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I keep dreaming about that one nice day in the near future where the "I use this service" or "I use that service" discussions will be made irrelevant due to standardization and federation. XMPP, get behind it please.
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OK, I'm willing to take downvotes here, because I'm going to slap HN a little. Why are many people upvoting niyazpk's comments (+14/4 vs other +1 comments before I head to sleep)? To sum up his arguments: it's cool and he's got a gut feeling that it's a web game changer. Meanwhile, there's a bunch of more critical comments that point out Opera's insignificant examples and reasons why the developers that can most use this technology would be better to use more reliable cloud hosting. And these comments get some ups then get pushed back to 1 point. Aren't we supposed to be more analytical here? If you're going to upvote something, make sure there some substance behind the comment rather than what's tantamount to a "that's cool, Opera rox."
to be honest, it looks like he assumed the table was sorted by acquisition rate... would have made a lot more sense that way, instead of sorting it by # of startups
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There are few things plants like more than animal and human waste. I did an experiment in highschool about the filtering ability of native plant species. This was Florida in the mid-nineties. SE Water management district gave me a and a few biologists a 2 acre plot of land near the waste water processing plant and let me have at it. Using treated grey water, a bog was started at one end with rows and rows of sawgrass. The water that made it to the end was crystal clear.

After the experiments were done and went off to college, to pursue CS of all things. The district sold the land to developers who built yet another unneeded warehouse/stripmall in South Florida.

Later on the state and Fed went on to a billion dollar buying spree of tracts of land through the middle of the state. Those experiments are still continuing there 10 years after I published my results.
You know, you can have a car in other countries as well. In Jakarta you can have a car and driver for less than the cost of a car in the US.

Personally, I think everyone should live in a different country for at least one (1) year. You'll gain a lot of perspective on your own country in the process. Just like learning another language teaches you more about your native tongue, so living in another country teach you about your own culture. Combine the two (new language, new country) for a serious eye opening.

For example, the Thai language has no words for "yes" or "no". There are no yes/no questions in Thai.

Only after being removed from pervasive US media do you recognize how much hollywood movie content is US centric and self-referential.

Honestly, if you love living in the US, go live somewhere else in the world for one year. You'll either love the US more, or you'll decide that you enjoy living somewhere else more than you anticipated. Either way, you'll have gained invaluable life experience.
Yeah you'd have to be a rocket scientist to be able to look down the list and find the biggest numbers...

Off topic, but very funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
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This is a pretty sweet entry level system for teaching programming to school children. Very social, since they can easily show each other what they have developed. Javascript is also a very likable language.

A standalone V8-based server with this js-api and it could even become a web technology to depend on for real use.
There are a whole range of fundamental differences between securing a client application and securing a server application.

I'm not saying that the Opera browser will de facto become insecure, but it's just opened itself up to a potentially huge range of unknown exploits - all servers or software services require some knowledge and configuration to make them secure.

I wish them well, but I foresee this causing a lot of security problems.
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Why develop web applications with Opera Unite
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Well, 4k USD per month is ~130k THB. The purchasing power of the Baht means that that is about equivalent to ~10k USD. (As an example, a can of Coke costs 12 THB in a 7/11).

130k will buy you a lot of luxury in Thailand. You can get a very good condo for 30k per month. You can each out for every meal of every day for about 1.5k per diem, so 45k for food. That still leaves 55k for spending on going out, buying clothes, utilities, gadgets, etc. etc. That is more than "comfortable".

Even 70k per month is more than enough for a very comfortable lifestyle. Local food costs < 100 THB per meal, so you could eat for less than 300 THB per day. A reasonable condo is only 20k if you're willing to live away from the tourist areas.
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c'mon, it's better than "MBA turns Firefox into a web server."
This is from 2007.

So I've got Hello World running at http://localhost:6670/test.sjs , but I'm not sure if this is exposed to the outside web.
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As a recovering C++ programmer, this sounds exceedingly shiny. The concurrency by design is pretty neat.

However, the author does talk about the usual bias of such articles. I wonder if he's similarly biased?

