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It's focused log4j (java), but I think the advice in there is general enough for all software developers.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Even now, 8 hours after the news broke, 6% of all tweets are still mentioning Michael Jackson. That's comparable to the peak mentions for the Lakers when they won the NBA title and Facebook during the name rush.
I focus on log4j in particular, but I think the advice is general enough for any software developer.
200 mil?

It's funny because I built an effective copy of the site a while back.

Maybe I should put up instructions and open source it.
I don't think that the analogy is right : after all, when all the players are more than two meters, short players get an advantage over them.

I don't see why it wouldn't apply to programming.
As if "global industry" exists only to create "toasters [etc.]". You mistake me. As with things like CPUs, stoves are fantastic general purpose tools for preparing food and worthy of industrial effort.

Toasters do seem to pass that test as well, because most western households have a toaster or something similar. In that sense the market has spoken. But it is reasonable to ask how much bang for the buck (and also for the environmental buck) the toaster delivers compared to other food preparation tools. I suppose your view of the price:performance ratio is strongly correlated with your personal toast requirements.
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NextBus isn't the company harassing the Routesy guy, "NextBus Informaion Systems" (NBIS) is. Reading between the lines, it appears that NBIS is run by a crafty fellow who got NextBus to grant NBIS exclusive rights to collect license fees for their data, without NextBus knowing the full scope of what they were getting into. (hence their "we cannot comment" stance)
I'm quite disappointed to see it here. Completely out of place. Comments are 90% people bickering about the meta non-sense of the story existing here. Here's something to think about... Cat Fancy magazine won't cover this story. They will cover fancy cats as usual. Do we want to have less integrity than Cat Fancy magazine? Really?
I heard some celebrity couple got a divorce today. Can someone maybe link one of them to having used a computer at some point in their life? I'd love to see a story on it.
Going along with this "Incorporating in Delaware" thread, does anyone have information with the differences between incorporating in Delaware versus Nevada (or other states)?
Even if NextBus "owned" the data, it's unlikely any claims they made on it would be enforceable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...

I am not a lawyer, and neither is wikipedia.
Ahh, cultural imperialism. I have a cultural studies degree and am not unfamiliar with the term. Want a sentence guaranteed to start a riot with anyone who cites it approvingly?

"The discourse of 'cultural imperialism' is a device by which Western academics reify the continued material subjugation of the Other to flatter their own epistemologies."

(That isn't meaningless twaddle, incidentally -- it is a serious critique phrased in academic English common to such critiques. The lay version is "Rich white academic liberals use poor people as human subjects in a petting zoo to provide the authenticity they think their own culture lacks, all the while blind to the fact that their own culture is in fact rich-white-academic-liberal and it depends on having a poor-people-petting-zoo.")
Kudos for the first ever Cat Fancy reference on Hacker News.
Little competition? There are a TON of companies in this market space, many of them well established. Just off the top of my head: Super Rewards, Offerpal, Gambit, Peanut Labs, etc...

And those companies are already driving down the margins. Most of the players in the market offer a 75% cut at minimum.

EDIT: Looking at their CPA page now I see that they're implementing Gambit. Guess they're in the same boat.
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If you post to http://posterous.com, you can syndicate that video all over the place. Mine sends content to tumblr, Twitter, friendfeed, and facebook.
it's inefficient because the browser has to search/loop through the DOM looking for the exact pattern of the corresponding css rules, instead of a direct pointer like:

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I saw your comment in the other MJ thread, so I get it -- you're pissed off about him being discussed here. But do you really not see why this is more impressive than simply using a computer?
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Sold half. It's also rumored that his will gives his remaining half to Lennon/McCartney.
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- Clicking the logo should take the user back to the homepage (I know there's only like, two pages, but still)

- Typed "instrumental" in the search box, pressed enter, my input was cleared but the search did not commence (FF3 Win 2008)

