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I haven't tried this, but it sure looks handy. Writing a daemon is a common task, but not so often (for me, anyway) that it feels like copy-and-pasting the same boilerplate every time. So, I ignore the old rule that says "if you're going to do it more than once, write a program to do it for you". I always end up writing a one-off prototype for my own personal use, and then upgrading it to be a daemon, and I make the same Google searches every time. I'll have to try this next time.
What field?

That can be a very important consideration for a few reasons. First, if you're interested in publishing in the math field, forget peer reviewed journals entirely. From what I've heard, the arXiv (http://arxiv.org/) has essentially replaced most math journals. Similarly, while peer reviewed journals are still very important for physics, many papers will appear on the arXiv first (and in journals like Phys. Rev. Lett. later).

In theory, anyone can publish to the arXiv. In practice, they have a referral system designed to keep the crackpots out (with varying degrees of success). My recommendation would be to find someone who publishes there and is interested in the same topics as you, then contact them directly. No matter which route you pick, don't underestimate the value of personal contacts. As an alternative to the arXiv, Nature has a relatively new preprint server set up as well (http://precedings.nature.com/) though its popularity pales in comparison to the arXiv.

If math or physics is not your game (or even if it is), then I'd recommend PLoS One (http://www.plosone.org/). They have a policy of publishing any work with scientific merit. However, since they work on an Open Access model, they will charge you in order to review and publish your work. That said, if you can convince them that you don't have the means to pay their charge, they will sometimes wave the fee.

Finally, it never hurts to send off your manuscript to Science, Nature, or any one of the second or third tier journals. True, many of them won't give you even a cursory glance without degree and affiliation, but there's always a chance!
It surprises me that Tokyo Cabinet is so slow to load, as I've had great success with it on my own, but I've not used Tyrant/pytyrant. I'd love to see some information on where the bottlenecks are in the loading process, as it seems to me that there's something funky going on that can likely be improved pretty easily.

Edit: He notes in the comments that a switch to pytc (direct Tokyo Cabinet bindings rather than going through Tyrant) would improve things, but that he wanted to keep it distributed. I'd still like to see where the bottlenecks are, though.
I've been working with EY for two years. I've also had a few SliceHost slices over the years. I've also worked with a dozen other hosts ranging from managed Rackspace servers through Xen and Virtuozzo VPSes down to shared hosts, administered my own Linux server on Internet2 a university, worked for a full service agency that resold white label hosting to over 1000 clients, and I've been building websites since 1994.

The fact that you would compare SliceHost to EngineYard is very very fishy. These two companies are both excellent, but they are not providing services that can even be compared to each other. What I said about EngineYard is not based on "marketing", it's based on considerable experience working with them. I have put them to the test and they have never come up short. I've worked with techs in 10+ countries at all hours to solve problems, and solve them quickly. I think it borders on libel to say they don't have support on hands 24 hours a day, they absolutely do. Rackspace is the only company I've used that matched that level of service and expertise. Try asking SliceHost for help with your server admin, it's just not available. Ezra Zygmuntowicz, one of the founders of EngineYard, literally wrote the book on Rails deployment. They have significantly sponsored Rubinius and Passenger development. The made TextDrive (aka Joyent, originally the "official" rails host) look like amateurs. Their cap recipes gem and stock monit scripts are more comprehensive and reliable than anything else I've seen anywhere else.

As far as the database sharing issue is concerned, the purpose of sharing is to allow you to save money by using only the resources you need. It's not true that all database machines are shared. They have spec'ed them out and refine based on the amount of resources need by on actual usage of their clients. If you get to the point that you actually need a dedicated database server than they will gladly provide that to you. At that point you will probably need multiple dedicated app servers as well, though of course that depends on the particulars of your app. In any case, I can't think of anyone that can build you a better Rails cluster. Sure you pay a premium for their expertise, but that experience is currently second to none.
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I concur about the blurriness. It'll be a good day indeed when everyone has a 300dpi display and we can get rid of anti-aliased text for good. Anti-aliasing looks great for headlines at large point sizes, but for bulk text, that blurry look is bad for my reading speed, and a continual distraction, as well. I hate that about Linux, how hard it is to find a free font that looks good when hammered into the pixel grid, and it's nice to see some new ones from time to time.
I have sent you a text message or two and got a response! And I've been tempted to try an IM...
You remember earlier today how Amazon just put several startups out of business with their auto scaling and whatnot?

Here's the lesson: if you own the platform, and the platform's growing, grow the platform as big as you can because you can always add tools for monetization later. When you add tools, they become the default. (example: Facebook Photos.)