But D is now on the list of things to try out on a rainy day.
This is not ideological. It is practical. Adobe Flash exposes your system to a variety of vulnerabilities and is unlikely to get much better. Adobe considers making the user vulnerable a feature and they brag about it to people they sell their commercial products to. They also offer an unreasonable license to the player that sensible people refuse to accept. So, if Ogg Theora allows embedded videos at comparable quality for the same bitrate, and websites like YouTube adopt it, then it is a big win for the user. Sensible people can now play videos and we can recommend disabling Adobe Flash and so everyone is a winner.
Clixpy is a decent clone of clicktale.com, userfly.com, and exactostats.com, but doesn't seem to have a "shtick" that differentiates it from the other offerings. With userfly.com, we tried to make everything dead simple, and much cheaper than clicktale. We also focus on capturing quality user sessions (lots of page views, lots of actions fired per page, bounced users don't count against your quota).

However, at the end of the day, watching individual user sessions, one after another, doesn't really scale; you need a way to aggregate the data to identify trends that may suggest pain points for the end user, and we haven't really cracked that nut (and neither have our competitors).
I can testify that is not true. It really depends on what you are working, I have been payed a pretty good sum of money while working there, as well as my Thai buddies - pay was on the level you would expect anywhere in the world for that kind of job. And I have witnessed several foreigners (farangs) that were payed significantly more than their thai counterparts.
Don't get me wrong, the perspective behind this really interests me.
I think, however, that it's a infrastructure question.

Following the Google Gears argument I would agree that it is much more interesting to keep your private data localy than to serve local directories.

I'm expecting a free Opera Client-Side App Hosting (that auto-syncs with you browser :) to emerge from Opera if this catches on...
This could be huge combined with webhooks and a JS asynchrounous DOM modification capability. Think about a web-chat app that does asynchronous true push chat. No Comet and heavy JS.

It would work like this : you would connect to the web chat. Your browser would give the server an URL on its internal server where the server can post updates. Just like a webhook. The internal server would run a JS callback each time it got something posted to update the page. BAM! True bidirectional push!
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It's not their only chance in the market - they could go after a niche, like sports fans perhaps? You don't have to take the gorillas head-on.
A pity that it would need to be standardized by the W3C to have a wide userbase and thus be a viable option. And standardization would take how long ? 20 years ?
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This is, informally, Nate's critique, I think.
I assume this was posted in connection with the news about Unite. I remember when Google introduced Gears someone on reddit or HN pointed to this extension. I was curious about it and tried it in my computer at work.

First of all, this thing works and it gets the job done. But it feels too hard to actually use it everyday for a non-geeky person. The point of Opera offering is not only the platform itself but also the list of Unite services they already provide (photo-sharing and fridge cover most of my needs).

I'm pretty sure one could use POW to ultimately bring Unite to Firefox.
I can confirm that. Bangkok/Thailand can be both very cheap and extremely expensive, depends on what you eat, how you live. If you adjust your taste to thai food, you can get by pretty cheap, but even if you eat moderately fast food western food here and there like 112 pizza, food court in MBK (has great greek lamb!) toll can get up high pretty fast.

Living in BKK is another story, you can buy a decent house in a decent neighborhood for about 4 mil baht, which is cheap in my book. I have, due to the nature of my work, lived in nearby Salaya and commuted to shooting location and BKK with designated driver, prices of living there (only a 30 minute drive from BKK) are significantly lower than in BKK.
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You forgot file sharing. It's the easiest way that I know that's guaranteed to work for both Internet and Intranet. The rest are really useless, I agree, but the file sharing service just works.
True. At the same time, we keep expecting more from our machines, fuelling feature growth and consequential demand for faster processing mechanisms.
I had a flu last year while in Thailand. I went to Bamrungrad hospital (google it, look at the pictures!) - total payed for visit to the doctor and medications, 1200 baht (35$). That IS cheap, no matter where from are you. People come there from other countries just because service is good and cheap.
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Don't think more about the votes. Votes does not mean anything.

It just means that people agree with what I say, but that does not mean what I say is right.

And then there is the fact that people usually just read the root comment and do not bother reading the replies.

peace....

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I am re-posting my comment from this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=659822

We are missing the point.

Turning a browser into a web server is not a big leap in technology. That is not a hard problem.

Why I am excited about Opera Unite and not about this firefox extension is that Opera themselves thinks that this will change the face of internet applications. They are excited about it and they will persue this to the end. That is the whole point.

