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I've worked for two startups in the UK and neither resembled this. What about Virgin, EasyJet, Last.fm, etc. etc. No government money there. This article describes an extremely small minority of startups, the exceptions, not the rule.

Startups aren't a revolutionary new thing, they've happened throughout history. It just happens to be in vogue to talk about them at the moment.

The article is absurd as it uses examples of big infrastructure companies that HAD to be setup by government in the past as the infrastructure costs were too high to a startup (telcos, post offices) and compares them to Google which had low costs to begin with. It's attacking a straw doll.
This doesn't appear to be true. In an article linked to by the story: http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_c... we are told that last-second manual bids had a possibly suspicious tendency to get lost, and it is hard or impossible to win without using their (evil) helper software.
And in the other thread you were called out (by me and others) for this false statement, because you are wrong.

What really matters is: "scalable enough".

That's a big difference because today's hardware is very forgiving. Today you can do really stupid things, like write a chat-service that dispatches all messages through an on-disk database, and it will work. Ten years ago that thing wouldn't even have gotten off the ground.

The question remains whether your little toy project will scale to worthwhile workloads. You know, to serve a purpose (novel concept).

This is where this CouchDB nonsense falls apart. Neither would it possibly scale to any worthwhile number of users. Nor does it present any particular elegant or interesting programming concepts.

It's not more or less than the implementation of a horrible anti-pattern. I don't mind that (we had a good laugh, after all) but the author should really stop trying to sell this under the slogan of "Simple wins" - as if any of what he did was a good idea.

Simple did not "win" anything here. And to add insult to injury: His solution is not even "simple" by any means. I can write the same thing in under 100 lines of Python or Perl, without involving an esoteric database, and it would scale better.
Given who developed it (some Finnish company that diversified out of rubber boot manufacturing), presumably it will ship on devices or otherwise be widely available, so I don't think it's "irrelevant".
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Here is one users attempt to use the new Ovi store http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2009/05/nokia-ovi-store-oh...
He's given examples of several other healthcare systems that are of similar low cost and high quality.
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Decent, fast, incremental, aggressive, safe GC is hard.

Parallel processing, especially across multiple CPUs and multiple boxes, is hard.

Mixing the two can lead to, well, let's just call them "undesirable interactions of features".

The specific example he gives of inserting node B between nodes A and C is easily solved by not holding the pointer to C in a register, but instead by setting B.NEXT from A.NEXT before setting A.NEXT to point to B.

But that's not the point. The point is that despite some fantastic advances in computing languages and runtime systems, sometimes we still have to think about these things.

And it can be hard. And sometimes it hurts.
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Are there any outdoor jobs that cater to the geek mind? The only thing I could think of is maybe naturalist (running around collecting and cataloging biological entities)?

It seems difficult to code while walking outside. Perhaps one could shift ones career in such a way that at least it involves long talks full of philosophical discussions (thinking for example about Ray Kurzweil).
Well some people think P=NP is important, some don't. That's why i asked around some time ago.

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Hi!

Thanks for a useful resource.

If you change your DNS lookup method, I think you'll have fewer false positives where you list domains as being available, when they actually aren't.

For example: readia.com is not available, but the wordoid site says it is.

If you do a DNS lookup at the .com core servers, rather than your local resolver, you'll get a list of NS servers for the domain - if it's blank there, then you know the entry doesn't exist.

The current problem is occurring because your resolver library is trying to walk the DNS tree all the way to the DNS servers that are supposed to manage the domain. When those servers are down or unresponsive, wordoid is marking the domain as "available" - even when it's not.

Here's an example that I think demonstrates the problem, and a potential way around it:

dig ns readia.com. @a.gtld-servers.net.
...
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22290

Note that it indicates no error.

For a nonexistant domain the results are different. The NXDomain means "no such domain".
dig ns this-really-does-not-exist-at-all-1321.com. @a.gtld-servers.net.
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 43679

Of course, you'll need to switch between the relevant gtld-servers so that you're a good network citizen, and cache results. See "dig ns com." for a current list of GTLD servers.

Also, I'd like to echo the comments of other readers - if you place a "go" button near the input form, rather on the top left, it'll improve the user-interface significantly.

