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I don't quite understand.

You have an OpenID. You've forgotten your password. How do you get back into your account without requesting an e-mail to reset it?
That actually sounds pretty scary. What sort of incoming fault trips (what sounds like) DC breakers?
Funny but sound like a urban legend.
No, and I'm not sure about it. The way that Tor uses certificates does not seem to be very well documented or I would have a stronger theory about how it could be done without causing an unacceptable level of false positives on regular SSL traffic.
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The expensive part about data centers isn't the square footage, it's the HVAC/power/bandwidth/servers. So you have the space, that means you still need to reserve twice the bandwidth, power, cooling and hardware. x2 cost. Actually somewhat more because you need to account for all the bandwidth and time to keep everything synced up.
Are startup founders really so poor that they have to resort to rice and beans? Even when I was bootstrapping with nothing I could afford to eat a balanced diet. If you are really that poor, you should probably get a job first before starting a startup.
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My uncle worked for Walmart for many years in his 80s. He credits being on his feet for helping keep his diabetes at bay.

Personally, I don't ever expect to "retire". I have a list of projects that is quite long.
I applaud people working long hard hours to get ahead. I am not against working hard but instead the abuse on the part of employers. They hold the power in this situation, not the people. There are types of employment that are simply unacceptable.

During the industrial revolution, ability to support ones family was used to justify young children working in factories. During the civil war, the south fought for the right to use slave labor in order to maintain their standard of living.
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The article doesn't give the impression to me that he spends that much time working out. He says he started off 5 days a week and later on worked out for 6 days a week 3 of those running and three of those in the gym. He doesn't say how long each session is but he does say he runs for 5 miles or 45 minutes with his Nike+ so You might deduce he spends about 6 hours a week exercising.

6 hours sounds normal to me.

From the tone of your comments it sounds more like you are projecting your negative life experiences onto your reading of the article.
Actually, I think that most of these tips apply equally well to the pitfalls you might hit mid-process while refactoring.

That being said, I think the basic points are obscured by the semi-random ordering. Putting the same core recommendations into (my own, entire subjective) order of importance, I'd probably present them more like this:

1. Measure twice, cut once -- be sure you really understand a piece of code before making changes

2. Don't mix bug-fixing or feature enhancements with major refactoring work (doing minor cleanup while fixing bugs is okay)

3. Don't rip out + replace anything for which you don't have tests

4. Make sure your tests cover real-world usage, not just your internal APIs

5. Recognize when you're getting bogged down, and be willing to shelve or abandon changes

6. Set a concrete goal for your refactoring pass, and stick to it -- don't try to rewrite everything in one pass
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"...7 million URLs are shortened via [Bit.ly] each day, the company says, and 2-3 million of those are unique URLs Bit.ly has not seen before. Those Bit.ly URLs are clicked on 150 million times per week"

"20,000 or so new links a day are submitted to Digg"
plan on retiring in a country with a cheap standard of living.

I guess that might work if you're set to retire soon. In 30 or 40 years, though, the world may be a sufficiently different place that those countries are either no longer so cheap, or have changed in ways so that you no longer want to live there...
Same here. Couldn't have happened at a worse time, but at least it was only for 10 minutes or so.
People always say that, but surely you must have some hobbies that you could pursue that would be equally fulfilling?
Krugman's take on this: http://www.slate.com/id/1918

I'd also like to note that I am fascinated by people with high standards and willing to let others suffer for them. :-)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk

It's disputed, but some sources claim their analysis shows that the "a" was spoken but not transmitted.
There isn't anything better than a good beef stew - I've been experimenting on this theme for a few years now. Some tips:

- Only add the onions about 30 minutes before the stew is cooked, otherwise they'll dominate the flavour

- Add button mushrooms (again, about 30 minutes before the end) - they soak up all the juices and become wonderfully tasty.

- Use cheap meat: the miracle of the stew is how it transforms just about any lousy piece of beef in to wonderfully tender morsels that fall apart as soon as you look at them.

(We once cooked a beef bourginon (same thing really, but with some red wine in the stock) for 8 hours on a really low heat - around 100 degrees C. It was the most stunning thing I have ever eaten)
the majority of technological advancement

Aren't technological advancement, by nature, always advancing/evolving? Something isn't right about that phrase. At one point in time, railway was a technology. Rail still is am evolving technology. I don't think we will stop developing, even if for now, its increasingly software rather than hardware.
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It was truly an unexpected case (which was quickly fixed in the UPS hardware), but you know, life is one unexpected case after another

The word you are looking for is incompetence.

An UPS, even a datacenter scale UPS, is not exactly rocket surgery.
If your story is true and the device failed over to diesel without notifying anyone then that's not only an epic engineering failure but also an epic fiscal failure for whoever is liable (perhaps the UPS vendor).