It is not about technology. It is about how you push it and persue it. It is all about your vision.
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Well said. Unfortunately I really don't see the situation changing any time soon. Bands like Radiohead can afford to use alternative distribution models because they're already well known. Newcomers don't really have too many viable options apart from trying to get signed to a known label or simply doing it for the love until, and if, they get noticed.

I think the whole situation is made worse by 2 main factors:

1: A lot of musicians think that they'll get noticed simply by writing and playing good material. That is not enough. Most successful original bands really have to work to get noticed, it may take many years of constant gigging, demos and networking before anything happens, if anything happens at all...

2: The disparity between the well-knows and the unknowns: Like the film industry there is a huge divide between bands that are well known and the up-and-comers. This makes breaking in much harder because it's almost impossible to advertise enough to get noticed in the sea of advertising and hype spewed out by the big labels. This problem may start diminishing though if the traditional labels fall as hard as I'm sure many of us think they are going to...
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There is a difference between what people want, and what the legalities are. Premium plugins doesn't have a sustainable foundation since they have to be GPL. What's to stop me from buying a so-called premium plugin, and then re-selling it to someone else, or giving it away for free? The GPL explicitly allows me this freedom.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I see it, it doesn't matter how many people believe premium plugins are the way to go. The GPL license will still undermine it. Unless WordPress is re-released under a non-GPL license. I'm not sure this is doable though.
A fun argument I just made up: liberal folks should encourage diversity of opinion even when it leads to hate crime, for the same reasons that they encourage racial diversity which demonstrably leads to more crime. Otherwise they'd just be using a double standard to attack their ideological opponents.

I wonder if this line of reasoning can be quickly refuted or it contains something deeply true.
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I use Opera's bittorrent client. Why do you have to go through a second program to download torrents?
One of the nicest points of this idea is that it leverages existing technologies really well. eMule requires both parties involved in the transfer use the same software. With Unite the receiver can just use their normal browser.

I think that will go a long way to helping spread the idea. People will ask friends how they're managing to share their content like this and word will spread.
What kinds of apps is this supposed to unleash? If the application is sufficiently complex to require programming or a database, which is true of just about any non-trivial app, then the user is savvy enough to host apps for free in several cloud hosting services with very easy deployment.

I think you are looking at this the wrong way. Don't think permanent services or sites. Don't think technical people wanting to host solutions.

Rather think end-users just wanting to get stuff done, minimal fuzz.

Anyone can install a local application like MSN, but your mom and dad wouldn't be able to deploy the needed infrastructure on a server. If you can install a application and the required "server"-infrastructure by simply adding a widget to your browser, and invite people to it by simply sending them a link, that is quite a major leap in simplicity and will allow for entirely new forms of spontaneous collaboration.

I'm not saying this is the second coming of Christ and it may even end up as a total dud, but if you are looking at this from a hacker/tech perspective and all you can think of is "but hosting stuff in a datacenter is better" you haven't really gotten what the idea is all about.
No, damp hands stick to the pool que. But a vary light amount of chalk fixes that problem. Friction is actually a fairly complex activity where you can change both the contact friction and the rate of friction increase under pressure in different directions.

You can slip on a vary thin layer of spilled sand, but trains use it to increase friction between the wheels and the smooth track.
And instead of answering the question, you bring Microsoft and the FSF into it and call me a fanboi. Again - it's only restricted if you look at it from the POV of a general purpose open and free computer, and that's not what it's sold as.

Why are you trying to restrict what Apple can sell so it only covers devices that conform to your standards?
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I'm not sure why, but people that use the term "not a team player" to beat other people up really rub me the wrong way.

Perhaps its because the desired trait has no moral worth in itself. It's application of peer pressure at its most brazen. It sounds to me like, "you're not conforming to the group's norms", or "you're exhibiting lower than acceptable levels of groupthink".

Anyway, I agree with naming (the most important aspect of programming style, IMHO) and "why over how" comments. The consistent style, I'm a lot less enamoured with. Aligned '=' assignments drive me up the wall - particularly when there are short variables like 'i' mixed with nice long descriptive names, where it can be hard to see what corresponds to what with the gap in the middle. But, of such stuff wars are made.

The other argument against consistent style is archeological: style idiosyncrasies, providing they aren't too far off the beaten track, can make it clear at a glance who on the team modified a particular piece of code.
Nice work for sure. Kudos to Opera devs.

