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Microsoft has been incentivizing its internal divisions to shift from legacy data center space to Azure. So some of that spending is for new servers and data center space to in-source services hosted by third-party providers. Or, in some cases, older Microsoft data centers. More here: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/06/01/at-mi...
The bigger lesson here is not about hard vs easy but the dangerous facade that many startups create. As Joe says, it forces bad decision hurting the real, underlying business. I have seen that myself in VC funded companies I worked for. The company was too focused on creating the appearance of success (which they excelled at) even though it was fairly clearly undermining our ability to develop a real business.
There's something about your example that wasn't convincing to me, but I've tried it out with some of my use cases. Whilst your approach is less DRY, it does seem to lead to more readable code, so I'm going to look into it further.

We should fork django-extra-views and see what we can come up with.
IPhones 5c and 5s launch performance illustrated
DNS can give you IPs for things close by, or far away. 8.8.8.8 uses EDNS0 Client Subnet to try and improve which IP address you get served back.
I am an extremely loyal Venmo user (I generally make people sign up if they want fast payment from me, and don't feel bad since everyone I have onboarded has become a loyal user). Thanks for coming in here and talking about this, since I'm not a huge PayPal fan and definitely worried that this type of move could break what I love about Venmo (if it happens). Keep up the good work on Venmo, it's really been a huge improvement in my life, from buying movie tickets, to splitting checks, to letting me use my rewards card to make big purchases for a group and instantly get paid back since the mobile implementation is so good.

While you are here, one interesting positive I could see from joining up with PayPal is letting people use Braintree without a merchant ID (the main drawback of Braintree, I run a Shopify store for someone and can't get Chargify set up on Braintree because of this).
I don't have any sources but I think education about paracetamol was improved too, most people seem to be aware of the risks to the liver and know not to take it when consuming alcohol.
How about Slackware? Personally I find it unjust how rarely Slack is mentioned nowadays compared to distros like Arch and Gentoo. From the conservative development, the BSD-style init system and minimalistic package management, I've always found it to be the most UNIX-like distro of all, and my personal choice.
I hear great things about the Pro. You would definitely not want the RT/ARM models as a developer. Whether you want to spend $900+ on the Surface Pro to use a dev machine is another matter.
I actually did something similar to this about 5 years ago with Flash. By applying a complex filter to a flat layer to make the layer behave and look like it was a liquid drop on a glass surface. Essentially I just embossed it with 4 different colors that matched the background and then added a subtle "gloss" on the top to give it a 3D experience.

The blobs merged together seamlessly when they even came close to eachother and were a pretty close impression of real liquid drops.

This technique might also work to make the merging of the blobs appear more realistic.
It would allow you to do a number things. For instance: `memo def foo` to transform a method into a memoized version.
If I were going to go back and learn the ins and outs of an OS again, I'd still go back and start learning from the bootloader to the kernel and then progress from there. The kernel is the OS for all intents and purposes. It sounds more like you want to learn how to create your own Linux distribution.

Don't fret, we've all been there and done this ourselves :). Some people catch the bug and create stuff like Gentoo and Arch.
You won't regret the upgrade my friend! I'm actually thinking about buying the docking station for my Surface. I think once I get 8.1 on there and the screen scaling issues are fixed, I'll do that.
I've done some digging around for this a while back and the only thing that made sense to me was the following (and note that this is my personal setup. It could use work, but this has done fine through Linux reinstalls):

* Keep your dotfiles somewhere that can be synced back easily (e.g. Dropbox, VPS with rsync, git repo, whatever)

* Make all dotfiles symlinks to the above. This way, if anything were to blow your hard drive up, it will have a relatively painless recovery.