Damages from a full DC blackout easily run into the hundred thousands of dollars per hour, not even counting the unbillable shockwave of "our website is down" multiplied by hundreds of customers.

It's a ridiculously expensive "Oops" that easily dwarfs the cost for deploying a proper UPS with proper testing and proper procedures in first place.

Btw the CAT in our Level3 datacenter over here has a big horn and a flashlight on the side. My naive self wants to believe they are there for situations such as the diesel running out...
I am a Rackspace customer (fortunately, in VA). Last week, they accidentally sent emails out to many customers letting them know that there was heavy construction (that they don't control) adjacent to their lot of land in Texas. I'm betting that has something to do with it.
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It's more than that as you two datacenters, plus the cost of synchronizing it.
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50 miles isn't much. You'll need about one extra day of food per week (about 14% more food).
Misleading. The life expectancy numbers cited by OP are grossly skewed because of one critical issue: infant mortality. Sure, people are living longer, but not that much longer.
People with privileged jobs are always writing crap like this. Why shouldn't people retire?

Journalists, programmers, scientists, executives...we have jobs that can be interesting and fulfilling and are not physically demanding. There's no reason to stop unless you want to.

News flash: not everyone has an interesting job that they want to keep doing until they drop dead. A lot of people work manual labor, or mind-numbing service jobs. 45 years of that and you'd be ready to retire too.

In the Western world at least, our societies are rich enough to support this. I think we should. And almost everyone agrees with me. Check the polls on raising the retirement age.
I have hobbies, but none that couldn't earn a buck if positioned right. I yearn for the validation that comes with people voting for my activities with their money.
Good point. Life expectancy was much higher for those who survived childhood.
I'll check the polls again when the economy collapses under the burden of too generous government benefits.
Beginning? I doubt most internet users still know they exist. RealPlayer is a distant memory for most.
By rice and beans I didn't mean a recipe with literally two ingredients. I'm assuming you put stuff like peppers and onions in the beans. Or meat if you like. I'm also not saying you should eat rice and beans for every meal; just that most people have a default, and this is a good one if you're short of money.
I agree and it's usually knee jerk stuff in response to whatever the current economic situation is. I wouldn't be surprised if they had contradictory articles 10 years ago.
It was a UPS failure, yes, but this was in the late 90s when the UPS industry wasn't as robust as it is now. Competency is what you get when you learn from your incompetency. We learned something valuable from it (and our UPS people did too).

I also learned to cut people (and some companies) a little slack when I've been down the road they're on. We had a lot of customers who didn't cut us any slack, took their refund and left, which was their prerogative to do so, but found out for themselves that no company has 100% uptime (many came back, lucky for us).
The way Apple has dealt with this is itself telling. For so many years Steve Jobs has been wholly identified with Apple—but now, even as he is returning, and even after every word about his health is positive, Apple is keeping it as low-key as possible. It's clear that however much influence he's retained, or retaken, at Apple, and however long he intends to stick around, that there is a mutual and seemingly permanent strategy in place to slowly and subtly disassociate the one from the other, and to break down the axiom Steve == Apple in the minds of the public.
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when i get old i just hope my mind stays sharp and i meet the (low) physical requirements for typing at a computer, or am able to learn those new-fangled mind-typers.
How I Got Two iPhone Apps Refunded.
If I recall, they were doing maintenance to their chillers this week. Hmmm....
I doubt picking the actual locale for retirement requires 30 or 40 years of lead time. There's a significant chance countries with attractive costs of living will still exist several decades from now.
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The cost to users (and especially developers) most assuredly is not simply 2x that of a single host. Planning for full replication and hot-failover from day one adds complexity, and can actually do more harm than good if your team and tools aren't fully up-to-speed on the sometimes subtle challenges surrounding replication lag, eventually-consistent stores, and STONITH.
this is the first "humorous" comment that I have ever upvoted - purely because it is so true that the humor is implicit and not the main function of what was said. My god I have this vision now of mel wearing robes and fighting creatures with machine code.
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Thankyou, yes I think I see your point & it is a valid one. But I suspect any such complicating of the rating algorithm would be of very marginal benefit, if any. For example, I enjoy not having to ever visit TC directly, knowing that I can wait until a TC link gets enough points on HN & the HN comments suggest it might be worth reading :o)
Vigorous biking burns a ton of calories, and if you avoid junk food it can really be a chore to eat enough, in my experience. This spring I was riding about 100 miles a week, and I had to eat about 3300 calories a day to maintain my weight. Most days I ate 3 or 4 breakfasts before I started to feel fully awake and alert for the day.
Slave labor lowered the South's standard of living, btw. It's inefficient and costly compared to a free market. The view that slavery is practical, economical, or beneficial in any way is a pro-slavery myth!