Anyway I was using

$python -m SimpleHTTPServer

in some use cases of Unite.
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I think your information's out of date. I use Optus 3G on an iPhone in an area which was in exactly that position, but they upgraded a week before the iPhone came out. I think that upgrade happened nationwide. (Not that it's relevant to this thread, I know, but...)
I use HFS (Http File Server) for this on Windows. Drag n drop basically.
I agree, I want to think of it as a miniature computer too. But it's not sold as an open computing platform, it's sold as an Apple approved limited computing platform. That's what you buy and that's what you get, and I don't really see why Apple should not be allowed to make and sell a product like that.
This would be an extremely hard sell. Getting IT to install a non-supported web browser? Just so random employees can set up random servers on the local network? This sounds like a nightmare to the people who have to support it.
Mozilla's Asa Dotzler recently posted an interesting bit about Internet Explorer's market share:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2009/06/mileston...

IE will always be significant while Microsoft and Windows remain significant, but the news isn't all bad - IE7 is more standards-compliant than IE6 was, and IE8 is even more standards-compliant again, so it'll be much easier to make site designs that don't turn to crap in IE as time goes on. If Windows 7 gains any significant traction, putting IE8 onto people's desktops and removing the IE6 option, things will get better even faster.

Look on the bright side; things could be worse - you could have to make pages work in IE 5.5 as well.
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One of the common use-cases that pops into my head is as an equivalent for Flickr except massively de-centralized.

There are obviously many dis-advantages to using a non-centralized system, largest in my mind is the loss of the community feel, but for some people the fact that you are 100% in control of how your information is dealt with might be enough to win them over.

It's likely too that other developers will think of new and exciting things to do that will be unique to the platform, one killer app could make Unite really shine.
If you have a UPnP capable router, it does allow apps behind the firewall to switch on forwarding for ports they need. It's often even enabled by default: There was some exploit recently that used that mechanism.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#NAT_tra...
I've been using Opera 10 since the alpha was released, and I can rarely stomach opening up Firefox anymore, although I need to for firebug. Firefox just seems so... bloated. But I digress.

I don't use Widgets, but I do use the BitTorrent client quite a bit. It's a lot more straight forward for smaller downloads than opening up uTorrent. For larger downloads, I do use a dedicated Torrent client, however.
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Well, the author of this article is Andrei Alexandrescu. If you were a serious user of the C++ language you've probably read his "Modern C++ Design" and other stuff he's written -- so he has as deep knowledge of C++ and its stdlib as you can get, thus I judge his enthusiasm for D as in a way higher class compare to a a blog entry by someone who has just found Haskell/Erlang/or similar (but still somewhat theorethical).

D2 certainly sounds refreshingly simple. Having said that I don't fancy rewriting 125 KLOC of Python in even D. My performance critical code uses Cython. I'll have to try to use e.g. PyD (or some newer replacement) to write some code in D to interface with.

In a typical WEB app however there's usually not much stuff you can say: hey, this is totally independent CPU-bound code running for a significant amount of time on a limited set of data that can be written in a lower-level language.

(Oh, I suddenly feel so dirty for upgrading a server from 16 to 32 gigabyte to allow for bloated Python data structures!)
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For your information, the government recently legally conceded a case of autism-vaccine connection where the parents (both medical professionals) had a perfect record of their daughter's medical history.

Keep down-voting me; but if you have a kid, please, please investigate this before you accept conventional wisdom.
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The text I typed into the "AJAX" tab along with the Google results did not show up in the re-played demo w/ Safari 4 on OS X.
Interesting.

A good explanation IMHO is that mibbit is an app with a very techie audience and these people tend to use non-IE browsers and non-Windows OSes.

I like your explanation of valuing time and I know a lot of techies that use OSX as "unix without the hassle". A lot of them are web devs, which again fits with the mibbit having techie audience again.

Did you check for correlation between Safari and Mac? That is, is the fact that Safari scores tops because people use Macs? What is the revenue of a Safari/Windows and a Safari/OSX user?
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"you'll only last about 20 years" 20 years is long enough to take on a fair amount of diversified risk, which up's your return, which let's you take on more risk etc.

Also a 60 - 40 stock/bond is actually safer than a pure bond portfolio because of inflationary risks and has a higher expected return over 10+ years. The only real trick is to avoid single investments, be they a stock or an industry.
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