The mindset is totally different when you're growing a VC-backed company. The rational thing to do when you have capital to spare is to go for growth - it's just not the same as bootstrapping with a back pocket full of cash. You run the business differently.

Plus, the minute you start making money, the metrics totally change. What's the metric Twitter investors use right now? Tweet views[1].

The only example I can think of that failed was eBay's BillPay and it turns out that PayPal was a platform with its own viral nature, not a mere feature (oh, and they burned $180 million before they hit breakeven[2]).

[1]http://www.businessinsider.com/what-twitter-really-wants-fro...
[2] http://www.pehub.com/40062/peter-thiel-on-valleywag-its-the-...
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I agree with you on pretty much all counts, actually. While one can use viper, most modes people have written follow the conventions for Emacs keybindings, so it's ultimately pretty futile.
IANAL, but nearly any recorded/written down is copyrightable. However ideas are not. If you implement from pseuso-code, it is another expression of the same idea. Different forms of expression have different rules on how different the new work must be to be unique. If you copied a function and just changed the variable names, it could be argued that it was an infringement.

If you copy a compilable function and give attribution, probably no one will care. If you copy a whole enterprise system, they might. If the original author cares, there should be a rights notification in the code. In particular Wikipedia articles have the GNU Free Documentation license, so you are pretty safe there.
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I think the biggest problem with this view is that it assumes users will stick around if things stay the same. Twitter may be growing at impressive rates right now, but will that continue, and will the users actually continue using the service? I simply can't see the majority of these users sticking around without there being more to it, in the form of value-added services.

In addition, there are many cases of the "grow the platform" idea failing: Myspace and Youtube are damn good ones. Yes, they both have lots and lots of users, but where are they in terms of profit? Last I heard, they're both operating at a significant loss, although I haven't seen numbers for Myspace in a while.
Holy crap, did you see the markup? At that rate, you could have CSS-based bitmaps.
Usually when someone says "breaking the law", they're referring to a crime, so you're correct.

A board which fails to act in a way which maximizes shareholder value, when that is the stated goal of the corporation (as it often is), is in breach of its fiduciary duties, which is a civil offense.
I think I might be one of the few young people that is not okay with text messages at all.

If you need something from me, you can either call me, or send me an email...

Chances are, if you're compressing it into 140 characters, that it isn't that important.

If it IS that important, why the HELL are you sending it to me over some stateless, hacked together part of the cell spec that was intended to be used for sending out signal strength info instead of...I don't know...CALLING me?
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The Wikipedia license is a copyleft license, which may present problems for software that is not open source.

I would also rather not credit a Wikipedia article in my closed source software unless it's really necessary.
I like Google Earth as a platform, at least the general idea, mostly because of the unlimited zoom. Games like Sins of a Solar Empire benefit greatly from the ability to see arbitrarily large swathes of territory at once, while games with a more limited zoom, or none (like my old favorite Command & Conquer: Red Alert) are much harder to develop a coherent mental big picture for.

I noted they plan to expand: "Ships" will become a small module in a much bigger game concept for which we seek investors. I wonder what that will be? I thought a cool game would be a multi-player Cold War-type sub-hunting game, where American frigates and submarines strive to track Soviet subs, and vice versa. The big "zoom-out" would include last-known positions and IDs, if known, surrounded by an ever-growing ring of possible range, until the target is reacquired. I don't know if such a game would actually be fun, and it would definitely take patience. Knowing that another human was controlling the submarine you seek and trying to predict his movements would be at least be diverting, I think.
Funny that people upvoted your comment even though it made little sense ;-) Now it makes sense.
I tend to use texting/"checking my website" as a social cue to the person I'm with that I want to leave.

It is my way of going "I'm bored with you. I'm going to make the situation so awkward that you want to leave".

Here is a tip, friends, if I like you, either my phone and its battery are in physically separate locations, like one in the glove box and one in the trunk, or my phone is shut OFF...not on vibrate, not on silent, not on sleep; powered. off.

If it ISN'T, it means that I'm just using you to occupy my time...my phone is on because I'm hoping somebody more interesting calls me.
So if I took $5000 to India, how long would that last me (assuming it weren't stolen or lost)?
You're European, aren't you.

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Possible but difficult: good work will speak for itself, but there are a lot of network effects which make it easier to publish from within academia. A trivial example might be that it's much easier and cheaper to find and read existing publications while at a university, and being familiar with the literature is extremely important to producing publishable work. Publishing within academia will also make it much easier to find collaborators (extremely important in some fields), find mentors, and learn about the general "style" of the field. Doing without this support structure would make it extremely difficult to publish even if all journals were double blind... which they are not.

