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Well, you can already pay extra to expedite your passport application. I've paid the DMV a couple extra dollars to renew online instead of in person or via mail. It's equal service to those who pay for it.

By the same token, why not have an "Oh, crap!" kiosk for passengers running late? They can pay an extra 20 bucks and get a pass that allows them to use a shorter line. Maybe airlines could include it with first class tickets (you certainly pay enough for them, it's not like you'd notice the extra $20). And if you don't want to pay, you use the longer line your taxes bought. If they price it right, they could hire more people for both lines and everyone wins.
When it gets good native clustering support? Last time I checked, clustering support was still tentative, not heavily tested, and not in the core distribution.
I have always been sceptical of OLPCs grand strategy for two reasons:

1 - They don't seem to be relying on being so good that they grow like mad. They seem to want to make deals with ministers of education. If the laptop is such an affordable & brilliant educational tool, then its reasonable to assume parents/kids everywhere would want one. How unique are children in Africa, really.

2 - All we get is 12 months. They don't control the underlying costs of making a computer with good intentions. They rely on existing market forces. By encouraging a certain market, all they can do is get us there a little faster. If they didn't exist, it's likely that a commercial vendor would supply this market.

That said, the on-a-stick, on-an-old-pc model sounds like a good idea. Not just for kids, also for the very large number of people who cannot afford their own PC but can afford internet cafe, shared-at-school or shared-at-home.

If you could have your own pc on a stick with all your documents, files, software etc., it is a significant improvement on just access to the pc without this. It may even lower the cost of internet cafe type access. The by-product is that it significantly reduces the barrier to using a different operating system.
Although this document is old the thing that strikes me reading it is how utterly irrelevant and cryptic it is/was. Perhaps the closed nature of Microsoft's technologies makes it harder to understand but isn't that the problem? I don't know why I might want my Federation server to talk to my extranet server through passport via Yukon calls, based on the BizTalk platform, and highly integrated with the CLR but only for a 3 month trial period if my Office license is up to date. Assuming of course my Trident version is new enough to support my VS Forms. I'll have to check my MSMQ in MMC first though.
In fact, even at the danger of being annoying, I would rephrase that once again. "USE abstractions when you can see a valid present use".
Not listening to your code asking for a common abstraction of several things which already exist just for the sake of not using an abstraction ("well, because!") will result in an even bigger mess than most abstractions cause.
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I'd rather have content than a graph. Comfortably I'd like both.

Graphs without much content, which is the leading combination these days - especially around "tech", business, economics sites/"content", is pretty damn annoying and it makes it feel a lot more cheap.

I do agree that a graph would be a nice complement. Even if the "problem with Linux/tech crowd" was pretty unnecessary.
That mechanism is designed for contact to be made once. Not every time you plug it in. Also, there's no rotation, so the spring can be made stronger for a better contact.
The web won't become faster. It'll just do more than before and take as much time as before or even slightly longer, just like software and operating systems have evolved so far.

The key to fast operation is lowering the work-per-horsepower ratio.

This hasn't happened for obvious reasons: imagine the mid-90's world wide web running on modern hardware. Pages would be a few kilobytes. Nearly everything would be instantaneous. Text would be weighted over images. People would be generally unhappy with the simple design. Then they would begin to make sites that are more amazing and flashy and less useful... oops, welcome to the 2010's! :)
You won't get free boot-stomping journalism, but you can get free analysis (see DeLong, Yglesias, Instapundit, Duncan Black, McArdle, Archpundit, I could go on).

Example: there's someone out there who can explain why Daley flopped on the Olympic guarantee - did he want to? Pretty clearly no. Did he have to? Pretty clearly yes. But, instead, we get more of the same "oh, that Daley, he shits on the city".

The issue is - will people work for free for someone else? As far as I can tell, the only community doing that online is at DailyKos. Am I wrong?
If on-a-stick becomes widespread, another interesting side effect could be bundling applications & operating systems.
They're planning to add "server side scripting" in any language to replace stored procedures. It sounds quite cool.

http://krow.livejournal.com/638941.html

I have been writing extensions to Postgresql in C++ recently, and it's amazing what you can do if you have the full flexibility of loading a .so into the db process and doing whatever you want.
I managed to get a reply about two years ago. They want lots and lots of money, so the lack of reply probably saved you some time.
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An ambitious approach to stored procedures, but so much more sensible than the current approach.