Sweatshops will go away when the country is richer, with or without laws. The hard fact is that nicer working conditions cost money. That means lower wages. If everyone is well off, like in USA, that cost is clearly worth it. If people are very poor, they may prefer the money (which they need to buy necessities) to the improved working environment.
I've been hyper-critical of Microsoft's recent ad campaigns, but there is nothing not to like about these. Fantastic spots! If the browser they're hawking had benefitted from the same attention to detail, Safari/Chrome/Firefox would have a real fight on their hands.

Oh, and go Dean Cain!
That's not being fair, that's being contrary. If StackOverflow was a stupid idea or poorly executed, no one would use it. Yes, they announced it from a pretty tall pulpit, but if no one cared what either of them had to say--for or against--no one would care to read their blogs, either.
It's just streaming video anyway.
"Here in Silicon Value there can be a tendency to overemphasize product and technology and underemphasize ad sales." No, according to the model your article pushes, this product is the AOL-part from your example. Coherences.

Suits tend to remind me of a dog who eagerly waits the stick gets thrown, so he already can run in the right direction.
Seems more of a pull than a push. Time for public education to play catch up. I just wish my school would have been willing to put courses on the CMS I built.
If bit.ly would put in the referer logs the url where the bit.ly link is, then bit.ly would be much better for recipients of traffic from bit.ly.

As it is, the actual producer of the content being linked to has no idea where that link is on the web. Is it in a tweet? A blog comment? Where?

Bit.ly and other url shorteners are robbing content producers of valuable traffic information and giving it to the linker, but I would argue that it is much more important for the producer of the content to know who is clicking links and from where than it is for the person who links to the content.

This, of course, is one problem in addition to the increased layer of indirection and reduced reliability of content acquisition in the future due to the disappearance of the shortener.
I rarely read TC stories, and even more rarely upvote them here, simply because past experience tells me I probably won't get much out of their articles. But here, even an awful article can produce fascinating discussion, so frequent TC stories on the front page doesn't really bother me.
i definitely do, but i don't foresee myself partaking in these hobbies 8+ hours a day, every day in retirement. my major hobbies now are sports related and hacker related. at retirement age, sports won't be so viable and hacker activities will likely be completely different.
Well, Australia got rid of guns and now people are getting attacked with screwdrivers. Are they going to ban screwdrivers too?

Britain was going to ban samurai swords because of increase sword attacks after their gun ban. (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2237699...)

When will governments realize that people (not guns) kill people.

Would the same thing have happened if the hoodlums knew that their victims could have legally been concealing a firearm? Maybe, maybe not, but we'll never know because it was one protection that the two Indian men were not afforded.
Awesome. As a developer I would really like the unhappy users to get the refund. Joel's put it best in step 7 here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/customerservice.html

(I really miss the old Joel).
Even when apple will charge you for the refund but keep their cut from the original sale?
Well it seems clear to me that the "core human task of driving" is the supplying of inputs to the 3 major controls: brake, accelerator and steering wheel (5 if we include clutch and gear selector). I'm not necessarily agreeing with kirse, just saying that the line is well defined.

Adaptive cruise control (and even regular cruise control) definitely crosses the line and is available today in a bunch of mass market vehicles.
I like the look of your site but that's probably because, to me, it looks almost exactly like CampaignMonitor. Very clean and well layed out but verrrrry similar.

Your information and what you do is very clean and easy to grok although it's not really a field/area I can comment on much.

You may want to consider adding your site to my latest endeavor, http://www.launchly.com. Launchly is all about getting your new site the feedback you need to succeed. Launches are free for the time being.

One other comment, I tried to contact you via your site's contact us page but your app 500'd on me and I got the "Rails Screen of Death" (RSoD???)
This looks good and promising!! Most importantly, it is solving a problem. I think you have a great chance of getting accepted. Good luck!!
$10 for an iPhone app is "Hella" money? I feel dirty for even visiting this cretinous web site. I didn't stay long enough to see if there were any advertisements but I hope not; I'd hate to find out this person benefited from me. And then this vermin says he purchased another application (a game no less) by "accident hehe."
So you wanna write StackOverflow in a weekend.

Let's assume, for sake of argument, that you decide it's okay to write it in ASP.NET MVC, and that I've decided to hand you the StackOverflow source code, page by page, so you can retype it verbatim. We'll also assume you type like me, at a cool 100 WPM (five characters per second[1]), and unlike me, make zero mistakes. StackOverflow's .cs, .sql, .css, .js, and .aspx files come to 96.5k. So merely typing back in source code that already exists will take you five hours if you make zero mistakes and deploy on the same platform they're doing.