Thanks again, and I hope the above helps you.

Oskar Pearson
Windows incompatibility? That's probably the major reason for Joe Q Public to pass on it, even before they notice the rest. It also doesn't (yet?) do suspend and resume, which is a bit of a buzz-kill.

Personally I applaud experiments on how low you can go with processing power and still have a usable (for some definition of usable) laptop/netbook. I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I can get done on my iPhone. And this seems driven by some real needs within China.

It also seems notable that it's being actively marketed as fully free software compliant from the BIOS up. I've been checking out ARM stuff and the upcoming netbooks all seem (from speculation/guesswork) to have various proprietary blobs in them, particularly for graphics, which will hinder Linux getting the most out of them.
Interesting question. I love being outdoors, and find that it's necessary to get a fair amount of exercise to be physically and mentally healthy. Perhaps it's best not to combine that with work, though...

My grandfather worked as a forest ranger, and he seemed happy enough, although I'm not sure it was much of a geeky occupation (although he did know the common and latin names of a large variety of flora and fauna). My other grandfather, OTOH, worked on the instrumentation of early jet planes. Definitely geeky:-)
Despite what you may believe (or want to believe) that's not completely true. Europeans tend to exaggerate internal differences to an extreme and are not able to see the big picture. There exists a culture that is uniquely European as opposed to American, or Chinese. For example, when Americans talk about European tendencies towards bureaucracy they're right, and it's something that affects all of Europe (yes, that includes you, "but we're not like all you continental types" UK). Ironically, this narrowmindedness ("we're not all the same") is a feature of said European culture.
And here's another's http://greenerdesktop.com/465/nokias-ovi-store-first-impress...
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While the article exaggerates some points, there is a cultural difference between Europe and America when it comes to these things. As someone who was born and has lived most of my life in Europe I'm well familiar with how the "system" works and how people think, and it frustrates me. While there of course are lots of individuals in Europe with an entrepreneurial mindset, the vast majority still relies too much on the states and their bureaucracies. It's not so much the governments' fault as it is everyone's. When noone steps up to do the job, the state has to do it for them.
Actually this is government vs. business, not Europe vs. U.S.
Much better than a mouse? Could you elaborate?

Is it problematic when a site has graphics for navigation?

Do you cycle through links and then choose the one you wanted, or is there a more direct way of accessing them?

Is it really faster than using a mouse?

Do you need two hands to be efficient, and if so, wouldn't you rather be efficient with only one hand, for example using Opera's mouse gestures?
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Browsing the web on a non-touchscreen phone that doesn't also have (e.g.) a trackball is not a fun experience.
Why are the links the same color as the text and not even underlined? What if all the tubes had the same color on his map?
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At least if your job depends on being physically fit, it seems rather risky. Could be that one would be more likely to keep working even if slightly ill, putting long term health at risk. Also, of course there would be a higher risk in general to be incapable of continuing to work due to health reasons (as more parts of the body would be involved in the work).
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>Do you cycle through links and then choose the one you wanted, or is there a more direct way of accessing them?

Opera has an excellent way to select links using spatial navigation (shift+down,+up,+left,+right). It's remarkably easy to navigate to any link quickly on the page.

Also http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ is a good place to start "keyboard-only" browsing.
While everyone, including me, is bashing European bureaucracy and tendencies towards statism, there are a lot of examples of hugely successful and transformative European companies started by real entrepeneurs:

RyanAir & EasyJet: These completely transformed the European airline industry in a very disruptive way. The old "flag carriers" are dying off one after the other, and I'm pretty sure I speak for us all when I say "good riddance" to that. Now we just need to get rid of the state monopolies on rail transport (which is coming soon), and we're going to see the same sort of transformation on high-speed and conventional rail.

Free.fr: Unfortunately only in France for the moment, this ISP is what every ISP should strive towards: Low prices, good service, lots of features, etc. If you ever wish your ISP would just do or change <something>, Free has already done that and more, including standing up to Sarko's ridiculous Hadopi law.

Skype: Was started in Europe and has and still is transforming the telecom industry along with other companies providing VOIP services.
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I use keyboard navigation for a longer time now because i cant stand browsing by touchpad. The keyboard-navigation-methods that firefox and ie use are rather outdated, there are much cooler and better methods today.