Of course, it'll be vapourware for some time yet.
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Very insightful write up. I definitely see it as a generational gap that I am probably in the middle of and may never fully accept myself. I desperately hope it will break the mold of this horrible phony society that so many people live with. Let's face it, people get drunk, people say stupid things, they do stupid things and sometimes in the middle of it all they do wonderful, kind, and brilliant things too. We'll all be better off when it's acceptable to be yourself and not worry so much about how people are going to judge you for it. I've always felt like if someone wants to cyber stalk me and build some aggregated profile of my life then I probably have nothing to worry about. In the end they're the one being the creepy voyeuristic stalker.
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Depending on how sequential the serial numbers are, the answer (the probable range of serials) can probably be derived either from people reporting true serial + some random noise offset (of known distribution), or maybe through some zero-knowledge protocol (but I don't know if zero-knowledge proofs are practical on a many-party scale).
Changing names after reaching majority or having a "family" name different from your public name is fairly common in other cultures, eg Lula / Ignacio da Silva or Abu Mazen / Mahmoud Abbas.
that's usually a partnership. an acquisition typically involves quite a bit more on the business and operations side.
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I am a bit disappointed that he is not doing more to remedy the code/book disaster that was the first edition. Why not do a set of patches that makes the examples from the first edition work with current Django?
Site zoomed down to an inline IRC client. WTF? immediately closes tab
You can also boot from CD-ROM. That very page says:

If you have an older machine or you just want things to immediately work without fussing with the BIOS, you can burn a "Boot Helper" CD using the .iso below. This will start the boot from the CD, then read files from the USB stick: http://people.sugarlabs.org/sdz/soas-boot.iso
How can a company with only $740K (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/posterous) afford to acquire Slinkset? Equity?
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At my last job, this would either:

A. Add another hour to the meeting.
B. Add a second meeting to solve the problem, which I would be required to chair.
C. Both A & B.
I don't like seeing this kind of article on HN. It really adds very little to the conversation. To the people who have voted this up or are thinking of voting it up (or have submitted it): why?
Their business model is coming to an end. What keeps them going is the large customer base and Windows-specific applications people are accustomed to.

Historically advancement in technology does tend to have this effect on businesses.

The operating systems and dev platforms are a commodity and of course people are wondering why should they pay for this stuff when you can get them for free. Not to mention alternatives are often technologically superior and have stronger communities, and because of their closed-nature they really can't do anything about it.

I would like to say that competition benefits consumers, but because Microsoft can still exert a huge influence on the industry without technical merits, consumers won't benefit until they reinvent themselves. I know they will, but it may take some time.
I find this behavior quite appalling. Not giving credit is not only dishonest, but shows complete lack of character. The fact that Chris Hughes runs his blog under spazout.com is just another sign of his moral stance.

Edit: to clarify why I take offense with 'spaz out', I consider it a slur towards people with cerebral palsy. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasticus_(Autisticus)
I am for the moment; if postgres is really that much better in this regard, please let me know why you think so.

Incidentally, I'm using VARBINARY, not VARCHAR for the keys.
To spite you, perhaps?
Will need to re-implement all recent editing improvements

This is something that blows my mind. How can we have WYSIWYG editing functionality since the 70's, and when "the web" comes along, we decide to build everything on top of HTML/CSS, which is insanely hard to implement WYSIWYG on top of? Ditto for drag/drop and right click for God's sake.
I think the cost would be infinitesimal. Weapons are cool, but not essential.

In a way, doing without weapons would be fun. Teach the kids martial arts. Their bare hands would be their weapons. What I like about martial arts is that it's a bit like mathematics. In math you can't fool yourself thinking you know more than you do... your own limitations are right in front of you, in the blank sheet of paper reminding you that you're no Grothendieck. In martial arts you also know your limitations. If you don't, you get your ass kicked really quick. In this age of grade-inflation where all kids are believed to be geniuses until proven otherwise, knowing where you stand relative to your peers is good. Harsh, but it builds character ;-)
Not sure how airports in the US work, but aren't first class tickets already supposed to give you a shorter line? I am pretty sure the last time I booked a flight (extra-low economy class - easyjet) there was an option to pay for a shorter line.
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Maybe if it was new I wouldn't mind so much. But it's a whole week old. Or if it had something more to say than "this was photoshop'ed". But I have to agree it is pretty lame.
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That he is back only shows that he couldn't make it on his own - he needs Steve Jobs fame. I could never see anything positive in that approach.
Not just in layman's term. That is what a protocol is: a specification for communication. With reference to the OSI model, HTTP is an application layer protocol. TCP is a network layer protocol.