* Keep workspace stuff/code/things not too easily replaceable in a separate physical drive if possible. Mount this drive to whatever directory that would make sense to you through your fstab or whatever method you prefer. Adding the nofail option in your fstab is also a good idea if you won't have it connected all the time. Reason for all this: You can now wipe your Linux HDD more confidently if you ever need to do so. Important dotfiles and configs should all be safe, code is on a separate drive and other stuff is backed up off-site hopefully.
Microsoft unveils Surface Music Cover for aspiring DJs
I remember starting a new job in 1989 and seeing a copy of a dBase III+ book on my boss's secretary's desk. Blew through it in two weeks and was referred to Clipper by a co-worker, still a developer 24 years later (SMF!).

Clipper's constrained class system (de-constrained by a third party library) is still one of my favorite dev environments. Brian Marasca's ObjectDb library was an eye-opener and a great tool--thanks mate!

CA-Visual Objects, wow, talk about a missed opportunity. I co-wrote one of the first (and few, in the end) books about it during the beta phase. As the years went on I came to understand that with Clipper in the CA stable there was little chance of any different outcome but still a huge disappointment.
Nice. I don't see any ads though.
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Why? Did you even look at the specs? They are far in advance of the capabilities of an iPad. It's a full blown "PC as a Tablet". Even having a DisplayPort output and single USB port on a tablet device immediately makes it worth $200 more than any iPad.
You seem to be saying that there is something besides "quality" that influences the ranking of search results, which I find surprising. I thought the idea was to return the best quality results, but there may simply be an issue of semantics at play. When you say "popularity" here I suspect you have in mind something different from what I had in mind when I used the word in previous comments. Can you explain what kind of popularity you mean here (how is it measured).

"It doesn't help to give people a better page if they aren't going to click on it"

I think you've lost me. Don't people tend to click on the top result? And isn't the idea to put the highest quality results at and near the top so people go there? How could it possibly be helpful to the user to not offer them the best quality results?

I looked at the link you provided, but I'm as confused as the author. Isn't there a limit of three Adsense units on a page anyway? As the author points out, Google suggests to publishers that they use the maximum number of ads, and specifically (see the heat map) that they put them above the fold. Then it appears they've decided to penalize publishers who follow this advice. The only way for this to be consistent is if they're only penalizing pages displaying competing advertising products.

The author also shows a screengrab of Google's own results page, where we can see that everything visible on the monitor is sponsored content, with no organic search results at all.

Frankly, I'm perplexed about what point you were trying to make by suggesting this link, but it was interesting.
Previous discussions:

Sep 3, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603

Sep 4, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4470293

Sep 24, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771

May 21, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487

Mar 9, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300599
>> Paypal isn't very cool, though...

That's where the defensiveness comes from. I love Venmo and do not like PayPal. Coming in here helped make me feel a bit better about this potential merge.
Interesting. Reminds me of http://checkthis.com
Amazing. Under "other states", I noticed a few minor engagements in "CA". I wondered if I had read that right - California?

This ended up bringing me to an article[1] about California's involvement in the Civil War, a state that I had previously written off as uninvolved in the conflict. Not only was there a significant union fort in what is now Los Angeles, but they had camels(!?) for desert operations.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/arts/artsspecial/heralding...
And the only sensible answer you would ever receive should be "anything that people want to pay repeatedly for" :)

My point being. I don't think anyone would give you a specific idea for recurring income cause then they would go ahead and do it themselves.

I might be wrong but I doubt it.
Make your content viral kickstarter style
Absolutely 100% will be, don't worry
I think it's the size. Tablets that size have not done well except the iPad. I think what people primarily want from tablets is small portable computers they can carry around easily, and the Surface is the opposite of that.
Thank you, I put a note to add the spam flag.
Crickets thrive in the 80s; their optimal temperature is generally around 86 degrees. They also enjoy around 80% humidity for much of their life-cycle. While there are plenty of US regions amenable to their production, it's fairly easy to keep them at the appropriate temperature in any insulated, climate-controlled environment.

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All the way in the top
Well, they seem to have doubled down on that mistake by making the names even more similar this time around.
Man, does eBay's search ever suck. I specify gold, 5S, unlocked, and it still gives me all sorts of irrelevant listings.