You'll occasionally hear a PhD program being compared to an apprenticeship, and there's a lot of truth to that. Completing a PhD seems to be as much about learning how to orient yourself within scientific culture as it is about research or scholarship.
Thanks Paul. I'm aware of Math Player, but I don't like the tradeoff of forcing our users to install a plugin for superior display quality/customizability vs. "it just works". The nature of our user base just doesn't make it feasible IMO.

I would be more willing to take that tradeoff in a LCMS environment though.
My main problem is smoke alarms. Thankfully I live in a small apartment with good ventilation/fans and a big patio door I can open. Heat, steam, etc don't do well with modern condos. And that's a problem.
writing a daemon is not necessarily a repetitive process, all the stuff that you "have to do" are driven by engineering demands. You have to think of them consciously before you do each one and there is no particular number of them and no particular order, it's all dictated by your application: when to fork and let the parent die? when to give up terminal? change directory? reset/change umask? what file descriptors to close which ones to open and what to keep? logging? other IPC channels for client apps? etc.

this stuff is not cruft or boiler-plate is it? also, you shouldn't be writing daemons so often as to need a framework, and if you do, you better understand all that goes into it.
What Wolfram Alpha needed was to avoid the Spore-style overhype in the days leading up to release. It was nearly inevitable that a product touted as "the Google killer" would get slammed on the rebound, regardless of actual performance. As long as they manage to avoid getting a unit of measure named for them, or returning results about handing hamburgers to crying mimes while the universe abruptly fails to exist, they'll be doing better than some.
How popular is it? Do you have numbers on how many downloads it have?
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what a pompous cunt

fortunately i have more money than him so i won't have to listen to him and his pansy partners prattle on

doubt he is so dickey to the pension funds who phone him up asking when their rapidly-evaporating investments might even offer the stellar returns of three-month treasuries
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after reading his blog post i'd rather flip him off and let him keep his money. he'll be needing it when yale's endowment manager sees "-76%" printed on the next statement reporting on his clever investments
The obvious riposte is that I like vegetables. Tomatoes, Brussell Sprouts, Broccoli, Onions, Bok Choi, Cabbage, Lettuce, Scallions, Eggplant, Beans. Other Types of Beans. Spinach. Bean Sprouts.... Do I need to go on?

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Your account was definitely there after a second check. It is kinda obscured as a 'normal' weighted link - and so i didn't see it on first glance. My point though still stands: the experience of AA is geared around the points gathering system, and any new design should reflect that :)
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Good points- working the system here means that they are able to know what the offers are and so on - not just be able to drive the site but know when to talk to someone, etc.

I agree that user experience is fundamental, it's just the hyperbole of Dustin that made me cringe :)
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It depends on where you spend your time. If you stay in a big city like Mumbai, Bangalore etc. it would probably last a few months (anywhere between 3-6 months). If you go to a smaller city or towns, you can easily live a year on that money.
It was probably compressed, hence the size load/time tradeoff.
wow how come the bubble hasn't burst yet on key-value dbs?

first: unless you run google, yahoo, ebay, amazon, or another top-100 site, chances are you can stretch mysql/memcache more than far enough for your needs. if you do run google or yahoo, you've been using proprietary key-value dbs for a decade, you don't need to read about them on highscalability.

second: they don't do anything. forget about practically everything that makes you cozy using your open source rdbms. key-value stores don't have standard query langs, they don't have DBI-like language abstractions, etc etc. you have a key, you get a value. fun! they're fast because they don't do anything

third, the key-value systems that are rock-solid are proprietary and tied very much to large serving architectures. the open systems are half-baked at best

most hackers don't need a "scalable" site, they need a site that people actually give a crap about. build one then you can scale it
I see what you're saying here about how Pylons makes heavy use of WSGI chaining, but I really just cannot fathom that Django is "approaching" Pylons. Perhaps things have improved since I last used Pylons, but there were so many issues with it that drove me absolutely crazy and eventually drove me away from the framework all together.

Off the top of my head:

- Poorly written, half written, scattered, or plain old missing documentation all over the place.

- Poor release coordination and communication.

- Version incompatibility hell between different releases of its components/dependencies.

- Incomplete solutions for basic things like form generation. At the time that I was using Pylons they seemed to jump between a quite a few different libraries, none of which really worked well.

- Tons of magic that both offended my sensibilities and made debugging a nightmare.