Edit: oh, screw me, the article actually says 'HTML'. I didn't register that and saw 'HTTP'. I'm guessing the author meant that: didn't you ever write HTML when you meant HTTP and didn't catch it until the third reading?

Edit2: interestingly enough, the above said 'ISO' instead of 'OSI'...
Do I read it correctly that to quote from Wikipedia, the work containing the quote has to be put under the ShareAlike license, too? (Similar to the GPL?). I am quite shocked, as I had expected the license for Wikipedia stuff to be more lenient.
I think even if it was new I would want to flag it. It's just an image, with no analysis.

Now, if this was a proper article about the use of photo manipulations by dictatorial regimes, I would probably not dislike that.
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Since the acquisition was likely done with stock, vanilla vesting would be enough to make them stick around.
Same here. Based on the demo video, I thought a natural language query about some oft repeated numbers - 'Web browser market share by year' would be doable. It wasn't.
On the limitations of dumb but fast...
"Most kids don't like to learn. "

Sure they do.

Most kids don't like to learn stuff they deem stupid and useless.
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It depends on how much you want them versus how much they want you. If you can't attract them with just cash, you're going to have to give stock. Considering the Slinkset guys are hungry entrepreneurs who'd probably want a stake, and an all-cash transaction in 6 figures wouldn't make them f@#$-you rich anyway, I'd guess this was a most- if not all-stock deal.

It also depends on what Posterous's cash situation is like; if much of the 750k is lying around idle, they'd want to spend it, else they'd rather avoid having to raise money again, which would result in giving up even more equity. Plus, all else being equal, I'd rather share equity with cofounders/employees than with investors.
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probably a stock swap.
In essence your trying to build a talent marketplace using twitter??? Something like an elance on twitter??? Sounds like an idea worth trying out.

I havent worked with the twitter API yet, but I guess you should read through the API documentation first. That should give you a foot in the door.
Thats a good point. Stay tuned ..
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Are you kidding? Proper HTML rendering is the least of Outlook's problems.

I blame Outlook for the mess that E-mail became. Top-posting, citing entire E-mails, people being unable to distinguish cited text from new text, unbroken long line, unreadable and unformatted E-mails.
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Its classist thinking like this that produces the most despotic societies yet.
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"Their business model is coming to an end."

Do you have any data supporting your claim or is this just a gut feeling?

Here's what we know about MS's business model (I just quickly skim read their annual reports to gather these figures).

Revenue in 2008 was $60.8 Billion, up 18% from the previous year

Revenue in 2007 was $51.12 Billion, up 17% from the previous year

Revenue in 2006 was $44.28 Billion, up 11% from the previous year

Revenue in 2005 was $39.79 Billion, up by about $3 billion from the previous year

Revenue in 2004 was $36.8 Billion, up by 14% from the previous year

Revenue in 2003 was $32.19 Billion, up by $3.82 billion from the previous year

Revenue in 2002 was $28.37 billion, up by $3.07 billion on the previous year

So since the date these internal memo's were written, their business has only managed to steadily grow each and every year by more than 10% per year, with their total revenue having doubled since these memo's were written.

Or that Microsoft's growth alone in 2008 was around half of internet golden-child Google's total revenue for the same period?

Yes, their business model is coming to an end, they really should be scared.... </sarcasm>

(Disclosure: I don't work for microsoft, or a competitor, nor am I an investor. I'm just sick of the unnecessary FUD)
That seems like a geek fantasy to me. Just because you like to learn, it does not mean other people are like you. Through my school years, I never saw evidence to back the claim that most kids like to learn. Maybe in early grade school when kids want to know why stars twinkle, why the sky is blue, and where babies come from. After a certain age, their curiosity dies. That may be sad, but let's face it: the world also need doers, not just thinkers. For each, his own.
This is presumably the genesis of several directives that resulted in derailing Vista (mentions "Blackcomb", currently the codename for W7, I guess, but were eventually targets for "Longhorn", now Vista, see: http://www.winsupersite.com/faq/longhorn.asp ), specifically the SQL FS, as part of Yukon. Ooops.