Looks like the typical price is around there, though. I do see some sold for well over $2,000, though. I wonder if that means the $1,000 listings are underpriced, or if those high-end listings just got lucky and found a few suckers.
Yeah... but a datacenter is more than just servers right? You need a building, infrastructure (cooling, electric bill, efficient designing and engineering etc), development. These costs get big. fast.
8.1 screen scaling is awesome. Flatmate has a iMac with Windows 8.1 on it, 27" display and a low-res 24" display, Windows 8.1 fixed the scaling for the 2nd monitor now that you can set different scaling on each monitor.
I forgot to mention vagrant as well. Map some directories and spend most of the work day in vagrant.
My site got slapped by Google Penguin update, lost 90% of its traffic and never really recovered.

It's funny how you don't really build websites anymore (did we ever?), you build sites for Google's search engine.

Even thought websites are conceptually different from writing a Photoshop plugin, in reality? Not so much. You're just as dependent on Google as you are Adobe, it's just hidden.
Does Google penalize your search ranking when you place ads on your site?
This is anecdotal, but I noticed a 25% drop in traffic ever since I added adsense to my web application a few days ago. Prior to that, traffic was gradually increasing.
Augeas is a safer way of updating config files http://augeas.net/, though I have to admit I've mostly ended up just using sed myself.
A huge amount of insects eaten worldwide are collected just like this. We wouldn't recommend it, though; they are likely to be contaminated with pesticides, fertilizers and other environmental pollutants.
I was about to post, "How do you make money on this?" And then I remembered that I use AdBlock. D'oh! I paused it and refreshed a couple times.
I've said this before, but PIA and other similar VPN providers are great security against most drive-by hackers. I am a happy customer for this reason.

But if your threat model includes "NSA/CIA/FBI/DEA", you are going to have to spend more than $4 a month to remain secure.
I think it's a natural part of the learning process. Either abstract away (usually with leaky abstractions) or simplify by rewriting (usually with the same result once the complexity of the domain is factored in). In some cases it produces something better but usually not on the first iteration.
Kirk does not exist, this is a blog post. Just a reminder to everyone like me who went looking for it.

And the blog post is about the same dust that was relevant 10 years ago and sparked the creation of LFS. Nothing new to see here.
Yes, PayPal is awful once you've used Stripe and Braintree. I hope that if this happens PayPal just lets Braintree operate as it has before. Legacy PayPal users can keep PayPal, and PayPal doesn't have to fight the battles it has been fighting to keep customers from jumping ship, and can just onboard them to Braintree. Unfortunately, I'm not super optimistic about PayPal's competence.
I wrote a guide to integrating Stripe payments into Rails applications that expands greatly upon the 10-minute quick-starts[1]. It launched a little over a month ago and has generated more than $10k. I'm expecting that to drop quite a bit going forward but I'm still hoping for ~$500 in monthly revenue.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
in the millions/year and growing. managed hosting and cloud hosting.

the hard part is keeping the profits as we learn to scale the business.
It depends on what type of DJ you are I guess. Looking at your 'ultimate equation' it sounds like you might be a wedding DJ so Traktor isn't really your bag.
> We should fork django-extra-views and see what we can come up with.

Yup, that'd be interesting. Hopefully you've seen my comment to that effect here: http://django-vanilla-views.org/topics/django-extra-views-co...
I have $200-$300 in (mostly) eBay and (less so) Amazon affiliate income from a message board and news site I run, both about a band.
I'm not sure if you're posting sarcastically, but Hadoop was built based on whitepapers Google released about MapReduce and the Google File System. I think they are covered in this department!
How do you exactly use legacy Windows apps on a tablet? I think the Surface Pro should be killed immediately.
What plugins did you publish?
I make about $500/month from my iOS apps. Considering how much time I put into them I can't say it's really been worth it yet but I plan to at least upgrade them for iOS 7. They did open the door for some unsolicited contracting work though.