Except, of course, you're not doing that. So even assuming that it took you a mere ten times longer to design, type out, and debug your own implementation, that already has you taking more than your whole weekend, even if you stayed up coding straight--and I don't know about you, but I am okay admitting I code considerably slower than ten times slower than I copy existing source code.

Well, okay, I hear you say. Not the whole thing. But I can do most of it.

Okay, so what's most? There's simply asking and responding to questions--that part's easy. Well, except you can't let people upvote their own answers, so you need to block that. And you need to make sure that you don't upvote or downvote a person too many times in a certain amount of time, to prevent spambots. Probably are also going to have to implement a spam filter, too, come to think of it, even in the basic design, and you also need to support user icons, and you're going to have to find a sanitizing HTML library you really trust and that interfaces well with Markdown (provided you do want that awesome editor they have, of course). You'll also need to purchase, design, or find widgets for all the controls, plus you need an administration interface so that moderators can moderate, and you'll need to implement that scaling karma thing so that you give users steadily increasing power to do things as they go.

But if you do all that, you will be done. Except, of course, for the full-text search, espcially the search-as-you-ask feature, and user bios, and having comments, and having a main page that shows you important questions but that bubbles down steadily. Plus you'll want bounties, and handling multiple OpenIDs per user, and having email notifications, and supporting JavaScript-smart tags, and having user-configurable badges (you are going to do user-configurable badges without forcing your user to learn PHP and write hooks, right?), the history of your karma, upvotes, and downvotes. And the whole thing has to scale really well, since it could be slashdotted at any moment.

And we haven't even touched things like supporting upgrades, internationalization, karma caps, CSS so it doesn't look like ass, and all the little things under the surface that no one ever sees, but that you need to run the site.

To be really blunt: anyone in this forum who honestly thinks they can do all that in a weekend is so ridiculously full of himself that I want him very far away from any project that I'm involved with.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
I haven't seen a single picture of him since he got back. Does he look healthy again?
Even then. There aren't that many unhappy users for my product and I spend more time/money making them feel less angry than the money I could lose in the refund.

If enough users would be unhappy enough to request refund and and make it financially noticeable it would be time for me to take down the app and seriously redesign it.
Some of these are pretty scary. In particular, the c++ analog literals http://www.xs4all.nl/~weegen/eelis/analogliterals.xhtml, multidimentional to boot.
You go to business with the customer base you have, not the customer base you wish you had.

:)
Exactly, most people would retire if they could there are plenty of people well over the elderly gap still working because of high costs of living and such terrible retirement plans or lack thereof.
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The rest is obtained by bots that they run en masse which really mess up the game for everyone else.

Back when I played wow, I could have sworn that there were a few botters that would use something like Auctioneer to make money by buying things that were undervalued for resale. So I tested out my theory (this was just post-BC)

I created several dummy characters on my account and loaded them up with spare boar meats that I had farmed. 2 boar meats for 100 gold, so 50 gold a pop. I would constantly send the meats to newly created characters and start putting them on the auction house, 50 gold each.

What this did was over the period of a week and maybe 15 characters (I'm not sure the actual number), I artificially raised the perceived value of the meats, so when I started putting them up for 200 gold for each stack of 10, I literally couldn't farm enough of them to keep them in stock as they were always bought by the same couple of people (botters?).

The botters aren't infallible, you can break them - but I do agree that it's hard to compete with a 24x7 player, especially when you only played 2 hours at night yourself.
Good, they deserve it.
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http://cryptome.org/h1n1/cdc-flu-fuzz3.htm

James Atkinson (www.tscm.com) writes:

27,127 Confirmed Cases, over 126 confirmed deaths, 50% increase over last week on deaths... It looks almost like it is starting to get deadlier, and it may have mutated in the past two weeks.

Several states that did not report any number last week as expected provided huge numberers for the past week, that were way out-of-the-park even more then they would have public over two weeks ago.

Average of 895 new cases per day, and trending upwards

Notice how everything is strongly trending upwards.... way upwards.

The CDC announced that the number of people infected is way, way up this week (see attached charts).

They have now added a disclaimer to their web site that now says that the numbers the CDC is providing could be inaccurate because some of the states have missed the cut-off date or times for submitting their numbers.

The most interesting trend is to see the increase in the average number of people per day are being confirmed as infected, and the ever increasing upward trends. All the while the CDC is issuing press releases where they falsely claim that the infections are tapering off and that the spread of the infection is slowing down (but their own numbers show they are lying).

This results is significant fuzzing up of the the CDC H1N1 numbers and makes them inaccurate.
From a design point of view, I think it's polished. From a "is there a market for this?", I can't say. Can you list off any competitors for comparison?