You can see Mr. Gates struggling with positioning the OS as something more than a web browser, but seems to miss a point that (in retrospect, I suppose) seems pretty obvious to me:

I want us to be able to construct rich UI easily simply by editing an XML document. I want us to be able to bind to XML data easily using the new forms environment. We have compatibility issues to consider with all of the above systems. Trident will be a piece of the solution as the HTML displayer but it will likely not be at the center of the system.

This is the directive (I suspect) that resulted in XAML. The concept is great, I suppose, and would certainly be convenient for building business applications, but you can, crudely speaking, think of a web browser as a device that turns an XML (HTML) document into native labels, buttons and drop-down boxes. To reduce the [presentation layer of an] OS to the moral equivalent of a freebie competitor software seems counterproductive. I don't know what a better response would be, though.

It's also interesting to note that most of the explicit technical directives (make a new graphics driver model: check -- vista) were met but one that would have arguably done the most to stem the migration away from Win32 applications to web applications was ignored, or bungled to the point of non-recognition: software distribution and reducing the barriers to entry for installing and using additional applications. It's so much easier to get semi-trustworthy binaries onto my Debian or FreeBSD (ignoring Fedora or Ubuntu because it's 2001 in this email) machines than onto anything Windows even in 2009. I suspect things would have been a lot different if they'd focused more effort on a site and delivery executables for application distribution and support, and then shipped them in the Windows Update suggested downloads area.

Man I'm glad I don't have to defend an empire. Not saying it wouldn't have been nice to collect the taxes on one for a while though. :)
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Are they good or bad examples?
Any thoughts on how I should expand the tool? I can see it going two paths...

1) Add more social network sites and more features such as auto-registering your desired name once it's free.

2) Generalize it to notify you when the data on any web page changes. Perhaps leverage dapper.

Or of course option 3: ditch the couple hours of work on tweettaker and concentrate on my next project.
This doesn't appear to be their exit; more like a new beginning.
I have an OLPC XO laptop and I found the sugar windowing system to be very frustrating.

I replaced it with xubuntu and have never looked back.
#2, I think, is key.
> we're way too busy thinking about our own stuff to be making judgments about other people's stuff

Sadly, we aren't. You and I may be, but words like "nosy" and "busybody" and "judgmental" are well known because they describe common behavior. Our species is easily capable of tribalism, prejudice, persecution, and shunning. The wingnuts have even started murdering doctors again, which is bad news for coexistence.
I like it in theory, but I'm no good at it in practice. But then I am no good at commenting in general. One of the reasons I am trying literate programming is that I hope it will prod me to explain my code more. So far I only seem to use more headings to break up my code, but this is still an improvement.
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Nope, I don't think they changed it. Which is why I think this is overblown.
the best fix is UNINSTALL it. uninstall fixes any problem with MS software.
Yeah, it's a pretty dire failure mode. I wouldn't be inclined to whitelist your cookies if I don't know your code fails without them and I can't even tell what your site is about. The front page is actually readable without turning javascript on, so it would probably help to just skip whatever it is you're trying to do.
Is that any less deserving of congratulations?
The private sector is not a perfect allocator of resources. If we let the private sector alone decide where money went there would, for example, be very little funding for basic research.
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For many of the cases I was able to come up with (and express in this horrible, horrible interface), I was able to come up with much more concise and thus readable expressions that match the same thing.

Regexpes are very hard to read anyways, so please let's not use tools that make this even harder.
The presence of spurious backslashes everywhere is distracting. What is this, a bad conversion to HTML from LaTeX?
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If nothing else... Microsoft owns the desktop until they are unable to e.g. scare netbook builders to stop selling preinstalled Linux.
I like very much reading Literate programs, but I don't seem to write them myself.

Then again, I like very much reading novels, and I don't write those either.
Not at all; I was just under the (mis?)impression that you intended to congratulate them for something that hasn't happened yet.
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