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I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you're saying. Are you asking how one can become a great hacker without having troubles similar to Michael Jackson's? It's obvious you've put a lot of thought into this post, so I'm just trying to understand...
"Speechless", "I Can’t Help It"... "Another part of me" doesn’t want to believe it but as much as we want one can’t "beat it". You didn’t "stop till we got enough", "rocked our world" and "healed it"... - RIP MJ ...you’re "gone too soon"
MJ hacked music in his own little way during my childhood and I feel better for it.
xThink's MathJournal(http://www.xthink.com/MathJournal.html) has been out for some time and has a very similar featureset.Unfortunately for them it looks like the 800lb gorilla strikes again.
Most people who take math long enough eventually hit a wall. There is some point when you can just no longer grasp what is being taught. No matter how much you study, you'll never become proficient at that level of math.

The argument largely hinges on the truth of this statement and frankly I have my doubts about its veracity. It seems more likely that people that manage to master certain math topics can master any topic, because the amount of extra abstraction introduced levels off.

For me, Discrete Math is something I've never been able to master.

I don't see how that subject introduces a huge new abstraction over the preceding subjects.
I usually go with the semantic web definition: data are just nodes in the graph, raw blobs with no apparent meaning; information is what happens when you "grok" data, expanding and integrating it into edges in the graph. I suppose my data is your information, and my information is your fact.
And also the other reasons I listed, and also in the context of "I want a small keyboard, should I cut up a crappy one and spend 3 hours to get it together again or just pay 60 bucks."

I mean, I spend maybe 8-12 hours a day on this stupid ass machine, and I spend maybe 20 minutes in my car. I spend enough to completely buy my entire computer setup every 2-3 months just in car payments. How does that make sense? If I was sensible at all I would either have a much much much crappier car, or I would buy a Multron keyboard. http://www.maltron.com/maltron-kbd-ltype-intro.html
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> The bitter/sarcastic tone this article takes toward the end

That's just how the Economist is. Many of their articles end that way, with some acerbic witticism.
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Oh, I just made a huge howler.

>...our intuition is accurate except in (and still imperfectly in) those situations where those intuitions improved the reproductive chances of our ancestors

That actually contradicts my point. Our intuition and reasoning powers did not evolve toward accuracy or better understanding the world, it evolved purely toward whatever kept our monkey ancestors out of lion mouths. Sometimes that could have caused our primitive ancestors to believe that they could only safely cross the plains while holding magic rubaduba fruit. This would of course be reinforced, since perhaps the rubaduba fruit only is on trees in the one month a year that lions are far away looking for water. The proto-humans who believed the rubaduba bullshit survived because they were able to pick up on a correlation, but they only acted on it because they believed in causation, meaning we our ancestors who thought the rubyduby fruit theory was idiotic got eaten by lions, while the credulous saps who filled sacks with 50 pounds of inedible crap and carried it across the plain were fine.

This is a just-so story, but the point is illustrated, which is that not only do humans have terrible reasoning ability when it comes to money and anything remotely scary, it's quite possible we evolved specifically towards irrationality in certain situations. There is billions of dollars spent studying this every year, it's called marketing.
If I get anything out of the news of his premature death, it is that excessive body hacking does not pay off. Not that I thought so before, but still.
I don't know who Jon and Kate are, but Paris Hilton definitely is a PR hacker. Or if she is not, she is something even weirder, a self-feeding PR loop.
In the Jackson 5 and up to Thriller he had a gorgeous voice, even if his pop wasn't exactly cutting-edge in any other way.
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but they mean different things. one says, all spans which are descendants of divs which are descendants of some elements with id=foo. the other says one element with id=my_foo_span. duplicating rules in CSS to match overly specific IDs defeats one of its major advantages.
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I'm signing up for Slicehost right now because I want more freedom with my server. Storage and bandwidth I don't care about much, because I don't do very much transfer-heavy work on my own sites, but how do I judge how effective their RAM offerings are? How much memory does a single hit to a site take? How many concurrent threads can be run with, say, 256MB of RAM versus a full GB? I don't recall ever reading about this before (other than "X site goes down thanks to Digg effect) and I was wondering if anybody had advice about figuring out which would best work.
Note that they don't point out how much of that 400% are 3GS videos. I'm willing to bet a lot of that has to do with the Iranian election protests. Also, how much of that was just people making test videos to make sure that the YouTube video upload feature works or out of excitement for a new toy? It will be interesting to see if this level maintains itself.
I was going to ask you about your degree, but then I suddenly realized you're the same person I asked a while back! Did you get that criticism of the term in college?
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If that's the worst the other states have to offer — a requirement to publicly announce your incorporation and piercing of the corporate veil in exceptional cases — they don't sound very "psycho".
I'm glad you commented as well as submitted, or else I wouldn't have gotten the satisfaction of downvoting you for your spam.
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Someone was saying that California almost didn't let them have the share structure they and the VCs had agreed on, and it almost killed the deal.
Actually, I'm curious, who did they buy this from? I didn't see any indication that they did.