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Essentially, no. This is perhaps the one drawback with current Galera implementation. We run about 32 slave threads per node though and it has never been a real problem for us. It WILL be a problem for you though if you have 32 of those filled with write requests that take 20-30 seconds to complete. You'll end up with waiting sessions. I'd say that's not really an issue for Galera to directly resolve though. If this is a highly transactional web application you really don't want writes taking more than a few seconds in the majority of cases.

It's an entirely different scenario for a data-warehouse type situation obviously, and having 30+ second writes with enough threads won't be an issue then either. Basically though, this is one area where I'd like to see Galera change in one way and it's kind of the 'one' valid criticism to have for the platform. If your workload falls within the good use-cases for it though, I'd recommend it well before NDB/MySQL Cluster due to if nothing else, the sheer complexity of scaling Cluster.
http://wigwags.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/review-of-history-sh... is Edward Tufte's take on Larry Gormley's similar infographic analysis of the same event.
How startups should die
TL;DR: The top of our funnel is fine, and our app is making money, but it's not "easy money" and our trial to paying customer sign up needs some serious attention.

I run a HR app for SMEs called http://www.staffsquared.com. We're making a comfortable 5 figures each month.

We're reinvesting this income back in the product either in the form of new functionality (paying programmers) or advertising (paying Google Adwords). We've increased our Adwords spend, invested in SEO (on page and off page) and a recent redesign saw a decrease in bounce rate and increase in trial sign up rates.

Our site visit to trial sign up rate for the last five months looks like this:

April: 13.02%

May: 12.37%

June: 13.76%

July: 15.61%

August: 16.46%

Our bounce rate for the last five months looks like this:

April: 39.54%

May: 40.06%

June: 37.21%

July: 32.8%

August: 31.17%

So both of those top end of the funnel stats are moving in the right direction.

Our free trial to paying customers is the area we're really focussing on at the moment as it's really not high enough. So we're re-targeting accounts that have expired to find out how we can serve them better and tell them about new features. We're also working hard on our onboarding stuff (the type of stuff you'll read patio11 talking about) including more intelligent automated e-mails based on the status of their account at a point in time.

Happy to answer any questions you good people might have where I can...
That makes more sense.
I had no idea you were supposed to sign up with a partner and sexycrets would share the results. I'd make that more obvious on the front page.

Good luck.
Apple didn't release both simultaneously.
I also have this bug on BusinessInsider and other sites. Does not look good. Surprised there isn't more coverage of this.
Why is there a photo of an external monitor with 3840x2160 and nothing is mentioned about it? Is it because it's just a hypothetical display that could be connected via the Mini DisplayPort, had it existed?
The Average American Family Pays $6,000 a Year in Subsidies to Big Business
Yeah I use adblock too - even on my own site ;)
I was thinking maybe I would make a tunes.io android app and sell it for a buck just to see what happens.
Don't forget Sharepoint services for large companies too.

Skydrive and Hotmail are some of the services much larger than people realize. Hotmail gives you very large inboxes, like Gmail, and Skydrive backs cloud storage and backup for most Windows devices.
As it happens I bought a second hand Surface Pro from ebay and it arrived today. Moving to it from a laptop thats a couple of years old, the Surface Pro is absolutely blowing me away. Faster than my old laptop, also acts as a tablet, using desktop applications via touch actually works, the pen is brilliant. The 128gb will be fine for me, because I've got used to living within about 120Gb.
Does the page load more slowly? If it does, people may be just leaving your site out of impatience. Also, see this comment thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6423171
I like the Pro, but the non-Pro Surface doesn't strike me as any more competitive than last year's model. It's heavier than it's main competitor with lower resolution and orders of magnitude fewer apps. And it does nothing to address the wave of great mini tablets. Maybe I'm alone here, but I don't want to hold anything heavier than a pound for more than a few minutes.