So i have tested many methods, and here are my favourites:

1. Opera! The Browser has something called spatial navigation. It somehow works like the cursor key navigation in "Links" but much better and gives you a feeling of rather direct control. Very cool...

2. Firefox + "mouseless browsing"-Plugin. Every link on the webpage gets a number, a little bit like footnotes, and you surf via entering numbers. Sounds complicated but it is rather intuitive and very fast. Well, the webpages look a little bit uglier than before. Try it out, it should work with every Firefox-Version.

Both of these methods force you to surf a little bit more concentrated and less relaxing, tv-like. But for just getting work done the methods are just great. They work with nearly every webpage, even those you wouldnt expect. The only times i use the touchpad is for flash-applications (like the video-windows on youtube). I dont even miss a mouse.

I think Vimperator could be interesting too, but it somehow always looks too complicated for me.
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In every company today there are big changes being made. Like everyone else in the world there are discussions about things like downsizing, growth potential, ways to bring in more business and even more affordable ways to hire and investigate employees. One of the newest and most cost-effective ways to achieve all of these goals and more is to use something called social bookmarking.
Oh no, I didn't mean to object the author's point of view, on the contrary I agree. Thanks to the current technological level, it's definitely much easier and less risky than ever for small companies to undertake businesses which normally bigger companies are supposed to take. TV Broadcasting is an immediate example here.

What I wanted to point was that there's a real and enormous effort by the governments to keep those "big companies" going no matter how much it costs. Apparently those big, unproductive and unsuccessful companies are being rewarded.

I just wish the author had a thing or two to say about this irritating fact as it concerns thousands of billions of dollars being spent to help those biggies stay big a little more.
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For someone who has played with this, is the DOM manipulating similar (or more/less powerful) to Greasemonkey?
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Underwater robots.
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Which European countries have you lived in?
With Vimperator you press <f> to annotate all links on the page with a number. Then you type a number to open the link associated with that number. If you type <F> (capital), the number you type afterward will be opened in a new tab.
I use conkeror--which is a vimperator "clone" based on xulrunner, with emacs-like keybindings and commands.

"Is it problematic when a site has graphics for navigation?"

It depends. Most of the time it's still a link, so the browser has no problem identifying and highlighting it as such. If it's something fancy (image map? JS magic?)--it can be a problem. Fortunately, such sites are not common.

"Do you cycle through links and then choose the one you wanted, or is there a more direct way of accessing them?"

You press 'f' (for "follow") and a number appears next to each link. Then you enter a number to follow a link.

"Is it really faster than using a mouse?"

It depends. For example, there are whole WM environments which are designed to work without mouse (ratpoison, stumpwm, xmonad, etc.). Naturally, a keyboard-driven browser lends itself beautifully to such environments. Other than that, I find it annoying having to move my hand from the keyboard each time I need to look something up with a browser.

Of course, when I just surf the web, the mouse is usually more convenient.

"Do you need two hands to be efficient, and if so, wouldn't you rather be efficient with only one hand, for example using Opera's mouse gestures?"

Since conkeror is modeled after emacs, I'd say yes (unless you happen to be using a custom keyboard layout or something). As for the efficiency--again, it probably depends on the "mode" I am in (mouse is easier for plain surfing).
Because ebay bought it?
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After looking at that, I can't think anything but "wow, what ugly fonts".. I know that phone isn't an iPhone, but you can still try to do some antialiasing, or something, right? Also, the information density seems pretty low (compared to the App Store).
A data point: An old friend burned out after a decade of being a consultant with a long commute. Now he has worked a few summers as a gardener.

He is in shape, tanned and happy, so I have given up trying to make him go back to computers. ("Join the dark side... we can drink coffee throughout the day!")

Personally, after doing a commute like his for just half a year, I took the first job I could find, moved 800 km and happily bicycle to work.

Well, this summer I'd prefer gardening even if it rains; I'll have to do Java the coming months.
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I can think of a bunch of reasons:

* PayPal support leaves a lot to be desired. They lock accounts without reason and don't offer much support as to why.