Also, you do have to give them some credit for using a blog with open comments for their communications channel. They do read those things, so they can listen there as an example. Some credit...OK, just a tiny bit of credit.
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Sigh, I just bought a book on scriptaculous! At least I'll get some use out of scriptaculous (and the book) before scripty2 becomes stable.
I was thinking the same thing

Correlation does not Imply Causation
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I think the story's a hoax.
Thanks for all the feedback so far guys!

I know the UI is a bit unwieldy at this point because it was a quick mash-up of the work of a couple students.

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Nope, I hate when my FF team loses. But I recognize it doesn't really matter and I think most people will have only a superficial feeling of loss.

The commenter above called this a "once in a lifetime event" that "has a profound impact on almost everyone." I don't think so, but maybe I'm too pretentious or lack insight. Thanks for that.
Good quick read and refresher. I look forward to future articles in this style. :)
Just an interesting note:

Kayak was founded in 2004.
FareCast was founded in 2003.

I don't know when either site launched or iterated to their current base design, but even before Microsoft bought FareCast, it looked exactly like Kayak. I actually thought they were powered by the same company. It looked like this in the past: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/f/f2/200906... That was still pretty close (although it's more obvious now).
While M$ does buy up many companies, a lot of fascinating original research goes on there too and they have a huge research division. I'm not sure if this is completely related but you can take a look at some of these papers published by Paul Viola regarding research done at Microsoft on ink group recognition and content parsing.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/viola/

(scroll down)

Dr. Paul Viola is also the guy created the first realtime face detector ( the one in openCV ).
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Yes. Silicon Valley is not particularly amenable to being up all night.
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The thing about a film like Titanic (and most other films in the epic genre) is you know the ending: the boat sinks, almost everybody dies. 'Personal heroism overwhelmed by unfortunate circumstances' is a pathetic narrative, in the most literal sense of the word pathetic: pathos is a literary device of reflecting a characters problems in their environment, eg it starts raining to show someone is sad. Normally this is terminally cheesy, but when its set in the context of a real event it's rather different. Films like this are not meant to leave you feeling satisfied.

You're welcome to email me if you want to vent on what you disliked about it. I work in film/TV so I'm quite interested in people's point of view.
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Weird. It's listed as a reference, but never mentioned in the text. Easter egg?
listened to free willy ost on way to office and then came the sad news.

RIP MJ.You were as genius as humans come.
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If you are based in CA you will end up having to pay the same fees and taxes to CA as if you had incorporated here, you have to register as a "foreign corporation" if you have an office or place of business here.
It completely depends on your application/stack. Something with static content and simple dynamic pages could scream at 256MB, or even less. Something with other RAM-eating frameworks and code might run best with GB+.

A nice thing with Slicehost is you can start with the smallest, and then if it seems you need more RAM, can restart the same image on a bigger slice.

You will know if you need more RAM by watching your busy server with 'top' over time, and among other things, ensuring that it never begins swapping.

