was expecting an answer to sort of emphasise the cliché of no need to reinvent the wheel just work within it. We as people tend to stick with what we have and make it better rather than scratch it all together and start anew, hence perhaps those ancient civilisations came up with something else which performed the same function.
I haven't been freelance for long enough to have a good grip on what demand is like normally, but I certainly haven't had a shortage of work coming my way recently. It seems to me that the amount of projects hasn't dropped much, but many companies who might have hired someone permanently to implement them previously are now taking on external contractors instead. The financial risk is, after all, easier to control.
> Things that can't be produced profitably aren't produced voluntarily

If for good x to be produced profitably, it needs for the human labor component to work for less than livable wage, then it shouldn't be produced. Period.

There are a great many examples of differences in minimum wage (even within the U.S., the minimum wage has gone up and down) and I assure you, an Armageddon of unemployment does not ensue when the minimum wage is raised.

Your "good people don't act on their convictions" argument is plain silly, anamax. Listen, there are rules for everything. If we don't "coerce" businesses not to put toxins in kids toys and lead in drinking water, they will. If we don't say, "you can't economically rape your employees," they will. Look at what happened in the late 19th century: company town, company stores, child labor. We keep learning; we keep forgetting. It makes me sick.
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My understanding of schizophrenia is that the psychosis you describe arises from unresolved competition for dominance between the hemispheres of the brain. This competition results in a schism of sorts, hence the Greek root "split".

However, as always, IANAPsychiatrist/Doctor/Lawyer/OtherAuthorityFigure.
Just wanted to say thank you all again for the valuable feedback.

I have taken many of the suggestions from here and updated the site's landing page to be less wordy and more to the point.

Also, I have streamlined the signup process so that you no longer have to validate your email address (although now I probably need to add a CAPTCHA or something at least).

I've also added in a new user help page that you are taken to upon signing up that tries to give some pointers on what to do next rather than just dumping you on your profile page.

Again, thank you all for the feedback!
It's not clear whether Auto Scaling can only be based on inputs from CloudWatch, or your own inputs as well. Anyone know?

Also, you better trust Amazon to fairly determine when to scale up... more instances == more profit for them.
Or, you could use a service that supports this kind of functionality and not run the risk of having to turn lemons into lemonade again when twitter makes a change that shuts out the small percentage of users who are working around deficiencies in their system.
Does anybody know how ICEpdf compares to the JPedal PDF libraries (that I have been using from time to time)?
I agree that the motives of the author are self-serving.

In the ideas themselves, I saw a less-than-creative Darwinistic rehashing of Hobbes.

From The Leviathan, Chp. VIII. -

"From this equality of ability ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their end (which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only) endeavour to destroy or subdue one another. And from hence it comes to pass that where an invader hath no more to fear than another man's single power, if one plant, sow, build, or possess a convenient seat, others may probably be expected to come prepared with forces united to dispossess and deprive him, not only of the fruit of his labour, but also of his life or liberty. And the invader again is in the like danger of another.

And from this diffidence of one another, there is no way for any man to secure himself so reasonable as anticipation; that is, by force, or wiles, to master the persons of all men he can so long till he see no other power great enough to endanger him: and this is no more than his own conservation requireth, and is generally allowed. Also, because there be some that, taking pleasure in contemplating their own power in the acts of conquest, which they pursue farther than their security requires, if others, that otherwise would be glad to be at ease within modest bounds, should not by invasion increase their power, they would not be able, long time, by standing only on their defence, to subsist. And by consequence, such augmentation of dominion over men being necessary to a man's conservation, it ought to be allowed him.

Again, men have no pleasure (but on the contrary a great deal of grief) in keeping company where there is no power able to overawe them all. For every man looketh that his companion should value him at the same rate he sets upon himself, and upon all signs of contempt or undervaluing naturally endeavours, as far as he dares (which amongst them that have no common power to keep them in quiet is far enough to make them destroy each other), to extort a greater value from his contemners, by damage; and from others, by the example.

So that in the nature of man, we find three principal causes of quarrel. First, competition; secondly, diffidence; thirdly, glory.

The first maketh men invade for gain; the second, for safety; and the third, for reputation. The first use violence, to make themselves masters of other men's persons, wives, children, and cattle; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their persons or by reflection in their kindred, their friends, their nation, their profession, or their name."
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You can consult the article itself instead of the description of it (always the better option, especially when it comes to articles in non-specialist newspapers etc.). It has a full description of their methodology and at first glance doesn't seem to contain any 'doh!' mistakes.
The web start version works great. Its fast and handles advanced PDFs (tested it on a my pretty advanced LaTeX typeset thesis: http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=81971&lang=en ). Rendering seems to be on par with Adobe Reader on Windows.
I have also become familiar with several languages (C, C++, C#, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby), but when I wanted to start a big project, I realized that I only knew the basics of the language (i.e., synatx). I had no real exposure to the vast libraries available. Once I realized this, and that was only within the past month, I decided to focus just on C and C++. This decision was driven by the fact that I am starting an MSFE program this fall and all I have read about quant work says that I should be well versed in C++. The reason I have also chosen C is because the project I am spending this summer working on is building the statistics and probability portion of a quantitative finance library. I am using two libraries as a reference (Quantlib and GSL) and one is written in C++ and the other in C. Like it has been said, I think it might be a good idea to focus on what you already know and work on improving the skills in that language.
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