To be honest, I don't think any Python web framework was quite "there" at that time, but I think today Django has far exceeded Pylons.

Also, I'm not sure I'd consider Pylons a micro-framework.
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"if I took $5000 to India, how long would that last me (assuming it weren't stolen or lost)?"

In Bangalore it would last you about 2-4 months depending on how exactly you live. (I assume you want a decent pad, internet connectivity, cellphone, eat out occasionally and so on) In cheaper places you could get by for 6 - 8 months. If you want to just "subsist" (eat well + roof over your head and you don't care where you live in India) you could go a year or even two.

(PS a lot of people live on less, but then a lot of people own their own hoouses or are really poor and malnourished etc)
Luckily, Wolfram Alpha has enough funding (and ego) behind it to survive for at least five years. If they throw serious effort into it during all that time, I'll bet we'll end up with something truly impressive (if perhaps not life-changing).

The core flaw with Wolfram Alpha in my opinion is that it relies on curated data. Such data takes time to source, verify, and translate into the necessary target format.

I sincerely hope the same thing for Wolfram Alpha that I do with the Palm Pre: that it'll get the market leader off its ass and spur true competition.
I published three papers in peer reviewed journals during my undergraduate days as first author. See http://www.paraschopra.com/publications/

I don't think PhD is a pre-requisite or even makes much difference in peer review process. Of course, with a PhD you would have better experience and possibly better research. Many of the good journals remove names and adresses before sending for a review, so it is a blind peer review where holding a PhD degree or not does not make much difference.
Usually it helps to have a co-author that is established in the field. I didn't do graduate work (and undergrad was in CS) and have one publication in physics and another coming up in biology, but in both cases there is a university professor on there as a co-author.

In blind peer review this isn't a strict requirement, but it will help you put things in the right language and help you make sure that you're referencing the right things.
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->Hell, perhaps even more so given the press's traditional role of watchdog and investigator.

I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic here. Alternatively, perhaps you're not from the United States.
And Pylons isn't much more than a thin layer on top of Paste anyway.
He did not reply. He deleted the comment (along with ostensibly dozens of others), and you can see his justification in comment #8. Clearly he did not address any of my points, and is not interested in an honest discussion.

The guy has lost all my respect. If he deletes this kind of comment than what else is he deleting? I thought of a number of his articles were quite good, but I can't trust someone who deletes comments that were based on this much consideration and experience. As far as I'm concerned he's an intellectual hack and I'll be avoiding his site from now on.
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Hmm. Try this Google search: "integrate 1/log(x)". Not very useful, huh?

Sorry, but Google and Wolfram Alpha are different beasts. Wolfram Alpha is aimed at a much smaller audience than Google. That doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be just as important one day -- the number crunchers get everything useful done in this society, after all.
I second this choice. Although it obviously hangs on how often you want to post and how related to your www's concept/product your posts are, the benefit of Google treating it as a 2nd site is tremendous. The site: handler becomes more useful, you have the potential of the subdomain showing up as a second result cluster in search results.

Also, no disrespect to any other posters, but a new company/site blog likely has 9 months before it starts to earn enough link-juice to need to worry about spilling some...
I have been looking at the bandwidth availability in Bangalore and was wondering how easy it is to get 1-2 mbps up/down minimum around 12th Main, Indiranagar, HAL 2nd Stage. I have been thinking of spending a couple of months there, and it would be a lot easier if my video conferencing tools worked ok, and they need 1-2 mbps.
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Yes, if they'd just described it as a free, online window into Mathematica for ordinary people, everyone would be talking about how cool it was that it could do such a huge range of calculations.
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Another thing I noticed about Wolfram Alpha is that it knows almost nothing about fictional characters. "Who is Luke Skywalker?" produces nothing.
I agree that it's not boiler-plate, and I don't mean that I do it all that often, maybe every six months or so when I find something new I want my home server to do. (Like the last one, experimenting with port knocking) I am by no means a professional programmer, that's why I find myself making the same searches.
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Well actually that's not true. You use the best tools for the job. Front end can be done in PHP/Ruby/Django quickly while the entire back-end can be written in java or lisp. It all depends on what you need and what is the fastest, most scalable way to accomplish it.

That is true intelligence.

In my eyes Good and Trendy vs Good and Not Trendy is irrelevant. They are both good, so solve the problem.

Oh and "rails does not prove your smarts" should be:
"Using technology X does not prove your smarts." because there will always be another X. Today its Rails, tomorrow its Open Sails, and the day after we all go back to Lisp.