* Transferring money from your bank to your PayPal account takes a long time. Even longer if you are not from the US.

* Many people have credit cards. Why add another middleman?

Less personal but relevant issues:

* PayPal makes you spend money that you HAVE. A credit card doesn't.

* Branding. Not everyone trusts companies with their credit card, why would they trust a company that has very little do with the process over one who is actually vending the item/service.
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(this seems to be a scan of the March/April 1980 edition of the newsletter of the Forth Interest Group, containing the text of Chuck Moore's speech from the October 1979 Forth Convention in San Francisco)
Or, for something more automated, try the "start" command.

help start

in the shell will tell you how to use it.
Have you tried it on a device, or are you just going by the screenshots?
Come to think of it, that is kind of what the hero in Office Space did - except he chose construction work instead of gardening.

Still, gardening or construction seems too limited to me. I want to change the world (not only my backyard, although technically it is a part of the world).
You wait 'til you see the Palm Utus Store and MS' new Filopen Store :P
I've studied industrial design for a few years, here is what I can tell you:

Plastics is a very large subject and there are a lot of criteria that can be involved. You criteria apparantly are:

- Can be made in small series. (ie. no injection molding or extrusion)
- Holds electrical circuitry.
- Serves mainly the purpose of container.
(no exceptional stresses, no special features,
must be able to open and close in some way.)
- Consumer product, so must have somewhat nice finish.
- Should be tappable for screws?
- Production accuracy within 1-2 millimeters?
- Can be made in your own workshop?

Here are some small-series techniques you could look into:

- (Resin) casting
- Dip molding/casting
- Heat molding
- Spin casting
- Vacuum forming
- Hand laminating or spraying

I don't know what materials are exactly applicable to what technique, but for your purpose some common materials are:
PP, PS, Styrene-butadiene, ABS (especially), PA6, Polyester (resin).

Goodluck!
Because they appear, from many people's perspectives, to be nothing but scam artists?

For instance, I auctioned off a motherboard on Ebay. The guy paid for it with Paypal. Sent off the motherboard. The guy refused delivery, and then accused me of not sending it.

Being a nice guy, as he actually didn't receive the motherboard, I refunded the guy his money.

Then he filed a complaint with Paypal for me not sending the motherboard. Paypal would not listen to my side of the story at all, even though I had proof of shipping and proof of his refusal of delivery.

So then Paypal gives him the money (from my account) for the cost of the motherboard. So the guy walks away with my $200, and Paypal doesn't care, and does nothing, and actively seems to want this to be the outcome. This wasn't bad customer service. This was company policy.

There's a reason this site exists, and why I tell everyone to never, ever use Paypal if they can help it:

http://www.paypalsucks.com/
It seems quite good brand name for a service that is targeted for a global audience. Super-short and quite easy to pronounce for speakers of different languages.
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This alone might not have caused it. (Skype did fine under eBay management, although I'm sure not to its full potential, as illustrated by recent events)

However, the eBay horror stories of people getting screwed over and the various facilities supposed to protect them failing miserably usually include PayPal in some way. PayPal has become known as the payment processor used on eBay, and not much else, and with eBay's reputation these days, that's not a good thing.

In fairness, the PayPal arm of the company seems to be just as much to blame for eBay's reputation as a scam haven as the rest of eBay.

It's kind of funny, PayPal was a buyout that had obvious strategic benefits for eBay's core business and has ended up as a disaster for PayPal. Buying Skype was a rather odd decision but didn't seem to prevent Skype from being a success.
Splinting memcache over several servers has all of the classic scaling issues. Including the need for 10Gig switches which are still stupid expensive:

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I guess I shouldn't have singled out the Mayo Clinic but the same point applies to McAllen or any other Examplery institution. You can't build a solution by assuming hospitals will have excellent management because most won't (which is why the one's who do are considered excellent in the first place)
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So I guess the some of 40 others are the sun rises 6 hours sooner in Paris, Paris has only one river, the metro doesn't run 24 hours a day, etc.

He brought those things up because they were important to him. He didn't say anything about the amount of dog shit on the ground, you can't get anything to eat after 2pm except fastfood, or if you want good coffee go to Starbucks (yes, I said it!).