Almost any app can benefit from more RAM, especially if you use various levels of caching effectively (from the automatic linux disk cache through framework-level fragment- or page- caching to HTTP-server/proxy caching).

So when you're sure things work OK, but then want to make them snappy, throwing RAM at the problem (with a little engineering to use it wisely) is usually a good idea.
Okay, thanks! So you have experience with Slicehost? Moving up to larger slices is a painless task?
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Pretty cool until Balsamiq do this themselves.
Do you remember the recent case of the homeless shoe shiner who had to pay $400 for a licence? That would be the exception. In that time (and now in many countries), it was not only the rule, but the licence would cost you a lot more then one month's rent.
You are willing to pay for this, right? Try MyTrack?
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I've been thinking about this for years now. I could never understand why no one had ever set 100 "minutes" to an hour.
Heh this site design is used by nearly every travel site and flights company, I doubt Kayak have much of a claim to it.
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That's quite remarkable. I didn't think there was anyone in the developed world over the age of 20 who hasn't seen the rise, moonwalk and fall of Micheal Jackson. His name is practically bigger than Coca-Cola.
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Maybe diversify a bit, just in case?
The author doesn't give numbers, but on the point of people just testing out their new phones, the author does qualify her correlation:

"No doubt some of that 400 percent is due to users merely testing out the features on their new iPhones"
Actually the article is incorrect. The correct news is that GEMA has won the case in getting Rapidshare to block songs worth 24 million euros. The actual fine is not stated.
About a half an hour downtime, in my experience. No work needed.
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Slicehost makes everything as painless as could be asked for. I had a DNS problem on a new slice yesterday, their folks noticed it within 3 minutes.

My understanding is that Xen is pretty tricky admin, but you can do your own ubuntu or CentOS VM under vmware ,give it x Meg RAM, throw ab or jmeter or trample at your app, see what happens.
I think Jack Welch's MBA might have been useful at a different time. It seems the economy is turning more into skill-based economy, and an MBA doesn't give you hard skills.

I was at a meetup tonight, and the people that were looking for jobs, where MBA fresh grads. All engineers were doing something already.
While the analogy is nice, I'd hesitate to assume that because woonerven don't work in big cities python code won't hold up in large heavy used multi developer codebases. Much traffic is not the same as many developers. There' no such things as test code and version control in real life.
I am running a rails app with 100,000 pages views/month with a 86MB slice(not at slicehost though) with <2sec response times. The pages are pretty heavy dynamic pages.
One person I know who had this problem solved it by changing his hours to be 4 AM to noon. This gave him four hours before anyone else came in to prevent future problems, then four more hours to handle current problems. It worked well for a number of years, but eventually he ended up leaving for the West Coast.
I think that bing will get even more free PR
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That's an after-tax $1, before-tax $1.25? If so, that's assuming about a 7% risk-free return over 40 years, and that isn't very likely, at least if we're talking about inflation-adjusted dollars. (And we should be.)

If you assume a more reasonable 3%, you get 9.8¢ per year in perpetuity from your after-tax $1 invested 40 years earlier.
Yes.

My one bump up was a tiny, almost vanilla image and took even less time.

And, if continuity of service is important, it's possible to launch the larger clone first, then do a near-instantaneous cutover in various ways (esp. if your site can be read-only for a short window, and you can forward hits from the old machine if DNS takes a while to update).
That's exactly the sort of scenario I was wondering about. Thanks a lot for your response! (Also, out of curiosity, what's your app?)
I bet at least some people outside SF have no idea what "muni" means.
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There is a book called "Civilization One" which talks about possible influences ancient cultures had on modern measurement systems. It's conclusions will probably be taken as a conspiracy theory by most but I found the book interesting nonetheless.

It actually goes into a theory of why the mathematics was the way it was (based on astrological observations rather than purely number of factors) which offers an interesting perspective on it all. The conclusion is largely that our measurement systems are deduced from our environment and that there is commonality between imperial and metric systems, both being derived well in the past.
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