Also, with iOS 7 rolling out, MS is going to have a lot harder time playing the "fresh new interface" card.
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Yeah, Vagrant seems like one of the best options. But buying a computer that will require me to run everything inside of a VM feels a little messy. Although maybe it'll force me to compartmentalise my projects properly...
Dreams: "I’ve wanted to create my very own operating system, one which I have complete and total control over."

Reality: Another Debian clone out there.
But that would lead to making their products easier to use, not harder. I'm not sure this theory is good for explaining much (besides Google being run by evil illuminati henchmen or whatever).
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Of course he can knock it down with lots of sources--that's the whole purpose of a straw man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man).
You're right, C++ is like a huge load of tribal knowledge. It's not like a monolithic language, it is like a group of languages tied together, a swiss army knife if you will. Try take them gradually, in the order of their historical development: C with its preprocessor, then C++ classes with all their stuff, then generic programming (templates), and finally - in-depth stl. You may be told that it's best to start with stl because it was developed for (among other things) the beginners to avoid shooting themselves in the foot, but I find it to be just a coverage for higher-level programming (used best when you already know its under-the-hood low-level stuff).
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Let's look at that.

2007: iPhone.

2008: iPhone 3G. Same phone but with 3G.

2009: iPhone 3GS. Same as 3G but a bit faster.

2010: iPhone 4. New case, retina display, faster etc.

2011: iPhone 4S. Faster, better camera and Siri.

2012: iPhone 5. Faster, new case, bigger screen.

2013: iPhone 4s. Faster, Touch ID, better camera.

It's hard to say any of those releases were revolutionary except the original iPhone. All since has been steady improvement. And that's a good thing.
I like the concept, but wish this announcement would have come with at least one or two concrete steps taken towards the stated goal. Maybe your experience getting a basic shell working or something similar. At this point I have no reason to believe anything will come of this. Was maybe a bit too early for an "announcement".
> Another cover that's totally out of left field is the "Surface Music Kit," a Touch Cover with a mixing deck instead of a keyboard. All the new Touch Covers are pressure sensitive, so for the Music kit, the harder you hit the Touch Cover, the louder the sound plays.

I'm not a music person but pressure-sensitive controls seems like the next frontier for touch devices (that, and Kinect-type cam interfaces)...I was going to say, "the iPad will likely fall behind here"...but it looks like third-party vendors are adding pressure-capability via Bluetooth: http://www.tuaw.com/2013/08/20/wacom-unveils-pressure-sensit...
I am not 100% settled yet. I am evaluating Elixir and Go right now. There are things I like and don't like about both. I gave Haskell a shot but rejected it altogether --I have better things to do then stare at my monadic navel. But all those aside, I've concluded that the ultimate fallback is simply Javascript/Coffeescript --the syntax isn't as nice as Ruby, but you can't go wrong for interoperability. Oh, also [Crystal](https://github.com/manastech/crystal) looks very promising, but it's too immature as of yet.

Beyond that I've decide it's also time to step up work on my own language. Something I've always wanted to do for a while.
I assure you that I won't do that. If I wanted to make a Debian clone I wouldn't be doing this
This is very interesting. Thanks for sharing and best of luck!
Running Jekyll on Windows
Shapdar - shape radar in HTML5 + JS
Mostly apps, but you can see them here - http://codecanyon.net/user/23andwalnut/portfolio
Initially I was using Ansible's `lineinfile` module to do exactly that. It's pretty trivial to do if you want to compare true Apples to Apples. Here's an article with some examples: http://fabian-affolter.ch/blog/the-lineinfile-module-of-ansi...

However, I wanted to show the actual process I went through. Editing the file in place seemed silly to do with Ansible, so I went with putting the config file in version control and copying it over. That also had the benefit of showing how Ansible encourages better practices than shell scripts.

Of course, that's totally subjective, so for some folks that use shell scripts, they may already know to put their config files in version control. However, in practice, I've not seen that be the case.
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